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ST. CLAIRSVILLE. OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1887.
New Series VoL 27. No. 34
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BALTrJCOB. XB.
For Sale by CKOS3IAND BROS.,
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TEACH EI.S EXAWI.ATIO.S.
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At Flushing at close of Institute in Aug.
BULBS.
xarulnatlons besln t 9 o'clock a. m.
Testimonials of character are required If
applicant is noi koovd to voe rjoara.
Oerilnoates will not be antedated nor ex-
tended.
Teeta In the higher branehea will be given
at clone of Institute oslt.
Onirics, tea will be dated and leaned by the
Board In adjourned session on Saturday tola
owing each examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. ApplU
cants pay return postage.
CAXB or OBA.DBS FOB OKBTIPICATBB.
A llrst-oless (t years) certificate la ran ted
opon an average of W peroent, Inoludlng tbree
hfffber branabes and the seuool law, with no
grade below 76, provided applicant has bad N
monuis' experience n leacmne;.
A seeond-olaes (4 years) oertl floats la r rant
ed upon an average ol SO per cent., Including
two higher branches and the school law, with
no grade belo" 70, provided applicant baa bad
4 months' experience In teaching.
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opon an average of 86 per cent.. Including
one blgber branches and the school law, with
no grade below S5. provided applicant baa had
18 months' experience In teaching.
A fourth-class (2 years) certificate la granted
Upon an average of 76 per cent., Including the
school law, wWa no grade below 60, provided
applicant baa bad 12 months' experience la
teaching.
A firth-class (1 year) certificate la granted
opon an average of 66 per oent, with n? grade
below 66.
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H. L. PECK. Board of Ex
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a
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rheae gentlemen have pnt In store fine
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t exceedingly
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f hey are prepared to attend fanerale atshort
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Mar
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Four beautiful Bonton Tintypes, 25c. An
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at half the usual price.
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McMonagle & Rogers'
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They far excel all others in strength and
uniformity of quality, and the best dealers
e!l them here and elsewhere.
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. John m'gbaw.
NEW LUrBER YARD
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Lumber dressed and undressed; Hemlock and
Pine Frame Timber, Sash.Doors, Blinds, Win
dow and Door Frames. Glazed Sash. Mould.
Ins, Glass, Yellow Pine and Oak Flooring,
Mantles with Fronts and Grates to suit. Pail-
iogs, Railings, Sash Weights, White Lead and
Oil, Mixed Paints, Door Locks and Hinges.
Sash Locks and Cord, Fire Brick, Well and
uis-.ern rumps. Lath and Shingles.
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61L'85.f BRIDGEPORT, O.
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Belmont Chronicle
W. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
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be added for each year it remains unpaid.
Orrios South side. Main street, nearly op.
poaite Public School building.
Belmont County Official Directory.
Common Pleas Judge John B. Driggs.
Probate Judge Isaac H. Gaston.
Clerk of Courts Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff Oliver E. Foulke.
Auditor D. H. Darrah
Treasurer George Robinson.
Prosecuting Attorney N. K. Kennon.
Recorder John M. Beckett.
Oommiflelouers Morris Cooe. Wm J Berrr.
John C. Israel.
Surveyor Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner Samuel Martin.
Infirmary Directors Burget McConnauehy.
president; Wm. Lodge, clerk; John A. Clark,
audit r.
Church Directory.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
Alexander, pastor. Public worsbiD every
Sabbath morning and evening; Pabbath school
8:30 a. m. ; young people's society of Christian
endeavor, Monday evenings; general prayer
meeting, Wednesday evening. Strangers
welcome to all services.
f ETUODI8T EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IT J. Rev. W. U. HaskelL pastor. Sabbath
p reaching: 11 am.; 7 p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 p.m. Young men's meeting: Friday 7
p.m.: general prayer meeting: Thursday 7 p.m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School- 10 a.m. Public worship: 11 a.m.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 3 pan.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, 2 p.m. Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, p.m.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month. 8 p.m. xoung women s prayer meev
1f"P Second Saturday e&ch month at the
I nonage, 1 p.m.
Masonic Directory.
BELMONT LODGE, No. 18, F. & A- M.
Meet every Wednesday night, on or be
fore full moon.
W. D. BUMGARNER. W. M.
Jsei B. Mitxb, Sec'v.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. 17,
Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca
tions, first Friday of each month.
JT. U. HAlLdSi, H. V.
J. B. Mitcb, Rec.
B" ELMONT COUNCIL, Na 64, R.&S.M.
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
O. W. CARROLL, T. L M.
J. B. Mbtbr, Sec'y.
HOPE OOMMANDERT, No. 26, K. T.
Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. J. B. RYAN, E- O.
J. a Mbtb-b, Rec.
St. Clairsville Professional Cards.
QEORGE LINN,
A TTORNEY-A T-LA W,
Office In Collins' Block,
7 15-tf St. CLaiBsviLLE, Ohio.
JAMES M. BEES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Offloe; Main street, opp. old court house,
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O.
Practices In all courts of law and eanlti
either county, state or federal. 5 6, b6-tf
vvT D. HOFP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office: Patterson's Block, seoond floor, opp.
Treasurer's omoe, ei. uiairsvuie, u.
Praotloea In County, state and federal oonrts.
6,btt-u
J W. NICHOLS.
Attorney at Law and .Notary Public.
Offloe: Two Doors West National Bank.
4 My ST. CLAIRSVILLE. O.
DANFOBD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Patterson's Block, op. Trees. Offloe, Main; St.
Will praetloe In the Common Fleas, State
and Federal Oonrta.
Q W. CARROLL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Oolllna Block, op. St, Clair Hotel, Main St.
L 401
- i viven to the aettlement ol
3 IS. T9
estates
vT KENNON
ATTORNEY A. LAW.
Offloe, Main Street, opp. Oouri Hons.
Praetloea before u tne Oouru
i IS. "TV
Hi W. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
On corner op. St. Olalr and National Hotels.
Offloe on seoond floor.
J OHN POIIXX3K,
ATTORNEYATLAW,
Offlee, eaat of Bank, over Mrs. Evan 'a Grocery.
i,14'81tf ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O.
Miscellaneous Business Cards.
Dr.Fenners Kidney
Back-ache Cure.
Rsv. A. J. Merchant, Presiding Elder M.
E. Church, Meadville, Pa., writes:
(April 16, 18M) 'Dr Kkhnrr's Kidney and
Beckache Cure gave me almost Instant relief;
It effects a cure se completely 1 have needed
nothing since I took It, four years ago.'
Frank F Perolval, Boohester, N Y writes
(April 6, 1883) 'One bottle of Dr Fbknbr's
Kidney and Baccacbe Cure helped me more
than all the Kidney remedies taken In the
past two years; six bottles entirely cured me.'
Mrs James Fuller, Fredonla, N Y writes
fMaroh 8. 1883) 'Dr Fikkii'i Kldnev and
BaokacheCnre has relieved me of Kidney dis
ease. Dropsy, Peart disease and Female Weak
ness; I never had a medicine help eoqulokly.'
Harry Waters, Hamlet, N Y writes
(Julv 9. 1883) 'One bottle of DtFchhbb's Kid
ney and Backache Core has cured me of Kid
ney complaint and Rheumatism after other
celebrated Kidney remedies and doctors bad
tailed.'
Cures all diseases of the Kidney, bladder.
Urinary Passages, Backache, Dropsy, Female
Weakness, JNervras ueDiuty, Heart Disease,
Rheumatism; etc.
The most successful remedy that has ever
been administered In the diseases named.
Superior to alL For sale by J. B. Hoob, St.
Clairsvtlle, U. 7 !W-iy
The World s W C T D has set apart
November 12 and 13 as pays of prayer
for the success of the temperance
vvvrk.
There is a great surplus of money in
the U. S. Treasury, and that ia precisely
where it should not be. There is do
safer or more legitimate place for money
than in the pockets of the people. Abol
ish fhn internal revenue svstem and
stop the icHow of money into the
Treasury.
Floyd county, Ind, the Farmers Al
liance of which passed resolutions re
cently, protesting against President
Cleveland drawing a salary while away
on bis electioneering tour in the South
and West, gave 1,150 Democratic major
ity in 1SS4. The Chicago Inter Ocean
thinks the Democratic fences in Indi
ana are sadly out of repair.
Grover Cleveland, P. U. S., and
Judge Thurman, of the Ancient Order
of tbe Red Btndana, supped recently at
Red Top, whereat many rattled-braiued
Democrats are pitched into a terrible
stale of excitement. They have revived
tbe story that Secretary Lamar is to be
made a Supreme court judge and Thur
man Secretary of State.
The total membership in the Iowa
G. A. R. is 17,536, nearly all of whom
inonewayor another expressed their
disapproval of tbe rebel flag order. Yet
this is the army which Pension Ex ami
ner Whitehead's twenty-one soldiers
at DesMoines claimed to reptesent as
approving that order, and Gen. Rose
crans vouched for their authority to do
dol Tbe old mad is way off, nearly as
far off as be was on tbe second day at
Cbickamauga.
The incendiarism theory as to tbe
Chatsworth disaster will have to be
abandoned, since there is abundance of
evidence to show tbat the burning of
tbe culvert which caused the disaster
was really due to tbe carelessness of
railroad section bands, who set fire to
tbegrass in tbat vicinity on tbe after
noon before the slaughter. This has
been brought out in tbe investigation
being conducted by the Illinois Railroad
Commissioners. ,
If the Democratic party promises
good administration of the State govern
ment, how are those promises to be
weighed but by tbe' party's record ? It
wasted tbe public revenue, run the
state institutions in debt, lowered tbe
state's credit to a dangerous point, and
left a well-filled treasury empty. After
the Republican party has undone all
this bad work, tbe Democratic party
asks to be pnt back into power. Is not
this impudence? Banton Repository.
The tail will endeavor once more to
wag tbe dog. Tbe free trade Democrats
in Congress, headed by Speaker Carlisle
and Mills, of Texas, are getting ready to
read Sam Randall and other Protection
ists out of the party. Mills wantB to be
Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means and bring in a bill wbieb
will tear the tariff all to pieces. If some
body doesn't bind and gag tbe ambitious
Mills there will not be enough Demo
crats left in tbe next Congress to fill tbe
minority places on tbe committees.
Col. E. C. Henderson is now acting
as Internal Revenue Commissioner, and
in answer to the query why tbe Repub
lican clerks were not removed said bis
superior, Secretary Lamar, entertained
tbe belief that they were so essential to
tbe service that it would not do to re
place them by Democrats. Said Hen
derson : "The fact that the Republican
incumbents are good clerks or good oifi
cials is not sufficient reason, in my mind
for tbeir retention. I would tura tbem
all out, and I think tbe President would
turn tbem all out.
The New York Post intimates that it
is the right thing to suppress the negro
vote in tbe South, because in tbe recent
election in Texas tbe negroes voted pret
ty largely against prohibition. Not
that tbe Poet is Itself for prohibition ;
but it wants all men who favor any
shade of prohibition anywhere to acqui
esce in the suppression of the negro
vote, so tbat tbe Democratic party will
have tbat many fewer objectors to its
maintaining a solid Democratic South.
Verily there seems nothing more Demo
cratic than the Democratic party, ex
cept it be tbe mugwump party. O S
Journal.
a mm iei s
The fine wheat crops of Great Brit
ain. Germany, and Hungary, France
and tbe Danubian States, with a fair
yield in Russia and India, will probably
prevent much rise in tbe wheat market
for a year to come, but tbe case is very
different regarding corn. Tbe drouth
bas insured a short crop in this country,
and the same cause has made it impossi
ble that the yield should be heavy in
tbe Danube Valley. While the market
may not advance materially, tbe indica
tions are certainly very favorably for a
sharp demand for all tbat producers
have to sell before the crop of 1888
matures.
"Sly, devilish sly, sir." The Ohio
Democratio leaders are agreed upon one
thing agreed tbat Powell and tbe en
tire state ticket have no show. Such
being the fact, they have resolved to
make a still hunt for tbe legislature.
Wherever such work can be done to ad
vantage the state ticket, or any one.two
or moro Dames upon it will be scratched
if thereby some careless Republican can
be induced to vote for a Democratio can
didate for tbe Senate or house of Rep
resentatives. Tbat game is to be play
ed for all it is worth in tbe close coun
ties and districts. It will not wln.how
ever. O S Journal.
That tbe tariff needs revision and
simplification is undoubtedly true. There
are no protectionists who pretend to
question that proposition. But in tbe
last Congress, under the lead of Car
lisle and Morrison and their associate
freetraders, that was not the purpose.
Tbey assailed tbe tariff system from a
freetrade standpoint, and they failed
Consequently Dothing was done. Tbe
horizontal reduction proposed by Morri
son was defeated by Democrats voting
with Republicans, and nothing else was
permitted. Tbe revenue was known to
be excessive, but beeause the Democrat
ic leaders in tbe House would have
nothing but a sweeping and indiscrimi
nate reduction in tbe tariff, nothing was
done. As a consequence nothing will
be done until the people choose a Con
gress favorable to tne protection of
American industries. It may be and
probably will be tbat tbe next Congress
will modify or repeal the Internal reve
nue system. This would have been ac
complished at tbe last session bad an op
portunity offered, but tbe Speaker of
tbe House agreed with the freetrade
minority tbat no one should be recogt
nized for tbe purpose of modifying tbe
internal revenue laws. Tbus the tariff
was left in an unsatisfactory state, the
taxes on whisky and tobacco untouched.
and an excessive revenue continues.
And this is fairly chargeable to tbe fret
trade minority in tbe House of Repre
sentatives. These do not represent the
country. They are merely obstruction
ists. This minority will not be Dear so
strong in the next as in tbe last Con
gress. It will, therefore, not be near so
powerful as a party of obstruction. Still
we need hardly hope for an intelligent
revision of tbe tariff from a protection
standpoint until the "country decides to
change the Administration. This may
be expected next year. We are surely
tending in tbat direction. Cin. Com.
Gazette.
The old family horse is eminently re
spectable but be wl bear watching.
After years of circumspect behavior be
takes it into his head at times to be a
little gay and festive, and has been
known to spill out a carriage full of peo
ple and look on with sedate complacen
cy, as if be had done a praiseworth acL
He is given to solemn cogitation, and
doubtless deliberates some giddy per
formance as a relief from the bore of
unvarying good conduct. He bas been
known to take a nip at tbe arm of tbe
hostler, to plant bis ancient hoof in tbe
abdomen of a visitor to his stall.to stray
away like a veritable vagabond, and, af
ter facing a locomotive - with the com-
posure of a Turk, cut up the most de
plorable shindies over an upraised om
brella. He is a trifle spoiled by women
and children who drive him with a loose
nign, and be is notoriously addicted to
tbe sulks when things don't suit him.
Tbat be has grown gray in faithful
service must be freely admitted, but it
Is indubility true tbat as be waxes in
years, be becomes possessed with moods
and vagaries tbat must not be overlook
ed. Like tbe antique sinner who said
be bad been trying to please the Lord
for thirty years and had now concluded
to please himself awhile, tbe family
horse may be counted on to indulge in
some grotesque and dangerous pastime
if be is not obsesvantly watched. He is
by no means as sober and conservative
as bis beneuolent visage indicates.
In Massachusetts, as in Ohio, and ev
ery other State where they have an or
ganization, the third party Prohibition
ists are fighting tbe Republican party.
Tbe anti saloon Republicans of tbe Bay
State have just issued an address, in
which they point out the fact that for
years tbe Republican part) bas been en
acting laws to restrict the liquor traffic,
despite tbe efiorls of the Democrats and
liquor dealers, who are aided indirectly
by the third party. The address closes
as follows:
The inevitable logic of last year is
tbat if the partial success of tbe third
party in defeating the return of a dozen
or more temperance members of the
legislature j ust so far defeated temper
ance legislation, its further success in
the same direction will just so much
further defeat temperance legislation.
Carry it to its full length is tbe choice
of a Democratic legislature, and the sa
loon bas triumphed.
All at once tbe duty of opening tbe
books and turning out tbe rascals seems
to have fallen into inocuous desuetude
at Washington. For all that, citizens
of repute continue day after day to as
sert, and produce figures from official
reports to prove, tbat from $200,000
to $300,000 of a single District fund
have been diverted from their lawful
uses and misapplied. For sole response
to this showing, the President refuses a
personal audience to a committee of re
spected citizens appointed to talk with
him on tbe subject; and the Commis
sioners fortify themselves by giving
orders designed to prevent the press
from obtaining Information. Surely, as
the Democratic platform expresses it,
reform is needed. Let tbe books be
opened. Let rascals be turned out.
It is now admitted tbat the reason
for tbe passage of the Glenn bill in
Georgia is to drive out Northern white
instructors from tbe Atlanta Universi
ty, which Is mainly supported by North
ern Christian people, to give higher ed
ucation to negroes. These teachers,
partly because tbey desire their families
to be with tbem, and partly from a lack
of tbls world's goods, educate their own
children lit classes along with tbe col
ored pupils. Not even the fugitive slave
law is more Infamous tban the Glenn
bill.
A Nrwburoh man bas 200 different
varieties of apples grafted upon one
tree; 137 of them were in bearing last
year.
THIE SECEDERS OF '61.
Only Two Now Left of the Southern
Senators Who Then Went Out.
The death recently of Robert M. T.
Hunter, of Virginia, leaves only two
men surviving who "seceded" from the
United States Sentte at the beginning
of the war. - They are Jefferson Davis,
of Mississippi, and T. L. Ciingman, of
North Carolina. Mr. Hunter died in
extreme poverty, a disappointed and
neglected old man, who felt tbat be bad
deserved better of his native State and
of tbe first Democratic administration
since the war. He was the youngest
Speaker ever chosen by tbe House of
Representatives: for fifteen years be
was a Senator of tbe United States and
served for twelve years as Chairman of
tbe Committee on Finance, when such
men as Seward, Fessenden, Sumner,
James A. Bayard, Toombs, Benjamin,
Douglas and Bigler were members of it.
Hunter sat for a short period in Mr.
Davis' Cabinet Secretary of State, but
was soon transfered to tbe Confederate
Seriate, where he was a severe critic of
the Davis administration. After the
reconstruction of Virginia he and bis
friends expected that he would be re
turned to the Senate, and in 1874 he was
a candidate for that office, but was de
feated by Dr. Withers, who bad been a
Confederate Colonel and Is a man of
small abilities. This was a severe blow
to tbe statesman who had been Doug
las' leading competitor for the Presiden
tial nomination in tbe Charleston con
vention of 1860.
After Cleveland bad been elected
President, an effort was made to pro
vide for Mr. Huntei, who was broken in
spirit as well as in . fortune, but again
his old rival, Dr. Withers, stepped in
and carried off tbe prize tbe Hong
Kong Consulate, with a salary of $5,000
while John Goode, a fifth-rate country
lawyer and politician, was rewarded
with the Solicitor-Generalship, and a
salary of $7,000 a year. Mr. Hunter's
pecuniary condition was so desperate,
however, that be was compelled to ac
cept a small place in the customs serv
ice, which paid him about $600 per
annum. From the Sunny South.
Where the Credit is Due.
Comptroller of the Currency Tren
bolm points with pride to the fact that
in no similar period for years have so
many national banks been started as in
the first seven months of 1887. Since
March 4, 1885, when tbe Cleveland ad
ministration went into office, the verv
large number ot50 national banks had
been incorporated, np to the end of. last
month. Of course these figures are very
satisfactory to Mr. Trenbulm and, no
doubt, to tbe President and bis satel
lites, but every intelligent man knows
that they are no just cause for self-congratulation
on the part of tbe Democrat
ic administration. The national bank
ing system is a purely Republican crea
tion. It bas been moving on for tbe
last two years and a halt from tbe im
petus given by ten times that period of
Republican rule. Like many other good
things In tbe institutions of the govern
ment of the United States, it is now a
monument to the wisdom of measures
taken in spite of Democratic opposition.
but which have become so popular that
the Bourbon leaders would claim tbe
entire credit for them if they dared.
Tbe truth cannot be too strongly im
pressed upon the voters of the United
States that the smoothness with which
the national machinery of tbe govern
ment bas been running since Cleveland's
inauguration is merely dub to tbe fact
tbat no change of consequence bas been
made In it since tbe ' Democratio party
went into office, while much of it is still
in charge of Republicans. Tbe Inability
and, in some degree, tbe indisposition
of the Democrats to interfere seriously
with the established order of things
have made it possible for officials like
Comptroller Trenbolm to boast of facts
such as tbe rapid extentlon of the na
tional banking system. Cleve. Leader.
A Companion for Fred Ward.
The Napoleonic financer Ives, Is like
ly to have some of bis operations sub
mitted to '.he scrutiny of a criminal in
vestigation. District Attorney Marline,
of New York who took the boodle al
dermen and boodle bribers in band has
turned his attention to tbe rascals of the
Ives firm. Their operations are won
derful In these days of stupendous rog
uery. Tbey got away with one or two
millions cash and nearly five millions of
preferred stock from tbe treasury of tbe
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day ton rail
way. Conclusive evidence it is also
said exists that Ives has also helpad
himself from tbe treasury of the Terra
Haute and Indianapolis railroad compa
ny to something like one million and a
half in cash and securities, and taken
from tbe Mineral Range railroad com
pany about $450,000 in cash.
Tbe methods of robbery -were very
simple. Being in possession of the Cin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad,
be took from Its treasury tbe stock of
the Dayton and Michigan railroad, and
sold It for a million to a Cincinnati capi
talist. With the proceedB be bought a
majority interest in the Terre Haute
and Indianapolis road for about $1,500,
000, paying about two-tbirds cash. This
was made ostensibly to the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton road. Ives bad
himself made president of the Terre
Haute road, and his firm constituted
fiscal agents, and transferred tbe $1,400,
000 cash on hand and a lot of valuable
bonds to New York for its account.
Tbe books of Ives' firm show an Indebt
edness to tbe Terra Haute company of a
million and a half.
Ives' stealings in solid cash ran up to
four millions of dollars, with stock and
bonds sufficient to wall-paper a big hall.
IN THE MORNING.
We long for the brighter time coming.
And we watch for It early and late.
To hear through the halyards the bum
mlng
That shall lift the dead sails of our
fate.
To leave Babelmandeb's sad gate.
We sigh for it. try for it wait!
It will all be right in tbe fLornlngl
Tbe lilies up tbe brown water.
And tbe diamonds grow in tbe gloom,
And the moon is tbe midnight s daughter,
And the night-flowering aloe will
will bloom
As a trophy tbat garlands a tomb.
When tbe daytime has gone to Its
doom,
It will all be right in tbe morning!
Half way up in his mounting tbe lark
Meets tbe morn in its earthward-bound
flight.
And the carol borne down in the dark
Is a marvelous lyric of light.
Is a burst of a melodious might.
Is tbe I triumphe of Night,
He will be right in tbe morning!
In tbe graveyard of Arctic the dismal
Where the bones of dead glaciers are
8trowo.
Where the tower, the icebergs abysmal
Are tbe buds of bright flowerets full
blown.
There they cling to death's borders
alone.
And tbey tbrill to Eurochydon'a moan,
It will all be right in tbe morning I
Through tbe long dim day of dull twi
light They repose like a soul at a Bbrine,
There, under Aurora's north skylight
That memorial wiodow divine.
At tbe very same intervals shine
As their sisterhood under tbe line,
It will all be right in tbe morning!
Twelve bours for unfolding and waking.
And twelve for tbeir slumber and
sleep
Who told them when day should be
breaking.
Who taught them when shadows
should creep,
Tbat the calendar true they can keep?
Faith arise like tbe moon-loving deep?
It will all be right in the morning!
Born trouble is better than borrowed.
Light and darkness are blent, but bet
ware
Of tbe man who never has sorrowed.
The fine gold unalloyed is not there,
Let us come to tbe bridges of care
And tbe thought in our hearts ever
there.
It will all be rlgbt in tbe morning!
If earth's weary burdens cure sorrow,
If tbe noblest of trinmpbs denied
Are always beginning to-morrow.
If we fail to take time at the tide,
If old friends' wane away from our
side.
Still tbe trust and the truth will abide,
It will all be right in the morning!
B. F.Taylor, in Chicago Times.
Grains of Gold.
A homely truth is better tban a splen
did error.
Make allowance for the infirmities of
others.
Youth looks at the possible, age at
tbe probable.
It is a joy to think the best, we can of
human kind.
Treachery and falsehood are the vices
of cowardice.
It is easy to find reasons why other
folks should be patient.
Sow good services ; sweet remembran
ces will grow from them.
Do not consider everything impossi
ble that you cannot perform.
One ungrateful man does an injury to
all who stand in need of aid.
To win, work and wait but work a
good deal more tban you wait.
Perseverence, to receive a rich reward,
must have an object worthy of it.
The more you murmur against your
cross, the greater its burden will be.
There are never too many flowers in
this world, and not one kind word too
many has yet been spoken.
If thou art wise, tbou knowest thine
own ignorance, and tbou art ignorant if
thou knowest not thyself.
Nothing is more common or more ia
tal than tbe grasping of an advantage
at the cost of ten times its value.
So our lives glide on ; tbe river ends
we don't know wbere, and the sea be
gins, and then there Is do more jumpiDg
ashore.
Conversation never sits easier tban
wben we now and then discbarge our.
selves in a symphony of laughter, which
may not improperly be called tbe chorus
of conversation. .
Death of Distinguished Minister.
New York, August 17 The Rev. Dr.
Daniel Curry, who bas been for many
years one of the most prominent mem
bers of tbe Methodist Episcopal Church,
died at bis borne in this city this after
noon. He graduated from Wesleyan
University In 1837, and In 1840 and '41
bad charge of an academy at Macon, Ga,
but soon after this tbe feeling against
Abolitionists at the South rose to such
a point that at the division of tbe
Cburch, in 1844, Dr. Curry, who used
bis voice and pen against slavery, re
turned North, and for some years his
work lay in and about New York. In
1855 be was elected President of tbe In
diana Asbury Universty, now- the De
Pauw University. He held this post,
tion for two years. He was elected to
tbe General Conference in 1858, and in
i860, and bas been a member of every
General Conference since tbat time.
Dr. Curry bas been prominent as an ed
itor of religious periodicals. From 1864
to 1876 be was editor of the Christian
Advocate, and was for some time editor
of "The Methodist," of "Tbe National
Repository," from tbe first publication in
1877 till about 1880, and at tbe time of
bis his death he was editor of the Meth
odist Magazine.
There seems to be a desire among tbe
leading Democrats of tbe country who
are Protectionists, that the free trade
sentiment have a full test in the Ohio
campaign this year. Thus cries tbe
New York Sun:
"Let Mr. Carlisle. Mr. Morrison and
Mr. Hurd. and all the eminent embodi
ments of free-trade principles place
themselves on the Ohio stumps, and lay
tbe Issue clearly before tbe Ohio Demo
crats, tbat the latter may have an oppor
tunity to choose without a chance of
misconception between a tariff for pro
tectlon and a tariff for revenue only."
PIETY WITHOUT DISPLAY.
EXPLANATORY NOTES BY REV. R.
S. M'ARTHUR, D.
Lesson IX of the International Series
(Third Quarter) for Sunday, Aug. 28.
Text of the Lesson, Matt. vi, 1-15.
Golden Text, I Samuel xvi, 17.
V. L This verse is a statement of the gen
eral principle which is illustrated in what
follows. The Revised Version bas properly
introduced the word "righteousness" instead
ot "alms.1' The best critics are agreed in this
change. Righteousness here is not thesight
eousneas of Christ; it means rectitude, right
doing, conformity to the will of God.
Vs. S-i. Here we have the first illustra
tion of the application of the principle to
alma giving. The change from the plural ye
to the singular thou individualizes the
thought. Not sound a trumpet. It is sap
posed that it was the custom of the Pharisees
literally to sound a trumpet and so call to
gether the poor; others think the reference is
to the trumpet shaped money boxes and the
shaking ot the coin as it fell fhto them. But
all these suppositions are far fetched. Hypo
crites. The word originally meant those who
wore a mask and performed a part. This ia
is the classical usage. As the composition of
the word suggests, tbey were dissemblers. In
the synagogues. Here religious assemblies
were held at which offerings were made. In the
streets. Where beggars gathered and where
gifts were bestowed. Have their reward.
Of course tbey have. Hen generally get
what they seek. Literally, this ia their full
reward.
T. 3. Left hand. Thia doubtless was a
proverb. The privacy was to be so great that
one member of the body was not to know
what another member did. Thia ia as if the
right hand slipped out its gift so quietly and
quickly that the left hand was Ignorant of
the act.
V. 4. This verse indicates the true method;
It gives the positive direction. In secret in
a secret place. God will sea. Thy Father.
The individuality of the deed is still sug
gested by the statement regarding the re
ward. Vs. 5-15. We now have the second illustra
tion of the application of the general prin
ciple of doing good without ostentation. This
is in regard to private prayer. The remarks
made are not to be applied to common prayer
or public worship.
V. 5. Hypocrites pray to be seen of men,
but when ye pray there is to be another mo
tive. Dr. Broadus calls attention to the fact
that throughout this passage the plural is
used in general injunctions and the singular
in pointed applications. No criticism is here
made on the standing posture in prayer. It
is ostentation which is condemned. The cor
ners of the streets. The crowded thorough
fares, the broadways, this is tbe idea, were
admirable places for such ostentatious dis
play. V. 8. Now comes the positive side of the
teaching, tbe pointing out of the true method.
Thou. The singular form for the sake of a
pointed personal application. Closet. Liter
ally, storeroom and so a place of privacy; an
innermost apartment. In tbe Revised Version
it is rendered "inner chamber," sometimes the
upper chamber (Acts i, 13; ix, 37; IX, 8). By thy
closet may be meant a place under one's own
control. No Christian can be strong among
men except he be often alone with God. Shut
thy door. Not only must the door be closed,
but, as is implied, fastened ; this suggests the
greatest privacy. No rebuke ia intended for
family, social or more public prayer. Every
mans own heart may be his closet. Openly
Is to be omitted.
Vs. T-8. Ye. Our Lord now comes to speak
of prayer in its varied relations in life, and so
uses the plural. Prayer is liable to other
dangers than ostentatious display; another
fault in prayer ia vain repetition. One prac
tice has been condemned the Pharisaical
practice; the other is the heathen practice
which is to be condemned. Vain repeti
tions. The word so translated occurs nowhere
else in the New Testament. Some have
thought that it is derived from tbe name
Battus, Cyrenian king mentioned by Herod
otus, who waa noted for his stammering;
others derive it from a poet of that name
whose poetical effusions abounded in repeti
tions. V. 9. Now we come to the model prayer;
this is its true name. Tbe true Lord's
Prayer, our Lord's intercessory prayer, is
frond in John, 17th chapter. The prayer
here is rather the disciples' prayer, although
tbe common name is found as early as A. D.
850. For simplicity, comprehensiveness and
spirituality, thia prayer must ever be a
model. There is nothing said of the media
torial work of Christ, no asking ia his name,
but these elements could not be present at
this stage in bis life and teaching. The
prayer is adapted to the time wben it waa ut
tered. It ia not given aa a form to be al
ways and necessarily used; it is to serve as a
specimen of acceptable prayer. In Luke we
have it with important variations, snowing
that it waa not intended aa an invariable form.
So far aa we know Christ did not himself
use this form, neither did the apostles. The
prayer f alia into two divisions of three peti
tions each. The first class of petitions like
the first table of the law refers to God and
our relations to him. Tbe second like the
second table of the law to ourselves and our
relations to one another. We are to pray for
God's glory before we pray for our own
bread. Our Father. The plural is. used
throughout the prayer, because the prayer is
social rather than secret God is our Father
by creation, preservation, and especially so
by adoption. Our shows tbe brotherhood of
man, as well as the fatherhood of God. In
heaven. More accurately, in the heavens.
This is a Hebrew usage very common in the
New Testament. Hallowed. This is an
Anglo-Saxon word often used in translating
the Old Testament, but only here and in
Luke ii, 8, in the New Testament. It is a
prayer that God's name may be regarded and
treated as sacred, sanctified and revered alike
by our works, words and thoughts.
V. 10. Thy kingdom come. God's kingdom
la his reign; the administration of Jesus
Christ To! offer this petition aright is to
labor and to give for tbe spread of the Gospel,
for the conversion of tbe world. Thy wilL
This includes all which God purposes and
commands. Strictly, "be done" means to
some to pass. The order in the Re.sed Ver
sion is worthy of notice. "As in heaven, so
on earth." Tbat is, aa fully, joyously and
universally aa it ia done by angels. Bengal
notes that in the first three petitions we hare
thy, thy, thy, and in the others us, us, us.
V. 1L Daily bread. With this verse tba
second division of the prayer begins, and
petitions for us are now offered. Bread
stands for food in general. To the Israelites
God gave daily manna. This is a prayet
primarily for the body. The man who is too
lazy to work ought not to uss this prayer.
V. ia Debts Our chief need is forgive
ness of our sins. Our hearts ought to give
tbeir supreme love to God. They have failed
to do this; God, therefore, bas claims upon
us. This obligation must be discharged by
us or atonement be made by another. Our
failure is our sin, and it ia here represented aa
a debt
V. 13. Thia is tbe sixth and last petition.
Lead us not We need not simply forgive
ness for past sins, but also preservation for
the future. This word lead, or "bring," aa in
tba Revised Version, has caused many serious
questionings. Can God lead men into temp
tation! The prayer asks that God would so
control our affairs that neither Satan nor any
of his agents may lead us astray; and, as all
things are under God's control, be may be said
to lead us into temptation. Temptation, triaL
This may be a test of one's character or faith
or love; or the word, may be used to mean a
direot solicitation to sin. In this latter aanse
God tempts no man (James i, IS); but be dees
test, try, prove men as be did Abraham and
others (Gen. xxii, 1; Ex. ir, 35; Deut xiit,
S). Deliver. This is the positive side of the
former petition. Evil Is per Laps the evil
one. This, however, cannot be absolutely de
termined; but as all evil comes from the evil
one, the meaning is substantially the same, j
V. 14. For, etc. This petition of the prayer
is taken up a second time and emphasized,
showing the importance of forgiveness. Tres
passes. Tbe figure of the 13th verse is here
changed to that of a fall or a false step. Sin
is a deviation from the straight line of right
as well aa a failure to meet our obligations to
God.
POINTS TO BE REMEMBERED.
1. True religion avoids all ostentation. Ita
home is in the heart; its fruit in tbe Ufa ,
3. No man can long deceive God or men. j
3. "For Jesus' sake" is the true motive in
all benevolence.
A Secret prayer is a necessity to a true life.
5. We must be willing to grant forgiveness
to others if we would receive forgiveness from
God. .
Voices of West Point Cadets.
There is a Babel of voices, an odd inter
mingling of dialects; for every section of our
broad Union is there represented, and no
cliques are encouraged. South Carolina hob
nobs with her old enemy, Massachusetts;
Creole blood from Louisiana ia warmed by
coffee from the same urn that starts the slug
gish veins of tbe Pennsylvania Dutchman;
soft voiced sons of Georgia and Kentucky
elide their "Vs" and swap merry badinage
with a fellow whose backswood whang pro
claims the "Pike" from Missouri; a swarthy
Calif ornian rips out some half Spanish, half
savage expletive in excited controversy with
his New England vis-a-vis, whose wildest
flight in the possibilities of blasphemy ia
"Gosh all hemlock P and a youth whose clear
blue eyes and the blondest hair and akin iro
. aginable proclaim him a Norseman who haill
from a Scandinavian district in Minnesota
happens along at the instant, with the red
sash of the "officer of tbe day" over bis
shoulder, and tbe gentleman from the Golden
Gate puts a bridle on his tongue forthwith.
Tbe word of honor of the cadet ia tbe na
plus ultra of West Point ethics; there is no
going behind or beyond it It is the first
lesson taught the youngster on joining. It is
preached in wordless sermons every day and
hour of bis four years' course. It is tbe last
thing of his education he is apt to forget
Like other boys, be has his fun, his faults, his
vices and bis "scrapes." He may violate
every one of the few hundred regulations
that have been evolved from year to year; ha
may "cut" church, "run it" to the Falls or
other unhallowed resort; be may even make
a predatory incursion upon tbe orchards or
vineyards below the Point; but even to aava
himself or his best friend from punishment
he draws the line at one thing be wont lie.
When a cadet says be has or has not dona
this or that, you can indorse the statement
Chas. King, U. 8. A., in Harpers Magazine.
i
Royalty on a Lark.
I do not think there was a funnier sight
than tbat where the Princess of Wales cams
forward with the sweep of a schoolgirl and
climbed into the Dead wood coach without
any assistance. Then the king of Saxony
and tbe king of Greece climbed ia after her.
Tbe crown prince of Sweden waa on the bos
and Prince George of Wales, a Ammhmg young
naval officer, was upon the back pan of the
coach. Prince Albert Victor of Wales, the
heir apparent to the English throne after the
Prince of Wales, sat inside tbe coach and
puffed cigarettes alternately in his mother's
face and in that of the king ot Den
mark. Indeed, smokers who have been
restricted for thir lack of manners in enjoy
ing the weed in the presence of ladies would
have plenty of examples to justify tbeir
course among the royal members of thia
group. All of the men smoked their cigars or
cigarettes. The smoke was puffed straight
into tbe faces of the ladies of the group Trith
out apology from the smokers or protest upon
their part With the exception of the Prmoa
and Princess of Wales, who are always grace- v
ful and easy, I think that thia group of royal
personages made up the most stiff and awk
ward appearing group of people that I have
ever seen in public together. London Letter.
Building Up a Business.
Two years ago a good natured looking
cripple of tome 30 years of age made his ap
pearance at a certain 8ixth avenue corner
with a new wooden bucket filled with lemon
ade. He sold out several times over during
tbe day. Thenceforward be was a regular
feature of the corner. His backet became
two; then they were metamorphosed into a
single big tin pail, and in time the pail be
came a pair. The cripple, who bad carried
the first pail to his post, now had to hire a
boy to wheel his stock in a barrow. He waa
very popular with the fair sex, who pitied his
misfortune and enjoyed bis civility, which
waa so excessive aa to be quite grotesque. '
Tbe following summer he appeared again
and did better than ever. Last week I found
him running a handsome ice cream and sum
mer drinks' shop on the west aide and doing a
roaring trade. In two years, by industry,
sobriety and economy tbe man so helpless aa
to be barely able to bandM tbe money bis cus
tomers pay him had made a busint a for him
self. He bad been crippled by arcident and
bad no friends or money. Alfred Iromble ia
New York News.
Distrust Appearances.
Gus What sort of figure has the Gushing
ton, Jack!
Jack I haven't the faintest idea.
Gus Why, I thought you had met bert
Jack I have, but she had on a tailor mad
dress. New York Sun.
Magician Hermann's Physical Powers.
"Is your skill in feats of Taerdernain
mainly the result of education P
"No, sir. My success is due to the fact
that I was built that way. It is my inher
itance from the unknown. I have perfected
my manipulation by practice, but tba initial
motive comes from my heredity. My skill
is not confined to my sleight of hand per
formances in public. I have psychologioal
or mesmeric powers which I do not display,
because there has been so much humbug in
tbat line. I will give you a sample of my
power. Please stand up."
The reporter obeyed.
"Put your feet close together."
Tbe professor then placed the tips of tbe
fingers of both his hands on tbe lepot tetls
shoulders. He then directed another man
standing behind tbe reporter to place his fin
gers over his (the professor's) fingers.
"Now," said the professor to the third
party, "nod your bead in the direction you
wish the reporter to fall
The scribe saw be waa caught and ha looked
down to see if the floor was oak or pine. Hia
next impulse waa to stretch hia legs apart
But those dreadful black eyes were on him.
Tbe third party nodded in which direction
the victim knew not Almost immediately,
while tbe napoleonio demon waa apparently
looking down through him and anaryxms; the
late breakfast be bad eaten, tbe reporter felt
a marked sensation down his left side which
quickened the action of his heart Ha did
not try to drive the feeling away by an effort
of will, and slowly tbe ssoaatioo which
somewhat .esembled a prolonged shock ot
electricity deepened and quickened, until ha
began to sway like a tree partly chopped
through. He waa begining to else up tba
chances of falling through the looking glass
wben tbe professor removed bis hands and
with tbem the influence. .
"Such manifestations of power as those of
which you have just felt the Influence I re
gard as perhaps my highest gifts," said the
professor. "Given the proper subject, I eaa
cause him to fail to the floor without touching
his body. While I doot profess to be able to
explain these phenomena, still I am possessed
of the power to execute tbem." New York
Bun Intsrview.
Pretty Telegraph Operators.
In their efforts to outrival each other, tba
New York hotels are struggling-to surpass ia
tbe beauty of their telegraph operators. Mea
and boys used to look after things in these
offices, but girls took their places, Whsa
there are so many offices together a young
man is likely to go wbere there is the pretti.
est girl to take the message. Tbe Argonauta