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I he Ceredo Advance.
T. T. McDOUGAL. Publisher.
CEREDO. : WEST VIRGINIA.
CURRENT TOPICS.
In Japan many horses are shod with
st ia\v.
There are 124 railroads in the
island of Cuba.
New 5 orkers consume one ton of
frog legs a day.
\ enice has n eafe which has been
©pen duy and night for 150 years.
Germany exported over $4,000,000
worth of snaps and perfumes in 189'J.
J he Ganges is 1,570 miles long, and
drains an urea of 750,000 square miles.
Germany owns 742,000 acres in Cen
tral America, with 20,000,000 coffee
trees.
On an average 1,700,000 of the
world s population are constantly
©float.
Munich’s Red Cross Hospital has for
a limiting surgeon the crown prince of
Bavaria.
St. Petersburg has the highest
death rate of any European capital, 51
per 1,000.
Residents in England have £110,000,
OOo invested in mortgages Jn foreign
countries.
Brazil produces 350,000 tons of cof
fee out of the world’s yearly crop of
COO,(>00 tons.
I he interest on tin* national debt
for the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
I he Danuln* flows through coun
tries in which 52 languages and dia
lects are spoken.
A society for the protection of bus
twnds from drunken wives has been
tformed in London.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
•will spend his vacation salmon fish
ing in New Brunswick.
English beekeepers average fifty
pounds of honey from their hives,
American twenty pounds.
The British Official Gazette has
•announced the reappointment of Al
fred Austin as poet laureate.
Only one country brews more beer
per inhabtant than England. That is
Uelgium, with 31*/, gallons a head.
The shark holds the record for
long-distance swimming. A shark has
ts*en known to cover 800 miles in
*hret* days.
Two tons of boots are equal in feed
ing value to four tons of hay, but ‘ts
cultivation has proved too expensive
■to be profitable.
America last year exported $120.
000,000 worth of iron and steel, an
Amount greater in value than her en
tire exports of all kinds in lt>!)0.
Oliver Ilopkinson. son of the author
«>f “Hail. Columbia!” is eighty-nine
years old. Ho is the oiliest living
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania.
Crief Officer Hans Russer, of the
'Baltimore Hamburg liner Batavia,
•has been appointed captain of the
Orman expedition which is about
to sail in search of the south pole.
In Kansas militarism bows to agri
culture. The annual target practice
of one of the state regiments was in
definitely postponed because the ino:n
l>ers were so busy in the lH*et sugar
fields.
To finish the Panama canal a tun
nel four miles Irmg. 100 feet wide and
300 feet high will l>e necessary. It will
cost $4,000 a v ird. a world’s record in
expenditure, being four tim**s gi cuter
than the Mount Cenis tunnel.
The late Boron Faber, the pencil
manufacturer once said of the nrti
«dc that had made him rich: “It has
done more execution since it came in
to use than the sword, while who can
enumerate the libels it has written?”
Brof. Lester F. Ward of the geo
logical survey and Frank La Flesehc
of the Indian office have been appoint
ed to represent their respective bu
re.iits as members of tin- congress for
Americanists to meet in New York
<ity in 100?.
A number of Nnle graduates have
completed the subscription list for
ili«* placing of u memomrial window
for Klihn Yale in the church at Wrex
ham, Wales, near which Yale lies bur
led, and work on the window will bo
begun at once.
The duke of Roxburgh, who i* >*•
Imr spoken of as a possible husband
for Miss Asfor. is just twentv-flve
years of age and recently returned
from South Africa, where hA served
with distinction as a lieutenant in the
royal horse guards.
An institute of nnirnnl psychology
has been created in Paris unde r the
patronage of scientists for the pur
pose of studying the psvehic.il facul
ties of the brute creation. It jH a
hind of school of experiment in men
fr.l powers of different animals.
A burglar attempted to ,*ii*er a
creamery at Benton, Wis. tie* other
day through a trap door in ihe roof.
Me had a tiottlc of nitroglycerine in
his hip pocket, and the trap lour, full
ing. struck him on the hip. He was
literally torn to pie# by the Truce
of the explosion which followc I.
Street ear*- without tracks, cable,
trolley or horses, and, most of nil,
■without franchises, soon will |„. run
ning regularly on ihe streets of 4 hi
ts go.
•fust lee Brew er of the United States
supreme court has the reputation of
bring the best raconteur in Washing
ton. His fund of stories endless
• nci he serins to add to it daily.
Candy makers say that the most
profitable port of their trade is in
fancy candies, put up in ornamental
boxes, the bor frequently cutting
more figure In the purchase than thr
goods.
IS VERY REFRESHING
Dr. Talmage, in This Discourse, So
Represents Religion.
H* Invite* All the World to Cnnirnnd
Meeelve It—t'hrl*t‘« Ktrrnul
Fountain* Satisfy the
Soul.
[Copyright, 1901, by I.ouls Klopst b. N. Y.J
In this discourse Dr. Talmage repre
sents religion as a great refreshment,
and invites all the world to come and
receive it; text. Genesis, 29:b. "We
cannot until all the tlocks be gathered
together and till they roll the stone
from the well’s mouth; then we water
the sheep.”
A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully
pastoral. A well of water of gnat
value in that region. The fields around
about it white with three flocks of
■beep lying down waiting for the wa
tering. I hear their bleating coining
on the bright air and the laughter of
young men and maidens indulging in
rustic repartee. I look off. and 1 see
other flocks of sheep coming. Mean
while Jacob, a stranger, ou the inter
esting errand of looking for a wife,
comes to the well. A beautiful shep
herdess comes to the same well. 1 see
her approaching, followed by her fa
ther’s sheep. It was a memorable
meeting. Jacob married that shep
herdess. The Rible account of it is:
“Jaeob kissed Rachel and lifted up hit*
voice and wept.” It has always been a
mystery to me what he found to cry
about! Rut before that scene oc
curred Jacob accosts the shepherds and
asks them why they postpone the
slaking of the thirst of their sheep
and why thej- did not immediately pro
ceed to water them. The shepherds
reply to the effect: “We are all good
neighbors, and as a matter of cour
tesy we wait until all the sheep of the
neighborhood come up. Resides that,
this stone on the well’s mouth is some
what heavy, and several of us take hold
of it and push it asid-e, and then the
buckets and the troughs are filled and
the sheep are satisfied.” “W« cannot
until all the flocks are gathered to
gether and till t hey roll the stone from
the well’s mouth; then wc water the
Sheep.”
Oh, this is a thirsty world! Hot for
the head, and blistering for the feet,
and parching for the tongue. The
world’s great want is a cool, refresh
ing, satisfying draft- We wander
around and we find the cistern empty.
Long and tedious drought has dried
up the world’s fountain, but cen
.turies ago a Shepherd, with crook in
the shape of a cross and feet cut to
the bleeding, explored the desert pas
sages of the world and one day came
icross a well a thousand feet deep,
bubbling and bright and opalescent,
and looked to the north, and the south,
and the east, and the west, and cried
out with a voice strong and musical,
that rang through the ages: “Ho,
everyone that t hirsteth, come ye to the
waters! ’’
Now a great flock of sheep to-day
gather around this Gospel well. There
are a great many thirsty souls. 1 won
der why the flocks of all nations do
not gather, why so many stay thirsty,
and while 1 am wondering about it inv
text breaks forth in the explanation,
saying: “We cannot until all the flocks
be gathered together and till they roll
the stone from ihe well’s mouth; then
we water the sheep.”
If a herd of swine come to a well,
they angrily jostle each other for the
precedence; if a drove of cattle come
to a well, f,hey hook each other back
from the water, but when a flock of
sheep come, though a hundred of them
shall be disappointed, they only ex
press it by sad bleating, they come to
gether peaceably. \\e want a great
multitude to come around the Gospel
well. I know there are those who do
not like a crowd; they think a crowd
is vulgar. If they art* oppressed for
room in church, it makes them posi
tively impatient and belligerent. We
lave had people permanently leave
church because so many ot her people
.am»* to it. Not so efid these oriental
hepherds. They waited until all the
locks were gathered, and the more
flocks that came the better they liked
it. And so we ought to he anxious
that all the people should come. (Jo
out into the highways and the hedges
and compel them to come in. Go to
the rich and tell them they are indi
gent w ithout the Gospel of Jesus. f;n
to the poor and tell them the affluence
there is in ( hrist. Go to the blind
and tell them of the touch that gives
eternal illumination. Go to the lame
and tell them of the joy that will make |
the lame man leap like a hart. Gather i
• 11 the sheep off all the mountains.
None so torn of 1 he dogs, none so sick,
none so worried, none so dying as to
be omitted. Why not gather a great
flock? All this city ig a flock, all St w
York is a flock, all London is a flock,
all the world is a flock.
This well of the Gospel is deep
enough Jo put out the burning thirst
of the 1 .(’.00.000.000 of the race. Do
not let the church by n spirit of , \
clnsiveness keep the world out. Let
down all the bars, swing open nil tlie
gates, scatter all the invitation*!
"Whosoever will, let himenme.” (’ome.
white and black. ( nine, red men of
the forest. < ome Laplander, out
of the snow. Come Patagonian, ont of
the sonih. Come inMur*. Come pant
ing under palm leaves. ( ome one.
Come all. Come now. As at this well
of Mesopotamia Jacob and Kaehel
w ere b*-t rot bed, so t his morning at this
well of salvation Christ, our Shepherd,
will meet you coming up with your long
flocks of cares and anxieties, and He
will Stretch out Hi* hand in pledge
of His affection, while all Heaven will
cry out: “Behold, the bridegroom
cometh! Go ye out to meet him!”
You notice that this y«J] of Yieao
potamin hud u stone on It, which
must lie removed l>efore the sheep
could In* watered, and I find on the
well of salvation to-day impediments
aud obstacles which must be re
moved in order that you may obtain
the refreshment and life of this gos
pel. In your case the impediment is
pride of heart. You cannot bear to
come to so democratic u fountain;
you do not want to come with so
many others. It is as though you
were thirsty and you were invited to
slake your thirst at the town pump
instead of sitting in a parlor sipping
out of u chased chalice which lias
just been lifted from a silver salver.
Not so muny publicans and sinners.
You wnnt to get to Heaven, but you
must be in u special car, with your
feet on u Turkish ottoman and a
band of music on board the train.
\ ou do not want to lie in company
with rustic Jacob and Kachel and be
drinking out of the fountain where
10,000 sheep have been drinking be
fore you. You will have to remove
the obstacle of pride or never find
your way to the well. You will have
to come as we came, willing to take
the water of eternal life in any way
aiud at any hand and in any kind of a
pitcher, crying out; “Oh, Lord Je
sus, I son dying of thirst! Give me
the water of eternui life, whether in
trough or goblet! Give me the wa
ter of life! I care not in wiiat it
comes to me.” Away with nil your
hindrances of pride from the well’s
mouth!
Here is another man who is kept
back from the water of life by the
stone of an obdurate heart which
lies over the mouth of the well. You
have no more feeling upon this sub
ject than if God had yet to do you
the first kindness or you had to do
God the first wrong. Seated on His
lap all these years. His everlasting
arms sheltering you, where is your
gratitude? Where is your morning
and evening prayer? Where are your
consecrated lives? I say to you, as
Daniel said to Helsha/./ar: “The God
in whose hand thy breath is, aud n*l
thy way, thou hast not glorified."
If 3011 treated au3’bo<ly as badly as
you have treated God, you would have
made 500 apologies; yea, 3’our whole
life would have been an apology.
..
Inree tunes a day you have been
seated nt God’s table. Spring, sum
mer, autumn and winter He has ap
propriately appareled you. Your
health from Him, your companion
from Him, your children from Him,
your home from Him, all the bright
surroundings of your life from Him.
Oh, man, what dost thou with that
hard heart? C’anst thou not feel one
throb of gratitude toward the God
that made you, and the Christ who
came to redeem you, and the Holy
Ghost who has all these years been
importuning you? If you could sit
down five minutes under the tree
of a Saviour’s martyrdom and feel
His lifeblood trickling on your fore
head and check and hands, methinks
you would get some appreciation of
what you owe to a crucified Jesus.
Heart of stone, relent, relent,
Touched by Jesus* cross, subdued;
See llis body mangled, rent.
Covered with a gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucified the Eternal Son!
There are men who are perfectly
discontented. I’nhnppy in the past,
unhappy to-day, to be unhappy for
ever, unless you come to this Gospel
well. This satisfies the soul with a
high, deep, all absorbing and eternal
satisfaction. It comes, and it offers
the most unfortunate man so much of
this world as is best for him, and
throws all Heaven into the bargain.
The wealth of Croesus and all the
Koth'-childs is only a f»oor. miserable
shilling compared with the eternal for
tlines that Christ offers you to-dav.
In the far east there was a king who
used once a year to get on tlie scales,
vv hile on the other side t he scales were
placed gold and silver anti gems in
deed. enough were placed there t .
balance the king. Then, at the close
• if the weighing, all those treasures
were t hrow n among ihe populace. Itut
< lirist to-day steps on one side the
scales, and on the other side :i|;
the treasures of the universe, and He
savs: “All are yours; all height, all
depth, all hreadlh, all eternit \ all are
v ours." \\ e do not app* ciute I he prom
ises of the Gospel.
Come also to this Gospel well, all
.'‘e troubled. I do not suppose you
have escaped. Compare your view
•»f this life at l.*> years of age with
what your view is of i» at to or 00
or 70. What a great contrast of opin
ion! Were you right then or are you
l ight now? Two cups placed in your
hands, the one a sweet cup, the
°t her a sour cup. \ cup of joy and
a cup of grief. Which ha- been the
nearest to being full, and out of
which have you the more frequently I
partaken? What a different place the
cemetery is from what it used to be!
Once it was to you a grand city ini- |
proveinent, and you went out on the i
pleasure excursion, and you rani
laughingly up the mound, and you
criticised in si light wav the epitaph. 1
Hut since the day when you heard the
bell toll at the gsit#1 when von went
iti with the procession it is a sad
place, and there is a flood of rush
ing memories that suffuse the eye
and overmaster the heart. Oh. you
have had trouble, trouble, trouble!
God only knows how much you have
had. If is a wonder yon have been
able to live through it.
If I eould gather all the griefs of'
all sorts from these crowded streets
and eould put them in one scroll,
neither man nor angel eould endure
the recitation. Well, what do you
want? Would you like to have your
property hark again? “No," yon say
as a Christian man; “I was becoming
arrogant, and I think that is why
the Lord took it away. I don't want
to have my property back.” Well,
would you have your departed friends
back again? “No," you say; “[
couldn't take the responsibility of
bringing them from a fearless realm
to a realm 01 tears. I couldn’t do it.”
Well, then, what do you want? A
thousand voices in the audience cry
out: “Comfort. (Jive us comfort!”
For that reason I have rolled away
the stone from the well’s inoutb.
Come, all ye wounded of the flock,
pursued of the wolves, come to the
fountain where the Lord’s sick and
bereft ones have come. “Ah,” says
some one, “you are not old enough to
understand my sorrows. You have
not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can’t talk to me about
my misfortunes in the time of old
age." Well, I may not have lived as
long as you, but 1 have been a great
deal among old |>eople. and I know
how they feel about their failing
health and about their departed
friends and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their
souls.
After two persons have lived to
gether for 40 or 50 years and one is
taken away, what desolation! I shall
not forget the cry of Dr. De W’itt. of
New York, when he stood by the open
grave of his beloved wife and after
the obsecpiies bad ended he looked
down into the open place and said:
“Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife. The bond that bound
us is severed. Thou urt in glory, and
I ain here on earth. We shall meet
again. Farewell, farewell!”
You get a little worried for fear that
some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchil
dren sometimes speak a little sharp to
you because of your ailments. The
Lord will not speak sharp. Do you
think you will come to want? What
do you think the Lord is? Are His
granaries empty? Will He feed the
raven and the rabbit nnd the lion in
the desert, and forget you? Whv, nat
uralists tell us that the porpoise will
not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
And doyou suppose ihe Lord of Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy
as the fish of the sea? But you say:
“1 am so near worn out. and I ain of
no n*e to (Jod any more.” I think the
Lord knows whether you are of any
more use or not. If you were of no
more use. He would have taken you
before this. Do you think (Jod has for
gotten you because He has taken care
of you 70 or hO years? He thinks more
of you to-day than He ever did, be
cause you think more of him. May
the (Jod of Abraham and Isaac and .la
cob and Paul the aged be your (Jod for
ever! But I ga t her a! 1 t he promises to
day in a group, and I ask the shepherds
to drive their flocks of la mbs a nd sheep
up to the sparkling supply. “Behold,
happy is the man whom (Joil correct
eth." “Though He cause grief, yet will
He have compassion.” “Many are the
afflictions of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them all.”
"Weeping may endure fora night, but
joy cometh in the morning.” 1 am
determined that no one shall go out of
this house unenmforted. Yonder is
a timid and shrinking soul who seems
to hide away from the consolations I
am uttering as a child with a sore
hand hides away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too rotighlv.
and the mother has to go and compel
the little patient to come out and see
the physician. So 1 come to your
timid and shrinking sou! to-day and
compel you to come but in the pres
ence- of the Divine Physician. He will
not hurt you. He has been healing
wounds for many years, and lie will
give you gentle and omnipotent medi
ca men t.
Hut people, when they have trouble,
go anywhere rather than to God. l)e
Quincey took opium to get rid of his
troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. I heodore Hook took to some
thing stronger. Kdwin Forrest, took
to theatrical dissipation. And men
have run all around the earth, hoping
in the quick transit to get away from
their misfortunes. It has been it dead
failure. There is only one well that
fan slake the thirst of an afflicted
spirit, and that is the deep and inex
ha ust ilde w ell of the Gospel.
Hut some one in the audience savs;
“Notwithstanding ail yon have said
this morning, 1 find no alleviation for
my troubles.” Well. I am not through
.vet. I have left the most potent con
sideration for the la -1. I am going
to soothe you with the thought of
Heaven. However talkative w c may
he, there will come a time when the
stoutest and most emphatic interroga
tion will evoke from us no answer. As
soon ns we have c'osed our lip* for
the final silence no power on earth
can break thai taciturnity. Hut where,
ft Christ inn. will be your spirit? In
a scene of infinite gladness. The
-pring morning of Heaven waving its
blossoms in the bright air. Victor*
fresh from battle showing their scars.
The rain of earthly sorrow struck
through with the ritrtihow of eternal
joy. Ill one group Got! and angels and
the redeemed. Paul and Silas, Latimer
and Rip.ey, Isaiah ami Jeremiah. Pav
son and John Milton, Gabriel and Mi
chuel the archangel. Long line of
choristers reaching across the hills.
Seas of joy d,a*hing to the white beach.
Conquerors marching from gate to
gutc. Yon among them. Oh. what
a great flock God will gather around
the celestial well. No stone on the
well’s mouth while the Shepherd wa
ter* the sheep. There Jacob w ill rec
ognize Rachel the shepherdess. And
standing on one side of the well of
eternal rapture your children, and
standing on the other *idr of eternal
rapture y our Christian ancestry. You
will be bounded on all sides by a joy
so keen anti grand that no other World
has ever been permitted to expe
rience it. Ouv of that one deep well
of Heaven the Shepherd will dip re*
union for the bereaved, wealth for the
poor, health for the sick, rest for the
weary. And then all the flock of the
Lord's »heep will lie down in the grten
pastures, and world without end we
will praise the Lord that on this sum
mer Sabbcth morning we were per
mitted to study the story of Jacobund
Rachel at the well.
!
ANNUAL REPORT.
Sarins **»• I.aat Fiscal Year Tftrr*
Were Krtllril 11,(013 Accounts Bjr
the \av) Department.
Waswington, Aug. 10.—The annual
rejxjrt of the auditor for the navy de
partment shows that during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1901, there were
settled 0,695 accounts nnd claims.
During the same period there were
examined 159,058 vouchers, as against
147,430 the previous year, while the
amounts allowed were $71.649,1 1C, as
against $61,971,000 for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1900. This show's an
increase of more thun 8 per cent, in
vouchers examined over Inst year,
and 58 per cent, over the fiscal year
1859, and an increase of allowances
oxer last year of $12,678,115.
The decrease in the number of
claims settled is attributable to Hie
fact that in 1900 there were over
8.000 “two months’ extra pay’’ claims
settled incident to the Spanish war.
Nearly twice the number of prize
claims were settled this year ns there
were last. The distributive lists of
22 prizes have been prepared, in which
50 vessels of the navy participated.
These claims are’well up to date.
Judgments, “bounty for destruction
of enemy’s vessels,” have been re
ceived from the court of claims for
Manila bay. May 1, 1898; Manzanillo,
June 30 and July 18. J898; Nipo bay,
July 21, 1898, and Marie!, Cuba. July
4 and 5. 1898, in which 24 vessels are
interested. The list of the first has
been prepared for distribution, the
remaining one are being hastened
with all possible speed. The number
of these claims will amount to about
6.900 all told.
The expenditures on account of
prize money to captors, Spanish war,
amounted to $190,218, leaving an un
pended balance of $51,927.
The navy department deposit fund
now amounts to $337,248. the total
deposits having been $2,201,590, and
the repayments $1,804,342.
THE PRESIDENT'S DAY.
Irvanarementn mine. Mmlr For Mr.
Kinlrjr'* Visit to the IliwTalo
Exposition.
( nnton, O., Aug. 10.—Arrangements
were made here for a “Presidential
day at the Pan-American exposition.
President J. (i. Millsur Mulburn and
Director General W. 1. Duchanan, of
the exposition; Mayor c>r Buffalo
Diehl, and John I. Seateherd came
here for that purpose. They were
met at the station by the president's
carriages and taken to the Elks club
for lunch. They spent most of Ihe
afternoon at the McKinley home, lie
sides selecting the date named, it was
arranged that the president should
have lure Wednesday morning, Sep
tember 4. and reach Buffalo tlic same
evening. The full programme is to he
worked out in detail later, but op
port unify will be provided the presi
dent to see the exposition complete
and to tin* best advantage both day
ami night. Thursday will 1m; largely
t»iveil over to tin1 special programme
for “President’s day,” with parades,
possibly speaking and other features.
Friday the presidential party will
spend at Niagara falls. Part of Sat
urday will probably he spent, at the
exposition, and leave for Cleveland
Sat unlay afternoon or evening, ami
remain in that city for ihe Grand
Army encampment the week of Sep
tember 9. The trip will Ik* made by
train.
THE LIMESTONE OUTPUT.
Another Great Industrial Combine
of Interest to Iron and steel
11 n tor |»r Inc « Forming.
Newcastle, Pu., Aug. 10.—Anotln r
incut industrial combination of .spe
cial importance to iron and steel en
terprises of the country is now uuJcr
way.
1 be object is to place with one cor
poration control of the limestone out
put in this section. It is one of the
most important materials used by the
blast furnaces of the United States
stcc I corporation about their Pitts
burgh mills, and Bessemer steel can
not be made without it. Prominent
Pittsburghers, most of whom are
dock holders and officers in the steel
trust, are promoting the enterprise.
It is estimated flint fully $1,.'*00,000
bus been invested. Every quarry of
consequence and every limestone tract
1,1 central and western Pennsylvania
ami eastern Ohio have been, frrnu
“II reports, gobbled by the com bin*.
ROYAL WEDDING.
Prince fefer. of Older. t*onrK. Mar.
rled «n the Yonn*r*f Slater of
Kmprrnr Airholna.
*t. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—Prince
I’eter, of Oldrnbourg, was married
to Grand Duchess Olga AhxandTovnn,
youngest sister of Emperor Nicholas,
in the presence of his majesty, the
empress, the dowager empress, the
omen of Greece and Prince and P.du
ress Dnldernnr, of Denmark. Horn-* of
flic festivities were abandoned in con
sequence of the death of the Dowag-r
Km pres* Frederick.
Admits I ninpllciq.
Paris. \ug. in. \ dispatch to the
Putrio from Home says the anarchist,
Ltieigi Gianotti, who is charged at
Milan vith being an accomplice of
Dresci in the assassination of King
Humbert, has confessed to his com
plicity ii* the crime.
((•Id For Rnlihrrf,
London, Aug. 10.- At the Mansion
House police court .lames McDonald,
i whiter, was remanded on his own
:onfcssion. McDonald professes to
mve robbed the Western Lumber Co.,
>1 Portland, Ore.
THE IRELAND OF TO-DAY.
Mere I"rouprroai Thai Formerly, flat
It* Main Lack 1* In (hr Mann*
(actarlng I.In*.
Rf. Hod. .lames Hrjpr. a careful ob
server, and Mr. Seisms* Mao.MaDUs.tha
Irish writer, agree that Ireland to-day
is enjoying comparative prosperity.
The people are living better, their food
its of a higher grade, the bank deposit*
have decreased, the farm renta are
lower, and the returns from work art*
larger. The main reason why it<doe*
not take ita place ms one of the rich
countries of the world is ita lack of
manufocturing. It exis-ts mainly on it*
agriculture and its fisheries, says the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
Ireland contains 3I.33T square miles*
not including the 196 little islaud*
which add £46 square miles to Wie total.
It is not quite ao large as Indiana, and
is a little larger than South C'aroiiuH.
The Philippine isl four time*
the size of all Ire _ __■** than fiv*
years ago a commission appointed by
parliament reported that there’ bad
been placed upon Ireland a taxation
burden which it was unable to bear,
and th«t something should be done.
Thus came the new land act, which w a*
a mitigation, but not a reform, of th*
evila.
*(ndy of Soil*.
The investigations on agricultural
soils w hich are being conducted in 1 hi*
country are probably unsurpassed in
quality and extent by those of any
country, unless it be Russia, where *
very systematic and extensive line of
investigations, including a survey a mi
classification of the soils of the whole
country, has been in progress for a
number of years, says the Popular Sci
ence Monthly. The work in this coun
try lias been carried on mainly by a
number of the agricultural experi
ment stations and the dfviaioua of
soils of the national department of ag
rioultiire. The report of tlib field op
erations of the dii ision of soils for
1S99, by Prof. Milton Whitney and a
number of bis assistants, lately is
sued. is u report of progress in survey
ing the soils of the I'nited States, lim -
ing the year areas aggregating about
720,000 acres were studied in the fie hi
and mapped.
ABSOLUTE
SECURITY.
Genuine
Carter’s
Little Liver Pills.
Must Bear Signature of
5ee Foe-Simile Wrapper Below.
Tory small and as easy
to take as swgax.
1 CARTER'S
FOR HEADACHE.
FOR DIZZINESS.
FOR BILIOUSNESS.
FOR TORPID LIVER.
FOR CONSTIPATION.
FOR SALLOW SKIN.
FOR THE COMPLEXION
Utej
CjBRVINlI HUITIUVIJWUTUM.
Purely |
CURE SICK HEADACHE.
20,000 j
HARVEST HANDS '
Required to ha-trest the
grain cn-pof Wrairru
( .1% ti*A. Tlie ro<>.a
n(miniunt y eld on th»
Contlrn.it. l{«-|Krrtt are
Wiat the iir*rug • y.eld of
i». I Hum WbrAl m
western t .innria will l>«
over thirty bugbcl* l<> the
Here. Price* f*-r farm
.. .. . — - D*Ip e||| |»n excellent,
splendid Ranching l-nn<* adjoining the Wheat Hell.
EVAIinMAIIft "'ll b<! run f r< in nil p. i nl *
EaUL lSIQnS 1 "'led Mate* to
t"o free oka>t
*■*'* 1,4 Xccuro a home nt once, and If you wish
to purchase ut prevailing price*, niul secure tlwnd
»ant »gu hf the low rntc*. apply for r.ltertpure.
*f*i*,, 9U\, to K. I’kliLKT, Supt, Immigration
niawn i nimdit. or to JO-*. YOUNG. M'a Mate »t_
olu.-nbw.. <»., Canadian Government Agent.
fW" When visiting RnfTlilo, do not
fall to Men the C ANADIAN KIUIB1T
at the American.
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