The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 16, 1897, Image 2
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The Opening Day of the Fifty-Fifth's
First Regular Session.
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READING PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
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Crowds Witness the Proceedings in Both
Houses?Floral Offerings Profuse?Sen
T ste's Session Brief?Incidents Attend|
ins the House's Convening?Both Ad
joum Oat of Respect For Dead Members
"WAsaixcTox, D. C. (Special).?The regular
session of the Fifty-fifth Congress began
Si at noon Monday, when Yieo-Presidont Hotuirt,
in the Senate, and Speaker Reed, in
thoJEtouse, called these respective bodies to
order. As Congress was organized last
March, the opening session was rather
tarns in comparison with the usual first
day. Although the galleries were crowded
fa both Senate and House, there was cot
the rush as is generally the caso when
a new Congress assembles. The corridors
ft" were not crowded with hurrying spectators,
a\.- for those who wanted to get in the galKj.'i
? leries came early, secured good seats ipd
contented themselves watching thescenes
on the floor. T?e public galleries were
filled, but those reserved for the executive
and diplomatic guests were empty.
The two bouses after appointing committees
to notify the President that Congress
'was la session iook n recess uum 0110
o'clock. Promptly at that hotir the Fresi'
dent's message was received and read. Tlio
reading was listened to with much closer
J*-' interest than usual, and ut times there
were outbursts of applause for some of the
snore striking points.
MEETING OF THE SENATE.
Vice-President Hobart Call# the Uoilj to
Order and Work Pcgln#.
TTaskikoto5, D. C. (8pecial).?The Senate
Chamber at the opening of the session
was a veritable conservatory. The floral
4feplay was unusually rich and beautiful,
tn* Ma the odor of flowers was heavy in the
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1u>u wnrour yoiuie cn^T>?-uaic uuu?cnojtke
public and executive and reserved galleries
were filled with spectators to witness
the opening ot the session. The handsome
costumes of the women added much to tho
brightness of the scene.
Tlcw-President Hobart called the Senate
to order at noon, and announced the opening
of the session with prayer by the
Chaplain. The Chaplain spoke of the nation's
heart beating reverently by the bedaide
of tho President's mother, and prayed
for her "qnlet and peaceful passage to the
celestial world." The roll of Senators was
then called, and seventy-seven responded, J
.showing the absence ot only twelve.
The Banal committers to notify the
President and the Honse that the Senate
was in session were then appointed, after
which a recess was taken. At 1.30 tho
- Senate reconvened and immediately the
President's message was presented by Mr.
Prudeo, the President's Assistant Secretary.
The reading of the message was conetaded
at 2.50. The document was ordered
printed for the use of the Senate.
Mr. Walthall then announced the death
?f his colleague, Senator James Z. George,
- of Mississippi, and offered the usual resotetton
of condolence with the dead Senatort
family. This was adopted, and as a
farther mark of respect, the Senate adfouraed.
ICC' THE HOUSE ASSEMBLES.
-Speaker BeM Starts \he Proceedings
With a Sew Gavel.
WanutdTox, D. O. (Special).?The HaII
wf Representatives^presented^an animated
appearance ivug ireiure iuo uuui ui uwu
'; arrived. The surrounding corridors were
Vttei with tootling, moving crowds, and
j? > before 11 o'clock the encircling galleries
whieh overlooked the floor wero black with
V. The representation of a huge gavel, in
tad and white carnations, stood upon the
7" Speaker's table. Many members also were
wnaomborod with floral offerings from ad&
. ^Wiring Mends and the chamber looked a
hewer of rosea. A3 the hands of the clock
pointed to the boor of 12, Speaker Reed,
attired In a black cutaway coat and wearing
a rod tie, pushed through the green
bam doors from the lobby and ascended
; I . the rostrum.
t One crack of the gavel sabdned the din
on the floor and the conversation in the
fcn .Mt... TKq c-opaI wltk
which the Speaker called the House to or" I
jSCc her was presented to him by J. C. Groner,
* ; Sheriff of Knox County, Tennessee. The
fsrel is made of wood of an apple tree
k which grew beside the log house in whieh
. Fsrmgat was born. This house 'stood at
.t?owe's Perry, on tho Tennessee River, six
. . >miles below Knoxviiie.
V ; In the deep silence whieh followed the
* . sailing of the assemblage to order, the
prayer of the English pastor, the Rev.
Charles A. Beery, or Wolverhampton, Eng?.i
land, waa impressive. The Speaker then
directed the Clerk to call the roll. .
The roll call showed the presence of 301
members. There wore Ave vacancies from
t death or resignation during the recess and
the credentials of the members-elect were
read by the direction of the Speaker, who
Qk& then administered the oath of office to
ftfaan. They were P. M. Griffith (Dem.),
ftmecessor to Judgo Holm an, of the Fourth
Indiana District; H. 8. Boutelle (Rep.), of
"Chicago, who succeeded Edward D. Cook,
who died recently; James Norton (Dem.),
of the Seventh South Carolina District, who
succeeded John L. MoLaurin, now a Senap":
lor; George P. Lawrence (Rep.), of the
K; First Massachusetts DIstrlot, who succeeded
Ashley B. Wright, also now dead, and I
S. H. Driggs (Dem.), of the Third Now
. lork District, who succeeds Francis U.
Wilson, who resigned to accept the position
-of Postmaster of Brooklyn. There being
nothing to do except nw< the reception
-of the President's message, the House then
took a recess until 1.20 p. m. I
Upon reassembling the message was rc'i\
-edved and read. The reading took an
Jiour and twenty minutes.
Vm, On motion of Mr. Dingley, the message
-warreforred to the Committee of the Whole I
and ordered priDted. Mr. Lawrence (Rep.,
Mass.) then officially announced the death
of his predecessor. Representative Wright,
-and Mr. Allen (Dem., Miss.) the death of
Senator George. Out of respect to their
fr- memories, the House then, at 3.03 p. m., ad
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j Germany 'a I'ltimatum.
) Two German cruisers arrired at Port au
Printe and presented an ultimatum to the
authorities on shore, giving the latter
night hours in which to grant the demand I
- tor an indemnity to Herr Lueders.
President Returns to Canton.
( Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of
the President, rallied sufficiently soon a'Cnoon
Monday to recognize those abont
bedside and take somopeptoniods. The
President left Washington for Canton,
Ohio, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., on the day that
^ Congress reassembled.
Big Storm in Italy.
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storm which swept over Italy. Seventeen
(vessels were wrecked in the Bay of Naples .
jand their crews were lost. Many wrecks
(are reported from the islands of Sardinia
jazid Sicily. i
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LYNCHED TK'Z CONSTABLE.
Crowd of Miners Released Tits Prisoner
and Mnrdered the Officer.
The dead body of James Hurray, constable
at Jenny Lind, a coal-mining town In
Sebastian County, Arkansas, was found by
the roadside. It was at first supposed that
Murray had been murdered, but it has since
been established that the officer waslynched
by a mob of coal miners.
Constable Murray went to the Bonanza
to arrest a miner, Grant MeBroom. for
whom he hurt a warrant, ne capiureu
McBroom without trouble and started with
his prisoner for Jenny Lind about midnight.
This was the last seen of Murray
alive.
The constable's body was found next
moraine. His hands were tied behind his
back and his neck was black and blue,
showing plainly the imprint of a rope.
Blood oozed from a dozen bullet wounds in
the body and his clothing was torn into
shreds. The Coroner began an investigation,
and it has been fnlly developed that
he was waylaid by a mob of McBroom's
friends composed of miners determined
upon rescuing the prisoner and that Murray
was lynched, the body cnt down nnd
placed by the roadside. McBroom was ro'arrested.
HANGMAN'S NOOSE STAYED.
Murderer Threw Down Bible and Lighted
Cigarette at the News.
Philip Hill, colored, who killed George
Lawronco on April 27, was to have been
hanged at Pittsburg, Fenn., at noon*
Wednesday. His lawyers rased to Harrisbnrg
with new evidence, only to And that
Governor Hastings was in Hot Springs.
They hastened there, but the Governor refused
to interfere. Then they hurried
back to Pittsburg and got a writ of error.
The attorneys for the Sheriff advised that
the writ operated as a stav.
Word was taken to Hill fifteen minutes
before he was to have been hanged. He
wa3 reading his Bible, bnt he threw it aside
when told of the writ and lighted a cigaretto.
The District Attorney is censuring
the Sheriff for not going on with the hanging.
Hill's father begged money for his defense
from coal miners. Ho did not get as
much as ho wanted and decided to try to inereaso
it by playing poker. He lost all.
The money Hill's Inwyers are using now
was raised by his mother.
A MILLION ON HIS LIFE.
George 17. Ynn;lcrbilt Take* Out the
Lirceit Policy Ever Written.
Tbo largest lifo insurance policy ever
Issued by any company in the world was
issued to George W. Vanderbilt a few days
ago in Now York City. Tho policy is in .
the straight life, twenty-year class, and
amounts to $1,000,000. Mr. Vanderbilt is |
to t>av an annual premium of $33,000. ,
Until a few years ago a policy for $105,000
was considered the maximum amount
any company would write upon the life of
an individual. In the last year or two this
sum has been, in a few coses, doubled on
the lives of healthy men whose financial
ability enabled them to pay the necessary
premiums. Bat never before has the
amount of a single policy reached anything
like the sum carried on the life of Mr. Vanderbilt.
Mr. Vanderbilt immediately sailed for
Europe with a Toucher for his good health
and the prospects of a long lite that it
would be Impossible to gainsay.
NEW CURE FOR SPRAINS.
Injured Member Baked at a Temperature
of 300 Degree*. y
E. B. Htnman, a sophomore in the Unl
versity or uaiuornia, nas ana nis leg dakcu
In an oven at a temperature of 800 degrees
Fahrenheit to cure a sprain. This is eightyeight
degrees higher than the temperature
of boiling water, and twice the heat at
which meat is ordinarily roasted for the
table. The sprain disappeared with wonderful
rapidity. The injured limb was
treated in a specially prepared apparatus
consisting of a copper eylioder resting on
iron supports with a gas burner underneath.
Hinman'a leg was wrapped in absorbent
cotton and placed in the cylinder,*with nonconducting
rubber bags closing the interior
so that the heat could not oscape.
After three bakings the sprain was entirely
cured.
WIDOW'S UNIQUE SUIT.
Wants Damages From a Liquor Dealer
Because of Her Hatband's Death.
In Macon County, Missouri, is a woman
who believes in doing a thfng thoroughly
when she does it at all. She is Mrs. J. K.
Trultt, and about a year ago her husband
was killed by a railroad train while drunk.
Some time before she had notified the only
saloonkeeper in the vicinity not to sell her
husband liquor, and hadaprlvate detectivo
watoh him. The saloonkeeper paid no attention
to her orders, and continued to sell >
Trultt liquor when be wanted it. The detective
had counted 214 drinks when Trnitt
was killed, and now the widow has brought
suit against the saloonkeeper, asking damages
for each instance in which herinjnnction
was violated, making tho noat little
sum of 8107,000 In all.
COT S200 AND WAS HANCED.
Execution of the Instrument of Tengeance
ol Seine Tennessee Miners.
At Clinton, Anderson County, Tenn.,
Mynatt Leach, was hanged for the murder
of J. D. Eeok on February 17 lost.
Leach made a confession. He s'Jd that
he and four other men drew straws to
decide who should do the killing, and the
lot fell to him. Each of the others then
put up 850 to pay him for the crime.
All five men were miners, and Heck was
superintendent of the mine. They decided
to kill him because he took the part of a
miner named Morgan who killed a bank
boss. The miners thought that Morgan
ought to be punished and had Heck murdered
for his interference.
Kapld Ball Laying.
Daring the past three months the Xainte*
uanco of Way Department of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company has been very
busy laving the new eighty-flve pound
iteel ordered last summer by the Receivers.
Eight thousand tons have been put in the
east-bound track on the third and second
divisions, and but. four, miles remain
to be laid on the latter division. On
the Parkersburg branch 3000 tons have been
placed in the track. There are still about
26,000 tons of rail to be delivered and it
will bo laid as rapidly as possible. With
continued good weather Chief Engineer
Manning expects to lay rails all the winter.
The track was ballasted and new ties
put in during the summer, so that the work
progresses very rapidly.
Pardons a Fist Fighter.
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has great
respect for a man who settles pereonal
difficulties with his fists. Ho granted a
pardon to Sylvester Johnson, of Nelson
County, who had been sent to jail for lighting.
Governor Bradley wrote this indorsement
on the papers: "The prisoner was
convicted of the offense of fist fighting?so
unusual a manner of lighting in this State
that the prisoner should be pardoned."'
Killed In (he Prize King.
Walter Croot, of England, died in London
of a blow rcceivod in the bantam-wcighti
championship fight with Barry, of Chicago.,
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Washington Ilwm. '
The State Department has decided tojj
tend Captain Merry as Minister to Costaj
Rica and Dr. Hunter to Guatemala, leav- I
lug Nicaragua and Honduras without rep- f
resentation,unless the trouble regarding:
:heir acceptance is Settled. ; |
The House began consideration of the
Pension Appropriation bill. The Senate
I nssed a large number of private pension
bills, after listening to an argument by
Mr. Galilnger, Chairman of the Committee
on Pensions, advocating a more conservative
policy in dealing with such measures.
Senator Allen made a speech In the Senate
in support of a resolution he introduced
providing for a recognition of the independence
of Cuba.
At the semi-annual meeting of the
American University's Trnstees in Washington,
it was shown that its assets now
aggregate $i,nuu,uuu.
Secretary Gage has submitted to the
Department of State his report upon tho
action of the Treasury in suppressing filibustering
expeditions to Cuba.
In the Senate a bill was Introduced to
prohibit pelagic SPaUng by people of the
United Stntes, and a similar bill was introduced
in the House.
Tho Senate Foreign Delations Committee
defided not to press consideration of the
Hawaii Annexation treaty for a time, tho
votes necessary for ratification being lacking.
Members of the House Committee on
Banking and Currency were unable to
agree upon any measure for reform of the
currency system.
In<tho House there wns a sharp controversy
l>etween the Ways nn<l Means and
the Banking and Currency Committees, the
latter flna'Iv being sustained In its claim
to jurisdiction over that portion of the
President's message relating to the currency
question.
A noli of the Senate by members of the
TV>i>ftltrn TTalntlnna CnmmiKpfl fftllurl to show
tho two-thirds required to ratify tho Hawaiian
trenty.
The recent Influx of Italian immigrants
was cnused, it is said, by reports of tho
adoption of restrictive measure? by Congress.
Our Ambassador at Rome advises
that a wholesale trafilo In forged American
naturalization paper3 is being carried
on In Italy. ' ?
Miss Christine Bradley, the daughter of
Governor Bradley, has accented the invitation
of Secretary Long to christen the battleship
Kentuoky.
Domestic.
President Wilson, of the New Toik Health
Board, sent to Mayor Strong a report
which showed that the city's death rate
for the last eleven months, 19.G2, was the
lowest in its history.
WilliamTinkham 4 Co., mannfacturers
cf worsteds at Harrlsville. R. I., have had
M. B. and L. A. Marks, formerlv jobbers in
woolen geods in New York Citv, indicted
for tho sneclflc larceny of $600 worth ol
goods. Tb? defendants are Indebted to
the Rhode Island Arm to the extent ol
about $50,000.
Cannes luiuuiesieuer, miificcu yean
old. was either foully murdered or committed
suicide near Dayton. Ohio. HI;
body was found on Oje roadside, near Ills
wheel, with a bullet bole in the head. A
revolver was near by. There Is no cause
known for suicide.
The Treasurer of one of the Fall Rivei
(Mass.) cotton mills which have ordered
-wages reduced, beginning January 1. said
that the reduction was* due to Soothett
competition.
Governor Elack, of New York, dismissed
the charges of misconduct in office and ne
gleet of duty preferred by Thomas C
Jenks against District-Attorney Fostir L.
Backus, of Queens County.
Rear Admiral Joseph F. Green. U. S. N.
(retired), died at his home in Brookline
Mass. He had been ill for a long time.
Mrs. Marv Epplson, of Omaha, Neb., re
reived ?2000 from an estate. 8he was
afraid of the banks and burled the monej
intherearof her residence. She watchec
the place every day. A few mornings ag<
she was horrified to Qnd a hole where th?
money bad been secreted. She found i
few scattered coins, all that was left of hei
treasure.
A few days ago Daniel Haynes, a wellto-do
farmer living near Hardfnsbnrg, Kjv
buried nearly <>3000 in gold back of hlssta
ble, thinking he would keep it there saft
from marauding thieves, who have beer
numerous hi that locality. He reportod
that when he went to dig up bis gold h<
found it had been stolen.
At the trial of Charles A, Bonat, at Bridgeport,
Conn., on the charge of murdering
George Marcus Nichols, of Daniels Farms
his accomplice, David A. Weeks, turned
State's evidence, and confessed that in ad*
dition to this crime they committed several
other crimes elsewhere in Connecticut,
In New York State, and Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Saul Jacobs has been arrested in Cleveland,
Ohio, and will be taken to New York
City to plead to an indictment found against
him,charging bim with being implicated
in a gold-dust swindle by which Max Bernstein
was induced to part with nearly tl3,300
for brass filings worth 8G.70.
Russell Harring, a young man of Sbelbarne.
N. Y., became despondent because
of the uppoarnnce of a cancer on his fao<
and committed suicide by hanging himself,
Hans:* is suffering from a water famine.
Manv towns are without water. The prolonged
drought has become a serious matter.
Streams from which the towns anu
cities get their supply arc dry and the wells
which afforded the people with water foi
domestic purposes have failed. In a dozer
of the larger towns the railroads are hauling
water and depositing it in tubs for th<
use 01 people.
Ernest A. Hummel, a jeweler of St. Paul
Minn., has Invented a device which send*
pictures by telegraph.
Hundreds of ijats attacked Robert Cook,
a farmer in Falrvlew, Penn., who was imprisoned
in a narrow space, and swarmed
upon him till he fell senseless. His sight
was destroyed while he lay unconscious.
Deeembcrwbeat sold at $1.01 in Chicago
and hung within a fraction of tl ali day
with little trading doing. It is expectec
to go to $1.15 or $2.
Clans Rpreckles has purchased 12,(KX
ncres of land in Monterey County, California,
a'large part of which he will use in
growing sugar beets.
At Williamstown, Mass., Mrs. Hewitt
wife of Professor J. H. Hewitt, of Williams
College, was robbed by a hlghwaymai
within fifty rods of her home. A roughlydressed
man sprang out from the bushes
threw ber to the ground, seized her banc
satchel and made off with it. She wo?
bruised and breathless, but not otherwist
injured.
Chief Justico Conway, of the Wyoming
Supreme Court, died in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
He had been ill for three weeks and
confined to his home with an attack of the
grip. He was elected in 1890.
Railroads have calculated on a spring
rush of 50,000 people to the Klondike.
Adam Uber killed Hans Anderson at Gardnerville.
New The crime was a particularly
cold-blooded one, and the murderei
was taken to Genoa for safotv. Twentylive
armed men, all masked, rodo into
Gecon, and captured him. He was stripped,
and strung up to a tree. Then the mob fired
a volley into his body and rode away.
The Republican politicians of New Jersey
are in a flutter over the succession to Governor
Griggs, who has accepted the position
of Attorney-General in the President's
Cabinet. Foster M. Voorhees is apparently
the leading candidate for the Presidency of
the Senate, which ofllce carries with it the
righl of succession to the Governorship.
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SHE SNUBBED THE PRINCE.
St. Lonis Girl Left Hamburg Because
Wales Wished an Introduction.
Miss Grace Thompson is a high-minded
and beautiful American girl, who
has refused to meet the Prince of I
Wales. She contemptuously refused a |
so-called honor which would have j
transported almost every other woman j
of social aspirations in England or
America into the seventh heaven of
delight.
Miss Thompson is a daughter of Judge
and Mrs. William B. Thompson, of St.:
Louis. The last two years she has been :
in Europe, where she has been received :
in the highest and most exclusive cir- :
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MISS CRACK THOMPSON.
rles. Recently she was at Homburg, In
Germany, which the Prince visits almost
every year. When he last arrived
there he heard of the presence of Miss
Thorapvson, of her beauty and charming
qualities, and expressed a desire to
meet her, confident that the opportunity
would be grasped with frantic joy.
But the young American woman noticed
It by precipitately leaving Homburg.
This snub to the Prince of Wales
has been the cause of reviving stories
i of his most flagrant indiscretions,
which are not only notorious but unfit
for rmhli/>Q.t(nn
A St. Louis schoolma'am is very
angry because the Board of Education
Insisted that flowers on the teacher's
desk were the only kiud of bloomers
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give it a trial. I purchased two bottles and
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but I find that a timely dose of Ayer's Cfier
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tad a severe cold and could not sleep on acc<
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Bamboo at Building Material.
The great strength of bamboo is not
at all understood by the majority of
persona It is said on excellent authority
that two bamboo poles, each of them
one and seven-tenths inches in diameter,
when placed side by side, will support
a grand piano slung between them
by ropes, and that they will neither
Bag nor break under the burden. Bamloo
will form poles s tcty-flve to seventy
feet long and from eight to ten inches
in diameter. A derrick, twenty-six feet
high, made of four inch bamboo poles
raised two iron girders weighing together
four hundred and twenty-four
pounds. The wonderful lightness
of this material in proportion to its
Rtren^th has excited comment of late,
and new uses are constantly being
made of it. Scaffoldings of bamboo
have the advantage of lightness and
Btrength. It is predicted that this material
will come into general use for
such purposes.
Mammoth Gan Casting.
The largest gun casting ever made in
this v >try was cast at the ordnance
iepartment of the Bethlehem Iron
Company Thursday morning. The
tastli^ is for the tube of a slxteen-inch
pun for the United States GorernmenL
It is nineteen feet six Inches long,
octagonal in shape and seventy-four
Inches In diameter.
More than 100 gross tons of metal
were used in Its manufacture. Three
furnaces, two of forty tons' capacity
each and one of twenty tons, were
csed to prepare the metal in. The casting,
which is the first and largest of its
kind ever made, was a success In every
way. The jackets ft>r the big gun will
be cast later.?Washington Star.
News of the failure of t?? crop in a
large part of the European wheat belt
and also In Argentina and other parts
of the South American wheat producing
section is the first piece of good fortune
the American farmer has had for
years. His season ha? been all that
could be asked for and bis yield Is
bountiful. One recognized European
authority estimated the shortage a
month ago at 144,000,000 bushels of
Wheat. Since then he has learned of
the failure of the crop in Russia, India
and Argentina, and bos more than doubled
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elixirs" and "couedi rm \-fi>
the sufferer. They \
the disease or cure a ' ' -7
remedy; it is the pre- *
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ig Cough, ;|
andard and a staple ^
a dry, hacking cough. , ) *^8
curative properties of :
Before I bad taken ^
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was threatened with 1 y
recommending Ayer's ^
finally, was completely ^
-eat success for colds,
Seven's Point, Wis.
>t yield to the various T
rivertised where I had ^ T
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My work subjects me L ^ jSfflj
Ty Pectoral acts as a raM
<oad, London, Ont. 7 s
jgnt of coughing. A << ijjj
1 procured a bottle, >
tent cure." 4
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'rice, 50c. ; i
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A A A A A A j
The First to Wear Trousers*
Tetricua, the barbarian, waa the first .
gentleman to wear trousers. He had
no heart In the innguration of the new <7^
fashion; he simply had to do It AnTe- ' ^
llan, the Roman, had captnred Tetrt- v
cus on one of his raids and determined ^
to carry him In triumph to Rome as /
one of the spoils of conquest To make
onnpar Aft HdlptllonS SS 'tft
lilt' voyvasw -rr~? ? ?
possible be was arrayed In a two-part ;
garment which In Boston might hare . v
been called "pants." Instead of ap- ;
pearlng ridiculous, Tetricus seems to . . i
have made "a hit," for the garment he
wore slowly but surely grew in faror
with the people of Rome. We might
And the origin of many customs hatha
same way. It is known that Charles J
VII., of France, wore a long coat tQ
conceal his crooked legs. Not all the 'A
French were crooked, but coats became
fashionable nevertheless. The
process by which Peter the Creat put
civilized clothes on his uncivilized subjects
bad more method in it. The. ':%J\
gates of the towns were hung with garments
of the new fashion and the people
were obliged to adopt them or be jf*
publicly punished? Pittsburg Despatch.
i 7Tie LdcenfM or Clirtst.
It is not merely by watching the life . /
of Christ as illustrated by His actions/ '
or His principles set forth by His
words, that wo gain likeness to Himtka?.a
to o ctmncrn nnu-or In npriiAmilltr ,
| to affect other natures. The child grows
to be like one whom he constantly jj
watches. Ho may or may not make
conscious effort for that likeness, but % 'v
tbe likeness comes. People of larger
growth, maturer, more inaependent derelopment,
are often strangely drawn
by constant contact into likeness to-one
another, without so much as a thought
Of the process. John says: "We shall
be like Him, for we shall see HJn? aa
nc is." What we need here is to see
Christ?see Him, not merely as ffs was,
but as He is, and we shall find the likeness
taking hold upon us and fashioning
us into Itself.
Their Peculiarity.
First Convict?Dese prison doctors
are de queerest lot I ever see.
Second Convict?How?
First Convict?No matter what's do
matter wld a man, dey never recommend
a change of air?Puck. >
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