Evening Gazette

              %tomiug Jills; je* NUJIBEB 1748. ( Weakly SMakllahMI 1830. f PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1888. Stwo oBirra. Xen Vend • Week THE COST OF LITOG. SAID OF ADAM'S SONS. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. $7.60" * w»ek can, witn a careful wife, who will look aftef the mending, get along with the following: One white shirt, which with the collar will cost him 60 cents; a derby hat at 09 cents; a blue shirt, $1; a pair of overhauls, 00 cents; two white undershirts at 25 cents each, 60 cents; and two red flannel undershirts for winter wear at 75 cents each, $1.60; a pair of pantaloons, $1.50; a suit of cheap clothes, $4; an overcoat at $3; and a halt dozen pair of socks, 60 cents. This would make a total of $13.45, or a little less than 26 cents a week. ; JESUS IN GETHSEIANE. ' A treaty of international traffic by rail has Just been signed between Chili and the Argentine Republic. Bit* of Personal Gowlp by the Paragraph. * lata of the DaAy Newspapers. " John Ruskin has written sixty-four books, and his annual receipts from his publisher reach $30,000. FACTS WHICH PROVE THE FALSENESS OF A FREE TRADE CRY. LESSON VIII, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 20. lrrnurn DL:J■ i" An English peor, whose revenues have been reduced, has accepted a position as drummer for a pianoforte manufacturer. Sidney Lanier, the southern poet, is to have a monument costing (15,000, and Baltimore, Montgomery and Macon will pay the largest part of the bill. ▲ Fair Comparison of the Cost of Living In Ftm Trade London and Protective New York for Families and Single Men. Text of the Lesson, Matt, xxvl, 30-46. I Golden Text, Heb. v, 8 —Memorize A British shipmaster at New Orleans reports that while off the coast of Pataponla butterflies were blown aboard bis vessel at a distance of 150 miles from the land. Verses 30-89—Comments by lie v. B. S. Hoffman. Figures That Tell the Story. Hugh McCulloch, who was Lincoln's, Johnson's and Arthur's secretary of the treasury, is 80. He looks to be 60, reads without glasses, runs around in society, and he and Mrs. MoCulloch celebrated their golden wedding anniversary recently. Paris is threatened with n bnt'.'o of flowers. The imperialist violet is to be rivaled by the Boulangist carnation, the carnation being the favorite flower of Gen. Boulanger. No matter how false a statement may be, if it la only reiterated with persistent though misdirected vigor for twelve months hi the publio prints, at the end of the year persons will be found who believo It Tie followers of President Cleveland are anxious to make the wage earners believe that the customs duties on certain imported manufactures Increase the price of articles of general consumption made in this country by just the amount of duty on the foreign product. President Cleveland takes this ground In his message, but lamentably fails to support the assumption by facta. With an utter disregard of truth, and of facts obtainable by any painstaking person, the organs of Die trade and the orators of the Cobden club In congress persist in declaring that the cost of lining Is increased to the poor man over what it Is In free trade England by precisely tho amount of the tariff. By this wickedly false cry the Democratic party is doing its utmost to arouse the wage earners of the United States and induce them to vote for free trade In fifty Important American industries and a general reduction In tho rate of duty In a number of other Important schedules. [Condensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly, by permission of H. B. Hoffman, Philadelphia, publisher.]The articles supposed to be worn by each member of the family are taken in detail in the same way as in the foregoing paragraph, and it Is thus found that the total cost for materials—it boing assumed they are made up by the mother—is $21.79 a year, or about 42 cents a week. The question of rent and clothing having been settled, next comes tho cost of food. The first item in this list would naturally be meat. Miss Hall's man spends 4s. every week for meat, and says he can get a leg piece of beef at 2id. or 6 cents a pound. This can be done In New York without trouble, and tho New Yorker needn't confine himself to leg beef either. Notes.—V. 36. Then cometh, that Is, after the Institution of the supper. Gethsemane, which signifies "olive press," a place across the brook Kedron, on thelower slope of the Mount of Olives. V. 87. ~ Very heavy means pressed down with great anguish, produced by foresight of his great sufferings. V. 88. Even unto death, the sense of death was felt; our sins upon him was the cause of all his agony. V. 89. Fell on his face, the usual posture in times of great earnestness. Numbers xvi, 22; II Chron. xx, 18; Neh. viii, 6. If possible, if the world can otherwise be redeemed. Cup often denotes suffering. Matt, xx, 22. V. 45. Sleep on now. Most interpreters think this should be translated as a question, rather a command: "Do you sleep now and take your rest?" Is this a time, amid so much danger and so many enemies, to sleep? This construction is favored by Luke xxii, 46, where the expression, "Why sleep ye?" refers to the same point of time—the hour is at hand—the time of betrayal and death is near. Sinners, Judas, Roman soldiers and Jews. V. 46. Let us be going, wheresoever my captors shall lead me. There was no time now for escape; none for repose. One Yankee publisher, who uses 5,000,000 envelopes a year, has sailed for Germany after 20,000,000 envelopes, with which ho proposes to crush the envelope monopoly. LECTURE A venerable son of Maine and ex-cablnet minister in Washington is Horatio King, who was among the founders of The Portland Argus. Ho is nearly 77 years of age. He took a clerkship in the postofflce depart- *akih6 POWDER An Albany cattle broker is so much afraid of meeting death in a violent form that ho cannot be persuaded to ride on a railroad train or steamboat, or even behind a horse. ON  ment forty-nine years ago, and under Buchanan he became the only postmaster general who worked his way up from the departmental ranks. He is still active socially, and retains his early fondness for the pen. A school for the manufacture of clocks will soon be opened at La Vilette. It will accommodate forty pupils, who will pay $60 a year for instruction and $17 a month for board. Tnesday Eye'g., May 22, Robert C. Schenck Is 79, and Is still quite a well known figure in Washington streets. He entered Congress forty-five years ago, but his last public service was rendered as minister to England, when incidentally he rendered a little private service to the apt and eager Britishers in the way of instructions in the science of poker playing. He says that he has lately cured a bad case of Bright's disease by drinking milk and eating almost nothing. One of the largest of our retail butchers, who has several stores in various parts of the city, told me that he sold plate, navel, or brisket pieces of corned beef, leg pieces of beef or good stewing mutton for 5 cents a pound. Taking two and one-half pounds of meat as a fair day's allowance and its cost would be 87J cents. If the family should be Catholics and wanted fish on Friday they could have it easily on their $1 a week. The newest freak in London hair dressing is to have a few locks standing up almost straight on the top of the head, something after the fashion of Claire in the convent dungeon, but feathers or flowers are stuck in the little elevation, and it is considered ornamented. • Absolutely Pure. BY  Thl« powder never varies. A marvel of r «D Ity. strength and wholesomeoes?. More econoin'ca) than tli-* ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low tept, short wtigrhtalum or phosphate powders. Sold only i'n cans. Rev. Thomas K. Royal Baking Powder Co., IOC Wall 8t., N. Y An eastern paper tells of the queer way in which the town of Orrington, Me., got its name. The citizens decided upon the name of Orangetown, and sent their minister to get an act of incorporation from the legislature. The clerk of that body was a little shaky on orthography, and thought "orring" was the proper way to Spell orange. The pastor loved a joke, and so made no correction, but let the word go as written. BEECHER Justice William Strong, of tho United State supreme court, retired, is now 80 years of age. He is a tall, fine looking man who does not appear to be more than 60. His clean cut face resembles Gladstone's, though it is not so wrinkled. Justice Strong seems to be as active as over. He has his salary of $10,000 a year, and a good income besides, but he still lectures on constitutional law in one of the Washington schools, and sometimes gives professional advice. What Our Live Business Men After meat comes broad. The allowance of the staff of life for the London man Is ten loaves a week at 2|d. or 54 cents a loaf. Ten loaves of good rye bread will cost hero 50 cents, or 5 cents apiece. Offer This Evening. All statistical Investigations conducted with any degree of fairness show that tho cost of living In the United States is only slightly above the cost of living In England. Carroll D. Wright, the present commissioner of labor, has shown that tho cost of living in Massachusetts is only 17 per cent, more than it is in England, while equally reliable inquiries show that the cost Is substantially the same. The Now York Press has attempted to solve this problem, and a few weeks ago Mr. William G. F. Price, labor editor of The Press, began an Investigation which has resulted In disclosing some Important facts in relation to the relative cost of living in London and New York. Mr. Price is a careful, conscientious investigator, and prefaces his statements with an alii davit. In the last lesson we saw the signs of coming sorrow for our Lord; in this lesson we behold him in agony the most intense. The clouds that had long been gathering now burst in fury upon him. He knew from the first what he would have to meet. He did not bow to the inevitable. He was no Prometheus fettered by necessity. His human nature may have made him shrink back for a time from his passion, but the higher motive of God's glory and man's salvation made him welcome the agony of Gethsemane. COONS & ULLMAN'S TRADE PALACE. Of Elmira, N. Y. The cheapest place in the city to buy groceries is on. Vesey street. At one of the largest stores on this street the following prices for staple groceries were given: Flour, a 244 pound bag at 70cents. At this rate the 7 pounds of flour allowed bv Miss Hall would cost a little less than 20 cents, a saving of 5 cents on the London price. It is quite customary when any one desires to show how little man knows, after all, to ask "who can tell what makes a blade of grass grow, or why it grows?" But there are equally great mysteries closer to man than even that of the grass. For Instance, what man can tell why every man who pays heed to style is now putting his scarf pin in the upper left hand corner of his scarf? Who first wore his pin that way, or what man or body of men ordered the pins worn that way? When last scarf pins were worn they wero put in the middle of the scarf. Then, very mysteriously, they were not worn at all. Now they reappear in this peculiar way. The Talented Brother of ihe Late Jesse Lisle, of Cocke, Tenn., is 110 years old and has documents to prove it. In boyhood he worked on a farm. For forty-five yoars ho was a Baptist preacher and is now farming again. He is iialo and hearty, does not wear spectacles and won't turn over his property to his children for fear they will squander it. Last winter he cleared two acres of virgin forest without assistance. He says he remembers when his father came home from the Revolutionary war, his feet bleeding from a long tramp and almost famished for food. NEW ARRIVALS TO-DAY. 10 dozen coiled wire bustles 15 cents each. An elegant assortment of fans and parasols. Henry Ward Beecher. In tea there is a marked difference. In Vesey street a fair article of tea is sold for 20 cents a pound. The London price is 50 cents, or 2s., or more than double. For cocoa, as in the London list, I have taken the privilege of substituting coffee, because little cocoa is drank here and a ffood deal of coffee is. Good broken Java s sold here at 18 cents a pound. The price for cocoa in London Is 24 cents per pound. Subject: pionGy at interest V. 86. After the institution of the Lord's Supper, perhaps near midnight, our Lord, with his disciples, left Jerusalem, and on their way to Gethsemane crossed the perturbed waters of the Black brook, tinged and darkened by the blood of the temple sacrifices, fit symbol of how his own Bacriflcial blood should soon flow, making forever after needless the offering of bloody sacrifices for sin. The name Gethsemane, meaning olive press, seems to be significant as emblematio of his own agony and distress. "There," says Matthew Henry, "our Lord Jesus trod alone the wine press of the Father's wrath.* "In this oil press, like the olives were crushed and bruised, Christ was bruised for our sins, that oil might flow from his wounds to heal our souls."—Dr. Wordsworth. The best assortment of 25 cent Embroidery Lace Caps in Pittston. Under the auspices of the Young People's Society of the Luzerne Ave. Baptist Church of West Bittston. The facts gathered by Mr. Price show these free trade assertions to be absolutely without foundation in fact. These facts show, moreover, that American workmen can live on the pittance paid British workmen, provided they are will tag to Uve in the same way. Leone Levi, the well known English statistician, is authority for the statement that the average weekly earnings of 5,600,000 families in England (this includes earnings of all members of the respective families able to work) are $7.68. Of course the average earnings of the head of the household would be much less than this, probably from $5 to $6 per week. Tho $7.68, therefore, Includes tho average aggregate weekly earnings of all members of the 5,300,000 families in England who work for a living * It is. therefore, fair to presume that $7 .60 per week is regarded as good wages to maintain and bring up a family on in England, and hence we find Miss Hall, in the current number of The Nineteenth Cteutury, exclaiming: "I thank God that England counts among her children so many who know how to live simply and yet nobly on thirty shillings ($7.50) per weekl" To which Mr. Price responds: "I can say more fervently, thank God that America counts so few among her children who have to Uve on $7.50 per weekl" Dr. Yow, the accomplished physician of the Chinese legation at Washington, is soon to wed an American maiden who is described as "one of the well known beauties and society leaders of the capital." Dr. Yow has been a great social pet in Washington. He is not handsome, but may be called, without exaggeration, picturesque. He speaks excellent English, is an accomplished horseman and can wield a sword with skill and vigor. He always wears a Chinese costume. Sky blue tunic, red silk pantalets and a pigtail give him a luxuriously Oriental appearance. Lieut. M, E. Hall, U. S. N., has been experimenting with an auto-mobile torpedo, invented by the torpedo station in Newport, R. I. The torpedo, which is made of aluminium brass, presents some novel features. The diving rudder with tho intricate mechanicism common in fish torpedoes is done away with. The flask containing the motive power occupies eight feet of the length of the torpedo, which is twelve feet ftmg. The engine employed, owing to the novel way of mounting it and its automatic character, utilises the full expansive force of the compressed air. In the runs that have been made the torpedo developed high speed, although only one-third of the maximum pressure was carried, and the diving device has answered its purpose as for as it has been tested. Children's gauze underwear from 8 cents upwards. 75ccntkid gloves, embroidered backs, to-day, 58 cents a pair. Tickets Sugar costs a little more here, good C sugar not being procurable for less than 6 cents a pound, or 24 cents for the 4 pounds. The same amount in Ldudon costs only 21 cents. In soap we are away ahead of "our English friends. The London family is allowed a pound and a half a week, for which they pay 12 cents. Good laundry soap can be bought here for 8 cents a pound. 35C. BEECHER V. 87. Peter, James and John seemed to constitute a holy triumvirate. On other occasions these three disciples had been favored by our Lord to see his power and glory as was not accorded the others. They alone beheld the brightness of his glory on the Mount, and now the depth of his agony in Gethsemane. They alone were permitted to see the first manifestations of his resurrection power. And yet, of these three favorites, to John our Saviour was most attached. Jesus has sanctioned and sanctified by his example individual friendships as not conflicting with the exercises of a universal lovet We also learn that they who live nearest to him and imbibe most of his spirit are rewarded by views of his power and glory such as other men never receive. 100 doz. Children's fast black hose 5 to 8 1-2 at 7 cents a pair. The foregoing statistics are devoted entirely to a comparison of the weekly cost of living of two families of the same number of members, one in London and one in New York. Then follows a like comparison of two single young men, ohe in and one New York. Mr. Price continues► It is told that a few years ago, in a Northamptonshire village, Lord Spencer and Mr. Gladstone were out walking one Sunday evening, when they heard sounds of singing coming from an old barn. After some hesitation they entered, and were so interested that they stayed to the end of the service. The sermon on that occasion was preached by a Methodist local brother, who was a poor, hard working, industrious man. Service concluded, the right honorable gentlemen had a conversation with the preacher, and one of them told him he had never heard the Gospel preached so faithfully and so well in his life before. Elegant assortment of ladies' underwear, corsets, embroideries flouncing, clirntilly lace, etc. io good mmm "The question as to just how little a single man can live on in this city and keep up a fairly respectable appearance has never been perfectly solved, but it is susceptible of proof that such a man can live as theaply here as in London, despite the 'greatly enhanced' cost of the necessaries of life here on account of the protective tariff and the great advantages conferred on the London low salaried man by the blessings of free trade. "In the last number of The Nineteenth Century, W. Roberts shows how well a single man can live on a guinea a week in the British capital, and a Press man undertook an investigation as to how cheaply a clerk receiving a salary of $5.25 a week —the equivalent, in round numbers, in United States money of the English guinea—could live. ' "There are fortunately few, if any, clerks to this city who are at work who are forced to make the effort to make both ends meet on that amount, but that it is possible to do so and to live even better than the typical young man used by Mr. Roberts in The Nineteenth Century article cannot be doubted. From Biam we learn that the cremation of the two sons of the king, which was "celebrated" at the end of February, was a ceremony eclipsing in magnificence even that of the king's uncle, whose body was cremated last year. On that occasion the chief features of the proceedings were illustrated in a London pictorial weekly, but the present occasion seems to have passed unnoticed. For fifteen days Bangkok was given up to revelry. No work was done, and such amusements as fireworks, illuminations and interminable dramatic performances were provided nightly and kept up till 2 or 8 o'clock a. m. Cremation of th* King's Sous. 150 gross pearl buttons, 3 cents a doz. Coons & Ullman. If you want a good, stylish, neat fitting suit, made up in any desired stylo, call at our establishment where yoi will get the latest patterns otall descriptions, artistically cut and made up 111 graceful and captivating manner. Representative Allen, of Massachusetts, Is demoting a good deal of his time in Washington to amateur photography. Recently a poor widow in Lowell wrote to him saying that her husband, a private in a Massachusetts regiment, lay buried somewhere in the National cemetery on Arlington Hill. She has long wished to see his grave, but has always been too poor to make the journey to the capital. Mr. Allen thereupon seized his camera, found the grave and made a clever photograph of the spot. The Lowell widow has thus been enabled, to all practical purposes, to gaze upon her husband's resting place. Once in a wliile amateur photography redeems itself. V. 38. He acquaints the disciples with his condition. It gives some comfort to unbosom one's heart's sorrow to a friend. The seat of his sorrow was the soul, showing us that Christ possessed a true human soul. His sufferings were n«t predominately corporeal, but mental. Important to Young Men The fiction that you can got more for $7.50 per week in free trade London than in protection New York is forever disposed of by the following table, prepared and sworn to by Mr. Price. In short, jiving on $7.50 i#r week means exactly the same to the Londoner as it does to, the Now Yorker, as thft prices of the common necessities of life. Including clothing, are substantially the same: Loudon Prices. N. ■?. Prices. a. d. All the latest blocks and fancy shades in Stiff Hats, just in at Bevan's. 'Also an immense assortment of gents' V. 89. The center of heaven's glory and th\ objectVsf the angels' worship is now prostrated upon the earth in earnest prayer. Thick as the cloud was, he could still see GkDd as his father. In deep sorrow we should each claim God as "my father." Whither ahall the child go, but unto tho father? The building in which th6 cremation was effected had been erected at a cost exceeding £50,000, a fact which, as it is now being demolished, as having served its purpose, shows munificence, if eot extravagance. Externally this "premano" presented, the appearance of a palace of gold, so gorgeous was its ornamentation, and internally its chief feature was the electric light with which it was illuminated throughout. There wore two soparate cremation days during the fortnight, and the final procession for each was so long that it occupied over an hour in passing a fixed point. Siamese funerals may be expensive ceremonies, but at least they cannot be called lugubrious.—Fall Mall Gazette.Neckwear. Bevan, Tailor and Hatter, If you do, call on M. F. GILRO i, Merchant Tailor, and dealer in Gents' Fur- Articles. 4 0 91.00 $1.00 fiO 20 0 He begs of the father that if man can be redeemed and God glorified, if the divine plans can be carried out, that he be spared the further drinking of the cup of suffering. His aversion to pain shows that he was truly man. But though this human nature made him shrink back an instant from the anguish, yet beneath there lay, millions of fathoms deep, unmoved and immovable, the intense desire that his Father's wish and will should be dona Meat ltread (ten loaves). Flour C7 lbs.) Veife tables. 2 m COONS & ULLMAN'S TRADE PALACE. pota- Mr. Pinero, the London play writer, produces his dramas after prolonged and laborious thought. When he has settled the story itself in his mind he goes to work upon the characters, building them up in thought before he allows them to say a word upon paper. This process lasts sometimes for weeks, and sometimes for months; but when the dramatist at length sits down to his desk, the play has already a complete imaginative existence, from the rise to the fall of the curtain. The actual writing Mr. Pinero accomplishes as a rule with extraordinary rapidity, scarcely putting the pen from his hand until tt is finished. The longest of all his plays, "Lords and Commons," was written in less than a fortnight. "The Money Spinner" he wrote in less than a week and a day. nishing Guods, No 35 South Main Street, where goods of the finest qualify—foreign and domestic—are always in stock. Satisfac- toes (18 lbs.)  Other vegetables... Butter  Fruit  Milk  Tea (H lb.)  Cocoa (X lb ).  Coffee (H lb.)  Sugar (4 lbs.).  Soap (1H lbs.)  Roda. Btarch, blue.. Candles.  Kerosene (X gal. 1 0 0 4 1 0 2!H 10* 25 35 85 10 Mr. Price there goes through exactly the same form of comparison, taking his London figures into representative New York homes dealing In the particular lines of goods mentioned in the London article. He personally examines each article. The result of his painstaking investigation, shorn of all the substantiatory details, is given in the following table: SPECIALS TO-DAY 1 6 0 ioj* gents' furnishing department 1 0 0 6 An elegant gents' pleated white shirt laundried at 0 10X 9 S) 8 This prayer of Christ sanctions our going to God when in great affliction and asking deliverance, but conditioned upon his will. 0 6 The latest accounts from the east coast of Africa leave no room for doubt that large numbers of slaves drawn from the Lake Nyassa district are now regularly exported to Madagascar. A recent eye witness of some of the atrocities committed by the Arabs states that they have no regard for human life or suffering. -Large numbers of kidnaped villagers who are taken to the ports on the coast are conveyed in dhows to Madagascar. Mojanga is the headquarters of this nefarious traffic, and there is too much reason to believe that a few Europeans as well as a large number of British Indians are concerned in these ventures. Being well acquainted with the movements of the ships of war, the foreigners at Mojanga are always able to warn their Sakalva or Arab accomplices of impending, danger. The Hova authorities are bound by treaty to prevent the landing of slaves, and it would be interesting to know what reasons they give for relaxing their vigilance. There is a genertfl opinion that things will not improve until a greater amount of consular supervision is exercised on the west coast of Madagascar. —London Daily News. Slave Traffic In Africa. tion guaranteed 0 IH The third petition in the Lord's Prayer, and our Lord's words here, teach the same, submission to the will of God. "Two wills in the universe break up its harmony; there can be in a harmonic universe but one will, and that is God."—Parker. The cup that God puts into our hands, be it ever so bitter, though nature struggle, grace makes us submit. i each. fortnight)  Coal(Icwt).  Beer (8 pints)  Hboes lot family Rent.  0 8 Clothes Room rent. 03 $1.50 Sf-34 27 15 New assortment of gents' soft and stiff hats in light 1 8 0 10* Food Washing. M. F. GILROY, Merchant Tailor.' Tobucco colors. Clothes for man ... Do. wife and cliil- 5 6 1 0 Total. 81.79 Richard Henry Stoddard, the venerable, gray haired poet, whose songs in the autumn of life have all the mellow beauty of his ripened genius, is gentle and generous almost to a fault. He goes the even tenor of his way from day to day, and for one so far advanced in years he does an extraordinary amount of literary work. When a young man he met the poefc Poe and submitted a poem for his perusal. The author of "The Raven" happened to be in one of his unfortunate moods and roundly accused the young bard of willful and premeditated plagiarism. When he discovered his unjust accusation he sent for Stoddard, and from that time they were friends. Mr. Stoddard is considered by many a severe critic, but ho says his aim is to be just and tell the truth. The "chromo literary" set, that turns out the namby pamby books, never meet with any recognition from him whatever. One of his most ardent admirers is John Boyle O'Reilly, who never visits the city without seeing or asking about the "grand old troubadour," as he calls him A handsome assortment 25 cent neckwear. dren  Reboot fees  Provident club..... Medical attendance 2 0 0 4 1 6* 0 8 Who Complaint*? Who complains of the tariff? Does the workingman, getting better wages by far than in any other country in the world? V. 40. As if a deadly vapor from the bottomless pit had steeped their spirits, both groups of disciples were stupefied with sleep. And yet it was not a want of interest in the Saviour's passion that made thenj sleep. Luke, as a physician, tells us that from sorrow they slept. 20 doz. gents' gauze undershirts, 20c. each. 35 South Main St., Pittston, Totals .£1 9 8* $7.80 80.72 THE YANKEE BLADE, Difference In favor of New Yoik, 04 cents. Left from $7.50 Does the farmer, Belling more of his produce In his own country than does the husbandman of any European nation? A handsome assortment French liannel shirts, stripes and checks, at 50c. each. 25 doz. gents' hemstitched handkerchiefs at 5 cents It is equally true that a man can clothe himself as cheaply in New York as he can in London. The following table, like the one above, has been prepared with the ntmost care, and the man who compiled It has sworn that it Is accurate. Does the oonsumCjr of protected articles, who has watchful the selling price go steadily down as the home manufacture has increased? Our Lord singled out Peter because he had been foremost in promising and boasting how faithful he would be. NOW IN ITS FORTY-EIGHTH YEAE. Is unquestionably the largest, brightest, handsomest and cheapest weekly fam Iy story paper in America. The wage earner and the wage giver are together on this question, battling for the right to their enjoyment of all the benefits this country can afford them. V. 41. Jay says, "Prayer without watching is hypocrisy, and watching without prayer is presumption." Some watch without prayer and pray without watching. The two must go hand in hand. New York London price. prioe. H s. d. ... $0.00 1 15 0 $8.75 each It dates its btrth awar back in the early forties to the Presidential administration of Martin Van Buren and down through the successive administrations of Presidents Harrison, Tyler. Polk, Taylor, Fillmore. Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes. Oarileld and Arthur to th*t of Grover Cleveland, oar present chief magistrate. One umbrella. One overcoat 7 0 1.87 Does the taxpayer, whose burden is lessened thousands of dollars by a revenue from ft tariff—four-fifths of which come out of the pocket of the foreigner? Two hats 5 0 1.35 7 0 1.87 V. 42. His prayer is not now that the cup may pass from him, but that he might be enabled to fulfill the divine will In sacrificing himself. The continuance of the trial he regards as God'ii answer to his fiif*.prayer. When God does not deliver us from our sufferings he will certainly give us greater strength to bear them. Coons & Ullman. One silk hat. On* suit week day clothes 6.00 Oaesuit Sunday clothes.. 8.00 2 0 0 10.00 2 10 0 12.50 1,200,000 LADIES Four pair socks. These four classes comprise the vast majority of the people, and If they do not complain, but, on the contrary, heartily support the tariff, who should question its benefits?—Tarirf {joagrue Bulletin. We hope that the brethren will learn that postage stamps are not money. Wo cannot buy bread with postage stamps; we cannot buy paper with postage stamps; wo cannot pay printers with stamps; we cannot even pay postage on our publications with postage stamps. It helps the country postmasters, of course, to sell stamps to our subscribers instead of sending us the money. Please, brethren, do not send us stamps when you owe us money, unless it be 25 cents or under, to make change. It seems to us that the brethren bad nearly as well send us dry goods, and let the merchants make their profit on them, to pay their subscriptions. The postmaster gets the profit on the stamps. —American Baptist. Stamps Are Not Money. The D ankee Blade is a mammoth paper, containing in every issue eight large pages, fortveight columns of the choicest reading for the whole family, embracing Serial ano Short stories. Sketches. Poems, History, Biography, Wit and Humor, F ishions, Household Receipts, Fancr Work Department, interesting and instructive Articles for Youth, etc., etc. One pair shoes Repairing shoe*  Two undershirts  ilalanoe of four suits un- ci 0 6 0 10 0 NOW WEAR THIS derclothlng  Two flannel shirts. An Interesting Geological Experiment. One of the most remarkable experiments ever made in the way of geological research is now being carried out at Schladiiach, near Halle, in Germany. It is a gigantic well or bore that has already reached a depth of 1,710 meters, or 1,888 yards, and furnishes among other points of interest much valuable material as regards the temperature of the.interior of our earth. Regarding thtt depth of the boring, some idea may be' formed from the fact that sixteen spires, each as high as that of the Madgeburg cathedral (104 meters), nufy be piled one on top of the other and still leave ftfty-two meters between the point of the topmost vane and the surface. The highest mountain In the Hartx rongo—the Brocken—has a height of 8,500 feet, henco only fills the hole in the ground to little more than half its depth.—San Francisco Chronicle. V. 43. The craving for human sympathy caused him again to go to his disciples. Impotent as all human means are, we still in th» hour of deep sorrow wish the sympathetic touch and word of those near us. How disappointing to our Lord In this respect were the disciples. Though they continued dull and sleepy, he did not further rebuke them for it. It seems by the expression, "their eyes were heavy," that they made some attempt to drive away the dull sloth, and henca Jesus looked upon them with some compassion. 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