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The Huron News-Record, 1895-07-17, Page 6Jamie ;C. 41'144l0galth CANCER ON THE L1P �UBZDBY NIERS ME • "1 Otineillted doctors who prescribed for ine, but to no purpose. I suffered in agony seven long years. Finally, I began takbar Ayer's Sarsaparilla. In a week or two I /noticed a decided improvement. Encour- aged by this result. I persevered, until in a month or So tie sore began to heal, and, after using the Sarsaparilla for six months, the last trace, of the cancer disappeared." — JAMES E, NicatoaSoN, Florenceville, N. D. Ayer s1 Sarsaparilla — Admitted at the World's Pair. 43eZiRea PXZ.ZS Regulate the Bowes. The Huron News -Record 1.26 a Year—S1.00 In Advance WEDNESDAY, JULY 17th, 1895. Isaiah Fifty -Five. The man who has no money is as welcome ab God's table as the one who has a million. If we have thirst it is an evidence that we also have a special invitation from God to come to the water of life. No matter how tar we have wander- ed, we can come to God in one step. "Come to the 'waters." The rivers, the fountains, the oceans. The rich man in torment begged for a drop. "Wine and milk without money and without price." Who will be to blame if we starve to death? "Let your soul delight itself in fat- ness." And yet the worlding thinks God wants him to have a hard time. "Incline your ear." We must turn our faces away from the world to hear the voicecof God. "The sure mercies of David." What- ever God was to David he pledges him- self to be to us. "Let the wicked forsake his way." The moment he does it he will tutn his face toward God. "It shall not return to me void." No matter how discouraging things may look. "Ye shall go out with joy." No difference whether we have any money in the bank or not. "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree." The life that was a curse becomes a blessing. This is what God's titivation has always done, and is still doine.—Ram's Horn. NOTHING STRANGE. 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A., D. & a, Detroit, Mich '121tOtBL..S4 7 ' ' if '4 • " - • ^ TAMG EDItS GROT GENEFIAl, PROSPERITY. ..,,,e••••••••••••• 11,•••• lie says We Are et the 9peeing DO,P4' ot GFoll So agony We fedi the lraysicireaner Valeat of a Human sow. New Yotg, July 7.—In his ,sermon for to -day Dr. Talinage, who is still absent en his western lecturing tour, choss a subject of universal Intel est, viz, "Business Troublee"—the text selected beteg Ezek1eI xxvii, 24, "These were thy merchants in all sorts pf things." We are- at the opening door of re- turning national prosperity. The corn- ing crop, the re-establiehment of pub- lic confidence and, above all, the bless- ing of God will tura in upon all sec- tions of .America the widest, greatest prosperity this country has ever kaown. But that door of success is not yet fully open, and thousands of business men are yet suffering from the distressing times through which we have been pas ing. Some of the best men In the land have faltered, men whose hearts are en- listed in every good work and whose hands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to ex- tend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The schools such men have established, the churches they have built, the asy- lums and beneficient institutans they have fostered, will be their eulogy long after their banking institutions are for- gotten. Such men can never fail. They have their treasures In banks that never break and will be millionaires for ever. But I thought it would be apprdpriate to -day, and useful, for me to talk about the trials and tempta- tarns of our business men, and try to offer some curative prescriptions. In the first place I have to remark that a great many of our business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limited capital in business. It Is everywhere understood that it takes now three or four times as much to do business well as it once did. Once a few hundred diallars were turned into gooas—the merchant would be his oven store sweep- er, his own salesman, his own book- keeper; he would manage all the affairs himself, and everything would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come; costly apparatus, extensive advertising, exorbitant stare rent, heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only parts of the demand made upon our commercial men, and when they have found them- selves In such circumstances with small capital, they •have sometimes been tempted to run alsainst the rocks of moral and financial destruction. This temptation of limited capital has ruin- ed men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the 'tempta- tion. They have yielded the battle be- fore the first shot was fired. At the first hard dun they surrendered. Their knees knocked together at, the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. They blanch- ed at the financial peril. They did not understand that there is such a thing as heroism in merchandise and that there are Waterloos of the counter and that a man can fight no braver battle with the sword than he can fight with the yardstick. Their sours melted In them because sugars wereua' when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unsalable goods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger. The gloom of their countenances overshadwed even their dry goods and groceries. Desponaency, coming from limited capital, basted them. Others have felt it in a different way. They have said : "Here I have been trudging along. I have been try- ing to be honest all these years. I find it is of no use. Now it Is make or break." The small craft that could have stood the stream is put out be- yond the lighthouse, on the great sea of speculation. He borrows ar few thousand dollars from friends who dare not refuse him, and he goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons in ,this way : Perhaps I may succeed, and if I don't 1 will be no worse off than I am now, for $100,000 taken from nothing nothing remains." Stocks are the dice with which he gam- bles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts of western land. Some man at the east, living on a fat homestead, meets this gambler of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his estate for lots in a western city with large avenues and costly palaces and lake steamers smoking at the wharves, aria railroad trains coming down with lightning speed from every direction. There it, is all on paper. The city has, never been built, or the railroads con- structed, but everything points that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. Well, the man goes on, stopping at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid equipage he dashes past, while the honest laborer looks up and wipes the sweat from his brow and says, "I wonder where that man got all his money." After a while the bub- ble bursts. Creditors rush In. The law clutches, but findsMothing in its grasp. The men who were swindled say, "I don't know how I could have ever been deceived by that man," and the pic- torials, In handsome woodcuts set forth the hero who, in ten years, had genies enough to fail for $150,000. And that is the process by which many have been tempted through lim- itation of capital to rush into laby- rInths from which they could not be extricated. I would not want to chain honest enterprise. I would not want to block up any of the avenues for honsst accumulation that open before young men. On the contrary, I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but when there are such multitudes of men going to ruin for this life and the life that is to come t 1 04,1401005.4 .041,00.4 SOAO'hOir 140.kitt .114C0lit mne;044.4 0406 a Qt ut 'OA* , * uz ok .444u4.T.F ,-4010.k that. it, gannet :glittqr 1ii7the:4arp% 10 PoOPIROPt otl'Oggiet iPle* : valley; that 'it, oaAnot oilr Night, glve,0 BocOlet,,,O, l,!441310,tofolog yorogg the o» or ,'.,:telit_hkiheA, it ettne,, reetlefAtlets0 neernnl Infkt.1.04 0,4 not nraleek Wilk pa •bielavah. Where, stop flilliking; vik9, clrealaiti ae, hart pyft—mqp, 411: oemoatiOns who •Seem. bv tma.17 JQRR, Roc.1__11,9li21 'to got ot ,t41?ogIt• t*ey t!tottgot, toot! At. inlagitigry iapp.. 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This excitement of the tine your apparel, the wings of death brain, this corroding care of the heart, will, Metter it lake rags. Homespun this strain of effort that exhausts the and it threadbare coat have sometimes spirit, and sends a great many of our been the shadow of coming robes- made beet men, in middle life, into the grave, white in the blood of the Lamb. The their life daehed out against money pearl of great price is worth more than safes. They go with their store on their any gem you can bring from the ocean. backs. They trudge Jike paxnels, sweat- than Australian or 13razillan mines) ing, from Aleppo to Damascus. They strung in one eareanet. Seek after God, make their ,life a crucifixion, Stand- find his righteousness, and all shall be ing behind desks and countere, ban- well here; all shall be well hereafter. !shed from the fresh air, weighed Some of you remember the shipwrick down by carkIng cares, they are so of the Central America. That noble/ many suicides. Oh, I wish I could to- steamer had, I think, about 600 pas - day rub out some of these lines or care; sengera aboard. Suddenly the storm that I could lift some of the burdens came, and the surges trampled the from the heart; that I could give relax- decks and swung into the hatches, and at1on to some of these worn muscles. there went up a hundred -voiced death It is time for you to begin to take it a shriek. The foam on the jaw of the little easier. Do your best, and then wave. The pitching of the steamer as trust God fpr the rest. Do not fret. though it were leaping a mountain. The God manages all the affairs of your dismal flare of the signal rockets. The life, and he manages them for the best. long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss Consider the Illies—they always have of extinguished furnaces. The waking robes. Behold the fowls of the air— of God on the wave, The Steamer went they always have nests. Take a long not down without a struggle. As the breath. Bethink betimes that God did passengers stationed themselves in not make you for a pack horse. big rows to ball out the vessel, hark to the yourselves out from among the hogs- thump of the buckets, as men unused heads and shelves and In the light of to toil, with blistered hands and strain - the holy Sabbath day resolve that you ed muscles, tug for their lives. 'There Will give to the winds your fears and is a sail seen Against the sky, The ydar fretfulness and your distresses. flash 'of the distress gun is noticed; its You brought nothing into the world, voice heard not, for it is choked in the and it is very certain that you can louder booming of the sea. A few carry nothing out. Having food and passengers escaped, but the steamer raiment, be therewith content. The gave one great lurch and was gone merchant came ' home from the store, So ther are some men who sail on pros - There had been a great disaster there. perously In life. All's well; all's well He opened the front door and said in But at last some financial disaster the midst of his family circle : "I am comes—a euroclydon. Down they go, ruined. Everything is gone. I am all The bottom of the commercial sea Is ruined." His wife said, "I am left." strewn with shattered hulks. But be - And the little child threw up its hands cause your property goes do not let and said, "Papa, I am here." The aged your soul go. Though all else perish, grandmother, seated in the room, said, save that; for I have to tell you of a "Then you have all the promises of God more stupendous shipwreck than that besides, John." And he burst into tears which I just mentioned. God launched and said : "God forgive me that 1' have this world 6,000 years ago. It has been been so ungrateful. I find I have a going on under freight of mountains great many things left. God forgive and immortals, but one day it will me." stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers Again I remark that many of our of rock will burn, the mountains flame business men are tempted to neglect like masts and the clouds like sails in their home duties. How often it is that the judgment hurricane, Then God the store and the hoine seem to clash, shall take the passengers off the deck but there ought not to be any collision, and from the berths those who have It is often the case that the f ather is long been asleep in Jesus, and he will the mere treasurer of the family, a sort set them far beyond the reach of storm of agent to see that they have dry and peril. But how many shall go goods and groceries. The work Of the down willnever be known until It shall family government he does not touch. be announced One day in heaven; the Once or twice in a year he calls the shipwreck of a world ! So may millions children up on a Sabbatb afternoon saved ! So many 'Minims drowned ! Oh, when he has a half hour he does not my dear hearers, whatever you lOse, exactly know what to do with, and in though yojr houses go, though your that tall hour he disciplines the chil- lands go, though all your earthly pos- dren and chides them and corrects their sessions perish may God Almighty faults and gives them a great deal of through the blood of the everlasting good advice, and then wonders all the covenant, save all your souls, rest of the year that his children do not do better when they have the won- derful advantage of that semi-annual This is baby's bedtime; castigation. My little one comes to me The family table, which ought to be In her snowy little nightgown, the place for pleasant discussion and And kneels down at my knee; cheerfulness, often becomes the place And I fancy a sweet child angel of perilous expedition. If there he any Is for a time my guest, blessing asked at all, it is cut off at As she says her little prayers over, both ends and with the hands on the With her hands upon her breast. carving knife. He counts on his fin- gers, making estimates in the inter- "Now I lay me," she whispers stices of the repast. The work done, In low voice, "down to sleep. the hat goes to the head and he starts I pray the Lord"—and the blue eyes down the street, and before the family Half close—"my soul to keep. have arisen from the table ice has If I should die"—oh, the shiver bound up another bundle of goods and At my heart—"before I wake, says to the customer, "Anything else I I pray the Lord"—and the eyelids can do for you, to -day, sir ?" A man Droop low—"my soul to take." has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting com- Then I lift up the little one, clasping petent instructors over his chlidren and Her close to my loving heart, giving them a drawing master And give her warm, good night kisses and a music teacher. The phy- Tlll the closed lids break apart, steal culture of the child' will Aa the leaves da, folding a flower, not be attended to unless the And the violets of her eyes father looks to it. He must sometimes Look up in their drowsy fashion, lose his dignity. He must sometimes And smile at me angelwise. lead them out to their sports and games. The parent who cannot forget the so- "Dood night," she wispers me softly vere duties of life sometimes, to fly And sleepily with a. kiss the kite and trundle the hoop and chase That lingers with me in slumber, the ball and jump the rope with his That stirs my heart with bliss, children, ought never to have been As I think of the little one dreaming tempted out of a crusty and unredeem- With her head against my breast, able solitariness. If you want ts keep 'Till my sleep is as full of rapture your children away from places of As her dreaming is of rest. sin, you can only do it by making your —Eben E. Rexford. home attractive. You may prea.?h ser- mons and advocate reforms ani de- Grace Darling Outdone, nounce wickedness, and get your chits dren will be captivated by the glitter- ing saloon of sin unless you can make your home a briatiter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh, gath- er all charms into your house ! If you can afford It bring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But, above all, teach these children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day, teach them that religion is a great gladness, that it throws chains of gold about the neck, that it takes no spring from the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no eparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." I sympathize with the work being done in many of our cities, by which beautiful rooms are set apart by our Young Men's Christian Association:: and I pray God to pros- per them in all things. But I tell you there is someting back of that and be- fore that—we need more happy, con- secrated, cheerful Christian homes ev- erywhere, Again I remark that a great fnany of our business men are tempted to put hrough wrong notions of what are the attainment of money above the awful spheres of enterprise, it is the value of the soul. It is a grand thing duty of the church of God and the min- to have plenty of money. The more isters of religion, and the friends of all you get of it the better, if it comes hon - young men to utter a plain, emphatic, estly and go usefully. For the lack of it nmistakable protest. These are the sickness dies without medicine and nfluences that drawn men in destruc- The Baby's Bedtime. tion and perdition. Again, a great niany 47/ our business men are tempted to over. anxiety and care. You know that neariy all the commercial bustneeses are overdone In this day. Smitten with the Terve of quick gain, our cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all haz- ard. They do not care how money ^OMPP, If it only comes. Our beat mer - aerial are thrown into competition aa h men of more Means and less con- science, and if an opportunity for ac - It Is not often that one has to record an act of heroism equal to that of Miss Evans, of Hythe, near Southampton. England, who succeeded the other day in rescuing three people from drowning by a combination Of brilliant courage and skill. On the afternoon of Whit Ellinday she was walking on the pier with a friend, when a boat containing three persons capsized just off the shore. Miss Evans, who Is an accom- plished swimmer, ran down the pier steps and sprang immediately into the water to their rescue. She brought one of the party, a woman, to shore, then returned at once to the spot where the others, a man and a girl, were strug- gling in the water, and actually suc- ceeded in keeping them afloat until a rope was thrown from the pier. By means of the rope the man was got ashore, but the girl had a very narrow escape. She was sinking for the Mal time when Miss Evans dived after her and brought her to the surface.—Now York World. He Has Pour Itowe of Teeth Nevada City, Cal., has a negro boot- black who has four perfect rowsg teeth—three in the upper jaw and one In the lower. W. A. Watt, a grain dealer of Hemying, Ida., has but fora' teeth—two in the upper jaw and two in the lower jaw. He is only 28 years hunger finds Its Coffin in the empty of age, and these are the first and only bread tray, and nakedness shivers for teeth he ever haft. Each tooth partakes of the nature of a tusk, being round and conical and almost twice the length of ordinary teeth. A citizen of San Francisco has no teeth in the upper jaw, nor ever had, although the lower jaw Is provided with two perfect sets. The Balliffe family, formerly of Fair- field, 0., was composed of nine 1303a1 lack of clothes and fire. When I hear a man in canting tirade against money —Christian man—as though it had no possible use on earth and he had no Interest in it at all, crane almost to think that the heaven that would be appropriate for him would be an ever- lasting poor house. While, my friends, We do admit there is such a thing as and six girls, n.11 of whom had double , the lawful use of money—a profitable or molar teeth in front as well as In the use of money—let us recognize also the back of the Jaw. .A PROINAM TJ1 .T6ft J1AR18Afig r4 TRYING:, TO, sppig. • • The Distance Billiene of 141101-8* ray Away Ueation IOTA De Appreciated Only by Comparison 1Vith Known pls. ionees. An Interesting diecuselon took place recently in Paris at a meeting of Bolen - as to the distance of the nearest fixed star. A number of astronomers -had been flaked to make observation* of- a certain star and then report the reauft of these elaservations to the meeting. It was discovered that no two ea:101- '010ns agreed; but the astronomers de- parted with feelings of great satis- faction, for In no case ,was the differ- ence between any two results greater than twenty billion miles. There are eight planets moving abouts the sun, of which the earth is one, and astronomers have calculated, with very little chancel!' of error, the distance of these bodies from each other, and from the sun. The various results can be conveniently recorded in miles. But when we come to the fixed stars, which •are themselves suns, many of them far larger and brighter and hot- ter than our own sun, and around every One of which it is not improbable that a family of planets is moving, the task of computing distance is far more diffi- cult. The abyss of space that separ- ates us from our nearest stellar neigh- bor is so enormous that the human mind cannot even form the slightest concep- tion of it. Even astronomers, who are suspected by some of possessing minds of more than human capabilities, con- fers that this distance cannot be ade- quately reperesented in terms of miles. Nor is the ordinary astronomical unit, or distance of the sun from the earth, sufficiently large to be convenient in expressing the distance of the stars. That is, if we attempt to denote the distance of the nearest fixed star by stating that it is "so many times the distance of the earth from the sun," it is found that this unit is entirely too small to be used with convenience, though it measures ninety-three million mares. Experience has shown that it is more satisfactory to take as a unit the dis- tance that light travels in•a year, which is about 63,000 times the distance of the earth from the sun. Thus, if we say a particular star. is at a distance of ten light-years, we mean that it is so far away that it will take ten years for its light to reach us, supposing it to have just sprung into existence, It is curious to think that such com- paratively insignificant creatures as hu- man beings, inhabiting a fifth -rate planet, revolving around a third-rate sun, should be able to compute with any degree of accuracy the enormous dis- tance of any one of these stars. The magnitudes are so great that any or- dinary mind can comprehend them only when they are 'represented by some il- lustrative comparison. This may be done as follows: If we select any flat surface, such as a level fleld, and place it on a globe 8 feet in diameter, we may consider this the sun. Mercury, which is the nearest planet to the sun as well as the smallest of all the planets, will be rep- resented bys a grain of -mustard seed at a distance of eighty-two feet. Venus will be indicated by a small pea at a distance of 142 feet from the aforesaid globe. The earth will be a slightly larger pea 216 feet from the globe. Mars will become a rather large pinhead at a distance of 32? feet from the central body, Jupiter ,the largest of all the planets—in fact, larger than all the others put together—will assume the re- spectable dimensions of a moderate- sized orange nearly a quarter of a mile from the globe. Saturn, the beautiful ringed planet, will be represented by a small orange, two-fifths of a mile from the mock sun. Uranus will be a full- sizeel cherry or a small plum three- fourths of a mile from the same object, Neptune, the most remote of all the planets, so far as known, will be fairly Indicated by a good-sized plum at a distance of one mile and a quarter. If, however, we attempt, on the same scale to Indicate the distance of the nearest flxed star, we impose a heavy task on our power of imagination. For such a star would be represented by an- other globe about two feet ip diameter, at a distance of 8,030 miles—in other words, at the antipodes, at the other side of the earth, on the end of a line drawn through the earth's centre from the globe representing the sun. In 1838 Bessel succeeded In demonstra- ting and measuring the parallax of the star known as 61 Cygni, and then, by a protracted series of calculations, In de- termining the distance of this star as sixty billion miles. This announcement created a great sensation in the scienti- fic world, and the fortunate Bessel was loaded with congratulations and medals of honor. Then Struve published the results of his observations Of the same star, In which he located it at not less than forty billion miles. Curiously enough this announcement was received as a confirmation of Bessel's discovery, A matter of., twenty billion miles was a tr I fie. However, one star Is known to be nearer than 61 Cygni. This Is the star known as Alpha Centauri which Is /sit- uated in the left foot of the constella- tion of the Centaur in the southern heavens. It is never visible In north- ern latitudes, and its distance Is about thirty-five billion miles. This distance is represented in terms of light-years, as explained aboae, by 3.6 that Is to say, if this star should suddenly spring into existence from nothingness we should know nothing about it until nearly four years had passed. Given What He Called For. It doesn't pay to be too funny. A man who formerly boarded at a Maine hotel used always to call for "old hen" when he saw chicken on the bill of fare. The table girl and cooks there- upon prepared for him, and whenever chicken was served an old hen also was provicled, and this particular boarder always got a generous piece of that. After this order of things had contin- ued for three months without the boarder suspecting the joke, he one day called the waitress to him and told her he was getting flick of old hen, and he'd like to have a taste of chicken. "Very well," was the reply, "you can have it; but you ordered old hen regu- larly, and as this house always pleases its guests when it is possible, we've been giving you what you ordered."— Phillips (Me.) Phonograph. • PRASIIRES: Ol11AVELUN�..',,,:.:. Those Xncidents Delifte ta the 41§omio,1410, CaPP,4011ent relfrif47,0 co pip, visb, sokr000, A director ot the Great WeStern. , 0^ ' Apt, way had a very unpleasant eXpe ea ' on One occasion when travelin ,_. Yr , tween Gloucester and Londson .14 MAO , • . • daYa Whall llle•Te were no nceallant COM, ,,' ? vatuileation between passengers) and; guard, the only other occupant 'dompartment besides himself being:11, gentlemanly 'looking 'main, who opened ,, couversation upon earloite topics,pleasa • " - autly enough for some little time, when . • - all of a sudden he becameveetr e ge cited in manner, asking the dir tar if • ao could sing, to which he innocently replied he could not. The effect 4.010 answer, however, proved to him that, having a dangerous lunatic to deal with, for his own safety's sake he would have to do the best he could, and gang a he had to until the lunatic changed his tactics by producing a knife whiali he opened, and taking a turnip out of his pocket, cut a piece off and, presenting It to my friend, remarked : "You had better—you had better," There was nothing for it but to take each piece as it was offered to him with the same remark each time. The directo te as slowly as possible, determined ate the turnip last until the train A e its first stop, and it was most fortunate that he was enabled to do so, for as the train slowed up at the station two offi- elate, who had been apprised by wire of the lunatic's escape, entered the com- partment and, eelzing the lunatic, re- marked that he was a most dangerous roan and that it was most fortunate that the turnip held out, for had it not my friend would have had his throat cut. Two passengers were the only occu- pants of a compartment in a train about to start in a few minutes, when one gentleMan addressed the other as follows : "Sir, do you know where you are going ?" "Yes, certainly," was the reply, "I am going to Twindon." "No, sir, you are not, you are going to the devil." Feeling sure he was dealing with a lunatic, he replied : "Good heaven! then I must have made a mistake and have got into the wrong train!" and ,quickly seizing his handbag, rushed out. On another occasion a gentleman, the only occupant of a first-clas smoking compartment, and who was lying down on the seat, taking a comfortable smoke, dozed off with the cigar in his mouth. At one Of the stops a lady with a dog entered, not knowing that it was a smoking compartment, as the written label had evidently fallen frqnj the win- dow. She determined to re t the out. rage of smoking, and mo'g up to the sleeper, whom she arousetr taking - the cigar out of his mouth, remarked, with -a chuckle, at the same time as she opened the window to throw it out, "This is not a smoking compartment, if you please." Whereupon the gentle- man jumped up and very quickly re- sented such conduct, and seeing the dog seized it, and opening the reverse win- dow, threw It out, remarking, as he did so, "Madame, this is not a dox-box," The, gentleman was a well-known law- yer, and knew that he had the law on his side, for not only was it airMere.- oklag compartment, but the lady ha garded the rules of the company, which forbade dogs being taken into passen- ger carriages—there being a proper compartment for them at special rates. On another occasion two young fel- lows entered a flrstaclass compart- ment rather full with ladies and chil- dren. One had a bet with the other that at the first stop he would clear the compartment. Aepordingly he said to his friend, who sitting as he did, by the window, thus entitling him to the command of it, had opened it, "Take ce.re i You must not be so foolish. You forget that you have only just recov- ered from a severe attack of small -pox," He could not have created greater com- motion had he fired a charge of dyna- mite. At the first stop the compart- ment was cleared, and the bet won, But these and similar or worse incidents w ouid be utterly impossible with the splendidly arranged American system of railway travel. JAPAN'S EMPRESS.,) One of the Cleverest and Most Progressive Women of Her Land, The Empress of Japan is a clever woman, acocrding to the Japanese standard. That she is amiable goes a ithout saying ; she is deeply imbued - with western ideas with regard to the status of woman, and the influence she has exercised in the state as well' as the domestic circle has aaeen worthy a woman born and rearffri among the most liberal ideas of the occident, says a writer in the Pall Mall Magazine, Her readers and teachers have found their seed falling into good soil. She began at once to interest herself in silk culture, lacemaking and embroid- ery. Competent women were selected to instruct Her Majesty in the art of silk weaving and the care of the worms, etc. Lace schools are under her patron- age, and she has never failed to en- courage any industry and education among women. She is most behevolent, giving to charity with a free hand. It is said that she gives so liberally of her private allowance that were it not for the care of the chancellor of the exchequer she would be a bankrupt before the end of the first week of the quarter. The peereses' school is espc- Italy under her fostering care, as well as several of the hospitals in Tokio. She is particularly fond of children, and often goes into the children's wards with her arms full of gifts for the little GEM Each autumn there Is held a fancy fair or bazar for the purpose of ' raising money for the public charities, and Her Majesty makes a point of i spending one afternoon there, bu g liberally ; ana, if one did not know t she was the Empress, there would be no outward sign to discover her Iden- tity. She wore a tailor suit of dark blue, a sealskin cloak and blue bonnet, with feathers and aigrettes when I saw her, 'and was fair to look upon. The entire service of the palace and of the Emperor's table is European silver, por- celain and glass being marked with the imperial crest of the sixteen -petaled chrysanthemum, and the RIM mon of the Poulownia Merano appenrtrg on the decorative design woven lo the white napery and traced on the deli— cate porcelain surface. __ • 1 • ,, • • • 4* • . ,