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THE ENID ECHO
J. B. DmiLie U ul l r«,
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Ger-.-t. Too 1« 1n«4fbe at Fort ? ili.
ftotaivftvas<dei .e* that (•eroaimp
U hkuw .
tiN-f Keekak of u>eJt*ki :
'x**k*uU!j.
J Pinkeye is troubling the farmer*
, horfces.
Enid voted the high st-hoei
W for and JO
J. T. Brady g V
OKLAHOMA ;,Gf u hberp m \^r Me
— t When the bank of Bfifrovjrac
days aid it had ft'- •> .• <AT&e rffct
AffoS Mitacher. of the < Du«
ki - famiiv with ax i'kwkiu-
la.
The K ;• *- ~OBSi>ehe ana Apache
Indians hare received a payment of
COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. TALMAGE'S SERMON
CATIU-H«n
w HpOS-CS*-..-,. U i^irt
Gro* rg SiiSfPC'On of the Ge-. -"e- ooS^oci*? 5t*K
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ness of Pe>. r Sews. 5Y*^:
Ha T—Cboie* tlmaUj
, ___^ola praine
STILL MR. WU IS HOPEFUL
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f ibe b'riih of and the a:r of
. ihe American forest. Charles Kings-
I ley has smitten the morbidity of the
Mim Theodora Marshall, a sup;>oaed
Cotton ^wytri hfr. .ad. thmr pv>- TtAxn !D m R t>rmrrl „
UM. Wn ..V 1 ■ "
• *'Sthne
'■an talk
Bearer
mer known.
Wakita and Medford
«*ru other now., ,
* *3ftt3e buyers a^e fearer
county than usual.
The Hock Island m i* an excursion
train to Granite. A ogust ft.
The First National bans of Kiark -
well is opes for business.
Harry Stanley of Lincoln county
ha* 36 acres in castor beans.
Some of the Kiowa Indians do not
like the plan for the allotment
The (iMff cattiemen are paying
their back taxes in Kay county.
• *c# isloot has at last been licensed
sn Gleooof. srith prospects of another
•rrant t-outy has increased < i#1 ic
population since the last enumeration
M. X. fcohrtack. s former eitiaen of
ferry died recently at Washington l.
Wur.inft'T July JA—Tnere are so
new developments to warrsnt the a
sumption that there will he the alight*
est improvement in the * Taioce
situation Indeed, the general tenor
of snch new*, as f-.-end light was to add
to the steadily growing doubt as to the
pood faith of the Chinese government
a* manifested is its acta.
Then the exchanges that a*e ;n txm-
stant progress between the power* are
reports . nches of ra t on tending m re and more to east saspi-
Jnly 30 wbf*h insures a re- - rd break- cion upon the praujtfseu of the many
.ng com crop. communications that have come from
A large elevator at Dover has keen Pekia through < ttnese gc.remmental
turned with tetwmi 4*< and SOO •ouroe*- 3f should ie finally estab-
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Old experts say that coal
exist in pacing "joantiTi
Granite.
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world ^nd led s great many to appre-
ciate the poetry of soand health,
strong muscles and fresh air Thack-
eray did a grand work in caricaturing
the pretenders to gentility and high
blood Dickens has built his own
monument in his books, which are a
plea for the poor and the anathema
of injustice, and there are a score of
norelistic pens today doing mighty
work for God and righteousness.
Lonc^iuc and Parifjluf.
Now, I say. books like these, read
at right times and read in right pro-
portion with other books, cannot help
but be ennobling and purifying; but,
alas, for the loathsome and impure
also literature that has c-ome in the shape
their of novels, like a freshet overflowing
all the banks of decency and common
fore all men and they counted the • sense* They are coming from some of
price of them and found it 50 000 piec- the most celebrated publishing houses,
es of silver." They are coming with r^commendn-
Paul had been stirr.ng up Ephesus , tion of some of our religious new spa
GIVES SOME HINTS ON WHAT
TO READ.
S n TSftl tb* orwtcU Kkwinc of a
K*Um 1 u Umtrd liieratur—Its
6w*tm Cur* m Inpcrr Ut«-rmtvr—
>«■> r Wy So{cr Q«Bk.
I<Oof*jTight. J90t bjr Louis KJop ch.>
Dr. Tsi mage, who has been spending
a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the
following report of a discourse, which
will he helpful to those who have an
appetite for literature and would like
some rules to guide them in the selec-
tion of books and newspapers: text.
Acts xix. If. Many of them
which used curious arts brought
books together and burned them be-
bnshels of new wheat.
Grain is moring siowl v n **.1?
the greater portion of the wheat being
held for better prices.
Florence Thomas atd John Scrog-
git- eiope . from the Creek- nation
were married in Tecumseh.
Three cars of watermelons were seat
BOGS..
babed that there has been sn attempt
on their part to practice a gigantic
fraud epero the world, the fact may
call for a change of attitude on the
part of the I'nited states government : vaTTIZ
towards China. This would not affec:
the military policy already under way
but merely the techn.' ti relations be-
tween the two governments, which
fck c-,
Cans
Wtrfett* Lin 9t««a
. ?• *.Jc . 4
. _. with tome lively trrmons ibout the per*. They lie on your center tables
ei> I:*> siM of that place. Aaong the more j to curse your children and blast with
^ p°" important result* was the fact that their infernal fires generations un-
the citizens brought ont their bad born. You find these books In the
books and in a public place made a desk of the school miss, is the trunk
bonfire of them 1 see the people of the young man. in the steamboat
coming out with their arms full of I cabin, on the table of the hotel recep-
L! « Suttk.
I- -
to northern market* from lawrie, probably would closely approximate a
BEZV
OOWS AXD BUTEES
|T(>.XEHSe FKEDEIt&
TEXaS FE:1 BEKTB
B035
Krariy erery farmer arownd Cleve-
land set ont a good orchard this sea-
Two th'.msand more farms are to be
alkAted: thev are in the Wichita reser-
the first shipment.
Bishop Warren has consented to pre-
side at the Oklahoma Methodist con-
ference in Enid, in *"tetol*r.
The Fort * naith i Western is to in-
tersect the M. K. AT., is i^&niprairie.
seven miles south of Canadian.
The Dawes commission has adver-
tised for 11 carriage horse*. 71 saddle
horses. I©* mules and 30 burros,
Gamel. the Ardmore man. who ab-
dncted a 14-year-oid girl who was in-
fatuated with him. has ronfessed.
One Kansas City machinery firm re-
ports that their business in < >klahoma
for 1W0 has already reached tlOD.OOt.
The Sapolpa Compress company has
purpose is to con-
m presses in the
r of fightingr men in Oklahoma
at £*0
A company of the blue and gray vet-
erans hare tendered their services in
the war in China.
The allotting of land to the K low a
fomaae&e and Apache Indians began
Jaly X.
The Osage Indians hare fr .C ciO.OCri m
the treasury at W'ashington drawing
interest
Heavj steel rails are being laid by
the Santa Fe oo its main line through **en chartered. It-
Oklahoma. struct and operate
A white beat, hound, tnrtr^ed ,wo Urrito"" 'J :n TrI"
and and robbed a Mrs. Miller in Ok la- Kroger, aiias Price, wanted for horse
Isoma City. theft at Wayne. L T.. has confessed
TV war department estimate, the ,br lhrfL Oeorp-Odora wboehtmwd
"vith Kroger, says he had nothing to
do with the stealing They are both
arrested.
John N. Floor, of Grey Horse, I. T.,
was ic Kansas < ity last week. He was
• me of the earliest of the Indian tra-
Thre.hii.jt im him are locateJ by in thlt „J0ntrv and has been p«t
tieir smoke and U-n of them w ere in tradCT ,or ^ Our reservation for
«(bt of Medford. oany years.
A. F. Hunt, of Woods county, bsd | The Rock Island passenger train
•if acres of wheat which averaged JfCf which w as wrecked near Minoekah, I.
hashels to the acre. j T.. was equipped throughout with the
Goaty commissioners estimate the uew steel platforms, which ai-counts
«wst of running Pawnee county for the ^or lbe f <t that there was no loss of
ensuing year at tJO.000. life among the passengers.
Fire hundred Cheyenne and Arapa- Major Liewellen. of the Rough Ri-
boe Indians ume to Oklahoma City to ders, was operated it] on for appends
enter the racing contest. , < itis and two bullet9 were found in his
The First regiment band is tonrin? I,0(i-V When thrv w*re "ho,VI1 to him
"Wtl.V .ma (rixing <->n«-rts. Then-are he'inietly remarked, There are two
thirty mnitisos in the band. ! mvrr ot them in there «>mewhere. did
M- i. ««. 4 „ .. you see anything of them'.'
Walter Akin, aged 30. was killed by
his' . -ter. n*-ar Colony, writh a gun I he emigration of the full-bloods of
-Sich she thonKhtwu not loaded. Indian Territory to Mexico is being
. much diMussed. The scheme has
ibcre lias >>een an exchange
step of forms! war.
The Chinese minister expressed to
Secretary Hill his continued hope that
the ministers in Pekin were still safe, cars for negroes.
the latest news in brief.
Augusta. Ga.. has separate t-tree*.
and said he believed he would soon be
able to deliier to the de|>artment a
me sa£e from Minister < onger which
would make hope certain.
UtMmlJj -Sot to rim*.
New Orleans July Jt.—After a des-
P^r^te oat tie tasting for several hours, j Grande railroads,
in which he succeeded in killing eight
persons, policemen and citizen volun-
teers. and more or less seriously
wounding several other persons, the
negro desperado. Robert Charles, who
killed Captain Day and Patrolman
Iamb and wounded Officer Mora. wa«-
smoked out of his hiding plate in the
heart of the residence section of the
city and literally shot to pieces.
Tremendous excitement reigned in the
The t nion Pacific has also issued
anti-ogarette orders.
Venezuela is at peace and all politi-
cal prisoners have been set free-
There seems to be an alliance on all
lines between the >anta Fe aa4 Rio
j President McKinley has accepted the
grand army invitation to attend their
annua] encampment in (Chicago.
Mrs. < en. Fred Grant was with her
daughter, the l*rincess Cantacuzene.
hen a son was born to the princess,
last week.
Ephe&ian literature and tossing it
into the flames. I hear an economist
who is standing by saying: "Stop this
waste. Here are 17.500 worth of books. }
Do you propose to burn them all up?
If you don't want to read them your-
selves. sell them and let somebody
else read them. ' ~So." said the peo-
ple; "if these books are not good for
us, they are not good for anybody
else, and we shall stand and watch
until the last leaf has burned to ashes.
They have done us a world of harm,
and they shall never do others harm."
Hear the flames crackle and roar!
Well, my friends, one of the wants
of the cities is a great bonfire of bad
books and newspapers. We have
enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet
tion room. You see a light in your
child's room late at night. You sud-
denly go in and say, "What are you
doing?" "1 am reading." What are
you reading?" "A book." You look
at the book. It is a bad book. "Where
did you get it?" "I borrowed It-" Alas,
there are always those abroad who
would like to loan your son or daugh-
ter a bad book! Everywhere, every-
where. an unclean literature. I charge
upon it ^t.he destruction of 10,000 im-
mortal souls, and I bid you wake up
to the magnitude of the evil.
I shall take all the world's litera-
ture—good novels and bad, travels
true and false, histories faithful and
incorrect, legends beautiful and mon-
strous. all tracts, all' chronicles, all
high. Many of the publishing houses poems, all family, city, state and na-
would do well to throw into the blaze tional libraries—and pile them up in
their entire stock of goods. Bring a pyramid of literature, and then I
forth the insufferable trash and put shall bring to bear upon it some
it into the fire and let it be known grand, glorious, infallible, unmistak-
in the presence of God and angels and able Christian principles. God help
men that you are going to rid your me to speak with referenuce to my
homes of the overtopping and under- last account and help you to listen.
A locomotive on the Sandusky and lying curse of profligate literature. I charge you in the first place to
Hocking Valley road jumped a trestle The printing press is the mightiest stand aloof from all books that give j principles
teacher* between an Indian school in
oklahoma and one in South Dakota.
. lasac Kobinsun. the negro postiuas-
' t^r. at Macon. O. T . who absconded,
has been arrested at Denver by a depu-
ty postoflke inspector
— The First regiment of the militia
much discussed. The scheme
never been given up. Colonel William
Owen, of Muskogee, who is a Cherokee,
is quoted extensively on this subject
by the Kansas (Ity Journal.
I .eases of the Otoe and Pone* reser-
vations are up t<> Secretary Hitchcock, siderinp the proposition of the I 'nited
Bargains have been made with the In Mates government for the surrender of
dians at 25 cents an acre. Commis- J the islands Subutu and kalagayon in
v jUcitnipin Perry a week in Septem- j sioner Jones thought some <«f tb< consideration of an indemnity of $100.-
staring the week there is to be a
fair sod races. The militia will be
ti*tier command of Colonel Ray \V.
Hoffman.
The final proof notices in the land
offices of the the territory are spread
out so as to cover much future time.
The Kingfisher office has 400 applica-
tions for final proof now peuding be-
fore it.
" There will be more schools erected
in Oklahoma than ever before. They
will be better buildings too: the day
of the shack has passed. ' So said a
man who buys school bonds.
Beaver county people expect an ex-
tension of the Rock Island through
that county.
Fred Tarplev's arm was amputated
two weeks after he caught his hand in
the gearing of a w indmill. near Te-
cumseh.
Farmers of Ware township. Grant
fvunty. have formed a trust for the
parties were of questionable reputation 000. The ministry regards the propo-
and that 25 cents was not enough. He sition favorably, and negotiations for
referred the matter to tS« secretary of
the interior.
Judge B. F. Burwell, «f the Third
district is reported to be an applicant
to succeed Judge Williams in Arkan-
sas.
(iypsies are moving from everywhere
towards Ardmore, under orders from
their queen, who live- at Dayton. Ohio.
The meeting in August at Ardmore is
expected to be the largest in recent
years.
Robert Owens, hanker of Muskogee,
and Mr. and Mrs, L. E. Bennett, of
that city, were in Kansas C ity, July
Washita county's special election on
location of county seat is fixed for
Aughst 7; Cloud Chief. Cardell and
Mountain View are candidates.
There is now a mail leaving Kansas
. ... i City at 2:15 a. m.. which reaches Vinita.
ggpo*. of curing l P'" " T.. and Out.,, . ami points in-
tervening. before the mails get to those
arned that cities via the Nanta Fe. This gives
burning the strnw and stubble on closer business connec tions with Kan-
wheat fields destroys the silica in the *a City and also gives to many terri-
S«.i! and this results in the straw of torial towns the Kansas City morning
the following crops Wing unsble to | daily papers in advance of the time
hold up the head. they have been receiving thein.
Prof. J. C Schubert director the (George Keeler. of Bartlesville, a
F irst Regiment band, has been made , large ranch owner, was on a trip to
<*g*. Kansas City last week to arrange for
farm products
Oklahoma farmers are
city as the battle went on with the j
negro. with a Winchester barricade* ; Mail passes between Paris and Ber-
lin in less than an hour: sometimes
; within 3"> minutes. It goes in pneu-
matic tubes.
fien. J ames H. Wilson has been re-
lieved from duty at Matanzas. Cuba,
and ordered to join Gen. Oiaffee at
Taku. China.
The power house of the electric line
from lliattanooga to < hickamauga
park is burned. Loss $*>.*.000. Insur-
ance covers it
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
Railroad mail service has been es-
tablished on a road 72 miles long, con-
necting Honolulu with other points on
the island of Oahu.
Chinamen in Mexico steal across the
border into the United states on pur-
pose to be sent home to China free of
cost to themselves.
The Missouri Pacific will also run
three special excursion trains to Colo-
rado common points August 10 and
September 7 and 21.
The sales of postage stamps, en-
velopes. stamp books, newspaper wrap-
pers and postal cards, in the last fiscal
year, amounted to5.2«li.CS7.010 articles,
valued at 8U7,®S7.772.
One-sixth of the area of Texa- has
been granted to the railroads of that
state. The grants aggregate as many
and fell 64 feet hlngineer Holla Clauss agency on earth for good and for eviL false pictures of life. Life If neither ,
there is no policeman around the blocfc?
offers the book to your son on the way
home. 1 do not speak of that kind of
literature, but that which evades the.
law and comes out in polished style,
and with acute plot sounds the tocsin
that rouses up all the baser passions
of the soul. Today, under the nostrils
of the people, there is a fetid, reek-
ing. unwashed literature, enough to
poison all the fountains of public vir-
tue and smite your sons and daughters
as with the wing of a destroying an-
gel. and it is time that the ministers
of the gospel blew the trumpet and
rallied the forces of righteousness, all'
armed to this great battle against a
depraved literature. • • •
CherUb <iood Book*.
Cherish good books and newspapers.
Beware of bad ones. The assassin oi
Lord Russell declared that he was led*
into crime by reading one ririd ro-
mance. The consecrated John Angell
James, thaa whom England never pro-
duced a better man, declared in his
old cge that he had never yet got over
the evil effects of having for fifteen
minutes once read a bad book But
I need not go so far off. I could tell you
of a comrade who was great hearted,
noble and generous. He was studying
for an honorable profession, but he
bad an infidel book in his trunk, and
he said to me one day, "De Witt, would
you like to read it?" 1 said " Yes, I
would.** I took the book and read it
only for a few minutes. I was really
startled with what I saw there and I
handed the book back to him and said,
"You had better destroy that book."
No, he kept it. He read it. He reread
it. After awhile he gave up religion as
a myth. He gave up God as a non-
entity. He gave up the Bibl" a= a
fable. He gave up the church of Christ
as a useless institution. He gave up
good morals as being unnecessarily
stringent. I have heard of him but
twice in many years. The time before
the last I heard of him he was a con-
firmed inebriate. The last I heard of
him be was coming out of an insane
asylum—in body, mind and %oui an aw-
ful wreck. 1 believe that one infidel
book killed him for two worlds.
Go home today and look through
your library', and then, having looked
through your library .look on the stand
where you keep your pictorials and
newspapers and apply the Christian
have laid down this hour.
in a dwelling.
Tfatoi* Infernal.
Ix>ndon, July 30.—The alleged de-
parture of the ministers from Pekin
has led to a reassert ion of the belief
that the story is part of a deep laid
plant by China to conceal the massacre
at Pekin suggestion t eing made by the
Chinese officers that the ministers left
Pekin under escort, but were ambush-
ed and massacred by Boxers en route
to Tien Tsin. However, although ii is
still believed a massacre has occurred
of the foreign colony at Pekin. the
disposition now is to think the minis-
ters were somehow rescued from a
tragic fate.
A German News Eipedition-
Berlin. July 26.—The German fleet
society will send on August 5 a news
expedition to China, for the purpose of
reporting events entirely independent
of Chinese or other newsgatheringcon-
cerns. The expedition will consist of
from fifteen to twenty men. equipped
with field telegraphic apparatus, auto-
wireless telegraphs and heliographs.
Hu)ln( More itlancU.
Madrid. July 30.—The cabinet is con-
The minister of the gospel standing in a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not
a pulpit, has a responsible position, all either knaves or heroes Women
but I do not think it is as responsible are neither angels nor furies. And
as the position of an editor or a pub- yet if you depended upon much of the
lisher. At what distant point of time literature of the day you would get
at what far out cycle of eternity, will an idea that life instead of being
cease the influence of a Henry J. Ray- something earnest, something practi-
mond. or a Horace Greeley, or a cal. is a fitful and fantastic and ex-
James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson travagant thing. How poorly prepar-
W'ebb. or an Erastus Brooks, or a ed are that young man and woman for
Thomas Kinsella? Take the over- the duties of today who spent last
whelming statistics of the circulation night wading through brilliant pas-
of the daily and weekly newspapers sages descriptive of magnificent
and then < ipher if you can. how far knavery and wickedness! The man
up and far down and bow far will be looking all day long for his
out reach the influences of the Ameri- j heroine in the office, by the forge, in
can printing press. the fa<tory, in the counting room, and
What is to be the issue of all this? : he will not find her, and he will be
I believe the Lord intends the print- j dissatisfied. A man who gives him-
ing press to be the chief means for the ^ UP to the indiscriminate reading
If there is anything in your home that
cannot Etand the test do not give it
away, for it mignt spoil an immortal
soul; do not sell it, for the money you
get would be the price of blood; but
rather kindle a fire on your kitchen
hearth or in your back yard and then
drop the poison in it. and the bonfire
in your city shall be as consuming as
that one in Ephesus.
C;entlj Rebnketl.
A good many people maintain that
the only argument that really reaches
a practical joker is a stout clob. Yet
the Philadelphia Times prints an in-
cident of an Italian cafe which seems
to show that milder measures answer
when there is in the offender's make-
a treaty of accord between the two
governments are proceeding rapidly.
It Was Imperial Troop*.
Berlin. July 27.—A writer in The
Berliner Post says that both at Taku
and Tien Tsin it was almost exclusively
a force of Chinese troops that fought
the allies, that the leadership of these
troops was in the hands of the imper-
ial generals, and that the troops which
compelled Admiral Seymour to retreat
were imperisl soldiers commanded by
an imperisl general. The writer pre-
dicts that lack of harmony in military
armies will prove bad for the allies
up a spbstratum of manly feeling. In
world's rescue and evangelization, °* novels will be nerveless, inane and ! the evenings there was always fine
and I think that the great last battle a nuisance. He will be fit neither for music in the cafe, made by a man and
of the world will not be fought with -tore, nor the shop, nor the field. A 1 his wife. She played on a stringed in-
swords and guns, but with types and *°man who gives herself up to the in- strument. and after several selections.
! presses, a purified and gospel litera- discriminate reading of novels will be carried around a little filigree silver
i ture triumphing over, trampling down unfitted for the duties of wife, mother. 1 basket, in which she collected coins
and crushing out forever that which wister, daughter. There she is. hair ; from the guests. One night, as the
! is depraved. The only way to over- disheveled. countenance vacant, music, began, a man seated at one of
j come unclean literature is by scatter- < beeks pale, hands trembling, burst- the tables held up a gold coir. The
j ing abroad that which is healthful. ;a6 -Eto *ears £t midnight over the j woman smiled, and the man dropped
May God speed the cylinders of an 'ate °- som® unfortunate lover; !n ft on the marble slab that covered the
i honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christ- daytime, when she ought to be steam pipes. When she made her col-
director of music at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee.
Hank Commissioner W. S. .Neath says
in his report that 79 banks of the ter-
ritory shew as increase of esptUu of
40,4,46.ft and in deposits of $*♦'•*<,-
*y if.
The Oklahoma geological
ftods petrified sea shells in thin lime-
stone ledges, near the top* of bluffs j
They formed the shore l ne of a once in
land sea.
Anthonv Poors, who killed John 1
A«.am* whi* traveling from Oklahoma
v was arrested at Elk ton Mo., and coo
fessed that he rilled Adams for hb
male team hi* wagon and the |10 he
had
down
making shipments of cattle sooc.
Several thousand people attended
the ex-confederate re-union at Sulphur
Springs Two-thirds of the camps of
Confederate veterans were represented.
A barbecue and a ball closed the few-
purvey I ture#.
A ten days' Methodist camp meeting
commences at Perry A ugust 4. Bishop
C. C. McCabe and Nam Jones are on the
list of speakers.
Pottawatomie county commissioners
will try not to «hey .fudge Bnrwell*s
order that smallpox trills be paid.
I /mm Wolf, a Kiowa chief, has gained
! much following smong the Kiowasand
, < omanehe* in the objection of the way
the lands are to be allotted. Thev
Poultry raiser* get turned
•when they ask for screenings. The* .. . ... ..
•r. U.M that the «hra, .. Trood anil > ""T.**. ^lU:"
«br„ I. no Kwa,^v. 1"? , *UoUB,:nt ■b 11
have 1M seres for paatosr alongside
Governor Barnes has received from their allotments proper. Thev sav
V.aM„n*ton tifs M to rruuburw the that thr b<K paatu.r wuald v*.d u
r,ptn«r 1. orgmn^t tb* Oklahoma , op««i to MUlm**! and that wuuid
rider troop. I aw tnmblt
The Santa t> I>*nle* It.
Galveston. Tex., July St.—The Gulf
A Interstate railroad, of Texas, which
has been the subject of more dickering basin of Wyoming,
and litigation than any line of its sire
in America, was reported as about to
be sold to the Gulf, Colorado A Santa
Fe railroad to furnish a gulf outlet for
the Santa Fe's recent purchase, the
Gulf. Besnmont A Kansas City road.
General Manager Polk, of the Santa
Fe, says there is no truth in the re-
port. The Interstate officials say the
square miles as there are in Pennsyl- bodies of this infection lie in
vania and New Jersey combined.
The Lehigh Valley freight house at.
Buffalo. N. Y, is burned, with M cars I
loaded with merchandise. Ix>ss $100,- j
ooo.
Pocahontas, the only county seat in
Iowa without a railroad, is to have a
branch of the Rock Island.
Labor Unions in St. Louis are. one
by one. calling off the boycott recom-
mended by Mr. Gompers. They will
ride on street cars without being fined
and will stop paying assessments levied
in the interests of the ex-street car
men.
Four hundred Mormon families have
moved from Utah to the Big Horn
ian printing press.
Good Book* a Blr «ing.
I have to tell you that the greatest
blessing that ever came to the na-
tions is that of an elevated literature,
and the greatest scourge that has
been of unclean literature. This last
has its victims in all occupations and
departments. It has helped to fill in-
sane asylums and penitentiaries and
almshouses and dens of shame. The
the
hospitals and in the graves, while
their souls are being tossed over into
a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror
and despair! The London plague was
nothing to it. That counted its vic-
tims by thousands, but this modern
pest has already shoveled its millions
into the chamel house of the morally
dead. The longest rail train that ever
ran over the tracks was not long
enough or large enough to carry the
beastliness and the putrefaction which
have been gathered up in bad books
and newspapers in the last twenty
years.
Now. it is amid such circumstances
that I put a question of overmastering
importance to you and your families.
WThat books and newspapers shall we
read? You see I group them together.
A newspaper is only a book in
a swifter and more portable shape,
and the same rules which will apply
to book reading will apply to news-
paper reading. What shall we read?
Shall our minds be the receptacle
busy, staring by the half hour at lection she went first for the gold
nothing, biting her finger nails into , coin, but as she picked it up she gave
the quick. The carpet that was plain a cryf an(j dropped it again, for it
before will be pl3.ner after having j ^a(j become heated on the slab The
wandered through a romance all night ! aext evening, when the musician, ap-
peared, the woman's hand was ban-
long in tessellated halls of castles.
And your industrious companion will , daged and she had diff;
than ever, now t managjng her instrument. When sfc
j Twenty-five squsre miles of forest
on « ape Cop. in the town of Sandwich,
has been btimed over.
j Messages by wire from Washington
to Manila are relayed at New York,
| Valentia. Ireland: Brighton. England:
j Havre. France; Marseilles: Alexandria,
Epvpt sAden. Aiml.ia. Vnjrapor* trw of deatb Shsll we gtoop do~n
thing, and add that their prop- ! .^Saipan Cochin China; drink out of the trongh „hieh the
*rtv rw.t f r ..1. Hong Kong anu from thence to wickedness of men has filled with pol-
- j Manila. j lution and shame* Shall we mire in
A Savannah line steamer was passing; ,mPurit-v aad chase fantastic will-o'-
be more unattracti
that you have walked in the romance
through parks with plumed princesses
or lounged in the arbor with the pol-
ished desperado. Oh. these confirmed
novel readers! They are unfitted for |
this life, which is a tremendous disci- I
pline. They know not how to go
through the furnaces of trial through j
which they must pass, and they are j
unfitted for a world where everything
we gain we achieve by hard and lohfc J
continuing work.
Avoid Partially Bad Books.
Again, abstain from all those books
which, while they have some good
things, have also an admixture of evfl.
You have read books that had two ele-
ments in them—the good and the bad.
Which stuck to you? The bad. The
heart of most people is like a aieve.
which leu the small particles of gold
fall through, but keeps the great cin-
ders. Once in awhile there is a mind
like a loadstone, which, plunged amid
steel and brass filings, gathers up the
steel and repels the brass. But it is
generally exactly the opposite. If you
attempt to plunge through a hedge of
burs to get one blackberry, you will
get more burs than blackberries. You
in
made her collection she avoided the
man who had played the practical joke
on her; and night after night she
did the same thing. In vain he of-
fered her apologies and other coins,
but she merely bowed and smiled in
passing him. and never allowed him
to give her the slightest donation. Of
course one can imagine the offender's
feelings, but who can find fault with
the woman's gentle, yet dignified. re-
buke—Youth's Companion.
everything that an author has a mind cannot afford to read a bad book, how
to write? Shall there be no distinc- ever good you are. You say. "The in-
tlon between the tree of life and the
K w Valley I'otaio Crop.
lawrence. July 30.—The potato crop
in the Ka valley is turning out near-
ly M bushels an acre more than it was
expected. The crop in the valley be-
tween lawrence and Kansaa City is
estimated will reach four thousand
carloads It is generally believed that
the crop will average from 2M to 275
bushels to the acre. This is an enor-
mous crop when it is known that the
crop does not usually average over 200
bushels to"the acre. In fact 200 bush-
els is considered a good crop.
Federal Olrlal l.ador*e* Strike.
St Louis, Mo.. July 27. President
Gompera of the American Federation
of Labor, who has been here investi-
gating the strike of employes on the
St. Louis Transit <x>mpany has left
here for Chicago. W. p. Mabon. pres-
ident of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employes of Ameri-
ca, said that before leaving here Mr.
'tampers endorsed the strike and said
the movement would have the support
of the American Federation of Labor
Mr, Gompers is a I*. S. o& iaL
Sandy Uook when a shell, tired from
the proving grounds struck the water
1* 0 feet from the vessel and bounded
over it about midships. The passen-
gers were frightened.
Lord Salisbury says that a dash
towsra Pekin. u ithout a month or two
of preparation would be military sui-
cide
Of the 42', saloons in Jackson county
Mo., all but 9 are in Kansas City. The
annual license paid the county is fl2S),-
The North Carolina supreme court
haa sustained a decision rendered in
Burke ©ounty imposing 91.000 fine on
the Southern railway for giving a free
paaa to a dttrkeeper of the legislature
i® 1§J>7.
It is now said that A. E. Stillweli
haa. in addition to the "Orient ' scheme
another for an airline road from Kan-
| sas City to (ialresUm
The iAke Erie and Western railroad
has followed the example of the Rock
KR* •-
the-wisps across the swamps when
we might walk in the blooming gar-
dens of God? Oh. no! For the sake
of our present and everlasting welfare
we must make an intelligent and
Christian choice
Standing, as we do. chin deep in
fictitious literature, the question that
young people are asking is, ' Shall we
read novels?" I reply There are nov-
els that are pure. good. Christian, ele-
vating to the heart and ennobling to
the life. But I have still further
fluence is insignificant. I tell you
that the scratch of a pin has sometimes
produced lockjaw. Also, if through
curiosity, as many do. you pry into an
eril book, your curiosity is as danger-
ous as that of the man who would
take a torch into a gunpowder mill
merely to see whether it would really
blow up or not.
In a menagerie in New York a man
put his arm through the bars of a
black ieopard's cage. 1 he animal's
hide looked so sleek and bright and
beautiful. He just stroked it once.
The monster seized him. and he drew
forth a hand torn and mangled and
bleeding. Oh. touch not evil, even
with the faintest stroke. Though it
«7 that I believe that Tentr-«ve mtJ * *io*°r "d to«
out of the 100 novel, m this day are Dt"' le" you "ul1 'ort1' your wul ,0''n
baleful and de.tm. tire to the law de- 1Dd blwJln« t*e dutch of the
F~ •, pure **ork of Action U hilton LT"1 „Bu' " 'ou "" bow "an '
and poetry combined It is a history fmd om ,h"hK" * book it good or bad
of thingi around ui with the license. ",ithuul reading It?" Thera u always
and the swumed names of poetry The sobbing suspicious about a bad book,
world can never pay the debt which 1 Dev,r kntB *n «<*Ptlon— something
It owes u> m. h writers of Action as ""Picous in the index or style of 11-
Hawthorne and McKeniie and I-andon '"•"'ation This venomous reptile al-
ways carries a warning rattle.
Again 1 charge you to stand off
from all those books which corrupt the
imagination and infl^mi the passiuus.
1 do not refer now to that \ind #f book
which the villain has under his cott
and Hunt and Arthur and other*
whose names are familiar to all. The
follies of high life,were never better
exposed thaa .by Uim Edgeworth.
The memories of the past were never
more faithfully embalmed than
Bultonlr Plaffa?. SOO B C.
-The earliest authentic record of bu-
bonic plague has hitherto been accept-
ed. says Nature, as dated 300 B. C.
Drs. F. Tidswell and J. A. Dick have,
however, recently brought evidence
before the Royal Society of New South
Wales to show that the epidemic of
1144 B. C.. described in the first book
of Samuel (chapters 4 to 10) was the
bubonic plague. After the Philistines
had captured the Ark of the Covenant
and taken it to Ashdod. severe illness
broke out among the people. "The
hand of the Lord was heavy upon them
of Ashdod. and He destroyed them and
smote them with emorods." The word
"emorod" has usually been taken to
mean hemorrhoids, but in the revised
version of the Old Testar.ent it is
stated to mean tumor or plague boil.
The epidemic in Philistia occurred at
the time of the regular plague season,
and mice are mentioned in connection
with it. which furnishes additional
evidence that the epidemic was plague,
for a connection between the death ot
rats and plague at Bombay and else-
where has been clearly established.-—
Baltimore Sun.
About Gen" Andre.
Gen. Andre, the new French minis-
ter of war is sixty-two years of age.
He is an excellent type of the well
educated F'rench soldier, distinguished
by physical vigor and cool energy, as
well as for intellectual qualities While
commander of the Polytechnic school
from December, 1893 to May 1 *99 he
showed himself a skilful as well as an
energetic administrator. He has
strenuously opposed the introduction
of politics iuto the army, and it is
therefore certain that he wi'l co-
operate with the cabinet to mak*
France peaceful.
Ikland n eicludiug all cigarette the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper'f waiting for the school to get out, and,
smokers from tin ir employment {novels are healthfully redolent with then, looking both wars to see that treasury in one year.
Methodiat MUotonarr Receipt*.
The total receipts of the Methodist
foreign Missionary society for the last
year were |1 3;6.3 9.07. which is the
largest amount ever paid Into the
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