Stanleys Last Journey to AfricaHenry M Stanley made a journey

Into inner Africa recently which wasperhaps even more remarkable thanhis search for Livingstone or his ex-

ploration¬

of the Congo basin He trav¬

eled in a palace car from Cape Town toBuluwayo a distance of 1000 mile ina little more than twenty four hoursThis incident illustrates in the mostBtriking manner possible the marvelousgrowth and development of Africa inrecent years Chicago Tribune

A Sensible Young WifeHow do you like my cooking Corner

now give me your honest opinion Howdoes it compare with your mothers

If you want my honest opinion Iwill say your cooking is very fair butit is not quite equal to mothers

I did not expect It would be quiteequal to your mothers but I wish youto remember that your mother hadmany years experience before you werecapable of forming a judgment of hercooking

By Jove you are right I neverwould have thought of that though Iassure 3rou I would have made no com-ments

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on your cooking if you had notiskedf or my honest opinion The pointyou have made Is a good one but it issntirely overlooked by young marriedmen

It is and unfortunately It is notthought of by young wives The IdeaDf any man saying to a girl just a yearar two out of school You cant cook aswell as mother and never taking intoconsideration that mother has had ansxperience of forty or fifty years Sup-pose

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the young wife should turn roundand retort Youre not half as skillfula workman as my father

And1 I wonder she doesnt Its apoor rule that wont work both ways

And so it is when you come to thinkof It Saturday Evenincr Post

Court Knew What Was PokerPaul Milliken who is one of the most

popular men on change was yesterdayon the floor rehearing the latest pokerincident It is unnecessary to say thathe secured a great many auditors asthere are numerous admirers of thegreat American game there A privategame had been broken up in a smalltown which was very religiously in¬

clined and the players arrested andtaken before the county judge Thefirst prisoner was told by the judiciallight to rehearse in strict honesty whatwas going on when the officer appeared

Well had just dealt It wasa jack pot said I Open it but it willcost you 2 to come in The nextplayer put up the needed amount andsaid Well it will just cost 5 morato be In this play Jhe third one ad ¬

vanced it 3 more and when it cameto me I looked at my hand and found apair of threes I had been lucky andconcluded to go in the jack pot andid so

Prisoner is dismissed cried tin1udge interrupting him in his story

Well whats the trouble said theatter looking about alarmed and

studying the judge in surpriseWhy simply this You are charged

for playing poker and your own evi-dence shows that you were not re¬

plied the court Cincinnati Enquirer

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VALUE OF GOLD ANDCOINS

SILVER

It is interesting to note that whileftur forefathers succeeded in giving le¬

gal tender equality they also made theattempt to give commercial equality toour two kinds of coin by statute lawit was soon found to be a failure Fromthe very nature of things this kind ofequality in value that is in the ex-

changeable¬

of commercial value nevercan be and never has been maintainedwith precision by ourselves or any oth-er

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nation of the world for any reason ¬

able length of time Truly this kind ofequality in value which is exceedinglydesirable can be maintained with ap-

proximate¬

precision for many years aswe can cite the experience of theFrench nation using a coinage ratio of155 to 1 from 1803 to 1874 But let us re-

member¬

that the legal tender value wasat the same time maintained with ab-

solute¬

precision Let us manfully facethe well authenticated historical factthat the commercial value of gold andsilver coins at any given ratio was al-

ways¬

liable to vary from month tomonth from year to year and from de-

cade¬

to decade However when Con-gress

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is in session it has the legal rightto follow these variations every dayand make the childish effort by con-stant

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changes in the weight of ourcoins to have them conform to thisdaily variation This attempt was notmade by our nation as we have reduc-ed

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the weight of gold coins but once1834 during our national existence to-

ward¬

this equalization while we in-

creased¬

the gold 1S37 by a mere triflesolely for ease in mint circulationswhile the quantity of pure silver in ourstandard silver dollar has remained un ¬

changed since the first organization ofour mints On the other hand Con-gress

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can and did regulate and main-tain

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the debt paying value of bothcoins under our flag with absoluteprecision from 1792 to 1873 While thiswas an act of precision the other wasmerely an attempt at precision Pleasenote this as a very important and vitaldistinction The lawful debt payingvalue of coined money always has andalways will have a powerful effect intending to maintain the approximateequality but never can maintain theprecise equality in the exchangeablevalue of money made of gold or silverwhen put under the hammer test or inthe melting pot As an advocate of therestoration of silver at the existingcoinage ratio of 16 to 1 I firmly holdto the opinion that when we restore thefull legal tender power to our silverdollar its value as bullion will riseand gold will fall Many of the com-mercial

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nations of the world would inall probability soon follow our exam-ple

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and the wide and mischievouschasm now separating the two metalswould be bridged by our financial lead ¬

ership Some difference will alwaysexist as the history of coinage alwayshas shown but it will not be so mis-chievous

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as to cause a disastrous fallin prices as our present system hasdone The existing commercial valueof these two metals is now very farfrom being a fair test to the propercoinage ratio while in 1792 it was afair test This is mainly on account ofsilver having been so extensively out-lawed

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by so large a portion of the com-mercial

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world for the last twenty fiveyears The assertion so frequentlymade that silver has fallen in ex-

changeable¬

value when compared withgold on account of the relative annualover production of silver is false ascan be readily seen by a reference tothe official and universally acceptedstatistics of the relative production ofthese metals in the world during thepast 100 years It is a mathematicalquestion concerning which there can beno fair dispute The comparativelygreat stability in the relative exchangiable value of our coined money from1792 to 1874 was secured simply be-

cause¬

the United States permitted thislegal tender value to remain as a sa-

cred¬

and potent regulator given to usby our forefathers and happily we alsohad the co operation of almost the en-

tire¬

commercial world as our mintsas well as theirs was open to the coin-age

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of both metals on equal termsWhen Congress commenced to tamperwith this full legal tender function ofsilver in 1S73 by making the gold dol ¬

lar alone the unit of value andstopped the further coinage of full le-

gal¬

tender silver and on Tune 22 1874demonetized all our existing full weightsilver coins as debt payers except tothe extent of 5 the mischief was thencommenced and has never been entire ¬

ly corrected and most unfortunatelythe commercial world has followed ourvicious example As a leading nationlet us always remember the worldspells our name in large type JohnA Grier

Houest Investigation DemandedFor the sake of the good name of the

nation for the consolation of thosewho have Icshjlovcil ones in the warfor the instruction of the war depart ¬

ment and army for the sake of the rep ¬

utation of those who have been bitterlyassailed it should be determinedwhether politics incompetency ne¬

glect conspiracy or rascality has madethe brief war with Spain needlesslysacrificial An investigation for politi ¬

cal Iftec t will not do An investigationfor whitewashing purposes will not do

The Republican WayCaptain Robley D Evans has been

relieve of rlie command of the battleship Iowa lie tlfas been assigned to I

duty as a member of the naval inspec¬

tion board and he will assume his newduties after a brief vacation The nextcommander of the Iowa will be CaptainSilas Terry now in command of thereceiving ship Franklin at the Norfolknavy yard He will take the shiparound South America and over toHonolulu in company with the Oregonand some colliers Captain Evans is aDemocrat and made a brilliant recordat Santiago but he offended the Re ¬

publican prize money grabber Samp ¬

son by saying that he would not acceptplunder Captain Terry is a Republi ¬

can Chicago Dispatch

Rothschild and HannaThe Interstate Commerce Commis-

sion¬

in advance sheets of its annual re¬

port just issued places the outstand-ing

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debt of American railroads at 10639074000 says the Journal of Agri-culture

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After Wall street secured thepanic proclamation against silver fromPresident Cleveland a majority of theroads representing this enormous in-

flation¬

of over ten thousand million dol-

lars¬

were thrown into the hands of re-

ceivers¬

While their stocks and bondswere thus forced down to the lowestpoint by the Presidents attack on sil ¬

ver they were bought heavily by Eng ¬

lish capitalists operating through theNew York syndicate of which J Pierpont Morgan is the leading represent-ative

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Morgan has since been activelyat work reorganizing with Englishmoney the railroads which were soskillfully bankrupted by the foreignspeculators whose influence secured thepanic proclamation against silver Asthe agent of the Rothschild syndicateand other foreign investors Morgannow represents a greater power inAmerica than the Goulds and Yanderbilts combined With Hanna of theSteel Trust Havemeyer of the SugarTrust and Whitney of the Standard OilTrust he is the supreme power in shap ¬

ing the policies of the McKinley admin- -

istration The amount of the stockand bonded debt of the reorganizedrailroads of America now held by Eng ¬

lish speculators runs into the thou-sands

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of millions It stands for an in-flation

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of from two to five dollars onevery dollar of actual cash originallyinvested but the foreign speculatorswho force us into panic to bear ourmarkets not only demand payment ofdividends and interest on the full facevalue but they demand it in gold Whenwe attempt to remonetize silver sothat we can have money to do businesswith at home while our gold is beingdrained to England to meet their ex-actions

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they call us cranks an-

archists¬

and repudiationists Andfinding that these epithets lose their po-tency

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they employ agents to lure uswith promises of military glory and ofopportunities to join English Tories inschemes of oppressing and iffebing thehelpless of the earth

Work that CountsEvery workman ought to say to him-

self¬

every day of his lifeIll never cast a vote for a man big

or little unless he has proved himselfhonest and a friend of labor

He ought to live up to that on elec-tion

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day The men who do the work ofthis country can run it if they willThey can be rulers It is all in theirown hands

If they will kill jealousy show faithin their own class reward in their un-

ion¬

principles intelligence and a goodrecord always bombast never theywill soon change the complexion of thecountry

When we say a freud of labor we donot mean merely the advocate of unionwith an O K label in his hat and onhis loaf We mean especially the friendof the man who works as opposed tothe do nothing We mean the man whocares as much for Samuel Gompers asfor George Gould and as much for thehumblest shoveler as for Goriers Thefirst is easy to find The second is notso easy New York Journal

Paymasters as Bad as the RestIt becomes more evident every day

that in many instances the regular andvolunteer soldiers of the Uoiited Statesarmy have not been paid for theirservices During the glamour of thecampaigns in Cuba and Porto Rico thesoldier cared little or nothing for thesight of Uncle Sams gold but since liisreturn to Gods own country wherethe full pocket makes the stomacheasy the lack of well earned cash be-

comes¬

a sore grievance It is sad in ¬

deed to have to hold the paymastersdepartment up to the same opprobriumas attaches to the quartermasters andcommissariats but that is preciselywhat it is proper to do New York Her ¬

ald

The Surprises in VermontThe election in Vermont has set all

the Republican organs at work to findan explanation of the phenomenal re-

sults¬

reached by the popular vote Itis a surprise party and no mistakeThe Democrats increase their poll forgovernor by a very respectable figureThe Republicans lose to a degree whichin aless sure state would mean defeatwhile in the Legislature the Democ-racy

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makes what is a stupendous gainin representation comparatively con-sidered

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Boston Post

Cheap Men or Cheap DollarsShall we have cheap men and dear

dollars or shall we have dear men andcheap dollars Shall the man go upand the dollar go down or shall thedollar go up and the man go downShall manhood triumph over money and

labor over loans or shall money Innvoke misery and the dollars of Shylock triumph over the souls of Godsdeserving poor These are questionswe should ask and answer before wothink of voting for a single gold staizdard Nonconformist

The Maine ElectionClosely following Vermont the re-

sult¬

of the State and Congressionalelections in Maine show enormousDemocratic gains The Republicanpolitical sharps as usual attributetheir reduced majorities to the old fic-

tion¬

and excuse of an off year andlight vote This is folly The same

causes which produce a light Republi ¬

can vote produce a light Democraticvote The inofficial but probably cor-

rect¬

reports from Maine indicate a Re-

publican¬

plurality on Governor of 20000 against a Republican plurality of48377 two years ago Speaker Reedloses 4000 of his majority in 1896 andhas his smallest vote since 1S92 Sil ¬

ver was the only question discussed inhis district The other Republicancandidates for Congress suffer a sim-

ilar¬

proportion The Democrats havemade marked gains in the legislatureSilver at 16 to 1 has won a glorious vic-tory

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by the gains Samuel L Lordthe Democratic candidate for Gover-nor

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who reduced the Republican ma-jority

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in the State 60 per cent isMayor of Saco and was a Republicanuntil 1872 when he joined the Greeleymovement As the fall elections of1898 come nearer the marked change inthe political sentments of the countrybecome more apparent At the springelection in Rhode Island and the Juneelection in Oregon the Republicansheld their own as compared with theelections of 1896 Though few speech ¬

es were made Maine was flooded withsilver literature and the Democraticpapers discussed nothing else Noth¬

ing at all was said about the war or theabuse of the soldiers No definitecharges could be made and the Demo-crats

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did not lower their cause bytrumping lies

An Evil of ProtectionIf the natural law of free trade were

restored there would be less drift fromthe farms to the cities and less loafersin the cities All honest able bodiedpeople would become bread winnersand bread consumers Idle people eatand ultimately it is the farmer whofeeds them Obliterate class legisla-tion

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and there would be a movementto the farms for the unemployed urbanlaborers would find plenty to do andwould earn plenty to eat and wear Ifthe shackles are ever struck fromAmerican agriculture the economicproblems of America would not be dif¬

ficult of solution Dallas News

Whichever Wins the Public LosesThe sugar trust alias Havemeyer

and the coffee trust alias Arbucklehave begun a duel to the death Have ¬

meyer is going to sell sugar and coffeeat less than cost and Arbuckle is go ¬

ing to undersell Havemeyer Whenthe duel is over when Havemeyer orArbuckle is financially dead or whatis more probable when peace is patch ¬

ed up who will repay to Havemeyer orto Arbuckle or dreadful thought tothe allied octopi the millions spent inthe fight New York World

Plutocracy AbroadLast week the Hannacrats suppress-

ed¬

a Porto Rican paper for denouncingSpanish cruelty Tuesdays dispatchesto the Globe Democrat report that find ¬

ing the government of the Cuban townof San Luis was in the hands of theCubans themselves Shafter had theCuban flag pulled down This is im-

perialism¬

The Globe Democrat wantsa hundred thousand men to maintainit It will take five hundred thousand

Mississippi Valley Democrat

Spanish and American BlundersThe mistakes made In Cuba said a

speaker reported in yesterdays papersare not to be blamed on the army but

on the politicians at the head of thegovernment The remark sounds as ifit might have been made in Washing-ton

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but it was not It is a pant of GenWeylers speech in the Senate at Mad ¬

rid It merely goes to show that themistakes in the Cuban campaign werenot all on one side Philadelphia Led ¬

ger

Alserism Merely an EffectThe brethren who are now crying

aloud for emancipation from Algorismsimply have the wrong sow by the earThey are mistaking effect for a causeAlgerisni is merely one of the miserableoutputs of Hannaism It is a little moredisgraceful than usual but this is main ¬

ly because its performances have beenof a public nature Atlanta Constitu ¬

tion

Tired of an Old Humbug3The grand old party racket has been

Avorked to the point of exhaustion Ithas served often to confirm the machinein power of diverting attention fromthe present to past history It will notwork this time The people havecaught on to the sham and can no long-er

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be deceived by it PhiladelphiaPress

Rottenness at Home and AbroadThe sister republics of France and the

United States are both profoundly stir-red

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by government scandals that meanrevolution if they are not investigatedand revolution if they are In bothcases too the same official rottennessRepublican government will have toput some raw beef on this black eyeHouston Tex Post

The Three Greatest CrimesThe three greatest modern crimes

against humanity are the monopoliza-tion

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of natural bounties the forced in-

crease¬

of debts and the periodicalshrinkage of values Nonconformist

One Suffering FrenchmanFrenoh justice may not overtake raty

Du Clam but he is in the clutches ofthe editorial punsters Let us pityPaty Kansas City Journal

L

The yearly output of cigars from thePhilippines is 140000000

The cheapest bread in England laworth V cents a pound loaf

There is more machinery made inPhiladelphia than any other city in thecountry

British publishers last year put onthe market 6573 new books of which2677 were novels

Washington D C Central LaborUnion appointed a committee to lookafter union soldiers families

The man who establishes a branchof the International Brotherhood ofBlacksmiths is paid 10

The cotton crop is the largest singleexport in this country nearly 230000000 annually The next largest iswheat

Alabamas latest industrial enterpriseis a 1000000 steel mill It is to beerected by capital that comes from out-side

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of the stateThe Baldwin Locomotive Works re-

cently¬

shipped forty locomotives for theChinese Eastern railway and twentyfive more are being built at the worksfor the same road

The Bethlehem Iron company SouthBethlehem Pa has been asked to bidon the forgings for the engine andshafting of a torpedo boat to be builtin Japan for the Imperial Japanesenavy

A plant for the manufacture of Port¬

land cement from furnace slag is be¬

ing erected by the Clinton Iron andSteel company of Pittsburg adjoiningtheir furnace The buildings and ma-chinery

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will cost 150000One of the largest blooming mills in

the country is to be erected at LorainO and Pittsburg manufacturers willfurnish the plant It is to be built bythe Lorain Steel coinpanj and will beejected as soon as possible

The largest establishment for themanufacture of felt in America andthe most modern in the world is nownearing completion in Chicago 111 Itwill be run as one of the departmentsof Armour Co for the purpose ofutilizing important by products

Organized labor in France is in aflourishing condition According to thelast report of the French Labor Depart-ment

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there are 2253 trade and laborunions with a membership of 422777Forty nine municipalities have boardsof arbitration and mediation and intel-ligence

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offices whicii are maintainedby the government the municipalitiesand the labor unions

The exposition of 1900 at Paris ishaving a good effect on the workingmen of the whole country The cityrefuges for laborers which are usuallycrowded during the summer monthshave received a great thinning out aseverybody seems to be working atsomething for the exposition and thefree one night lodging houses are hav ¬

ing an unusual rest From all reportsit seems that every man who is willingand able to work can find employmentis he is honest and industrious

Eighty girls employed in the DiamondMatch Companys works at Oshkoshwalked out in a body after an hoursnotice The fumes arising from thesulphur is extremely injurious to thehealth of the employes It is said to bevery bad for the teeth and when eventhe slightest cavity occurs in a toothunless it is attended to at once thewhole jaw will be seriously affectedThe dentists bills and loss of time inconsequence of caring for the teethmake a great item in the yearly financesof the strikers The average wages ofthe girls was from 225 to 275 aweek

A Fault of Business WomenA professional woman who has to

employ a young woman assistant saysthat one of her greatest troubles is thather assistants are constantly trying toimpress not only upon her but uponher patients that they are not accus-tomed

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to such employment but havebeen brought up to better thingsthough she is aware of the fact thatthe young women have come fromhomes where there was neither cul-ture

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nor moneyIt is one of the weaknesses of many

nice girls that they do not feel sureenough of themselves in taking up em-ployment

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outside their homes but theymust needs offer some excuse or reit-erate

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the fact that they are accustom-ed

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to something better It is a weak-ness

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which brings them little creditfrom their confidantes A girl enter ¬

ing a school for typewriting and sten-ography

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was asked by the other stu-dents

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why she had come to the schoolAre you taking up stenography and

going to take- - a position just for funthey asked Why certainly not shereplied It is too hard work I do notdo hard work for the pleasure of itWe are so glad answered her quer-

ists¬

The greater number of the girlshere say they come just for fun andwill take positions to pass away thetime Chicago Times Herald

Good EvidenceLawyer Why did you discharge that

man arrested for scorchingJudge redals Scorching That man

wasnt scorching Impossible Whyhe only rode a last years model of alow grade wheel Now if he had beenriding a Crackadoom as 1 do

But right there the lawj er interposedand the same old endless discussion onthe merits of different wheels was re-

sumed¬

St Louis Post Dispatch

When women admit that a womanthey dislike Iroks pretty they add forher

GREEK CITY UNEARTHED

JPrlene Discovered in a RemarkableState of Preservation

Private letters bring news of mostImportant discoveries made by Ger ¬

man archaeologists excavating on thosite of the ancient Priene in Asia Min ¬

or opposite the island of Samos Yearsago an English expedition excavatedand studied the Temple of Athena thechief sanctuary of the city built at thecrder of Alexander the Great Thework was then abandoned and mean ¬

while the ruins have been so thoroughlyexploited and wasted by the neighbor ¬

ing population that nothing Is left buta confused heap of stones In 1895 therwork of exploring the ruins of the citywas resumed this time by Germansunder the direction of the Berlin museum and at the expense of the Prus ¬

sian government The architecturalwork has been placed in the hands ofthe young architect Wilhelm Wilberga former student and assistant of DrDorfeld

The work has now proceeded far-- enough to determine its extraordinaryImportance A buried city preservedIn the completeness of Pompeii is com ¬

ing to light Up to this time no Greekcity has been excavated that gives anyclew to the arrangement of streets pub-

lic¬

squares monuments and publicbuildings or to the architecture of anyconsiderable number of private housesHere we find a city to be sure of theHellenistic period laid out with greatregularity with streets crossing atright angles with shops colonnadesmarket places theaters a council-house-an- d

a great number of private housespreserved in such completeness as todisplay their general architecture dis-tribution

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of space use decoration ancVequipment

South of the great square of the tem-ple

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alluded to above and closely ad¬joining It has been found the greatmarket place or agora of the city whichwas surrounded on all four sides bybroad colonnades of which that on thenorth side was peculiarly noble andstately Adjoining this at one end andopening a small square building con ¬

structed somewhat like a theaterwhichwas evidently the council house of thejcity It ismarvelously well preservedSixteen rows of seats are still in placeThe walls doors windows platformetc are all preserved One of the sidewalls ends in a massive arch which asbeing demonstrably a work of thefourth century B C must rank as theearliest or at least one of the fewearliest specimens of the arch in Greekconstruction The whole building rep-

resents¬

something entirely unique inthe relics of Greek architecture

There has also been found a smalltheater In which the stage structurethe skene is still standing entireThree doors open from it upon the orehestra and the proscenium with itsrow of columns and the architraveabove them remains intact No Greektheater as yet discovered is so perfect¬ly preserved as this and in the futurediscussions of the stage question thisstructure is likely to assume a leadingplace Benjamin Ide Wheeler in NevYork Tribune

Russian Forest on IceOne of tne largest forests in the

world stands on Ice It is situated be¬

tween the Ural Mountains and theOkhotsk Sea A well was recently dugiIn this region where it was found thatat a depth of 116 meters the ground waestill frozen

Not Qnite a ConqnestWugger is not going to marry thaV

widowCouldnt he win herYesrbut he couldnt please he

son

A SOLDIEES ESCAPEFrom the Democrat Message ML Sterling HI

When Richmond had fallen and thegreat commanders had met beneath tha- -

historic apple tree at Appomatox the 832ennsyivania Volunteers prematurely

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aged clad m tattersand rags broken id- -

body but of daunt¬less spirit swunginto line for thelast grand reviewand then quietlymarched away tobegin lifes frayranew amid the hillffand valleys of thaKeystone StateAmong the numberAsa Robinson cameback to the oldhome in Mt Ster¬

ling III back to thafireside that he hadleft at the call toa r m s four yearsnrovinitq TTo TronV

The Soldiers Jieturn happyaway ahealthy farmer boy in the first flush ofvigorous manhood he came back a ghostof the self that answered to PresidentLincolns call for 300000 more

To day he is an alert active man andtells the story of his recovery as follows

rheumatism almost from the time of mydischarge from the army Most of thetime I was unfitted for manual labor ofany kind and my sufferings were at alXtimes intense At times I was bent al ¬

most double and got around only with thegreatest difficulty Nothing seemed togive me permanent relief until three yearsago when my attention was called tosome of the wonderful cures effected byDr Williams Pink Pills for Pale PeopleI had not taken more than half a boxwhen 1 noticed an improvement in mycondition and I kept on improving stead ¬ily I took three boxes of the pills and atthe end of that time was in better con-dition

¬than at any time since the close ofmy army service Since then I have neves

been bothered with rheumatism Dr Wil ¬liams Pink Pills for Pale People is thonly remedy that ever did me any goodand to them I owe my restoration tocomparative health They are a grandremedy

Safes outwardly resembling Ironones but which are really made of tliiiJboards are now supplied by variousfirms and are sold to people startingIn business who want to make a bighow

He I Ont of the WoodsWhat a happy look Mr Shadyslda

wears remarked Mr Murray HillHis wife has finished her spring

house cleaning replied Mr Beecbwood Boston Traveler

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