The Democrat and Standard from Coshocton, Ohio • Page 2

W. March 9 A strange case fft tbe sudden dietth of James Melee, a few miles west of here yesterday. Malee's wife was lying a corpse, having died from, pneumonia, and her death so affected the husband that he went to his room on the second floor and prayed incessantly for two hours for death to come to him. The sorrowing friends and relatives below heard a noise above like a fall of something heavy and rushing to Malee's room found him lying on the floor dead. This morning while preparations were being made for the burial of bis wife, he weepmgly remarked: "Just wait a little while and I will follow her." His praver was answered and they were buried today in the same grave.

Malee was a well-to-do farmer, and was married about a rear ago to Miss Virginia May, after a courtship that dated back to their childhood, and their infatuation for each other was remarked bv all of their acquaintances. His wife in her dying moments prayed that her husband might follow her. saying. "I will not be happy until you come Jim." This case has puzzled the physicians, as Malee was a robust man and in good health. Pussy Cat Cleared out the Theatre.

ROCHESTER, N. March 13. The performance of "East Lvnne" at the opera house in Clyde, did not take place Wednesday night, only a part of the first act being put on. Clyde is one of theprosperous'towns of Wayne county, noted for its wealthy citizens, and a fashionably dressed audience bad packed the little theatre by the time the curtain went tip." A polecat crept into the foyer, darted by the ticket taker and continued its way UD- opossed into the orchestra cir- a Dazed by thelights. itstop- the aisle near where a of the town was seat- "Hjs best girl- The young young BL ed with a over and Inside of two man wii tj stroked "pur 1 minutes empty.

house was For Mrs. Wil- Special Casket Mm, soni i be held Md Jewels. Jewels, candy, flowers, man--that is the order of a woman's Jewels form a magnet of mighty power to the average woman. Even that greatest of all jewels, health, is often ruined in the strenuous efforts to make or save the money to purchase them. If a woman will risk her health to get a coveted gem, then let her fortify herself against the insiduous consequences of coughs, colds and bronchial affections by the regular use of Dr.

Boschee's German Svrup. "It will promptly arrest consumption in its early stages and heal the affected lungs and bronchial tubes and drive the dread disease from the system. It is not a cure-all, it is a. certain cure for coughs, colds and all bronchial troubles. You can get this reliable remedy at all Druggists.

Price 25c and 75c. Mrs- George B. McClellan, widow of the famous general, who has been residing in Europe for many years, has returned to this country and will make her future home in Washington. More Riots. Disturbances of strikers are not nearly as grave as an individual disorder of the system.

Overwork, loss of sleep, nervous tension will be followed by utter collapse, unless a. reliable remedy is immediately employed. nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the Liver or Kidneys as Electric Bitters. It's a wonderful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around medicine for run down systems. It dispels Nervousness.

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'Just in the nick of time our little bov was saved'' writes Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City. O. "Pneumonia had played sad havoc with him and a terrible cough set in besides.

Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and oar darling was saved. He's now sound, and well." Everybody fifht to know, its the only sure cure for Coughs. Colds and all Lung diseases- Guaranteed bv C.

E. Anderson, Druggist. Price 50c and 81.00. Trial oottles free. Our Republican exchanges are just now engaged in running two or three columns of plate with a two-column cut of Myron T.

Herrick of Cleveland, singing the praises of that gentleman as a candidate for governor. TALMAGE SERMON Zy Her. FRANK IE WITT TALJtySE, 0.D.. Factor of J-ff-rses. Park Cbicaso.

March 15. Cow much cf real heroism and true nobility are displayed in ordinary, inconspicuous lives is Fbown by Kev. Frank IX- Win Talmage in this seraics; on the text Mati. 4. "And Naasson begat Sal- thew mon.

ner said. "iMtie one. wszs here: I lie got out a tvooiefl shirt aw! usel it for her iiljrhtgowii. Then up 5u snveyt, innocent way "Now I taost my prayers. I This 2 harder for to solve tkin tie At last one miner my rrrliajt, acd say your prayers.

2i-V the litUe one knelt. wtrs cuiue y-eulug out of tlie 1 pushed her off as he said. my Isttle 1 cm not for you to say your prayers to AcotLor tried it. He cioivu. At last the little girt knelt by her bunt.

she commenced to pray okl prayer-- Xow I lay ice cown to si" 7. the Lord my sou) ic. -and up tLat praye-r 1 plea that would the t-e Why did Carlyle entitle one aft of bis books "Heroes and Hero ship?" ity of the the lives you Ei.iy ti-'uk your domestic life does cot tuacuut to inueJ'. You may say it i-ousists sewing tor the lstbies. "-oSiirr awl pet- Saj? tiie ojioi i tVy Lurt end reailing tbe to tke cliCdren before ihey to to bed.

Eat I want to yoa'tnat Sn the cf tills his- ti-ry of ycu have a csisury. a tremendous work NJU your Lands. You nuiy be she mot'ier or mother of a Aviil yet or was a dry rye in that Most peopl fore sos to see the a priest, What Dante or or Luther learned to preached to a more au- ncver to or Rousseau or Burns or Cromwell or lttose uiell ho had years Napoleon was iu public and private life bas for most of us uu absorbing interest. We are as a rule, over- Side by aide with the bines rode or walked the men who oaee wore gray-brothers now. with uo rivalries save with the rivalries of trying to outdo each IP kluuaess acd brotherly courtesy.

fttf Xatlon. But tlie third uasy of tlte celebration TTSS the greatest to me of alL That was the time of tfce industrial parade. What is llie navy for? Merely to tec our rnercliaiits and arnsans at the" furthermost the seaboard. What is tbe army for? parti, of w-jrki. You asay is? rock- Merely to protect the liomes of our inj? in your u-ibter's cradle r.

fctsrre mechanics and the factories aud the E. a Florence Nizbt- stores. The strength our na- i- a Havergal. tiou is not in her mailed baud of war. I goiu-4 l.i-youd IKV right ia too but in her horny baud of toil.

Yes. on much the infinite influence that day we saw Naassons everywhere, of a humble Were not nearly We heard tiie hammer upou the anvil. all our great uit-n Loru in a cottage in- We saw the cooking at the of a paLsv.er Have siot nearly stove. We saw the farmer's plow ami all our great me: 1 at their humble tee woodman's ax and the typewriter's mother's "feet ih for ail tbeir machine and the printing press. heard in the flotillas which moved up Broadway aud Fifth avenue the national song of a prosperous home industry.

And these flotillas were uot manned by tbe royal trappings of for- ambassadors. They were filled the artisans and the laborers and mechanics aad employees of foundries and factories in the common, ev- Br come bt with excitement when we in touch a seeming "uo- body." but we will travel far to sit at the feet of a great orator or to ciasp bands with a Goethe or a Victor Hugo or to see one whose dictum may influence the destiny of a nation. We do well to honor tlie transcendent genius and to take an intense interest in the characteristics of tbe great man, but we ought not to overlook the heroic elements in ordinary lives. There are men among us, inconspicuous and unknown, who are living valiant lives, overcoming the evil within them and around them and exercising a beneficent influence on their own contracted circle. These are men who.

if a great crisis came or a great opportunity opened, would achieve fame, but without it will die uukonored save by the few who know them well. It is such men I would hold up for your admiration today, and I choose at random as an illustration of tbe class an obscure name from a genealogical table. Zanesville Signal- Mrg Funeral seg ay morninsr at over the rey hapel, RevT T. "Wilson The fun- will leave the fami- Sf in Falls township at 8:30 A special casket three feet in vvidibTwas buik Tuesday in this city for the deceased. There will be eight pallbearers, who in It Saved His Leg.

A. Danforth of LiaGrange. for six months with a fright- ul running sore on his leg: but writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it in five days. For Ulcers. Wounds, Piles, it's tne best salve in the world.

Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents. Sold by C- E. Anderson. Druggist.

Should Senator Allison serve out the term for which be was recently elected he will ha-fce broken all records of service in carrvmg the casket, will use the United States senate having stout rods which are to be placed i been a member of that august! The Crafile'B Influence. First, Xaasson's cradle must have been an important part of his life's ministry. It is a very common custom for people to sneer at the helpful in- fltience of a cradle. Many critics are apt to say that all a baby is good for is to eat and sleep, to cry and get sick and to keep the house in uproar froia the time he gets into it until, as a young man. be goes forth to start a home of his own.

For nearly two years at least the mother is bound to that cradle as firmly as if she were linked to it with a chain of steel. For four or five years the baby is -etterly helpless. If turned out in the cold, he would not be able to take as much care of himself as a puppy. For the first fifteen years of a child's life his opinion upon any subject is practically valueless. The first twenty years are for the most part preparation for life's work rather than tbe achieve- under the casket.

Mrs. Wilson, who weighed nearly 600 pounds, was only live feet, six inches tall. Her waist measurement was six feet, seven inches. body since March 4. 1873.

He and Senator Jones took their seats at the same time and the la tier's term would also been extended six years had he consented to serve. ment of any high purpose. some one says to me. ''I do not see you can affirm tbat Naasscn's cradie could i.et»n a very important pnrt of life's ministry." While admitting tbe-H- facts. I still contend that first few of a child's lift- a influence.

They are important not only to tho cbiid. but to his parents. Who has Killing of Birds. American held stat mostly been killed on the Xorth Carolina coast for millinery purposes, aud their bodies thrown Ac international conference Working: Overtime. have not tbe Hrtuoi.ee or" a cradle IflOre i i a houseV I appeal to your own ex- I perience.

it mu: be in prin- rt paralk-! or" mine. My cradle and the of sis- our ber-ii broughfinto touch that little child prayer. You assert that that child's influence is the exception? 1 know it is not. I know that a man never on earth comes as near to heaven as wlien dis little baby boy or girl kneels by bis side and in trust and love says a baby's evening prayer. God pity the man who never knew that joy! God forgive the father who bas dulled his ear so as not to hear such a message, has blinded his eyes to shut out such a sight which in angelic form can come to" him in bare feet, robed in a litile wliite nightgown.

Brother, do not tei! me that Naasson's childhood was wasted years. Do not for a moment suppose that although you may be an ordinary man living an ordinary life in an ordinary home your little cradle had no gospei significance in the lives of yoar Christian parents. Xaasson Like Moat of Ca. Xaasson's matured manhood teaches that God provides for the humblest of his children as well as for the greatest. Who was Xaasson? He had a father named Aminadab and a son.

Salmon. That is ail we know of his direct connections. They were evidently as humble as himself. There was certainly nothing extraordinary about this man. History makes no mention of Xaassou leading a great army.

Among all tbe leaders of the Bible there is uo recorded speech spoken by his lips. Whether he was in physique tali or short, whether he had light Lair or dark, blue eyes or black, a broad or a narrow chest, must be all left to conjecture. But tMa fact is certain--whetlser he was the humblest individual who ever lived or no, God took care of him. God fed him, God clothed him, God saw him grow up to full manhood. Then when Ms work, however small, was done God took him to himself.

In other Xaasson was like the most of us. who are without any particular talent or power of leadership. Yet God is caring and feeding and clothing and housing us. just as he feeds the bird of the air and clothes The lily of the field. obscure man, in the humble walks of life, do you not realize tbat in spite -f yoc you are preaching wherever you the piotectiug care of the love of God? It Ls not surprising that'a r.i-J iuventior.5 like Thomas A.

Ecti- earn his daily breud: it is not ti'at a jrlgautic inteH'Krt like tlust of can accumulate fortune- when he cr.ii crowd tbe drink. I made a rt-swlutlou of total abstinence- That resolution I Slave never lroken. And now, whatever hoiior I have c. I it all to my mother." says John Adams? that I am I owe to lay mother." Whr says James A. Gartield? He says nothing, but his actions speak louder than words.

see tiiat his first act after having taken the oath of otHce as president of the United States was to lean over and with smiling lips, under loving eyes, kiss tiie withered lips of bis old mother. When Garret A. Hobart was about to take the oath of office as president elect in the senate chamber, 1 saw President Mc-Kinley's eyes wander up to the gallery wherein sat the one who gave him birth, and he bowed his reverence and love to his old mother. The Heart. Henry Ward Beecher once said that mother hearc is the child's schoolroom." It is more than that; it is the very heart of the child's mental, moral and spiritual existence.

Ah. woman, called mother; ah. man. called father, do not say that your humble life in a humble home amounts to naught. When you rock the cradle, you are rocking the centuries.

Your boys, your girls, may yet become mighty men and women for God and for betterment world, because yau are now rivers and rLs. the long every- s-woting oui tbeir -i th" surrountHcg I look, r.s Uev. Dr. it. "ss the in- vtt:" it is Jwt a Liwyor like Sear- have a large of the starting them rlgiit.

They may be preacbiag and living the love of Christ among the earth's sinful men long after your earthly work is done and you have gone to your heavenly reward- Again. Xaasson's life impresses me with the fact that the greatest of earth- works are accomplished by ordinary people. Here and there in the long list of genealogical names which are recorded in the first chapter of Matthew- there is a prominent man. bat four- fif ths of them--aye. nine-tenths of them --are names as humble as that of Xaas- son's.

Thus we find that everywhere the vast bulk of the world's work is done by the ordinaries and not by the extraordinaries. Why? Because there are but few extraordinaries and thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions ordinaries. When you stand by the grave of Christopher Wren in St. Paul's cathedral of London, you reau his epitaph thus: "If you wish to see ray monument- look about yon." But when I look about St. Paul's cathedra! I see in the stciies of svery waii fiirJ tlie dovetailing of every crevice the work of a thousands of hards horny -with toil well as in tlie complete building the white, soft fin- er and Bowel Easy, pleas-! week would look to r.s an ant, safe.

Only ilc at C- E- An-i and a model. My mother was the store. more consecrated nud circumspect be- cause her were to IlBtfli.gration IO Xew York add- ber for and maternal train- one vd to bird protection was advocated by e( 547,. 759 to the population last I ing. Aad.

my brother, wiien Prof- William Dutcher. of Xew vear Tliis represented an ex- i says that yonr childhood amount York, who was re-elected chairman of the Audubon Societies of tbe Uiited States. There are now thirty -four of these societies. vhich will continue active efforts to assist State authorities in enforcing the law against the killing of plumage birds and tbeir use by milliners. cess of European immi-1 you deny it.

TM- a t.ho rmmHoT- i Craves of your dead By tbe sainted father and mother eloquent tiiais that?" "Xever." cnswered Webster, "except from Preatiss hiuiseif." P-ut that of rise great there lies buried. I see tLe l-umble laborers dia-idns: the fonndat.or.s: I see the bumble reaiM-g the I the Jura-hie rtinrr scaffoldings: I see tLe crowd about the poor, bruised, body of tbe workman wtose iii.s'-tepped ana Uy uis elo-iuence he couie brains were caslird out cr-on the only tbe niasa-os. but also beneath that 11 1'iiS co who turned to Daniei Webster conclusion of one of bis orations sr.Id. "DIcS you ever henr a speech eryday working clothes of men and women living upon small salaries. Ah, my brother, do not complain because you are a humble Xaasson.

The prosperity of this country rests upon the workiiignsan's cottage far more than upon the capitalist's mansion or the president's White House. But coming near to the earthly end of Naasson's life I find by this genealogical account that God was keeping just as much account of his life as he did that of-Abraham or Jacob or Boaz or David- Xaasson in his humble capacity and doing his life's work well was just as dear to his Divine Master as if he had occupied a Solomon's throne or had built a Xoah's ark. Indeed, I sometimes think if God has any they are to be found among the humble workers. Abraham Lincoln thought so. He once said.

"God must love the common people better than the aristocrats because he made so manv of them." And Christ's actions when upon earth seemed to prove this theory. We find that he associated for the most part with the poor and the humble. The greatest earthly joy Jesus seemed to have had in a human sense after a dajr's preaching in Jerusalem was to be able to leave the capital and climb up the bill upon which is situated tne little village of Bethany and there lodge with bis few friends in the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Thus, my brother. In your humble capacity, in your obscnre home, remember that Christ is with you.

Remember that he is -watching you. Also remember that if you clo your work with his help to the best of your ability he will speak to you the same words which Sir "Walter Scott chiseled upon tbe tombstone a domestic who had served him long and was buried in his family plot, "Well done, good and faithful If God rewarded Xaasson. he rewarded Mm not for being willing to serve IIITTI in a place for which he was not fitted, but for faithfully doing the work was given him to do in an inconspicuous position. A short time ago President Roosevelt nominated an officer to the position of brigadier general not because he had gallantly led a charge in Cuba during tbe Spanish- American war. but because he was willing when asked to do so to stay at borne and faithfully do tbe organizing work of tlie day.

It is not alwr.ys tho man who receives the applause of men who will ultimately receive the ap- piauss of heaven: therefore iet us do the humble -sork of faithfully and earnestly which God -has given to us to do. Do it even though we may be a Xar.r.scn: co it even though men may j-tiuge ti.at work to bi useless- The man of one talent may receive just as large a heavenly reward as tiie man of ten. IfrCS. by IClopsch-3 tois country as Rufns Ydzb scaffol-nair. Aye.

I sre 4. the country througn that port in aad Ca-Iostty of tae Slmplon Tnmael- The engineers digging tbe wonderful ni-ci that runs through the srer.t moniitain to connect stzer- re 1:1 Tliov have bur.ded the they have lifted the uou.e of St. Peter's and the Taj Mahal: they have worked on iaud with Italy are experiencing great the farms and swept out tbe stores and i disncwlties because of the presence or died in the soldier's trencb. It is tbe i boiling water in the mountain. The accumulation cf the work of tbe ob- water come? from the top of the rnoun- a aa 1901.

The maximum was reach- because yon as a stranger, once ed in Mav. when arrived crept nto their hearts. Your parents there. The largest number hail-' not only save yon to the Lord Jesus ing from any one country was Christ when they stood with you at contributed bv Italy. o-i day abilities can at all times earn a nre individuals in this world which tain and is heated almost.to boiling -m 1 1 Z-t- t- IT.T- -Mm OT Big Hole Made By Lightning.

EVAXSVILLE, March 14. --Lightning came near killing Henry Tornatto, a farmer, near here to-day. A hole about 10 feet and eight feet in diameter made in front of a team he driving. The horse and wagon were thrown into the hole, while Tornatto was thrown several feet to the side of the road. He was unconscious for several hours, but it is thought will recover.

Colonists Tickets to West and Northwest via Pennsylvania Lines. Prom February loth to April 30th, inclusive, one way second class colonist tickets to California. Xorth Pacific Coast points. Montana and Idaho, will be sold at low fares via Pennsylvania Lines. For particulars apply tbe baptismal altar, but they also at the same time, on your account, renewed their consecration vows to the Christ who loved their littic clii'd.

A CbHd Camp. The purifying, ennobling and Christianizing influence of a little cliiJd was once illustrated by a brother minister in the following story: One day, in the far west, a staJwart miner was return- livelihood for himself aud wife and Governor Bliss, of Michigan. has appointed as a member of the State-prison board, a former inmate Thomas J. Navin who, as "boy Mayor" of Adrian, some years ago, became involved in dealings which landed him in prison for forgery. Since getting out of the penitentiary he has been chairman of the Republican city committee oi' Detroit, and now gets a State office, where Be hopes to work out some reforms that impressed him while convict as being needed.

necks or broken men have KWSPAPLR to nearest Ticket Agent of the Penn- ing to his encampment when ho found sylvania Lines. a lost cbild She a beautiful little pirl of about five summers. "Where are your father and mother, little one?" asked the miner. "Don't know," said the baby. "What are you going to do?" "Well." she answered, not tbe least abashed.

"1 crsiess I will go bome with you and wait until mamma comes and gets The miner, with a laugh, picked her up in bis strong arms and started up the mountain side. The little girl in his embrace wr.s not a bit afraid. She laughed and sang and chattered nil the way. When tl.e miner came tc camp, he nsked tho men what he would do with her. and they Raid.

"Let her stay here over and then some one will take her to town in the morning." After supper little suddenly stopped her chnttertng and said: "Now it is time for me to go to bed. Who will undress me':" That was new task for those hard listed workmen. They dirt not know what to do. At last tbe ninu who lind found Daring tbe year 1902, two men in America were killed in prizefights: and, in a season of three months lately passed, twenty-one men have been killed playing football. Fifteen of these died from broken backs.

How been ruptured and permanently injured in various other ways no roan can say. I says Elbert Hubbard, in the March Cosmopolitan, that two young men with wbom I am personally acquainted are now in lunatic asylums as a result of football, and their ravings are the cries and signals of the game. If you still think that football is manly sport, you might interview tho parents of these young men. children is surely to be explained by a revelation of tfce divine goodness. Why.

soroe people have not hardly enough brains to tell their right hand from their left, yet God cares for them. God feeds them aad clothes them. as lie cares for that poor widow who is left financially stranded with a large number of children strapped to her back. He feeds and clothes them just as he cared for Xaasson or as he bas been caring for us Where Plain L.ive» But I find another very suggestive fact about Xaasson's genealogical history. It led to mightier names.

As Joseph Parker once graphically and tersely expressed You should re- bas made this old earth what it is; therefore, my brother, do not say that your life's work is useless because it is inconspicuous. Hum We Well did tbe manager of the celebration which took place in Xew York city some years aga to commemorate the inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States appreciate the value of the humble workers in the humble walks of fal avocations. The first day. for it was a three days' celebration, they gave np to the navy, or, rather, to the scene when Washington crossed Xew point by the friction and pressure of its percolation through tbe limestone beds of the mountain. Before the tunnel had been dug very far on tbe Italian side the heat became so intense that it was impossible to live in it.

The mountain was piped, and soon 13,000 gallons of steaming hot water were- flowing out of the sonth end of "m- nel every minute of the day ami The immense Sow was made to drive ref rigeratins plants and cold air blowers. Today the temperature of tbe tunnel has been reduced from a height that would have roasted a- man in a minute or two. and the at- navies. den. Then tbe bay was crowded with boats in day attire.

Then the StTl member that a Sat road may be mighty white squadron, accompanied T-V. leading up to a grcU mounuiin. Tnere are some very plain and uninteresting miles out of yet every one of them brings you nearer to Mont Blanc. So yon do not know to what high bill your life may be quietly leading up. Even if yon yocrst are nobody, your York harbor and landed at Castle Gar- mosphere now has the pleasant warmth A -Irtt- hrfci 1 fcftfar son rany be a ninu of renown or hfs by representatives of passed up the Hudson river in review.

As tlie death dealing, floating armaments of destruction passed Governors island, where I sat, tbe gunners would shove the noses of their war hounds out of the portholes. There would be a breath of smoke, then a growl, a of a June day. The hot water also drives pneumatic drills and boring ma" chines, so that it helps to dig the tunnel as well. When completed, the Simplon tunnel will be the biggest in the world-- fourteen miles long, with a cost of nearly SI .000.000 a mile. roar and the white ships would disap- son may bo a nnd mighty man.

seeming nobody. His son. Salmon, was a scorning nobodj Salmon was the fathef of mighty Rouz. who was husband of beautiful Ruth. who was of the rulgbty wlio the ancestor of Jesus Christ Ho, t) hum Me woman.

their state troops. wont up Cheer a cheer to gvoot tV.iEous men. the reunl-irs with sacb men nsSchjficld ftnd the one armed Howard nt ln-tul who followed Sherman to the sea. Then came the war veterans A LnrKe Diocese. Bishop of western equatorial Africa is often asked vrhen in Bngliad.

"What is the size of your "I generally answer." he says, "by saying. 'You could put England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Holland and Belgium. I-Yancc and Germany into my diocese and have room to The area is estimated at 700.000 miles, and it includes the Colony. Ashnnti, Lagos, su, geria, tbe city of Benin, no: geria nnd Ilausa and Boruu London Kspress.

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