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AN UNl'I.EASANT EVENT HOOKED FOR
NOVEMHEIl 13lil, 1899 l'BOl'ESSnll
KAMI'S RK.MAHKA1II.E FRKIIIVTlUNH
OK EAKTHQI'AKEH A PKOWIKT WITH
A MABVEI.Ol:H RKCOHD ll.00.MY
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The records indicate that poople have
been looking lor the end of the world at
intervals ever since the world begun, and
predictions of this character generally
receive very little credenee, but when a
scientific man of the standing of Professor
Rudolph Falb, of Vienna, makes a pre
diction of this sort it is at least worth
thinking about. Professor Falb has a
rcputatiou all over hurupc lor bis me
teorological kunwledge and particularly
for his extraordinary familiarity with the
habits and eustonis of earthquakes
Ilis predictions of these sei-inic 'lis
turbancc8 have been remarkably ful tillci1
ilis prediction of the great earthquake at
Zante last year was published in the
press dispatches all over the eouutry the
day before tho earthquake occurred.
Another example of his accurate fore
knowledge on this subject is shown in the
fact that on March 31st, 181)3, he wrote
the Tourist club of Vieuua accepting
an invitation to lecture about earthquakes,
but adding that he would like to defer
the lecture until after April 13th, as an
earthquake would occur by that time,
which would aid him in giving them
eulightcnineut. As a matter of fact an
earthquake occurred on April Hth, and
1'clt all over southern Hungary.
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RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
SENATOR GEORGE GRAY, of Delaware.
Professor Palb's prophecies go back over
number of years, have usually been
made from nine to twenty months in
advance and have iu almost every in
stauce been correct.
Now, however, the professor's prophetic
eye has shot across a space of five years,
and he says that on November 13th, 1899,
the erratic wanderer known to astrono
mers as the comet of IStlli will reappear
and collide with our globe; then "the
fireworks" aud darkness.
By way of preliminary to the
event, howevor, it may be mentioned that,
according to tho programme, New York
is to disappear under a tidal wave next
July or August, yvliile Florida aud Cili
fornia will probably becomo islands as the
result of a submarine earthquake.
The most unpleasant feature about
these prophecies is, as already intimated.
the fact that they are not prophecies at
all, strictly speaking, but scieutifie pro
diction based upon scientific investigations
into mundane anatomy. To put his
theories in as simple a fashion as possi
ble, it may bo said that Prof, l'alb be
liovcs first of all that the deep down
terior of the earth is filled with a molten
mass, which is subject to ebb and flow,
just like the waters ol the ocean.
lietween the- earth and this molten
sheol, which is slowly cooliug, there
only n shell of au average of eighteeu miles
in thickness, upon which we mortals live
aud love and die. In some places the
earth's crust is thicker than in others
Where it is thimiest the confined terrible
forces of the under world, chiefly iu the
form of gas, seek constantly to escape,
and when the pressure of the atmosphere
arouud the earth is lowest the gas finds
an outlet, usually iu well defined districts,
generally through the volcanic vent-
holes.
But beyond the constant pressure of
gas Prof. Falb has the theory that the
ahenlic molten mass beneath us is subject
to the influence of the moon, which pro
duces waves, and occasionally great tidal
waves, hich sweep round the inner crust
of the wi rld with terrific force shaking
the earth in its passage. Prof, l'alb
publishes ovt ry year a list of the days on
which he expects sei-uue convulsions.
These he calls "ethical days" all llnse
days are these when (hotuoou a pioaehcs
closets i be lanh. The critical days
given by Prol. l'alb lor are slated
iu the order id maximum distuibaucc tu
fo'lows: August 31), September '1'J,
February '!, March 31, August 1, Aptil
fi, January 'Jl, May 5 aud cl..b.r L'Slh
the uiui-t .i..us di.-tuiuncc rcr.y
he lokcd for on Auvu-t 311 pd the
slightest ou (J.loVr -Hili.
In connection wiih the great scientific
oontest belweeu mother eailh and the
comet which, to use a phrase current iu
scientific ciicles. is to be "pulled elf" in
1893, it is recalled that ou January 14th
filfi. ten neoule were killed iu China by
the fall of a meteor, In the year 8i
thirtv-five villages in Saxony were de
stroyed by the fall of a meteor, am
many wen and animals killed, tin Sep
tember 4th, 1511, one man and four
animals were destroyed by tailing meteors
near Crema. On November 4ili, 1749,
t meteor struck the mast of a ship that
was crosslne the Atlantic, killing five
seamen. Each of these oases can be re
garded as the fall of a small ooutet upon
our world.
It is comfort to kniw that some
Vienna scientists believe the comet
going to get the worst of it, and point to
i the fact that the oomet Lexcll, when
I ent too near to Jupiter, was thrown off
THE PRETTY WOMAN,
Iter features must be small and fine,
llor eyes be clear and softly shine;
Her skin must be of pink and white,
Unknown to rogue or powder quite.
Hheniust have glossy, silky hair,
It matters not if dark or fair;
Her figure must be plump aud trim,
Bust not too large, waist not too sliiu.
Her mouth a perfect ono must be,
Her neck tlio swan's for symmetry;
ncr bauds mustshow the greatest care,
Her feet a dainty, slender pair.
In word or act a charm, a grace
A little tact for time and place
The woman thus by nature blessed
Needs nothing, saved to be well-dressed.
HOW UK LOST HIS WAKTS.
AN ENCOURAGING WORD.
ENCOUltAOINU WORDS ARE THE SPARKS
THAT CRACKLE AND SNAP FROM THE
FIRE ANY ONE MAY 11 ECO .ME A MAO-NET.
Lots of people believe in signs and us
ing. It would he right amusing to get
up a list of the signs etc., but we will
content ourselves with the subject of
warts.
There is a minister in Cabarrus county
who tried many remedies and succeeded
at last. First ho cut as many notches
on a stick ai he hud warts (81) ami
buried the stick under bis house uo
good. Second, he bored au inch hole
into a white oak tree, washed bis bands
with a dish-ne.', stuffed it into the hole
and then plugged it on good. Third
he counted out 81 grains i,f strawberry
corn, representing the number ot warts,
tied them up in a paper and dropped the
bundle in the road. The warts disap-
pcared.
It is not known whether the fiudcr
tho package got the minister's warts
not.
Thcro
is no table
measures whereby
of weights and
may be esti
mated tho value of an encouraging word.
Applied to the balance of power for good
or evil, it weighs heavily on the side of
the former, and if tossed into the scales
at the proper moment, it tips the beam
on tho side of right human action.
The human ear is never insensible to
its vibrations. It heralds the belief that
some one has in you and a whole volley of
hope is fired into your soul; a round doz
en of Lieut virtues wake up and salute
you and wsnder where you have been to
have allowed them to go on napping, and
alter that springs get into your heels and
ozone into the atmosphere and unconsci
ously a standard of excellence formulates
itself into your mind and good intentions
pur you on to scramble up tu it.
An encouraging word is a good thing
to give, loo lew ol us give them away,
notwithstanding the fact that it is only
hen we give them that they pay inter
est. LuceuragiDg words are a regular
investment. Try it ou souibody aud see
Trv it in the children. It is the secret
of all education, because it is au infalli
ble rule in the education of the heart
which is after all the most important ed
ucation. Technical education should
form a combination, and when they do
the world will rest upon tho proper foun
dation of intelligence.
How the methods of the educator have
changed siuce the present generation was
iu the nriiner aud regarded the school
teacher as the national adversary of ev
rylhing young and human! The rod
and the iusiiuity of excessive (asks were
the discouragers el' Jisubedicneo then, the
roll of honor is the encounter of ebedi
enec nowadays. 1 lie wurld la growing
daily tu understand the futility o di'spuuo
methods iu government, 11 you have
not thought about this, it Is a capita.
subject for rcHeotioii. It holds in every
aarticular. Why, human nature starves
for the waut of encourngemeut aud ap
preciation. Wherever you go you sec
faces made black aud unrespousivc tor the
lack, as black and unre-ponsive for tho
lack of giving as of receiving it. What
ispersoual magnetism, that rarest ol gifts?
It is the outward glow of tho inner fire
of genuineness and sympathy.
Enoouragicg words sro the sparks
that crackle and snap from the fire. Any
one may become a magnet. HallJ all
your impulses and dispense them in the
form of enoouraging words. They can
not yield if you lock them up in your
own bosom any inoro than money can
nav interest if you keep it in your trunk.
The world is starved for them, and they
are woith all the way from five dollars
to five thousand dollars apiece. Tiey
only yield interest when you givo tlfcm
away. It sounds paradoxical, but trjr it
as an investment. r.
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liclbre I was nfllicttl 1 went astray: but
now have I kept thy word. Psalms, cm.
1.7,
Why we are so constituted that nobil
ity of character ctn only be ultaiucd
through the discipline of sorrows is
yet an unsolved problem
I nat we niiist nceils travel over
corduroy road of difficulty, successive ob
stacles, harsh circumstances and contin
uous cflort if we would reach the uate of
Paradise or fit ourselves to cross its
threshold is the moral puzzle of tin
universe,
Iu our unwisdom we think tho
macadamized and level highway a better
means of progress, aud aro astounded
when told that smooth roads mak
men.
lie who would get a glimpse of the
widest landscape must climb the hill from
which alone it can be seen. That is the
first law iu the slatu le book of
The uight is grewmiua and lonely, but
half the universe is veiled from him who
has nut seen the stars as well as the sun,
and darkness alone can render them
visible. This, too, is the law namely,
that you must sit amid the shadows of
night if you Would sco the heavens ut
their best,
You cannot get music from the 'cello
with loose strings. They must be stretch
ed, and if they could, they would cry
out with paiu, but the stretching until
csncert pitch is reached is what gives the
musician au instrument worthy of bis
skill,
A large fortune is the worst accident
that can befall a youth, fur his tcnipations
are stronger thau his ambitions. The
hoy with muncy inherited from his father,
aud, therefore, with nothing to woik for,
is already li.il! conquered uycvii passions.
The vouth with a high heart and
wholesome nrnvprtv receive Iiih inl
lance Iroiu dod, aud, Gods gifts
better than man's.
God's deuiils are the host part of Ilis
providence. He gives nothing without
its price, and that price is toil. We fiud
fault at firs', but later on discover that
what is worth working for; that work
gives dignity to the soul and is tb
equivalent of education.
That is the secret of ouinissicnce which
wc find it hardest to learn
The men who live in marble and
bronze because thoy have done us suoh
service that we cannot forget theui, and
would faiu express our gratitude by
means of the sculptor's art are they who
have born tho brunt of circumstances,
It is also tiuo that personal sorrows, as
the loss of dear ones, havo au uplifting
tendency. Hereavcment forces the soul
to recognize its destiny. Tears arc some
times telescopes with which other worlds
are viewed. Aehiug hearts feci their
helplessness and then call ou God for the
comfort that is not within reach. They
sec visions, have revelations and doors
are opened the key to which is forged
out some grief.
The ties of earth arc loosened that we
to
heaven. Tho cruelly of death imbues
us with a longing for immortality. The
WAHNINO NOTES CAI.l.INO Til K WICKED
TO REPENTANCE.
Christ is God's idea of a man.
It is better to suffer than to sin.
God's trill Is is rebellion
Opposing
against God.
There can he no real I
win
the
All sins arc big, no mailer how small
llley look.
It lightens a duty to resolve In do it
cheerfully.
A civil tungue is a better weapon than
a bowiu knife.
Those wbu would lend others should
always look up.
Love is ihe greatest of all things,
becuusc it gives all things.
It takes temptation to show us how
much we need Christ.
When you bid your sin good-by don't
shake hands with it.
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Many statements in tho Bible seem
strange, but a little reason, knowledge
and philosophy make them all plain,
"There arc some thiut's iu the Good
Book," says Eli Peikins, "that bother
the Sunday-school teacher. When I
was a little Doy the lirst verse 1 ever
learned was about John
"And in those days came John,
preaching in tho wilderness, and his
raiment was camel's hair and his food was
locusts aud wild houey.
"For thirty years I wondered at that
strange diet, and sometimes 1 uluiost
doubted the accuracy of tho Hible. Put
lit came lo lue one summer. On the
Suez steamer was a learned traveller from
Ee'vnt. iust across from tbe ilolvLand.
From him I learned that the Syrian aI)J "ray be bound by stronger cords
African lucust is a big tat cricket,
laroe as one of nur shrimns. and
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surgeon cuts iu orucr iu save iiih uuuj
and when it is all over we bless the knife.
God wounds because a wounded soul
luscious to cat. When I asked him if he
had ever eaten locusts, he said he had.
They are sold for a penny a pound in the
market iu Biskra, in the desert of Sahara.
They boil them iu wator as we boil the
shrimps, i he locust in March is as
full ot Albumen as an egg. I havo seen
our Amcricau Indians cat grasshoppers, a
species of if not the same locust that
John ate, and why should not the
evangelist cut the fat locust of Figypt with
sweet wild honey?"
E.VIDKXCH NOT SVtTIENT.
Inn Washington county town a
while ago the local champion
little
liar
needs sympathy and consolation and
can only find them in thoughts of another
life.
An artist had just finished a splendid
fresco ou the ociling of a cathedral.
Pleased with his work, he stepped back
to note the general effect. Forgetlul of
the dituy height, he was ubout to take
one step more, the fatal step, wheu his
quick wittcd assistant dashed a mass of
culor on the picture and ruined it.
The paiuter spraug forward his life was
saved.
Iu like manner, God's severest disci-
One id' the devil's hiding placo is
behind a pile of money.
Every dollar in a good man's pocket
hath the name of God on it.
God made the heart of man so big that
this world is too small to fill it.
The man who lives only fur himself
is engaged in a very small busiucss.
To be all the lime feeling for feeling is
a poor way to promote religious life.
No man is pleasing God who does
not love his neighbor as he docs himself.
Keep your heart full of sunshine, and
Cod will soon give vou a face to match
it.
There is more help in an ounce of
encouragement thau there is in a ton of
advice.
The man who would havo done so and
so if he had been there, never gets there.
Some people never think it worth
while to try to get religion in the hands
and feet.
It is the religion that shines at home
against which the devil lights the hardest
There is no such thing as the joy of
the Lord in the heart iu which there
no faith.
A fool will build a house without
windows, and then blame God because he
has to live in the dark.
People who have such a good opinion
of themselves will tell you that tho devil
is not such a bad fellow.
"Give and it shall be given unto you,"
is a promise that shows how anxious God
is to make us all rich.
The man who repents on a sick bed
from which ho recovers, geuerally back
slides before he pays his doctor's bill.
A man who unconsciously docs much
to sour the milk ol human kindness, is
that fellow who snores in the sleeping
car.
The only people who opposo God's
way are those who would have to give
up something like an eye or a hand to
walk in it.
The father who does not put good
reading in the hands of his children has
never done any real praying for their
salvation.
When a man claims to love God with
all his heart, you can generally fiad out
whether he means it by going to him
with a collection basket.
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That God chastens because Uo loves
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bridle. His wife saved his life by cut
ting him down. He remonstrated with
her for interfering with him, saying ho
would have been walking the golden
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minutes. In an angry tone she replied,
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