Teach the Children fo Swim, The constant repetition of the re. portsof accidents by drowning enforces the thought that much of this loss of life in the water could be avoided if children were taught to swim promptly as they are taught to read and write and to properly care for themselves in respect to healthful pre- cautions. Every child should be taught to swim before the age of twelve or four- teen years. In all the large cities swimming schools with capable in- structors afford ready and inexpensive opportunities for teaching children to swim. Nothing can be more easily learned. Many children acquire the as an hour, and very few boys or girlsre- qaire more than a half dozen lessons in the hands of a competent instructor to learn how to swim. Singularly complishment is never forgotten, as it is largely a matter of confidence one's ability to keep afloat. Aside from the precautions of involved, we should consider the de- lightful recreation and the healthful exercise that persons, young and old, In moderation it is one of the best of be swimming. the most healthful if not all summer exercises, and can the country and the mountains or in the rolling billows of the surf at seashore. Itis the most inexpensive of all amusements, the cheapest, the best, open to all, and the marvel that so few young persons learn swim. It is often observed that dren of the street who the wharves and the beach become ex- pert swimmers, apparently without in- struction, while the pumpered sons and daughters of wealth, who are given all the benefits of an elaborate education and who are favored with all the complishments of the day are seldom taught to swim, and these at the sum. mer resorts are often put in peril of their lives in emergencies. This isnot as it should be.—New York Mail and Express, the chil- wander about ne- i — ee — Biblical Law. In the early days of interior Mis- eut eord- fa vrs iRrm, gouri the late Judge E-— wood, cleared up his homestead and was employed upon nearly eve ry case that « for some years the only county. He had no red Bible books except leather-cove and an ume ortwoof history, gimilarly bound, but had read law s short time in Ken- tucky in his youth. i nd insignificant in became before his lawyer and an honored Jud A young attorney settled in the little cou He was very small but splendid ADDEATANCE, death = and handsomely be on his first appesrance in brought most of his library to tice’'s office in a fine, flowe popular in 1 E-——— was engaged agall red carpet bag, , as usnal, wt a book. When his adversary carefully his books from his preity carpe and laid them yr the looked astonishe ered his ready the Justice to excuse hi moments. He hurried to his stead, half a mile or so away, and put his old leather-bound Bible and his- tories into a grain sack and brought them to court, imitating his opponent in laying them before him the table. : The evidence was introduced, and the Eastern man, being for the plsin- tiff, made his opening argument and read at length from his text books E-—— made his characteristic speech in reply, closing by reading law from his old Bible just the reverse of that read by his opponent and took’ his seat, putting his Bible on the table. His adversary reached over and picked it up, and seeing what it was eagerly addressed the Justice: “Your Honor,” said he, ‘‘this man is a humbug and a pettifogger. Why, sir, this is the Bible from which he has pretended to read law.” The old Justice looked indignant, and interrupting the young attorney, said : “Set down! What better law can we get than the Bible?” He then de- cided the case in favor of the defend- ant, —Creen Bag. 11m on corm wo ———— 21 Yoars of Pain Nc A — I suffered with eczema G or salt rheum, in such terrible agony at times that I could not walk sbout the house, | finally took Hood's Sar- | saparilla. The hoped for benefit was noticeable at the outset, and | have taken twelve bottles. I Fam completely well and feel like a new woman, YS 1 can’t thank or praise , Hood's Sarsapariiia. enough.” Mus. Jose. piss Boyce, 18 Divi sion =t.. Peekskill, N. Y. Best inthe World! Get the Genuine! REV. DR. TALMACE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: “The Battle Ours.” Test: “And the children of Israel pitched before them like two little Rooks of kids. 1 Kings xx., 27. With thirty-three kings drunk in one tent this chapter opens, ting for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel, You know that if a lion roar a flock of kids will shiver and huddle together. One lion would conquer a thousand kids. The battle opens, There are a great multi. tude of Syrians under General Ben- hadad, strong as lions, The Israel ites are few and weak, like two little flocks of kids, Who beat? The Hons, of course, Oh, no; the kids, for it all depends whether God is on the side of the lions or the kids, the fleld, and 27,000, attempting to fly, came along by a great wall, which toppled and crushed them to death, Which was the stronger weapon--groat Goliath's sword or little David's David had five smooth stones from the brook. He only ased one in striking down Goliath, He had a surplus of ammunition, He had enough to take down four more giants ifthey had appeared in the way. It all depends up- on ov herd boy or on the side of the giant, ere Ve have ventured th falling back, and They found their opinion on the 1 fact that the Bible is not as mush of KX as it 1to be, and that portions of to the people, I reply by asking, Which one of the publishing houses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Chi- ibhlishing the Bible to-day with the omission of a single verse or chapter? Are not our publishers intelligent men? And would they, contrary to their financial inter- t UE it are rept isive ago is pt eR a single chapter or a single were becoming an unpopular book ople did not want it? A nplaton or Seribner or Lip- publish a Bibs with the th ould not ser VOars, 16 fact that through. Christendom there are hundreds 1g presses printing the word of God ithout the omission of a chapter or a vers roves that the Bibles is popular, and the there are more being printed in ! s than any other decade proves hat the Bible is increasing in popularity. I go the courtrooms ol the Wherever I find a judge's bench slerk’s desk I find the By wi Kk would they t n oath? very apt to : pt The Bible, W r apt to be put in the trunk of the young man when he starts for The Bible. Voltaire predicted seyt hy ma MRil ™ r.ission of Tiins y Of 0 enapter copies in 10 of that throvueh oil ugh COUN. or a : other What the bride s presents? i nts siete boo Well, ugh then ywided fr r Switzeriand, Ur i ios al States ald be grown men and ft there would be i i against such a law But sup e congress of! the United States ald Macaulay's hist wr Charles | be read } or the | Ww i ns rade 8 new chu Three hundre ne den rusand new ch £ Does that look falling in its roout instity 3 in our ard bt affections? hotel, the courthouse, the shurches? bh institut host Som fe . the i or the Vhy, when our old Tabernacle was barn. ing there were hundreds of men standing in the streets who never went to thureh, tears raining down their cheeke, It is bacause the church of God stands nearer to the Ameri eau people than any other institution, Men may caricature the church and eall it a col- of hypocrites, but when their chil- dren are swept off with the diphtheria for they send? To the postmastsr, to y the aldermen, or to pastors of the churches? And if there housd¢ what building do they solielt? academy of music, the hotel, public hall, No; the churches, And §f music on they select the ‘‘Marseillaisa™ “(dod Save the Queen,’ National air? with which hymn, or our own grand we sang their sleep. They want the Sanday- school hymn that their little girl sang the broke father's heart aud mother's heart. Oh, you know as well as I do--I shall not dwell on it any longer<the church of God, instead did and eclipses all other Institutions, But our antagonists go on and say that than it ever was, I deny the statement. In- fidelity is not near so bold now as it was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers, There were times in this country when men who were openly and above board infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office, Now, let some man wishing high position in the State proclaim himself the foe of Christianity and an infidel, how many States of the Union would he oarry? how many counties? how many wards in Brooklyn? Not one, Ah, my friends, infidelity in this day is not half as bold as it used to be, If it comes now, it is apt to come under the disguise of rhetoric or fantastic sentimentality. I know if a man with great intelligence does become an infidel and begins an attack on Chris. tianity it makes great excitement-—of course it does, anid pace come, to the eonclusion, weakminded Christians come to the eonelu- sion, that everything is going overboard be cause some man of strong intellect assalls Christianity, If a man jumps overboard from a Cunard steamer, he makes more excitement than all who continue in the Bo lou suppose such things could enact , when a shameless be i, And the n tha chapels and in tha corridors adjoining | bauchery and otwoenity were enacted such un the world had never seen, Could such a | thing us that transpire now? No, sir, The | police would swoop on it, whether in Paris or New York, Infidelity is not half as bold now as it used to be, “But,” say our antagonists, ‘Christianity is falling back because science, enemy, is triumphing over it." | that there {8 any war between sclonce and revelation. There is not a fact in science { that may not be made to harmonize with the Now, I deny | #0 sald Joseph Hitcheook ; 80 sald Professor Silliman | so | sald Professor Mitahell, | and they came up with solid front to attack { our Christianity, perhaps they might make | some impression upon ft, but they are not | agreed, | are falling in our advocacy of Christianity | because we differ in our theology, 1 tell you | wo do not differ fuside the church in theol- ogy half as much as they differ outside the i ehurch in science, If they reject our relig. fon because we differ in some minor points, { the solentists differ, but as far as I ean tell the war of infidel science against Christi. {| anity is not so severe as it used to be, be. cause these men are antagonistic to each | other, and as far as I ean tell it is going to {be un war between telescopes and telescope, Leyden jar and Leyden jar, chemical appar- | atus and chemienl apparatus, They do not agree on anything, Do you suppose that this Bible theory about the origin of life is going 0 overthrown by men who have different theories—-50 dif. ferent theories —about the origin of life? And when Agassiz comes out and puts both foot on the dootrine of evolation and says in regard to many scientists “I notice tha! thess young naturalists are adopting as the. ories in selencs things which have not passed under observation.” Agassiz saw what we nll see that there are who talk very wisely who know but very little, and that just as soon as 8 young scientist finds out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle he begina to patronize the Almighty and go ab talking al ture as though It were spelled c-uel-c-ha-r culchar ! be men out | It makes me siok to ses thess jiterary fops | guing down the street with a copy of Darwin under one arm, and a case of transfixed grass hoppers and butterflies under the other arm, talking about the “Survival of a Fittest." i and Huxley's ''Protoplasm,™ and tho *Nebu- lar Hypothesis.” and talking to us common men as though we were fools! Ifthey agreed in their theories and came up with solid facts | against Christianity, I say perhaps they might make some impression, but they do not Darwin charges upon Lamarck, Wal- upon Cope, Herschel Ferguson. They do the gradation of the spe agrees about embryology. agrees about! Herschel wrote a whole ehapter of what he “Errors In Astronomy.” La Placesays that the moon was not put in the right place ; that {f it had been put four times the distance our world there would have nony in the universe, But Li somes up just in time to prove that the was wise and put the moon in the right ¢ How many woven into i says Newton. Three, says David Brewster, How high is the aurora borealis’ Two and a hall miles high, Line sundred and sixty-five miles, says Twinig? ow far is the sun from the earth? ah million miles, says Lacaille ; 83 000,000 miles, says Humbolde ; #0 Headerson ; 104,000,000 Only a little difference of These men say we do not Do they agree in sciences? agree, ines even charged not agree about they do What do upon She. not thay calls Frineery rely *Hi1 eolors the lg Beveon, Ones way 000,000 miles, says Mayer, 9% 000 000 miles! Agrees in religion Have they up with solid front to assault our g Christianity? irs, savs have vou agreed ure « the ers oO night, ' the the having been out all wi coming in. “Have you agresd on your verdict If they say yes, the verdict is taken and recorded. If they say, * have not agresd.” they are sent jury i. It one juryman think mao is guilty other juryman sh ¥ Tey ’ guilty man sh sa Vs 10 Jury i say, iit and battery judge would lose his patience and back to your room now and make uj t Of § ’ Well, my friends, there trial going on for centuries and tween Bkepticismn, plaintiff, Christianity, the defendant. 10 have been impaneled and sworn Th have boon for centuries, some of them, and comes back, and we aay, “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdiet?' They say, “No, we have not agreed.” Then we say, °° tack | | few more senturies and then « sa net hing has Leen a great for ages be the veraes her soiantists on the jury. gone i they { verdict.” Now, there is not the prisoner in the Tombs Court who would be condemned by a jury that did not agree, and yet you expect us to renounce our glorious | Christianity for sach a miserabie verdict as these men have rendered, they themselves not having beens able to agree, But my subject shall no longer fensive ; it must be aggressive. | must show you that instead of Christianity falling back it is on the march, and that the coming relig- fon of the world is to be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ 10,000 times intensified, It is to take possession of everything-—of all inws, all manners, all customs, all cities, all nations, It is going to be so mighty as com- be de- | mighty that it will seem almost like a new religion. I adopt this theory because Christianity has goo on straight ahead notwithstanding { exhausted, They cannot get awything new | against Christianity, and if Christianity has gone on under the bombardment of cen. | not conclude that, as the powder and shot of | tianity is going on with more mpid stride? | that the secular press in this day and the the proclamation of the gospel, To-morrow | there will not be a banker on Wall street or | Btate street or Third street who will not have in his pocket or on his table treatises on Christianity, calls to repentance and Berip- ture en, 30 or of them, in the re. ports of the Christian churches of this eity and other cities. Why, that thing would have been impossible a few years ago. Now on Monday morning and Monday evening the secular press spreads abroad more re pd truth han aii tha tract sodistios of the country spread in other six ye. Blessed be the tract societies! We hall them, and we hall these others, I say it would have been im ible a fow yours ago, Hundreds of letters would have come to the secular newspaper offices, say- ing, on my paper ; we have religion on Sunday ; don't give us any through the week, Htop my paper. t I have been told that man he secular papers have their inrgest BS cnlntton on Monday morning, and the whole population of this country are becoming readers, Besides + w, but thers in the United States that as a to eternal ery Christian andl every philanthropist’ Besides, that, the rising generation are bee by this international series are teken from Genesis to Revelation, the lessons to the teachers, and the teachers forestalled for Christianity, it! Besides that, you must have noticed, {fyon have talked on these great themes, are finding Hear it! out that while science is grand comfort to a soul In trouble, Talking with men on steamboats and human science doesn't ve any trouble, ”" comfort me when 1 and I must try something And they are trying the gospel, your scientific consolation to the her ohild, Apply “survival of the fittest.” Teil her that her child died because fis life was not worth as much asthe life of one that i. Trythatif youdsare. Goto the dying your transcendental phraesology have confidence in and the everinsting “now.” and the sternal “what Is t7"° and go on dation and ses if he forted, (30 to that woman who has her il was ao geal out “xis just as the megatherinm disappeared der to make room for a higher styl ation, and go on with your con Take if oor lost 1} ogienl of pos G00 000 years from now we geolog the on of the id after vou have got nso! itteriy i sen ent Christian fro ny church half hour Beripture pr and the o« will be like if the po not sind the {oars w it and joy in Of prayer sik the ms the of an a will ben # ise from floor to ARUN Es the bho are finding out have troubles they scoienos do not he cupola, themsal ve find that p them dead babe in the hous ack to our & reli glorious do man, y #itie of not the Bi won who in Hr yest and Ewa sy stores talking BRIY t We may not De SUrprs 5 pid rehip th was and yver h jority ner of fi in Yernon was the son s Enotis? Hin great slegan there was wrecked Among those wi victim ¢ the story of Vernon's ske glimam {oars on § Oh. to-lay with tit is too late Let God be true, found a liar, cn — - The Pole’s Attraction. The pole's attraction for other ob- jects besides the magnetio needle has, up to the present time, been at best imperfectly understood, owing to the incompletences of the data furnished by those who make such matters a study. That many objects possess a well-marked polarity, however, thers is not the least doubt, It is a well fact that if a bar of soft iron four feet above the surface, it will be- position it was originally placed, it will {if so balanced as to bo free to move), eventually assame a north and south It is also claimed by experimenters that a living human body, stretched rigidly upon a board perfectly pivoted, south direction, the head pointing to- This faculty is not the writer that if there is really any- “‘death test.” Another “polarity” proof is this: Place one end of a demagnetized bar of iron upon the ground, inclined so that the end in your hand points to- ward the pole star, strike it one sharp blow with a heavy hammer and it will immediately acquire *‘polarity” and will be found to exhibit all the well marked qualities of a magnet. —St. Louis Republic. ——-— Bullet Waves, One of the interesting results of the recent experiments in England in photographing flying bullets has been to show that the disturbance in the air travels faster than the bullet it~ self, The ph phs exhibit air waves in advance of the bullets, even when the latter are moving faster than the velocity of sound. In one case where the bullet was considerable faster than sound Powder Where Women Come From, Woman's first appearance has been a fruitful subject for the legend mon- The Phenician myth of crea tion is found in the story of Pygma- lion and Galatea. There the first woman was carved out of ivory and then endowed with life by Aphro- dite. The Greek theory of of woman according to that Zeus, as a cruel Vulean to make a woman out of clay and then induced various gods and goddesses to Invest the clay de with ail their worst qualities suit being a thing witchery of mien, 1efined cra passion, of dress, manner and shameless mind The BScandipavi Odin, Vili and Ve, the Bor, were walking along beach they found two sticks of wood, one of « gods shaped of these Lhe gers, the creation Hesiod, was jest, ordered the ioYely { 1 ¥ Gye treaelierous ans say that as three sons of the sea one of ash and down, the woman out the woman from her Emilia. (ne of the strangest of stories touching the origin of woman is t by the Madagascarenes. In so fa the creation of man goes, the leg i£ not uniike that related 1 Mo only that the fall came before arrived. After the man had the forbidden fruit he became affii ed with a on the which, when it burst, came § The man's first thought F her Lo Lhe pigs: Dy BLICKS, elim i old r ne ra ena OK, Eve eaten Ct boil Was a Yoice numerous t rad . traditio parents to The True Laxative Principle Of the plania manufacturing the pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a perme. pently beneficial effect on the human system, used in while the cheap vegeiable extracts ani min etal solutions, usually sold as medicines, are permanently injurious. Helug well Informed, you will use the true remedy only. 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