Before the Days of Postage Stamps, Before the use of postage-stamps various sums were pad for the deliv. ery of letters. The amounts were regulated by the distance, and were collected on the delivery of the let- ter. In the early part of this century the postage on a single sheet of paper was 8 cents, and over forty miles the aate was increased: so that over five hundred miles a single sheet was 25 cents. But after a time these rates were gradually reduced, until 1845 a letter weighing not over half an ounce was 5 cents under thre: hun- dred miles, and over that distance, 10 cents, Sir Rowland Hill, who was at the head of the Postoftice Department of Epgland at this tine, introduced the use of postage stamps in 1540, and also lessened the charges for pnstage. In 1847 the United tates adopted the ase of the postage stamp, lowest priced one being 5 cents. now taken the place of the old-fash- joned mail coaches and post-beys; and with the more rapid sending of the mails, the cheaper rates of postage, and the growing population of the country, gradual changes and provements took place in the post. office system. And here we are, in 1892, receiving our letters from the Pacific Coast in six days—also from England in the same time; and a few days or hours will place us in direct communication with our friends and correspondents in almost every part of the country. —St. Nicholas eam —— Milk for Burns. A French physician has —— obtained REV. DR TALMAGE. RRR ———————" The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: “The Gospel in Polities” Text: “Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly waa confused, and the more part new not wheres Jore they were come together, And they drew Alezander out of the multitude, the Jews pulling him for ward, And Alexander becks oned with the hand, and sould have made his defense unio the people, But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space af hours cried owls ‘Great 13 Diana of Eplwsians! xix., 82. Ephesus was upside down. It was about the silver question. A manufacturer of silver boxes for holding heathen images had called his laborers together to discuss the behavior of ona Paul, who had been in publie places sssanlting image worship, and consequently very much damaging that particular busi. There was great excitement in the People stood in knots along the violently gesticulating and ealling each other hard names, Bome of the people Other Thera involved, but {wo the oity. people favored the policy of Paul great moral questions milk. Compresses are soaked with milk and laid on the burn, to be re- newed nigont and morning. An ex- tensive burn on the leg was healed in this manner. Twodays reduced it in size from 14 to 7 centimeters: at the end of three days it measured but Zj centimeters in diameter. Another burn which had been treated for eight days with olive nd oxide of zinc healed rapidly under a simple milk dressing oil a A Wealthy Woman's Freak. The wife of a New York apparently lives for the futing the ci ricans are 7 aims Ol the - oti Ame restl ye purpose PRE DeODie, ars to t slicable tussia wi and Vi ’ se III Ingenious President. nr LH Mexico's President worker, fire-arn is « structed a roon and ent In Olden limes People manentiy i with trans emily Kr nently formed which ne system. 1 Uglin t Lever $100 Reward, The reader of learn that thers is st that sconce has heen able tages, and that is Catarrb. Cure is the only positive medical fraternity. ( tional disease, require ment, Hall's Cats acting directly « faces of th: s foundation of tient strength by buildin and assisting nature in doing proprietors have so much faith Jovese, that they offer One Handr or any case that it fails to of test moniala, Address F. J. HENEY & Co EF Sold by Druggists, Tic. HOOD’S Sarsaparilla sfi100, this paper i J legand feast one d rel disease in all ite Calarrd Cure Know the atarrh bein aconstite © og An the disen ire, A Running Sore over both feet, arms and hands. Bones came out of my toes gnd fingers, I lost sleep and appetite. 1 was in bed when I began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla Before 1 finished the first bottle I could eat and sleep well. I continued with the ¥arsapar. iI'a and now the sores are all healed.” Mus, Many SeEaxMan, 27% Latona Street, Phila. delphia, Pa. Get only Hood's Sarsaparilia, —— ————" Nouri A AA Mood's Pills cure constipation. 5 — A PNA A AS RE chanoes for Smal} ny estuints, hl in vaaved hondarinl Sue flow ly SERA TREE Su The only question about which they scomed to be interested was concerning the wages and the salaried positions, The silver smith and his compeers had put up factories at great expense for the making of these sii- ver boxes, and now, if this new policy is to be insugurated the business will go de wa, the laborers will be thrown out o . employ- ment and the whole city will suf Well, what is to be done? “Call a ¢ antic, ' says some one, for in all ages a convention has been a panacea for public evils, The convention is called, and as they want the largest room in the elty they take tha theatre, Having there assembled, they all want to get the floor, and they all want to talk at once, You know what excitement that ale ways makes in a convention, wi 4 great many people want talk at Some eried one thing, somes eried and Rome wanted to denounce, some wanted to resoive, After awhile a prominent man gets the floor, and he begins to speak, but they hiss him down, and then the into worse uproar, an 1 the il of them together, at they are red in the face throat, for two long hours is Diana of the Ephesians, of the Ephesians The whole scene reminds me of the excite. ment we have almost every autumn at the tions, While that goddess Diana has lost her worshipers and her tem have gone into , our Americ want set up a god in place of i they want us all to bow down befo and that god is political party. ( 8 perior civilization, 1 to you Cat hase to sare Ephesi idolatry was less offensive in the g Ameri- 0 jare to Ofof ther. very soon usion rises to shout, on until tho ‘Great is Diana eon in Keep and hoarse in crying out * reat fle “le Jes the dust an peaple ber, re it Io onsiderin da our su of God than ix this all can pi sight sorbin artisanship. Ww there are Christisn men, who parties, and who ctions resolvin " HE OULEe in and Keep the trying to party and the tha ons Great the g w & bye Ret aga custom affairs { standg na wr that d at History iid th vonr to the pe | I eall Christin morning I have ch » say 8 prastica { a serm of otiand on of where there were n f in the s r inst war a good jistribuling tracts and of Dancing’ : fn amputated | prossnt an ¥ irda oO shone gs next in the early hi Massachus . v inte rs publie We need go Dack is {« Gol. Chri at affairs and ¢ to no axamg Tes If the TOCKS, § land { thought mat uss thes before yasible for his own Norwegian 1d the Niber sased with his perpetual 5 if the Roman that the maddy Tiber was the er in ti heaven, and if » LL aplander shivers wit his eulogy of his nat s, and if the nese bh pity for anybody born outside of the Flowery Ring 107 ; pot we, born ander thess fair skies and standing day by day amid those glorious oivil and r i Hberties, be public spirited? Hye ple very plainly what I consi tor Christian « at the ballot box! First, arseif sinst allt hood, pat 1 this country ng the elections, 1#8op at the doe a Ds stnocratic meeting and listen and a hearth att 10 publicans are liars, 1 stoop at the door jean meeting ana listen and | ocrats Rou naGres, Lge * and tl tonth oasts of his bh is p ye sioht AL , shall eligi to te il the oe i Oo be their po taty iitieal falas. 14 lies ever 1 widl in wet Ihe m ne are duri th a trath store part of what he roy inal election fthe wv» Bo h be in the # year th ¥ d say wnat they please full of uproar, misryle they eall it the approximation to that been the first Tuesday community at such times seems to say, ‘Go to, now, let us have a good time at lying.” Prominent candidates for office are de- nounced as unprincipled and reneg ade, smart MYIE 0 ¥ lot the psopl the pl tkodoess, and The nearest this country haa November. The aos 19 fevil's in in Hie will start in the corner of a count ry — So———————— —————— Swedish yard Yreneh nnd peddle out the in seribers, Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency, The Christian religion will speak after awhile, The billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade almost evéry autumn must be rebuked by that re- ligion which speaks from its two great moun- tains, from the one mountain intoning the command, “Thou shalt not bear false wit- ness against thy neighbor,” and from the other mount making ples for kindness and Jove and blessing rather than cursing, 0 Christian men, frown upon political false. hood! Remember that a political le is as black as any other kind of a lie. God has re- corded all the falsehoods that have beon told at the city, State or National elections since the foundation of this Government, and though the perpetrators and their vietims may have gone into the dust, in the last day judgment will be awarded. The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed apers tramlate it all, paver stuff to thelr sub- that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed about George Washington, the misrepresen- tations in regard to James Monroe, are as tresh in God's book to-day as the lies that were printed last week about our local can didates. “And all lars shall have their part Again, I counsel you as Christian men to get yourselves against the misuse of money in political campaigns. Of the thousands of eapturad the printing presses of the wholes continent, What garbling of speeches | What misinterprotation of motives! What mis. representation of individaal antecedents! he trouble is that wo have inthis country erly used? You have a right to spend money for the publishing of political tracts, for the organizations for the carry ing out of what you cot nSidep to be the best vou have a right to appeal to the reason of men by argument and stutistios and by facts, Printing and renting of public halls and po- litical meetings cost money , but he who puts a bribe into the hand of & vo ter or plies weak men with mercenary and corrupt motives commits a sin ngainst God and the Nation Bribery is one the most appalling sins of this country, God says, ‘Fire shall con- sume the tabernacles of bribery.” nothing to do with such asin, O man! Fling it from the ballot box. over to the police the man whe attempts to tamper with your vote, and remember that elections that cannot be carried bribes ought never to be carried at all Again I ask 3 as Christirn men to set your. ol ya the ballot box Lat ue say that no man ean afford to go into political life who is not a tectotaler. Hot political discussion somehow creates an unnatural thirst, and hundreds of thousands of men have gone down into drunkenness through political life, After an exciting canvass through the evening you must "lake something, and rising in the morning with less animation than usual you must “take something.” and going off among your forenoon you wha irades through the meet politic must “take somet! you meet other Pp 31 must “take something, come something has t ut TK vines where stand life, YEAS ¥ 1p against 1h h was as poll Da a otaler fo was a politician, but terized ns the fath was a politician, he honored God no did the aohs, and ther indrecis of Chris men now in Htical parties m their in to stan losthsome oy baliot box politica! duty a prayer meetings and as when they oar integrity integrity. 0ne Was fond they ar sated, inshe went ou ut that 18 nd sm--thint is the Ril jer the of one who « Guntry senen the habits of Alas § has been rears Young men oO sr hin he awl that the a hye y of « refs oe of It ous was the want to man, ask your The adverse inst it find the wor: ur country of defendnre, You tide You need no out politician the highway, him up. Be ing sickness, h His Po wad for str a gr va him in fo wiping his Kicked off the steps hy ho on srond to be his ¢ literated, Lip RES mon of brutal assau mouthed, A erou ing wretch, No ir No heaven, That is your drink. anme low a 100 20 ing by ary, i= aint ale and then ET tse fe vit . ee tituents Manhood obs i with — snd brow Foal stagireris 0 God. No} irae, = Foe hing, oP rao pol lean. ant is what some of you will become unless by this morning's warning and the mercy of Gol your steps are arrested, Oh, there are no words enough potent, enough portentious, enough consuming, enough damning, to de soribe the horrible drunkenness that has rolled over this land, and that has bent down the necks of some of the mightiest intellects, until they have besa compelled to drink out of the trough of bestiality and abomination! 1 warn young men sgainst political life, un. less they are teetoialers and consecrated Christinn men. Again, I counsst you mat when you go to the ballot box at the city, or the fitate, or the the Democratic manufactory of lHes—and they are run day and night, and they turn out hall a dozen a day all equipped and Large lies and small lies, Ides private and lies public and Hes rurient. Lies cut bias and les cut diagonal, ong Hmbed les and lies with double back action, Lies complimentary and lies de Lies that some people believe, that nobody believes, Lies with hum camels, and scales like erocodiles, an as long as storks, and feet as swift as an an on #, and stings like adders. Lies raw ana seallo and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and io, ing lies and soarin les, Lies with sttachment sorews an rafflers and bralders and ready wound bob bins, Ides by Christian people, who never lie except during elections, and lies hy Jao. ple who always lie, but beat themselves political eam paign I confess I sm ashamed to havea foreigner visit this country in these times, should think he would stand dazed and dare not go out at nights! What will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come hers to live think of us? What a disgust iY "Tove must Gay good thin vont i" is that thes y a any understand the English language. But is suppose the German and Italian apd Hke iis blessing, There isa power higher than the ballot box, than the ibernatorial chair, than the presidential ‘hite House, It is high time that we put leas confidences in political platforms and more confidences ia God, Ses what a weak How little our how, every attumn, thousands of men who are clamber. Every man, every party, ing to perform it, down he goes, God said to the house of Bourbon, Ree modal Francs and establish equity.” House of Bourbon would not do it, Down it went, God sald to the house of Stuart, ‘Make the English people free, God fearing and happy.” House of Ht would not do fr. Down it went. God says to the Jolitien parties in this day, *‘by the principles of Christianity, remodel, govern, educate, save the people.” Falling to do that, down they go, burying in their ruins thelr disciples and advooates, God can spare all the politieal intriguers of this day, and ean raise up another genera tion who shall do justice and love merey. It God could spare Luther before the re- fesmation was done, and if He could « Washington before fron government had bron fully tested, Dr if He conld w Spare if before mote | jban 1 ans out o hound po pon ids He And was gathering to his burning utterances, and if He could spare Thomas Clarkson while yet millions of his fellow men had chains rasting to the bonewthen He can spare any man, and He can spare any party. That man who through cownrdies or blind idolatry of party forsakes the cause of righte. ouspess goes down, and the armed battalions of God march over him. O Christian men, take out your Bible tils afternoon, and in the lght of that word make up your mind as to what is your duty as citizens! Hemember that the highs est kind of a patriot is a Christian Fritiet, Consecrate yourselves, first to God, then you will know how to consecrate yourselves to your country, All these political excite ments will be gone, Ballot boxes and gu- bernatorial chairs and continents will smoke in the final conflagration, but those who love God and do thelr best shall come to lustrous dominion after the stars have ceased their shining, and the ocean has heaved ts last billow, and thunder of tho judgment day the funeral of a world! that day! You may vote right and get the victory at the ballot box, und yet suffer eternal defeat, After you have cast your last vote, where will you go to? In this country there are parties. You belong to the one or the other of them, Likewise in eternity there will be two parties and only two, righteous into life eternal.” To which party will you belong? God grant that, while you look after the welfare of the land in which God has graciously east your lot, you may not forget to look after your soul-=blood judgment bound, immortal’ God save the people’! EXPLOSION IN SPAIN, Opera Audi ace Dynamited—A Number of People Killed. Du “Willing the the ring at mn Lye y, lwo thrown from t oded with h dvasmite yp and sort, Aim sprang to hi her Wild shrie and of the one of them oxy person in he feat in terror or ries ol agopy PW houses, and ys have been In oke and lenred away 'h maby were un the Boor in MARKETS. ALTIMORE GHAILSN ETC. FLOUR Best Pat High { Brad je Extra WHEAT- 4 WAIRN-N.. SW OATS ~8Bouthers Western White RY E-~Na 2.. HAY Che sood ta } STHAW Hye in car Whest Blocks Ont Blocks Balto Fed ile & Penn jew Timothy ime. TOMATOES No. 2.. PEAS Stan iar is Heoonds CORN-Dry Mai Southern VEGETARLES, POTATOES & POTATOES Burbanks ONIONS... conve Yama..... HOVIRIORS HOGER PRODUCTS -shide.$ Clear ribsides Ham: .- Mess Pork, per bar. 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