The Ilippopotamus.
Although the hippopotamus may
be less loathsome thah the crocodile,
Sir 8. Baker writes that “there is no
animal that be dislikes more than
the hippopotamus, if he was com-
pelled to travel at night upon an Af.
rican river in an ordinary boat”
Sven without this limitation the hip-
popotamus seems remarkably danger-
ous. Sir S. Baker tells how in broad
daylight a hippopotamus charged the
steamer that was towing his diah-
beeah, and perforated the iron plates
of the vessel in two places with its
projecting tusks, so that it made a
dangerous leak. On another occa-
sion, when the steamer passed over a
hippopotamus that was walking (after
the manner of the best) under water
along the bed of the river, the steam-
er of one hundred and eight tons
gave a leap into the air, as the water
was too shallow to permit the hippo.
potamus to pass beneath the keel,
What became of the hippopotamus
was not ascertained.
On another occasion a bull bippo-
potamus charged the diahbeeah in
the middle of the night and sank the
boat that was fastened alongside by
biting a large piece out of it. Not
satisfied with this success, it then
charged the iron vessel, and would
assuredly have sunk her if Sir 8
Baker had not stopped the onset by
a shot in the skull with his rifle.
He calls the animal “stupidly fero-
cious” when it is in the water, though
it is comparatively timorous on land.
On one occasion he saw a man in a
boat wantonly attacked and killed by
a hippopotamus. The Hamran Arabs
and some of the tribes attack the
hippopotamus with their harpooas,
and when the beast has been thus se-
curely hooked they drag it on shore
and slay it with theirspears, while
they half blind it by throwing sand
in its eyes. But the hippopotamus
sometimes gets the better of them
and escapes.
Sir 8. Baker states a curious fact
concerning a commercial change that
has affected the hippopotamus. Form-
erly its tusks, or largeand prominent
teeth, were in great request by dent
ists to make artificial teeth. They
were superior to ivory in the perma.
nence of their color, and they never
turned yellow. But the Americar
invention of porcelain enamel for
artificial teeth has destroyed the val.
ue of the hippopotamus’ tusks, and
they are now chearer than ivory.
—— te
Family
In many families ill-tempered peo-
ple en oy I rileges denied to the
more amiable members of the house-
hold. Brother John bas a querulous,
fault-finding disposition, and
not be annoyed. Whatever
may or may not do, he or she must
be careful to avoid the which
stir up Aunt Kate or Uncle Reuben,
because they lose temper under the
elightest provecation. Even a
tious child, says Bazar, Is often weak-
ly considered at the expense
more amiable brothers and sisters: it
is so disagreeable to have fusses and
scenes, and much pleasante
every one to have peace in the home.
In the case of a child this is a dread-
fully mista to pursue; for
the poor little soul, who might have
been gently helped to control wrong
impulses and utter-
ances, is simply allowed to grow in
the directior evil, and by-and-by
will have a terrible task in eradicat-
ing deplorable faults. Good temper
should not be at a discount in do-
mestic life. Nobody, from the heads
of the household to the servants in
the kitchen or the nursery brood,
stiould be permitted to tyrannize over
the others, and crossness is the worst
form of tyranny. It may require
firmness t)» set up a barrier against
the aggressions of the lil-natured,
but it ought to be done, and a steady
determination never to give way to
demands or allow claims made by the
family despot should be maintained.
eee Isnt
I¥ you are willing to play stepping-
stone you have no right to complain
of dirty feet.
IIIs
So It Is Said.
If a snail's head be cut off and the
animal placed in a cool, moist Spot,
a new head will be grown.
Mes POLE,
et
muse
elise one
LODICS
Cran
irTac~
of isn
SF r for
Ken course
1# 3
id to repress selfish
imp
1
¢
i
It was a Manitoba high school boy who said
there were four zones-—frigid, horrid,
perate and intemperate,
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What a true gentloman
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A woman's sincerity is susceptible of modi.
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Judgment is the fence between impulse and
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That Tired Feeling
Is due to an impoverished condition of the
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WE Wilk MAIL POSTPAID
a fine Panel Ploture, entitled
“MEDITATION
in axchange Jonas Large Lion
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sune
day Sermon.
Bubjeot: “Worth = Iving.f
———— —
Text: *Wherefora doth a living man com-
plain?"—Lamentations iil. 89,
If wa leave to tha evolutionista tn pness
where we ¢cama from, snd to the theologiana
have left for consideration the important
fact that wo are here, There mav be some
doubt about where the river rises, and
| tintsm ns the nicht is famone for its Aark-
ness who move In what ig called high sosial
position. Thera are hundreds of ont and ont
rakes in Amerioan society whose names are
mentioned among the distinguished guests
at the great lovess They havo annexed all
the known human viess and are longine for
other worlds of diaboliam to conquer, Good
morale ara not necessary in many of the ex-
altad cireles of society,
Neither is intelligence naceasary, You find
in that realoy men who wonld not know an
advarh from an adisctive if thay met it a
hundred times a day and who eould not
write a letter of aocaptanas or rovests without
thaald of a secroatary, They buy theirlibraries
by thesqgnare yard, only anxious to have the
binding Russian, Their fgnorancs is posi-
tively sublime, making English grammar al-
most disreputable, and vet the finest pariors
some doubt about where the river empting,
but thers ean be no douht about the fact
that wa are salling ou ft, S01 am not snr.
prised that evarvhaody asks the question, ‘Is
life worth livine 2?"
Bolomon in his unhappy moments save it |
Is not, “Vanity,” ‘“yaxation of spirit,” “no |
good” are his estimate, The faot is that |
Solomon was at one time a polygamist, nid
that sonrad his disposition. One wife makes
aman happy; more than one makes him
wretohed, But Solomon was converted from |
polygamy to monogamy, and the last words |
he ever wrote, as far as wo oan read them,
ware the words ““monntains of spices,” Bat
Jeremiah says in my text life is worth living.
In a book supposed to be doleful and
mgubrions and sepulehral and entitled
“Lamentations” ha plainly intimates that
the blessing of meraly living {8 so great and |
grand a blessing that though a man have
piled on him all misfortunss and disasters |
he has ne right to complain, Tha aut)
my text cries startling Intonation to
all lands oanturise, “Wharalors |
doth a living man complain?” A diversity
of opinion In our time as well as in olden |
time, Hern is a young man of light hair
and blue eves ant sound digestion and
generons salary and happily afMianced and
in the wav te become the partner in a coms |
mercial firm of which he is an important
olerk, Ask him whether life is worth living,
He will laugh in your face and say, “Yes,
yes, yes fers is a man who has come to |
He is at that
T Rten
i
hor of
out in
and to all
tha forties,
Ev
iptop of tha hill of |
a stumble and a
y people he trusted have turned
has be
¥
, and the money he
bean
out of
all the
out deserter
ho has
ares
appetite, and
not nssimiiate, F
has honestly
His
poor
does
echoated ont
He has
it he doss ext
’
or,
tune,
rity ot
lifa hava g imhin
Matterhor forty
wo, §
dangerous than
life is worth liv
“Xo, no
How are we in this
matter
Yon
v as the right
life worth livia
a the Kind ol life
remark that a
tiways a fallare, be.
get as much as you
in this count:
it 10 them those
life of
is nl a
! Naw Yor
to ake mon
if up ¢
Beir agitation
ormation In
narp
Taey
in the
rent that threatens
or, mors probably,
ike
strings, + vibration,
Peg from Wall strest
with ) conosrn
hcuse, so they eateh every breath of change
in the money market. The diseass of sceu-
thom eaten into
into their lungs, into their
Chemists have sometimes analyzed the ho.
ody, and they say it is 80 much mag
nesia, so much lime, so much chlorate of po-
tassium. If some Christian chemist would
analyze one of these financial behamoths, he
wotld find be is made up of copper and gold
and silver and zine and Jead and coal and
iron. That is not a life worth living, Theres |
are too many earthquakes in it, too many |
agonies in it, foo many perditions in it. They
build their castles, and they open their piet-
ure galleries, and they summon prima done
nas, and they offer every induaecament for
happiness to come and live there, but happi-
ness will not come,
They send fcotmanned and postillionsd
equipage to bring her ; she will not ride to
their door. They send prinesly escort ; sha
They make their
gateways triumphal arches; she will not
ride under them. They set a golden throns |
befors a golden plate ; she turns away from |
the banquet. They eall to her from wup-
holstered balcony ; she will not listen, Mark |
you, this js tho failure olthose who have had |
large accumulation. i
And thea you must take into conaideration
that the vast majority of those who make the |
dominant idea of life money getting fall far |
short of affluence, It is estimated that only |
about two out of a hundred business men |
have anything worthy the nama of success, |
A man who spends his life with one domi
nant ides of financial accumulation spends a |
life not worth living,
Bo the idea of worldly approval, If that
bo dominant in a man’s life, he is miserable,
The two most un ‘ortunste men in this coun
try forthe six months of next presidential
campaign will be the two mea nominated
for the presidency. The reservoirs of abuse
and diatribe and malediction will gradually
fill up, gallon above gallon, hogshead above
hogshead, and about autumn these two reser.
voirs will be brimming full, and a hose will
be attached to each one, and it will play
away on these nominees, and ther will En
to stand it and take the abuse, and the false.
hood, and the earieature, and the anathema,
and the caterwauling, and the filth, and they
will be rolled in it and rolled over and over
in it until they are choked and submerged
and strangulated, and at every sign of ree
turning consciousness they will be barked
at by all the hounds of political parties from
ocean to oven,
And ot there are a hundred men to-day
struggling for that privilege, and there are
thousands of men who are heipl them in
the struggle, Now, that is not a life worth
lying, Ycu ean pet slandered and abused
aheaper than that! Take it on a smaller
seale, Do not be so ambitious to have a
whole reservoir rolled over on x . But
what you see in the matter of high politi
eal preferment you see in every come
munity in the struggle for what is ealled
social position,
Tens of thousands of people trying to gut
into that realm, and they are under ( a
tension, What is socinl position? It is a
diffoult thing to define, but we all know
what ft is, Good morals and intelligenss are
but wealth or the show of
nD In ainolusoly Idiepunsni Tuners
Gool morals and in-
talligence ars not necessary, but wenith or n
does any difference how you
got it, ;
not maka
Tha best
yon to buy a large amonnt on creslit, then
a faw preferred eraditors and then make an
assignment, Then disappear from tha com-
munity until the breeze is over and then
rome back and start in the same business,
Do you not sea how beaautifally that will pat
How quickly it will got vou into high
What is the nse of forty or
yonrs of hard
or threa bright stro%es make a great
Ah, my friends, whan von
inas your money how quick thay will let von
fortune?
eng
hora ara thousands fo-iav in that realm
who are anxious to keen In it,
of it, and there are
year and
which involve heart
renorted, High social
fear they will all out
Chan7és going on every
month and every hour
hroaks that are never
Ifa is constantly in
ax to whom they shall let
and whom they shall push
tin is
in
out, ani the bat.
cats question
going on-—-pis
ror, chandsliar against chandelier, wine esl
lar against w collar, wardrobe
wardrobe, equipage against eqaipace,
certainty and {psscurity dominant in that
realm, wratehadness eanthronnd, torture at a
premium and a life not worth | r
A lif sin. a life of pride
genes ns iile of worldiness a lif
world, the flesh ¢
dead falinre, sn Intl
how many presents yon i
many garlands you send to
re, you need to put rignt andorthe
he tombstons this
hat man {f he had never boon |
But [shall show you a life that
INT MAD Says”
nes
" on!
sd to the
the failur
nite allure, I ear
davil is a
sant to that er
or how
inscription,
ie for ms
yt
it Twenty yours «
an
yy wi
»
‘Axe RCCONT
., BX1Y
CARIR vet
are only 8
pdred thousand
t Years which will
my ¢ {af residense and etistenos, Now 1
understand my opporiuaities and my re
gprnsibilities,
“1 thers is any being in the universe all
years
in such a jancture, I want him. The old
there is a God,
To Him I appeal, God help me! Here I
do for others. I must develop this body by
all industries, by all grmaastios, by all sun-
Ani this soul I must have swept and garn-
ished and illumined and gloriflad by all that
1 can do for it and ail that I can gat God to
deo for it,
platares, It shall be an orchestra of grand
armonies, It shall bs a palace for Gol and
righteousness to reign fn. I wonder how
many kind words | can utter in the next
sixty yonrs, 1 will try.
good deads I ean do in the next sixty years?
I will try, God help me !™
That youn man enters life,
buffeted ; he is tried ; he is perplexed,
He gets into a hard batlle, bul he gots the
vietory., The main course of his life is in
Ho blesses everybody
he comes in contact with,
his holy endeavors, and at the close of it
God says to him, “Well dons, good and
faithful servant ; enter into the joys of thy
Lord.” My brother, my sister, | do not cara
whether that man dies at thirty, forty, fifty,
sixty, seventy or eighty years of age, You
“His illo was
worth living."
Amid the hills of New Hampehire in olden
times there sits a mother, here are six
children in the household four boys and
two girle, Bmall farm, Very rough: hard
work to coax a living ovtof it. Mighty tug
to make the two ends of the year meet, The
boys go to school in winter and work the
farm in summer, Mother is the chief
siding spirit, With her hands she kalts all
the stockings for the little feet, and she is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she is
the miliiner for the girls, There is only one
musical instrument in the houso—the spin.
ning wheel, The food is very plain, but it
is niways well provided, Toe winters are
very cold, but are kept out by the blankets
she quilted, On Sunday, when shé appears
in the village ehurch, her children around
her, the minister looks down and Is remind.
od of the Bible desoription of a good house
wite: “Her children arise up and call her
Dlesund, Hor husband also, and he praiseth
go and the two ol dest
gf rd ey Xo Bn
los are severer, and the ealouine
tions ars closer, and until those iwoburs =
their education there is a hard bat ir
bread, One of these snters the univer.
sity, stands in a pul widely influentint
id has f thoussnls Sia io
temperance, An " m
istry are blessed, The other lad who got the
eolingiate adueation goes into the law, and
thenon into legislative halie, and after a
while he com listoning wenates as hoe
makes a plea for the downtro tden and the
onteast, One of the boys bucomes
starting at tow fo0t of the lads
ali his suncess and
all over
-, )
he prefers farming life, and then he thinks
he will bs able to take cares of father and
mother when they get old,
Of the two daughters, when ths war hrake
ont ona want throuch the hoepital of Pitta.
burg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheers
ing up the dying and homestiek, and taking
the last messpoe to kindred far away, so that
every time Christ thought of her Ho sald, ns
of old, “The same is My sister and mother,”
The other daughter has a bright home of her
own, and io the afternoon of the forenoon
when she hag basen devoted to her household
she goes forth to hunt up the slek and to
encournze the dircouragad, leaving smiles
and benediction all along the way,
Bat one day there start five telegrama from
tha village for thess five absent ones, saying,
“Come ; mother Ir dangerously #1," But be.
fore they can be ready to start they receive
another telegram, saving, “Come ; mother is
dead,” The old neighbors gather in the old
farmhouse to do the last offices of respect,
Bat as that farming son, and the clergyman,
and the senator, and the merchant, and the
two daughters stand by the casket of the
lead mother, taking the last look or lilting
heir little children to ses once more the
{ face of dear old grandma, I want to sak
| that group around the easket one question,
“Do you really think her life was worth liv.
ing?" Allle for God, a life for others, a
life of unselfishness, a useful life, a Chris.
tian life, is always worth living.
I wonld not find it hard to persuade yon
that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making giua
for a living and then amassing a great for-
tune until he could build a philanthrophy
which has had {ts echo in 10,000 philanthro-
pies all over the country—I would rot find
{it hard to porsuads you that his life was
worth living, Neither would 1 find it hard
to persuade von that the lifs of Susannah
Wesley was worth living, She sent out
son to organize Methodism and the other son
to ring his anthems all through the ages, 1
would not find it hard to persuada you that
the life of Frances Leere was worth living,
ns she established in England a school for
the selentifiec pursing of the sick, and then
whon the war broke gut between Franes and
the front, and with her
the mud off the
soldiers dying In the
{ trenches with her weak arm, standing one
night in the hospita!, pushing back a Ger.
roan soldier to his o franzied with
rounde, ha rushe door and
said “#10t mo» go! J 1¢ 20 10 my
matter.” Major-Generais standing back to
pass this anes of 1 .
114 I have hard
it Geracs Darli
heroine
{ Germany went to
{ own bands seraped
bodies of! the
his
‘1iaha
Bre)
jifah
Duchess «
$0
that the
her, and that
lgehth
$1 3}
Adalph
£100 a night
ndering
sims to
asad for
fase
ner
ristor of the
rod her
for
A Sky Scraper
The physicians
*hysicians,
New York City
story
1 5.3
{ional Bailding
Deen designated with sg MAL Teierencs
i tenants woo are
to the needs of
exclusively members of the medical
oocupations
to be
sfession or encagzed in
associated with medical prac-
i tice, and no office will be rented to
sny tenant whose standing in the pro-
i fession is not entirely satisfactory. It
will probably be located near the
Academy of Medicine, on Forty-third
| street, between Fifth and Sixth ave
nues.
It will have every convenience and
| practical facility for the accommoda-
{ tion of tenants, such as an agency for
trained nurses, mail chutes, pneumatio
{ tubes, steam heat, electric light, elec.
tric motor power, ete. Wheeled
chairs will make it practicable for an
| invalid to be conveyed from a carriage
| to the elevator and thence to an office
lin soy part of the building. The
{gronnd floor will be occupied by
stores, which, it is believed, will be
very desirable for apothecaries, instru.
ment makers and opticians,
¥
pr
directly
building, The material to be used
! will be white granite,
will be one story high and will be
about fifty feet deep, the main strue-
ture rising eleven stories on three
sides of this foyer. The entrance will
be very artistioally done in carved
granite, with massive wrought iron
gates, There will be considerable
carving about the firet five stories, and
everything about the exterior of the
building will be of light colors, —Chi-
cago Herald,
mmm —
A Remarkable Net,
“I saw a new fish net—new to me,
at least—in the Kennebec River re
cently,” said J. 8. Stackpole, of Au-
gusta, Me., at Hurst's, “The poor
fish have no chance at all with it. It
was an ordinary net, provided with a
rubber tube all around the top. The
tube is connected with a compressed
air-pump, operated from a boat on
the shore, The net is sank and the
fish are attracted over the middie of
it, either J: an incandescent lamp or
by bait, if the fisherman does not
want to carry too much paraphernalia,
When enongh fish have gathered the
fisherman works his air-pump and in.
flates the rubber tube. It rises slowly
and so gently as not to alarm the fish,
In this way when entirely inflated the
whole top of the net is raised to the
surface of the water, com
rounding the en
shoot downward in
sock to go over an
shaph oy ed the
y o
from the rubber tube, when the
sinks again, — St. Louis Globe-Demo-
Royal
Baking
Powder
It
%
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
and wholesoine,
106 WALL €7., NEW YORK,
A Brave Fellow-Workman,
“Last summer a man in my em-
ploy exhibited an act of+presence of |
and self-control that might
be compared to the deeds
the flelds of battle”
f
oO
on le,” re
at
SL.
contractor, who was the Lindell |
says Louis Globe |
Democrat. “Two workmen were en
gaged in repairing the lightnirg-rod
the steeple of a church. To ac
complish this somewhat difficul’ and
dangerous task it had become ned- |
essary for of the workman 10 |
stand on shou.ders of his com- |
pauion.
“While in this
1
the
one
the
position a sudd
gust of wind caused him to spill
quantity of molten lead, which fell
un the hand and arm of his friend
Nutwithstanding the fen and in- |
pain the man
flinched, and had the coucage
motionless while %he
its way into the flesh. Hi
ovement of his wa
his companion
sight into the street
ired the pain rath
3 ’ “ee
I ACLIOW-
sud
tense brave
main
bhurne
ipitate
below,
er than life of
wo ri leap
y LDS ACT.
} " o
Gag C.o8e al
ia 4 ¢
is a loo
The no
back ir
Three Wars.
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly ily The many, who live bet-
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by wore promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
tiie needs of sliysical being, will attest
the value to Realth of the pure liquid
laxative principles embiuced In the
remedy, Syrup of Figs
Its excellence is due to Its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
ession, because it acts on the Kid-
peys, Liver and Bowels without weak-
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Byrup ot Fis is for sale by all drug:
gists in 50c $1 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
snd being well informed, yov will not
srcent any snhetitess Foie
The Volce,
with a husky is
He is a pessimist,
upexpected eyes at
Quick, sharp
the energetic
f projects. They
The man voice
never sanguine,
and gazes with
the progress of events
ly defined to 10°
man, the originator o
characterize the “man of the world,”
the man of action, not of thought
The slow and hesitating speaker is
rarely quick in action. His mental
processes are tardy, though the prod-
ucts may be of permanent value. In-
decision defect, and he
energetic resolve.
$i { ¢
1¢s Qt
his chlef
is never guilty
is
of
and pleasing
voice In ordinary conversation it
low toned, and distinct.
In the heat of friendly debate it roll
forth harmoniogs vibra-
* 4
tions,
DOCTOR'S
Mineral
serene,
4
: A Baan
in joud but
BILLS SAVED.
il, Tuscarawas Co., Ohto,
r Bir—-1 am glad
* that the use of
olden Medi-
has
. Deen
ECrTEip.
or chron-
and
that
dd
glad to say
never 1
my neigh
icine
y mmending.
J. Sxrrn, Esq. OSEPH SMITH.
PIERC GURE
OR MONEY RETURNED.
af
1i8 Rf med
Guar.
gnices 2
3 and
enriches the blood, thereby invigorating the
and build up flesh
when reduced by wasting diseases
D ) nem
, > = 87.
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