A Fair Bouthern City. The stranger in Key West is im- pressed with the holiday air of the city. Bunting flies from almost every hounsetop, and the colors are aboui evenly divided between ‘Old Glory” and the emblem of the Cuban repub- lio. Directly opposite the harbor docks on the further side of the Island and facing Cnba is a large dancing pavilion called La Brisa, where Mon- day snd Friday nights and Sunday af- ternoons public dances are held. It has large, broad varandas overlooking the sea, which make ideal prome- nades, and a commodious dancing hall within where those who desire can trip the light fantastic to their hearts’ ocon- tent upon the payment of a small fee. The very best people attend these daaces, and many go simply for the promenade or to smoke or chat with friends. Instead of market thereis a daily auction near the government dock, where everything is knocked dowy to the highest bidder. There Th stores, as we understand such things. Signboards in Spanish wjll tell you where the barber hi 1s lo- cated or where to buy coral orpa- o-—— " ments. There are no more than half a dozen stores conducted on the Amer- jean plan in the island. It is curious that of all the honses, dwellings, stores, hotels and other buildings that not one of them hasa chimney or any- thing that will answer the purpose of a chimney. Illandsome residences and lowly hovels are alike in this re- grec’, and from an eminence gazing out from over acres of roofs on all sides, one is struck with the want of something to complete the symmetry of the picture. Wood and coal or fuel of any kind are unknown quantities, as the tropical atmosphere furnishes at all times of the year all the heat re- quired, and for cooking purposes sticks of carbon are used, which are sold by peddlers, who hark their wares about the streets. Coal Dust Ignition, A proof of the remarkable ease with which dry coal dust may be brought to ignition, even by exposure to the sun's rays, and also an explanation of many a fire at similar surface build- ings in nd elsewhere, in which timber, ete., covered with coal dust may be in intimate connection with heated metal plates, has been af- forded m a German The surface works of the colliery are made chiefly of iron, the galvanized corru- gated sheets which form the walls of the building being supported by strong iron girders. repair a pipe passing through one of the sheets forming a wall facing the south. A mechanic, on going to re- move the layer of coal dust from a girder close to the sheet, burned his hand. The official inquiry showed that the layer of coal dust, which contained a large proportion of pul- verized rock, had become ignited along the whole gth of the metal wall. The heat of the had struck right through and the dust, as was proved by the layer of white ash on the top, Lad been burning for a sonsiderable time. ili —— Too Active, 1: collieries colliery. It became necessary to tan en sun coal While in Constantinople, an {isman was going home late one nig when a man ran past him pursued by four zaptiahs, writes a contributor to Cassell’'s Family Magazine. Directly they canght the man they belabored him vigorously with the batt ends of their guns. The Englishman inter- fered. “‘If he is a thief, why not take him to prison and let him be tried properly ? Don't half kill the man without a trial.” “0 effendi,” said the spokesman of the party, “we don’t mind his being a thief. We're only hitting him because of the trouble he gave us to run after him.” And that is an offence which the average Turk never forgives. vt 0%, Fog- t as A Japanese Prison. The prison, six miles from Tokio, geems to be a model in its perfect mnegement. We approached a lot of handsome buildings, and I asked if they did not belong to the university. “No; the prison where we are going,” the guide said, aud we entered the beantiful grounds, laid off artistically and planted with flowers. The build- ings are of brick, one story high, and are filled with many comforts. Every prisoner saluted us. ~-— DULL ACHING PAINS Palpitasion of the Heart- All Cared by Hood's Samaparilla, #1 was troubled with a dull aching pain in my right kidney, and I also had palpita- tion of the heart. 1 began taking Hood's Barsapariila and since then I have never been troubled with either of theses com- pisints. Hood's Barsaparilia is also help ing my wife very much.” H. B. Marlboro, New York. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the beat—in fact the One True Blood Purifier Hood's Pilla cure indigestion. 25 cents HSoorr BT RICH quickly: send for “300 Inventions Waniad' yar TATE & Co. 3 Bway, N.Y. 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The Amalekites thought they had eon- quered God and that he would not carry” into execution his threats against them, They had murdered the Israelites in battle and out of battle and left no outrage un- tried, For four hundred years this had been going on, and they say, “God either dare not punish us or he do so." Let God's prophet, tells Saul to go down and slay all the Amalekites, not leaving one of them alive: also to destroy all the beasts in their Josaessjon-—o0x, camel and ass, fark, { hoar the tre of 210.000 men, with monstrous Sani at th armor, his shield danglir ing in hand a spear, ch the great host © us ses, Samuel, ghen ; i his woes pew pr a and | whe » res hie 80 to impiy that is wl many fie stating } tating 8 great 1 There are shurches that have two or tl eal Uriah Heeps, When the fox bLegins for your chickens, T ligion & fn has the m Wi LG rou may kn N by the fact th i i i at he § ria i | AD PX he putrefaction, Sunda i | singing ' God { expose him just g horoughly a= though | ipon his forehead the word v think he has been ption, but at yment the sheep will will bellow, in the | most unfortunate me bleat and the oxen One of the and he began in the usual form -—“In the name of God, amen.” “Stop,” says the martyr. “Don’t say ‘in the name of God!""” Yet how many outrages are practiced un- der the garb of religion and sanctity, When in synods and conferences ministers of the gospel are about to say something unbroth. erly and unkind about a member, they almost always begin by being tremendously pious, the venom of their assault corres. ponding to the heavenly flavor of the pre- ude, Standing there, you would think they were ready to goright up into glory and that nothing kept them down but the weight of their boots and overcoat, when juddenty the sheep bleat and the oxen bel. ow. Oh, my dear friends, Jet us cultivate simplicity of Christian character! Jesus Christ said: “Unless you become as this little child you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” We may play hypocrite success- fully now, bw, the Lord God will after awhile expose your true sharaecter. You must know the Incident mentioned in the history of Ottacas, whe was wsked to kneel in the preseree of Randoiphus 1., and when before him he refused to do it, but after a while he agreed to come In private when there was nobody in the king's tent, and then he would kneel down before him and worship, but the servants of the kin had arranged It so that by drawing a cord the tent would suddenly drop. Ottacas after a while eame in, and supposing he was in entire privacy knelt before Randol- phur, The servants pulied the cord, the tent diopped, and two armies surroundiog looked down on Ottacas kneeling before Randolphus. If we were really kneeling to the world while we profess to be lowl subjects of Jesus Christ, the tent has al- ready dropped and all t a haat of heaven ars gazing upon our hypoo . God's universe is a very pabile place, Yond you cannot hide hypocrisy in it, I learn further from this subject how natural it is to try to put off our sins on other peopis, Baul was charged with dis- obeving God. The man it was not he; he did not save ti» an: the army did ft— trving to throw © o in tha shoulders of other people, Human nature ig the same in all ages, Adun, con's d with his sin, said, “The woman tempted me, and I did ent.” And the woman charged it upon the serpent, and {f the serpent could have spoken it would have charged it upon the devil. I suppose that the real state of the conse wns that Eve was eating the apple and that Adam saw it and begged and coaxed until he got a pleco of it. I suppose that Adam was just as much to blame as Eve was, You cannot throw off the responsibility of anv sin upon the shoulders of other people, Hore is a young man who says: *‘I know I am doing wrong, but I have not had any chance, I had a father who despised God and a mother who was a disciple of godless I am uot toblame for my sins; it is my bringing up. Oh, no; that young man has been out in the world long enough to seo what {8 right and to see what is wrong, and in the great day of eternity he cannot throw his sins upon his father or mother, but will have to stand for himself and an- swer before God. You have had a oon. gofence, you have had a Bible and the infiy- ence of the H ly Bpirit, Stand for yourself or fall for yourself, Here is a businisas wo He 3 { RYE save, ‘I a trade, bat all the hard- ot respon- irsin upon all the dry goods men do it and ware men do sible.” You os gshonlders i i nuch, ow Iw God naks 1¢ way of AnD gol AD jon Binge i « a take devote EY hw tears have they su f The last day will demonstrate found on that day that God vindicated not only his goodness and His mercy, reesafully o sed He and the rights of His church and the rights of His oppressed children. Tome, ye mar- tyred dead, awake and come up dungeons where folded darkness hearsed you and the chains like eankers peeled loose the skin and wore off the flesh and rattied on the narrowless bones, Come, ye martyred dead, from the stakes wheres for merey fell into the ashes and the ory of pain was drowned in the snapping of the flame and the howling of the mob; from valleys of Piedmont and Smithfield market and London Tower and the highlands of Seotland, Gather in great procession and together clap your bony hands, and to- getherstamp your moldy feet and let the chains that bound you to dungeons all elank at once and gather all the flames that burned you ia one uplifted arm of fire and plead for a judgment. Gather all the tears yo ever wept into a lake and gather all the sighs yo ever breathed into a tempest until the heaven piercing chain elank and the tempest sigh and the thun- der groan announce to earth and hell and heaven a judgment. Oh, on that day God will vindicate the canse of the troubled and the oppressed! It will be seen in that day that though we may have robbed our fei- lows, we never have, successfully robbed God, My Christian friende, as you go out into the world exhibit an open hearted Christian frankness. Do not be hypoeritieal in any- thing. You are never safe if you are, t the most inopportune moment the sheep will bleat and the oxen bellow, Drive out the last Amalekite of sin from your soul, Have no mereyon Agag. Down with your sins, down with your pride, down with yous worldliness, I know you cannot achieve this work by your own arm, but almight ee is suflicient-—-that which saved J me n the pit, that which delivered Daniel in the den, that which shielded Shadrach ip the fire, that which cheered Paul in the shipwreck The African Piano. Among the instrumen's used on the Congo we notice tl and short drum, the Journal Foll Some are used to beat the time of the dance, musical é long of drums HILYH American Lore, Bome other drums are ured as telep hones for the transmission of messages The stringed represent the African The ivory horns are used for the convocation of popular assemblies, I'he double bell to eall the attention of the people to some pro clamation of the chief. The Africans everywhere are very musieal, but their music does not always suit En ropean taste, The African indulged in for Dancing enters into some of the most as, for ins ration of a new king to neighboring villages, instruments harn, is used dance is not amusement always alone solemn ceremonies tance, Then the chief-elect of the tribe dances very the inaugn gravely before the assembled elders and the people The In African bas hing t piano I of graded by the "Rif 4 called of « glZzes, whscha Are af. x 1 adimra been is made Hes surmounted hoard of graded y 3% +e FAL. RIBO, fil DeEIng Ballad frame Well Paid for Being Jolly. A jovial old lady of Paris after pro- viding liberally for some distant rels- tives, left by will $400,000 in small suas to a large number of easnal ac quaintances that she picked up in the streets. She was an valid and bad been left without near relatives or connections, but, being determined to have jolly people about her, she gave balls and parties to which she invited auy persou whose face attracted her in omnibuses or shops. When she died she remembered all in her will, - mat — - Inventions «f the Anclents, It is a singular feature of many in- ventions that they are subsequently found to be repetitions of old ideas. The invefftors are honest enough but the ancients anticipated them by hun dreds of years. Professor Goodman says the thing that most impressed him, when visit- ing Pompeii, was the resemblance be tween many of the implements of eighteen hundred years ago aud those of to-day. On locking at the iron tools grouped together in an old fac tory there, he could almost imagine he was gazing into a modern tool shoj except for the fact that there was a heavy coating of rust on the iron. Nickles, rakes, forks, axes, spades, blacksmiths’ tongs, ham mers, soldering ] shovels are much day; but the most marvelous instru meuts fonnd are for surgery, beautifully exec aud of design ex- patent bill hooks, those : uted, actly similar to some recently ed and reinvented. Unlikely as it may appear, Pom Artificial Hubles, With the aid of the electric furnace minute diamonds can be made, but none large enough to be employed in jewelry have yet been produced. But rubies of large size, and ss fine in color and appearance as the best na- tural gems, have been made. A cer- tain method of detecting artificial rubies is by examination with = mi- croscope. The natural gem is always filled with minute cracks, invisible to the naked eye, but perfectly discerni- ble with a high maguifying power. nr Bome Insects are state of thirty minutes after maturity T0 MOTHERS OF LARGE FAMILIES. Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Free, In this workaday world few women are so placed that physical exertion is not constantly demanded of them in their daily life. Mrs. Pir to mothers of large families whose 1am makes a special appea WOrk never done, and many of whom suff and suffer for lack of intelli brazier and and struction. Their bronze kitchener had boilers at the side, taps for running off the hot water. Ewers and urns have been discover- with interior t precise ly like the arrang vogue in steam boilers. had substantial locks. ] cks and ed ubes, and keys are mo BOIS YEry © } of Pon i ans of lead glreetls, 11 ines will ¢ ey 1all quan lean boug es and afresh supply obit time it is needed Aili Poor Parson and Rich Parishioner, A country merchant recently came He then placed a * $8 it 0 the church his family attended days later the preacher cas store and said that the A few to O pie TT BAR ne table, and that if the merchant for 814 worth of groceries. lessons enough in this to start a chism, — Independence (Kan.) nd Kansan. 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