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The work of the club, as directed by Mr. McCaskey, was as fellows : The old lines of Dr. Watts, giving the order of the Zodiacal constellations are as useful an aid- te memory new as they have ever been. "The Ram. the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lien shines. The Irgiu and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer and Sea Geat, The man that, holds the watering pet, The Fis-h with glitleiing tails." Twe of these constellations, the " heav enly Twins " and the Bull, including the Pleiades and the Hyades have already been indicated en our present list. Te-night we will leek at three mere of them, the Ram, the Cnib and the Lien, iu addition te thu Fishes an I one or two ether groups net within the Zodiacal belt. When the Zedi i.; was lirst marked out in the heavens In the old astronomers the Ram was the fiist constellation and there fore the lirst feign. Owing te the nuta nuta teon of the pole, that plays se large a part in the grand Ice Age theory of which we recently hcaid from Prof. Phillips, the Rain has new become the second constella tion while it .still holds its p'ace as the first sign. This place, as lirst sign, it will continue te held, though it must fall back for the next 20,000 years or mere in the order of constellations until it has be come eleven tli and twellth constellation, when it will once mere resume its place at the head of the line, again te fall te the rear, though still another of the grand cycles of which the Ice-Age theory takes acceuut and linds evidence in the coal measures and elsewhere upon our glebe. Knewing the Hyades and the Pleiades we leek tewaids the northwest for the Ram. Extend a line from Aldcbarau iu the Hyades (Ne. 18 of our list) te Al pheratz (Xe. 14) in the north west angle of the Square of Pegasus. Divide this line into three equal parts, and at the point of division nearest Alpheratz we find three stars which at once attract attention and fix the head of the atiimal we are in search of. The two brightest of these stars, of nearly equal magnitude, arc Arietis and Shcratau, about ieur degrees apart, that farthest north being Arietis, which is the middle of the head of the Ram, as he is represented in the charts looking back to wards tLe Bull along the due of the Sun's appaient path in the Heavens. Shcratan, in the coil of ene of the horns, has very near it a fainter star, at the distance of one and a half degrees, named Mcsartim. The three planets new conspicuous iu the western sky are very near the stars just named iu the Ram. The body of the Ram extends eastwaid towards the Bull, of which constellation only the head and fore shoulders are shown in the charts. West of the Ram is the Fishes, a star gie.ip without any distinguishing features, and but one or two of whose taint stars have been named. The Lien, which is easily recognized frein the well-known 'Sickle.' a conspic uous star-group, is new te be seen iu the eastern sky immediately after sunset. It is en the meridian shortly alter 10 o'clock. Seven stars are named iu this constellation. In the Sickle, which fixes the head and fore shoulders of the Lien, we have the bright star Regulus marking the handle. This star is also known as Cor Ltenis, or "heart of the Lien " It is much used by navigators for determining their longitude, being less than half a degree from the ecliptic. When en the meridian it makes an isosceles triangle with Procyen and Caster, the former some forty degrees te the northwest aud tiic latter nearly an equal distance te the southwest. The small star at the peinkwlicrc the handle jeiDS the blade is net named. Next be yeud it and lirst in the blade is AI Uieba. a bright double star whose period is 1,000 years ; that is te say, it requires the two great suns of which it is composed 1,000 years te revolve about each ether. This star is some nine degrees from Regulus. The next iu the blade, Adhafera, four degrees from AI Gieba, is iu the deck of the Lien. Six degrees beyen 1 this is Northern Ras al Asad, and next beyond is Southern Ras al Asad, in the mouth of the Lien. Te the northeast of the Sickle is a triangle net very large, but readily distinguished. Of this the star farthest cast is Dencbela, in the tail of the Lien, and, of the two stars iu the side towards the Sickle, that nearest the meridian is Zezma ; in the back of the Lien. Zezma is about thirteen decrees east from Al Gieba, and is a triple star. Dencbela is about 25 degrees cast of Regulus and ten degrees northeast from Zezma. ;Viaving the Lien, we new fix Cancer, the Crab, which lies in the Zodiac between it and the Twins. Te identify here the three oivfeur stars that have received names, they should be looked for in a clear night, when the moon is net shining. Half-way between Pollux and Regulus are Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis, both faint stars between which a geed eye may distinguish the dim nebula Prsesepe, or the Bee Hive, almost the only nebula in the heavens that cau be distinguished without the aid of a telescope. Nearly half-way between Al Gieba aud Procyen is the faint star'Acubcns. The stars Reg ulus, Procyen aud Pollux form a triangle which includes a very large part of the Crab. Returning te the Lien we carry a line J trem Denebola te Bcnetuasch, in the han dle the Great Dipper. Dividing this into three parts, we have at the point of divi sion nearest Denebola, a beautiful group of faint stars known as Berenice's Hair : at the next neint of division, nearest linn- ( etnasch, is Cor Caroli, the " Heart of Charles," in the neck of one of the dogs of Boetes, who is new pushing en above the horizon by nine or ten o'clock in the evening. As we are in the vicinity of the Dipper, we will glance for a moment at Cassiopeia's Chair ; which lies directly be yond the North Star, and as far from it in ene direction as the Great Dipper in the ether. The five prominent stars here re semble somewhat the letter "Y?." A straight line from Mcgrcs, the star where the handle joins the bowl of the Dipper, through the North Star and carried as far beyond it, will strike Caph. The next star at the first angle in the W, is named SchV dir, and at the third angle is Rucba. Oar numerical list for the evening is Sheratanand68 Mesartim, in the BUffqw,85S1!,!i 69, Regains; 70, Al Gieba; 71,' " well for us, standim; u tnereiere centmuea : jne. ee, Arietis ; 67, Adhafera ; 72, Northern Ras al Asad ; 73, Southern Ras AI Asad ; 74, Zezma, and 75 Denebola, in the Lien ; 76, Asellus Australis ; 77, Asellus Borealis ; 78, Praesepe, the Bee Hive Nebula, and 79 Acubens; in the Crab ; 80, Berenice's Hair, a star group ; 81, Cor Caroli ; 82, Caph ; 83. Schedir, and 84 Rucba, in the constellation Cassiopeia. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. We say that the stars are fixed se far at least as our observation gees, they never change their relative positions. But net se with the three planets new conspic uous iu our western sky Venus, Jupiter and Saturn which nightly present a new combination iu the heavens with reference te each ether aud te the stars about them. The crescent moon during a part of the present and past months has added no little te the charm of variety which these mov ing orbs present and will continue te de se during the month of April. When we leek at the four planets, three of which are primary, our interest in them is in creased by knowing some facts as te the relative sizes, velocities and distances from us and from the sun. The moon of which secondary planets Jupiter has four and Saturn eight is but little mere than a quarter of a million of miles distant from us and' its diameter is something ever 2000 miles. Se near is it that its light comes te us in about one second of tune. The planet Venus revolves in an orbit between us and the sun. Its year is equal te seven of our months, and its present distance from us is probably forty millions of miles. It is somewhat smaller in size than our Earth, about 1500 times smaller than Jupiter, the less brilliant planet new nearest the horizon ; and near ly 1000 times smaller than Saturn, least brilliant of the three. Jupiter is new mere than 500 millions of miles, and Saturn mere than 1000 millions distant from us. Venus sweeps en in its orbit around the sun at the rate of 1300 miles per minute, Jupiter at the rate of 500 miles, and Saturn gees S50 miles per min ute, or about as far as from Philadelphia te Pittsburgh in a single minute of time ! The year of Jupiter is equal te twelve and that of Saturn te thirty of our years, that is te .iay, Jupiter is twelve times as leug as our earth aud Saturn thirty times as long in making its annual revolution around the Sun. At the"?distances here named the light which reaches us from the Moen in little mere than a second would come from Jupiter in about 45 minutes, while it would be nearly an hour and a-half en its way te us from Saturn. . The Denver Phenomenon. Mr. McCaskey then read te the class some extracts from late copies of the Denver Tribune, received from Mr. Herace D. Gast, and Wm. M. Shrciner, ferme high school boys new in Colerado, giving very graphic account of the wonderful lunar phenomena observed there, en the night of February 14, 1881. The diagram accompanying the newspaper report which was placed en the blackboard in enlarged form, gives a satisfactory idea of this re markable appearance in the heavens. The special paper for the meeting was then read by Rev. C. E. Ileupt en the Mythology of the Constellation. . A lie is aiways a pretender. It never uses its own name as a deer-plate. Yet a truth and a falsehood often seem alike, though they arc the reverse of each ether. It takes but little te make a truth seem a lie. Much depends en the way in which a given fact is perceived. Twe minds may thus reach different conclusions after view- in' tlie same thing, rer you can very easily "switch off," anywhere along the track of direct truth, into seeming truth, fallacy, error; and even the highest, noblest aspiraiens Sand impulses of the soul have elten furnished the motive force that impelled the mind from little truth downward into great, sad error. Thorns of ignorance in the heart-field always choke out the growth of truth by absorbing its feed. Ofteu there is a grand inter-tangling of truth with error whereby the truth truth ueedle is se covered, ceufused, corroded, and concealed iu the falsehood-stack as te compel the judgement te pause before the mass in giving verdict of true or false. Indeed, man knows that there are some portions of the truth se far above him that he needs a revelation from Ged t bring them down te the plane of his com prehension, some explanation from Ged of the superhuman phenomena that arc going en about him. And you fiud that when ever -that direct unfolding of the mind of Ged has been wanting, man in his greater or less ignorance of scientific facts has 6. -dcavercd te supply the absence by invent ing a revelation. These inventions we call " myths." Definition. A truth and a myth often leek alike, aud yet they ale different as a substance and a shadow. Truth is always heavenly aud divine. Hence it is permanent. All its parts fit according te that order which is declared te be the first law of Heaven, and which the best philosophy of China teaches is the highest principle of existence. A myth is earthly aud human, often full of the greatest errors and deceptions. A trutli is a rose, come forth from the eter nal mind of Ged, a living, vitalizing thing. A myth is the skillful, artificial effort of ignorance te reproduce truth. A myth is the substitute for Ged's truth. It is the best representation of truth that men could make. It is the effort of man who had lest the revelation and words of Ged te make a revelation from Ged and te hear Ged's words again. A truth is eternal; a myth is temporary. A myth is subjective, ". c, it is evolved by man out of- the depths of his own consciousness, A truth is object ebject ive. It shines out from Ged upon the mind and soul of mau. A truth is a fact. A myth is only an idea. Hence, popularly speaking, you may call a myth a labuleus human statement or narrative utterly fic titious, generally of a moral or even a re ligious nature. It is usually allegorical, describing one thing by means of another. It tells the tale of the past by a counter feit presentment of the heroes and actions of the past. Te be accepted it must be popular, plausible and involve elements of supernatural and superhuman power. A myth is the child of ignorance and wonder, ignorance as te what has happened and wonderment en beholding the great and geed. Or, if you will, t is only auethcr evidence of the groping, blundering efforts of the human mind te find its Ged and its surroundings. Explication. It is, of course, impossible for man by any system of guesses te create a true re-' veiatien for Ged ; but yet men of every age and land have had their myths, and these " delusions en their face " have, in deed, their cousinhood of truth, and teach a geed lessen. Mythology is the knowledge and rea sening concerning the ideas of Ged and his works in man, which have occupied the minds of men. It is a science built en surmises, aided only by whatever light the mind of man could bring te' bear upon them. It might be called a superstition, but could never lays claim te the title of revelation te man. It is man's counter- upon and viewing from the high prometory of truth the elayind wide my tholegic sea of the past, te ceusider what geed things lie in its besom, what pearls of thought and frag ments of the adamantine rock of wisdom are tossing ever its time-worn sands for us te gather. And it is well for us te consider bow this mythology, the science net only of making but also of telling the artificial for the real truth, was applied by men of old te the stars, Ged's jewels in heaven's velvet. these beautiful orbs of steady light, ever shining points of " the seventh heaven of glory ;" and hew the very highest inven tions of this counterfeit religion were in variably connected with them. The an cients, journeying in the path of knewl edge, had net yet come te the forks be tween morals, politics, psychology, re ligion, mathematics, astrology and astron omy. Sometimes Ged has spoken unto the fathers of the race out of heaven, as in the cases of Cain, Euech, Neah, etc. And they who at Babel wandered away from the knowledge of Ged retained only an echo of revolatieu in their memories. Theso that followed them imagined that Ged did at all times speak, but only through the lauguage of nature. Every form came te have a meaning te them, a reason for its existence, a mes sage te convey. Hence, the best way te express these meanings was by their form. Hence, the languages of all these primitive races were hieroglyphic. Then they began te see meaning -and language everywhere, which awaited only a read ing. Above all they found imaginary forms frescoed, if I may say se, upon the great dome abeve them. The mere they could discern the forms, the mere would they understand the language of the gods and their deeds. All that was needed was te recognize what shape was embroidered upon the tapestry along the walls of the celestial firmament, and their knowledge of truth would be complete. Man's mind is endowed with two in stincts (among the ethers) of worship and prayer ; aud following these insticts he has ever held a profound dependence upon some power or powers outside of and higher than himself te whom he has con stantly appealed for aid. Mythology availed itself of these insticts, and became a science of ideas, of power rather than the mere representations of power. The pictures, "or constellations," of heavenly bodies, were only the emblems of great at tributes. Ferm was te them euly a sec ondary cousideratieu. The Hindu, the Egyptiau, the Pheenic ian worshiped the idea or myth et power Dy representing their god with fifty arms ; or with the head of the lien, the ram, or the ex. Te them worship was abject fear rendered te avert evil, rather than te pro pre euro geed ; thus leading them te cruel sacrifices. Mercy and love formed no part of the attributes of their deities. But in Greece all was different. Here the divinities possessed all the passions and loves et humanity, joined with a su preme power, controlled by wisden and justice. His Ged was a friend te the Greek. History. The wondering Aryan, awakening from .sleep, .refreshed aud thankful, looked forth upon the morning glow, which he saluted as his god Arnstra. Te him the diurnal and the nocturnal heavens were "twin brethren, who had been nursed upon the besom of Aditi." Aditi is the space beyond the horizon. The gods were "Adityas" t. e., children et Aum. Aditi, iu a word, was boundless space, but space endowed with life, form and power the power, namely, of delivering men from its heaviest of their chains . e., sin. The storm they pictured as a ram pant bull, "whose bellewings they had heard in the thunder." It was easy then te find a place for him among the stars. "The horse was placed in heaven also te represent the Sun. Fire was Agni, ene of" the Adityas. Such was the innocent, child-like mythology of the Hindus, se poetic, closely allied te science and se rich in moral lessens." But the sin of which the Hindus spoke seen showed it self even in the mythology. The Etruscans changed this simple, in nocent, moral mythology into a political astrology, which opened the way for all sorts of schemes, delusions and selfishness. The Etruscans called their deities " Con sented, ' sharers of the destinies of their race, "and believed that they were fated te perish after a reign of 8,000 years. This doctrine of the renovation of Heaven, earth and gods is found te prevail wher ever politics, the growth et conquest or the migration of a nation has supplanted the simple and child-like faith" which springs up of itself among au innocent and unconquered Pagan people. In primitive Greece the Sun was a torch and the stars candles, periodically lighted and extinguished. There, tee, they be gan te distinguish the constellations through which the Sun appeared te pass. According te He-ied, "Chaes is the parent of Night and Erebus : but tlte Earth is the parent of the Heatens., The zodiac was the heaven which ex actly corresponded with the earth, pro tected the earth, taught the earth its du ties. Said the Cosmogonists, " the earth is explained by the heavens." But as they were bound te proceed from the known te the uuknewn they did in met explain heaten by the earth, and men. Hence, in many universe is an egg ; in duck's egg, the spots en in particular by mythologies, the Finland it is a the shell rcprc- senting the constellations, Examples. Taking the constellations as they were commonly known and accepted, there can no form be found which is net earthly, de veloped from mundane ideas or combina tions of ideas. Thus the constellations, visible te Ptolemy, were forty-eight in number. Permit me te name them in their order. North of the zodiac, were the Little Bear, the Great Bear, the Dragen, Cepheus (the royal gentleman and Argo naut), the hunter Boetes (ignorantly chasing his own mother Caliste, trans formed into a bear), the Northern Crown (the gift of the trne Ariadne), Hercules (the kneeling monster swinging his Indian club), the Harp, the Swan, Cassiopeia (seated in her chair), Perseus (the daunt less), the skillful Charioteer, Esculapius or Sarpentarius (the conqueror of death by medicine), grasping the serpent, the Arrew, the Eagle, the Delphin of Arien, the Head of the Herse, and the flying horse, Pegasus (who wen his place by a flight te the stars), Andromeda (saved and wooed by Peisms), and the Triangle, constituting twenty-one. In the zodiac are the twelve familiar ones, the Ram, the Bull, the "Twins, the Crab, the Lien, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scoipien, the Archer, the Geat, the Water man and the Fishes. The ancients dis cerned fifteen constellations south of the zodiac, te wit : The Whale, Orien battling with the bull, the Eridanus (river of Phae ton), the Hare, pursued by the Great Deg and also the Little Deg the Ship Arge, sweeping along before the Hydra, en whom the Carrien Crew is seated,the Cup, the roving Ceutaur, the cannibal wolf Ly Ly caen, the Altar, the Southern Crown and the Southern Fishes constitute the com plete list of incongruous forms suspended aloft in the heaven of man's soul. The constellations added by Hevelius, of the seventeenth century, are Antineus, Mount Menelaus, the Hunting Dogs, the Giraffe Cereberus, Berenice's Hair, the Lizard, the Lynx, Sobieski's Shield, the Sextant, the Southern Triangle, the Little Lien in number, 12. The astronomer, Halley, added eight, te wit : Neah's Deve, the Royal Oak, the Crane, the Phcsnix, the Peacock, the Bird of Paradise, the Fly, and the Cha meleon. All of these myths are, yen beheld, eirthly conceptions recorded en the im mensity of space. lBSeeace or Stellar Mythology. The contemplation of the glories of the starry heavens has always and instinetive- ly been connected with the knowledge of Ged. It exerted a wonderful influence upon the education of man and the devel opment of the race.Even the Bible writers, inspired of the true Ged, refer te them as well-known objects in their day. Jeb "speaks of Ged's "commanding the sun," and "sealing up the stars ; as making Arcturns (the Hebrew signifying the Ar abic idea of the constellation, a bearer, a wagon) Orien (whom the Hebrews regarded as an impious upon the sky : hence, " giant " bound Jeb xxxviu.. 31, "Cans't thou Zoom the bands of Orien?'' the Pleiades (Hebrew word meaning a heap); and the "Chambers of the Seuth" the large vacant spaces in the southern sky, in which, te a northern observer, no stars were discernible. Again, the word Mazzaretb, used in Jeb xxxviii : 33, sig nifies "scatterings;" and is used origi nally te denote the north, the region of the "wind that scatters." But it was afterward applied te the twelve signs of the Zodiac, scattered through the year. The 34th verse is remarkable, " Knewest thou the ordinances of Heaven? Cans't thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" The word "Dominion" erigi nally refers te "write," or make records. Hence it would seem te denote signs, or prescriptions ; suggesting the notion that the signs or constellations prescribed and controlled the destinies of men. Many ether such instances might be shown. In I Kings xxiii., 5 the word " Mazza Mazza eotb" is mistranslated "planets." Net only te the child who imagines them holes through which the glory of heaven is shining and angels are peeping down upon this world, but te these elder chil dren of contemplation, the shepherds tf the East, supine upon the grassy plain, head pillowed upon elbow ; and te these piiests, ignorant of any higher wenbip than their own ideas, and who must be able te furnish a reason for everything around them, were the stars suggestive ; and their seemingly equidistant position and.arrangemcnt seen led these dreamy superstitious watchers te see (or suppose they saw) imaginary forms outlined in the heavens by groups of stars. And the Uranolegy of te-day delights te retrace the lines that made the old world's eyes reverent as it gazed en high. Even new, de we, of te-day, delight te listen te the lucent poetry of these forms, rung te the " music of the spheres." The attributes of the one Ged, Jehovah, were distributed unto many deities in the stellar world, before the Pagan mind, but it was especially in Greece that the My thology of the Constellations reached its greatest perfection, its acme of influence. The nations of the East, Chaldeans, Egyp tians, etc., as early (Laplace thinks) as 1400, B. C. were the original observers who marked off the heavenly bodies into mytholegic groups. Sir Isaac Newton was of the opinion that all the old censtella tiens related te the fable of the Argouaut Argeuaut ic expedition ; and that they were pic tures hung along the galleries of the heavens te commemorate the heroes and exploits of that bold enterprise. Object or the Mythology. The imperishability of the stirs made them the best monuments, and facts exalt ed te connection with them were, seem ingly at least, te last forever. Hence te place among the stars a gieuping of ideal forms, illustrative of the events of men, was the most permanent and public way te make their facts and legends memor able and maintain them unchanged. Though Sir Jehn Herschel regards them as of but little scientific valne, and though ether astronomers, as Vielins and Schil lerius, have sought te modernize or seripturalize them ; yet, the old nnceuth figures remain a faithful picture of the time and the civilization long age ; an im perishable record of a history that is pre historic. They constitute the poetry and net the prose of history. Better then te keep them as they are, records of the mental efforts of man, struggling upward te reach the truth, than te associate Ged's Revelation and especially the manifesta tion of His Sen with their mythic forms'. The question naturally arises, Are these stories mytholegic, or are they true his tory ? Manifestly they are mythic ; and yet most of them like their forms have an earthly foundation in real fact. Men of antiquity, looking upon what had taken place, have constructed them out of what materials they had en hand (or rather in head.) aud successive generations have net dared te molest se holy a thing as the mythology. Many constellations are grouped about a single idea or story. Fallacy of Mythology. A parable presents a fact within a story from real life ; A simile shows the agree ment of two facts ; a fable teaches a truth by what could cot possibly have occurred ; but a myth presents te us under a fictitious story only the idea that has taken pos session of the fancy. Te show that the whole system of the constellations is myth myth myth oeogic aud net real, we need only reflect that the Greeks altered and revised the constellations of the Egyptians, te suit themselves; the Remans transformed these of the Greek. Se tee there were many myths, or explanations of the same constellation in each land ; as in the case of the Swan, the Lesser Deg, etc. The Cba'dean-i had one canae for a star, or group, the Hebrews another, and se throughout. Ne less than four huge irreg ular constellations wind their tortuous course across the heavens of the Greeks. The Greek "wolf" was the Jewish "deg," and, while some thought that certain stars made the huge bear's tail, ethers con sidered them te depict a wagon. Frem the antiquated spring lamb which we find hung upon the hooks in Aries down te the two dried herring tied together in the last Zodiacal box, there Are many queer charac ters. Many of the forms are the deities disguised whom Jupiter, the chief celestial policeman, caught in their various pranks and jailed, se as te be up out of the way and also serve as a warning te all the bad boys of futurity. The crew we read was changed from purest white te its present shade, becausa of its fafe-bearing propensi ties. Otrieets or MyUwlegy. Three great and deble objects lie in the view.ef these old-time levers of mythology. One is te fix fictitious heroes and their deeds .imperishably in the minds of the people, and encourage submission te, ven eration for and.wender at the greatness and works of the "Higher Powers." Anether is te deify and ennoble the actual exploits of true heroes, which otherwise would be lest from history. The third is te show the interest of the gods in the affairs of men. Toe seen we laugh and threw down our mythologies and astrolegies and cry, "Ab surd! Preposterous!" These fancies were the religion of the clearest minds in Europe in their day. Although there is much of falsehood and of delusion in it all, we of the light of Revelation should remember that these myths were once the only means of knowing ued,and tiis Law, and they are weighted with a value that is net only mental but moral. Net only have they their aesthetic beauty, but a pure, abiding confidence in their half obscured divinities and the kind of morality they taught. Hew satisfying the story of the Pleiades, seven sweet vir gins of spring time, who were made stars, with their sisters the Hyades, en account of their amiable virtues and their mutual affectum ; in like manner, V irgii repre sents Apelle as bending from the sky te address lulus : "Made nova virtute pucr ; sic itur ad astra." "Ge en in virtue as you've begun, my boy. se .you tee shall reach a place among the stars." It was netall madness and infatuation that led te these things. Betore saying se let us pause ! Had the men who se devoutly loved and served these deities of the constellations, who could believe in theso myths with such child-like faith, lived in the light'and scientific clearness of our times, is it net likely that ttiey W.tuld have become the highest ornaments of the Christian Church and models of every social virtue ? Ge North, young num. go Nert'i and freeze np with the ceuntrv. But don't forget te take a bottle et Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup alenjr. Dally Items. Never a day pas-CH but we hearnt nmeiic eldent through the careles use or kerosene. HeAds or families should caution thuinlonies thuinlenies tlcs about u-dnjr it te stirtallre with, ami at the same time always keep a supply of lr. Themas Eclcctric Oil en hand ; best cure fur burn- cut-, wounds, eic. Fer sale by II. B. Cochran, drnggfct. 137 and i" North Queen street, Lancaster. 1'a. Blessings ia Disguise. 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