REV. DR. TALLAGE.'
TIIK EKOOKLVS DIVINE'S SUN
IAY SERMON.
Subject
" Strangers
Gates."
Within th'
Text; "I tris a stranger ami ye toolc If'
V Matthew xxv., 33.
It is a moral disaster that joeositv has da
ppoiLM so many passages of S?rlp"turo, and
ny text is one that has suffered from irrivr
rnt nnl misupplW quotation. It shows
pn'at povi-rty of wit and humor when people
take the sir.ir.l of divine truth for a Ratne at
fi-neinir or nhip o(T from the Kohinoor dia
mond of inspiration a sparkle to decorate a
fool's cap. My t xt is the salutation in the
last ju lir nMnt to be t-ivn to those who have
shown hospitality an.l kindness nnd Chris
tian h'ipfuinis to strant-rs. I!y railroad
and stoamLoat the population of the earth
are all tho time in motion, and from one
year's end to another our cities are crowded
with visitor.
Kvery morning on tho tracks of tho rind
oon lliver. the l'ennsvlvauia, the Erie, the
I.on; Island Ilniiroads there come pa-nger
trains more than I can nmnlxtr, so that all
the rlepots and tho wharves are a-ruml.le
and a-elani; with the coming in of a (Treat
immipratioii of strangers. Some of them
come for purposes of l.arter, some for mecn
anism. some for artistic (.ratification, some
for si:;htswin.-. A t-r-nt many of them ire
out on th evening train", and consequently
theeiiy makes I, ut little Impri-ssion upon
them, hut there are n'liltitudes who in the
hotels and Loardin? houses make temporary
r -oidence. 'J'hey tarry here for three or four
lays, or as man v ww kt. They spend the
days in the stores and tho evenings in si-tlit-B'fiir'.
Their temporary stay will either
make orl.reak them not oiilv tlnaneiallv, hut
morally, for this world and the world that is
to come. Mtiltitu les of them come into out
mommi? and eveniuir si-rviees. I am cmi
BeioiiH that I stand in the presence of many
this moment. I desire mora especially to
t-ft-ak to them. May (iod civo me the riirht
ord and help mo to utter it iu the rijrlit
way.
There have elided into this lionse those
miknmvu to others whose history if told
would N more thrilling than the deepest
tragedy, more x.-itinir than Tarti s sonir,
more . right th in a spring morning, more
awful than a wintry midnight. If thev
rou I. Island up here and tell the story of
their es. apes, mid th.-ir temptations, and
their hereavem.'nts. and their ills isters, nnd
their vi -tories, and their defeats, there would
in this house sueh a commingling ol
gr i.ms and aeeiamations as would make the
?!"" Ille ndllralile.
There is a man who, in infancy, lay In t
ra.lle satin line I. out yonl-r is a" man
who was picked up a foundling on l'.oston
tommon. Here is a man who is coolly o!e
('rvnig this r'ii;:i(tus serviee, expittng no
advantage and e iring lor no advantage for
himself, while yonder is a man who has Leon
for ten years in an awful confiagation of evil
hal.us, an t he is a mere cinder of a destroyed
nature, and he is wondering if there shall" he
in this service any escape or he:p for his Im
mortal soul. .Meeting you only one., per
haps faee t.. face. I strik"n hands with you in
an earip sf talk nUnit your present condition
and voiireterrnii well l.elng. St. Paul's ship
at Mehta went to pieees where two seas
meet, hut we stand to-day at a point where
a thousand seas converge, and eternity alone
?an tell ti. issue of the hour.
The hotels o f this country, for heauty ani
p,''-':" .are not surpassed Iv thu hotels in
nny other land, hut those that are most cele
brated for liriliiam y of tnpesirv and mirror
eannot g,Ve to the guest any eostlv apart
ment unless he can a.Tord a parlor "in addi
tion to his lodging. Thestrang.-r, thereiore,
will generally iln I assigned to him a r-wvn
without any pictures and perhaps any r...-!;-Ing
chair, lie will find a box ol icat.-hes on
a bureau and an old newspaper left by the
previous occupant, and thai will he about aH
the ornamentation. At 7 o'clock in t he even
ing. alter having taken his repast, he will
look over his memorandum boos of the.lay's
work, he will write a letter to his ho ne, and
then a desperation will seize upon him to get
out. Von l:e:lr the great city thumb ring
un h r your windows, and you "sav, mu-t
join that procession." and in ten minutes von
h iv.-joined it. Where are you going? o!'."
vou say. "I haven t made up my miu 1 vet."
l-'-tter make up your mind bejore you .start.
Perhaps the very way you go now vou wi'i
always go. Twenty years ago there were two
young men who came down the Astor lions a
steps and started out In a wrong direction,
vherc thej' have been goingever sine.'.
"Well, win re are you going?" s.ivsons
man. "I am going to the a.'ademv to hear
some music." (iood. I would like to join
you nt the door. At the tap of the orchestral
baton all the gat 'S of harmony and beauty
will open before my soul. 1 congratulate
you. Where are you going? "W.li," you
Bay. "I am going up to see some advertise!
pictures." (iood. 1 should like to go along
with you and look out the same catalogue
mid study with you Kensett and Ili'-rstait
nnd Chureh and Moran. Nothing more
elevating than good pictures. VViiern are
you going? "Well," you sav, ! am going
lip to tho Voting Men's Christian Association
rooms." (iood. Vou will linl there
gymnastics to strengthen the muscles, and
books to improve the mind, nnd Christian
Influence to save the soul, I wish every city
In the United states had as line a palace for
its Young J.n' Christian Association
s New York has. Where are you poing?
"Well," you sav, "I am going to take a long
walk up liroadw ay and so turn nrouud into
the IJowery. I am going to study human
life." tiood. A walk through llroadwav at
s o'clock nt night Is interesting, educating,
fascinating, appalling, exhilarating to the
last degree. Mop in front of that theatre
mi l see who goeS j .stop at that saloon
and see who comes out. See the great tides
of life surging Lack war t ami forward and
beating agaiii-t the marble of the curostone
nd eddying down into the saloons. What
is that mark on the face of that debauchee?
It is the hectic flesh of eternal death. What
"s that woman's laughter? It is tho shriek
if a lost soul.
Who is that Christian man going along
with a vial of anodvno to the dving pauper
nu Kim street? Who is that belated man
in the way to n prayer meeting? Who is
that city missioM. iry going to take a box in
which to bury a child? Who are nil these
clusters of bright and beautiful faces? They
lire goin ; to some interest ing pla-;e of amuse
ment. Who is that man going into the drug store?
That is tin. man who yesterday lost all his
fortune on Wall street. He is going In for n
dose of belladonnri, and before morning it
will make no iliil-r-u-n to him whether
stocks are up or down. I tell you that l'.road
w.iy, between 7 and 12 o'clock nt n.ght, be-
w i the liattery an 1 Central Park, is an
Ausici ntz. a ( b ttysburg, a Waterloo, where
kingdoms are lost or w"U nnd three worlds
Jllllgle in the St I ife.
1 met another coming down oIT the hotel
!-. and I s iv, ''Wh-re nru you going' i
i-mis-.v. "i am going with a m'-i-lLint ol
New Vot who h is pro uis . i to show me the
mi c r.-i oiihd I j if of tiie city. I aui h.s ens.
I" eer. he Is L'oihg to oblige lno VM
much. Mop! A business house that tries
b' g. i or keep your eiisto.n through su -h a
pl-o ess s J I, t( ;Sot W'Cl flV Of VOU . TIl'TO
lire Misiness e-t III ! is 1 1 1 Uellt 3 ill OUT eilief
wnich have for years been sen ling to ili
Mru.'tina hundre I ;.n I thousands of mer
ciiaiiis. I' e y have a secret drawer in the
counter where money is kept, and tho clerk
ij. cs :o,. -es tt When he wants take those
x.s.t ,rs t., me eiiy through the 1. , ,v shuns of
'lie ,;, -c.
Si, ail I mention the namcsof some of thes
;.rei:t commercial establishments? I hay
'i mv hps. Sh ul 1? Perhaps I had
better leave it to tile young men woo in that
process have I u destroyed tiieniselvi
Wt. lie they hae I n destroying others.
care not how big;, sounding tho name of b
commercial establishment if it proposes tc,
get customers or to keep tlietu by sucii a ir
c as that. Prop their .acquaintance'. They
will cheat yiiu be, .re you get through. The--will
sen I you a style of goods different from
that which you bought by simple. They
Will give yon underweight". There will be
in the package half a do.en le-s pairs of sus
penders t linn you paid for. They will rob
you. Oh, you fee in your pockets and sav.
"Is my money gone?" Thee have robbed
you of some hing for which dollar3 and contr
can never give you eo npens ttion.
W hen one of these Western merchants ha
been dragged by oue of those commercial
ngents through the slums of the city, he lr
not tit to go home. The mere memory o
what he has seen wi'l be moral pollution, i
think you had better let the city missionary
and the police nttenlto tho exploration of
New York and underground life. You do
hot go to a smallpox hospital for tho pur
pose of exploration. V. u do not go ther;
because you are afraid of contagion. And
yet you go into the pr. sen-e of a moral lep
rosy that is as tnicd more dangerous to you
as the death of th soul Is worse than death
oftheliody. I will nn '.ertake to sav that
nine-tenth' of the men who have i-eea ruined
Ic our cities have been mine I by simplv
Kolng to ohs- rvc wit hout any i lea of partici
pating. Tho fact isthat underground citylitv
Is a filthy, fuming, risking, pestiferous depth
which blasts tiie eye tu.it looks at tt. In the
reign of terror in 17'J'J in Paris people escap
ing from the officers of the law pH into the
fewers of the city and crawled and walked
through miles of that awiul labyrinth, stifled
with the atmosphere and almost dead, some
ofthein, when they came out to tho river
Beine, where they washed, themselves and
again breathed the fresh nlr. But I hava to
toll yaa that a great many of the men who tro
on tho work of exploratloii fhrougTt the tin.
derground gutter of New York Ufa never
come out at any Beine lilver where they
can wash o3 the pollution of the moral
sewerage, btranger. it one 01 tne represen
tatives ol a commercial establishment pro
poses to take you and show you the "sights
of the town and underground Sew York, say
to him, ''Please, sir, what part ao you pro'
pose to show me?"
About sixteen years aero as a minister of
religion I felt I had a divine eommissson to
explore the iniquities of our cities, I did not
ask counsel of my session or my presbytery
or of the newspapers, but asking the com
panionship of three prominent polioe officials
and two of the elders of mv church I un
rolled mj commission, and It said t "Son ol
pian. dig ir.to the wait, And when I. Had
digged into the wall behold a door, and He
said go in and see the wicked abominations
that are done here. Ami I went In and saw
and behold !" Brought up in the country
and surrounded by much paternal care, I
had not until that time seen the haunts ol
iniquity. By the (Trace of God defended, I
lad never sowed my "wild oats.
I bad somehow been able to tell front
various sources something about the iniqui
ties of the great cities and to preach against
them, but l saw in the destruction of a great
multitude of the people that there must be
an inratuation and a temptation that nnd
never been spoken about, and 1 snM, "I will
explore." I saw thousands of men going
down, and If there had been a spiritual per
cussion answering to the physical percussion
the whole air would have been full of the
rumble and roar and crack and thundet o!
the demolition, and this moment, If we
should pause iu our service, we should hear
the crash, craah ! Just as in the sickly se.t
son you sometimes hear the bell nt the gate
of the cemetery ringing almost incessantly,
so I found that the bell nt the gate of the
cemetery where ruined souls aro buried was
toiling by day and tolling by eight. I stud
"'I will explore."
I went as a physician goes into a fever
la.ireto to see what practical and useful in
formation I might get. That would be a
foolish doctor who would stand outside the
door of an invalid writing a Latin prescrip
tion. When the lecturer in a medical col
lege is done with his lecture, he takes the
students into tho dissecting room, and he
shows them the reality. I went ant! saw
and come forth to my pulpit to report a
plague and to tell how sin dissects th& body
and dissect9 the mind and dissects the soul,
"dh," say you. "are you not nfraid that in
consequence of such exploration of the ini
quities of the city other persons might mike
exploration and do themselves damage?" I
reply. "If in company with the commis
sioner of police, and the captain of police,
and the inspector of polico and the com
pany of two Christian gentlemen, and not
with the spirit of curiosity, but that you may
see sin in order the better to eomtiat it, then,
in the name of the eternal God, go? But, if
not. then stay away."
Wellington, standing In the battlo ol
Waterlooo when the bullets were buzzing
around his head, saw a civilian on the flebt
He said to him "Sir, what are you doing
here? Be off !" "Why," replied the civilian,
"there is no more danger here for me than
there is for vou." Then Wellington flushed
up and saitl, "(iod and my country demand
hat I be here, but you have no errand here.
Now I. as an officer in the army of Jesus
Christ, went on that exploration and cn to
that battlefield. If you bear a like commis
sion, go. If not, stay away. But you say.
'lion t vou think that somehow the dserip-
tion of those places induces people to go and
see for themselves?'' I answer yes, just as
much as tho description of yellew fever in
some scourged city would induce people tr
ro down there and get tne pestilence.
But I may lie addressing some strangot
tlrea lv destroyed. Where is he, that I mny
pointedly yet kindly address him? Come
anck and wash in the deep fountain of a
Saviour's mercy. I do not give you a cup,
or a chalice, or a pitcher with a limited sup-
ply to effect your ablutions. I point you to
the live oceans ot nou s mercy, un, that the
Atlantic and Paeitlo surges of divine forgive
ness might roll over your soul 1 As the glori
ous sun of God's forgiveness rides on toward
the mid heaveus ready to submerge you in
warmth and light and love I bid you goo I
morning. Morning of peaco fo. all your
troubles. Morning of liberation for all your
incarcerations. Morning of resurrection for
your soul buried in sin. Good morning I
Morning for the resuscitated household that
has been waiting for your return. Morning
for the cradle and the crib already disgraced
wita being that of adrunkard's child. 3Iorn-n-:
for I'm daughter that has trudged off
o ir.r I wc': l.eeaus.t you did not take care
;' borne, m .ruing for the wi'e who at forty
r h'ty years has tile wrinkled face, and the
-toope 1 slioui-l'T. and the white hair. Morn
in : i'ir mi-'. Morning for all. Good morn
i r '. In ilod's name, good morning!
In our last dreadful war the FederaVs nnd
the Confe b-rates were encamped on opposite
si-b's of the K.ippahannook, acd one morn
ing tit" brass ban I of the northern troops
olaye.l the national air, nn 1 all the northern
troops cheered an I cheered. Then on the
opcos'tc si.b. oi the Rappahannock the brass
oaii'l oftiio ('on federates played "My Mary
.aii 1" an 1 "D.x'e," mid then all tho south
rii ir '. ps eh"ei-e 1 and cheered. But ntt-'r
i -, i.j:.. ..u" or th-' l-an Is s nl"k up "Home,
s-.rect I i . cue' a,,.i t He ban I on too opposite
s! of ihc rlv -r took up the strain, and
.';i'-n t ;" tune v.". is d.one tie Confederates
i'i l the l-'e Ier ,'-, all together united as the
e::rs rolied down th'-ir clceks in oue great
iic.a. hu.;'.a !
Weil, tuy trier. Is, heaven comes V'ry near
to-day. It is only a stream that divides us,
'he narrow stream of death. nn.i the voices
le r-' an i the oice.s hero seein to commin
gle, and we join t ru'np-'ts and hos innahs and
h:d:eiij.ii;s, and the chorus of united pong
ef e,-,rt h and heaven is ''IIom Sweet Home."
i.iiin: of bright d enestte circle on earth.
Mo. .e of forgiven, ss in tiie gr-'at heart ol
tiol. Hone ofet'-rnal rest Iu heaven. Homo 1
ilO'C-! ilene!
lint Sll-.pose
of tiie teo.i,,...
; mi 1 all
it'icr in joke.
you tiro sfan.
oi end rn the
ng on a rns
a preci
nn..-uar le I, and SO'ie
ir hate s'.ail run up I
ous
hind
vou im I push you olh It is easy enough tc
push yo.l o.T. ihlt who would do so das
lar by a dec 1 ' Wny, tills is done every houi
of evry day an 1 ev--ry hour of every night.
Me:, co ic to the v-Tgc of city life and say
"V w. v will just look oil. Come, younf
i'.iau; tiiin.'!'! net be afraid. Come mar,
t us lo.-k o.T."' II ' comes to tile edge arid
oo.saai !.. .s until, alter awhile, satau
-a" : ,s up bcliin I lu:u and puts a hand oi
u.'t or bis .si..-,-,' lers nnl pit-lie him off.
s.vi..;y s ,v. i is , vi! proclivity on the part
d the: young fiati. )',. no! He was situ-
! un "xpior r and s.; -rilie-d Ins Ii!o iu dis-
A .
un
. mm comes In from tho countn
: that nothing can do him any harm,
vs alceit all t iie tricks of city life.
i"'i. 'Mid not I rieeivoa cir-u-
co'tt'try feiluig me that somehow
in 1 out I was a sharp business man,
would only send a certain amount
y Lv tr.aM or ex'-ress, charges pre
' " '-vo''! 1 s-n 1 a package with which
tiiak i a lorlnii" in two manths, but I
elieve it. My neighbors did. but I
in 1 if i
if r oil
aid. t e v
I co-iM m i
ii 1 not Lid
lid not.
Money. I
Whv, no man could take my
-irryu in a pocket Inside my
est. No mm could t vke it. No nnn could
heat me at th" faro ta'de. Pon't I know all
bout tin-cue boy, and the dealer's box, nnd
he car Is s' uck together is though th"- wre
tie, and w.ien to hand in n,v cln-c'j .? ()h,
ley c.m't cheat me. I kno what lam
i' out." while nt the p.'imo tim". that very
'I'vn-nf. mi .-ii men ar su--limbing to the
vorst sat.uiio lullucucos in tne si upVi fact
:hnt they'nre going to observe. Now, If a
nan or woman shall go down info a haunt
)f itii.pi'ty for the purpose of reforming men
;nd women "t f-r th" sa'te of being able In-eiligentiv-
to waru p 'opio against such
erils; i". as did John Howard or Kiizi'M-th
I ry or Thomas Chalmers, they go down
"iiong the abandoned for the sake of su ing
hem. then sifh explorers shall be Go 1 pro
ected. nn l thev w. II come out letter than
In y went in. P.tit if you go on this work of
vploralion merely for the purpose of satis
vinga morbid curiosity I will take tweuty
r e mt. olT vour moral charact t.
S ibiiath n-.orning co'n -s. You wak" tip in
h hotel, leu have had a longer sleep
'in usual. Vou say. "Where nm
etsai.J miles from home? I have no fam
ly to t.-.k" to .'hur -ii c-dnv. Mvpistorwlll
lot expect my presence. I think I shall look
.ver my accounts nnd study my ruemoran
lu n book. Then I will writo a few business
etters nnd talk to that rm rchaut who came
n on the same train with ni"." Stop I Vou
annot afford to do it.
"iiut," you say. "I am worth $;03.o00.x
lou cannot afford to do it. Vou say, "I am
vorth 1,000,010." You cannot afford to do
r. aii you g.-in i.y i-rc-ikm
oil will lose. Vou Will lose
th Sabbath
ouo of thrive .
nroporty and you cannot point iu tho wholo
arth to a single exemption to this rule. God
rivi-s us six days an 1 ko s oni for Himself
.Vow. if wo try to set tho sovcrth, lio will
ipset the work of all the other
I reuiember eoiuir up Mount Washintrton,
eforeth" railroad had been built, to the
I'ip-Top Hous au l thfl Kuido would come
iroun.l to our horses and stop us whn we
vre crossim; a very sleep and dangerous
ilace, and ho would tighten tho pirth of the
lorse and straighten the saddle. And I have
-o tell yon that this road of lite is so steep
md full of p -ril wo must at least ono day in
-ov-n stop an 1 liavo the harn.'ss of life roa.l-
,unett an-1 our souls re-'
luippri. The seven
ci'vetTe'Lhonehbt
ays o! the weic aro
partners, and you mint
iwn-.Driuo LM1S.IUCS9 will ro hroken up.
jod is so nonerous with us Ho has Riven
-ou six days to Ilis one. Now, hero Is a
i.atlier who has seyen antdes. anil ho rfvea
i'il tO his CTOedv hov. tironrafnt. 1. ......
for himself. The creedy bov rrahs for th
ithcr one and loses all the six.
Mrs. A. C. Slcdlocto
Orleans, Ind.
Good Reason for Faith
Scrofula Cured by Hood's
icorofula permeates humanity. It Is thoroughly
Infused Into the blood. Scarcely a man la
free from it, la one form or another. Hood's
(sarsaparilla cures scrofula promply, surely,
permanently. Thousands of people say so.
For Instance, read this :
I am justified In thinking Hood's Sarsaparllli
a splendid medicine by own experience with
it. I wus a great sufferer from scrofula, hav
ing dreadful sores In my ears and on mj
Bead, sometimes like large bolls, discharging
all the time. My husband insisted that I
Uke Hood a Sarsaparilla. Of the tirst bottle
My Appetite Improved,
md I felt somewhat better. Bo I bought anothet
bottle, and by the time it was half gone ths
scrofula had entirely disappeared. I en
Hood'ss,pCures
now entirely free from scrolulaand was nevei
In better health, flood's SarsaparUla also
cured me of a terrible pain In my side,
caused by neuralgia of the heart." Mas. A.
C. Medlock, Orleans, Indiana.
Hood's Pin cure liver Ills, constipation,
Mliuusucsa, lauudice, sick headache, indigestion
How few men ther nr-- wl-o know how to
keep the Lord's day away from homo! A
great many who are consistent on the banks
of the St. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the
Mississippi are not consistent when they get
so far off as the East lliver. I repeat
though It Is putting it on a low ground
you cannot financially afford to break th
Lord's day. It is only another way of tear
ing up your Government securities and Dut-
ting down the priceof goods and blowingup
your store. I have friends who are all the
? slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. Thev
cut a little of the Sabbath oiT that end nu t
a little of the Sabbath off this end. They
do not keep the twenty-four hours. The
llible says, "lionietnber the Sabbath Uav. to
Weep It holy."
I have good friends who are anlte aeons
toined to leaving Albany by the midnight
train on Saturday night and getting home
!efore chureh. Now, there may tie occasion
when It la light, but generally it is wrong.
How if the train should run olT the track into
Ihe North Iliver? I hope your friends will
ot send to me to preach your funeral ser
mon. It would bo an awkward thing for me
to stand up by your side and preach, you, a
ThrUtlan man, killed on a rail train travel
ing on a Sunday morning. "Hemember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy." What dots
that mean? It means twenty-fonr hours.
K man owes you a dollar. Vou don't want
bim to pay you ninety cents. Vou want the
iollar. If God demands of us twentv-four
hours out of the week. He means twenty-four
hours, and not nineteen. Oh. we want to
.rep vigilantly in this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted here the European Sabbath, which
or the mort part is no Sabbath at alL If anv
r you have been in I'aris. you know that on
(abbath morning the vast population rush
iiit toward the country with baskets and
bundles and toward night they come back
tagged out, cross and intoxicnteiL May God
preserve to us oar glorious, quiet American
Sabbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome to the great eltyl
Slay you Jnd Christ here, and not nny physi
cal or moral damage. Men coming irora in
and, from distant cities, have hero foend
nod and found Him In our service. May
that be your case to-day. You thought you
were brought to this merely for tho purpose
jf sightseeing, r-rhnps God brought yon
to this roaring city for the purpose of work
ing out your eterual salvation. Go hack to
your homes and tell thorn how yoa met
Dhrist here, tho loving, patient, pardoning
tnd sympathetic Cnrist. Who knows but the
;ity which has been the destruction of so
many may be your eternal redemption?
A good many years ago Edward Stanley,
the English commander, with his regiment,
toolc a lort. Th.3 fort was manned by some
JhO Spaniards. E I war-1 Stanley came closs
up to the fort, leading his men, when a Span
iard thrust at him with a sp -ar, Inten ling to
destroy his life, but Stanley canght hold of
Ihe spear, aud the Spaniar 1, in attempting
to Jerk tb-5 spnr away from Stanley, lifted
him up into the battlements. No sooner had
Stanley taken fcis position on the battlements
than he swung his sword, an 1 his whole reg.
Iment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. So It muy he with you, O stranger.
The cny influences which have dest.-oye l so
many an 1 dashed tbe.n down forever shall
he the meanj of lifting you up intothe tow-r
of God's mor'y and st.-ength, your soul more
than oouqnered through tho grace of Him
who has promised nn especial bene diction to
those who shall treat you well, saying, "I
was a stranger, and ye took lie in."'
Tommy's Opinion-.
Little Tommy bail bcnrJ tbnt bis
Mster, wbo sintrs in the choir, hail a
sweet voice ; but when she seoIJeil bins
fur not doing ns bo was tol.l be saitl:
"They say you have a 6wett voice;
I think it is a sour voice sometime."
At another time bis father bail ex
plained to hiru tho difference between
hard and pine wood. Of conrse be
was anxious to display his knowledge,
so being in the cel.ur with hisyonn .-er
sister, bo took up a j-ie?e oi oak r.ti l
said: "That is bird wood;" then
picking np a piece of pine, "an.l l'ui
is easy wood." Boston 1-t.Tiscript.
Comparative trials of Bhecp shear
Jig by band and by machine mn:b in
Australia resulted largely iu favor of
tho machines. It was found" tbt )(' I'l
fiheep could bo sheared by Mur.liiti:
for about 310, un 1 the yield of wool
about eight oui.ces per head nioreih ii)
when sheared br baud.
f'otcen Fku Crop.
The story of the goose that laid
tie golden eggs may have been a
got i aneotioto in mc good old times
bef re the great West wasdiscovercJ,
lint a story from Ilutte, Mont., over
tops it A few days ngo J. A. Mo
Couvillc, wbo livcsinMontana street,
killed one of bis chickens for dinner,
and was surprised to And a quantity
of fold nuggets in its crop and giz-
7.1 rd. Having thirty-one chickens
that had scratched in the same patch,
be began jidst-iiiottein prospecting
on tneni. in each chicken be found
unlets, and the total quantity
gathered bad a cash value of $387.
The gold was sold ti the State Na-
i'tionai Hank and pronounced eighteen
carat fine. Mr. McConville bought
fifty chickens and turned them out to
; do scratch mining on the gold fields
siiiTouniiifig ins Hencoop. Alter lour
(iiiys be killed one chicken and mined
S- worib of gold from its crori.
9 l Ai .oU-.N'acared.
In this world, where there .a so
much retil sorrow, and so much un-nci'c-isary
g ief and fret and worry,
vhero men stumble in much natha
ami so many pasli them down rather
than help litem up; where tears are
as common as smiles, and hearts ache '
so easily, but are poorly fed on h'jjhei !
joys how irrateful oucht. m to l, I
tl at God semis along, here and thera,
a ,,aturaI heart-singer a man whos
nature is large and luminous, and
who, by his very carriage and spon
t.itieou actions, calms, cheers, and
hedrs his fellows. God bless the
1
1,'Ood - natUXed.
for ttey bless
very-
body elsal
ST. JACOBS OIL
CURES
PAIN.
SPRAINS, BRUISES,
A Queer Quaker Traveler.
A curious looking, white haired oil
Jian, arrayed in a peculiar garb, with e
black choker and broad brimmed hat, is
at the Occidental Hotel. The old gen
tleman is Isaac Sharp of Warwickshire,
England, a Quaker and a religious en
thusiast. He is now eighty-four years
old and for fifty years he has been travel
ing io various parts of the world, and
this la the interest of the Quakers.
He has just now returned from 1500
miles up the great Yang-tse-klang liiver
In the interior ot China. Hitherto he
has been in Iceland, Greenland, Labn
dor, Norway, and in various other places
in Europe, Asia and Africa. In the
Dark Continent he visited the Congo
Free State, the Orange Free State, Basu
toland and Madagascar.
"I spent a year and a half in Africa,"
said he, "a year of which was in Mada
gascar; two years in Australia and New
Zealand, and the remainder of six and a
quarter years in Canada, the United
btates and Mexico. That was the extent
of mv last trip before this. This time C
have been out a long time also, mygrci".
object being to visit the interior of Chin i
and do what I could there.
'It's only a very little that I could do,
there are so many millions of pcopiti
there, but I have Iriel at least, and that
is something. The people are very poot
up the Yany-tso kiany; Itiver. That
stream, which is much larger than tu
Mississippi, is a mile and a half wide
1000 miles up. It is rouh from there
on, and I think in the additional 500
miles I saw the wrecks of 500 Chines
junks.
"The Quakers have one mission io
C'.i'ui, one in Japan, four in India, on
in Syria and one in Madagascar. Then
may be 15,000 Quakers now in Great
Britain and Ire'and, which is soinewher'
about one-fourth of what there are in the
United States and Canada. Elsewhere
we have a few iiu.uberj who are doing
til they cin for C.irUtianity.
"I have been traveling aul trying to
Gnd out what was the best thing to do
s:id how to do it. I have seen n.anj
curious things in my long years of travel,
but tho thing which has impressed m
more than anything else is this: That
the hearts of the people are everywhere
tho same. I go now to the east, to tin
strongholds of tho Quakers in Pennsyl
vania, where I will talk to the people of
what X hare seen and confer with thetn
as to the best means of reaching the peo
ple in China and else.vhcra in the
Orient." San Francisco Examiner.
Jn Itonbt.
The Single One AVby so tensive,
Sear? The Married One 1 am try
ing to th nk whether Harry was di.zy
last n'eht or had been playing joker
afrain. When he came In he said:
'Never mind, love: it's only annlliei
case of later bet than ever. ' Truth,
A ll.Ml tiabiu
Kittie 1 heard to-day you married
your husband to reform hiru. Sarah
I did. Kittie W hy, I didn't know
ho had any bad habits. Sarah Ha
had one: he was a bachelor. Detroit
Free 1'iess.
The Skill and Knowledge i
Essential to the production of the most
perfect nnd popular laxative remedy
known, have cnuMcd the California
Fig Syrup Co. to achieve a great suc
cess in the reputation of its remedy,
Syrup of Figs, us it is conceded to be
universal laxative. For sale by nil
Jruggists.
Frank Maync and Henry Smith, of
iiuiianapous, sat down to play a game
nf checkers a couple of weeks ago and
became so intere-ted that they contin-
lied the contest fur 10 hours without
"mcc arising from their scats.
Indigestion and Dyspepsia.
"I suffered with indigestion and
lyspepsia f ratout two years. Some of
the time I could not work or eat. I tried
jverything the doctors could give mo
but it only relieved for a time. Then
some of my friends told me to try Hood's
Sarsaparilla. I bought one bottle and
thought I bad thrown away another
lollar. But before I bad taken half of
t I liegan to feel lietter and so I
tMHight six bottlc9 and took thorn and I
have not felt anything of dyspepsia
'ince." A. D. Snydf.k, Dallas, Fa.
The grandee9 of S
grandee9 of Spain claim tho
right of appearing in tho presence of
me sing wiin ineir nais on,
to show
that they arc not so much subject to
'inn as other Spaniards arc.
State or Onto, Citt or Toledo, I
I.I'CASOlCSTV. (
Frank J. Cni:sEv makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Ciiknev &
o., doing hnoiurss tu t lie City of Toledo,
County and Stato aforesaid, and that said tirra
will pay the nim of ONfci IIL'XDKEI) HOL
LA Rs for each and every case of V ttarrh that
c in not be cured by the use of H auhi'atahku
t'L'HE. Fkank J. Ciiknev.
. worn to Vefore me and subscribed in my
nros-nce, this tiih day .f December, A. D. lSsii,
I A. V. Uleaso.v,
1 KKAI.f
' ' A'ofiri PuT,Ue,
Hull's Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for test raonials, free.
r Ciienev & Co., Toledo. O.
Eo;d by Druggists, T'o.
The ineffectiveness of medieval
cavairy is snown ly the fact that it '
was always the slow moving partot the
service, while all quick movemeois
'vere executed by footmen.
"Brown', Bronchial Troches" are widely
known as an admirable temedy for Bronchitis,
Hoarseness, Coughs, and Throat troubles. SM
only in bozet.
According to an old gazetteer, the
name of Sing Sing, the popular all-the-yoar
round resort on the Hudson, was
derived from nn old Idian known
as Johu bmgStng.
A postal, a drop of ink, a request for a free
analogue mailable articles saveSS to Sue
' YlWa rve and Braiu Treatment, HTc:
jiver ' I'llK lt-'c: l'orous Plasters, Lic.j Hat
ye, 10c E. A. flail. Charleston. 3. C.
run-making used to be held in high
er esteem than it is now. Among the
ancients there were many offenders of
this kind, and one of the greatest of
them was Cicero.
Saitoh's Care
Is sold en a guarantee. It cures Incipient Con
sumption; it is the Best Cough Cure; 28c, 5Jc SI
Drunkenness is very rare in Ei 3 Ja
neiro, Brazil, the cause being that the
people drink coffee to the almost entire
exclusion of alcbolic beverages.
If afflicted with soreeyes use Dr. Isaac Thomtv
sou's Eye-waler.Drugtfistsjell at 'Abe. pet bottle.
The women in the middle ages al-
'a-'9 ParU?a the"' bair with a small
dKf?r. When not in usa it was car-
ricd in the girdle.
' Japanese farm animals are shod with
straw sandals.
Windows are now kept from frost
ing by little electric fans.
RHEUMATISM,
NEURALGIA,
SCIATICA.
LUMBAGO,
SWELLINGS, BURNS.
YOU.
The Chinaman praiseth his T
The Diand&rin praiseth his Q.
Tha car doner praiseth bis turnips and I,
But I praise V.
The mariner loveth the Cs,
The biUiardiit loveth his Q,
The husbandman loveth his cattle ani E'l,
But I love U.
The foolish have neel of the Ys
The actor ne:deth his Q,
Tha pilot hath need of two oxcjllent !'..
But I need IT.
The hmtcrs se !;'-h the J"i,
The shepherd s-ulceti his (J,
The college 'ioyi se?k their final
"3-AV
But ICQ.
St. Nicholas
IlUJlOi: OF THE DAY.
A curious woman Oae who is not.
c.
A hollow mockery The woodland
echo. Truth.
A force pump The cross examining
attorney. lru:u.
A li un of the law Painting the de
fendant b sz's. Truth.
It is only ia school thnt low priies
make uphill work. Catcigo luter-
Nature covers herself with a plaster
of mud to cure that tired feeling in the
spring. Puck.
Some men aie too mean to bo happy
and others too happy to bo mean.
Dansville (X. Y.) Breeze.
"Who is to be chaperon f "Mrs.
Talkington." "What foolishness t Why,
she is a sufferer from insomnia."
4,I wonder why she gave him the mit
ten?" "Oh, that was natural outcome
of the yarns he gavo her 1" Truth.
When a man is "besido himself" hs
generally demonstrates that he doesn'c
like the company. Boston Courier.
When a woman is trying to write a
letter on a half sheet of paper, much
may be said on both sides. Texas Sift
ings. If a woman can succeed in making
her husband proud of her she can gc;
almost anything she wants. Dallas
News.
A carpet tack is about the only thing
that has the "big head" and still makes
a success ol life. Dansville- (IT. Y.)
Breeze.
Where's the profit when spring makei
us happy and fzj if it make all tho
microbes feel juit the samo way?
Washington Star.
The woman of limited means who M
always well dressed either devotes her
entire income or her tatira intollcct to
her clothes. Life.
Mabel "I wouldn't marry tho best
man in the world." Jacques "Alas,
you have malo mo the unhappiest of
men." Boston Courier.
Every mau thinks that modesty for
bids his telling you what ho cousiden
the cleverest thing in the way of a story
ever told. Washington Star.
Many a woman who resolves when
tho is married to make over ber husband.
ends by being content to mi'te over her
houncts. Uuusvillc (N. 1.) Breezi.
And now with rod an 1 lino and hoM:,
J'he iUuerui.i! so ooM,
Will go an ! sit d j-r.i by tha broolc
And cute J a te trfa c ld.
Ivinsis City Journal.
'I haven't anv of t!ic liquid quality
t'.iat musicians talk a'to.ir," said the bass
j drum, "but 1 citi drown out the rest of
the bind, just the sa;ue." Washington
Star.
! Mr.
Bycr "Those are nico looking
eS" Orocer (enthusiastically) "es,
j indeed; they're birdsl" And thou be
' wondered why she didn't buy aoy.
Troy Press.
It's curious," mused Bjorkins,
'hotv
this lit of esmpensation runs through
everything. Fot example, wherever
j there is a well ol aunt you will always
Cci a sychophant." Chicago- Tribune.
I 8o I should make you very happy by
accepting you, count?" "Happy? Ah,
' mademoiselle, I should die wiz zie hap
piness." "Ileally, count? lou almost
tempt me to say 'Yes' " Brooklyn Life.
The pen is mightier thsn the sword.
This maxim let wis? people hurl.
But take them t pother and tbay are no
match
For one pretty type .vriter jrirl.
(Jhiearo Inter-Ojjan.
At a Dinner Party: Mistress "But,
Mary, how often must I tell you always
, to serve on tho left?"
Mary (from the
country) "Oh, madam, but isn't tha!
j meiely a superstition." Fligen de Blact
ter.
Well, Councillor, I hope you en
joyed yourself at my house last evening."
"Indeed I did, midame. As a n'c,
when I drink tea I can uot sleep after it,
but your tea had not tho least effect on
me." Fliegcndo Blaetter.
Hawker "My wife and I had it out
again this morning as to who should start
the fire." Jepson " Which won?"
Ilswkor "Neither. Before we finished
tho argument became so hot my wifa got
up and cooked breakfast on it." Tioy
Press.
Jlaklng Diamonds.
Tha microscopic diamonds recently
made by M. Henri Moissan are not the
first real diamonds made by the chemist.
Some years ago, Mr. Hannay, of Glas
gow, succeeded in making a few small
gems, and another Glasgow chemist not
long ago announced in an Amcricat
scientific journal that be was making ex
periments in this direction, and had ob
tained promising results. Moissan, how
ever, was the first to form a gem by
means of the high temperature of tho
electric furnace, though the idea of doing
so is aot exactly novel. Moissan obtains
a temperature of from 30UU to 4000 de
grees Centigrade is hi electric cruc
ible, and fuses Iron or silver, which ab
sorbs the carbon of sugar. When the
fused metal cools, part of the carbon
separates from it again in the form of
crystals, black or white that is to say,
black diamond, or carbonado, and ordi
nary clear diamond. The crystallization
seems to be facilitated by pressure, which
is produced by the expansion of the sugar
carbon as it cools. The diamond crys
tals were exceedingly minute, and quite
unfit for jewelry. Moreover, the process
is very expensive. Manchester Times.
A Un:qne Heading CI at).
A new club for reading and the en
couragement of good literature is tha
Half Hour Club. Its members pledge
themselves to read half an hour each day,
with the exception of a two weeks' holi
day in ti)0 year. A fine of one cent
marks each day loss in reading. The
proceeds of the fines are devoted to the
purchase of prizes for the most industri
ous and most capable readers. Boston
Journal . ?
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Rome, Italy, is to be illuminated by
electricity geuerated twenty miles away
by a cascade at Tiber.
Professor Simmands ot Hamburg has
shown by experiments that flies can in
feet eatables, and especially sauces, with
. cholera germs.
A man at Riverside, Fla., recently
succeeded iu extracting from eighteen
pounds of orange peel oil in proportion
of fifty pounds to one ton of pecL
Considered as a luminary, the sua has
an intrinsic lustre between three and four
times greater than that of the electric
light, when the latter is at its brightest.
Musical and dramatic entertainments
are given each week at the Blooming
dale Insane Asylum, New York City,
and the physicians consider them very
beneficial to the patients.
Several French railway lines are going
to light their carriages with the electric
light, "as it has been found perfectly
practical to make and store electricity by
means of a mechanical attachment to the
engine."
The order has been given that all the
portraits taken in British prisons, as
records of crimes and criminals, sbail for
the future be printed only on platinum
psper, the object being to secure their
pei uancucy.
. method of signalling from btiuoons
bi been devised by an Englishman,
h'c'a consists in connecting a numbei
of electric lamps in a balloon to the
tarlh by means of a special form of flexi
ble cable. Current can then be supplied
the hv.nps from tho ground through tho
' cable and they cat be lighted or ex-
tinguisucd by a street lojated on tae
ground. The advantage of this syste.n
over the older forms of war signalling
balloons is that a small and readily por
table balloon cut be used, as it carries
no car and all it is called upon to raise
is simply the weight of tho lamps and
the attached cable.
White bread and fine flout" are name!
by Sir James CricUton Browne as oue of
the causes of the increase of dental canes.
Failing to eat as largo proportions of
bran as our ancestors did, we are de
prived to a large degree of tho fluorine
which they contain. The enamel of tiie
teeth has more fluorine, in the form of
fluoride of calcium, than any other part
ot tho body. Fluorino might, indeed,
be regarded as tho characteristic chem
ical constituent of this structure, the
hardest of all animal tissue; hence a sup
ply of fluorine, while the development of
the teeth is proceeding, is essential to
the proper formation of the enamel, and
any deficiency in this respect must result
in thin and inferior ena ne'.
Mrs. Greyneck "So George is cn
gairedi" Mrs. Taigletongue "Yes;
he'll bo married iu June." Mrs. Grey
neck "I hoe he has a young lady in
every way worthy of him." Mis. Tangle
tongue "Oh, yes; 1 tiuak I caa safely
say that I am satistied in every way with
bis fiasco." Boston Courier.
A TALE PE0M THE LIOU:,.
TAINS.
HOW A FA Ril Ell .4 WIFE WAS SAVED
A Rrmarltnb'e Mary t a Woman's Ea
cupa From llmt'i Told la Her
Uw.i Word.
(From the Scranton, Fa., 7? .publican.)
Nearly five miles north of the town of B r
wiclc. In Columbia County, Ta., right nt tho
foot of a spur or tho North Mountains, is tho
homo of Amos Cop, a sturdy youn farmer.
A Scr.uiton newspaper man drove from
Berwick to the Coiw farm In Arler thnt th
accuracy of aa interesting rumor might be
determined.
He had nearly reached the farm when ho
observed a woman coming toivards him from
the fields near by nnl walking somewhat
rapidly. He was not certain that he was on
the right road and, awaiting her corning, in
quired as to where Amos Cope lived. Being
told that the farm house just ahead was the
place, he said he had como out to see Mrs.
Cope, and wis fairly startled when she r-v
plied, am Mrs. Cope."
She was about thirty years old her eyes
flashed with hrinhtness, an 1 her cheeks were
of that healthful plow that is so common
among the wives and daughters of farmers.
She had been out s.i!herin' raspberries and
was closing up a day's picking of about forty
quarts. Being asked concerning her sick
ness and recovery, she-stnte.l explicitly and
unreservedly that sho regarded her present
health better than it had beon In ynrs. "All
of Inst year, ami part of the previous one,"
she said, "I just mop?d ahout the houS3 un
able to do anythinc, in bed perhaps more
than half the time, and was treated by all the
doctors of the noariy towns, gome of them
doctored mo for dy.sp -psia, others for in
flammation of the stomach and rheumatism
while pleurisy of tho left side, and even in
flammation of the brain (for there were times
when I knew not what I w.is doing) engaged
tho attention of others. They all seemed at
stb, but I did everything; they dirocted, but
without avail.
"Uterine anil stomach troubles also at
tended the general breaking down of my
strength and body, and just before last
Christmas I was forced to bed from whjeli I
did not arise until during last March. Then
none of my friends thought I would ever get
well. Medicines without stint were bought
and taken, so much so that I Anally lost all
hope of life and was ready to resign myself
to (iod's will. It was then my husband read
of a medicine called Dr. Williams' Tink Tills.
He got the pills, and to please him I began
their use just as the directions said they
should be taken. Before the first box was
used I could feel a decided change ; my ap
petite was returning ; I was no longer dis
tressed by gases on my stomach ; IcouMfeel
the blood passing through my veins, and
there was no more cf that terrible pain in
the region of the heart. My head became
clearer and clearer, and before the second
box was used I was out ot bed. I am now
using the sixth box. and am so much Im
proved that I foel that any of the drudgery
on the farm thnt is a woman's work I can
now perform. We bought the rink Pills at
Dr. h. Reagan & Co.'s drug store on Front
St.. In Berwick."
Mrs. Emma Posten. a neighbor of Mrs
Cope, and Mrs. Jacob Wise, a lady who lives
on the road leading from Berwick to the
farm, both confirmed thestory of Mrs. Cope's
Sickness. ThnnxuvrfM n . I : . i .
- - r - - i tioiiim &mos
Cope where he was working In the Held. Ha
fully corroborated every statement made by
his wife, and seemed most happy that Pink
Pills had been the means ot bringing rood
health to his Buffering wife.
When Berwick was reached the reporter
found Dr. L. Reagan, one of the best known
and most popular practicing physicians In
the place. He Is also the head of the drug
firm of Reagan & Co. He spoke freely of
Mrs. Cope's long Illness and of her final cure
7PT- Wi"ll"a3' Tmk Pills. Mr. J. W. Diet
riok, the druggist, stated that there were
many persons in the town now using Dr
Williams' Pink Pills.
An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pink Pais
shows that they contain, In a condensed
form, all the elements necessary to give new
life and ricuness to the blood an I restore
shattered nerves. They are an unfailing
speeiOo for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects of la grippe, pal
p tation of the heart, pale and sallow com
plexions, and all forms of weakness either
In male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent post pud on reoelpt
2! ,r,0.1' 5 cents a 1301 or boos 'ot
?Hth?v " noTer 8oU In bulk or by the
--.y s., s,.uKUIS jr. imams Medicine
"T. Sehenectady, N. Y.,or BrockvUle,
It Beats On Thing.
Fish Haw I thft tviat-il .1 r
Prnlirnn?
Kalbflelsh It Isn't what it used to
be, but it beats hunger. Brownlna
King St Go. '8 Monthly, wmn&'
Cat fehart,
Stranger I am a tragedian and I
have been playing "Macbeth" and
nam
Citizen I'm sorry, but I haven't a
anarter I can sjara.
I, ,1 u- -
fill (iBpi
It will, p'jhsps, require a litt'o stretch of
the imagination on tiie part of tho reader to
recogiiiio the fact that the two portraits at
tha head of this rirticli i;ro ol tho same in
dividual ; and yet iiiey aro truthful sketches
made from phot.Taiihs, tukt-u only a few
mouths apart, of n very much csti-emed citi
zen of Illinois Mr. C. H. Harris, whofe ad
dress is No. 1.02J Second Avenue, Hock
Island, 111. TTin following eitraot lrom a let
ter written by Mr. Harris explains tha mar
velous chantro iu his I'.U'sonni nppeannce. Ho
wivtM : "Dr. riei-ces tiol lcn Medical Dis
co vary saved my lifo and has niado me a
man. Mybome physician says I run nood for
forty years yet. You will remember that I
was just between lii'oand death, and all of
my friends wero suro it wa3 a caro of death,
until I commenced takin - a second bottle of
(iolden Medical Discovery, wht-n I lAHtame
able to sit up ami the couh was very r.iuc-b
better, and th blceiUn-i from mrj lungs
stopped, and before I ls.nl taken s,ix bottles of
the ' Golden Medical Din-overy ' my courh
ceased and I was a new mau and ready for
business.
I now feel that it is a duty that I owe to
mv fellow-moil f recommend to them tho
' Golden Medical Discovir.v ' v.liieh saved my
life when doctors and s..l other medicines
failed to do n: any good.
I send to you with this letter two of my
photographs; ono taken a fcv weeks before I
was taken down sick in lied.aud tho other
was taen alter I wan weil." These two plio
tograplis aro failUiuiiy re-produced nt tho
bead of this article.
Sir. Harris's experience in tho use of " Gold
en Medical Discovery" is not on exceptional
one. Thousn'.d.s of eminent people in all
parte of the world te?t iiy, iu jut as cirmbntio
language, to its marvelous curativo powers
over all chronic bronchial, throat ami lun;
diseases, chronic nastd cntairh, asthma, anti
kindred diseases.
Eminent physicians prescribe " Golden
Medical Discovery" when any of their dtar
ones' lives are imperilled by that dread dis
ease. Consumption. Under such circum
stances only tuo most rt liable remedy w ul 1
be depended upon. Tho following 1 -iter is t
tho point. It is from an cmiueiic physician of
Stamps, Lafayette. Co., Ark. Ho says:
"Consumption e. !'r ditarv in my wife's
family ; some h ive uirtady l;.;d with the dis
ease. Mv wl.'o has ii sis! it, Mrs. E. A.
Cleary, that v.-as tak n with consumption.
Mio used Dr. Pierce's Gulden Meili -al Discov
ery, and, to tho sut-pi is-e of ber many friends,
she got well, - fy wife has nlso h .d hem
orrhages from t".i Inn;, nn-l her sister in-sl.-v.l
on bur I'siue; t':' i loMen Medical Dis
TTonlcrs ol tiie Pc3?rl.
An interesttno; iliscjvery co:no3 to Sn
Diego, C.il., by the way of tiio miaini;
town of Julian, up in tne ai rjuuiii-t. A
correspondent of us p iper, the, Wejkiy
Sentinel, tells of a jjurae over tiu
Colorado desert. Hj hal canit-l mil
way l-etween t'12 S-yoiiteeti Palm
Springs, whto'i is afo it t .veut milei
out, and the F.sii tviriti i, sin: 23 J
feet below the set levj!. Fr j u thero h j
could trace for miles oti the mount i:u
side the line of a former ?e i, tho portion
that was below t.12 water bjioj of a dull
gray.
From Fish Sprin;;; Ue trxvole I t'irco
miles to tho base of a miuitain, aa 1
found that int-toal of c irrolitig li ae,
the almost pran l.csUr rock wa? of
soli coral formation, '-JJJ feet liijli, fol
lowing rajjed lines, tiliiti r crev.ces an 1
lining a cavo wit a a s,u jiict'.o of m 1
nificcuce. The cave, fifty fc?t hig'i by
twenty-six tent wide, of oral lining, is
hardly touc'ied by titn?. Ia a little bay
between two j igijed points of the rocki,
tho bcac'a outlines aro still distinct
above tho coral formation. Little covci
are cut iu the rocks a? evidences of shel
ter for Indian;, while from thotti run ia
distinct traili upward. San Fiaaciscti
C'atunic'.e.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamt-Root euros
all Kidney nnd Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binhamton. N. Y.
Srcial Li.'e in Tersia.
Social life in Persia haj its
features and odd nhrase to ono
unique.
accus
tomed only to the life a3 Euroneaus and
American?. Excepting in tho family
circle and the places of worship the pres
ence of woman is unknown as a feature
of the association. The men live a sort
ef club life. They ride, walk, gossip
and garablo by themselves alone. The
men often spend days a-ay from home
in feasting and sport. In liko manner
tho women have the company of women
only. Bat while the ladies aro fond of
ureas and, frsa with their money whci
they have any, they aro not troubled
much, with the changes of the fashions.
These are tho same during centuries.
Custom prescribes for the lalici a cos
tume to be worn in the street and mosqu i
and church; it consists of overalls
and a large wraj or mantle callc 1 .1
chaim; both are of a dark bluo cottoi
fabric. One object of the costume is to
obliterate all distinctions between the
rich and poor in apparel. In this all
women look alike excepting only the
different appearance in stature. As a
result no man can know his wife or sister
on tho street or in a public place. Since
the chadm covers the head it does away
with tho hat or bonnet. Inexorable cus
tom requires this coveriag, and no na
tive woman would Ventura to appear in
public without it. The gentlemen, how
ever, gratify their own personal taste in
dress to the extent of their means of do
ing so. New York Advertiser.
Rich, red blood flR TintiimMiT nuinit. r
tag Hoods Fareaparilla as personal cleanllnes
results from free use of soap and water. Thl
great purifier thoroughly expels scrofula, sa't
rheum and all other Impurities
o.'. Pill, are easy, yet efficient.
Tho Milan. Calliclra!.
raV?:thearal fHiIaa; ich is I.
(Tardea bv rr.anir . . . .
. . - J uussi Cnurch
structure la Europe, and therefore 7
T. " several cra;l;i
!wit M-t3maia nave. Wch ar
?WaLT'dCn'l"' 8nd iS 'care,
'Jy' of the entire roof.
lua work nt Ko-11: .v- .. -
betrur. in i5ar . ca "eclral t-r
began in 138G, more than 53 0 years a,
and It u not yet entirely completed, "jl
old , W ,t-wi.U DOt faU down ir
Time!: W0 U U fi.Chicas,
"Tie Best Is, Aye, tie ffldpar;. Avoid Imitatir,as cf
rm
ana bntsutstes for
SAPOLSO
covery. I consented to her using it, and f .
cured her. She has bad no symptoms of con
sumption for the past six years. Peopl
having this disease can tike no better rem
etiy." ours very iruiy,
Prom the Euckeye State comes tiie follow
ing : " I was pronounced to have consump
tion by two of our best doctors. I spent
nearly " $:;'Ji, and was no bet ter. I concluded
to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
I bought and used ei'.ht bottles and I can
now say with truth that I feel just as well
to-day as I did at twenty-five, and can do just
as good a day's work on the farm, although
had not done anv work for several years."
Truly, your friend,
Hi. Dulaney's ndures3 is Campbell, Ohio.
" I had catarrh in the head for years and
trouble with my left lung at the samo time.
You put so much faith in your remedies that
I concluded to try or.e bottle or two, and I
derived much benefit therefrom. I used up
three bottles of Dr. Sae's Catarrh Remedy,
live bottles of your Golden Mcdicrd Discov
ery," nnd in four months I was myself again.
I could not sieop on my left side, and now I
cr.n sleep and eat heanilv. So long as I nave
your medicines on band I have no need of a
doctor ; I do not think my house in order
without them. Yours truly,
Moriow, Btddwin Co., Ala.
If it would ho any moro convincing, wa
could easily fill the commas at ibis paper with
b ttcrs testifying to the cure of tneseveresf
diseases cf tho tltront, bronchia and lungs,
by tho uso of ' (.iolden Mecal Discoverv.
j'o build up suli'l f.rsh and strength nftcr thi
i strip, pneumonia, ("lung fever"), exhausing
levers, and other prosirating diseases, it baa
no equal. It does not innko fat likecod livet
eil and its nasty compounds, out solid, uholo
iodic flesh.
A complete treatise on Throat, Ilroncliial,
and I.ung Diseases ; also including Asthma,
and Chronic Nasal Catarrh, and jwinting out
successful means of homo treatment for the-
maladies, will lie mailed to any address by tb
World's Dis'iensary Medical Association o"
r.ufTulo, N. Y., on receipt of six cents a
stamps, to pay postage.
Natural Tulont
Mrs. Ilcartley It's a shamo aboi;'
.1.... ... .... -
LiiilL yiiUUK jew en v-siui u liiiul.
think she is unusually intelligent.
Mr. Iloartlcy Yes. tiie onieers
flie Is very ait in picking things
Jeweler's "Weekly.
say
up.
A llHrah Critic
iTr. 0:177:1111 fdUTdnvinrf Kiimr
Gazzain (displayincr
china) "Sow I have painted it I must
have it fired.
Gazznm Well, it deserves it. Shal
I pitch it Into the ash barrel?1
Truth. j A Flexible Rule.
1 rriscilla Uut don't you thin k ft
a girl's duty to ask the consent of hei
parents?
; I'runclla Oh, yes;unless she thinks
they won't crant it. "ew York Iler
all. i A book printed by Caxton has been
found, it is claimed, in the lumber loft
of ;i Connecticut farm house.
rrG0LCIi:3,th"
BEST in Marker'
IltST IN tt KAl.iU
SlLAUiV.
The outi-r or lap t-i
cxtt mis the -it-iiih
tlo n to the ht'i. protyr
th t in i:rdC
TV FIT
'ami iuoittr li.u-J jrjrk
AS YOi-! TFA.U
l-l'i; lllhl,
cnl rto:it lt vtt off
luft'rior giKHb.
Colchester Rubber Co
.ssjsysTW --Vsy-vsyj jsrsVV rfrVM71.
FOR FIFTY YEARS I
MRS. WINSLOW'S 1
SOOTHING SYRUP f
haa been nwl by million of Mother ?
r tl .-ir children while Te.lnn i..r o.-r
KlftyYiar. It sa.'lifi thcchill. .si.tUTH II. c I
P'.ins, all.'iy all pai'i, chits wind colic, niJ '
U tup bt-it reui.sjy for tliurrr.'S-a.
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ilL-cnptionol (.;;rci'
ncri.ymnil. V-.twr fref . Yu r.-n , -t iti.
bargains ol dealers w ho imli uur shoca.'
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