Tmi -rvTk mi Tir a 1 "n REV.DH TABIAGE THK BROOKLYN' DIVIXE'S SUN' DAY SERMOX. Subject: ''Another Chance." Tut ; "If the tree fall toward the south o toward the north, In the place where the tree falleth there it shall ba." Eceleslaste XL, 3. There Is a hovering hope in the mlads of a vast multitude that there will bo an op portunity In the next world to correct the mistakes of this , that if we do make com plete shipwreck of onr earthly life it will be on a shore, np which we may walk to a pal aoe ; thut, as a defendant may lose bis case in the circuit court and carry it np to the su preme court or court of chancery and (ret a reversal of judgment in his behalf, all the cot boinir thrown over on the other partyj so, if we fail in the earthly trial, wo may in; the higher jurisdiction of eternity have tba Judgment of the lower court set aside, all, the costs remitted, and we may be victorious; defendants forever. If y object in this ser- mon is to show that common sense as well ns my text declares that such nu expectation Is chimerical. You say that the impenitent man. having trot into the next world and seeing the disaster, will, as a result of that dln.ter, turn, the pain the cause of his reformation. lint you can find 10.000 in stances in this world of men who have done wronjj, and distress overtook them sud denly. Did the distress heal them? Mo; they went right on. That man was flung of dissipations. 'You must stop drinkinir," said the doctor, "and quit the fast life yon are leading, or it will dwtroy you." The patient suffers paroxvsra after paroxysm, but under skillful medical treatment he begins to sit np, begins to walk about the room, begins to go to business. And. lo, he goes back to the same grog-shop for his morning dram, and his evening dram, and the drams between. Flat down again? Same doctor 1 Same physical anguish ! Same medical warning I Now the illness is more protracted, the liver is mote stubborn, the stomacn more irritable, and the digestive or. gans are more rebellious. But after a while he is out again, goes back to the dramshop anil goes t he same round of sacrilege against nis pnysical neaitn. lie sees that his downward course is rain Inir his household t that his life to a perpef nal perjury against his marriage vow . that that l.roken hearted woman is so unlike the hopeful young wife whom he married that her old schoolmates do not recognize her? that his sons are to be taunted for a lifetime by the father's drunkenness-; that the dauiru ters are to pass into life under the scarifica tion of a disreputable ancestor. Ha is drinking up their happiness, their prospects for this life, and perhaps forthe life to some. Som-times an appreciation of what he Is do ing comes upon him. His nervous system is all ii-tnngle. From crown of head to sola o( foot he is one aching, rasping, crucifying, damning torture Where is her In hell on earth. Does it reform him? After awhile he has delirium tremens, with, a whole jungle of hissing reptiles let out on his pillow, nnil his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, cry luir. "Take these ttaiBirs off me!" As lie sits pale and convalescent the doctor says "So, I waut to have a plain talk with yoJ my dear fellow. The next attack of thS kind you have you will be beyond all medi cal skill, and you will die." lie gets bettetf and goes lorth Into the same light again. This time medicine takes no effect. Consul tation of physicians agree in saying there la no hope. Death ends the scene That process of inebriation, warning and dissolution is going on within a stone's throw of you, going on in all the neighborhoods of Christendom. Pain does not correct. Suh ferine done not reform. What is true in one s-use is true in all senses and will forever be so. and yet men are expecting in the next world puriratoriai rejuvenation. Take np the printed reports of the prisons of th United Slut-s. and you will And that the vast majority of the incarcerated have been there before, some of them lour, five, six times. With 1,000.000 illustrations all work ing the other way In this world, people are expecting that distress in the next state will be salvntory. Youcannot imagine any worss torture in any other world than that which some men have suffered here, and without any salutary consequence. f urthermore, the prospect of a reforma tion in the next world Is more Improbable than a reformation here. In this world the life start el with innocence of infancy. In the case supposed the other life will open' with all the accumulated bad habits of many years upon him. Surely it is easier to build a strong ship out of new timber than out of an old hulk that has been ground up la the breakers. If with innocence to begin with in this lire a man does not become godly, what prospect is there that in the next world, starting with sin, there would be a seraph evoluted? Surely the sculptor has more prospect of making a fine statue out ot a block of pure white Parian marble than out, of an old Idack rock seamed and cracked with the storms of a half century. Surely upon a clenn white sheet of paper it Is easier to write a deed ora will than upon a sheet of paper all scribbled and blotted and torn lro:n top to bottom. Yet men seem to think that, though the life that began here com paratively perfect turned out badly, the next li;e wiilsuoceed, though It starts with a dead failure. "Hut," says some one, "I think we ought to have a chance in the next life, becauss this life Is so short it allows only small op portunity. We harlly have time to turn around between cradle and tomb, the wood of the one almost touching the marble of the other." But do you know what made the an cient deluge a necessity? It was the longe v.ty of the antediluviiiDS. They were worse In the second century of their lifetime than in the first hundred years, and still worse in the third centurr, and still worse all the way on to TOO, 600 and 900 years, and the earth had to be washed and scrubbed and soaked and anchored cleur out of sight for more than a month before it could be made fit for decent people to live in. Longevity never cures Impenitency. All the pictures of Time represent him with a scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of Time with a case of medicines to heal. Seneca says that Nero for the first five years of his public life was set up for an example of clemency and kindness, but his pith all the way descended until at 69 A. D. he be came a suicide. 11800 years did not make antediluvians any better, but only made them worse, the ages of eternity could have no effect except prolongation of depravity. "liut," says some one, "in the future state evil surroundings will be withdrawn and elevated influences substituted, and hence expurgation and sublimation and glorifica tion." liut the righteous, all their sins for given, lmvo passed on Into a beatific state, and consequently the unsaved will be left alone. It cannot be expected that Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Hindoos the way to heaven, and Dr. Abeel. who pave Ins life in the evangelization of China, aud Adouiniin Judson, who toiled for the re demption of liorneo, should be sent down by some celestial missionary society to educate tho- who wasted all their earthly existence. EvaDu'ulistic an 1 missionary efforts are rude I. The entire kingdom of the morally balk nipt by themselves, where are the salvatory influences to come from? Can one speckled and bad apple In a barrel of dis eased apples turn the other apples good? Can those who nro themselves down help others up? Can those who have themselves railed in the business of the soul pny the debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can a million wrongs make one right? l'oneropolis was a city where King Philip of Tnraeia put all the bad people of his kingdom. If any man had opened a primary school at l oneropolis. I do cot think the parents from other cities would have sent their children there. Instea-lof amendment in the other world, all the associations, now tuat the good are evolved, will be deeu. -rating p'id down. You would not waut to send p nun to a '-.mirra or yellow fever hosp br bis health, nn, the great lazaretto of the i -xt w -r!d. containing the diseased and idagu struck, will l poor place for moral recover-. It the surroun lings in this world were crowded of temptation, the surround inirsof the next world, after the righteous have pase I up nnil on, wiil be a thousand per cent, more crowded of temptation. The Count of Chateaubriand made his lit tle son sleep at night at the top of a cnstl turret, where the winds howled, and wrier specters were said tt haunt (Ijo jjloee, a,nj while the mother anil sisters almost died with fright the son tells us that the process gave him nerves that could not tremble and a courage that never faltered. But I don't think that towers of darkness and the spec tral world swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever fit i.n for the land of eternal sun shine. I wonder what is the curriculum of that collet-eof Inferno, where, after proper preparation by the sins of this life, the can didate enters, passing on from freshman ?!ass of depravity to sophomore of abandon ment, and from sophomore to junior, and from junior to senior, and day of gradua tion comes, and with diploma signed by a.itim the nresident. and or her npofaaoelul Jemouiaes. attesting that the candidate has I .wen long enougli under their drill, he pass-s up to enter heaven! Pandemonium t preparative course for heavenly admts lion I Ah, my frieads, Satan and his coherts lave fitted uncounted millions for ruin, but aever flttei one soul for happiness I t Furthermore? it would not be safe for this , lext. If It had been announced that, how yer wickedly small might act in this world,1 1 o eoold fl it op all rlarM in tba next. ljiiTl he human race demolished in a tew rears. The fear that if we are bad and unforgivea jere it will not be well for ns in the next ex fetenee is the chief Influence that keeps civil ration from rushing back to semtbarear im, and semi barbarism from rushing into nighty savagery, and midnight savagery Tom extinction, for it Is the astringent im-j pression of all nations. Christian and, leathen, that there is no future chance for: iiose who have wasted t his. Multitudes of men who are kept within Xuai would say "Go to, now ! Let mei ret all out of this life there is in it. Come, tluttony and inebriation and nncleanness rod revenge and all sensualities, and wait ipon me I My life may be somewhat short sned in this world by dissoluteness, but that ill only make heavenly Indulgence on a arger scale the sooner possible. I will overt ake the saints at last and will enter the leavenly temple only a little later than .hose who behaved themselves here. I will n my way to heaven take a little wider ex mrslon than those who were on earth pious, ind I shall goto heaven via gehenna and) ria sheol." Another chance in the nexr world means free license and wild abandon nent in this. Suppose you were a party in an important) rase at las, and you knew from consultation irith judges and attorneys that it would bfli Tied twice, and the first trial would be of Ittle importance, tut that the second would lecide everything, for which trial would you, nake the most preparation, for which retain) he ablest attorneys, for which be most anx-i ous about the attendance of witnesses? Yon irould put all the stress upon the second, rial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure, laving. "The first is nothing, the last ia )verytning." Give the racean assurance or) i secomi anu more important trial in tna lubsequent life, and all the preparation for ternity would be "post mortem," post fu leral, post sepulchral, and the world with me jerk be pitched off into Impiety and goi essness. Furthermore, let me ask why a chance mould be given in the next world if we have efusid innumerable ohanccs in this? Sup Krse you give a banquet, and you invite a rast number of friends, but one man de dines to come or treats your Invitation with u difference. You In the course of twenty rears give twenty banquets, and the same nan Is invited to them all and treats them all n the same obnoxious way. After a while rou remove to another house, larger and bet er, and you again invite your friends, but lend no invitation to. the man who deollned r neglected the other invitations. Vre you to blame? Has he a right o expect to be invited after all he indignities he has done you? God in bis world has invited us all to the banquet f His grace. He invited us by His provi lence and His spirit 3S5 days of every year lince we knew our right hand from our left. If we declined it every time or treated the nvitation with indifference and gave twenty r forty or fifty years of indignity on our art toward the banqueter, an I at last He ipreads the banquet In a more luxurious and singly place, amid the heavenly gardens, lave we a right to expect Him to invite ns gain, and have we a right to blame Him if 3e does not invite us? If twelve gates ot salvation stood open wenty years or fifty years for our a dinls lion, and at the end of that time they are dosed, can we complain of it and say : 'These gates ought to be open again. Give s another chance?" If thesteameris to sail 'or Hamburg, and we want to get to Ger nany by that line, and we read in every iveuinganl every morning newspaper that t will sail on a certain day, for two weeks re have that advertisement before our eyes, ind then we go down to the docks fifteen ninutes after It has skoved off iuto the it ream an I say "Come back I Give me mother chance ! It is not fair to treat me n this way I Swing up to the dock again tnd throw out planks and let me come oa ward 1" Such behavior would invite arrest is a madman. And if, after the gospel ship has lain nt inchor before our eyea for years and years, ind all the benign voices of earth an I leaven have urged us to get on boar J, as the might sail away at any moment, and ifter awhile she sails withoat as, is it tommon sense to expect her to come back? ifoa might as well go out on the highlands it riavesink and call to the Majestic alter ihe has been three days out and exp-ct her o return as to call baeic an opportunity lor leaven when it once has spod away. All leaven offrei us as a gratuity, and for a iretlmo we reluse to taKe lr, ami then ush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler de- nan ling another chance. There outfit to e, there can be, there will be. no such Ding as posthumous opportunity. Tuns ur common sense agrees with my texf, "If he tree fall toward the south or toward tue lorth, in the place where the tree falleth bere it shall be " You see this Idea lifts this world no from in unimportant way station to a platform of itupsndous issues nnd makes all eternity vhirl around this hour. But one trial lor vbicii all the preparation must be made in his world or never ma le at all. That piles in all the emphasesand all the climnes and ill the destinies iuto life here. No other hance! Oil. how that augments the value in '. importance of this change ! Alexander witnnis fcrmy usau to snrrouoa icityand then would li,'t a great light in oen to the people that it they surren iere;! lefore that light went out all would bo well, ut if once the light vr-nt out then the bat erins rams would swing against the wall, ind demolition and disaster would follow. jVell, all we need do for our present and everlasting safety Is to make surrender to Jurist, the King and Conqueror surrender it our hearls, surrender of our lives, sur render of everything. And He keeps a great ight burning, light of gospel invitation, li'ht tindlel with the wood of the cross and laming up against the dark night of our sin in 1 sorrow. -urrender while that great ight continues to burn, for after it goes out .here wi'l be no otheropportuuity of making peaee With io I through our Lord Jesu L'brist. Talk of another chance ! Why, this iS a supernal chance ! In the time of E lward VI.. at the battle of Musselburg, a private soldier, seeing that :he Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took fT bis own helmet an 1 put it upon the bead r the earl, and the he-id of the private so rtler, uncovered, he was soon slain, wuile bis commander rode safely out of the battle. But in our ease, instead ol a private soldier offering helmet to an earl, It is -i King put ing His crown upon an unworthy subject, ne Jting dying that we mlg'it live. Tell It t all points of the compas. Teil it to night and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell it to ail centuries, all ages, all millenni ums, that we have sii'di a magnificent chnnca in this world that wj nee 1 no other chanc in the next I am In the burnlsho 1 ju lgment hall of the last day. A gr -at while throne Is lifted, bnt the judge has not yet taken it. Whili we are waiting for his arrival I hear immor tal spirits in conversation. "What are you waiting here for?" says a soul that wont up from -Madagascar to a soul that ascended from America. The latter s-iys, "I came from Anerl" i where forty j-ears I heard the sosp-d preached and Bible read, and from ihe prayer that I learned in infancy on my mother's kn until my last hour I had gos pel advantage, but for some reason I did not make the christian choice, and I am here waiting for the judge to give me a new trial and another flbance." ".Stranger says ths other. "I had but one gospel call In Mada gascar, and I accepted it, and I do not need mother chance." "Why are you here?" says one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one who had great brain and silvery tongue and scepters of influence. The latter responds . "Oh, I . knew more than my fellows. I mastered libraries and had learned titles from coU leges, and my name was a synonym for eloquence and power. And yet I neglected my soul, and I am hera waiting for a new' trial." "Strange," says the one of the feeble earthly capacity. "I knew but little of worldly knowledge, but I knew Christ and made Him my partner, and have no need of another ohaace.1 Now th ground trembles with the an- proachin ehiiriot. The (Treat foliline doors of the hull ssrinij open. "Stand back?" ory i tlie celestial uhr-(. "Stand buck, and lt ' the judge of quick and dead para ttiroui-h !" He takes the throne, and lookine over t ha ' throne of nit ion He says, "Come to judg ment, the lat joJirment, the ho!r judg ment? ' By one flah from the throne all the history of each one flames forth to the vi sion of Hinuelf and all others. "Divide I" oys the judice to the assembly. "Divide !' echo the walls "Divide !" cry th9 guards aneelic. And now the Immortals separate, rushing this way aad that, and after awhile there is a great aisle between them, and a great ' vacuum widening nnd widening, and tha judge, turning to the throng on one side, ' says, "He that Is righteous, let him be right- ' eons still ; and he tbat is holy, let him ba holy still," and then, turning toward tha : throng on the opposite side, he s.iys, "He that is nnjuit, let him be unjust still ; and he that is filthy, let him ba filthy still," and . then, lifting one hand toward each group, ha declares, "If tha tree fall toward the south or toward the north, ia the place waere the tree falleth there It shall be." And then I hear something jar with a great sound. It Is the closing of the boo!; of judgment. The judge asn,ls the stairs be hind the throne. The hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high court of tternlty Is adjourned forever. lieligion is the best armor a man can have, bnt it is the worst cloak. Man's sell is not yet man. linse is tLe way to disease. xtcsKSureO. Bride (exchanging bivdal costura for traveling suit) Did I appear nervous at all during the ceremony, Clara? Bridemaid (enviously) A little at first, dear; but not after George bad said "yes." Kew York Work World. "A Sonrtoe on the Farm." IwJ'fflM' -Jude. Improving; on Nature. Civil Cervice Ir 1 had de makin' o' dis world I could improve on it. Hot niggles How? Civil Cervice Why, see dis hot. dusty road! I'd have two foot o' snow here; and den in de winter I'd have n'ce hot, dusty roads. Uat's how. Jude. Rather Oa Without It. Shortleiyh Iioreby, let me have $10 until to-tuorow, will you ISoreuy Of course 1 wilL liut let me tell jyou this story first. .Slwrtlelgh Say, never tu'nd, Borcbv; I am ex pecting some money mysolf to-morrow. New Y orfc World. Oat of Whole Cloth. Mrs. Jones There are rumors ot dissensions in Sorosis. Jones What is the tro'ible? Mrs. Jones Well, they sav the members declloe to make any statement about it. Jones Can't be any truth in the report Puck. Overlie ird. First Woman (over the back-yard, fence) Mrs. Jinks told me yesterday she thought she was Hie most unhap py creature living. Second Wotiitif That's just like her, always trying to out-do her neighbors. Washing, ton Star. A Considerate Man. Mr. Glockenspiel, the retired brew er, is learning to play the basstul.a; but not wishing to annoy his neigh bors, he plays into the receiver, nnd the sound is carried out of heating distance by means of the imrneric chimney. ruck. Two lllrdtt with Onn Stone. Fanny You take Dick Foster toy 6erio sly. Nothing he says is wortii a moment's consideration. Manny--rut he insinuated that 1 was one ol the mushroom aristocracy. Fannv Humph: He hasn't sense enough to tell a mushroom Irom a toadstool. J luljjc. A NoTiIe Attn. Tarker rooroid Itrownley! He's become insane, 1 hear, working at that telephone invention. Marker What was he trying to invent? I'ar ker A device for preventing people from calling you up when you dou't want to talk to theiu. Fuck. A Caftf In I'aliir. 'If, as the Fible says, 'all flesh is grass,' " said the star boarder at the breakfast table yesterday, "this steak must be the kind of stuff thos tough Mexican hammock arc made ot" rfciladeiphia I'.ecord. Chat Amunir tho Vi'lrea "Anyway, I don't send people into eternity." remarked the telephone to the t olley. ""o," retorted the trolley, '-you merely ruin their im mortal souls." Indianapolis .'our naL A Shock. Mistress Bridget, here's a letter for you from the dead-letter ollire. Bridget (excitedly) It's me ould mother, 1 l;nowI She's been a lin1 fer a long toime. Oh, worrah: wor rah' worrah! (Faints.) ruck. Points In Buying; Shoes. Any one who expects to secure a comiortable Or even endurable lit should test their shoes well before leaving the store. "Many women1" says a Jew York dealer, "jret a shoo harnessed on tbeir foot much as a horse is strapped up by main strength in the hands of an ignorant person; and there is the woman, and there is the horse, fultless to all appearance, mot a trap Hopping, not a foald ol leather that your linger could go un der; and if the shoe or the harness doesn't pain the chafe while at rest, it seems all right, liut let the horse try to start, or the woman either, and the truth will come out. I always advice a person to stand and walk across the floor in a newly-fitted shoe, to test it before leaving the store with it." The former objection to congress shoes, that they compressed the ankles and impeded the circulation of the blood, thus producing cold feet and other evils, r,as been almost entirely removed by the adoption of improved shapes and better quality of goring. The latter hns bsjen so perfect, ed in the matter ot durable elasticity that baggy gores are now the excep tion, insteid of the rule of formerly. The o'.d-fashioned Y-shaped gore is being superseded by the rounded bottom, and with a reach forward where it joins the fixings of the shoe, which permits the use of a narrower strip of the elastic without adding tc the labor of putting the shoe on ol o',T. The popularity of this bandy shoe has always depended upon this little adjunct to its makeup, and the goremakers have .taken the hint. VAMPIRE BATS. Vlte ruumi Variety la the rt sf Cattle, bo VIII Not Tooeh 3Srn- There are some drawbacks to tba Isthmian cattle business tbat would rather astonish the American cow boy were he to go there. Chief ot these Is the vampire bat, says a corre spondent of the 2ew York Sun. One reads stories of the vampire sucking the blood of human beings, and at least two books by naturalists of re pute say that these batsjdo suck hu man blood. Yamplre bats are found by thd thousand in Yeraguas and Chiriquli I asked at every place for a person whose blood had been sucked by vampires, but could not find a soui, and yet people bleep out of doori without even a blanket to proueit them sleep bareheaded and bare footed. - The vampire had every chance t alight on the human big toe, as he it said to do. and while socthiog t!i foot with Its fanning wings to 6uck out the life blood. I could not And any su?h cate, however, nor bad an observant Englishman, C. Freedy, who had lived twenty years In David, ever found any. liut the vampire is the pest of the cattlemen. He is particularly fond of veal blood, but older stock and horses, colts, mules, and burros all suffer. I did not catch a vampire at his work, though I saw hundreds o! them, but the cattlemen all tell the tame story. The vampire settles somewhere on the back of the beast In the pasture at night, and then, while slowly fanning its wings t and fro, cuts out a c:rciilar pice of skin one-quarter of an inch in diam cter. Through this bole he sucks thd blood till satisfied. One wound would be of little con-1 sequence, nor would the loss of blood do much damage, were that all, but a half dozen vampires may feast ou one poor calf or on the back ot a saddle-horse in one night. The calf ii badly weakened by the loss of blood,' while a saddle-horse bo served is worthless until the wounds are en tirely healed. But that is not the worst result ot the bite. The region swarms with a pestiferous fly that soon after day light finds the wound aud lays egg) in it. Unless the wound ia properiy cleaned and dressed with a waxy salve within twenty-four hours after the vampire's atta-'k, the animal will be destroyed by the progeny of thd fly. The percentage of- calves thus killed is large, in spite of the watch fulness of the cow-herders. TO LENGTHEN LIFE. Few of the Latest Discoveries of Scienca Yet Utilized. An Interesting, and, to a certain extent, Instructive statement, his 0 j appeared, showing what a reck less waste of life is going on among u-i all the time. The number of deaths from caus;s preventable by means now well known to science is shown to constitute almost the en tiie death list of one or the leading cities of the country, where, out of a death rate of B97, thero were only twenty-five deaths recorded from o d a;je. Seventeen of theso deaths oc curred from typhoid fever, a disease which should never exist in a cir ilizod country. In the French and German armies, where a modern sys tem of treatment prevails, only one typhoid patient in tlfty dies. l'ulmouary diseases carry of 249 persons on this list; and yet it is as-j 6crted that even in cases where chil dren inherit a tendency to consump-j tion there is no need for it to develop if proper precautions are taken In time regarding exer:ise. breathing) and habits. Stomach troubles c'.aim 155 more victims, and are attribute able entirely to carelessness In eating and drinking, a proper regulation ot diet, at it is claimed, being all tbat wouid be necessary to prevent every oue of them. This reduces the deatll rate from a little over 19 to 9 per cent, and with the natural addition to the length of those lives reported to have been lost through old siffj would probably bring up the averag j sum of human years to 175, or even higher. The fact is that few of the latest discoveries of science are yet utilized! to benefit humanity. People seldom ral! upon the doctors until their con dition has become chronic, and then, to s tve expenses they rarely undergij thorough treatment. Then, again, wa go on t-ating and drinking what we know Is the last thing wj should ihitikof putting into our stomachs, in utter disregard of the laws of diet. We habitually drink water that is a; certain a poison as strychnine or alcohol; we live under sanitary con. ditions which render health an im possibility; and, lastly, we load out lives with burdens which, while as sisting in no way to our betterment, 5:ip the very roots of our existence and make life a melancholy pilgrim nge. "Who shall rear a temple to ttu Goddess of Hygeia, and make Methu-Ft-lahs as common as roses in June? Ucmorest's Magazine. THE INDIAN CANOE. Spite of Its Lightness and FragUltr It Is Adapted to Rough Water. ' What a wonderful creation is the Indian canoe! Light as foam, blown like a feather by the slightest breeze, responsive as a cork to the least rip ple; yet this same fragile bark 19 adapted to the wildest waters. It leaps in safety from crest to crest of the cataract, or buoyantly surmounts the billows of the stormy lake. It was well for us recently that it was so, for we were head ng toward a broad sheet of water that was thick ly dotted with white caps. We were soon far enough out to feel the full force of the gale that stung our faces with wind and spray. To go against such a wind with a bark canoe would be an utter impossibility, but to run with it was great fun. Our safety defended upon the skill of the steers man iu keeping her before the wind. Certainly the day had commenced auspiciously; we were making quick time. The complacent Irishman was taking to himself all the credit for this gale as though it were a part of bis business. 1 was forbidden to paddle, but with Capt. Mick's con sent 1 tied the tails of my rubber coat to the bandies of two paddles and inserted the blades in the arm holes. This extempore sail greatly added to ths speed of our flying craft. On we f!ew, outstripping the spray that leaped after us and fell short. This kind of sailing furnished sensa tions for which no analogy can be found in the whole range of naviga tion. Instead of plunging deeply and laboring heavily as a wooden boat would, our buoyant vessel scarcely deigned to plunge at all, but seemed ta skim like a sea-gull on the very foam itself. So we crossed Lake Talon in a boat which a man could carry, doing eight miles ot angry waves without shipping a thimbleful of water." Outing. SIT UP STRAIGHT. Uood Advice for Toan People tram KraaS Old BokUera. Nothing is more abominable In a ?' oung person than the habit of stoop . ng. and, except when caused by mal formation or actual weakness, noth ing is more inexcusable, says Blue pnd Gray. A sioucby, stooping habit of carriage also suggests laziness and often stealth and dishonesty- Carry yonr bead erect, expand your chest, throw back your shoulders, or you will never possess grace or a com. manding presence. The creator "made man upright." Bound shoulders and bow-shaped spines may be avoided by watchful ness during youth and retained in maturity without an effort. If you bend over too much in your studies get a lower scat. Saw tbo legs off an old chair and then sit down so low that your chin will come just above the table; make the hind legs a little shorter than the forelegs and then read and write with your arms on the table and it will take out some of the crook from your back. One mother, whose daughter was getting the habit of stooping, used to have her lie flat on her back, with out a pillow, for an hour each day, while she read to her out of some in teresting book. In a little while she was as straight as need be and a pict ure of health and strength. in some countries the women carry puns, tubs, and heavy loads on their heads this Keeps them erect. Throw ing back the arms is another means of keeping straight, liemember, you may add years to your life by standing up straight, and you may ' . . . . .. 1 ,. V. .. . 1 n llfn 1 . .. . UUb IIUIJF UdlQ d lUUCI 1 1 1 tj, UUU (A stronger' broader, deeper, happier, and more useful life if you go about with head erect, chest expanded and lungs well developed, with rosy cheeks and fresh complexion, than if you go about bent over, cramped up, stooping, flat-chested, sallow, nervous and mlseraole. Tba Conduct or ' Juke. On board a Baltimore train pulling into Parkersburg was a book agent whose demeanor conveyed the im pression that he was matter-of-fact all way through. No foolishness, no trilling with or in the every-day af fairs of this busy old life. "Mr. Conductor, what time do we jet into I'arUorsburg?" Ten-twenty," replied the oXcial bolitely. Yes. Weil, what time can I get a train on west?" "Mne-twenty." To-morrow:-" To-nighL" "Conductor, dou't take me for a fool because my beard grows the wrong way and my cio'es suggest the wiiipjioorwills and pennyroyals. I'm ser ous. " '. o am L good friend. You can jiiukc it all right." ' -W-a-11, now, how?" 'Just keep your scat." "And leave town an hour before 1 net Into it?" Tnat's the idea, my good friend 'Look h'yor. V:u may be a good conducio., an' know all the stations, and spotters, an' how to knock down 4 ) per cent, o' tbe receipts, but when you claim to have a reversin lever on the sun, you're off, decidedly off." 'l:ut the time changes an hour at thu river." 'Tin. ii, at this rate, if 1 go on to San Francisco, I'll get there some time last week. I guess I'll get otl and wait until I catch up with my self." Agents' Herald. WetMititf Customs. In all civilized countries the bride .ontri'outes her share of the house hold goods. Here they follow the cozy German custom, althougn not entirely, for whereas the fraulcin be gins to have table-loth, napery, and sheets made up for her future wed ding lonir belorc any bridegroom makes his appearance, and, in fact while she is at her schoolbook, the American girl's purchases of house linen are the Hr.-t indication that the wedain? is at hand. There is a great deai of pride and considerable money to be expended in these dainty preparations and the poorest girl in the country prefers to furnish this part of her future home stores for herself. In Frame, however, the expectant husband begins to pay his lady love's bills before marriage. The bride groom ele.-t formerly sent unmade dress materials. He now has to pre sent them already made up. Tne bride's mother usually fur nishes three gowns the wedding (1 es-, the traveling dress, and one other, which is worn at the family party preceding the wedding, called the "contract" party. The future husband is expected to furnish all ntners, the number varying from four to twelve. In England tbe husband's share of wedding preparations includes the house-linen, which is, of course, marked with his family initial, and not that of his bride. What a diversity of goad taste, or what is considered good taste, in dif ferent countries these wedding cus toms show 1 Though we take many fashions from France, it is not likely this will ever or soon be adopted here. Milking Reindeer. The process of milking a herd ol reindeer Is singular, and we have ofteo watched it with Interest, especially when after a Ion? tramp cross the fields, we looked forward to a share of it ourselves. At-ended by the sharp nosed Lapland dogs, the herd appears It) members packed closely toaether and forming a com pact mass, in which the horns are a prominent feature As thy approach nearer one bears a trruntlng exactly like swine, and a curious, crackling iouqU, produced by a con tact "6 1 in numerable horns and limbs. They ire then drlveD into an lnclosure, each animal is lassoed in Its turn over tbe horns, and dragged up to an erection in the middle, where it is milker.'. The quantity afforded by ach is only about as much as would 111 a claret glass, but the mlllc is ex jemely rich ana nourishing. Black wood's Magazine. Natural Result. A man living Id Hastings, B. G, iaught a pet monkey to drink a gin ind beer half-and-half every morning lefore breakfast. Strange as it may teem, the anthropoid acquired a lik ing for this beverage, and when It h&s stopped the monkey took revenge u the man by biting off one ot his cars. One thing led to another un til the monkey was dead and the Man so badly off tbat two doctors were called in. It's a mighty weak principle that an't survive a thousand ados ta tea. I hai X lllf.9 MM a fr IW 1 r 1 Verdict For Hood's "I was In the army 4 rears, was wounded anil ront meted sciatica and rheumatism. Have suf fered ever since and lost the use ot my left le? nd side. I must say that of all the medicines I h tve ever tried Hood's Htirsaarilta is the best. It ha dune me the most good. 1 do not say that Hood's Sarsa- parilla it will raise a fellow frm the dead; but it Mill roiue the nearest to doing it of any medicine I huvo ever known or used. T. H. SaUnukks, Os ceola, Nebraska. Hood's Pills cure Indigestion, biliousness. THE OLDEST INHABITANT A Living Frog that Was Hopping Botora A dm iu Was Created. A miner, while at work the oiner day, discovered a large and well formed frog in a mass of anthracite coal blasted from a chamber 300 feet below the surface in Simpson Si Wat kins' Mount Lookout Colliery, at Wyoming, near Wllkesbarre, Pa. Jo seph Johns was timbering with an other miner, James Ottis, In a tun nel in the mine and had barred down a large lump ot coal when the gleam of light from bis lamp fell upon sumethinfftln the coal. lie stooped down and touched the object and was surprised to And it soft and yielding. There was ab ;ut a square Inch ot surface exposed at the time, and be saw that the thing, whatever it was, was in a cavity. With bis pick he verv carefully chipped o2 tbe coal, all around it until the cavity, or chamber, was fully opened, and there, nestling in the hard coal, he found a frog. Some seventeen years ago, while working in the mines, be made a sim ilar discovery, and bad taken the frog in his hand, shown It to his brother miners and taken it home. But, while it was alive and warm when he found it, it 'died befo:e it had been exposed to the open air half an hour. At the time a scien tist told him that if he had enclosed 'the frog In an air-tight compartment ; Immediately after unearthing it, the animal might have lived. When he made ii.s second di.-cov- ery on cdnesday this fact at once recurred to his mind, and, as soon as he recovered from his surprise and realized what he had found, he ian to bis dinner pail and got an air-tight fruit jar, in which he had brought the tea for his lunch. Into this lie put the frog and closed tbe lid and the jar has not been opened. I The frog at first showed no signs ot life, although it was warm; hut ar- ter being in the jar six hours it te- Jgaa to move, and when it had been exposed to the light ten hours it was quite as lively as any specimen which can be found around the ponds iu summer. Since then it has con tinued to be fully wide awake and stares in wonder at all who look at it. In appearance, it is not very differ ent from an every-dav frog, except that its back is nearly black, and there are two rows of little hilly pro tuberances down each side of its spine. Its legs are also peculiarly long and its feet very delicate and tender. Philadelphia Press. Sujtar anil I'reserve. Sugar and preserves were fashion dble presents in tueen Uess' time. Kvery one seemed to have had "a sweet tooth" in tho c times. The Iiean and Chapter of talis ,ury hav ing a case to be tried before Jusii.-c Hale, presented him with six suar loaves, for which tl:c Judge, who was exceptionally M-rupulous, in. sisteil on paying. Iu Davenaut's poem, 'Madagascar," occurs the touplet: Then reconcile the rich for cold-fringed gloves. Tee pour for Ood's ease, or for sugar loarea. Th. Sergeants of the House of Commons in Lent, 1585, received from Lord Howard a r resent ot su gar. The Chamber of Exeter In 1610 ' voted sugar loaves to two canons for their morning lectures. Sometimes luaiiLiii.ailc uiuue, leuious, or even potatoes took its place, and when sugar. became cheaper the custom ceased. In 1581 all persons in Scot land not being Dukes, Carles, etc., possessed of at least 250 pounds iu yeorly rents, were prohibited the use of confectious, foreign drugs, and costly spices. The Westminster lie view. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds, or fevers, use Syrup of Figs. Tho antecedent of the artistic ratl'c used in our orchestras was a gourd with half a dozen pebbles. Dr. Kilmer's Stur-BooT cures all Kidney aad Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free, Laboratorr Slnshamton. II. Y. Last year our gold production was increased $4,000,000. This year we will do much better. Iv art'sl f!l nt-cr t?rwvr V a uv p i cai uiuuu I'lii mil. gives fresh new and clearness lo tbe complcxiou una vsii9ii .lunula 43 CIS. OU CIS. Ol. Over sixty-eight per cent, of the whole number of English criminals are unable to read. Summer Weakness, that tired feeling, loss of appetite and nervous prostration are driven away by Hood's Sarsaparilla. like nitst before the morning sun. To realize tbe benefit er toil great medicine, give It a trial. Sure, efficient, easy Hood's Pills. Childless and unmarried men form seventy-five per cent, of all the crimi nals of France. Hall's Catarrh Car 1 a Constitutional Core. Price 75c. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, had a population of 50,000 in 1810 and 70,000 in 1391. Ifafnieted witn soreeyea use Dr. Isaac Tbotaa son 'sye-water.Druggists sell atSc.uetbottia There are over 5.000 or attempts at murder every year in iiaiy. The Komana had n inrv cvaism in juiy being drawn from tho roll of citi zena. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. jranuaf Kotos Calling tba WU-ked ta r.a. pentanca. VI RICE is al ways paying dir- AN'TTnurathat hurts man, hurts God. Thou shalt love thy neigh bor as thyself." A max's true spirit is what be is under lire. n the man wno orms a good habit helps God. Covetocskess is the mother of all other sins. When love works it never looks at .he clock. I The Christian who complains finds 'ault with God. I A ico.1 toward the devil is as dan J ;crous as a leap. If God had no penalties his laws wou'd not be laws. ' "Wiiatsoeveii a man soweth, that bhall be also reap." i iXo Ht;iiDEX is ever heavy that love ?ives us to carry. Every good man knows that there 's a personal devil. ' TnE unconverted man sees no higher than he lives. What is the good of good that is not doing and being? The man who works for the devii aever gets a vacation. The man who Is religious anywhero is 'eligious everywhere. It never does anybody any good to give away rotten apples, i You can't check the devil's bag ;age on the Lord s railroad. When sin hides, it forgets that it cannot cover up its tracks. ' ! If you have no trials, how do you know you have any faith? Tne Christian's God is the only ?od who wants the children. The smallest sin is big enough to ceep Christ out of the heart. A lie is one degree worse than the sin which it tries to conceal I CiiiiiSTwill not remain in any heart nnere sin is a weicjme guest The wickedest man on earth de mands tbat God shall be good. I'EittiArs rhcre is more kindness in fvery heart than we look for. The g catest enemy that any man can have is sin in bis own soul. Therh: is no promise in the Bible for eople who borrow t ouble. The only right wav to start out to be religious is to do it publicly. Whkx a bad man reads tbe Bible the devil looks over his shoulder. Largest Filter In the World. The largest filter ulant in tho ivorld is in Xcw Orleans, and has a guaranteed capacity of 20,000,000 gallons daily. The plant consists of thirty horizontal sectional washing filters, each eight feet in diameter by thirty feet lone and filters the entire water supply of the city. These fil ters consist of a cylindrical steel shell, built to withstand any desire 1 pressure. The water is introduced along a conduit running the entire length of the filter. jut beneath the crown. It filters through four feet of coke and sand, and passes out by cone valves. These valves are iru iieddod permanently in the cement floor and Hush with it. They are filled with screened quartz gravel. In this sectional washing .(liter tho entcrc force of the reverse current used in washing is directed against one-thirtl of the bed only for about five minutes; then it is shut olT and then central one-third of the bed is scoured in t!i sinie manner, and finally the remaining one-third is washed. By this system of washing the filter bed thorough attrition anil scouring of particles is accompli-ihcil, as tho entire supply of water and pressure is directed against tho one tliiid of the bed that is being washed, and no partit'ons are necessary to di vide the bed, as the current is forced up nearly in a straight line. All of the impurities are carried off by a waste-pipe, and thus by the use and lo s of a Email amount of filtered water usually 3 per cent of the en tire amount filtered is adequate the washing is effected. jlOI i WHAT t is 7 f ITS FCIRAFFNE. i Mend lor oar Hpeclnl lhi?lia?o Idtoli ho nave goi i,n win you wane. t'ATAI.Otil ES kuki: to HlRH RRAflF RinYrl f FAR S511 71 -" ...... . . . . - - ... ww w. . " iiuijiuM niaae arm nun grauo riuullty, wlili-b wo aroclojlnz out at tho above low price. Ararechano to r t a tlrs;-cl:m durable nbeelat a l.ar galn. Thor are full alzs gents' wbeeU. ball !x irtn ; no-l llctul Willi pneumatic tlren. Send ', to guarantee exprex charges, and we will ship C. o. U $.u.7-., with tuc privUeeo or examination it aeslrod. Apply to our agents or direct to ui. ocit sporting noons I.IXE is unexcelled. Bond tea cents (tha actual eot or ma:llng)ln stamps or money for Inrse llliinirat! foui bnn drol paso catalogue, containing ail kinds ol sporting uoods and nuudred of ether articles. JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS CO., 131 Brood St. and 147 Washington St "LIFE DEAR TO A CASE Of THE u . i re MIMeUM! WMTrP IU rue asuairrr tfflSJf 60?msom Sr. Putt mrr aura Pa OH SMI Iff ittl THE LEAWC SlimiLWUS 3INTFEEE WimMONSWST MK YOUR SB0CERQR THE BOTTLER FDR IT. "Knowledge is Felly Unless SAP THEN Tbe Inst official census of Ireland ( shows Ibat there are 3,940,738 Catho lics anil 1,188,696 Protestants in that island. IT GIVES WARXIXa that there's trouble ahead if you're getting thin. It shows that your blood is impoverished, and your organs deranged, so that whatever you eat fails to properly nourish you. And jiit as long as you remain in this condition, Consumption. Pneumonia, and other Sornfulous and dangerous diseases are likely to fn-ten upon you. You should build your self up with Ir. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1.-ifv nnH inY-iili tli t i , -nr Hi-en ti intn n 1 1 1 ri 1 :i i-- tion, and build up healthy, wholesome, necessary flesh. Ocean Port, N.J. Pit. R. V. Pierce: JVar Sir We have iwd your "O.M.II." in our family and find r.otiiinn else to equal it. One of our children Lnd the pneumonia, and one Inntf beeome rotw-li-duUHi. but by tlie use of tlio " Discovery eho has entirely recovered, and is now lu good health. , VE4DB Q COLLARS and CUFFQ. 1 in- in at mi'l lii-t ir 1:1 mi l o.iiir- ami Cults worn. I:c,crill. I.ii-ik nll. F.tMi-lt. Wesrwrll. A Ikix of Ten cellars or 'lo inin of run 25 cl. S.-.ui!c collar rniJ puir of mil, tiy itwiil u-r cent,. Natuu Ihe if n:iit :. le "'iMlrfl aul n.ldrt-k, l.iu Irevervtblc Oillur Co.. 27 KI!Tl., Iloaton or 77 KninU.ti N'ew VotX. WE V.11L MAIL rOSTFAlD , flno lanol IMcture, entitled our other lim prelum lag book, a knife, tfauie, etc. Woolson Spice Co., lju iiuruu bu. Toixiio, ouio- IE WIS' 93 " LYE L U'AIT-NTED) Thostranirrfct and purrM ty ro.Tlo. tullko oilu-r I.f. It oet:i;r a lino P"W.t. r awl l-ai k-il in a i-:m wlili n-itiovaM.! 11-1. tlio eoiiic-nu are always ready for uf. Will inako the heal perfumed ILiril Soap III 31 milium -a m llliout lllloar. t Is llt- !''! l-.i i l;in'il.K iu Plr. ill-liitii-lliiJ mis', eloseta, wAsliinK iKillU-a, 1 alius, trepn, etc. PEKWA. 8 ALT M'F'Q CO Ccu- Al., i'LUa., l'a.. GREAT EASTERN Furniture & Mattress Mfg. Co., Also L'pholsterers and Decorators, 120-ltIIIl AVK.-ia-'(i. Hot. Green .t Sprins Car-ten Pts.. I'hilada.. I'.i 11 net ivhv nut pnn-li ic your Furniture, I'ir lorirlllts Carpets, llediiiilK. Miiltin-,', 1 "t", Hull Slanils. Side lliiHrds, Tnt!c-. Chair, lleirincni tors. Hiiby Carriages, Ku-.. ot tlie miinutuetiirer direet. (let new irmxN, it l-nys. We t..ve you Tfrf. Call ami be eonviiiee-.l. A few priees : U pieees, lak Suit, Crib and Mat tress Uir-wn in SJI.7V Pa'liir Suits. SIT.UU up wards Kiiekers, 81.50: Chairs, 1'ie.; Springs, UMc 1 Set ol Pillows mid HolMer, 81.0J. Awuinsi ShioleSiind Parlor Suits toonier. i;oodsliiiied all over tile eountrr. lr. Dorn'i Sanitary Tronsrr Supporter!. l)o ateat with siispenttrrx vttirli himtrr tlio i-cltiiniU'itl and i t-e ncti'ni of tlie litnii. n.! Ir. lhtrn's Sanitary Truux:r Stpiarl-rx. Send 1" et-nls to E. Dorn, li'iirrm Street, 'J'reH- tn. .V. .. DO YOU WANT MONEY ? I. this nit!i SV-Vij-'i e-i-!i value as sample trial, K ANSAS, XOVlil-'l'Y CO.. -Mulberry. Kansas. FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOW'S s ft .fx yN fTTTTT ClVT?TTr A A s l-.tu ;rt vt-I hf Million of Mothpin f.r tlnfr cbil'ircn whMf it -thin fr over fifty VriK It nortthfs iW'ciillil. Htifri-ns the p:ni, fcllnvs all min. "iir." w ind colic, aud Twaty!ait? tent xt Honic Successfully Prosecutes Claims. s!o i'rinripal Examiner I' H. i'miij'.on Bureau, (, niir, jaiijuuitui.iigiiuiuB) stij aiutci 8ai3WaBEg?ai mrVetHnre r-!l,T i CH77--1 . mums PASTILLES.' eti f-OiniuO. St.m.-ll ."t O !C:urlcb:oiViu Mass. PHIL... VX. t viinre: nrt. irtifiiorafif from buin. CoucnlMi'..! ft--v kinloraemr-itaor.tiTi,'isita.lai1l4Ku. iiruinl- uuieiuxiui. bcutl lur cuvtusvr. u.t ij?s. A.U. ta 3 1 Jl. Ctir.fS bnrt'f ill fISF fAliS. Best t'iut:h iiyr.ip. Tai'UiB tiood. Use in rnn. (-"in nv nniinriPt. dAl "MEDITATION ". P gtlY till In excluuwo for 18 l-urno Lion rtSl!l "Ti- Ueadis cuL from J.i.-ii CuC-i KSLi r wrapper. onl a 2-o-nt i-toirp i.i If pnj pr.r.t.-u.''. Wrlln tt r 'lt of osibT su our otliiTlliiP premiums, Ini-luil- yfWL n Be V Diamond Cycles $ II AKE THt titEST MADE. II II AM. THE LATEST IMPROVEMENT. IssSlsssI llKJII liUADE I.N EVEIIV KESl'EfT. THE TOURIST S FAVORITE. THE WONDER $ OF THE ACE. CALL. AND SEE IT. 4 nd sho!-troru WiiecU. 6 aeconii-liitnil i ai.i A"XTS WANT Ell. limited uumber of our past fo.voir wrfceeli KOSTOS. ismiR FAHSiymtui to ym? s your mm jh YOU? THEM ooJ'TPf iv:rxnt:T BEST '" CHEAPEST 7.1BLE HOTELS SBEt AfT&blF Put to Use." Icu Sa;.; USE IT- OLIO?
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