DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Brilliant Bltterne**"— Attlla the Hun Udell as a Horrible Example— lß He a Type of the Wormwood Men tioned in Kevelatlon? TEXT: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it [ell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood."—Revela tion x., 11. Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, Mat tliew Henry, Albert Barnes and some other commentators say that the star Wormwood >f my text was a type of Attlla, king of the Huns. He was so called because he was brilliant as a star, and, like wormwood, he imbittered everything he touched. We have studied the Stnr of Bethlehem, and the Morning Star of Revelation and the Star of Peace, but my subject calls us to gaze at the star Worm wotd. and my theme might be called "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary character history does not furnish than this man Attlla, the king of the Huns, The story goes that one day a wounded helfercame limping along through the fields, and a herdsman fol lowed Its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer was wounded, and went on hack, further and farther, until he came to a sword fast in the earth, the point down ward, as though it had dropped from the heavens, and against the edges of this sword the heifer had been cut. The herds man pulled up that sword and presented it to Attlla. Attlla said that sword must have dropped from the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars, and its being given to him meant thnt Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called liberators or the Merciful or the Good, hut Attila called himself and demanded that others call him "the Scourge of God." At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted on Cappadocian horses, he swept every thing, from the Adriatic to the Rlnck Sea. He put his iron hee'. on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. Ho made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for merey, which he bestowed not. The By zantine cnstles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid go'd. When a city was captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes. The first class, those who could bear arms, must immediately enlist under AHila or be butchered; the second class, the beauti ful women, were made captives to the Huns; the third class, the aged men and women, were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay a heavy tax. It was a common saying that the grass never grew where the hoof of Attila's horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle since the world stood—3oo,ooo dead left on the field. On and on until all those who could not op pose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, then a cloud or dust was seen in the distance, and a bishop cried, "It is the aid of God," and all the people took up the cry. "It is the aid of God." As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re-enforcing armies marched in to help against Attila. "The Scourge of God." The most unimportant occurrences he used as a supernatural resource. After three months of ialiure to capture city of Aquileia, when his army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork and her young from the tower of the city was taken iiy him ns a sign that he was to capture the city, and his army, inspired with the same occurence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slnin on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired Tor the as sassination, Ills followers bewailed him, not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lnuces. He was put into three cofSns, the first of Iron, the second of silver and the third of gold. He was burled by night, and into his grave was poured the most valuable coins and precious stones, amounting to the wealth of a kingdom. The gravediggers and all those who assisted at the burial wore mnssscrsd, so that It would nevor be known wiiere so much wealth was en tombed. The Eomj.n empire conquered the world, but Attlla conquered the Roman empire. He was right in calling himself a scourge, but instead of being "the scourge of God" he Wc.B the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitterness, the commentators might well have sup posed bim to be the star Wormwood of the text. As the regions he devastated were ports most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see bow graphic my text is: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought how many embit tered lives there are all about us, misan thropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The Europeun plant from which wormwood is extracted, Artemisia absinthium, is a per ennial plant, and all the year round it is rei;dy to exude its oil. And In many hu raeL lives there Is a perennial distillation of acrid experiences. Yea, there are some whose whole work is to shed a baleful in fluence over others. There are Attllas of the home, Attilas of the social circle, At tilasof the church, Attilas of the State, and une-thlrd of the watersof all the world are poisoned by the falling of the star Worm wood. It is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they got great power, become overbearing. The more power men have the better, it their power be used for good. The less power men have the better, if they use it for evil. But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal? Are your children everlastingly peeked at? Are you always crying "Hush!" to the merry voices uud swift feet, and to the laughter, which occasionally trickles through at wrong times, and is suppressed by them until they can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and caehinnation, as In high weuther the water has trickled through a slight open ing in the milldam, but afterward makes wider and wider breach until it carries all before it with irresistible freshot? Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to bear one shout from the silent voice, or one step from the still foot. You will not any of you have to vait very long before your house is stiller han you want it. Alas that there are so nany homes not known to the Society for •ha Prevention of Cruelty to Children, vhere children are whacked and cuffed and >ar pulled, and senselessly called to order, .ml answered sharply and suppressed, un- II it is u wonder that under such processes bey do not all turn out Nana Sahios! But I will change this and suppose you re a star of worldly prosperity. Then you nve Inrge opportunity. You can encour ge that artist by buying his picture. You •in improve the fields, the stables, the ighway, by introducing higher style of wl and horse and cow and sheep. You m bless the world with poraologlcal ihievement in the orchard. You can ad ance arboriculture and arrest the death il destruction of the American forests, an can put a piece of sculpture into the che of that public academy. You can idow a college. You can stocking 1000 ire feet from the winter frost. You can rfld a church. You can put a missionary Christ on that foreign shore. You can Ip ransom a world. A rich man with his art right—oan you tell me how muoh od a James Lenox or a George Paabo.lv or a Peter Cooper or » William E. Dodgf did while living or is doing now that he It dead. There is not a city, town or neigh borhood that has not glorious specimens of consecrated wealth. But suppose you grind the face of th« poor. Suppose, when a man's wages ar« due. you make him wait for them because be cannot help himself. Suppose thnt, be cause his family is sick and he has had ex tra expenses, he should politely ask vou to raise bis wages for this year, and you roughly tell him if he wants a better place togo and got it. Suppose, by your man ner, act ns though he were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are selfish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to be Attlla and your last name Attila, because you are the star Wormwood and you have imbittered one-third, if not three-thirds of the waters that roll past your employes and opera tives and dependents and associates, aid the long line of carriages which the under taker orders for your funeral in order to make the occasion respectable will be filled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes, as there are persons occupying them. You will be in the world but a few minutes. As compared with eternity, the stay of the longest life on earth is not more than n minute. Whnt are we doing with tbal minute? What is true of individuals is true ol nations. God sets them up to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood Tyre— the atmosphere of the desert, fragrant spices coming in caravans to her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by the keels of hei laden merchantmen; her markets rich with horses and camels from Togarmah; the bazaar filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and ngato from Syria, with mines from Helbon, with embroidered woru from Asliur nnd Chil mnd. Where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets where once she stood, let the son that rushes npon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration of all nations, let the barbarians who set set their rude tents where once her palaces glittered, answer the questions. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to worm wood and has fallen. Hundred gated Thebes—for all time to be thestudyof antiquarian nnd bieroglyphlst. Her stupendous ruins spread over twenty seven miles, her sculptures presenting in figure of wnrrlor nnd chariot the victories with which the now forgotten kings ol Egvpt shook the nations; her obelisks and columns; Karnak and Luxor, the stupend ous temples of her pride! Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days, when the hippodrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines, and her avenues roared with the wheels of pro cessions in the wake of returning conqurorsl What spirit of dostruotiou spread the lair of wild beuts in her royal sepulchers and taught the miserable cottagers of to-day to build huts In the courts of her temples nnd sent desolation nnd ruin skulking be hind the obelisks, and dodging nmong the sarcophagi, and leaning against the col umns, and stooping among the arches, and weeping in the wnters which go mourn fully by, as though they were carrying the learsof all the ages? Let the mummies break their long silence and come up to shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced sculpture, responding: "Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated right eousness and loved sin. Thebes was » star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." Babylon, with her 250 towers and her brazen gates nnd her embattled walls, the splendor of the earth gathered within hoi gates, her hanging gardens built by Ne buchadnezzar to please his bride. Amytis, who had been brought up inn mountain ous country and could not endure the flnt country around Babylon. These hanging gardens built terrace above terrace, till at ttie height of 400 feet there were woods waving and fountains playing, the verdure, the foliage, the glory, looking as it a moun tain were on the wing. On the tiptop a king walking with Ills queen among the statues, snowy white, looking up at birds brought from distant lands and drinking out of tankards of solid gold or looking ofl over rivers and lakes upon nations subdued and tributary, crying, "Is not this great Babylon which I have built?" Whnt battering ram smote the walls; What plowshare upturned the gardens? What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out this light which lllumiuated the world: What crash of discord drove down the mu sic that poured from palaco window and garden grove and called the banqueters to their revel nnd the dancer to their feet? I walk upon the scene of desolation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery, the remains of Babylon. I hear the wild waves saying: "Babylon was proud. Babylon was im pure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen." From the persecutions of the pilgrim fathers and the Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. The council fires of the aborigines went out In the greater light of a free government. The sound of tho warwhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and pro gress. The mild winters, the fruitful sum mers, the healthful skies, charmed from other lauds a race of hardy men, who loved Gcd and wanted to be free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the banks of lnkes be gan to rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail car, and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of Western wheat meet on the way fabulous bushels of Eastoru coal. Furs from the North pass on the rivers fruits from tho South. And trading in the same market are Maine lumbermen and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon 70,000,000 of people. I pray that our nation may not copy the crimes of nations that have perished; that our cup of blessing turn not to ivormwood and we go down. lam by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that tills country will continue to advanoe until the world shall reach the miilenlal era. Our only safety is in righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have again aud again come to us ns a people, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic, nor drought, nor mildew, nor scourge of locust aud grasshopper; It the political corrup tion which ha-i poisoned the foundations of public virtue nnd besiimed the high places of authority, making free govern ment at times a hissing and a byword in all the earth; If the drunkenness and li centiousness that stagger and blaspheme in the streets of our groat cities, as though they were reaching after the fame of a Cor inth and a Sodom, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin. The pillars of our national and State Capi tols will fall more disastrously than when Sampson pulled down the Dragon, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with generous tears thestory that the free nation of the west arose m splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities; it forgot God; It hated justice; it hugged its crimes, it halted on its high march; it reeled under the blow of calamity; it fell, and as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from the top of bloody thrones began to shout: "Aha! So would we have it!" while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, the scorn of those nnd the woe of these, uniting in the ex clamation: "Look yonder! 'There fell a great stnr from heaven burning as it were a lamp, and It fell upon the third part of the rivers aud upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood!' " C«u|hi Lead M Comnmptlra. 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Hoxsle, Buffalo,N.Y. .Toy over the discovery of an oil-well killed two men in Scio, 0., not long ago. A Curious Krlrigo ut Mans. There has recently been completed at Mans, France, u bridge which is most curious, from a technical point of view, and remarkable from an ar tistic point of view. In the town of Mans an electric tramway had been constructed which was to run across the river at a certain point. The steam railway of Saint-Denis-d'Arques, in operation since 1888, crossed the river at the same point. If the two roads crossed on laud, two bridges would bo required. The old railway bridge could not be used, as it was already worn out by long service. It was therefore decided to build a single bridge with two branches, thus leaving passages for the railway and the tramway. The structure, as a re sult, is X-shaped, and the two roads cross each other in midstream. By reason of this peculiar structure a saving of $2400 was effected—a very considerable sum, when it is consid ered that two bridges would have cost S9OOO. —Scientific American. L R3E$ \1 7 ITH a better understanding: of the transient nature of the many physical ills which vanish before proper 112« W efforts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts—rightly directed. There Is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of illness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the system, which / the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Pigs, promptly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions '/W\jA of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to /i r the fact that it is the only remedy which promises internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which v » /M\ /{ fj it acts. 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Each acre of the ground available in Mexico for the purpose can accommodate about 200 trees. Each tree should yield from one to two pounds of rubber an nually, with a value of sixty to seventy cents a pound, United States cur rency. The cost of gathering and preparing the rubber is small, and, with freight charges, amounts to so slight a pro portion that an average profit of fifty cents a pound may be relied upon. Therefore, the net annual returns to the planter should be between SIOO and S2OO an acre each year. The trees continue to grow larger, increasing the amount of their product each year. It is estimated that on a plantation in Mexico fifteen years old each tree should yield an average of five pounds of rubber. The only objection planters can find against entering the rubber-growing industry is the long time they must wait after planting before they can realize any retnrns. While it is -true that it involves much patients wait ing, it is considered the safest of crops, with practically no risk of loss. The prices quoted are top figures in the markets of tlie world. With such opportunities as Mexico offers there is little danger of the rub ber supply failing behind the demand in the near future, as has been sug gested by some of the larger dealers. —New York Press. London'! Asiatic*. London has a floating population of some ten thousand Asiatics—equal ing that of a small town; and, if a lit tle malodorous sometimes, and in clined to linger outside the pale of modern civilization, it is interesting to make their acquaintance, note their habits and the places they fre quent. Even their vices have a cer tain element of picturesqueness, and —especially among the Chinese—some of their ceremonies obtrude upon the attention. For high life among the Asiatic population you must goto Bayswater, which is spoken of among foreigners as "Asia Minor." Here reside the rich Orientals who are en gaged in commerce or have come for purposes of education or pleasure. These are the small and cultured mi nority. For the large majority, the Asiatics of the slums, you must go out to Poplar and Shadwell—to the neigh borhood of tne East India Docks by preference. It is here the Oriental is to be seen in all the richness of his infinite variety.—Paris Messenger. UJ AM i'Jr.JJ— ijaaeol oad neaiiii that U-1-1.-A-.N --will not benefit. Semi o cts.to Kipans (Chemical Co., New York, for 10samples and 1000 testimonials. | PIUCIiM A TIC M CURKU—Sample bottle, 4d%ys' ICIILUITIA 1 lOlrl treatment, postpaid, TO cents. ■■ ALEXANDER REMEDY CO.. 24bGreenwich St., N.Y, LL/TTTVTTNRFYM TILLS PAPER WHEN REPLY IVLrjLM 1 IUIN ING TO ADVTS. NYNI;— t a U Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. CM |Bl Cd In time. Bold or druggtats. M | g|y j| 11 i i S! *> g A SONG OF HOME. g <3 The summer day is over, In the housewife's hand awaiting; *3| And weary with honest toil. Is a cake of Ivory Soap, 5» Home, through the fields of clover And we hear her say:" Hie dirt away, "S* That springs from the fertile soil, Tis this that gives us hope." Z~ Plods now the sturdy farmer So he takes the shining treasure, <? "With grimy hands, and though And laughing with delight, 2> Soiled too, indeed, is his suit of tweed, Cries: " See it float, the magic boat <3> But little cares he, I trow. That makes my home so bright." ,> <y & $ A WORD OF WARNING. —There are many white soaps, each represented to be " just Kg as good as the ' Ivorythey ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for " Ivory " Soap and insist upon getting it. '*> jfa Capyrljht, 1893, by Tb« Procter ft CUrablt Co., Cinctnoui -^2 Not Really Perfidious. A correspondent sends us an inter esting account of the trust reposed by our neighbors in British good faith. At a time when war between Great Britain and France seemed possible, if not probable, it was feared that it would involve a bombardment of Havre. Insurances were accordingly effected at Lloyd's by Frenchmen at Havre against any damage which might in such a case be done to their buildings. Such au underwriting contract would be unenforceable at law, but the Frenchmen who paid their insurance felt certain that the British underwriters would not take advantage of any legal point, but would pay up—as, of course, they would have done. After all, this lit tle incident should serve to show that "perfide Albion" is very often not much more than a phrase.—Westmin ster Gazette. n D n D 6 V DIBCOTIKT: lira FX • VP I quick relief aad cares worst cases. Book of testimonial*and 10 rinva' treatment Free. Dr. X. •lEIM'I lOMI Boa D. Atlanta. Oa. "A Fair Face May Prove a Foul Bar gain." Marry a Plain Girl if She Uses SAPOLIO A ltritiHli Plaint. We recommend those who are inter ested in public art in this country ta look at the account given of the deco rative work carried out at the new Paris Opera Comique. The exterior sculpture is by the greatest French sculptors of the day; for the decora tive paintings in the auditorium, the staircases ana the foyers a galaxy of the most gifted French painters have been employed, and all this paid for by the Government, for the public good and for the encouragement of na tional art. When shall we see such a thing in England? It is as if we had a London theater decorated with sculpture by Mr. Gilbert and Onslow Ford, and the halls and staircases painted by Mr. Watts, Mr. Tadema and Sir E. Poynter. Instead of that we have theaters with sculpture done by stone-carvers and paintings by decorating "firms."—Builder. fiIISHNNSKR 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Exfiminer U.S. Pension Bureau. 3yi*»iu civil war, l. r >M4ljurilc>a:ini: claims, uttv ciuca
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