i ka RE DR. TALWAGE'S SERMON. Ths Sermon as Delivered by the Brook- lyn Divine. Text: “Only Og, king cf Bashan, mained of the remnant of giants; behold | bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is itnotin Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubiis was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.”—Deuteronomy i. 11. re- his The story of giants is mixsd with myth. William the Conqueror was said to Les been of cvertowering altitude, but when in aftertime his tomb was openad his bones in- dicated that he had been physically of only ordinary size. Roland the Hero was said to have been of astounding stature, but when his sepulchre was examined his armor was found only large enough to fit.an ordinary man. Alexander the Great had hélmets and shields of enormons size made and left among the peovle whom he had conquered, sons to give the impression that he was a giant, although he was rather under than over the usual height of a man. But that in other days and lands there were real iants isauthentic. One of the guards of the Duke of Brunswick was eight and a half teet high. Ina museum in London is the skeleton of Charles’ Birne, eight feet four inches in stature. The Emperor Maxi- min was over eight feet. Pliny telis of a giant nine feet high and {wo other giants nine and a half feet. So I am not incredulous when I come to my text and find King Og a giant, and the siz: of bis bedstead, turning the cubits of the text into fect, the bedstead of Og, the king, must have been about thirteen and a half feet long. Judging from that the giant who oc- <cupied it was probably about eleven feet in stature, or nearly livica the averag: human size. ‘thers was no need of Rabbinical writers trying toaccount for the presence of this gant, King Og, as they did, by saying that he came down from the other side of ‘the flood, being tall enough to wade the wa- ters beside Noah’s ark, or that he rode on the top of the ark, the passengers inside the ark daily providing him with foo, There was nothing supernatural about him. He was simply a monster insize Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of gold, an« Sardanapalus had 150 bedsteads of gold burnad up with him, but this bedstead of my text was of iron—everything sacrificed for strength to hold this excessive avoirdu- pois, this Alp of bone and flesh. = No wonder this couch was kept as a ‘curiosity a§ Rab- bath,and the peopie went from far and near to see it, just as now people go to museums to behold the armor of the ancients. You say what a fighter this giant, King Og, must have been.” No doubt of it. I suppose the siz: of his sword and breastplate corre- sponded to the sizs of his beadstead, and his stride acress the battlefield and the full strose of his arm must bave been appalling. ‘With an armed host he comes down to drive bac< the Israelites, who are marching on from Egypt to Canaan. Wo have no particulars of the battle, but I think the Israelites trembled when they saw this monster of a man moving down to crush them. Alas for the Israelites! Will their troubles never cease? What can men five and a half teet high do against this war- rior of eleven fest, and what can short swords do against a sword whose gleam must have been like a flash of lightning? The battle of Edrei opened. Moses and his army met the giant and his army. The Lord of Hosts descended into the fizht, and the gigantic strides that Og had made when ad. vancing into ths battle were more than equaled by the gigantic strides with which he retreated. uzza for triumpbant Israel! Sixty fortified cities surrendered to toem. A land of indescribable opulence comes into their possession, and all that is left of the giant king is the iron bedstead. *‘Nine cubits \ was tbe length thereof and four cubits the breadth of 18.” Why did not the Bible give us the size of the giant instead of the siz3 of the bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the giant was eleven feet high instead of telling us that his couch was thirteen and a half ‘feet long? No doubt among other things it was to teach us that you can judge of a man by his surroundings, Show mea man’s associates, show me a man’s books, show me a man’s home, and Iwill tell you what he is without wvour telling me one word about him, «= You cannot only tell a man accord= ing to the old adage, *‘By the company he: keeps,” but by the books he reads, by the pictures he admires, by the churca ho ats tends. by the places he visits. Moral giants and moral pygmies intellectual giants and intellectnal pyzmies, liks physical giants or physiogl pygmies may be judged by their surroundings. When a man departs this life you can teil what has been his influence in a community for zood by those who mourn for him and by Low sincere and long continued are the regrets of his taking off. There may be no pomp or obsequies and no pretense at epi- tapheology, but you can tell how high he was in consecration, and how high in use- fulness by how long is his shadow when he comes to jie down. What is true of indi- viduals is trus of cities and nations. Show me the free libraries and schools of a city, and I will tell you the intelligence ‘of its people. - Show me its galiary of painting and sculpture, and 1 will tell yon theartistic ad- vancement of its citizens. Show me its churches, and I wil tell you the moral and religious status of the place. From the ract that Og's bedstead was thirteen and a half feet long, 1 conclude the iant himself was about eieven feet high. ut let no ona by this thought be induc.d to surrender to unfavorable environments, A man can make his own bedstead. Chantrey and Hugh Miller were born stonemasons, but the one became an immortal sculptor and the-eother a Christian scientist whose nuns will never die. Turner, tne painter, in whose praise Jobn Ruskin sxrended the greatest genius of his life, was the soz of a barber who advertised “a penuny shave.” ‘ Dr. Prideaux, one of the greatest scholars of all time, earned his way through college by scouring pots and pans. The late Judge Bradley workei his own way up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the suprems court: of the United States. Yes, a man can decide the size of his own bedstead. : Notice furthermore that even giants mast rest. Such enormous physical endowment on the part of King Oz might suzgest the capacity to stride across all fatigus and omit slumber. No. He required an iron * bedstead. Giants must rest. Not apprecia- ting that fact how many of the giants yearly break down. Giants in business, giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in usefulness. They live nos out more than halt their days. They fry to escape the consequences of overwork by a voyage across the sea or a sail in a summer yacht, or call on physicians for relief from insom- nia or restoration of unstrung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is what this giant of my text resorted to—an iron bedstead. x . * Let no ons think because he has great strength of body or mind that he can afford to trifle with his unusual girts. The com- mercial world, the literary world, the artis- tie world, the:pelitical world, the religious orld, are all thetimeaquake with the crash ‘of falling giants. King Og no doubt had a throne, but the Bible never mentions his throne. King Og no doubt had crown, but the Bible never mentions his crown. King Og mo. doubt had a scepter, but the Bible does not mention is os tor, | Wat one of the largest verses of the Bi oto iting his belstoad. So God “down the Bible honurs sleep. ‘with his head on a pillow of Eden “Has his slumber blest by a divine gift ful. companionship. = Jacob, with ‘a pillow of rock, has his sleep attder filled with descending nels. Christ, with a pillow Folded p coat of a iisher- e bacic pars oi the dont: phon paola arese at the gti - —— voice of the bird, retired at the tir the bird puts his head under his ‘wi. ne of our national sins is robbery f sleep. Walter Scott was so urgeat about this Duty of slumber that, whén arriving at. a where there was no room to sleep in except thatin which there wasa co inquired the deceased had died of a contagious disease, and, when assured he had not; took the other bed in the room and fell into profoundest slumber. Those of small endurance m certainly require rest if even thegiant needs an iron ‘ : : Notice, furthermore, that God's people on the way to Canaan need not be surprised if they confront some sort of a giant. d not the Israelitish host had trombls enough al- ready? No! Red sea not enough. Water famine not enough. Long marches not enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary stature not enough. Thev must nead Oo the giant of the iron bedstead. ‘*Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.” Why not let these Israelites go smoothly into Canaan without this gigantic opposition? Oh, they needed to have their courage and faith further tested and developed! And blessed the man who, in our time, in his march toward the Promised Land, does not meet more than one giant. Do not conclude that you are not on the way to Canaan because of this ob- stacle, As well might the Israelites conclude they were not on the way to the Promised Land because they met Og, the giant. Standing in your way ‘is some evil propensity, some social persecution,some business misfortune, some physical distress. Not one of you but meets a giant who would like to hew you in twain, Higher than eleven feet this Og darkens thesky and the rattle of his buekler stuns the ear. But you are going to get the victory, as did the Israslites. Inthe nama of the God of Moses and David and Joshua and Paul, charge on him, and you will leave his carcassin the wilderness. You want a battle shout! Take that with which David, the five- footer, assailed Goliath, the nine-footer; when that giant cried, with stinging con- tempt both in manner and intonation, “Come-to me and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of #he air and to the beasts of the field,” and David looked up at the monster of braggadocio and defiantly replied: ‘‘I'hou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear,, and with a shield; but I come to thea in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou has defied. This day will the Lord deliver thesunto mine hand, and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a god in Israel.” : Then David, with probably three swirlsof the sling about his head, got it into sufficient momentum and let fly till the cranium of the giant broke in and he fell and David leaped on his carcasss, ofie foot on his chest and the other on his head, and that was the last of the Philistine. But be sure you get the right battle shout and that you utter it with the right spirit, or Og will roll over you as easily as at night he rolled into his iron bedstead. Brethren, I have made up my mind that we will have to fight all the way up to the Promised Land. [used to think tbat after awhile I would get into a time where it would bs smooth and easy, but the time does not come and it will never come in this world. By the time King Og is'used up so that he cannot get into his iron bedstead, <some other giant of opposition looms up to dispute our ways. Let us stop looking for an easy time and make it a thirty years war, or a sixty years’ war, or a hundred years’ war, if we live solong. Must I be carried to the skies un flowery beds of ease, ‘While others fought to win the prize And sailed throuzn bloody seas? Do you know the name of the biggest giant that you can possibly ‘meet—and you will meet him? He 1s not eleven feet high, but one hundred feet high. His bedstead is as Jone. as the continent. His names is Doubt. His common food is infidel books and skeptical lectures and ministers who do not know whether the Bible is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Christians who are more infidel than Christian. You will never reach the Promised Land unless you slay that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill you. How to overcome this giani? Pray Tor faith, go with people who have faith, read everything that encourages faith, avoid as you would ship fever and smallpox the people who lack faith. In this battle against King Oz use not for weapons the cruteh of a limping Christian or the sharp pen of a controversialist, but the sword of truth, which is the word of God. The word *'1f” is made up of the same num- ber of letters as the word “Og,” and itis just as big a giant. If the Bible be true. if the soul be immortal. If Christ be God. If our belief and behavior here decide our future destiny. If. If, If. I hate that word “If.” Noah Webster says it is a con- junction; f say it is an armed giant. Satan breathed upon it a curse when he said to: Christ, “If Thou bes the Son of Ged.” What a dastardly and infamous “If.” Against that giant “If” hurl Job's “I know” and Paul's “I know.” ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth.” ‘‘1 know in waom I have believed.” Down with the If” and up with *“I know.” Oh, that giant Doubt is such a cruel giant! It attacks many in the last hour. It would not let my mother alone even in her dying moments. After a life of holi- ness and consecration such as I never heard of in any one else, she said to my father, *‘Father, what if after all our prayers and struggles should go for nothing.” Why could she not, after all the trials and sick nesses and bereavements of a long life and the infirmities of oli age, be allowed to go without such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder I have a grudge against the old monster? If I conld I would give him a bigger bounce than Batan got when, hurled out of heaven, the first thing he struck was the bottom of perdition. With Og’s downtall all the sixty cities surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant except his iron bedstead, which was kept in a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and stout he once was. So shall the last giant of opposition in the church’s march suc- cumb. Not sixty cities captured, but all tne cities. Not only on one side of Jordan, but on both sides of all the rivers. i The day is coming. Hearit, all ye who are doing something for the conquest of the world for God and the truth, the time will come when, as there was nothing left of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead kept at Rabbath as a curiosity, there will be noth- ing left: of the giants of iniquity ' except something for the relic hunters to examine. Which of the giants will bs the last slain { know not, but there will be a museum some- where to hold the relics of what they once were. A rusted sword will be hung up—the only relic of the giant of War. A dewijohn —the only relic of the giant of Inebriation. A roulette ball—the'only relic of the giant of Hazard. A pictured certificate of watered stocks—the only relic of the giant of Stock Gambling, A broken knife—the only relic of the giant of Assassination. A yellow copy of Tom Paine—the only relic of the giant of Unbelief. And that museum do for the later ages of ths world what the iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do you not see it makesall the differ- ence in the world whether wa are fighting on toward a miserable defeat. or towarda final Victory? All the Bible promises prophesy the latter, and so I'cheer you who are the troops of 10d, and thouzh many things are darz now, ike Alexander I review the army by torch- night, and I give you the ‘watchword waica Martin Luther proclaimed, ‘*I'he dof Hosts!” The or Hosa? and i ory out exultingly wi ver Cromwell a 0 battle of Batons. “Let God arise: let His enemies be scattered.” Make all the prep- arations for the world’s evangelization. | Have the faith of Robert and Mary Moffatt, the missioners, who id preashing, 1 Bechuanaland ven years ! convert when asked avid they orould like vo have sent them by the way ot git : Fuogland, said, iFenda conanion service, tor it will be surely mneeded;” and sur | enough the expe ith from |. souls ‘realizad and th union ser< ies ic. oelebrate it. Ape ei did that missionary writesin an Bibam when his autograph ws requested: | ‘Myalbum is the savage breast, ~~ BD ers hore tA. is see 8av we 's : Is my prone delight Fine Whatever yout work and wherever you work for God—forward! You in your way and I in my way. With holy pluck fighton with something of the stren of Thom Troubridge, who at Inkermann had one leg shot off and the foot of the other log, a to carry him off the when they pro field, replied: ‘No. I do not move until the battle is won.” Whatever be the rocking of the church or state, have ths calmness of the aged woman in an eartbquake that fright- ened everybody else, and who, when asked if e ‘was not afraid, “No: I am glad that I have a wno can snake the worid.” Whether your work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, or reform a wanderer, or printa tract, or train a househbld, or bear the quernlousness of senility, or cheer the dis- h , or lead a soul to Christ; know | that by fidelity you may help the time when the world shall be snowed under with white lily and incarnadined with red rose. And now 1 bargain with you that we will come back some day from our. su abode to see how the world looks when it shall be fully emparadised--its last tear wept, its last wound healed, its last shackle broken, its last desert gardenized, its last giant of iniquity decapitated: And when we land, may it be somewhere near the t of earth where we have together toiled and struggled for the kingdom of God, and may it be about this bour in the high noon of some glorious Sabbath, looking into the up- turned faces of same great audience radiant with holiness and triumph. SUNDAY SCHOOL: LESSON FOR SUNDAY MARCH 20 Review of the Past Quarter. Golden Text Psalm 21, 1. E REWIEW EXERCISE, ‘Superintendent—How is Christ's coming foretold? School—There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Supt.— What shall be the condition of His kingdom? : School—They shall not hurt nor distroy in all My holy mountains: for the -earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Supt.—What will the Lord do for His trusting people? School—Thou wilt keep him in perfect eace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because e trusteth in Thee. - Supt.—What wos does the prophet pro- nounce upon Ephraim? School Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet. Supt.—What charge does he bring against udah? School—They also have erred through wine, and through strong drink ars out of the way, Supt.—What did Hezskiah do when hs received a threatening letter from the king . of Assyria? School—Hezekial went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. . Supt.—How did the Lord answer Hezs- kiah’s prayer? School—The angsl of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand. Supt.—For whom did Christ suffer? Schoot—He was wounded for our trans. gressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chasfissment of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. Supt.—What is Christ's gracious call? School—Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and with- out price. Supt.—In what form is the same call again given? School—The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take tha water of life Fredy: Supt.—What is the new covenant that the Lord will make with Israel? School—I will put My law in their inward pasts and write it in their hearts; and will their God, and they shall be My people. Supt.— What did Jehoiakim do when Jere- miah’s prophecies were read to him? Schoo!—He cut the roll *in pieces, and east it into the fire until all the’roll was con- sumed. Supt.—What sentenca did the Lord pro- nounce upon Jehoiakim? School—He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David:.and his dead body shall be castout in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. Bupt.—On what false charge was Jers- ciah put in prison? School—He was charged with treason in deserting to the Chaldeans. Supt.—By whom was he taken from the prison? School—Zedekiah the king sent and took him out; and asked him secretly, Is there any word from the Lori? Supt.— What was Jeremiah’s reply? School—Jeremiah said, There is: for thou shalt be deliversd into the hand of the king of Babylon. Supt.—When did Nebuchadnezzar take Jerusalem? School—In the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah. Supt.—What was done with Zedekiah and his sons? School—The king of Babylon slew tha sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; and put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. Supt.—What became of the city and peopie? ; School-~The city was destroyed, and ths people were “carried away captive into Babylon. : Supt.>~What promiseof cleansing did the Lord make to the captives in Babylon? School—Then will 1 sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. from. all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will cleanse you.-—Westminster Question Book, RR " wis SPIT A THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS, i The evils which the drunkard inflicts on his posterity are beyond computation. Dr. Henry Maudsley once traced back for four generations the history of an idiotic youth in the asylum at Rome = In the first genera~ tion he found the habit of drinking, the* great grandfather was finally killed in a tavern brawl, In the second he found hereditary drunkenness, ending in paralysis; in the third, the father of the youth, sober by habit, but the victim of delusions and diseased tendencies; in the fourth, stupidity and the beginning of idiocy at sixteen pets, Dr." Howe, of chusetts, found that fifty per cent: of the idiots the examined were the offspring of intemperate parents, It is said that alcohol every year turns two hundred thousand little children into vaga-' en beyond help before they draw their first breath of pain. So cruel is every father who is a , J. A, Torta, onoe a weaithy planter of Horn Lae Mis wont to Motnphis, Tenn., “to get suppiies for the coming year. Tha low ot cotton caused all merchan rth, hark | | a ron tween $7 YrHY . SonD : EN. + To every one on earth God gives a burden to be carried down The road that lies between the cross and crown, : No lot is wholly free; He one to thee. : Some carry it aloft Open and visible to any eyes; And all may see its form and weight snd size, : J ny Some hide it in their breast, And deem it thus unguessed. Thy burden is God's gift, And it will make the bearer calm and strong Yes, lest it press too heavily and long, .- | He says *Custit on Me, And it shall easy be.” And those who heed His voice, Ana seek to give it back in trustful prayer. Have quiet hearts that cever can despair; ge And hope lights up the way Upon the darkest day. Take thou thy burden thus. Into thy hands, and lay it at hia feeb And whether it be sorrow or defeat, Or pain, or sin, or care, Upon the darkest day. It js the lonely load / That crushes ont the light and life of heaven, But borne with Him, the soul restored, for- ven : . Sings out through all the days, Her joy, and God's high praise. — [Presbyterian Record. BROWTH IN GRACE. Let us try every day for some’ superiorit to the preceding day.something that shall distinctly mark the passing scene with pro- gress;lsomething that sha 1 inspire hope that we are rather less unfit for heaven today than we were yesterday. ' The celebrated artist who has recorded that he passed no day - without drawing a line, drew it not for repetition, but for progress; not to pronounce a given number of strokes, but to forward ‘his work, to complete his design. The Christian, like the piinter, does not draw his lines at ran- dom; he has a model to imitate, as well as an outline to fill. Every touch conforms him more to the great original. He who has transfused most of the life of God into his soul, has copied it the most. successfully.— [Hannah Moore. : CHRIST, THE GREAT SUBSTITUTE. It is not by incarnation but by blood- snedding, that we dre saved. The Christ of God is no mere expounder of wisdom, no mere deliverer or gracious benefactor; and they who think that they have told the whoie gospel when they have: spoken of Jesus revealing the love of God, do greatly err. If Christ be not the substitute, He is nothing to the sinner. 1f He did not die as the sin bearer, He has died in vain, Let us not be deceived on this point, nor misled by those who, when they announce Christ as the deliverer, think they have preached the gospel. If I throw aropeto a drowning man, and risk my life to: save another, T am a deliverer. ut is Christ no more than that? If Icast myself into the sci, and risk my lifeto save another. am a deliverer. But is Christ no more? Did He not risk risk His lite? he very essence of Christ’s deliverance is the substitution of Himself for us—His life for ours. He did not come to risk” His life; He came to die. ‘He did not redeem us bv a little loss. a littlesacrifice, a little labor, a little suffering; He redeemed us to God by He gave all He had—even His iife—for us. This is the kind of deliverance that awakens the song, “Fo Himthat loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.’—[Dr. onar. HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL. ‘rvhree things enter into | beauty—fine teatures, color and expression. The features, the forms of brow, nose and chin, bequests, coming often from fur ancestors; ourcelors, too, are in the main bequests, depending on the quality of tissue and of blood the more immediate parents give it; but expression is very largely our own affair. And, even with good features and the clearest colors, ex- pression is'the best part of beauty. The play of thought and will and feeling on ‘the face—of noble thoughts, firmness, self-con- trol, and pure, unselfish, gentle feelings— we can secure if we will. Ten years of habit, three years or only one, will affect ‘expres- sion much. ‘Some one said that ‘‘Every face ought to beautiful at forty,”’ and another that “No old person has a right to be ugly, be cause he has bad all bis life in’ which to -grow beautiful.” - That is to say, life’s oppor- tunities of nobleness, or even forty years of oppurtunity, if well used, are enough to make so much within that it cannot help coming through the surface i graceful habits of the nerves and muscles. The transficuration of a pleasant smile, kindly lightings of eyes, restful lines of self-confroi about the lips, pure shinings of the face as great thoughts kindle inwardly—these things no ent makes inevitably ours, and no fitful week or two of goodness gives them, and no schooling of the visage either, but on within; and this willgive them all, = Splendor from within! It is the only thing which makes the real and lasting splendor without! Trust that inevitable law of self-expression. Be, not seem! Be to seem; Be beautiful, and you will by and by seem so. Carve the face from within, men’s minds those great elements of piety, the divine truths of Revelation, by thus generating all right affections towards God and man, by shadowing forth and pointing men to the Sabbath of heaven. Therefore, the Sabbath is the friend of the nation, the family, everybodyv’s friend, and never fails to repay true and devoted friend- ship for it with the most precious blessings for time and eternity. : Religion is essential to the development of mankind, both individually and col- lectively. No man can be at his best nor character and achievement, without religion, neither can the race as a whole ever develop the mental and moral and social possibilities within itself without 'it. Bot ‘it must be ‘a religion of vital power to break the dominion of . sin, to , disen- thrall human nature, and to quicken the pulses of Soclely with new and lofty in- pirations: The religion of Jesus has accom- plished the best results in these particulars. Itis the only force at work in human societ which elevates men to the standard oy for them by the Creator, This is not due merely to the unqualified moral purity of its Founder, but to the divinity of His person, the sacrificial merit of His. death, and the diffusion of His Spirit among his followers. He who lives simply for. this world will soon lose all he has pained, be it much or little. It cannot last longer than he lasts, and may not as long. A prince and a pau per in the grave are just equal. Neither brought anything with’ him into this world, and: neither takes anything out with him when he leaves it. Death abrogates all the distinctions among men thaf, relate merely to their earthly condition. crestures and visible things are but shadoavs, and that God is God, Jehovah, the true eternal substance. eel * MILIIoNS of herring are mow swarming in the harbor in Semiahmoo. Bay and the Ci of ee A os Et) AY men, and salted 1n barrels for market. Li J THE iron companies organized to work on Range, ota, represent be. 5,000,000 and $77,000,000 capital, { Hs blood—'“the precious blood of Christ.” habitual noblencss and graciousness attain the highest point of excellence in One thing I want truly'to learn, that is, i threatened to w. MAirmix Curry, the Washinton county farmer, has again suffered from incendiar ies, three of his hav-tacks being consumed. A year ago be lost $5,000 worth of hay by fire-bug raids. ! = Ax albino deer has been seen on: the hills about Pentield several times recently, Iv is a fine large buck with long ° spreading antlers, and several gangs of hunters are after him in spite of the law. : Mgs. Davip X. MogrgAx, of Plymouth, ’ committed suicide by taking a hammock and hanging herself to the door of her bed- room, allowing her feet to rest on the floor. She became incensed at hier husband while unk. : Mike Brier, a farm hand employed by Cal Linn, of Canonsburg, fell from a. loa: of hay and received serious if not fatal in- juries. His spinal chord was injured. AT Harrisburg it is stated on what is said to be good authority that the governor bas stated confidentially to a friend that itis his intention to proceed both civilly and erimi- nally against the managers of the Reading deal, and that he will insist that the eaal fight shall be vigorously prosecuted. Josnua Tuomas peered. into an oil tank with a lamp in kis hand at Jeannette. An | ‘explosion occurred, fatally injuring him, Frve and eight cent testaments have caused much comment on the action of an offici§l member of the West Newton ‘school “board, who is also and active and official member of one of the ieading churches and -Sundav schools there. JSeverdl days age an agent for these books visited schools, and with the : it sold several hundred, nea scholars and teachers: be ‘When the official heard what the agent was doing, he wrote him a postal card, request- ing him to keep out of the schools and off the premises with his testainents. a THE Gettysburg town conncil has lay! “the public he teachers ing purchasers. an ordinance taxing all non-resident dram- | mers who sell to private families fram $1 to $3 per day. ed THE court at Bellefonte granted eighteen saloon, two distillery and one wholesale 1i- cense in Center county. This is an increase of one. Several applications are held ower. W. H. Geary fell froth the new Presby- terian church at Latrobe and was killed. Ar Frenchville while the 8-year-old daughter of Lewis Bluebell was standing; near the fire reading, her clothes caught fire and she was burned so badly that death oc- curred a few hours later, ! Jor Heres, a speak-easy pro Mt. Pleasant, was sentenced at Greensburg to pay 8500 fine and costs and undergo sig t months’ imprisonment in the Work ouse. ; i Crrizens of Monongahela City are making preparations for the erection of a handsome soldiers’ monument there, A sensation has been created in Mt. Pleasant by the reported disappearance of Banker Kail, of the Slavinsky bank atthat lace. He did business exclusively with the ungarians and Slavs in that vicinity, and had in his possession when he shook the town about $8,000. Kail\dralt in steamship tickets and acted as banker for the army of foreigners employed at the coke worksin the neighborhood. The Huns who had money on deposit are wild over their loss. ’ rietor of | Or, Crry sportsmen have projected a game |! preserve. Durine a dance at the Grange Hall near Greensburg Oliver P. Smith stabbed Joe Miller with a penknife, and his victim may die. Smith, whois 4 wealthy farmer, has not yet been arrested. Jog PAvoskr, a Slav workman of Tpisen- ring, while on his way home from a bank Sas neh by three highwaymen and robbed ° : ; A. L. WooManskg, a New York, Pennsyl- yania and Ohio brakeman, of Randolph, N. Y., fell from a train at: Meadeville, and was instantly killed. ; 5 . MoCrLeELtAND MEXTZER was fatally injured Yesterday at Johnstown by a drawhead pen-- etrating his abdomen while he was trying to couple a car and an engine. : By an explosion of fire damp at the Elm- wood colliery, Mahoning City, five miners were badly burned. The gas was lighted by a naked lamp. i» ; Grorar HENDERSON, of Webster, while as- sisting in extinguishing a fire, fell from the roof avd struck his head on a flagstone, dy- ing from his injuries. Trae i A DRUNKEN Swede struck a Hungarian wo- man with a shovel at Crabtree. estmore- land county, during a drunken brawl, sever- ne her arm at the elbow. The woman may e. : : Ox account of the breaking out of typhus fever among the students, the Wyomin Seminary at Wilkesharre,. has been closed. There were 400 students in the institution, CLARENCE GREUVER, aged 22 years, while standing on the roof of his house last even- ing watching a fire in a building near by wag seized with an ‘attack of apoplexy and fell to the ground, breaking his neck. ALEXANDER ZANA, an Italian, was fatally injured at Monongahela City by jumping from ameving passenger train. Mgrs. CHRISTIANA BENNETT, of Pittson, be- gan suit at Wilkesbarre against the Pennsyl- vania Coal Company to recover $20000 damages for the killing of her 14-year-old son.” He was recently squeezed to death by a car in a gangway while ab work in one of the collieries. : THE leases by which the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company has assumed control of the Lehigh Valley and New Jer- sey Central railroads will soon be open to: public inspection, as the Attorney General will file them with the bill in equity, which he is preparing for presentation fo the court of Dauphin county onthe complaints of A, J. Cassatt, T. V. Powderly and Sena- tor Henninger. | Lhe leases are very vyol- uminous, X Gov. Parrison. appointed Col. W. W. Greenland, of Clarion, to be adjutant gen- eral, and Col, O. E. McClennan, of Harris- burg; to be quartermaster general of the national guard. : GrNEVA CoLLEGE at Beaver ‘Falls, had to suspend, owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever among the families of the instructors. The public schools in White township, in the same district, were closed fer the same cause. ; Ep. 8. FuNnkHOUSER, the boy who had both ‘eyes, an arm and a leg torn off by an explosion of dynamite last week, died Thursday after terrible suffering. Wat. F. Keck convicted of murdering Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nipch at Ironton on Novem: ber 18 last, was sentenced =t Allentown to be hanged. 5 Evwarp Nosrron, employed "in the N tional Rollings Mill ai 5 Ketaport, sd caught in a set of rolls and drawn clea Sirongh, He was. instantly crushed te eath, 5 ¥ i Caries KxpPLE, a ll-year-old Freepori boy, hatiged hinge iE beeniiso ‘his father had Epwarp West, of: New Brighton, while drunk Tuesday night tied his wife, heated*| a poker and was about to cram it down he: throat when neighbors saved her. rh rly all of the | ‘head, like those Chines Eperar Son of Heaven” by the Celestisls. In the Chicago (Ill) militia pr = are not allowed to dance on the same floor with their colonels. = = The first idea of electricity was given by the friction of two globes of quick- silver in the year of 1467. °° An alligator measuring nine feet five inches 1 length was found in a small lake in Lonoke County, Arkansas, ~~. = "The paper tree of the South Seasis as kind of mulberry, with an inner bark of peculiar delicacy and softness. ~~ = Cream-of-tartar is often mixed with sand, phosphate of lime, quartz, starch, - flour, tartrates and sulphate of lime. The first book containing musical characters was issued in 1495 from the press of the celebrated ‘‘ Wynken de Worde.” ne = Seals when basking place one o number on guard to give alarm in danger.. The signal is a quick the flippers on a rock. = ; : A copper rod projecting from the face of a cliff in Saline County, Mo., 1ndica that at some date in the Far West, be- yond the ken of man, copper mining was. carried on in that vicinity. A curious fad for obtaining Indian relics has taken possession of the people about Reading, Penn., who go out in ‘numbers, armed with spades and pic axes to, dig for arrow heads and « remains of the red man. said to have made some about 12: It is reported that a lamb was borr Hornitos, Merced County, Cal., recent that had eight legs, three eyes three ears, with two perfecs bodies attached to one head. One of the ears and also one “of the eyes were on top of the heal lived several hours. ree Pens were first used early in the seventh century. . They were, of course, quills, and steel pens did not come into use un til 1820, when the first gross of them was sold wholesale for $36. The quality these pens was greatly inferior to that those for which the English n twelveconts a gross. + The Island of Fowkave in the Gulf Siam has a peculiar kind of dogs. male being of a lighter shade), black muzzles and dak lines on the for somelimes seen inb dogs. ie AT ‘ @pke is the name given to coal fi “which the volatile ccnstituents have been driven ‘off by heat. The best kind is ob- tained from coal when carboniz 3. : ? an inferior quality, from the retorts gas works after "the gases have bee separated. ; & In Abukir, Egypt, three colossal statues in rose-colored granite, each about ten feet high, have been discovered, The first two represent King Rameses II and Queen Hentmara sitting on their throne, a unique group, the like of which has not yet been discovered in Egypt. The third statue represents Rameses standing in military garment and position, with sword and scepter. The statues are cov. ered with hieroglyphic inscriptions. The Persian Shah's Treasury. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff obtainea permission for Mrs. Bishop, the author- ess, to visit the Persian Shah's ©Mu- seum,' or ‘treasure house.” ‘She says of ite" ie : ot fetnnalny ¢‘The proportions of the room are perfect.’ The floor is’ of fine tiles of ex- quisite coloring, arranged as mosaic. A table is overlaid with beaten gold, and chairs in rows are treated in the same fashion. Glass cases round the room and on costly tables. contain the fabu- lous treasures of the Shah and many of the crown jewels. : +Possibly the ‘accumulated splendors: of pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, basins and vessels of solid gold, ancient armor flashing with prec- ious stones, shields studded with dia- monds = and’ rubies, scabbards and sword ‘hilts ‘incrusted with costly gems, helmets red with = rubies, golden rays and vessels thick with dia- monds, crowns of jewels, chains,’ orang ments. (masculine solely) of every description, jeweled coats of mail, dating back to the reign oi Shah Ismael, ex- quisite enamels of great antiquity, allin a profusion not to be described, have no counterpart on earth. They are a dreaur of splendor not to be forgotten. he ‘*Among the extraordinarily lavish uses of gold and gems is a golden globe, twenty inches in diameter, turning on a frame of solid gold. The stand and meridian are of solid gold set with rubies. © The equator and elliptic are of large diamonds. The ' countries are chiefly outlined in rubies, but Persia is in diamonds, The ocean is represented by emeralds. = As if all this were not enough, huge gold coins, each worth $165, are heaped round its base,”—e Galginani’s Messenger. ep mn. % A New Industry For America. Preparations are being made ia this country for the manufacture of a new material for lining vessels. It is made from the cellulose of / cocoanuts, which bas the property of absorbing eight times its weight of water, The material, which is a into sacks, is used as a lining for vessels, and it is not onlyex- tremely difficult to make a hole. in it, but'should it be punctured by shot or any other means the inrush of water will: have the effect of instantly expanding the material and filling up the gap.— Wew York Telegram, = ER re re In Chins a bride and bridegroom never see one another until they are married.
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