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liEV. DK. TALMAGK.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
HakJct: “Tho Literature of the
Duvt."
Tkxt: '\/**h* down and wrots on
proum?.”—John viii., fi.
A Mohammedan motque now where
on*'© Ht<>ih| Herod's temple, the wene of mv
b xt. Solomon's U*mple hud stood there • *nt
Nobiiehmlne/.tir thunderol it down, /.oro*
label’* t*m|l* had stood there, hut that lit* l
been prostrated Now we take our pl* '<"*
in a temple ti nt Herod liuilt because ho wits
fond of great nr hiteouirennd h - wanted the
preceding temple* to *eeiti insignificant. But
fight or ton < atbeural* together nd thoy
would not * (iial llwt structure. It covorod
nlnotecn arro*. Tharo w**ro marble pillar*
roof* of coder an I *ilvor table*
on which stood golden cup*, and them werw
carving* exquisite and inscription' r--p>n
lent, glittering balustrade'* and ornamented
gut** "ay* The building of this temple kept
ten thousand workmen Tu*v forty s * years.
In that stupendous pile of tiomp and mag
in flee nee sat Christ, and a I sterling throng
Blood about hnn, when a wild disturbance
took place. A group of men are pulling and
pushing along a woman who has commltts*!
the worst crime against aociety. hen
they hure brought her in front of Christ,
they ask that Ho sentence her to death by
pinning They nre a critical, nn-r i
iesw, diamgenuou* crowd Thoy want
to get Chr *t into controversy and
nubile reprehension. If He say: “Let
ner die,” they will charge Hun with cruelty.
If 110 let her go. they will charge Him with
being In complicity with wickedness
Whichever way He does, thov would howl
at Him- Then occurs a scene which has
not been sufficiently regarded. He leaves
the lounge or ben h on which He was
sitt ng and goes down on ono knee, or
both knees, and with the forefinger of
Hi* right hand He begins to write in
Mu> dust of the floor, word after word. But
they were not to tie diverted or hindered.
They kept, on demanding that He settle this
raj*e of transgression until He looked up and
told them that, they might themselves begin
the woman's assassination, if the complainant
who had never done anything wrong him
self would op n the fire. “Cos ahead,
but bo sure that tho man who flings
the first missile.is immncnlate.” Then He
resumed writing with 11 stinger in tho dust
of the fioor, word after word. ImCoad of
looking over Hi* shoulder to see what He had
written tho scoundrels skulked awav
Finally, the whole place is clear of pur
suers, antagonists and plaintiffs, and wh -n
Christ has finished this strange chirography
in the dust. Ho 100 Vs up and fin Is the
woman all nlono. The prisoner is the only
one of tho court room left, the judges, tho
police, the prosecuting attorneys having
cleared out. Christ is victor, and Ho says to
the woman: “Where are the prosecutors in
this cusp.’ Are thoy all gone? Then I dis
charge you; go and sin no in re.”
1 have always wondered what Christ wrot l *
on the ground. For do you realize that is
the only time that He ever wrote at all? I
know that Eusebius says that t’hrit once
wrote a letter to Abgnrus. the King of
Edessa, but there is no good evidence of -u h
a correspondence. The wisest being the
world ever saw and the one who
had more to say than any one who ever
lived, never writing a book or a chapter, or
a page or a paragraph, or a word on parch
ment. Nothing but this literature of the
dust, and one sweep of a brush or on ■
breath of a wind obliterated that forever.
Among all tho rolls of tho volumes of
the nrst library founded at Thebes
there was not one scroll of Christ Among
the seven hundred thousand books of th**
A’exandrian library, which by the infamous
decree of Caliph Omar were used as fuel
to heat the four thousand baths of
the cltv, not one sentence hud Cbri* f
penned. Among all tho infinitude of
volumes now standing in the libraries of
Edinburgh, the I ritish Museum, or Berlin or
Vienna, or the learned repositories of all
rations, not one word written directly by
the finger of Christ! All that he ever wrote
he wrote in dust, uncertain, shifting, van
ishing dust.
My text says He stooped down and wrote
on the ground. Standing straight up a man
might write on the ground with a staff,
but if with his fingers he would
write in the dust, he must bend clear
over. Aye, he must get at least
on one knee or he cannot write on tho
ground. Be not surprised that He
stooped down. His whole life was a
stooping down. Stooping down from
castle to barn. Stooping down from
celestial homage to mobocratic jeer.
From residence above tho stars to where a
star had to fall to designate His landing place.
From heaven’s front door to the world’s back
gate. Front writing in round and silvered
letters of constellation and galaxy on
the blue s< roll of heaven, to writing on the
ground in tho dust, which the fret of the
crowd had lei t in Herod’s temple.
If in January you have ever stepped
out of a prince's conservatory that
had Mexican cactus and magno
lias in full bloom, into the outside nir t n de
grees below zero, you may got some idea of
Christ’s change of atmosphere from celestial
to terrestrial. How many heavens there are
1 know not, but there are at least three, for
Paul was “caught up into tho third heaven.”
Christ came down from highest heaven to
the second heaven, and down from second
heaven to first Leaven, down swifter than
meteors ever fell, down amidst stellar sp *n
dors that Himself eclipsed, down through
clouds, through atmospheres, through appall
ing space, down to where there was no lower
depth. From beinz wait don at the ban
quet of the skies to the broiling of fish for
His own breakfast on the banks of the lake.
From embazoned chariots of eternity
to the saddle of a mule's * back. The
homage cherubic, seraphic, archangelic,
to the paying of sixty-t wo and a half cents
of tax to C t'sar. From the death!ess
country to a tomb built to hide human
dissolution. The uplifted wave of Galilee
was high, but He had to come down before,
with His jeot, He could tou h it. and the
whirlwind that rose above the billow
was higher yet, but Ho had to come
down before, with His lip, lie could
kiss it iuto quiet. Bethlehem a stooping
down. Nazareth a tlowu. Death
between two burglars a stooping down.
Yes, it was in consonance with humiliations
that hod gone before and with self abn< gu
tious that came after, when on that memor
able dny in Herod’s temple He stooped down
and wrote on the ground.
hfctber 1 he words i le was writing wore in
Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, I cannot say,
for He knew ail those languages. But He "is
Still stooping down and with His finger writ
ing on the ground: in the winter in letters
of crystal*. In the spring in letters of
flowers, in summer in golden letters of
harvest, in autumn in letters of lire on fall n
leaves. How it would sweeten up and en
rich and i inbla on this world could we see
Christ’s caligraphy all over it. This world
was not flung out into space thousands of
years ago an 1 then left to look out for it
self. It is still undir the divine ear.*.
Christ never for a half second takes His
hand off of it. or it xmuld soon boa ship
wrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete
world, an abandon-*d world, a dead world.
“Let there be light” was said at the begin
ning. zAnd Christ staivls under the wintry
skies and says: Let there be snow-flakes to en
rich the earth: and under the clouds of spring
nnd says: Come ye blossoms and make re
dolent the orchards, and in Septeml>er, dij>a
the branches into the vat of beautiful co'ors
and swings them in the hazy air. No whim
of mine is this. “Without Him was not
anything made that was mafle.” Christ
writing on the ground. If wo could
see His hand in all the passing
seasons gnow it would illumine the world
All verdure and foilage would be in allegoric,
nnd again we would hear Him say as of old:
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow;” and we would not hear the whistle
of a quail or the cawing of a
raven or the roundelay of a brown
thresher. without saving: “Behold
the fowls of the air, they gather not into
barns, yet your Heavenly' bather feedeth
them;” and a Dominic hen of the barnyard
could not cluck for her brood, yet we would
hear Christ saying ns of old: “How often
would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gat h-red her chickens
under her wings:” and through the redolent
hedges we would hear Christ saying: “I am
the rose of Sharon;” we could not dip the
seasoning from the salt celinr without think
ing of the Divine suggestion: “Ye nro the
salt of the earth, blit if the salt hnve lost its
savor, it is fit for nothing but to l>e
cast out and trodden under foot
of men.” Let us w-ako up
from our stupidity nnd take the whole world
as a para'le. Then if with gun and pack of
hounds, we start off before dawn and see the
morning coming down o l the hills to meet
us. we would cry out with the evangelist:
“The day spring from on high hath
visited us;” or caught in a snowstorm
while struggling home, eyebrows and
beard and apparel all covered with the whirl
ing flakes, we would cry out with David:
“Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow ”
In a picture gallery of Europe, there is on the
ceiling an exquisite fresco, but people
having to look straight up. it wearied and
dizzied them, and bent their necks almost be
yond endurance, so a great looking-glass
was put near the floor and now visitors only
need to look easily down into this mir
ror and they see the fresco at their
feet. And* so much of all the heaven
of God’s truth is reflected in this world as in
a mirror, and the things that are above
are eopied by things all around us. What
rizbt have we to throw away one of God’n
Bibles, ave, the first Bible He ever gave the
■ace? We talk about the Old Testament and
■he New Testiment, but the oldest Testa
inont. nntnln* tli„ !> f th"
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n,i. n.phot.l, tli Ilililo I" ‘h*
Souv* on n*k •*! an ancient km:
whether he had seen til* eel ip.** of the sun
••No.” slid he “1 haw* o much to do *n
•nith, I have no time to look at heaven.
And if nor faculties were nil ft v.iko in the
du lv of Col, w* would not have time to go
milch further than the first gran hlade, I
litv no fear tha? natural rabglon "ill ever
•onfra lid who? w • call reveal* *1 re ig on
have no sympiliiy with tho fol <i *ers of
Ar.stotlo, who Hft*r the telescope* was in
vented, wou *1 not !ok through it. lest it
•on trad let some of th <a th oi ••*•* of their great,
mastr I shall l*o gla It< put against one
lid of the Hihlc tho mi< ro i o|M*. and against
the other lid of the Bitde the t |e*cf|*e
But when Chr sf vt< op and down an I wrote
■*n the ground, what d.d He write! Iha
rharisea* did nft stop to examine. The
•owards, whippel of their own conwiences,
fit and ]>l! mall. Nothing will (lava limn like
an a routed cons i Mice. Hr. N evens, in
hi* “History of Mct.iodlsm,” say* tlmt
wbsa Rov Ban atn n Abbott of oldan
mie* was preaching, he exclaiinol: “For
aught I know there may tw a munierer in
this house, ’ and a man r<*se in tho assemblage
and started for the door and bawled a oml,
conftMsing to a murder In* had committed
fifteen years before. And no wonder 1 base
Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took
to their heels. But what did Christ write
on the ground! The Bible does not state.
Yet, as Christ never wrote anything oxcept
that on e. you cannot blam * us for wanting
to know what He really did wite. But Ia n
certain He wrote nothing trivial, or nothing
unimportant, And iHU jron How me
to say that I think I know what
He wrote on the ground? I judge
from tho circumstances. Ho might
have written other tilings, but kneeling there
in the b mple, surround'd by a pack of
hypocrites, who were a self appointed con
stabulary, and having in His presence a p r
Mjcuted woman who evidently was very peni
tent for her sins, 1 am sure He wrote
two words l oth of them graphic ami tro
men ions and rev* rberating. And the on-*
word was hypocrisy and the other word
was forgiveness. From tho way these
Pharisees and scrilies vacated tho premise
and got out into the fresh air, as Christ,
with just one ironical sentence,
unniask.d them, I know they were first
lass hypocrites. It was then as it is now.
The more faults and inconsistencies p ople
have of their own, the more severe and oen
sorfous nro they about the faults of others.
Here they are-twenty stout men arrest
ing and arraigning one weak woman.
Magnificent business to bo engaged in. They
wanted tho fun of seeing her faint away un
der a heavy judicial sentence from Christ,
and then after she had l*een taken outside
the city and fas ened ut tho foot of the prec
ipice, the Scribes and I’harisees wanted the
satisfaction of euch coining and dropping a
big stone on her head, for that was tne style
of capital punishment that they asked for.
Some people hnv taken the rosponsibilitv
of saying that Christ never laughed. But I
think as He saw those men drop every
thing, chagrinod, mortified, exposed
and go out quicker than they came in, He
must hive laughed. At any rate, it make.*
tne laugh to read of it. All of these liber
tines, dramatizing indignation against im
purity. B.Mti bats lecturing on optics. A
liock of crows on their way up from a car
?ass, denouncing carrion. Yes, I think that
on.* word written on the ground that
day by the finger of Christ was tho awful
word of h vpocr.sy. But lam sure there was
another word in that dust. From her entire
manner I am sure that arraigned woman
was repentant, Bho made no apology, and
Christ in no wise belittled her sin.
But her supplicatory behavior and her tears
moved Him, and when He stooped down to
write on tne ground. He wrote that mighty,
that imperial word, forgiveness. When
on Sinai Goi wrote the law, Ho wrote
it with finger of lightning on tables
of stone, each word cut ns by a chisel
into the hard granitesiirfa •<*. But when He
writes the offense of this woman He writes it
in the dust so that it can be easily rubbe l
out, and when she repents of it, oh. He was
fi merciful Christ! I wns reading of a
legend that is told in the far East about
Hin. He was walking through tho street* of
a city and Ho saw a crowd around a dead
log. And one man said: “What a loath
some object is t)iat dog!” “Yes,” said
another, “his ears are mauled and bleeding.”
‘Yos, r raid another, “even bis hide would
not le of any use to the tanner." “Yes,"
"aid ale trier, “the odor of his carenisis dread -
fill." Then Christ, standing there, saio
‘‘But pearls cannot equal the whiteness of
His teeth.” Then the people, moved by the
idea that any one could find anything
pleasant concerning a dead dog, said:
“Why, this must he Jesus of Naen
reth.” Reproved and convicted they went
away. Surely this legend of Chr et it good
enough to he true. Kindness in all His
words and ways and habits. Forgive
ness. Word of eleven letters, and some of
Mum thrones, nnd some of them palm
branches. Better have Christ write close
to our names tbnt ono word, though He
write it in dust, than to lmvo our same cut
into monumental granite with the letters that
thestorrnsof a thousand yearacannot oM:t
erat . Bishop Eabington had a l ook of only
three leaves. Tho first leaf was black, the
second leaf red, the third leaf white. The
black leaf suggested sin; the rod leaf atone
ment; the white leaf purifi ation. That is
the whole story. God will abunduntly
pardon.
I must not forget to say that as Christ,
stopping down, with His finger wrote on the
ground, it is evident th it His sympathies are
with this penitent woman, and thut He has
no sympathy with her hypocritical pursuers.
Just opposite to that is the world's habit.
Why didn't these unclean Pharisees bring
one of their own number t> Christ for ex
coriation and capital punishment? No, no;
they overlook that in a man which they
dainnate in a woman. And *o the world hns
had for offending women scourges nnd
objuration, and for just one offense she
liecomes an outcast, while for men whoso
lives have boon sodomic for twenty years,
the world swings opons its doors of brilliant
welcome, and they may sit In legislatures and
senates and parliaments or on thrones. I’nlike
the Christ of my t*xt, the world writes a
man's misdemeant r in dust, but chisels a
woman’s offense with great capitals upon in
effaceable marble. For foreign lords
nnd princes, whose n mes cannot even
be mentioned in respectable circles
abroad, because tliov nro walk
ing lazarettos of abomination, our
American princesses of fortune "ait. and nt
the first beck sail out with them into the
blackness of darkness forever. And in what
are called higher circles of society there is now
not only their Imitation of foreign dress and
foreign manners, but an imitation of foreign
dissoluteness. I like nn Englishman and 1
like an American, but the sickest creature on
earth is an American playing the English
man. Society needs to be reconstructed on
this subject. Trent them n!ike, masculine
crime and feminine crime. If you cut the
one in granite, cut them both in granite.
If you write the one in dust, write the
other in dust. No no, says the world, let
woman go down and let man go up. What
is that 1 hear plashing into the East River at
midnight, and then there is a gurgle ns of
strangulation, nnd al! is still. Never mind.
It is onlv a woman too discouraged to live.
the mills of the cruol world grind right
on.
But while I speak of Christ of the text.
His stooping down writing in the dust, do
not think I underrate the literature of the
dust. It is the most, solemn and tremendous
of all literature. It is the greatest, of all
libraries. Wl en l.ayard exhumed Nineveh
lie was only ojiening the door of its
mighty dust. The excavations of
Pompeii have only been the unclasp
ing of the lids of a volume of a nation’s dust.
When Admiral Fnrragut and his friends, a
few years ago, visited that resurrected city,
the bouse of I’albo, who had been one of its
ch ef citizens in ts prosperous days, was
opened and a tab’e was spread in that house
which eighteen hundred ami ten years has
been buried by volcanic eruption, and Karra
gut and h s guests walked over the
exquisito mosaics nnd under the beautiful
fresco, and it almost seemed like being enter
tained by thoso who eighteen centuries ago
had turned to dust. Ch. this mighty
literature of the dust. Where are the
remains of Sennacherib nnd Attila and
Epamimondas and Tnmerlano and Tro
jan and Philip of Macedon nnd Julius
I’i'sar? Dust' Where arc the heroes
who fought on both sides at Chxronea, at
Hastings, at Marathon, at Cressy, of the 110,-
I*oo men who fought at Agincourt, of the
‘ 5 ),0 -0 men vvho faced death at Jena, of the
.1'*<M)0() whose armor glittered in the sun at
Wragram, of the 1,0 >O,O >o men under Darius
at Arbella, of the “,<d 1.0)0 men under Xerxes
at '1 hermopylad Dust!
Where are the guests who danced the floors
of the Alhambra, or the Persian palaces of
Ahasuerus? Dust! Where are the musicians
who played an 1 the orators who spoke, and
the sculptors who chiseled, an 1 the archi
tects who built in all the centurie.s ex
cept our own? Dust! The greatest
library of the world, that which has
the widest shelves and the longest ais’es
and the most multitudinous volumes
and the vastest wealth, is the underground
library. It is the royal library, the con
tinental library, the hemispheric library,
the planetary librarv. the library of
the dust. Aud all thebe library cases
will l*o nimned, and all the** scrolls
unrolled mid all Hit* * * n’u ■ * un 'aq *1 and
~h ,’n dy a* in yur library *r m u * we lake
IM , n book, blow the du*t off ot it. nn 1 turn
ver it* pai;e*, hoc imilv will th* ' or I of t o
Be-uirr etion plrk iii> out o thi* library of diit
v.iv volume of human life an l open itund
rea lit and display it. And the volnms
will I* rebound, t b set in H * ruval i
hi try <>f the Km; * pVa e, or In the pr “pn
library *.f the sir tle-troye*l Gh, Ibis
mighty literature of the du*t! It is not
wi idcrful alter all that t hn*t chnse.inut' a I
and mi mkstand, th * iinpr-**ionable *au t on
the lloor of an ancient temp i* mid, in* mJ
~fa hard p*n, put forth Hi* forefinger with
ih,. K.ime kind of nerve, an I nmsel •, nn I
h.Hie, and Ih* Ii as that which makes up our
t.wu 'forefinger, wild wr< t • tie* awful doom
~! hyp crisy and full ami complete foregive
-1,, ss i i repentant sinners, ev mi tl ew. r*t..
And now | < nn Udieve that wli ch 1 read,
h'.w that a mother kept burning a candle n
ti,.. window every night for ten *or* and
,•,,. n ght very lute a jssir waif <f the sir.-d
elite* * and The aged woman >*ai I t<> her “Sit
down by the lire, and the stringer said
"\V|V do you k**ep that light in the wm
dow The ngisl woman Slid: “That
i h to light my wayward daughter
when she reiurit*. Since *)\>* w lit awav ten
y irs ago my liair has turned wli U Folks
o'litne ma for worrying nlsnit h r, but you
... | am her mother, ami som times, half n
lor.cn t ines a night, 1 open the and or and
look <ut into tho darkness and cry
•Lixxie! Lisxis!' But 1 must not
tell you any more about my
trouble, for I guess, fro it the way you cry,
you have trouble enough of your own.
Why, how cold aim sick you*eem! Oh, my
•an it be? Yes, you are Lixsie. my own lost
hil l. Thunk God that you arc* home again”
And what a time of rejoicing then* *** 1*
that house that night! And Christ agate
stooped down. and In the astim
hearth no lighted i|
not more by the great, blazing log* than t>>
tho joy of a reunited household, wrote th<
same liberating words that Ho had writter
more than eighteen hundred years ago in th<
lust o the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveitee*
A word broad enough and hig t enough tc
!et nas4 through itall the armiesol heaven, a
million abreast, on white horses, nostril U
nostril, 1 ank to Tank.
SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS
A tornado struck neur Pacolet depot
Tuesday and demolished tenants' houses
on severbl farms.
F. H. Mobley, ex county commission
er, died at his residence, near Beeklmm,
jf pneumonia.
The annual death rate per 1,000 for
week ending February IC, in Charleston,
was, white, 11.20.
'1 he Ciaud Lodge of the Knights of
Pythia. met at Columbimt Tuesday—tho
twenty-fifth anniversary of tho order.
The work on the new bank building
at Aiken is being rapidly pushed. They
expert to occupy It by the middle of
April.
The artesian well nt Barnwell has
reached a depth of 800 feet after experi
encing many delays and considerable
difficulty.
There arc a good many cases of mea
sles in Berkeley county. Ell Williams
lost a son and daughter, both grown, ol
this disease.
A fifteen-year-old son of *Vm. Cath
cart, living about three miles from Spar
tanburg, accidentally shot himself Tues
day morning, and died from the wound.
Only one caso of drunk and disor
derly was entered on the police record
in Charleston on Sunday for twenty-four
hours. This is renmrkahle for Saturday
night and Sunday.
The Eutawville road, it is said, will
lun from Sumter to Cheraw via Bishop
ville. This will help Sumter and be
quite a boom for Bishopville, giving that
thriving place two competing railroad
lmcs.
Clarence, an eleven-year-old son of P.
W. Saudi fer, of Bamberg, was acciden
tally shot by his playmate, llcnry Mor
ris, while the latter was carelessly hand
ling a pistol, recently, from the effects of
which ho died.
There have been a number of deaths
iu Elleuton community recently, mostly
from pneumonia. Among those who
have fallen victims to this diseaso was
George S. Newman, an elder of the
Christian Church.
News has been received at Newberry
of the death of Dr. W. H. Hnrrington,
a former resident of that place, at Craw
ford, Miss. He wus in the 72d year of
his age. Dr. Harrington married the
only child of the late Chief Justice
O’Neall. He has two children living in
the state.
Capt. F. V. Abbot, the United States
engineer at Charleston, has forwarded to
the chief of engineers, tho bids for the
dredging between tho jetties, and it is
expected that the work will be awarded
within tho next few days. There iss3oo,-
000 available for the work on the jetties,
$050,000 under the last appropriation,
and SIO,OOO from the preceding appro
priation.
The funeral sorvicc of Dr. 11. 11. Hug
gins was held on Sunday in the Method
ist Church, Manning, the Ilov. Henry M.
Mood, assisted by the Rev. James Mc-
Dowell, officiating. Peoplo camo in from
various parts of the couuty, and a great
many were prevented from coming on
account of the threatening condition of
the weather. Dr. Huggins leaves a Urge
family to mourn his loss, and the whole
community arc in siucere sympathy with
them.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
Fork, has determined that the gravo of
Gen. Francis Marion, tho revolutionary
hero, must he rescued from the neglected
condition in which it has lain for many
years. The grave is located on an old
and wornout plantation in the neighbor
hood of Charleston. Ex-Mayor Courtney,
of Charb ston, lias been communicated
with and asked to have estimates made
respecting the probable cost of putting
the plat in order and marking tho grave
with a proper monument.
J. C. Hartzell, tho secretary of the
Freedman’s Aid and Southern Education
society, lias published a letter which will
be highly encouraging to the immediate
friends of Ciaflin University and to all
who nre interested in the literary and
manui 1 education of the colored people.
Mr. Hartzell says that he expects to see
from 1,500 to 2,000 students at Chitlin
University within the next few years.
The intuition is to erect a central build
ing which will cost $25,000. A sub
scription of SIO,OOO was made at the
late session of the South Carolina Con
ference, and a month in the year will bo
devoted to the raising of money.
The Law nnd the Porter.
“See here, porter, I gave you a dollar it
few minutes ago, an’ you have given me
only ten cents ohangc. You can’t come
that on me. I’m too old a kind of a trav
eler to be taken in that way. ”
“Sorry, sah; but the new intestate rail
road law, yo’ know, sah. Wo darsen’t vio
late hit, yo’ know, sah, nndah penalty.”
“now are you violating the interstate
law?”
“Don’t you know, sah? The new law says
for’ a sho*t haul de railroad am only enti
tled to sho’t-haul pay, but fo’ a long haul
it must cba’ge de long-haul price. Yob®
rode with mo all the way from New Yo’k.
Dat am a long haul, an’ d’ye s’pose I’m
gwine ter bring do law down on my no’
Lead by makin’ only a sho’t haul out’n uat
doliahf Sorry, sah, but my odahs is to
respeck de intostate railroad law to de very
lettah.” —Chicago Herald.
Eating With the Finger*.
The nations which still ent with tfrt?
lingers defend the practise on the*
ground of cleanliness. A Malay gentle
man regards the use of a fork much as
we would think of the use of a borrowed
tooth pick, He is troubled by the re
flection that it has been in other mouths
and that some lazy servant may have
neglected to wash it properly. The
care of his fingers are in his own charge,
and he knows that they are clean ami
that they have never been in any one’t*
else mouth. —Popular Science Monthly ,
QUAINT ANI* (THIOLS.
Every French bank has a photograph
of every employe.
Them arc 2(00 unmarried women in
the missionary Held.
The United States ran boast of t'J.'l
mountain |Hiikstlmt are more than 10,000
feat high.
Tho numlM’r of men's linen collars
made in this country every year is
4,000,000.
Tlie sugar rune bus been cultivated for
so long it |H'riod that its native country
is unknown.
The yellow-eye bean is the standnnl
for the manufacture of the famous Bos
ton baked lieans.
The first recorded eclipse of tho moon
is that olmerved by tho Clutldcuns ut
Babylon on March 19, 720 B. C.
Tho lutrat “automatic” is a horse car
change lx>x, which returns small change
for any amount up to a silver dollar.
It is said that cattle in transit on sonic
of the western roods are allowed to re
main tliroo days without food or water,
Shnwnco County, Knn., claiming a
population of 60,000, hoc not one crim
inal case on her court docket, it is said.
A Louisville landlady seized a love
letter addressed to a delinquent boarder,
and held it In lieu of psiymeut for rent.
A Montreal lawyer owns tho only ex
isting copy of the first hook published
in Canada. It is Archbishop Languet's
catechism, bearing date of 1765.
Morosco, a Cossack chief, discovered
Kamtschntka in 1690. It was taken |w*s
session of by Russia in 1697, and proved
to be a peninsula by Behring in 1728.
Instruction in the art of embalming
dead bodies by Professor Sullivan, of
Boston, was a feature of a recent gather
ing of undertakers in Syracuse, N. Y.
An American gentleman, Mr. Bonsai,
heard the casual crack of a Parisian cab
man’s whip close to his ear, and there
upon rounded to and whaled him with
his walking stick, much to the approval
of English critics.
J. R. Bass is known os the “ossified
man." He is tifty-ciglit years of age,
blind, and a living skeleton, weighing
but seventy pounds. His limbs arc so
ossified thut he is perfectly helpless, and
all his body seems to be turning slowly to
hoc a.
James Watt, a boy who kept his eyes
wide open as he went along, made a very
thoughtful, practical man; and, from the
examination of a lobster shell, with its
singular head and dangling claws, he
learned how to carry water in pipes under
the Clyde in Scotland.
Lead pencils contain no lead. The
term lead pencil is as much a misnomer
as it would be to call a horse a cow. Red
lead is an oxido of lead, and white lend
is a carbonate of lead; but the black lead
is neither a metal nor a compound of
metal. It is plumbago or graphite, ono
of the forms of carbon.
Before it rains it is said that dogs
throw up the earth with their paws,
horses rub themselves and shake their
heads and sniff the air, bees will not
leave their hives, all domestic animals
become restless, birds plume and anoint
themselves, geese squawk, swallows and
larks fly upwards and auts work harder
thau usual.
Agriculture in Japan.
Japan has an area of 150,000 square
miles, or about 100,000,000 acres. This
approximate approaches the area of the
state of California. Of this area Japan
lias only 12,000 acres in cultivation by
the spade, mattock or plow. From this
cultivated area all the food and textile
plants are grown to feed and clothe 38,-
000,000 people. The land outside of
this cultivation does not contribute by
grazing to their support as with us, as
the Japanese wear no woolen clothing
and eat neither beef, pork, mutton, milk,
nor cheese. The untilled area yields
them only fuel. Their 12,000,000 acres
do even more than to clothe and feed
their 38,000,000 people. They yield
40,000,000 pounds of tea, 25,000 bales
of silk and large quantities of rice, tobac
co and hemp for exportation. In a pop
ulation of 38,000,000 there are 20,000,
000 who belong to the agricultural class.
There arc 4,500,000 landholders. The
landlords average two and two-thirds
acres. There arc few men who own nnd
till ten acres, and there are many who
have one acre and less. It is not to be
understood that all the labor of 20,000,-
000 of people is expended upon 12,000,-
000 of acres of land. Every fanner’s
family hjis its wheel, reel, warping bars
and loom, as the early settlers of the
continent had, and their cotton, linen
and silk cloth is made for family use,
and even for sale.—[Picayune.
A Costly Error.
An architect in Berlin has just received
a criminal sentenco on account of an
error in judgment, by which the lives
of workmen were lost. The architect in
question, M. Hiller, had designed a
hospital, with a terra-cotta cornice. The
upper members of the cornice overhung
considerably, and the problem of
supporting it, which is nlways a serious
one with projecting members of terra
cotta, was solved by laying an iron plate
on the lower portion of the cornice, held
down by bolts three feet long, plac 3d six
feet apart, near the back edge of the
plate, and extending down into the
backing of the cornice, which was
composed of brickwork 14 inches thick.
The terracotta blocks for the upper
portion of the cornice, which projoct-ed
15 inches from the face of the wall, were
delivered irregularly, and wero set in
place as they arrived. Apparently, (1 if
prevented tying them properly together,,
for, before the cornice was finished, 60*
feet of it gave way, carrying to the
ground with it nine workmen, of whom
eight were killed. It is hard to tell,
without seeing the testimony, just how
the blame was apportioned between the ,
architect and the contractor, but both
have been sentenced to six montlis’ im
prisonment.—American Architect .
I'iMlit I’lckem.
A poouliar anil not altogether pleasing
sight aliout Ilia inm and ntni'l works iu
Johnstown, Pa., in thn groups of
women niul children that are constantly
prodding nud iliK>K in the uiml< r
dumps, unit are known as “oobble pick
ers. ’* Thn men irn always old nml fre
quently weak and tottering. Tho mark
of piverty in ou nil tin* women nml tint
children, who nrn in tho majority, urn
abject looking nrontitriw, nml range from
the ago of Hto Id, Gobbles uro tlio bite
of iron nml sto<d tlmt remain among
the oindern from the furnaces ami are
dunijH-d with tin'll! on thn oittliOf piloa.
On the gathering of these bit* of metal
the email army of toilers inferred to
depend for their living. With hoei nml
rakea they digin the cinders as they aro
dumped, nml struggle nml push nml
wrangle for ths possession of the motel
as it is uncovered.
Koch pioker liiih s basket in which is
plaoed the result of the pickings. Over
200 persons dsily delve on the grimy
dump for oobhles. While they will use
all niannerof means to secure possession
of a lucky find in the dumps, lifter a
picker has (Hied his basket and emptied
it on his "pile," a few feet awny, there
is not one among the curious and by no
means scrupulous pickers who would
touch one of the cobbles iu it. Knoll
pioker has his or hor pile of cobbles and
the iron oompsny's teams come around
at intervals. The driver weighs enoh
pile, gives the owner a voucher for it,
and takes the noon mulct'd metal to the
scrap heaps to be melted again.
The earnings of the oobble pickers
range from 810 to 810 per month, and
their ore women who ha\ e been ou the
dump for years. The ease of one woman
and nor twelve year-old daughter is no
torious, because they earn not only their
own living but enough to feedand clothe
the husband and father, who is nn em
ployee of the Iron works nud gets 8100
per month, whioh he squanders in drink
and riotous living ns soon ns he is paid.
One old man on the oobble dumps, who
is barely able to save enough to keep
him from starving, was onoo n promi
nent business man worth at least
$50,000.
The work of oobble pioking is one of
the lowest forms of human oocupations
and its degrading effeot on the young
girls and boys engaged in it is only too
apparent. Many efforts have been made
by ehnrch and other societies in Johns
town to suppress cobble picking among
the ohildren, but with indifferent success.
—Hew York Timet.
An Indian Garden of Eden.
The early Indian tribes who inhabited
Mt. Desert believed that the Garden of
Eden was situated on that spot, and,
according to their legends, when the
white man gave the name of Eden to
one part of the Island, it was only com
ing to its own again. Strange as it may
seem, the primeval father of the Maine
red man was a youth with golden hair
and eyes like the hazelberry, tall and of
great beauty. The Eve who cumo to him
juts when his lonoliness was getting in
supportable first appeared coming
through the clouds. Her first exolam
ation at seeing him was the Indian for
“Oh ! dear."
She at once out off his golden looks
and began to weave them into a strong
cord, growing larger as she proceeded.
At a suggestion from Monicho, the god
of evil designs, the man took the cord
from her and bound her with it, when
she ceased growing, but did not stop
working. The neit thing sho done was
to bend down a tall, green stalk near
her and gather from its golden seeds,
whioh she mads into bread, being thus
the disooverer of Indian corn. The
oonple, after teaching their children
how to raise and nse this grain, were
translated to the constellation of the
stars known as the Sickle, whence they
•till watoh over their earthly homo.—
Lewiston {Me.) Journal.
Youthrul Burglars.
Three boys arrested in San Francisco,
Cal., are of Italian parentage, and their
ages range from 10 to 14 years. Re
cently, the safe in a large shoo store in
that city was robbed of S2BO in coin, and
the three boys, who had been looking at
slippers, were suspected. From the de
scription, detectives finally identified
them as the boys who had been arrested
at Pleasanton for making a target of a
school house and firing pistols in the
street. They bought two rifles and a
quantity of ammunition, but their guns
were stolen before they had them one
day. Then each bought a pearl-handled
revolver with several hundred cartridges.
They began practicing with these, and
one boy was wounded and another had a
narrow escape. They bought all kinds
of articles, from cigarette holders to
rings, sheet music and dime novels.
They spent all, except S3B, of the stolen
money in four days.
Our Forests.
The destruction of our forests is in
progress, and the losses incurred are in
calculable. Not only for their own pro
ducts are the forests indispensable, but
it is in them that streams and rivers have
their origin, and upon their preservation
depends influences that affect the land,
the water and the air of the entire conti
nent, and contribute to the wealth and
welfare of every inhabitant. The elabo
rate scheme of a permanent Federal for
estry service managing the forests as a
source of revenue, is as repugnant to our
principles of government as any other
form of Federal control of commercial
enterprise, and is subject to the surne ob
jections as the assumption of by the gov
ernment of the management of mines
and ranchos and all eUc that is embraced
in the resources of its domain.
In the farthest southeastern island of
the Philippine group, Mindinao, upon
one of its mountains, Parag, in the neigh
borhood of the highest peek in the
island, the volcano Apo, a party of ex
plorers found recently, at the height of
2,500 feet above the sea level, a colossal
flower, a flve-petaled one, nearly a yard
in diameter —as large as a carriage wheel.
A single flower weighed over 23 pounds.
•Hie fact that good health, strong mo Poles
and sound nerves are attainable should en
courage every invalid to an earnest endeavor
in the right direction. Remember all disease
owes its oriffin, more or less,to a lack of iron in
the blood. Iron in the blood means health,
strength and vigor. Analyte the blood of au
Invalid and little or no iron will be found.
Healthy men’s blood is full of iron. The best
method of supplying this lack of iron is by
using Brown's Iron Ritters, a sure euro for
dyspepsia, general debility, weakness and aU
wasting diseased.
Best, easiest to use, and cheapest. Piso’s
Remedy for ( atarrh. By Drt ggista, 50c.
Tf afflicted with sore oyesuso Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Rye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
Prepare for Spring
Now Is the time to prepare for spring, and y< ur
own system i* of first importance. If you have not
felt w ell duruur the winter, if you hare been over
worked or closely confined in badly ventilated
or shops, you need a good tonic and blood
purifier like Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Take it early and
you will ward off attacks of di-ease or escape the
effects of impure blood and that tired feeling, so
common in the spring. Do not dolay. Take Hood’s
Sarsaparilla now.
**l wish to state the benefit I derived from Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I have used IV in the spring for three
year* for debility and oan say that I gained in fl sh
and strength after using one iottle. It has also
cured me of sick headache."—Mas. F. IL Akdkkwp,
South Woodstock, Conn
“I toot Hood’s Rarsaparilla for loss of appetite,
dyspepsia, and general languor. It did me a vast
amount of good, and I have no hesitancy in recom
mending it**—J. W. WmnsroßD, Quincy, 111.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Bold by all druggists. Jl; six for *3 Prepared only
by CL L HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
JOO Doses One Dollar
a Ttnitini.r. HUNT.
Hew a Oravn Hoy Met Ilia Fate in
the Wilils of A Moo.
Kitting ab mt the camp-fire on the
banks of the riiobo river, in Africa,
Prof. J. W. Edward heard tho story ol
an elephant limit that affected him nuns
than any experience he ever paK.ied
through, says a writor in tho American
Pistil. Burns, a trader iu Natal, was ths
anther id tlio narrative, nud told it as
follows:
“I was trading in the interior, aiul on
one of my visits to Nutnl was impor
tuned by George Wilson, a lad of 111, tlio
son of an old sehoolmato, to accompany
mo ou one of my touts. I obtained his
mother’s consent and wo started. Tho
bey was a bright, couragous lad,and was
ambitions to distinguish himself with
his rifle. Early one morning in Water
valley we saw a herd of fifteen elephants
grazing about a mile from us. Wo start
ed them up and picking out a tine bull
with good tusks, 1 started to cut him off,
telling Georgo to ride behind while I
charged him. Soon I had the old fel
low out of the pack and gave him a shot
behind the ear that staggered him a lit
tle. Then wo cross tired him for half
an hour, but could not get any good
shots. All at once tlio horse George
was riding stumbled, throwing him and
falling on his leg, 1 was so horrified
that i ooulil not move, but finally seeing
George’s attempts to oxtriouto himself
I tried to draw the elephant's attention to
me. The brute wns thoroughly enraged,
however, and oharged for tlio lnd just as
lio was getting on his feet. Then fol
lowed ono of tlio greatest lights betwoen
brute and man I ever saw. Off went
Georgo, tho elephant after him, while I
followed firing bullet after bullet into
his hide.
“ All at once I saw that Wilson was
lame. I leveled at oneo and fired, and
tho boy turned around and did like
wise. This checked tho brute for a
moment, but seeing George running
again, ho made a furious charge ana
oaught tin with him. Up went Ills
trunk, and a moment after the poor lad
was dead on the ground, crushed by the
blow. Not satisfied, tho brute begun
goring the lad in a frightful manner. I
rode up to the beast and sent in two
shots that brought him to his knees.
Ho tried to rise, but could not, and
after two or three shots, rolled over and
died. The poor lad was torn to pieces.
I plaoed his body across my horse,
chopped off the beast’s tusks, and rode
back to camp. We buried him near the
springs and piled rocks over his gravo to
keep the wolves from getting at it. I
took the boy’s wat h and chain, with
his wearing apparel, to his mother, and
I can tell you, lads, I never wish to wit
ness such a soene again. The poor
woman died a year afterward, but would
never touch the profits of the trip, say
ing that sho would take nothing that
was the means of killing her boy.’’
A Good Appetite,
How many answer tho breakfast bell, by com
ing to tho table, only to find it impossible to eat
a mouthful of food. Such unfortunatos are
surely going into decline, and if they continue
to grow worse aro not long for this world. It is
hard to name tho many curses of a waut of ap
petite. It is easy to name a sure cure. Do you
no dit ? Will you use it ? Well, then, the Bure
euro is 13. 13. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Some
boarding house keepers object to their boarders
using B. B. B. It makes them eat too hearty.
Tis true one grows ptroug and robust from its
use, but then a delicate boarder is more profita
ble. B. B. B. cures many distressing diseases
by its strengthening effect on the entire physical
organization. William It. Tallev, Neal’s Land
ing, Fla., writes: “Four bottles of B. B. B.
healed up tho broken out places on my limbs,
and my general health never was bitter than
now. My appetite is good, and all I eat agrees
with me/’
Inventor Bell testified before a committee
that his profit on tlio telephone is $10,000,000.
How to Haiti Flenli and
Use after each meal Scott’s Emulsion with
Hypo phosphites. It is as palatable as milk,
and easily digested. The rapidity with which
delicate people improve with its use Is won
derful. Use it uiul try your weight. As h
remedy for < onsumption. Throat affections
and Bronchitis, it is unequaled. Please read:
“1 used Scott's Emulsion iu a ci.ild eight
months old with good results. He gained four
pounds in a very short time.” — Tho. Prim, M.
L>., Alabama.
Cornell University, N. Y., ha* made expul
sion the penalty of drinking,gambling,hazing.
A Had cal Cure ivr Epileptic Fits.
To the Editor— Please inform your readers
that 1 have a positive remedy for the above
named disease which I warrant to cure the
ivorst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir
tues that I will Pend free a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his P O ami Express address. Keep 7,
H.U. ROOT. M. C., Ib3 Pearl St.. New York.
DlNgiatiiiff Drugs.
Blue-mass for torpid liver, castor oil for con
stipation, other disgusting drugs for piles,
dyspepsia.and slck-headache, are being surely
banished from n o by tho sweet, fruit-like
HAMBURG FIGS. 25 cents. Dose one Fig.
Mack Drug Cos., N. Y.
Tfiose who for the first time are to become
mothers should use Mother’s Friend. Much
suffering will be saved. Sold by druggists.
Cleanse
the System
With that moat reliable
|{j|gg medicine—Paine’s celery
w# Compound. It purifies the
| blood, cures Constipation,
u 13 and regulates the liver and
kldneys,elTectually cleans-
I w 'k# ¥W lug the system of all waste
iiand dead matter.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
combines true nerve tonic and strengthening
qualities, reviving the energies and spirits.
“ I have been troubled for some years with a
complication of difficulties. After trying va
rious remedies, ond not 11 ruling relief, I tried
Paine’s Celery Compound. Before taking on©
full bottle the long troublesome symptoms be
gan to subside, and I can truly say now, that I
feel like anew man. Digestion Las Improved,
and I have gained ten pounds In weight since I
have commenced taking the Compound.”
Honeotvs Stearns, Felchvllle, Vt.
SI.OO. Six for $5.00. At Druggists.
Wells, Richardson & Cos., Burlington, Vt
ANY
A Dress, or a Coat, 1 J\ n y Color
Ribbons, Feathers, > FOR
Yarns, Rags, etc. ) ten cents
fnd in many other ways SAVE Money, and make
hinjrs look like NEW, by using DIAMOND
DYES. The work is easy, simple, quick; the
colors the BEST and FASTEST known. Ask for
DIAMOND DYES and take no other.
For Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles USE
DIAMOND PAINTS.
Gold, Silver, Bronze. Copper. Only xo Cents.
Baby Portraits.
.V Portfolio of beautiful baby pic
tures from life, printed on fine
f plat© paper by patent photo
process, sent tree to Mother of
fH any Baby bom within a year.
rWu'lJt Every Mother wants these
\ pi cture * '< send at once. Give
i RjTtvV 1 Baby’s name and ago.
Li jL/WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO.,
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mm& gufflßH
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po#ta i *;ntre<l advanced for wa**-*, adrertlalng. ete
Centsnnial Manufacturing Cos., Cincinnati. Ohio,
to away.pvbj
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glf.Sendnt nc©. This notice will not apprnr again
GCCT TADTU Agents make more money
utel vB tAn I its working for u.- than pv-jr
before. 2e. stamp f- r t rm*. fee. .1. W. ISILLING
TO>, 46814 Drvodue St.. Nu\r Orleans, Da*
PM" a Lire at home and make more money working for na than
VeHWi at anythingelae in the world Either au Coitly outfit
IMS. Terns ***. Addreu. lav* 4 Cos., Augusta, Maine.
A PROMINENT MERCHANT IN TROUBLE.
Old moneybags mopes In hla office all day,
As snappish and cross as a bear;
Tho clerks know enough to keep out of his
way,
Lcet tho merchant should grumble and
ewear.
Even Tabby, tho cat, is In fear of a cuff,
Or a kick, if sho ventures too nears
They all know tho master is opt to bo rough,
And his freaks unexpected and queer.
To correct a sluggish or disordered liver, and to cleanse and purify tho
blood and thereby sweeten tho temper, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery;
has no equal. It improves digestion, builds up tlio flesh, invigorates the
system, dispells melancholy, and makes life worth living.
BT 10 t 0 benefit or cure, if taken in time and riven a !
! I fair trial, in all diseases for which It is recon. j
mended, or the money paid for it will be refunded.
Copyright, 1888, by World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors.
CAT A R RH ™
e. * mi iHujl a. i. Iln ma ,t,, r 0 f j, ow j ons , standing, la per.
manently cured by DR. SAGE'S OATARRH REMEDY. &0 cents, by drugsista.
White Caps have organized a female
branch of the order at Mt. Etna, lnd.
An estimable young lady of that city re
ceived the following warning: “Miss
L—We aro very sorry to say that
unless you mend your ways and do bet
ter from now on, you will receive very
rude treatment from the lady White Caps
of this village.”
-r L I ■ '
and Sarsaparilla Mixtures, which mim'd his diges
tion and Kuve him mercurial rheum a'ism. The > ron
tleman on the rirht took Swift's Specific (S. S. s.)
which for> , od out the poison and built him up from
the nrst dose.
SWIFT'S SPECIFIC is entirely a vegetable neb
cine, and is the only medicine which has ever cured
Ill<Kd I’oißon, Scrofula, Blood Humor* and kindred
diseases. Sand for our books on Blood and Skin
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PHILADELPHIA, PA
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