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ltliv. Dl!. TALMAtiE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Sab*ert- < ‘Outwitted bjr Hi* World."
it LlfliifHton, Mont )
Tmxt "Tht child r# .1 of this world am •
their generation wire, than the childi't* •
light.—h it. Lukexvl.,
That U auther w n- of saying that (’UrU
tians ai *♦ not *0 skillfu 11 th* wanijulation 01
aptritunl affair* an w idling nr* skiilful it
th* nianagaiiMMit of 1
aivuvul tut' people \vh trt* alert, earuo*l, con
canlratctl anti skillfu n monetary matters
who, in the affair* 01 the ioul, are laggarth
Inane, inert.
The great w ant of thi* world in more com
mon actll* in matton of religion* If one half
of the skill and foroifnlnew employ** I in
fluaiuial affair* wore employed in tli:oininat
ing tho truth* of Chriat. and trying to make
the world bettor, within ten year, the last,
jjnggcriinut would fall, tho la*t throne of op
morion upact, the Inft Iniquity tumble, nml
the anthem that wa* chantedorer Bethlohem
on Christina* night would l>o echoed and re
echoed from nil nation* an*l kindred and
people “Glory to God in tho highest, an*’
on earth peace, good will to men.
Borne years ago, on a train going toward
the southwewt, a* the porter of the sleeping
car was making up tho berth* at the evening
tide, I saw n man kneel down to pray.
WoridJy people in the oar looked ou. much
as to ray: “What doe* tliis moan?” I sup
K>fle the most of the people in the ear thought
iat man was either insane or that was a
fanatic; but ho disturbed no one when ho
knelt, and he disturbed no cue when he arose.
In after conversation with him I found out
that he was n mom l-or of a church in my own
city, that, he was a scafearing man, and
that ho was 011 hi* way to New Or
leans to take command of a vessel. I
thought then, ns 1 think now, that ten such
men—men with such courage for (Joci as that
man bad- would bring tho whole city to
Christ, n thousand suen men would bring this
whole land to Ood; tou thousand such men,
in a short time, would bring the whole eart h
into the kingdom of Jos us. That lie was suc
cessful In worldly affairs, I found
he was skillful in spiritual affairs, you are
well persuaded. If men had the courage,the
pluck, ilie alertness, tho acumen, tho indus
try. the common scum* in matters of the soul
that the}'ha vein earthly matters, this would
be a very different land of world to live in.
In tlie first pl&ae wo want more common
sense in the building and conduct of churches.
The idea of the adaptiveness is always i*ara
mount in any other kind of structure. If
jankers meet together and they resolve upon
putting up n bank, the bank is especially
adapt* <1 to banking purposes; if a manu
facturing company put up n building, it is to
be adapted to manufacturing purposes; but
adaptiveness is not always the question in
|hc* rearing of churches. 111 many of our
Sburches we want more light, more
room, more ventilation, more comfort. Vast
fcums of money are expended on ecclesiastical
structures, and men sit down in thorn, and
you axk a man how he likes tho church; he
Bays: “I like it very well, but I can’t hear.’*
As though a shawl' factory w it© good for
everything but making shawls. The voice
of the preacher dashes against the pillars.
Men sit down under tho shadows of the
Gothic arches and shiver, and feel they must
begetting religion, or something else, they
feel so uncomfortable.
O my friends, we want more common sense,
In ihe rearing of churches. There is n*j ex
cuse for lack of light when the heavens aro
foil Of it, no excuse for lack of fresh nir
vrhen the world swims in it. It ought to he
snaq>re*>pi'/i' not only of our spiritual hap
pinfes*, but of our physical comfort, when we
lay: “How amiable aro Thy tabernacles, O
Lord God of Hosts! A day in Thy courts is
better than a thousand.”
Again I remark: We want more common
sense in tho obtaining of religious hope. All
men understand that in order to succeed in
worldly directions they must concentrate.
They think on that one subject until their
mind takes (ire with tho velocity of their own
thoughts. All their acumen, all their strategy,
all their wisdom, nil their common sense, they
Eat in that ono direction and they succeed.
ut how seldom it Is tnio in tho matter of
seeking after God. "While no man expects to
scooinplisli anything for this world without
concentration and enthusiasm, how many
there arc expecting after awhile to get into
Lhe kingdom of God without the use of
any such moans. A miller in Califor
nia, many years ago, held up a sparkle
of gold uutil it bewitched nations.
Tens of thousands of people left their
homes. They took their blankets and their
pickaxes and their pistols and went to tho
wilds of California. Cities sprang up sud
denly on the Pacific coast. Merchants put
aside their elegant apparel and put on the
miner's garb. All the land was full of the
talk about gold. Gold in tho eyes, gold in
the ears, gold in the wake of ships, gold in
the streets—gold, gold, gold. Word comes
to us that the mountain of God's love is full of
bright, treasure; that men have been dig
ging there, and have brought up gold, und
amethyst, and carhunrlo, and jasper, and
sardonyx, and chrysoprasus, and all the pre
cious atones out of which the walls of heaven
werebuilded. Word comes of a man who,
diglfinK in that mine for one hour, lias
brought up treasures worth more than
all the stars that keep vigil over our
sick and dying world. Is it a bogus
company that is formed? Is it unde
veloped territory? Oh no, the story is true.
There arc thousands of people in this audionci
who would be willing to rise and testify that
they have discovered tliet cold nml bnvo i|
In their possession. Not withstanding all this,
wlmt is the circumstance? One would sup
pose that the announcement would send peo
ple in great excitement, up and down our
streets. That at midnight men would
knock at your door, asking how
they may get those treasures. In
stead of that, many of us put our hands be
hind our back and walk up and down in front
of the mine of eternal riches, and say: “Well,
if lam to be saved, I will be saved; and if I
am to be darned, 1 will be damned, and there
is nothing to do about it. 1 ’ Why, my broth
er, do you not do that way in business mat
ters? Why do you not to-morrow go to your
store and sit down and fold your arms
and say: “If these* goods are to be sold,
they will bo sold, and if they are not to be
sold, they will not bo sold: there is nothing
for me to do about it.” No, you dispatch
your agents, you print your advortisuuents,
you adorn your show windows, you push
those goods, you use the instrumentality.
Oh that men were as wise in the matter of
the soul as they arc wise in the matter of
dollars and cents! This doctrine of
God’s sovereignty, how it is misquoted
and spoken of as though it were an
iron chain which bound us hand and
foot for time and for eternity, when,
so far from that, in every liber of your
body, in every faculf < your mind, in
every passion of your soul, you are a
free man and it is no more a matter of froe
choice whether you will to-morrow go
abroad or stay at home, than it is this
moment a matter of free choice whether
you will accept Christ or reject Him.
In all the army of ba .tiers there is not one
conscript. Men are not to be dragooned into
heaven. Among all the tens of thousands of
the Lord’s soldiery there is not one man but
will tell you: “1 chose Christ. I wanted Him;
I desired to bo in His . yjrvice: I am not a con
script—l am a volunteer.” On, that men had
the same common sense in the matters of re
ligion that they have in the matters of the
world—the same concentration, the same
push, the same enthusiasm! In the
one case a secular enthusiasm; in
the other, a cot ecrated enthusiasm.
Again 1 remark: We want more common
sense in the building up and enlarging of our
Cliristiau character. There are men hero
who have for forty years been running the
Christ ian race, and to cy have not run a quar
ter of a mile'
No business man would be willing to have
his investments unaccumulative. If you in
vest a dollar yo x oct that dollar to come
home bringing another dollar on its back.
What would you think of a man who should
invest ten thousand dollars in a monetary
institution, then go off for live years,
make no inquiry in regard to
the investment, then come back, step
up to the cashier of the institution
and say: “Have you kept those ten thousand
dollars safely that I lodged with you?” but
asking no question about interest or about
dividend. Whj, you say, “That is not com
mon sense,” Neither is it, but that is the
way we act in matters of the soul. We
make n far more important invest
ment than ten thousand dollars. Wo
invest our soul. Is it accumulative?
Are we growing in grace? Are we getting
better ? Are wo getting worse? God de
clares many dividends, but we do not collect
them, we do not ask about them, we do not
want them. Oh that in this matter of accu
mulation we are as wise in the matters of the
soul as wo are in the matters of the world!
How little common sense in the reading of
the Scriptures! We get any other book and
we open it and wo say: “Now, what does this
book mean to teach me? It is a book on as
tronomy; it will touch me astronomy. It is
u book on political economy; it will
teach me political economy.” Taking
up the Bible, do we ask ourselves what
it means to teach? It moans to do just
one thing; get the world converted and get
us all to heaven. That is what it iwnposes to
do. But instead of that, wo go into the
Bible os botanists to pick flowers, or w r e go as
pugilists to get something to fight other
Christians with, or we go as logicians trying
to sharpen our mental faculties for a better
argument, and we do not like .Ins about the
Whit', und we do not like that, aud wade
not like tho oilier thing. What would vou
think "l a man lo*t on the mountain!? Night
ha* oino down; h* cannot find hi*
way home aud lie nee* a light iu a mountain
( *ihiu; he to it, ho knock* at the door;
the mountaineer coiuchi out and finds the
travdM aud *ay*: “Well, here 1 have a Inn
toru; you can lakuitattd it "ill guide you
on the wav h"iuc;” and uppo*o that man
hhonhl way: “I don’t like thatlautern, I don’t
like tho handle *d it, there are or fifteen
thing* about it 1 don’t like; if you can’t givo
me a 1 letter lantern than that 1 wou’t have
any.** . ,
Now, God nay* thi* Bible I* to I*‘ a lamp to
our tltd ami n lantern to our path, to guide
Uh through tin* midnight of Ihi* world to tho
i ale >f the e. lestial dty. Wo take hold of
] 1 iM sharp eriti( l*m, and deprecate thi*, and
deprecate that. Oh, how much wiser we
would )** if by it* holy light wo found our
wav to our evei lusting home!
Then wa fl*> 11 t rorl the Bible as wo rood
other book* We read it perhapa four or five
minuter just lief ore we retire at night. We
are weary ami sleepy. so eomnolent we hardly
know wKich end of the book is up. We drop
our eye, perhaps on tho story of Sampson
and the fox#*, or upon some genealogical table*
important in its place, but stirring no more
religious emotion than the announcement
that Homebody liegat somebody else,
mi i*l ho liegat Homebody else, instead
of opening tho book an*l saving: “Now I
must road for my immortal lib* My eternal
destiny is involved iu thi* book.”
How little we use common sonw in
prayer 1 Wo say: “Oh, !*>rd, give mo
this,” and “Oh Lord, give mo that,” and
“Oh, Lord, give mo something else,’' and wo
do not. expect to get it, or getting it,
we do not know we have it. We have
no anxiety about it. Wo do not watch
iud wait for it* coining.
Asa merchunt, you telegraph or you writo
to some other city for a hill of gxsl. You
Ray: “Bend mo by such express, or by such a
steamer,or by such a rad train.” The day ar
rives. You solid your wagon to the depot, or
to the wharf. The goods do not oorae. You
immediately telegraph: “What is the matter
with those goods/ We haven’t received them.
Bend them right away. We want them now,
or we don’t want them at all.” And you keep
writing and you keep telegraphing, and you
keep sending vour wagon to the depot, or to
the express office, or to tho wharf, until you
get the goods.
In matters of religion wo are not so wise
as that. We ask certain things to be sent
from heaven. Wo do not know whether
they come or not. We have not any special
anxiety as to whether they come or not.
We may got tlu*m and may not get them.
Instead of at 7 o’clock in tho morning
saying: “Have I got that blessing?”
at o’clock noonday, asking: “Have
1 got that blessing?” at 7 o’clock iu
the evening saying: ‘ Have I roccivod that
blessing?” and not getting it, ploading,
pleading—bogging, begging—asking, asking
until you get. Now, my brethren, is not
that common sense? If we ask a thing from
God, who has sworn by His eternal throne
that He will do that winch we ask, is it not
common sense that we should watch and
wait until we get it?
Hut 1 remark again: We want nioro com
mon sense in doing good. How many people
ther*; are who want to do good and yet are
dead failures! Why is it? They do not ex
ercise the same tact, the same ingenuity, the
same stratagem, tho same common sense in
t!ie work of Christ that they do in worldly
things. Otherwise they would succeed in
(his direction as well ns they succeed
iu tho other. There aro many men
who have an arrogant way with
them, although they may not feel arrogant.
Or they have a patronizing way. They talk
to a man of the world in a manner which
seems to say: “Don’t you wish you were as
good as 1 tun? Why, I have to look clear
down before 1 can see you, you aro so far
beneath me.” That maimer always dis
gusts, always drives men away from the
kingdom or Jesus Christ instead of
bringing them in. *Vheu I was a
Jad I was one day in a village store, and
there was n large group of young men there
full of rollicking and fun, and a Christian
man came in, ami without uny introduction
of tho subject, and while there were in great
hilarity, said to one of them: “George, what
is the first step of wisdom?” George looked
up and said: “Every man to mind his own
business.” Well, it was a very rough answer,
but it was provoked. Religion had been
hurlod in there as though it were a bomb
shell. We must be adroit in the presenta
tion of religion to the world.
Do you siipjiose that Mary in her conver
sation with Christ lost her simplicity? or
that Paul, thundering from Mai's Hill, took
the pulpit tone? Why is it people cannot
talk os naturally in prayer meeting aud on
religious subjects us they do in worldly
circles? For 110 one ever succeeds in any
kind of Christian work unless he works
naturally. Wo want to imitate tho Lord
Jesus Christ, who plucked a poem from tho
grass of tho field. We all want to
imitate Him who talked with
farmers about tho man who wont
forth to sow, and talked with tho fisher
men about the drawn net that brought iu
iisli of all sorts, and talked with the vino
dresser about the idler iu the vineyard, and
talked with those newly affianced about tho
marriage supper, and talked with the mail
cramped in monev matter* about tho two
debtors, and talked with tho woman about
tho yeast that leavened the whole lump, and
talked with the shepherd about the lost sheep.
()li, we might gather even tho stars of the
sky and twist them like forgot-mo-nots in the
garland of Jesus. We must bring everything
to Him—tho wealth of language, the tender'
ness of sentiment, the delicacy of morning
dew, the saffron of floating cloud, tlio tangled
surf of tho tossing sea, tho bursting thunder
suns of the storm’s bombardment. Yes,
every star must point down to Him, every
heliotrope must breathe His praiso, every
drop in the summer shower must flash Hi*
glory, nil the tree brunches of the forest
must thrum their music iu the grand march
which shall celebrate a world redeemed.
Now, all this being so, what is the common
sense thing for you and for me to do ? What
we do I think will depend npon three great
facts. The first fact that sin has ruined us.
It has blasted body, mind and soul.
We want no Bible to prove that wo are
sinners. Any man who is not willing
to acknowledge himself an imperfect
and a sinful being is simply a fool and not to
be argued with. We all foci that sin lias dis
organized our entire nature. That is one
fact. Another fact is that Christ came to
reconstruct, to restore, to revise, to correct,
to redeem. That is a second fact. The
third fact is that the only time we arc sure
Christ will pardon us is the pres
ent. Now, what is the common sense thing
for us to do in viow of these three facts?
You will all agree with mo to quit sin, take
Christ and take Him now. Suppose some
business man iu whose skill you had perfect
confidence should tell you that to-morrow
(Monday) morning between 11 and 12o’clock
you could by a certain financial trans
action make five thousand dollars, but
that on Tuesday perhaps you might
make it, blit there would not be uy po&i
tiveness about it, and on Wednesday there
would not be so much, and Thursday less,
Friday less, and so on, less and less —when
would you attend to tlio matter? Why, your
common sense would dictate: “Immediately;
1 will attend to that matter between Hand
12 o'clock to-morrow (Monday) morn
ing, for then I can surely ac
accomplish it, but on Tuesday I
may not, and on Wednesday there is less
prospect. I will attend to it to-morrow.”
Now let us bring our common sense in this
matter of religion. Here are the hopes of
the Gospel. We may got thorn now. To
morrow me may get them and we may not.
Next day we may and wo may not. The
prospect less and loss and loss aud less.
The only sure time now—now. 1 would
not talk to you in this way if I did not know
that Christ was able to save all the people,
and save thousands as easily as save one. I
would not go into a hospital and tear off the
bandages from the wounds if 1 had
no balm to apply. 1 would not have
the face to tell u man he Is a sinner unless
1 had at the same time the authority
of saying ho may be saved. Suppose in
Venice there is a’‘Raphael, a faded picture,
great in its time, bearing some marks of its
greatness. History describes that picture. It
is nearly faded away. You say: “Oh, what
a pity that so wonderful a picture by Raphael
should be nearly defaced!” After awhile a
man comes up, very unskillful in art, and he
proposes to retouch it. You say . “Stand
off! I would rather have it just as it is; you
will only make it worse.” After a while
there comes an artist who was the
equal of Raphael. He says: “I will re
touch that picture and bring out all its orig
inal power.” You have full confidence in his
ability. He touches it here and there.
Feature after feature comes forth, and when
he is done with the picture it is complete in
all its original power. Now God im
pressed His image on our race, but
that image has been defaced for hun
dreds and for thousands of years, get
ting fainter and fainter. Here comes
up a divine Raphael. He says: “I can restore
that picture.” lie lias all power in heaven
and on earth. He is the equal of the One
who made the picture, the image of the One
who drew the image of God in our soul. He
touches this sin and it is gone, that trans
gression and it disappears, aud nil the deface
ment vanishes, and “where sin abounded
grace doth much more abound.”
Will 3 r ou have the defacement or
will you have the restoration?
I am well persuaded that if I could by a
touch of heavenly pathos in two minutes put
before you what has boon done to save your
soul, there would be an emotional tide over
whelming. “Mamma,” said a little child to
her mother when she was being put to bed at
night, “mamma, what makes your band
so scarred and twisted and unlike
other people's hands?" “Well,” said the
niollier, “my child, when you were
younger Utau you arc uow, vour* ago, *m*
night oft or I had pul you to bed 1 h'wrd a
cry, a slu n k upstair*. I came up tuid found
the I**l wa* on tire, and you wow on Are,
aud 1 took hold of you aud l tore off tin*
burning garment* and while i wa* taring
thorn off and t rying to get you away 1 burned
my hand, and it ha* been burned and warred
ever since, and hardly look* any
more like n hand; but I got that,
my child, in trying to nave you.” Oman!
I) woman! 1 wish to-day 1 could show you
the burned hand of Christ—burned in pluck
lug you out of the flre.burnod in Mimtehiugyou
away from the flam*. Aye, also the burned
foot, ami the burned brow, and tho burned
heart—burned for you. By Hissti iiietyaan*
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A SHIP'S WARD-ROOM.
HOW NAVAL OFFICERS LIVE
WITHIN CLOSE QUARTERS.
A Little Odd World on a United
Staton Man-of-war—Some Terror*
of a Long Cruise, &c.
“Permission to smoke, Mr, Huiithf”
“Certainly, Mr. Jones,"
The s < n 1 is in the ward-room of a
United States mini of-nr, und the time
is just lifter dinner, when the otlb ers,
ranged almiit the table, stutV to right
nml line to left, ure sipping their online
und exchanging g->o<l nut uled eludl'. At
the hi a I sits tho executive officer, und
it is to him that Mr. Jones uddresses tho
request for permission to smoko. As
there is u guest at dinner, it is n mutter
of course that everyone may smoke u
cigar with eotl'ee, but it is equally u
matter <>f course that no one shall do so
without lhst asking permission of the
senior line officer present. It is always
wise aboard a man-of-war to ask per
mission before iloinp anything.
Tho wardroom is an odd little world,
where tlie rigors of red tape uml oflioial
ism are tenn ored by good fellowship or
rendered well nigh unendurable by |K'tty
tyraunv. Each ship has from ten to
twenty oflieers in the wardroom. Hero,
often within smaller spare than is a■-
corded to a< many convicts iu a well
regulated prison, these men eut, diink
und sleep. Opening oil' the wardroom
saloon are theoiiieors’ private rooms—in
most ships tiny apartments, barely high
enough I.>r a tall nan to stand up in and
just about long enough for him to lie
down in. Sitting at the wardroom table
you may shake hands with a man in the
neare t bank.
Cioso quarters those. Some of tin*
new slit].s have larger wardrooms, and
again, sumo of them haven’t. A voyage
of throe months in these cramped
quarters is a . rtieiul test of a man’s social
qualities. If the executivo officer, who
is in effect the captain of tho wardroom,
he a martinet or a blackguard, which
latter he seldom is, the ship is a floating
hades. Two or three evil spirits among
subordinate officers may make a dozen
brother officers uncomfortable. Some
times a ship goes half round the world
with the wardroom’s occupants in a
sltt'e of mutual hatred. Perhaps the
executive office is unpopular, and throe
fourths of his sub .rdii.atos never address
him e eept in the course of duty. Per
haps the perennial war of iino and staff
is such that the right side of the dinner
table finds it difficult to bo civil to tho
left side. These conditions, l.oxvover,
seem to be comparatively tare, and now
and thqn the wa.droom is the scene of
absolute pence and good will. The exe
cutive officer’s unquestioned authority
is exercised with courtesy and acknowl
edged wit hout grudging. Late and .staff
agree to bitty their mutual suspicions,
and the best is made of close quarters.
Of course nearly every wardroom litis its
bore. Perh.i| she makes bad puns, per
haps ho tells long stories, perhaps ho
talks about himself, perhaps ho rides o
hobby. Hu is soon found out. Indeed
lie is often known beforehand, for there
are bores who have a fame throughout
the navy. They have marred a whole
generation of wardrooms in the China
Sens, going down tho Mediterranean,
on the home station, in the frozen North,
in tho tropics. Brother officers study
the register aud rejoice to discover that
some old familiar bore will be retired
before another cruise.
What of ward-room talk? First, and
always, chaff. Tho little vanities, the
pers .ual habits, the petty likes and dis
likes of each nro known and hinted at.
Then there are stories to be told. Ono
may tell tho same story twice in a cruise
without incurring serious penalty, but
if the cruise be long, every man is likely
to have spun Lis yam until they are
known by heart.
Ward room talk is seldom learned. A
dozen clever, well educated, good man
nered men together, find it impossible
to keep themselves up to a general dis
cession of literary, social or political
topics. The magazines, from one to
three months’ old, are on board, and the
ship can muster some hundreds of read
able books. Tlicso nro a resource when
a shipmate is-ill-tompered or tiresome.
Dice tire an unfailing source of amuse
ment. You shake for everything.
Monotonous, isn’t it; What is the
compensation; Moderate pay for life;
slow, but sure promotion; unquestioned
solid stand.ng: the sight of st.ange
lands the world over, and whatever
moral reward comes of faithful service
to the Stars and Stripes.—[New York
Star.
He Poisoned His Wife.
Louis Hill, a negro fugitive from
Justice in Union County, Miss., was
arrested by the Sheriff of Union County,
who came upon him aecidentslly. Five
years ago Hill resolved to get rid of his
wife in order to wed another woman
who had enslaved him, and consulted a
voodoo pries less, who told him to ex
tract the poison from a moccasin snake
in the dark of the moon, and administer
it to the woman in the seventh hour of
the seventh day following. He suc
ceeded iu capturing a n.oocasin, but the
reptile was so vicious that ho was afraid
to extract its poison bag. He tlier fore
cut off its head and boiled the head in a
pot of coffee, of which his wifo drank at
breakfast. She was immediately taken
violently ill, and for a week lingered
between life and death, but finally re
covered. The snake's head was found
among the coffee grounds which Hill
had thrown on the ground beside his
cabin, aud ho was arrested aud indicted
for attempt at murder.
Hill's cell companion in the jail at
-Vew-Albany, Miss., was George Town
send, a notorious horse thief. A few
days after the negro joined him Town
send obtained from the jailer a pocket
knife and a piece of hard wood for the
ostensible purpose of making a trinket
for a present to the jailer’s little daugh
ter. Out of this wood he fashioned a
key, and one dark night ho fitted this
key in the lock of the cell door and suc
ceeded in partially turning the bolt.
Then he and the negro threw their
weight against the door, forced it open
and escaped. Hill came to the neigh
borhood of Memphis, where ho has been
ever since. Townsend was recaptured
and is now serving a long time in the
Mississippi penitentiary.
Ik there is any place in America where
an American feels that he is in a foreign
land, it is in Milwaukee. A drive
through the st reets is like a drive through
a German city. Most of the signs are
in German, and those in English an
nounce that s me Teuton is engaged in
business, ami desires the patronage of a
few Americans who reside there, iff
fact, a person unacquainted with the
German tongue has some difficulty in
making his way about. Ho is confronted
with cab drivers and car conductors
who speak only a few words of English,
and if ho wishes to take a drive in the
country, his wuy is barred by a toll-gate,
the keeper of which cannot even inform
him of the amount of his toll in what is
generally considered to bo the language
of the United States.
“CHINATOWN.”
riIIiATKANOKPKOPLBWHOIiIVB
IN HAN FRANCISCO.
Their llatilts, Their Orowdrd Homes
uml Their Worlc —ln n Chi
nese Theater—Klchly Fur
nished Kcsiuurants.
The heart of Han Francisco is peopled
hy a class of foreigners, who have chosen
one of the choice locations of the city and
spread themselves over the territory un
til the senibluacc of the oldlocation is al
most lest hy the changes this strange peo
ple have produced. This is Chinatown,
lacing a small park mid directly opposite
police headquarters on the opposite side
of the park.
A party of fourteen, accompanied by a
policeman, as guide, made a visit into the
strange town, entering about 8 o’clock in
the evening, as night is the proper time
for such a visit. Our first point of con
tact was going up Hacmuieuto street, and
the change from America to Chinatown
is almost instantaneous. As wo climbed
the hill, we looked down in tho base
ments where in a room crowded together
were many men running sewing machines,
most of them making underclothing. As
they can live on very little food and work
many hours, they can undersell white la
bor, yet I found they were ready to ask
a big price if an American was willing
to ]iay.
Our first visit was to a joss house, and
to our sorrow the handsomest in furnish
ings were olosed, as the Chinamun goes
to his temple to say his prayers and then
about his sius, just as many other mor
tals. Wo fouud the lighted taper in
these temples, and they were never al
lowed to be without, for fear the devil
would put iu an appearance. There were
many fine carvings and images we did
not understand and no one could expluin,
but there was a very old bell which an
swered us with a rich, mellow tone when
it was tapped with the mallet, and every
where the attendant ready to receive alms.
From the temple we were led to the
living quarters, where a dozen or more
sleep in a room not more than ten feet
square. In crowding around I tried to
occupy as little space as possible for fear
of living things crawling. In ono court
the stench was horrible, as our visit had
been preceded by a long season of rain,
and our way was damp and slimy. In
the center of the court was the general
cooking establishment, where all dwellers
in that locality came to cook. The po
liceman lighted a match that wo might
look in and see what a little, dirty place
it was, whereupon an old Chinaman ob
jected, for he was just going to bed in
the ashes left from the fires of the day.
Tlie restaurants are furnished in true
Chinese style. Round tables of ebony
inlaid with mother-of-pearl, chairs with
out backs and settees, almost priceless
in value and very difficult to secure. I
believe Editor De Young, of the Chronicle ,
has his dining room furnished with
Chinese furniture. The several apart
ments are divided by carvings, spindle
work and draperies brought from China
and something of their value may be
realized from the statement made to us,
that after a fire in a restaurant where we
were, the greatest injury was from water;
yet the insurance companies paid $40,000
for their loss incurred. The tables were
laid with chop-sticks and tiny cup and
dishes, very pretty to look at, but more
like dolls’ furnishings than for grown
men. Chickens boiled in oil, fish boiled
In oil and queer looking vegetables.
Eggs are brought packed in mud, looking
anything but fresh laid, and from the re
ports of those to whom they have been
served, anything but appetizing. We
found queer looking cooks preparing
food in every place, until it seemed to us
this people turned night into day and
Bpent their time eating.
We went through several narrow ways
or alleys and on either side were rows of
windows. In each door and standing
before the windows was a Chinese girl,
many looking not more than twelve or
fourteen years old. These girls are owned
by Chinamen and are so much capital in
vested for gain. There are said to be
1500 of these girls in Chinatown, with a
varying number of Chinamen ranging
from 60,000 to 90,000 according to the
season of the year.
Since emigration has been prohibited
the value of these girls has increased from
SSOO each to SISOO and sometimes more.
This life to many of these girls is disa
greeable, but having been bought and
sold so many times not one has any choice
and is powerless to better herself, unless
she can escape to the Presbyterian Mis
sion Home, situated in the midst
of their own town. The city
council compelled them to place
iron gratings over the openings in each
door, to prevent too much freedom, as a
girl in an apartment would snatch a hat
or any other erticle convenient and de
tain a passerby. Behind these bars they
look like prisoners.
There are not more then fifty women
of high caste in San Francisco, or, as
they are called, little-feet women, and
they live very secluded, leaving their
homes never more than three times a year
and always in a carriage, with their faces
veiled. I heard of one wife who had
been married fifteen years and had never
crossed her threshold since she entered
her home a bride.
About ten o’clock we entered the thea
ter, and in place of the usual way, our
piide conducted us down narrow, wind
ing stairs, through crooked passage ways,
by dressing rooms, twisting and turning,
an til we found ourselves on the stage
with the players. Then we knew why we
had been led around through such a
crooked entrance. Before us was a solid
mass of expressionless faces, all men with
hats of all nations on their heads and all
smoking. Their plays generally last six
months, and the one then on the boards
was nearing the end. It was “Two Ad
mirals,” the principal characters being
two old men dressed exactly alike.
Where the parts required women to ap
pear, Chinese men were dressed as
women and their parts were given in a
liigh singing tone, with an accompani
ment of the hideous sounds of the Chin
ese orchestra. The property man sat back
of the actors and in front of the orchestra
and managed the only stage furniture, two
old chairs, which he would place for them
when required and then remove.
Into a dark hall, down a flight of stairs,
where the air was almost stifling, we fol
lowed our leader into an opium den. In
a little room not larger than eight by ten
feet, were six or eight bunks, with each
an occupant, smoking himself into for
getfulness of the present, only to waken
to torture on the morrow. The odor was
horrible, staying with us for two or three
days afterward, and only our curiosity
to see the haunt of the most depraved,
induced us to enter the vile abode.
The gambling dens, impregnable when
the occupants wish to have them, were
open for us, as the closing of the thea
ters is the signal for all games of chance
to begin and continue until daylight.
In the pawn shops were many trifling
trinkets, not worth more than a few
cents, but there were murderous looking
knives and beautiful fans that disclosed
dangerous daggers.
Everywhere we were well received,for it
is a nightly occurrence for such a company
to wander among them and no one is se
cure from intrusion. We could only con
trast the difference in reception likely
from Americans visited by such com
panies at such hours.
When we finished our wanderings tin
officer said that ns u purly of ladies and
gentleinru ho had conducted us as far as
Diblo. To our surprise wu learned we
been over three hours und hurl not
been outside of three blocks, being a
small proportion of the territory occu
pied hy Chinamen uml to which there is
constantly being added. All that is nec
essury to drive out every other nationality
is one room rented to a Celestial and thu
remaining room is soon at Ids disposal,
and soon filled to overflowing. —Detroit
Free Press.
The Island of Curacoa.
This little Dutch island of Curacoa,
writes William E. Curtis in the Chicago
Neui, is small and barren, hut it has
played an important part iu tlie history
of Spanish America. It lias belonged at
different times to England, Hpnin aud
Holland, and its cosy harbor has been
the scene of many a bloody battle be
tween the navies of the old world, as
well as between tho pirates and bucca
neers that infested the Caribbean Sea for
two centuries. It has been for a hundred
years und still is the asylum for political
fugitives, and most of the revolutions
that rack and wreck the South American
Republic are hatched under the shelter
of the pretentious but harmless fortresses
that guard its port. Uolivar, Santa Anna,
and many of the famous men in Spanish-
American history have lived hero in exile,
and until recently there was an imposing
castle upon ono of the hills called Boli
var's tower, for it was there that tho
founder of flvo republics lived in banish
ment for several years and watched foi
rescue to come.
The houses are all built in the Dutch
style, exactly like those of Holland; the
streets are so narrow that the people can
almost shake hands through the windows
with their neighbors across the way, and
the walls are as thick as would be needed
for a fortress. The Dutch Governor lives
in a solemn looking olel mansion fronting
the Shattegat or lagoon that forms the
harbor, and is guarded by a company of
stupid looking soldiers with a few old
fashioned cannon. Tlie entire island is of
phosphates, and the Government receives
a revenue of $500,000 from companies
that ship them away, Thero is not a
spring or a well on the island, and the
inhabitants are entirely dependent upon
rainwater for existence, or upon that
brought in barrels by schooners from the
Venezuelan coast ninety miles distant.
As it hasn’t rained for nearly two years
the natural supply was long since ex
hausted, and a glass of imported water is
worth as much as the same amount of
wine or beer.
Curacoa gave its name to a celebrated
liqueur that was formerly manufactured
from the peel of a peculiar species of
orange grown there, but the fruit trees
have been destroyed by the droughts and
the supply now comes from other of the
West India islands.
The inhabitants are mostly colored.
There are a few rich merchants repre
senting all nationalities, who are said to
have made their money by smuggling.
Curacoa is a free port. No duties of any
sort are charged, and as the amount of
merchandise imported annually is about
twenty-five times as much as the in
habitants can consume, and the harbor
is constantly filled with little schooners
that seem to be always loading and un
loading, thero is good ground for belief
that a contraband trade with the main
coast is still going on.
Sight Recovered After Many Years.
Twenty-nine years of total blindness
and now old John McDonald, of Water
bury, Conn., over sixty years of age, can
see.
“You will find father walking in the
garden,” said his daughter, a cheerful
and attractive little dressmaker, when
the New York Press reporter called at
the door of 38 Franklin street, where the
blind man has lived for years.
A sturdy old Irish gentleman, though
wrinkled and gray, and with a stout cane
in his hand, was descried through the
foliage, walking erect and happy, with
no uncertain step.
“Good morning,” he cried, heartily.
“Yes, I can see again. I can see the
roses and the honeysuckles, my hands
and my shirt, my shadow on the gravel
walk and my two feet as they step out
from under me. I can see your face, too.
“It is just twenty-nine years now since
I had my left eye removed. I was living
in Prospect then. I am from Ireland,
you know. All the Yankees out there
in Prospect advised me to leave the
doctors alone, and I wish I had now. It
was for some sort of a cataract that my
left eye was treated. Blindness is com
mon in my family.”
“But what doctor has helped to cure
you?”
“No, doctor,” he said, with disdain.
“I was taken ill three weeks ago. I had
terrible pains in my head back of my
right eye. I did not know what I was
about, whether awake or asleep. When
I began to get well the other day I
noticed that I could see my hands. Every
day since then I have come to see better.
My daughter Mary has written to my son
in New Haven, who has a livery business
there. He will come on and take me to
some expert physicians. But I have no
faith in doctors. I got ray sight inde
pendent of them.”
Mr. McDonald’s experience has puzzled
all the Waterbury physicians who have
heard of it. Cases of restored sight are
common when blindness has been caused
by temporary inflammation, but recovery
from an optical disease of twenty-nine
years’ standing is an event unprecedented
in medical history.
Gave *50,000 for §SOOO.
The Duke of Portland, while he was
merely Mr. Bentinck, incurred some debts
of honor which he desired to pay. He
went to a money-lender, but the man at
first was not inclined to let him have the
money on easy terms. “[The Duke of
Portland may live twenty years; you may
die in the meantime," said the money
lender. Mr. Bentinck could not deny
this, and was ready to give liberal in
teiest. “I will tell you what I will do,”
said the money-lender. “You give me
your word that when you become Duke
of Portland you will pay me §50,000, and
I will give you SSOOO now.” The Duke
closed with the offer, and a few weeks
after the Duke of Portland died, the new
Duke remembered his bargain. He in
structed his agent to pay $50,000 in
spite of the remonstrances of his lawyer,
who insisted that a promise so extrava
gant was not binding.
Best Tree for Smoky Cities.
The Gardenrr*' Chronicle says that the
ginkgo tree is proving itself one of the
best trees for street-plauting in smoky
cities, thriving in the most impure
atmospheres, and having as yet been at
tacked by no insect or fungous dis
ease. In this country, so fur as we have
learned, no extensive use has been made
of the gingko as a street tree except in
Washington, where of course it is not
subjected to the test of an atmosphere
impregnated with smoke. If it is, in
deed, able to withstand the most un
favorable conditions, it might be more
generally adopted, for it grows rapidly,
its shape well adapts it for association
with architectural forms, and the peculiar
character of its foliage always makes it
I interesting to the popular eye.
AGIUCULTUIUL
TOPIC* >!’ INTI'IIHHT KKIiATIVK
TO I 'AItM AND GARDEN,
110NKi KOK OBAPE-VCTM.
To’eause grape-vines to grow most vig
orously throw n fetv bone* into *‘ IU h" l ®
when planting out. Oyster shells aro ulso
good for thu same purpose, and may i>
mixed with tlie hones to advantage.
Therefore don’t waste any bones or shells,
but utilize them in the manner suggested
if you plant any vines. In ease you have
grape-vines growing liury the hones near
them, or reduce the bones to ashes and ’
apply tho latter to the vines of the vege
table garden. It will pay good dividends
better than ordiuury hank or railroad
stock.
Ct’tttNO CIIF.ESE.
I)r. Reynolds, of Maine, observes that
In curing cheese certain requisites ore in
dispensable in order to attain the las
results. Free exposure to air is one
requisite for the development of flavor.
Curd sealed up in mi air-tight vessel and
kept at the proper temperature readily
breaks down into a soft, rich, ripe cheese,
hut it lms none of the flavor so much es
teemed in a good cheese. Exposure to
tho oxygon of tho air develops flavor.
The cheese during the process of curing
hikes its oxygen and gives off carbonic
acid gas. 11c ulso says that the develop
ment of flavor can be hastened by sub
jecting the cheese to a strong current of
air. The flavor is developed by the pro
cess of oxidation. If the cheese is kept in
too close air during the process of curing,
it will be likely to prove deficient in
flavor.
A SIMPLE MAKKEIt.
Avery convenient, accurate and ex
peditious way of marking ground for
planting, either in drills or cheek rows,
is with a chain marker. Tliis system of
marking has been in vogue in our neigh
borhood for the last forty years, in Lake
Cointo, Ohio, and is adhered to by all who
have tried it. The marker consists of
a pole of some light wo<xl of any desired
length, into which fence or other staples
are driven at such distances apart as it is
desired to plant the rows. To those
staples are attached pieces of rope three
feet long, and to the rope farm chains of
tlie same length. The outer ends of the
chains should be equally distant from the
pole aud not more than six and a half
feet, so that when the pole is raised as
high as the men using it can reach they
will hang perpendicularly. Now start
correctly. Such a marker if properly
made is light and easily handled by two
persons, the one who guides walking
directly in front of an end chain. On
fine soil, if lumpy, use the plank crusher
or rubber, and the chain mark will show
plainly for days.— ll. G. Tryon.
HAVE PLENTY OF MANURE.
Asa counterpart of soiling should go
the making of a large quantity of manure.
As tho cows are stabled more or less
every day in the year, and for the other
time are kept in a yard, every particle of
manure made, solid aud liquid can be
saved, aud a very large quantity of litter
can be worked up into compost. In this
way, by the use of leaves gathered from
a wood lot cleared of brush so that a
horse rake can be used to gather them,
with dry swamp grass and other materials
one cow in the year can be made to furnish
10 loads of excellent manure, and the
land be kept in the highest state of fertil
ity. There is no chance for weeds when
land is plowed and cropped three times
In a year, and the result is that the soil
k brought up to the most productive con
dition. With ensilage, which with this
lystem affords succulent green fodder the
fear round, it is possible to bring up the
average yield of a herd of good cows to
300 pounds of butter in the year. Asa
cow under this system can be kept for an
ictual cost of less than S2O a year, the
profit is evident. —New York Times.
FRUITFUL ROADSIDE.
Galen Wilson says in the New York
Tribune: Maple, elm aud ash are favorite
roadside trees since the Lombardy poplar
was discarded; but almost everywhere
people have fallen into the error of plant
ing too thickly and permitting them to
grow too tall, so that they shade the
highway continuously. In a wet season
the roads are thereby kept muddy all the
time, the sun having no opportunity to
dry them, and it is a relief to get away
where there are no trees but better travel
ing. This should not be. In view from
my window is a reach of east-and-west
road, and on the south side of it is a
row of cherry trees thirty feet high and
several rods apart, just the right distance
to serve as posts for a wire fence. These
trees answer a four-fold purpose.
They supply sufficient shade without
keeping the road muddj r ; increase the
beauty of the landscape as much as any
trees can; make excellent living posts to
support fence wires; and they are just
now loaded with delicious fruit, and all
passers-by are welcome to help them
selves. By heading in the branches at
odd spells they can be kept at their pres
ent height, and thus remain permanently
a feature of use and beauty. The object
of planting trees by the wayside is to fur
nish shade and add to the good appear
ance of the highway, and as fruit trees
of various kinds accomplish this double
purpose, and also furnish abundance of
fruit, there can be no question as to what
trees should be planted.
now TO CARE FOR A HARNESS.
Some farmers act as though a harness
needed no care. They buy anew one,
use it the first season when they go to
town or carry the milk to the factory;
come home, take it off the horse and
throw it on a peg or a barrel, as the case
may be. After the first season it is put to
general use. It Boon becomes dry, hard,
brown and stiff, and then breaks, in half
the time it would had it been cared for
properly. Speaking of this way of using
i harness, a writer in the Western Livery
man says:
A harness that has been on a horse’s
back several hours in hot or rainy weather
becomes wet, aud if not properly cleaned,
the damage to the leather is irreparable,
tf, after being taken from the horse in
this condition, it is hung up in a careless
manner, traces and reins twisted into
knots, and the saddle and bridle hung
askew, the leather when dried remains the
shape given it while wet, and when forced
nto its original form damage is done to
ho stitching and the leather. The first
point to be observed is to keep the leather
soft and pliable. This can be done only
by keeping it well charged with oil and
grease; water is the destroyer of these,
but mud ami saline moisture from the
animal are even more destructive. Mud,
in drying, absorbs the grease and opens
the pores of the leather, making it a prey
to water, vXiile the salty character of the
perspiration from the animal injures the
leather, stitching aud mountings.
It therefore follows that to preserve a
harness the straps should be washed and
oiled whenever it has been moistened by
mud. If a harness is thoroughly cleaned
twice a year, and when unduly exposed
treated as we we have recommended, the
leather will retain its softness and strength
for many years.
The Leech Buaine**.
There aro only two flrma in the Imal-
J here, and all tho 10-elma "•"’l "•
tl„. I uiU'il UtatoH and a lnrn I**l ol
Smith Vmoriea are handled by thorn,
importations of Into years have
. bit'uen -.mm and IWM* S <*•
Vhth number 100,000 or thereabout.
;r;
imtita, leaving a profit to the rota, dealer
~f f r „ni newly *'■**■* to 80*1 Pr oent.
I’linr to lhiv.) thero was uo regular im
port trade of European leeches into tins
country, but sea captain* were a ~ust
omed to bring them in ••tonally in
small quantities „n private srevulatiou.
Lowlier* were, therefore, obliged to
depend hugclv on the native leech tor
drawing blood, amt duuug tlm early
part of the omitavy the Amen. iu j
was m considerable don,ami. AI this
„po ies is quite wid 'iy distributed, the
pi in-i ml roureo of supply appears to
j,nve as it is now Hasten Fen
usylvaiiia, and especially Berks and
H ek ‘ountie*. . . . .
lies are imported during most of
the vew, hut oely tin all;- and extent m
.Summer, as they are easily killed by an I
exec .i if heat. June, July and August
are the months when the smullest quantl- i
ties are received, and when the greatest ;
niortu ilv occurs, reaching sometimes ’-5
pel- cent'. They are imported packed in
swam . ea>th, in air and watertight
wooden cases, holding 1; OP leecl.es
each. These cases tee made rather light
and are ah >ut 21 inches long, 15 inches
wide and 13 mokes high.
In shipping leeches to . ustoniers in
tliis country, the same eases aro used for
sending largo qualities ami tight
wooden pails for the smaller quantities,
the packing of swamp earth being also
empfoved. American leeei.es, on the
contrary, are kept last m water, m
earthen or glass jars, in a cool place
Although considerable quantities ot
leeches are kept constantly on hand in
the importing homes, Air. W itto is
obliged to draw on his storage ponds on
Long Island, between Wmtie.d an*
Newtown, for supplying large amounts,
and especially tor the export truue.—
[New York News.
The Ten Health Commandments.
1. Thou f-Lmlt have no other food
than at meal time.
•>. Thou shall not inako unto thee
anv pies or put into the pastry tho like
ness of anything that is in tlie heavens
above or in the waters itu ler the earth.
Thou shalt not fall to eating it or trying
to digest it. For the dyspepsia will be
visited upon the children to the third
and fourth generation of them that eat
pie; and long life an.l vigor upon those
that live prudently and keep the laws of
health.
3. Remember thy bread to bake it
well; for lie will not be kept sound that
eateth his bread as dough.
4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or
borrow anxiety in vain.
5. Six days shalt tin ll w ash and keep
thyself clean, aud the seventh thou
shalt take a great bath, thou and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thv man- '
servant and "thy maid-servant, und the
stranger that is within thy gates. For
in six days man sweats an.l gathers
filth and bacteria enough for disease; :
wherefore the Lord has blessed the
batli-tub and hallowed it.
(>. Remember thy sitting room and
bed chamber to keep them ventilated,
that thy days may be long in the laud
which the Lord thy tied giveth thee.
7. Thou slialt not eat hot biscuit. |
8. Thou sluilt not eat thy meat fried.
9. Thou shalt not swallow thy food
Unchewed, or highly spiced, just before
hard work, or just after it.
10. Thou shalt not keep late hours in
tliy neighbor’s house, nor with his
cards, nor his glass, nor with anything
that is thy neighbors.—[New England
Farmer.
An Arkansas Hermit.
There lives in a wilderness section of
Columb a county, Ark., a hermit. He
has yielded a destructive knife and re
volver in half a icorc of tragedies, and
is cuMSiantly on ti e alert, expecting to
be assassinated This man, who has
forf.ited the companionship of mankind,
is guarded ly animals that are well
trained watchmen. He has a magic con
trol of the biute creadon, and owns six
large goats and an .qual number of
dogs, llis lentlv cabin stands in the
middle of u fiitcen sere fluid. AVl.cn he
goes to plo'wng three of the dogs are
placed at each ride of the field at bis
row’s end. These dogs are trained to
patrol the adjacent forest, and no human
Lc-ing can approach without being ex
posed by these vigilant schtries. At
night the dogs and goals lie about tho
cabin —Ihe goats without the yard enclo
sure, and the dogs within. AVhen uny
human being approaches these goats stt
up an unearthly series of bleating. Tlie
dogs within understand the signal and
rush furiously at the intruder. Armed
to the teeth, the proprietor hails the vis
itor. If found to he a friind, oue word
from the hermit silences both goats and
dogs, and the guest is invited in. Thus
guarded, this desperate man says he
sleeps more securely than the czar, be
cause, unlike ihe imperial cohorts of the
latter, his faith'ul sentinels cannot be
bribed or otherwise rendered unsafe by
collusion with their owner’s enemies.
According to a French astronomer,
the cooling of the terrestrial crust appa
rently goes on more rapidly under the
sea than with a land mrface. From this
he argues that the crust must thicken
under oceans at a much more rapid rate,
so as to give rise to a swelling up and
distortion of the thinner portions of the
must that is forming mountain chains.
One volume of liquid benzine will
make It!,000 volumes of air inflammable,
and 5,000 volumes of air highly explo
sive, but nothing but contact with flami
or a white hot body will touch off the
most explosive mixture of petroleum va
por and air.
There a man in our town
And ho is vory w!§e, pir,
When e’er ho doesn’t feel juat right
One r- medy he trios, sir.
It’s Just the thing to take in spring
The b octl lo pur fy,
He tells hla friends, aud nothing olse
Is he induced to try
Because, having taken Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery tooleanso Ills system, tone
it up and onrieh the blood, aud finding that it
always produces the desired result, ho consid
ers that lie would be foo igli to experiment
with anything ©.Be. Ills motto is: “Prove all
thing-* and hold fast to that which ie good.”
That’s why ho pins his faith to the “Golden
Medical Discovery.*'
Walking advertisomenta lor Dr. Page's Ca
tarrh Remedy are the thousands it has cured.
A young spark, suffering from a too strong
sensation of the more tender feelings, defines
his complaint as an attack f lassitude.
OrvffOu, the Paiadlso ol Furm rn.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Bust fruit, grain, gras* and stock coun
try m the world. Full information free. Ad
dress Dreg. Im’igra’tn Board, Portland, On-.
s=j
BRYANT & STRATTON Business CoUege
8../s Hrrpinu. Short Han,l, Tetraravhp. <t-r. T nTTTQtfLLIIi a* 1
Write for Lafalooue and full information. LU U
Wanderfal hue,,,,
A remedy um.t Imv,. merit „r a „||,
emne a favorite is tv with ||„.. , ' , " bt
virtu...f IM.niom,,t
l lmr.nighty known, it aell- 1„ in,, o
* N-.*s.r* Morrow,
Aia., aay they "c.UgtJ.. ut L. j, „
to their i etui oust. msra. They bay * **'
alailmo aa they aUo have R(Vkl "
maud for ll *> h,.r nnlar i.„ * '■
iu* ntiomni. but wu Bav • i.ot tlif , Wui,,
Nutlluieiu it is to k..mv tie,. ]j i;"v Iu l lar.
effect t ..ill lilt other t.1,,.| luintler ’“T”'"'
gem rat hmdtli r utorer mid , ~ .
mj.eii., it L tin. I. -t ant
t\h,ii your blood is iinpurt-, vq,,.,.
|>."n trouble yon, w.i.-n re, |, r "■
lioraon, When you fe I w ah. „ --von,
nut .1, whi II your appetite f„|, J 11
nxmi.lud w.tu dv"l'|*la, when ,i w ,
~1 rutin tonal dart ung. meat of Un., v ,tJ.
you Del all broke up and dfu U.rdlv m!^'
■ I v.ng, give It. U. 1) a trial and w.,.,,"***
1 !>egiii to grow U tter and atruii 'w,
Many nre the detractor! of py
Dickons, but It s atuunu ndi l)„ 7™*
him the most bitter blow of f l,cl
interview published seine time
sttts: “He (Dickens) was an inxX
cigarette smoker, and when dictatw
me always hit 1 a cigarette i„
mouth.”
Sarah Bernhardt.
is coming to Am. r.ea, mid meat will I,
enthusiasm aroused iunona*t h.r nlm
But, We Us vc our own hrigh' Mar, Miry Aig,
sou, who will continue to bear off tbvpg tt ,
the dramatic, a- dots Lucy If talon utd
great tobacco world.
Vlnni'n'Hnrf Misery.
Probably us much misery conies from tabu,
tiial eonstiputlou as from any denuiiffmrntS
the functions of tho body, ami it Is<lif||cuitS
cure, for the reason that no one likes to t*ka
the medic In us usually prescribed. UmnUJJ
Figs were prepared to obviate this difllt i.*?
ami they will ne found nlwuant to th* U>t*
women and children. i-vut*. Don one v ,
Mack Drug Cos.. N. Y.
ll.ivf you tried “TanrilP* Punch” * j wr
All Run Down
From th \v*k**la| nffioU of worm wt&iUt to
herd work, or from a loug lUueas, you ued *
tonic fcud tlood jsirtflor. food's 1 arttptrtfh|hu
a good appetite, strengthfu.-i tbexrhok- h/atcm.yvv
Am th* blood, rvrnl*t*, the .ii.
"It afford* mo mnok pUorare to
! Hood'* •'iaraapatrllia. My hrailh two >iar* wu
very poor. My frtaule thought 1 *u gala*
o< nAHmptloa. I ooinuiout.o<l u*lntf rUto/l’i
pari Ha, took flvo bottle of It, an 1 to-day I 4t>_
hard u 'lay • work as I ever could. It udg
from the fravc nd pnt me on my feet * noud.
healthy man.*'—Wux U. D. Taicnrr, 141 I
Bt., Wlggourvlile., Ohio.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
bold by all drugK'bUi. fl; rlx for $5. Preparedo*lr
by O. I. IIOOD £ t.XX, ApoSheesrlas, Lowed, Mu*
100 Dosef. Ono Dollar
TBE STORY Gf Sill,
!ll£T miR. it read* like a ronu*
uUol rVJDLIJnCIii * immensely popuUr.
An able solicitor. Woman or Man, can take lit*
an orders a day- Reliable rey veseataOTe waatrda
every couuty In the U. S. Apply early tf you nut
a chanco on this icreat book. (Salary to rtrht party
R. 8. K.ING PUBMSniSG CO.,
C'hlccg*. Ilfinali.
*DU TCHcR’S
FLY KILLER
Makes a clean weep. ltm
sheet will kill a <inar: of Sk
Stops btur.ing around a
diving at eyes, ticktlug yov
nose, skips harrt words .ik ►
cures peace at uiatnt expo*
Keu<l *2.V cents for 5
_ Y. HUTCH Bit, St Altana, It
am ■ n After ALL othffi
Pft I I | fall, consult
Or. Lodd“
Twenty years’ continuous practice In
meat and cure of the awiul effects of early
vice, destroying both mind and body, McdKOi
and treatment for one month, Flee Dollur*. mi
securely sealed from observation to any addim
*>; ‘'•ircinl Disease* free.
return
Tj COTTON ores and HIUI
Illuntrslp.l I’anijiltk-i free. Addna
AMES LEFFEL 4 CO.
iiffSSy eriu.NuFuao, omo.
~Ki. l 11l I UINIvLIt,
J OK r L YING A
IrPSs* Cotton or Hay Press'
\ iii* is® a .".nuf...;;-..™*
\ / ly’P' aiM . l^ -VO | jrS
v Ipkfj j Libt upon application.
/ KO NUKE IRON AN#
WOOL WOKKd.
v-CX CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PI.
Keil Cross Diamond
W TJ>. only r.1i.1.1. pill toriat'
| / - flfaare. Ladle* u.k l , r“Ml‘S',2*s
IL. Hr.).S, i.nl •‘'“‘““‘JJu
\T* with blue rilibos. no other.■ .JJ
— — P (Hailin'*) tor particular* aud *
Chichester Chenalcwl Cos., lUdlsoa U- *
tIJAHTCn Oik* A -it in *
Mf ANTLiI. tin ken #lO a ** v
*¥ |hel* AU M 1511’M ii 1N ** * ‘ 1 Z
tvay of shaipeniuK * i" • MnWe your old fiiwnr .M?
your new gijis s.. No file -. Anyone can use it. C .
Mona paid agent on ai.l sales m com *>'. w, ‘
bv u- nr liim 300 machine* iu use since ■' #toßCe
Machines and sat station guaranteed Write*
to J. ii. FAI LS iV t 0.. ■Ueinphiwt
tTli Iu ■VA.SO A MONTH cau be made workUj
v3D for us. Agents preferred who can ™ r “J.
iv horse and five their whole time to ths UttWij*
Spare moment* may be profitably empio' eo
A few vaoanclos In towns and cities. • *•
SON ft CO., 100* Main St., Richmond, va.
I’lecuf state off' and busineta e^P er^e J^ c t r *(>
mind 'ib >ut tevdinj stamp for reply. ”■ F ''
KT. (VV- X*
Nashville, Tenn. College for Young Ladies,
Is the leading school of this section.
with 50 pupils, without grounds or bund'D* *
own. how has 3 buildings, 100 rooms, 30 oju
pupils from 18 States. Full course in L' l *
crisnce. Art, Music, privileges In Vsndsroo .
verslty, fully oynipped iiy ninasinm, HI !!*
conveniences. Fur catnlngufl address I res'd
Bev. Gao. W. F. Fmcc, D. !>., MMlifUto.
MU S IC-A BT-ELOC uT I OJ “I
Or acral Culture, llesiittbl
open to progressive student*. A,
will revive ..lualile l'. | r"ri; l ?i-v Ecu, **
by .ddrawtng E. TOVWSK, U””" 1
_I .Scholarship end positions,Bsl). Write
OEMS!
lOraicbSlls^*
WK'm HOUR TiYif
MBUIC'AL CO.. nirhrßtnd.
rinifiO Do you want to bu 7 or sellj I
rfinmS Tf s ° aeu<l "** m p f ° r c,ro J r w . v * *
■ nlHflO Curtis dt ,33 BroadwfL^.
\ gents wanted. Jfil an hour. ollnHW arth’
and sample free. O. K. MARSHALL. Hu —--
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