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REV. DR. TADIAGE.
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DAY HKIIMOV.
Knltjeit "AVi'ijfliod In <•' Italtiit**."
(Pkicliml at Omaha, Nvb.)
TrXT: "Thou art weighed in the hat
ancm, and art found wanting- Daniel
v„ 87.
Bahvl'in m th<- jwradta* *>f archltcctura
and ilrivmi out from them'- the tfrmml•-
building- ofinlorn times are only tbcovi
detH-r of her fall The site having 1.-n
selected for tin- city, two mlllkm men were
employed ill the rearing of her wail- nod * "
building of hor works. It wan a eity xtv
rail*-** tnjcin umf* renoe. Th©r© wn.sn tn-nen
all around th# city from which the mat- rial
for the the city bail mgg©u
There w©r© twenty-five gHt©**n each km#
Man ipriiiguiK into the ki©* from ■<*
gate on the t*n#skKa stroet running tfratent
through to the cornel ending on tic
other fide. so then* were fifty rfrewte fifteen
mUe* long. Through th# citv ran a branch
of the river Euphrates Thin river *>R)<-
times overflowed its Unit*, anl t<* i. it
from the ruin of the ity a lake was con
smart'd, into which tic surplus °[ H* l *
river would run during th© time of
and the water wa.* k©p! in tins nrtifb'ial l?k*
until time of drought, and then this water
would iftreamdoan "V< v tic* city. At ©itn
end of the bridge spanning the Euphrates
thcr** wa a |aiu©’*— the < in* p*la •* a >‘il
arc! a half around, the <*ther ioJaeo seven
and a half miles around.
The wife <*f Nebuchadnezzar had been !- *ni
and brought up in the country and in a
mountain- u* region, and she could not bear
this flat district of Babylon; and *■, to j; *>.•
his wife. Nebucliadm zzar built in the mid-*
of the city a mountain 40 feet high Tin
mountain vras built out into terraces sup
ported on arches, tin the top of those arches
a layer of flat ston©*: n the top of tb t a
layer of reeds and bitumaa; on the top of
that tw.. layer of bn k-.
on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead, and
on the top of that the soil placed—the soil so
deep that a Lebanon cedar had room to an
chor its roots. There were puui{Jt* worked bv i
mighty machinery, fetching up the water
from the Euphrates to this hanging garden,
as it was called, so that there were fountains
•pouting into the sky.
Standing below an i 1 * kin/ up it must
have seemed as if the cl*u<Ls were In llos-**m.
or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder
of a ce<lar All this Nebuchadnezzar dkl to
please his wife. Well, she ought to have
been pleased. I suppose A# was pleased. If
that would not pleas*- her nothing would.
There was in that city also the temple of
Belus, with towers —one tower the eighth of
a mile high, in which tie r** was an observa
tory when- astronomers talked to the -tar.'.
There was in that temple an image, just one
Image, which cost what would lie our fifty
two millioii dollars.
O what a rity! Th<- earth never saw any
thing like it, never will see anything like it.
And yet I have to tell you that it i* going to
be destroyed. The King and his Princes ar*
at a feast They are all intoxicated. Tour
out the rich wine into the chalices. Drink to
the health of the King Drink * The glory
of Babylon. Drink to a treat future.
A thousand Lords r • 1 intoxicated. The
King, seated upon a chair, with vacant look,
as intoxicated men will —with vacant look
stared at the wall But soon that vacant
look takes on intensity,and it is an affright and
look; and all the Princes begin to look and
wonder what is the matt r. and they look at
the same point on the wall. And then there
drone a darkness into th*- ro m and puts out
the blaze of the golden plate, and out of the
sleeve of the darkness there comes n finger—
a finger of fiery terror circling around and
circling around as though it would write;
and then it crimes up and with sharp tin of
flam* it inscribes *n the plastering or the
wall the doom of the King: “Weighed in the
balances and found wanting.” The bang
of heavy fists against the gates of the pal
ace are followed by the breaking in of the
doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike
into a thousand quivering hearts Now
Death is King, and he i- seated on a throne
of corpses. In that hall there is a balance
lifted. God swung it. On one side of the
balance are put Belshazzar's opportunities,
on the other side of the balance are put Bel
shazzar's sins. The sins come down. His
opportunities go up. Weighed in the bal
ances—found wanting.
There has been a great deal of cheating
in our country with false weights and meas
ures and balances, and the government, to
change that state of things, appointed com
missioners whose business it was to stamp
weights and measures and balance*, and a
great deal of the wrong has been
But still, after all, there is no such thing as a
perfect balance on earth. The chain may
break or some of the metal may be clipped,
or in some way the equipoise may be a little
disturbed.
You cannot always depend upon earthlv
balances. A poilnd is not always a pound,
and you pay for one thing and you get an
other but in the balance w hich is suspended
to the throne of God, a pound is a pound,and
right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a
soul is a soul, and eternity is eternity God
has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a
perfect gallon. When merchants weigh
their goods in the wrong way, then the Lord
weighs the goods again If from the imper
fect measure the merchant pours out what
pretends to lie a gallon of oil and there is less
than a gallon, God knows it, and He call
upon His recording angel to mark it: “So
much wanting in that measure of oil,” The
farmer comes in from the country. He has
apples to sell. He has an ipiperfect measure.
He pours out the apples from this imperfect
measure. God recognizes it. He says to the
recording angel: “Alark down so many ap
ples too few —an imperfect measure.*’ \\ e
may cheat ourselves and we may cheat tin
world, but we cannot cheat God and in
the great day of judgment it will be found
out that what we learned in lioyhood at
school is corrects-that twenty-hundred weight
make a ton, and one hundred and twenty
solid feet make a cord of wood. No more,
no less. Ami a religion which does not take
bold of this life as well as the life to come is
no religion at all. But. my friends, that is
not the kind of balances 1 am to speak of
to-day; that is not the kind of weights and
measures. lam to speak of that kind of bal
ances which can weigh principles, weigh
churches, weigh men. weigh nations, and
weigh worlds. “What!” you say, “is it pos
sible that our world i to r* weighed?*'. Yes.
Why. you would think if God put on one
side the balances suspended from the throne
febe Alps, ana the Pyrenees, and the Hima
layas. and Mount Washington, ami all the
cities of the earth, they would crush it. No,
no. The time will come when God w ill sit
down on the white throne to see the world
weighed, and on one side will be the world's
opportunities, and on the other side the
world’s sins. Down will go the sins and away
will go the opportunities, and God will say to
the messengers with the torch: "Burn that
world! Weighed and found wanting!”
God will weigh churches. He takes a great
church. That great church, according to the
worldly estimate, must be weighed. He puts
it on one side the balances, and the minister
and the choir and the building that cost its
hundreds of thousands of dollars. He puts
them on one side the balances. On the other
side of that scale He puts what that church
ought to be, what its consecration ought to
be, what its sympathy for the poor ought to
be, what its devotion to all good ought to be.
That is on one side. That side comes down,
and the church, not being able to stand the
test, rises in the balances. It does not make
any difference about your magnificent ma
chinery. A church is built for one thing—to
save souls. If it saves a few souls when it
might save a multitude of souls, God will
spew it out of His mouth. Weighed and found
wanting! So God estimates nations. How
many times He has put the Spanish monarchy
into the scales, ami found it insufficient and
condemned it! The French Empire was
placed on one side the scales and God weighed
the French Empire, and Napoleon said:
“Have I not enlarged the boulevards? Did 1
not kindle the glories of the Champs Elvsees?
Have I not adorned the Tuileries? Have I
not. built the gilded Opera House?” Then God
weighed that nation, and he put on one side
of the scales the Emperor and the boule
vards, and the Tuileries, and the Champs
Elysees, and the gilded Opera House, and on
the other side he put that man’s abomination,
that man's libertinism, that man's selfishness]
that man’s godless ambition. This last came
down, all the brilliancy of the scene van
ished. IV hat is that voice coming up from
Sedan? Weighed and found wanting.
But I must become more individual and
more personal in my address. Borne people
say they do not think clergymen ought to be
personal in their religious addresses, but
ought to deal with subjects in the abstract. I
do not think that way. What would you
think of a hunter who should cro to Ihe Adi
rouciacks to shoot deer in the abstract? Ah:
no. He loads the gun, he puts the butt of it
against the breast, he runs his eye along the
barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash go
the antlers on the rocks. And so, if we want
to be hunters for the Lord, wo must take
Buro aim and fire. Not in the abstract are
we to treat things in religious discussions. If
a physician conies into a sick room does he
treat disease in the abstract - No: he feels
the pulse, takes the diagnosis, then he maJces
the prescription. And if we Hunt to heal
souls for this life and the life to come, we do
not want to treat them in the abstract. The
fact is. you and I have a malady which, if
uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Now
I wanf no abstraction. Where is the balin'*
n here is the physician?
People say there is a day of judgment com
ing. My friends, every day is a day of judg-
ment, and you and I t<wte.V ar* b *u*u can-
iiiKiKK'tfd, wi'i jbal. Haft* are tin*
iaan*** of tic-sanctuary They are lifted,
and we must all b * wi*ijh<*l. \V|* will conn*
and I* * w igh* 1 Hi’s!' Her© Is a moralist who
v.diml-r* H*hom *f th-* most upright
iu**n in the country. ll© omnm Wall my
brother. get in. g©t into tb© IstUn****. uj'W
and b# welgh.si Hut as h • g*-t into th©
balance*. 1 my: * What i that bundle you
have along with vuV • Oh,” he nays, “that
U iuv repute ti<>n for g<**ltt©sa, ami ktafltm.
and charity, and gen©r*witv. ami ktodllnm*
g©n©rallv. "O my brother! w© cannot
weigh that; w© ar© going Ut weigh you—
you. Now. stand in th© seal©*—you, Uc*
moralist, raid your d<*bt*" “Y***.” you
nay, ”|*ild all my 4abte " -Have you a* ted in
an upright way in tb© © imuunity ,|M ”*.
yi*j.” ~n av© you been kind to th© |**rf
Arc you faithful in a thousand relations in
life” "Yu." “Ho far m good. But now,
ltcfor© you get out of this scale I want to ask
you two or three question*. “Have your
thoughts always bean right l ' 1 “No," y*u uv
“no.” Put down one mark “Have you lo>©d
th© Lord with all your heart, and soul awl
mind, and strength?* “No,” you say. Mok"
another mark. “Cone, now, !© frank and
• •nfesa* that in ten thousand tilings you
liav© come short—have you not.
•ml marks
Com© now, get me a book large enough to
umk© th** record of that moralist '# deficits
My brother, stand in the scales, do not fly
away fr-m them. 1 put on j*our side th©
scales all th© good deed* you ever did. all the
kind words you ever uttered; !ut on the
other side the wales I put this weight, which
o*l snvs I must put there—on th© other ski©
th© scales and opposite to your* I put this
weight: “By the de*dsof th© law shall no
flesh living lie justified.* 1 Weighed ami found
wanting.
Ktill the balances of the sanctuary are su*
tieudod ami w© are ready to weigh any wtio
come. Who shall Ik* the next* Well, here is
a formalist. He comes and he gets into the
balanoes, and as he gets in I see that all his
religion is in genuflexions and in outward
observances. As he get* into the scales I
**av: “What is that you have in this pocket*’
< ih,' 5 he sa vs. “that is Westminster Assembly
Catechism.** I say: “Very good. What
have vou in that other pocket?* “Oh.” he
sava, “that is th© Heidelberg Catechism.”
“Very g> *l. What i* that yu have under
vour arm. gtanding in thi- l>alan©e of the
sanctuary'” “Oh/ 1 be says, “tlxat is a church
rerv.fd. n “Very good. What are all these
books on your iae the balances?’ “Oh, he
k&vk. “those are ‘Calvin’* Institutes.*” “My
brother, we are not weighing |*ook ; wo are
weighing vou. It <anrot be sai*l that you are
depending for your salvation upon your or
thodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds
and the forms of ndigion are merely the scaf
folding for the building? You certainly are
not going to mistake th** scaffolding for the
temple you not know that men have gone
to perditi*m with a catechism in their pocket'”
•But,” savs the nian, "I ct* myself often.”
Ah: that will not save you.” “But.” says
the man. lam sympathetic for the floor.’*
That will not save you.” Says the man,
“I sat at th© communion table.”
‘•That will not save you.” “But.”
says the man. “I have had ray name
on the church re**ords.” “That will
not save you.” But I have !*e©n a professor
of religion forty years.” “That w ill not save
you. Stand thereon your side the l*alances
and I will give you the advantage—l will let
you have all the creeds, all the church rec
ords. all the Christian conventions that were
ever held, all the communion tables that were
ever built, on your side the balances. On th**
other side the 'balances I must put what God
vnvs I mu'l j*t there. I put this million
pound weight on the other side the balance.*
Having toe form of godliness, but denying
the |K.wer thereof. From such turn away.”
Weighed and found wanting.
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to le
weighed or who will !>*• weighed? Yes, here
a w.-rldling. He g- ts into the scales
I can very easily see what his whole life is
made up of. Stocks, dividend*, percentages,
“buyer ten days,” “buyer thirty days.” Get
in. liny friend; g**t into these* balances and be
weighed—weighed for this life and weighed
for the life to come. He gets in. I find that
the two great questions in his life are. “How
cheaply can I buy the*** goods'” and “How
dearly can I sell them?” I find he admires
Heaven because it is a land of gold and money
must be “easy.”
I find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are cji interruption, a vul
gar interruption, and he hopes on the wav to
church to drum up anew customer. All the
week he has leen weighing fruits, weighing
meats, weighing ice, weighing coal, weighing
confections, weighing worldly and perishable
commodities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has leen weighed. On your side th©
balances. O wdHding! 1 will give you full
advantage. I put on your side all the bank
iug houses, all the storehouses, all the car
goes. all tlie insurance companies, all the fac
ton©*, alf the silver, all the gold, all the
money vaults, all the safety deposits—all on
vour side. But it dries not add one ounce,
for at the very moment we are congratu
lating you on your line house and upon your
princely income God and the angels are writ
ing in regard to your soul, “Weighed and
found wanting.”
But I must go faster and speak of the final
scrutiny. The fact is, my friends, we are
moving on amid astounding realities. These
*u!<es which now are drumming the march
life may, after a while, call a halt. We
walk on a hair hung bridge over chasms. All
around us are dangers making ready to
spring on us from ambush. We lie down nt
night, not knowing whether we shall arise iu
The morning. We start out for our occupa
tions, not knowing whether we shall come
back. Crowns being burnished for thy brow
n r V*!ts foiled for thy pri >n. Angels of light
ready to shout at thy deliverence, or fiends
of darkness stretching up skeleton hands
t> pull thee down into ruin consummate.
Suddenly the judgment will be here. The
angel, with one foot on the sea and the other
foot on the'land. will swear by Him that liveth
• rover and ever that time shall be no longer:
“Behold, He comoth with clouds, and every
eye shall see Him.” Hark to the jarring of the
mountains. Why, this is the setting down of
the scales, the balances. And then there is a
flash as from a cloud, but it is the glitter of
the shining balances, and they are hoisted,
and all nations are to be weighed. The 1111-
forgiven get in on this side the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and pro
nounced a flattering decision. The work
may have weighed them and pronounce*;
them moral. Now they are being weighed
hi < Jod's balances— the balances that can make
to mistake. All the property gone, all th
titles of distinction gone, all the worldly sue
i -.-sc-gouc; there is a soul, absolutely noth
ing but h oul, an immortal soul, a never
dying soul, n soul stripped of all worldly ad
vantage, a fool—on one side of the scales.
<)n the other side the balances are wasted
Sabbaths, disregarded sermons, ten thousand
opportunities of mercy and pardon that were
cast aside. They are on the other side tho
scales, and there God stands, and in the pres
ence of men and devils, cherubim and arch
angel, He announces, while groaning earth
quake, and crackling conflagration, and judg
ment trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat
it: “Weighed in the balance ami found
wanting.”
But, say some who arc Christians: “Cer
tainly you don t mean to say that we will
have to get into the balances. Our sins are
all pardoned, our title to heaven Is secure.
Certainly you are not going to put us in the
balances' ” Yes. my brother. We must all
appear before* the judgment seat of Christ,
ana on that day you are certainly going to
bo weighed.
O follower of Christ, you get into the bal
anoes. The bell of the judgment is ringing.
You must get into the balances. You get in
<ill this side. Oil the other side the laiiancea
we will place all the opportunities of good
which you did not improve, all the attain
ments in piety which you must have had,
but which you refused to take. We place
them all on the other side .They go down,
and your soul rises in the scale. You cannot
weigh against all those Imperfections.
Well, then, wemust give you the advan
tage. and on your side of the scales we will
place all the good deeds that you have ever
done, and all the kind words you have ever
littered. Too light yet! Well, we must put
011 your side all the consecration of your life,
all the holiness of your life, all the prayers of
vour life, all the faith of your Christian life,
Too light yet! Come, mighty men of the past,
and get in on that side the scales. Come,
Payson, and Doddridge, and Barter, get in
on that side the scales and make them come
down that this righteous one may be saved.
They come and they get in the scales. Too
light yet! Come, the martyrs, the Latimers,
theWickliffes. the men who stiff-red at the
stake for Christ. Get ill on this side the
Christian’s balances, and see if you cannot
help him weigh it aright. They come and
get in. Too light yet! Come, angels of (led
on high. Let not, tlie righteous perish with
tile wicked. They get in on this side the lial
anees. Too light yet!
I put on this side the balances all the scep
ters of light, ail the thrones of power, all the
crowns of glory. Too light vet. But just at
'hat. point, Jesus, the Soil of God, conies up
to the balances, and He puts one of His scarred
feet on your side, and the balances begin to
quiver and tremble from top to bottom.
Then He puts lioth of His scarred feet on the
balances and the Christian's side comes down
with a stroke that sets all the balls of heaven
ringing. That Rock of Ages heavier than any
other weight.
But, says the Christian. “Am I to be
allowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If some
one should come anil put on the other side the
scales all our imperfections, all your envies,
all your jealousies, all your inconsistencies
of life, they would not budge the scales with
Christ on your side the scales. Go free!
Tliero is no condemnation to them that are
in Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison
houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free!
Weighed in the balances, and nothing, noth
ing wanting.
Oh’ what a gl'*rhMU hop©. Will you ac
cept it hi*i day? t’hrUt making up for what
v*m lack. Christ th© at*mametil for all v**ur
sin* Who will a** vpt Him* Will <* ’ thi
whole audience say: “I am iusuifl<d©itt, lam
a sinner. 1 am l*t by r>Dn of mv trons
gvvußm*. but Christ has paid It all. Mv Lord,
and mrClod, my life, inyV*ar<l*m. my R©nv**n
Lrd Jems, I hall th**©. Oh! if you omild
only understand the w-rth of that sacrifice
which I have represent*! to you under a
figure-■ ■ if vou could undt rtaml the worth of
rliai sacrifice, this whota audietn*** would this
moment acs*©pt Christ and Ik* sav© I
We go away off. *r hack into history, to
get nme illustration by which wv may set
forth what Christ has dm© for us. WVneed
l•• *hi ll d a nil) 1
iwarlu-rw* <takhing through thr street, a
mother ai*l her two **hildr©n in th© earring**.
Th© dasli© I along as though to burl
them to death, and a mounted pnlie©inan
with h shout ckwiriug the wav. an*! th© horse
st full run. attempted to aslx© those runaway
hors©* ami to save a calamity, when his own
hon© fell and rolled over him He was ptckcl
up half d©ad. Why wre our sympatnies so
dimsi* Bocnuaa h** was badiv hurt, and
hurt for other* But I t©ll you t* *lay of
h*w Christ the Hon of God, **ti th© hlond rc*l
hors© of "aeriflm, came br our reocue, and
nslt* <iow n th© sky anl rode unto d©ath for
our rescue. Are not your hearts touched*
That wa- a sacrifice for vou ami for me. O
Thou wb* didst rid© on tnerer! horse of so*ri
fle©' com© this hour and rid© through this
azserablaga on the white hors** of victory.
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4. “And the men of David said tint** him.
Behold the* day, of which the Ird said unfa
thee.” Haul, who so persistently sought
David’s life, is now completely in David’s
power and his men seem to suggest that now
be slay him; but as David himself bad cried.
“Be merciful unto me, O God, Ik* merciful
unto me” (Ps. li, 1 and Title), so he would
show mercy even to Haul, and is content to
lay no hand upon him. but simply cut off the
skirt of his robe privily to show' him after
ward that he had him in his pow *r. Jesus
our King could any moment overthrow and
banish Satan forever from this earth, and
He w ill do it in due time, but He is content
to wait patiently, und permit His jxople and
Hi* earth to groan a little longer.
5. “David s heart smote him because he
had cutoff Saul's skirt.” Even f**r asserting
this slight token of his power, he feels con
demned. His enemy was off his guard and
unable to defend himself, and David would
rather meet an enemy, if he must lx* met, as
he met th** lion and the bear and Goliath,
in open fight, that the power of God might lx*
manifest There is nothing of the Spirit *>f
Christ in secret sayings or doings which will
not l>ear the light.
6. “The Lord forbid that I should do this
thing unto mv Master, the Lord's anointed.”
Her© is another view of thecas**; Saul was
not a'-ting like the anointed of the Lord
should act. his life did not testify in that di
rection, but as to his office h * was “the
anointed of the Lord,” and therefore respon
sible to Gtxi to act as such; and if he failed
it was for the Lord and not for David to deal
with him Two great practical thoughts are
presented here: If we are children of Gol by
faith of Christ Jesus, then we have received
the Spirit, and are anointed kings and priests
unto (4od. and are responsible every day to
walk worthy of our High Calling: and on
the other hand, though failure and even sin
may be manifest in the lives of *' * anointed
of the I>rd, it is for their Lor and not for
their fellows to judge and chasten them.
7. “So David stayed his servants with
these words; * * * Saul rose up out of
the cave and went his way.” We may do
very much by kind words and the manifesta
tion of a Christ-like spirit to hinder others
from speaking against or touching in any
way the anointed of the Lord. We should
remember that it is written, “He that touch
eth you toucheth the apple of His eye.”
(Zech. ii., 8.) Every redeemed one, however
full of failure, is dear to God; even Israel, in
all her sins, He called “the dearly beloved of
His soul.” (Jer. xii., 7.) Sadi, rising up
and going his way, unconscious of the loss of
a part of' nis robe, reminds us that when we
are not in the Lord’s way we may lose many
things and yet be unconscious of it.
8. “David * * * cried after Haul, say
ing. l My Lord the King.’ * * * and stooped
with his face to the earth.” Notwithstanding
David’s tears and ofttimes questionable con
duct, here is a truly humble and forgiving
spirit. Whatever were his sins, his heart
was in the main right with God, and his fail
ures tell us the truth of that which he him
self wrote: “Verily, every man nt his best
estate is altogether vanity.” (Ps. xxxix., 5.)
9. “Wherefore hearest thou men’s words,
saying. Behold David seeketh thy hurt?”
Saul had turned a deaf ear to the words of
God. and was giving heed to the lying and de
ceitful words of men, and was, therefore, far
from the way of peace. The only rest of
soul for man is upon the words and thoughts
of God; but how few, even among Chris
tians. rest quietly there? The words of this
or that man, what someone has said or re
ported, is constantly heeded, and there is,
therefore, such unrest, while all the while
the God of peace is speaking peace and long
ing to give peace to all who will hear Him.
As to the false reports that David sought
Saul’s hurt, is it not commonly believed by
the unsaved that to be a Christian would de
prive them of some happiness, or, in other
words, that Jesus is seeking their hurt?
10. 11. “Some bade me kill tbeo; but mine
eye 'spared thee; * * * yet thou huntest
my soul to take it.” Here David recounts
the incident in the cave, and displays as
proof of the truth of it the part of Saul’s robe
which he had cut off, thus testifying most
unmistakably that there was uo evil in his
heart against Saul.
12. “The Lord judge between me and thee,
and the Lord avenge me of thee; but my hand
shall not be upon thee.” This is beautiful on
David’s part; this is surely casting his burden
upon the Lord. Oh, what a resting placo it
is; we have not to fight our own battles, for
it is God who fighteth for us; wo have not to
defend our reputation, but commit all unto
Him: wo have no revenge to take, but inas
much as whosoever toucheth us toucheth the
apple of God’s eye, just let Him see to it in
His own good time and way.
18. “Wickedness prooeedeth from the
wicked, but mine hand shall not be upon
thee.” If the boys of all our Sunday-schools
would act upon this principle, and remem
bering that wicked words aud deeds proceed
from wicked hearts, avoid all such, refusing
even, when Injured by them, to lay a hand
upon them, it might be tluit, some wicked
hearts would be won by such a spirit and
learn of then w and clean heart which alone
can act in such a way. If men and women
who bear the beautiful name of Jesus would
ir. this respect show more of His spirit, liow
many they might win to Him.
14. “After whom dost thou pursue? After
a dead dog, after a ilea.” David was as
harmless to Saul ns a dead dog, for he had
no thought of doing him any injury; but
Saul, tempted by the evil spirit of envy which
had taken possession of him, fancied all
manner of things against David, ami his
fancies were heljieu bv the liars and
slanderers about him. How many wretched
people live to-day who imagine that evil is
surely coming to them from this or that
direction, while the truth is that the im
aginary source of evil is as harmless as a
dead dog or a flea.
15. “The Lord be judge, * * * and see
aud plead my cause aud deliver me out of
thine hand.” “Judge nothing before the
time, until the Lord come.” “We shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
“Every one of us shall give account of him
self to< rod.” These are some helpful words
of the Holy Spirit upon this matter from the
New Testament.
16. “Saul said: Is this thy voice, my soil
David? And Saul lifted up his voice and
wept.” There ares many such words and
tears nowadays, but they do not amount to
anything. That they did not mean much
from Huul at this time is evident from chap,
xxvi, where we see him as hotly as ever pur
suing David to take his life. Saul had good
occasion to weep, for he had sinned greatly
against David and against God; and if his
tears had indicated true penitence, it had
been well for him; but beseems to stand with
Esau and Judas and others whose repentance
needed to be repented of, and whose sorrow
was not heart deep.
IT. “And he said to David, Thou art
more righteous than I, for thou hast reward
ed me good, whereas I have rewarded thee
evil.” These are true words from Saul’s lips,
and if you read to tlie end of the chanter and
notice an ne said, and especially the words
about David and the kingdom, and if this
was the last we ever heard of Saul, we might
say: “Well, surely Saul is A changed man.
for he could not otherwise talk this way.”
But alas for the wickedness of our incurably
deceitful hearts! his words were true words,
but his heart was not right with God.—Les
son Helper.
Sons Are Good Collateral in China.
In China one can always borrow money
on the strength of having a son, but
nobody would advance him a cent if he
had a dozen daughters. The former is
responsible for the debt of bis father for
three generations. The latter is only
responsible for the debt of her own
husband.
LIFE OF A LAMB.
TIIK VII IKKITrm. OK ITH MUST
HOI K ON I: \lu 11.
An Amu.iiijc IU.M-riullon nn I(m
Kcoentrlo (jitmlMiU, Kiplal.ilnjt
How It Au|tiirt'H a I’rovcrblal
lU'putatlon lor Innocence.
About Are minutes after the lamb is
bom he is on his feet. The unsteady
earth under him now heaves to the rijflit;
•urges u|> mid then down, and it whirls
nnd it twirls with him while he stajti'ers
and struggles, and twists ono leR around
the other liko a vine around a tree; or
else he spreads those members ali out un
til they look like the forks under u
weather vane. He tumbles down for the
fiftieth time, and for the fiftieth time re
news the fight to secure that footing in
the great world from winch only can he
reach the life-giving milk. Ilis mother
—|rticularly if it is her first—in her
crazy anxiety to help, knocks him down,
steps on him, and does—without leaving
out a possible exception—everything she
should not do, whilo she leaves nearly
everything undone that might help the
little fellow to get the desired nourish
ment.
“Oh, the poor, dear little thing; Isn’t
It too bad,” says the s\ mpathetie stranger.
“The confounded pair of idots!" frets the
impatient shepherd, who does not care to
drive tlic'm until the lamb finds milk and
“gets filled up.”
In half an hour his milk can is full; his
sides bulge out with a surfeit of the pure
article warranted to stand the most rigid
test for admixture of water. And as the
shepherd slowly urges the old ewe toward
home, the lamb goes reeling and rolling
along like an old tar just ashore from a
year’s voyage.
About the first error the lamb makes in
life is to mistake the shepherd or his dog
for its mother, and mnuy are the ma
nceuncs that must be gone through with
to make the new arrival follow the right
party. His next error is likely to be an
attempt to walk on air when he comes to
a place where he should go down hill.
Ilis ten minutes’ experience in life has 1
made him believe that all the earth is a
level plain, and in broad daylight he
steps oil the top of a hill just as serenely
as a man steps oIT the top landing of the
stairs in total darkness when he is cer
tain that the stairs are twenty feet away.
The result is great surprise to man and
lamb in each instance.
The lamb picks himself up and con
tinues down the hill; he soon comes to
the conclusion that everything is down
hill in this life, and not on a dead level.
Upon getting to the foot of the hill he
still tries to continue downward, and as
a result runs his nose into the ground
and looks surprised again. He now
comes to a place to get up hill, and goes
up just as our man starts to go up stairs
in total darkness when he thinks the stairs
are still twenty feet away.
Our lamb is now getting very sus
picious. He was pushed over and
growled at for following the dog when
he thought it was his mother; the shep
herd kicked and abused him for follow
ing him; he tumbled down hill when he
saw nothing unusual iu the looks of the
ground, and up hill again under similar
circumstances. In this frame of mind he
comes to a shadow cast by a neighboring
hill. This is the most appalling thing
he has yet seen in life. He stands in the
bright sunshine; twelve inches ahead of
him all the world is black. How shall
he get over that terrible line? It must
be worse than going down hill, or up
hill, or running after a dog that growls
or a man that kicks. It surely looks
much more frightful than any of these
things. His mother is in the shadow,and
coaxes him to come along; but he will
not risk it—he stands on the edge and
bawls at the top of his powers. The
shepherd with his big foot comes to the
rescue, and the poor lamb is lifted from
sunlight to shadow on the end of a num
ber nine boot.
He trots along after his mother for a
few yards and meets anew difficulty.
This time it is from shadow to sunlight.
It looks rough; the situation seems to
present no end of difficulties. He walks
across the line with fear and trembling,
only to find it very simple and easy, and
concluded that things are not so bad as
they look. He has already begun to find
ut that things which seem easy in life
lead often to disaster, and forbidding
things often present no real danger.
At this time he is about one hour old;
for a whole hour he has been running his
respirative, circulative ami locomotive
powers as an independent being, aud has
become quite a lamb. Just at that in
stant a carriage drives rapidly along the
road. Ilia quick eye sees it; he thinks
perhaps it is his mother, aud that she is
running from danger. lie strikes out
aft**!- it. It is wonderful what an hour
has done for him in the way of develop
ment; lie runs faster than the shepherd,
faster than his mother, and is in immi
nent danger of getting under the horses’
feet or the wheels of the carriage.
It is here that the dog comes to play,
if he understands his business. He runs
up alongside of the lamb, pushes it over
with his nose, jumps upon it and holds
it down upon the ground with his nose
until the shepherd comes up. The shep
herd takes the lamb and stands it upon
its feet so that it can see its mother, who
has come up to within a few feet. He
holds it until it sees its mother on a move
and then lets it go. Tne old ewe licks
off the face of a sadder aud wiser lamb—
lets him have another dose of liquid
nourishment, and together they get home.
There is only one thing timt is 500
times as funny and provoking by turns as
a lamb, and that is 500 lambs together
when they are about a month old. The
fhepherd sits down and watches the 500
lambs, all in a bunch by themselves,
playing, running and frolicking, and he
laughs. When he has tried, and tried
in vain, to get the same 500 across the
bridge er into a corral he sits down
again, but he does not laugh this time.
A young lamb has no way of telling
which ewe is his mother, and the mother
only knows which lamb is her own by
the scent. Hence, while very young it
is a bad plan to have too many together,
for the ewe may be confused by so many
lambs, or become partially indifferent,
and the lambs perish for want of care.
When a few weeks old, however, they
know each other by the sound of the
voice. In a band of 2000 or 3000 ewes,
a ewe may call her lamb, and the lamb
will answer from the other side of the
flock. They will go as straight to each
other, right through the whole band, as
they would if they were the only two
animals for a mile around.— Montuna
Wool- Grower.
A Novel Nuptial Ceremony.
An amusing marriage took [dace in
Elberton, Ga., the other day. A couple
came to the court house to be married. A
new justice was called in. He had no
form, and improvised a ceremony. He
first ordered the couple to join hands,
and then after hesitating awhile, he asked
the groom these questions: “Will you
stick to this woman through thick and
thin, up and down, right and left, hotor
cold, wet or dry, aud have no other wife
but her? If you will, you can have her
for a wife.” Similar questions having
been propounded to the woman, and af
firmative answers having been given, he
pronounced them husband and wife.
Atlanta Constitution. * /
HOrSBHOLD MATTERS.
TO WASU MCSIJXP.
Some of these wash admirably with
a little care in the laundry. If the colors
are not fast, add a handful of salt to each
gallon of rinsing water. It is best to
I try a small piece first if possible. Lay
them iu cold water to soak, to get the
worst of the dirt out of them, then soap
I them lightly and put them in tepid water,
and wash them thoroughly with good
soap; rinse them through cold water
(with salt, if needed) and dry quickly.
Use no starch, and fold them before
they are quite dry, ironing them lightly
w ith n not too hot irou. Washed in this
way whenever they get to look soilesl they
should look os good as new.— HasAuty
ton Mar.
AHT OF COOK IMi VEGETABLES.
Vegetables form a most agreeable and
Useful part of our daily food, and they
'should be made the object of greater
study than they usually are. They should
be dressed with taste as well as care. The
fresher all green vegetables are the more
wholesome. When they are so they
break or snap crisply, but should they
bend without breaklug, or have a wilted
appearance they arc stale.
Soft water is much the best to use for
cooking vegetables, if pure and clean,
but if hard water is used have it freshly
drawn and put in u little soda to soften.
Nearly all vegetables should be thorough
ly cooked anilare spoiled if either over
or under done. Those young and ten
der require less time than those more
matured.
Green vegetables with some exceptions
should be cooked In plenty of salted
water, putting them in at its first boll.
The quantity of salt to lie used is a large
tablespoon to one gallon of water. All
vegetables are done as soon as tender
and should be immediately taken up and
drained in a colander.
Onions should be soaked in salted warm
water previous to cooking to partly re
move any strong odor they may ]x>ssess.
l’eas, string-beaus and green corn should
nut be prepared for cooking until about
ready to be used.
Turnips, carrots and onions should
not be split, but sliced iu rings across, as
they cook thus sooner.
Avery small bit of red pepper put in
the water in which either meat or vege
tables are boiled will, to some extent,
deodorize the steam and save the disa
greeable odor arising from cabbage,
onions, etc.
Potatoes should be pealed as thinly as
possible, as the better part lies nearest
the skin. —Jtete York Press.
nOW TO MAKE STARCH.
There are very few housekeepers who
do not admire the “laundry finish” on
shirts and collars, etc., and wish they
could equal the stiffness and gloss at
home. There’s a great deal in the starch.
Take the required amount of the best
quality and mix it with a little cold
water; take out a fourth of it, and cook
the rest, stirring to keep it from being
lumpy; let it cool a little, when it has
cooked enough—ten minutes, perhaps—
then stir in the rest, which both whitens
and stiffens the cooked starch. It should
now be very thick, as thick as you can
rub it into the clothes, which of course
must be dry.
Rub the starch into the clothes while it
is as hot as you can handle it, rubbing
well with the hands, straighten out the
garment and rub well with the ball of the
hand, using a little fresh starch to rub in,
Jhen roll up and let lie about ten minutes.
The shirt is then ready to iron.
You want hot flatirons, as hot as you
can use them, so hot they will scorch dry
cloth if left on it. Iron the body of the
shirt rapidly; this will make the heat just
right for the cuffs. Rub them over lightly
on the wrong side, then a little harder,
then turn aud finish on the right side
with pressure, then iron the band. Get
another hot iron for the bosom, cool it
by ironing a rag or a towel. See there
are no wrinkles in the bosom or in the
back under it, turn it on your table so
the centre of the bosom is parallel with
the edge of the table, rub quickly but
lightly once or more, then “go for it”
with all the muscle you have; then the
other half. Put in your shirt board;
dampen about half of one side of the
bosom, aud with your polishing iron
press as heavily as you can and iron it
fast. That brings the polish—and the
perspiration.
You cannot do fine work without a
polishing iron. With it and plenty of
elbow grease you can. And you don’t
want wax, tallow, spermaceti or any
thing else iu your starch. —Michigan
Farmer,
RECIPES.
Coffee Jelly—Take two tablespoonfuls
of gelatine aud pour it over one pint ol
good coffee. When dissolved strain and
set away in the ice chest to cool and
thicken. Serve with sweetened cream
flavored with vanilla.
Fricandeau of Veal —The part of the
leg of veal which is called fricandeau, is
used for this purpose. Lard the veal the
same as a fillet of beef; roast in medium
hot oven; baste frequently and cook
through, but not too well done; make a
nice sauce in pan and serve with the veal.
Lettuce Salad—Take lettuce, washed
well and chopped coarse, and make a
dressing as follows: Mix one saltspoon
ful of salt and one-lialf saltspoonful of
pepper in a cup. Add one tablespoon
ful of oil. When thoroughly mixed add
one tablespoonful of vinegar aud two
more tablespoonfuls of oil. Pour over
lettuce und serve.
Fruit Tapioca—Pick over and wash
three-quarters of a cup of pearl tapioca.
Put it in a double boiler with a pint and
a half of boiling water. Cook tiil soft
and transparent, stirring often. Add
nearly a saltspoonful of salt, a quarter of
a cup of sugar, one good sized banana,
and one large, juicy, sweet orange, cut
in thin slices. Serve with cream.
Cauliflower au Gratiu—Boil cauliflower
well done in salted water, then put in
plain vegetable dish a ladleful of cream
sauce; put in cauliflower; arrange so to
fill dish nicely; cover the top with cream
sauce; sprinkle over that, fine bread
crumbs mixed with a little parmesau
cheese; besprinkle with melted butter,
and brown in oven; serve very hot.
Egg Bread—Beat four eggs very light
and stir into a pint of sweet or sour
milk; if sour milk is used add a little
soda; mix in a large spoonful of butter,
take a quart of sifted Indian meal and
pour over it sufficient boiling water to
scald it, stirring it to a stiff, smooth
mass; add the milk and tablespoonful of
sugar; beat well and bake in a pan or
muffin rings. More eggs can be added
if desired. Sweet milk is better to use
than sour.
A .Juvenile Locomotive Builder.
A sixtecn-year-old boy named Walter
A. Stanley, who belongs to East Lexing
ton, Mass., lias constructed a miniature
locomotive, complete in every detail,
which is run by steam over a small track
about twelve feet long. The dimensions
of the locomotive are: Length, 33 inches;
height, 5 3-d inches; drivers, 3 inches*,
cylinders, 1 l-Bth inches; weight, 16
pounds. It is said the boy constructed
the engine without my assistance.
The regular army of Great Britain now
number* about 210,000, *
AGRICULTUiAL
lOI’K’HOK INTMttvr IlKH.ym I.
TO I'AIIU AND U \IIDUN.
BACKING Bt'TTEH FOB WINTER.
In putting down butter for winter use
In a small way there i nothing better
than large, well-glared crocks, with
covers doae-fitting, and glared inside as
well as outside. Glaring on the inside
I
when it is, the porous earthen, which is
a powerful absorbent, soon becomes
loaded with foul matter that give* off
bail odors and spoils whatever the crock
may ontain. The ] Kicking should l>e
and the butter reach to one inch of
the top of the crock, and the butter cov
ered with the blanched reusliu free from
any starch or Bring. The jar should
then be tilled with all the salt it will
hold and snugly pressed down. Then
turn on a little pure water, just enough
to rise to one-half the depth of the salt
■ ,
with dry salt on top makes a better pro
tection than all briue or all dry salt.
Then cover as closely ns passible and
set in a cool, dry cellar —not on the
ground, but up’ a little from the
RTOund — and if the butter is all right
when it is packed it may reasonably l>e
expected to l>e sound next winter. In a
larger way 100-pound white oak firkins,
after being thoroughly cleaned of sap
and all liability to imparting woody
flavor by soaking in boiling water, may
lie used" in the same way as crocks.—
Practical Farmer.
EXTIIACTED OR COMB HONEV.
The greatest yield if honey can be ob
tained iiy extracting, as it can be ex
tracted from the combs without awaiting
their sealing up. It seems to take the
bees about as long to seal over the combs
as to fill them with honey. We can,
therefore, get double the number of
pounds of extracted honey that we can
of comb. Beside keeping the combs
emptied of their contents, there is the
additional advantage of keepingthe bees
working right along filling the combs.
Bees thus treated are not so liable to
swarm, as they have at all times abun
dance of room for storing honey. It is
true we may give them large surplus
room, but when this is filled with comb
honey it is not completed. Several days
are necessary to ripen the honey and seal
the cells. With limited storage th
make preparations to swarm, and then
plentiful storage room will not prevent it.
Of the two methods of producing honey,
comb and extracted, the latter does not
require more than half the labor. It has
been said that extracted honey does not
bring as high a price. But in the ma
jority of cases the apiarist is making
more money from extracted honey, be
eause he is producing three or more
pounds to one. True, there are a few
specialists who make the raising of comb
lioney a study, and those probably re
ceive the greatest profits. But the masses
find much difficulty in producing comb
honey, when they can easily produce
large crops of extracted. To succeed
properly in raising profitable crops of
honey requires the greatest skill and study
of anything connected with the apiary.
It is beginning at the wrong end to raise
comb honey first, instead of the more
simple and easy method of using the ex
tractor.—American Agriculturist.
now TO MAKE A GOOD WALK.
Farmers, as a rule, do not spend enough
rime in making and improving walks in
front of and around their homes. A good
walk in the winter time is a necessity for
comfort. One does not like to step out
cf doors into several inches of mud, nor
is it much more satisfactory to have
boards slipping and sliding from under
jrour feet. Asphalt walks are so cheap
that most farmers can afford to have one
running around the house and leading to
the principal out-buildings. To make a
sound walk, cheap to make and maintain
and alike iu all weather, select a stone of
a flinty nature and burn it before putting
it on the walk. This can be easily done
with charcoal. After the stones are
burnt sift them into two sizes, one for
the foundation of the walk and the other
for the top. Then mix the stones wi(h
boiling coal tar. The foundation of the
walk should be prepared beforehand and
made perfectly solid and not liable to sink.
The larger stone, mixed with the tor,
should be laid on first to a depth of about
two inches. Then roll thoroughly, going
over all of it several times. Then lay on
the finer coating about an inch in thick
ness. Bprinkle the surface over with
coarse grit, crushed shell or spar, and
roll ouce more. To prevent the sides
from crumbling edgings of wood, tile or
bricks should be made. One should uot
forget to burn the stones before mixing
them with the tor, as this is one of the
most important features of a good, solid
walk. The only work to maintain the
walk then is annually to brush hot tar
over the surface, sprinkle on it some grit
and roll it as before. No kind of walk
will last longer or prove more satisfactory
for a country home than such a one de
scribed. Weeds will have uo chance to
grow up iu it.— Washington Star.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Arrange to avoid laud washing ns
much as possible.
Ducks when properly handled pay
even bettor than chickens.
When you wean the lambs give them
a rich grass or clover pasture.
The farmer is harvesting his wheat
and oats. The hens will help him clean
up stray grain.
Land plaster is a cheap absorbent,
and renders the stable much purer and
the manure much more valuable.
Do not invest too largely in new, un
tried varieties. There is no liarmin test
ing them on a small scale, but uso a
Standard variety for the main crop.
Be sure that the seed wheat does not
contain cheat, rye, cockle, or other fine
seeds. There is usually a sufficient
quantity in the soil without sowing.
The custom followed by a great many
farmers of using a spring pig in November
and December to sire their next spring
crop of pigs is not to be commended.
The day of stoekers, kept on the farm
as such, is gone by, or at least should be;
from the teat to the shambles every pig
should be considered a fattening animal.
To produce good wool, the sheep must
have the proper food. There is no better
hay than clover for sheep, and no better
grain than oats and bran with a little oil
meal.
Poultry culture is one of the most
healthy employments that any use can
be engaged in. If you want exercise
and pleasure combined, try a flock of nice
fowls.
’Hie quantity of seed should be gauged
by the time of sowing, the fertility and
condition of the soil and the quality of
the seed used, as well as the way it is
sown.
The last maize crop in the United
States was grown on a larger area than
has ever before been planted; the total
produce was the greatest yet obtained
namely, 1,988,000,000 bushels.
Four-fifths of our agricultural land is
divided among four million families.
Autiqutty of the Glove.
No article of idlin' has more of inter
©*t iii itH Miociutitmii uml hUtorjr tmm
for whilo the interest attaching
to most other garments haa b cn mainly
tlmt of utility, to gloves Ims boon at
tached a varied and wide spiead sym
bolism, giving them an exalted plueo
and linking tlmm with maur cunoua
observance*, regal, aocloswstioal, mili
tary und social. . , _ ,
-i'ho glove Ims been the emblem of
power and <>f purity, *>t defiance and
subjection. I-mids and personal prop
erty were once conveyed by the delivery
of u glove; the authority of kings over
provinces waa attested by presenting a
glove; kings invested barons with do
minion by bestowing on the favorite ono
of the kinglv gloves; and many ocelesi
ustii id amt h eal ceremonies could only
be performed with white glovos, the
emblems of purity. . .
The antiquity of gloves is very great,
thev doubtless antedate history, for the
earliest literature alludes to them, and
thev have been known and worn from
tlm earliest ages of which wo have anjr
knowledge. Homer, in the “Odyssey,
deserdies I.aertes, the farmer king, the
lather of Vlys os, in his retirement:
“While gloves seemed his hands to
shield them from the thorns.” Xeno
phon jeers at the Persians for wearing
gloves as a protection from the cold,
„ , t oulv did thev have umbrellas ls-rno
over them in summer, not being content
with the shade of the trees and rooks,
but in the winter it is not sufficient for
them to clothe their heads, nnd their
b.'di.-s, ami their feet, but they have
coverings made of hair for their hands
and their fingers. In their earlier days
the (becks and the llomaus scorned
such effeminacy, bnt at a later day, in
the time of Pliny, the uncle of that
lively historian is described as traveling
with an amanuensis “who wore glovos
upon his hands ill winter lest the sever
ity of the weather should make him lose
any time ” in writing.
Prom time immemorial tno glove has
had a legal significance in oriental
countries in the transfer of property,
just as the “God’s penny” was formerly
used to "bind a bargain” in the west. A
disputed passage in the Old Testament
Huth iv. 7 and B—reads: “Now this
was the manner in former time iu Israel,
concerning redeeming and concerning
changing, for to confirm all things; a
man plucked off les.iW, and give to Ins
neighbor; nnd this was a testimony m
Israel." It is now commonly agreed by
scholars that the word shoe should be
rendered c’"rz, for in the Chaldaic para
phrase the word is rendered “the case or
covering of the right hand; and a•-
ceptiiig this view, it appears that among
the Israelites tlie passing of a glovo was
the method of transferring property.
Later the glove, as a pledge or emblem
of conveyance, came into use among the
Homans, whose ancient law held prop
erty to have passe 1 with its literal
transfer, or of part of it. into the hand
of tlie purchaser; and tlie glove, doubt
less as a matter of convenience, took the
place of and symbolized this actual
transfer. —[The Haberdasher.
Stupidly Conservative Venezuelians.
The native farmers of Venezuela plow
with a crooked stick with one handle,
just as the Egyptians did in the days of
Moses, and nothing can induce them to
adopt the modern two-handled steel af
fair. They simply can’t do it, and they
won’t. General Guzman-Bianco, who
was always favorable to the introduc
tion of labor-saving machinery and
methods, at one time attempted to en
force the use of improved implements,
but lie was compelled to give it up as a
bad job. The productiveness of the re
public might be enormously increased,
as Guzman realized, by enabling one
man to do the work of two, or six, or
ten, for the great drawback is scarcity
of labor; but the peons are stubborn,
more stubborn than stupid, and will in
sist upon doing everything just as their
fathers did, and their great grandfathers
for that matter. It is the same spirit,
the same insistence to innovations, that
causes them to ship their coffee and
sugar upon the backs of donkeys instead
of the railroad; that requires the pay
ment for produce in coin inst ad of
checks, and causes that coin to be hid
den away under an old stump or a
crack in the roof instead of being de
posited in u bank to draw interest and
increase the circulating medium.
The workingmen, the mechanics,
know nothing of labor-saving machin
ery. All the timber and woodwork for
lu)use-building is dressed by band.
There is not such a thing as a planing
mill or a sasli factory in the whole coun
try, and all the furniture and cabinet
work is made the same way. You will
always find locks placed upon the door
casings and the socket for the bolt
screwed upon the door, and the locks
are invariably upside down. When you
call attention to it you are told that it
is the custom of the country. When a
house is being erected, whether it is
one story or two, the solid walls are
first laised to their full height, and
then holes are chiseled out to admit tho
ends of the rafters and timbers for the
floors. It never occurs to the builder
that an easier way would bo to set the
timbers in tho walls as he lays tho
bricks.—[Chicago News,
The Type setting Machine.
Dr. Thomas Kicc, an American in
ventor, has perfected another type-set
ting machine. Notwithstanding the fact
that quite a number of composing ma
chines are now in the market, the only
really successful one now in practical op
eration is that used nt the office of the
New York Tribune. Formerly, ninety
compositors were required to set the type
for the several editions of that paper,
but with the use of the machine, only
thirty operators arc employed. The ma
chine does not set ordinary type, but
each lino of reading matter is molded,
and, after being once used, it goes back
into the melting pot. The mechanical
type-setter is yet an experiment, though
inventors have spent their lives working
on the complex arrangement. Type-set
ting is done at the present time with ex
actly the same method as it was done
three score years ago, and in this branch
of the printer’s art, not a step of ad
vancement has been made. It seems that
for this particular work nothing will
supplant human intelligence.
A wholesale coffee firm in New York
is represented by a woman drummer
She was formerly employed in the store,
but proved to be such a good judge of
coffee, that the firm sent her out on the
road. She carries her samples and takes
orders the same as her male competitors,
and often succeeds in getting orders
where they have failed.
I* A fiSf drvVn
a storm finds to lus sorrow that It Is lAV called TOWER’S FISH KKA*
hanky a better protection than a mot- flfVf I “ SLICKER," a name funili* r I t ® Jl
°?l fee ! s chagrined ■■ ■ ■ Cow-Kail over the land. WJJ *}
,i b dy } , Q, i in ' bu * 11180 ■■ ■ the only perfect Wind and “nSc,."
fL(!i riL h A_ do< ' 8 look exactly like |J Kja |\l Coat Is‘‘Tower's Fish Brand
‘ W ' 1 ' ho “ 1 ! '" I<RA Nl>'’ SI If Kbit | I iill i ll(l ,Yke'no‘'thr.frif vour st..rck£P"
dnesnot have the fish brand, send for descriptive catalogue. A.J.ToWKß.2oMimmonsSt..Bos , oib- v
izj Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians* LjiJ
•p-# Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tno I fm
fyl taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists*
BRYANT & STRATTON Business Cog
{Keeping, Short Hand , Telegraphy, fco. T ***'
M rite for Catalogue and full information . lIUUXO V
A C) clone Belle,
\
cyclone which occurred ten 1
* his witness of one of the frrak.of fk.
great ilariu is a black quart bottle u!
by to mo mystoiiou. force into m fii" 1
without a crack or break in th. C
that the eloae.t .mutiny eat,
11m iick of the bottle actually i,„„i
the edge of the bottom, and the f wtt u
the glu-a win not broken in any „ i
the strange force of the atorni.Uihowah!
Us holding water or any other fluid li.
gradually turning the bottle aa thewau
is poured in, it can be nearly filled toS
full capacity, so at to ahow the db<m
soundness of the material. TheU t j.,
| of the bottle is probably due tetheuf
of electricity,
| An authentic silver dollar, of the Cos
federate States, in valued by
Icctois nt 11,000. Only u few ~
i coined before the Confederate u, lt(
out of silver.
Tin- Ural TratlmwaUl
Yst published for anv blood mmllcla* w*.
printed guarantee of theuiaiiutin larenew
I ierce’a Holden Medical Ibaciivery aii>k
M ill Hilda tbsl wondertal incUli ine to Wn2a
. r Hire In all cum* of tbow Ule e ( ur ,S
it ts recommended, or money natd for it a
lw rcliirnnl. It rurcs all di-raicn uriui
from lorpiil livir ami impure blood and thS
names arc Irgion. All Nkm, Scalp u , u j N ..7
n;uu-aITi-ciiun. Eruptions. t-,rcs and
lugs, Suit -rheum. Totter, Ki yetpidaeanil
droit diseases, are among I hose p, which il
“Discovery” effected marvelous cures. m
When everything elee falls, l)r. Ham's (v
lurrli Hemedy eures. W cents, by drugiUa,
According Inn lato treasury staterenl in
amount of money circulniiou of tin i :
Slates is about 81,410.(100,000.
Shorleel. (falrkest and B,„
The CnicAOO Rock Ikl*,„ * '
Railway constitutes the short ,| r,. i t* f"
tween Kansas City and Denver and a'l'ic
In Kansan Colorado and the Indian
Ita eoi.m vistiihls kxi-iikm thats. .*■
Kansas City daily on arrival of train: i*"
Memphis St. Louis and eastern andasitteS
ern points running through without cUaSt
Denver, Colorade Springs and I'ucbl,,.
they connect with ontgoiog trains of
verging line* offering a choice of rvuJ, p
halt Lake, Ogden, Helena. Portland,
Angeles and hail I ranchtco. Tlicee vsuilS
trains consist of elegant Day Coach™ is,”i
man Palace Sice; cm and
(Tair Cara, leading all competitors insnS
dor of equipment, and having all tbow "nuldb,
improvements” which add p, safety, conhS
amt luxurious enjoyment. If goi .g'toKve
or the Pacific ctanst. secure ttckeU ovw and!
Hoca Ist.ANlivla Kutsils City, and yo'. n
never regret it. For further information J
nly nr wile to <h D. Bacon, (ion. Art I'm
Dent., (’haniU*r of Commerce Buildirur ( inn'
Ohio: P. P. Voung. Trav. Pass. AeTfantti
&th .st., (’hattanoo* a. 7 ©nn., or U. s> i, Hoath
Trav. Pass. A/’t, lUJ North Third SL tu
LouK Mo.
Sarah fiernbardt.
i* coming to America, and great will be the
enthusiasm aroused amongst her idmirea
But, we have our own bright star, Marv Ander*
ton, who will continue to bear off th*. palm in
the dramatic, as does Lucy Hinton iu the
great tobacco world.
We recommend “Tansill’s Punch” Cigar.
Salt Rheum
Often causes great agony with Us intern* ltchtnf
and burning. Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood
purifier, cures salt rheum and all skin diseases. &
thoroughly cleanses, renovates aud enriches tin
blood. Give It a trial.
“After the failure of three skillful physicians
cure my boy of salt rheum, I tried Hood's Sanaps
rilla and Olive Ointment. I have now used four
boxes of Ointment and one aud a half bottles o<
Sarsaparilla, and the boy is to all appearance com
pletely cured. He la now four years old, and hm
been afflicted since he was six months of a|t*
Mits. B. Sanderson, 5 C Newhall Street, Lowell. Mix
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. s]; six for s.*>. Prepared oelf
by C. L HOOD A CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mas.
IQO Poses One Dollar _
Ely’s Cream Balm Ipggj
QAT A R R
Sjgro t ‘.,'l
Apply Balm into each nostril.
ELY 8R05.,56 Warren Bt.,!f.Y.
I are yoi thinking
"IrpSf* Cotton or Hay Press!
t . We manufacture • CoUm
\ c/A-- Li , EwJ / Press an <1 two Hay Prews
\ & * / Will send Circu lam and ft* I
/ ROANOKE IKON AN!
BSjL/ WOOD WORK*.
CHATTANOOGA, TESA
P. O. Box&H
nr. m m m After ALL Ottod
P* | II fall, consult
Or. Lobtvxff
Twenty years' continuous practice in th*
raent and cure of the iivvlui efierts of er j
vice, destroying both mind and body. .
and treatment for one month, Five U o,, ar*. ■
securely sealed from observation to any audit*
Keok on Special Diseases free.
RUPTURE
A written guarantee to ABSOLU PE KY CUKE.
detention from busiuess Endorsed by the le >*l
physicians of the United States. Write for circu
In. U. E. MoOANDLISB. Atlanta, Ga. ;
Office 30!* Marietta Street, corner Broad.
THE HARVEST IN Ii
Bountiful crops raised in this wonderful Stats.
*2O cents per bushel. Hay J*s per ton. '- '' Wj
bead. More cotton than can >* gathered, r l ' .*
cheap lands apply to TEXAS iMfcSIW 1
< O.tIPANY, Tex in*.
YOU™*
—■■ MAKI „ wanted who can •len.wtM
entire time to the business. Spare time ' rLJJ
employed profitably. (•< od agents prompt yP r (
to better positions. It will pay you i<> write us. *
atone-, 1). W. ThaDKB Cos., Pubs.. AtlaDiA^j
17K 'I'O 9250 A MONTH cau be n*le wjJJJ
for us. Agents preferred uho can fntg
a horse and give their whole time to th* busing
Spare moments may be profitably cmpi®}
A few vacancies In towns and cities. .
BON A CO., 1009 Main St.. Richmond, Vs.
Please state ap ami business
mind about sending stamp for reply. D• *±_—-
API IIH SjSSfjS
RJTDirr. BOOX-tfaping. BuiinejaJJJ*
Peumunahip, Arithmetic.
§25 AN HOUR .VKmVf
MEDICAL CO..
ri n RIO Do 7 0U want to buy or w|IJ I AND*
rflnmN •tamp for clrcii rl ° 11
M fllllTlU ourti9 & n U ff e tt, <*33
AGENTS wanted. $1 an hour. 60 new v-arietie*- jjf
logue aud sample lree.O. K. Marshal I, Locmwj^
t>ai.m>s hi h. coi.M i'i '•
X Scholarship and positions, 950. Write to* .
PEERLESS DYES
T prescribe
owe Biff < • 8 U |OC ll
Deciflc for thee*
r this disease ~ p
.H. ING KAII A ;'/ ji.l.
Amsterduii. -
We hv* •"'J ®*it (f
‘!”/en y tho best of ßl
faction. 4 Co ;i ,
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