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REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON
Subject: "The Shorn Locks of Sain
son.”
Text: “Entice hm see i therein his
great atrengtf tieth . what that means ut j
——* may prevail w/u«nsi hi ure may !
MmI | him to of ojtlict h trill trice
thee every one ns even
sihe* Jn res xvi.. 5
tin >und: :»r about five them
sand dollars of « »ney. were thus offered
for the capture It would take a
skillful pfiotogi are Samson
he really was. facile words are
not---- - • 4 • - •
giant and a uoror
feated. able at a
captured hi t h wa
ruler and s. of virtue and
vice, the sublim id the StST-3
enough t L-i a good
enough u b
l!i M superfirial
ragaously enough to yet c f
r<
material to . pa > i ; a mi
a crowni *stau buruing • v .a;
There he up above other I
men. a m flesh; his ari unc'n»*d
with mus ie that can lift th» I
taking w-Ud^ui. an attitude defiant of armed men and
Hishan hail never )*«. cut.
audit rofied down in seven | tsover j
his shoulders, adding to his fierceness and
terror. The Philistines want to conquer |
, him. . and ...» therefore .. the? must .. ^__, find out . where
the sei-ret of hts strength lies.
There IS a woman living m the valley of
Sorekbjthe name of Delilah They RhlhsUnes appomt
her the agent m the case The
are secreted in the jam* building and then
Deldah •" v- 11 k and esiare. baniMin to
tsO what is the........... ' v>11 -
he says, “if you should tak»* seven green
withes, such as they fasten wild )/easts with,
and put them around me. I should be per¬
fectly powerless.” .So she binds him with the
seven green withes. Then she claps her
hands aud he says: “They come—the though Philis¬
tines f’ and walks out as tl lere
were no impediment. “Now She coaxes him again,
and says: tell me the secret of
this great strength; and he replies: “If you
should take some ropes that have never been
used, and tie me with them. I should l>e just
like other men." She ties him with the
ropes, claps her hand- anti shouts: *They
come—the Philistinesf’ He walks out as
easy as he did lief ore—not a single obstruc¬
tion. She coaxes him again, and he says:
“Now, if you should take these seven long
plaits them of hair, web. and I by could this hous? loom weave
into a not get away.” So
the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle
flies backward and forward, and the long
plaits she of hair hands, are woven into a “They web. Then
claps her and says: come!
the Philistines!’
He walks rr.it as easily as he die: before,
dragging after a part she of persuades the loom with him But
awhile him to tell the
truth. He says; “If y »>u should take a razor,
or shears, aud cut off this hands long hair. I should
be powerless, and in the of iny ene¬
mies.” Samson sleeps, and that she may not
wake him up during the process of shearing,
help is called in. You know that the barbers
of the East have such a skillful way of man¬
ipulating the wideawake, head, to this very day they I will
put the blades a man, of the shears grinding sound asleep. each hear
other, and I the locks against
The see long falling off.
shears, or razor, accomplishes what green
withes and new ropes and house loom could
not do. Suddenly she claps her hands and
says: “The Philistines be upon thee. Sam¬
son”’ He rouses up with a struggle, but his
strength his is all gone! He is in the hands of
enemies I I hear the groan of the giant
as they take his eyes out. and then I see him
staggering on iu his blindness, feeling his
way as he goes on toward Gaza The prison
door is opened and the giant is thrust iu. He
sits down and puts his hands on the mill
crank, which, with exhausting horizontal
motion, goes day after day, week after week,
month after month—work, work, work!
The consternation of the world is captivity,
his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding
corn in Gaza. In a previous sermon on this
character I learned some lessons, but anot her
class of lessons are before us now.
Learn first how very strong people
sometimes coaxed into great imbecilities.
Samson had no right to reveal the secret of
his strength. Delilah’s first attempt to find
out is a failure. He says: “Green withes
will bind me,” but it was a failure. Then
he says: “A new rope will hold me,” but that
also Was a failure. Then he says; “Weave
my looks into a web and that will bind me,”
yet that also was a failure. But at last you
see how she coaxed it out him. Unimportant
actions in life that involve no moral princi¬
ardent ple may without injury be subjected to
persuasions, the line that but as soon as you have
come to separates right from
wrong, no inducement or blandishment ought
to make you step over it. Suppose a mail
has been brought up in a Christian house¬
hold and taught sacredly to observe
the Sabbath, Sunday comes; you want
fresh is just air like Temptation other days; says: “Sunday
now don't 1 m*
bigoted; we will ride forth among the works
of God; the whole earth is His temple; we
will not go into any dissipations; come, now,
I have the .
back carriage engaged and we l'_. shall lie
soon don’t enough to go to church in the
evening; will yield to Puritanic notions;
you be no worse for a ride in the coun¬
try ; the blossoms are out and they say every¬
thing is looking glorious.” “Well, I will go
to they please you,” the is the response. And out
go over street* conscience drowned
In the clatter of the swift hoofs and the rush
of the resounding wheels. That tempted
man may have had moral character enough
to break the green withes of ten thousand
Philistine allurements, but he has been over¬
come Two by coaxing.
opposite young men passing down this '
came lantern a drinking saloon with a red
to hung out from the door to light men
I perdition “Let us go in.” says one. “No,
won’t,” says the other; “I never go to such
places.' “Now.- you don’t say you are as
weak as that. Why, I have been going there
for two years and it hasn’t hurt me. Come,
come anything now, be a man. If you can’t btaifti
need stronger, the Uke a little sherry. You
to see world rs it is. 1 don’t believe
in intemperance any more than you. I can
stop shall drinking just when I want to. You
haseonquered. go. Now, come right along.” Persuasion
Samson yields to the coaxing
and there is carnival in hell that night
among We'vp the Philistiuas and they shout: “Ha !
ha! got him.” Those who have the
kindest and most sympathetic natures are
the most in danger. \ our very disposition
to please others will he the very trap they
set. If you were cold and harsh and severe
in your nature you would not be tampered
with. People never fondle a hedgehog. The
most sentimental Greenlander never kisses
an of iceberg. The warmth and susceptibility
your nature will encourage the siren.
Though strong as a giant, look out for
Dslilah r scissors. Samson, the strongest
inah who ever lived, was overcome by coax¬
ing.
of Again, ill this narrative teaches us the power
an disposed woman. In the portrait
gallery Ruth of Bible Queens we find Abigail ami
and Miriam and Vashti and Deborah,
but in the rogues' gallery of a police station
you find the pictures of women as well as
men. Delilah's picture belongs to the rogues'
Phiiistia gallary. but she had more power than all
armed with sword and spear. She
could carry off the iron gates of Samson’s reso¬
lution as easily as he shouldered the gates of
Gaza. The force that had killed the lion which
one utterly day plunged out fierce from the thicket
succumbs to the silken net which
Delilah weaves for the giant. He w ho had
driven an army in riotous retreat with the
bleached jaw bone, smiting them hip and
thigh with great slaughter, uow falls captive
at the feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah
in the Bible stands in the memorable eom
pany of Adah, and Zillah, and Batksheba,
and Jezebel, and Athaliah and Htrudias.
How deplorable the influence of such in
contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe aud Hul
dah and Tryphona and Jephtha s daughter
and Mary, the mother of Jesus. While the
latter glitter in the firmament of God's word
like constellations with steady, cheerful,
holy light, the former shoot like baleful me
fceors across the terrified heavens, ominous of
war, disaster and death. If there is a divine
power in the good mother, her face bright
with purity, an unselfish love beaming from
her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and suffer¬
ings and holy anxieties has been
mellowing and softening for many a
year, mty that uttering itself in every syllable, a'dig
cannot be dethroned, united with
the playfulness that will not be checked, her
hand the charm that will instantly take pain
out of the child’s worst wound, her presence
a perpetual benediction, her name our de¬
fense w hen we are tempted, her meinorv an
ontgushing and thanksgiving, well of tears and congratulation
her heaven a jialm waving
and a coronal; then there is .iust as great aii
influence in the opposite direction in th“
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
with ingoverned passion, her eye flashing:
unsanctified fire, her lips the
fountain of fretfulness and depravity,
her example a mildew and a blasting, her
name a disgrace to coming generations, her
memory eternity a signal for bitterest anathema, her
a whirlwind and a suffocation and a
darkness. One wrong headed, wrong hearted
mother may ruin one child, and that one
child, grown up, may destroy a hundred
people, and and the hundred blast a thousand,
the thousand a million. The wife's
sphere is a realm ot honor and power almost
unlimited. What a blessing was Sarah to
Abrahun, was Debora^_to Lamdoth, was
Zir jorah to Moses, was Huldah to Shall
-.ere are multitud Ln the
, ts of trad* wh* >rt tines have
be i th* result of i ? s frugaiitT.
r hands have be- R hieving that
estats. two at the el two at the
home Th* burdens of life are compars
tirely light when there are other
hands to help us lift them. Th* greatest
difficulties have often slunk sway because
there were four evi to look them out of
countenance. What care you for hard
iLnocks in the world ax long as you have
* bright domestic circle for harbor!
One cheerful word in the evening title as
you come in has silenced the clamor of
unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor
Your table may lie quite fru
gaily sp id. but it seems more beautiful to
vou than many tables that smoke with vepi
son and blu> dh Burgundy Peace meets
v< at t he d >r. n^c^d. andlin^T fn who the
Y< have seen an ago 1 cample other
an have helped ear-h on
down the s'* • K
yeai> iati >n lias made
iidi alike. fhev reioi ?ed at t! vent
^
they bent over the same cradle, tbev wept at
th< rai - In the evening they sit
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iuietly thinking of the past, mother knitting |
It the Stand, father m his arm chair at the
fire. and
Now and then a grandchild untold •>mes and
thev look at him with affection
•onie well mgh spoiling him with kindnesses.
The life currents beat feebly in their and pulses the
xml their work will soon be don*
Master will call. A few short days may sep¬
arate them. but. not far apart in time of de¬
l^tnre they ^vcrerel!
" lS
w
their graves Let their tombstones stand
• like marked with the same Scripture. Chil
rren and grandcftffdl-en will come in tha
time to bring flowers. The patriarchs
-rf the town will come and ride drop the a tear marriage over
i worth Side by at
,, Hide by side in the long journey,
in their graves. After life’s
fitfll , fev * r thev slept well
But there are. as my subject suggests, do
mestic and scenes Potiphar not so tranquil their What cf>tnpanioiig, a curse
to Job were
to Ahxb was Jezebel, to Jehore.ni was Atha
liah. to John Wesley was Yrs. Wesley, to
Samson was Ibililsh. While the most excel¬
lent and triumphant exhibitions «»f character
we find among the worn^n of history, and the
world thrills with the names of Marie An¬
toinette and Josephine, end Joan of Arc ami
Maria Theresa and hundreds of others, who
have ruled in the brightest homes
and sung the sweetest cantos, and en¬
chanted the nations with their art and
swayed the mightiest of scepters.
ou the other hand the names of Mary the
First of England. Margaret of France, Julia
of Home and Elizalteth Petrowna of Russia
have scorched the eye of history with their
abominations, and their names, like banished
spirits, have gone shrieking and cursing
through the world. In female biography we
find the two extremes of excellence and crime
Woman stands nearest the gate of heaven or
nearest the d«>or of hell, When adorned by
grace she reaches a point of Christian eleva¬
tion which man cannot attain, ami when
blasted ot crime she sinks deeper than man
•an plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances
character in wnich woman comparatively makes utter shipwreck of
are rare.
do But, says those some words cynical in spirit, Ecclesiastes what do you
with where
Solomon says: “Behold, this have I found,
saith the preacher, counting one by one to
find out the actount; which yet my soul
seeketh, but I find not; one man among a
thousand have I found; but a woman among
all those have I not found?” My answer i>
that if Solomon had behaved himself with
common he decency and kept out had of infamous
circles would not have so much
difficulty in finding integrity of char¬
acter among women and never would
have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my
childhood I have heard speakers admiring
Diogenes, tub, the for cynical through philosopher who lived
in a going the streets of
Athens in broad daylight with a lantern,
and when asked what he did that for, said:
“1 am looking that for an philosopher honest man.” Now I
warrant that who had
such hard work to find an honest man w as
himself dishonest. 1 think he stole both the
lantern and t he tub. So, when I hear a man
expatiating immediately on the weakness him of women, I
suspect and say there is
another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom
left out. Still, 1 would not have the illus¬
trations I have given of transcending excel¬
lency in female biography lead you to suppose
that there are no perils in wo nan's pathway.
God’s gfaoo alone can make an Isabella
Graham, or a Christina AJsop, or a Fidelia
Fiske, or a Catherine of Siena. Temptations
lurk about the brightest domestic circle. It
was no unmeaning thing when G<xl sat up
imidst the splendors of His word the charac¬
ter of infamous Delilah
Again, this strange story of the text
leads me to consider some of tlio ways in
which strong men get their locks shorn. God,
for some reason best known to himself, made
the strength of Samson to depend on the
length his strength of his hair; when the shears clipped it
is variously was gone. distributed, The strength Some- of
men
times it lies in physical development,
sometimes in intellectual attainment,
sometimes in heart force, sometimes
in social position, sometimes in finan
cial accumulation; and there is always
a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every
day there are Samsons ungianted. I saw a
young man start in life under the most cheer¬
ing advantages. His acute mind was at
home in all scientific dominions. He reached
not only all rugged attainments, but by deli¬
cate appreciation he could catch the tinge of
the cloud and the sparkle of the wave and
the diapason of the thunder. He walked
forth in life head and shoulders above others
in mental stature. He could wrestle
with giants in opposing systems of philosophy
and carry off the gates of the opposing
schools and smite the enemies of truth hip
and thigh with great slaughter. But he be¬
gan to tamper with brilliant free-thinking.
Modern theories of the soul threw over
him their blandishments. Skepticism was
the Delilah that shore his locks off, and
all the Philistines of doubt aud darkness and
despair of were upon him. He died in a very
prison unbelief, his eyes out.
Far back in the country districts—just
where I purposely omit to say—there was
born one whose fame will last as long as
American institutions. His name was the
terror of all enemies of free government.
He stood, the admired of milieus; the nation
uncovered in his presence and when he spoke
at*** *at<hreatbles). under th* 8p»ff Th e
plotters against good government attempted
to bind him with green withes aud weave his
locks in a web, yet he walked forth from the
enthrallment, l>ond. But not knowing he had burst
a from the wine cup there
arose to a destroying his soul. spirit He that came forth
capture drank until his eyes
grew’ dim and his knees knocked together and
his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong
dissipations, he went home to die. Ministers
pronounced eloquent eulogiuins, and poets
sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors
chiseled the majestic form into marble, and
t he world wept, but every where it was known
that it was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah, and his locks were shorn.
From the island of Corsica there started
forth a nature charged with unparalleled en¬
ergies to make thrones tremble and convuls*
t he earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Ger¬
crush many, the Italy Austria and England rose up to
bayonet* Bastiles rising man. At the plunge of hi«
burst open. The earth
groaned with the agonies of Rivoli, Auster
litz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men
slain iu his wars. Crowns were showered at
his feet, aud kingdoms hoisted triumphal
arches to let him pass under, and Europe was
lighted up at the conflagration or con
suming cities. He could almost have
made a causeway of human bones be¬
tween Lisbon and Moscow. No power
short of omnipotent, (ted could arrest
him. But out of th e ocean of human blood
there arose a spirit in which the conqueror
found more than a match. The very 1C)
bit-ion that had rocked the world was now to
be his destroyer. It grasped for too much
and its efforts lost all. He reached up after
the scepter of universal dominion, but slipped
and fell back into desolation ami banish¬
ment. The American ship, damaged of the
storm, to-day puts up in St. Helena and the
crew go up to see the spot where the French
exile expired in loneliness and disgrace,
the mightiest of all Samsons shorn of his locks
Deiilahs. by ambition, that most merciless of all
I have not time to enumerate. Evil
are the names of of the shears CS
some with
which men are every day made powerless.
They have strewn the earth with the ear
casses of giants and filled the great prison
SaA shorn
and their eyes out. If parents onH
knew to what temptations their children
in were subjected they would he more earnest
their prayers and more careful about their
example. No young man escapes having the
pathway before of bin pictured in bright colors
him
The first time I ever saw a city—it was the
city of Philadelphia—I was a mere lad. i i
stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the
eventide a corrupt man plied me with his in
fernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted
the path of until it looked like HcpoUitod
sm emerald;
butl was afraid of him. I shoved back from
the basilisk. 1 made up my rS mind he hjs'^ir was a
basilisk. 1 remember
round in front of me and with a eontrated
and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my
stall; but there were good angels in the air
11 , T? S nn 8°od resolution on my
a wars! good O God That dehv^'me^wa^ 0 ^
yeungffl&n!
There is a way that seemeth right unto a
gathered S~Z t^v tlXZ
IX.UM be together would
make a host vaster than that which Xerxee
led across the Hellespont, trK than Timnur led
across Hyris; and if the v could be stretched
out in single vanguard file across this continent. I
think the of the host would stand
gu^the Kolthe ItSa^iT"
Isay this not because I expect to reclaim
any one that has gone astray in this fearful
path but bwause I want to uttera warning
who^ave
given themselves fully up to an impure life
are so few I have , probably you do not know one of
them. seen a good many start out on
the Not spell .sTthSfL^thLkoTu^ of death
as if is on them and no hu
man voice or the voice of God can break the
< ‘ th “i r
buncLl tw th'^waisb fa"
die of r.-ptilue at
tesinc them to an iron dome; every time
they breathe the forked tongues strike them
and they strain b) break away until the ten
dons snap and the blood exudes: and amidst
th»ir entortions they cry out: “Take me
back er? Take to my me father’s home! house Take Where home is r moth- j I
me
of Whl« a s™°h re ar a .. l" mg ^Wit^iet
me tell you to escape lest the shears of de- I
Struction take your moral and your spiritual I
integrity. Do you not see your sandals 1*
E2‘Z off the lieautifying r 2:tt& veil £5T, i
and the em
broidered mantle of this old nag of
iniquity, and I show you the ulcers j
and limbs the and partmg the wriggling jlints^and^the' ^uattoriteS
out. Oh, horror of horrors.' putrefaction, and I
cry In the still
ness of this Sabbath hour I lift a warning,
Remember it is much easier to form bed
habits than to get clear of them; in one
minute of time you may get into a sin from
wt ;ir h all tt‘vot™Mah eternity cannot get you out. |
drown cS'intotl
wavs of pleasantness and the pathes of peace
and by the grace of a pardoning God start
for thrones of honor and dominion upon
read m°a , Tang«'l"’ "to It"
grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn
and their eyes out. j
|
THE LONDON I
DOCKS.
Scene of the Big Strikes-A Great
Docking System.
The I no Donaon London «jOokg, do dra scene of f G tlie « great m-o I
strike, form probably tlie greatest dock
trae th^ a hund^nudiion dolFarahave |
been expended upon them, and they do
not yield direct profits to the dock com
panics Indirectly, proportionate to their great cost.
British however,they lielpto promote
commerce, and are in that way
profitable •fine’s to their owners. St. Katli
docks, the nearest to London
°P^f, d iu 18 " 8 a,ul <•-'
810,000,000. London docks . are still
older, having been opened in 1805.
They cost 320,000.000 and contain the
great warehouses for tobacco rented bv
the Government. The Suitcv docks
and Commercial docks are more spacious
and dcvoteil to the grain shipping trade.
The West India docks, opened in 1802,
cover 300 acres, and the East India
docks 32 acres. Milwall docks, in tlie
Isle of Dogs, cover 200 acres. But tha
great docks are tlie Victoria and Albert,
opened respectively in 1866 and 1880.
llio \ ictoria docks cover 200 acres and
->7 *»*• «i«wf f
Wa, silk, cochineal, carpet and other
produots of Hid a and China, is said to
825,000lw which DU T“m r i“oyafAlblrt U dLk!
is connected with tlie Victoria, is
the greatest of all, and its completion
in June, 1889, was made the occasion
for a royal celebration. This dock is a
splendid stretch of waterway almost
three miles in oxtent, with a range oi
more than a mile of iron warehouses,
and double lines of locomotive tracks
and numerous traveling cranes. Ti e
dock walls throughout are constructed
entirely made of Portland cement concrete,
and deposited in situ. The ag¬
gregate length of dock and passage
walls is 3[ miles. The walls are 40 feet
high, 5 feet thick at the t->p, and from
18 to 19 feet thick at the base, and used
up in their construction 500,000 cubic
yards of of concrete, representing 80,000
ton Portland cement. Tlnee thousand
workmen, 600 or 700 wagons, seventeen
or eighteen locomotive engines, three
steam “navvies’’ and a great cpmntity
of minor machinery of various kinds had
been engaged from 1875 until the sum¬
mer of 18S0 in the construction of this
magnificent system of docks—a work
compared with which tlie building oi
the pyramids, with modern appliances,
would have been no very s gnnl feat.
unload Railway trains from every vessels; company can
straight into catt e are
driven aboard, tlie railway platforms
and being level with the receiving docks,
merchandise tlie largest possible weights of
are lifted bv hydraulic
cranes that travel from shed to shed
with singular facility. Tiie dock is
lighted with el tv trie lamps, and tlie
enormous sheds and warehouses are so
constructed that they can be opened
out from end to end.—[Philadelphia
Ledger.
Frog Farming is Profitable.
Tlie consumption of frogs’ hind quar¬
ters is rapidly extending in the large
cities. Tlie use of frogs’ flesh as food
is quite common in European countries,
where the rearing of these animals for
the Heire, purpose far the is a supply profitable is drawn industry. from
so
occudontal sources, the meadows being
sco fired by men and boys armed with
liaiiq nets, who capture the lively and
agil prey. But the supply is being
rapidly exhausted, and the price is
gradually increasing from so Canada, ns to draw large
consignments where at
present the New York and Boston mar¬
kets get the larger part of their stock.
Consequently some considerable interest
is Vicing excited iu regard to the project
of rearing frogs as a business. This is
done frog farms in France quite and Germany, where
meadow are be numerous. -d Aliy
swampy may turn to this
light, use, being low ditched and fenced with a
board fence to restrain the
edible frogs from wandering. Tlie European
frog will probably be imported
to supply the demand before long, but
in the meantime our common and be ail
tifnlly-marked meadow frog, and our
bullfrog, size especially large, both as to
and voice, serve the purpose, and
are accepted as equally tender and pula
table as the Itana esculent# of Europe.
By supplying the frogs with suitable
food, which they find in abundance iu
damp meadows aud spring-water pools,
and especially in slow, shallow brooks
and clear ponds where acoustic vege
Ifr and < ’' as,1 isablmdaat v feared, ’ and tte by stock affording is cheaply pro
Schott . . and their and
to the frogs eggs
j production young from fish, minks, and ducks, the
will be enormous. Our
American climate is especially favorable
t0 the ra P ld growth of the frog, as the
! 1varm summer enables the tadpoles to
mature the growth in one season, bo
! coming large enough for use the second
teason.— [New York Times,
1
i w W xr o Smttit, the i leader i Of tlie r Oon- »v
servative party in the English House flowers, of
Commons, is extremely fond of
' and in his hot-houses lie finds employ*
niont for 11 thirlv rwxrsmis " while nile his Ill! > ev
- particular fancy
U 1" )U thm
am °nnte to several thousand pounds a
2 ear - His father was a poor newspaper
bov, holes ” who at times peddled daily jon “ butt unit in¬
as well as the in
the London atree’s. He lo t bis son a
‘ fo / tune aad lar K'^' newspaper
selling business m the wor d.
MINI) RRAT)l\(r A i l ^
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kt UPLVI ATlO* OF HOW IT I*
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Make Excel Jent Operators.
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'<7^ **y* » writer tn the Chicago &
"era&f, “does not effect the nervous
system more than other intellectual call
A ‘ thoUfI h *>» cl ^ made “ «. r *
culars °‘ . mind readers
prominent are, in
ver Y lar t? e exaggerations of the pos
abilities of their performances, and, as
,U< h ’ are P rol,ilt,1 v beyond the power -of
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aD y mail to accomplish, nevertheless, the
w ork nmv be varied in form as indefinite
ly ns the performer's brain is fertile of in
eu
"Before „ attempting . the performance,
the essential condition should be linmis
‘ ao8t ' wao ‘"2 sre VTl t° take ke^rt^ part that ^ the per- °'
son to be led to the secreted article must
concentrate the mind hi.lden upon the unti^thst place
wWe thearHcie is
^ ^ eel1 reached by the mind
reader ^ and himself, and then
upon the article itself. TiTis
mental concentration should be required
88 c °nstantly as possible to the end. If
the mind-reader fails, from the very
nature of the work, the fault lies with
U*e subject, ...... for he must succeed ... if ,, the
subject fairly complies with this single
condition. However, there occasionally
ma { b * f ° Und ttn incapable of
prolonged or even brief mental concen
(ration, because of great troubles, loss of
fortune, or ill health and other causes.
“ ^ possible, t jeCt as " t° the uld accomplishment alwa . y ? b * or the
trick with them is exceeding improbable,
if not altogether impossible. It follows,
‘ hen - that the best minds available should
always be chosen. The mind-reader has
then nothing to do but to establish phys
ical contact between himself and his sub
i ec U nn< ^ after starting a motion of his
b ! K ^ ', n an y direction quietly surieniler
himself to the mvolunbiry muscular
leading of his subject, when he will find
h imStlf ‘ C f nncousciously to the proper
, BC0 ' ^ ln ' ost physical contact will
sufficient, although Brown s method
°* P* ac i n g hack of the subject s hand
to his forehead is probable the best, be
cause the most impressive.
"When you have the back of the sub
ject’s hand to your forehead, start a
*"^2 motion around, and go in the
direction you find it easiest for the sub
(ect and yourself to move- Vou ao and vou
wH " U1 he “eieu led to ro tne the place place, n rf you lead leaanim h m
a ,1^ rC n dirccrion than the one lie is
J blnl£in u 8 of , ’ y° u wiu ^"d more resistance
® 0 T^“§ m °f bs ba ' ) '' 0 ^
helpful, ! ) l , rK ! bl dl because ?' , w R it ot presents e6Sen tial, the although
appear
nnce reader of rendering the work of the mind- |
more difficult, while it really as
him in being passive to the leadings
his subject, as it shuts out from his ,
all exterior directions. The body
«> «»a «»j ^ »
^ mor especiHv X Snce, ofthebody thLk ofTn
if vou
^ eCt .' m will 5 ™' be r righbaccompanyingtiuit u slight motion of the
body in the same direction Then place
y° ur m,nd u P on 80me other ob J ect In
the opposite or any other direction, and
will go the body accordingly. The
natural law of mutual dependence be
mind and matter—or habit of htrr
of action between the brain and
body, or man or beast—is the secret
of the whole mind-reading. It
follows that all the mind-reader has
to do is simply to observe carefully the
action of the muscles of his subject's
hand against his forehead and follow in
the direction indicated by the subject’s
muscles; and he will find himself led un¬
mistakably toward the place upon which
the subject’s mind is conSfcntrated. Hav¬
ing reached the place, the mind-reader
will feel around with one hand until the
secreted article is found, and as soon as
his hand touches it—although he has no
previous knowledge of its nature—he will
recognize it instinctively, for his subject
has unconsciously imparted such informa¬
tion by the relaxation of his muscles. As
mind, unlike matter, is indivisible, or in
other words, as it is impossible for a
person’s mind to be iu two places at the
tame time, it is plainly to be seen that if
the subject honestly concentrates his
mind upon the article hidden he cannot
discover the fact that he is leading the
so-called mind-reader, instead of being
ed himself. It is quite obvious, from
the foregoing explanation, that instead of
the mind-reader being the operator and
leading the subject, as is generally sup¬
posed, he is himself led by the subject;
hence the mind-reader is the subject and
the subject the operator. To sum it uj>
in very few words, the mind-reader ‘must
ollow the least resistance.’
“Ladies, owing to their delicacy of
ouch, make excellent operators. None
of them have become prominent in the
profession in this country, but a number
abroad have. In conclusion I will give
in instance of how a lady betrayed her
iffection in mind-reading. At a picnic,
ittended by a number of good friends,
vhere all the amusements had been ex
iiiusted, I was asked to give a test in
uind reading. Selecting^ lady who, I
hought, possessed great powers of con
-entrating her mind, I requested her to
hink of the one she loved best, and I,
dindfolded, would lead her to him,
'he laughingly agreed, and being blind
olded, I commenced iqv search. She
ed me around the circle several times,
eading me each time to a person whom
he should have loved the best, but each
ime there was a wavering which con
inced me that this was not the person.
Yfter much hesitancy on my part as to
what the result might be we at last
stopped iu front of an old and dear
friend of the lady, who- she designated as
the one thought of, much to the surprise
of the company. She afterward ac¬
knowledged that it was almost impossi¬
ble for her to keep the first person out of
her thoughts, which accounted for her
indecision.”
Why the Romans HadfSuperioi' Mortar.
The superior quality of the mortar
used by the ancient Romans was not due
>o much to the quality of the materials
used in its composition as to-the'mode of
making it. The sand was screened and
then stored in large pits, where it re¬
mained protected from the weather un
til wanted. The lime wastsliflted at least
one year before using, andikqk dry until
mixed with the sand and water. The
best mortar was made of one part pure
ime, one part brick dust, and two parts
■ ■lean river sand. When hydraulic mortar
was required, the Romans substituted
puzzeiana in place of brick?dnst. This
puzzolana is a volcanic product which
forms hills of considerable extent to the
southwest of the Appeniaee, in tSe dis
trict of Rome, the Pontine:marshes. and
in the Neapolitan region of Puzzuala,
whence the name. Our great haste in
building tends to rapidly decay.—Aric
York Sun.
We exported lastly ear more petroleum*
than ever before—ti 12,000,000 gaikm*
«f the estimated value of $-49,4^817, J
Irrigation.
in what part of tha wark.
itu,oaOgaUocs are made they aii r»uK in
the discovery that irrigation is a very an
event art and that it w« practiced by the
former nations of the ^rth on a m^t
magnificent scale. Mr. Rich whose rest
dence at the court of Bagdad, with the
powerful protection of the Pasha, afford
him tVCT * f iUt * for comprehensive
investigation, describes the whole coun
try around the ruins of Babylon, a dis
tanre of forty-eight miles, as’a perfectly
flat and uncultivated waste, but states
that it is erident from the number of
j I by which it is traversed that it
Irmst i^, pn f ormfcr l v we ll cultivated.
* M. Jules Oppert has succeeded in making
1 ; a 0 f minute surveys and in drawing
„ deta ji ed p i ans G { the immense citv.
His op i n i on j. that even the largest ca‘l
cu i a t, 0 ns as to its vast extent are not
exaegerated; and he puts down that extent
j Hlt he ^toni-hino „,uare'kilometer figure of 500 square kilo
meters, t ,i.„ the square Kilometer being ocmg 1196 x*.
square yards. This is very nearly
eighteen times the size of Paris. This
rIJ0rm0U3 area however, was not all
huge ' « U P icd tracts ' U of ““R cultivated ^^ lands and gar
dens a n 0 { w hich were irrigated from
2^358?^of'tyard, the Eunhrates Ninevah, too, under the
has been
s hown to have contained a network of
negating canals many of them cut out
n r .y,- sf) i: d
Scattered over the now deserted por
t j ons 0 f Arabia, Syria, and other portisns
0 f Asia are the enduring traces of im
mense meum ayawuis systems m of furnishing imuaiuug an ““ artificial
water supply. In the former country, in
one i oca fity the remains of a reservoir
fonned by / a dam no less than two miles
]ong by 20 {eet in heighti with its ac
eompanying vast net work of ditches,
s b ow to what an extent this work was
ot the niagtificent canals in the
pmjj a h system that have aow converted
that section o{ India into a luxuriant
jr arden are the old ruined canals of tor
mer d , nastic . 8i repaired and enlarged,
M mentions of irrigating canals are
found ^ the annalsof Akbar’s reign. As
pariy a , the fourte entb century Feroz
g b ah had a large canal dug to bring
water from the mountains to Hissar and
Shahsie. Akbar found this canal in
nl ; n „ . nd nass ^paired _ d , la r -_..i «,. t » order ini?
it to be and enlarged, so th»t
jungle in which subsistence is ob
Gained with thirst, be converted into a
pi ace 0 f comfort free from all evil.” So,
bag b ecn found that the most
profitable irrigating canals in India are
those which have been carried along the
beds (d tbe anc j en t works
The Moors were great well-diggers, and
wereevnerts ' vercex P« rts in m the th e irrisratimr irrigating art art in in au all its us
form ! 8 <, careful were tliey m nm.itain
mg tbe K de tails of their system that
they kept in public offices bronze models
o{ tbeir dams and sluices as guides for re
pairs f and rebuilding. They carried the art
n to Spain and Sicily, just as Egypt taught
^ g y T j a nIld Babylon, Carthage and Phoe
n ; c jn and 60 b y gradual degrees to
Greece and ft orae . The Lombard Kings
f 0 n ow ing the Roman practice, cncour
a d and extended irrigation in Italy,
,“UZ u „,i t *v,o „ r i ovipnOrd S5S5
’ rri L Ta f:V a "dwhen theSpamards con
T' Uc^SnftKiJ’Ty the
satne mcans that the Moors had taught
them .—Sau Francisco Chronicle.
Pueblo Indians of Now Mexico.
By far tbe most interesting inhabit
ants of the heart of New Mexico are th«
Pueblo Indians. As to their origin, much
has been, and more may be, surmised.
According to the traditions of the wise
men, their forefathers came from the
great mountains and lakes far to the
northward ages upon ages ago. Fables
aud myths are interwoven with what
may be legends founded upon fact; but
the troth is difficult to separate from fic¬
tion. Their myths seem to refer to fami¬
lies rather than to entire tribes, and they
are so strongly colored with imagery as
to be susceptible of almost any interpre¬
tation. At first sight the temptation to
connect the Pueblos directly with the
ancient cliff-dwellers is very strong.
Numerous ruined towns and villages,
once belonging to this curious people,
occur within the regions now occupied by
the Pueblos. Every one has heard oi
the old stone houses, half hidden, in al¬
most inaccessible nooks, on the steep faces
of high bluffs, or built against rocky walls,
much like the mud nests of swallows.
Less well known are the cave dwellings,
which afforded shelter to probably the
same people at a later period. In some
huge cliff of sandstone they hollowed out
communicating caverns of various dimen¬
sions. Access from the outside was
gained through low, narrow doers.
Round or square openings in the rock
wall served as windows and supplied
MffW 1 an d air. At favorable points sev
® ra ^ stories of such caves may be found
‘ [1 the same bluff. From these safe but
dungeon-like habitations the cliff-dwell
ere issued f °rih to their daily avocations,
The y were not a war-like race, but re¬
mained on the defensive. Whence they
came is a matter of much obscurity.
Recent investigation in Arizona by Cush¬
ing seems to make it probable that they
were descendants of that great and pros¬
perous nation which built large towns in
the valleys of mighty rivers, which had a
most highly developed civilization, and
which was eventually scattered and psrtly
destroyed, possibly by the effect of earth¬
quakes, and subsequent ravages of
nomadic Indians.— Harper's T Yeekhj.
A Remedy for Insomnia.
A writer in the St. Louis Glohe-Demo¬
crat says: The abuse of the eye is the
crime of the age. I am prepared to dem¬
onstrate that at least nine-tenths of the
prevailing sleeplessness of which we hear
so much is due to nervousness directly
traceable to the optic nerve, We are
wearing our eyes out over books and
desks and types, and the effect shows it¬
self not only in the appearance of the
organ itself but in its retroactive effect
on nerve ai;d brain. I have discovered
a remedy for sleeplessness, and for the
reason I have never known it to fail I am
fortified in my opinion that the whole
trouble arises from the overstrain of the
eyes. Take a soft cloth—say a piece of
napped towel—and ice distance fold in it two 6mall
pieces af at a apart to ex¬
actly cover the eyes when the cloth is
laid across them. Then lie down, adjust
the cloth with the ice over the closed
eyes and you will be asleep in a very
short while.
The Care of Umbrellas.
| Umbrellas should be placed handle
downward to dry. The moisture falls
from the edges of the frame, and the fab
nc dries uniformly. If stood handle up
ward, as is commonly the case, the top of
the umbrella holds the moisture, owing
i to the lining underneath the ring, and it
takes a long time to dry, thereby injur
i a g the silk or other fabric with which it
. is covered. This is the main cause of the
umbrella wearing out so goon at the top.
Umbrella cases are responsible for the
wear of the silk. The constant friction
cause tiny holes to appear so provokinglv
eariv. When not in use the umbrella
should be left loose, and when wet left
loose to dry.— Meat Outfitter.
The United States purchased 1819. Florida
from Spain, February
SABBATH SCHOOL.
mnuriw.it «•*>*
I.rmnmn Text |*1 *. ’The Ark ’ ISrs»«zht »®
Zion, 2 SuwaeJ xi, |-12-«-oU*a Text
IV lxxxrii—t ®uimentor*.
David t«ng now King orerall Iwael, aid
having taken lli—tmnaholdof the JebusitM.
which up to this time had been » continued of
disgrace in thair midst, he at once thinks
the Ark of God. pitches a Mot for it *n
Jerusalem it. 17) and Israel, proceeds to bring it
thither As soon as redeemed trum
Egypt and brought down to Mt Sinsl,
entered into a covenant with Jehovah toba
H E “ StsttaSTrS: might dwell in
to t«- ended, in which He
their midst as their King and lawgiver
jtrisaarsaS’sa^s tas
essential to a right understanding of this
lesson. ’
1 "Again, David gathered together all the
•chosen -----------' men <«f Israel; thirty thousand. closing The of (
previous chapter tells iu its verses
the gathering of Israel to defeat their ene- j
mies the Philistines, and how David, on two j
different occasions and by different methods, j
successfully overcame them, bein^ (chap. guided 19- by >
the Lord in answer to prayer v„ j
33); but this is a gathering the not Lord; to overcome aud it
enemies, but to rejoice in 1
was held after due consultation with the
captains of thousands and hundreds aud
every leader (I Chr. xui , 1-5.)
2. "And David arose, and went with all
the people * * * to bring up from them*
the Ark of God.” The margin of this verse,
and also I Chr. xiii., 6, says that they went
to Baalah, that is, to Kirjatb-jearim; theark
iiad been here in the house of Abtaadab sinre
their calves shut up at home It had been
with nacle the being Philistines at seven Shiloh, months, from the whence Taber- | ;
the ark had Vhe Loref been Soste (I Sam. J
the Name of of thS'rfttoth
upon the cherubim.” <R. V.) Here is the
most intimate association of the Ark with
the name of Jehov ah; it is a wondrous type the
of the Lord Jesus Christ as the end of
U.veth(£fm U x >U Lrif oUTmercy sit or 5.
propitiation for sins (compare Heb. ix.,
and Horn. iii.. 25, R. V. margin!; and as one
with His church, the light and glory of earth
in the days of the New Jerusalem. The
woodand'gold are suggestive of the human. is
itr and iliviuity of Christ; the mercy seat
explained by the passages already given; the
tables of testimony, safely kept in the Ark,
speak of Him who came to fulfill ail right
eousness, and of whom it is written: “I da
thought snsawtsr^i’catic that the cherubim represent the
church, His body, is sufficiently established
by the faetthat they were beaten out of the
same pieces of gold which formed the mercy
S t cart.” ‘ Am*they^etTth(?Ark David failed o, inquire God upon of the a
new to
Lord in this matter, else we should not have
had this sad record. He knew better, for
hear him: “Then David said, none ought to
carry the ark of God but the Levites. for
them liath the Lord chosen to carry the Ark
of God, and to minister unto Him forever (I 1
Chr. xv., 2). Why then did he not do didn’t right :
at the first * Some of us would say, I
think, or it didnt seem necessary to pray ; |
about so small a matter; there was no dan
ger. you know; it wasn't like going to war
with the enemy, just going over toKirjath- j
jearim i to tiring the Ark of Jerusalem, and il |
‘ c » ,l ‘ e a » r i? ht i na new cart from the
Philistines, Jerusalem? why not David bring . it in a new cart
to So had to learn by
chastisement that God’s appointed wayisthe
only way, ami that Ho will not tolerate any
"new cart business” among His redeemed
people. ... ^yLdtf >
David and 5u thTtouSoTlsrae®
fore the Lord on all manner of instruments.”
It was a grand display and in a good cause,
and the man who would dare to find fault,
simply because the Ark was in a cart drawn
byoxeu instead of being on the shoulders of
the Levites, would deserve to be called nar
row minded and a croaker; nevertheless he
would Stand in the minority with God, aud
be a blessed man even though against the
t> ‘Uzzah T put forth his baud to the Ark , of
God,and took hold of it: for the oxen stum
bled' 'Marvin tie and R VI Thewnrst.stnm
ble was on part of David when he em
ployed this method, but that was not so
sP %£“ appea/aV'flrrt,"ilndthfsinls ”~f
not often always made manifest only through failure
on
the part of those not directly responsible.
7. “The anger of the Lord was kindled
“<1
Strength Lord is is a dependent good thing, but the work of the
not upon the strength of
men; His strength is made perfect in our
meekness, and His work is accomplished not
by the might 01 power of man but by xh.. the
Spirit of the Lord of Hosts (II Cor. 9
nech. iv., 6). In reference to the sin of
Uzzah it is written in Num iv 15 20 that
the high priest and his sons were to prepare
the holy vessels to be carried, and that the
sons of Kohath, who carried them, were not
to touch them, nor even upoif go in to seewhen
they Uzzah were covered, pain of death;
in taking hold of the Ark disobeyed
this command, as did also the men of Beth
sbemesh (I Sam. vi., 19); although there
seems to have been some reason for Uzzah’s
act, and there was none whatever for them.
Learn that there can be no excuse for disobe¬
dience.
8. “And David was displeased.” It is a
sad affair when the servant of the Lord, be
he King or peasant, becomes displeased with
h’s Master. It shows how disobedience al¬
ways leads to other sins and strikes at the
very Love root of do fellowship with God. by A God of
can no wrong, can no means
make a mistake, and the only right thing for
His children to do is to walk with Him in
cheerful submission.
9. “And David was afraid of the Lord that
day.” Another result of his sin, which pray¬
er and obedience would have saved him
from.
10. 11, “The Lord blessed Obed-edom, and
rll his household.” David refused at that
time to have anything more to do with the
Ark, Obed-edom, and so it was carried into the house of
where it remained three months.
A three months’ blessing for Obed-edom and
a three months’ loss to David, for the infer¬
ence is that David did not return to the Lord
with all his heart during this period, but con
tinued out of fellowship with God.
12. “So David went and brought lip the
Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom
into the city of David with gladness.” He
hears of the blessing that has come to the
house of Obed-edom, and now does what ho
should have done three months before. He
confesses his sin, saying to the Levites, as he
called upon them to bear the Ark: “Because
ve did it not *t the first the Lord our God
mane a oreacn upon us, lor that we sought
Him not after the due order.” But now the
Levites having sanctified themselves, hare
the Ark of God upon their shoulders, with
the staves thereon, as Moses commanded, ac¬
cording to the Word of the Lord (I Chr. xv.,
l'^15). Learn the blessedness of strict obedi¬
ence and learn also that were Jesus is re¬
ceived and honored in a heart, or home, or
church, His blessing will be there, others will
see or hear of it and seek Him for themselves.
—Lesson Hdrier.
Causes of Bathing Accidents.
In summing up the causes for so many
bathing accidents, a writer in the Analyst
concludes that most of them are mainly
or able. entirely Chief personal, and so far prevent¬
among these is cramp. To
a large extent this is practically identi¬
cal with fatigue, for it is not the fresh
and vigorous musele which most readily
passes into spa-m. It is that which is
wearied with overaction, in which effete
products are in excess, nutrition conse¬
languid; quently impaired, all molecular changes
of contraction, where, finally, initiated, the movement
but slowly, and onee tends gives way anil
to linger
becomes tetanic.
The numbing influence of cold is
another well-known obstacle to muscular
activity, and for this reason it is not, as
a rule, advisable to remain more than a
few minutes iu the water. Malnutrition
of muscles is a factor which ought not
to lie forgotten. It supplies a reason
why bathing very soon after a meal is
not advisable, much of the blood
required diverted for muscular exertion being
then to the digestive i rgans.
So likewise must it impose a check upon
the rashness of these, adult and youth
alike, who, after a period of town tliem’- life,
with litt'e physical exercise, find
selves at the coast, and insist on trying
whether with jaded energies they
canuot safely accomplish feats of swini
tning.
In New Zealand, where rabbits are a
great pest, they are poisoned with malt,
sown in furrows, as turnip seed would be
sown; they feed at dusk and in the early
morning.
The World'* Wheat.
-
The earlier expectations regarding
JySSSSfcLito'iS s^-wssfis. ft:; |
[ion journal which lias given careful atfcen
to the sub ect believes that the I
harvest will amount to 496,000.000
bushels (333,000,000 winter and 165,- ■
000,000 spring wheat;, as compared with
415,868,000 bushels in 1887- 88 and with
aeg’*^ ’ J*o,.ta 000 bushels in 1886-W. in the United If re- i
»er\e sto ' 0 f wheat
States are about onnnnnfln 20,000,000 bushels busuels
than they were one year ago, as ;
) ms been estimated, and visible stocks
^ aboTe 1 13,000,000 bushel-*, less the | j
33,000.000 total a. ficieuey bushels of about as compared 30,0(^000 with or
one vear ago, is offset here by more than j
•
->.« T a., -tjaww -wu. j
tion, estimates that the net export j
surplus” of American wh at “for the
ne „ ,.^ r c ft l year looks, therefore, like
. t>e • 8 ’ 320 ’, 000 bushels, as compared
with 94,920,000bushels, , , >. which appeals
quite likely. A recent estimate Of the
increased aud of the decreased quanti
of wliea t grown this vear, compared
with ... , la8t, . lsas follows, Increase—United increase
States, 82.000,0o0; Canada, 8,000,000,
England and France, 32,000,000, and in
Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland, and
Algeria, » • 32,090,000 bushels; lWreakes—Russia in all 154,
0OV^° , bushels. , Lieci eases itussia,
72,000.000, Hungary, 36,000,000. Rou
mania, 8,000,000; Germany, 8,000,000;
India, 18,000,(0), and Argentine Chili, 24,000,- P.e
pu blic, Australasia, and
fvr bushels. b ^’- This, a if f tota verified, v f will l ,f- point 000> t T to
a decreased output of about 12,000,000
bushels in the country named, which,
j rn( , should be construed, taking the
through, in favor of the United
States, ns they have grown over 80,000,
000 bushe's more wheat than a year ago,
and at least 45,000,000 bushels more for
export, even after supplying 1ms all deficien- I
cie3 in the reserves. As been pointed
out, during July few important negotiated. autumn :
export contracts satisfied were situation, !
France was with the
Germanv v.ermany UOUOtlUl, doubtful AUStl Austria-Hunirarv la rtunt,ury
inure s0 >. ^ la shipments wei o hght,
Klissift Cllu not ship freely, and tlie
United States were enacting the role of
Mieawber. Our export surplus is large,
al ,d tlie Focific States, as in the past,
•»««<. •*„<«*■
satisfied to sell, and three months from
now arrivals out of Pacific Coast wheat
may bo found to have some influence on
tlia wor ld’s markets irrespective Chicago.-[Biud- of the
,?t New York or
sweets.
Women Who Buy Men's Hats.
It .— not . perhaps , just . tlie .. thing .. .
is in
point of good manners and social eti
quetie to allow a woman to wait while
u attoud to tbe wantg of a man •> Bai( i
J , , i i tlm other dav “Hut
a local Hat , dealer the other day. Hut
when a woman comes in to buy a hat for
a child of one of the late ‘man’s st*aw
hat fad ’ and a masculine comes iu be
hind her wo always wait on him fiist.
W ” hv< '‘. V f Well Well, for lor varioua various rnanons reasons. Tbn 1 lie
man as a rule buys a hat costing him all
the way from $3.25 to 35, while the
woman seldom wants more than 82 worth
of a hat. Then again it. is easier and
“ ore ^tisfactory to try to sell hats to a
dozen men than try to get a woman to
invest §1.75 in a straw hut for herself
or 75 cents in head gear for a child,
They will come in with one or two
friends -- continued the loquacious 1
dealer, ,, mid , try , on about , , every , hat . in .
the store before tlioy decide to take the
first they Then, looked at, or the decide imagine to go else
where. after they
v.,.„ hBVe ’ cteil the Lest be8t and allU most mOSt Leonni euom
HP T P
Stvie, , anil they are generally ., very
sure to do tha*, they put it down and
take up another with, * Now, Julia, 1
rL 1 " w2 T "K ”tZS
folIow « an a,limated discussion, broken
side by various matters lapses till the into hat comments clerk begins on out- to
grow dizzy. He has not been used to
that sort of thing, poor fellow till within
«‘ e lfts ‘ two seasons, and it wears on
Inm. The wornau about to purchaso a
hat for Jobume is a bother, but she does
not become such an unmitigated nuis
ftI10e as the woman buying P a bat for her-
86 t i ? e th 1110 r .?? Ior mpn n i 0n * 8 8 i Jiats infq
“*
the fair . will disappear,
among sex soon
I do not wonder that dry goods clerks
and those who have constantly to min
iofp 8t r L tn a woman vairnrieH are buhl bald '
beaded.-[New l v York Star.
Voluntary Scavengers.
Tbe city of Omaha, Nebraska, has in
its service a force of thousands of scav¬
engers who draw no pay, report to no
official, but are protected by law from
molestation. They are the crows, who
flock into town as soon as cold weather
comes, ish in the stayduriug spring. the winter, and van¬
they alight Collecting here in small
groups, and there on
tne tree tops and survey the back yards
and alleys until they can pick out forag¬
ing places. Then they descend, and in
short order the remains from breakfasts,
the scraps of meat form markets, and the
ruts killed by household dogs and rats,
are gobbled up. Some crows do scav¬
enger work about tbe residences. Oth¬
ers alight cautiously in the alleys, and
others are attracted to the stock yards
and packing houses.
A Stock Model.
A firm of enterprising bootmakers have
hit on a novelty in the advertising lino
which must possess irresistible attraction
for every genuine snob. They announce
“best boots and shoes at ready-money
prices, lowing made on selected lasts of the fol¬
gentlemen, perfect feet only hav¬
ing been chosen for stock models.”
Then follows a list of the owners of these
perfect feet in assorted sizes, including a
distinguished collection of eminent
names. This arrangement has the dou¬
ble advantage that any one going to this
establishment has a chance of being
chosen as a stock model, and finding his
nano enshrined on this roll of fame as
owner of a perfect pair of feet.- Waver
ly's Magazine,
An Absorbing Amusement.
Pigeon flying is growing to be an ab¬
sorbing larly amusement in England, particu¬
among the Birmingham laborers.
The spread of the sport has developed
quite a new branch of railway traffic. It
is the practice of flyers to'send their
birds in baskets, nddressed to the station
master at a particular station, with the
request that he release them, mark on a
label the time that they were released
and return the basket. This request is
like regularly granted. The officials rather
the work. In cloudy weather port¬
ed have been known to feed birds for
three days before s< tting then, free.
The trouble with people nowadays is
they give too much attention to the ex¬
terior, to the detriment of the interior.
They think more of the sack than they
do of the grain. Tlie consequence is,
there is much poor grain parading in
fine sacks.
‘*1** the Italij Cry."
1“ the old mining days a child
*ce i/**
*J™ :11 W,'" ber S ltd
g. CI y- J tajn t heard fuch a
The audience sto‘ appu d
the orchestra pr< thi.
baby continued its pcrfoim ,
unbounded enthusiasm, *atid
JL r ' ERT m aa . bas natural
a iBclir
to communicate . what he knows ts*
hedcesnotdoso.it is sinm. - ar.l t-i,
' 1^,’“ ® plyb 1
fcj reason and judgment is • strong "‘Je 1
to control his inheient c ,- 1(
' propensity,
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ihe manufacturers of ii r
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caasfsas'ssfeiSs i&'raasKT'^trs
ea^e, vilt-rhe m. scrofulous sows’
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evorj Dr. bsge’g boffr Cata wffthfyoarViffenBive^bri-at^ rrh Remedy ei? 1 *
and liL
One Rtronir. well directed blow send,
nail truer to its home than . ?
taps. One fit and do a dozenco.,
wefffht than eamfst word carries nir
does a yard of high tlj»n
queuce, ta>
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Sarah Bernhardt.
is coming to America, »ml great will | v , ^
(nthnsiasm aroused sinongst her a-lru rsn.
Rut, who we have will our own bright star. Mar? a b ?J,
ton, continue to bear off the Palm ia
tbe dramatic, as dots Lttcy Hinton ln t i~
great tobacco world.
Oregon, (be I'luadlne of Faring
Mild, equable climate,certain andabundint
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Old smokers prefer “Tnnsill’s Punch” rin r
Weak Women
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,.j hsTa b6en fl)r yean) (0 gH LeJi
terrible general debility and weakueau so warn
to women, within a year i have taken ten t«
twelve bottles ot Hood’s Sarsaparilla and the ben*,
fit derived from Its use has been very great. I id
now feeUng like a new creature.”—Mas. F. n. Eg*
Marlin, Texas.
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