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A 9,000-pound mass of tin ora was re
cently exhibited at a smelting works in
New York. It was taken out of a 29-
foot vein in the now well-known Etta
tin mine, in the Black Hills. The speci
men will be sent to London for the bene
fit of those British tin-mine owners who
have So complacently watched our here
tofore unsuccessful search for the metal.
M. Charles Girard, chemist, of Paris,
recently amused himself by investigation
of the ingredients of a beautiful red
currant jelly, charmingly put up for ex
port to the United States. There was
not an atom of fruit in the mass, as was
demonstrated by the adding to it of me
thylated alchohol, which would have
turned it green had it oontainedany fruit
acid. It was found to consist of gelatine,
sweetened with glycerine residue, col
ored with pichsine (a poisonous mineral
extract) and flavored with no one knows
what.
Referring to the purpose of the Audu
bon Society to prevent bird-destruction
a correspondent of Forest and Stream
says: ‘ ‘As the country became cleared
of timber and more thickly inhabited,
the birds have been destroyed in large
numbers and insects have gained the as
cendency. There are birds worn by our
oity belles that alive would accomplish
wxae good work for mankind than the
average fashionable belle, although she
lived for a century. The eyes and beaks
of these dead birds cry out in shame
against the cruel fashion that causes their
slaughter/]
An English agricultural journal serious
ly Urges that in time of abundant and
cheap wheat it should be purchased in
large quantities by the Government, and
stored away in public Jgranaries, in order
to insure the country at least one year’s
supply in any contingency. “It argues,”
says the American Cultivator, “that
the home food production in Great Brit
ain is now so very deficient that, in case
of war, prices would go up at a bound
and cause terrible distress among the
people before a source of supply could
be developed. This measure, involving
the purchase of grain for storage, might
relieve the market so much as to change
the present agricultural discontent in
England, and put an end to the demand
for protection; but it really reminds us
of the historic time in Egypt when .Joseph
laid up grain in tbfe years of plenty to
erve for food in' the years of famine.”
—— .— =-w
rcording to a statement of the United
Potters’ Association there are
ITS kilns in operation, not includ-
thosc employed in turning out deco-
:d pottery, of which there is a large
|iber. The number of employes is
;hly estimated at about 15,000, and it
fairly be assumed that not less than
0 derive their means of subsistence
this source. The total of capital
ested in the business is supposed to be
at less than $8,000,000, two-thirds of
lrich is absorbed in plant, the wages
amount to $4,000,000 or $5,000,000
aually, and $8,000,000 worth of goods
aade. The chief centres of the trade
N. J., and East Liverpool,
tublishments more or less ex-
be found in more than a
daces.
ban Exhibition building for
^very ingeniously contrived
Like Solomon's Temple,
the various parts will arrive ready to be
• fitted into each other without noise or
confusion, and the structure will arise
; fairy like. Its component parts are
t made to fit any section, and will be bolt-
jed together without the slightest friction.
!No skilled labor, indeed, it is said, will
tie required in its erection. The cast
iiVon chair will rest on 700 stout iron
pi^sts, sunk in deep beds of concrete.
■]1iis will be firmly secured and bolted,
and upon it will rest the wall plates.
Upon these will be lifted the whole of
the main rafters, previously bolted to
gether. The roof is to be of six spans,
the largest extending to sixty feet: The
rafters, pillars and girders are all of iron.
It is intended to erect a press pavilion,
an Atlantic cable office, an electric eleva
ted railway and reproductions of the
frontages of the more remarkable public
buildings and institutions in the United
States. \ _
A (Washington correspondent speaking
of t lf,e late Mrs. Benjamin F. Brewster,
explains how she, a very attractive wo
man, (happened to marry so notoriously
plain a man:, Both had been married be
fore, she to /.Frenchman and he to a
Russian lady. When widowed, the only
thing left lieiAby her husband was three
children, whom Brewster adopted as his
own. Site was entirely without means,
though of excellent family, that she ob
tained a positioi i in the treasury for self-
support. 8lie w as there when the Phila
delphia lawyer, having occasion to call
at the department, passed her desk and
overheard her 11 mark: “That is the
ugliest man I have, ever seen.” Turning
to her, and bowing' very politely, he said:
“Thank you, madam; I always like to
hear a lady express Oierself frankly. This
ackward ciraumstaiike was soon followed
by an introduction aiid his falling in love
with her. In proposA’g he is reported to
have said: “You aid charming nud I
am hideous; hut it will not be the first
instance of the meeting! of Beauty and
the Beast. You may (never love me;
but, if you will accept nie, I shall always
try to deserve y$ir love. V That is the
way to win a woman, anil he won her.
They arc believe I to have been entirely
harmonious and devoted tof one another.
The ex-attorncy general, alpeit singular
ly fantastic in dress, and ol’jen in man
ners, is extremely polite ami, kind-heart
ed. and has a boat; of friend-^
> r ':5V
Leaf Aspects.
IN SPRING.
Tho maiden leaves through veins of sylvan
blood
Are thrilled to love and sweet Arcadian
bliss,
"When murmuring ’round lithe bough or
wakening bud,
They dimple softly to the south wind’s kiss;
IN AUTUMN.
How silently above the dying leaves
The treacherous frost a fatal network
weaves;
And slowly robbed of Autumn’s buoyant
breath,
The weary foliago lapses into death!
Wm. H. Haync.
LOVE AND . HAIR PYE.
Keturah was leaning oven the pair of
bars which divided the hack garden from
the meadow which wound ppst the ma
ple swamp, up to the lonely sheep pas
ture. Apparently! she was watching n
motherly hen-turkey conduct her downy
brood through the high tJmothy-grass;
but in reality she was wrestKng with fate.
“It’s perfectly ridiculous 1” said Ketu
rah. “There never was in all this world
a girl with half as ugly hair as mine. If
it hadn’t been for that hair, I might have
had the chance of being married half a
dozen times, instead of drudging on here,
with my father scolding because I don’t
accomplish more housework, and my
stepmother deluging me with good ad
vice. Oh, dear, oh, dearl I would
pluck it out by the roots, if it would do
any good 1”
And she seized the luckless red- gold
tresses, a handful in each grasp, as .if she
fain would have twiched them out of
her head.
“But what a very silly thing that
would be!” said Barbara Decifier, who
sat on it stump of a tree, hulling the rich
garden strawberries, which she had just
gathered ftpm the sunny beds under the
stone wall. “Why on earth don’t you
dye it?”
“Why don’t I.—whatV said Keturah,
turning around in sheer amazement.
“Dye it!* repeated Barbara, popping a
particularly bright ripe sphere of scar jet
into her mouth. “It’s what Mrs. Pellrer’s
city boarder did when I was help there
last summer. She was as gray as a bad
ger, Miss Perk ms wa-s; and yet hey hair
shone like a errtw’s tail-feathers. 1 seen
her puttin’ on the dye once, through the
crack of the door, when I was u-scrub-
bin’ the hall oil-cloths, and it was as easy
as you please. Of course black dye
won’t suit you, but fljiere’s plenty of col
ors would.”
Kcturah’s eyes glisteAed.
“Oh, Barbara I” said ship, “do jou think
I could?”
“Think? I don’t think nothin’ about
it,” said Barbara, flinging a mildewed
berry at a squirrel on the fence. ‘ ‘I’m sure
of it. You can get the stuff at Mill &
Tweezer's. I’ve scon it many a time
in their glass sh<rsv-eapes, and—"
Just at this moment, however, Mrs.
Hitchings, Keturah’s stepmother, was
heard shrilly inquiring from the back
door, “whether she wps to be kep’ wait
ing all day long, with the preserving-
kettle over the fire, for them strawber
ries?”
Barbara jumped up atnd fled. Keturah
stood still, meditating over the disclos
ure that she had just heard.
She went down the path to a certain
crystal-clcnr spring, into whose depths
she had often gazed to look for the tra
ditional rings displayed by the fairies to
those who are about to find their true
lovers.
It was her favorite mirric\r, and just at
tliis period of the sunny, tuimmer day it
was clearer than any sheet of looking
glass.
* ‘Horrid 1” said Keturah, grimacing, at
the copper-red burnish of her hair-re
flected below.
But just then some languid mover-sent
of the deep, still waters focused the spin’s
rays in a sort of circle; for a secorld it
seemed as if a ling of gold shorn? far
down, and then disappeared.
Keturah’s eyes sparkled, and her Heart
beat rapidly.
“The fairies’ wedding-ring,” she
gasped. “I saw it witji my own eyes.
But, of course, uotliing will ever come of
it as long as my hair is shell a hideous —
hideous color. I will get; it dyed!”
And, in her mental co nsciousness, she
remembered that Harry Boyce, who went
to college with her Brother Simeon,
would be there that very week, and that
Harry had once said, “What a pretty
girl that little Kitty was.”
“But, of course, he couldn’t have no
ticed my hair, ” thought Keturah, mourn
fully. “It doesn’t show so awfully bad
when I sit in a corner where it’s pretty
dark. It’s the sunshine that brings it
out such an intense carrot color. I will
dye it!”
So that very evening, in the friendly
indistinctness of the purple twilight,
Keturah crept down to Mill & Tweezer’s,
and waited patiently for an old farmer
to buy an ounce of Paris green for potato-
hugs, and his daughter to select a bottle
of cheap perfumery, for two tall lads to
get a physician’s prescription made up,
and a plump-checked child to purchase a
cent’s worth of peppermint drops, before
she came up to the counter.
“Well, miss,” said the sleepy old drug
gist, who moved about like a patent pe
rambulating toy which had got out of
order, and winked drearily behind his
‘pectaelc-glasses, “wliat can I do for
you?"
Keturah’s heart seemed to leap up into
her mouth, every drop of blood rushed to
her face, while in a guilty whisper she
murmured:
“Hair-dye, sir, please.
“Dye?” repeated the purblind and par
tially deaf old man. “What kind of
dye?"
“I—I don’t quite know, sir! The
usual kind, I suppose. Anything but
black,” she added, remembering Bar
bara’s remark.
And with a “Yes, yes,” and a patron
izing smile, old Mr. Mill put her up a bot
tle of the brightest aniline-red that he
“Gals is always partial to bright col
ors,” he said to himself.
And Keturah ran all the way home, as
if the whip-poor-wills and rabbits would
know that she had a bottle of hair-dye
wrapped up in her poekct-bandkerchicf.
Once safe in her own little garret-room,
she rubbed the mixture well into the
roots of her hair, brushing it out to the
very ends, according to Barbara’s de
scription of the “city boarder’s” manipu
lations.
She had scarcely finished, when she
beard her stepmother’s voice calling:
“Keturah! Ke-tu-ra-aA!”
“Ma’am?” she chirped feebly back.
“Come down stairs quick!" said Mrs.
Hitchings, in a sort of stage shout up the
back stairs. 1 ‘Here’s your brother, Sim,
and Harry Boyce, come by the night
stage, and supper to get for ’em, nnd no
body knows what all! Do make haste!”
And momentarily forgetful of the chief
sorrow of her life, Keturah ran blithely
down stairs to be kissed by Sim and
chivalrously greeted by Mr. Boyce.
Both student-lamps were lighted, and
Mrs. Hitchings had even gone to the ex
travagance of a pair of mould candles on
the inantlepiece, and as Keturah turned
to help set the table there was a unani
mous shout of laughter.
“Why, Kit, how do you come lobe
topped off with cardinal-red?” jeeringly
demanded Simeon.
“What in all creation ails your hair?”
said her father.
And Keturah, catching a glimpso of
herself iu a cherry-framed looking-glass
which hung opposite, uttered a shriek of
dismay, and took to precipitous flight.
Her head no longer bore the old hue of
coppery-red, but now display the vivid
cardinal hue of Farmer Rumford’s new
barn-door.
And as she hastened to hide herself,
she heard the laughter-choked voice of
Simeon exclriming, incoherently:
“Well, I always knew that red hair
was fashionable, but I didn’t know that
the girls were so wild after it as to dye
their bangs tho regular blazing vermil
ion.”
Mrs. Hutchings herself got the supper
that night. It was Barbara’s evening
out, and poor Keturah was uowhere to be
found. And it was nearly ten o’clock
when the weeping girl, coming up Ac
long pear-tree walk, met Mr. Boyce face
to face.
“Don’t run away, Keturah, ” said he,
kindly. “Don’t make an enemy of one
who would fain be a friend. I have so
much to say to you, Keturah.”
I’ve washed it and washed it, and it
won’t come out!” sobbed poor Keturah.
“Washed what!” questioned Sir.
Boyce.
“My hair—my horrid, hideous, hateful
hair!”
“Never mind your hair,” said Mr.
Boyce, gently drawing her arm through
his.
“But—but it was such a dreadful color,
and I dyed it; and they gave me the
wrong color. And, oh, I’m almost sure
t never will come natural again 1”
“Oh, yes, it will!” said Harry Boyce,
coaxingly—“the prettiest gold-auburn
shade in the world/’
“Oh, Mr. Boyce, do you really think
so?”
“Upon my soul and honor I do! But
don’t you want to hear my news?”
“Of course I do,’ whispered Keturah.
“Well, then, Kitty—my Kitty—here
it is: I have received my first call to the
pastorate of a church in Livingbrook, i
Massachusetts, with the prettiest little ;
rectory in the world, of vellow-stone, all |
covered with climbing vines. Aud all I :
need now i6 a wife to keep house for me, !
and ask the deacons and deaconesses to !
tea. Will you he that wife, Keturah?”
“Oh, Harry,” she gasped, “do you j
think that a woman who dyes her hair is i
worthy to be a minister’s wife?”
“If we none of us had any earthly im
perfections,” said the young minister-
elect, smiling, “we should be angels;
and although you’re the nearest I ever
saw to one, Kitty"—with a kiss—“I
don’t want you to float away aud leave
me just yet. So I’m rather glad you
haven’t arrived at that wing-and-silver-
trnmpet stage.”
And Keturah Hitchings never troubled
herself any more about her hair.
“If Harry likes it,” said she, “7do!”
—Helen Forest Oraces.
Tlic First Blood,
When, on the night of April 18, 1861,
'the Pennsylvania troops filed into the
rotunda, they were followed by the cus
tomary black man, who in those days at
tended military organizations to carry
the target. This descendant of Ethiopia
had been roughly handled by the Balti
more hoodlums, and when he entered
the rotunda he gazed around with an
air of satisfaction, as though he thought
that at last he was safe.' Taking off his
cap, he pulled from his head a handker
chief saturated with blood from a wound
inflicted with a brick, and as be went
through the rotunda the blood dropped
from the handkerchief along the stone
floor. This was the first blood of the
war. I narrated the Incident to Gov.
Curtin of Boston the following year.
He expressed surprise that he had never
hoard of it, and on his return sent one
of his staff to Pottersville to see if the
colored man was still there. He found j
him rejoicing in the name of Nicholas j
Biddle, and he had him photographed,
kindly sending me one of the photos.—
An; Parley Poore.
Caste in Inn'n-
Caste, like a terrible ’nightmare, is
firmly fastened upon the Social life of
India. It wHl take general ons of civil-!*
izing influence to make the-.a lethargic
people realize that the system evil. It
is not easy for us to understand \t- The
following description, by a gentliMan in
India, shows a little of its pern> ious
working.
During a severe famine, a man, with
his wife and child, applied to a mission
ary for help. They had come from a dis
tance, and were thin and pinched with
hunger. Food was at once brought, hut,
hungry as they were, tney would not
touch it. The child was on the ground
hunting for aud eating the raw rieo that
was scattered about the door. Rice be
ing given them, they commenced to cook
it, but devoured it before it was halt
done. They would not lose caste by eat
ing food prepared by any one not of their
grade.
There arc four principal castes. The
Brahmins, or priests, are the highest.
They consider it beneath them to labor.
To tend cattle or to milk a cow would
be pollution. Formerly, if a low-caste
person touched them, even by accident,
they could kill him on the spot with im
punity. The people yield to them as
superiors as a matter of course.
When a high-easte man came into a
meeting, a whole bench was vacated, the
occupants taking seats on the floor. The
natives usually travel third-class on the
railway. These cars are so crowded
there is no room to sit apart. This ha?
a tendency to break down caste.
The railway companies had difficulty
in supplying them water to drink. A
high-caste man could not drink water
brought by a man of lower caste. By
employing a high-caste man, all cau bo
supplied.
In their villages each caste lives by it
self. Each has its own shops, or bazaars.
Below the regular castes are the outcasts
DR. TAMAGE’S SERMON.
BUM THE WORST ENEMY OF
THE WORKING CLASSES.
Text: “Ho that earn^th wages earneth
wages to put it la a bag with holes;” Ha~-
gai, i., 5: ° ,
In Persia, during the reign of Darius
Aystaspes, the people did hot prosper. They
motley but they Could not keep it.
They *T3fe like a roan who has a sack
which he puts money into, not knowing that
the sack hxrt l^5L.torn or WCrui ; eai*Jo, fir Ll ;
in some way ihcapaottated to hold valuables.
As he puts the coin in one end of the sack it
drops out of the Other. They earned wages
but they lost them) Or-fts thcpiWuel puts it:
'‘He that earneth wajta earnetli wages to '
put it in a bag with What has
become of the billions. and bnliuBS dol-
lars paid ris wages to tha working cite?.*
of this country? Maiiy of the moneys hav\.
gone for the purchase of wardrobes, for the ..
purchase of homesteads^ for the support of ’
families,'for the education of chilclnn, for
the meeting of the necessities of life, fen- pro* ’
viding comfort for time of old ag?, add 1
rightly spent, Christinnly sjeeiit. “What has 1
become of the other billions and Millions of
the wages paid to the working em>se> of this :
country? Many of them -foriii^hiy V'astCd, 1
Masted at ghmliig uioies, wasted in intoxi
cants, put into a bag with a hundred hobs. 1
Gather up the moneys that have been spent ;
by tho working classes of this country during 1
ths last thirty yea s for rum and tobacco: ‘
and I will build for the Workingmen, every
workingman, a house, surrounding it with a
garden, clothing his sons iu. broadcloth and
his daughters In silkfc. standing hi bis front
door a prancing span of ba3*s or sorrels,
and insuring his life so that his place can bo
kept up alter his death. If m the city of
Brooklyn the people have expended SlT.l’OO,-
000 in one 3*ear for strong drink* hnd one-
half of that, money has l>eeu spent by tho
Mage earning classes, then bne-halL' the
wages of this city has none for Hint. I stand
before the Christian (hurcli and before tho
American people to-day to delcare that the
most persistent and overwhelming, enornv Of
the working; classed is ihtoxiedting liquor, it j
is a M’otse eiieniy than monopoly,it is a wor. o
enemy than associated capital, it is the pest
of the century, and has bo3’cotted an! is 1103-
cotting the body, mind and soul of American
industry. It snatches a\va.y a large percent
age of the wages of thin cctlntry. tt meets :
the laboring man and operative on his way
to work iu the morning, with baleful solici
tations, and afc the hObn spe'l and
jjj tuj fcventide and oh Saturday
when the wages are paid it takes much of
that which ought to gd for the Support of
0 the family, rind ^oifilces it to tho sa’oon
tliose who have broken over some of tffifavewhl^the"
5 cents the laboring man mn3 r have hi* glass
or intoxicating liquor ami one or two articles
of food, and you wonder lfow the saic'Criisf
cau afford thaK I Will t&ll you how he af
ford? it, the laborer dttes not stop with one
glass or ono clip. His thirst js kihdled Aud
he dHnks on ami drink® oh iihd becomes a
phtrch of that establishment, and drinks
more and more until he goe3 into the grave,
•nvx/4 ,wifn 1 -t.:i J i —' A - jqOOU-
Screet
the various restrictions.—Youth's
pardon.
The Air Gun.
The air-gun is simply a pneumatic en
gine, for the purpose of discharging bul
lets by tho elastic force of compressed
aii'. It_ is not known exactly when or by
whom it was first invented, but it was
certainly in use m France three centuries
ago. It is probable that had not tho
gunpowder "been discovered at so eavly a
date air-guns might have been made very
uuu ...uio uiiuu ut guca muj tuc gia
and bis wife and children, go to the no
homo. .TVithiP 300 Gf end Sands Scr
Methodist Church, Brookl3*n—that Gibraltar
of Christianity, that fortress of Godliness
and the truth deca lo after decade, that old
historical church, iu which John Summer-
field thundered on righteousness...temperance
and judgment . fA M itlnn 300
yAids wf bid Sands Street Methodist
church, there are to-day fifty-four drinking
effective. They are usually made in the j saloons and an application for another. It
form of muskets, having a hollow stock’! ™ “ th ® g L 0!; £ 9riS . 3 ^
. . 0 1 *0© rum shops of this country Were pub sidd
which is filled with compressed air from ! by side thev would mhko a solid block, frhni
a force-pump. The lock is nothing more !
than a valve, which lets into the barrel a ward march! take possession, of the ballot
part of the compressed air from the stock
when the trigger is pulled. The gun is of tho Congress of the United Statcs.cnntur$
loaded with wadding and bulletin the
ordinary way, and the bullet id driven masses of this country while this iniquity
I™. i j • , • j progresses ai it does? The rum traffic pours
from the bairel by the expansive action the vitriolic,damnable stuff down tho throats
of the air. The range of the gun de- °f hundreds of thousands of the working
„ e . , class, and while a strike in jure* both employer
pends upon its size and the amount and and employe, I this day proclaim a universal
degree of compression of the air. The against‘strong drink, wdiicli strike if
. i, ,. ,. ,, , kopt up w in release the working class And be
velocity of the bullet is proportioned to the the salvation of the ndtiopi Au>* Healthy
square foot of the degree of compression ? Rn ^ America.* if he will be industrious for
- . tt j ?v 1 twviity years and abstain from strong drink,
ot the air. Under the pressure of fifty lihd be saving, mav be his own capitalist mi
atmospheres, or 750 pounds, for instance, * s “ a11 scal ^- This country spends dmimUiy
. , . * , , „ . in strong drink obe billion, five hundred mil-
the impulse given to the ball is almost lion and fifty tkousaud dollar?. A lurge part
equal to that of an ordinary charge of isby the Ia " 4 -'>'u
, jo classes. In Great Britain there are expendu*
gunpowder. Air-guns arc Sometimes annually one hundred million prun'd* or fi\6
made in the form of walking sticks, so. , f oh > workmgmeu
° ’ ot America, whether you sit m this house td-
tney can be readily used for purposes of uhy, or whether these words shall in so
defense. Air-gnns are generally regard- "aS Vp^how^mS *°:
ed as somewhat unsafe, but it is not have expended duiing 3*our lifetime
i .1 . i i i . Hpn aud tobacco, and* then ask
know’ll that any law lias ever been enact- fellow workmen how much tiie3 r
ed against them. In the hands of inexpc- expended for rum itnd tobacco, and add
. j ... .v up and realize that by co-operative a~
nonced or malicious persons they are cap- Hon you might have been your own cap
able of doing much mischief.—Inter* instead of answering the beck and wl
dcf\n ° of others. A tn* tiling that takes frqj
m j w'orkmg classes of America their pi
etrengtn is a robbery. Now, a ml
Clothing For Dogs. stimulates has not as mu?h energy and
“Furnishing decorations and clothing endurance a; a man win refu
. , -.f, stimulate. My father told me
for dogs is developing into a great trade,” i came a t/mperance man. He s
said a manufacturer to a reporter for the S aa l?i te, - 11 P er *. uc ® ‘“J 11 ' vll . en
1 drank, because of what I saw r m
New 1 ork Mail ana Express recently, field, where I fouud that though
“In Paris alone nearly 2,000 persons are '1°i' Cer °i m
f ^ ; sickness, I could endure more tb;
ongaged in this business, and the trade ; radesin the harvest field: I could \
represents nearly $1,000,000 capital. The n^htT'thoytook’ ^mulTu^,! £o£
rage for dressing canine pets has now A brick maker in England, having
reached New York from Puri-: Evorv eln P! n - v ru:lu >' men, investigated tlie subject'
reacneu i,m loih. irom rail-. Jtveiy a nu be gives as the result cf bis-iilvestgation:
variety of dog has his peculiar dress and “The beer drinker who made thefev. pst bricks
ntouer toilet and toilet-eases with now made 659,000. The abstainer who made the
propel ioi.ee anci tout t cases, witn pou- fewest bricks made 74(1,<KX>. The difference iu
der, sponge, comb, and so forth. It behalf of the abstainer over the indulge!-,
would be a rank breach of dog manners ;
for a bulldog to appear on the street in were so long, and from week to week, that
,, .x lxv i nearh r a’l the memlers of the Parliament
the dret-s of another; indeed the dog -were either sick or worn out. Of the 1532
■would pine away from sheer mortification, members only two went through uudamaged.
They were teetotalers. In time of war,
soldiers who go forth with \va‘er or coffee in
won $150 with which to buy a sealskin coat.
I do not know what tho effect was on that
strtieh There were many people on that
strwith small add I, Suppose
this contagion spread and that people
came out crying, fieuratively ir not
literally, “though the heavens fall, I must
have .4 ?%lskin ooat,” Nqw? between sa~h
a fool as that and pauperism then? Is only
on? Htep. I was told a!-0nt eight vears ago.
whilp n»jipg with a clergyman in Iowa, that
hear13* ail his ccngre^tir.lon dnd the neighbor
hood had beeu financially ruined by the fact
that the farmers had put mortgages on l heir
fhrrril in orddr thfit they might send their
families to th* Philadelphia Centennial Ex
hibition; ‘‘"Wliy ” be said,.“it wa< not con
sidered respectable lirra hot to go the Phil- 11
tulelpjiia Centennial Exhibition.’’ So they
all wont.. Ah, m3r .friends, if by some fiat of
thS cflffitftlist*} if by some new law of the
govern* 1 ent of the United twenty-live
per cent., fifty per cent.. Iff? rer
could be added to tho n
tho wbrking people; hundreis 6f tA&u-an-li
of them would bo no More
money, more rum. More ^age», more holes
in the bag. Scores of people who might have
been well off t::-day; are in destitution be
cause they cfcpOTed. or smoked, Or drriuk. or
lived beyonutheir means, while others an tho
same,.v;,ilary went on to a competency. I
Vstiw a man now who is all the time com
plaining of his poverty and crying oat
bgainat Hcb men, yet ,lio keeps two
dogs, and he smokes arid chains; ftnd he
is filled to the chin with M hisky arid bear.
Mi caw bar said to Dat’d Capperfidd: “Cop-
jwv-'ddj m^ boy; jtorifid irieomfc; ttfeuty
shillings and sixpence outgo. Result, misery.
But Copporfield, my boy, one pound income,
ninetreu shillings and sixpence outgo. Re
sult, happiness.” But oh, workingmen, you
take , ynue dfam in the morning, aud
you take >’our dram at noon, ami yoii
take your dram at night, and I \\ ill prom
ise you and your children poveit3' forever.
The v*lst majority tff th? chddtvn in, tho
ahnhouses of this country had for fathers
drunken or lazy or improvident- men. 1 do
not know how it is with others who try to help
the poor, but nine out of ten tooplo that I
help are tile iVivis oi ; tlie children of drunk j
ards. Now, the times have got to change if
there is to bo any relief .frdmthe^e influences.
We brivri got id live tVithiii cut nvdmsj and
M*e have, got to be prudent. And here, let me
shy, that I d.o not sympathize with skinflint
spviiig. J rim pleading /of Christian pru-
uenre. a man now may nave ho hieitur td
save, but we are at the morning of a great
day of national prosperity, ana people ore
going to have means to save. There are men
who now have not. a dollar M'ho might kavo
been th?ii ; ovvn masters, iudedenclent of Oul-
i»lo3'ers; independent of capitalists, and what
I-Sfly, yott nllkpbt^.tb be true:. I know
therh tire people who chink it is mean td
turn the gas down lower when they leave
Jhe parlor. I there tire .people who
krejveijy much jVn^arrnssed. if .t-hp door bell
\mg.s before tue nail is lighted, a
there are people who feel apologetic p’hou
you find them at a plain table, plain food.
Well, it is mean if it only bo for piling up a
miserly board; b*at if i.fc bo to ulve a better
education to your children, if it be to give
help to vobt wifeyyhed she is not strong, if
it be to keep your funeral driy frrirri being a
horror beyond endui anco because it is tue
punihilatiop of y-qrirhonte—that i,sgrand,that
is magiiificenC. It fiephrid** vety. much upon
what j’ou save for, u'hether it is mead nr
g-raud. I know 3 T oung women in this city
who arc--denying them-elvCs pll luxuries to
GducauO orotHers*; or +o give tt yonngey sister
musical advantages. What do voucail tliaf?
It is next to the angelic. Now, \ want to say
tc tho workingmen of America, so far as I
can rcaoh thorn,, and I >vant to say at the
sarr*e HtW t-hft s&itfe firings to, all business
men, men of all classes and occupations,
the greatest foe of labor, the greatest
foe of literature, the greatest foe of religion,
the greatest foo of .all classes of people, is
Sa*ong di'ink; arid I want this morning in the
name of God to implore you to quit the u-ri
hf it: J ^-arri ydu to trike dne square look at
the:sutfering ftiaii who beediHes thri riespdi’pr
of the Wine flask or the boer mug or thtS
whisky bottlo; and understand that a
vast “triiiltil’iido running . for’ that
goal. Some of 3’oti are running fdr 1*!
When, a man comes from under this influence^
lie feels bomeaned. Ido potcaie how reck-
le 5 he tiilks; He mriy safi, “I don’t care.’]
He doe= care. H? cannot look ydU lri-tbj
eye without a rallying of his energies ar
foreo of resolution. The Philistines ha -
bound him hand and foot and gouged
evos out and shorn his locks, and lie
rilread3 r started to grind la the mill of ft gr
horror. Jitst as soonjii ft it: du, whether
b« a wofkifigmdn, Gr, as W'e brill hint; a bi
ness mail, ^.ets undrir the influence of str-
drink} he will try td pdrsurile yod^i^^
that he • “aii stoy-rit any time:
will pr.dv#* it. He loves Uinlsel^
bod3% ho loves iiismind ! he 1<
knows his habits are ruinin; ‘
keeps right on. Why do-
A TTider Vision.
How *ad they seem—the boueeS of the dead—
And how tho shadows of trier tr«e« advarn*-
No sooner has the
riwdytban the poor soul says:
[ Oh GG<b hedp ic«f! Ttko the
2 me. Oh God, give nia rum, give .
[ And then when the keeper romps j And then whjidraw, as they iwtvre spirit bm!
I keeper to kill him. “.Sfcab nw. ' And infant to uiock us with a'rrayer nnvaid.
1 otberjnH Oh ‘iod. Oh God*
y sketch. Thrit f? going on ail
In this land. Moreover, it in the
I of you will
are all tjf sorrows of a do- j It is not mi<11 to stir m suc.n n p:ac#.
7 ar,* how much a j The aead are -riser than ?hcj host of as;
^lil lren, if this jjos- j yj^ev lie so still, and \*ct, M^alle’ve discuss,
Or g 'Min dance.
j Lt is not well, methiuke, to rr
It is not well to stir in suck
el thu?;
cs lipcm him, and h# _ . .
h? will b5 I Ihfy win tbe ra-J.
way,
into eternal bondage.
Do not tell me a
i he kimws that ha is
frf.rt aud clothing bi? chil-
l there a* e thousands of
No doors are here! Tho df’art have nood ol
none, !
They hold aloof; tliey f ’pray beneath thi)
sod.
he Screc^of the City and OH ‘ With sightless eyes they
And they will hoar, in
film try a^keiiipt, nucombed
'Vatffc w^^n on every ,
: < their{garr.i-uss and on eVy wrinkle done,
preiri';n*rf iy old face. Tirev would 'j*he voice of God.
have bee. in the ho(!so Of God aadSa-
"i boai*
rand the sun;
when all fa
ria l a>Aau3* of you but for flic that :k"
CaihpiN .WM drunk a-ds. r Th^V went down
aucl tDok the : r frimiffes with them, as they
alwavs do. There is net *n asiembla^ in
\he tTnite l State j fo-day in which th^re
are not worricri who are fighting the tattle
for b *ead alone. Tb* roan who proralVerl :
fidelity, the man M ho was ordained as tho |
bead of thj household is destroying himself '
aud d/«troying all those dependent upon him. i
Ob Bum, thou foe of God, thou despoiler ot?
tho huiliTifl thou recruiting officer of
hell, I hat/ thee.
Bai the negle i takes a deeper tone when I :
tell you tl at it d&p*dte^this evil despO-ls tho .
soul. The Bible indicates rigriiu ftrid ugaln
• have loaru’d at
Yes! they m»1
last
A wider wisdom thaii the v. or id bestows.
Hunger is ours today; out thuirri is jcist.
They toil no more, and iz: tl aj wintry blast 1
They find repose.
■—George Lancaster.'
IIUMUKOUS.
F*>ot pads—Corr* plasters
_ AVhen a busiuesf; house is in a *‘shaky 1J
that if our hearts be unchanged aiid we go | tou dition is it proper to speak of it as a
into the other world unregenerate, our evil ! r
jinpftitrJs and passions go M r ith us and there ! firm f
torment ti,. Irt this «-orU the man could ; A petrified clock has been found in
Rome. Another indication of hard
times.
Every man has some hobby, and every
girl looks forward to the time when she
will have a hubby.
There is any amount of good reading
in tbe dietionr-ry, but it is distributed in
a very tantalising manner.
The husbamd may boast of 1 ‘holding
the reins,” jo at it’s generally the wife
that says whiere the wagon is going. t
Now is t/he time that the straw hat
smiles becat ise it did not succeed m its
borroM' or steal five cetris to gel, that which
slaked his thirst for a little Waite, but iu
fetfruity.’ where is the rum to come front?
Dives wantea a drop of water. The inebriate
Mants rum. "Where shalt it come
from? Who Mill brew it? Who will tn Lx it?
Who will fetch it? Millions of wor’.ds now fur
febo dregs which the young man slnn^ out on
the sawdusted liodi* of the restaurant. Mil
lions of worlds now for tbe rind pitched out
-fl dui (htf bunch bowl of tlie earthly banquet.
Dives wantea wafer The inebriate wants
rum. If a spirit from the lost world should
Hmo tip for sorrfe work In A grogshop nnd
then go badk; taking, orie drop on his infer
nal Ming, ami thrit ririe drop on the
fiend's wing could lie put on thri {ip of the
tongue of the lost inebriate, however *una!l
the dr-tfi} if it onl>* have the smack of alco
holic liqtloih tlklt on«? drop on the inebriate’s
tongue Would make him cry- “Aha! aha!
that is .nim! M . It would wake up all tho . . . ..... ,,
echoes c»* tlid drinimed, ris they cry: ‘ Give t desire last ^November to make ltseli leit.
meruni! give me rum!” 1 do riot think tho | * ^
sorrow of the inebriate in the next world will j A carp tsaid to be -68 years old has
be Absence of God or the absence of j been taker! out of the river Spree. This
light, or the dbsflrieri Of holiness; it will bo f M i a ix. r
the absence of rum. I «J.? it W tbe working | shows thajt fish can stand sprees better
classes of America, and I say it to rill busi- j |ban men I can
ness classes, to all these merchants, to all ; /
theso men whether they toil for a living with
brain, ofi hand, or feet, you ought to quit
your strong drink, lirtvc nothing to do with
It. * f f{obk riot unon the wrinc when it is red,
when it iliorotri itself aright in tile cup, for
at the last it bitaui like ri serpent.^ and it
•tingetb like an adder.” 0h+1 fbifik itD about
time ffir "mother women's crusade. Sttch a? we
had seven or eight 7«»rs in Ohio, when thirty
woir eu we at at and cleared <*11 the gropshops
h’nt of a .t6wn of a thousand Idhabitauts—
thirty wotile^ Surcharged with the Holy
Ghost, their only weapons praver and s >ng,
aud many a grogshop M*as clrtsed as they
came ,up, the oM-ners saving: *‘XoW, don’t
^enrie hore rind prav* and sing, we’ll close up. n
If thirty w‘(Jmrn snr«hargrid with the Holy
Ghost could clear 6'ut t"»ro from a
village of a thousand inhabitants, three
thousand cousecrated women of Broo’.d>'il
in the strength of Almighty God Landing to
gether and goirlg forth, could in six months
felfear out at least three-fourths of the grog
shops, arid if.the’ three thousand should baud
together, and the3* lidd no other leader, I. a
minister of the most hi-m would offer v
my servh^s^j
€
It is re/ported th.it Henry Bergh is car
rying hi® sympathies for animals so far
at he ils cultivating a bald spot on bis
:ead as fa pasture for flies.
Mo re# thau four thousand devices for
eouplirig have been patented, and yet
thousands of bachelors and maidens go
it aloi/e in this country.
Little' njaideti (who is spending the
afternoon wfcith her aunt)—Auntie,
mother said I Must not ask you for any
thing to eat, l^M^m awfy
Mistress-
world havi
fashion. As to collars, blankets for cool
weather, netting for warm weather, the
rule holds good—everyone to its own and
no other. Wedl very soon have aristo
cratic dogs appearing on rainy days in
long-legged boots made of doeskin and
fastened on with rubber rings. At cer
tain seasons of the year dogs must be
muzzled, and this calls for fancy and
decorated muzzles.”
Milk as a Beverage,
A St Louis milkman tells a Globe- | puts down his wages and
Democrat reporter that “ milk is the lat- j S5 uAeVal'ifnotwfsd
est craze in the drinking line. The fluid men who are in a pe.-r-
was made fashionable by Miss Ellen Ter- |
ry, the actress, I understand, who drank tion: A young man wi
it freely, when the Anglomaniacs followed | Shented^J 0 fro^ h
her example because ‘ifc> was so English, ; expended every dollar
you know/ Now it is sold in saloons and
drug stores, and there are lunch houses
like Delicatessen, each of which retails
as high as 125 galloue a day, by the glass.
Think of one place scaling 125 gallons of
milk a day to drinkers. Such a thing
would not have been dreamt of five years
ago. The populaiity'of milk as a bever
age is due to the fact that it is not only ' fce a j 1
fattening, but that St is a stimulant also, j v.ante
and a better vitaliacr than any pbos- |
phates or other medicines the doctors
can prescribe for you. It stimulates with
out intoxicating, which is a further rec
ommendation for it."
Smooth terriers wear bracelets on some of
their legs and bear in mind always put tllB caataeu“can march longer and make
° . 1 ' nraVAr florlit. V.hnn flirt wold in*j whn puspa
the ring on the left leg. That is the
braver fight than the soldiers who
whisky in the canteen. Rum *
for n man to fight if ha has
testant and that at tho street c
lyan goes forth to fight for
country, he wants no rum al
the Russian arnjy goes out
along the line and smells t’
soldier, and if there be ii
slightest suggestion of liqui
back to the barracks. V
stand the battle, he cannot
All our .young men underst;
they are preparing for the
ball club, for tho athletic
abstain from strong drink,
portant that all my frie
with hand aud foot ai
they can do more work
they can do with ifc. The
ment. Then the3’ rente!
young man found it ne
mg employment. He
worn out from overwc
da3’ must night emplo;
his e^’esizht was ne ~ 1
health nearly gcn%
employment
get n or
to get.
for a i
sured