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REV. 1 ) 1 !. TAU 1 AGE.
THE UUOOKI.YN DIVINE'S SUN-
DAV NllltMON.
/ "The Heavens Opened.
Text: “Behold l sec I Ac heavens opened,
nnii the Sim of man standing on the
right hand of God. Then they cried out
with a loud voice and stopped their
ears, and ran upon Him with one. accord,
anil cast him out of the city, and stoned
Him; and the witnesses laid down their
clothes at a young man's feet, whose name
was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling
upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive
mu spirit. And lie kneeled down, and cried
with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to
their charge, And when he hod said this,
he Stephen fell asleep."— had been Acts vii., Mi-flO. rousing
and the people preaching could stand a it. They ser¬
mon, not
resolved to do as men sometimes would like to
do in this day, if they dared, with some plain The
preacher of righteousness—kill him. to
only way to silence this man was
knock the breath out of him. So they rushed
Stephen out of the gates of the city, and with
curse, and whoop, and liellow they brought
him to the cliff, as was the custom when they
wanted to take away life by stoning. Having
brought him to the edge of the cliff they they
pushed and him looked off. After he had seeing fallen that he
came dead, down, began and drop
was not yet they to stones
upon him, stone after stone, stone after clambers stone.
Amid this rain of missiles Stephen
M knees and folds his hands, while
^' : , n, r { , r!‘ US !f? p l“i® h “ 3 leeks ,
hisgarments.fromhi.sgar- 1
t h ® Rrmlnd ' and thou, looking himself and up,
. t prayers—one for
’ ^rd /emis, receive
^ hat ," us [ or l-ord, lay
««.«♦”«& th T fr 0 , 'P^ ' harg ?' n ; f nj i a 1088 . Wa of 8 ,w biood r JS B
’
a ' va ,' and fell asleep
I want to show you to-day five pictures.
M e ?iS Z l nS ^ t 0 heaV ® n ' St *T he “ look -
mg at Christ. Stephen u stoned. . Stephen m
s
First, look at *u* Stephen gazing into heaven.
Beforeyou take a leap you want to know
where you are going to land. Before you
climb a ladder you want to know to what
pomt the lailder reaches. And it was right of
that henyen, Stephen shoulrn>e within gazing a mto . ^ ow it. . * a We pwients would
all do well to be found m the same posture.
There ls enough in heaven to keep us gazing.
A man of large wealth may have statuary in
sgws«ati‘5jssa SSSS KTK.%nra
wi “f. and ?ver increasing ad-
?, el1, h<»veu is the gallery where
' e < hj ff treasure* of His
„ J b f who ' e ' m ‘verse is Hm palace. In this
w t ; her 1i T, St ;; 1 ' thel ? are Vi an T
tessellated floor of amethyst
, !U1 <m w 1 11 1 ling elniul-stairs
“ vs'reteW h , out , canvas on which commingle ^
.P“[P le - and s rtr “ n ’ a "!' d :
glories are gathered f tI' 1 here are in the brightest '
rotxs. 1 here ai e the i ichest crowns. There
are the highest exhilarations. John says o
J l T* 1 ? km S s °f the eaith shall
bring . I their honor and glory into and it.”
And isee the piocession toi ming, m
the line come all empires, the and thestars under spring
un into an arch tor hosts to march
the They pitch keep step avalanche to the sound from of earthquake the and
of mountains,
and the nag they bear is the flame of a con-
Burning world, and all heaven turns out with
harps and trumpets and myriad voiced ac-
cmnunation of angelic dominion to welcome
them in, and so the kmgs of the I)o earth bring
their honor and glory into it. you won-
der that good jxjople often stand like Stephen,
looking into heaven; VYe have a great
many friends there. There is not a
ma 11 ’I 1 “NS house to-day so
isolated l , in life, but there shook is some hands. one As in
heaven with whom he once
a man gets older, the number of his celestial
acquaintance very rapidly of multiplies. them since We the
have not had one glmipwe
night we kissed them good-bye and they went
away ; but still we stand gazing at heaven,
As when some of our friends go across the
sea, we stand on the dock, or on tho steam-
tug and watch them, and after awhile the
hulk of the vessel disappears, and then there
is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon
that is gone, and they are all out of sight,
and yet we stand looking in the same
dire tion; so when our friends go
away om us into the future world we
keep looking and down through though the Narrows, expected and
gazing they would gazing as and stand we
that come out on some
evening cloud, and give u.s one glimpse of
their blissful and transfigured faces. While
you long to join their companionship, and the
years and the days go with such tedium that
phey break your heart, and the viper of pain,
and sorrow and bereavement keeps gnawing
at phen, your vitals, you still stand, You like Ste¬
if they gazing changed into heaven. wonder
have since you saw them last.
You wonder if they would recognize your
face now, so changed has it been with trouble.
You wonder if, amid the myriad delights
they used have, they care as much for helping you as they
to when they gave you a hand
and put their shoulder under 3 'our burdens.
You wonder if they look any older: and some¬
time, in the evening tide, when the house is
all their quiet, you wonder if yon should call them
by perhaps fii-st name if they would do make not answer; the
and sometimes you ex¬
periment, and when no one but God and your¬
self are there you distinctly call their name,
and listen, and wait, and sit gazing into
heaven.
Pass on now, and see Stephen looking upon
Christ. My text says he saw the Son of Man
at tho right hand of God. Just how Christ
looked in this world, just how he looks in
heaven, Christ we cannot say. A writer in the time
of says, describing 1 the Saviour’s per-
souul apperance, that He had blue eyes and
light complexion, and a very graceful struct-
ure; but I suppose it was all guess-work.
The painters of different ages have tried to
imagine the features of Christ, and put them
upon canvas; but we will have to wait until
with our own eyes we see him and with our
own ears we can hear Him. And yet there
is a way of seeing and hearing Him now.
1 have to tell you that unless you
see and hear Christ on earth, you
will never see and hear Him in heaven!
Look! There he is. Behold the Lamb of
Can you not see Him; Then pray to
God to take tho scales off your eyes. Look
that way—try to look that way. His voice
comes down to you this day—comes down to
the Look blindest, to the deafest soul, saying:
“ unto Mo, all ye ends of the earth, and
be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none
®j s -- Proclamation of uni vei-sal emancipa¬
tion for all slaves. Proclamation of universal
amnesty for all rebels. Ahasuerus gathered
entertained the Babylonish nobles to his table; George I.
the lords of England at a ban¬
quet; Russia Napoleon and III. welcomed the Czar of
the Sultan of Turkey to his feast;
( “ >r '! lan y "us glad to have our
to r Re ™S ft ’ sit ,lown wilh
, * , ,
and evar the ,®*kef wretehed, the abandoned, and the and the forlorn)
hln outcast, to come
r„r:u,»'c/s,,s„'Lrig: vitafinn ° W " e ^i wonderful »”s in-
this 1
City, and say: “Come! Clothes for
your ke rags, salve tor your sores, a throne for
itt^ir^on' r thM' n am?Ti 2, nS i’l & ra rH&a <-’hrist that talks
doing looking at Him* I h™lo 1 Join'd ft
the same thin"-. X must see Him
must look upon that face once clouded
E'«« Beh.ild ia » «»».*-
^r Him, little children for ff you hve to
re Sinelfeh^h^SLn^vouJ nOT„ andten *" u "di see none
onto can BeSld h Sh fy B^ I
hold failing Him, eyesight. Him
heaven. What a mmuciit wb™ ! '
srouul thrones C& lllX^toat^f gazing,^on ^ 1 ' An 1
that way, j
,-ure the Whole earth would love Him, too ” ,
ThVwn,.ia\! 104V \ and iook at t’tephen stoned.
eate) Ut ,1 ’ t: ‘pheu through the
of tee r-to
While these murderers are transfixed n’t bvtha
!B«aw 11 .Uto. Christendom. :
stoimL bin Wt MtephOT t eilvu. Soallgood Stephen
si , men
■Burnt 1
him." rthow 18 ',™™ 0 tllat o^Cburch, c v fyb°dj likes |
•h his duty to Btate and I wuf
Show you scores of men who utterly abhor
him,
If all men spook well of you, it is hecause
you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a
steamer makes rapid progress through the
waves, the water will boil and foam all
around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ
will hear t he carbines click. When I see a
man with voice, and money, and influence
all on the right side, and some caricature
him, and some sneer at him, and some de¬
nounce him, and men who pretend to "be act¬
uated by right motives conspire him, to cripple I
him, to cast him out. to destroy say:
“Stephen stoned." When I see a man in
some great moral or religious reform battling
against grog-shiii*, exjioaing wickedness in
high places, by active means trying to purify
the Church ami better the world’s es¬
tate, and I And that the newspapers
anatnemanze him, anil men, even him, good because, men,
oppose him and denounce
though he does good, lie does not do it in
their way, I say: '“Stephen stoned." The
world, with infinite spite, took after John
Frederick Olierlin, ami Robert Moffat, and
Paul, and Stephen of the text. But you
notice, my friends, that while really they in assaulted
him they did not succeed killing
him. A kill - on may him. assault a good of man, his but death, you
cannot On the day
Stephen sjioke tiefore a few people in the San¬
hedrim: this Sabbath morning he addresses
all Christendom, Paul the Apostle handful stood
on Mai's Hill addressing a of
philosophers who knew not so much about
science as a modern school of girl. Christendom To-day he
talks to all the millions
about the wonders of justillcation John Wesley and the
glories of resurrection. was
howled down by the mob to whom he preached
and they threw brick* at him, and they de-
nounC( ,, hilll alld th ,, y him and they
spat ^...Vd upon him, j and vet to-dav.in all lands, he
w Kreat lathor of Method-
j sm Booth's bullet vacated the Presidential
( . haj bllt from that sp ,, t of coagulated blood
on the floor i„ the box of Ford s Theatre,
there sprang up the new life of a nation.
stoned; hut Stephen alive.
luss on now, and thought see Stephen not how the
prayer. His first was
, mrt his wllat wouW Become
of bis body. His first thought was about his
spirit. 4 *i/mi Jesus, receive my spirit.” The
murderer standing on the trap-door, the black
cap being drawn over his head before tho ex-
edition, may grimace about the future; but
you and I have no shame in confessing some
anxiety about where we are going to come out.
Yo U are iKit.il 11 >ody. There is within you a soul,
I soe it gleuin from your eyes today, an I
see it irradiating vour countenance. Some-
times ] am abashed tiefore an audience,
not because* I come under your physical truth that eye- I
^ght, but because 1 realize tho
tUat tlill your nnd obseq'uios 1 „ will allle he decent piUow and ro-
^.at wi u . t(1 your
und ,. r tla , lnap £ | e or Norway spruce, this
spiritalxU 0 , thlM .y | , n , ss , or t e b lossoin m K fir; Ibut di-
ration will that which take Stephen What prayed, guide what w,ll
es-
cort it , W |,at gate ” will oimiii l to receive
it , u hat ,. lolul w u u . cleft f( >r its ,, ath way?
After it 1 ms got beyond the light for of the our sun, of
"ill there be torches lightcl have to rest travel
0 f the way; Will the soul
through long deserts before it reaches the
good land; If we should lose our pathway,
will there he a castle at whose gate we may
ask the way to the city? O, this mysterioiM but it is
spirit within u st It has two wings,
in a cage now. It is locked fast to keep
it . but )et the door of t his cage open the least,
and that soul is off. Eagle’s wing could not
C aU- h it. When the soul leaves the body it I
takes fifty worlds at a bound. And have
110 anxie ty about it; Have you no anxiety
about it ; I do not care what you do with my
body when my soul is gone, or w hether yon
believe in cremation or inhumation. I
shall sleep just as well in wrapping lined
of sackcloth as in satin
with eagle’s down. But my soul—before I
leave this house this morning I will find out
where it is going to land. Thank God for the
intimation of my text, that when we die
Jesus takes us. That answers all questions massive
for me. What though there were
bars between here and the city though of light, there Jesus
could remove them. What were
great Naharas of darkness, Jesus could
illume them. What though I get weary
0 n the way, Christ could lift me on His
omnipotent shoulder. What though there
were chasms to cross. His hand could
transport me. Then let Stephen’s prayer be
my dying litany: “Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit.” Itmaybein that hour we shall be
too feeble to say a long prayer. It may be im
that hour we will not be able to say the
“ Lord’s Prayer,” for it has seven petitions, the
Perhaps wo may be too feeble even to say
infant prayer our mothers taught us, which
John Quincy Adams, seventy years of age,
said every night when he put his head upon
his pillow:
“Now I lny me down soul to sleep, keep.”
I pray the Lord my to
Wo may be too feeble to employ either of
these familiar forms; but this prayer of Ste¬
phen is so short, is so concise, is so earnest, is
so comprehensive, we surely will be able to
say that,: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” it
O, if that prayer Ls answered, how sweet
will be to die! This world is clever enough deal
to us. Perhaps it has treated us a great
lietter than ive deserved to be treated: shall
but if on the dying that pillow world, there shall
break the light of better we
have no more regret about leaving a small,
dark, damp house for one large, beautiful,
and capacious. That dying minister in Phil¬
adelphia, some years ago, beautifully depicted his
it when, iu tho last moment, he threw up
hands nnd cried out: “I move into the light!”
Pass on now and I will show one more
picture, and that is .Stephen asleep, With a
pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Script¬
ures the text, says of Stephen: “He fell
asleep.” sleep! “O,” you A hard say, rock “what under a him, place stones that
was to
falling down upon him, the blood streaming.
the mob howling. What a place it was to
sleep!” of slumber And yet describe my text his takes departure, that symbol
to so
sweet was it, so contented was it, so
peaceful laborious was it. life. Stephen H chief had work lived
a very i
bad been to care for the poor. How many
loaves bare feet of bread had sandaled, he distributed, how how many of
he many cots
sickness and distress he blessed with minis-
tries of kindness and love, I do not know;
but from the way he lived, and the way he
preached, and the way he died, I But kDow that he
was a laborious Christian.
is all over now. He has pressed
the cup to the last fainting lip. He
has taken the last insult from his enemies.
The last stone to whose crushing weight he is
susceptible The disciples has been They hurled. take Stephen him is dead! They
wash come up. They
away the blood from the wounds.
straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush
back the tangled hair from the brow, and
then they pass around to look upon the
cairn countenance of him who had lived
for 1 \ * t t he I , rt poor and 11 — . 1 died . J * r. J A* for — - ■ the ll. — truth. A-.. ■. A_ I_ Stephen Ls A------ 1- —__
rigging, rigging, if if about about and and wave wave rising rising- above above wave wave and and seemed seemed I I
as as to to storm storm the the heavens, lieavens. then then
hav, ‘ the tenqs-st drop, and the waves
bur^Xtoo^^^SplTter^ glories of heaven. So I have*seen
a man
xvhose life has been tossed and driven, coming
down at last to an infinite calm, in which
* neiougm.an
... da , / s a R ' ,, , ”, s f , P° vert P ,1 " d a * al “ l ’V“ ba f
dcHw t, knob Jcoffld , wh lcT, no^pTy" “was^dying y« 7 with dlins to?
debts
broinled over his piUow, and whllethe worid
f ad “ d V heaven dawned, and the deepening
i*2S*'&rr&sR jwi'ight of earth’s night was narC! only the openuig
“W™ n,„ no Mi, to ua a.
j bv‘the"b . 1a " never J-winV^of'iSie tell by the 1 wind^whethSIt setting sun whether ^ I
b,’ £air wea^ or tonl^th^r on
ro "\ But J can Prophesy, and I will
prophesy ^“’ugh^now what , weather it will be when
^ “ lt
ment, the next another mavTicU^ bereavement JSXSSSZZ Before
this year has passed you may have to beg for 1
bread, or ask for a scuttle ofcoel, ora pair of j
straw of a pauper’s hut, the wolf in the iun I
be no hand to close your |
S&TMSSH&'St odore of God’s hanging garden 55 will fS regale :
your soul, and at your bedside will halt the i
more struggle with the world, the flesh, and !
ar.r. de *' P ’ • verla * til,g
“ Asleep In Jesus, blessed wske sleep.
Prom which none ever to weep;
A calm ami undisturbed isposc,
Uninjured by the latt of foes.
" Asleep In Jeaus, far from thee
Thy kindred and their gravua may be;
But there Is still a blessed sleep.
Prom which none ever wake to weep."
You have seen enough for one morning. No
one can successfully examine more than five
pictures in a day. Therefore we stop, hav¬
ing seen this cluster of Divine Stephen Kapnaals— looking
Stephen gazing into heaven; his
at I'hrist; Stephen stoned; .Stephen in
dying prayer; Stephen asleep.
HOW IT FEELS TO BE HANGED.
rile Sensation* of an Export De-
scribed by Himself Ills Last lie-
mark.
Springer, N. M.-Theodore Baker,
who wns hanged here for the murder
uf Frank Unruh in Colfax the County,
wished to be remembered us one
American who was hanged twice for »
single erime. Tn conversation with the
Sun corresponilent a short time after he
had received word from Gov. Itoss that
tlmrewaa nohope forhimBaker said:
“ It is not tho pain that I foar at all.
I have been Jmnged, and I know what I
am talking about. What ails me is that
J don’t want to die, nnd I don’t think
I ought to. Probably if you knew
tliat in an instant you were to be blown
to nothin guess, so that youcould e*peri- would
once no suffering whatever, you it. As for
appreciate how T feel about that it is
tlm mode of death, you canaay
as good as nnv other, and it don’t need
to be too artistically hanged done, either. down hereby Why
when they me first
the railroad track I was scared half to
death. They had no modern appliances,
Hid I made up my mind that struggle they were
going to give me a terrible of it,
(nit it was nothing of the sort. The mob
swung me off from a telegraph pole like
~Tn?« r r»?
mighty nice, but still it don’t hurt as you
vvould think it would. I must havu
hung there ten or fifteen minutes befor*
the Sheriff and his posse found me and
cut me down. Of course by that time I
was unconscious, but I remembered
enough of wlmt oocured to banish any
fear that I might have of death on the
gallows. It s death m whatever form it
comes that I object to. If I have got to
go ly I had just as soon go had by the good rope deal as
tho bullet, and I by a the knife
rathm- go by the rope than
or by poison. You con say this much
for the information and comfort of all the
pool' fellows who will have to swing
when I gone. Tell them to brace up and
take it easy. They three-fourths are going of to die eas- fat
ier deaths than the
old Judges who sentence them, and who
expect to die in their beds. There liaB
been altogether to much writing and
talking on the subject of the barbarity of
the gallows. Fm in favor of abolishing
capital punishment what’s the myself, of hut being if a man too
must die, use
particular about the mode, so long as
you have got 00 a good enough 0 scheme
now?’’
Later on in speaking about his crime
and his two punishments, ono by the
mob, and the other by the law, Baker
said: “Under all the circumstances my
crime was not murder, any way. Iliad
become involved in a quarrel foolish between that
Unruh and his wife, and, as
was, it would have led to nothing more
if Unruh had not attacked me. I had to
kill or be killed. The woman swore
against me in order to save herself. She
was scared to death because afraid they
lynched me, and she was that un-
less somebody swung for the crime she
might be called on some dark night.
But whether my crime was deliberate
murder or not I think I have lieen pun-
ished enough. It is more than a year
Bince the mob lynched me, and since
that time I have lived with a rope around
my neck all the time. As I have said, to
you, my sufferings when I was being
resuscitated were greater than they three were
when I was hanging. It took effects me of the
1. months to get over the
j lynching. r • Two or tillxt H tunes Relay ,i,, v my
head would be in a whirl, and I would
lose all control of myself. Then when
I slept I would go through it again. At
had the rope once more before me. The
anxiety about the trial, and later ubmit
iny appeals, has worn on me until my
nerves are in about as bad a condition as
they wore when I was in the hospital at
B:mta Fe, and the old complaint from
which I suffered when I was recovering
from the lynching has returned again. I
havn t slept tor months without hanging
by the neck through it all. Can you
imagine what it is to be conscious all tho
time of dangling in that way? Asleep
or awake. I have a rope about my neck
and I know exactly how it feels. I think
I have had enough of it, but as I they
peein to think not in these parts sup-
pose I shall have to take some more. I
can toll you, though, that i don t want
anybody to bring me to life this time.
When 1 go out to-morrow I will know
(Sheriff just what is let coming, slide, and I will \vhen be I the tell first the
to me
man in America who lias lived a year and
a half to say that a second time to a
hangman.”
Baker had several warm friends here
who labored earnestly in his behalf, and
who regarded Ins punishment as unjust-
ly severe. He went to the rope unflinch¬
ingly, and just before the trap was
sprung, when the attendant shifted the
knot a little, lie heard Baker say:
“ .... That , , right. 'll I , have , been — — the ■ a
s in
-- -m -----
In obtaining the vast rich domain of
English Government has
come into possession, among other nat-
ura! treasures, of immense forests of
teak, which, never very plentiful in In-
rare, S,"“!"r“ and consequently nB *r o oi r increased 11 ’'
cost for industrial purposes. Of all the
WO,xls «' r °", n in the East this has ,H>e “
Prononncoil as, in some respects, the
most valuable. This superiority con-
sists in its boing neither too heavy nor
too hard; it dims not warp nor split,
mm ".I
erty tins under of preventing the wood from rot-
wet conditions, and, at the
«ame tune, act as a preservative of iron,
handsome and repels wood, insects; it is, in addition, a
of several varieties of
^ ffr ‘ iln ’ HIld tak ‘ ,# “ g<X>d P° lish '
q Shbbiff Roberts, „--------- of HortCounty.Qa.,
Was awakened from a sound sleep the
other night hv the dummy touch of a
fhe ’’“Pti'" solidly feU like a
slimv length away, U& and the Sheriff £&
«*■*. *,1 to H.,.I it.
the snake had disappeared, and after a
Jew nunotea search Mr. Roberts Wont
chicken snake six tec/ miT a
tie tween the feather bed and the
t««*.
AN INDIAN EXODUS.
The Wondrous Story of a
British Columbia Tribe.
Becoming Highly Oiviliaed, Losing Tbeir
All, and Removing to Alaska.
The coast line of British Columbia
extends nearly six hundred miles be¬
tween Alaska on tho north and Washing¬
ton Territory on tho south. At tho
northern point of this lino is Fort Simp¬
son, an old post of the Hudson Bay
company. To this fort a young Eng¬
lishman went thirty years ago, with the
chimerical purpose of Cliris-
lianizing tho savage tribos whose huts
clustered about the neighborhood. He
learned thcir i ailKUa , re ’ took up his
abode , , amon 8 ,, lhon b aa<1 a » the «.ult ,. of
Lis teaching and influence there sprung
Qp near by a new Indian village which
h «s become tho most important settle-
*
mcnt . u P on that . entlro con9t . '
The visitor to-day finds there streets
of commodious nnd well-built homos, a
sawmill and salmon cannery, ’ a school-
, ll0UM town . hail , ,, and , do.nmat , : . them ,
’ . ing
all, a gothic church, seating 1200—all
these the result of the toil of the Tsimshean
i ndlan(1 . The very name of this town,
Metlakathla, , has become household , , , ,
a
word among many of the churches of
England and Scotland as one of the
most con8picuous 1 triumphs 1 of Christian
. . Its influence, . has
missions. moreover,
affected all the tribes for hundreds of
m ii es up and down tho coast. The I
*** * >v
man » ^ ccam e magistrate for a wide terri-
tory—governed wisely, kept liquor
away from the tribos and fostered re-
| muneratlve ladu3t • , , ries • among them,
A great reverse, however, has fallen
upon this community. The province of
British Columbia, iu order to secure the
utmost , . advantage , from the ,, sale , of lunds
on the line of the proposed Canadian Pa¬
cific Railroad, has decided (hat the In-
diang havc no ri b htg in the i und . At on0
blow the results of the long years of self¬
sacrifice and toil of the Metlakathla In-
dians have been doomed. Their title
j to houses, gardens, church, town hall,
industrial plant—everything—is under¬
mined. Looking over to the forest-clad
hills of Alaska, which are in sight from
thwr .. town, it .. occurred , to . them that .. , the ,,
United States might afford them a jus-
tice which was ruthlessly denied them
in the land of their forefathers,
Their . . . recently onto
missionary came
Washington, and having received au¬
thoritative assurances that his Indians
; might have privileges of settlement and
| ownership in Alaska identical to those
j ^ , i *° . white he that
P ran et men, proposes
1 he and they shall become Americans,
j Their village is to be dismantled, their
homes torn down, their tilled gardens
deserted, and once more they are to be-
gin, in a virgin wilderness sixty miles
away , a t port Chester, the laborious task
of a new town. The natives of Alaska,
who are warmly disposed towards the
Tsimsheans, welcome their proposed ad-
vent and mny be thankful that so vto- f
° r0US „„ lmd „ A elevating . .. an influence . a is . to
reach the thirty thousand Indians of our
vast Northwest domain.—[Boston Tran-
script, 1
Ways of Getting a Light.
The lanterns of tho Greeks and Ro¬
mans contained an oil-lamp. Its sides
; were made of lavers of horn, waxed
i **•?■ Glass lanterns »“>?’• used in England
i were as
! early as 705. They were expensive,
however, and 1000 years later the tin
lantern .___ was ch , '^ . ,, m U3e amon S the
P oor people-
In the acropolis at Athens, according
; t0 a historian, was a golden ” lamp us so large
that when fi led it would burn night
and day for a year. Above it was a
bronze palm tree to carry off its fumes
and act as n reflcctol ,
; The , Chinese excel in the manufacture
j of lanterns. They have used them for
age8 . Some of their mandarins have
them * bmlt . lt at . cost . of , thousand . . o{ # do1 , ,
ft * '
l ars ei:c h. The word built is not out of
place here, for these lanterns are twenty
t0 thirt feot high and contain huQdred8
0 , c<UK , , Their sides often , of ... rich
es ' are
colored silk.
“While in West.Virginia recently,”
8tt id a traveling man, “I saw a lamp 1 that
i was primitive enough. A saucer was
filled with grease and over tho edge of it
hung a lighted wick. It spluttered some,
but made enough light to render the
darkness risible, and its heat was suf-
: ficicnt to light the pipes of the family.
It was more used for that purposo than
^ '* '
1 ^ t le oul y hght in tho house. o
Lamp comes from a Greek word
i 1 lamnas Tho candles of srrintnro p
supposed to have been lamps in whioh
i , ollvo .. 0,1 .. , burned. . The earliest
WM lamps
' i "ere shallow vessels of terra cotta, cither
round or oblong in shape. V H here was a
I ! sma „ „ °P tnm S ln tlu top ,S which , the ,
.'
j i oil was poured; at one sido was a han-
*. wren. •
i of 1 'imp is often ” ick represented w***-. in Thi pictures. >»«»
i of them
| were ornamented with
representations of war scenes or chariot-
races.-- [Chicago News.
The Largest Circulation.
What volume printed in the English
i Ian g ,lft g c v,,, has t.j had a the , largest . circulation . .
next to the Bible? Give it up? Well, it
j over 50,000,000 copies of this work have
i ?•**“
♦ ... , .
, ^ compiling his big
'
: dictionary. It is an instiuctive volume,
j although, as somebody said of the dic-
tionar y> tho story is somewhat discon- !
Sected.—[Boston Herald. ‘
FRIGHTENED ABOUT LEPROSY.
The Louisiana State Board of Health
Subdues a Panto in a (little
French Town.
At tlio request of the Mayor of St.
Martinsville, La., a committee of the
Louisiana State Board of Health visited
that town lost week to investigate of Asiatio ft ru-
nior of the prevalence there
leprosy. The rumor had caused a panio
through all the neighboring country. 300,
It was said that there were 200,
even 600 oases, and that the disease was
rapidly spreading. The fanners of the
neighborhood feured to go to Bt. Mar¬
tinsville to buy and sell, and the little
town, which called itself of old the
“Paris of Acadia," believed that its very
existence was threatened. Within the
town itself there was the same panicky People
feeling in regard to the disease.
refused to shake hands with one another
for fear of o&tching the leprosy, and men
would not goto the barbers, fearing that
tho razor might communicate the loath-
pome malady. Every one particular suspected his
neighbor. One family in isolation, were
subjected to complete them and point¬ even
their relatives deserting lepers.
ing them out as
8t. Martinsville is a sleepy town of
some 3,000 people, thoroughly French,
that language being almost universally
spoken, and tho population consisting
mainly of the descendants of those Acar
dians, immortalized by Longfellow in
“Evangeline,” who wandered here from
Nova Scotia something over uneventful a century
ago. life, until It lias from lived this a quiet quiet, of years the
leprosy panic and the visit of the Board
of Health aroused it. Under the super¬
vision of President Holt a council of fif¬
teen doctors thoroughly inspected it. Every each
of the cases brought before
one with a pimple hastened forward to
make sure of himself. One of the worst
cases, which was supposed to be a very
aggravated form of leprosy, proved The to
lie nothing but incipient boils. re¬
sult of the examination showed only
three cases of positive leprosy, the suf¬
ferers boing two married sisters and a
child of one of them. There were three
cases supposed to tie incipient, and two
others were reported as having been
moved to a hospital in New Orleans. In
tho whole town, therefore, but eight
cases could be found or heard of that
bore any resemblance whatever to lep¬ all
rosy. An examination showed that
the persons afflicted or suspected were
the descendants of a leper who came to
the jiarish from St. Domingo many
years ago. Tlio fact that thev had lived
in close communication with their neigh¬
bors, and that the husbands of the wo¬
men, who had been married for years,
were free from the disease, went to show
that it was not contagious, but heredi¬
tary. The family, concerning whose
leprosy nobody entertained a doubt,
proved to be absolutely free of the dis¬
ease.
A MINE GUARDED BY SNAKF.S.
A Modern Munchausen’s Story of a
Pursuit for Game.
A hunter, who has hunted and mined
from Arizona to the Yellowstone, and, and
who is highly esteemed for truth
veracity, was telling me that he had the
other da}'made a most wonderful dis¬
covery, of says a Routi (Col.) correspond-
ent the Denver Tribune, and that he
had seen gold that would put the United
States at a discount.
He said that when he was on top of
one of the mountains he saw that at the
bottom of a cliff he was and peering clean, over
the ground was smooth as
if deer or bear had been in’ the habit of
resting and sunning themselves there
through the heat of the early spring
days. anxious to deer have
Being with get descended a or to the a
fight a bear, ho
foot of the cliff. Peering cautiously
around for game, he was somewhat
startled at hearing the rattle of a snake.
Looking about be saw large numbers of
them lying around, while there was a
constant stream of them going into a
round hole in tho rook near the bottom
of the cliff.
Being anxious to destroy as many of
the reptiles as he possibly could, he pro¬
cured a forked stick, anil placing tlio
fork over the neck of the largest, he pin¬
ioned him to the ground; then tying a
half-dozen sticks of giant powder let to his
tail, set a slow match to it and the
snake go. After seeing his snakeship
go into his hole the hunter retreated to
a safe distance to watch developments.
He did not have slight long trembling to wait. of First the
there was a
ground, then a burst that shook the
mountain like an earthquake, and with
that burst the whole side of the cliff
toppled off nnd fell to tho ground, tnd
up went more snakes than was over
thought of by either Gulliver or Baron
Munchausen,
The face of the rock was honeycombed which
with round holes, out of snakes
were pouring like water through a knot-
hole as long as the hunter stayed, and
he stayed long enough to see many
thousand seething and hissing in their
rage and agony, when lie became weary
and left; but not until he had seen that
the whole face of the cliff was covered
with solid gold.
Forty “wealthy and cultured” Cincin¬
natians have organized “The American
Co-operative Dramatic Association,” for
the purpose of purging the stage of all
its impurities. The projectors say “it is
not a financial speculation,” and an ex¬
change suggests that “the theatre going
public will see that they are not disap¬
pointed in that respect.”
Though Shaken Like a Leaf
By the meet trivial causes, weak nerros are
easily suscep'ible of in vigoration, a term which
also mpiTiR, in this Instance, quietude. The
nervous l ave but to use Ho-tetter's Stomach
Bitters systematically to overcome that • ujrer-
scnnitlveiiess of the human »ensorluin. which
is subversive of all bodily comfort anil mental
Ira nullity, a-;d which ;ea ts most hurtfully
Up n the system. 1 lie difficulty underlying
this, a, well a, many other ailmenls, Is Imper¬
fect assimilation, no leas than Incomplete di-
ges ion of the food. In the discharge of both tho 1
digestive and asdmilatira funotiuns, tho Bt-
lore are the most potent, the most ratable aux¬
iliary. As th* body regains vigor and regular¬
ity by Its aid, the brain and nervous sy* em
are a so benefited. Per ons subject to the in-
nuei.ee inval of and malaria, dymreptic kidney* and rheumatic
tive, should, as, person* whose are ,nac-
also, use the Bitter*.
i n ^ri ,r dieTtl,e b ?e rn Ap a ^^. t ^ d -° n - AVOn
A Strong Endowment
u ronfarred , ,i
encoachraents./di**?^ Uhthe^tltblool
xsqgBz raKJxB i—
i Inhet heretofore closed to foreign truders
to.™ '
if afflicted wiih sore eyes use Dr. Isaac ThomD-
son’* Eyc-water. Druggists sell at 25c. a bottle
number 90 ' iPti0 “ 8 *“ 1886 reaol ied 161,-
^mf^HqSld^asmiff R ST ,, ‘ blft t0
Far Rickets, IHtnimm, aid Wnstta* Bla-
order* of Children,
Soott’* Emulsion of Col Liver Oil with
Hypophoaphltes, Is unequaled. The rapidity
with which children gain flesh and atrength
upon It U very wonderful. Read the follow¬
ing: “I have used Scott'* Kmulalon Incases of
Rickets and Marasmus of long a'andlng, and
have been more than pleased with the results,
as inerery case the Improvement was marked."
-J. M. Mint. M . D-. New York.
Motto for the policeman—Be sure he’s tight,
then c ub his head.
Every Woman Knows Them.
The human body la much Ilka a good clock
or watch in Its movements; It one goes too slow
or too fast, so follow all the others, and bad
time n suits; if one organ rverulon or set of functional f organs
works imp all rfectly, p follow. Hence
affect of the organa la aura to
It Is that the numerous ailments which make
womau's life miserable are the direct Issue of
the abnormal action of tire uterine symptoms—and ay stum.
For all that numerous clnas of
ovesy woman knows them—there Is one un¬
failing remedy, Ur. Pieroe’a “Favorite Pro¬
scription," the favorite of the sex.
The path of genius is not less obstructsd
with disappointment than that of Rmlmlon.
a • a • Premature decline of power 1*
either sex, however induced, speedily and per¬
manently cured. Hook for 10 cents In stamps.
World's Dispensary Medical Association, 003
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Drinking of healths originated during the
Danish occupation of Britain.
PaiOXLT Ash I1itt*rs warms up end Invig¬
orates the stomach, improves and strengthens
the digestive organs, opens the pores, pro¬
motes perspiration, and equalizes the circula¬
tion. As n corrector of a disordered system
there Is nothing to equal it.
Peculiar.
It is very peculiar that when you try Dr.
Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial you will never
suffer yourself to be without It again? It
never fails to relieve all bowel affections
and children teething.
...tea fared for *3 Cafe
Dr. Walton's curb tor Piles is gin ran-
teed to cure the worst case of piles. Price 25 :
cents. At druggists, or mailed (stamps laken) j
by the Waj.ton IliMEiir i Cleveland, 0.
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Vitality «f Great Men
Is not always in ate or born with them, but
many instances ure known where It has been
sonuired Dr. by th* nersiso-nt and Judicious use
of Harter’s Iron Tonic.
liaughtera. Wire* nnd .llolher*.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, Utica. free, N.Y j 1
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi.
Vigor and Vitality
Ar* quickly given to *rery part of tho tody by
Hood'a Saraapnrilla. That tired feeling 1> entirely
overcome. Th. hiood U purtd.d enr.ched rad
vitalized and carries health Instead of disease to
every organ. Hie etomach is toned and strength
ened, the appetite restored. The kidneys and liver
are roused and invigorated. The brain is refreshed,
th. mind made clear and . a idy for work The whol
syatem Is built up and rejuvenated by this peculiar
mcdlcine. He sure to get Hood’s.
"Hood’sSarsaparilla gave me new life and re
stored me to my wonted health and strength.”—W il-
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $ 1 ; six for $5. Prepared only
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The best and surest Remedy for Cure of
all diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation,
Bilious Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent Influence of
mm
It 1* pleasant to tho taste, tones np the
system, restores and preserves health.
It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fall to
prove beneficial, both to old and young.
s a Blood Purifier It ls superior to all
others. Sold everywhere at $1.00 a bottle.
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The treatment of many thousands of cases
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cure Fierce’* peculiar Favorite maladies.
Dr. Prescription
1* the outgrowth, or result, of this of great sn,i
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»Vn.tr.Y'xis the womb 'rsT® and its »
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a* an soothing and tonte
A* a strengthening un*
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other distressing, spasms and
monly attendant nervous functional symptoms com
upon and organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
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compounded 1* a legitimate by experienced medicine, and carefully
physician, and adapted an to woman's skillful
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composition and perfectly harmless its
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“Favorite Proscription’’ the complicated ls a poai.
five cure for most and ob-
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flammation, accompanied pain with and 14 internal tenderness heat." in ovarief,
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Xntaken
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Golden Medical Discovery, and Small laxative
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diseases. abolishes use removes
blood taints, and cancerous and
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Rough on Rats. Is m
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This U what killed your poor father Shun it.
AvAiiil anything (f) containing it older throughout heads object your
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to its special ‘ROUGHNESS.’
DON7 with FOOL powder, money borax tn*firtfle
efforts insect or
what not, used at random all over
the Roaches,^Water-bugs, house to get rid of DLL DCCTI I LEO EC /
For two or three nights sprinkle ft
about “Rough and on Rats” down dry the powder, sink, drain in,
pipe. First thing in the morning drain pipe, when
wash it all away down the sink, cellar will disap- 1
all the insects from garret to
pear. The secret is in the fact that wherever in¬
sects are in tlie house, they must BA nUfivilCO k OUCC
drink during the night. Beetles.
Clears out Rats, Mice, Bed-bugs, around Flies, the world,
“Rough on Rats ” is sold all advertised,
in every clime, is the most extensively its kind
and has the largest sale of any article of
on the face of the globe. 6 S
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