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KEY. DR. TALMGE.
YHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
SUNDAY SERMON.
[Subject: ‘‘The Present Epidemic ol
, Suicide”
Tkxt: "lie drew out hit suonl, and would
prisoners Lire killed had himself, !»en fed. /uppoafaB I 'd Oja* "**
with a lowl voice, sunny k>° thyself no
bom.’” Aotsxvi.,
Here D n would Be suicide arrested in his
deadly attempt. Ho wi s a sheriff, and ac¬
cording to Mie Roman law, a bailiff himself
must -nlTer mid the if punishment the prisoner due breaking an escape jail j
prisoner: sentenced to 1 endunceoneJ for three
was h» lie
or four years, then the sheriff must
endungoonod for three or four years; and if
the pri oner breaking jr.ll was to have
suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff
must snder capital punishment. The sheriff
had received especial charge to keep a sharp
lookout for Paul and Silas. The govern¬
ment had not had confidence in bolts and
liars to keep safe the-e two clergymen, about
whom there seemed to be something strange
and supernatural. enough, by miraculous power, they
Hurt: waking out of
are free, and the sheriff, a
sound sleep, and supposing these ministers
have run away, and knowing that they were
to die for preaching Christ, and realizing
that lie must therefore die, rather than go
under the executioner’s axe on the morrow,
and suffer public disgrace, resolves to pre¬
cipitate his own decease. But before tho
sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff
could strike his heart, one ot the unloosened
pi isouers arrests tho blade by the command:
“Do thyself no harm.”
In olden time, and where Christianity had
not interfered with it, suicide was considered
honorable and n sign of courage. Demos
thenes poisoned himself when told that Alex¬
ander’s ambassador had demanded the sur¬
render of the Athenian orators. Isocrates
killed himself rather than surrender to
Fhilip of Ma edon. Cato, rather than sub¬
mit to Julius Ceasar, took liis own life,
and after tlireo times his wounds had
-been dressed tore them open and per¬
ished. Mithridates killed himself rather
than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Han¬
nibal destroyed his life by poison from his
ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus disas¬
a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the
ter of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with
him a preparation of opium, and one night
his servant heard the ex-Emperor arise, put
something in a glass and drink it, and soon
after the groans uroused all the attendants,
and it was only through utmost medical
skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of
the opiate.
Times have changed, and yet the American
conscience needs to be toned up on the sub¬
ject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the
last month that did not announce the passage
out of life by one’s own behest! Defaulters,
alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life
precipitately. of the world Men because losing they large fortunes enduro go
out cannot
earthly existence. Frustrated affection,
domestic Infelicity, domestic impatience,
anger, misanthropy, remorse, envy-, considered jealousy, destitution,
are sufficient causes
for absconding laudanum, from this life by Paris green,
by dagger, by halter, by belladonna, by Othello's
of by leap from the abut¬
of ment felo de a bridge, in the by firearms. More cases
se last two years than any
two years of the world’s existence, and more
in the last month than in any twelve months.
The evil is more and more spreading.
A pulpit whether not long ago expressed some doubt
as to there was really anything
■wrong about quitting this life when it became
disagreeable, circles and there are found in respect¬
able people apologetic for the crime
which Paul in the text arrested. I shall
show you before I get f hrougn that suicide
is the worst of all crimes, and 1 shall lift a
waniing unmistakable. But in the early part
of this sermon I wish to admit that some
of the best Christians that have ever lived
have committed self-destuction, but always
in dementia, aud not responsible, I have ho
more doubt about their eteinal felicity than
I have of the Christian who dies in his bed
in the delirium of typhoid fever. Whilo
the shock of the catastrophe is very great,
I charge all those w ho have had Christ¬
ian friends under cerebal aberration step
off the boundaries of this life, to have no
doubt about tlieir happiness. The dear Lord
took them right out of their dazed and fren¬
zied state into perfect safety. How Christ
feels toward the insane you may know from
the kind way He treated the demoniac of (fa-
dara and the child lunatic, and the potency
with w hich he hushed tempests either of sea
or brain.
Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual
giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller.
Great for scien e and great for God. He
came of the best Highland blood, and was a
descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent
for piety and tho i are gift of second sight.
His attainments, climbing up as he did from
the quarry ami the wait of the stonemason,
drew forth the astonished admiration of Buck-
land and Murchison, the scientists, lieltj and Dr.
Chalmers, the theologian, and universi¬
ties spellbound while l-e told them the story
of what he had seen of God in the old red
sandstone.
That man did more than any being that
ever lived t > show that the God of the hills (s
the God of tho Bible, and lie struck liis tun¬
brought ing fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he
divine worship. geology uud theology accordant in
His two books, entitled
“Footprints of the Creator” and the “Testi¬
mony of the Rocks,’’ proclaimed the banns of
an ine everlasting sci marriage between genu
nco ant revelation. On thi
latter book be toiled day an 1 night
through lov ■ of nature and love of God,
until he could not sleep, and hi- brain gav«
Way, and he was found dead with a revolver
by his bullets—one side, the cruel instrument having had
two for him and the other for
the gunsmith who at the coroner’s inquest
was doubt examining of theb it and fell dead. Have Miller, von
any atifi -ation of Hugh
after liis hot brain had c. ased throbb ng that
waiter night in liis study at Portobc-llo:
Among the mightiest of earth, among the
mi j htiest of heaven.
No one doubted the piety of William Cow-
per. the author of those three great hymns,
“Ob, fora closer walk with God,” “What
various hindrances we meet,” “There is a
fountain filled with blood:’’ William Cow par,
who shares with Isaac Watts and Charle,
M esley the chief honors of Christian liymn-
ology his In hypoebroudria life, he resolved to
take own an 1 rode to the river
Thames, but found a man seated on some
goods at the very point from which he ex¬
pected to spring, and rode back to his home
and that night threw- himself upon liis own
knife,but the blade broke: and then he hanged
mmself to the ceiling, but the rone parted
No wonder that when God mercifully de¬
livered him from that awful dementia he sat
down and wrote that other hymn just as
memorable: J
God move? In a mysterious way
lli« wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the gea,
And rides upon the storm.
‘Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain;
Y God Is His own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
While tve make this merciful and righteous
allowance in regard to those who were
plunged that into mental incoherence, 1 declare
that man who, in the use of his reason,
by his own act, snaps the bond between his
body and his soul, goes straight into perdi¬
tion. Shall i prove it! Revelation xxi., 8 :
‘Murderers shall hive their part in the lake
which hurneth with fire anil brimstone.”
Key elation xxii,, 15: “Without are
dogs, and sorcerers, and whore¬
mongers, and murderers.” You do not
believe the New Testament? Then, perhaps,
you believe the Ten Commandraeuts: “Thou
slialt not kill.' Do you say all these passages
refer to the taking of the life of others! Then
I ask you if you are not as responsible for
your own life as for the life of others? God
made gave you a special trust in vour life. He
you the custodian of your life as He
made you the custodian of no other life.
He gave you as weapons with which
to aeiena it two arms to strike
back assailants, two eyes to wath
for invasion, aud a natural love of life which
ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination
of others is a mJd cr.me compared with the
assassination of yourself, because in the lat¬
ter ease it is treachery to an especial trust, it
is the surrender of a cast!e you were espe¬
cially appointed to keep, it is treason to a
natural law, and it is treason to God aided
to To ordinary murder.
show how God in the Bible looked upon
this crime, I point you to the rogue's picture
gallery in some parts of the Bible, the
pictures of the people who have committed
this uuaturai crime. Here is the headless
trunk of Haul on the walls of Bathshan.
l.en? is the man who chased little David—
ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the
man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of
Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle
instead of surrendering his sword with dig-
»«y. '*'»■*: f’ r "r iTd M “ Jsnt “do!
iH '‘.ticking : 'co^rr r<y;
r i
‘f
Braced life into the* dctdes eternity ltnue
Go is, the insrate. He Hereii with Abimeiech, pmc horn-
tical y a sui ide. is an at my,
taniing a tower, when a womntnnhe tower
takes it upon a grindstone his bead, from and with itk place what * n f life ‘l r ‘ U oa P*
haaielt in his (lacked skull he wnimanda
h,s nr in -r-Leanr: Draw thy •word and
slay me, test men say a woman sowine
There is his postmortem photograph in the
book of .Samuel, But the hero of this group
is Judas Iscariot. Hr. Honno says lie
was a martyr, and we have in our
day apologists for biro. And what
wonder, in this day when we have
a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of
virtue, ami in this day when we uncover a
statue to George Sand as the benefactress of
literature, and in this day when there are
betrayals of Christ on the part of some of
gtasrs&esslzs^® his hand hung for
Vet this mnn by own Iscariot, up
the execration of all the ages Judas
All tho good men and women of the Bible
Job, who had aright to commit suicide if
any man ever had—what with his destroyed
property, his body nil aflame with insulfera-
ble carbuncles, and everything gone from
his home except tho chief curse of it, a pas-
ste’^’ttassswt'a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a
on a in
piece of broken pottery, yet crying out
triumph: “All the days of my appointed ’
timo will 1 wait till my change come.
loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those
who have hurled themselves out of life, and
notwithstanding Christianity is against it.
8 > SWBSTStfJt'S&K alarmingly patent that suicide is W the
fact on
it! crease.
What is the cause! I charge upon Infl-
delily and Agnosticism this whole thing. If
there be no herealter, or if that hereafter be
blissful without reference to bow we live
and how we die, why not move back the
folding doors between this world and the next?
And when our existence here becomes troub-
lesome, why not pass right over into Elysium?
homes; there has never been a rase of suicide
where the operator was not either demented,
and therefore irresponsible, or an inflael. I
challenge all the ages, and I challenge the
(universe. There never has been a case of
self-destruction while in full appreciation of
his immortality and of the fact that that im-
mortality would be glorious or wretched ac-
cording as he accepted Jesus Christ or reject*
ei Vou"ay
it is a business trouble, or you say
it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it
is that, or it is the other thing. Why not
go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge abdiea-
tnat in every case it is the
A
like this life get out 'of it. and you will
land either in annihilation, where there are
no notes to pay, no pers cutions to suffer, no
a
ing to pay for it.” Infidelity always has
been apologetic for self-immolation. After
Tom Paine's “Age of Reason” was published
and widely read there was a marked increase
of self-slaughter.
A man in London heard Mr. Owen deliver
his intidel lecture on Socialism, and went
home, sat down, and wrote these words:
Jesus Christ is one of tho weakest characters
in history, and the Bible is the greatest pos-
sible deception,” and then shot himself.
David Hume wrote these words: “It would
be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the
Danube from its natural bed. Where then
can be the crime their in my diverting channel!” a few drops And
of blood from ordinary
S»C8al‘WPS.5*T'&J?4 admiration, shot himseif.
thanks and and
Appendix Rousseau, to the Voltaire, same book. Gibbon, Montaigne,
under certain circumstances, were apologetic
tor self-immolation. Infidelity puts up no
bar to people’s rushing out from this world
into the next. difference They teaeh us it does not
make any how you five here or go
out of this world, you will land either in
an oblivious And nowhere or a glorious end some-
where. infidelity holds the upper of
the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol
with which a man blows his brains out,
and mixes the strychnine for the last
swallow. Jf infidelity majority could carry the day this
and persuade that it the does make of people difference in
country not any
how 5 t ou go out of the world you will land
safely, the Hudson and the East river would
be so full of corpses the ferryboats would be
impeded in tlieir progress, and the crack of a
suicide's pistol rumble would be no more alarming
than the of a .street c ar.
I have sometimes heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was a Christian
or not. I do not know, but l know that lie
considered appreciation of a future existence
the mightiest hindrance to self-destruction:
“For who could bear the whips and scorns of time.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man s contumely,
Tho pangs of despVd iove. the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodk n? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death—
The undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveler returns—puzzles the will?”
"VTould God that the coroners would be
brave in rendering the right verdict, and
when in a case of irresponsibility they say:
“W idle this man was demented he took liis
life;” in the other case say: “Having read
infidel books and at! ended infidel lectures,
which obliterated from this man’s mind all
appreciation of anything like future retri¬
bution, Ah! he committed self-slaughter! ’
Infidelity, In the stand up of and God take and thy sen
tence! presence angels
and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip
blasted with lust, with thy blasphemy, breath thy foul cheek with scarred
the
corruption of the ages! Stand up
Satyr, tions, leper filthy of goat, the buzzard centuries! of the Stand na¬
up, thou mobster Infidelity! Part
man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, hands
sift nd up and take thy sentence! Thy
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed, thy feet crimson with the human
gore through which thou hast waded,stand up
and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the
pit thou ami sup on the sobs and groans of families
has blasted,and roll on the bed of knives
which thou hast sharpened for others, and
let thy music be the everlasting miserere of
those whom thou hast damned! 1 brand the
forehead of infidelity with iast all the crimes of
self-immolation for the on the
part of those who had their reason.
abrasions My friends, and if ever your life through its
its molestations, should seem
to be unbearable, and you are tempted to
quit it by your own behest, do not consider
yourself as worse than others. Christ him¬
self was tempted to cast Himself from the
roof of the Temple, but as He resisted,
so resist ye. Christ came to medicine
all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe
fife instead of death. People who have had
it worse than you will ever have it have gone
songful on the way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology of your life with as
much precision as He keeps tho chronology
of nations, your death a< well as your cradle,
night, Why was it that at midnight, just at mid-
the destroying angel struck the blow
that ret the Israelites free from bondage!
it SieWe oVto^tEt night y y The four r hun-
died and thirty years were not up at eleven,
and late. one o’clock would have and been tardy and
too The four hundred thirty years
were up at twelve oclock, and thedestroymg free.
angel snifssrrarttsKtass struck the blow and Israel was
His grace make not the worst of things, but
the best of them. If you must take the pills,
do n >t chew them. Your everlasting re-
chain SS&Si of gold SZicSSdS'n’ESSir. heavy had been
as as a
chain of iron. For the asking—and tins august 1 do not
Know to whom 7 speak In assem-
Wage, but the word may he especia y ap*
the * sat neg race that wisgiv™°to theTtafiln
martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest
of dungeons, date! his letter from “the de-
*iSl*£SSi?.X,'5£?!*£i£%; lectable orchard of the l^eomne pri.ond’
important rim, and close up to that rim is a
great eternity, and you had better keep out
b w»t^^
earth, do not rush Integrator sorrows. To
J* rid of a swarm of m""*” 0 * leap
Thin’ is ^"otowl^ woild^nd it is ■o ra-
“nd' d th y - 8 auro^hal be il K °hU
s^^Tv* KTMSla*
rsas
ssTOSSriszrL'Stssa wh do that thing, want
chrJst o cams to divinely arranged, w,>
to ff j n ut just the divlnoly time spread, and then
J™ ftn( J™ rom n ( 0 u<h gates’behind
of the sepulchral by the clang of the us
W1 n of overpowered ttlu i;j | before O God,
^atetfer njn _ BO p t , ar us. give
others may . hooso, me a
^ a christian - 9 denth , ft chrls-
, burial, a Christian’s immortality I
JOHNNY’S BRAVE DOG M AJOR.
The Faithful Animal Hared Him
from Death in a Blizzard.
[Huron (Dak.) Special to St.Paul Glolie 1
Tb.aauu;.f ««,>»« ««raoi.r.n.
12 arc yet fresh in the minds of all, and
[bo story of little Johnny Chambers,
jyj),, with his father endured much the pitiless
will he read with interest.
Ho was m the faithful city a few Bernard days since, dog,
sad with his Ht.
Major, had his photograph taken. It
will lie remembered that on the event-
ful afternoon of ,Tnn. 12, Robert Cham-
** Past of ,*** Huron, went With ,?"? Ills two ° o ± sous
to water some stock. The storm came
up and the father sent the older boy,
who was iu quite delicate health, home
» liorfiebiiok, SM, .but he .»d the
younger son, Johnny, could The elder drive boy the
stock homo in safety.
reached home all right, but the father and
roun yr « ** A '*»'
mutdonng about for several Mr. hours Ciiarn- aud
linding they were freezing, and he and
hers dug a place in the snow the night,
Johnny prepared to spend v-ov
„ lle "tapped t,;„ his coat about the b \,
and endeavored to keep lumself warm
by exercising With them was a large
$t. Bernard dog which also made its
1)( ,q with t ] lem in the snow. Several
‘he Johnny awoke and
talked with lus father whom he knew was
freezing. Mr. Chambers assured his son
(hat though he might perish, God would
‘»e r,„. loi i ins ; i boy. 1 Kinallv many’ tlrnv tiu j nraved piayeu
together and soon aftei waid the father
expired. watch
The dog kept close to night, the corpse keep-
ant ( Johnny all through the brave
ln « the wolves from the body of the
man. 1 he boy, however, supposed the
Jog was barking at other dogs, and did
uo t realize their danger. When mor.i-
i n g dawned, Johnny was so embedded
i» tbc anoiv that h«' coni,I not got out.
It was late m the forenoon when the un¬
fortunates were found—Mr. Chamber’s
( j ea ,{ body lying half buried in the snow,
JoX„ Uy vvh.-.lly out„f „i K l.t,.„a It tho, by f,attu- his
ful dog standing guaid. was
continued barking that the spot was dis-
covered. When the young man who
the body of Mr. Chambers was
lifting ** it* *„ he T heard a voice saying: Ins “ bad Who
kre you 1 In affright . , , , he let O o
and the question was repeated. He
then discovered Johnny completely
covered in the snow, with only a small
t erttniiig t i : put i e to t , k. ep nom f rom smo smoiner ther-
l!| g- The boy was only slightly frozen, The
anil is now wholly recovered,
noble dog Major is especially dear could to the in-
Chambers family, and nothing him.*
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Fat Boy (from the Museum, who is
not looking for the worst of it, drops
into a tailor shop unnoticed)—“Did I
understand you to say you would make
me this suit for |2">;”
Tailor (who thinks he has struck a
sucker)—“Yes. sir; V ve only one price.”
J at Boy—“Well, I will take this; yon
can take my measure.”
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Fat Boy—“Well, I’m ready, sir.”
Tailor (who has been taken in) —“Ex¬
cuse me, sir; you have made a mistake.
This is a tailor shop; we don’t cover
balloons. You will find a sail-loft on tho
next square. — Cineinna’i Enquirer.
Mistakes About Rats ami Sharks.
Capt. Powell, late master of the hark
Gray Eagle, in speaking yesterday to a
Herald representative, turned some of
the old sailors’ superstitions bottom up-
warn. - Capt. Powell said that tho im-
presston that rats would leave a sinking
eliip was in altogether fallacious. If the
ship was the ocean, an ordinary rat
h a ™ fe ® try to swim to a
shore . hundreds of miles distant,
“That sort of thing, he somewhere said, “might
work in Bear Creek or up
the head of tile Potomac, but it's durned
| foolishness to *»,&.y»W tell me that anything liv-
.»• posed ***•■ bo smkm before the thing
to is
actually sunk.”
Capt. Powell also stated that it was a
<YT 011 h 1 ® back before he opened I„r„. 111 s
mouth wide enough to swallow a man.
He said the mate of a vessel which ho
one© commanded accidentally fell OWT'
hoard near the mouth of the Amazon
River, and that a shark swallowed him
without even making any effort to turn.
over . The cat,tain said that the shark
caught.le* hoot. I.Ict,« i,,t upon
dissect'ng in the its anatomy the mate was
found fish’s stomach. The mate
j Mi y intact. -Hal-
quaint and cukious.
Romo is called the Nameless City.
Tho boomerang is a weapon of de¬
fense in Australia.
Tho only usofu! product of tho Saha¬
ra In Africa is ealt.
Hokutal, a Japanese author, ha* pub>
llshed a new novel in ninety volumos.
Many lines of railway now liavo in¬
valid choirs at tlioir station* for tho uso
of pooplo who need thorn, free of charge.
Tho brougham, a popular vehicle
which take* its namo from Lord Broug.
ham who adopted it, was inventod in
1839.
Abram Shaw, a Canadian customs of¬
ficer, made a successful trip through
the Cotoau Rapids in the St. Lawronco
River.
Tho doaf ofton hear conversations
whon there is music going on, which
they could not hoar when there was no
music.
Tho habita of chewing tobacco and
taking snuff are both falling into dis¬
use in America; slowly, perhaps, but
surely.
A Blackfoot Indian recently covered
a distance of niaety miles per day for
four days on foot, and his sole diet was
dried beef.
Quills are said to have been first used
for pens in 5G3; although some author¬
ities givo thi year 635 as the date of
their introduction.
Wo havo at least one big volcano in
this country. It is Mount Wrangel in
Alaska. Sometimes the smoke rises 60,.
900 feet above its crater.
A recent invention as a canvas not
swung from tho ceiling for lifting an
invalid whom it is dangerous to move,
whilo his bed is being made up.
Many of the best fashion-plates are
now engraved from actual photographs
of models who poso in tho garments, to
mike tho pictures as life-liko aspossi-
ble.
The city of Havana in Cuba handles
tho most sugar, New Orleans the most
cotton, and Louisville, Ky., has the
largest market for leaf tobacco in tho
world.
Two citizens of Harris county, Ga.,
have each become the other’s father-in-
law. They lost their first wives by
death, and for a second wife each mar¬
ried the other’s daughter.
A wagon road to tho top of Pike’s
Peak, which has been in course of con¬
struction for some timo past, was com¬
pleted a few days ago; tourists may now
rido all tho way to tho top.
A well-known criminal who is now
serving a term in a New York prison
has two cats in his cell. He wears a
gray uniform with black stripes, and
the cat3 arc gray with black stripes.
There is a curiosity at J. J. Buchheit’s,
Sanford, Fla., in tho shape of a “potato
bug, ” as it is callod. Its length is 4
feet, width across tho back 41-4 inches,
snout 3 inches long, height 10 inchos,
weight 3 1-4 pounds.
Tho largest boy in Amorica is said to
be Master Melbourne Grubb of Wythe-
ville, Penn, Ha measures 47 inches
around the waist, 44 around the chest,
24 around the thigh, and 13 around the
muscle of the arm. He is five feet two
inches high, weighs 210 pounds and is
ten years old.
Just what punishment ought in jus¬
tice to be meted out to Lawrerice Rus¬
sell of Springfield, Mo., is a question.
Ho has been arrested for shutting up
his ten-year-old boy in a box four feet
high and making him stand bent over
in it for five hours; also for tying tho
boy to a plank and smearing molasses
over his face so as to attract flies to tor¬
ture him.
Two farmers near Bowling Green,
Ky., came upon n drove, or flock, or
herd of weasels in the woods tho other
day. There were thirty or forty of the
little follows, and they seemed to know
that there is strength it numbers, for
they evinced no fear at the approach of
tho men, but drew up in solid mass and
showed fight so determinedly that thj
farmers didn’t molest {Item.
Vegetable History.
Judea was famous not only for its
“gardoa cf cucumber?,” but for tho
groat sizo of its radishes. The Talmud
speaks of a fox hollowing out a radish
of Judea for its lair. Tho Greeks
eff red radishes of gold, beets of silver
and turnips of lead to Apollo at Delphi.
They usually boiled their radishes, and
the French peasants at the present day
roast them under ashes.
Radishes suggest 'cttuce, which has
an equal antiquity. The Hebrews ate
it with their paschal lamb, and it was a
favorito vegetable with tho Greeks and
R mans. Axistoxenus, the philosopher
and gastronomist, watered his lettuces
with the rarest wiao. Cabbage used to
bo endowed with marvelous medicinal
and nutritive virtues. Cato considered
the red kind to be a euro for drunken-
ness, and sai 1 that “by the U3e of cab¬
bage alone Rome had done with ut
phy-teians for COO years." Cau iflowor
was also abundantly Cultivated. Both
it and cabbage were plentiful in Eng¬
land in Miry’s reign.
Th) onion was once the deity by
whom the E „>yptians swore. The mother
of Apollo was particularly fond of this
esculent, and preferred it raw. Leeks
are probablo indigenous to England-
Garlic is dear to tho Spanish heart.
Parsley, a few leaves of which eaten
raw will effectually neutralize tho odot
, of the onion, is well known in history,
Bv Y Anacreon Anacre0n it was inndn made tho the oml.te™ emblem
of joy and festivity. Horcules wai
crowned with it m pre.eronco ,, , to laurels, , ,
and a wreath of parsley was one of th«
j priz,!9 nt tho N — Bad
i g(ime ,_ _ [Toronto G;obe<
THE IdtMint OF CHICAtiO.
He Wm a Coal Black Negro front
tlio Island of San Dotulugo.
[From tho Chicago Times.]
Tho namo of tho real foumlor of Ohio-
ago, which iias been left unsung by the
proud into oblivion, Caucasian is hereby and permitted rescued. to It drift
was
Jean Baptiste au 8uble, and its owner
was a San Domingo negro, with com¬
plexion as black ns the character of the
tiend who would attempt to bribe au
Alderman with a block of imaginary
Btock in a mythical railroad. The name
gave rise to a suspicion of Trench blood
tu Jean’s featuro veins, but tliore it, and was nothing doubt
in any to show no
he was an Afrioau of the purest type.
He had in his mind wilderness, the founding and of be¬ a
great lieved empire commingling in the of and
that a negro
Indian world—large would produce brain the typical uud invin- race
of the in
cible in war. He had doubtless beard
legends of the most famous of hia race,
Hannibal, who, descending the Nile,
crossed into Europe, and after over¬
throwing tho Roman legions ndvauced
upon the “Mistress of the World” with
a myriad of men. In order to do this,
too, it was necessary to march his hosts
across the Alps, and this wps accom¬
plished in a manner so superb that the
later effort of Napoleon was but a feeble
imitation.
It is certain, however, that Au Sable
had dreams of power and empire. He
thought first to ingratiate himself with
the neighboring tribes of Indians,
eventually consolidate them, and be¬
come chief of a great nation. Asa pre¬
liminary step, and prospected to provide through¬ for a
future capital, wilderness, ho and with
out the vast pro¬
phetic vision chose this as the locality.
Nothing could change this determina¬
tion, and despite the wiles and blandish¬
ments of real estate dealers at Marquette
and Fort Clark (now Peoria) he took
possession in 1799 of a strip of ground
lying north of the river and extending
from what is now Clark street to the lake,
Thereon he built a hut and proceeded
to negotiate. whits before and
Like many a man
since, Jean seems to have a great head
for schemes, but a poor one for diplo¬
macy, and after two or three years ol
incessant toil and increasing faded intrigue
his vision of power away. Lo
was suspioous, and would have none of
it, and this distrust of his motives
seems to have broken the adventurer’s
spirit, as ho soon abandoned his claim;
and being desirous of ending his life as
soon and easily as possible Peoria, located on
the Illinois river near where he
soon died of break back ague. Thus
ended the dreamed of-empire and per¬
haps obviated the neoessitv of civil
rights law enabling white people to en¬
ter negro hotels and theatres in Chic-
cago.
Fertilizers.
“There is no fertilizer that possesses the
property of attracting and retaining
moisture in such marked degree that its
application will absolutely discount the
effects of a drought. Kainit, on account
of the common salt it contains, is sup¬
posed to conserve or attract has and retain
moisture. Land plaster the same
property. But neither of these can be
pr fitably used in such quantity as to
produce any very decided drying. effects iti pre
venting the soil from It is said
of such fertilizers that they ‘tend’ to
preserve practically moisture, but the tendency does
not amount to much. Deep
{'reparation, thorough underdraining,
rapid surface culture and plenty of humus
are the great practical conservators of
moisture in the soil. Very thirsty soils
should be plowed deeply (but not turned
over) before planting, the surface should
be kept as nearly level as possible, the
rows run on a level, and a dry crust
should never be permitted toferm after a
rain.”— Atlanta , Oa., Southern Cultivator.
Brave Women.
“A young young widow, of good
looks, good sense an 1 experience, slyly
suggests ‘that the coming convention of
old maids (tlie Ameiican.«3iiwtaa t)'a S qf .
ftage Association convenes in Cincinnati
about the middle of November,) will be
a rare market for achey elderly gentle¬
men.’ Those who have long s nee sown
their wild oats, passed the heyday of life,
and are now all ready to sail into any con¬
venient h rbor for repose and repairs.
Nearly every old maid in the country
will be found to have served in her early
youth a full apprenticeship at rubbing
rheumatic joints, and they are capable of
‘standing to’ a bottle i f liniment and
flannel rag, long afler the bravest of men
have deserted th'dr cons .”—Little Itoclc
Ark., Woman's Oirmide.
A Woman's Way.
Miss Amanda Delmas is one of the
most succes-ful sugar planters in Louis¬
iana. Bite is a creole, and was brought
up to a life of indolence until the wheel
of fortune took a backward turn, and sho
was thrown upon her own resources.
To the surprise of her friends she took
the situation by the horns, and under-
took tho management of the plantation
that belonged to her. Every morning
Miss Delmas may be seen riding horse-
bark wt h a big sun-shade over her head,
inspecting the gangs of workmen ou her
estute.
Gen. Lew Wallace is what is known
as a b se hall crank. He says that he
wrote hi- life of Harris >n in thirty days
and went to every ball game pluyed iu
Indianapolis during that period.
Proof Bi tter Thau Assertion.
With such proof as the following letter from
W. H. Dean, of No. 278 Seventh street. New
York, it is not necessary to make the bare as¬
sertion that Allcock’s Porous Plasters cure
lumbago. Mr. Dean says:
Some ten days ago 1 was taken with a very
violent pain in the small of my hack. It was so
severe that I could hardly breathe; every move¬
ment caused great agony. I finally found out
It was lumbago. Being entirely helpless, a
friend sent out to a druggist and got two All-
cock’s Porous Plasters; these were well
warmed and applied to my back, one above the
other. In half an hour, to my great delignt
and surprise, I found the pain began to abate.
In two hours I was able to walk out and attend
to my business, the pain being almost gone.
Next day I was all right, but continued wear¬
ing the plasters for a week.
B smart*k has sent to Philadelphia for a
iosien pairs of ca nvass back ducks.
Very Sensible ** Jap*.”
In Japan the old-school physicians are per¬
mitted to wear only wooden svords. This is a
gently sarcastic way of expressing the opinion
that they kill enough people without using
weapons. But the druggist who introduced
Dr. Pierce’s Oolden Medical Discovery into the
Empire, that all carries who n tine steel blade. It was found
coughs, tried this wonderful remedy for
skin and colds, liver consumptive tendencies, blood,
tion, greatly benefited. troubles, were, without excep¬
id have The Mikado himself is
en to “toned up’* his system by its use,
and the tin porter was therefore permitted
the exceptional honor of wearing the eword of
the nobility.
method Advices of from killing Australia show that. Pasteur’g
rabbits is successful.
Hiamalnit and Kmbroldevr.
"Von. Liis*ie, like I Ilk* to do fanoy work, but I
haven’t felt trying that pattern—or any.
thing eise*-for pains a week. killing These me!” awful ‘dragging, know
down’ are just *‘l how
you feel, and I can tell you where to look far
relief. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a
certnin cure for all those peculiar weaknesses
and of distressing prolapsus, ailments. and Why! of it lady even friends cured
mo many my
have been cured of various grave maladies pe¬
culiar to our sox by tills wonderful medicine.”
It positive is the only guarantee medicine from sold the by druggists,nndel- manufacturers,
a will
that it give satisfaction in every cose, or
money refunded. Bead garantee on bottle
wrapper.
Tiiere Is one crop that never falls. It belongs
to the chicken.
Consumption, Memfoi'n, t.'eueral
Dibility, WAsIkNU Diseases of Childiiek,
Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, oanbeeureil
hy IJver the Oil use of with Scott’s Hy pophoephites. Emulsion of Prominent Dure Cod
physicians read use tho It and following, testily to T Its used great Boott’s value,
pease Emulsion for obstinate ough with Hemor¬
an t
rhage, Loss of Appetite, have Emaciation, Sleep¬
lessness, believe &c. Emulsion All of these has saved now left, of and well I
your a case
developed Consumption.”—T. J. FlMDLEV, M.
D., Lone Star, Texas.
Bad men excuse their faults; good men will
leave them,
Do Not Think for a Moment
That catarrh -will in time wear out. The theory
is false. Men try to believe it because it would
lie pleasant if true, but it 1 b not, as all know.
Do not let an acute attack of cold In the head
remain unsubdued. It Is llaole to develop into and
catarrh. You can rid yourself of the cold
avoid all Remedy. chance of If catarrh already by afflicted using ur. tiage’s
Catarrh this troublesome rid your¬
self of disease speedily by the
same means. At all druggists.
The onslumes made by Worth, worn by Mrs.
Brown-Potter, the actress, fill 10 large trunks.
Conventional “ Motion ” Resolutions.
Ry IFhereas, Co.). The M non Route (L. N. A. & O.
es res to make it known to the world
at link large of Pullman that it forms the double connecting
tourist travel between the
winter cities of B’lorida a d the summer re¬
sorts of the Northwest; and
J Vherea*, Its “rapid transit” system Is tin-
surpa sed, its eleg -nt Pull nan Buffet sleeper
and Cliair car service between (hleagoand
equal Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati un¬
ed; and Its
Whereat, be It rates are as low as the lowest;
then
trip Resolved, it is That, in the eveht, of starting on a
Cornnek, pood Gen'l polity to con ultwiti K. 0 . Mc-
Pass. Agent, Mcnon Route, 185
Dearbor i St.. Chicago, for full partleul rs. (In
any event send for a Touriet Guide, enclose 4c.
postage . 1
A Regulator.
A few Hamburg Fig- willctiro the worst
cases of constipation atm indigestion, and their
occasional use will prevent the recurrence of
these troubles. 25 oonts. Dose one Fig. Mack
Drug Co., N. Y.
Diseases Peculiar to Women, especially
monthly disorders, are cured by the timely
us of Bradflei Ds Female Regulator.
eiul&lif Vi
ACTS AT THE SAME TIME ON
THE NERVES,
THE LIVER,
THE BOWELS, -
and the KIDNEYS
This combined action gives it won¬
derful power to cure all diseases.
Why Are We Sick?
Because we allow the nerves to
remain weakened and irritated, and
these great organs to become clogged
or torpid, and poisonous the humors blood that are
therefore forced into
should be expelled naturally.
"
Paine’S | CELERY
COMPOUND •
WILL CURE BILIOUSNESS. PILES, ‘4
CONSTIPATION. KIDNEY COM- n
PLAINTS. URINARY DISEASES,
FEMALE WEAKNESS, RHEUM A-
TISM. NEURALGIA. AND ALL
DISORDERS, ■
NERVOUS
By quieting and strengthening the •
nerves, and causing free action of the •V
liver, bowels, and kidneys, and restor¬
ing their power to throw off disease.
Why suffer Bilious Tains and Aches 1
Why tormented with Piles, Constipat : on1
Why frightened over Disordered Kidneys?
Why endure nervous or sick headaches?
Why have sleepless nights?
Use Paine's Celery Compound and
rejoice in health. It is an entirely vegeta*
remedy, harmless in ail cases.
Sold by all Druggists. Price % 1.00*
Six for fy.OO.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO.,Proprietors,
nfiitfyfrfr vt.
Log Cabins, lacking elo-
gance, were yet comfortable
homes. Health and happi-
ne'S were lound in them.
The best of the simple rem-
I edits used are given to the
........ world in Warner s Log
i < | !isicT!P Cabin Remedies made hy
Warner of Safe Cure fame. Regulate
the regulator with Warner’s Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla.
CREAM ely’s BALM CatarrH
1 suffered from “
most ing. My daily. nose Since bled ^yHAYF^VER *' 1 * 1
JRyvJHM’ (
first day's use of
Cream Balm have hadaSm j
no bleeding, the
ness is entirely gone
D. the Boston O. Davidson, tvith^
Budget. »
A particle is applied
Into at druggists: by mail, registered, HAY-FEVER
ELY BROTHEKS, 80 (n-ntH.
63 Warren St„ New York.
5 Ki Hi Rs
' a e:
iiy. v
Tin FISTULA
and a 1 Rectal Dise-ino 8
treated by a painlews pr<»‘
cesR. No loss of time from
business. No knife, ligature
iliU or caustic A radical chhi
guaranteed in evory case
treated. Reference given.
Dr. R. G. JACKSON, 42*
Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
\V DETECTIVES anted in
In our Secret cverv Service, County. Shrewd men to act under instruction!
(experience not necessary. Particular* free.
uraanan Detective Bureau Co.W Arcade,CinciaaatLO.
WANTED TSi V w.:. 4 «_ in this looa ity. Y.
New and Second-Hand Machinery.
He Mill are Outfits, Headquarters Portable for Corn Enpin-s, and Rollers, Mill Saw MUMoncs. hulls, Shingle Rolling and Clovis, ,J‘u!«
( otton >eed Wheat ,
JJullers and G’t incUtrs, Belttt g, Saivs, Btphtp, *
Planwrl^i!* ^a^’St.’aiSftR'fWtrusjs^ 0 * f° n Machinery, we have a large atoek of Reeond-Hand ssBrsjritsAstlr.r*' Engines. Boilers, Shingle
teB uaaae
A 110 X i*n**et It
s' Wh»ra < Id
(hat iieanflml Aantef u«w
Water-color,
v* - *■
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«s fc Detnorest'n Month-
I fly MauMlne. thinks mmub Ne
■ \ \ Biy SI everyone
\ P for paid it, trom when (StotlO
|\\\\ PE tact is, it the
fllhVAuRWS? e P nothin*; fori cost con? rue
ju, W(l‘ yn'-wiJtfe! g,*. 1 worth ' l(l ‘ r ra y Magazine
times what I used four,or live
|3 of pay for Ik 1 but lo buy at least
worth patterns a year, now each one
Of my Mataalnes contains au order entitling
me to any pattern of any size I WHnt. I there¬
fore gel my plo.uresfree.my patterns free, and
a Magnilno besides, that my all whole family
anxiously watch for. Ho wa are pleased. If
you send 10 cts. to the publisher, W. Jennings
Demon st, 15 E. 14th St„ N. Y., you will
receive a specimon number, and you will cer¬
tainly lose nothing, fur in it you wiu ilnd a
pattern order worth 80 cunts) \vnicl) If you do
not care to use, you C an pass over to nie, and I
will aiVo Vbu the 10 cents that you paid for tlio
specimen copy for It.
CAUTION
Beware of Fraud, an my name ami (lie prtee
•re staoea stamped before on the bottom of nil iriv advertised
the leaving the factory, which protect
If a wearers dealer offers agalnut \V. high L. prices Dougin- and inter elioes lor goods.
duced price, at u re¬
and price or says he has them without my mini*
• fraud. stumped on the bottom, put him d< own as
a
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W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE ■ GENTI.EMEN. FOR
The only calf SU SEAMEFSS Slice smooth
Inshle. NO TACKS or WAX THREAD to
hurt the feet, easy as liand-seweil ami V, ILL
W. E. DOUGT.AS 84 STTOE, the original
and tom-made only hand-sewed shoes welt It time. Equals c us¬
DOUGLAS coating from $(! to $!>.
Railroad W. E. Men 88.50 POLICE SHOE.
and Letter Carrier* all wear them.
Smooth Inside as a Hand-Sewed Shoe. NoTuckt
er Wax Thread to hurt the feet,. , Unexcelled
for W. L. DOUGLAS Best 83.B0 SHOE Is
\V. heavy Wear. Calf Shoe for the price.
L. DOUGLAS *«.«5 DORKING-
MAN’S SHOE is the best In the world for
rough wear; one pan oiirht to wear n man a year.
XV. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE FOR HOYS
Is the best School Shoe in the world.
XV. L. DOUGLAS 81.73 YOUTH’S School
Shoe best shoes gives in the the small world. lloys a chance to wear the
All made In Congress, Button and Lace. If not
sold bv vom dealer, write XV. L. DOUGLAS,
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White Lead, Red Lead, Litharge, Orange
Mineral, Painters’ Colors and Linseed Oil.
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0. S. Stwtoi Scalts.
VfflU Sent on trial. Warranted. Freight
paid. Fully
3 TON $35.
Other Illustrate! size- proportion- C.ulcgu.
ately low. Agents well paid.
free. Mention this Paper. Binghamton, N.
OSGOOD & THOMPSON, *•
Full Pearl, ’ Vf $1.00
Finest Four Steel. Blades,
VTegui •rantetiUb*
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