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n C. STiTTPN, Editor and Prop’r. DR. TAMAGE'S SERMON. RUM THE WORST ENEMY OF THE WORKING CLASSES. Text: “He that carnoth wages earnotti Wages to put it iu a bag with holes.” Hag gai, i., 5: In Persia, during the reign of Darius Hystaspes, tue peoj>le did not prosper. They made money but they could riot keep it. They Were like a mhn who lifts a sack W hich he puts money into, not knowing that the sack has been torn or worm-eaten, or is in some way incapacitated 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 its tb*prophet tint* it' He that. tSarneth Wages earnout wages to put, it iu a bag with holes.” What has become of the billions and billions of dol lars paid fts wages to the working classes <>t this country! Many of tho moneys have gone for the purchase of wardrobes, for tbe purchase of hrinlostertdS) fob tl'e support Os families, for the education of children, for the meeting of tho necessities of life, for pro viding comfort for time of old age, and rightly spent, Chri.tianly spent. W hat has become of the other billions and billions Os t he wages paid to tho w orking classes of this country? Many of then! fooliehjv wasted, wasted at gaming tableo, wasted In intoxi cants, put into a bag with n hundred holes, (lather up the moneys that have limn spent by the working classes of this country during the last thirty yea s for rum and tobacco, and I will build for tho workingmen, every workingman, a house, surrounding il. with a garden, clothing his sons in broadcloth ami ins daughters iu silks, standing at his front door tt praMeing span of htlys.br Sorrels, and insuring his life so that his place can be kept up after his death. If in the city of 'Brooklyn the people have expended $17,000,- 000 in one year for strong drink, and one half of that money has been spent by tho wage earning classes, then one-half the wages of this city has gone for rum. 1 stand before the Christian church and before the American people to-day to deleave that the most persistent and overwhelming enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is a worse enemy than monopoly,it is a wore enemy than associated capital, it is the pest of the century, aud has boycotted and is boy cotting the body, mind and soul of American industry. It snatches away a large percent age of the wages of litis country. It meets the laboring man and operative on bis way to work in the morning, with baleful solici tations, and at the noon sped aud in lit ■ eventide and on Saturday witen the wages are paid it takes much of that which ought to go for the support of the family and sa arrives it. lo the taloou keeper. Wo have now in these cities saloons that have what they call free lunch, aud for Scents Hie laboring man may have his glass of intoxicating liquor and one or two articles of food, and you wonder how tho saloonist can afford that. I will tell you how ho af fords it. The laborer does not stop with one glass or one cup. llis thirst is kindled and he drinks on and drinks on and becomes a patron of that establishment, and drinks mere and more until he goes into tho grave, and his wife and children go to tho poor house. Within 300 yards of old Sands Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn—that Gibraltar of Christianity, that fortress of Godliness and the truth decade after decade, (hat old historical church, in w hich John Summer iiehl thundered on righteousness, temperance and -judgment to coine—within 300 yards of old Sands Street Methodist church, there aro to-day fifty-four drinking saloons aud an application for another. It I Ims been estimated that if the groggeries and the rum shops of this country were put side j by side they would make a solid block from j New York to Chicago. The liquor traffic is J gathering up its forces and crying out: "For ward march! take possession of the ballot box, take possession of the city halls, take possession of the Legislatures,take posse siou of the Congress of the United States. < apture the whole law for intoxication.” Will you tell me what chance there is for the laboring ( lasses of this country while this iniquity progresses a; it does? The rum traffic pours the vitriolic,damnable stuff down the throats of hundreds of thousands of tho working class,and while a strike injures both employer \ and employe, I this day proclaim a universal ; strike against strong drink, whirii strike if kept up will release the working class and be i the salvation of the nation. Any healthy man in America, if he will be industrious for j twenty years aud abstain from strong drink, j and be saving, may be his own capitalist on a small scale. This country spends annually j in strong drink one billion, five hundred mil lion and fifty thousand dollars. A largo part of that money is expended by the laboring j classes. In Great Britain there are expended i anui ally one hundred million pounds, or five hundred million dollars. Oh, workingmen of America, whether you sit in this house to day, or whether these words shall in some ! other way coine to you, I ask you to sit down an 1 add up how much you have expended during your lifetime for rum and tobacco, and' then ask your j fellow workmen how much they have \ expended for rum and tobacco, aud add it all j up cud realize that by co-operative associa tion you might have been your own capitalist, j instead of answering the beck aud whim of j of others. Anything that takes from the ; working classes of America their physical strength is a robbery. Now, a man who stimulates has not as much energy and phys- ! ical endurance as a man who refuses to stimulate. My father told me how he be came a tcmjieiance man. He said: “I be came a temperance man when everybody \ drank, because of what I saw in the harvest j field, where I found that though I was phys ically weakerthan oth -rnrr-n liecaiiseof long sickness, I could endure more than my com rades in the harvest field: I could work harder ar:d work longer, and 1« less fatigued at night: they took stimulants, I took none.” A brick maker in England, having in bis : employ many men. investigated the subject, j ana he gives as the result of his investigation: ‘The freer drinker who made the fewest bricks made 1159,000. The abstainer who made the fewest bricks made 740,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger, 87,000.” There came a time of great weari ness in the British l arliament and the sessions were so long, and from week to week, that nearly a 1 the members of the Parliament were either sick or worn out. Os the 033 members only two went through undamaged. They were teetotalers. In time of war, soldiers who go forth with wa'er or coffee in the canteen can inarch longer and make braver fight than the soldi* rs who carry whisky in the canteen. Hum is a great help for a man to fight if he has only one con testant and that at the street corner; but if a man goes forth to fight for God and his country, be wants no rum about hirn. When the Kasdan army goes out a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of eac h ' soldier, and if there be in the breath the j slightest suggestion of liquor the man is sent ba-k to the barracks. Why? He cannot stand the battle, he cannot stand the march. All our yonng men understand this. When thev are preparing for the regatta, for the ball club, for til- athletic wrestling, they abstain from strong drink. It is most irn jk,riant that all my friends who are tolling with hand and foot and brain understand they can do more work Without rum than they can do with it. The workingman who pu.W down hu wages and then puts down ®leJwoiitjomcr| itlcmitor. right 1 edi'e them his expenses end makes them u t equal is not wise. 1 know laboring I turn why are iu a perfect lidvet until they ! have ap- ijt their hpst, dollar. The following : Urouiiistn‘l w c*lu;A under 'in own observa tion: A voting man was gets tig ♦O’Kl w s7(>.i ! salary. Day of marriage came. His wife j inherited SSO) from her grandfather. -She j expended every dollar in a wedding eqnlp -5 meut. Then they rented u room. Then the voting nmn found it necessary to t ike even ing omnlotincnt; He was already nearly I worn otic lriuii overwork; btiX now to the day must night employ mout rW ad do 1, until j his ovesight wits ti arlv- extinguished and his lira 1 Hi nearly gtnWhy did h > add night , employment t> the dav empoyment? To I pet if ore money. What ■ lid he want i to get more money fori To put away , for a rainy day? Oh no. To get his life in | sured so that it he (lied his wife would not ' be a beggar? No, c lino. He had tilts other j grand and glorious enterprise on hand: he i wanted to get. mid hs did get, by this extra labor $l5O with which to purchase his wife a s-aktkiri coat. Wdfthy Os a man's highest endeavor! The sisW of the bride heard of tho achievement and she was not to lie e dip;ed. She was earning her living with | tlirnce lie. So she sat up nights week aft-r I week, month after month, until she came to j the same glorious achioye.uenfc and she had ! won $l5O with which td biiv e Sealskin coat, j I do not know what the effect nas ou that street. There were many people on that street with small incomes and I suppose this contagion spread and that people came out crying, figuratively if not literally, “though the heavens fall, I must have a sea Nk ill coat.” Now, between such u fool as that and pauperism there is only on ) step. I was tol l a! out eight vears ago, while riding with a clergyman in lowa, that nearly all Ills congregation and the neighbor hoed had bee i financially ruined by the fact that the farmers had i ul mortgages on their farms in order that, they might send their families to the Philadelphia Centennial Ex hibition. '‘Why,” he said, “it was not con sidered respectable here not to go to tho Phil adelphia Centennial Exhibition.” So they nil went. Ah, my friends, if by some fiat of the capitalists, if bv some new law of the government of the United States, twenty-five per cent., fifty per cent., 10) per cent, could bo added to tHo wages of tho working people, hundreds of thousands of them would be no better off. More money, more rum. More wages, more holes in the bag. Scores of people who might have beon well off t -day, are in destitution be cause they chewed, or smoke I, or drank, or lived beyond their means, while others on the same salary went on to a competency. I know a man now who is all the time com plaining of Iris poverty and crying out agaiust rich men, yet he keeps two dogs, and he smokes and chews, and ho is filled to tho chin with whisky and beer. Micawber said to David Oopperflclil: “Cop perfield, my boy, one pound income, twenty shillings an 1 sixpence outgo. Itosult, misery. But Copperfield, my boy, one poun I income, ninet en shillings an 1 sixpence outgo. Re sult, happiness,” But oh, workingmen, yon take your dram in the morning, aud you take your dram at noon, and you take your dram at night, aud I will prom , iso you aud your children poverty forever. 1 The vast majority of the children in the almhouses of this country had for fathers drunken or lazy or improvident man. 1 do not know how it is with others who try to help the poor, but nine out of ten people that I help are the wives or the children of drunk ards. Now, the times have got to change if lliere is to be any relief from these influences. We have got to live within our means, and wo have got to be prudent. And here, let me say, that I do not sympathize with skinflint saving. I am pleading for Christian pru dence. A man now may have n i means to savo, hut u e aro ut the morning of a great day of national prosperity, and people aro going to have means to savo. There arc men who now have not a dollar who might have been their own masters, independent of em ployers, independent of capitalists, and what 1 say, you ail know to be true. I know there are people who think it is mean to turn the gas down lower when they leave tho parlor. I know there are people uh i are very much embarrassed if tho door bell rings before tho hall is lighted. I know there are people who feel apologetic when you find them at a plain table, plain food. Well, it is mean if it only bo for piling up a miserly hoard; but if it bo to give a better education to your children, if it be to give help to your wife when she is not strong, if it be to keep your funeral day from being a horror beyond endurance because it is the annihilation of your home—that is grand, that is magnificent. It depends very much upon 1 what you savo for, whether it is mean or grand. I know young women iu tills city who are denying themselves all luxuries to educate brothers, or to give a younger sister musical advantages. What do you call that? It is next to the angelic. Now, I want to say to the workingmen of America, so far as I can reach the y, and I want to say at tho same time the same things 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 foe of all classes of people, is strong drink, and I want this morning iu the name of God to implore you to quit the use of it, I warn you t > take one square look at the suffering man who becomes the despoiler | of the wine flask or tho beer mug or the whisky bottle, and understand that a vast . multitude aro running for that goal. Rome of you are running for it! When a man comes from under this influence he feels bemoaned. Ido not care how reck less he talks. He may say: “I don’t care.” He does care. H cannot look you iu tho eye without a rallying of his energies and force of resolution. The Philistines have J bound him hand and foot and gouged his j eyes out and shorn his locks, and Tie has ! already started to grind in the mill of a great horror. Just as soon as a man, whether he j lie a workingman, or, as we call him, a bust- j ne« man, gets under the influence of strong ! drink, he will try to persuade you flint of all that he can stop at any time. He cannot. I will prove it. He loves himself, lie loves his body, he loves his rijind, he loves his soul. He knows his habits are ruining all these, yet he k< eps right on. Why does be not stop? He cannot stop. He loves his family; he thinks the finest group in all the world is his wife and children; he knows that be is, that his son and his daughter are going out | under the baleful influence of having had an i inebriated father. Whv does lie not stop? 1 He cannot. I had a friend who for fifteen j or twenty years was going down under this j pr*ce-s. He was a generous soul. He had given thousands of dollars to Bible societies, | tra t societies, missionary so defies, and yo t could not make an appeal in behalf of charity but he liberally responded. Ilis , ordinary mode with ultimate friends I was when applied to for help to say: “Put rny name down on the subscription paper for | what you think 1 ought to pay, and I will pay it.” Glorious soul. Not many like him. Rut strong drink put its grappling ho -ks upon him and he went on, bn, down, down, lie said: “I can stop any time I want to, don't tie worried.” His pastor protested, and said: “Don’t you know you aro ruining yourself, you are ruining your family, now, you stop.” He said: “Oh. I could stop any time if I wanted to.” After awhile he had delirium tremens. The doctor said to him: “Now, if you have another at tack of this kind the pro! ability i- you won’t get well.” “Why,” said he. “doctor, lean stop at any time; it is only a question of time. I can stop as easily as turn ng my hand over. ’ lie bad a sscon 1 uttaek. His physician saij; “Now, you moot MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY C*o GA.. THURSDAY, JIM,Y 22, I SRC. this I oahlt l*' any lu»lp u> Vot f , »*<>r can You must stop.V “Oh," ho said, “doctor, * *top if [ w.mtol too, if I thought it best.. 1 think you w iv wistgdern, doctor." He is dead, my friends, d al. »~h.'i* killed him? Hum’ (hi»’ of tho last things lie did was try to l( per*Uiufo his friends ho could stop if lu* wain! -il tv it' h« ( thought it was best to stop— lemonstmtnq* tiV t;u Mhflt there is a point beyond which if a man go he cannot stop. A man saitl to a Christian friend: ‘ If 1 wore told l could not get any strong drink before to m >rro\v night miles, l had in> tiiieyr* cbopwd off. 1 would say: ‘Bring a hatchet and c nop flic in “iV" 1 had a dear friend hi l bila loluhini who was chid ing ids nopHew for yielding to this tempta tion. The nephew saiu; “\Vh\\ tin le, if there was acftunon an l on the top of M»o minion stoo l a wine glass, and the thirst were on mo and I knew as I advanced that cannon would be fired off, 1 would start for that wine cup,” t )h, men of the working classes an I inch of all c lu ses, clo not get this grip on you. It is an awful thing for a man to wake up aud say; “1 could have stoppo l once, but 1 cannot stop now. 1 might have li\« 1 a useful life and. d e l a Christian death. Head but not buried. lam a walking corpse. 1 am only an apt aritioh Cf what 1 once was. 1 am a caged immortal, and my soul beats against tho wires of the cage on this side and boats against the wires of the cage on the other side, hut cannot, got out, and there is blood oft the wires and there is blood on my soul- Destroyed without, remedy. Ami then there is all tlto sorrow tlirtt coine from the loss of physical health. Doctor Bewail —some of tho aged men in this may remotulior the time ,wheu lie went through the country and eldctfifie l audiences. lam told by those who Heard him fchrtt he Imd eight or ten d n granis, which lie displayed before the poop.o, showing the devastation of alcoh lisiit on the human stomach. There wore thousands of people who turno 1 away from these ul crons sketches swearing by the help of Almighty God they would never again touch intoxi cating Honor. Oh, what tho inebriate sn fers. Pain fi!*s on every nerve and travols every muscle, and gnriws every bjno and burns with every flame, dud stings with every poison, and pulls with every tor ture. dVhat fiends stand by his midnight pillow? What horrors shiver through his soul? What groans tear his cars? Talk of the rack, talk <>f the inquisition, talk of tho crushing juggernaut—he Dels them alt ut once. There lie lies in one of tho wards of the hospital. The keeper comes up and says: “You must be still; you’ve got to stop this noiso; you're disturbing tho whole hospital.” No sooner has tho keeper gone away than the poor soul says: “Oh God, Oh God, keep mo! Take the devils off of me. <>h God, give me rum, give m » rum!” And Him when the keeper come* he asks tho kec|K‘i* to kill him. “Stub me, slay me, smother me. Oh God. Oh God.” It is no fancy sketch. That is going on nil up and down this land. Moreover, it is tho death some of you will die. Tien thero am all tho sorrows of a de stroyed home. Ido not, care bow much a man lovei his wife and chil Iren, if this pas sion tor strong drink comes upon him, and lie cannot get it in any other way, he will be willing to soil them all into eternal bondage. I hate that strong drink. Do not tell mo ft man can bo lumpy when ho knows jfhafc ho is breaking his wife’s heart, apd c!otlioig hi*chil dren with ragß. All! there a.e th .iisands of children to-day on the streets of I ho cit y and on the roads of the country, unkempt, uucombod auduncand for. Want written on every patch of their garni- and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old faro. Tre y would have been in the bouse of God aud a< well da las any of you but for tho fact that their fathers woro drnol ads. Th°v wont, down aud took the'r lanr*ic> with them, rs they always do. Th »ro is not an as ;omblago ill tin* I’nifol State* today in which there arc not women who n*o lighting the battle for bea t alone. Tho man who promised fidelity, tho man elio wa ordained as tho head of th • ho ire’iol l n destroying himself and dost roving all lb cede; »<*iif lent upon hirn. Oh Rum, thou foe of Go I, thou despoller of the human race, thou recruiting officer of holt, 1 hate thee. But the negle t- take* a deeper tone when I tell you that, it des. oils—t. iis < vil d oils the soul. The Bible iudica again and again that if our hearts be mu h inged and we go into the other wort I rurogenerate, our evil appetites and ros- io is go with ns and there torment u*. In this world the nrui could borrow or steal fivo cent; t > get that which slaked his thirst for a little while, but in eternity, whom is the ruin to come from? Dives wanted a drop of water. 7he inebriate wants rum. Where shall it come from? Who will Imv it? Who will mix it? Who will set. h it ? Millions of worlds now for the dreg* which the young man slung out on thesawdusted floor of the restaurant-. Mil lions of worlds now for the rind pitched out from the punch bowl of the earthly banquet. Dives wanted water. Tho inebriate wants rum. If a spirit from the lost world should come up for some work in a grogshop and then go bock, taking one drop on his infer nal wing, and that one drop on the fiend’s wing could be out on tho tip of the tongue of the lost ineoriate, however small the drop, if it only have the si a' k of alco holic liquor, that one drop on the inebriate’s tongue would make him cry: “Aha! aha! that is rum!” It would wake up all tho echoes of the dammed, as they cry: “Give me rum! give me rum!” Ido not think tho sorrow of the inebriate in the next world will Is) the absence of God or the absence of light, or the absence of holin<-s: it, will be the absence of rum. f nay it to the working classes of America, and Isay it to all busi ness classes, to all these merchants, to all these men whether they toil for a living with brain, or hand, or feet, you ought to quit your strong drink, have nothing to do with it. “Look not upon the wine when it is red, wh*n it moveth itsejf aright in the cup, for at, the last it biteth like a serpont, and it stingeth like an adder. " Oh, I think it is about time for another womens crusade, such a.-, wo had seven or eight years in Ohio, when thiity women went at and cleared all the gropshoj s out of a town of a thousand inhabitants— thirty women surcharged with th" Holy Ghost, their only weapons prayer and s »ng, and many a grogshop was closed as fh«*y came up, the owners saying: “Now, don't come here and pray and ong. w 'll Hose up.” If thirty women surcharged with the Holy Ghost could clear out rum from a village of a thousand inhabitant*, throe thousand consecrated women of Brooklyn in the strength of Almighty God banding to gether and going forth, cotiii in six months clear out at least three fourth* of the grog shop*. and if tho three thousand should band together, and they had no other leader, I. a minister of the most high God, would offer rny services, and I would f-orne out in front of them and would say: “Come on, come on with your prayers and your songs and your Christian entreaties, cone on! Some of you will tako this left wing of tin enemy, and others of you will take the right wing of the enemy. For ward! the Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Down with the dram-hops, down with'tho grogshops. (Ap plause.) Ah! my friends, rather than your applause. Jet it In your prayers to Almightv (iod that this beloved city,the pride of our resi dence, may have the awful curse of strong drink lifted. Not waiting for those mo jth* of bell, tie grogshops to lie closed, start you on your duty.fof if I said a few moment ago that there wa* a point beyond which j; a man went he could not stop, J have to toll you that the Lord God Almighty by Hi* I “SUii DEO FACIO FOUTITER:’ (sj-ftro enn iiolp nny ninn fit RtO]\ I tvnn (>vet in IV7 (ff tN* mo.iiiiß-* in Now YAi-u whom tlinro win ii mu;* rfitmlierof roformoil ilitutk arilf, iiuU 1 lul l » i'iu io'Hort iiifido ft> um * *lvn- flint I noyor lioforo ;rifor..t*,ri. Th# 4ul"tnn , \> of tho tojimotiv of t wentV <*' thlrlv people was "Wo worn tho vie; tim. of stronr drink. \\ o vrlc'il toqiirt.. Wo' conM not- Wo made fnilire. Wo i* , l-.'i:" A i !c( til’.sort* of so. iotios ami we triad to got over tho lu.i it, hut wo always failed. Hut, after a while we tuiind Go** and gave our hearts to Him. Wo hnvo 1m- i greatly changed. Not only havo our hourW* boon chan :vd, hut our bo lies havo H>dt changed ‘ \Yo don't fool tho thirst any inure. »• i don't havo the temptation." tfof only enu tlio Ri'rton of Christ clinngo tho heart, but it can n-riqH'rato and clinrivc tlia body, and though tpdav you ,Vl nl tli - roots of yonrtongu > tho crav ings of »i.mighty thirst, cnlt on God and Ho will rose' you. N oil I'-Oilint do it your self. H o,in. He can. Ami If you have only lio;nu t> go astray, if it is a mat.Vi >f luxury to you; wlioa tho liquor pours into tllO cup, whether il boil gold-m chalice or a pewter ini!; 1 want, you, oh men, to real in the foam on 111 1 tm> of the m • in white - letters the word, “Beware!' lint j*o ri zht on as sonic of you aro going and in t« • years vy.i will ns to voiirbody tiedown in a drunkard s griiv-, mi l as to your immor tal soul you will Uo down in a drunkard's boll It is an awful thing to say, but lam coin|xdled to sny it . Ob, wtieu the bonks iff judgment are opened, and ten million ilnink fli'ds < into up to got their J mm, I want you to bs,: ify t,lint this day, in all kindness and love .old plainil s.I w:imn I you to beware of the inllueneds wlricli Imvo already reached your homo and are putting out hoiiio of it * iigiits, a premonition of darkness for ever. ( ill. that to-day you might Ii sir ilitooipoi'iuiro with drunkards’ on tho top of the liquor cask drumming tlm d ad nittr it of intmorlnl son Is. And tli -ii the sight; of a wine glass would make you shield -r, and thru the color of tho liquor would ro mind you of the blood of t Ir, slain, and the foam on the iup would make yon think of tho froth or tho mania 's lip, and you would go home from this service t > knool down and pray Almighty God that rnthor than your rhildiTn should become victims of such a habit you might carry them out lo tho cemetery and put them down l i I lie last sleep, until all ovtV tifwtr grave would come the flowers—sweet prophecies of the resur rection. God hath a balm l’or such a wound; but tell me, tell me, toll mo, what flower of comfort ever grew on tho blasted heath of a drunkard’s sepulchre! A Change of Hear). One of “the boys” now hanging out. in Detroit was nabbed in IVnn.sylyuiiia a few months ago for some swindling gallic, aud was locked up in a County j jail pending examination, lie was the ( only prisoner in the buililing, and hr I hadn’t been there fifteen lninulet before j lie licit (hat an hour's work would Let r lii/it out. It was a tumbledown alfair, buifVliaif a century ago, mid the turnkey !wa young Quaker. As lie received lii.s | |>rb"jiier, he said : ‘# think i shall place thee on thy bot'.*ir not to escape. ” “All right,” icplicd the prisoner, “I want to stay right here and see this case ! through.” He had the run of the corridor ami an open cell, and about two hours after sup per he had no troiihlewrcncliiiigacouple of bars oIfI he corridor window. Wait ing for the jail to get quiet he lifted the sash and climbed out on the sill for a drop to the ground, blit at that instant he heard a voice fiom beneath b in say ing: “On second thought I concluded that thy honor might not be as s tfe as my vigilance. Get thee back or I will blow thy head oil I” Tile prisoner not only “gotthee,” but flic old crib field him wifely until he was taken into court. /'Vve Press. Not rntentnhle. “I want to take a patent out for a dream,” said a. crank who entered the room of the chief clerk of the Patent Os lice, this afternoon. “Dreams are not patentable, sir.” was the answer. “You don’t fget my idea,” j ersis ed tlie imaginary inventor. “H’s like thi : I had a drenin the other night. lin vented a machine in "my sleep, ft would navigate the air. I got up, took rny knife, and scratched a drawing of it on the I ead houid of my bed. There it is now. I don't understand it, bill I shall sooner or later. Then I’ll want a patent, and I thought Pd belter register now, for great ideas move iu lln: same channels, don’t you know.” The bouncer wits called in and the in ventor was thrown into the street.— Washington letter. “Aim o the Ttva.” In a wild part of Scotland, a deabr in fall used to drive bis cart a consider able distmee inland. On one occasion, when pas-ing a wild moor, h” dropped a lobster Home ebildien picked it up, and, wondering what the strange crea ture could be, look it to the school* ina ter. The dominie put on ids specs, and. turning it over and over, examined it car fully “Weul,” at length said the ora -le, ‘I ken maist o’ the wonderfu’ ari uinl o’ creation, except just twu;and tine iwaf »< v r saw. They arc an ole phaitand a turtle dove, and so this must be anc o’ the I wa ” A Difference of Livers. “No, sir,” remarked the irate custo in or, banging the bo! tle down upon the drug store show-case: “I don’t want any more of Pott's L-ver Cure.” “It’s a very good remedy, sir, ” sug ge-ted the clerk, timidly. “Yes; maybe it is for Pott’s liver. Probably it is But it wasu t worth a cuss for mine. Pick. Not Lasting. Customer -“Thorn scom to lie very fine diaruoud . Are they of puie water?" Jeweler—“ Yes, and they are in rparkling as Lie tears of a young v. idow. ” Customer--“If that's the kind of diamonds they are / jou t want them. 'ihe water would n / ycry long,”-* k'jU/t'js. _ '% A DANGEROUS WOMAN. The Narrative of m Saeret Ser vice Detective. A (•bvmtorfeiter's Wife who Successfully Assumed Mu more os Disguises. Tn January, IBfi;i, tho Secretary of the Treasi.T-r was notified that it now' n<s( dangerous counferfsU on a Cincinnati National bank bad been pnt afloat in BoJon. Tile Detective Bureau bciif£‘ no tified in turn I was detailed on the ease and left for Boston the same day. About s'?,()0 1 » (if the queer bad been floated in die day, and the work had been dime by a woman. At one place she bad pur chased *(io;> wort It of diamonds; at an other a $250 gold watch ;,at another a dia mond bracelet. The goods in all cases were such articles as could ho sold again i for at least half their value. E i'h victimized party described her differently. At the first place she was a blonde, plainly dressed. At the next she was a brown-haired woman in mourning; at the third she had black hair, was showily dressed, and claimed relationship to a well-known family. After a day spent in taking notes and making deduc tions I nunc to tint conclusion that there was only one woman in the case, and tlml she had assumed disguises. Boston was thoroughly searched for her, aud I had not yet found a clue when the chief tele graphed me that she had appeared in Philadelphia, I reached that city to find that she had purchased SI,OOO worth of diamonds at one place and SBOO worth at another, paying, of course, in the coun terfeit bills. Tins first jeweler described herns a showy woman with gold iu her upper front teeth. The second jeweler described her as very plain and demure, and be was sure that slio bad no gold in her teeth. I bad set out under tho belief tlml I bad only one woman to deal with, and | would not now admit there were two. I looked Philadelphia high anil low for IV males bearing the. description, and at (lie end of four days received another tele gram from Jicadquurters. Sin: bad ap peared in Pittsburgh, where she had made three different purchases of jewel crs. I hastened to the Smoky (,'ityas soon as possible, and lo! the three de scriptions gi veu were so entirely different t hat one was almost sure there were three women at work floating off the counter feits. (•lie jeweler hod been mashed or. It n customer, and had therefore taken par ticular notice that her eyes were blue, her hair brown, and her height medium. Hlie had gold ill her upper front teeth, and was affected in her ways mid speech. Theseroiid jeweler Wir n’l mushed, blit lie was an old detective, and he noticed that she had brown eyes, (link hair, a mole on her cliin, and plain, while teeth. There was nothing affected about her. The third jeweler could swear I lint she had black hair, gold in her lower teeth, a slight squint to one eye, and stammered u bit im she talked. I bunted Pittsburgh for three days, but met with no success. Believing she would next turn up at Indianapolis, I started for that city without orders, tak ing a sleeping ear on a night train. It was a woman who had the lower berth next to mine, and as I looked her over 1 j made up my mind that she was a school ' teacher aud an old maid. Hie- had red ■ hair dressed plainly, and paid not the j slightest attention to any one. When f ile porter came to make her berth lie jilaeed a rather bulky satchel belonging to her on the scat at my feet, and she found a temporary seat at the other end of the ear. The jar of the cars jostled the satchel to the floor after a bit, and, as I stooped over to pick it up, 1 found the floor covered with wigs, cosmetics, I small brushes, pie, ,-s of crayon and false teeth. There wen- three wigs of differ ent colors, mid two upper ami two tinder j sets of teelh. 11l one Hie gold was in the j upper; in the other it was in the lower, j Well, you may believe that with my j mind full of the mysterious woman and j her disguise, I was not long in concluding j that i ha,l stumbled upon the person I wanted. / replaced the articles in tho sat,did mid walked over to her and made know my errand. Khc gave mo a terrible tongue-lashing and called on the passengers for protection, but when I revealed rny identity and emptied the contents of the satchel on a sent, she gave in. We got off at Steu benville, and, when I bad her searched, over SI,OOO in the counterfeits was brought to light, but her purchases were not to bo found, she having shipped them to confederates. Khe was the wife of the notorious “Black Dan,” and the pair were tho most dangerous couple in America at that time. We got her husband in a week or two, and, whiio he got a sen tence of twenty-two years, she got off with seven,- Detroit Free Tress, VOL. I. NO. 20. Uaxlc in India. Caste, like n terrible 11 iylitumrr-, in firmly fustfwod upon tin* social life of India. It will take generations of civil izing influence to make these lethargic people realize that the .system is evil. It is nut easy for us to understand it. The following description, by a gentleman in India, shows a little of its pernicious working. During n severe famine, a man, with his wife ami 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, but, hungry fl" they were, tney would not touch it. The child was on the ground hunting for and eating the raw rice that was scattered about the floor. Itico be ing given them, they commenced to rook it, but devoured it before it was half done. They would not lose caste by eat ing' food prepared by any one not of their grade. There are four principal castes. The Brahmins, or priests, are the highest. They consider it beneath them to labor. To tend cuttle or to milk a row would bn pollution. Formerly, if a low caste person tom bed 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 caste 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 ears are so crowded there is no room to it apart. This has 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 cun ho supplied. In their villages each caste lives by it self. Kadi bus its own shops, or bazaars. Below the regular castes are the outcasts those who have broken over some of the various restriction Youth,’* Com panion. The Air (Itin. The air-gun is simply a pneumatic en gine, for the purpose of discharging Infi ll Is hy the elastic force of compressed air. It is not known exnelly when or by whom it was first invented, but it was certainly in use in France three centuries ago. 11. is probable that hud not the gunpowder been discovered also early a date air-guns might have been made very effective. They arc tisunlly made in the form of muskets, having a hollow stock, which is filled with compressed air from a force-pump. The lock is nothing mote than a valve, which fi ts into the barrel a part of the compressed air from the stock when the trigger is pulled. The gun is i loaded with wadding and bullet in the ! ordinary way, and the bullet is driven from the barrel by the expansive action of the air. The range of the gun de pends upon its size and the amount and degree of compression of the air. The velocity of the bullet is proportioned to the square foot of the degree of compression of tlie air. Under the pressure of fifty atmospheres, or 730 pounds, for instance, tlie impulse given to the ball is almost eijual to that of an ordinary charge of gunpowder. Air-guns are sometimes made in the form of walking sticks, so they can be readily used for purposes of defense. Air-guns arc generally regard ed as somewhat unsafe, but it is not known that any law inis ever been enact ed against them. In the hands of inexpe rienced or malicious persons they are cap able of doing much mischief.—lnter (Jr,t Ml. A Very 1C it li Man. Mr. William If. Vanderbilt is extreme ly particular about bis wearing apparel, lie Inis a French valel, who looks after nil bis belongings and chooses his ties and shoes. /1 is clothing is all made in London and sent to .New York every throe months by order, lie wears a cost ly diamond ring on his small finger and small diamond studs when in full dress, lie invariably wears a high silk hat, and, like most blondes, looks his best when in a lull ilren suit. He lias a pleasant bari tone voice for si ging, and is a rnembei of St. Bartholomew's, like his brother. Cornelius. “SI.” A correspondent of the I’all Mall re marks that all words beginning with :il have in some degree a eeond rate or bad quality about them. ‘ Look through the dictionary,” he says, “and you will not find one that is quite first rate, for ‘sleep,* which is about tlie best of them, Is after all half-way to death, and the great ma jority of these words are more or less dis gusting us well as degraded.” Little maiden (who is spending tho afternoon with her aunt) —Auntie, mother said I must not ask you for any* thing to cat, but I'm awful hungry.