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KhV v . F/ii,. DR 1 I ZULiJArUVTU. A ( \| Af-IK — THE NOTED DIVINE'S u ' DISCOURSE. Subject: “The Song oC the Drunk¬ ards." Tf.xt: “I was the soug of the drunkards” “-Psalms Ixix., 12. Who said that? Was it David or was it Christ? It was both. These Messianic Psalms are like a telescope. Pull the instru¬ ment to n certain range, and It shows you an object near by. Pull it ’to another rangeTand It will show you objects faraway. Dtvil aud Christ were both, each iu his own time, the song of the drunkards. Holiuoss of doc¬ trine au l life al wavs did excite wieked merri¬ ment and Although David had fully reformed written a psalmody in which all subse¬ quent ages h ive sobbed out their penitence, his enemies preferred to letch up his old jareer an 1 put into metric measuros sins long before forgiven. Christ who commit¬ ted no sin, was still more the subject of un¬ holy song, because the better one is the more iniquity hates him. Of tho best being whose voico ever moved the air or whose foot over touched the earth it might be said: The bywordof the passing throng, The rul r’s scoff,the drunkard’s song. The earth fitted up for the human race, in congratulation the morning stars sang a sons. The Israelitish army safe on the bank of the Bed Sea and the Egyptians clear un¬ der the returned water, Moses sang a song. One of the most important parts of this great old book is Solomon’s song. At the birth of our Lord the Virgin Mary and oi l Simeon an I angelic priraa donnas in hovering clouds sang a sotig. What enrichment has been given to the world’s literature and enjoy¬ ment by tho ballads, tho canticles, the dis¬ cams, the ditties, tho roundelays, the epics, the lyrics, tho dithyrambs! But my text calls attention to a style of song that I think has never been discoursed upon. You some¬ times hear this style of music when passing a saloon, or a residence in which dissipation Is ascendant, or after you have retired at night you hear it coming out of the street from those who, having tarrio 1 long at their cups, are on their way home—the ballad of the inebriate, the serenade of the alcohol¬ ized, or what my text calls the song of the drunkards. For practical and saving and warning and Christian purposes I will announce to you the -har.-icteri-tics of that well-known cadence mentioned in my text, First I remark that the song of the drunkards is an old soug. Much of the music of the world and of the church is old music, First came the music of percussion, the clapping cymbal, wb oh was suggested by a hammer on an anvil, and then the sigh ing of the wind across the roe,Is suggested the flute, and then the strained sinews of the tortoise across its shell suggested tho harp. But far back of that, and nearly back as far as the moral collapse of our first parentage i“ tto song of tho drunk ards. That tune was sung at least 4213 years age, when, the deluge past, Noah came out of the ark, and, ns if disgusted With too much prevalence of water, he took to strong drink and staggered forih, for all ages the first known drunkard. Ho sound ed the first note of the old music of inebri acy. An Arab author of A. D. 1310 wrote: “Noah, being come out of the ark, ordered each of his sons to build a house. After ward ihey were occupied in sowing and in planting trees, the pippins anil fruits of which they found in the ark. The vine alone was wanting, and they could not discover it. Gabriel then informed them that the devil had desired it, and, indeed, h id some right to it. Hereupon Noah summoned him to appear in the field and said to him: ‘Oh, ac cursed! Why hast thou carried away the vine from me?’ ’Because,’replied the devil, ‘it belonged to me.’ ‘Shall I part it foryou?’ said Gabriel. ‘I consent,’ said Noah, ‘and ■rill Kent leave him a fourth.’ ‘That is not suffl Re halt,’replied for him,’ said Noah,’and Gabriel. ‘Well, 1 will Blether.’ he shall take ^Khed ‘That is not sufficient yet,’re (fffthouona, Gabriel. ‘He must have two-thirds and when thy wiue shall have boiled on the fire until two-thirds are gone the remaindorshall beassigned forthy use.’” A fable that illustrates howthe vine has been misappropriated. this of the Again, song drunkards Is an exp nsive song. The Honutags and the Pirepa Rosas and Nilssons, and the other Tenderers of elevated and divine solos re ceived their thousands of dollars per night in coliseums and academies of music. Some of the people of smail they means almost sit pauper Ized themselves that might a few evenings under the enchantmentoftho.se angels of sweet sounds. I paid #7 to hear Jenny afford Lind sing when it was not very easy to the $7. Very expensive is such music, but tho costliest song on earth is the drunk art’s song. It costs ru n of body. It costs ruin of mind. It costs ruin of soul. Go right down among the residential streets of any city and you can find once beautifuland luxurious homesteads that were expended P in this destructive music. The lights have gone out in the drawing room, the pianos have ceased the pulsation Of their keys, the wardrobe has lost its last article of appropriate attire. The Bel sbazzarean feast has left nothing but the broken pieces of ths crushed chalices. There it stands, the ghastliest thing on earth, the remnant of a drunkard’s home. The cost liest thing on earth is sin. The most expen sive of all music is the song of the drunk ards. It is the highest tariff of Nations—not a protective tariff, but a tariff of doom, a tariff of woe, a tariff of death. Thi9 evil whets the knives of the assassins, cuts the most of the wounds of the hospital, makes necessary most of the of almshouses, causes asylum, the most of the ravings the insane and puts up most of the iron bars of the penitentiaries. It has its hand to-day on the throat of the American republlo. It is the taskmaster of Nations, and the human race crouches under Us anathema. The song of the drunkards has for its accompaniment the clank of chains, the chattering teeth of poverly, the rattle of executioner’s scaffold, the creaking door of tho deserted home, tho crash of shipwrecks and the groans of era jpires. The two billion twenty million dol lars which rum costs of this, country in a year, and in the destruction grain and sugar, the supporting of the paupers, and the invalids and the criminals which strong drink causes, is ouly a small part of what is paid for this expensive song of the drunk ards. Again, this song of the drunkards is a multitudinous song—not a solo, not a duet, not a quartet, not a sextet, but millions on millions are this hour singing it. Do not think that alcoholism has this field all to it self. It has powerful rivals in tho intoxicants and of other Nattons—hasheesh and arrack, pulque and opium, and quavo and mastic and wedro. Every Nation, barbaric as well a 9 civilized, has its pet intoxicant. This song of the drunkards is rendered in Chinese, Hindoo, Arabian, Assyrian, Persian, All Mexi can —yea, all the languages. zones join it. No continent would be large enough for the choir gallery if all those who have this libretto in their hands should stand side by side to cuant tho international chorus. Other throngs are just learning the eight notes of this deathfut music, which is already mas tered bv the orchestras in full voice under the batons in full swing. All the musicians assembled at Dusseldorf, or Berlin, or Boston peace jubilee, rendering symphonies, Mendelssohn re quiems or grand marches of or Wagner, niffeant or Chopin or Handel, were insig in numbers as compared with the innumerable throngs, hosts besides hosts, gallery above gallery, who are now pouring forth the song of the drunkards. Years ago standing before a bulletin board iu New York on the night of a Presi dentia! election day, as the news came In ant the choice of the American people people was finally nunouncecl there were in th? streets who sang roistering and frivolous songs. But in the street one man, in deep, strong’, resonant voice, started, to tho tune o: “OldHundred,” “Praise God, from all whom all blessings flow,” and soon up and down th« street the voicas J ioiuel in tbs dox ology of Mfty 0od 8paed salvation t lla day shall when drown the song rescue and with an overwhelming surge this mighty : song of the drunkards! Notice that the second noun of my text is “drunkards." in the plural. Not “drunkard," but " It would bo dull work to sing that song solitary and alone. It is generally a chorus. They are in group*. On that downward way there must he companion¬ ship. Here and there is a man so mean as always to drink alone, but generous in men, big hearted men, drinking at bar or res¬ taurant or in clubhouse, feel mortified to take the beverage unaccompanied. click There must be some one with whom to the rim of the glasses, some one’s health to pro¬ pose, soma sentiment to toast. There must be two, an lstill hotter it four, and still bet¬ ter if six, to give zast to the song of tho drunkards. Those who have gone down could mention the name of at least one who helped them down. Generally it is some one who was a little higher up in social life or in llnvuclal resources. Our friend felt flattered to have au invitation from one of superior ho felt name. Each one drank not only when like it, but when the other felt like it. Neither wanted to seorn lacking iu sociality when he was invited. Ho 100,000 men every year are treated into hell. Together are they manacled of evil habit, together they travel toward their doom, together they make mnr ry over tho cowardice and Puritanical senti¬ ment of those who never Indulge, together they join their voioes In the s)ng of the drunkards. If the one proposes to stop, tho ot ier will not let him stop. Wiiou men are getting down themselves, they do not want their associates to turn Back. Those who turu back will be the scoff and caricature of those who keep on, and there will bo con¬ spiracy to bring them back to the old places and the r old environment, anil so have them renew the song of the drunkards. Agiin, the song of the drunkards is easily learned. Through what long an l difficult drill one must go to su -ceod as an elevated and inspiring singer! E nma Abbott, among the most eminent cantatrioas that ever en¬ chanted academies of music, to’d me oa ocean ship’s deck, in answer to my question. going “Whither are you boun I?” “C am to Berlin and Paris to study music.” What!" I said, “Aft'*rall your worl 1 renowned SU3 cesses in music, going to stu ly?” hardships, Then she told me through what through what self denials, through had what almost kiiliug fatigues, she gone in or Ier to be a singer, an l that when in her earlier days a great teacher of music had told her there were certain notes she could never reach, she S lid, “I will reach them,” arid through doing nothing else but practice for five years she did reach tnem. Oh, how many heroes an 1 heroines of musical achievement! There are songs which which are are easy easy to to hear, hear, but but most most difficult difficult to to render. render. When When Handel, Handel, w w th th a a new new oratorio, oratorio, entered entered a a room room where where a a group group of of musicians musicians had had assembled assembled and and sai sai I, I, “Gentlemen, “Gentlemen, you you all church.” read music?” They They well,” well,” said, said, Slid Slid “Yes, “Yes, the the we we play play in “Very “Very great great composer. composer. “Play “Play this. this. But But the the perform- psrform anoe aaoe was was so so poorly poorly done done Handel Handel stoppod stoppod his his ears ears and and said: said: “You “You play play in in church! church! Very Very well, well, for for we we rea rea 1 1 the the Lord Lord is Is lorg lorg suffering, suffering, of of great great kindness kindness and and forgiving forgiving of of iniquity, iniquity, transgression transgression and and sin. sin. But But you you shall shall not not play play for for me.” me." Pure Pure music, music, whether whether fingered fingered on on instrument instrument or or trilled trilled from from human Human lips, lips, is is most most difficult. difficult. But But one one of of the tho easiest easiest songs songs to to learn learn is is the the song song of the the drunkards. drunkards. Anybody Anybody can can learn learn it. In a little while you can touch the highest note of conviviality or the low st note of besottedness. Begin moderately, a sip here and a sip there. Begin with claret, feo on with ale and wind up with cognac, First take the stimulant at a wee-ting, then take it at meals, then take it between meals, then all the time keep your pulse under its stealthy touch. In six mouths the dullest scholar in this Apollyouic music may become an expert. First it will besoundod in a hic cough. After awhile it will be heard iu a silly ha, ha! Further on it will become a wild whoop. Then it wi 1 enable you to run up and down the five lines of the musical scale infernal. Then you will have mastered it-the song of the drunkards. The most skilful way is to the , modern theory and give the intoxicant to , your children, saying to yourself, “They will in after ltfe meet the intoxicants everywhere, au 1 they must get used to see ing them and tasting them and controlling their appetites." That is trie best way of teaching them the song of the drunkards, Keep up that mode of education, and it you have four boys at least three of them will learn the druukards’ song and lie down iu a drunkard’s grave, and if I ever a wager I would lay a wager that the fourth will lie down with the other three. Of if the education of the children in this music should be neglected, it is not too late to begin at twenty-one years of age. The young man will find plenty of young men who drink. They are in every circle to be found. Surely, my boy, you are not a coward and afraid of it? Surely you are not going to be hindered by sumptuary laws or the prejudices of your old father and mother? They are behind ttie times. Take some thing. Take it often. Some of the great est poets and orators have been noto rious imbibers. If you are to enter a parlor, it makes you more vivacious and Ches terlleldian. It you are to transact business, your customer is apt to buy more if you havo taken with him a sherry cobbler, If you are to make a speech, it will give you a glibber tongue. Gluck could compose his best music by having his and piano bottle taken of into the midst of a meadow, a champagne placed on each side of him. The earlier you begin to learn the song of tho drunkards tho easier it is, but none of you are to old to learn. You can begin at fifty or sixty, under prescription of a doctor for aids to digestion or breaking up of infirm Hies, and close life by rendering the song of the drunkards so well that all pandemonium it will encore the performance and want again and again. Furthermore, the last characteristic of the drunkard's song is so tremendous that lean hardly bring myself to mention it. Once The druukards’song i3 a continuous song. start that tune, and you keep it up. You have known a hundred men destroyed of strong drink. You cannot mention five who got fully started on that road and stopped, The grace of God can do anything, but it does not do everything. Religion saves somo. Temperance societies save some. TheBowery mission saves some. The Central mission saves some. But 109,000 who are annually slain by strong drink are not saved at all. I have been at a concert which went on for two hours and a half, and many people got up and left because it was too long. But ninoty-ftve percent, of those who are singing the drunkards’ song will to the last breath of their lungs and the last beat of their hearts keep on rendering it, and the galleries of earth and heaven and hell will stay filled with the astounded spectators. It issuchaoon tinnous and prolonged song that one feels like making the prayer which a reformed inebriate once made: "Almighty God! If it be ’Phy will that man should suffer.what ever seemeth good in Thy sight im pose upon me. Let the bre id of af flietion be given me to eat. Take from mo the friends of my confidence. Let the cold hut of poverty bo my dwelling place and the wasting hand of disease inflict its painful torments. Let me sow in the whirl wind and reap in the storm. Let those have me in derision who are younger than L Let the passing away of my welfare be like the fleeting of a cloud, and tho shouts of my enemies like tho rushing of waters. When I anticipate good, let evil annoy me. When I look for light, let darkness come upon me. Let the terrors of death be ever before me. Do all this, but save me, merciful God! save me from the fate of a drunkard. Amen!” You seo this sermon is not so much for cure as for prevention. Stop before you start, ii you will forgive the solecism. The olock of St. Paul’s cathedral struck thirteen one midnight, anl so saved the life of a sen tinel. The soldier was arrested and trie t for falling asleep at his post one midnight. But ho declared that ho was awake nt raid night, and he in had proof heard that the ho was awake he said that unusual occur rcnce of the clock striking 13 instead of 12. He was laughed to scorn and sentenced to death. But three or lour per* sous, hearing of the ease, came un in time to swear that they, too, hoard tno olock strike 13 that snme midnight, and so the man’s life was spared. My hearer, if you go on and thoroughly learn the drunkards song, perhaps In the deep midnight of your soul there may sovm 1 something that will yet effect your moral and eternal rescue. But It is a risky “perhaps." It is excep¬ tional. G > ahead on that wrong road, and the dock will more probably strike the 12 that closes your day of opportunity than that it will strike 13, the sound of your de¬ liverance. this A few Sabbaths ago on tho steps of church a man whom I had known In other years confronted me. At the first glnnce I saw that he was lit the fifth uud last act of the tragedy his" of intemperance. Splendid even in ruin. The same brilliant oye, and tho same courtly manners, an l tho re¬ mains of the same intellectual endow¬ ments. but a wreck. I had seen that craft when it plowed the waters, all sails set and running by true compass; wife and chil¬ dren and friends on board, himself com¬ manding ltt a voyage that he expected would be glorious, putting into prosperous harbors of earth nu t at last putting into the harbor o" heaven. But now a wreck, towed along bv low appetites, that over an t auon run him into the breakers—t wreck of body, a wreck of mind, a wreck of soul. “Where is your wife?” “I do not know." “Where are your children?” “I do not know." “Whore is your (Jot?” T do not know. That man is coming to the last verso of that long cantata, that protracted threnody, that terrirte song of tho drunkards. But It these words should com"—'or yon know the largest au lienee I roach I never sec at at!—I s:iy if these words should come, though at the ends of the earth, to any fal¬ len man, let me say to him: Be the excep¬ tion to the general rule and turn and live, while I recall to yiu a scene iu England, where some one said to an inebriate as he was goin g out of church where there was a great nwak ming, “Why don’t you sign the pledge?" lie answered, “I have signed it twenty times an I will never sign it again.” “Why, then,” said the gentleman talking to him, “don’t you go upand kneel atthaaltar, amid those other penitents?” Ho took the advice and went and knelt. After awhile a little girl, looke in in rags the and soaked with the rain 1 church door, anl some one said: "What are you you doing here, little girl?” S to said: “Please, sir. I heard as my rather is here. Why. that is mv father up there kneeling now. She went up au 1 put her arms around her father’s neck and said: “Father, what are you doing here?” An l he said: “I am asking God to forgive me.” Said she: “If He forgives you, will wo be happy again?” ,v^n.. u , “Yes, “Yes, my my dear,” dear “Will w« have enough to eat again?” “Yes, my dear.” “And will you never strike ns again?" “No, my child.” “A’ait here,” said she, “till I go an l call mother.” And soon the child camo with the mother, and the mother, kneeling beside the husbaui. said: “Save me too! Save me too!" And the Lord heard the prayer at that attar, an-1 one of the happiest ho nos in Eng land is the home over which that father and mother now lovingly pres de. So, if in this sermon I have warned others against a dis sipated life, with the fact that so few return after they have once goad astray, for the en eouragement of those who would like to ro turn I toll you God wants you to come back, every one of you. an 1 to come back now, now, an 1 "more tenderly and lovingly than lin y motherever lifte l a sick child out of a cr h lie, and folded it in her arms, and crooned over it a lullaby and rocked it to and fro, the Lord will take you un and fold you in the arms of his pardoning love, There’s a wideness in G >d’s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in his justice, Which is more than liberty. BICYCLE IS GRAVELY ACCUSED. Judge Yerkes Declares th? Silent Steed U a Worker of-Eril. Jmlge prkM, of n r BucUCoun.v Pnek-a r nnn tv sitting to in declared solemnly■thattheibt--y. ^ t- is * Pf®" moter of crig'e. He said ton it - I?* 111 ?*? the amount of - ri c> - * Ja ’ third i >I0 of f 'Tj}® the JU-,’ business of the Criminal ; n - 1 ' rv, Cjqit „ was made up by persons who are .1 a=tray by some connection witri thewhMl. The case that that evok of Wi 'd the_ ilam H. _ Freeman, _n-.hing sta ements was who had just plea led hUilt> to _rs ? tb name ol his employer. J. H. a =. i , Rrocer, to a check for vo6. io w .... Set cash to huy a t)l( ycie. , , incided with the views ‘"L of t-mi the Judge. Tmto-o “’Hint" Hmk son said, dolefully that he cou it™* riding merrily past -f wh! who InBifhim ow ^ f’Urv “ - DUI8 ’ A dealer was next __ < f'. 7’ "wore hat Freeman , ^L.75, L 56 ^ 5 ^icned sipnea bv Dy Mr M . Hinkson m so , tSa os firarpav- ? p «‘ndasl^‘hat eneein cash. At tbiste he J* m y P ■ , «* ^ Court ^ sentence of nine mont - w imnosed p DOG KILLED AND ATE HIM. Watchman the Victim of a Fierce .Animal He Had Almost Starved. A grewsome tragedy occurred in Sehloss strusse, Charlotenburg, Germany, where Pumpmaker Shauch, with his two sous, is making an artesian well. The sons relieved each other in the night watch in a little lodge where materials and tools were kept. The elder brother, Wilhelm, was on watch, and went into the lodge after 10 o’clock p. m. intoxicated. Later on a cry was heard, paid but afterward, all being quiet, nobody any attention to it. Early next morning the younger brother found Wilhelm dead and awfully mutilated. It is conjectured that he undresse t and went to sleep, and that his insufficiently fed watchdog, loosed at night, failed sight to of recog¬ naked nize him, and, excited by the flesh, bit through the throat and devoured nearly all tho lower party of his body. The animal was found iu the morning, all dab¬ bled with blood. THE FIRE LOSS. Total For the Year In the United States and Canada. The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin of New York City, says: The fire loss of the United States and Canada, as compiled from our daily records, amounts for the month of December to $11,362,000. #115,665, This makes the total for the year 500 as against $129,839,700 in 1895. Daring the year 1896 tnere were 2175 fires where the estimated toss in each case amouate 1 to not less than $10,00 1, an I the largest loss by any one tire was 82,000,000, at Cripple Creek, Col., in April. The reduction of over $14, 000,000 in the fire loss account of 1896 as compared with 1895 has been very decidedly felt by the fire underwriters. They had in the past year a happy combination of high rates and light losses and their gains have been very handsome. In fact, veteran un¬ derwriters feel that the effect of prosperity will soon be to develop rate wars in various sections. North Carolina Speaks Up for Cuba. Tho North Carolina Legislature unani¬ mously adopted a resolution favoring tho recognition of the independence of the patriots ot Cuba, “who for so long a time have been struggling for life and liberty, the God-given heritage oi all men.” Burning Corn lor Fuel, As a resud , of continued wet weather throughout Nebraska, farmers have begun to use corn for luel for tear it may spoil. The market-price for corn is only nine cents a CMShel, atid it is worth more than that for fuel ■ TALE OF FRONTIER LIFE, l i ^ KKCOIX1CCTIONS HKCALI.ED BY IN¬ MAN INOUKSIONS. Wlmt a I.owelt Iteporter Discovered Ip the Historic Town of Dunstable— M i rat'll ions Kscnpe From a Misera¬ ble Kxlstenoe of a Descendant *>l One ot the Pioneer War. viors »f Colonial Times •—The Talk of the Neighborhood. From the News, Lowell, Mots. Mr. Hiram Spaulding, who was for many years the proprietor ot tho Massapong House, a Boston summer resort, is undoubt¬ edly as well known ins auy man in Middlesex County. Mr. Spaulding, besides having been a popular hotel man, boasts of being a lineal descendant of John Spaulding, a well known soldier wno was killed in action with the Indians while serving In the command of the famous Captain John Tyng In 1804. lie also is well known as tho first leader of the celebrated Dunstable Cornet Band, of Dun¬ stable, Mass., familiarly known as the “mounted band ” Altogether Bandmaster Spaulding is perhaps the best known citizen in town, and respected everywhere for his uprightness Mrs. Nellie and Spaulding sterling character. A. is the wife or this gentleman, husband. and almost ns well known as her popular A recent severe illness from overwork and malaria caused grave fears among her numerous acquaintances, and the local physicians seemed powerless to aid her. Chills and fever, impaired action of heart and liver, and general wretch¬ edness were her portion, until her attention was called to Dr. Williams’Pink Pills for Pate People, and she began io use them. On Labor Day. Monday, Sept. 7, 1H96, Mrs. Spaulding finished the first boxof Pink Pills, and she informed the Aews reporter that on that day she performed one of tho hurdest day’s work ever accomplished by her. She Is still taking Pink Pill* according to direc¬ tions, and ail traces of malarial coison seem to have vanished. “No one was more astonished at myreeov ery than my husband and my neighbors, and ihey are not surprised.” said she, “to find iu mo such a champion of what is des¬ tined to become a household medicine, tho precious Pink Pills.” At the request of Mrs. Spaulding, the News reporter ca led on several persons in the town of Dunstable, all highly respectable ladies of prominence in the community; he found them using “Pink Pills” with good resul s, ami after a fair trial will fso they thought) l.e ready to add their testimonials to that of Mrs. Spaulding as to their medici¬ nal tind curative worth, especially in chronic cases of nervousness. Dr. Williams’Pink Fills eontain, in a con¬ densed form, all the elements necessary to give nt w life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an un¬ failing specific for such diseases as locomo¬ tor ataxia, partial paralysis, Ht.Vitus’dance, scuitipa, end ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous the after effects of la grippe, pal¬ pitation of the heart, pale and sa low com pb xions, all forms of weakness either in mate or fetKnle. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers-, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 5) ceuts a box or six boxes for : 2 50, (they addressing are never sold in bulk or by tho 10(1), by Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. ttt OCEAN’S BED. YVhat Becomes of the Vessels That Sink to the Bottom of the Sea. What becomes of a ship that sinks in mid-ocean? If it is of wood, it takes in the first place considerable time for it to reach the bottom. In one hun¬ dred or mor • fathoms of water a quar¬ ter of an’te.ur will elapse before the ship reaches the bottom. It sinks slowly, and when the bottom is reach¬ ed it falls gently into the soft, oozy lied, with no crash or breaking. Of course, if it is laden with pig iron or corresponding substances, or if it is an iron ship, it sinks rapidly, and sometimes strikes the bottom with such foree as to sma-sh in pieces. Once sunken, a s hip becomes the prey of # inhabitants of the countless the ocean. They swarm over and through the great boat and make it their home. Besides this/they cover every inch of the boat with a thick layer of lime. This takes time of course; and when one generation dies another continues the work, until finally the ship is so laden with incrustations, corals, sponges and barnacles, that if wood, the creaking timbers fall apart and slowly but surely are absorbed in the waste at the sea bottom. Iron vessels are demolished more quickly than those of wood, which may last for centuries. The only metals that withstand the chemical action of the waves are gold and platinum, and glass also seems unaffected. Now matter how long gold may be hidden in the ocean, it will al¬ ways be gold when recovered, and this fact explains the many romantic and adventurous searches after hidden sub¬ marine treasures lost iu shipwrecks.— Bangor Commercial. Calendars and Coupon*. So many beautiful calendars and entertain¬ ing novelties have been issued by the pro¬ prietors of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, that we are hardly surprised to receive this season not only one of the very prettiest designs in cal¬ endars, but with it coupons which entitle the recipient to attractive novelties. Every one who gets a Hood’s Sarsaparilla calendar for 1897 secures something that will prove inter¬ esting and valuable as well as a beautiful specimen oi the lithographer’s art. The cal¬ endar is accompanied this season byan amus¬ ing little book on “The Weather.” Ask your druggist for Hood’s Coupon Calendar, or I. send 6 cents in stamps for one to C. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Tube charity never feeds the poor on promises. His Explanation. “Ht? made ducks and drakes of his money. ” “Yes? And those promissory notes of his?” “Decoys!”—Chicago Record. State Frank op Lucas J. Ohio, Ciikney County, City makes op Toledo,| ss. oath that ho is tho senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to beforo me and subscribed in my f/ —>—a !• presence, this 0th day of December, A. < l SEAL f D. 1886. . A. W. GLEASON. notary J'nblic. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Sond for testimonials, free. F. ,J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Plso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me many a doctor’s bill.—8. F. Hardy, Hopkins Flace, Baltimore, Md., Dec. ii, ’94. When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., 25c. Tlio OYfgfnal Verdles. Naetlles warn first made of bone or ivory, and specimens of these articles have been found in ninny parts of the world, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem¬ ocrat. Bronze,, ivory and bone needles have been discovered in the tombs- of Egypt, and on the monuments are rep resentations of Indies engaged in sew _ iug, and, it is possible also,,in chatting at the same time. It is known that Chinese, Hindoos and Hebrews used needles from n great antiquity. Steel needles were known to the Homans,, luit none have been discovered, the metal not being able to resist the cor¬ roding influence of the atmosphere. The making of line needles was intro¬ duced into Spain by the Moors, and from that country was brought to En¬ gland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The foreigners who made the needles, however, refused to teach their trade to the natives, and, not until 1650,.did the manufacture obtain a footing on English soil. The needle-making ma¬ chines of the present have been brought to such u state of perfection that the work of managing a machine is largely entrusted to hoys and girls, and the machines turn out thousands of needles per hour. Southern Cotton Mills. The total number of southern cotton mills in 1895 was 435. Of these fif¬ teen have been “crossed out” and merged into other concerns, and three were burned, reducing the number to 420. To this number, however, lifty iive new mills were added during the year 1896, making the total now 475. “Put mo down as a warm friend of Tetter INE. I have a child three years old who has been afflicted from its birth with the worst ease of eczema I ever saw, it being one mass of sores from its feet to its crown. K has been treated by nine of the most eminent physicians In this and acPolulng States without the slightest bene¬ fit. Si vo at months ago wo commenced the use of Tkti krink on the child, and to-day, thank God and the manufacturers of Tetterink, the child is cured. My wife and 1 will ever feel grati-ful Yours to you for sending us this blessing. truly. A. (.'HAS. Cambell, Druggist, Dallas, N. C. 1 box by mail for 50c. In stamps. J. T. Shcptkink, Savannah, Ga. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Dac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00, at all druggists. Cotton. With careful rotation of crops and liberal fertilizations, cotton lands will improve. The application of a proper ferti¬ lizer containing sufficient Pot¬ ash often makes the difference between a profitable crop and failure. Use fertilizers contain¬ ing not less than 3 to 4 % Actual Potash. Kainit is a complete specific against “ Rust.” o AH about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex periment on the best farms in the Uniteu States—is told in a little book which we publish and will gladly mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. Soutliorn. Sood Co-, Glencoe, Garden Ala., growers Flower and dealers In tested Farm, and Heeds for Southern climate. Catalogue free. ANDY CATnARTIC •'QhOQh&kh CURE COHSTIPATIQH 10* ALL ! 25 * SO * DRUGGISTS ! ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED s? m *1 J pie end booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY CO., Chirseo. Montreal. Can., or New York. 817. i gfi",' am* m i ' j ft ri 4® 'w'm. V" / MYi 74 r 1 i; m > 4 ] X f m & / m H I Wj m % i •Vi CL f * : ■ -T -^2 it =5 7=5 ‘1 m Jh w \i i In Brooklyn. N. Y.. one of the few wood engravers who continue to do commercial work relates: “Three or four years ago I was pre¬ sented with, a box of Ripans Tabules These I took home and ever since that day have been a regular cus¬ tomer.” His wife’s mother is pronounced in the opinion that for gastric troubles, or for any irregularity proceeding which from a disordered stomach, the Tabules are the best medicine to her attention has ever been directed during all her long experience. His wife at one time astonished him by asserting that for a sore throat the Tabules were a remedy of amazing effectiveness. He understands this better now since ho has learned from his physician that sore throat—like many other apparently local troubles, notably headache—is often a direct re¬ sult of a disordered stomach; and for this thousands of people well ( know Ripans Tabules are a specific. HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill a bottle or common water glass witli urine and let It stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates a diseased eon ditlon of the kidneys. When urine stains linen it is positive evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or pain in the bftok is “Iso convincing proof that the kid noys and bladder are out of order. WHAT TO DO. There is comfort in the knowledge so often «P«“ ed . ; thftt , Dr - Kilmer's Hwarnp-Iloot, tno great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary pas¬ sages. It corrects inability to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, or bud effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being com pelled to get up many times during the night to.urinate. The mild and the extraor¬ dinary effect of Swamp-Hoot Is soon realized. It stands the highest for Its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases . Sold by drug¬ gists, price iifty cents and one dollar. For sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free by mail, mention this paper and send your full postofflee address to>Dr. Kilmer A Go., Binghamton, N. Y. The proprietors of this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. UPS gpjtk 0MB fiSB U Business Course ir ffi If 1 If b I to one perse.i in every s1 tP ,ty Please apply Ezisb ptly to Georgia hi y tn Ex-u Business College, ■ ■* * Hu Macon. Geouuia. Is Better Than » —BUT— u S. B.P. r ACCOMPLISHES EITHER OR BOTH. ‘ Impure blood mid its attendant evils “CANNOT exist If you take the remedy. “WRITE US FOR PARTICULARS. „Oo •9 Box 28, Atlanta, Ga ■ Best on Earth. EYTMtV FA KM KK Should Havo mm Gantt's Improved m GUANO am, COTTON PLANTER. Opens and For distributes any quantity at the same time. prices write to J. T. GANTT, Maeon, Ga. DON’T BE CUT knife. Wo can cure you without It. If you hare the PILES use Planter’s Pile Ointment. 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