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TO TELL TREE'S ACE.
Inttreitlng Calculation by Hat Experts. Been Reduced
to a Science
If you want to know liow old the
Venerable oak on your lawn Is you
can easily find out, hut you will first
here to cut It down and Ret a cross
section as near the base as possible.
Perhaps your curiosity would not Jus-
less Interesting to learn that accord¬
ing to Mr. 1). E. Kernow, chief of the
Forestry Division of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, the cal-
rulatlon of timber tree ages In the
temperate part of the TTnlted Statne
has been reduced to n eclcnce, and Its
accuracy has been tested by thousands
of experiments.
IV) the trees referred to the wood of
the stem Is laid on in uheetB or lay-
ers, which on a cross section appear
a h so many concentric rings, one being
formed each growing season. Tho
rings appear na alternate narrow
bands of lighter or darker color, the
dark line, or "nummer wood," occupy¬
ing the outer portion of ono ring and
being aharply contrasted against tho
highest portion of the Inner, higher or
"spring wood" part of the next ring.
These annual rings differ In width,
commonly averaging from one-eighth
of an Inch to three-eighths In hard
woods nnd from ono-tweritleth to one-
enghth In conifers, nnd races are not
rare where a whole century’s growth
of a spruce or balsam amounts to but
to or three Inches on the radius of
the' stem. In all young, sound and
thrifty trees, Mr. Kernow says, the
rings are laid on with the utmost reg¬
ularity nnd a cross section of a stem
furnishes not only Information as to
the age of the grown section, hut is
a fair Indication of the life history of
the tree, periods of suppression and
thrift being Indicated respectively hy
cones of correspondingly narrow or
broad rings. In such timber the
countings along different radii ulways
give the same result.
In very old, slow grown trees a dif¬
ference may appear of from one to five
rings, which If not duo to the inability
of the eye to detect an extremely nar¬
row ring, Is based on tho actual ab¬
sence of the ring, or rings, along a
given radius, unfavorable clrcum
stances having led to a failure of their
regular, continuous development, A
similar Irregularity hnu been observed
In densely shaded or otberwls” stunted
timber, nml also In timber Injured hy
coni smoke; so that a given ring, or
year’s growth, was found developed
twenty feet from the ground, hut en¬
tirely absent near the slump of the
same stem.
To determine tho age of u tree it. Is
desirable to make a eh-un, stnnoih cut
Frequently a magnifying glass will he
found imluspeimiiblu. Count along lb
greatest radius, avoiding covered
wounds and oilier ohslnrleii. Mure a
seedling of white pine, for Instance, Is
only one foot high whin five jeara
old, says Mr. Kernow, and slm o tho
parts of this fivo-your eld s. edllng uro
never raised upward liy growth, all
growtli being hy Hie addition of new
parta, a cross section two mid a half
feet from tho ground does not Include
this five-year old tree at all. So, If the
number of rings on the stump section
ts 100 , the real age of the tree is not
KHl years, but 100 plus about six. For
most purposes It is sufficiently near
the truth to make this allowance, hut
when greater accuracy is desired, the
cut must he made level with the
ground, so as to include the seedling
stem as well.
... Mk labor for , that , which wo oou-
aider of the most Milne. If it lie gold,
then w* lion*] our energies to its ac.|iii-
tion ami we are iu the end worth just
whnt we have heaped together, and we
may lie bought or sold, and for just so
much as we are worth, secured by our
own standard. We have received our
reward. Womankind.
The riinniit of lIu|)|iliio*t«.
rerted When man'n the Diw'larntion rl«ht thin, of liHlopoinletUHA it. i>nun<'b»tiMl am-
to nn
immortal truth. Tim hilimtn NuflVn r in on
the road to 1 toiqiinuMB u lii*ii lii» beKiUB to take
Houle tier’* ^Comneh UittorK, Uu* utoh! uth-
c.iM'lon* regulator of the liver in exiBtnnc e.
Ptipatlon, Equally rollnhlo in it in chill* anil fever, kidney roii-
trouble dyapopsla, rhemimtiam, It regularly,
and ncrvmtfincM*. Fat*
and hot at odd interval*.
Tho Aivhblshop of '’nutorburj talks id
roRlKulnit. Invlowof tho fmt .that bo con n
AiuwiL'k how w!'uni,ntdlm‘u’t^mnUci'ii's'iId head.
tho idea of qultUDg ontorwl hi#
To Cur© a Cold tn On© I>«y.
Take Laxative Dromo Quinine TaVdets. All
Druffgittirefund mouey It tt ftttl» tt*c«ire. S&o-
The ©on trove my mb to w bother Adam or
Georg© be WanhlnKton w‘«s the first man iu«v
det ldod in favor of Washington if it
turna out that Adam was n Chinaman.
Chew HUr Tobacco The Best
Brook© Sledge Oignrotten.
Th© f»un i»hin©« for all. but the Bleeping ear
porter doe© it for a quarter,
There i« inor© Catarrh In thlaacetlon of tho
country th.Hii all other tlise.’ts« pm t ‘Li tlier.
and until the la>t few year* yv.ib >upposetl to
local remetlies, and h> eoiiMautlv lailimr to
/ii”;
©onstiWitional dUease and then bo'e rtmuitva
©ountltutltmal treatment llaU’aC'aUrrh« i'oledo* uiv,
inanufaeturt'd Ohio, the on!) by Y oon'dituthmal .1 < hene) A * f .
ia rniv on the
market. It l* taken internally in doses dirvetlv from
lOdropB bhavd to «)u\ a teaspoonlu!. It at ts on
th« imiemissurfueet of the svaitMii
uMTr numiaU. Address 1 .nii^c^r
F. J. Chknkv A t’o.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by Family Druirtrlata, PilUait' T.V*.
Hairs the hest.
FHa pcrmanonUy first da cured, N lit. ' fits K1 or in©‘s nervous-
DOOR alter > us© of <; rent
Nerve Heat* vrev. ftf trial boiUe r *. ivm v.- s
l>n. H. 11. Hunk, Ltd.,u;U Aivh m , Fhd.i.. 1 *.,
Fyapeptila, ©inOomtKmnd. Indigysth Mv.v, ctmvl fiHH'bs>t>k t«> ThIh'vV sVnnu-u IV '?»• i'h
r >>n
trouble tol>r- T«la*r g. C«., S.mv innaU, G.t
W© think PisnV Cun* f© F*UlSU!UpUOD if
ih© Only Sprimfilb *n©d]<iin' bt. tv>t* His., tVu.; 1. I 3 KNNU
PlKCKAHD. Ot t. s
Was Nervous
Troubiod with Her Stomach
Could Not Sleep HoocFs Cured.
" About a year ago I was tt\»uM©d with
my ©teraaeh «u*t ©ouhl not eat. I was
nervous and rould not sU^cp at night. 1
gf©w very thtu. I began taking H<vh!>
S&rsap&riUa and <un now w«*U auvl fe'v-.v'.ig.
and owe it all to Hood's s irsaparilla,’'
R&&XV." h ° Uth 'itemembar
MOOCl ,, 8 onrsauarina 0
I, the beat-The One True Blend l'urlfirr.
Hood’s Pill® are the favorite
M o-
'S T
AHCHfdn* i Artu*; buAtnwt i/
books- bhon tirn« 0!>i**.p Invurd G*r eit^ocnt
iUm MINING
IMi— tfffiHr ai.A»Ka>i Oil StJtLi,
FATHER RETURNS HOME AND IS
, MET RY llOltlt I RLE SIGHT.
t
one little girl may survive.
Hlie It.-galns Conerlnti.neas Sufficiently to
<Jlv« a Description of the Itrutol
Assassin.
Ono of tho most atrocious and in¬
human murders on record in the south
wan committed Wednesday night in
tho edge of Himpson county, Miss.,
some twenty miles from tho town of
Wesson,
Brown Brnith, a farmer nml arm of
ex-ltejiresentativo Ed Brnith, of Bitnp-
Hon county, loft liiH family at Lin home
in the country to go to town for shop¬
ping purposed, thinking of no possible
danger for them.
Tlmraday morning when he returned
he found liia wife and five children
weltering in their own blood and ap¬
parently all dead.
An alarm was raised immediately
anil the entire neighborhood turned
out to hunt for tlm perpetrator of Ibis
foul and bloody crime. There being
no telegraph connections, details of
the murder came in slowly, but it is
t ince reporteil that one of the little
gir s, supposed to have been dead, has
revived enough to loll what she knew
of the occurrence. Bhe said she knows
the iiiuii who committed the deed; that
it wbh a negro, and described him.
A posse started at once in pursuit of
the murderer ami there is great prob¬
ability thnt lie will lm apprehended. nnd
ll is learned that Mrs. .S'nith
foilr of her < IiiMi en are <lt*ud und out*
of the rhilflroii is Mill living.
McNair, of Lincoln, and
.Mil! I Iiiuii |. son, of C npmli counties,
ulso went to (he scene of the murder,
each with a pack of trained blood-
'
... 1 ........ ... 1
THREE OFFICERS KILLED.
\u Outlaw, I,ttally Wounded, I»n<*
Deadly \Vurl< Willi Winchester.
News has just heel. .......ived at Don-
ver. Col., of 11 desperate fight that oc
cnnvil iii’ji r tho linnlcr of A i i/.ona and
old Mexico. Tlnco guards of tho
Mexican sor v ;,. ( . one desperado 1 ’
wi’i'c lulled. Tlie latter wn) trunk C.
I'Ijuilitt-t!, one of Black Jack’s gang
ami uu outlaw from Tex.tr, whose
two brothers were killed while mum-
lee- <, f Hilly the Kid’s gang.
The two forces met face to face at a
tin n in the i nili-<mil near beamier
Springs. There were eight outlaws
a ' tiled three officers, hot the latter
(J p,.neil the attack with orders for
'‘band, up." Two of the outlaws
lurned tlieir horses for tho hills, but
Dhalhird dismounted, and drawing
Ins winchester, opened tire and killed
the 1 hi to ollieers before lie fell with n
fatal Wound in Ins side.
: Dlmllnrd is the last of tho Bam Bass
; ..nag of train robbers, who ('loaned out
Custer <tity many vents ago. Hie two
brothers were killed in Dan Handle of
Texas hy slate rangers,
MM'I Si A NA DEMOCRATS MEET.
1‘lie Shite Ton volition Aftitcinhlcs at llnton
j iCmiRr.
I lm democratic stuta convention,
called for the purpose of nominating
candidates for delegates nt large to
'.he constitutional convention, to meet
„ \,. w Orleans in February, wa»
, uU(ul to order in Baton Kongo Thuvs-
day. ndministra
Governor Foster and liis
tion have expressed themselves as fa¬
voring the obliteration of geographical
lines in order to insure the nomilia-
tion of the biggest and hruinest demo¬
crats of the state, irrespective of
whence they come.
Kll-LF.H A HYSTANDKIt.
It t* v i'll ii i* OIUgci'm Alin Went Wide of
the Murk.
A tragedy n Inch w as the outgrowth of
(he illicit sale of brandy and an attempt
by tho rovtMiuo oflltuus to npprtdioml
"ie offenders was enacted *m the river
hank about four miles from Carthage,
Tenn., Wednesday night.
•\ vou tie countryman named Ted
... M right , was killed in i i hy Deputy m « United it -4 *
Slates Marshal S. S. Harper accident-
llily while returning the lire of a vio-
i„,‘ ,
IIOTH.i: MAKI HS TO (OMIIINE.
An 0 of iKp llopoi’l Flint llt>tlli‘<t
Advance 10 Vvr Font,
Tito Uommonor and Ulass Worker,
mil.lishn.l 1 ’Uhl lit d A\ .»t Pitlslmnr MU. UIg, D„ I a., «„..*• .ii). .
*‘()U6 of the oloROBt- organizations of
m»«»fct„rcr«
has boon { orfeotod and will assume
“»n*rol of the Hint bottle trade of the
oounli Y within a work or two. Fully
*>- * ’ 1 01 teUl nf the Uu Mmt Imtilo lu)t l, ° tnnnn nmnu
facturot of tho country . in tho
'8 are now
-sHUi/.«U .
*‘Ab a diroot rosuit of tho formation
..... . .....- r ,v » uw : ,,f 10 * ,or font
on flint Imttles.
forestry ASSOCIATION
Hold Annual Meeting sit the National
Capital.
The American Forestry associa¬
tion held its l<‘dh annual session
n\ Washington Wednesday, r Y\w
mooting \trts mainly a business
meeting to satisfy the articles of tho
corporation for the purpose of reoeiv*
ing reports and the election of officers,
Uoueru! Francis H. Appleton, of Hos-
ton, juesided.
the tariff legislation was briefly
touched upon as iutlueneing neither
favorably nor unfavorably the forestry
movement.
III RRANTS HURD SENTENCE.
Vonnq m*hU©a1 8 tvtd©nt Will I’robwbly
iishk t:«vlv In tho N“©%v k «•»*©.
says: ' I he ... papers . ......«p'Hteb on ihe Durrani of Friday case
:iave been !: <d 1 i.'u>. It is expected
'hat the murderer will be sentence.!
for the third time on Tuesday ami will
he hanged ou the first Friday of the
new year.
*' '* H singular fact that of the oou-
iemue 1 murderers now awaiting exe-
utien iii Fan Queutin, three—Allen-
iler, Ehauks am] Durraut kilhwl two
i* ! ous ™ ch -
THREE WERE IMPLICATED
In the Horrible Murder of Mr*, Brown
and Her Children.
A special from Wesson, Miss., says:
Late Thursday afternoon the negro who
murdered the family of Drown Brnith
wus raptured hy tho posse, carried to
Monticello, the county sent of Law¬
rence county, nnd nt 7 o'clock was
carried hack to the scene of his crime,
where he was fully identified hy tho
little girl.
Another special to The New Orleans
Picnyune from Wesson, Miss , says:
"Your correspondent has just inter¬
viewed one of the most prominent men
in this section, who left the scene of
tho massacre of the Brown Hmitli fam-
i' ri«1uy morning. I ho accused ne¬
gro, Charley Lewis, is being tried lie-
fore Justice If. T. Holmes; ho has
given testimony implicating two other
negroes—Will Dowell and Andy Smith,
who are now in custody.
“.My informant is positive that the
recent lynching at Monroe will ho im-
itnted, making it public, and each ne¬
gro will he made to curry pine knots
to burn the other.
‘‘The trial is being conducted in a
lawful manner. Tho committee hns
charge of the prisoners nnd will not
permit them to he sent to any jail.
During Ihe trial Lewis broke
down and confessed, saying: ‘It’s
mighty hard for me to suffer for what
somebody else has done.’
“Upon being allow to talk further, Andrew
he said: ‘Get Will Dowell mid
Brnith.’
“Lewis is a mulatto about twenty-
three years old, nnd married. It is
believed that a general clean-up will
he made in that section of the country,
and that a number of negroes will ho
lynched."
( ALI. TO VETERANS.
p,..f Oc.ruln A.k.-.l to AmIhI In M.ik-
lug KcUltloil ft Kuc.oohh.
Tho work of arranging for the reun-
ion of all Confederate survivors to be
Atlanta, da. in July, next
year, has been begun m earnest. All
of the committee have been appointed
IUl ,| „„ t|„, details are now over the
work will ,, progress rapidly. ,, General ,, ,
(I. A. Kvans has iasiied tho follow-
jug communication to the public:
“To the Confederates* of Georgia and
Their Friends:
I “Ihe organization of the reunion
! —ialion of Georgia, with its neees-
officers, f'eneiul » <ec.uti \ a com-
mittoe, anil Biih-coiniiiittoeH has been
■ c ured and the work for the reunion
ol , the .. < ,, onfedeiate , , veteialls , in k J!
Iiiih commenced with that enthusiasm
M*d organized effort which will make
tlie occasion memorable.
‘ I uow make appeal to the people
of fleorgia to unite hoirtMy in show-
ing Unit great oonsiiloration which 1
know they feel for the men whoso
willingly made the offering of life on
the call of patriotic duty, The occu*
sioii will bring together for probably
the last timo in Georgia thollonfed-
ernto sill vivorf* of tho entire country,
north und south, and the scene will be
tlie most improssiv • that the eves of
our sons and daughters ever beheld.
The co-operation already tendered
all of the slate the city .
from pads to
of Atlanta is most gratifying iu its
assurance that the hospitable arrange-
mi nts now in progress w ill be in some
degree worthy of the Confederate sur
vivors w ho are to Ire our guests, and
in order to make our work effective 1
lietf all officers of camps ami districts,
(( || y ()||H nn d Daughters of C'onfede-
rates, nnd all citizens to organize witli-
()11 | delay f in every place, so as to he
, in ,. 0 umIlll icalion with the excel-
live coininiltee “CiYmknt in Atlanta
A Fva.nk
I Georgia lieunion Assoeia-
|j, m »
HAD K11,1.FD NINE.
; Nl«t>ct, lh« Multi-Murderer, Swung Into
Eternity.
Henry Nisbet, colored, •was hanged
at Irwinville, (la , Friday, for the
murder of Jim Arlington, another ne¬
gro, at Fitzgerald last spring.
Nisbet, according to report*, is a
most desperate character. After he
murdered Arrington an attempt was
mado to lynch him l»y the negroes He and
lie was nearly cut to pieces. was
given a pistol hy one of his friends,
in tUe <i « ht he k il ' e ‘\ t "°
118 • 9S * I *ants . and wounded 1 three
ot, “ ,r '''
Nisbet ‘ has slain ‘ nine men in his
1 1 nl< *
'' rl lT 1, ‘ a , “ s many more. All his vie-
tuns were of Ins own race, which he
TO INVESTIGATE SMALLPOX.
Governor Kllerbe, of South Carolina,
Name* Committee of Woetovs.
A dispatch from Columbia, S. O.,
says: Governor FJIerbe 1ms appointed
a commission composed of Dr. Huh-
link, superintendent of tho insauo
asylum; Rev. Dr. Evans and Dr.
Strother Dope, to visit Hock Hill and
thoroughly ,, , , investigate . . the smallpox ,,
situation there iu connection with
Wiuthrop college. Tho parents of the
hundreds of girls there have been
making it warm for the authoriiies.
Superintendent of Education May-
field wires from Rock Hill that every
*
preoautiou , is i being taken .1 to * prevent
tho disoitso spreading to the eoliego.
O'llRIEN FORCED TO (}11T.
l.lpiitniHiir. it.-.Kio.tU.n From the Ai m.
•
W x\ hs .. Not v x \ oluiiinrv. 1 . .
( olotiol H. l . (’ook, of the Fifth
United States newspaper* Infantry, in an inter-
view with a man. said that
Lieutenant , Michael ,, : , J. , O ... Urien . s res-
ignatiou from the army w ns not vol-
nutarv * on his part, but was reuuested
i.„, . . reque. »d , i i by .. .I the war depart- i .
uieul, and that the < fficer was given
his choice of resigning or submitting
t..oe auuituiRiUal. , 141 *.,,evil.,)
SAFE CRACKERS CAl (GIT.
t brre While M.". in s..ui 1 . Carntina Nab¬
bed Fur M ti.ites.i 1 .. Kottberv.
Three white men. giving their mimes
1 ' '' 1 '■ * R*rI<tJ Jonea aud Henry
*
Tll ltl ’m!' „ , r: . ° . ouo NtoT0 ,
v
I irnku
the i safe thev enter ontere.I t> * utlotver »- f, , r out ,
*
• “Three 'lt lav
more of the gang are at large
and are supposed to be operating 1 * * b ln iu i
UreeuriJle.
ENTHUSIASM.
SERMON ll¥ A. <1. ('ASSAM), CHAP*
LAIN AT FURTHERS MONROE.
The Fourth of the New York Ileral.t'l
Competitive Sermon, U nit "Knthufl*
ie.in ,' 1 end the Author la William Oi
Caaaard, Chaplain nt Fortrrae Monroe.
Tzxt: "Whatsoever thy lmnd flndeth to
<lo, do tt with tby might.”—Ecoles., lx., 10,
Solomon In this text gives us one very
essential It plank tn the platform of find success. work,
Is not enough thnt we should
hut to this must be added tho quality ol
Intense enthusiasm In its performance.
Enthusiasm Is at once the proof of sin.
oerlty and tho advance guard of victory.
There are two ways of working—as a hire¬
ling and ns an enthusiast, The hireling
gets ho through with Ids work and Is glad
Is done. Ko is bis employer. The en¬
thusiast does his work, finds happiness nnd
profit nnd further and more remunerative
employment. I sat nt my window watch¬
ing n hoy shoveling coal Into the collar,
ills steps were toilsome and stow, Ms coun¬
tenance peared dejected bo nlmost In sick. the extreme; left the he ap¬
to I win¬
dow to escape n painful sight.
An hour later I crossed a nearby vacant
lot and found the street gamin engaged In
a game of baseball. "Jones nt the. bat!”
shouted the "umpire.” Jones stepped out
Willi lordly mien nnd seized tho hat, eager
forthefray. did How the he did hang the ball!
How he run banes! I was quite as¬
tounded to discover In Jones, the hero of
tho ball field, my erstwhile martyr of tho
coni pile! At putting away coal he was a
dismal failure; at playing baseball he was
first choice on a scrub nine. At tho ono he
was the hireling, nt the other tho enthusi¬
ast. The conqueror, tho discoverer, tho
Inventor, the great leader of men have nil
been enthusiasts. They have blazed the
pathway of triumph along tho march of
ages nnd mediocrity hns gleaned after
them.
Enthusiasm Is not permitted to work in
Isolation, hut begets enthusiasm, compels
a hearing, secures In a constituency. Ihiltimnro is A one-
nrmed newsboy seller. He nn en¬
thusiastic paper 1ms tho first
mornln 5 edition an<l tho last evening
"extra. Workmen hurrying to their
work business-like buy papers as they return his cheery,
greeting, while tho tired mer¬
chant on his homeward way nt evening is a
willing Investor In tho wares of this en¬
thusiastic little newsagent . The spirit of
thnt hoy Is the pledge of hi* future success.
Men do not need opportunity so much ns
opportunity needs rneu. An euthusia.*tio
^i^uS'ul!:
known centuries for Columbus. A ninte-
rial world with resources little more than
‘bnum-d or awaits the coming of countless
enthusiastic searchers, who will pre-ompt world
their rich claims. Tho spiritual
awaits tho coming of tho enthusiastic
church. Tho Divine teacher has shown tho
way. A life of righteousness, faith nnd sac¬
rifice will win victories nnd receive a orown.
There is one point Jit which wo must
watch. Enthusiasm must not ho con-
hy‘a
really brilliant men wasto nil their energies
in running after some new thing only to
lose interest when the newness Is gone.
True enthusiasm is a great purpose ner-
slstehtly, earnestly such and hns Intelligently nd-
hured to, nml as been and will
™nt'mm »’>»■ conquering.tore. In wlmt-
' r 1 ' 11 Wu.m'am Cl',TA'ssxnn ilonroe,
Chaplain U. H. Navy, Fortress Ya.
GRANDEURS OF THE FROST.
III'. Tnlnmgo Discourses of tiio Winters cl
the l'.lblc.
Text: "By the breath of God frost Is
given.” Job xxxvii., 10.
.^^["th^toTuUds tlm’instrument and'have flngor
on a key of It
make no response. Though nit the other
kejH nr» it. full play, that one silence de¬
stroys the music. Bo III tho great entho-
Aral of nature if ono part fails to praise
tlm hard tho harmony Is halted and lost,
Whllo lire nnd lmll, snow nnd vapor re¬
1 no^uttirnne'o 8 tho^rciiesirai
and rendering tho liarraouy would bo forever hopelessly damaged 1
Incomplete.
am moro than glad that 1 can tell that tho
white key of the frost sounds forth as
mightily as any of the other keys, and
when David touches it in tho Psalms it
sounds forth the words: “Ho soatteretli
the hoar frost like ashes,” and when Job
touches It in my text, it resounds with tho
words: “By tho breath of God frost is
given.”
Iu tills course of Sabbath morning ser¬
mons on “God Everywhere” I have already
addressed you on tho astronomy of the
Bible; chology or, God among Bible; tho stars; tho con-
of tho or, God among tho
•hells; God tiio ornithology of tho Bible; or,
among tho birds; tho pomology of tho
Bible; or, God among the orchards; and to¬
day I speak to you of tho winters of tho
Bible; or, God among disposed tho frosts.
As no one seems to discuss tho
mission help, of frost, depending This upon Divine
I undertake it. is the first
Sabbath of winter. The loaves are down.
The warmth has gone out of tho air. The
birds havo made thoir winged march
southward. tho The autumnal landseapo equinox. has boon Tho
scarp'd by
buskers have rifled the corn shocks. Tho
night sky has shown the usual meteoric
restlessness of November. Three seasons
of the year aro past, and tho fourth and
last 1ms entered. Another element now
comes in to bless and adorn and instruct
'tMs King are’‘Sp congelation. 'iTuie'Arctic.'*Tl“eff
walls are glittering Windsor
Onstlm* nud Tullcrlos and Winter Palaces
and Konllworths and Allmmbras of ieo.
Temples Thrones of with Iceberg, pendant chandeliers which eternal of lee. si¬
on
le nm reigns. Theatres on whose stage
eternal cold dramatizes eternal winter.
sraa .nr txsrsvi
Mountains of ico. Dominions of ice. Ftcr-
mil frigidity. From these hard, white, bur-
Dished portals King Frost descends and
waves hissilvory seopter over hear our temper¬ heel
ate none. Vou will soon his on
tho skating pond. You wind. already By*most led his
breath in the night con-
*ldered nn enemy coining here to benumb
^
dlvinolv pronounced aud charged irtid sur-
charged with lessons potent, benollceut
““‘l tremendous. Tho llltdo seven time
allmlcs to tho fret, and wo must not
ignore It. "By tho breath of God fr st Is
given.” the
I know that to many season of frost
is a season ot suffering. I remember two
rough wood cuts years ago, iu a lmok or
newspaper. They were called “A Winter
Scene,” The suow had begun to fall, and
'» thedoor G aeomtortablo home stood a
healthy boy. with ruddy checu, tippeted
nml mittcued, shouting with glee: “It
snows! It snows!” In tho wood cut op-
juosito stood a boy looking out of the broken
window ot a wretchod tenement, hliusolf
wan nnd >»'secs’tin-white hungry nnd shivering with cold,
f fan n ,? lm , aa cries out with apprehension Hakes begin and to
horror: “Oh,my God! It snows! It snows!”
But while tho frost means to some severe
P^vation, we who have tho comforts of this
'''''""Kid to bo aide to take an intelligent
and ins, irmir view of my Intense text, "Bv
the breath of God frost i** given.”
First, I think of Frost ns a painter. Ho
Vegln* Ms work on tho leaves nnd oon-
tiuucs it oil 1 ie window panes. With pa-
letteeovared with all manner of colors in
hi-left hand, a-d pencil of crystal In his
riebt Uan.l. be sit, down l ■ humb!.-
bush In the latter cart of Kcutcmbcr. and
tmRlns the sk 4 'tching of the leaves. All aro
! vc.v'iU'd. one by one, lut tomotim.'s a
whole forest In the course of a few days
shows groat velocity of work. Weouix, the
Dutch painter, could make tn a summer
day three portraits of lire size, but the frost
In urn days can paint tou mountains la life
Michael Angelo put upon ono ceiling his
SSSSsSHSsS gnuidfur. Leonardo da MncI
Lorff-s pat upon a
feet of canvas our “Last Supper ’
of the last supper ot Ihe dying year on the
heights an t lengths and breadths of the
‘'vonwm ^on maker on a cold morning
thnt the er .dews 0 t your homo
have during the ni nt been adorned.
curv >«, with coronas, With ex infslfonoss,
wltli pomp, with nhim.it supernatural what speo-
taele, Then vou wlU nopr • Mata my
text says, a* it do •hire-, "By the breath of
God frost D given." Vou will see on the
wltidow pane, trd'.'OA there by tho frost,
whole gardens of beauty, ferns, orchids,
daffodils, heliotropes, clilun asters, foun¬
tains, statues, hounds on the cbaso, roe¬
bucks plunging Into the stream, battle
eeenes with dying and dend, catafalques of
kings, triumphant processions, and ds the
morning nun breaks through you trill see
cities on (Ire and bombardment with burst¬
ing shell and Illuminations as for soino
great victory, coronations and angels on
the wing. All night long, while you were
sleeping, the frost was working, and you
ought not to let tho warmth obliterate tho
soeno until you have admired It, studied for It,
absorbed It, set It up In your and memory realize tho
perpetual refreshment, Intensity of
force and magnitude nnd my
text! "By tin) breath of God frost Is given.”
Hols a stupid Christian who thinks so
much of tho printed and bound Bible that
ho neglects tho Old Testament of tho fields, nnd
not reads the wisdom nnd kindness
beauty of G-.d Written In blossoms on to«
orchard. In sparkles on the lake, In stars
In tho sky. in frost tho mpadows. Tho
greatest jcwel-.-r of all the earth is tho
frost. anl speak tho
Hut I go astep further, and of
fro.-t as an evangelist, ft toxt of Scrip-
turois not of much use to mo unless I cad
find the gospel in It. Tho Israelites In tho
wilderness breakfasted on something that
looked like frozen dew. The manna fell on
tho dew and the dew evaporated and and looking left a
Pulverized material, whito
llko frost; but it was manna, nnd of mixed that
they ate. Ho now, this morning,
with tho frozen dew of my text, there Is
manna on which wo may breakfast our
souls, Vou say tho frost kills. Yes, It
ltllls some tilings, but wo have already
seen that it gives health and life to others.
This gospel Is tho saver of life unto life, or
death unto death. As the frost is mighty,
the gospel is mighty. • As tho frost de¬
scends from heaven, the gospel God descends
from heaven, 1 By tho breath of frost
is given. By the breath purifies,so of God the the gospel
Isgiven. As the Host grace
of God purifies. As tho frost vests tho
earth, so grace bejeivels tho soul, As the
frost prepares for food inedible, many things that
otherwise would be so the frost
of trial ripens nnd prepares food for tho
soul. helped
Thank God for frosts. What
make Milton the greatest of poets? Tho
frost, Washington of blindness. greatest Wlmt of generals7 helped make Tho
the
frosts of Valley Forge. Wlmt mnko it ap¬
propriate for one passing John Banyan’s
grave to exclaim, "Sleepon, thou prince of
dreamers?” The frosts of Imprisonment.
Tho greatest college from which we can
graduate Is tlm College of Frosts. Especial
trials fit for especial work. Just now
watch, nnd you will see that trouble Is pro-
punitive and educational. That Is tho
grindstone on which battle axes aro sharp-
oned. Without complaint take tho hard
knocks. You will soo that after a while,
though tiio you may not appreciate it now,
that by breath of God frost is given.
Let the corners of your mouth, so long
drawn down in complaint, bo drawn up in
smiles of contont.
For years poets and essayists have cele¬
brated the grace an 1 swiftness of tho Ara¬
bian horses. Do you know where those
Arab horses get their fleotness and poetry
of motion? Long centuries ago Mahoro-
mod, with 30,000 cavalry horses on tho
inar-.di, could Had for them not a drop of
water for three days, doming to the top of
a IdU a river was in fight. YTith -wUA dash
tlie 30,039 horses starto l for the stream.
A minute after an armed host was seen ad¬
vancing. and at Mohammed’s command
one hundred bugles blew for tho horses to
fall iu line, but all the 30,000 continued tho
wild gallop to the river, except five, and
they, almost dead with thirst, wheeled into
lino of battle. Nothing In human bravery
and self-saerillco excels that bravery and
self-siicrilice of those live Arabian war
horses. Those live splendid and steeds from Mobam-
mod chose for his own use, those
live came that race of Aral* an horses, world. for
ages tho glory of the equestrian
And let me say tint, in this great war of
truth against error, of holiness against sin,
and heaven against hell, tho best war
horses are descended from those who, after
pang and self-denial and trouble, answered
tho Gospel trumpet and wheeled into lino.
Out of great tribulation, out of groat dreg,
out of great frosts thoy came. And let me
say, it will not take long for God to mako
up to you in the next world for all you
have suffered in this.
As you enter heaven God may say “Give
this maiivOne of those towered and colon¬
naded palaces on that ridge of gold over¬
looking the Sea of Glass. Give this wom¬
an a home among those amarathine blooms
and between those fountains tossing in tho
everlasting sunlight. Give her a couch
canopied with rainbows to pay her for all
tho fatigues of wifehood and motherhood
nnd housekeeping, from which sho had no
rest for forty years. Cup-bearers of heaven, the
give these newly-arrived souls and from roll to
earth tho costliest beverages
their door the grandest chariots, and hang
on their walls the sweetest harps that ever
thummed to lingers seraphic. Give to
them rapture on rapture, celebration on
celebration, jubilee on jubilee, heaven on
heaven. They had a hard timo on earth
earning a livelihood, or nursing sick chil¬
dren, or waiting on querulous old told age, or
ba iling falsehoods th.it were about
them, or wore compelled to work after they
got short-breathed nnd rheumatic and dim-
sighted. Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers
of the King’s robes! Banqueters of eternal
royalty! Mako up to them a hundredfold,
a thousandfold, a mlllloufold, for all they
suffered from swaddling clothes to shroud,
and let all those who. whether on tho hills,
or in the temples', or on the thrones, or on
jasper wall, were helped and sanctified and
prepared for this heavenly realm by the
.Mission of the Frosts stand up and wave
their scepters!” And I looked, and, behold,
nine-tenths of the ransomed rose to their
feet, and nine-tenths of the scepters swayed
to and fro in tho light of tho sun that never
• ets, and then I understood, far better than
i ever did before, that trouble comes for
beneficent purpose, an l that on tho cold¬
est nights tho Aurora is brightest in tho
Northern heavens, and that ‘ by tho breath
of God frost is given.”
New Electric Light Plant.
In aceordanee with tho policy ol economy
adopted by the Receivers of tho Baltlmoro
nnd Ohio Railroad an electric lighting plant the
has been installed nt Philadelphia for
purpose of liqhtiiij: tiio passenger station,
yorus, freight stations, ireight yurds, docks,
rouu dhouscs, machiao shops, etc. Twice
local lighting C'lmpanies, viit tiio oxponaig
havo ! ‘‘on ri'tUii’i' i ° ! '*- •* i' 1 * H took
twenty miles of wive for tho overhead con-
struotlou and a sub-marine cable Is used in
crossing the Schuylkill ltivcr.
.Tapnn Oppo..-. llawaHau Annexation.
Fralwlsu'o Vrom'Japan, .still unal- X
thostMitimont in his country is
tcrahly opposed to tho annexation of Ha¬
waii by tho United States.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS.
,ry G . :o I* l'.. p irlns: To Paj Out
tivei-#i!*.om>,ooo.
Secretary tinge has issued a public
notice to the eflcct that on Friday,
December filth, 1S*•>7, the treasury de-
partiueut would he prepared to liegiu
the redemptioii without rebate of in¬
terest of the bonds of the Pacific raii-
roads, common 1 v known as currency
,}•„ maturing January 1, 1898, anil
' ua ' 1 “"- Ks , , v ;u'i >e , mum aa Ucd i on on Decern- mum-
ber fflth in pavnient of principal and
interest to maturity of all bonds pre-
-euted before that date.
SEN SPOTS VISIBLE.
Solar Disturbances* tin Big Seal© are
Announced.
observatory, reports the observation
of a great group of sun spots approach-
The group is visible to the naked
eye through smoked glass.
‘
Measurements ma le by Professor
brooks snow this vast solar disturb-
JZJj sk- 'ujength.
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A Dog Sentry.
Out on Southport avenue there Is a
dog which mounts guard as regularly
as most people eat their meals. He
Is a black dog, with the marks of a
Scotch terrier. He is no longer young,
as his gray beard shows, but he makes
up in vigilance what he may lack in
activity. He sits In the sentry box In
the corner of the yard, and with loud
barkings warns off all intruders,
That sentry box is of itself a pe¬
culiar thing. In one corner of the
front yard about ten feet from the
gate a platform has been erected. The
lot is beyond the surface of the street
and entrance to the yard is accom¬
plished by descending a short flight of
three steps. The platform extends up
to within a foot of the top of the fence,
which is of heavy boards, and of the
closed variety. The fence about the
platform Is surmounted by a row of
ikeg Thcse extend a]ong the front
‘
and sid ,, e fences, . making the whole re-
semble a sentry box with a spiked top.
As soon as the day’s work com¬
mences the terrier makes the rounds
of the premises. He looks into the
barn in the rear. He crawls under the
house and drives out strange cats, &o.
Having satisfied himself that all is
safe, he gravely proceeds to the front
yard and hops up on that platform.
There lie sits erect, his head and
shoulders appearing above the spikes.
He is a sober and reliable soldier.
Strange dogs pass by and challenge
him to battle. He glances down at
them in high disdain and returns no
response to their jeers. He is on duty
and is not to be seduced therefrom.
But let a stranger attempt to enter
the gate and ho is all changed. Towser
flies into rage and action at the same
time. He drops from his perch and
attacks the stranger with teeth and
voice. If a member of the family
passes his beat he wags his tail and
receives the countersign, but does not
leave his seat. In fact, he is a well
behaved sentry who is always on duty
and who takes a pride in duty well
done.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Neiv Way to Wealth.
According to theosophy, said Dr. A.
tV. Goryn, the human will was a def;
tnite force, and when strongly moved
by desire it was able to accomplish
visible results, although no apparent
action had been taken. The desires
of men were constantly affecting their
outward circumstances, and even if,
as in the case of a man wishing for
wealth, no Immediate result is seen,
the ultimate effect would be that in
another earth life he would be born
amid wealthy surroundings. It always
happened, however, that when the cov¬
eted boon was obtained some unwel¬
come and unlooked for circumstance
accompanied it, and so the wise man
avoids definite wishes about his fu¬
ture, recognizing his ignorance of what
Is really best for him, and patiently
accepting the testimony meted out to
him by the just law. George Muller,
of Bristol, supports a large institution
for orphans by prayer. The venera¬
ble founder relates his wish for a
definite sum of money to meet a press¬
ing engagement. Thoughts were
things, and once the Idea, strongly
vitalized by his will, passed out into
the ether, it floated about until at¬
tracted to the congenial soil of the
brain of some wealthy philanthropist,
who, "struck hy the thought,” sends
his check for the required amount.—
Essex (England) Times.
Egotistical Weakness.
“Have n care, oh, my daughter,”
saith the xvise woman, “how thou tak-
est man at his word, when he speaketh
concerning himself. He glories in .liis
strength and vaunteth it before his
fellows, and most of all before thee,
but he wouW be handled as a frail
, of . , bric-a-brac. . , ,,
piece
Criminating Evidence.
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Hard water, strong lye, or inferior
laundry soap are responsible for the yellow
clothes seeji in many households. To wash
properly, fill a tub nearly full of
water, put the white clothes in first, rub
with Ivory Soap, scald, rinse and
when dry. sprinkle and fold down over
night and iron carefully. Eliza It. PinKEn.
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If I _ were Lemuel Ely Quigg,
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If 1 were Lemuel Ely Quigg,
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—Washington Post.
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• Chronic Dysentery'
r/j'wyv find Periodical Con*-
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FrofusQ Menstruation-
Flooding is always an annoying and 30me*
times a very dangerous disorder. When tho
menstrual discharge Is natural, it is bo grad*
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tions it is prevented from coagulating, often formed-
in this disease, clots are costiveness,,
Where there is a tendency to
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mid strength to the pelvic organs Dr. Sim*
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^ Dublin, Tex., writesf
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i.iV.'T- Medicine has
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iny system without
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EEft - and in bowela
I used caused great uneasiness ahead of them
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U cansed P n Selordcre S d r system.
Vitiated blood, py uterine derangements, nervous dis¬
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For permanent cure take one Wino before
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each meal for three days before and during
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