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"DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. of ezolution. [Preached nt Lakeside, Ohio.] Text: “The statutes of the Lord are right.’’ Psalm xix. S. O’d books go out of date. When th?y were —ritUu they discussed questions which were being discussed; they struck at wrongs which have long ago < ead, or advo ated in-ritu ti»ns which e cite notour interest. Were thev books of history, the la.ts hare been gathered from the imperfe t mass, better and more luridly presented. Were they books of poetry, they were interlocked w th wild mythologies, which have gone up from the face of the earth like mi ts at s in * lS< » Were they books of morals, civili,ati< n will not sit at the feet of bari arism, n< ither jo we want ISappho, Pythagoras and Tully to teach us morals. H hat do tho masses of the P®°Pto care now lor the pathos of Simonides, or the sar asm of Men ander. or the gracefulness of Philemon, or the wit of Aristophan *s? Even the old b-.xiks we have left, w it la a few exception -. have but very little effect upon our times Books are human: they have a time to be born, they •re fondled, they grow’ in strength,they ha/e a middle life of usefulness; then comes old ace; they totter and they die. Many of the national libraries are merely the cemeteries of the dead books. Some of them live 1 flagitious lives and died deaths of ignominy, borne were virtuous and accomplished a glorious mission. Some went into the ashes through inquisitorial fires, homo found their funeral pile in sacked and plundered cities, borne were neglected and died as foundlings at the door of science. Some expired in th? au thors study, others in the publisher’s hands, fiver and anon there comes into your pos sesion an old book, its author forgotten and itfusefulness done, anti with leathern lips it seems to tay: “1 wLh I were dead.” Monu ments have been raided over poets and phi lanthropists. Would that some tall shaft might Le erected in honor of the world's buried books’ The worlds authors would make pilgrimage the. eto, and poetry and lit erature and science and religidti would con sc-;rat: it with the.r tears. Not so with one old book. It started in the world's infancy. It grew under theocracy and monarchy. It withstood the st rms of fire. It grew under prophet’s mantle and under the fisherman's coat ©f the apostles: in Rome, and Ephesus, and Jerusalem,and Pat mos. Tyranny issued edicts against it, and infidelity put out the tongue, and Mohamme danism from its mosque-; hurled its anathe mas, but the old Bible still lived. It crossed the British Channel and was greeted by Wickliffe and James I. It crossed the At lantic and struck Plymouth Rock, until like that of Horeb it gushed with blessedness. Churches and asylums have gathered along its way, ringing their bells and stretching out their hands of blessing; and every Habbath there are ten thousand heralds of the cross with their hands on this open, grand, free old English Bible. But it will not have ac complished its mission until it has climbed the icy mountains of Greenland; until it has gone over the granite cliffs of China: until it has thrown its glow amid the Australian mines; until it has scattered its gems among tho diamond districts of Brazil; and all thrones shall be gathered into one throne, and all crowns by the fires of revolution shall be melted into one crown, and this Book shall at the very gate of heaven have waved in :he ransomed empires. Not until then will this glorious Bible have accom plished its mission. In carrying out. then, the idea of my text —“The statutes of tho Lord aro right”—l shall show you that the Bible is right in au thentication; that it is right in style: that it is right in doctrine; that it is right in its ef fects. 1. Can you doubt the authenticity of the Scriptures? There is not so mu h evidence that Walter Scott wrote “The Lady of the Lake;” not so much evidence th?it Shake speare wrote “Hamlet;” not so much evidence that John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost” as there is evidence that the Lord God Almight v, by the hands of the prophets, evangelists arid apostles, wrote this book. Suppose a book now to be written which came in conflict with a gr eat many things, and was written by bad men or impostors, how long would such a book stand ? It w> >uld be scouted by every body. And I Jay if that Bible had been an imposition; or if it bad not been written by the men who said they wrote it; if it had been a mere collection of false hoods, do you not suppose that it would have been immediately rejected by tho people? If Job, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, an I Paul, and Peter, and John were imposters they would have been scouted by generations and nations. If that book has come down through fires of centuries without a scar it is because there is nothing in it destructible. How near have they come to destroying the Bible? When tn *y began their opposition there were two or three thousand copies of it. Now there are two hundred millions, as far as I can calculate. These Bible truths, not withstanding all the opposition, have gone into all languagt s—into the phdosophic Greek, the flowing Italian, tne grace ful German, the passionate French, the picturesque Indian, and the exhaustless Anglo-Saxon. Un '.er the painter's pencil the birth and crucifixion and the resur rection glow on the walls of palaces; or, un der the engraver’s kn fe, speak from the mantel of the mountain cabin: while st mes, touched by the sculptor's chisel, start up into prea h ng apostles and ascending martyrs. Now, do you not suppose, if that Book ha I been an imposition an 1 a falsehood, it would not have gone down under these ceaseless fires of opposition ? Further, suppose that was a great pestilence going over the earth, and hundreds □f thousands of men were dying of that j esti lenee, and some one should find a medicine that cured ten thousand people, would not every body a knowle Igo that that must be a good medicine ' Why, some one would say: “Doyou.deny it ? There have been ten thou sand people cured by it” I simply state the fact that there have 1 een hundreds of thou sands of Christian men ami women who say they have le t the truthfulness of that book and its power in their souls It has cured them of th* worst leprosy that ev r < ame down on our earth, namely: the leprosy of sin. And if I canpoistvou to multitude•• who say they have felt the power of that cure, are you n>t reasonable enough to ac knowledge the fact that the*© must be some power in the me licine? Will you take the evidence of millions of patients who have been cured, or will you t ike the e video e of the skeptic who stands aloof and confesses that he never took the ire licine? That Eib’e intimates that there was a city called Petra, built out of solid rock. Infidel ity scoffed at it: “Where is your city of Petra?” Buckhardt and Laborde went forth in their explorations and they came upon that very city. The mountains stand around like giants guarding the tomb where the city is buried They find a street in that city six mile; long, where once flashed imperial pemo, and which echoed with the laughter of ligh’.-hearted mirth on its way to th? theatre. On temples fashioned out of col ored stones—some of which have blushed into the crimson of the rose, and some of whi h have paled into the whiteness of the Ulv—aye, on • obimn, and pediment, and en tablature. and statuary, God writes the truth of hat Bible. The B ble sa s that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone. ‘ Ab surd.” Infidels year after year said: “It is positively absurd that they could have been destroyed by brimstone. There is nothing in the elements tn < au e such a shower of death as that.” Lieutenant Lynch—l think he was the first man who went out on the discovery, but he has been followed by many others — Lieutenant Lynch went out in explo ation and ca i.e to the Lead S a,which,by a convul sion of nature, has overflown the pla-e Wuene the cities once stood. He san ; hs fathoming line, and brought up from the bottom of the Dea 1 Sea great masses of sul phur. remnants of that very tempest that swept Sodcm and Gomorrah to ruin. Who was right, the Bible that announced the detraction of those cities, or the skeptics who for ages scoffed at it i The Rib*© «*»vs then* was a city call-d Nineveh, and that it was three days’ journey around it a ,nat it should be destroyed by tire and water. Absurd,” cried out hun dreds of votees for many years; “no < ity was ever I udt that it ' would tnk • three (lavs’ journey to go abound. Besid* . it could not b* destroyed by fir? an 1 witer: the / are antagon st c elements.” But L iv a d. B »tta and Keith go out. and l»v their er.pl ali ns tiny fin*, that city of Nineveh, and they te 1 us that by they own experi* meat it is three days' journey around, ac cord ng to the old es.i mate of a day’s jour nev, and that it was literally destroyed by fire and water—two antagonistic elements a . Q l ,? c *.ty having been inundate Iby t.'o Liver Tigris, the brick material in those times 1 eing drie I clay instea i of burn •<!, w hile in other parts they find the remains of the lire n heaps of charcoal that have be?n excavated, aud in the calcin'd slabs of gy: sum. \\ ho was right, the Bibls or in fidelity? Moses intimat 'd that they had vinevards in Egypt “Absurd.” cried hundreds of voices; “you can't raise grapes in Egypt: or, if you can. it is a very great exception that you can rais» them.” But the traveler goe* down, and in the underground vaults of Eilithya he finds painted on tho wall all the process of tending the vines and treading out the grapes. It is all there, familia Iv sketehed by people who evident’y knew all about it. and saw it all about them every day : and in those underground vaults there are va es still incrusted with the settlings of the wine. You see the vine did grow in Ervpt, whether it grows there now or not Thus, you s?e. that while God wrote tho Bible, at the same time He wrote this com mentary, that “the statutes of the Lord are right,” on leaves of rock and shell, bound in class nf metal, and lyinr on mountain table and in the jeweled vase of the sea. In authen ticity and in genuineness the statutes of the Lord are right. 2. Again, the Bible is right in style. I know there a- ea great many people who think it is merely a colie’tion of genealogical tables and dry fa ts. That is because thov do not know how to read tho book. You take tho most interesting novel that was overwritten, and if you commence at the four hundredth page to-day, and to-morrow at the three hundredth, and tho next day at the first page, how much sms* or interest would you get from it? Yet that is the very process to which the Bible is subjected every day. Au angel from heaven realing tho Bible in thnt way could not understand it. The Bible, like all other palaces, has a door by whi h to enter and a door by which to go out. Genesis is the door by which to go in and Revocations the door to go out. The Epistles of Paul tho Apo-t’c are merely letters written, folded up and sent by post men to the different Churches. Do you read other letters the way you read Paul s letters? Suppose you get a business letter, and you know that in it there are important financial propositions, do you read tho last page first, and then one line of tho third page, and an other of the second, and another of the first? No. You begin with “Dear Sir,” and end with “Yours truly.” Now. hero is a letter written from the throne of God to our lost world; it is full of magnificent hopes and propositions, and we dip in here and th 're, and we know nothing about it. Besides that, people read the Bible when they can not <lo anything els \ It is a dark day and they do not feel well, and they do not go to busi ness, and after lounging about a bit they pick up tho Bible—their mind refuses to en joy the truth. Or they come homo weary f rom the store or shop, and they feel, if do not say, it is a dull book. While the Bible is to be read on stormy days and while your hea l aches, it is also to be read in tho sun shine aud when your nerves, like harp strings, thrum the song of health. While your vision is clear, walk in this paradise of truth,and while your mental appetite is good, pluck these ( lusters of gra e. I am fascinated with the conciseness of this Look. Every word is packed full of truth. Every sentence is double barreled. Every paragraph is like an old banvan tree with a hundred roots and a hundred branches. It is a great arch; pullout one stone and it all comes down. There has never been a pearl diver who could gather uo one half of the treasures in any verse. John HaJsebach, of Vienna, for twenty one years every Sabbath expounded to his congregation the first chap ter of the Book of Isaiah, and yet did not get through with it. Nine-tenths of all the g «<>d literature of this age is merely the Bible diluted. Goethe, the admired of all skeptics,had the wall of his house at Weimar covered with religious maps and pictures. Milton’s “Para dise Lost” is part of the BiLie in blank verse. Tasso's “Jerusalem Delivered” is borrowed from the Bible. Spenser’s writings are imi tations from the Parables. John Bunvan saw in a dream only what Saint John had s en before in Apo alyptic vision. Ma aulay crowns his most gigantic sentences with Scripture quotations. Through Addison’s “Spectator” there glances in and out the stream that broke from the throne of Go I clear as crystal. Walter Scotts let characters are Bible men and women under different names, as Meg Merri lies. the Witch of Endor. Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth was Je ebel. Hobbes stole from this Castle of Truth tho weapons with which he afterward assaulted it. Lord Byron caught the ruggedness and majesty of his style from the pro; he -des. The writings of Pope are saturated with Isaiah, and he tin-Is his mo-t sue essful theme in the Mes-iah. The poets Thompson and Johnson dipped their pen> in the style of the inspired Orien tal. Thomas Carlyle is only a splendid dis tortion of Ezekiel; and wandering through the lanes and parks < f this imperial domain of Bible truth, J find all the great American, English, German, Spanish. Italian poets, painters, oratorsand rhetoric ? ns. Where is there in the world of poetic de scription anything like Jobs champing, neighing, pawing, lightning-footed, thunder necked war horses? Dryden s, Milton s, Cow per's tempests are very tame compared with David’s storm that wrecks the mountains of Lebanon and shivers the wilderness of Kadi h. Why, it seems as if to tho feet of th se Bible writers t.ic mountains brought all th ir gems, an 1 the seas all their pearls, an 1 the gardens all the r frankincense, and he spring all its blossoms, and the harvests all their wealth, and heaven all its gr an Lmr. and eternity ad its stupendous realities an i that since th rt n poets, and orators, and rhetoricians have been drink ng from exhausted foun tains. and searching for diamonds in a realm utterly rifled and ansacked. This book is the hive of all sweetness. It is the a -mory of all well-tompere 1 weapons. It is the tower containing the crown jewels of the universe. It is th? lamp that indies all o’her lights. It is the h »me of all ma es ties and splendors. It Is the marriage ring that unites the celestial and terrestrial, wh le all the clustering white-robed denizens of the sky hovering around rejoice at the nu tials. This book—it is the wreith into which are twis'ed all garlands: it is the song into which are struck all harmonies; it is the river into which a’*e poured all the great tide* of halle lujah; it is the finnament in which suns and moons, and stars and constellations, and uni ver-e and eternities wheel »n 1 blaze and t i umph. Where is the yo ng mans sml with any music in it that is not st r. ed with Jacob’s lament, or Nahum's dirge, or Habak • kuk s dithyrambic, or Paul s inarch of tho resurre ‘tion. or John’s anthem where the el ders with doxology on their faces rcs.uon 1 to the trumpet-blast of the Ar hangel as he stands with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, swearing by Him that liv eth forever and ever that time sha 1 be no longer? I am a’»o amazed at the variety of this Book. Mind you, not contra h t;6n or col lision, but variety. Just as in the song you have the ba->so, and alto, and soprano, and tenor they are not in collisi' n with ea h other, but come in to make up the harmony. So it is in this Book: there are di Jerent j a”ts of this great song of redemption. The prophet c >mes and tak*s one ■ art and the evangelist another part, and the ap sth* an other part, and yet they all c »rne into the grand narmony—“the song of Mo es ar d the Lamb.” If God had inspired men of the same temperament to write this Book, it might have been monoton .us , but David, and Isaiah, and Pet r, and Job, and E v»kiel, and Paul and John were men of di erent temperaments, and so, when Go I inspired . them to write, wrote in their own style. Go I prepared the b.x>k for all classes of paonle. For instance, little children would read the Bible, and God knew that, so he allows Mathew and Luke to writ* sweet stories about Christ with the doctors of the law. and Christ at the well, and Christ at the cross, so that any little child can understan I them. Then Gixl knew that the aged people would want to read tho book, so He allows Solomon t> ompa t a world of wisdom in that Book ofPro.-erbs. God knew that the historian would want t> r al it, and so Ik* allows Mose* to give the i I.iin R.ate nent of th» Pentateuch. God knew that the poet would want. to re td it. and so ho allows Job to picture the Heavens as a curtain, and Isaiah, the mountains ns weighed in a balance, and tho waters as held in the hollow of the Omnipotent han I ; and God touched David until in the latter part of Jk* I’salms he gathered a great choir standing in the galleries ab »ve each other — iw astandman in the first gallery; above them, hills and mountains: above them, tiro and hail and tempest; al*ovo them, sun an moon Kt id stars of light: and on tho highest gallery arrays the hosts of angels; and then standing before the great choir, reach ing from the depths of ear h to tho heights of Heaven, like the lea ter of a groat orches tra. h * lifts his hands, crying: “Praiso ye the Lord! lx»t everything that hath breath praise the Lord! And all earthly creatures in their s >ngs.and mountains with their waving cedars, and tempests in their thunder, and rattling hail, and stars on all their trembling harps of light, and angels on their thrones, r sponi in magnificent acclaim: “Praise ye the Lord! Tx?t every thing that hath breath praise tho Lord!” God knew that the pensive and complain ing world would want, to read it, and so he inspires Jeremiah to write: “Oh. that mv head ware waters and mine eves fountains of tears!” God knew that the lovers of tho wild, the romantic an I tho strange would want t * read it, so He lets Ezekiel write of mysterious rolls and winged creatures and flying wheels of tire. God ’ repared it for all zones—for tho Arctic an 1 Tropic, as well as for the Temperate Zone. Cold-blooded Greenlanders would find mu-h to interest them, aud tho tanned inhabitant; at the Equator would find his passionate nature b >il with the vehemence of Heavenly truth. The Arabian would real it on his drome dary, and tho Lanlander seated on the swift sled, and tho herdsman of Holland guarding the cattle in tho grass, and the Swiss girl re clining amid Alnine crags. O, when I soe that the Bible is suited in style, exactly suited, to all ages, to al! conditions, tn all lands I can not help repeating the conclusion of my text: “The statutes of tho Lord aro right. ” •’>. I remark again: Tho Bible is right in its doctrines. Man, a sinner; Christ, a savior the two doctrines. Man must come down— his pride, his self righteousness, his wurldli ness; Christ, the Anointed, mustg » un. If it had not been for tho setting forth of the Atonement Moses would never have de scribed the Creation: prophets would not have predicted; apostles would not have prea hod. It seems to me ns if Jesus and the Bib’o were standing on a platform in a great amphitheater, as if the prophats were behind Him throwing light for ward on His sacred person, and as if the apostles and evangelists stoo I before Him like footlights throwing up the r light into His blessed countenance, and then as if all the earth and heaven were tho applauding auditory, the Bible speaks of Pisgah and Carmel and Sinai, but make; all mountains bow down to Calvary. Tho flocks led over th ? Judean h Ils were emblems of “the of God that taketh away the sins of th * world ;” and the lion leaping out of its lair, was an emblem of “the lion of Judah’s tribe.” I will in my next breath recite to yo i the most wonderful sentence ever written: “Th's is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus camo into tho world to save sinners.” No wonder that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem Heaven sympathized with earth, and a wave of joy dashed clear over the battlements and dripped upon the shepherds in the words: “Glory to G 1 d in tho highest, an I on eart h peace, good will toward men.” In my next sent mce every word waighs a ton: “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Sou. that whosoever believeth in Him should not perisli. but have everlasting life.” Show me any other book with su h a doctrine—so high, so deep.so vast! 4. Acain: the Bible is right in its effects. I do not care when* you put tho Bible, it just suits the place. You put it in tho hand of a man seriously concerned about his soul. I people often giving to the seri nis soul this and that book. It may very well: but there is no book like th a Bible. He reads the Com mandments. and pleads to the indictment, “Guilty.” He takes up the Psalms of David, and says: “They just describe mv feel ings.” He flies to good works; Pa il start* him out of that by tho announce nent: “A man is not iustifiod by works.” He falls back in his discouragement: the Bible starts him u > with tho sentences: “Remember Lot's wife,” “Grieve not the Spirit,” “Flee the Wrath to Come.” Thon the man in de spair begins to rrv out: “What shall I do? Where shall I go?” and a voice reaches him saving: “Come unto mo. nil ye who aro weary and heavy ladon, and I will you rest.” Take this Bible and place it in the hands of mon in trouble! Is there anybody here in trouble? Ah, I might better ask aro there any here who have no ver been in trouble? Put this Bible in th * hands of tho trouble 1, You find that as some of the t>est berries grow on tho sharp *st thorns, so some of tho sweetest consolations < f ho gos v‘l grow <»n tho most stinging aTlicti >n You thought that death ha I grac elvo ir child ()h no! It v. a onlv tho II aven’v ->he >hord taking a Jamb -ifof th • co 1 L Christ Lent o er vou as vou h'dd the ohil 1 in vour lan and putting His arms gently ar mnd th little one, said: “Os su h is tho kin :do n of heaven.” Put rhe Bible in th” s *hnol Palsied bo the hand that wou’d tek* the B bln from the col lege and the s ‘honl. Ediica o only a man’s head and you make h nanin i lei. Edu ate only a man’s hea-t and von ma' e him a fanatic. Educate thorn l oth together, an 1 you have the n blest work ->f Go I Anebi cated mind • ithout mo -al nrinc'n'e, is a hln without a helm, a rushing -a l t ain wi h »ut brakes or reversing -od t > 'nntrnl the s* L Put the Bible in the fa nily. There ♦ li*sont h * table, an unlimdel newer. p n ygamv and uns riotu al divorcearo prohibited O a-o its are kind and fa th'u’ 'hdl en pol te and olxylient Domestic sorrows les-ened by be ing divide 1 jnvs plied. Oh fa her, ohm *ho” tak n d <wn that long-nerle ted B b’e and r°a 1 it v nir-’o' <:s an I let your children read t' ’hit the R bln on tho »a l-train and on shteb ard, till all parts of this lan’ an 1 a'lnthw ’an Is hall have i s linin' at on. Th** hour the ios tho veil nf hea hen wor hi » and »n the face of this day's sun smokes th** h'o d of human sacrifice. Give the n the Bible. Unbind that wite from the funeral niyo. for n > other sac rifice is nee In 1 s : »r*e the blxxl of Jesu; Christcleanseth from all sin. I am preaching this ‘«-m n because th ,r e aro so many who wo ild have vnu b'ditvc that th ‘ B ble is an oti-la- d sh ho k an 1 obs > '**'*, It is fre her an i more that vestnrdav ame out of th© r©at riblish ing house*. Make it your guide in life and your pillow in ’o'th. After th* battle of Richmond, a (teal soldier was found with his ha dl ingnntho open Bible Th? sum '’o- ! n e:t< h*d ea»en the flesh fr m the hand h tth * sk l“t m fin ger lav on the > ds: “Y a. ♦hnu ’•h Iw i k thr >’i'fh the 'al ey n*th« S -alow of Death, T will sea-no e jl. so- Th m art with rne: Thv rod an I Thv steff 'hev eom r u-t a.” Yes. this hnok will be- in vnur la*t lays, when you turn awn - f om 11 other b o :s. a s >lace for v nr soul. Pe-ha -it will be your mother’- Bible: n-rhan* th* one gi ven younn your weddin" day. i*s cove - nnw worn nut and ite 1 a* fa ’<• ! wth •'•"* but it/- bright promises w 11 'a h unon the onening gates of Heaven. “How preHons is the B >'>k divine. Bv mmirotten gi’’*n: Brig't a« ** 1 -mo shine, To guide our souls to heave >. “This lam-', through nJ! ‘he tedious night Os life, «ha’l guide our w«v, Till w* b-'hol I Hearer light Os an e e nal dov ” (HILI)KENS’ COLUMN. The nntterlly an,t the Bee. "If the weather is fair,” Faid the butterfly, jaunty and free, — “If the weather is fair, "I’ll R ■» danee in the meadow there!” "Aud I,” said the prudent l>ee, "W ill be early at work, you will see, — If the weather is fair!" —Edith M. in St. Xich i'ns. Talking Birds. That starlings can be taught t > speak is an old, old story, coming down to us from ages musty with years, and present experiences are often confronted with those of long ago, uncomfortably sug gesting that there is really nothing new under the sun. Pliny, that aged, learned gentleman of literary tastes and elegant culture, de lighting in bird song and flowers, tells us that starlings were taught to utter both Latin and Greek words for tho amuse ment of the young Ctusars, and indeed from other sources we learn of their great cleverness in the use of speech. Tire late Princess George of Saxony taught a favorite starling to whistle the student song “Gaudeatnus igitur.” Her success was a source of never ending de light to children, who in summer were often invited to the royal aviary. Old Bronze. “It’s the strangest thing,” said Jessie, with wide-open eyes. “And my Howers will never grow” said Ruth, shaking her head ruefully. It was strange. Out in a corner of tho garden was a rockery. On the rockery was an iron basket made to hold Howers. Ruth had planted in the middle of it a white lily bulb. All around the edges ' she had put morning-glory seeds. She | wanted the vines to droop over the sides of the basket and run down upon the stones. Every day the children visited it and found that something was doing mis chief. It was very plain that the seeds and the bulb were trying to do theirduty, for many and many a tiny shoot came i peeping above ground. But the earth about them was scratched and the tender green stalks broken down and with, cred. And it kept on day after day I “It must be rats,” said Jack. But nothing else in the garden was ever touched. “Couldn’t be frost, could it?’ asked little Nan. They all laughed, for the geranium and pansies were smiling up in the sunshine. Old Bronze was the largest cat they bad. Jack had named him long ago, not because he was bronze colored, but because Jack knew that bronze was some kind of a color, and thought it sounded well. There lay old Bronze on the basket. It was just the time when the afternoon sun shone on it. He probably found the warm earth a very comfortable bed. They all laughed, and Jack said: “I’ll fix him!” He got the watering hose and aimed at Old Bronze, while Hurry ran to turn on the water. “Oh, don’t!” cried Ruth. “Poor old fellow I—-he didn’t know any better.” “But he must be taught a lesson,” said Jack, very firmly. “Now, scoot!” The cold water came with a dash, and' Old Bronze “scooted.” With one long, dreadful mi-aw-w-w-w-w 1 lie sprang off the basket, flew over tho flower-beds and did not stop until he was in the top of the tallest tree. “Poor Old Bronze!” The little girls petted and coaxed and fondled him when he came down. He hud learned his lesson well, for he never so much as looked at the basket again. And tho lily grew and was soon looking around her like a queen. The morning glories crept down and wandered softly over the stones until, before summer was gone, the rockery looked like a bank of flowers. Our Litt e Onee. The Itineranl Cyclone. The great objection to cyclones seems to be that they insist on rooming around the country. No damage has yet been reported from a cyclone when it was at home attending to its own business, but just as soon as they commence to stir around the trouble begins. Even the old heavy-weight cyclones appear to be harmless when stationary, but when travelling from one part of the country to another, they move with such evident haste and manifest disregard for the consequence, that they are far from popular along the route they may take. If the government could do something about shutting them up, especial y dur ing the night, the country would appre ciate it.—Estelline, (Dak.,) Bell. Costly Flowers for Ealing. The eating of fl >wers is a nineteenth century reality. Crystalliz/id violets at a pound arc the very latest things in confectionery. Candied rose-leaves are also very popular. Girls like to eat flow ers and will pay as high as $lO a pound for some of the more exp-naive kinds. 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Tho frame is made of hard wood, and held togetherwltli an iron bolt run- r h , r .‘.'7l’on tho lower edge oftho zine,thus binding the Whole together inthemostsub ■tantial manner, and producing a waHhboa.nl which for economy,excellence ami dur ability iH unquestionably the best in the world. Wc find ho many dealora that object to our board on account of ita DURABILITY, Baying “It will last too long, wo can never sell a customer but one.” Wo take this means to advise consumers to INSIS'I' upon having tho NORTH STAR WASH BOARD. TIIK BEST Isl THE CUEAI’KMT, Manufactured by PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO., 248 & 250 West Polk St., Chicago, ifi. aist iB the World. •acts never vary. BTHENGTH, QUALITY, ECONOMY, ETO. otel Fruit, and Bploee. :g Bactlno’a Flavors e no OTHERS. ALL CROCERS. TE & CO., St., New York. YheQRRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Acknowledged hy Thrcberim n «<> bo Tlic K-ing! Honwmlwr we make tho onlyTwo-CylH.der Ornln Tl»r<-»lier aud Clover 11 ftll do tho work of two eeparole rnftf tiloex ■no Olorer Hiillcr Is nota uhnplo attachment but a.epar&te hulling cylinder constructed uud opr-r»- led upon tho most upprovwl «ch-iitlSc prlncl|ilea. H». i:w widest separating capacity of any machine K the market. I. light, compact. <lur.il.lo, naeu bill one bolt unil rcqiilroo I. »■ power itn.l l.ao fewer workii.K |mrto Ullin any other machine, ho »Imp Io In couelriiclion that it lueawlly under* ™>oil. Will thresh perfectly all kinds of grain, pens, timothy, fhx. clover, etc. Drier! list, etc , of Thn*l>ers, Engine., Haw Mills Ed Grain Registers, and be sure to mention tblu paper. Agei.lu wanted. Address THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE, O. JOHNSON S ANODYNE «MININIENT-»fe ary CTTBEB Diphtheria, Croup, Aa’hmn,Bronehitia, Neuralgia. Bheumatiam, Bleeding fit the i/tmge, ■ oar—nets. Influenza, Hacking Cough. Whooping Cough. 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