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IWthSt., tfowVorlc. mm ? PISO'S'CURE f CUBES WHEHE Ali ELSE FAILS. " . Coajjn Syrup. Tastes Good. Use ia time. So'.d by drustfsts. : V C ON S UMP.TION:: KEV, DU. TALMAG? THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN DAY SERMON. """"" Subject : "Palaces in India.?? TEXT: "Who store UD violence and rob bery In their palaces."-Amos UL, 10. In this day, when vast sums ot money aro being given for the redemption ot In dia, I hope to increase the interest in that great country and at the same time draw for all classes of our people practical les sons, and so I present this fifth sermon in the round the world series. We step into the ancient capital ot India, the mere pro nunciation of its name sending a turill through the body, mind and soul ot all those who have eve-' read its stories of splendor and disaster and pro.7(~?-Delhf. Before the llrst Mst Tra impressed his first word in clay, or cut his first word on marble, or wrote his first word on papyrus, Delhi 6tood in India, a contemporary ot Babylon and Nineveh. We know that Delhi existed longer before Christ's time than we live arter His time. Delhi is ballt on the ruins of seven cit ie?, which rains cover forty miles, with wrecked temples, broken fortresses, split tombs, tambie down palaces and the debris of centuries. An archaeologist could profitably spend his life here talking with tho past through its lips of venerable masonry. There are a hundred things here you ought to see in this city of Delhi, bat three things you mast see. The flrat thing I want ed to see was the Cashmere gate, for that was the point at which the most wonderful deed of daring which the world has ever ?sen was done. Tbat was the turning point of the mutiny of 1857. A lady at Delhi pat Into my hand an oil painting of about eight een inches square, a picture well executed, but chiefly valuable for what it reoro sontod. lt was a scene from the time ol mutiny; two horses at fall ran, har, nessed to a carriage in which were four persons. She said: "Those persons on the iront side are my father and mother. The young lady on the back seat hold ing in her arms a baby of a year was my older sister, and the baby was my self My mother, who is down with a fever in toe next room, painted that years, agx Tho horses are in full run because we are fleeing for our live?. My mother is driving, for the reason that father, standing up in the front of his carriage, had to defend us with his gun, os you there see. He fought our way out and on for many a milo, shooting down the sepoys as we went. Wo had somewhat suspected trouble and had become suspicious of our servants. A prince had requested a private interview with my father, who was editor of the Delhi Gazette. The prince proposed to como veiled, so that no one might recog nize him, hut my mother insisted on being present, and the interview did not take place. A large lish had been sent to our family and four other families, tho present an offering of thanks for the Slug's reoovery from a recent sickness. But we suspected poison and did not eat tho fish. "Ono day all our servants carno ap and said they must go and see what was the matter. We saw what was intended and knew that it the servants returned they would murder fill of us. Things grew worse and worse until this scene of flight shown you in the pic:uro took place. You see, the horses were wild with fright. This was not only because of tho discharge of guns, but the horses were struck and pounded hy sepoys, and ropes were tied across the way, and the savage halloo and the shout ot revenge made all the way of our flight a horror." The books have fully recorded the hero Ism displayed at Delhi and approximate regions, but made no rr.ont ion ol this fam ily of Wagentreibers whoso flight I am men tioning. But the Mudros Atheneum printed this: "And now ! Are not the deeds of the Wag entreibers, though he wore a roaud hat and she a crinoline, as worthy of imperishable verse as those ot the heroic pair whoso nup tials graced the court of "Charlemagne? A more touching picture than that of the brave man contending wiih well nerved arm against the black and threatening fate impending over his wife and child we have nover seen. Here was no strife for tho glory of physical prowess or the spoil of shining arms, but a conquest of the human mind, an assertion ot thu powers of intellect over the most appalling array of circum stances that could assail a human being. Mea have become gray in front ol sadden and unexpected peril, and In. ancient days so mach was courago a matter of heroic and mere instinct that wo read in im mortal verse ot heroes struck with paulo and fleeing before the enemy. But the sav age sepoys, with their hoarse warory and swarming like wasps around the Wagea triebcrs, struck no terror into the brave man's heart. His heroism was not tho mero gMlU?fl g r^iilr, tilt, Ufes th"" ^ felt wife, calm and wise-standing upright that he might use his arms better." . As an incident will sometimes more Im press one than a generality ot statement, I ?resent the flight of this one family from .elhi merely to illustrate the desperatiou ot the times. The fact was that the sepoys had taken possession of the city of Delhi, and they were, w ithnil their,,Q?j}]<Bfy7~gghtlng back thoJrgj'ftfrpfinV who were on the out side ana mat dering all the Europeans whe were inside. Tho city ot Delhi bas ? crenulated wall oa three sides, a wall fl ve a nd a hal f miles long, and the fourth side o: the city is defended by the River Jumna. In addition to these two defenses ot wall anc Water there wore 40,000 sepoys,, all armed Twelve hundred British soldiers were to take thut city. Nicholson, the immortal General, commanded them, and you mast visit his gravo before you leave Delhi. He fell leading his troops. He commanded them even after being mortally wounded. You will road this inscription oa his tomb : " "John Nicholson, who led the assault of Delhi," but foll ia the hour of victory, mortally wounded, and died 23d September, 1857, aged thirty-five years." V/ith what guns ana men General Nichol son could muster ho bad laid siege to this walled oity filled with devils. What fearful odds ! Twelve hundred British troops un covered by any military works, to take a oliy surrounded by firm and high masonry, on the top ot which wera 114 guns and de fended by 40,000 foaming sepoys. A larger percentage ot troops fell hero than in any great battle I happen to know of. The Crimean percentage of the fallen was 17.48, but the percentage of Delhi was 87.9. Yet tbat city must be taken, and lt can only be taken by such courage as had never been re oorded in all the annals of bloodshed. Every cbnrge of the British regiments against the walls and gates had been beuten back. Tho hyenns of HinJooIsm and Mohammedanism howled over the walls, and the Engli&h army could do nothing but bury their own dead. But at this gate I stand and watch an exploit that makes the page of history tremble with aghr.tion. This city hos ten gates, but the most fam ous is tho one bet?re which we now stand, and it is called Cas'imero gate . "Write the word-i in red ink because of the carnage. Write them in letters of light for tho illus trious deeds. Write them in letters of black for the beruft and tho dead. Will the world ever forget that Cashmere gate? Lieuten ants Stilkold and Hc-mo and Sergeants Bur gess, Carmichael and Smith offered to take bags of powder to the foot of that gate nnd stt them on fire, blowing open the gate, al though they mu3t die in doing it. There they go just after sunrise, each ono carrying a sack containing twenty-four pounds of powder, and doing this under tho lire of tho enemy. Lieutenant Home was the first to jump into thu ditch, which still remains befoio tho gate. As they go, one by one falls under tho shot and shell. One of tho mortally wounded as he falls hands his sack of pow der with a bo: of lucifer matches to an other, telling him to fire the sack, when, with an explosion that 6hook tho earth for twenty mllt-s around, part of tho Cashmere gate was blown Into fragments, and the bodies of some of these heroes wer3 so scattered they were never gathered for fun eral or grave or monument. The British army rushed in through the broken gate, and although six days of bord fighting wero necessary before the city was ?in complete possession tho crisis was past. Th? Cash mere gato open, the captare ol Dolhl and all it contained of palaces and mosques and treasures was possible. Lord Napior, of Magdala, of whom Mr. Gladstono spoke to mo so affectionately when I was his guest at Hawarden, Englnn 1. bas lifted a monument near this Cashmere gate, with the names of the men who there fell inscribed thereon. That English lord, who had seen courage on many a battlefield, visited this Cashmere gate and felt that the men who opened it with tho loss of their own lives ought to be commemo rated, and hence this cenotaph. But, after nil, the best monument is tho gato itself, with the deep gouges in the brick wall on th? lett sido made by two bombshells, and tho wall abovo torn by ten bombshells, nnd tho wall on the right sido defneei and scraped and plowod and gullied by nil stylo? of long reaching weaponrj-. Lot thu words "Cashmere gate." os a synonym for pat riotism and fearlessness nnd self sacrifice, go into nil history, all art. all litera ture, ali time, all eternity I My friends, that kind of courage sanctified will yet tuku tue whole earth for?God. Indeed, tho mis sionaries now at Delhi, tolling amid heathen ism and fever and cholera, and far away from home and comfort, ac I staying thurn nnril they drop into their graves, are ja^t as bravo in takiug Dd hf for Ciirist a-* woro Nicholson and Hom9und Carmlohaol in tai fog Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for the first sermonle lesson." Another thing you must see if yon go to Delhi, though you leave many things un seen, is the palace oT the mogul?. It is an inolosurolOOOyarisbySOO. Yon enter through a vaulted noll nearly 400 leet long. Floors ot Florentino mosaio and walis once em eralded and sapphtrad and carbuncled and diamonded. I said to the guide, "Show us where once stood the peacock throne." "Here it was," he responded, All tho thrones of the earth put together would not equal that for costliness and brilliance. It bad steps of silver, and the seat and nrms were of solid gold. It cost about $150,000, 000. It stcod between two peacock?, the feathers and plumes of which were fashioned out of colored stones. Above tho throne was a lifo size parrot cut oat of one em erald. Above ali was a canopy resting oa twelve columns of gold, the canopy fringe! with pearls. Seated here, the emperor on publlo occasions wore a crown con i taining, among ether thing.-, the Kohinoor diamond, and tho entire biaza ot coronet cost $10.350,000. This aaoerb and once al most supernaturally beautiful room has Im bedded in the white marble wall letters of black marble, which wura translated to me from Persian into English as meaning ; If on the earth there be an Eden oFbilsff, That place is this, ls this, is this, ls this. But the peacocks that stool beside the throne have flown away, taking nil the dis play with them, and those white marble floors wore reddened with slaughter, and those bathrooms ran with blood, and that Eden of which the Persian couplet on the walls spake has had ita flowers wither and its ? :uU3 decay, and I thought while Iook i".f at the brilliant desolation nnd standing r.mid the vanished glories of that throne room that some one had better change a little that Persian couplet on the wall and make it read : If there be a place where mnoh you miss, That place ia this, is this, ia thia, ia thia. Aa I came out of the palace into the street of Delhi, I thought to myself paradises are not built out of stone ; are not cut in sculp ture ; aro not painted on walls ? are not fash ioned out of precious stones ; do not spray the cheek with fountains ; do not offer thrones or crowns. Paradises aro built out ot na tures uplifted und ennobled, and what nrchitoct's compaas may not sweep, and sculptor's chisel may not cut, and painter's pencil may not sketch, and gardener's skill may not lay out the grace of God caa achieve, and If the heart be right all is right, nnd if the heart be wrong all is wrong. Here endeth the sscond toMofi? But I will not yet allow you to leave Delhi. Th?third thing you must see, or never admit that you have been in India, ia tho mosque called Iumma Muajid. It is the grandest mosque I ever saw except Sr. Sophia at Con stantinople, but it Burpassea that in some respects, .for Br. Sopb?i was originally a Christi:' a church nnd changed into a mosque, while this of Delhi was originally built for the Moslems. As I entered 1000 or more Mohammedans were prostrated in worship. There are times when 5000 may be seen here in the same attitude. Each atone of the floor is threo feet long by one and n half wide, an t each worshiper haa one o? these slabs for himself while kneeling. The erection of this building required 5000 laborers for six years. What a built up Immensity ot white marble nnd red sandstone ! We desoended the forty marble steps by which wc ascended and took another look at this woader of the world. A9 I thought what a brain the architect must have had who first built that mosque ia his own imagination, and as I thought what an opulent ruler that must have been who gava the ordec for such vastness and symmetry, I was remludel of that which perfectly explained all. The architect who planned this wns the same man who planned the T :j-namely, Austin de Bor aeau-and tho king who ordered the mosque constructed waa tho king who ordered the Taj- namey, Shah Jehan. As thia grand mogul ordered built the moat splendid palace for tho dead when he built tho Taj nt Agra, he here ordered built the most splendid palace ot worship for the living at Delhi. See here what sculpture . and architecture can accomplish. They link together the centuries. They successfully defy time. Two hundred and eighty years ago Austin do Bo rd eau and Shah Jehan quit this life, but their work lives and bids lair to stand nntil the continents crack open, nnd hemispheres go down, and this planet show era other worlds with ita a9hea. I rejoice lu all these big buildings.whether dedicated to Mohammed or Brahma or Bud dha or Confucius or Zoroaster, because os Sr. Sophia at Constantinople was a Christian church changed into a mosque and will yet bo changad back again, so all the mo-ques and temples of superstition and sin will yet be turned into churches. When India and Ceylon un I China and Japan nro ranso.net!, ns we ail believe they will be, their religious (structures will all be con verted Into Christian asylums, and Christian schools, and Chriatlan libraries, and Chris?. r Ttrtrrmm r?trasr - ??~Bqtlt~nt~rhg "exp en's a o f su-' perstition and sin. they will yet be dedicated to tho Lord Almighty. Here endeth the third less* n. As that n ;ht we look- tho rollrod train from the Delhi station and rolled oat through the city now living over the vaster c rie?,, buried un.'?r th'r^"Hpjte? "apital, cities* under cities, and our traveling scT-_ vant had unrolled our bed, which consisted of a rug nnd two blankets and a pillo w.and aa wo were worn out with the sightseeing of the day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven Indian railway, I soon tell into a troubled aloep, In which I saw and heard in a con fuse i way the scenes and sounds of the mutiny of 1857, which nt Delhi wo had been recounting, and now the rattle of tho train seemed to turn into tho rattle of musketry,, an I now the light at the top ot the car de luded me with tho idea ot u burning city, and then the loud thump of the railroad brake waa in dream mistaken for a booming battery, aud the voices nt the dif ferent stations made me think I heard the loud cheer of the British at the taking of the Cat h mere gate, and us we rolled over bridgea tho battles before Delhi seemed going on, and as we went through dark tun nels I seemed lo see thetomb of Humuyun in which the King ol Delhi waa hidden, and in my dreams I saw Lieutenant Benny ol the artillery throwing shells which were handed to him, their lnsea burning, and Campbell and Kel I and Hope Grant oovered with Hood, and Nicholson falling while ral lrintr on the will his wavering troops, and I saw aeaa regiment rnnen across aeaa regi ment, and heard the rataplan of the boora of Hodgson's horse, sad the dash of the Bengal artillery, and the storming by the im mortal fourth column, nud tho rougher the Indian railway became and the darker the night grow the more the scenes that I had been studying at Delhi came on me like an incubus. But the morning began to look through the window of our jolting railcar, and the sunlight poured in on my pillow, and in my dreams I Baw the bright colora of the Engliah flag hoisted over Delhi, where the green banner of the Moslem had wa vea, and the voices of tho wounded and dying seemed to bo exchanged for the voices that welcomed soldiers home again. And as the morning light got brighter nnd brighter, and In my dream I mistook the bella at a station for a church bell hanging in a minaret, where a Mohammedan priest had mumbled hts call to prayer, I seemed to hear a chant, whether by human or angelic voices in my dream I could not tell, but it was a ohaDt ab?ut "peace nnd good win to men." And aa tho speed of the rall trula slackened the motion of the car became so easy ns we rolled along the track that it seemed to me that all the distress and controversy and jolting nnd wars of the world had ceased, ana In my dream I thought we had come to the time when "the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs andeverlnstln? Joy upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall fleo away." Halt here at what yon have never seen be fore, a depopulated city, tho city of Amber, India. The strange fact is that a ruler abandoned his palaces at Amber and movod to Jaipur, and all the inhabitants ot tho city followed. Except here and there a house ia Amber occupied by a hermit, the city is as silent a population as Pompeii of Herculaneum, but those cities were emptl-.d by volcanic disaster, while thia city of Amber waa va cated because Prince Joy Singh was told by a Hindoo priest that no city should be in habited more than 1000 years, and BO the ruler 170 yoara ngo mov-id out himself, nnd nil bia people moved with him. You visit Amber on the baok of an ele phant. Permission ot-tnlned for your visit the day before nt Jaipur, un elephant is in walting for you about six miles out to take you up the steeps to Amber. You pasa through the awfully quiet streets, all the feet that trod thom ia the days of tnelr activ ity having gone on tho long journey nnd the voices of business nnd gayetythnt sounded amid theae nbodes having long ugo uttered their last Bylluble. You pass hy a lake cov ering 500 acres, where tno rajahs used lo sall hi their pleasure boats, but alligators now have full possession, an I you come to the abandoned palace, which is an enchantment. No more p:cturesque place waa ever ohoaen for the resi dence of a monarch. Tho fortress above looks down upon this palace, nnd the palace looks dowu upon u lake. This monarobial abode may have had attractions when it was the home of royalty which have vanished, but antiquity and the alienee ol many years and opportunity to tread where once you would not have been permitted to tread may be aa addition quite equal to the subtraction. But what a solemn and stupendous thing is an abandoned city I While many of the peoples of earth have no root for their head, t fiera fsa whole city of roofs rejected. The enrri of the desert was sufficient excuso for the disappearance of Heliopolis, and the waters ot the Mediterranean Sea for the en gulfment of Tyre, and the lava ot Monnt vesuvius for the obliteration of Hercu laneum, bat for the sake of nothing bat a superstitious whim the city ot Amber is abandoned forever. Qb, wondrous India ! The oity of Amber is only one ot t her marv els whioh compel the uplifted barri ot surprise from the dav you enter India until you leave lt. Its flora is HO flamboyant, its fauna so monstrous and savage, Its ruins so sug gestive, its idolatry so horrible, its degrada tion so sickening, its mineralogy so brilliant,' Its splendors so uplifting, its architecture so old, so grand, so educational, so multi potent, that India will not ba tally compro-, hended until science has made its lost^ez periment, aad exploration has ended its last Journey, and tho library of the world's liter ature has closed its Jost door, and Christian ity has made its last achievement, and the cloak of time has strack its last hoar. MITCHELL IS MAD. FLORIDA'S GOVERNOR IS DOWN ON HIS CRITICS. Beeause They Don't Approve His Ac tion in the Flagler Matter. A report was sent out from Austin, Tex., to the effect that Governor Mitchell, of Florida, had rescinded his previous action in the matter of hon oring the requisition papers from Gov ernor Hogg, of Texas, for the arrest and delivery of H. M. Flagler, of New York, to Texas officers. " The report is erroneous. Governor Mitchell was seen at the executive office in the capi tol Wednesday afternoon and author ized a complete denial of the Austin story, adding: "I have taken no ac tion whatever in the Flagler matter Bince signing and forwarding tho requi sition to Governor Hogg." The governor declined to say wheth-. er or not he would take any further action, nor would he say whether or not any pressure is being brought to bear upon him from influential people in and out of Florida. There is a re port, however, that Governor Mitchell is being besieged on every hand by politicians and prominent transporta tion people to back down and recall the papers from Texas. There are thousands of the gover nor's friends and supporters in the state who are disposed to criticise him harshly for doing what the governors of New York and Missouri declined to do. A leading south Florida lawyer is authority for the ?talement that Mitchell's action in the Flagler matter threatens to make a very serious divi sion in the ranks of the Mitchell wing of the democracy in Florida; that already the governor has spoken and written very sharply and pointedly to several leading state administration democrats who were injudicious enough to approach him with sugges tions that he rescind his action in the requisition case. THE COUNTY ELECTIONS. The Democrats Hold Their Own Throughout the State. The demoorats made gains in the county elections Wednesday. ' Every county in the state voted for local officers. The democrats moro than held their own. Not n single county was lost and Beveral which were, carried by the populists in tho Octo ber elections were redeemed. Among these are Douglass, Gwinnett, Bartow, Polk, possibly Meriwether and a num ber of others. Pike, Monroe, Effingham and other counties which were contested in the legislature are democratic by safe ma The day was inclement throughout the greater part of Georgia. Snow and ePeet fell in many counties and rain in others. The Special Will be Put on Again. It,is annMUHjedthat the New York ?nd F^cjj?j ????fhhasbeen a feature o?ui^iH ?PrVel for sev eral years, will be"p'SWn service again this season over the Atlantic Coast line, the first train running Monday, January 7th. It will leave New York daily except Sunday at 4:30 o'clock p. m., and Washington at 10:48, ar riving nt Jacksonville the next even ing at 7:05 o'clock and St. Augustine at 8:15 o'clock. EAGLES AND HALF EAGLES. The Philadelphia Mint to Coln $22,. 000,000 of Bullion. Director of the Mint Preston has instructed Superintendent Townsend, of the Philadelphia mint, to begin the coinage of $22,000,000 of gold bullion now stored in the mint, and which is a port of the (rold reserve. The gold will be coined into eagles and half eagles, and the work will occupy a month._ Bree kl ii ridge Lost His Casi.. Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge.who sued Gustavus A. Meyer to recover the receipts levied npon at his lecture in Cincinnati lost his case. The court sustained Meyer's claim for services in taking depositions in the Pollard case a year ago. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Condition as Reported for the PaJt Week. The report on the industrial condition of tht South tor i he past week shows that the condi tion of the iron market continues to be reason ably satisfactory. Production ia large und vt'l inc reas P. Pew large orders aro reported, tut many small ones prevent an accumulation of stocks. No chango in prices. Coal is in good demand. The output is now very large; thai of tho Alabama mines is Aha largest eve, known. Southern lumber prospects are in proving. Railroads are beginning to place ?r ele?, the export domand is making itself fe;1-, and orders ahead will keep a good many m?h busy during the winter. Small stocks of pop lar and cypress make prices very firm wi lb prospects of an early advance. Thirty-seven new industri s were established or incorporated dorine the week, promincnv among which are a $500,000 cotton mil) \t Hickory, N. C., and others at Macon, Go., and Concord, N. C.; a marble quarrying company wi h $100,000 capital at Stanford, Ey. ; a large sugar refinery to be built at New Orleans, La., a j50.000 con8!ruction company at Dallas,T x.. and one with ?25.0C0 capital at Wichita Fal.?, Tex. A flouring mill of 125 barrels daily ca pacity is reported at Bluff City, Tenn., a } 80,00J ice company has been chartered at Ty ler, Tex.; a $20 000 coal mininer company at Birmingham, Ala., and o-tsUJ.OOO lumber man u'acturing company at Roanoke, Vu. There ?B also reported a -brewery at Dallas. Tex.; electrical companies at Arcadia arin Tampa, Fla.; a fertilizer factory at Wiiming niington, N. C., and flouring mills at Elva, Ey., and Forest City, N. C. An ico faotorj is to be bnilt at Statesboro, Ga.: machine ahr-pc at Florence, Ala., Louisville, Ey., Bnd Chatta nooga, Tt nn. ; a mira mill at Houston, Va.', and a granite quarry is tobe opened at Clarks vii ;e, Vt. Preparations oro being made to build a ramie mill at Ta'lahasoeo, Fla.; a rice mill is reported at Orlando, Flo,; a shoo factory Hick ory, N. C.; a hoap factory at Madison, Go., sulphuric acid works at Bbcluburg, S. C., and woodworking p'ants at Melvin, Ala., Davisburg, Bonhomie and Mississippi Ci y, Miss.. Somer ville. Tenn.,Breuham, Tex., and Hi Boonoke, Va. Water works are reported at Si'oara\ Ark., Greenville, Ey., and Bowie,1 Among the enlargements for tho week factono* at Greenville, 8. G. and Dallos. I a $50,000 addition to a plumber.' cnpplieE fae tory ot Lonioville, Ey.; a$75,000 addition to t Fort Worth, Tex., cotton mill, an 1 addition* tt cotton mills at Goldsboro. N. C-jm? Tallaba, see, Flo. Tho new buildings jf?cbjdeDWli?t!w house? ot Aotnista, Ga,, nnd* Dallas, Ter. *?0,0C0 club house ot Lud ow,'Ey; a Si0,Ctt conrt house at N iw Or'oans La.,s. aud a ware hou e at Dallas, Tex.-Tradesman (Chfttts uooga, Tenn.) ??7T' -" Sorry He Intruded. A^gony story of a modest man is writer in The Century mag Af??fifly years seclusion within tho rT^HBhis college, a certain venera 5r^MBpv of Cambridge university thought it wis time for him to see a little of the world, and he accepted m invitation from an early pupil who ivas entertaining a large party in a ?roat country house. At dinner he sat next to the young jfe of the house. Their conversation Jpn pon baths, and she happened to mention that she took a shower bath ?very morning to invigorate her sys tem, adding, when he inquired what a .hower bath was, that it resembled a rery small, round room; that the bather took his or her stand in the jenter of it, and upon pulling a string iras drenched by a sudden flood of ivater from above. Next morning the recluse rose at his asnal hour, 6 o'clock, and being of an inquisitivo temper, thought it well to jxplore carefully what ho had never seen before-a large country house. On pulling open a door he found himself at the entrance of a very small circular apartment, one of those in which housemaids storo away old brushes and household articles past their work. In the coater of it stood i plaster cast of the Venus of Medici. 'JJhe venerable man recoiled, closed the door aud walked in the park till summoned by the breakfast bell. Ho took his seat and hie hostess asked whether he would have tea or coffee. But he had reflected on what good manners imperatively required, and iiis answer was : "My lord, I can neither partake of tea or coffee, or any other refection, antil I have first tendered my hum blest apologies to the interesting yrung lady whom I now see dispensing choc olate, and on whose sanitary ablutions this morning as ?he stood in her sbow 3r bath I was so unfortunate as unwit tingly to intrude." Reputation. There is nothing like a good reputa tion. If a man gains a reputation for doimj anything well, his work will be thought more of than of others who Lave no reputation, even if their work ts better than his. A Greek mimons, or mimic, who was celebrated for his imitations of animals, was one day performing before a large audience, and(amnsiEg them by squeak ing like a pig. A simple countryman standing by declared that he could squeak better. The people laughed, md asked for a specimen of his ability. Ee immediately let out an ear-pierc ing squeal, but only provoked derision. Tho audience jeered at him. "That like the squeak of a pig?" said one, in iisdain. "Not a bit of it," cried an other. "Not in the least like nature," said a critic. The countryman was in danger of teing hustled by the crowd for his presumption, when his cloak Sew hack and disclosed a little live pig which he was carrying under his arm, and whose tail he had pinched to make it give the squeal which the critics had pronounced to be BO unlike nature. The New Diphtheria Remedy. For ages diphtheria has been looked upon as one of the most fatal of the ills to which human flesh is heir, and its victims have been myriad, especial ly among children and those of imma ture age. The percentage of mortali ty among the cases is perhaps greater than any other epidemic di?cosc, un less it he cholera. A new remedy for diphtheria has been discovered, and the cures arising from its use have been already phe nomenal. The discoverer of the rem edy has given it the name of "Anti Toxine," and with true philanthropy has given to the world the benefits of his inestimable find. In many cases epidemics of the dread destroyer of youthful life have been checked and broken, and patients treated to recov ery whose lives had been despaired of. Largest Electric Railway in the World. This is the West End Street Railway Company, of Boston. Miles of single track, 275; number of cars, 2,250; to tal earnings for twelve months,-- $6, 823,878; net earnings, $2,016,796; cost of operating expenses 70.4? per cent. London, England, has over ten times the population of Boston, yet its en tire tramway mileage is only 250 miles of single track, with a total of 1,100 cars and operating expenses 87.2 per cent. _ DR. ZAKHABIN, the late czar's phy sician, has lately devised a new meth od of stanching the flow of blood. Steam is injected into the wound through s catheter for a minute or lees. The patient, under chloroform, feels neither pain nor any evil effect from the steam. Experiments on an imals show that portions of thc liver, spleen, kidney?, lungs and to a certain extent of the brain, may bo removed without loss of blood and without fatal results. _ Looked Bad. "Scrawler is all discouraged about writing poetry." "What makes him feel so?" "His la?t poem was accepted by a magazine."-Chicago Inier Ocean. CONDUCTOR-How old are you, little girl? Little Girl-If the company doesn't object, I prefer to pay ray fare and keep my own statistics.- Vogue. ?A TUINtt OF BEAUT?." Mnraraoth Edition ot Hood's Calendar foi 1893. Every oae who gets Hooi'a Calendar lor 1895 secures "A thing of beauty." The cal endar ls formed ia the ship? of a heart aa I ls ornamented with two beautiful child faces which have always been charmlu^ features of Hood's Galen lara. On tho right is a representation of "Winter," the sweet little face with light brown oyes peeping on: from n dainty cap, while the snow flakes are falling all about. Tue face on the left ls n picture of "Stimmer," und is lighted with blue eyes ana the head covered with a ha: decorated with bright flowers. Thu sha lori are perfectly blended and the whole plcturo Is surrounded by a tasty border. The d? Blgn was made by Miss Mun lo Humphrey, one of the most gifted and celebrated water color artists In the country. The c ileadar gives the usual information concerning tho lunar changes, and upon th? back is printed n tableof astronomical evt-nts especially cal culated for C. I. Hood & Co. The calendar is issued to a I vari iso tin preparations of the firm, and is regarded as most difficult to manufacture, its noval shape being such ns no other concern has ever undertaken to pro luce In largo quan tities. During the AVH months when the cal endars were being made there were actually employed every duy in this part of tho work six printing presses, one breezing machine, four eye-letting machine!?, seven wire stitch ore, eight large paper cutters aud 162 p )r sons. The edition for 1895 was 10,590,009, or about 2,500.000 more than last year, li ibe calendars were laid down In a single line, they would reach almost 1000 miles, and If the different pieces lathe calendar pads were laid In this way they would extend almost 3000 miles, or from New York to Liverpool. - - . . Those who aro unable to obtain Hool a Sarsaparilla Galen lani at the drug stows should sand nix witts Ju ?tarne? lor otw, or 10 ceu'.s lor two lo C. L Hood & Go., Loff?ll, Us?s, m You ca ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. Giant Gold Nuggets. The following is a list pf the largest gold nuggets ever found, according to the records of the Smithsonian insti tution: "King of the Water Moon" nugget, found in Australia ia 1852; 223 pounds nnd four ounces. The "Welcome," round at Ballarat, Victo ria, Australia, in 1854; 184 pounds and ten ounces. Bukary nugget, found ill the same Australian province in 1858) weighed 182 pounds. Nugget found at Carson Hill, Cal., in 1854, weighed 180 pounds, and another at the same place in the same year, weighed 149 pounds. Thea? two were th? largest gold nug gets ever discovered in America. The Corona, found in Toulumne county, California, in 1850, ? weighed 147J pounds. The Parrish nugget, found in 1860 at Sierra Buttes, Cal., weighed 133 pounds. One found near the same place in 1869 weighed ninety-five pounds and sis ounces. The "Great Siberian" nugget, found near Minsk, Siberia, in 1842, weighed ninety-six pounds and four ounces. In 1853 the famous Ballarat mine of Australia (mentioned first in this list) yielded three nuggets which had a combined weight cf 357 pounds. The "Blanche Barclay" nugget, found in Australia in 1842, weighed 146 pounds. . The largest gold nugget ever found east of the Mississippi (and one .fre quently listed aa "the largest nugget found in America"! was from the Reed mine in North Carolina. It weighed even eighty pounds. The "Rattlesnake" nugget, found on Rattlesnake river in California in 1871, weighed 106 pounds and two ounces. The Meroo Creek mine, New South Wales, produced three nuggets during 1851 that had a combined weight of 318 pounds. How They Pa?t. Mrs. Gabbler having paid Mrs. Talkytalk a lengthy visit, starts to go, remarking: "Now, I really must be going. I, have staid so much longer than I in tended." "You are not going yet. You come to see me.so seldom that" "I call on you oftener than I do on any other lady of my acquaintance, but I really must be going" "I hope you will call again. You are always welcome, you know." "Thanks I I hope to see you at my house pretty soon. You must come soon and see me." "I shall come very soon. Were you j at the concert last night?" "Yes, indeed, and I enjoyed it ever j so much. What a magnificent voice j that tenor has! Now don't forget to call soon. I must say" "You can rely on me. I shall be around in a few days." "That's so kind of you. I must say good-bye. Oh, by the way, did you hear that the engagement between young Simpleton and Miss Jinks is j broken off?" "You don't tell me so. I suspected something of the sort all along. Well j I declare. You must tell me all about j it before you go." Two hours later Mrs. Gabbler start ed to go in earnest, and after twenty three minutes' actual conversation they bade each other a bona fide adieu. Texas Siftings. What Stevenson Earned. The death of Robert Louis Steven son will revive the discussion about the compensation for literary work. Mr. Stevenson, it seems, found litera ture exceedingly profitable. The de mand for his books was large, and he seems to have made good terms with his publishers. He received for his Samoan letters $10,000 for the sereal rights; for "The Ebb Tide" $8,000, and for each of his other novels pub lished since he went to Samoa about the same sum. This includes, we are informed, only what he has received j in the United States,aud not the prof- j its from bis stories after they were published in book form. It is esti mated that he has made since he went to Samoa about $200,000. He is said to have earned with his pen more than any other writer of English fiction in the same length of time with the pos sible exception of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.-Cincinnati Tribune. Appreciated Them. 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By tick ling its nose with a straw the creatnro can be made to laugh at any time. After an investigation lasting three years a French society of bibliophiles have decided that to Eugene Sue be longs the credit for having introduced the first maritime novel into France. It is not stated why the society spent so much time to settle an apparently unimportant question. There is a hog farm in Shelby coun ty Missouri, owned by John Gruder, a colored man. It is fifty acres in ex tent, and is devoted exclusively to the raising of pork. Just how many thou sands hogs he owns Gruder does not know, but everybody in the vicinity knows that he hos the noisiest place in the county. The Lovett farm, four miles from Bristol, Pa., has been in the possession of the Lovett family for 212 years. The original deed for the land bore the signatures of the Duke of York and William Penn. There has never been any break in the title, each con veyance being from a Lovett to a Lov ett. The present owner, Joseph L. 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