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Sermon.
S^HBSKHH^nm^klloniit IfbanoD."
WwataSB^ of Lebanon which He
iflflBEKpreKBftiSS^y*-''?Psalm civ., 16.
journey we change stirrup for
It is 4 o'clock in the morning at Da^BPur,
Syria, and we are among the lanPFdr
of the hostelry waiting for the stage
to start. A Mohammedan in high life is
putting bis three wives on board within an
apartment by themselves, and our party occupy
the main apartment of one of the most
uncomfortable vehicles in which mortals
were ever jammei and half strangulated.
But we must not let the discomforts annul or
disparage the opjiortunities. We arerolling
out and up the mountains of Lebanon, their
forehead under a crown of snow, which coronet
the fingers of the hottest summer cannot
cast down.
We are ascending the heights around which
is garlanded much of the finest poesy of the
Scriptures, and are rising toward the mightiest
dominion that botany ever recognized,
reigned over by the most imperiul tree that
ever swayed a ieafy scepter?the Lebanon
cedar; a tree eulogized in my text as havinggrown
from a nut put into the ground by.
God H mself, and no human hand had anything
to do with its planting: "The trees of
Lebanon waich He had planted."
The average height of this mountain is
seven thorroaa-dfeet, but in one place it lifts
its head to an autttrten thousand. No
higher than six thousaiiaHteewa vegetation
exist, but below that line at the right-season
are vineyards aDd orchards and olive groves and
flowers that dash the mountain side
with a very carnage of color and fill the air
with aronmtics that Hosea, the piophet, and
Solomon, the king, celebrated as "the sinell
of Lebanon." At a height of six thousand feet
is a grove of cedars, the only desceudants of
those vast forests from which Solomon cut his
timber for the temple of Jerusalem, and
where at one time there were one hundred
thousand axmen hewing out the beams from
which great cities were constructed. But this
nation of trees has by human ieonoclasm
been massacred until only a small group is
left This race of giants* is nearly extinct,
but I have no doubt that some of these were
here when Hiram, King of Tyre, ordered the
assassinatian of these cedars of Lebanon
which the Lord planted. Prom the multitude
of uses to which it may be put and the employment
of it in the Scriptures, the cedar is
the divine favorite. When the plains to be
seen from the window of this stage in which
we ride to-day ore parched under summer
heats, and not a grass blade survives the for*
vidity, this tree stands la luxuriance defying
the summer sun. And when the storms
of winter terrify the earth and hurl the
rocks in avalanche down this mountain side,
this tree grapples the hurricaro of snow in
triumph and leaves the :yent fury at its
feet. From sixty feet high are
they, the horizontal branches of great
sweep, with their burden of leaves needle
shaped, the too of the tree pyramidal, a
throne of foliage on which might and splendor
and glory sit. But so continuously has
the extermination of trees gone on that for
the most part the mountains of Lebanon are
bare of foliage, while, I am sorry to say, the
earth in all lauds is being likev?isa denuded.
The ax is slaying the forests all round
ttie eartn. x o stop me siaugaser ituu i
opened the coal mines of England and
Scotland and America and the world, practically
saying by that, "Here is fuel; as far
as possible let "My trees a one." And by
opening for the human race the great
quarries of granite and showing the human
tami'y how to make brick, God is practically
saying, "Here is building material; Jet
My trees alone." We had tetter stop tbe
ai.i r.mong the Adirondacks. We had better
stop the axes in all our forests, as it
would have"been better for Syria i? the axc3
had long ago "beta-stopped among the
mountains of Lebanon. To punish us tor our
reckless assault oa the forests we have the
disordered seasons, aud now tee droughts
because the uplifted arms of the trees do not
pray for rain, their presence according to all
scientists disj osing the descent of the showers.
and theu we have the cyclones and the
hurt cares multiplied in numWr and veld&ity
because there is uo.hmg to prevent their awlui
sweep.
Piant the trees in your parks that the
weary may rest under them. .Plant them
along your streets, that up through the
branches pa^sera by may see the God wno
first made the trees and then made raau to
lo-'K at them. P.ant them along the brooks,
that under them the chil ren may play.
Piant th-m in your gardeus, that as in Eden
the Lord may walk there m 'die cool of the
day. Plant thein in cemeteries, their shade!
like a mourner's veil, and their leaves sound '
ing like the rustle oi the wings of the departed.
Let Aroor Day, or the day for the;
planting of trees, recognized by the*
Legislatures of many \>f the Slates,!
be observed by all our people, and the!
next one hundred years do as much in;
planting theso leafy glories of Sod as the,
Jast one hundred years have accomplished
in their destruction. When, notlong before
his death, I saw on the banks of the
Hudson in his glazed cap, riding on horseback,
George P. Morris, the great fong
writer of America, I found him grandly
emotional, and I could understand how he
wrote "Woodman, spare that treeP' the
verses of which many of us have felt like
quoting in belligerent spirit, when under
the stroke of some one without sense or
reason v.e saw a beautiful tree prostrated.
As we rede along on these the mountains
of Leoanon, we bethink how its cedars
spread their branches and breathe their
aroma and cast their shadows all through
the Bible. Solomon discoursed about them
in his botanical works, when he spoke of
trees "from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
even unto the bvssop that springeth out of
the wall." The Psalmist says, "The righteous
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon,"
and in one his magnificent doxologies calls
on the cedars to praise the Lord. And Solomon
says the countenance of Christ is excellent
as the cedars, and Isaiah declares, "The
day of the Lord shall be upon all the cedars
of Lebanon." And Jeremiah and Ezekiel
and Amos and Zephaniah and Zechariah
weave its foliage into their sublimest utterances.
'
As we "ride over Lebanon to-day there is
a howling wind sweeping past and a dash of
rain, all the better enabling us to appreciate
.. , .. . that description of a tempest which no
doubt was suggested by what David had seen
with his owiLgves among these heights, for
as a soldier he carried his wact clear up to
Damascus, and such a poet as he, I^warrant,^
spent many a day on Lebanon. And perhaps
while ho was sealed on this very rock against
which our carriage jolts, he writes that vsaar'leiful
description of a thuuJer storm: "I'he
voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of
the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the
Lord oreaketh the celars of Lebanon. Yea,
the Lord breaketh the cedare of Lebanon.
He maketh th?m also to skip like a calf, Lebanon
an I Sirion like a young unicorn. The
voice of the Lord divideth the flames of
tire."
As the lion is the monarch of the fields and
behemoth th9 monarch of the waters, the
cedar is the monarch of the trees. And I
think one reason why it is so glorifiod all up
and down the Bible is because we need more
of its characteristics in our religious life.
"We have too much of the willow, and are
easi^^Kjnt this way or that; too much of
we tremble under every
much bramble^
19 BBr'spimon. but if on Monday a' subject"
presents itse'f at the door the begHBn
ety will depend entirely on quick
and an unobstructed stairway. It
nil the grace they can-got to keep them
t^Vcpratnitting assault and battery on
tlpese intruders who come with pale faces
yid stories of distress and subscription
papers. The reasonthnt God pi mted these ceda.-sin
the Bible was to suggest to us that, we
oufrt.t", in our religious iharacter, to be deep
like the oedar, high Oke the cedar,
broad brunched as the cedar. A
traveler measured the spread ofthe boughs
of one of these trees and found it one hundred
and eleven feat from branch tip to
brauch tip, and I have seen cedars of Christian
character that through their prayers
and charities put out one branch to the uttermost
parts of America, and another
branch to the uttermost parts of Asia, and
these wide branched Christians will keep on
multiplying until all the earth is overshadowed
with mercy.
But mark you, these cednrs of Lebanon
could not grow if planted in mild climates
and iu bo t air and in car lolly wntereu gardsns.
They must have tho grmnasiura of
tiie midnight liurricune to develop their
arms. They must play the a h)"te with a
t lousand winters belore their feet are rightly
planted and their foreheads rightly
lifted and their arms rightly muscled. Asd
if there he any other way for developing
strong Christian character except by storms
of trouble. I never heard of it. Call the roll
of martyrs, call the roll of the prophets,
call the roll of the apo3tlos and see which of
them had an easy titnp of it. Which or these
cedars grew in the warm valleyr Not ouo of
them fioueyauc ,lcs thrive best on the south
side of the house, but cedars in a Syrian
whirlwind.
M?n and women who hear this or read
t us. instead of your grumbling because you
have it hard, thunk Mod that you re in iust
-e?'.?i.hest school for ranking heroes and heroines.
TtNia_tnie both lor this world nnd the
next. Rook that-A^>jvrin a cradle cushioned
and canopied; graduat?SW<ijrom that into
u costly high chair and give him a gold
spoon; send him to school wrapped in iura
enough ior an Arctic explorer; send him
through a college where he will not have to
study iu order to g-t a diploma because his
father is rich; start him in a profession
wiiere he begins with nn office, the floor covered
with Axrninsrer, and a library of books
in Kussia morocco, and an armed chair upholstered
like a throne, and an embroidered
ottoman upon which to put his twelve dollar
gaiters, and then lay upon his table the best
ivory cigarholder you can import from
Brussels and ha-ve standing obtaide bis door
a prancing span that won the prize at the
horse lair, ann leave him estate enough independent
of all struggle, and what will become
of him? tf he do notdieonrl.v of inanition
ordissipntion ho will liven useless life,
and die an unlamented death, and go into
a lool's eternity.
A Lebanon cedar! John Milton on his
way up to the throne of the world's sacred
pousv must sell his copyright of "Paradise
Lost" for $72 in three payments. And
W lliam Shakespeare on his way up to he
octuowledged the greatest dramatist of all
ages must ho d horses at the door of the
London theatre for a sixpence, and Homer
must struggle throngh total blindness to
immortality, and John Bunyan must cheer
himself on the way up by making a flute
out of his prison stool, and Cauova, the
sculptor, must toil on through orphanage
modeling a lion in butter before he could
cut his statues in marble. And the great
Stephenson must watch cows in the field
lor a few peonic3 and then become a stoker,
and a?terward mend clocks before he puts
the locomo ive on its tifiick and calls forth
piandits irom pnrliam mtfc^-a.nd medals
from kings. Abel Stevens is piefctsd jap a
neglected child of th e street, and rise?->
through his consecrated genius to he ono
of the most illustrious clergymen nnd h:s- |
tnrittna of the eenturv. And HishoD Janes
of the same chnrcli in boyhood worked his
passage from Ireland to America, and up
to a uselnlnuss where, in the bishopric, lie
was second to no one who ever adorned it?
While in banishment Xenophon wrote his
"Anabasis" and Thncydides his "History
oi' the Peloponnesian War," and Victor
Hugo must, be exiled tor many years to tiie
islam! oi Guernsey heiore he can come to
that height in the affections of his countrymen
that crowds Champs E>ysees and the
adjoining boulevards with oue million
mourners as his hcurse rolls down to the
Ciinvcr. .1 the Madelei e. Oil, it is a tough
old world, am! ir, will keep you back and
keep you down and keep you under a- long
as it. can! Hail sous and daughters oi the
lire!
Thirty years irora now the toremost men
in all occupations and professions will be
those who are this lionr in aw ul struggle of
early li e. many o them without five dollars
to their name. So in spiritual life it takes a
course of bereavements, persecution, sicknesses
and losses to develop stalwart Christian
character. I got a letter a lew days
ugo saving: "I have hardly seer a well day
since I was born, and i could not write ray
own nirne until I wus 59 years of age, ani I
am very poor; but 1 am, by the grace of
God, the happiest man ia Chicago."
The Biole speaks of the snowsoi Lebanon,
and at this season of the year the snows
tliers mu<fc bo tremendous. The deepest
snow ever seen in America would be insignificant
compared with the mildest winter of
snows 011 those Lebanon mountains. The
cedars catch that sk.rl'ul of crystals on their
brow and on their long arms. Piled up in
great heaps are those snows, enough to crush
other trees to the ground, splitting the
branches from the trunk aud leaving tfcem
rent and torn, never to rise. But what do
the cedars cure for these snows -n Lebanon ?
Tiiey look up to the winter skies and say
"Snow on! Empty the white heavens upon
us, and when this storm is passed iet other
processions of tempest tr.v to bury us in
their fury. We have for five hundred winters
been accustomed to this, and lor the next
five hundred winters we will cheerfully take
all you have to send, for ihat is the way we
develop our strength, and that is the way we
serve God and teach all ages how to endure
and conquer." So I say: Good cheer to all
people who are snowed uude ! Pnt your
faith in God and you will come out gloriously.
Others may be stunted growths, or
weak junipers on the lower levels of spirituality,
but you arc going to be Lebanon cedars.
At last it will be said of 6uch
as you. ' These are the.v who came out of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb."
But while crossing over these mountains
of Lebanon 1 bethink mysrll of what an
exciting scene it must be when one ol the
cedars does iall. It does not go down like
other trees with a slight crackle Ihat
hardly makes the woodsman look up, or a
hawk flutter from a neighboring bough.
iViieirti pgtlsrjalls it is the greut event in
the enlenilnr of the TiWUfl^oilie. 'he nxmen
fly. The wild bens'b slink to tReir "riwtSs The
partridges swoop to t o valley lor escape.
The neighboring trees go down under
the awful weight ol the descending monarch,
ihe rocks are moved out ol their places,
atid the earth trembles as irotn miles arouml
all ravines send biek thpir sympathetic
echoes. Crash! crash! crash! So when the
great cpdars of the worldly or Chr stian
influence fall it is something terrific. Within
the past lew years how manv mighty and
overtopping men have gone down! There
seems now to Ivan epidemic o* moral disaster.
The moral world, the religious world, the
political world, the commercial world, are
quaking wjjj^te mil 01 Lebanon cedars. It
is w polled to crv out with
Zacharii^^^^^^^l^^^lowl, trees,
th-.
HnB
all of them explanatory of bo mach of the
Scriptures. And the time is coming when,
through an .improved arboriculture^^the
round world shall be ctreumiereneea, engirdled,
embosomed, emparndiaea in shade
trees and fruit tr*en and flower trees Isaiah
declares in one place, "The glory of Lebanon
shall bo given unto it:" and in another place:
' All the trees of the field Bhall clap their
hands. Instead of the thorn shall conie up
the flr tree. Instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree." Oh. grandest arborescence
of all time. Begin! Begin!
Oh, I am so glad that the holy land of
heaven, like the holy land of Palestine and
Syria, is a great place for trees, an orchard
of them, a grove of them, a forest of them.
St. John saw them nlongMhe streets, and on
both sides of the river, and every month
they yielded a great crop of fruit. You
know what un imposing appearance trees
g.ve to a city on earth, but how it exalts my
idea of heaven when St. John describes the
cityonhighasharingits streets nnditsrivers
line f with them. Oh, the trees! the trees!
The jasper walls, the lountains, the temples
were not enough. There would have been
something wunting yet. So to complete all
that pomp aud splendor I behold the up
branching trees of life. Not like those
stripped trees now around u?, which like
banished ininstrelR through the long winter
u. tKo
I Ul?lllv Ultvt Vlicii UUIVI-'UO luuiruv, ui in vuv
blast moan like lost spirits wandering up
and down the gale, their lent shall never
wither. Whether .you walk on the banks
of the river you will be under trees, or by
the homes of martyrs under trees, or by
the heavenly temple under trwes, or
along the palace of the King's immortal under
trees. " Blessed are they that do His
commandments thafctiiey may nave right to
the tree of life.' Stonewall Jackson's dying
utterance was beautifully suggestive, "Lei
us cross over and ae down under the trees I"
MVou fiabbn GIoh?"
A six ill Chinaman with a long pigtail
and an excited manner, rushed up
to a stroller in Chi.iatown and whispered,
"You sabbe glos?"
"What?" said the stroller.
"You sabbe glos?" repeated the
heathen, tossing la's cue over his right
shoulder and looking around in an
alarmed fashion.
"Me sabbe glos, alle same Melioan.
You sabbe spirit?"
"What's th6 matter with yoa, any
way?" shouted the American; "hitting
the pipe ?"
You sabbe Alemely stleet?" continued
the tremblilog Chinaman. "Me walke?
up alle, alle same, feel heap good, jq
sleep, no hit pipe, me slober, alle same
Melican man. Me walk long-Hit Sing's
home, you sabbe, me see line China*
? lnnl. lilra m anrllirwi Mil cnllllO
mandline? Me pay 'How you?' in
| Chinee. He looke me in eye, he bleatb
hard, no spleak, me say 'How yon?' hq
no spleak. Me say'You sabbe Melican?
he no spleak. Then me put out pipe.
You sabbe air? him alle same air. You
sabbe air? him alle same air, yoq
sabbe lice? he alle same lice, heap
cold."
""What did you do?" asked a by*
stander. "You sabbe git?" queried the
Chinaman, "Me git alle same Melican
man."
Thin is all that could be obtained
from Wong Sing; he was all broken up
and had seen a ghost.
-~-J?roin a Chinaman who spoke English
it was"frarned that Wong was returning
home fronTa^mit^to some friends, and
passing a house whera-ft. Chinaman had
died he saw a finely drc*sed--Ghinaman
in the full war paint of a mandarin
standing. Accostiug him he received
no reply. They spoke again, and, after
the American fashion, attempted to
nudge the mandarin in the ribs with
his long pipe, but to his horror the
pipe and bis hand sank into and through
the figure, which was nothing but air,
aud air as cold as ice. Wong said fclmt
it lelt as though he had put his hand
.nto an ice box or the coming Democratic
convention. In hhort, it was a
spirit, a Chinese ghost, and Wong recovered
and ran up the alley as stated.
Ghosts are rare in Chinat >wn, and no
other Chinamau had seen the mandarin,
'/hough one was found who said that
there were "heap gnosis, alle ^ame
Melican man." The gho>>j is a truly
American invention, and the fact that
one has been seen in Chinatown shows
that John is rapidly coniV.g over to.
American ways aud ideas.
A Feathered Industry.
Spconk is the greatest duck-raising
center 011 Long Island, if not in this
country. Byron Tuthill, of that pretty
village, speaking of this feathered industry,
said:
"For the season just ended, I have no
doubt that the shipment of ducks from
Spcouk has reached forty thousand. All
the fowl raised there are for the market.
The Pekin variety of ducks seems to be
the favorite with raisers. Some Muscovy
arc raised, but they do not grow so rapidly
nor become so large as the Pekin,
| though they are, it is said, a more hardy
breed. Hardihood is a very important
' matter, as a great many ducks dio when
young irom cholera, or are chilled by the
cold weather. The price generally returned
from New York is from 75 cents
to $1 for each duck. On this basis
Spcouk has received nearly $40,000 this
year for this husincssalomT,. The raisers
"begin to set their eggs in incubators
or under hens about the middle of
January, and the first ducks are ready
for the New York market about the last
of April. They then weigh from three
to five pounds. They are picked before
shipment, and the feathers are scalded
and sold at the close of the season. It
is expected that the price of the feather*
;will pay for the cost of picking. Since
the charge of picking is from four to five
cents, it is easy to calculate what it cost!
~tiT 5\rip?do,000 duck r of their clothes.
Incubators arc"uscchbr-*?j4--lnrgc raiser*,
and, properly handled, they prodm^ex1cellent
results. The picking of th6
fowl is quite an industrv, and many of
?i... a 5.. ,*?
i in; i id i?i it uu > u rmrrrc iiuui
VI00 to $200 in this way. Miss Annie
Jdscomb and Mias Ilcttie Homan seeia
to have made the best record Kuchhaa
nicked about :j.0U0 ducks, the former
having prepared forty-seven for market
in one dnv."?J New York Star.
Cur'ioc * Work Don? by a Clock.
Dariua L. Goff, at Pawtucket, R. I.,
is one of the proprietora of the great
braid works, but haa a fancy for me^mnical
and electrical experiments.
bis front hall a tall, oldan
heirloom which,
runa down. It
i*c0D*
HOUSEHOLD 1 I
TO DISPEL TOBACCO SMOKE.
Tobacco smoke has a way of clinging
to a loom and giving it a peculiar odor j
that sometimes cannot be removed by '
airing. One who has suffered recom
mends that a pail of water in which a
handful of a hay is soaking be left in
the room for an hour or so. At the end
of that time the smell will have entirely
disappeared. As all evidence of the cigar
or pipe can be removed so readily the
men can smoke in whatever room they
please, provided they will place the pail
of water in position when they arc leaving.
CAIIE OP MATTRESSES.
A great deal of attention should be
given to the proper airing of the mattress
every morning, and at least once a
week a stiff brush should remove the
dust which will accumulate, even in the
best ordered house, and under the tuffts j
* * * 1' ,l - 1 - - ' MM nrkof _
oi cotton, or tne diis oi ieatuci,ui (
ever ft used to tack the mattress with.
Attention should also be directed to the
edge of the mattresses, when the braid
is sewed on, for dust sifts under that. '
Where the bedroom is also the dressingroom
dust cannot be avoided, but it may
be at least changed, aud it need not be
allowed to accumulate.?New York Journal.
TO CLEAN Bit ASSES AND BRONZES.
The brass articles that are fashionable
just now require careful attention to keep
them clean and bright. If not lacquered,
rub sweet oil on the flannel, then rub
them over with rotten stone, using a second
piece of flannel; Anally polish with
a chamois. If lacquered, wash with a
soft brush in warm water and soap, wipe
well ancf est. before the fire until perfectly
dry. ""
Bronzes are cleaned with .sweet oil.
rubbed on with a brush, then rub oft
with a second brush and polish with a
chamois. Another plan is to plunge
t^gm into boiling water until very 1^,
"a wash with flannel and yellow s<^,
drying carefully with soft rag3. If soap
aud wator prove ineffectual try beeswax
dissolved in turpentine, rubbed on and
off with clean, soft rags.?Brooklyn Citizen.
infant's bands.
Better bands than those ma'1'" of flannel,
which can be worn until the child is
five or six weeks old, are those knit on
four needles. One skein of three-thread
Saxony will make two. Cast on 6ixty
stitches on three needles and fasten as
for a stocking. Knit three and purl one
all around. Knit a piece in this manuer
six inches long, then bind all oft except
sixteen stitches, which keep on one
needle. Knit back and forth like a
garter until this piece is one inch long,
then narrow one at each end until you
have ouly six stitches, then t>ina on.
These can be woro with benefit until
the child is past two years old. This
saves the child from suffering with heat
' about the neck and shoulders, as it would
if a flannel shirt of any kind were worn^
while it would-b&_very likely to creep
away. They can be used without shrinking
if they are washed in lukevvatm water
and borax, takiug enro to pull therrfthe^
long way when drying. They are best
rolled tightly in a to^el and left to dry.
?Ladici JJoine Companion.
RECIPES.
Cabbage Catsup?Chop two largo
heads of cabbage, twenty-fivo cucumbers,
two heads of cauliflower and six onions,
sprinkle with salt and let stand over
night. Drain, spice and pour over hot
inegar; seal.
Ginger Snaps?One cup of New Orleans
molasses, one cup of sugar, threofourtns
cup of butter; boil together two
minutes. When cool add a heaping teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in hot water,
half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, a little
?- ? o?Aiir?K flrtiir tr\ mnlrfj n enft:
giugci ttllVA CUV/U^IA UUU. *.vr V
dough. Roll thin and bake in a quick
oven.
Baked AppleDumpling?Pare and core
eight or ten apples. Roll out pieces of
puff paste the size of a saucer. Put nu
apple in each piece and close the edges
of the paste around the fruit. Lay the
dumplings in a large flat dish. Pour
over them a sauce made of gne cup butter
and three cups sugar well creamed
together, and seasoned with nutmeg, and
bake one hour. Peach dumplings are
made in the same way.
Chicken Pates?Chop meat of cold
chicken fine, and season with salt. Make
a large cupful of rich brown butter, and,
\Ajlc on the fire, add two hard-bo^d
ej * minced fine, a little chopped parsley,
and the meat of the chicken. Let
this mixture almost boil. Have ready
some pace pans of good rich paste, remove
the covers with the edge of a knife,
fill in with the mixture and arrange on a
hot plater. In baking the crust it is u
good plan to fill in with u square of stale
bread, which is easily removed as soon
as it comes from the oven. This keeps
the crust from falling as it would otherwise
do without the chicken mixture.
Brown Thiekening for Soup?Melt
half a pound of butter, and if it separates
at all skim and pour the oily portions
carefully from the sediment. Into this
liquid""sEif~-Cftfe?uUy half a pound of
sifted flour. Stir, watching"veTjT^eJoafilJL.
as it bubbles until the color changes;
when deep enough, that is, a decided
brownish shade, but not dark, take it
from the fire and put away in a little jar.
It keeps for months in a cool place if
properly made. The great secret is to
cook it very thoroughly, and to a rich
golden brown without the slightest taint
of scorching. White thickening is made
the same way, bui. with less heat, so
as to cook the Hour without changing
color.
Indian-meal Mush?To each teacupful
corn-raeal add a teaspoonful of salt, and
a half teacupful of cold water; next, add
five teacupfuls of boiling water, stirring
steadily. Piace over the fire in a smooth
^iron kettle; stir steadily until it begins to
cover tightly, place on back of
HHjKttBUlble steadily for an hour.
Hj^^HB^BH^jjaorovcmcnt upon the
the meal
lumps
EBHj^E^9K^nffr9KRE^fi|nj^^
disagreeable case, involvingflH^m
issues.' The entire case depended on
the fact that a paper had beon Bigncd
on a certain day. and this the forlorn
little woman was prepared to prove it.
"Yon saw the paper signed?" ashed
the opposing counsel, in cross-examination.
"Yes Mr."
"And yon take your oath that it was
the 30th of August.
"I knov: it was 81'r."
The lawyer, who thought another
date could be proven, assumed an exa?
penning smile, and repeated her words.
"You know it was! And now, be so
good as to toll us just how you know
it."
mi. _ liiu- 1 .1 t...
Hie poor ubue creature juuueu iruiu
one countenance to another with wide
sorrowful eyes, an if t-he sought under-,
standing and sympathy. Then her-gazo
rested on tlie face.of the kindly judge.
- "I know," she said, as if Rpeaking to
him alone, "because that -was the day
the babv died."
A woui.ti-liK suicide said he blew out
the gas because he had blown in all bis
money.
Tonrlstm
Whether on pleasure bent o~ business, should
take on every tilp a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as
It acts most pleasantly and effectually on the
kidnej s, liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
headaches.and other forms of sickness. For
sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading drug*
gists.
A sack suit?The fight of a discharged
ofllciG1 for reinstatement.
Brown's Iron Bitters cnrei Dyspepsia, Malaria,
Biliousness an 1 General Debility. Gives
Strength, aides Digestion, tunes lbs nerves?
crea es appetite. The oust tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
The tailor is a stood fellow to have around
?he can always make some fitt ng remarks.
Die? .von ever go within a mile or a soap lac*
tory? If sw vou know what material they
mako soap or. Dtriddus's Electric Soap factory
is as free from odor e, chair factory.
Try it once. Ask yonr grocer forit^ Take no
imitation. -,v
The wills of strong minded men cannot be
broken nnt 11 1 hey die. *
Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harmless
in effect, quick and positive in action.
Sent prepaid on receipt of (1 per bottle.
Adder & Co.,52; Wyandotte at., Kansas City Jdo
When aerial shipt .corns in we shall have
tiy tiras all the year round.
FITS stopped free by Dn. Ktnn'a Groat
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and tt! trial bottle
free. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
The telephone girl has a good many cio3e
calls.
Do Ton Ever Speculate f
Any person sending us their name and address
will receive information that will lead
to a fortune. Benl. Lewis <& Con Security
Building, Kansas City, Mo.
America has 1,000,003 telephones: the world
1.200,009
Guaranteed nve year eight per cent. First
Mortgagee on Kansas City property, interest
payable every six muntus; principal and interi
eel collected when due and remitted without
i expense to lender. For sale by J. H. Bauerlein
| & c?n Kansas City, Mo. \> rile tor particulars
State G ologr st Damb!e says the iron oro
fields ?>f Eastern lexas will yield 4,000,000
tons to the squ -re ml e.
Timber, Mineral, Kami Lands and Ranches
In Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
l$]tt?lipma Guide Book and Map sent any where
onreceT9to??0cts.Trler& Co?Kansas City,Mo.
A Gr rV drpssiinf^-'TtlP rack of Troy.
Save t!i@ lovs
And rave the girls?from their intense sufferings
from scrofula ami other foul Uu norj In the blood
by siring lh 'ir> Hood's Sarsaparlla. Thousands of
parents aro nn Toakably happy nnt thousands of
children enjoy goo I health because of what this
j groat bioo I purifier has dona f ,r them. It thorough
y eradicates ait t-ace of scro.'u'a, salt rheum,
etc., and vitalizes nu1 eurlc'.i03 tin blood.
"Scroiula bnnches In my neek disappeared when
I took Hood's Snrnnparllla."?A. B. Keixkt, Tarkersburg,
W. Vp.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for Jh-oparedonly
by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Lowell, Mass.
[OOJ^oses one Dollar
tV&A&E
W.A.JI SXOR "2"
Y'^sy '"i sow issued as a
Kjffl ?| SUBSCRIPTION
book tbronghott >. the Southern State* than "Sraax
OKRtoi.p' Ntst" IJauy year* have passed aince
the thrilling cenca herein recounted oi the
deeds 01 talor of the uoiuederate Sohlier. yet
th interest, by those who fought with A?bby,
Stuart, Johnston. Beauregard. Jackson and Lee.'
in the cau?e for which they bo desperately and
bravely ba'tlcd, will never grow le*?. Tbla
thrilling story picture* notalonejorandeorrow,
and a love sweetly told, but is filled with hislorio
inridents of the great contest between the South
ms tha Vnrth. Here is a book for the old Ex
Confederate, to r rail to blm the vivid scenes of
thegreat-st Civil War ever known, to call back
his men campr igns, and tell him ot the mighty
Chieftains, dear to tho memory of everyone who
I wore the Gray,
"Surry of Eagle's Nest" will find a welcome
In every S-mthem home. That it may bo witbia
the roach of every one. It is published at the low
^ rntcror $1, though a i.aeoe, handsome volume,
ngaontk^t-ihppbtbatsi) ajtd elf.q ajttlt hctuko.
SOLD 0Nt71jYTn}S??WJ^I0N.
As (he drmnnd for this old r*vopaiiTfinrtl .
vhie/i hat been oat of print to long, will bo large,
and applications for agencies very numerous, all
who desire to act ait Agents ? hon Id write for terms
and quickly secure choice of territory.
G. W. DILLINGHAM, Publisher,
33 Woat 23d St. New York.
n I I | Posters, Agents, Women, hoys, eveiy
11 II I where, t .mnfirns want lisi.itl) persons
III' I permanently to hnml out papers at
IS I Ua ! It a lun. H irtionl >rs for a 'J oont
stamp- r.ors rs llrr.ALn, Box r49i, PliiU. ''a.
I riltlVA'SUfgiWr^SO c.*st d hcanttfnl Silk & Satin
1 IHll.'VflECUillllilixv. enough lc oovei SCO *q !na
IOc.; best,25c. Lemarie sSilk Mux, IJttle Perry, If. J.
T on II r $100 or ?10O0C?rff?lly Isrutrdbrre I AJI O
IfluUW' brisx ASM AH.Y fr?m TWENTY U I UU c
Tut o>. TAIUHA lSYWTJIKST CO., TACOJIA, WASH.
IvnadC ' li t> Y , iou.-?rc|iir,s, bmiuie.v. noma,
hUniC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Shormatid, etc,
" tnorouTitty taught by .MAll, Circulars free.
Bryant's t'el eze< <157 .Main St.. Buffalo. N. V
DirGV 1/rUICC roBlTIVEI.Y HEMEUIKD.
DMuUI tlllLLu flreely i ant Mretelier.
Adopted by student- at Harvard, Amficrst. nml other
Colleges, also, be prnifsiloiiul and business men every
WDtlV. 1" "01 wr auir m /-hi ??nn -cm ?."
B. J. (JKKKLY. 71ft Washington Slmrt. Huston.
^1. BAND BIare and WHlbXEY HAB?
aPM H I B H 5 mTa ITS cnrcd at home wllhLj
E fp" B n 8 HSO 00> PMD- Book of parVK
rJ3?0 ilcn!?n wet FREE.
B K W ? L M WOULLEY, M. a,
nM^^^Xi Oa O flics Uh WfaiUthali St.
0^
UmHDEi^^Tlb^ and fn'ly enas
th'
cure
inflamed you bare a rambling sound or im- |
Serfeot hearing,and when it is entirely closed,
eafuess is the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this lube rest
red to its normal condition, bearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of tenure*
cousod by catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed
conditio i of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Hollars for any
case of Ilea ness (caused by catarrh) that we
caunot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. i.'hen'ey & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75 cents.
"So you wore in thnt wreck, were yon?
What w.-re your sensations when vour car
wits telescoped?" "0 i, 1 saw stais.1'"
One Thousand Dollar*,
I will forfeit tbo above amount, if I fall to
prove that Floraplexlon is the best medicine in
existence for i)ysi>epsia,Indif*estion or Biliousness.
It is a certain cure, and affords immediate
rellef,in tascs of Kidney and Liver Complaint,
Nervous Debility and Consumption.
Floraplcxion builds up the weak syBtera and
cures where other remedies fail. Ask your
druggist for It and get well. Valuable book
"Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample bottle
sent free; all chargos prepaid. Address Franklin
Hart. 88 Warren street. New York.
II [?t 11:55 P. * ]?"I d C^are, the-larnpls
goinv out!" Mie?"Y s. The lump reenito
hHVe bomc idea of t.me."
Money invested Inoholce one hundred dollar
building lot* in suhurbsof Kansas City will
pay troui live iiundrod to one uiousanu per
cent, the next few years under our plan, flu
cosh and $6 per lnontn without interest controls
a desirable lot. Particulars on application.
J. H. Kauerlem A Co* Kansas City, Jlo.
The inquisitive deaf man does not confine
his "uey?"-makina to the sunshine.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
sy stem by Brown's Iron Bitters, which enncnes
the blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in general
ill health, giving new en.-rgy and strong, h.
"Her hands were "a poem!" snya a ensiling
writer. But what is h poem without leet.
Beecliam's Pills cure Bilious and Nervous
Ills. . ;
Shnkespeare was the ton of a woo' rtap'er,
TtTfWTTn
f \ja / #/ a
Swifts Specific S. S. S. ha
frre^ine^ Considerec
For over iVfr.'iienry V. !
r. West Va., iayct.
Tllty years, cureof icrofula
i i i 'the most wonde
It has been had the disease
,, | all his life until h
Curing ah i age, and his who
r li j I bittered by It. (
sorts Or b'OCa | ai| sorts of treat!
i . r benefited him i
trouble from he took s. s. s. v
.. poison from his s
a Ordinary him sound and w
pimple to the worse types
BOOKS Of! BLOOD J\f/D SKI/f DISEASES
This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 cents.
J. F. SMITH & CO.,
Makers of " Bile Beans,"
255 &. 257 Greenwich St., N. Y. City
WL ir^?9&-S[
BROTHERS, eg Warn
^ ^R. SC
JSLlla
#| STANDARD FOR OV
VFaWFFD Cora Indication,
^" " bum, Flatulency,C<
I the Stomach! Cosll
Diarrhoea, Nlaa, and
MABiaa Concoition, Bllljiiat
TflBliP Headache, Glddittca
g UlllU dering Pain*, MhIh
(^..^^.,1 and all Diseases arts
Sluggish Liver. T1
It ft Positive Cure for coats, reduce gorgn
tlons, break up alubl
DYSPEPSIA itore free, healthy sic
give the system n c!
And sill Disorders of the Dl- and strength. They
gestlve Organs. Itislikewlse ......
a Corroborative or Strength- PURELY VE
enlng Medicine, and may be crDirTI V
taken with benefit 'rail cases *
or Debility. For Silo by nil and 3S0L
Druggists. Price,fl.OOperbottlo.
Dr. Schenck's New Hook For Salo l.y all Dri
on Lnngf, Liverand Stomach per box; 3 lull's fc
mailed free. Address, ; mail, postage free,
Dr.J.H.Schenck 4 Son, Phila. Dr. J. 11. ScUenck A
-VASELINE^
FOR. A ONE-DO I,I, All n I I.I, sent us byman
I the Diilt d States, ali of the following articles, careI
tally puclce :
J One two-ounce bottle of Pure Vaseline, . lOota
i One two-oa- ce bottle "f Vaseline Pomade, 15"
One jar of Yas line Co'd Creain, 15 "
One t k<> of Viixell e Cam horlee. - * 10 "
One Cake of Vu?*l ue *onp, unscent* ', - - 10"
One (.a'reof VnseliueSoap, exquisitely wen led,25 "
??One ^wn-niiiwe bolt c of >\"UJte Vaseline, -- '25"
Or for poitlag: tram pi ?ny rlnyle article at (He jJ TfiXaamed.
On nc account In-, pcrmaded to accept from
pourilruggi-t any Vanelinr, or preparation therefrom
| Unle.ei lanelleil with our mime, heraune you wiil certainly
receive an imitation irh ich has little or no value
Che ehru-iirh lift. fn. ? 1 State St , N. V.
^^^COMBIHIKGoARTICLE^y^
VTo ictiut nUlie
-lent*./artery rrie:t,'fJffu^S. LcmcWi E11E t
"^Vnr'nn0^'3!--^0 17HIIL fHAll3
paid for oa de.l..r7. V*ys TO HIRE.
Band st:rop for Cat vY^,.*s/[//UBrKClll rSEB
logca. J/ame yeods OELlVaKZ.
LL'^T-a IkTC. CO., 2C-3H. Vd St-, thUUa*r*
I SI.000 REWARD!
I Tk- .kA.M ??i ...;ii i.. ?~.ia /Aa
i a Hv nU'?vci lurtftra win ucj/oiu ivi ui wi vi
the exifcnca of a better LINIMENT than
MERCHANT'S GARGLING OIL or a better
Worm Itemcdv thinx MERCHANT'S WORM
TABLETS. "So d everywhere. J
x uoiiUE, soe'r.
chant's Gar{!ins? Oil Co.,
. A.
?
H E ESi
ilO.MK 4iA.MlL.
rket anil eice_s all ethers.
postpaid.
tr . 41 John St.. N~ew Vo-fc
and $5 for liand-o:ne box
l'rescnt. Delicious Candy.
443 ith Ave., New York.
Copyright, 18W.
if you're a flDBMj
the medicineB9BB39
especially to
Favorite Prcs^HHHH
where others f^HSSj
eases peculiar
down pains, dis^B^H
weaknesses, it't^B|H|
It means a nc^^HBS
one, for every ^HHR
every case for^HBH
raended^itgiv^^gH
i guaranteed to
is refunded.
It improves dj^Hn^
the system, enri^HSHg
j pels aches and
I freshing sleep,
' and nervousness, Ban
flesh and streng^HHB
m ate medicine HHe|
Contains no alcfl^B
no syrup or smB9
ferment in the iHH
distress. As
velous, remedial WfinS
composition. TlHHj
put off with sonHflj
pound easily, bvt^KB
?o,
TJIM
s a record enjoyedBH
I Wonderful. J
Smith, or Belmont.
."he considers his HE
by one of
rfu! on reco>avO?o JH
of the worst type^-^^B
e was 22 years of 89
ie youth wa3 em- ' HI
Df course he had HBj
Tior.f, but nothing
oermansntiy until U9
/hlch cleansed the .
ystem, and Gured ||jj|
of scrofula and" blH
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
CURE bmM
L Sick Headfl
* Malarifl
bile ni
% M mm I | n Wm 'WD
I ivt i/urtL. wm
an St, New York. Price 60 cts.GUH
i
HENCKS Mm
ER HALF A CENTURY g^j?'
Sour Stomach, Heart- 5j Sj^H)
(lie, and all DIucaspj of K
reneji, Inflammation, *
Dieeairtuflhe liowrls;
ieta, Jauudice, Nuinwo,
h, .Nervousneea, Wanria,
I.ircr Complaint,
Ing from a Gorged and
>ey clean the mucous
1 or conirMted condi- ?
jorn complications, rc- rO JC^H
lion to tha organs, And
li/>ce to recorer tone
are THRO^|^B^
GETABLE and does!^^BE
RELIABLE,
UTELY SAFE idne In t^^H
by all
uggUta. Trice 2.1 eta. per liottlc^^B|
r (V> cU.; or aent t.v ?.n t'onsitH
on receipt or price, mailed
Son, Philadelphia. 1'a. Dr.J.Hw^^m
lAIClfH.?Best. liuslcsTti^H
ilia to. a cure is ceruin.^^U
small particle is applied bSI
iij?crlsts or sent hy mall.
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C^^Hcaaae one of the ce^B^H
ted KSIITH k WvssHB
jrma Th? Qneut rma.l srH
1 ever manufacture 1 and
i tint choloe of aU exp
Mannfactnred in cailbre*^^EQN
. gle or double action, Safe^^BflB
I Target modela. Conctrue^B^H
Ity wrought ateel, c:iHM|
: manshlpand atoek,
I durability nndncrur^^H
cheap tnnlleaule cnat^^^H|
! are often sold for tbeg^^^BB
onlv unreliable, bnt a^BBRM
WESSON Rerolvera art^nH
| rela wl t b firm'a name, a<!H B|
; end are guarnnreod bm^B
Hat npon baring tbo g-UWB^M
-Ldoaler cannot anpidy
| Deecrptlrecatil-Kcie 'JBBH
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Books: For "An Ide^^^^BH
? Complete Physical J^^^HBB
io Ills tocts. "Healtl^MBHS
Pliv?lcr?l Culture." 40 iHHHB
39 III? for Dumb Rells
Ad. JNO. E. DOWD'S
Culture'school, 116
to SIS a
free.
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nrauch Ofiieci. <^HBB9EH
Does mimm
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bromo-seHH
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