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MEXICO. SCENES OP INTEREST AMONG 1 OUR NEIGHBORS. Life in the Capital—MoTinB an A»- tec Idol—Famous Popocatapetl With Ita Almost Inacces sible Peak or Snow. r Morning in Mexico is a season of de light. The weather is usually so pleas ant and unchangeable that our North American salutation “it’s a fine day,” is unknown to the Mexican. If such a re mark js made he seems surprised and will answer, “one day is like another here, and all days are fine.” Even in the rainy season I was told the showers fall at night and the days are clear and unclouded. But the morning has the most enchanting atmosphere; there is a buoyant freshness in the air, the skies are blue, the sun shine delicious, as tempering the chill which is inseparable from night and shade, in the high altitudes of the capi tal. Being within the tropics the sun rises and sets at nearly the same hours every day in the year. After sunset it soon be comes dark. The people go to bed early. The pulque shops are closed early by law, and about the only loitering places are the restaurants. There is a prejudice ] against the night air, and few persons are in the streets after dark, though the city it well lighted by electricity. The work ot street sweeping, which our people are accustomed to do at night, the Mexicans postpone until the fresh and early hours of the morning. It is done with hand brooms by a large force of peons—so thoroughly done that noth ing better in Uie way of clean pavements is to bq wished’ for. Blocks of grayish volcanic rock, cut in large squares and laid diagonally across the carriage way, form the pavement. The same kind of pavement is to be seen in Rome, Naples and in ancient Pompeii. The size of the blocks suggest to the Northern eye dan ger from breakage, but as the vehicular traffic' of the city, though great in vol ume, is not heavy in weight, the stones remain unimpaired. " f the bight of Water in Lake Texcoco, nearest the city. Standing beside this monument I st once saw that should the lake submerge the city, of which there is danger, the water would be two or three Riches above my head, The lake it smooth and salty, bul rushes border Its banks and the mount ains arc reflected on its surface. The train left Mexico early in the morning, the intention being to run down to the tropical region, pass the best portion of the day there and return at night. The railroad people had provided lunch, din- than 100 feet deep anywhere except on the southern side. White summer clouds como drifting up toward the peak. Where the suu strikes upon the clouds they show whiter than tkc snow. The lowest of these Cloudt it more than two miles below its crest; oc casionally a light one ascends near to the top. The snow is more permanently white than the clouds with a tinge of in digo to its whiteness. As noon comes on the clouds disappear, and the glare of the sun on the mountain top becomes Urender.—Detroit Fret Prat. >4 tt Will Eclipse the Eiffel Towef. Lohdoh Is to have S tower higher than the one at the Paris exposition that at tracted so much attention and to rival which has been one of .he ambitions of Americans who arc especially interested in ths Columbian exposition. The London tower, which is to be erected by the Watkih Tower Company a mile or two borth Cf St. John’s Wood, is to bo i860 feat lb height, and to be constructed Of steel. Pcbr lifts and two StairciiseS ark provided, situated in the legs of the tower, which nse to the principal stags at a height of 200 feet above the ground. REV. DR. TALMAGE fHE BR00KBVN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Summer Vacation." MEXICAN STREET MERCHANT. For several days during my sojourn in the city workmen were engaged in mov ing from the Vera Cruz Railroad station to the national museum a great basaltic porphyry idol—tho “Goddess of Water.” An Aztec idol of uncouth appearance, strangely and intricately carved, it came from the region south of Tlaxcala, where Cortes found his first resistance and af terward his most approved and courage ous allies. Its weight, by the railway scales, was twenty tons. Boilers, mono liths and ponderous machinery of great weight are moved on trucks by the use of horses without much ado in our North ern cities. In Mexico it was slung as it rested on iron rails from under the axles of a vehicle with wheels ten feet in diameter, and moved slowly by horses and capstans over a rail road track laid down upon the pavement. A guard of soldiers, almost as numerous as the gang of workmen, were observant of the work. The idol, advanced about a block a day, and was a fortnight in getting into position. Un doubtedly it is the heaviest object trans ported through the streets of Mexico since the days before the conquest, when relays of Aztecs, thousands in number, laboriously brought the great cnloadar or sacrificial stone to the teocalll where Montezuma, and the priests who pre ceded him, performed the death-dealing rites of their gloomy religion. There are few, very few, manufactories—the bust ling, steam propelled, coal-consuming, iron-requiring factories of modern times —in Mexico. There are few of the great wholesale and distributing houses of our commercial cities to fill the streets with numerous vans and loads of mer- vwa^*, - * STREET SCENE IN MEXTCO. log cars being as yet not introduced into Mexico. Everything was at hand except coffee, and this was to be seryed at Ayotla, a station' fifteen xntles out. A baud of music was oh‘board, consisting of six violins, four guitars, four clari onets, two bass viols snd six brass herns. The company disembarked for their cof fee snd the band played outside the sta tion. The sun was just ' rising, lighting up the snowy peak of Popocatapetl in the immediate background, the shadows being quite deep upon its western side. The other volcano, Iztaccibuatl, is con nected with the greater one, the ridge which unites them being twoorthiee miles long. Iztaccibuatl is an Indian word, mean ing “the white lady.-”' At sunrise in the morning the long ridge of the mountain, covered with snow, bears a resemblance to the form of a woman, shrouded in white. The feet are nearest to Popo catapetl, the head farthest away. The resemblance is not so apparent aa the sun mounts higher and the shadows fall in other directions, but the figure of a woman is much more plainly to be made out at all times than la Antony's Nose on the Hudson, or the man's head on Mt. Washington. While drinking the coffee and looking at the wonderful mountain acenery, the band begins its concert. A peon acts as mutio stand. Ho holds a sheet in bis hands for the clarionet, and has pinned to his back, or to the reft scrape on his back, two other sheets for the brass horns. He guards his face from the ait of the clarionet by holding the music as a shield, but he cannot protect himselt from the brass horns which assail him from the rear. Nevertheless he standi perfectly still in the centre of this wind blast. The music has t either charmed or paralyzed him. Popocatapetl—an Aztec word meaning the mountain that smokes—has an eleva tion of 17,720 feet, or 1945 foot higher than Mt. Blanc, which Byron “crowned monarch of mountains.” It has not been in eruption since 1540, twenty years aftei the conquest by Cortez. A variable colnmn of smoke ascends from it. Tbs entire mountain is owned by a gentle man who resides in ths City of Mexico. He derives a revenue from the sulpbui mined from the crater, and also from the charcoal which is burned from the wood that grows upon the mountain side, be low the snow line. The ascent is not often made. It is not dangc but very cold and disa greeable. . j get to the top it is neces- Ilere the designers hive provided for the benefit of visitors a large area consisting of a great central hall, which under able management would prove one of the special attractions of the tower. The hall would be of an octagonal form, 20,000 feet area and sixty feet high, the spaces between the eight legs of the tower at the angles of the octagon form ing eight recesses for restaurants, manage ment rooms, etc. Over the recesses, and clustertd found the central hall, the authors suggest the construction of a hotel, "of ninety bed-rooms, with all necessary baths and other accommodation. As the; special features which the hotel could offer would be the advantages of pure air, sun-light and open prospects, the whole of the bed rooms have been placed on the external faces of the tower, The restaurants on the main platform would provide dining accommodation, one being especially set apart for the use of residents, and tho kitchens would be arranged on the mezzanines over the serving-rooms attached to the restaurants. — Chicago Newt. Text: “Comr yc 'jourtchrt apart into a desert place and rest rtwA i/C; 1 ’—Mark vi., 31. Here Christ advises HU apostles to take a vacation. They have been Jiving an excited as well os a useful life, and Ho advises that thev get out into the country. I am glad that for longer or shorter time multitudes of our people will have summer vacation. Tho rail way trains are being laden with passengers and haggngc on their way to tlio mountains nud tho sea shore. Multitudes of our citi zens aro packing their trunks for a restora tive absence. The city heats nfo pursuing tho people with torch and fear ot sunstroke. Tlio long silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. Tho crystalino sur face of Wmnlpiseoaee is shattered with tin stroke of steamer, laden with excursionists. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under tho shot of city sportsmen. The trout make fatal snaps at the hook of a iroit sportsmen and toss their spotted brilliance into the game basket. Already the baton of tho orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life p its ou festal array, and the rumbling of Hie tenpin alley, kml the crack of the ivory balls oil the green baf iz« billiard tables, and the jolting of the bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncork ing of champagne liottles, and the whirl and the rustle of the ball-room dance and tho clattering hoofs of tho race courses attest that tho season for the great American watering-places is fairly inaugurated. Music—flute and drum nml cornet-a-piston and clapping cymbals—will wake tho echoes of the mountains. (Had I am that fagged out American life for tho most part will have an opportunity to rest, and that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Bethosda. I believe in watering places. Let not the commercial firm be grudge the clerk, or the employer tho jour neyman. or tho patient the physidiatl, or tho church its pastor a season of inoccupation. Luther used to srKirt with his children; Ed mund Burke used to caress his favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hours of the church’s disruption, played kite for recrea lion—as I was told by Ins own daughter— and the busy Christ said to the busy apostles, "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile." And I have ob served that they who do not know how to rest do not know how to work. But 1 have to declare this truth to-day, that some of our fashionable watering places are the temporal mid eternal destruction of “a multitude that no man can number,” and amid the congratulations of this season and tho prospect of the departure of many of you for thecountry I must utter a note of warning—plain, earnest nu I unmistak able. The first lomplntion that is apt to hover in this direction is to l ave your piety all at home. You will send the dog and cat nud canary bird to be well care 1 lor somewhere else, but the temptation will be to leave your religion In the room with the bltuds down and the door bolted, and then you will come back in tho autumn to find that It Ik starved and suffocated, lying stretched an the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of piety at tho watering places. I never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the fashionable summer resort. It is generally the esse that the Habbsth is more of a ca rousal than any other day, and there aro Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions. Elders and deacons and ministersAf relig ion who are entirely consistent at homo sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or tho White Mountains take tho day to themselves. If they go to the church, it is fipt to bo a racrod parade, and tho discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon—tliat is, some discoursa picke 1 out of tho effusions of tho year ns the one most adapted ro excite admiration; and in those churches, from the way the ladies hold their fans, you know they are hot-half so much impressed with tho heat as with the - MOUNT POPOCATAPETL. choodise. Neither is the disintei element 09 frost known In the climate; consequently the pavements of Mexico wear well, are smooth and clean. Mexico is 7350 feet above the level the sea. The descend—"bajada”—from the city, ns the railroad time-tables put it, Lhst is, to go down toward the coast, either toward the Atlantic on the east, or the Pacific on the west, the circle of vol canic mountains which surround the Val ley of Mexico must first be climbed. It is the most remarkable range of vol canoes in the world, forming a rampart os a parallel sixteen miles south of the city. They are not all in sight from ths capital, because Popocatapetl, the high est mountain in Mexico, and Iztaccihnntl, Its companion and neighbor, shut out the view. The traveler need not journey far to the eastward before Orizaba, the most symmetrical snow-shrouded cone in the list ot mountains, with its crater shin ing like a star in the night, will be seen towering up in the sky. If he goes westward soon tho peak of the volcano of Toluca will present itself, which is united by a chain of smaller volcanoes with Iztaccibuatl and completes ths in closure. It is the strangest sight, this circle of volcanoes, and ouo that has ar rested the attention of physicists and geographers, both, before and sibce the time of Humboldt. Old Vesuvius domi nates the horizou of Naples; bis amok# drifts over the beautiful bay and city— a landmark visible from n great distance. People go from alt parts of the world to see it. Tho volcanoes within eight of Mexico are more numerous and more re markable. If they were to go into erup tion st one time they would encircle the city with mountains of fire. On the great plaza of Mexico, between the great cathedral and the national palace, is a monument to Enrico Mar- tines, tho illustrious Mexican cosmo- grapher. On this monumeut is inscribed the latitude and longitude of the spot and various other measurements, includ ing the very important one which shows THE CHURCH OF AMECAMECA. sary to start the day before and stop ovet night at the sulphur miner's cabin, just below the snow line. The discomforts of a night here are something that few care to endure, and the climb through the snow up the icy crater next morning Is very trying. The atmosphere is thin on account of the enormous elevation, and only strong men can stand it. Ths sulphur odors have also to be endured, and as a few incline to such hardships, not more than a score of men have stood on the top of Popocatapetl since the day that Diego de Ordaz, under the command of Cortez, made the first ascent in the year 1519. The Emperor, Charles V., allowed Ordaz to use a flaming volcano on bis eacutcbeon. As Cortez says no one could reach the top of the mountain on account of the vast accumulation of snow at that time, it is probable that Ordez boasted of something he did not parform. In that case the brothers Fred erick and William Glennie, who climbed it in 1887, are the first who should be credited with having reached the sum mit. All who undertake to go up the mountain first get a permit fiom the owner and an order to his sulphur miners to render assistance. Then they go by railroad to Amecameca,twenty-five miles or so from Mexico, and there equip themselves with extra clothing, poniet, etc., and begin the wearisome ascent. At this beautiful village at the foot of the mountain there is a lofty rock or hill, r,acred by ancient tradition, on whose top is a church. Many people make pilgrimages to this church at Arne- csmeca. We do not slop there except to take more coffee and look at the mountains from a new and nearer point of view. In the fields, rich with a dark, volcanic soil, the bare legged peons arc plowing. The plow ii a stick set into a heavy beam. Horses and exen pull it. It is aa mtlquated sort of plow,such as Abra ham might hara used in the days when he was the most advanced farmer of the world. Those who have teen Egypt say the scene reminds them of that ancient land. It has a strange look.. The fields arc full of peons cultivating the ground, and the vegetation might very well be Egyptian. The peons are good work men. They lose no time in soldiering; their motions are quick, sad their indus try keeps them in ceaseless activity. The auasUan burnt us, and yet a little way above ua is the land which touches the shivering region. About one-third of Popocatepetl, measuring from ths top, Is covered with snow. That is to say, them is a band of snowaboat the giant’s coats that is fully a mile wide. A Mexi can gentipmen tells me that it is 100 feet Once Niagara Ran Dry. It seems almost incredible,says a writer in Oolden Days, that at one time in its history the greatest and most wonder' ful waterfall in the world actually ran dry. Nevertheless it is an established fact that this occurred on March 89, 1848, and for a few hours scarcely any water passed over Niagara Falls. To thoroughly appreciate this astonishing phenomenon it should be remembered that the estimated average amount of water passing over these falls is 508,500 tons per minute. The winter of that year had been an exceptionally severe one, and ice of an unusual thickness had formed on Lake Erie. The warm spring rains loosened this congealed mass, and on the day in question a brisk east wind drove the ice far up into the lake. About sunset the wind suddenly veered around and blew a heavy gale from the west. This naturally turned the ice in ita course, and bringing it down to the mouth of the Niagara River, piled it up in a solid, impenetrable wall. So closely was it packed and so great was its force that in a short time the outlet to the lake was completely choked up, and little or no water could possibly escape. In a very short space of time the water below this frozen barrier passed over the falls, and the next morning the people residing in the neighborhood were treated to a most extraordinary spectacle. The roaring, tumbling rapids above the falls were al most obliterated, and nothing bat the cold black rocks were visible in all direc tions. The news quickly spread, and crowds of spectators flocked to view tha scene, the banks on each side of the river being lined with people during the whole day. At last there came a break in tha ice; it was released from its restraint, tha wall of pent-up waters rushed forward, and Niagara was itself again. picturesqueness of half disclosed featur z. Four puny souls stand in the organ loft and squall a tuno that nobody^knows, and wor shipers, with two thousnnd dollars' worth of diamonds on the right hand, drop a cent into tho poor box. and then tho benedic tion is pronounced and tho fares' is ended. The air is bewitched with “ths world, the flesh and the devil.” Thoro are Christians who in three or four weeks in such n place have had such terrible rents made in their Christian robe that they had to keep darning it until Cbristmas to get it mended! The health of a great many people raakca an an nual visit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity; but take your Bible along with you and take an hour for sscret prayer every day, though you lie surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Fabbath, though they denounce you ns a bigoted Puri tan. Stand off rom those institutions which Pathetic Story of a Neglected Poet It it pathetie to read of the posthu- moua fame of Adam Lind -ay Gordon, the Australian poet. Twenty years have passed since, red deed to dire pecuniary straits, he shot himself on Brighton Beach, near Melbourne, Australia. Now we are informed, on the authority of the circulating libraries, that his poetical worki are “extremely popular’’ in the wealthy city where be starred when alive. The Australian publishers have made a fortune out of the fresh and vigorotu poems that brought their author little, if any, recompense. Hpre is an instance of the contemp tuous indifference with which Gordon'! remarkable gift of open-air song was treated daring bis lifetime. One of the leading Australian dailies thus noticed his “Bush Ballads” on their first publica tion! “We have received a volume of poeihs entitled ‘Bush Ballads,’ by A. L. Gordon. The book is highly creditable to the printer, the papermaker and the binder.” The same journal published within the past few years, without a klush or an apology of any soti, two columns of a glowing eulogy of the Lon don edition of Gordon's poems. It is the old story of the stoning of the prophets, of Keats and the Quarterly, of the mar- ble honors that are reserved for a man's ashes, and the tribute that comes just • lifetime too late.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Flowers in London’s Heart. In the very heart of the City of Lon don the Bank of England boasts within its sacred precincts as fine a show of rhododendrons as may be seen anywhere in tho London radius. The garden is tastefully laid out in a rectangular style around a central fountain. The young Stock Exchange men slip in en route to business and get a buttonhole from this superabundant supply.—New York Jovr- Antwerp is on the decline. Hamburg and Rotterdam are drawing off jtf cook can innunnes ions me inat h u ovu lees , . : , : ° iitopJa Ih. barrancas ud 1 port charge propqseto imitate on this Mdcthe water the Iniquities of olilcn time Baden-Baden. Let your moi at and your immortal health keep pace with your pii vsirHlrecuiieration, and re member Hint all tho waters of Hathorna and sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot do you so much good as the mineral, healing, perennial flood that breaks forth from the “itock of Ages. ’ This may be your last sum mer. If so, make it a fit vestibule of heaven. Another temptation around nearly all our watering places is the hors• racing business. We all admire the horse. There needs to lie a redistribution of coronets anion; the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts. I knock off its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or sagacity or intelligence or affection or mo- fulness. He is semi-human, and knows how to reason on n small scale. Tho centmr of olden times, part horse and part man, seem- to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast. But we do not think tliat the speed of the horse should be cultured at tho expense ot human degradation. Horse rac-s in olden times were under the ban ot Christian |>eo- plr, and in our day the same institution lias come tip under fictitious names, and it is called a “summer meeting.” almost suggos live of positive re'igious exerci cs. An I it is called an “agricultural fair," suggestive of everything that is improving in the art of farming. But under these deceptive titles aro the same cheating and the same betting, the same drunkenness and same vagabond age, and tho same abominations that wore to be found under tho old horse racing sys tem. I never knew a man yet who could give himself to tho pleasures of the turf for a long reach of time and not be battered in morals. They hook np their spanking team, and put on their sporting cap, and light their cigar, and take the reins, and dash down the road to perdition. Tho groat day at Sara toga ana long Branch and Capo May, and nearly all the other watering places, is the day of the races. The hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of eauioave is taken no at mi aioioex rauuioua price, an i mere are many respectable people mingling with jockeys and gamblers and libertines mid foul-mouthed men and flashy women. The bar tender stirs vp the brandy smash. The bets run high. The greenhorns, supposing all is fair, put in their money scan enough to lose it. Three weeks before the race takes pines the struggle is decided, and the men in the secret know ou which steed to bet their money. The two men on the borsea riding around long before arranged who shall beat. Leaning from the stand or from the car riage arc men and women soabnorbe.l in the struggle of bone and muscle an I mettle that they make a grand harvest for the pick pockets, who carry off tho pockotbooks and portmonnaics. Men looking on sec only two borsea with two riders firing around the ■ing, out mere is many a man on mat naan whose honor and domestic happiness and for tune—white name, white foot, white flank- are in the ring, racing with inebriety, and with frond, and with profanity, and with ruin—black nock, black foot, black flank. Neck and neck they go in that morel Epsom. Ah, my friends, have nothing to do with horse racing dissipations this summer. Long ago the English Government got through looking to tho turf for the dragoon and light cavalry horse. They found the turf depreci ates the stock, and It ii yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes, the Member of Parliament and the nutnor, known all the world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being started in this country, wrote a letter In which he said: “Heaven help you, then: for of all the cankers of our old ci vilization there U nothing in this country approaching in un blushing meanness, in rascality holding its high head, to this belauded institution of ths British turf." I go further and speak of another tempta tion that hovers over the watering places, and this it the temptation to sacrifice physi cal strength. The modern Betbesda was meant to recuperate the physical health, and yet how many come from the watering placet, their health absolutely destroyed! New York and Brooklyn Idiots boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses of Cong res. water before breakfast. Families accus tomed to going to bed at 10 o’clock at night goaipiag us till or 8 o’cloei 1q the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their health, mingling ice creams and lemons and lobster s alads anil cocoanuts until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamentatioa and protest. Delicate women and bralnleos young .men aJiaesezina thomselvee Into vsrti- go aud catalepsy; IhodsdiuM fit tdefi add women coming back from our watering places in the autumn with tlio foundations laid for ailments that will last them all their ife long. You know ns well as I do that this is the simple truth. la the summer you say to your good health: "Good by; lam going to have a good time for a little while. I will be very glad to see you again in the autumn.'’ Then in the autumn, when you are hard at work it. your offleo or shop or counting room, Good Health will come and say, “Good by; lam goirt#,' Toil say, “Where are yod going?” “Oil/ t4ys Good Health, “I am goidg to take avocation! It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave you choleric and splenetic anl ex hausted. You coquettel with your good health in the su nmor time, and your good health is coquetting with you in the winter time. A fragment of Paul’s charge to tho jailer would lie an nppropriato inscription for the hotel register iiv every watering place, “Do thyself H i harm.” Another temptation hovering nftnrad the watering place is to tho formation of hasty and lifelong alliances. Tho watering places ore responsible for more of the domestic in felicities of this country than all the other things coml ined. Society is so artificial there that no sure judgment of character con be formed. Those who form conqianionships amid such circumstances go into a lottery where there are twenty blanks to one prize In the severe tug of life you want more than glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom where the music decides the ztep, and bow and prance and grecoful swing Sf Ibng trail can make up for strong common sense. You may as well go among the gayly painted yachts of a summer regatta to find war vessels as to go among the light spray of the summer water ing place to find character that can stand the te»t of the great straggle of human life. Ah, In the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than a lace fan or a croquet mallet' The load of Ffo is so heavy that in order to draw if yon want a team stronger than one made up of n masculine grasshopper an la feminine butterfly. If there is any man in the community that excite* my contempt, and that excites the contempt of every man and woman, it is the soft hauded, soft-headed fop who, perfu ne i until the nir is actually sick, R|»n Is his sim mer in taking killing attitudes and waving sentimental adieus and talking infinitesimal nothings, and findiug his heaven in the set o: a lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an inquisition, two hours of consummate skill exhibited in tho tie of aflsmtngcrav.it, hi- conversation made up of “Ah'S" and “Oh's” and “He-hee'e." It wonl I take fivj hundred of them stewed down to make a tenspoonful of calves’-foot jelly. Thera is only one counterpart to such a man a- that, and that is the frothy young woman at the watering p’nce, her conversation mad' up of Freneli moonshine, what she has on her head only equal* I by what she has on her Iwck; useless ever since she was born, an Ho houseless until she is dead; and what they will do witli her in ths next world I do net know, except to set her upon the banks of the River of Life for all eternity to loo'; sweet I God Intends us to admire inudc and fair faces nn- graceful step, but amid tho hcartlessncssan I the inflation anl tho fan tastic iufluencea of our modern watering places beware how you make life long cov cnants! Another temptation that will hovor over the watering placo is thdt of banefill litera ture. Almost every ouo starting off for tho summer takes soms reading mutter. It is a book out of tho library or off the book stan I, or bought of the boy hawking hooks through the cars I really believe there is more poz tiferous trash read among the Intelligent classes in July mid August than in all the other ten months of tho year. Men and wo men who at homo would not be sn tisflsd witli a book that was not really sensiblo, I found sitting on hotel piazzas or under tho trees reading books t be index of which would make them blush if they knew that you knew what tho book was. Would it not bo an awful thing for you to be struck with lightning some day when yon had in your hand one of theso paper covered romances—the hero a Parisian roue, tho heorino nn unprincipled flirt-chap ters in tlio book that you would not read to your children at tho rate of one hundred dollars a line I Throw out that stuff from your summer baggage. Aro there not good books that are easy to read—books of congenial history, books ot pure fun, books of poetry ringing with merry canto, books of fine engravings, books that will rest the mind as well as purify the heart and elevate the whole life? My hearers, there will not be an hour between this and the day of your death when you can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle. Another temptation hovering all around our watering places is tho intoxicating bev erage. I nm told that it is becoming more fashionable for women to driuk. I cars not Natan has throe or four grades down which he takes men to destruction. One man be takes up, and through one spree pitches him into eternal darkness. That is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you find a man who will be such a fool ns that. When a man goes down to destruction Natan brings him to a plain. It is almost a level. The depression is so slight that you can hardly see It. That man does not actually know that ho is on tho down grade, and it tips only a little toward darkness—just a little. Aud the llrst mile it is claret, and the second mile it is sherry, and-the third mile it is punch, and the fourth mile it is ale. and the fifth mile it is porter, and the sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets steeper and steeper, an I the man gets frightened aud says, "Oh, let mo get Off" “No," says the conductor, “this is nn TEMPERANCE. TOR EVERYONE. Here is a little verse, which, though no* In tended as a puzzle, has a moral so good that V/’have tapiod iifof youv benefit. It was quoted by a greaf speaker Urbed trteWing an address on the subject whether or w» » would be possible to close tho public drink. lug-saloons. He said, “This is a difficult question, truly, my friends, but will we not do well to remember that “There is a little public-house Wiitch every one may close; It is tho little public-house just underneath your nose.” Youth's Danner. XVITAT AS etb BARTtVbin SAVS. “Do you, ImptV,” said art ,6ld brtrtcnddF, recently, “that every time f sell rtj man^E d,r.nk I feel like a criminal? I hay: c seen men driuk never ouo ,ve' rtevei H: But e ft to , their ruin , am to his good. It actually makes tng it for twenty years, anl I known tho taste of liquor in my I navi ft to their w i ,nr me angry to see men stand up to the bar and drink liquor. I have often been thought surly, but it was not surliness, it was anger that made me seem so. You cannot get brutes to lolieti the stuff, and they show they are a good deal smarter than men. I api not n Prohibitionist and would rtdt Vote that ticket under any circirnstapces, be cause I know enough about the business to. gnow that nn attempt to enforce such a law A Now Collar Bone. A boy ot eighteen years was admitted to the Mount Cifiai Hospital, suffering from a . 'veiling ever the ft'giun f ot the collar bone. It was evident that fbo bone was deeply affected, and the only recourse was an oparution, which was toidg: The entire boj.s was found dead, destroyed by Inflammatory action, ne cessitating iU icrcoVdl; but id doing so the membrane immediately BOxt to i|, and which nourishes the bone, wfis care- I j c j u ^ G j — the unhai fully incised, stripped from the bone and ^ replaced in the wound as nearly as possible in its original position, the object being to form new bone matter throughout its length and thus reproduce an entire col lar bone, The wound having been dressed fha arm was subsequently kept in the same position that a fracture of the collar bone would have required, ths result being tha!t ted weeks after the operation the patient Was discharged with a brand-new collarbone, iotrrpletely simply meins that you ■ ’ ’In make Hare and sneaks cut of all drinking men. But I know that drinking does no man good, and the man is a too' who says that a drink when he is feeling badly is just v/hat he want*. I’ve eeen those men turn drunkards. You may think that mine are peculiar views for a bar keeper, No doubt they are; but I have had ICrig elptrlenre, and I tell you the opium eater 1ms stronger arguments in favor of his drug than the whisky-drinker has for his whisky. Why don’t I get out of the Wsl ness? I got into it. nnd 1 know it; 1 oorfr know any other, and I am too old no# tef learn." HOW TO ESCAPE fNTBMPERANCE. In a recent number of an American magazine,Mr. Jefferson tells a pathetic ztory of meeting in the wilds of Australia a shep herd who nad once been a man of rank and position in London. He had become a drunkard, and after trying every means of tetorot had flt last fled to Australia and buried himself iri the bush, diond but fpr a Too ihappf victim ,ead. He’» told tfart it can’t be cured. you believS It can be, an® m is—no matter how bad or of hoi* long etanding. It has been for thousands—by Dr. Sage's Car' tarrh Remedy. Other so - remedies may palliate for a this cures for all time. By its soothing, cleansing and b properties, it conquers the reproduced with new joints at eifhvt j cages. Its makers offer, eud, and the perfect use New York World. of his arm.— ConductorE. V. Loomis, Detroit, Mich., says ‘ The effict of Ifsll's Catarrh Cure >s wouder'u 1 ' Write him about ft. Bold by Druggis 7>c. A fool and h * mon»y is soon parted. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kure’s Great Nb.hve Bertorer. No Fits after first day s use Merve’ous euros Treatise and I'Jtnal bottle free. Dr. Kliue.UJl Arch tSt.,Phi)a.,P». The toper's motto is but he empli vs two d’s. ‘Live for to-daT For a disordered liver try Rrecham's Pills. ! evil, and calmly , physical remedies to bear on help from a higher than nd then uso the rational n human being for months nt ft time. Bi lie had conquered tho habit which was mak ing a beast ot him. Perhaps among the readers of this story, there Is some young man upon whom the love of liquor has taken hold He is ashamed, terrified, anxious to shake it off, tut l.e feels its grasp in tho weakness of his will to resist. What shall he do? In the llrst place, recognize the fact that this is a practical, physical ’’ ' — bring practical it. First seek human source, am. ....... .— .— remedies which He has provided for this dis ease of tho body and soul. If alcoholism is hereditary in bis family or if his immediate ancestors were moderate drinkers his danger is greater, and the need of prompt action more imminent. He should put himself in the care of nn intelligent physician who will bo able somewhat to appease the intense eraving for stimulant. But he must himself counteract the cause which drove him to drink If it was a desire for “ftin' 1 and excitement let him find tome amusements different from those in which he has been indulging which will drive it from his mind. If he began to tipple in secret, let him shua solitude and find cheerful, entertaining society. If on the other hand he drinks only when with certain associates, let him givs them Up at once and wholly. Occupation, healthy and absorbing for tnind and body, is the surest safeguard for him. For after all, “the way to stop drink ing Is to stop drinking," and whatever strengthens the weakened will and helps him to refuse to taste even a drop is the most rational remedy.— Youth's Companion. finiNKTNO AND AFOPLEXT. The Irish World presente to its readers the following wholesome lesson concerning alcohol and apoplexy: "It is the essential nature of all wines and spirits to send an increased amount of blood to the brain. The first effect of taking a glass of wine or stronger form of alcohol is to send the blood there faster than common. Hence the circulation that gives the red face. It increases the activity of the braid and it works faster, and so does the tongue, but as the blood goes faster than common to the brain, it returns faster, and no immediate harm may be done. But suppose a man keeps on drinking; the blood is sent to the brain so fast in large quantities that in order to make room for it tho arteries have to charge themselves. They increase in size, nnd, in doing so, they press against the more yielding, flaccid veins which carry the blood out of the brain, and diminish the size of the pores—the result being that the blood is not only carried to the arteries of the brain faster than is natural or healthful, but is prevented from leaving it ns fast, os usual. Hence a double set of causes of death ore in opera tion. Hence a man may drink enough brandy or other spirit* in a few hours, or even minutes, to bring on a fatal attack of apoplexy. This is being literally dead drunk.” A storm move* 3fl mlleevAt hofit express train nnd it does not stop until it cot* w, mt- urunu v cmrai uejnit ot t'ltn tsri'iiiLon All, "look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth it* color in the cup, wl-.cn it moveth itself aright. At tho last it bitetli liken serpent and stingeth like an adder." My friends, whether you tarry nt home— which will lie quite na rnfe and perhaps quite ns comfortable—or go into the country, arm yourselves against temptation. The grace of God is tho only satu shelter, whether in town or country. There are watering places accessible to nil of us. You cannot open a hook of tho Bible without finding out some such watering place. Fountains open for sin and uncloanliness; wells of sefvation; streams from Lebanon; a flood struck out of tho rock by Moses; fountains in tho wilder ness discovered by Hagai-; water to drink and water to bathe id; the river of God, which is full of water; water of which if a man drink bo shall never thirst; wells of w ater in tho Valley of Baca; living fountains of water; a pure river of water as dear os crystal from under tho throne of God. These are watering places accxsible to all of us. Wo do not have a laborious packing up before we start—only the throwing away of our transgressions. No expensive hotel bille to pay; it is “without money nnd with out price." No long and dirty travel before we get there; it is only one step away. In California in five minutes I walked around and aaw ten fountains, all bubbling up, and they wore all different. And in five minutes I can go through this Bible parterre nnd find you fifty bright, sparkliug fountains bub- bliug up into eternal life. A chemist will go to one of those summer watering places and take the water and ana lyze It, and tell you that it contains so much of Iron, and so much of soda, and to much of lime, and so much of magnesia. I come to this Gospel well, this living fountain, and analyze tha water, and 1 And that its in gredients ore peace, pardon, forgiveness, nope, comfort, life, heaven. “Ho, every one tliat thirsteth, come ye" to this watering place! Crowd around this Betliesda to-day 1 Ob, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying —crowd around this Bethesda! Stop in HI Oh, step in it 1 Tho nngrl of the covenant to day stirs the water. YVhy do you not step in it? Some of ytiu are too weak to take a step in that^direction. Then we take you up in the af nis of our closing prayer and plunge you clean under the wave, hoping that the cure may be as sudden and as radical as with Captain Noainun, who, blotched and carbun- cled, stepped into tho Jor,lan, and after the seventh dive came np, his skin roseate com- plexicned as the flesh of a little child, now wen a woman may nroe*. it sne nas token enough of wme to flush her cheek and put glossiness on her eyes she Is intoxicated Bhe may be handed into a 48500 carriage and have diamonds enough l> confound Tiffanys —she is intoxicated. She may boa graduate of a great inztttute and the daughter of some man in danger of being nominated for the Presidency—the is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to her that she is “convivial," or she is “merry,” or she is “festive,” or she is "exhileratel," but you canuot witli *11 your garlands of verbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an old- fashioned case of drunk. T JBACE GREELEVS OPINION. Tn 1 >7 Horace Greeley said in the New York t ribune: ... , For our own part we are opposed to legal izing the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors for medical, mechanical or any other purpose. There is no need of it and great harm in it. That alcohol may be used in various contingencies, we do not dispute; for arsenic, opium nnd other poisons are so, and it is not probable that this single mem ber of the family should have no good end whatever. Let alcohol--pure undiluted al cohol—be mannfntured and sold without license. Let doctors and others use it as they shall see flt, but this undisguised poison no one would drink; and we protest against all tampering with, coddling it up and disguis ing it so that the ignorant, the simple, the victims of depraved appetite shall be tempted to imbibe it when they woull reject the naked poison. All such weaving of snares for the feet of the unweary is nndefens''-'' is demoniac, and ought to be prohibited by law. TEHPERA NCE NEWS AND NOTE*. The Lord’sside is not the whisky side. During the past eighteen mouths Boston has sent 1,259,000 gallons of rum to Africa. Francis Murphy, during five months’ work In Iowa has secured 37,00? signatures to the pledge. Every American woman In the mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, wears the whit* ribbon. in New South Wales, within tho last de cade, there has been a decrease in the con sumption of alcoholics of 30.8 per cent. The Connecticut W. C. T. U. has begun tgltation to secure a better enforcement of the scientific temperance instruction law of abut Stats. Cardinal Manning, in a recent address, says: “The chief tnr to tho working of the Holy Spii it of God in the souls of men and women is intoxicating drink.” A Now York physician Is quoted as saying that a gloss of hot milk, sipped slowly, will afford as much real strength to the weary partaker as a barrel of beer. Many mothers have sown the seeds of in temperance In their sens by feeding them to lay for every childish nilment, or by drinking it themselves while they are pars ing their children. Mayor Kretsinger, of Beatrice, Neb., in his recant official meisage to ths City Coun cil, says: “I certainly am not mistaken when I say that for the $10,099 yearly ob tained from saloon licenses the city loses an nually $75,090.” Miss Jennie Cassedav, National Bnperin tondentot the W. C. T U. flower mission work, and for twenty year* a bed ridden in valid, is the delighted recipient of tho hand somest music box ever made—the gift of thi National W. C. T. U. in honor of her fiftieth birthdar. The Brltizh Museum received on* day recently a Chinese bank not* issue! frota the Imperial mint 800 years before till flrat uso of paper money in England. There are'536 authorized guide* in the Alp*. One hundred and ninety-four of them have taken a regular course of In struction in their profession and have received diplomu. Thirty-fire of them are between aixty and seventy years of age, and six are over seventy. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is Peculiar To Itself ‘ Black Ice cream is a new Philadelphia dainty. It is colored by the addition of •hMSOfil ud tho jqice of Turkish prune* faith, a reward of $500 for a of catarrh which they cannot car*. They ate able to pay it. Are you able to take it? The (trmptomg of catarrh sto, headache, obstruction of noee, cR*- charges falling into throat, some times profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacions, mucoaa, purulent, bloody putrid and dfeP» cive; eyes weaK, ringing in earau deafness ; offensive breath ; smell and tasto impaired, and gener*! debility. Only a few of these symptoms llliely to be present at once. Thousands of cases termi nate in Consumption and *7*d in the :rave, without ever having mani- all theso symptoms. Dr- Remedy cures the worst CO cents, by druggists. x ’ grav Fcsted Sage’s cases. WALL PAPER BARGAINS! We trill guarantee all these clean new goodilj made, and full length—3 yards to the rolL \ 0191$ KIVJOY® Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts E mtlyyet promptly on the Kidneys iver aad Bowels, cleanses ths sy» tern effectually, dispels colds, head- ichss and fevers snd cures habitual wnstipation. 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