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THE ROSE OF DAWN. How mockingly tha niornim, dawns for ms, Since thou art gone, where no pursuing speech, No prayer, no farthest-sounding cry can reach! I call and wait the answer to my plea— But only hear the stern, dividing ssa (That pauses not, however I beseech) Breaking, and breaking on the distant beach Of that far land whereto thy soul did flee. Do happy suns shine on thee where thou art? And kind stars light with friendly ray thy night? And strange birds wake with music strange thy morn? This beggared world, where thou no more bast part. Misapprehends the morniug’s young delight. And the old grief makes the new day forlorn. *-Louisr Chandler Moulton, in Century. HUMOR OF THE DAY, A magazine article—Gunpowder. A finger wring—The thumb-screw. Fowls share at least one attribute o mankind—The good die young. Summer brings leave of absence, but autumn brings absence of leaves. It looks funny, hut a sinking fund is the means of raising a debt.—Boston Gazette. The mosquito is a desperately wicked creature. It never rests till it gets “be hind the bars.”—Puck. Why is Pennsylvania like a good sol dier? Because it is well drilled, of course. —Boston Commercial Bulletin. Never call a man another unless you know what you are talking about, and bg careful then.—New York World. If you'd have me And I’d have you Why, you’d be won Aud I'd be, too. —Neiv York Herald. Lady (to applicant for place)—“Arc you a plain cook?” Applicant—“Well, Is’poselcud be purticr.”—Binghamton Leader. A mountain side makes the best pas ture for young cows, because climbing tends to strengthed the calves. —Boston Journal. When a fly alights on your hand you can’t tell whether he is sitting or stand ing. But it is a different thing with a bee.—Statesman. He (reading)—“Then their lips met, and ” She (interrupting)—“Was it a protracted meeting, 1 wonder!”—Bur lington Ftee Press. Magistrate—“Were you prisint whin the assault was committed on ye?” Wit ness—“May it please the Coort, I had jut got there.”—Harper's Bazar. Edwin—“Aud you’ll always be true to me, Angelina?” Angelina—“Why do you doubt me, Edwin?” Edwin—“Oh, you're too good to be true. ”—Life. Cobwiggcr—“Whydoes a woman have her pocket where it's so hard to get at it?” Merritt—“So that she can stick her friend for the car fare.”—Epoch. Billy—“So you have returned from your bridal tour. What did you see on your trip that pleased you most?” John—“My wife.”—Toronto Empire. Although she’s fast, and smokes all day, Men look on her with proud emotion; Admired by all she makes her way— The steamer called “the (Jueeu of Ocean.” —Puck. When a man is caught he owns up and says the woman did it. When a woman is caught, sho swears it is not so, and cries to corroborate her oath.—National Weekly. “What arc your potatoes, Mr. Scales?” “Thirty-five cents a peck.” “They are only thirty at Mr. Bushel’s.” “Why don’t you buy some there?” “He hasn’t any.”—New York Bun. “Left your purse at home, eht Well, I can’t lend you ten dollars, but I can put you in the way of getting it at once. Here's a nickel. Take a car home and get your purse.”—Chatter. Simmons—“That is a rather peculiar stone you are wearing, Timmons. Must be something rare, is it not?” Timmins —“Very rare stone, indeed, my boy. That is an 1890 peach stone.”—Indian apolis Journal. Stage Manager—“Mr. Heavy, you will take the part of, Alonzo.” Mr. Heavy— “I have never seen this play. Do you think I can please the audience in that parti” Stage Manager—“Immensely. You die in the first act.”—New York Weekly. “What a queer name you have, Miss Booglespeegle!” ho said, alter he had asked her once or twice to pronounce it for him. “Well,” she responded, with just the sweetest smile, “you know what you can do with that name, Mr. Smith." — Washington Star. “How human that instrument is!” re marked Gale at the amateur musicale. “Do you notice how it throbs and sighs? Its strains” “You’re right; it does,” assented Jack Pott, as he watched a muscular young woman pound the keys out of shape. “H's a wonder to me it doesn’t burst a blood-vessel!”—Dry Goods Chronicle. Old Lady (at Tampa Bay)—“My daughters want to go sailing. Can you swim?" Yacht Skipper—“No mum.” Old Lady—“ My goodness ! What could you do if anything should happen?” Yacht Skipper—“Please, mum, when the man wot does the sailin’ can’t swim he's mighty keerful not to let anything happen.”—Good News. A dog was barking at the mcon when a sage inquired why he did so, adding that he could not possibly affect the great luminary one way or the other, and that It seemed a useless waste of energy. “Oh, it isn’t that it makes any difference with the moon,” replied the canine; “but I want the other dogs in this neighborhood to know that I am not dead.” Moral— We never know that some men have been buried untjl we miss their blaster.—De troit Free Press. England's Shawl Town. Huddersfield is the great seat of the shawl industry in England. It is a fixed occupation in most of the families there. The children arc trained in the business and for generations the same families make the shawls that are sent from Hud dersfield to all parts of the world. It is a profitable labor, and all those engaged in ft are all well to do. One reason why it is so remunerative is that compara tively few people are skilled artisans in this line of labor. The French shawls are made in the suburbs of Paris, but shawl making in Franco is a lower grade industry than it is in cither England or the United States, and the worker* are not nearly so well paid.—Chicaao Pott. Japanese Railways. In the matter of railways Japan ap- jpears to be going ahead tolerably fast. [Considerably over 1000 miles are already tin operation, while an equal amount is under construction or surveyed, and will | be open within a year or two from now. The projected railwyas exceed 700 miles in length, with a capital exceeding $80,- 000,000—New York Journal. REV. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE S SUN DAY SERMON. Tev: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.”—Luka x., 30. wh! < *'f-a the Ji 0e , t . here l )ictul es a volcano, oml does painter's canvas this author does in words. You see hiu fhf*T m < i U<1 . Sti, i ““u 1 for a K es immovable, but the Lord out of the heavens puts His 5anoI[<. OI?t » he ^’ P . 0f itan ' lfr0m itr ' sa thlck Wltb , “ r ”' “ He touchetb the hills and they smoke.” t/od is the only being who can manage a vok ano, and again aud again hasHeem- ployed voJcamc action. The pictures on the walls of Fompeii, the exhumed Italian aty, as we saw them last November, de monstrate that the city was not tit to live, in the first century that city, engirdled with palaces, emparadised with gardens, pillared into architectural exquisiteuess, was at the foot of a mountain, up the sides or which it ran, with vineyards and villas of merchant princes, ami all that marble ana bronze and imperial baths and arbori culture and rainbowed fountains, aud a coliseum at the dedication of which nine thousand beasts had been slain, and a supernal landscape in which the shore gave roses to the sea and the sea gave crystals to the shore, yea, all that beauty and pomp and wealth could give was there to be seen or heard. But the bad morals of the city had shocked the world. In the year 70, on the 4th of August, a black column rose above the aa..oining mountain and spread out, Pliny says, as he saw it, like a great pine tree, wider and wider, until it began to rain upon the city first thin ashes and then pumice stone, aud sulphurous fumes scooptAi, and streams of mud poured through the streets till fe^r people escaped, and the city was buried, and some of the inhabitants eighteen hundred years after were found embalmed in the scoriae of that awful doom. The Lord called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that profligate city. He touched the hills and they smoked. .\othing but volcanic action can explain ^ show you at the Dead Sea upcu wii.ch I looked last December, aud of whose waters I took a bitter and stinging taste. Concerning all that region there has been controversy enough to fill libraries, science saying one thing, revelation saying another thing. But admit volcanic action divinely employed and both testimonies are one and the same. Geology, chemistry, geography, astronomy, ichthyology, ornithology and ecology are coming one by one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book are Revelation and Creation, and the penman ship is by the same divine hand. Our horse back ride will not be so steep to-day, and you can stay on without clinging to the pommel of the saddle, but the scenes amid which we fide shall, if possible, be more thrilling, and by the time the horses snuff the sulphurous atmosphere of Ashaltites, or the Dead Sea, we will bo ready to dismount and read from our Bibles about what was done that day by the Ixird when He touched the hills and they cm »kcd. Take a detour and pass along by the rocky for.less of Masada, where occurred some thin;': more wonderful iu the way of despera tion i ban you ever heard of, unless you have heard of that. Herod built a palace amid thus? heaps of black and awful rocks w’hich loo.; like a tumbled midnight. A great band ol robbers, about one thousand including tl; r families, afterward held the fortress. ben the Roman army stormed that steep mi t the bandits could no longer hold the place, their chieitain, Eleazar, made a pow erful speech which persuaded them to die before they were captured. First the men kissed their families a loving and tearful f ood-by and then put a dagger into their earfcs, and the women and children were slain. Then ten men were chosen by lot to slay all the other men, and each man lay down by the dead wife and children aud waited for these ex 'cukiouers to do their work. This done, on 1 } man of the ten killed the other nine. Then the survivor committed suicide. Two Women and five children had hid thein- se’.ves, and after all was over came forth to tell of the nine hundred and sixty slaugh tered. Great and rugged natural scenery makes the most tremendous natures for good or evil. Great statesmen and great robbers, great orators aud great butchers, were nearly all born or reared among mountain precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever torn upon the plain. "When men have any thmg greatly good or greatly evil to do they come down ff the rocks. rass on from under the shadow of Masada, the scene of concentrated diabolism.and come alouo; where the salt crystals crackle under the horses’ hoofs. You are near the most God forsaken region of all the earth. You to whom the word lake has heretofore sug gested those bewitchments of beauty, Lu zerne or Cayuga, some great penrl set by u loving God in the bosom of the luxuriant val ley. change all your ideas about a lake, and see this sheet of water which the Bible calls the Salt Sea, or Sea of the Plain,and Josephus cabs Lake Asphaltites. The muleteers will bike care of the horses while we go down to the brink and dip up the liquid mixture in the palm of the hand. The waters are a com mingling of brimstone and pitch, and have six times larger percentage of salt than those of the Atlantic Ocean, the ocean hav ing four per cent, of salt and this lake 26‘^ per cent. Lake Sir-i-kol, of India, is the highest lake in the world. This lake, on the banks of which wo kneel, is the lowest lake. It empties into no sea, among other things, for the simple reason that water cannot run up hill. It swallows up the river Jordan and makes no response of thanks, and never re ports what it does with the twenty millions cubic feet of water annually received from that sacred ri ver. It takes the tree branches and logs floated into it by the Jordan and pitches them on the banks of bitumen to de cay there. ' ; iie hot springs .near its banks by the nameof Caliirhoe, where King Herod came to bathe off his illnesses, no sooner pour in to this sea than they are poisoned. Not a fish scale swims it. Not an insect w'alks it. It hates life, and if you attempt to swim there it lifts you by an unnatural buoyancy to the surface, as much as to say “we want no life here, but death is our preference, death.” Those who attempt to wade into this lake, and submerge themselves, come out almost maddened, as with the sting of a hundred wasps aud hornets, and with lips and eye lids swollen with the strange ablution. The sparkle of its waters is not like the sparkle of beauty on other lakes, but a metallic lustre like unto the flash of a sword that would thrust you. The gazelles and the ibexes that live ou the hills beside it, and cranes and wild ducks that fly across— for, contrary to the old belief, birds do safe ly wing their way over it—and the Arab horses you have been riding, though thirsty enough, will not drink out of this dreadful mixture. A mist hovers over paits of it al most continually, which, though natural evaporfcion, seems like a wing of doom spread over liquid desolation. It is the rinsings of abomination. It is an aqueous monster coiled among the hills, or creeping with ripples, •nd stenchful with nauRAatimr malndors. in these regions once stood four great Assyria: Sodou, Gomorrah, Adma and Zeboim. The Bible says they were de- etroyed by a tempest of fire and brimstone 1 u ? ities bad fll,ed U P with wickedness. •No, that is absurd,” cries some one; “it is evident that this was a region of salt and brimstone and pitch long before that,” And 80 H was. The Bible says it was a region of smphur long before the great catastrope. Well, now, says some one, wanting to raise a quarrel lietween science and Revela- tion, “j*u have no right to sav the cities of the plain were destroyed by a tempest of fire and sulphur and brimstone, because this region had these characteristics long before these cities were destroyed.” Volcanic ac- tion, is my reply. These cities had been built out of very combustible materials. The mortar was a bitumen easily ignited, and the walls dripped with pitch most inflammable. They sat, I think, on a ridge of hills. They stood high up ami conspicuous, radiant in their sms, ostentatious in their debaucheries four bells on earth. One day there was a rumbling in the earth and a quaking. “What’s that?” cry the af frighted inhabitants. “What’s that?” The foundations of the earth were giving way. A volcano, whose fires had been burning for ages, at God’s command bursts forth, easily setting everything aflame, and first lifting these cities high in the air and then dashing them down In chasms fathomless. The fires crtthataruption intershot the dense smoke and rolled unto the heavens, only to descend again. And nil the configuration of that C< i?n Was c ^ an K°d, and where there wn* ShvJ *t canie a valley, and where then* naa been the pomp of uncleanness came wide spread desolation. The red hot spade oi volcanic action had shoveled under the cities of the plain. Before the catastrophe the cities stood on the top of the salt and sul- P , r- _ After the catastrophe they wen* under the salt and sulphur. Science right; Revelation right, •‘rfo toucheth the hills and the^ smoke.” No science ever frightened believers iu Re velation so much as geology. They feared that the strata of the earth would contradict the Scriptures, and then Moses must go un der. But as in the Dead Sea instance so in all cases God’s writing on the earth and God’s writing in the Bible arc harmonious. The shelves of rock correspond with the shelves Si to. A " ,eric *n RiWfl Society. Science digs into the earth and finds deep down the remains of plants, aud so the Bible announces Hciencedigs down and says, ‘Marlneanimals next.” and the Bible says, “Marine animals next.’' Science digs dojrn and says, “Land animals next.” “Then comes man!” says science. “Then comes man!” responds the Bible. Science digs Into the regions about the Dead Sea, and finds result of lire and masses of brim stone, and announces a wonderful geologi cal formatiou. “Oh, yes,” says the Bible, “Moses wrote thousands of veal’s ago, *The Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go morrah brimstone and fire from tne Lord out of heaven,’ and David wrote, ‘He touch eth the hills aud they smoke.’ ” So I guess we will hold on to our Bibles a little longer. A gentleman in the ante-room of the White House, at Washington, having an appoint ment with Mr. Lincoln at 5 o’clock jn the morning, got there fifteen minutes early, and asked the servant, “Who is talking in the next room?” “It is the President sir.” “T« anybody with him?” “No, sir; he is reading the Bible. He spends every morning from 4 to 5 o’clock reading the Scriptures.” My text implies that God controls vol canoes, not with the Tull force of his hand, but with the tip of his finger. Etna, Strom- boli aud Vesuvius fawu at his feet like hounds before the hunter. These eruptions of the hills do not belong "to Pluto’s realm,as the ancients thought, but to the divine do minions. Humboldt counted two hundred of them, but since then the Indian archipel ago has been found to have nine hundred of these great mouthpieces. They are on every continent and in all latitudes. That earth quake which shook all America about six or seven summers ago was only the raving around of volcanoes rushing against the sides of their rocky caverns trying to break out. They must come to the surface, but it will bo at the divine call. They seem re served for the punishment of one kind of sin. The seven cities they have obliterated were celebrated for one kind of transgression. Profligacy was the chief characteristic of the seven cities over which they out their smoth ering wing: Pompeii, Herc ulaneum, Stabiae, Adma, Zeboim, Sodom and Gomorrau. If our American cities do not quit their profligacy, if in high life and low life disso luteness does not cease to be a joke and be come a crime, if wealthy libertinism con tinues to find so many doors of domestic life open to its faintest touch, if Russian and French and American literature steeped in pruriency does not get banished from the news stands and ladies’ parlors, God will let loose some’ of these suppressed monsters of the earth. Aud l tell these American cities that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of iudgment, whether that day of judgment be in this present century or in the closing century of the earth's continuance. The volcanic forces are already in existence, but iu the mercy of God they are chained in the ken nels of subterraneous fire. Yet let profli gacy, whether it stagger into a lazaretto or sit on a commercial throne, whether it laugh in a faded shawl under the street gas light or 1)© wrapped in the finest array that foreign loom ever wrought or lapidary over im- pearled, know right well that there is a vol cano waiting for it, whether in domestic life or social life or political life or in the founda tions of the earth from widen sprang out the devastations that swallowed the cities of the plain. “He toucheth the hills and they smoke.” But the dragoman was rejoiced when we had seen enough of this volcanic region of Palestine, and he gladly tightens the girths for another march around the horses which are prancing and neighing for de parture. Wo are off for the Jordon, only two hours away. Wo pass Bedouins whose stern features melt into a smile as we give them the salutation Salaam Aleikoum, “Peace be with you,” their smile sometimes leaving us in doubt as to whether it is caused by their gladness to see us or by our poor pronunciation of the Arabic. Oh, they are a strange race, those Bedouins. Bucli a commingling of ruifanism aud honor, of cowardice and courage, of cruelty and kindness 1 When a band of them came down upon a party in which Miss Whatoly was traveling, and were about to take pocketbooks and perhaps life, this lady, sit ting upon her horse, took out her note-book and pencil ami began to sketch these brig ands, and seeing this composure the baudits thought it somethiug supernatural and fled. Christian womanliness or manliness is all conque: me. When Martin Luther was told thr.t l>” » orge woul 1 kill him if he wont to 1/' '. liher replied: “I would go to Loip-i rained Duke Georges nine days.” No v come through regions where there are hiM » ui. into the shape of cathedrals, with ait c- and column and arch and chancel ami pa; i? and dome and architecture of the rocks thM i think can hardly just happen so. Perhaps it is because God loves the church so well, he builds in the solitudes of Yellow stone park and Yosemito and Switzerland and Palestine these ecclesiastical piles. And who knows but that unseen spirits may sometimes worship there? “Dragoman, when shall we see the Jordan?” I ask. All the time wo were on the alert, and looking through tamarisk and willows for the greatest river of ail the earth. The Missls- sippi is wiqer, the (Miio is deeper, the Ama zon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid regions more picturesque, the Thames has more splendor on its banks, the Tiber suggests morM imperial procession, the livssus has moro classic memories, and the Nile feeds greater populations by its irrigation, but the Jordan is the queen of rivers, and runs through all the Bible, a silver thread strung hiSe beads with heroics, and before night we shall meet on its banks Elijah and Elisha and David and Jacob and Joshua and John and Jos us of a river aud said, “What is that?” Jordan,” was tha quick reply. And all ; the line which had been lengthened by . uilgrims:, some from America,and some Europe, and some from Asia, the cry sounded "The Jordan? The Jordan!” dreds of thousands of pilgrims have the units hanks anil bathed In its waters. of them dip a wet gown in the waves wring it out and carry it home for theii shroud. It is an impetuous stream 'ashes on as though it were hastening I i s story to the ages. Many an exnlorei A whelmed and many a boathasit wre i.ieut. Moloueaux had copper both craft* split upon its shelviugs. Only 'Oat, that of Lieut. Lynch, ever iivi •ail the whole length of it. At the si wiien the snows on Lebanon melt the of this stream is like Concuiattgh Johnstown perished, ■ and the wild b that may be near run for the hills,expla wlmfr .loramiali cosro i L.. -1... 11 ..vcuiivn 11oiii in 1 ? swelling or don No river so often changes its mind, f turns and twists, traveling two him miles to uo that which in a straight line might he done in sixty miles. Among banks now low. now high, now on rocks, now of •and, laving the feet of . the terebinths and oleanders aud aeaeias and reeds and pis- tachios and silver poplars. This river mar ries the Dead Sea to Lake Galiilee, and did ever so rough a groom take the hand of so fair a bride? Tins is tlio river which parted to let an army of two million Israelites across. Hero the skilled major general of the Assyrian "host at the seventh plunge dropped his lep rosy not only by miraculous cure, but sug gesting to all ages that water, ami plenty of It, inis much to do with the sanitary im provement of tlio world. Here is whore some theological students of Elisha’s time were cutting trees with which to build a theological seminary, aud an axe head, not sufficiently wedged to the handle, flew off into the river and sank, and the young man deplored not so much the loss of the axe head as the fact that it was not his own, and cried, “Alas! it was borrowed,” and the prophet threw a stick into the river, and in defiance of the law of gravitation tlio iron axe head came to the surface and floated bkea cork upon the water, and kept float ing until the young man caught it. A mir acle performed to give one an opportunity torelurn that which was borrowed, and a rebuke in all ages for those who borrow and never return, their bad habit in this respect so established that it would be a miracle if they did return it. Yea, from the bank of ibis river Klijiah took a team of fire, showing t hat the most raging element is servant of the good, and that there is no need that a child ot tiod fear anything, for if the most, de structive of all elements was that ilay fash ioned into a vehicle for a departing saint, nothing cun ever hurt you who love and trust the Lord. I am so glad that that chariot of Elijah was not made out of wood or crystal or any thing ordinarily plooiiant, hut out of Are. aud yet he went tip without having so much as to fan himsell. VVlien stepping from amid Iho foliage of thiwe oleanders aud tamarisks on Iho hanks of the Jordan, ho put his foot on the red step of the red equipage, and took the red reins of vapor in his bands, and spurred the galloping steeds toward the wide iqien gateot heaven, it was u scene forever memorable. !So the hottest afflictions of your life may roll you heavenward. So the most burning persecutions, the most fiery troubles, may become uplifting. Only bo sure that when you null ou the bits ot fire you urtve up toward tiod and not down to ward the Dead Sea. When laitimor and Rid ley died at the stake they weut up in a chariot of tire. When my friend 1’. 1’. lilies, the Gospel singer, was consumed with the rail train than broke tbrougli Ashtabula bridge and then took flame, I said, “Another Eli jail gone up in a chariot of fire!” But this river is n river of baptisms. Christ was hero baptized and John baptized many thousands. Whether on these occa sions the candidate for baptism and the of ficer of religion went into this river, and then while both were standing the water was dipped in the hand of one and sprinkled upon the forehead of the ether, or whether the entire form of the one baptized disappeared for a moment beneath the surface of the flood, I do notuow declare. While I cannot think without deep emotion of the fact that my parents held me in infancy to the bap tismal font in the old meeting house at Som erville and assumed vows on my behalf, I must tell you now of another mode of bap tism observed in the river Jordan on that afternoon in last December, the particulars of which I now for the first time relate. It was a scene of unimaginable solemnity. A comrade in our Holy Land journey rode up by my side that day and told me that a young man who is now studying for the Gospel ministry would like to be baptized by me In the river Jordan. I got all the facts I could concerning his earnestness and faith, and through personal examination made my self confident he was a worthy candidate. There were among our Arab attendants two robeii not unlike those used for American baptistries, and these were obtained. As we were to have a large group of different nationalities present I dictated to my daughter a few verses aud had copies enough mode to allow all to sing. Our dragoman had a man familiar with the river wade through and across to show the depth and the swiftness of the stream aud the most appropriate place for the ceremony. Then I read from the Bible the accounts of baptisms in that sacred stream, and implored the preseuot the Christ on whose head the dove descended at the Jordan. Then as the candidate and myself stepped into the waters Die people on the banks sang iu full and resounding voice: On Jordon's stormy banks 1 stand Aud cast a wishful eyo To Caiman’s fair and happy land, Where uiy possessions lie. Oh. the trun-porling. rapturous scene That rises to my slvht: Bweet Helds arrayed Iu living green And rivers of delight. By this time we had reached the middle of the river. As the candidate sank under tin) floods and rose again under a baptism in the name of the Father, and the Son, mid the Holy Ghost, there rushed through our souls 1 a tide of holy emotion such as we shall not probably feel again until we step into the Jordan that divides earth from heaveu. Will those waters bo deep? Will those tides be strong? No matter if Jesus steps in with us. Friends on this shore to help us off. Friends on theother shore to see us laud. See! They are coming down the hills on the other side to greet us. How well wo know their step! How easily we distinguish their voices! From - bank to bank we hail them with tears and they hail us with palm branches. They say to us, “Is that >*ou, father?” “Is that you mother?” and we answer by asking, “Is that you, my darling?” How near they seem, and Uow narrow the stream that divides usl HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. THE ART OP SWEEPING. In sweeping take long, light strokes, and do not use too heavy a broom. “Alice,” said Lois, “doyou honestly think sweeping is harder exercise than playing tenuis.” I hesitated. “I really don’t know. One never thinks of hard or easy in ten nis, tlio game is so interesting; and then it’s outdoor exercise, aud there's no dan ger of inhaling dust.” “Well, for my part,” said Marjorie,“I like doing work that tells. There is so much satisfaction in seeing the figures in the carpet come out brightly under my broom! Alice,what did you do io make your reception-room so perfectly splen diferous? Girls, look here 1 Y'ou’d think this carpet had just come out of the warehouse. “Mother often tells Aunt Hetty,” said I, “to dip the cud of the broom in a pail of water in whieli she lias poured a little ammonia—a teaspoonful to a gal lon. The ammonia takes off tlio dust and refreshes the colors wonderfully. We couldn’t keep house without it,” 1 fin ished, rather proudly. “Did you bring somo from home?” asked Marjorie, looking hurt. “Why, of course notl I asked your mother, and site gave me the bottle aud told mo to take what I wanted." “A little coarse salt or some damp tea leaves strewed over a carpet before sweeping adds ease to the cleansing pro cess,” said Mrs. Downing, appearing on the scene and praising us for our thor oughness. “The reason is that both the salt and the tea leaves being moist keep down the light floating dust,which gives more trouble than the heavier dirt. Hut now you will all bo better for a short rest; so come into my little snuggery and have a gossip and a lunch, ami then you may attack the enemy again.”—Harper's Young People. SALAU SAL CMS. Salad sauces, unless properly prepared, writes Mrs. E. It. Parker in the Courier Journal, are not only very unpalatable, but also very unhealthy, a fact that has given many people the idea that salads are unsuitable food for general use. Car6 must be given the work, when it will be found very easy to servo an excellent, digestible dish, by using either plain sauce dressing, or mayonnaise sauce, os the occasion may require. The following recipes are taken from the best author ities on the subject, ana are used by the best cooks: East India Salad Sauce—Rub the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs smooth aud add a tcaspoonful of curry powder, eight tcaspoonsful of olive oil, gradually, and two tablespoonsful of tarragon vine gar ; work until proper consistency. French Salad Dressing—Put half a tcaspoonful of salt, aud a fourth of a tea spoonful of pepper iu a bowl, add then three tablespoonjful of oil, gradually, ruli and mix well, then pour in a table- spoonful of vinegar, aud stir for one minute. Cream Salad Dressing—M ish the hard boiled yolks of three eggs until fine, then add the yolk of one raw egg, aud beat smooth, add a tablespoonful of melted butter, salt and pejiper, beat half a tea cup of thick cream, stir the mixture all together and tiieu add two tablcspoons- ful of strong vinegar. Plain Salad Dressing—Mix one tea- spoonful of oil, ono saltspoonful of salt, aud half as much black pepper, stir until well mixed, add to tho salad, and mix again, then add three more table- spoonsful of oil and stir the salad lightly. Lastly add a tablespoonful of sharp vinegar, stir again, and servo. English Salad Dressing—Rub tho 1 yolks of two hard-boiled eggs and ono raw one together; when very smooth add a teaspoonful of salt and half as much pepper, with u tcaspoonful of dry mus tard ; by degrees, add six tablespoonsful of oil and ten of vinegar; mix well, and add four tablespoonsful of sweet cream, and set on ice until wanted. Simple Mayonnaise—Take a bowl, wash in cold water, and sot on the ice until well chilled. Heat the yolks of two eggs and drop in tho bowl; add a tea spoonful of salt aud usaltspoon of pepper; add one tablespoonful of oil; licit thor oughly, and, by degrees, add half a pint of oil. When it begins to thicken add a few drops of vinegar at a time, until two tublespoonfuls have been mixed in. Mayonnaise sauce, for fancy salads, may be colored greeu by the addition of spin ach juice, and red with the vinegar from pickled beets. Aspec mayonnaise is made by adding melted aspec jelly to mayonnaise. Why Thi’j Are Citlleil Allijntor Fears. Did you ever see an alligator pear? If not, take a look at Iho first uncouth ob jeet on a fiuit stand and you will strike it dead sure. They weigli about a pound apiece, and when unripe are as green as the man who thinks Stripling can be elected to Congress, and when ripe me about the color of a second-hand mahogany bed stead witli plenty of tarnish sprinkled » T it. They derive their name from the fact that alligators are very fond of them and get a plentiful supply by standing on their bends and knocking the fruit off the limbs of the tree with liteii tails.— Florida 'Lima-Union, PECULIAR INFATUATION. Different Method* of Foliowintr (be Injunc tion “Love One Another.*' Do men ever full in love with each other? Women do. Not ion^ ago a young woman in New Jersey was married to u youthful la borer on her father’s farm. Sometime al ter- ward it was discovered that the husband was a female; the young wife refused, however, though earnestly entreated by her friends, to give up her chosen consort. Tho strangest jwtrt of the discovery was the fact that the bride knew her husband was a woman before she was led to the altar. if men do not exhibit this strange infatua> tiou lor one of their ov* u sox, they at least oftentimes give evidence of the (act that they love one another. There are many iustnucos on record where one man has given his life 1 or another. There are many more instances were men have given life to another. It is a proud possession—the knowledge that one 1ms saved a precious human life. Meriden, < ’onn., is tho home of such a happy man. John H. Preston, of that city, July 11th, 18!#), writes: “Five years ago I was SELECT'SIFTINGS. Wyoming is’twicoas largefas England. The first steel pen was made in 1830. Boston is two-hundred and sixty years old. The first game of crickeUwas played in London, England, in 1774. New Haven, Co^n., is called the City of Elms; Nashville,-Tenn., the City of Rocks. At Eureka, Cal., onc<of the miners has a pet sheep that follows.him all through the mine. It is said that some of the trees at the base of Mount Tacoma, in Washington, are 650 feet tall. The heart of a man guillotined in France recently continued to beat six minutes after the head was severed. , _ _ T.^ii _ -w....i i.„ ! taken very sick, 1 had several of the best doo Roller skates were first patented by a , tors, and one and all called it a eomplicafion London fruiterer named Tyers in 1823, ! of diseases. I was sick four years, taking and fils pattern bad one line of wheels. ; preset iptious prescribed by these same doo- . , T , ,, , , | tors, aud 1 truthfully state I never expected A woman at Hagerstown, Md., has a j to get any bettor. At this time, I corn- goose which came into her possession . mencud to have the most terrible pains m when she was married, twenty-one years i ( ,n )’day an old friend of mine, ’ i Mr. R. T. Cook of the firm of Curtis* Cook, l =°- i advised mo to try Warner’s Safe Cure, as he Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, the author- ■ had been troubled the same way and it had ess of “Nearer Mv God to Thee,” was an “ ‘’ ui :>\ f ” r him. I bought six bottles, ,, ’ i - , i took tho medicine as directed and am to-day Englishwoman. She lived in Cambridge, . a we ii ma n. 1 am sure no one ever had it England, and died in 1849. j wonsecase of kidney and liver trouble than I a. ..I,-i....n tom n TT-.a.ni n : hitd. iicfor. 1 this I was.'ilv\a_y- against pro- As early as 18o J a Bristol and Exeter: prietnry medicines but not now, oh, no.” broad-gauge locomotive, carrying a light j Friendship expresses itself iu very iieouliar load and turning on a falling grade, do- ' w ays sometimes; hut the true friend is the vcloped a speed of eighty miles an hour, j iu Gloves with webs between tho fingers' irli.i. iiTT i i „ are a new invention intended to aid i . The Tmk 1*1 oved Futile, swimmers in getting a better purchase oa ! ^ teachers standing frequently dc- the water than is givtn by the bare hand. I P®nds more on his ability to deal with . t, , . . human nature than with the intricate A Pennsylvania horse thief, recently p ro b lc ma of the text book, and this a P - captured, had a memorandum o many j ^ tQ coll a3 well ’ 8S to , >ri mary owners of valuable horses, and maps ; ‘ chool sav8 ? hu Lcwistou j 0 J nal { showing every road tn the eastern part of | wcU ku ’ oml fessor of . onc of our Maine the State. The Yellow Stone National Park ex tends sixty-five miles north and south and fifty miles cast and west, contains 3575 square miles, and is upward of 6000 feet above the sea level. Frederick Babucc, of Reading, Penn., suddenly experienced a loss of weight from 156 to eighty-six pounds, and soon afterward found tho cause of it to bo five lizards that had been liviug iu his stomach. It is estimated that if tho tobacco used in Franco during a single year were twisted into a cord two inches in thick ness, it would be long enough to encircle the *arth thirty times, following tho lino of A* equator. Paris, Ky., claims to be tho largest live turkey market in the world, and that fact is attractively set forth in an advertisement of the advantages accruing to tho fortunate persons who are wise enough not to live anwhere else. A man owned a five-foot strip of land In New York city and quarreled with tho owner of the adjoining property over the price of it. He then built two houses on the strip, which was a block long. Tho houses are four stories high and but tlirco feet wide inside, but have deep bow win dows which ate utilized for rooms. Hero is tho “man of figures” at his weary work again: There ate over 301),■ 000 people who walk about the streets ol London daily, and in so doing they wear away a ton of leather particles from theit boots and shoes. This would in a yem form a leather belt six inches wide aud one-fourth of an inch thick long enough to reach from London to New York. The origin of tho expression “Hob son’s choico” is given thus: Tobias Hob son was the first man in England to hire out hackney horses. When a customei came for a horse ho was led into the stable where there was a great choice, but Hob son obliged him to take tho horse nearest tho door; so that everybody was nlikr well served, according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb, wheq what ought to be your selection was forced upon you to say, “Hobson’s choice.” Cleveland Practicing Law. Washington, D. (’.—Ex-Pres. Cleve land has arrived here to attend to busi ness before the U. S. Supreme Court. In Russia a man may appear as a wit- Bass in a lawsuit against his wife. Every man on cavtU needs more con* age more than lie does more money. colleges has always been dreaded more j by the incoming freshman class than any j other man ou the faculty. This feeling j wears away somewhat during tho last part of the course, but there is always an awe inspired atmosphere as thick as a Down East fog bank in this man’s class room, be it filled with quaking freshmen or self satisfied seniors. Jokes have, however, been frequently tried on him, since college boys are very bravo when they think their tracks are well covered, but the jokes have usually been found to have a double back action kick, like an old flint lock musket. With the expectation of getting an “adjourn” from his recitation tho next day, somo scamp one night broke into his professor’s class room and painted every seat in the. room with fresh paint. When the class assembled tho next day the professor said very blandly: “You can sit down, gentlemen, or stand up, just as you please. Mr. A., will you please demonstrate ” etc. The class stood for tho full hour, its members finding relief by standing first on one foot and then on another. On another occasion, when the mer cury had dropped below zero, another attempt was made to get an “adjourn.” The stove and evjery window was removed from tha recitation room, but tho pro fessor was found there at tho usual hour seated comfortably in his chair, with overcoat, winter cap and woolen gloves on, and without apparent discomfort to himself conducted a recitation of an hour’s length, with heaven’s breezes wandering uninterruptedly through the room. L ven-ver lias to bo watched to see that it does a full ilay’s work. A I’lenNiuie Sense Of health aud strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Fits, as it acts in harmony with nature to effeetu i[. ly cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale tn 50c. and tl bottles by all leading druggists. There are a great many things that go without raying, hut woman is notono of them. Po Yon Ever Speculate V Any person sending us their name and ad dress wdl receive information that will Irad to a fortune. Beni. Lewis Ot Oo.. ascurity Building, Kansas City, Mo. The collcotivo length of tho Londoi streets would reach over 32,000 miles. Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any where on receipt of £»0ct8.Tylcr45 Co^Kaiubas City, Mo. The preacher fails who tries to preach a «h ctrino that hasn’t been tested in nig own boat t. Measuring the Flow of Tides. A young scientist connected.with tho United States steamer Fish Hawk, which is used in experimenting on the sound, has invented an ingenious instrument for measuring the fiow of the tides. It is made of sheet coppsr in tho shape some what of a fish, aud is about four feet long. It is, when in use, suspended from the end of a twenty-foot spar rigged to the side of the steamer, and extending at right angles with her, to make the action of the machine entirely independ ent of currents that might be caused by tho steamer. The head of this mechan ical fish consists of a delicately made re volving screw or whell, not unlike in construction and shape the propelling screw of the steamer. When this fish is lowered into the water, it turns its head toward the current, and is held in that position by the tail, which serves the pur pose of a rudder. Within the body of the fish is placed delicate machinery, which registers its revolutions made by the revolving screw, and the rapidity of the revolutions is transmitted laboratory on the steamer by an ously constructed electrical apparatus, thus recording tlio rapidity of the cur rent. An interesting fact ascertained by the Government observers on this vessel is that at tho extremities of tho sound tho tide begins to flow inward near the bottom onc and one-half hours before it begins to tlow in the same direction at the surface of tha water.—New York Telegram. The whole world's produce of salt pet annum is 7,300,000 tons. England pro duces tho most. Lw Wa’s Chlnrae lleiulachs Ouse. Harm, lens in effect, quick and i>ositive iu actiun, Ncut prepaid on receipt of $1 per bottle, Adder tk Co.JZZi Wyandotte st.,Kansas City,Mo Economy is wealth; hut ft is a kind of w t all h that the rich man finds itbard to ti aitsf er to his son. Foit impure nr thin Blood, Weakness, Mai*-; Tin, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliornnwas. take Brown’s Iron Bitt< rs—It gives strength, making old persons feel young—and young persons strong; pleasant to take. In < oiulciuniDg the vanity ot women, men <• iiiip’ain of tho tire that they themselves have kindled. Foil Dyspepsia, Indigostlnn and Stomach disorders, ns,, Brown's Iron Bitters. The Best Tonie, it rebuilds t he system, cleans Iho Blood nn,! siren rihens lie.* museies. A splendid ton ic for weak and deOililaled persons. The •mv-1 way to pleas, is to forget one's (Ii a::d to think ('illy of others. ’ White pine boards are now made by re dueini; small trees aud limbs to pulp and pi» sing in molds. Brcehr m's Pills euro Bilicus and Nervous Ills. Men make laws, women make manners. A. M. Pill ESI’, Druggist, Shelby ville li k.say-: "II ilTa Catarrh Cure gives tho iicst, f satisfaction. Cut get plenty of testi si "rials, as it cup’s every ene who take it,” Druggist! sell iL Taix From the oil of gras.hoppers a Spanish in- lenlur claims to mako the finest soap yet produced. Woman, her disojv-es and thetr treatment. TS pages, illustrated; priee 50e. Sent upon re ceipt of ifie., cost "f iimiling.eto. Address Prof. H. II. Km.vc, M.D.. Arch St.. Fblla., Pa. 'The crow does not fly from a oortifloid with ut caws. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches In Missouri, Karras, Texas and Arkansas, bought aud sold. Tyler As tka, Kansas City, Mu. FITS stopped free by Da. Koran's Orsat Nkiivk RmroRKit. No (Us after first day’s nse. Marvelous cores. Treatise anil S3 trial bottle free. Ur. Klims «J1 Arch PL, Phlla, Pa. The toughest fowl can bo made eatable if put in, old water, plenty of it, and cooke 1 v, ry slowly from live to six hours. cony (peer ie3u “ mil/ Well!” That’s fin’ way you feel .•'.flcr onc or two of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets have done their work. You feel j well, instead of liiliotts and consti pated ; your ficiv headache, dizzi ness and indigestion tire gone. It’s ! done mildly tind easily, too. You don’t have to feel worse before you feel better. That is the trouble ; with the huge, o'd -fa.liioned piii* 1 These are rip:.II, sugar-coated, cas- ii st to Like. Ono little Pellet’s a laxative, thr > i > four are cathartic. : They regith.ie and eh :;nsn tiiv liver, j stomach and b ,w -! ; - quiet !y, but J thoroughly. T’hcy’ro the chertpest pill, sold by drug A ba’fi-.ise you only p y for <; • ’ you get. They’re faction, i v ’!' is returned, plan ail Dr. sold on. Can vou l to •, or Thai 1 ’.. ree »S i-IO' L‘i!i i'J Vt; Flit’S- ■ rr.oney o 'triinr i toft; r* • a irore ? /“p R I N IT r 2. 'NORTH ft I •• Vl! • I-- - I! :!.’ .vr. * | IJd. O OLLEOE. CAROLINA. is ! tut !» «s nionuy to Rmritiato nil «l<m s at om» of a second - !;• gin st’pt. l and Jan. J. liMif! w..ri,ing students can gn v in less than 4 years. I“ili.thi, \far. The host instruction Life Is Misery ] .\'m p-i Si.joto fc'-JiWa year. •M’lid f( r • i'i;,;. ;;u lu-uiee iJook, etc. JJKH F. t ROWELL, A. B.tYaie-sh. Dr. Litt. I’:- ut. . piiiy «'oi!. ,: . K.tiulolphcounty.N.C. A«»nr^d! tPitl.l fc will Ml. P your hair In th« preitb-bt c;; l for sororal iVys throngn Itami'.'st *, iither. It is harmless and Ifi.Lereeptibio. Try It! semi 69 e*oU tor o and mention this paper. who h;ivo tho talut of scro'- agonio t enused by tho druiid- oth i* manifestations of tills riptlon. There Is no r, mod? To thousand or poop'* ula In their blood. Tho ul running sores and disease are beyond <b*.s equal to Hood’s 'hits ipnrilu lor scrofula, salt rheum ami every for.vi of olo > 1 dlsevp. Wo know that it has cured the severed otsoa an 1 It will benefit all who plve It a fair tri.V. “Scrofula bunch* s in my mVc disappeared when I took Hood's ears ip.irilla.’’—A. It. Kkllky, Park ersburg, W. Va. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. *1; tlx for»5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., liOwell, Mass. loo Doses Ono Dollar V' J / TUtfkiKLO CU, 45 Lroaaway, N. T. S N U. - H ul i' s. ; d ‘i V|.p l A tii In : i ul!< »•!'. f< r rur book “TI e > '! !i“ Nntional Builder i, i 'hleano, I! T. AUCUhTlNE'S - SCHOOL. U.I.KH.II N.c. Normal sm> t ullvuiatk J'-vriTUTB for IJolorud vmmy men i:i l Hit'll grade and low rate. di.i! *i the i.; ! j-nl t. him h. fc.h per mouth cash ii Jit ii'l for catulogue to it. K Su roN. L). D , Principal. for bou.d itad t'.i PAT iftiTS g“'.go S aw H Patent* Sent Free. Patrick O’Farrell, v P.-lli.NtiTON, I). C. A ? 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