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r | THE BAM OF ENGLAND. I AN INSTITUTION WHICH IS BANSEB FoS THE G OVEEN2EENT. f Flnnkics in Gorgeous Kainnent?Protected at Night by Soldiers?OffiTJtta t-n fh/v RfjilifliTll?. I 3 ?T AAV JUIVV 4tA 0 There is an air of respectability and sok lidity^everywhere about the Bank of Engft land, says David Wechsler in the Brook* % lya Citizen. There is no end of well dressed clerks counting money, paying it i out, making entries in various big books, and explaining to this or that person the intricacies of the bank system. There is row after row of bank messengers, dressed in swallow tail coats, waiting to makede^ * -- ? ^ O Ct posits or draw out money. ^ ? ceaseless jingle of gold, scurrying of loess eager boys, and tie din and rattle of omnibuses and cabs outside. There are any number of bank servants who seem to have nothing to do but stand erect and look magnificent. Their euperiors who _ wear the cockades and flowing gowns of roruiy colors, are so gorgeously dressed, fT and so haughty in manner, that tbey are allowed to twirl their maces and walk uith measured step from one courtyard to - * 3- J.J j| Jinother. Througn tfiese counyarus tucrw ' are doors or gates from which the various j divisions of the bank are reached. All of them are low, solidly constructed and modest, and grouped about in nine court% * yards. The basement of the bank is very interesting. The visitor is taken through a carefully guarded iron door into a low roofed circular vault, near which are a number of small trucks loaded with gold Wk ingots, collatera? for the bank's notes. The ingots on each truck are built up in stacks to the amount of $400,000 in 'American money. These constitute the j assets which the bank possesses against i?s liabilities on account of circulation and ^deposit, and the difference between the .aeveral amounts is called "the rest," or balance in favor of the bank. For weighting _amirably constructed n^icMnes are used, and arc accurat^even to the weight of the smallestg^im. Gold is almost cxl * c?aSt^6iw*btSined by the bank in bar S form, although no form of deposit would the refused. It may interest the reader to j?, Sraow that a bar of gold is a small slab. It weighs sixteen pounds and is worth about $20 per ounce. In the basemant ; *Lso is the barracks wherein a half hundred soldiers are quartered from 7 o'clock ?. . levcrv evenins until 7 o'clock the next J morning for the protection of the bask.. jThere is alibrary for the use of the men, V "who are also provided with a bountiful ||r supper and breakfast, plenty of good p . tobacco and enough beer to satisfy even F a-thirsty Londoner. Every night in the year an oficer at the head of this company .of soldiers is isaiebed over from the Tower of London. At 7.o'clock te takes ^possession of the bank. This is a cuatora that dates back since the Lord George Gordon riots. All night long <hese men patrol through the balk, courts kt?H offices of the bank, and the outside f* as carefully guarded. Indeed it _ amy be truthfully said that from 7 o'clock fn the evening until 7 o'clock In the zaorning 4'The Little Old Lady of i QEhrcadneedle street'* as the bank is often called, is os well protected by her M^jesr soldiers as her Majesty in her palace J At>^j5c^igham. As there is plenty to [ and drmk and a good wine cellar to |f choose from, it is not considered a bad K p**jfc evea ^or oScer, and it often hap L -pens that late passers-by can hear?music HL faxd songs issuing from the building, for #lp\ "be it kno-s-n also that the Secretary, Superintendent and various other officials ??;. with their respective families are comffitrr yelled to live in the bank. They form a set of their own, and the young ladies give delightful little musicales and teas, tr!iich somewhat surprise the unsentiI cental American, sightseer, imagine I a musicale or afternoon tea m. Wall or > f Broad street. ' la the weighing offices is shown an 1|^ * ingenious machine, invented to detect -"light" gold. About eighty or a hundred light ana heavy sovereigns are Lr| | .^-^'-AFther aescenacn the machinery those that are light receive a alight touch which moves them into their proper receptale, nnd those which are of legitimate weight P ifctt into their appointed place. The light coins are defaced, at the rate of 200 in a minute, and by the weighing machinery 35,000 may be weight in one <*. ' g?t. There are a dozen of tuese ma;' cimcs, and 100,000 pieces have been ttrfghed without an error. More than a quarter of the gold tendered in a year is liffbt. The silver is put into bags each Of $500 value, and the gold into bags of . $5000 value. These bagfuls of bull'on are sent through a strictly guarded door> or rather -window, in the Treasury, a cart, gloomy apartment, fitted up with fcL - iren bars and made secure with solid PJr locks and bolts. ' The bank note machinery exerts by the steam engine a power formerly em? -nloved bv the machanic in printing: the ,X ? * w \ note. The bank notes are numbered by I i a wonderfully accurate machine. As & H soon as a note is printed and the handle BL a is reversed to take it out and put another in its place, a steel spring attached to the handle letters and numbers that which is So follow. No note of a higher denominaI 1 rtion than ?1000 (equal to $3000) is iss^ed. The press is capable of producing these at the rate of" 3000 an hour. f.Thers are other presses which print ?5 and ?10 cotes. The number and date .of each note are printed a? both ends of and ?.s the separate halves are thus easily identified, it is no uncommon thing in England io cut a note in half and each by separate mails or in different envelopes. The paper on which !?he notes st printed, is made at a special tracnfactory. About 18,000 reams are scpplied to the bank yearly and not the tallest scrap of it is wasted. If a note is spoiled in the printing it has to be ac counted for just the same as a perfect one. The dies by which the water marks f arc made and the plates used for printing bre manufactured in the bank itself. Mi. May, a Ncrw York backer, told rnc L that brittle as the paper seems to the < ouch it is almost as strong as pardon cat, and it ir possible to hold a piece no larger than a note by the edjres and place -a lifty-pcund weight upon it without ~ tearing it. Its thinness and transparency prevents erasures and other illegal alternations. f'V: : The Treasury, a sombre looking room surrounded by ibje proof cupboards into which are stored SO,000 sovereigns, or an . equivalent amount of notes, may be well s?id to b? an interesting room. It is cus\ iotas*-/ for the attendant to unlock one of the cupboards and take out a bundle of thousand-pound notes, which he places in your hands. Each note is for 0' M) nr Thf?rf? arf 1000 nntps in 1 A each bundle, which weighs about llvo SL o?3nccs, and is worth ?1,000,000, or $5,000,600. They represent nine tons of gold, and never fail to cause expressions gfc of :twe and wonderment from the visitor. The Sank of England is the banker H of the Government, for here are received the taxc?, the interest of the national Ldebt paid, and the exchequer business transacted. Considerably over $5,000,000 is paid' bto the bank daily in the *bape oi notes. Whoa cashed a corner ia iov:i oSy and this now valueless piece of paper, after being duly entered in the books Ls deposited in. chambers beneath the sorting room, sad is kept there for . - toi years in case it may be required as testimony ot some trial or to settle any other lagal difficulties. In a furnace in one of the court yards once a mouth all lie notes received a mouth previous ten years back arc consumed. The furnace L seven feet high by twelve feet in diameter, yet it sometimes hits to bo filled t^lco by the number of notes to be destroyed. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. a nonr industry is now | a. v."? carried on in Sweden, namely, the extraction of oil from -wood. % Including the Pasteur Institute of Paris, there are now twenty laboratories for the prevention of hydrophobia. The Hessian fly is said to have been introduced into England from the United States in the straw put in packing cases. ^ - A...1 j Men of science wno nave invesugaieu the subject declare that the coast of New Jersey is sinking at the extraordinary rate of two feet in a century, George Buckel, a Louisville inventor, is to the fore with a mysterious*vacuum j bed, which will euro all pain, and a triple motor to travel with equal celerity, ease and economy on land or water or in the air. Emperor William has subsidized to the amount of SO,000 marks the expedition under Dr. Henson to explore the submarine fauna and flora of the ocean. The east coast of Greenland is the first cruising ground. In the newly-made tea plantations of Assam, in India, a red spider has suddenly shown inself, and threatens serious injury to the plants unless some wash can be found that will kill the spiders and leave no taste on the leaf. Thirty shots were fired at Annapolis with the Maxim gun, working semi-automaticaily, in one minute and thirty seconds, and another lot of twenty shots in nineteen seconds. The charge of powder pounds,' 'awl1 ttcs prcT" jectile six pounds. Sir Edward Watkin has been told by one of the architects who helped Mr. Eiffel to build bis tower that it is ex treraely doubtful if a tower 2000 feet high can be constructed. All depends Upon the exact ratio' at the force of the wind increases above a certain height. The cleanest and mos? perfectlypolished hardware floors have no water used on them. They are simply rubbed every morning with a large flannel cloth which is occasionally dipped in paraffin oil. Tint floor i3 rubbed with the grain .of the wood, not awe?? it.. This is better thai? wasiog. v ": Marcus Boyle, of Marion, Ohio, has a 1 vt.i, _ 1.1 process ujr wmvu wiut & ujw>y miuy imu a certain chemical he am blow names into glass in less time than it would take to paint them. He obtained some beautiful ejects in prismatic colors, and as it costs about one-half what painting docs he expects to supersede all ptber kinds of lettering pa glass. The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, which wjis sent out a year ago, has already made successful explorations, and has securcd oKtmi* fJ-ininanrl tftMpts hparino in 6ciiptions more or less important. The party of explorers will continue another year at their wojrk, $nd will bring back all their trophies to the University of Pennsylvania. One of the most curious inventions is a method for producing food for fishe3, which is the joint production of two men from Switzerland. It provides two ponds and passes the fish from the first pond to the second, allowing the excrement to remain and develope animalcalse, and returning the fish to the first pond to fce^L UDon the animalculae, while it is develop ing in the second pond. A pneumatic tube company is building aa experimental tube, thirty inches in diameter, and 1000 feet long, in Marion, N. J, The cars will weigh 750 pounds; the speed will be fifty-fhree miles per hour. It is only a question of work and money to make them eight feet instead of thirty inches, and to put in cars for n?<jsf>nrrr>rs and run thfim 106 miles ner hour, instead of fifty-three. Greatest Private House Wow Building. Colonel North is the fortunate owner of the Italian palace which is rising rapidly on the wooded slope commanding a superb view of the Chiselhurst Valley. Three months hence the splendors of Avery Hill will probably cause almost as much sensation as Fonthill Abbey did in the days of our forefathers. The picture gallery is 100 feet long by fifty broad. At on a end is a lofty vestibule to be filled with sculpture, and at the other a marble musicians' gallery, supported by columns of Mexican onyx. The walls are nearly forty feet high. In addition to the famous Italian pictures which are now in Manchester, Colonel North has recently purchased the "Last of the Buffaloes" and the *'Silver King" Cr\9 flPArmAro oe ?*nl 1 ^aiXXUU^O KJX UUVliUUUO OCIO *VWi as Mr. Frederick Goocall's "Misery and Mercy." He has also commissioned Mr. Sturgis to paint him "Jem Selby's Drive to Brighton" and a group of' 'Race Horses Exercising." The course of the high road from London to Bexley has been changed to improve the approach; the strong room atone has cost $10,000; the dining hall (outside which runs a vaulted veranda fifty feet long) will be panelled with finely Cnnnl'o.V* rr\r? nTT n VvfAOrl /*AT?_ \Aix % , u ui vavt wvi ridor paved with Pompeiian mosaic runs through the house, and the billiard room is to be decorated from floor to ceiling with slabs of "Numidian yellow." '-pink Pavonazzo," and vcrde antique. A garden court which lights the library is lined with old gold color faience, and the best 1 AAn\o in ?-vw? Kurilir nnrrct rra/1 in 1W1U9UI UUOXlj vu5rt5w producing the thousands of yards of crimson silk velvet required for the adornment of the ball room. A winter garden, exactly one hundred feet square, leads to a fernery almost half as large; three lofty towers are now almost finished, and the entrance porch is built of Portland stone, relieved by panels of carved and gouged brickwork. Messrs. Chappell have promised the nitrate king that he shall take possession of his new An/1 "NTr*TTorr?]vir ?London World. To Propel Cars by Air. An English firm is experimenting vrith & scheme for the propulsion of street cars V\T- miwiric* nf /JAmjiroccP/'l r?lv fn AVflor K/J iliVUlW V4 VVli4|/4 ??4. a v x.w to obviate the necessity of carrying cum brous receivers on the cars, pipes are laid underground between the rails, from which at stilted intervals supplies of compressed air arc furnished to the passing cars with little or no delay. The idea is said to work favorably, and system? of this kind will now he constructed on a large scale in a number of continental cities. Worry Kills, MoT Work. It is not woyk that kills, but worry. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery. "J>ut ifiction. Work is good for the sojijl, gogd for the fcp&y an4 'good for the mind- If you want & good appetite dotft If y<?u want t<? stand weji with yourself and the -world, .and , want thing? to go right in your home and yoiir business,, .do not worry , if jpu want -to size yp 100 (Cents .on -ti\e doflar, THE FAEM AND GAEDEJu 5 RAISING TURNIPS FOR S?ED. 1 , In Pennsylvania, where the growing of ' turnips for seed is a great industry, the feed is sown between the rows of corn, * (ifterthe last working. This gives tur- ! oips about two inches in diameter, the ] most desirable size for seed purposes. In 5 this manner a good crop is sccured at a ' nominal cost, as they require no work at ter sowing. Sufficient roots can be : grown with an acre of corn to set three 1 acres for seed the following season.? * Airterican Agriculturist. PROTECTION THAT PAYS. Mulching wheat fields in the f:ill after seeding has been much experimented with under our observation, and it is decided to be eminently advisable. Finq material, thinly and evenly spread,gener-j ally prevents winter-killing, and it increases the crop over that which is neither mulched nor allected by alternate freezing and thawing. For this purposo buckwheat and other chaff is excellent; the partly rotted refuse of old stack-bottoms, and any short litter raked up about the barns and sheds, and short clover and buckwheat straw answer well. Long straw may be better than nothing if thinly spread, but that is a difficult matter. A person tried it, put on too much, and the wheat came up spindling and the crop was poor. Long straw chaffed by running it through a cutter would be exj cellent. It is suggested that forest I leaves, especially if partly rotted, would | be as good as anything. The mulching ehouid be clone immediately aner seeuing.-?Ncuf Yvrb Tt-ikvw?. DIGGING AXO hTOIiTN'G POTATOES. The early crop is often injured by do? lay in digging. As soon as the vines ara dead the potatoes should be dug iian"" stored. Every oneJ^^rnmT a potato in it has started to grow -SHOT p;:chnd its sprouts becomes of inferior quality for the table; its starch becomes changed into sugar and other principles which feed the growth * of the leaves, and the tuber becomes soggy and ! ox poor quality. When the early potato I becomes ripened, the top or vines die down and a long period of dry weather completes the ripening and the tubers should be dug and housed. If, after a dry season, a wet one follows* a long warm rain starts the tubers iuto growth, pot a gfQwth of stems and leaves.! but a kind pf growth which pftcii takes place when potatoes are stored in too warm a place, called t's^pertutyeration." In this the material stored in the tuber for susr gaining the growth of the following year is started and used -for.the Jormatlor^ of | new pc^ll tubers. Most observing far | taers must have found in their potato-bin j toward spring new potatoes produced J from the material of old tubers. Potatoes should be dried olf before they are stored, and in doing this they should not be exposed to the sun. The old farmhouse cellar, which is being abandoned as a storehouse for potatoes and other crops has an advantage as a place for storing potatoes, as the odor which attends the destructive disease may be noticed at its appearance ami the affected potatoes' removed. ? American AgriculturistT ADVANTAGES. OF CLOVER. Clover has a beneficial effect upon the soil in two ways, and is not only grown cheaply, but it yielas a valuable crop lor hay or pasture. It shades the soil and mellows it, and this is beneficial by encouraging the natural nitrification of organic matter that may be inert in the land. It produces a large quantity of roots, -which contain nitrogen in abundance, and yields a feeding crop which is worth, for the nitrogen not used up by the stock and left available in the manure, at least $10 per ton, as valued on the basis of the cost of the nitrogen in artificial fertilizers. After a crop of hay has been taken for two years the second year the aftermath yields enough seed to stock tne lanci lor years wneu it is tumea under, and an amount of most useful plant food equivalent to ten tons of the best barn manure per acre. A fair yield of aftermath, with the roots and debris of the previous hay crops?not counting the manure made by feeding two crops of hay, which in all is estimated by the noted expert Sir J. B. Lawes as equal to more than $10 per ton of hay fed?would contain at least fifty or sixty pounds of nitrogen per acre (and at the most three tunes as nmch), wtucn is equal to sixtyone or seventy-three pounds of ammonia, and is worth at thc? market value of ferfiliVciK! cnr/u?f^/?r? r-ofifc TV?r Tn all,with the manure value of the hay and the fertilizing value of the roots and aftermath turned under, each acre of Land under this crop gains in available nitrogen about ISO pounds.?Neu> Ywk Times. HECENTLi* DKESSED. A well-dressed farmer called on business at the boarding place of my son in town, says a fanner, in the New York Tribwi?, and, after leaving, the gentleman of the house was told by my son Liiiit tuu caua WHS n iaimu, wiitu claimed, "lie's no farmer!" Of tbis farmer I once heard the remark that "he always looked as though he had just come out of a band box." Now, I happen to know that this dress was inexpensive, and devoid of foppery or show; only plain, neat and clean, and he always wore a collar and necktie when visiting or on business. Evidently there is room for improvement in the appearance of farmers when abroad, or notice would not have been taken when one appeared j neat and tidv. with collar, etc. Farmers wno reaa this can rei'cr to their own observation whether the appearance of themselves and neighbors is all that it should be at home. If the children of some fathers and mothers are a little ashamed of their parents' uncouth dress, unkempt hair and general slouchy habit, they do not deserve to be very highly censured. Whv should )i farmer hr* storm-shnul dcrcd or of rolling or shuffling gait? His i work is no harder than that of many a townsman, who carries his head erect, with a straight form, and walks with something of the martial air, as though the equal of other men. '-Nothing which can be won by work in this world,"' says the New York "Witness, "can make amends for shortened and enfeebled lives." I indorse this, and contend that we should keep our forms erect. walk ;is squarely as other men, dress respectably .i i i? UUU UCV/ViUJLUi^lV ftSUlll UUUUUiU?lli I for our children's sake, :is well :is our own, and dignify, as we may, the most useful and honorable calling in the world. TO WILD A STLO. A subscriber of the Prairie Farmer asks for directions how to build a silo. Mr. B. S. Jloxie. a correspondent of that paper, says: "If the structure is to be detached from the turn, make u low foundation wall, just high enough to prevent any surfacc water from ever coming in contact with the ensilage. Fill up the floor to the level of this wall, and finish oil with clay well pounded down, or a cement of water lime. Next lay your sills of 2x8 in. joist, fiat on the wall, and bed thom well in lime mortar: have them so--firm that there will be no chance to spreadTor get out of place. ;On the joists plate 2x8 in. studding 16-5: feef long, as t^iis is a proper height for the r asss _ ~ ~7T\ alo, and 15 incnes irom center iu lenter. Xoe-nail firmly at the bottom of :he sill. The object of placing the studling this distance apart is to accommoiate the width of tarred paper; for a perfect silo must be perfectly air tight on sides and bottom. Novr put good tarred paper on the inside of the studs, lapping, as it -prill, so ae; to make tight -work; cover with good, sound matched flooring, and sec to it that the corners are made sccure, so thut there will be no spread, or give, to "let in the air. Jinclose tho outside surface with tarred paper same as inside, and good drop-lap siding, as it is called, or any similar method, being careful to make it tight and firm. The roof is made as any ordinary barn roof, and the building may be finished up on the outside to suit the owner's fancy or pocket. A very good size for a silo would be 10x32 feet, or if more room is needed, make it longer and put in a cross parti tion of plank. This partition should be inadq so it will slip down into ])lace and bo held by cleats at its ends. The sides mast be secured with one or more iron rods to keep the building from spreading. A convenient size for door would be four feet wide, in one end, and made in sections of two feet each, sliding down In grooves so as to come out from the inside as the silo is emptied. These doors, as well as all inside work^ must be made so as to form no obstruction to the settling of thp fodder and boards and tarred paper which are to form the cover to fie pit. This is one of the cheapest methods of construction, and is essential^ ? v.? K?;if tf :I ly as gooa a ohu u? uu KJKs l/uxiv, v. j farmer has stones handy, he can build one of solid masonry, but it would not keep out frost or air better than one of wood. One'end of a bay in the barn can be used, by observing t-lie same precautions to have it air tight," AND GARDEN NOTES. A small amoi?SLoft 5x11 should occasionally be allovvecN^ ^,e so^ food, should any be given. Managed properly r-rrr^lffi lastinrr lavers, and their flesh is a unit?^ r C? * of the turkey awl pheasant. Waldo P. Brown, suggests that posts which must bear the strain of stretched wire fencing be set with cement. Sunflower seed properly used makes admirable food for- the liens. Mix it piner Jrpaiu^nd feed occasionally, Everyone is studying up science. Sci entilk farming the rage. if ? little science' in the training of boys wouldn't; be a good thing. if you failed to put turnips, celery 01 fodder corn on tiie ground from which you took the early peas, do not fail to keep the weeds from going to seed. Don't wait till the close of the seasoo, then take some little ? 'nubbin" of a cucumber for seed?select now a nice specimen and let it grow and ripen for seed. A gentleman says he never bothers with his setting hens. He gives them enough feed to last a week, and water every few days, as he thinks of it. This we call uq wise. Don't let earth or rubbish accumulate around the sills of the barn or sheds; if you do it will not be many years before the expense and trouble of a new sill will have to be incurred. A farmer who needs two teams during the season of busy work may find much more profit in having a yoke of oxen and a span of horses than in four horses; a question dependent on attending conditions that he should carefully with the purpose of deciding wisely. Good racks for holding hay for cattle, horses and sheep will save a great deal of money and hay over the wasteful plan of feeding the hay on the ground or In troughs where it can be pulled out and trampled under foot. In feeding any kind of food to any kind of stock, avoid a wasteful system. " - * .;xi. xi ia 'i ne cry is ior a nog wim me uiu. um^ constitution. Well, we can't have him till we go back to the old time methods, and besides what do we want with him anyway? The hog of the present day has sufficient constitution to carry him to the pork barrel. All the trouble is he is not given a chance to take care of what nature gives him. ft is the keeping and feeding that kills the hog of the present day, rather than noor constitution. A. Table Showing t.'ie Importance of Irrigation. In order to convoy at a glance the importance which irrigation bears to the existence of the human racc, the accompanying tables, showing the area of irrigating countries and their population, arc worthy of study: Est. Irrigation' Country. rojyulatio-n. Area?Ares. India 200,000, MO 30,000,000 China 382,000,000 60,000,000 Japan 83,000,000 11,000,000 Imlo-China. 18,000,000 8,000,000 Afghanistan, otc 7,000,000 1,000,000 Persia 10,000,000 2,500,000 Arabia 11,000,000 3,000,000 Russian Central Asia. 0,000,000 500,000 Independent Turcomania 500,000 100,000 Turkey in Asia. 17,000,000 3,500,000 Totals GS4,500,000 119,G0<),000 IN AFRICA. Egypt 7,000,(XX) 0,300,000 Tripoli 1,000,000 50,000 Algeria 3,400,000 200,000 Tunis 3,500,000 75,000 Morocco 3,000,000 200,000 Brit. South Africa... 2,000,000 100,000 Orange Free State... 1,500,000 ^o,000 Totals 10,400,000 0/J50,000 Grand Totals 703,900,000 126,550,000 In Europe irrigation is practiced in Italy, France, Spain, England, Turkey, Portugal and Greece. Altogether some 0,000,000 acres are under irrigation. In Mexico and South America 2,500,000 acres arc irrigated. and in Australia 200, 000. Outside of the United States therefore there are 138,250,000 acres cultivated by irrigation, and there is a population of between 700,000,000 and 800,000,000 resident in irrigating countries. The proportion of population to irrigated area is thus seen to be a little over livo persons to each acre, and it is also seen that over half the population of the world reside in regions where irrigation is essential.?Sau Francisco Ghroniclc. President Carnot. The President of the French Repub lie, says a correspondent of the Ne* York Mail and Etj/tcss, seems to be on? whom the other rulers of Europe might do well to imitate. He has a good position, from which he draws a salary more than three times as large as that of the President of the United States He has enough power to satisfy any ordinary ' - ^" fAAm<< mAiloof rrrsrsA JLJtlJl. lit O \J\JlllO 1UUUI,CV? iiuvuivvtj and willing to do his duty, and so seems to be generally popular with the people. Even the Socialists say nothing against him. He is not rated as a man of such natural genius as is possessed by Ferry, Clemenceau, de Freycinet and some others. But on the other hand, he is looked upon as a man who is thoroughly honest, and -who is .]X>ssessed of sterling common sense. It is known that he is not possessed of and he will not attempt any thing rash while he is President. Queen "Victoria's recent visit lo Wales brings out the statistics that during her reign of over half a century twelve days oaiy iiave been spent in Ireland. ' y REV. DR. TALMAGE ?he brooklyn mtine's sunday sermon. Text: "Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we , ... .... -.1 1i?m* ama mi/T4f may prevail uyunut /?//*, UKM, UJV n^y bind him to afflict him; and we trill give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silvery?Judges xvi, 5. One thousal"* pounds or about five thousand dollars of our money, were thus offered I for the capture of a giant. It would take a j skillful photographist to picture Samson as I he really was. The most facile words are l not supple enough to describe him. He was a I giant and a child; the conquoror and $16 de-' I feated, able to snap at a lion'$ jaw, and yet ] eantured bv the sieh of a maiden. He was I ruler and skive; a commingling of virtue and 1 vice, the sublime and the ridiculous; sharp i enough to make a good riddle, and yet weak i enough1 " to. b? caught m the i most superfloml stratagem; honest I enough to settle his debt, and yet outrageously robbing somebody else to get the material to pay it; a miracle and a scoffing; i a crowning glory and a burning shame. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh; his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the g&te of a city; taking an attitude defiant of armed men and "tfild beasts. His hair had never been cut, and it rolled down in seven great plaits over His shoulders, adding to his ?an>in<s3s and terror. The Philistines want to" conquer 1 him, ^nd therefore "they must find out where the secret' of his strength lies. There is a womftft living in the valley of gorak by the name of Delilah. They appoint her the agent in the ease. The Philistines are secreted in the same building, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of hisstrength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven green withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me, I should be perfectly powerless." So she binds him with the sevoq g?ei>a' irtyhes; Than ' ah'e-^daps her hands and says:' "They come?th? rliilisJ.' r9 J V ~ ll... * Ur, ixuea?r~ ?un v?{uwi uuv &--* i>uvugu uucio were no impediment. She coaxes him again, and says: "Now tell me the secret of this<*reat strength; and he replies: "II you should take some ropes that have never beer, used, and tie me with them, I should be just like other men." She ties him with the ropas, claps her hands and shouts: "They , oomo?tho Philistines!" . Ho walks? yut 'as easy as he did'before?not a'single' pbstruoplaits of hair, and by this house loorri weave them into a web. I cquld not get away." So the house loom is r-olled up, and the shuttle fiios backward and forward, and tho long I ?-1 "'i" >-'& rttirt WAtTAn <**fA A ?ma1\ Than I UUUWXJi. UtUV t+l v nrvrvii t* 1SJU. auou she claps her hands, and says: "They come! I | tilO. ~^ Hg as easily as he did before, ' ragging a part of the loom with him. But alter awhile she persuades him to tell the truth, He says; "If you should take a razor or shears, and cut off this lonjr hair, I should bo powerless, and in the hands of my enemies." Samson sleeps, and that she may not wake him up during the process of shearing, help is called in. You know that the barbers of the East have such a skillful way of manipulating the head, to this very day they will put a man, wideawake, sound asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grinding against each pther, and I see the long locks falling off. The shears, or razor, accomplishes what green withes and new ropes and nouso loom could not do. Suddenly she claps her hands and says: The Philistines be upon thee, Samson P He rouses up with a struggle, but his Strength is all gone I He is in the hands of his enemies! I hear the groan of the giant as they take his eyes out, and then I see him staggering on in his blindness, feeling his way as he goes on toward Gaza. The prison door is opened and the giant is thrust in. He sits down and puts his hands on the mill crank, which, with exhausting horizontal motion, goes day after day, week after week, month after month?work, work, work I The consternation of the world is captivity, Ills locks shorn, hi3 eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza. In a previous sermon or. this character I learned some lessons, but another class of lessons are before us now. Learn first how very gtrong people are sometimes coaxed Into great imbecilities. Samson had no right to reveal the secret of his strength. Delilah's first attempt to find out is a failure. He says: "Green withes will bind me," but it was a failure. Then L" says: "A new rope will hold me," but that also was a failure. Then he says: "Weave my locks into a web and that wiu bind me," yet that also was a failure. But at last you see how she coaxed it out him. Unimportant actions in life that involve no moral principle may without injury be subjected to ardent persuasions, but as soon as you have come to the line that separates right from wrong, no inducement or blandishment ought to mase you step over it. suppose a man has been brought up in a Christian household and taught sacredly to observe the Sabbath, Sunday comes; you want fresh aii*. Temptation says: "Sunday is just like other days; now don't b>5 bigoted; wo will ride forth among the works of God; the whole earth is H13 temple; we will not go into any dissipations; come, now, I have the carriage engaged and we shall be back soon enough to go to church in the evening; don't yield to Puritanic notions; you will be no worse for a ride in the country; the blossoms are out and they say everyI thing is looking glorious." "Well, I will go to please yom" is the response. And out they go over the street, conscience drowned In tiie clatter of the swift hoofs and the rush of the resounding wheels. That tempted man motr liorft mnrol nV *? no on m i cr^y to break t.he prreen withes of ten thousand Philistine allurements, but he has been overcome by coaxing. Two young men passing do era this street came opposite a drinking saloon with a red lantern nung out from tne door to light men to perdition. "Let ns go in," says one. "No, I won't," says the other; "I never go to such places." "Now you don't say you arc as weak as that, why, I have been going there for two years and it casn't hurt me. Come, com? now, be a mau. If you can't stand anytning stronger, take a little sherry. You need to sec the world as it is. 1 don't believe in intemperance any more than you. I can stoo drinking just when I want to. You shall go. Now, come right along." Persuasion has conquered. Samson yields to the coaxing and there is carnival in hdl that ni<*ht among: the Philistines and th<-y shout: "Ha! ha! We've got him." Those who have the kindest and most sympathetic natures are {n /-7 v-i V/MIt* /,llCnAC,iH/\Tl ilLWSU i?I UUli^Ci . i V'Ul ICl J UirtjAMiUlVU to please othors will be the very trap they set. If you were cold and harsh and severe in your nature you would not be tampered with. People never fondle a hedgehog. Tho most sentimental Greenlander never kisses an iceberg. The warmth and susceptibility of your nature will encourage the siren. Though strong as a giant, look out for Delilah's scissors. .Samson, the strongest man who ever lived, was overcome by coaxing. Again, this narrative teaches us tl>e power of an ill disposed woman. In the portrait , gallery of JtSioie (Queens we lind Abigail and I ri..4.u j TLT,-?: TWv->v?l> auiu uuu 1*111 leu u clijli* * uouui ^vvww., but in the rogues' gallery of a police station you find the pictures ol' women as well as men. Delilah's picture belongs to the rogues' gaJlary, but she liad moro power than all Philisfia armedwith sword and spear. She could carry off the iron gates of Samson's resolution as easily as ho shouldered the gates of Gaza. The forco that had killed the lion which one day plunged out fierce from the thicket utterly succumbs to the silken net which Delilah weaves for the giant. He who had driven an army in riotous retreat with t!i*i bleached jaw bone, smiting itieni nip ami thigh with great slaughter, now falls captive at tue feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah in the Biblo stands in the memorable company of Adah, and Zillah, and Bathsheba, and Jezebel, and Athaliah. and Hwodias. How deplorable the influence of such in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe and Huldah and Tryphona and Jephtha'a daughter, and Mary, the mother of Jesus. While the i-n 4-V?a fi^moTnant. OfViVs Word J d, U l/V i. U| i/uv iu * v v*. ? - like constellations with steady. cheerful, holy light, the former shoot like baleful meteors across the terrified heavens, ominous of war, disaster and death. If there is a divine power in the good mother, her face bright with purity, an unselfish love beaming from her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and sufferings - and holy anxieties has been mellowfng and softening for many a year, uttering itself in every syllable, a dignity that cannot be dethroned, united with the playfulness that will not be checked, her hand the charm that will instantly take pain out of the child's worst wound, her presenco a perpetual benediction, her name our de fense when we are tempted, her memory an outgushing well of tears and congratulation and thanksgiving, her heaven a palm waving and a coronal; then there Is just as great an influence In the opposite direction in the bad mother, her brow beclouded with ungoverned passion, her eye flashing with unsanctified fire, her lips the fountain of fretfulness and depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, her name a disgrace to coming generations, her memory a signal for bitterest anathema, ner eternity a whirlwind and a suffocation and a darkness. One wrong headed, wrong hearted mother may ruin one child, and that one child, grown up, may destroy a hundred people, and the nundred blast a thousand, and the thousand a million. The wife's sphere is a realm of honor and power almost unlimited. "What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham, wa9 Deborah to Lapldoth, was ( Zigporah to Moses,, was Huldah to Shallnm. There are multitades of men in the marts of trade . whese.. fortunes have been the result. Of a wife's frugality. Pour hands'^ have been achieving that estata, two at the store, two at the home. f The burdens of life are compara-, lively'light when there are other' hands to help ns lift them. The greatest aimcunaes nave orcen siunK away because there were four eyes to look them, out of countenance. What care you for hard knocks in the "world as long as you have a bright domestic circle . for harbor V One cheerful word in the 'evening tide as you - come ; in has silenced the clamor of unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor investments. Your table may be quite frugally spread, but it seems more beautiful to you than many tables that smoke with venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace meets, rou at the door, "Its beside you at the table, lights up the evening stand, and sings in the nursery. You have seen an aged couple who for scores of years have helped each other on in life's pilgrimage going down the steep of pears. Lon* association has made them muoh alike. They rejoiced at the same events they bent over the same cradle, they wept at the same grave. In the evening they sit quietly thinking of the past, mother knitting' at the stand, father in his arm chair at; the Bre. Now and then a grandchild comes and they look at him with affection untold and rome well nigh spoiling him with kindnesses. The life currents beat feebly in their pulses; and their, work will soon be done and the Master will call. A few short days may separate them, but, not far apart in time of departure, they join each other on the other side the flood, Side by side let Jacob and Rachel be buried. Let one willow overarch their craves. Let their tombstones stand alike marked with the same Scripture. Children and grandchildren will come in the spring time to bring flowers. The patriarchs of the town wii? come and drop a tear over departed worth. Side by side at the marriage HU*1*. OlUt? uy S1UO 111 L11T7 iUUJ, JVVX1JUCJ. Sid? by side in their graves. After life's fitful fever they slept well. Put there are, as my subject suggests, domestic scenes not so tranquil. "What a curse to Job and Potiphar were their, companions, to Ahab was Jezebel, to Jehorarri was Athaliah, to John 'Wesley was Mrs. "Wesley, to Samson was Delilah. "While the most excellent and triumphant exhibitions of character wo find among*the women of history, and the world thrills with the names of Starie Antoinette and Josephine, and .Joan of Arc and Maria Theresa and hundred? of others, who havo ruled in the brightest and sung the sweetest can chanted the nations with.^1^7 swayrA th* I I " T art ,?n(* pn the other at scepters, First af tb? names of Mary the of Ro*i?"sIan(?, Margaret of France. Julia Y^tmao aud Elizabeth Petrowna of Russia ^ve scorched the eye of history \yith their auomiuatior^s, jind tueir names, like banished spirits, have gone shrieking and cum'nrr thiough tho world. Iufeniald biography w$ find the two extremes of excellence and crl*1*-*" Woman stands nearest the z&t* nearest the door of " . I* ? *yatm attorned by s?oc*5 pnerftaciiesa point of Christian eleva* tion which man cannot attain, and when blasted of crime she sinks deeper than man can plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances in which woman makes utter shipwreck of character are comparatively rare. But, say?: some cynical spirit, what do you Hrt with those words in Ecclesiastes where Solomon says: "Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one to find out the account; "which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found?" My answer is that if Solomon had behaved himself with common decency and kept out of infamous circles he would not have had so much difficulty in finding integrity of character among women and never would have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my childhood I have heard speakers admiring Diogenes, the cynical philosopher who lived in a tub, for going through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, and when asked what he did that for, said: "I an} looking for an honest man." Now I warrant that that philosopher who had such hard work to find an honest man was hirfiself dishonest. I think ho stols both the lantern and the tub. So, when I hear a man expatiating on the weakness of women, I immediately suspect him and say there is another Solomon with Solomon s wisdom left ou* fJMll, I would not hive the illustrations I have given of transcending excellency in female biography lead you to suppose that. thei*e are no perils in woman's j>athway. God's grace alone can make an Isabella Graham, or a Christina Alsop, or a Fidelia Fiske, or a Catherine of Siena. Temptations lurk about the brightest domestic pjrcle. It was no unmeaning thing when God sat up amidst the splendors of HLs word the character of infamous Delilah. Again, this strange story of tha text leads me lo consider some of the ways in which strone men ect their locks shorn. God. for some reason best fcoov/n to himself, made the strength of Samson to depend on the length of hi? hair; when the shears clipped it his strength z ~^ne. The strength of men i3 variously distributed. Sometimes it lies in physical development, sometimes in intellectual attainment, sometimes in heart force, sometimes in social position, sometimes in finan clai accumulation; ana mere is aiwa^s a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every day lb ore are Samsons ungianted. I saw a young man start in life under the most cheering advantages. His acute mind was at home in all scientific dominions. He reached not only all rugged attainments, but by delicate appreciation he could catch the tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the wave and the diapason of the thunder. He walked forth In life head and shoulders above others in mental stature. He could wrestle with giants in opposing systems of philosophy and carry off the gates of the opposing schools aad smite the enemies or umn nip i and thigh with great slaughter. But he began to tamper -with brilliant free-thinking. ,1 Modern theories of the soul threw over Urn their blandishments. Skepticism was. the Delilah that shore his locks off, and' all the Philistines of doubt and darkness and despair were upon him. He died in a very prison of unbelief, his eyee out. . Far back in the country districts?just .where I purposely omit - to say?there was born one whose fame will last as long as 'American institutions. His name was the .terror of all enemies of free government. He stood, the admired of Trillions;* the nation uncovered in his presence and when he spoke O?1crwall. Tho . ntfjiawa MU UI tui^wi muv ? ?. plotters against good government attempted to bind him with green withes and weave his lodes in a web, yet he walked forth from the enthrallment, not knowing he had burst a bond. But from the wine cup there arose a destroying spirit that came forth to capture his soul. He drank until his eyes grew dim and his knees knocked together and his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong dissipations, he went home to die. Ministers pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors chiseled the majestic form into marble, and that it was strong drink that came like the infamous Delilah, and his locks were shorn. T'Vom the island of Corsica there started forth a nature charged with unparalleled energies to make thrones tremble and convulse the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Germany, Italy, Austria and England rose up to crush the rising man. At the plunge of his bayonets Bastiles burst' open. The earth groaned with the agonies of Ri*'oli, Austerlitz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men elain in his wars. Crowns wero showered at his feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal arches to let him pass under, and Europe was lighted up at the conflagration of consuming cities. He could almost have made a causeway of human bones between Lisbon and Moscow. No power short of omnipotent God could arrest him. But out of the ocean of human blood there arose a spirit in which the conqueror found more than a match. .The very ambition that had rocked the world was now to' be his destroyer. It grasped for too much and its efforts lost all. He reached up alter the scepter of universal dominion, but slipped and fell back into desolation and banishment. The American ship, damaged of the storm, to-day puts up in St. Helena and the crew go up to see the* spot where the French cxilo expired in loneliness and disgrace, the mightiest of all Samsons shorn of his locks by ambition, that most merciless of all Delilnhs. I have not time to enumerate. Evil associations, sudden successes, spendthrift ViiMtu miwlv nrnclivities and dissipation are the names of some of the shears with which men are every day made powerless. They have strewn the earth with the carcasses of grants and filled the great prison house with destroyed Samsons, who sit grinding the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out. If parents only knew to what temptations thpir children were subjected they would be more earnest in their prayers and more careful about their example. No youns: man escapes having the pathway of sin pictured hi bright colors before him. The first time I ever saw a city?it was the city of Philadelphia?I was a mere lad. I at a liofpl and I remember in the eventide a corrupt man plied me with his infernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald; but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk. 1 made up my miud he was a basilisk. I remember how he reeled his chair round in front of mo and with a contrated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul; but there wero good angels In the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all encompassing grace of a. good God that delivered me. Beware I beware ! O young man I r - ?' - - - V ~ .. . r .. - r: >.c.-=-?r- - * -> v 3* - - - - taaaBHMaMMMBaafiBOMMl There is a way that seezoeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death. If all the yictmis of an impure life in all lands and ages could be gathered together, they would make a host raster than that which Xerxes led across the Hellespont, than Timourled across India, than William the Conqueror led across England, than Abou-Bekr led across Syria: and if they could be stretched An 4- en ts /v ^1a <1 /> -t- lv? f. 4?? w An 7 VUO Ait JULiC IV. J 'yCV? l iiLO V.^/1-l MUCUU, A think the vanguard of the host would stand on the beach of the Pacific while yet thereat guard stood on the beach of the Atlantic. I say this not.because I expect to reclaim any one that has:gone astray in this fearful path, but because I want to utter a warning for those who still maintain their integrity. The cases of reclamation of those who have given themselves fully up to an impure lif? j are so few, probably you do not know one of j them. I have seen a good many start out on i that road. How many have I seen come ! back? Not one tliai I now think of. It seems as if the spell of death is on them and no hu- { man voice or the voice of God can break the i spell. Their feet are lioppled. their wrists j are uanucurxeu. i uey nave arouna luem a , girdle of reptUesibunched at the waist, fas- j tening tbcm to an iron dome; every time j they breathe the forked tor.gues strike theia and they strain to break away until the tendons snap and thoiMood exudes; and amidst their contortions they cry out: "Take me back to my father's house. Where is mother? Take me home! Take 1116110016!" Do I stand before a man to-day the locks 'of whose strength are being toyed with, let me tell you to escape lest the shears of destruction take j-our moral end your spiritual integrity. Do you not S2^ your sandals beginning to curl on that red hot jsath? This clay m the name of Almighty God I teal off the beautifying veil and the em broidered mantle of tliis old ka^r ol iniquity, and I show* 5*011 the ulcers and the bloody ichor and the cancered lip and the parting joints and the macerated limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, and X cry out: Oh, horror of horrors! In the stillness of this Sabbath hour I lift a warning. Remember it is much easier to form b&Lg habits than to get clear of them; in minute of time you may get into a sin tono j Which all eternity cannot get you out. /rom j Oh, that the voice of ( rod's truth 1 . drown the voice of Delilah. Come ii*nnSiTt ways of pleasantness and the pathes ofto "W and by the grace of a pardoning Gotf peace for thrones of honor and doming1 start which you may Upeq road to & tTRVfil tlifl r-jngun^^jcreuiL where the destroyed ^fm^STaie mills of despair, their locks shorn Rid the.ir.eiy^i gat, A STRIKING TEMPERANCE LECTURE. James Thompson, of the Wasbmgs^n lot Company, who is a big n?^ in "the Mystic Shrine and a leading **0r. G-.," is a good story teller. He Is a good story teller for the reason that he never makes an effort tcT^ali % story unless he has a good"on* ^ His company has. a traisf<? house'oyer- on c May st-r^t. ne?? iiua. Railroad tracks, whgt*> ma?y of the! mgdhs get their supply yf ice eyeyy morning, Just inside the door'&f tbia house there has always been a hvdiranfc. and this hydrant has been liberally 'patroniked by the railroad hands wh5~ work 'nearby in ft? yards. When 200 m? or more go to a hydrant every day, ^ays Thompson, the hydrant is bound to wear out in a snort time, and it was found necessary to renew this hydrant quite often on that account. This was father expensive, and the company cast about for another mode of quenching thirst. In a short time the problem was solved by one of the men. Out on the curb he placed & heavy barrel, and this he kept filled wft$ fresh water, cooling it with a ehunk of ies from the house, On the 'side of the barrd was nailed a tin dipper, and this outfit was kept in shape day and night, the ice mea keeDine a watch on it durine the dav.indtli* railroad men?for whose ben^gt it was a> ranged?watching it during the night. Cs one very hot ana sultry day not long ago, says Thompson, along came an honest, sturdy looking Irishman, clad in Qveralls iumper, and with the t$ji of hoo^Uabor on his face. Ho looked hot and tired. H? panted a drink, and, evidently remembering the hydrant, he started to go inside. A man at the door met him, learned his wants and pointed out the barrel of ice water. Th? Irishman walked out to the curb, dipped up a dipperful and quaffed itat a swallow. Then he disposed of a second in the same manner. Dropping the dipper and wiping his mouth with the back of his horny hand, he turnaS. to the man in the doorwav and said with 4 great sigh: "Ah, me bye, if I'd known th*$ oice-wather were. so good I'd a had me house an'lot yet f' There was a temperance lectors that could be hung up in the street cars.-? Chicago Tribune, GEilT IS PEBSONAi UBERT7I O'xea HelTeran and his wife and daughter of this city indulge their personal liberty b5 drinking sixteen pints of ale. The father strikes his wife in the eye, then seizes hii daughter by the hair and pours a kettle of . pealdiug water over her, to vindicate his superior personal liberty as lord of the honseccld. The Society for the Prevention of fViioltTu- tr\ OVifMran inanrl finVta that" a sickly infant, suffering terribly from neglect, was exercising its personal liberty to grow up as best it could, while the personal liberty of the parents to inebriate themselves by beer and other "temperance55 drinks had rendered all the children more or less imbecile, and deprived them of their personal liberty to become sound-minded men and women. Great is the gospel of fermented drinks! Will Dr, Crosby show us an instance of a family reduced to such degradation through the use of tea??New York Voice. THE LIQUOR EVIL IN AFRICA, An international conference oh the affairs of Africa is to beheld in England during the coming autumn, me .Native Kaces and Liquor Traffic Committee have recently and very opportunely presented a memorial to Lord Salisbury through the Duke of Westminster. The memorial recalls the language of statesmen 011 the subject, that of the Premier among others, and urges the importance of united action on the part of the civilized powers. The Queen has been pleased to receive a similar memorial. This vigorous action will meet with a grateful acknowledgement from all friends of Africa. The replies received awaken hope, but the matter is one of such moment as to call for prayer ("* /% TV* oil t TI'Ua fAl 1 AtT*A'l ftllrflll uvui an invoc '? nv uutv iviivit vu tuc atriui record of evils which have flowed from this terrible traffic.?Witness. A KEMARKABUS DIN~JfEH, A remarkable dinner was lately given In Norwich, England, by a well-known temperance sheriff, George White, to celebrate the wedding of his daughter. Elegant invitations were issued to 1100 of the aged poor of the city, and fully two-thirds of this number responded. The dinner was an elaborate one, and served in good style by the principal citizens of the town. The oldest guest was Dinety-six years of age, and there were several over ninety. True to his temperance principles, the only drinks furnished by i.i. _ :/** - rit. i .1 -j ^ iue buyuu ?ere IHHK; ltuuuuuue uuu LVUW. AN APPROPRIATE PLACE. The World's Fair committee has named the brewing "industry,'-' and the wine arid spirit "trade" as branches of commercial enterprise entitled to prominent representation at the great exposition of 1892. An exchange suggests that in view of this fact the idea of lo? eating the exposition buildings on Blaolr* well's, "Ward's and Randall's Islands may not be inappropriate after -all, sinoe the city's penal, insane and charitable institutions situated on the60 islands would form a fliw DacKgronna lor trie Deer ana uquor eimo??. ?W, C. T. U. Bulletin. "Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destinad end or way; But to act that each to-morrow Kind us farther than to-day." 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Medicine and treatment for on? month. Fire Dollar#, sent securely sealed from observation to any addles*. _ Book on Special IMaeaaes free. _? 1 mm "DISO'S REMEDY FOR Bra 1 to use. Cheapest Reli certain. For Cold in the He: 1BFA It is an Ointment, of whic H9 to the nostrils. Price, 50c. BBH by mail. Address, E. T I?. - I The man whp is right is seldom left Hark, the soand of many voices Jubilant in gladdest son^, And full many a heart rejoices As the chorus floats along: "Bail the Favorite Prescription." How tlie happy voices blend. "Wonderful beyond description? H "Women's best and truest friend." Well may it be called women's best friend, cii-kstA WA nfKfir nmiA^v | has b en able to do. It cures all those dedicate derangements aLd weaknesses pectfliar to females. Cures them understand. Other preparations may afford temporary relief, but Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription effect* a permanent cure. It is guaranteed to do this, or the money paid for it wQl be promptly lefunded. It is the great -remedy of the age. The worst Nasal Catarrh, no matter how l'-ng standing, is permanently cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Kemedy. A man likes to have good neighbors when ne must love Hu neighbor as tuaiseir. " S5 - : Malaria % 1 Is Itellcved to be caoscd by poisonous rnXunosuf^ I from low, marshy land, or from decaying (tabic in fitter, and which, breathed Into the Inoff^. enter and poison the blood. 12 & healthy eotulltlou of the blood Is maintained by taking Hood's San?I^u-illa, one is moch lees liable to malaria, and Hood's Saivaparflla haa eared many severe cumoC tills distressing affection. v it. d.?ii you oecioc to tare moots sarsaparai* Co not bo Induced to bny any other, Hood's SarsaparilSa ; Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared ooly ? by C. I. IIOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Hak i1 fffliaf Ely's Cream Balm J Is the best reint&y^fOr children ^nlrl in HoaH CATARE S? Apply Balm Ijukteach nostril. EXYBRCifi..w?WarrenSt.If-V. WW Jl, .' ., M SIFKFS 8ILE BEARS J Act on tbe and bile, c^ear the complexion, cn? MBOW.W> Cck h?*d&clvycosClvc-?>eb5, malaria ejul t^U liver and wromach diaccfUe?*. The wuaII *tet> *re ,'^H ?ott convenient foe chfidreV-very tuuali Modem? totake. Pricea% eithertier bottle. Apaaelslze PnOTO-CH-AvDKJdo? (beater* plctaie, "Ktixlng *S 7?17??0r" nxellcd on receiptee ^hH| Sc. iMw ft> H&> of tt> ggmt-jM Ue Beme4r?"EU<* Ben*." i.y.8Kna*6?4si.LMi?Bfc .- V BUGGIES Pftfr ? ROAD CASTS Is Jf f f 1 HRRHE3S i Sl&aU fl UlIVa .. ? ? No y2 PricQ or 50% but !>reo?. . We mannfaetnr? none but the best, and forCO^fSIJSIRKS 6\XY. Write us for full -pttr-. ticulars bow to sft ib<?se articles fr.v- of nu CONSUMERS' mm?. CO* fl CINCINNATI, O. * : T BQicbaM one cf the cclc- T?S -cr__A 4 x?$r orated SMITH & WESSON T^i-SaBV.^ knot. The ilncst Rmall arms {/ \s~\f ever nuurofacturttl and tU? vv 2 )/ Best choice of all experts. Manufactured In c*lil>r<w:a.3?*E(l M-100. Sinrie or doable action. Safety liamm^rlcf* anct l^P -*? TarK*t models. Construe t?vl entirely of bent n?L lly wraucht Mcel, cajCtully inafecteil for vorfc minahit) and. ttOcJc. ikes'* Tt> UBriviInl Terr < ! > durability m4 nccuriscr. Dnnotb?df?(wdH dimp malleable cn*t?Jrou imitations whlA are often sold for the genuine article aan tie aof onlv unreliable, but danKrroup. Tb* S1DTH J? jQBl WESSON Bevolvwrs are all atasrjVS"wpottttVe haifc pel* with Srm'8 name, address an-1 (lat^a of riti'fcgi and are cnnranr^ii p^fect in rvery detail. 3k> alatupon navta?r the xenuine article, aud if yoqf rtetler cannot ?apj>ly yon an orito a-'nt to adma^r"^ holow will ;aoai?e in-oiupt aa I careful axtentiM^ Descrpiirecat&loime aT*l ?*>cm f.irnUho-I noon a> phciton. SMITH & "WESSON? pg~Heption ttls pa;?r. Springfield, IIa?i? iiDllllis^sssisai tl OrlUiife~t?? ; II 8 JT U?42 SB 4 For Dairy, Farm & Housebote.. -. -1 yrfytok ?aak'? Astrlraa tfoualM- XarUae avi?rdtt<i ? h?<3 highest medal'. Approved of and twafe-. OK by the highest dairy fsculliaa. X. cliild can a.* (t. Always prodac%i fint|H _ claw butlor from yweot milk or man fat. * minutes. Works from one pib( up to tbfe !' B30S laives: quantity. Makes uiorebcttec. t?53tlSB. Clear profit S> to 13) per ?t. BuU?rariUc ' . J B"8BS remains perfectly s*?*t for colea, <ta Egg&nWB J? also recommended by children's ftHnf* - ^nH B ciana as best baliy food. SUchJo? ateo ? '4*288! js make* ftnest Ice .-ream in 4 mlOttMf. S zGUEtiR Ota- 2SJ50: H oWi.. $10 ; i- qfk.'. 9St et(V F. A. FRANK A CO.. Patent?^ aud Solo SItpt, 3U ?aat dH 824 8t, N?w York. Reliable vrents wanteJ. JdggsgS{ji,*?TS_ ?3 *aa ru;ry ^x?? * coi><> J?ijr <5 as the ?*)f: ./-SSJSrCwee'.B specific ^rrhcc*erulfec*x? xS^S^X TO 6 DATS. ? Of this fiteg ?*a,gtrt*arc. _ Amiw-rtiam, 2T. Tl B=a vr4 ?aij #? ti? < V,'e Ijtro ?oid Big G (er fl fSMnaaOuBlealCi. E1*n* yw*-?, *nd it kttl ng 1 1 nl urn at^lJF8i " U.B-DYCE?;'*03U^| PEE8LSSS B?S? Sot j> tfftrosm HH(ntK MTJIDY. Tioolc-keepln?, Eu3in?*sfl|H Penmwnnhlp. Arithmetic, shnr! thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars frco^H ANTt'5 COLLEGE* 457 Main Stfl New York. Jim mm opium A. Valuable Trcati?o GtvtDit fl ,'ull Information of an Eaey and Speedy cum/re* ifr hralElotrrf. Dn. J. C. HoryMAX^egerson.V'tacoMl^ ITTrm Send10 CIS. for Dr. Jans" Safe H77TIT J Mil 14 tteeipe, Advice, etc. U?y|f I J ll II ift Beauty circular free! Beaj. n K 111 lUUli Barker, 3U5 K. U2tt? St. K. Y. 3 RUPTURE 1 A written truawfitee to ABSOLUTELY CURS. No detenOOnjTom WtEln#s*. Endorsed by tbe leadiOK phySSans of ?16 UutteH States. Write fo r circular*. rj no f> V VrC A VT?T T?5 A<?-r Office SO 1-2 Marietta Sirect, earner Broad, . > ~WjDE-AWAKE TRADESKEST-'^" iBmGA^i^G FOR A ''SLl&SR I M have learned by experience that the or.iy waterproof coat they can sell to a cowboy or hunter s the J/A Pommel Slicker with the "Fish Brand "Trade .' Marie on it. They are the best waterproof saddle coats ever made. Thev keep the saddie, tie horse's back, and the rider thoroughly dry and warm. No saddle sorts from the galling ot a wet eaddle. When used as a walking coat, the e*? 'eusion front buttons back, and the Sliclcst-is changed at once :o an ordinary coat, just try Oiif, they cost but little and w-ill prevent colds, fevers, rneumatism, and other result* ta exposure to tht weather. Beware of worthies* irti'tations, everv garment stamped wi:h " Fi-li Brand " Trade Mark, bin t accopt anv ir.xcr<.r c.-a: -wiien yoa can have '.he " Fi'h b>ard Siic<ccr" delivered without ejtra coil. Particulars ai:U il'.usiiated cat- . ' alojuo free, A. J. TOWER, - Boston, Mass. CATARRH.?Best Easiest ?9B I ief is immediate. A cure is ?58 . m id it has no equal. h a small particle is applied BB fl Sold by druggists or sent . HazsltizvE, W arrea, Pa. Hi . a f