The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 16, 1889, Image 4
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| 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?.
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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^
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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asss
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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.
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'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. '
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REV. DR. TALMAGE
?he brooklyn mtine's sunday
sermon.
Text: "Entice him, and see wherein his
great strength lieth, and by what means we ,
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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.'
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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
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she claps her hands, and says: "They come! I
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
The sentiment so aptly expressed by the
poet ought to sound like a trumpet to every
sluggish soul, and animate them to new and
vigorous efforts to improve their condition.
To all tho.-e who have the desire to press
forward, but who are not sure of the was,
weVay, write to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond,
Va., and they will be of service to
5"ou.
The toper's motto is "Live for today,'5
but he employs two d's.
Oregon, The 1'aradine ot Vnvmera.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crop. Bast fru:t, grain, grass and
stock country in the world. Full informa
tion free. Address, Oregon Immigration
Board, Portland, Ore.
It's mighty curious how big some faults
look untd after a man has committed them
himself.
No stranger should visit th6 city without
smoking "Tansill's Punch" 5c. Cigar.
nfl Alter ALL other*
I Ohh 329ll5thSt.
wl phila., pa.
Twenty years' continuous practice In tbe treatmoat
and cure^aC the awful effect* of early
vSec, destroying both mind and body. 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?.
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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 $5. Prepared ooly ?
by C. I. IIOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Hak
i1 fffliaf
Ely's Cream Balm J
Is the best reint&y^fOr children
^nlrl in HoaH
CATARE S?
Apply Balm Ijukteach nostril.
EXYBRCifi..w?WarrenSt.If-V. WW Jl, .' ., M
SIFKFS 8ILE BEARS J
Act on tbe and bile, c^ear the complexion, cn?
MBOW.W> Cck h?*d&clvycosClvc-?>eb5, malaria ejul
t^U liver and wromach diaccfUe?*. The wuaII *tet> *re ,'^H
?ott convenient foe chfidreV-very tuuali Modem?
totake. Pricea% eithertier bottle.
Apaaelslze PnOTO-CH-AvDKJdo? (beater*
plctaie, "Ktixlng *S 7?17??0r" nxellcd on receiptee ^hH|
Sc. iMw ft> H&> of tt> ggmt-jM
Ue Beme4r?"EU<* Ben*."
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BUGGIES Pftfr ?
ROAD CASTS Is Jf f f 1
HRRHE3S i Sl&aU fl
UlIVa .. ? ?
No y2 PricQ or 50% but !>reo?. .
We mannfaetnr? none but the best, and forCO^fSIJSIRKS
6\XY. Write us for full -pttr-.
ticulars bow to sft ib<?se articles fr.v- of nu
CONSUMERS' mm?. CO* fl
CINCINNATI, O. * : T
BQicbaM one cf the cclc- T?S -cr__A 4 x?$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.
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thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars frco^H
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New York.
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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
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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
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