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/ KEY. DR. TALMAGE. ? / THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNL DAY SERMON. Subfcct of Discourse-,, "A- Deeember Chr^r* ?'xt: " When ih<^? had heard the King deuarted- ayi* to> Vie star, vhxch then , ,v tilSu ^r" f? l ot"r u/i/* ",e i/oung chili was.1 ?it I 2^athew,'<X ft v At <M* *^I?n Christendom celebrates K-.- twmcan^r11, Step down o?t of the com fortable jiroundings in which you are into % chill Pc ^'^r night in Bethlehem. Two .jain peop'hoteled in a village barn after a H alk of ebty miles, too long for one in H vor heal t; -No lords of .state waiting in an KS te-i hanf* as at the birth of other kings, g tmesseter mounted at the doorway ready H tcieraldoe advent front city to city, no HP fa.ily rdical attendance, no satin lined Hi! crav>tfeceive the infantile guest, but a H l&qiarcborn in a ho-telry < ailed the House H Of -?he night with diamonded finger poiitinto the place, the Door of Heaven S rnangUdo open to look out, from orchestral hrton Jripping overtures of the Messiah, taiast is of Uod standing on the lowest doorctep c/Heaven to aunoum e glory and good V wiiJ. won after the whito bearded astrologers ineel/und from leathern pouch chink the ^K?hekei, and from open rack exhale the tufts Tfif.frajikincense and rustle out the bundles ofmgfcrb. The loosened star, the escaped (inTolmrv of I'Hliistink (>lir world, a lost star, ami another star rushiug down the sky that night to beckon it home again. All that scene will yet make all nations keep Christmas. Now, are there not some new lessons couiinj from this ell story? Lessons not hackneyed by olt repeated? Oil, yes. Notice, first of all, it was a sidereal appearance. Lo, the star went before them. W hy not a black cloud in the shape of a hand or a finger pointing down to the saared birthplat e? . Ob, a cloud means trouble. The world had had trouble enough. Why not a shaft of lightning quiveriug in the sky and striking down to the sacred birthplao? Lightning means destruction?writhing, allconsuming destruction, and the world bad bad destruction enough. It was a star. .. tlhat means joy, that means good cheer, that means hope, that means ascendancy. A Start That means creative power, for did not the morning stars sing together when the portfolio of worlds was opened! A star! That means defence, for did not the stars in their course fight against Sisera and for the Lord's people r A star! That means brilliant Continuance, for are not I lie righteous to shine as the stars forever and ever? Day-star on high. Morning star of the Redeemer. That tmusual appearance in the sky that night ^ may have been a strauge conjunction of worlds. You know astronomers calculated long years before it occurred the transit of Venus, and they can seo a thousands years head and can tell you what will be the conjunction of worlds in the year 1980. and so they can calculate backward, and Christian astronomers go into a calculation and they find that in what we call the year one there was a strange appearance in the Heavens; and the iniidel, rejecting the Bible and despising Christianity, he goes into the same calculatiou; and be is compelled to declare that in the year oue there was a strange appearance iu the Heavens. The Chinese record, made up, of course, eutire;y independent of Word of God. declares that in what we call the year one, there wus a strange appearance in the Heavens. That, after all, it may have been a meteoric appearanco, such as you and I have sometimes witnessed, I stood on the plain and I saw in tiie western heavens, some years ago, a meteor flash with such brilliancy and precision that I thought then that if 1 had been on a hill as high as thatof Bethlehem I could have calt-nLited within a few yards the place where it alighted. In the University of Iowa ami in the British Museum there are fragments of rock that have been hurled otT from meteors as they weut trailing their glory on the sky. So it does sot seem to me at all improbable, this sidereal, '/ or, if you will, this meteoric appearance on that Christmas night. Oh 1 am so glad that it was not a cloud of threat but a star of hope that shone that night. I do not wonder l that the dying collegi student when he A caught a gfimpse of that stir, took his pen, and the light seemed dishing from his finf gers and the star seemed souring its lustre f from his lips while Kirk^Vhite wrote those immortal words: When marshaled on the lightly plain, fe The glittering hi>st bestul the sky; One star iilone of all the trim Could fix the sinner's waidering oye. Hark, hark to Cod, the cho-us breaks From every host, from ev?ry gem; But one alone the Saviour s>eaks, It is the siar of Bethlehem Once on the raging sea 1 roiV, The storm was loud, the mrht was dark, And rudely blew the wind tlat tossed My foundering bark. Deep low within my vitals fnze Death struck 1 t ca-m the tde to stem, Wheu suddenly a star arose, It was the star of Brthlehen. Pormln nrosorrv thai Kirk "Yhite died af ter writing that It vas enoigh for a lifetime to have written it, and u* wonder wheu r,/-v- be completed it the glo ies of Heaven swallowed bim up. I notice also in that rene that other worlds seemed to adore our La\l tind Master. Bright star of night, wheel ouin thine orbit. "No," raj's the star, "I must come nearer, I rau^t bend, 1 must wat -h to.ee what they will do with Jesus." Anotlie world in worship. That star bowed in nbdieuce. I sometimes hear people talk as tho-gh the few thousand Miles of this wor d of tins were all of the Kavior's dominion: butl suppose all the mil1 lions and billions and qiadrillions of worldi are inhabited?perhaps not by such creatures as we are, but by uch creatures as God designed, and all thcsa worlds are the Saviour's realm.. Only one disloyal world in the universe You know tint I the great organ of tb> universe with its stops, its keys, its reikis, its pipes, had a complete harmony save oae injured pedal, save one broken key, thtrox humana of the human race. This di^oyal world. You , know that however gray an instrument, if x there is one broken key iis;>oils the harmony. * And Christ is to ruond thiiliroken key,and restore this injured pedal,atti the world will be 5 in accord, and all worlds viil bo in accord. Isle of Wight, larger in conparison with the British Empire than our w>rld is compared with Christ's dominion. That Christmas Qj night astronomy surrenclred to Christ. ;( Our planet lor Chrif. The solar system for Christ. Worlds ablate H and worlds burned out ? all worlds for (B Christ. Minutest and neuiest microscope cannot see the one side of Christ's dominion, M and l'arth?.st-reachiug toloaope cannot see H i the other side ot Christ's dominion. But I D will tell you how the universe is bounded. It is bounded on the nor-h1. and south, and east and west by God, and Gad is Christ, and Christ is God, aud that God is ours. Oh, S my friends, doe< it n?,t eula'-ge your ideas of b ouviuui s uummiim to le&uze mat an toe worlds are only so many sparks struck Iroin His anvil/ That the wor.ds are so many flee.y flocks following the one shepherd} That all the islands of light in immensity are i great archipelago of Chrisl'a/dominion# ,r cut I notice also in this science that I have spoken of the fact that it wai the profound tad the learned nieu of the world who came to Christ TUe Bible says th? wise nieu or the East. We call them the magi, the astrologers, the alchemists, and xe pronounce their names with a depreciating accentuation Do you kuow wh> they were) They were the most splendid and magnificent men of the century. They knew all that was known. Do you not recognize the fact that astrology is the mother of astronomy f Do you not recognize the fact that alchemy is the mother of chemistry! And you do not despise the mothor because you admire the child. Why these astrologers spent their lives in studying the stars; 2;35?) years before Christ was born these astrologers studied the procession of the equinox and calculated the orbit and return of the comets. Professor Smith says he thinks they understood the distance between the sun and the e.%rth. V ou find not only that in Job, but you Uave suggested to you tiiat other men in his clay '.knew t.iat the world was not llut, but globular? Isaiah knew it; as though it were a mcderjn discovery, or within a few centuries, that the world is round. Isaiah knew it. He says of fe"?God: "He sittcth on the circle of the eai\th." After the world has progressed in study liuudreds of years it may get up to the piiut where the ancients began to forget. I believe ? that the lost arts may be as great as tue lttv* Ing arts. How was it with those alchemists? Whv.thevsnent their lives in the stulv bf K Ji . vjlelchior, an octogenarian. Tbe tnr&e Jj^Wisest men of ail the century dt k the feet cf Christ. So it is now. The ! brainiest men of this century are Christians, w Vho was the greatest metaphysician oil Anerica* Jonathan Edwards, the Christian! "Who was tho greatest astronomer of thel wo-idf HerscheL. the Christian. Who fbtgreatest poet the world has ever st?^/l Joii niiiou, the Christian. Who wrote ^ I ' f J migbties ; treatises on Taw have ever been wri ;ten? tjlackstone, thf- JKstian. Why is it that in every college. Mi university they In ve a chapel.' 7Ms the place where the hvise merJ5ow at the mangnr. Coupe, now, M us have it suttle<l ii i ounces and in l' gss. People say that the men wlho believe ^cnnstiamty are smallbr ained e len. Lefw find the largest brain ev er knoi iu in Ar #ica. By post mortem exi iminati on dist tuished men have metals : xnd gas es and ftds and liquids, and they lilli >d who e librfWies with their discoveries. 1 "hey uu derstcA embalmment as no nieu in jur time urferstand embalmment. And the y were verwwise men. They were not oalj among wi)/ men, but they were the three w ^st me n. Caspar, a young man; Balihaz u>, a j uan of middle age, and bean ni< osured a,nd their intellectual capacity has beei > calculated, and the size of the brain has beei i found out. Let us find the largest brain ever kinown in America, and find out then what that brain thought of (phrist. We have found it. It is the brain weighing some sixtythree (uinres. jWbat did that man in his lifAt-imfc think- Af Phristi Tn his dvincr mo nient hie said: f'Lord, I believe; help Thou mino uinbelief.! Almighty God, whatever I do, accept me jot the last for Christ's sake. This night I shall be in joy unutterable." So Daniel Websteij bowed at the manner. So the mighty merji of the East are followed by the mighty meu of the West. My subject also impresses me with the fact that it was thep winter season that God assigned for the nativity of His Son. Had it been the month of May, that is the season of blossoms; had lit been the month of June, that is the season of roses; had it been the month of July, that is the season of great harvests; had it been the month of September, that is the seasoned of ripened orchards; had it been llpe month of October, that is the season of upholstered forests; but it was December, wh^n all the flowers outdoors are dead and all thje crops that have not been gathered are perished, and there are no ripening fruits] on the hill, and the leaves are driven ovjer the bare earth. In the closing days off December, to show that this Christ is for people in sharp blasts, for people of frosted hopes,, for people under dark skies, for peopjle with the thermometer beIcw zero, for people snowed under. Christ heard in His memory the wind whistling around the Be thlehem caravansary, and He is in sympathy with those who in their poverty hear the shutters clatter on a cold night. That was the Christ Washington and his army worshipped when they lay down without blankets in the December snow. That was the Christ that the Pilerim Fathers appealed to when the Mayjloicer wbarfed at Plymouth Rock,; and for j-ears after that December landing the graves digged were more in number than the blouses built. Not a fair weather Christ, but a December Christ. Oh, the world wants tf> be solaced and soothed and lullabied in thie arms of sympathetic omnipAI?OH TllJ K TV? /\WA f An_ 1 UUCUV.U auu UV/ II1UM1C1 mm 1UV1 o IpCU" derueks put h(jr foot on the rocker of a cradle to hush a sick child than the teuderness of this Cihrist comes to our invalid world, and He rocks it into placidity and quiet with the words: "My pea.e I give unto you; not as the World giveth, give I unto you,:' Oh, ye burden bearers, oh, ve persecuted and tired and heartbroken, I declare to you a December Christ. But here is a fact which many seem to forget, .perhaps all forget?my subject im- 1 Eresses me with the fact that Christ was orn amid the sheep, and the cattle, and the horses, and the camels that He might bo the alleviation of the whole brute creation. Mercfy for overdriven, underfed, poorly sheltered,', outraged brute creation. Do you think thatithe Christ who compared Himself to a dc V j has no indignation at the cruelties of a pi Aon shooting/ Do you think that the ' Chr^ who compared Himself to a lamb has no indignation at the rough tying and the contortion of the shoep and the hanging of theirf neck over the sharp edge of t h e butcher 's cart,| and the cattle train from Omaha to New: York, with no water in summer time, ?1,500 miles of agony? Do you think that the Christ who said: "Go to the anV' does not notice the transfixed insects? Do you think that the Christ whose tax was paid by the fish does not notice the tossing of a fin in the fish market? Do you think that the IL. ? ?_ .L. v_nnsc who taiu: "cenoiu uuo iu?u ui wo air," bath no sympathy with the brute creation that cannot articulate its grief? Christ, born in a stable that He might ba the Savioi^r, not only of the human race but the alleviation of all the pangs and hardships of the brute creation. Ill the millenial t:me a child is to lead a lion* and to play with a cocatrice only because brute and reptile will have no more . outrages to avenge. The Lamb of God gave its first bleat amid the tired flocks of Beth- i lehem. The white horse of eternal victory i stabled in a barn. When you tread on the J brute creation you tread on God. Christ ' born amid the beasts that He might sympa* , thize with the beasts, and help the beasts, and thunder His indignation and Hi3 wrath 1 against men who abuse the beasts. 1'noti e also, in this wonderful story of the text three Christmas presents brought to < Christ Ju?t three. Gold, myrrh, frankincense. Gold brought to Christ What does that mean* It means the affluence of the 1 world is going to be surrendered to Jesus. For lack of money no more "asylums limping 1 on their way like the invalids they support, ' or feeling theirslow way like the blind whom they shelter. Millions of dollars for Christ ' there are now thousands of dollars. Rail- i road companies owned by Christian sto k- , holders and controlled by Christian directors and carrying freights and passengers at Christian prices. Bank of England, Bourse of Ft ance and U. S. Treasury, all the world's ' moneyed institutions for Christ The gold for Christ No other meaning to it The . gold no more paid the way for J Mary and Joseph and the divine < Mptimxk in TT.am-if-. t.Hnn tha frnlrl ehall nnv th? waybfor Christ ali 'rouud the worlcL * The 1 gold for Christ, the silver for Christ, the ( jewels for Christ Our great round, beau- \ tiful world like a soltaire set on tho bosom of| Christ. All His, and He is worthy. < But the second Christmas present was ( th?5 myrrh. Why the myrrh? The cattle sniffed it, but did not eat it. It > w^s too bitter. Why the myrrh? Why this j pulngent gum resin of Abysinnia brought for Christ? It meant bitterness. Bitterness of 1 betrayal, bitterness of persecution, bitterness ofl da vs of suffering and nights of anguish. Mlyrrh. That is what they put into His cup when He was dying. Myrrn. That i< what the women wra-'pad in the shroud of the crucified Christ. Myrrh. Aye, says the psalmist, 1 "till thy garments smell of myrrh." Oh the j hejighth, the depth, the length, the breadth of.a Saviour's sorrow. No wonder the wise 1 men brought myrrh. But there was one otter thing they brought. They shook out frjom the sack the frankincense. Clear up to 1 Se rafters of the barn the perfume rose and i floated out to the furthest room, where ttie hostler and tfie camel drivers were < placed, and it floated out into the open , air, and people passing by that night wondered and said, who could have broken a box < of alabaster at that place by accident' Frank- f incense. That was what they put on the cen- I 8?rs in the ancient temple and burned it. 1 Frankincense. That means worship. Frank- , C(>nse. Thivt is what we shake out from our w>uls this day until the nostrils of Christ ] 0, ice crimsoned with the hemorrhage of the ( ci -o?s are filled with the perfume of a world's a ioration. Frankincense. That is to fill all ] tljie homes and all the churches and all the ( nations and all the worlds. From deepest , cjellar of stalactite cave clear up to the s-iiver J mfters of the sunlit dome. Fraukincense. ] Put it in the song, and the sermon, and the . arayer. Frankinceuse. No wonder they 1 rought it. No wouder they put it down at | the ieet of Christ But do you know now these censers were employed, ' aind how the frankincense was < Surned? Here is a metal pan, and here is the andle hv which it is hold. This metal ran is filled with living coals. On the top of ft is {|>ut a perforated cover. The frankincense is N ought to the temple in a s |uaro box. The frankincense is taken out and sprinkled over j the toals, and then the perforated cover is put on, and thev wait for the beginning 1 of the service. When they are all ready j all the covers are lifted from all tho censers . and the ancient temple was filled with the perfume. It floated up am d tho arche?, it i dropped amid the altars. On the top of the te'nple it arose in a column to tho throne of 1 God. And so it is to-day. 1 have two < censers. Hera is the censer of earhtly frankincense j and here is tho censer of heavenly frankincense. First of all, the censer of earthly frankincense. Come, people of God, and put on ijt your thanks?thanks for the mercies of the past year, thanks for the mercies jf all the years?individual mercies, family merriest national mcr jies. Bring on more censers.] Then let the perfume float up to the thrijme ot'Go 1. Alleluia, alleluia. Amen! But hero is the other censer?the censer of Heavenly frankiucense. Let all the re- 1 deemed bring their thanks and put them on thij censer. Let the cherubim bring theirs, let the seraphim bring theirs, let the one hi^idred and forty and four thousand bring lheirs,let all tho eternities bring theirs, . ani thjjn I take these two censers and Iswing i I them before the throne oi God and the Lamb, and then I clash them together in one great alleluia unto him to/Aom the wise men of the East brough^Mieir gold and myrrh and frankincense.t Ma the star that thoy saw in the East we^ flpre them. TEMPERANCE. The Beer Glass. This glass, so frequently seen upon the bar, By the youth who is tempted to venture so far, And which causes rona mothers to shed many a tear, Is CJlod to the brim with lager beer. Now the youth who toils a d d toils all day, And at suns e t receives his hard - earned pay, Should never bo tempted to spe n d it for beer, Just because it m akes him feel so "jueer. You must in your childnood shirk such a foe, And ever be ready to sp eak the word No; j When npp r oached by a friend (?) to "co me, take a drink," Just stop one short moment and solemnly tli ink. "Money" is the root of all evil they say;" The glass is one branch which toils night and day, To destroy t ie young man s luture good name, And lead him to crime, degradation and shame. Beware of the l>eer glass, young man 1 ?Barnesvillc [Ohio) liepubllcan. The Influence of the Saloon. "What would be thought of the medical administration which, in the time of a great epidemic, concerned itself chiefly in providing additional hospital accommodations, and paid no attenti* n to the origin and mode of prevention of the prevailing disease? In the case of the sa'.oon in society the facts are continually in evidence. Our police courts are mainly occupied with the petty offenses which spring directly or indircctly from drink. Through them drift the myriad wrecks which strew the path fcf progress. In them is exhibited, every day and all day, the extent, depth; paralyzing influence, of the saloon. It is bad enough in politics, but its social effects, especially among the poor, are as those of a pestilence. The cruder element of the community is brutalized and retarded in its growth by this influence. Another ele Ul^UI)) tUUb V* liUw |/UJ U1VU41J v? Iiwttvw tually feeble (always considerable, and increasing with the growth of competitive pressure), is condemned to a wretched fate by the same instrumentality. The people whs have not the energy of mind or body to form clear and practical purposes, or to put them in operation if formed, are the easiest victims of the saloon. As a rule they are sensitive, often morbidly so. They brood over their weakness and their failure. Naturally prone to depression, they become jaundiced and desponding. From that state of mind to the craving for any kind of stimulant the transition is natural and swift, and the saloon does the rest. There are thousands of families doomed to indigence, disappoint* ment, misery, through life, that might have lived at least in decent poverty and with self-respeet, but to-day are plunged in hopeless ruin by drink, and are sinking out of sight in the quicksand.?Atlantic Monthly. The Saloon Going. The saloon is going. Of the seventeen cities of Massachusetts which held election last week, thirteen voted "no license."- Fall River, New Bedford, Haverhill, Gloucester, Springfield, Waltham, Northampton, Brockton and Cam bridge, all 01 wmcn roiea ior license last year, have this year joined the ranks of temperance cities. The liquor dealers of the State are great'y alarmed over the prospect and are holding secret meetings to advance their interests. Their Protective Association has issued a circular which says: "Immediate and ictivework is absolutely necessary by the liquor element of Massachusetts to fight the enemy." Speaking of the re* jult of last week's election the Boston TraiUer Bays: "It is not only in the highest degree gratifying, but it is decidedly significcnt of the growth of an inti-saloon sentiment and a conviction sn the part of the people that prohibition can be made to prohibit. It will sncourage the friends of temperance in the cities where elections are yet to be held to make a supreme effort to free the municipalities of Massachusetts srom the curse and power of the 6aloon."?Few York Observer. Moral Heroism. A hereditary taint or natural craving for some stimulaut is no reason to justify Its inrlii1<Tpnff> rnfclipr t.hr? rnntrarv n_s illustrated in a morbid desire to steal. The desire or inclination we may feel to take what does not belong to us is the best possible reason why we should be Dn our guard to resist the first impulse in that direction. Natural inclinations are often our worst enemies when they aro allowed to dominate our lives. All our aatural susceptibilities are to be watched and dreaded like so many Hods in our path, or infectious diseases, to which sur bodies arc liable when we arc unprotected, or willfully go where these diseases arc prevalent. To have a holy horror for the poisonous effects of alcoholic beverages in the stomach is the best guarantee that we are secure from the allurements of the gilded saloon, and the fatal efTects of alcoholic poison to carry us down to a drunkard's doom.? DemoreU. The Alternative. "We have seen that the progress of civ mzation brings men into more intimate relations, that closer contact quickens activity, that increased activity refines :he nervous system, and that a highly nervous organization invites intemperance and at the same time renders its dcHructive results swifter aud more fatal. Thus the very progress of civili/ation renders men the easier victims of intemperance. We have also seen that under regulation the liquor traffic increases much m;>re rapidly than the population. I lie alternative, then, seems simple, clear, certain, that civilization must cither destroy the liquor traffic or be destroyed by it.?Our Cuuntry. Seventy-six per cent, of the total number of arrests in San Francisco are for drunkenness. FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. i i I Venezuela has had a shower of blue and red hailstones. Shark meat is openly sold in the Havana fish market, according to a correspondent in that city. There is a blind boy in Brooklyn who takes dictation on a type writer faster than any known expert in the possession of good eyesight. California intends to beat the cheap labor of Spain in raisin growing, by labor-saving machinery which will stem, grade, pack in boxes and fan the fruit by stet.m power, at one running. The Invincible Armada, fitted out by Spain in 1583 against England, was the mosit formidable fleet ever seen up to that time. This armament consisted of 129 shi])8, 3,000 cannon and 80,000 men, with 34,000 additional land forces. A well digger at Cave Spings, Mo.,after digging down twenty feet,came upon a ci.ve which had been explored for a quarter of a mile, and is said to be particularly interesting and beautiful on account of its abundant stalactites and stalagmites. Soundings recently made in Crater Lake, Oregon, by Captain JJutton 01 tne United States Geological Survey, sho* thai, it is the deepest body of fresh watet on the continent. The lowest depth reached was J,996 feet,and it is believed that the greatest depth has not yet been sounded. There was no exact enumeration of the inhabitants at the beginning of the Fre:ach and Indian War (1754) in the colonies, but Mr. Bancroft, the^historian, estimates the number as follows: Massachuiietts, 207,000; New Hampshire, 50,000:. Connecticut, 136,000; Rhode Island, 40,000; New York, 06,000; Virginia, 284,000. The total number in the United States was 1,425,000 persons. When Commodore Perry had fought the victorious battle on Lake Eiie, and his eye saw at a glance that victory was ecure, he wrote in pencil on the back of an old letter, resting the paper on his navy cap, the following dispatch to General Harrison: "We have met the immy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, O. H. Perry." The most dangerous whirlpool on the New England coast is that near Deer Islard Point, opposite Eastport, in Pas?amf.quoddy Bay. At times, when the .tide backs up against a strong wind, a grea; roaring is hcaid> the whirlpool, Fully an acre in extent, swells up to the height of twenty feet, like a great hill of yeast; then, falling back, forms a deep, black, infernal-looking bowl. The fishermen in the neighborhood shun the whirlpool as they would the sulphurous pit. Six Sons Dead by Violence. Silas Case is a farmer living in Searcy County, Ark., in a rough log cabin situated, in a gulch in the Boston Mountains, and surrounded by a clearing of many acres in extent, from which he has earned a living for his wife and nine children?seven sons and two daughters. All these children grew up, h*it only one son is living and only be and the two daughters are beneath the old roof-tree which sheltered them in infancy. For more than half a century Case has dwelt in this mountain retreat. The nearest neighbor is five miles distant. The nearest town is eighteen miles away. One strikes the railway after a journey of 100 miles through a virtual wilderness, the wild and rugged country being interspersed here and there withsmsill settlements. Case himself is a splendid specimen of manhood. He is sixty-seven yenrs old, but straight as an arrow, brave as a lion and strong as a giant. He is a dead shot with the rifle, and his cabin is stored with the skins of bears and deer which have fallen before his unerring aim. In the war with Mexico he led a company, and in the war of the rebellion ho began i as a priva te and ended as Captain on the side of the Union. Alter Hostilities ceased he returned to his cabin, content to end life in isolation and solitude. A strange fatality has attended his children. Two of his boys were killed by guerillas during the war. In lbfcO the revenue oncers raided a "moonshine" distillery in the L'oston Mountains. The "moonsh ners," though surprised, showed light, and several were wounded, among them two of the Case boys. They succceded in hiding in the underbush and thus escaped capture. One died from the effects of the wound live months after; the other died in Texas f^m the same cause a year later. In 18&, in a fight on Calf Creek, another of the boys was fatally stabbed, dying in a few days. Recently the father received word from Colorado City, Texas, that the son who accompanied his ill-fated brother to the State named had been shot and killed in a quarrel with a man on a ranch sixty miles beyond the town. Thus six have perished by violent means. The only surviving son is living quietly with his father. He has a violent temper, and only by shunning intercourse as much as possible with his fellowman can he hope to escape the fate which has overtaken his brothers. Most Valuable Square Mile in the World. The district undercharge of the Metropolitan police of Londou, is no less than thirty miles in diameter, and embraces a superficial extent of about. ?00 square miles, while the city and its liberties only covcr a single square mile. But no other square mile in the world is the centre of business interests so important, or contains such a mass of valuable property in the shape of bullion, cash, and convertible securities. The area of the city is merely a mile; but there nre about fifty miles of streets to be patrolled, and many of them during the daytime are crowded to exce-n, while after business hours they are relatively deserted. Banks, warehouses, and offices are lockcd up, or left in the care of a solitary watchman or housekeeper. Nevertheless even of a niirht some 50.000 fouIs are supposed to sleep in the city, which, aftoa all, is considerably more than the population of many a flourishing provincial town. The metropolitan district ha9 a population of some 4,000,000; and, including the business-men who come up from their suburban or country residences, it may be said to send all its adults into the city each working day. In other words, there is a daily influx of about 1,000,000, chiefly of busy men. The rising tide of incess:int traflic must be directed, especially where it comos in rushes or breaks into eddies, as at the great railway stations or on the bridges ?about the banks, the Mansion House, or the Stock Exchange. Where He Was Great. Miss Duffy?"I hear that you are engaged to young Solder, the plumber." Miss Puffy?"It is a fact, Jane." "It always struck me that he was a cold, callous creature." "Well, Jane, I confess that he does not do very much cooing, but on billing he cannot be surpassed."?Philadelphia Call. A poplar tree was recently cut down j nlaor MiHrtlpfsiwn Tnrl thflt mftM. uoai Aivn ?j j ? -? ured twenty-seven feet in circumference. The tree made 12,000 shingles, 1,000 rails, 600 feet of lumber and twenty-five cords of stove wood. Many Dakota farmers this year raised flax for fuel, a ton of flax being considered more valuable for heating purposes than ton of soft coal. A single fact Is worth a ship load of argument. This may well be applied to St Jacobs Oil, which is more efflcac om than all other liniments. Mr. John Gregg, a well-known citizen of Watsonvllle, California, found it to be indispensab'e as a cure for rheumatism. Price, fifty cents. A large and sonnd Missouri pumpkin, recently cut open, was found lo be filled with thrifty vines and leaves. The seeds had sprouted and sent out vines, t h< ngh there were no signs of decay, the meat being sound and sweet An ounce of discretion 1$ better than a ponnd of knowledge. Why not spend twentyfive cents for a battle of Red Star Cough Cure, and save a large doctor's bill ? A bio wolf attacked a little eight-year-old girl as she was driving the cows to water, near Comstock, Minn.; but one of the cows chareed the wolf, tossed it in the air,and then the farmer's dog came to the rescue, and the w olf fled. Ahother Life Saved. Abcut two years ago a prominent citizen 01 Chicago was told by his ph>slcians that he mus: die. They said his system was so debililated that there was nothing left to build on. He made up his mind to try a "'new departure." He got some of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" and took it according to dii ections. He began to improve at once. He "kept up the treatment for some months, and is to-day a well man. He says the "Discovery" saved his life. THE'United States Supreme Court decides that a criminal cannot be extradited for cne offense and tried for another. "Frailty, thy Name is Woman." -Hamlet. That she is frail, often in body, " 'Tis true, 'tis true 'tis a pity, And pity'tis, 'tis true." Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" is the best res orative onic for physical frailty in women, or female weaknesses or derangements. By druggists. Price reduced to one dollar. Qoeen Vi< T ">rta's dessert service of old Sevres?the fin st in the world?is Talued at $&0, COO. We ought not to be too anxious to encourage untried innovation, in cases of doubtful improvement. For a quarter of a century Dr. Sage's Catarrh Renr-edy has been before the public and passed through the severest test, and is pronounced the most reliable remedy for that disaereeable malady. Thousands of to timonials of its virtues. SO cents per bottle. By druggists^ Connecticut raisd 11,725.000 pounds of tobacco in 1886 against 13,000,000 pounds in 1885, Hints to Consumptives. Consumptives should use food as nourishing as can be had, and in a shape that will best agree with the stomach and taste of the patient. Out-door exercise is earnestly recommended If you are unable to take such exercise on horseback or on foot, that should furnish no ; excuse fdt shutting yourself in-doors, but you should take exercise in a carriage, or in some other way bring yourself in contact with the open air. Medicines which cause expectoration mu3t be avoided. For five hundred years physicians haVe tried to cure Consumption by using them, and have failed. Where there is great derangement of the secretions, with engorgement of air-cells, there is always profuse expectoration. Now Piso'a Cure removes the engorgement and the derangement of the secretions, and consequently (and in this way only) diminishes the amount of matter expectorated. This medicine does not dry up a cough, but removes the cause of it. "When it is impossible from debility or other causes to exercise freely in the open air, apartments occupied by the patient should be so ventilated as to ensure the constant accession of fresh air in abundance. The surface of the body Bhould be sponged as often as every third day with tepid water and a little soft-soap. (This Is preferable to any other.) After thoroughly drying, use friction with the hand moistened with oil, Cod-Liver or Olive is the best. This keeps the i pores of the skin in a soft, pliable condition, I which contributes materially to the unloading | of waste matter from the system through this organ. You will piease recoluc: we cure this disease by enabling the organs of the system to perform their functions In a normal way, or, In other woids, we remove obstruction?, while the recuperative powers of the syBtem cure the disease. We will here say a word in regard to a cough in the forming stage, where there is no constitutional or noticeable disease. A cough may or may not foreshadow serious evil; take it iu its mildest form, to say the least, it is a nu.sance, and should be abated. A cough is unlike any other symptom of disease. It stands a conspirator, with threatening voice, menacing the health and existence of a vital organ. Its first approacu is in whisEers unintelligible, and at first too ofttn uneeded, but in time it never fails to ma e itself understood?never fails to claim the attention of those on whom it calls. Ir you have a cough without disease of the lungs or serious constitutional disturbance, so munh fha hatfor an n. f?w do Pfl of Piso's G'Ure will bs all you may need, while If you ro far advanced In Consumption, several bottles may be required to effect a permanent cure. i>Irve Money for Your Work. Improve the g;od opportunities tint are offered you and you will receive more money for your l?bor. Hallett& Co.. Portland,Maine, will mail you, free, full informalionshowlng how you can make from $5 to $25 and upwards a day and live at home, wherever you may be located. You had better write to them at once. A number have made over 850 jn a day. All is new. Capital not required: Hallett & Co. will start you. Both sexes; all ages. Gr ind success attends overy worker. Send your address at once and see for yourself. If you feel as though water was gathering around the heart (heart-dropsy) or have heartrheumatism,palpitation of tne heart with suffocat!on,svmpathetic heart trouble?Dr. Kilmer's Ocean-Weed regulates, corrects and cures. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is agreeable to use. It Is not a liquid or a snuff. 60c. What is Scrofula I irt la that Immirltv In the blood, which, accumu latlng In the glands of the neck, produces unsightly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores on the arms, legs or feet; which developes ulcers In tho eycH, eari or note, often causing blindness Or deafness; which Is the origin of pimples, cancerous growths, or the many other manifestations usually ascribed to ' humors." It Is a more formidable enemy than consumption or cancer alone, for scrofula combines the worst possible features of both. Being the most ancient, It Is the most general of all dlseas s or affections, for very few persons arc entirely free from It. How can It be cured ? By taking Hood's Sarsaparllla, which, by the cures It has accomplished, often when other medicines hive failed, has proven Itself to be a potent and peculiar medicine for this disease. Some of these cures are really wonderful. If you suffer from scrofula In any of Its various forms be sure to give Hood's Sar^aparllla a trial. Send for book of cures. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Uasi. IOO Doses One Dollar COCKLE'S a mti on mi ic Mil I l"Dlkl WO PILLS, rHE QBE AT ENGLISH REMEDY For Llrer. Bile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Her curjr; contains only Pure Vegetable Intrr-dlents. Agent: C. N. CRITTENTOX, N?w York. BOOK AGENTS WANTED for PLATFORM ECHOES or LIVING TRUTHS FOB HJEAD AND HEAKT, ByJolmB.Gongh. * Hia last and crownln? life work, brim foil of thrillinc inter- I eat. bumor and pathos. Bright, pure, and good, full of I laughter and tears." it tell* at tight to aZZ. To it is added I A ' " ^ W. v. n "f VM AW A R. I the Life and D?*in o: .nr. uvuiu, ? ?c. ~ - IIOTT. 1000 AgcnU Wanted,?Men and Women. f 100 to f ?00 a month made. QTVUtanc* no hindrance as wa rire Ultra Terms and PavVreijhU. Writ* for circulars to A. D. WOliTlILNUTON <b CO, Hartford, Conn. SCALES awarded FIRST PREMIUM AT TIIE WORLD'S EXPOSITION, New Orlenn*. (Four Cold Medals. All other principal maker* competing). Track Scale*, Har Scales, Platform ficalcs, etc. Important patented IMPROVEMENTS. BEST VALUE for YOUR MONEY. full particula'rs, address I BUFFALO SCALE COMPANY""""" " Y^j Blair's Pills.aM Box, Cleanses the scaly and leaves the hair soft and beautiful. Hall's Hair Renewer. If you have any form of throat or Inns disease, take Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. Ladles, be sure and read the advertisement of Remedial Compound in another column. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle LYDIA L PIHKHAM'S Mm OS Eaa stood the test of twanty years aaaBemadytePemale Plsesses, relieving periodical pains, promoting a healthful regularity of seasons and coring wesVnsss, back-ache and consequent nervous distress. wits FUBTOSXXa SOLZLT TOR THB IXOtrnUTB HXiiETO 0? DISK nr. AVD TPS MUP or PAPf. It IS PROSPT at ACTVnK. BO WHAT on W01A1 BiTB 0 V EES mns, Pittsburg. Pa., Nor. 6th, 1883. Mrs. Lydla B. Pinkham: "As lsfreqnently the case with mothers who have reared large families, I have been a great sufferer for Tears from complaints incident to married life. I have tried the. skill of a number of physicians and the vlrtne of many medicines withont relief, and as an experiment I concluded to try yours, I can assaro yon that the benefits I have derived from it came not becanso of any fslth I had in it, for I bad bat slight hope of any permanent good, I am not a seeker after notoriety bnt I want to tell you that J have been wonderfully benefitted by your medicine. I am now nsing my fonrth bottle and it would take but little argument to persuade mo that my health Is fully restored, I should like to widely circulate the fact of Its wonderful curative powers." PHEBA C. ROOP. m hkarigrdgrsagrwmstrrtTtop, fuci ruoo. is- if? "ft? ifir SYS V-52 UNEXPE CTED. A MOTHER SAVED PROM AN UNTIMELY DEATH. Teara of Sorrrw Turned to Smile* of Re jolcjng. Rochester, Aug. 31, 1889. Pardee Medicine Co ?Gentlemen: I am now seventy-three years old, and until I w*s seventy I was always strong and healthy; but ttie amount of suffering I have endured since that time, I feel to be sufficient for a lifetime. I had a severe attack of sciatic rheumatism. whicb completely prostrated me; my iimra and leet, and in fact my whole body was so drawn out of shape that it was impossible to move without assistance. 1 was unable to straighten my limbs or to step on my feet for more than a year, and my life wti despaired of. Children ana friends were called in to see me die. I was treated by three good physicians, and they and my friends did all they conld to relieve my suffering, but to no avail. My hips were blistered, and my limbs robbed, batheu and bandaged, but nothing they could do afforded me even temporary relief. Tongue cannot describe my sneering. I urged them to let me try Dr. Pardee's remedy, as I had read so much about it, and of those who had been cured by its use, that it gave me conlldence in it, although x confess I had little or no faith in so-called patent medicines. The re i.edy was procured, and I commenced using it as directed, and after taking It a short time could see that it wiw helping me. I b> Ran to persp re freely, and as the perspiration increased the pain decreased, but my clothing and bedding was a sight to behold, being nearly "as yellow, as saffron." I had taken the Remedy but a short time, when I conld s'eep like a child, and relish my food like one. Thank God it has cured me, and lam to-day as healthy and strong as before and can walk and have as free use of my limbs as ever.. I have recommenced your reined v to very many who were afflicted, and I do notkLOW of a case it has not cnred. I am confident that It will cure young people, if it will core at my age. Yon are at liberty tousa mt name, if it will be the means of inducing any poor sufferer to nse your excellent Remedy. 1 am very gratefully yours. MRS. JANE A. FLACK. 300 Jefferson Avenne, Rochester, N. Y. The sale of Dr. Pardee's Remedy for the past three months in Western New York has exceeded that of any remedy known, By cures who.ly unprecedented in the history of medicines it has proven its right to the title of "The Greatait Blood Purifier" ever offered to the afflicted. We challenge any meaicwe lugauwua nyu.cukuuu at uuuc, u> wherever used, like that wiiich has been poured upon Dr. Pard e's Remedy. The permanent cures it has effected have made for it a reputation that no other remedy has been able to atta'n. Send for pamph et. PARDEE MEDICINE CO., . Rochester, N. Y. W'O^WFK SUCCESS. ECONOMY IS WEALTH. PATTERNS FREE! A]1 that you wish to use during the year, by subscribing for Demorest's Monthly. 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Pierce** Golden Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin* buoyant spirit*, vital strength, ana soundness of constitution, will be established. CONSUMPTION, ? which is Scrofulous Disease of ths -f. Lungs, is promptly and certainly arrested and cured by this God-given remedy, if taken , before the last stages of the disease are reached. Prom its wonderful power over this terribly , fatal disease, when first offering this now eel- ..'fa ebrated remedy to the public. Dr. Pontes thought seriously of calling it his KCo>* , sumption Cure," but abandoned that name ^ as too limited for a medicine which, from its . wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequsted, not only as a remedy for consumption of the lungs, but for all CHRONIC DISEASES or TOT Liver, Blood, and Lungs. w w *** ..--if. If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have . ". sallow color of skin, or yellowlab-brown rpots tiri' on face or body, frequent headache or d?> ncas, bad taste In mouth,Internal heat or cbillfl. . .-i'.fy alternating with hot flashes, low spirits ana gloomy borebodlngs, irregular appetite, and coated tongue, you are suffering'from India geatlon, Dyapcpnla, and Torplilirtft or "Biliousness." In many cases only part of these symptoms are experienced. As a remedy for all such cases, Dr. PlereOTi Golden Medical Discovery has. no - ^ equal. . For Weak Langs, Spitting of Bloody Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis. ' xpt Severe Coughs, Consumption, and kindred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. Send ten cents in stamp* for Dr. Pierce s book on Consumption. Sold by Dru ggista, PRICE $1.00, fob'^STOO! ferld't SIsptBsary HiM luoelttiM, . Proprietors, 668 Main St^ BunrALO, N. Y. ^Ex^\eVCO*S LITTLE uvee "V ?\voi? Pins. ANTI-BILIOUS and CATHARTIC. Sold by Drngglata. 25 cents a vlaL e %> $500 REWARD HI is offered toy the proprietor wMD of Dr. Bage'a Catarrh Bemedy ' W9 foracaaeof catarrh which they W f. vii cannot cure. H \ jM If ypu have a discharge frost V Ml tM the noee. offensive or otberwise, partial loss of smell, taste, or bearing, weak eyes, du! lpaia -fS or pressure in head, 70a have Catarrh. Thoo- ; sands of cases terminate in consumption. > Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rxmxdt cures the worrt cases of Catarrh.''Cold in th? HmuL," and Catarrhal Headache. 60 oents. V^New and 8pecific Female plaints and i ments so common with oi?r | best FEMALE Population. | **"?^>5^ Recommended and prescribed by the belt phyal! cJans In the world. ' IT WILL CURB the wont form of TeMna of 1 the Uterus. Lcucorrhcea, Irregular and Painful' . ' Menttruaiion, all Ovarian trouble*, Inflammation and Ulceration, Flooding*, all Displacement* sail vAr? 1 the consequent ?p!nal weakness, and 1* especially > adapted to the Change of Life.. 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