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REV DR TALilAGE. I THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: The King's Highway. Text: "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men. though fools, shall not err therein. No Von shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not be. found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and ever'astiny joy unon their heads; they shall I obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.?Isaiah xxxv., 8-10. There are thousands of people here this morning who want to find the right road. You sometimes see a person halting at crossroads, and you can tell by his looks that he wishes to ask a question as to what direction he had better take. And I stand in your presence this morning conscious of the fact there are many of you here who realize that there are a thousand wrong roais, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come in to ask which one it is. Mere is one road that opens widely, but I have not much faith in it. There are a great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must ( pay in tear?, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard in regard to the right way, I believe it is the wrong way. Hera is another road. On either side of it are houses of sinful entertainment, and invitations to come in and dine aod rest. Ibut from the looks of the people who stand en the piazza I am very certain that it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses' hoofs clatter and wring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they saw the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry "Whoa! whoa!" But it is too late, and? crash!?they go over the embankment. We shall turn this morning and see if we cannot find a different kind of a road. You have heard of the Appian Way. It was three hundred and fifty miles long. It was twenty-four feet wide, and on either side the road was a path for foot passengers. But X nave to is rooming to ten you ui a built before the Appian Way, and yet it is as good as when first construed. Millions of souls have gone over it. Millions mora will come. First, this road of the text is the Zing's highway. Well, my Lord the King decided to ouild a highway irom earth to heaven. It should span all tne chasms of human wretchedness; it should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of the Cross, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent His Son to build that road. He put head and hand and heart to it, anl after the road was completed, waved His blistered hand over the way crying, "It is finished." Still further?this road spoken of i3 a clean road. Many a fine road haa become miry and foul becausa it has not been properly cared for; but my text says the unclean shall not walk on this one. Room on exttler S138 lO inrow anrajr jruur siua. iu* dee<l, if you want to carry them along, you are not on the right road. That bridge will break. tho39 overhanging rocks will fall, the nixht will come down, leaving you at the i mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the 1 ve~y next turn of the road you will perish. But if you are really on this clean road of which 1 have been speaking, then vou will stop ever and anon to wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journsy you will be crying out, "Create within me a clean heart!" If you have no such asoirations as that it proves that you have mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the fingerboard above your head you may read upon it the words, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death." Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you have any idea that you can carry along your sins, your lusts, you worldliness and yet to the end of the (Jdristian race you are so awfully mistaken that, in the name of God, this morn* ing I shatter the delusion* Still further, the road spoken of is a plain road. "The wayfaring men, though fools, ?h.?H not err therein"?that is, if a man is three-fourth an idot he can find this road just as well as if he were a philosopher. Many a man has been familiar with all the higher branches of mathematics and yet could not do the simple sum, ''What shall it {jroflt a man if be gain the whol9 world and osd his own soul?" Many a man has been a fine reader of tragedies and poems and yet could not "readjhis title clear to mansions in the skies." Many a man has botanized across the continent and yet did not know the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the " ? 1?11 atroyed. Kept by the power of God through faith onto complete salvation. Everlastingly taf e. The severest trial to which you can subject a Christian man is to kill him, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child of God is heaven. The body is only the old slippers that he throws aside just before putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No tires can consume it. No floods can drown it. No devils can capture it. His soul is safe. His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. "But" you say, "suppose his store burns up?" Why, then It will ?nly be a change oit investments from earthly to heavenly securities. "But," you say, "suppose his rrnam ilnwn iinHpr th? hoof of V alley." cut. 11 uuo siuu wuuio iu uio i i^ut spirit, asking the way to heaven, he will n't it a plain way. The pardon 2s Dlain. The peace is plain. Every thing is plain. He who tries to get on the road to heaven through the New Testament teaching will get on beautifully. He who goes through philosophical discussion will not get on at all. Christ says, "Come to Me, and I will take all your sins away, and I will take all your troubles away." Now. what is the use of my discussing it any more? Is not that plain? After this Bible has pointed you the way to heaven, is it wiaa for ma to detain you with any discussion about the Vinman will a* whofhar tha nmuru Ul LUC tlUIUOU ?>, V. F.MVM.V. - atonement is limited or unlimited? There is the road?go on it. It is a plain way. Still further, this road to heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveler in those an* cient highways would think himself perfectly secure, not knowing there was a lion by the way burying his head deep between his paws, and then when the right moment came, under the fear ml spring, the man's life was gone and there was a mauled car* cass by the roadside. But, says my text, 4tNo lion shall be there." I wish I could make you feel this morning your entire security. I tell you plainly that one minute alter a man has become a child of God he is as safe as though he had been ten thousand years in heaven. He may slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but he cannot be de scorn and contempt?' The name will be bo much brighter in glory. "Suppose hisphysicil health fails?" God will pour into him the floods of everlasting health, and it will not make any difference. Earthly subtraction is heavenly addition. The teert-s of earth are the crystals of heaven. As they take rags and tatters and put them through the paper mill and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly destitution, under the cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written "ternaJ emancipation. Still furt'cer, th9 roa 1 spo'ten of is a pleasant road. God gives a bond of indemnity against all evil to everv man that treads it. "All thin?s work together for good to those who love God." No *veapon formed against Tkof ic fUo Ks-ins) tuom can piuairci. xuau io tuv sealed anl delivered by the President of the universe. What is the use of your frettinv, O child of God, about fool? "Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into bands, yet vour heavenly Father feedeth them." And will Kb take care of the sparrow, will Hp take care of the hawk, and let you die? "What is the use of your fretting about clothes? "Conaider the lilies of the field. Shall He not much mora clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Ob, this King's highway ! Trees of life on either side beading over until their branches interlock and drop midway their fruit and shade. Houses oT entertainment on either side of the road for poor pilsrnms. Tables spread with a feast of good things and walls adorned with apoles of gold in pictures of silver. I start out on this Kind's hi-rhway, and I find a harper, and I say, "'.Vhat in your name?" The harper makes no response, | but leaves me to guess, as with his eyes toward heaven and his hand upon the trem- I blingstrings this tune com-is rippling out upon the air: "The Lord is my light and my sal- I vation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is | the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be i afraid?" T nr\ a Kttla fnrf.hnr nn the* same road and I meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say, "Haven't you got some music for a tired {>ilgrim?" And wiping his lip and taking a ong breatb, he puts his mouth to the trumpet and pours forth this strain: "They shall hunger no more, neither shall they thirst any more, neither ?ball the sua light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." x go a little distance farther on the same road, and I meet a maiden of Israel. She has no harp, but she has cymbals. They look as if they had rustei from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Israel, ''Have M -? -'1 :_ > A?r1 1H,? you no song lor a tireu piigiuu.- uu ?<? the clang of victors' shields the cymbals clap as Miriam begins to discourse, "Sing ye to the Lord, for He bath triumphed gloriously; the horse and the rider hath He thrown into the sea." X pursue this subject only one step fkrtner. What is ths terminus? I do not oare how fine a road you may put me on, I want to know where ft comes out, My text declares it, ''The redeemed of the Lord come to Zion." You know what Zioa was. That was the King's palace. It was a mountain fastness. It was impregnable. And so hnavMi is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has long enough range to hell thoee towers. Let all the batteries of earth and hell blazaaway; they cannot break in these gates. Gibraltar was taken; Seb&stopol was taken; Babylon fell; but those walls of heaven shall never surrender either to humanity or satanic besiegecnent. The Lord God Almighty is the defense of it. Great capital of the universe! Terminus of the King's highway 1 When my last wound is healed, when tho last heartbreak is ended, when the last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when the redeemed of the Lord shall come to Zion, then let the harpers take down their harps, and all the trumpters take down their trumpets; and all across heaven there be chorus of morning stars, chorus of white robed victors, chorus of martyrs from under the throne, chorus of age?, chorus of worlds, and there be but one sons; sung, and but one name spoken, and but one throne honored?that of Jesus only. The Felt Industry. Great improvements have been raaue of late years in the felting industry. Felt is composed of wool, fur or hair, of which the fibres a?e so entangled and interlaced that they cannot readily bo separated, and this is done without spinning or weaving. Its use for caps, bosierj, floor cloth, cloaks and tents his long been known in the East by the nomads of the desert. At present it is largely made Irom waste wool, which is first deprived of its oil, then carded and placed in a machine. Here it is kept wet with hot water and subjected to a process of beating by which the fibres are made to move upon each other until the interlocking of their parts and the curling of the fibre itself unite the whole into a compact sheet of felt. The "fulling" of cloth is but a partial felting of wool already woven. This felted wool is used for carpets, carpet covers, course hats, carriage linings, pads in saddlery, shoulder pads for men's clothing, slippers and shoes and even for cloaks and "other garments. The cheapest woolen rags and other articles are worked into felt for covering steam boilers, although felt is being gradually superseded for that purpose by asbestos. Roofing felt is a coarse kind, usually coated and filled with coal tar, and sometimes with tar and powdered slate. Felt stiffened wiiu aexinne is useu lor masiag surgeons' splints. By far the most important use to which felt is put is that of making hats. Technically felt hats are of three kinds, "plain soft," "plain hard" and "napped" or "xuffled." The quality of felt hats has a wide range, and in the finer and more expensive qualities the entire body is composed of fur. For commoner qualities a mixture of fur and Saxony wool is used, and for the lowest kinds wool alone is employed. The fur used by hatters consists principally of the hair of rabbits (technically called coneys) and hares, with some proportion of nutria, musquash and beaver hair, and generally any parings and cuttings that can be obtained from furriers. L1)! ?<? tnf An/?A/^ /rtn /ftlfinri aha /^AnairT/i/l fUlO iUfcCUUOU IVt ICIUUg OlOUCpiYOU VI their long, coarse hairs, after which they are treated with a 3olution of nitrate of mercury, an operation called carroting or "secretage," which greatly increases the felting properties of the fur. The fur is then cut by hand or machine from the skin, and in this state it is delivered to the hatmaker. Rabbit fur for hat making now comes in large quantities from Australia, and it is also largely collected in the United Kingdom and in Northern Europe. A ' considerable amount of rabbit fur is exported from Great Britain to the United State3. School Age in Various States. The age at which pupils are allowed to enter and to continue in the public schoob differs greatly. Of the fortyeight States and Territories six admit them at four years of age, nineteen .it five, twenty at six, three at seven and one at eight. ground conee, ana mrougu mc wttsa ? poured cold water. A strong solution of coffee slowly drips from the narrow end of the tube, and this liquid i9 carefully put in up in air-tight vessels, to be warmed in small quantities and drunk on the journey.?New Orleans Picayune. The man who bays the most expensive books is often the one who seldom reads them. "Every man who has tested joy, will admit that finally it has a bitter taste. The States admitting them at four are Maine, Connecticut, Florida and Montana. The schools of Alabama and North and South Dakota do not receive them till they are seven, and those of Texas exclude them till they are eight, and only allow them to attend till they are sixteen. Twenty-five of the States and Territories allow pupils to attend the public schools till they arrive at the age of twenty-one. Of the remainder the "school age" terminates at twenty in nine, at eighteen in seven, at sixteen in ? ^ ^ " 4-?i/-??-? in f Kroo P h inn r?A LUTCV iiUU Ub UilUVU 4U hmwwi~~*ymvui^v j Journal. How Guatemalans Make Tea. Guatemalans think that there is no better coffee raised anywhere in the world than oa their own plantations, and when they travel abroad, to make sure of having good coffee, they take along a store of their own. A long glass tube, several inches in diameter, but tapering to a tunnel at one end, i9 tilled with ~ L I RELIGIOUS READING. SOUL DEFORMITY. Eyes have they, But !o! they cannot see Beyond selfs'liigotrv and things of clay: Like men who blindly grope their sunless way Amid the tombs of dark uncertainty. Ears have they, But lo! they cannot hear Save the loud crash of ruin and decay. Delusion's dismal din and Doubt's stfray. The skeptic's waverin? call, the scoffer's jeer. Thoy ran not sec the Shepherd as be stands With outstretched hands; ^ , | They cannot npar nun caning icuutiy , "Come unto me." They cannot see the Saviour's bleeding wounds, Nor bear the sounds Of grief be uttered: they pass blindly by Dread Calvary. Bid him unstop thy hearing, lo I thine ears His blessing cheers; Bid him but touch thine eyelids, lo! thy way Is perfect day. ?[F. W. Hutt. UNSELFISH WOJtK. Work of some sdrt is made necessary to us by the law of God, by the demands of our own natures and by our-relation to others. The kind of work we shall do and the manner of doiug it, are vriih us matters of choice. Ordinarily we choose the most agreeable work, or that which at least conduces best to our own selfish interests, and we feel often nl?a?p?l ns wn t,i nirresss. but discover OUT Helves unsatisfied at the completion of our cherished schemes. We venture to suggest that there is a more excellent way, and that if it be followed we shall find pleasure not only in the progress of our work, but also satisfaction in its consummation. The path we propose to tread is that of unselfishness and self-denial. Tte greatest victories ever won are those over 6elf. and the purest happiness ever secured comes through unselfish devotion to the interest of others. We have begun to discover that the very best reason for the performance ot any duty is the fact that we do not want to do it. Pride sometimes whispers a protest, and self-love pats in its ufrnno' nlp?. but dutv makes its stern de* I man<fan(l will not tolerate dallying with temptation, since it puts conscience vigorously to work, and if we intend to be true at ali wc must follow the dictates of an enlightened conscience and go with alacrity wherever it leads. We sty with alacrity, because a mere sullen submission, and only mechanical obedience, not only fail to give us the joy of service, but prevent the results being as Valuable to God and man. < The question of motive should be carefully pvamfnpiL Sometimes it mav be four.il that the good we are doing, is being done from selfish motives altogether. We may take great pleasure in being considered liberal, or, alas, may find out that our public piety is to be seen of men ! and further scrutiny may be shown us to be so near akin to a hypocrite that we may well be alarmed, and ask God to pardon and guide us arigbt. If our motives lie pure, it will soon be discovered that we are thinking only of duty for its owndear sake, and tbat self does not even raise its voice. The joy we can bring into other lives is quickly reflected back on our own, aud we may yet learn the lesson the Master teaches us, who for "the joy tbat was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."?[Selected. TEACH OBEDIENCE. The Secretary of the I'rison Association? which interests itself especially in the reformation of the convict and restoration of the discharged prisoner to a decent position in society?has given it as his opinion, the result of years of study, tbat the greater proportion of crime is due to the failure of parents to teach their children to obey. That spirit of lawlessness, that rebellion against authority and contempt for the majesty of the law to which, in fact, nearly til crime may be ultimately traced, are. is is evident, entirely opposed to a spirit of obedience; and it requires little serious reflection to make evident tbat ;he boy, the girl to whom obedience to par?nts has become second nature is not likely to become a prey, in mature years, to tue spirit of lawlessness. And the converse reasoning makes plain that those who have not been trained to obedience in childhood, to the subordination of their own will to parental authority, are peculiarly open to the attacks of this' spirit. However intelligent, however cultivated they may be, it needs only a temptation or a provocation wbicb appeals to them for them to fall a prey. This thought may serve to throw some light upon the puzzle presented by the fact that the spread of education does not seem to diminish crime. It is evident that a greater intelligence, without a corresponding increase of self-control and the power of selfdenial, only affords increased opportunity ' for the breaking of law and for sins against socicty. Without falling into the error of those who say. "the former times were better than these," it is impossible not to see that there was never a time, in our civiliza UUII ?L ica3L, nucu uai cuiai wuwui *?o ou slight, when the reins of family discipline were so loosely held and the independence of the child bejran at so early an age. There is much that is beautiful, much that is desirabie, in the changed relations between parent and child in the present day a? compared with a hundred or even fifty years ago; there is even-thing in favor of the loving familiarity of today over the stern distance and cold formality of the former time. But there is no reason why loving familial ity should not exist in connection witn the strictest obedience. In these days of rampant lawlessness the study of the parent should be to find th* way to cultivate both \ utiles.?[American .Messenger. THE NEW SOIL. It cannot fail to strike you, in reading missionary annals, that the true converts from heathenism often present a higher form of Christianity than the average member of our old established churches. They are deficient in knowledge, perhaps, but in their simple faith in the gospel, their childlike trust in Gcd, their absolute resigtion to hisjwill, their realization of joys to come, tbev are nearer to the standard of apostolic Christianity than some of us. Now lay alongside of this the fear that sometimes oppresses us, lest, in the mid^t of passion and prejudice, of worldliness and selfishness, of ritualism and superstition, of denominational fierceness, of atheism and liberalism, the pure faith of the church should be damaged. And what suggests itself? Why that these plants springing up ? ? aa<1 tUn&A ImniliAri fK nna niun uu ircsu 3Uii, lucac iivouau vuiiavtuuo, tunj be conservers of the truth for us, and may give back to us the gospel we are now sending to them! Then let us speed the messengers who are to carry the glad tidings to the nations still sitting in darkness and in the region of the shadow of death.?[American Messenger. god's kxistesce. Galileo, the most profound philosopher of his age, when interrogated by the Inquisit on as to his belief of a Supreme Being, replied, pointing to a straw on the floor of his dungeon, that from the structure of that object alone, he would infer with certainty the existence of an intelligent Creator. Man-like is it to fall into sin; Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Saint-like is it for sin to grieve; Christ-like is it all sin to leave. ? [Theodore Culyer, D. D. We cannot have everything In this world. If wo have health, talent and riches, we must have the peculiar temptations which accompany them. God always knows what Is best for us; we what Is best for ourselves?seldom. Why Is a young man courting a girt like a suicide? Because he's her fellow, d'er ?ee? The point of this Joke has been brought a long distance, and is tired. TEMPERANCE. BE PURE, BOYS. Be pure! Thy very lip* be pure! Ob, stain them oot with words of wrong, Nor soil them with the touch of drink That weakens all whom Gad made strong. Bepuret Ob, letthy hands be clean; By touch of sin bens'er defiled. To smite the wroasr, a man be thou; In innocence, be thou a child! Be pure! Thy feet be pure, aiii 'hun^ xne darn ana miry ways or sin. Take clean, bright paths that aim at heaven; Whosteadfast climbs shall eater in. Be pure! If thou within be clean, Thy life will shins e'en as the light. Then, Father, hear Thy children cry, And make our souls like snowflakes white. -Rev. E. A. Rand, in Temperance Banner. THE GREAT KNOCKER-OUT. The vanquished John L. s reported to have remarked, while the bitterness of defeat was yet fresh upon him, that "booza did it." It he did make this sorrowful observation on the powers of old John Barleycorn to destroy and break down everything, inclining brain and muscle, be was unwittingly preaching a most effective temperance lecture. Certainly a devotion to alcoholic drinks?even an occasional one?is whollv incompatible with good physical training for a display of the best strength. If the ancient gladiators had bacome fond oi "bard drinks," like our modern one?, we should never have heard much about their prowess. Intoxication is the great knocker-out .?New York Journal. TOP THK MA.WrACrniBfc While we permit the manufacture of dis- j tilled liquors we must submit to the traffic in the same, and d re Dare as best we can for the degradation and devastation as ths remit of what our Government is pleased to term a national industry. We might as well commence to level the forest by clipping at the leaves and twigs of the trees in malting ready for the grain fields as to spend our time and substance in battling against the methods of the sale of alcholic stimulants. We must go to the rootof the matter ani devote our time ani means to abolishing the manufacture of distilled liquors, except for_medicinal anc'l ] mauuractunng purposes. We believe that the indulgence in Jager t ear and malt liquors of every kind as a beverage must eventually lead to the indulgence in dfctille I liquor?. When we succeed ridding the country of all alcoholic stimulants as a beverage, niaotenths of the criminals of our cities will become valuable producing citizens.?Church Union. OPINIONS OK DOCTO tS. Alcohol is n ither a food, nor a generator offorciia the human bodv; and I have found no case of disease, and no emergency arising from accident, that I could not treat more successfully without any form of fermented or distilled liquor than with.?N. S. DaviB, M. D. Alcohol is the one evil cenus, whether in wine or ale or whisky, and is killing the race of men. Stay the ravages of this one poison, alcohol, that king of poison?, the raigbtifxjf. ?Mnnn nt thn rinvil arrl the millennium will soon dawn.?tVillurd Parker, M. D. The day is parsed when, upon dietic or medical groun there is any indispensable call for the raoierate or habitual use of alcoholic beverages.?Ezra M. Hunter, M. D. Men who do not take alcoholic drinks are always warmer, and in that respect vitally stronger than those who take alcohol.?B. W. Richardson, M. D. So Ion? as alcohol retains a placs among sick patients, so long will there be drunkards.?R. D. Mussey, M. D. tftat as intoxicated father did. A man was arreste I in Denrer recently charged with abusing his children in a mast cruel manner. The tale of a drunken father's cruelty, told by his children, was looked into by Lieuteuant Clay, who examined the b."?y's back. It was terribly lacerated and covered with big, swollen, red welts from his nsck to bis lower limbs. The boy stated that the father came home intoxicated the day before the complaint was made. He demanded. money or the boy to buy more liquor. The little fellow earns his money selling papers, and, the small mite it is, he takes home to his sister to purchase food for the family. He refused the man the money and was beaten with a long strap, tied in a series of Hard knots. The father finally released the boy and he and his sister made their way down town. The sister is seventeen years old and large for her age. She has a faca that would be pretty it it was not for the marks of pain and hardships stamped taere. The girl takes in washing when she can gee the work, and adds her earning* to those of her brother toward the family's support. The poor girl told of many beatings she had received from her father while he was drui-'lc. The mother of the children is dead, and they have to look after their father and bear his Mhn<u> alnnn THE DRINK CUKSK IS A LA. SKA.. The Washington Temperanc) Majazine, in an article upon ''Intemparanc) in Alaska," recounts the murderous acts of violence on the part of the liqu >r vanlers, and says: "The Indians of Alaska are orderly and peaceable when sobsr, but when drunk their brutality and indecency are said to be almost beyond conception. The traffic in liquor practically renders futile the work of the missionary. In this connection it may not be out of place to append the statement of a barkeeper in a lea ling Seattle hotel, recently publish9i in a daily paper. It gives an idea of the villaiuou9 compounds the beings, calling themselves msn. furnish to those commonly, but erroneously, thoujht to be their inferiors. He is reported as saying: " 'You have hear l of that whisky they send to the Alaska Indians, haven't you? Weil, I can't 3how you any such stuff here, but I can give you my word that it's cheap to make and profitable to sell. I once worked for a wholesale house that distilled such whisky for the Indians, and the pro* -1** Vau Km ir fh -i aaI /-vi?innr cessi IB quite aimyic. M Uli uuj .ub | matter?a tasteless, thick, brown liquid?a little of which will give the right tint to a I good deal of water or alcohol Iu addition to this oolor the whisky is made up of alcohol, glycerine, an i perhaps a litule curacoa to improve the flavor. You can make it rizht in the shop, an1 no time at all u required to 'age' it. The cose, I should judsje, is about $1 a gallon; the dealer gets say 12.50 for it, and the Indians pay 110. The business is profitable. At the mining camps this kind of whisky is sometimes sold. If a man only koops the ingredients on hand he can make it up for himself and save money."' TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. It isn't the drop i.i wages tbit hurts a man so much ns the drop he takes after getting his wages. On an average each inhabitant of France consumes fifty liters, or quart?, of wine iua year. In Paris they do oatter?or worse? with an average consumption of 193 liters. Cabbage is said to be a renedy for intoxication. fin anci?nt Egyptians always ate it at dinner wh3n they expected to drink much wine. In Europi nearly all the rem(vlias sold for intoxication contain cabbage seed. During the elevan months oa ling Miy 21, over six hundred thouiaa 1 gillousot rum wero sent to Africa to evangelizi the lnathen. All but about thirty thousand gallons wore seat from tlie New England 'states whore the exportation of rum still leads. Mrs. Lenoro Birry-La'ce, of 8t Louh, Mo., bos formed the drst whits ribbon so ciety of Catholic wo nan of which there is any record. She did this with the full approval of the Vicar-General, who euthu3i astically enlorsed the wori. There are sixty members in this new union. They wear the white ribbon attached to a silver cross. The Intor-Stato Convention of the Wo man's Christian Temperanca Union, which assembled at Mountain Lake Parte, Mi., was a notable success. It is said the ladies "suuj, prayed, preached, talked, cheered and even whistled teomerance " Joseph Cook's ad* dross ou "Rumssllers as Robbers and Rulers" draw a large crowd and was productive ot great jjooi. In the struggle of life the hero and the coward, the conquerer and conquered, need sympathy equally. Often the mind which upholds others needs itself to be upheld; the honest heane which seems so bold and true 1b fainting from secret sorrow, dying from some little wound which sympathy could stanch, the pain of which it could alleviate. TROTTING WONDERS. rHE PNEUMATIC SULKIES MAKE MARVELOUS TIME POSSIBLE. I Brilliant Performances ot Nancy Hanks and Sunol?Advantages of the .Air-Cushioned Wheel ?The Speed Limit. i I AUD S., Suriol and 'ir^wj J Nancy Hanks?which t^iem ^MtM \ y M Should you ask li Wmn^K ffl thi8 queatioa ?t a I Yl MII certa'n ruddy, pleasl* Yy ^^5II J ant faced, briakiV'r rll mannerec* Scjtch?\ / J! Yorker. [ V^\ y?u wou^ receive \S~ lor aoswer au emphatic: "Maud!" Well may Robert Bonner give this opinion and cling with enthusiastic loyalty to his favorite, that magnificent : NANCY marc whose record of 2:08? on a regulation oval track seven years ago is in the minds of most impartial judges the best trotting performance the world has ever witnessed. Sunol's 2:08?, made over the time-destroying, mathematically-ingenious, kiie-shaped track, is inferior as regards absolute speed, Mr. Bonner claims, to Maud S.'s time, inasmuch as the kite track is undoubtedly from two to three seconds faster than the oval. Nancy Hanks's 2:07J, though made on an oval, he asserts is also inferior, because Mr. Forbes's game little Kentucky six-year-old dragged one of i1 ?'iarloaa CD6 WIUCUICU) an *^iv<wvu t JW?*WWWJ pneumatic sulkies just coming into vogue. This fact made her time, he contends, at least two seconds faster than it otherwise would have been. Maud S. having had neither the kite track nor the "bicycle" sulky to assist her, and, furthermore, trotting her 208$ back in 1885 on a track poorly planned as compared with those ot today, may be judged to have made the equivalent cf 2:04 had she been assisted by all three of these aids. Consequently Mr. Bonner is emphatic in his conviction that she is queen of the turf, though she may have been tecnmcany aemronea. In talking about Maud S. and her i younger rivals Mr. Bonner made a prediction of great interest to lovers of the trotting hor*e. "I think," said he, "that the time limit for trcttors has nearly been reached. I place it at 2:05." [The great little champion of the trotting turf, the peerlesi Nancy Haaks, has added new honors to the fullness of her fame. On the kite shaped track at Independence, Iowa, piloted by that prince of drivers, Budd Doble, she trotted from wire to wire without a break or falter in the sensational time of 2;ud?. i This same trotting wonder also broke ' 8 VI tbe world's record for the regulation track by going a mile in 2:07 at the State Fair grounds, St. Paul, Minn.?Ed.] Mr. Bonner has been studying the pneumatic sulky and does not scruple to say that it is going to revolutionize trotting times. Every good trotter is now driven to it, he says. He ascribes Nancy Hanks's brilliant record to it and will buy two or three pneumatic sulkies as soon as he decides what size is best adapted to Sunol. Then he will send Polif/Mtnio flllir fnr flip I luuis apccvijr v?twv?ui? ?w world's trotting record. Regarding the advantages of the pneumatic tired sulky Mr. Bonner said to a Press man: "The ball bearings form the most important improvement the new sulky shows. The axle friction is less by a good deal than that of the old wheel. Marvin, who is training Sunol at Meadville, gave me an object lesson showing this. He held up the shafts of a pneumatic and told his boy to press a forefinger against the slat. With c-ven that slight pressure the vehicle quickly ? Ka/ib-n?or/1 T.of/ir An hftll LLIUVCU Ua^anuiu. uitvvi vu the sulky lifted so that one wheel was free from the ground; he then started the wheel whirliDg and it spun until I began to think perpetual motion had been found at last. It is easily appreciated that such a factor as that rrrust help a horse to finish with comparative ease, for strength is saved?the strength which used to be employed is overcom| ing the greater friction of the cone bearI ings. | ''Moreover, the new sulky takes the i 4-tr- _ I turns without sliding, which of itself is a big advantage. "There is also much less spoke vibration in the new %ulky than there was in the old. Should you ride behind a trotter in a steel tired sulky you would at once notice a jarring caused by the wind whistling through the spokes. But in the pneumatic the friction between the wheel and the track surface is greatly modified by the soft rubber tire, and there is little vibration among the spokes. This applies to :both the turns and the straightaways, but to the latter particularly. The vibration in the old sulky was a reason for not making it lighter. It made a light sulky likely to suddenly weaken, and it also mildly martyred some drivers who developed kidney trouble from riding on the old school bone sbaicers. uniy two yeura ago Orrin Hickok, one of the very best drivers of his time, was obliged to go to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in consequence of n kidney affection. "Again, consider how the old sulky cut into the track. The steel tire was only three-quarters or seven-eighths of an inch in width. The weight of the ve i the 28-inch wheel pneumatic sulkt. HANKS, v hicle and the driver rested on two narrow unyielding strips of hard steel?that is, some 200 pounds pressed them into the track?and actually the trotter was A. A.?Position of ball bearings. B. B.?Hollow steel backbone. pulling up bill during the mile; drawing 200 pounds up a grade very slight, to be sure, but certainly worth talcing into ac-' COUQ& wneu quarter sauuus arc uicaa* ured. The soft cushioas of the pneumatic tirc3 leave hardly any trace on the track. They are twice as broad as the steel tires, and if there is any pulling up hill it is too slight to be even imagined. "The new sulky also passes over pebbles, etc., without jarring. A pebble is on the track. The steel tire hits it and an ugly jar is felt, setting the spokes to greater vibration and annoying a nervous driver. But when the pudding like surface of the pneumatic hits the pebble it instantly 'gives' to it, and the driver is literally ignorant of its presence on the track. This may seem too trivial for consideration, but horse owners know that it is not." Mr. Bonner is of opinion that the new IOL. i sulky will restore to the regulation track its former place. The oval has been judged to be slower than the kite, because it has two comparatively sharp turns to the one and easy turn of the T"*K? fov?rr fHp Kite* DUb UUC HO>Y ouickj) KSJ wc?iwUq vuv turns with almost or quite the same facilitity with which it takes the stretches, will nearly eliminate the superiority of the kite track as regard} turns. The matter of the actual difference in time between a pneumatic tired and a steel tired sulky is one about which horsemen disagree. Enthusiasts claim as much as three or four seconds; conservatives, a very few of them, will allow one second or thereabouts. But. according to the best judgment, based on careful study, the difference may be said to be from two to three seconds. In bicycling the difference is much greater than four seconds; but in that sport the racer was racked much more by the old | wheel than was the trotter by the old [ sulky. Mr. Bonner is occupying himself with [ studying ideas in connection with the | '-bicycle sulky." One gentleman has ' submitted to him a design for a cushion tired sulky, but of this he disapproves, ! regarding it as lacking in elasticity. I Another theorist advocates stretching a : tine silk screen from rim to rim to do j away with that spoke vibration caused by air friction. This, Mr. Bonner thinks, would be valuable in some parts of the track, but on others the silk would act as a sail. Finally, the owner of ounol is noiamg oacK to ascertain I whether larger wheels would not be bet s7 v;-:: ; 1 . ter than the twenty-eight and thirty-two inch sizes.?New York Preaa. , South American Sarajces at the World's Fair. The Jibaras is a wild, untamed savage who eDjoys himself by wandering ia in SI? : Wt^l J TFT, NATIVE COSTUMB. picturesque dress over certain section* of South America, and twelve members of this hitherto almost unknown tribe will relinquish the pleasure of southern festivities to engage in the grand cru- j ' sade for education which will mark Chi- I cago as its own during tbe coming year. The Jibaras win eaucace visitors, acting in the capacity of an object lesson, and at the same time wjll probably return to i their homes with one or two new ideas in regard to architecture and morals. This tribe of savages roam in the moat primitive condition over the plains of Ecuador bordering on Brazil. They an an unpleasantly fierce lot and have many curious and playful little ways, among ? which is the custom of preserving their enemies' heads as ornaments. For this purpose the head is prepared in a peculiar manner so as to leave it finally of a very small size, although preserving all the features. This lovely ornament is then further adorned by streaks of red paint, and is then calculated to make owner an object of envy to all of his companions. The trioe is especially r skilled in feather work of various kinds. The members of the tribe are migratory, wandering here and there, and having no form of government.?Washingtoa Star. ? vBig Farms of the West. Large farms are not uncommon in tno West. In fact, in some sections they are the rule rather than the exception. Senator Casey, of North Dakota, has 5000 acres under cultivation. The Dairympla farm contains 20,000 acres. It is a genuine farm, under perfect cultivation, and yields a heavy income. In the Red River Valley lies the great Grandin farm. TT?- ?- nnn oavm un^or rnl? nere wc iuuuu. ? tivation, and in the last tea years it has yielded a profit of $480,000. Senator Casey boasts that he caa plant 250 acres of wheat per day with his drilling machines, and the Dairymples have a machine which thrashes from 1000 to 2000 bushels of wheat a day.?New York Advertiser. Little Drops of Water. \ Take a long strip of stout paper and pass it over the top of a smoky lamp, or ' $ if'/ ' i 4ajr THE TRAVELING DROPS OF WATER. (if you can't endure the disagreeable odor of the lamp) besmear it completely with plumbago on one side of the paper's surface. Place several large books in regular order of decreasing size on * table and drape the strip of smoked paper over them with pins, as per lllustration, the end of the strip resting in ft plate. The undulations of the atrip should be more accentua ted the nearear you get to the smallest book. Now let drops of water /all on the prepared paper, and they will roll along it, "up hill and down," in a most surprising manner.?St. Louis Republic. How Italian Bandits Capture Brides It is said that the captain of an Italian robber band, who desires a wife does his courting after this style: Casting his evil eye on some fair village maiden, ho descends upon the occasion oi a dance on v the erreer, and mingling with the dan cers, manages to dance with the fair one , himself. Then he charms her with his grace and the beauty of his dancing, whispers love messages in her terrified cars?for she well knows with whom she is dancing?and circling ever nearer and nearer to the outer edge of the company, he suddenly gives a whistle, and his men appear in a moment arid dash off with the prize, the leader covering their retreat with a fusillade of fire arms, which the villagers dare not return, being too much cowed by the bandit's daring. Honorable marriage by a captured priest who is held in readiness is offered to the gir?, who dare not refuse to become the brigand's bride, knowing she can never return to tier Home dciow iae mountains. It is said these marriages are exceptionally happy, and that th? men love their abducted prizes with constant affection, and the villages from which they are stolen are forever after safe from lire and rapine at the hand* of.,the band.?Chicago Herald. Stray Dog8 Brluu Lncfc. Mr. Pung, of the Chinese Legation, is authority for the statement that a Chinaman can wish for no better luck than to have a strange dog come to the house with the cvidenc intention of linking his fi,Hirn fnrhmps with those of the fainilv. This is especially true of Pckin, where stray canines, instead of being summarily, dismissed from the doorstep, as is the general cu3tom elsewhere, are taken in, cared for and their lives henceforth surrounded with the comforts most appreciated by their race. So great, indeed, is the superstitious feeling that no pain3 are spared to induce the stranger to remain permanently with the new fouad friends ?Kate Field's Washington. The greatest depth of the Atlantic n.-o?n ia 27 3B6 feet: 1