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I r . REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Human Face." Text: "A man's wisdom niake'h his fa to shine, and the bnUJncss nf his/an* shall > changed," or as it jmtv be rendered. "ti sourness of his face s'izll be sweetened.'" Ecclesiastes viii.. 1. Thus a little change in our Zazlish tran lation brins^ out th-* b^tt'T meauinu of tt text, which sets forth that tho character < the face is decided by the character of ti soul. The main features of ourcouatenan* were decided by the Almighty, and we cai not change them, but under God we decic whether we shall have countenances b< nignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrathfi or genial, benevolent or mean, hoae3t c scoundrelly, impudent or modest, courag< ous or cowardly, frank or sneakinir. In a the works of God there is nothing moi wonderful than the human countenanci Though the longest face is less than twah inches from the hair lin9 of the forehead t the bottom of the chin and the broadest fac is less than eight inches from cheek bone t cheek bone, yet in that small compass Go has wrought such differences that the 1,600 000,000 of the human race may be di tinguished from each other by their facii appearance. The face is ordinarily the index of chara< fer. It is the throne of the - motions. It the battlefield of the passions. It is tl catalogue of character. It is the map of tb mind. It is the geography of the soul. An * - A ' * ' J - - I J ahm Ki ? wnue rae Jjoru uwiucs uoiuxo uu um whether we shall be handsome or homelj we are by the character we form decidin whether our countenance shall be pleasar or dJsaereeable. This is so much so thi some of the most beautiful faces are unattra* tivfl because of their arrogance or their d< ceitfulness. and some of the most rugge and irregular features are attractive becaus of the kindneos that shines through then Accident or sickness or scarification ma veil the face so that it shall not express th soul, but in the majority of cases give me deliberate look at a man's countenanc and I will tell you whether he is oynio or an optimist, whether b is a miser or a philanthropist, whether he i noble or ignominious, whether he is good c bad. Our first impression of a man c woman is generally the accurate impressiot You at the first glance make up your min that some man is unworthy of your frienc ship, but afterward, by circumstances bein put into intimate association with him, yo OOme TO 11KO mm ana irun mm. xci sta with him long enough, and you will be con polled to return to your original estimate c nia oharacter, but It will be after he ha oheated you out of everything he could la his hands on. It is of God's mercy that w have these outside indexes or charactei Phrenology is one index, and while It ma be carried to an absurd extent there is n doubt that you can judge somewhat of man's oharacter by the shape of his heac Palmistry is another index, and while it ma be carried into the fanciful and necromanti there is no douDt that certain lines in tfa palm of the hand are indicative of mentj and moral traits. Physiognomy is another index, and whi! the contour of the human face may eom< times mislead us we can generally, aftc looking into the eye and noticing the curv of the lip and the spread of the nostril, an the correlation of all the features, come to right estimate of a man's character. If were not so, how would we know whom t trust and whom to avoid? Whether we wi or nor, physiognomy decides a thousan thlnm in commercial and financial and sc cial and religious domains. From one li of the Bible to the other there is no scienc so recognized a3 that of physiognomy, an nothing more thoroughly taken for grante than the power of the soul to transfigure tb face. The Bible speaks of the "fac of God," the "face of Jesus Christ, tho "face of Esau," the "face < Israel," the "face of Job," the "fac of the old man,"the shining "faoeofHoses, the wrathful "face of Pharaoh," the ashe on the face of humiliation, the resurrectioi ary staff on the face of the dead child, tb hypocrites disfiguring their face, and In m text the Bible declares, "A man's wisdoi jnaJceth his faoe to shine, and the sournes of his face shall be sweetened." If the Bibl has so much to say about physiognomy, w uu uui wuuuci iuai iuo wunu uag mauo u study from the early ages. Iu vain the Ens ltsh Parliament In the time ot George IJ ordered publicly whipped and imprisone those who studied physiognomy. Intelligei people always have studied it and alwaj will study it. The pens of Moses and J03hu and Job and John and Paul as well as < Homer and Hippocrates and Galen an Aristotle and Socrates and Plato and Lavat< have been dipped into it, and whole Ubrarii of wheat and chaff have been garnered o this theme. Now, what practical religious and eterni use would I make of this subject? I am gi Ing to show that while we are not reapons ble for our features, the Lord Almighty ha1 Ing decided what they shall be prenatally. f the psalmist declares when be writes, '! thy book all my members were writtei which in continuance were ftishioned whe as vet there was none of them," yet tt oharacter which under God we form wl chisel the face most mightily. Every ma would like-to have been made in appearand an Alclbiades, and every woman would iil to have been made a Josephine. We all wai to be agreeable. Our usefulness depends! much upon it that I consider it imDoctai and Christian for every man and woman 1 be as agreeable as possible. The slouch, tl sloven, the man who does not care how 1 looks, ail such people lack equipment fc usefulness. A minister who has to throw auid of tobacco out of his mouth before I begins to preach or Christians with beard ui trimmed, making them to look like wi beasts come oat of the lair?yea. unkemp uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men < women?are a hindrance to religion moi than a recommendation. Now, my text suggests how we may, indi pendent of features, make ourselves agre able, "A man's wisdom maketh his face 1 shine, and the sourness of his face shall 1 sweetened." What I say may come too la: for many. Their countenance may by lor years of hardness have been frozen into sto tdity, or by long years of cruel behavior th< may have Herodized all the machinery of e: pression, or by long years of avarice th< may have been Shylocked until their face as hard as the precious metal they are hoari ing, but I am in time to help multitudes the Lord will. That it is possible to ove come disadvantages of physiognomy was J this country mightily illustrated by 01 whoso life recently closed after havix served in the Presedentlal cabin at Washinjcton. By accident of Are : childhood his face had been more piteous scarred than any human visage that I ev saw. By hard study he arose from being coot boy to the very height of the legal pr fees ion, and when an Attorney General f< the Untted States was needed he entered tl Presidential cabinet. What a triumph ov< destroyed human countenance! / I do not wonder that when an opposing a torney in a Philadelphia court-room crueli referred to this personal disflgurement Bei jamin P. Brewster replied In these worcb "When I was a babe. I was a beautiful blu eyed child. I know this because my da dead mother told me so, but I was one dt playing with my s ster when her clothes toe flre, and I ran to her relief and saved he but in doing so my clothes took fire, and tl flre was not put out until my face was i black as the heart ot tlje scoundrel who h; just now referred to my disflgurement Heroism conquering physical disabilitiei That scholarly regular features are not ne ossary for making powerful impression wi neas Paul, who photographs himself as "bodily presence weak." and George Whit field, whose eyes wer-^ struck with strabl mus. and Abxauder H. Stephens, who 3 with pale ana sick race In tnvalicrs cba while he thrilled the American congress wi his eloquence, and thousands of inval preachers and Sabbath-school teachers ai Christian workers. Aye, the most glorio being the world ever saw was foreseen 1 Isaiah, who described His face bruised ai gashed and scarified and said of Him, "B visage was so marred, more than any man So you see that the loveliest face in the un verse was a scarred face. And now I am going to tell you of some the chisels that work for the disfiguration < irradiation of the human countenance. O of the sharpest and most destructive of tho chisels of the countenance is cynicism. Th boots the disposition and then sours the fa< It gives a contemptuous ourl to the lip. draws down the corners ot the mouth ai Inflates the nostril as with a malodor. Wh * David said ia haste the)- say in their deliberation, "All men are liars." everything is going to ruin. All men an J women are bad or are going to be. Society and the church are on the down grale. Tell them of an act of benevolence, and they say he gave that to advertise himself. They do not like the present fashion of hats for worr.en or of coats for men. They are opposed to the administration. municipal and State and National. Somehow food doos not taste as it used to. and they wonaer way mere are uo pueiu uc re orators or preachers as when they were boys. ,e Even Solomoa, one of the wisest and It at one time one of the worst of _ men, falls into the pessimistic mood and cries out in the twenty-tirst chapter of Proverbs. "Who can And a virtuous woman?" s- If he had behavod himself better and kept in l*1 s*ood associations, he would not have written it that interrogation point implyingthescarcity ie of good womanhood. Cynicism, if a habit, j. as It is with tens of thousands of people, [e writes itself all over the features; hence so j. many sour visages all up and down the ^ street, all up and down the church and tho )P world. One good way to make the world 3_ worse is to say it is worse. Let a depressed jj and foreboding opinion of everything take >a possession of you for twenty years, and you , will be a sight to behold. It is the chastise,g ment of God that when a man allows hi3 0 heart to be cursed with cynicism his face be nn/1 onH 1 n./>hrvrmHQArl ,0 i UOQiW j^iUUlUCVl ttu\4 ow n i wv. ? 0 | and blasted with the same midnight. But let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel upon a man's countenance. Feeling that all j* things are for his good, and that God rules, and that the Bible being true the world's floralization is rapidly approaching, and the day when beer mug and demijohn and distil[g lery and bombshell and rifle pit seventy-four ie pounders and roulette tables and corrupt ie book and satanic printing press will have d quit work, the brightness that comes from h such anticipation not only gives zest to his r, work, but shines in his eyes and glows in his g entire countenance. Those aro the facts I it look for in an audience. Those countenances it are sections of millennial glory. They are *- heaven impersonated. They are the sculps turing of God's right hand. They are hold sannas in human flesh. They are halleluiahs ie alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. I j. do not care what your features are or whether ,y you look like your father or your mother or ie look like no one under the heavens, to God a and man you are beautiful. se ) Michael Angeio, too sculptor, visiting a Florence, some one showed nim in a back ie yard a piece of marble that wa3 so shapeless Is that It seemed of no' use. and Angeio wa3 it asked if he could make anything out of it, >i end if so was told he could own it. The u artist took the marble, and for nine months d phut himself up to work, first trying to make I- of it a statue of David with his foot on Gog liath, but the marble was not quite long u enough at the base to make the prostrate y form of the giant, and so the artist fashioned i- the marble into another figure that ia so fart mous for all time because of its expresslve? ness. A critic came in and was asked by 7 Angolo for his criticism, and he said it was e beautiful, but the nose of the statute was r. not of right shape. Angelo picked up y from the floor some sand and tossed o It about the face of the statue pretenda ing he was using his chisel to make the I. improvement suggested by the critic. y "What do you thinK 01 it nowr saia tno c artist. "Wonder/ally improved," said the e critic. "Well," said the artist, "I have not il changedlt at all." My friends, the graoe ot God comes to the heart of a man or woman le and then attempts to change a forbidding s- and prejudicial face into attractiveness. P?r>r haps the face is most unpromising for tte e Divine Sculptor. But having changed the d heart it begins to work on the countenance a with celestial chisel, and Into all the lineait ments of ths f&oe puts a gladness and on exo pectation that changes it from glory to glory, II and though earthly criticism may disapprove d of this or that in the appearance of the face >- Christ says of the newly created countenance d that which Pilate said of Him, "Behold the !e man!" Here is another mightly chisel for the ,a countenance, and you may call it revenge or hate or malevolenoe. This spirit ha vine; !? taken possession of the heart, it encamp3 f seven devils under the eyebrows. It puts >r cruelty into the compression of the lips. ;? You can tell from the man's looks that he is pursuing some one and trying to get even ? with him. There are suggestions of Nero and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumb0 screws and racks all up and down the feat -v ures. Infernal artists with murderers' dag11 gers have been catting away at that visage. s The revengeful heart has built its perdition ;? / in the revengeful countenance. Disflgura0 tion of diabolic passion! a But here comes another chisel to shape the countenance, and it is kindness. There L* came a moving day, and into her soul moved "J the whole family of Christian graces, with lt all their children and grandchildren, and the '3 command has come forth from the heavens * that that woman's face shall be made to cor^ respond with her superb soul. Her entire a face from ear to ear becomes the canvas on 5r which all the best artists of heaven begin to 53 put their finest strokes, and on the small ,n compass of that face are put pictures of sun, rise over the sea, and angels of mercy going up ana aowu iaauers au auasa, aua muuaiJ" ains of transfiguration and noonday In heaven. Kindness! It is the most maguiflf" cent sculptor that ever touched human ^ countenance. ^ No one could wonder at the ungual geniality in the face of William Windom, 9ec!Q retary of the Treasury of the United States, 'I ifter seeing him at the New York banquet 111 just before he dropped dead, turning his 'n wineglass upside down, saying, "I may by doing this offend some, but by not doing it I might damage many." Be kind to your Qt friends. Be kind to your enemies. Be kind to the young. Be kind to the old. Be kind to your rulers. Be kind to your servants. t0 Be kind to your superiors. Be kind to your J? inferiors. Be kind to your horse. Be kind :T to your dog. Be kind to your cat. Morning, noon and night be kind, and the effects * of it will be written in the language of your face. That is the gospel of physiognomy, i j A Bayonne merchant was in the south of I Europe for his health, and sitting on the ter' ' race one morning in his Invalidism he saw a -q rider flung from a horse into a river, and without thinking of his own weakness the . merchant flung off his invalid's gown and swam to the drowning man, and clutching l- him as he was about to go down the last time bore him in safety to the bank, when Lr glancing into the face of the rescued man he ; cried, '*My God, I have saved my own son I" i All kindness comes back to us in one way or " another; if not in any other way, then in __ your own face. Kindness! Show it to " others, for the time may come when you will A need it yourself. Peopl? lathed at the lion Ka/io 1101. ha onni>a/l f Ka mAmiu tVinf fa r? Atraf wovauot uu opiigu buy wvuov wuav tau viot him whea by one motion of his paw the monr_ ster could have crushed the Insignificant dls^ turber. But it wa3 well that the lion had 10 mercy on the mouse, for one day the lion was le caught in a trap and roared fearfully because ^ he was held fast by ropes. Then the mouse ^ knawed off the ropes and let the lion go free. jy You may consider yourself a lion, but yoj cannot afford to despise a mouse. a When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a young 0. soldier at the request of his mother, the Jr mother went down the stairs of the White le House saying: ''They have lied about the 8r President's being homely. He is the handsomest man I ever saw." All over that Prasident s rugged face whs written the kindness ly which he so well illustrated when he said, x- "Some of our gonerals complain tbatlim-. j; pair discipline and subordination in the el army by my pardons and respites, but it ar mak?s me rested after a hard day's work if I %y can find some good excuse for saving a man's >k life, and I go to bed happier as I think bow ir, joyous the signing of my name will make him and bin family." Kindness! It makes is the face shine while life lasts and after death as puts a summer sunset between the still lips and the smoothed hair that makes me say s! sometimes at obsequies, 4,She seems too c- beautiful to bury." it- But here comes another chisel, and its la name is hypocrisy. Christ, with one terrific e- stroke in His sermou on the mount described s- this charrcter. ''When ye fast, be not as the at hypocrites, of a s.vi countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear th unto men to fast." Hypocrisy bavin:* taken id possession of the soul, it Immediately ap1(j pears in the countenance. Hypocrites are (J3 always solemn. They carry several country ^ graveyards in their faces. They are tearful lcj when there is nothing to cry about, and in |3 their prayers they catch for their breath and have such general doiefulness that they disgust young people with religion. We had one of them in one of my churches. When he ex0f orted, he always deplored the low state of or jeligion in other people, and when he prayed It was an attack of hysteria, and he went Into a paroxysm of ohs and ahs that seemed to demand resuscitation. He went on In that way until we had to expel him from the ^ church for stealing the property intrusted to him ns administrator and for other vices ~ that I will not mention, and he wrote me ,gt several letters not at all complimentary from the West, saying that he was dally praying for my everlasting destruction. A man cannot have hypocrisy in his heart without somehow showing it in his face. All intelligent people who witness it know it is nothing but a dramatization. Oh, the power of the human face! I war rant that you have known faces so magnetio and impressive that, though they vanishea long ago, they still hold you with a holy spell. How long since your child went? "Well," you say, "if she had lived she would have been ten years old now, or twenty or thirty years." But does not that infant's face still have tender supremacy over your entire nature? Daring many an eventide does it not look at you? What a sanctifying, hallowing influence it his been in your life! You can say in the words of the poet, "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Or it may have been a eister's face. Perhaps she was the invalid of the family. Perhaps she never went out except on very clear days, and then she had to be carried down the stairs to the piazza or for a short ride, but she was so patient and cheerful under it aij. As that face looks at you through the years with what an elevated and heavenly emotion you are filled. Or was it a father's face? The storms of life had somewhat roughened it. A good deal of the brightness of the eye had been quenched, and the ear was turned with the hand behind it in order to hear at all. But you remember that face so vividly that if you were an arti9t you could put it on canvas, and it would mean to you more than any face that Rembrandt ever sketched. That face, though long ago veiled from human sight, is as plain in your memory as though you this moment saw it moving gently forward and backward in the rocking-chair by the stove in the old farmhouse. Or was it your ** * 11 * J #?/ia ic notraf moioer 9 iacer a ^uuu tuumci a mvo ^ uw?vn homely to her boys and girls. It Is a "Madonna" In the picture gallery of the memory. What a sympathetic face It was! Did you ever have a joy and that face did not respond to It? Did you ever have a grief and no tears trickle down that maternal cheek? Did you ever do a bad thing and a shadow did not cross it? Oh. It was a sweet face! The spectacles with large, round glasses through which she looked at you, how sacredly they have been kept in bureau or closet! Your mother's face, your mother's smile, your mother's tears! What an overpowering memory! Though you have come on to midlife or old age, how you would like ju9t once more to bury your face in her lap and have a good cry! But I can tell you of a more sympathetic and more tender and more loving face than any of the faces I have mentioned. "No, you cannot," says some one. I can, and I will. It is the face of Jesus Christ as He was on earth and is now in heaven. When prepar? ing my life of Christ, entitled "From Manger to Throne." I ransacked the art galleries and portfolios of the world to find a picture of our Saviour's face that might be most " T- ?? r?? expressive, ana i sawn ua i'tmmuinuuiii painted it in the sixteenth century, and as the emerald intaglio of the sixth century presented it. and as a fresco in the catacombs near Borne preserved it, and as Leonardo da | Vinci showed it in ' 'The Last Supper," and I looked in the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican, and the Dresden, hnd the Berlin, and Neapolitan and London galleries for the most inspiring face of Christ, and many of the presentations were wonderful for pathos and majesty and power and exe' cution. but although I selected that by Ary Scheffer as in some respects the most expresI sive I felt as we all feel?that our Christ has i never yet been presented either in sculpture or painting, and that we will have to wait until we rise to the upper palace, where we shall see Him as He is. What a gentle face it must have been to induce the babes to struggle out of their mother's arms into His arms! What an expressive face it must have been when one reproving look of it threw stalwart Peter into a fit of tears! What a pleading face it must have been to lead the psalmist in prayer to say ot it, 4'Look upon the face of thine aniolnted!" What a sympathetic face it must have been to encourage the siok woman who was beyond any help from the doctors to touch the hem of His garment! What a suffering face it must have been when suspended on the perpendioular and horizontal pieces of the wood of martyrdom, and His antagonists slapped the pallid cheek with their rough hands and befouled it with the saliva of their blasphemous lips! What a tremendous face it must have been to lead St. John to describe it in the coming judgment as scattering the universe when he Bays, "From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away." O Christ! Once the Nazarene, but now the celestial 1 Once of cross, but now of throne! ' Once crowned with stinging bramble, but now coroneted with the jewels of ransomed empires! Turn on Thy pardoning face and forgive us, Thy sympathetic face and console us, Thy suflering face and have Thy atonement avail for us, Thy omnipotent face and rescue us. Oh, what a face: So scarred, so lacerated, so resplendent, so overwhelmingly glorious that the seraphim put wing to wing and with their conjoined pinions keep off some of the luster that i3 too mighty even for eyes cherubic or angelic, and yet this morning turning upon us with a sheathed splendor like th&t with which He appeared when He said to the mothers bashful about presenting their children, "Suffer them to come," and to the poor waif of the street, "Neither do I condemn thee," and to the eyes of the blind beggar of the wayside, "Be opened." I think my brother John, the returned foreiga missionary, dying summer before last at Bound Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ when in his dying hour my brother said : "I shall be satisfied when I awaken in His likeness." And now unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen and amen! Amen and amen! CURIODS FACTS. Sweden is the moat Protestant country in the world. Damascus gave to the world damask linen and the damson plum. A pedigree book of high-bred cats has been published in England. There are fewer red-headed folks in Philadelphia than-in most of our other cities. Nearly a thousand different colored sewing cottous can be obtained in Great Britain. In some parts of England it is customary to send to friends immediately after death a paper bag of biscuits. France claims to have invented artesian wells in 1462, but they were in common use In China in the eleventh century. The late Dom Pedro had the largest aqua-marine ever known. It was said, in size and shape, to approximate a calf's head. A square copper com, struck by tbe Swedish Government in the sixteenth century, is nearly one-half inch thick and weighs a pound and a quarter. The Florida State Board of Health is preparing to erect at Fernandina a quarantine station similar to the one at Mullet Key, which is said to be ona of the most comulete in the eouutrv. The World's Fair Dividend. Salvage of the World's Fair is bringing more money than any of the financiers expected to get lor it. Ia his report just issued Acting Auditor Barrington says there was an increase of $45,000 in tha sales of last month over the amount that had been couutod on. After striking out all the liabilities against the Exposition. Mr. Barrington says there will be left for the stockholders $1,424,841.84. That would mean a dividend on all stock of about 13% per cent. The total expenltures of the Fair to February 11 have been $26,925.683.50. $2,000,000 Left to Two Paupers. Ole and Knut Shataho. two poor boys who were brought up in Spirit Lake, Iowa, have just received notice that an uncle residing tn Omaha has died and left thom an estate worth about $2.000.000 A Much-Delayed Journey. A ticket sold twenty-one years ago was , honored on the Pennsylvania Railroad a few days ago. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MARCH 18. Lesson Text: "Wine a Mocker," , Prov. xx., 1-7?Golden Text: Prov. xxi?Commentary. i Wine is a mocker because it allures j weak, it makes great promises. In sickness it promises renewed strength. In sor- J row and affliction it offers consolation. In < festive seasons it pretends to heighten the joy and to take its place as a cheering friend. All these attractive traits are aggravated i with the weak, with whom there Is little power of will and judgment to resist Us al- ; lurincr influence. Wine is a mocker because ?' 1 ? A. i it deceives the unwary, xne danger mat lurks in the cup is not seen at first. The sparkling wine looks innocent and inviting. . The evil it produces comes onbyslow andin- J sidious stages. No one ever thinks of i becoming a drunkard on first tastirg , intoxicating drink. Every victim of , intemperance was once an innocent child. Every one who has gone to the greatest excess was at first a moderate drink- j er. No one can be sure that he ,will be so , wary as to keep out of the snare that has been fatal to many who wero once just as 1 free and self-confldent as he now is. Wine i is a mocker because it brines ruin on its vie- i tims. How many it has allured, deceived, ruined. How many it has robbed of their virtue, their beauty, their strength, their j fortune, their peace, their reputation, their J hope, their life. It is no feeble enemy that can be disregarded, even though it oomes in : the garb of a friend. When once it gets hold ] of its victim, it never releases him. It destroys him, body and soul, for time and eternity. This is the work of the wine that 1 sparkles in the cup. Beware of this mocker; give no quarter to this deceiver. "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it goeth down smoothly; at last it biteth like a serpent and , stingeth like an adder."?Westminster Quarterly. 1. Wine. The Scriptures used several terms that are translated wine. It can not i be doubted that some of these terms refer to preparations of the juice of the grape that were not intoxicating. Here, however, the reference is to intoxicating wine, a muu*er. A deceiver; that which utterly fails to fulfil i its own promises or the expectations that men have in its use. Dr. Arnot enumerates the deceitfulness of strong drink as follows 1. Large quantities of precious food are destroyed or wasted in its manufacture. 2. It really possesses next to nothing of the curative or strengthening properties which people ascribe to it. 3. It deceives the nation by the vast amount of revenue it pours into the public treasury, which is after all but a small fraction of the lose and expense chargeable to its use. 4. While it seems to promote good fellowship, it really is a foe to friendship and society. 5. It promises pleasure, but usualty ends in a deadly tyranny that drags men to ruin and despair. In every respect, then, wine is a lying demon thai can never be trusted. Strong drink. Probablv palm wine, a fiery liquid much more intoxicating than ordinary wine. Raging. Boisterous, i. e., it renders men boisterous or violent, robs them of their senses, and makes them either noisy fools or outrageous wrongdoers. It is well known that almost all the crime of our day, as well as almost all the poverty and wretchedness from which men suffer, is due to the use of strong drink. Dei it nmn I In (<{fl tft of Q (T. L'ClVt-u [Ut-roujf. Ullciaijj, u uiuuu >V ger or reel thereby." The man who permits himself to use strong drink is practising a deception upon himself. Especially is this the case now, when the dangers attending the drink habit are so well known and the evils of intemperance so widespread. Of all fools he is the worst who allows himself to be deceived by strong drink.?Baptist Quarterly. The Effect of Alcohol on the Body. 1. It weakens the muscles. 2. It injures the nerves. 3. It inflames the stomach and injures digestion. 4. It destroys a pure, natural healthy taste. 5. It exhausts the strength, and shortens life. 6. It damages the health of the whole system. 7. It produces druokenness, gout, and delirium tremens. The EfTect of Alcohol on the MInd. 1. It takes away the reason. 2. It inflames every bad passion. 3. It deranges every faculty. 4. It produces insanity. 5. It diminishes the accuracy and acuteness of thought. 6. It deadens the moral nature. Illustration. "A story is current in the Orient of a wise old sheik, who gave to a young Arab Prince, from whom he was about to part, a list of crimes, and bade him cnoose tue one wuicii SBumBu jouoi uaimiui. The young prince turned in horror from murder, thefr. and loss o( virtue, and told the patriarch he would choose intemperance. 'You have chosen that,' said the wise old man, 'which will bring you ali.' Peloubet. The Pillar of Science. Science, investigating the effects of alcohol upon the human body, finds that it injures the body, weakens its powers, renders it more liable to disease, harms the nervous system, the brain and the stomach and so shortens life. The following has been signed by upward . of 2000 medical men, including many of the leading members of the profession: 1. That a large proportion of human misery, includ ing poverty, disease and crime, is induced by the use of alcohol or fermented liquors as beverages. 2. That the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirits or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, etc. 3. That persons accustomed to such drinks may with perfect safety discontinue them. 4. That total and universal abstinence from alcoholic liquors and intoxicating beverages of all sorts would greatly contribute to the health, the prosperity, the morality and the happiness of the human race.?The Four Pillars of Temperance. Wine is a Mocker. The old poets spoke of the drinking cup as a cup of poetry and eloquence ; but that delusion has died. The tongue thickens, the words lose their sharp outline, the flash dies out of the eyes under even the best of wines. The wine cup is iin eclipse of the intellect, a paralysis of thought.?Professor Swing. Theft of an Orcbara. A novel theft has been reported to th? Sheriff by a farmer who lives near French Camp, Cal., on the turnpike. This farmer went to town and left his farm in charge of his young son for the day. The boy saw some men digging up fruit trees in the young orchard his father had started, and weut out to them to inquire what they were at. The men said they had bought all the trees from the owner and were digging them up to take them away. The boy thought, of 1 course, it was aa the men said, and that his father had really sold the trees, so he made no protest. When the father came home ha ( was greatly astonished to find that his orchard had disappeared during his absence 1 in Stockton. ( The young son told what h*d nappened | and steps were taken at once to find some traoe of the tress if possible, but without sucoeas. None of the local nurserymen have ' bought any trees answering the description, ( and it cannot be learned that any of that : sort has been shipped from Stockton. Aboul V) trees In all were stolen. 1 i Distress in Spain. ] Great distress is prevalent among the | laboring classes in Spain. Many hundreds i of unemployed men are walking the streets of Madrid, Cadiz, and other cities in the vaiu ] search for work. One day recently 4000 men > went iu a body to the Government offlces in j Madrid asking tor relief, in the shape of work, for themselves and families. The * Government was able to do but little for J them. Brigandage has greatly increased. t and its spread is attributed to the distress v among the rural population. Despondent Cattlemen. The storms of January 23 and February 11 and 12 wrought such havoc among the cattle J upon the great ranges in the Indian reserva- ( tlons of Oklahoma Territory that the cattle- , men declare they will market what stock they have in the spring and quit the busl- 1 neas. ( Improvement In the Iron Trade. The Iron Age says. "The improvement in { certain branches of the iron trade has gained further headway, and a far more cheerful tone prevails." ? POPULAK SCIENCE. Submarine cables stretch 1-10.4011 fiiles. Cast steel is much cheaper for casting bells than any other metal. Bamboo has been known to grow to 3. height of thirty feet in sis weeks. The owl's wise look is the result of i physiological orldity?his eyes are &xed immovable in their sockets. An explosive witu power equal to that of high-grade dynamite is bein^ made in Germany from a preparation af common hemp. a rrencn scientist claims tnai wnain four million, five hundred thousand rears the oceans will have united and washed away every vestige of the Barth. East Greenwich, England, has the largest gasometer in the world. When full it contains 12,000,000 cubic feet jf gas. It is 180 feet high and 300 feet in diameter and cost $300,000. The shark is the fastest swimmer of the fish tribe over long distances, and finds no difficulty in keeping up with the swiftest vessels, swimming and playing around them and ever on the lookout for morsels, small or large. The curious and possibly important fact, says London Electricity, has been noticed that when the eyes are illuminated from behind by a glo^f lamp in the mouth, the pupils, seen as blood-red apertures, do not conbract. According to the latest available astronomical data, 10,000 double start have been recorded by the observen of this country and Europe. This exceeds the total number of all stars visible to the naked eye, which is onlj about 6000. The use of wire rope for transmitting power was, it is said, first suggested by an English engineer, Mr, Tregoning, in 1850, for use in som< large factories near Colmar, Alsace, which had long stood idle becausc only one of them had an engine. A large crawfish was recently caugfr alive on the Guernesey coast (Europe), and has been placed in the Jersey aquarium. From head to tail it meas ured two feet, and from tip of horn: to tip of tail four feet four inchea while its girth is eighteen inches. A singular scheme of electric light ing is about to be carried out in Antwerp. Water is to be distributee from steam pumping stations, at a pressure of 775 pounds per squari inch, and used to drive dynamos ir small district stations by means o! turbines. These are to supply th< lr>/?a1 /innonmura thrnnah ft low nrea sure, two-wire system. It is figurec out that the cost of coal per sixteen candle power per hour will be onlj .025 cent. Electric propulsion on canals is nol altogether so new a thing as those whc read of the Erie Canal enterprise maj think. For some time past electric power has been applied to the same purpose in France, on the Canal dt Bourgogne, and illustrations whicl have appeared in several Frencl papers of the electrically eqnippec boats there used have shown the ar rangement adopted to be similar ir many respects to that only recently carried out in the United States. The Barometer of the Senate. The movements of the press gallerj overlooking the Senate chamber ar< doubtless the safest barometer of th< importance of the doing6 on the flooi below. If the gallery seats are wel taken up, something is surely trans piring in the chamber that is wortl watching. If they are empty, the pro ceeding are apt to possess no interest The public may be mistaken and thi visitors' galleries may be overflowing but the curiosity seekers do not pos sess the delicate instinct of foretelling impending crises, and if the press gal lery be empty, though expectancy b< written on every face that peers dowi from the crowded balconies, nogladia torial feats of competing oratory nee< be looked for, and disappointment wil overtake him who disregards the signs This was well illustrated yesterday When Mr. Gorman arose to reply t< Senator Sherman not more than tw< or three heads appeared above the ror of seats in the press gallery. Once o: twice Mr. Gorman's eye wandered care lessly in that direction and encoun tered a tier of vacant seats; but h< had not got far into his subject befor< head after head appeared over thero-a of desks, and as if by some subth magic, forty or fifty men were in theii seats following the debate with close attention and mentally registering their comments on the proceeding Each man had come from a difl'erenl direction and from every concaivabi* corner of the vast block of corridors and the committee rooms. No one had told them what was on. It waj the indefinable instinct of impend ing news developments.?Washington Post. One of the Dangers of Mexico. 'The principal pe3t of Mcxico," ?aiclE. P. Brewer, of Central America, "is the scorpion. In damp or wei weather he is omnipotent, and in hotels can be seen to run up and down upon the walls. He is only about four to iix inches in length, and is not particularly repulsive in appearance, but die sting geuerally results fatally. J tvas in a hotel at one time where two Dther salesmen stopped in the same room, and as we went to go to bed J jaw the scorpions chasing each othei ip and down the wall. I called my Fellow-travellers' attention to them, :>ut they thought that they could pro:ect themselves, and we all went to jed. I put up a shield, as is common n that country, but my friends were lot used to this protection, and in the noruing the man who thought he was ;afe was dead. I never go tj bed in Mexico without thoroughly protecting . very exposed portion of my body."? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Privileged Peer. Lord Forester, who has. says th<s Leeds Express, just restored at his >wn expense the historic church of VIu?h Wenlock, Shropshire, whose 'oundation dates so far back as (380, is >ne of the two peers who have the privilege of wearing their hats in the iresence of the Sovereign. His Lordihip is rector of a quiet little parish n Nottinghamshire, and is chancellor ind canon residentiary of York Minster. AGRICULTURAL I p TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE c to iTinv Avr? r.ifinFV. c * I r MAKING THE WOODLAND PAT. r There are many farmers "who stand in their own light by not getting some revenue each year from their woodland. To the experienced forester it c is easy to see that many trees that a ha%*e got to their best are left to cum- c ber the ground until they decay and ? fall, instead of being cut out and leave j their room to be occupied by young, u vigorous growth. There are many t farms covered by mortgage which c should be cleared of debt and still ,j leave a tree growth ample for the sup ply of the farm, and which after a ^ few years will be worth more than j vyuab liuo uccu i emu > cu, ?xiwdkuu vui- ? i tivator. HORTICXTLTUEAL HINTS. At a recent meeting of the Minnesota State ' Iorticultural Society the following suggestions, among others, , were made: Native shrubs are worthy of cultivation. Asparagus should be more freely cultivated. Th^ bush bean has not been found profitable. For blight on potato vines it isrecom| mended to spray with Bordeaux mixture when the plants are eight inches high and once or twice afterward. Saturating little balls of cotton with bisulphide of carbon and placing them in the runs of the pocket gopher will ' stop that pest. Thorough stirring of ' the ground is better than mulch for raspberries Every farmer should ' have a quarter of an acre of fruit gar' den.?Chicago Times. tTIT TTT? AT* QAVVQ "DTiT> TJATTT'TOI? TAiiUfi V* wuua X JTVUJUiUAt Poultry breeders do not seem to appreciate the great value of bones for } their fowls, and but a limited number 1 ever make use of them for that pur5 pose. No matter whether the birds are confined or not they are sure to be t benefited by a moderate quantity of > bones, though those that are kept in r close quarters need them most. Nearly every family of any size has J refuse bones enough from the kitchen i to afford the poultry quite a treat from time to time, and when this is < not the case, or when the supply runs short, enough can be procured from i J the butcher eaoh week at a very small \ price, many butchers being glad to f 3 give them away to get rid of them, i These can be crushed by using a f large stone and a heavy hammer, ? though there is a very good and cheap mill made for this purpose?costing ' J -without lees and :S7 with leers. ' which pays for itself several times over ! during the season when large flocks ' are kept, as it not only grinds and ' [ crushes bones but oyster shells, corn, , etc. The bones crush best when dry, i t and should be reduced to the size of a < , small pea.?Standard American Poulj try Book. \ i 45 ] I PRELTMTNARY WORK FOB THE FLORIST. 1 The amateur florist will find it ad- 1 ' vantageous to prepare a number of f boxes of clean Band and fill them with 1 cuttings of various plants that will be j ' needed for early bedding-out. If the < sitting-room window contains a geranium that has a thrifty growth, it | c is easy to make a dozen or more cut- j , tings, put tbem in the sand, keep them f > in a warm place with abundance of . > water, and before many days find a [ number of sturdy young plants to re- ] | ward this bit of painstaking. Horseshoe geraniums, heliotrope, abutilons, j .salvias and the like are very easily . propagated in this way and repay the 1 , time spent upon them better than al- * i most any other cf our familiar plant ( t friends. With an abundance of these and a c , few judiciously selected roses, one t need never be without a profusion of i i beautiful blossoms. Many people have > excellent success with carnations, and 1 . for such there is no more delightful r ) amusement than the care of these ^ } charming plants. , There is a good deal in selecting those things that one seems to have ^ the best success with. Many persons ^ ; find it impossible to grow certain r plants with any degree of satisfaction, , while in the hands of others they seem ^ to bloom and grow with scarcely any . care or attention. , One may put in a few seeds of plants F , that need long seasons and have them r strong and well grown by the time f i the first frosts are over. The cobet, v . pasaion-vine, moon-flower and the like I i are very easily started indoors. The t , moon-flower and cobea must have a s long season in order to give any amount of pleasure; the passion-vine 1. , will not, of course, stand frost in fe northern latitudes, but if well started e , and put out early will give a profusion t , of flowers, and is unquestionably one t of the most beautiful and interesting 1 i of climbers.?New York Ledger. a MILK EXPERIMENT. g The influence which changes of foocf 1 and temperature exert upon ine quan- o tity and quality of the milk of dairy v, cows is a question much discussed. To d try to settle it definitely an experiment was undertaken at the Nebraska j , experiment station. s, An examination of the milk of a tj large number of cows for a period of w thirty days, cared for by many per- 0 sons and receiving different food and j, care, was remarkable as showing a w wide variation in butter fat in the milk of a group of cows owned in a comparatively limited area, such as is . to be found in the neighborhood of , most medium-sized towns. The change of food showed plainly .e in the quality of the milk, as a ration ' of poor quality showed loss in per 01 cent, of fat present, and one of rich 1U nutritious food caused increase in per cent, of fat. The final result shown was that ct there was little chauge produced in the total fat day by day, but that the changes in the per cent, of fat were i'ully compensated in changes in the ftI milk yield of cows. 111 The study of sudden storms and cold u! waves included ten observations. Of these, seven showed the diminished tb yield of milk, and in three the yield us was constant. Tho fat diminished in in percent, in five observations, remained qt constant in four and increased in one ro observation. In each case the cows di were warmly stabled. co The experiment shows clearly that pt ' even in barns secure from wind and y< torm the dairy cow is very suscepti-} ile to cold and dampness in the atmos-' (here, and that she consumes a portion! if the butter and other constituent?' ?f the milk in striving to keep warm-v t evidently pays well to shelter and' aake very comfortable the cow in' ailk.?New York World. HOS CHOLERA SYMPTOMS. ^ The presence of the disease is indicted by a cold shivering, lasting from! i few seconds to several hours; frequent sneezing, followed by a loss of ippetite; rough appearance of the lair, drooping of the ears, stupidness,' ittempts to vomit, tendency to root he bedding, to lie down in dark and iniet places, dulness of the eyes, oftenlim; sometimes swelling of the head, iruption of the ear and other parts of' he body; dizziness, laboroua breath-, ng, vitiated appetite for dung, dirty ind salty substances, accumulation of nucus in inner corner of the eye, dia:harge from the nose, fetid, offensive )dor of the discharge from the bowelfl, )ffensive exhalations, diarrhoeal dis:harges are semi-fluid, of grayishp:een color and often mixed with jlood. In many cases the skin >n the belly, between the hind egs, behind the ears and even on the lose has numerous red spots, which x ;oward the fatal termination turn. inrple. As the disease progresses the inimal becomes sluggish, the head' Iroops with the nose near the ground, jut usually will be found lying down; vith the nose hid in the bedding. If ;here has been costiveness, about two lays before death there will be offensive fetid discharges; the voice be- - ' jomes faint and hoarse; the animal is stupid, emaciation increases rapidly; the skin becomes dry, hard and very, mclean; there is a cold, clammy sweat, and death soon follows, with convulsions, or gradually by exhaustion without a struggle. In chronio cases, or those of long duration, the inimal becomes weak, lies down most > 3f the time, eats but little and has the liarrhoea. These cases may linger, for weeks, scattering the poison of She disease in the discharge wherever' they go.?Iowa State Board of Health.* FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. There are few farms where geese1 could not be made profitable. , Among all farm stock sheep are the nost intolerant of dirty quarters. Nothing that will make good manure/ ihould be wasted, but carefully saved, i Clover seed may be sown any time j luring the winter when the air is still. Pigs, like all other kinds of live stock, should have constant access to 3alt. : , This is the time to bnsy yourself in cutting up next summer's supply of irewood. t ? Straw used judiciously in connection with roots and grain will reduoe the :ost of feeding. It would seem that vegetable oul;ure under glass might be made as important as floriculture. Wolves and foxes are destructive, )ut not more so than the rabbits they serve to keep from multiplying. You cannot keep the heifer calf growing right along unless she is made somfortable during the cold weather., Allowing the dead limbs to remain >n the trees only robs the live part of leeded sap and greatly injures the ruit. ^ r Growing ducks should be watered vhenever they are fed, as they seem o require considerable water while sating. With no experience in fruit growng or market gardening do not rush oo largely in at first; go into it by0 legrees. " ' If salt is kept constantly where the iows can get at it whenever they wish, hey will see that the salting is done egularly. ' ' ft The firing iron is being much more argely used than formerly. It should tever be employed by any but a skilled 'eterinarian. Only pure-bred horses of four kinde ,re profitable at present. These are leavy draught and coach horses, troters and thoroughbreds. Poultry culture is a means of conerting one's labor into cash; he who abors in the right direction and with he best breeds secures the highest trice for such labor. Too close inbreeding is sapping the oundation of health, hardness, growth, igor and fecundity in breeding stock, n some cases inbreeding to some exentis advisable, but generally tho afest plan is to avoid it. To have plenty of eggs, feed the hens Iberally. Avoid extremes, neither on an fat that thev cannot lav tor starved so that they are not able 0 lay no matter how willing. A good, hrifty condition is always beet for ayisg hens. Pek:n ducks will grow to a marketble sise, making greater weight in ;iven ;ime than any other breed, 'hgy will also lay moro eggs than any ther breed, while the feathers, being rhite, and mixed with a good deal of own, sell for good prices. Roup usually comes from damp or raughty roosting places. The first pmptoms are a swelling of one side of tie head, something like mumps, hicli, if not stopped, spreads to the ther side. Isolate all infected fowls 1 a dry, warm place and wash with arm water and castile soap. Generally, hens should be killed hen tliey are past three years old, a8 ley lay fewer eggs every year after ie third, and in many ways become ss profitable. At the same time they scome less fit for the table. It ia alv iu rare cases that hens can be ade profitable after this time. A good diet for chicks can be made 7 mixing together two pounds of >ru. fift?en pounds of oats, ten of iriev and ten of wheat bran. Grind I the grain together and make it into read and bake, mixing up with milk id adding a little salt. Crumble tine id give each chick all that it will eat i clean, but no more, at each feed. If you expect cows to give you leir milk after they have secreted it, se common sense wheu you are milkg them. Have them in comfortable larters, and free from annoying surmndings. Dogs may worry and chil en tease. If you think it is fun, the iw does not, and the shrinkage in the til will be an emphatic way of telling JU 30.