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De Witt Talmage, oi the Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. 8. N. Y. The membera of the rejjiment occupied the body of the church. Dr. Talmage chose for his subject '-The Greatest Soldier of All Time," the text being: "There shall not any Liiiin ut> a jib iu siauu neiore tnee an ine aaya of thy life."?Joshua i.. 5. The "gallant Thirteenth," as this regiment is generally and appropriately called, has gathered to-night for the worship oi Sod and to hear the annual sermon. And first I look with hearty salutation into the Faces of the veterans, who, though now not In active service, have the same patriotic and military enthusiasm '.wnich characterized :hem when, in 1863, they bade farewell to Lome and loved ones and started for the field and risked all they held dear on earth for the re-establishment of the falling United states Government. "All that a man hath trill he give for his life," and you showed yourselves willing to give your lives. We lail you! "We thank you! We bless you. the veterans of the Thirteenth. Nothing can ;ver rob you of the honor of having been soldiers in one of the most tremendous wars )f all history, a war with Grant and Sherman ind Hancock and Sheridan and Farragut on )ne side, and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Longsireet and Johnston on the other. As in Greek assemblages, when speakers irould arouse the audience, they shouted 'Marathon!" so if I wanted to stir you to aoslamation I would only nsed to speak the vords, "Lookout Mountain," "Chancellorsrille," "Gettysburg." And though through he passage of years you are forever free 'rom duty of enlistment, if European nations should too easily and too quickly forget the Monroe doctrine and set aggressive foot upon nis continent 1 tMnK your anties wouia De lupple again, and your arms would grow itrong again, and your eyes would be keen inough to follow the stars of the old flag wherever they might lead. And next I srreet the colonel and his staff, ind all the officers and men of this regiment, it has been an eventful year in your history. 1 never before, Brooklyn appreciates somtv hingofthe value of its armories, and the mportanee of the Imen who there drill for he defense and safety of the city. The (lessing of God be upon all of you, my comadea of the Thirteenth Regiment! And ooking about for a subject that might be nost helpful and inspiring for you, and our veterans here assembled, and the citizens gathered to-night with tneirgood wi9hes, I lave concluded t>) hold up before you the :reatest soldier of all time?Joshua the hero if my text. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never ought unless God told him to fight. In my ext he gets his military equipment and one rould think it must have been plumed helaet for the brow, greaves of brass for the eet, habergeon for the breast. "There shall lot any man be able to stand before thee all h? Hnva nt thv lifo " "Oh " vrm sav. "anv. tody could have courage with such a backng up as that." Why, my friends, I have to ell you that the God of the universe and the Jhieftain of eternity promises to do just as auch for us as for him. All the resources of ternity are pledged in our behalf, if we go iut in the service of God, and no more than hat was offered to Joshua. God fulfilled this romise of my text, although Joshua's first attle was with the spring freshet, and the iext with a stone wall, and the next leading n a regiment of whipped cowards, and the lext battle against darkness, wheeling the un and the moon into his battalion, and the ist against the king of terrors, death?tve xeat victories. For the most part, when the general of an rmy starts out in a conflict he would like o have a small battle in order that be may get is courage up and he may rally his troops nd get them drilled for greater conflicts, ut this first undertaking of Joshua was reater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or he thundering down of Gibraltar, or the verthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing f the Jordan at the time of the 6pring reshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had list been melting, and they poured down uto the valley, and the whole valley was a aging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on ne bank, and they look across and see oshua and the Israelites, and they laugh nd say: "Aha! aha! They cannot disturb is until the freshets fall. It is impossible or them to reach us." But after awhile they aok across the water, and they see a moveient in the army of Joshua. Tiiey say: 'What's the matter now? Why, there must e a panic among these troops, and they are oing to fly, or perhaps they are going to ry to march across the river Jordan. Joshua s a lunatic." But Joshua, the chieftain of he text, looks at his army and cries, "Forward, march!" and they start for tlie bank f the Jordan. One mile ahead go two priests, carrying a littering box four feet long and two feet Tirlo Tt ia tho nrlr nf thft pftvenant And hey come down, and no sooner do they ust toueh the rim of the water with their eet than by an almighty flat Jordan parts, 'he army of Joshua marches right on withut getting their feet wet over the bottom of he river, a path of chalk and broken shells nd pebbles, until they getto the other bank, 'hen they lay hold of the oleanders and amarisks and willows and pull themselves tp a bank thirty or forty feet high, and havng gained the other bank they clap their hields and their cymbals and sing the iraises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank (ian the waters begin to dash and roar, and pith a terrific rush they break loose from heir strange anchorage. Out yonder they lave stopped; thirty mile3 up yonder they lalted. On this side the waters roll off oward the salt sea. But as the hand of the jord God is taken away from the thus upifted waters?waters perhaps uplifted half a aile?as the Almighty hand is taken away hose waters rush down, and some of the unelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a lisfortune! Why, could not those waters tave stayed parted? Because, perhaps, we nay want to go back. Oh, Lord, we are en?ged in a risky business. Those Canaanites nay eat us up. How if we want to go back? Vould it not have been a more complete airacle if the Lord had parted the waters to it us come through and kept them parted 0 let us go back if we are defeated?" 3dy riends, God makes no provision for a Christian's retreat. He clears the path 11 the way to Canaan. To go back is to die. 'he same gatekeepers that swing back the methystine and crystalline gate of the ordan to let Israel pass through now swing hut the amethystine and crystalline gate of he Jordan to keep the Israelites from going ack. I declare it in your hearing to-day. ictory ahead, water forty feet deep in the ear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; beiind you death and darkness and woe and lell. But you say, "Why didn't those 'anaanites, when they had such a splendid hance?standing on the top of the bank hirty or forty feet high?completely deoolish those poor Israelties down in the iver?" I will tell you why. God had made t promise, and He was going to keep it. 'There Khali not auv man be able to stand wfore th?-e all the days of thy life." But this is no place for the host to stop, oshua gives the command, "Forward, ijarch!" In the distance there is a long ;rove of trees, and at the end of the crove is 1 nitv It ia ft nitv tif n rl irirK n v with rails seeming to reach to the heavens, to mttress the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. It s Joricho. That city was afterward captured >y Pompey, and it was afterward captured iy Herod the Great, and it was afterward aptured by the Mohammedans, but this eum aipn the Lord plans. There shall he no words", no shield];, no battering ram. There hall be only one weapon of war, and that a am's horn. The horn of the slain ram was ometimes takeu and holes were imnctuied n it, and then the musiciau would put the astrument to his lips, and he would run his lngers over this rude musical instrument, and nake a great deal of sweet harmony for the jeople. That was the only kind of weapon, seven priests were to take these rudo rustic nusioal instruments, and they were to go iround the city every day for sis days?once i day for six days, and then on the seventh lay they were "to go around blowing these ude musical instruments seven times, and hen at the close of the seventh blowing of he rams' horns on the seventh day the proration of the whole scene was t? be h ihout, at which those great walls should umbla from capstone to base. The seven priests with the rude musical in straments pass all around the oity walls the first day. and a failure. Not so muct a piece of plaster broke loose from .the m not so much a loosened rock, not so muc i a piece of mortar lost from its pi "There," say the unbelieving Israel: "Didn't I tell you so? Why, those minis are fools. The idea of going around the with those musical instruments and exp > ing in that way to destroy it! Joshua been spoiled. He thinks because he overthrown aud destroyed the spring fre he can overthrow the stonewall. Why. not philosophic. Don't you see there i? relation between the blowing of these m cal instruments and the knocking dowi : the wall? It isn't philosophy." > And I suppose there were many wisea - who stood with their brows knitted, i with the forefinger of the right hand to I forefinger of the left hand, arguing it all and showing it was not possible that sue cause should produce such an effect. Ai suppose that night in the encampment tl was plenty of philosophy and caricature, if Joshua had been nominated for any 1 ; military position he would not havemany votes. Joshua's stook was down, i second day, the priests, blowing the muf instruments, go around the city, and a : ure. Third day, and a failure; fourth < and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; e day, and a failure. The seventh day coi the climacteric day. Joshua is up earlj the morning and examines the troops, w all around about, looks at the city wall. priests start to make the circuit or tne < They go all around once, all around tw three times, four times, five times, six tir seven times, and a failure. There Is only one more thing to do, that Is to utter a great shout I see Israelitlsh armystraightening themselves flllingtheir lungs for a vociferation suo: was never heard before and never heard ter. Joshua feels that the hour has CO and he cries out to his host, "Shout! for Lord hath given you the city!" All the] pie begin to cry: "Down. Jericho! Do Jericho!" And the long line of solid sonry begins to quiver and to move and rock- Stand from under! She falls! Ci go the walls, the temples, the towers, palaces! The air is blackened with the d The huzza of the victorious Israelites the groan of the conquered Canaanites c mingle, and Joshua, standing there in debris of the wall, hears a voice say "There shall not any man be able to st before thee all the days of thy life." But Joshua's troops may not halt h< The command is, "Forward, march!" T1 is the city of Ai. It must be taken. I shall it be taken? A scouting party co: back and says: "Joshua, we can do t without you. It is going to be a very e job. You just stay here while we go and < ture it." They march with asmall regia in front of that city. The men of Ai lool them and give one yell, and the Israel run like reindeers. The northern troops Ball Bun did not make such rapid tim< these Israelites with the Canaanites a them. They never cut such a sorry fig as when they were on the retreat. Joshua fails on his face in chagrin. ' the only time you ever see the back of head. He falls on his face and begins ayhlnA onH Via ftod. where! hast Thou at nil brought this people c Jordan to deliver us Into the hand of Amorites to destroy us? Would to God had been content and dwelt on the other i of Jordan! For the Canaan*.tea and all Inhabitants of the land ehall hear of it shall environ us round and cut off our nt from the earth." I am very glad Jostnja said that. Bel it seemed as if he were a supernatural bel and therefore could net be an example to but I find he is a man, he is only a man. 2 as sometimes you And a man under sei opposition, or in a bad state of phys health, or worn out with overwork, I3 down and sighing about everything b? defeated, I am encouraged when I hear cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust. God comes and rouses him. How <3 He rouse him? By complimentary a] trophe? No. He says: "Get thee up. Wh< fore liest thou upon thy iace?" Jos rises, and. I warrant you, with a morti look. But his old courage oomes back. 1 fact was that was not his battle. If he ! been in it, he would have gone on to victc They march on. He puts the majorit; the troops behind a ledge of rocks in night, and then he sends a comparator small battalion up in front of the city. ! men of Ai come out with a shout. This 1 talion in stratagem fall back and fall ba and when all the men of Ai have left the i and are In pursuit of this scattered or se ingly scattered battalion Joshua stands c rock I see his locks flying in the win* he points his spear toward the doomed c and that is the signal. The men rush from behind the rocks and take the city, i it is put to the torch, and then these Isri ites In the city march down, and the fly battalion of Israelites return, and betw these two waves of Israelitish prowess men of Ai are destroyed, and the Israeli gain the victory, and while I see the curl smoke of that destroyod citv on the sky, i while I hear the huzza of the Israelites < the groan of the Canaanites, Joshua he something louder thau it all. ringing i echoing through his soul. "There shall any man be able to stand before thee all days of thy life." But this is no place for the host of Josl to stop. "Forward, march!" cries Joshui the troops. There is the city of Gibeoa. has put itself under the protection of Josh They sent word: "There are flvf kings a us. They are going to destroy us. 8< troons auick. Bend us help right awa Joshua "has a three days' march more tl double quick. On the morning of the tfc day he is before the enemy. There are 1 long lines of battle. The battle opens M great slaughter, but the Canaanitea s< discover something. They say: "Thai Joshua. That is the man who conque the spring freshet and knocked down stone wall and destroyed the city of There is no use fighting." And they sot a retreat, and as they begin to reti Joshua and his host spring upon them Ilk panther, pursuing them over the rocks, i as these Canaanites, with sprained ant and gashed foreheads, retreat the catapt of the sky pour a voll/>y of hailstones i the valley, and all the artillery of heavens with bullets of iron pounds Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-hor But it is time for Joshua to go home, is 110 years old. Washington went down Potomac, and at Mount Vernon closed days. Wellington died peacefully at Ape House. Now, where shall Joshua r< Why. he is to have his greatest battle n< After 110 years he hae to meet a king v has more subjects than all the present po lation of the earth, his throne a pyramid skulls. hi6 parterre the graveyards and cemeteries of the world, his chariot world's hearse?the king of terrors. Bu this is Joshua's greatest battle it is going be J?ehua's greatest victory. He gath his friends around him and gives his va dictory, and it is full of reminiscen Young men tell what they are going to Old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grandfather o great-grandfather, seated by the eveui fire, tell of Monmout'j orYorktown andtl lift the crutch or strJI as though if wer musket to light and snow how the old batt were won, so Joshua gathers his friei around his dying couch, and he tells th the story of what he has been through, a as he lies there, his white locks snowi down on his wrinkled forehead, I wonde God has kept His promise all the w *1 U Aa Via 1 uiruuKii?"iiio prumiacuj iuo IOAV. u.\j * there he tells the story one, two or th times?you have heard old people tell a st< two or threw times over?and he answers: go the way of all the earth, and not one wore the promise has failed, not one word ther has failed. All has come to pass; not < word thereof luis failed." And then turns to his family, as a dying parent w and says: "Clioo.se now whom yo will se ?the God of Israel or the God of tho Am ites. As for m<* and my house, we will so: the Lord." A dying parent cannot be ro less or thoughtless in regard to his childr Consent to part with them at the door the toinb we cannot. By tho cradle in wh their infancy was rocked, by th? bosom which they tlrst lay, by tho blood of 1 Covenant, by the God of Joshua, it shall i be. We will not part. Wo cannot pr Jehovah Jireh. we take Theo at Thy prom; "I will be a God to theo and thy seed al thee." Dead, the old chieftain must bo laid o Handle him very gently. Thai sacred be is over 110 years of age. Lay him out. Stre out those feet that walked dry sl'od the par Jordan. Close those lip.s wlrch helped bl the blast at which the walls of Jericho f Fold the arm that lifted the speartoward doomed city of Ai. Fold it ripht over heart that exulted when the five kings f Dut where shall we get the burnished grax for the headstone and tho footstone? I think myself now. I imagine t.bat for head it shall be the sun that stood still u] Gibeon, and for the foot the moon that stc still in the Yalley of Ajalon. ,3 SABBATH SCHOOL. | . rail,' ' ] ac&' INTERNATIONAL LESSUN FOR t? Itea.' JUNE 16. fol iters . city tai ?eot- Lesson Text: "Peter and the Risen wh Lord," John xxi,, 4-17?Golden po shet Text: John xxi., 17? oft it is Commentary. 0Vl i no ho. tusi- 8tr l of 4. Seven of the disciples bad, under th? . feadership of Peter, gone n fishing. But al- 10 ?reg though they toiled all night they took noth- ree and ing. Perhaps Peter thought of another nipht tei the when they had labored in vain, but in the out moraine the Master filled two boats. He was sh a now no longer with them, and perhaps it was *01 id I His absence and their need that led them at po lere this time to turn to the old occupation, and 5. In the morning one stood on the shore ligh whom they knew not and asked them if they got had any meat. They were compelled to con- flb The fess their emptiness and helplessness as they -^a lical answered no. They should have trusted fail- Him unseen as when He was visibly with , lay, them. But they were like ourselves, very ixth slow to learn and full of doubts and fears an nes, and unbelief. jn. r in 6. At His word they cast the net once more, 1 alka and as on a former occasion when He called ~ Tha them to forsake all they catch a multitupe of Tc Jity. fishes. He changes not. His power is ever thi loe, the same. If we would only trust Him, we nes, might always be filled with joy and peace CRom. tv. 13^ and know somewhat of "sat- an and isfled with the favor and full with the bless- or the ingof the Lord" (Deut. xxxiii., 23). ia lup, 7. John, whom Jesus loved, was the first h as to recognize the Lord. There must have af- been some unbelief about the fishing busi- tn< me, ness, else he might have known Him sooner. stl the It was unbelief on the part of Mary that je] seo- caused her not to know Him (chapter xx.. wn, 14). for had she believed His words she ?? ma- would never have looked for the body of a ba I to dead Christ. The two who walked with Him th ash to Emmaus and knew Him not were also full ?_: the of unbelief (Luke xxiv.. 25). Aud so always ust. unbelief blinds the eyes(Heb. iii., 19). oc an<^ 8. As soon as Peter heard John say, "It is th om- the Lord," he at once cast himself into the th the sea to pet to Jesus, while the other disciples . ing. came dragging the net with fishes. As ia' and Peter had lead all in this t?oing fishing, per- ta; haps he wanted a word with the Lord alone, er 're. that he might take the blame upon himself lere and clear the others. As he had led out. he , low would be the first to lead back, a thinj? not roes so easily lone, as is seen in the case of Ma- to hat nasseh (II Chron. xxxiii., 16,17). p0 >asy 9. "Without any efforts of theirs, and with- * , sap- out any of the fish they had caught, their 7 lent breakfast was ready for them. They might mi c at as well have trusted the Lord to care for at ites them, for they had testified that when He _ j 1 at sent them without purse or script or shoes , , 3 as they had lacked nothing (Luke xxii., 35). He tai fter will surely provide for all who truly serve Cc lira nnH fnllnw Him n<*r?nrdinc to Phil. iv.. 19. We wonder if the Are of coals made Petei tt Is think cf another Are of coals when he got hia into trouble (chapter xviii., 18). I to ? 10. ''Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fore figh which you have now caught." As if >ver they had done it. He wrought through them oli the and then gave them the credit of doing it. Vi That is the way He does still. He works in us, when we are willing both to will and to , the do of His rood pleasure (Phil, ii., 13). and 150 and then promises to reward us for the works bj ime which we allowed Him to do through us yc (Rev. xxit., 12). Is not His name truly 'ore "Wonderful?" . 1 11. On the former occasion the net broke 1D <**? ! (Luke v.. 6). butnotso now,although it con- pr Tust tained 153 great fishes. In II Chron. ii., 17, gc rere we read that there were 153,000 strangers in .. ical the land in the days of Solomon, whom he riag employed to get materials for the temple. he ling We know that the sea represents peoples and th thif Nations (Rev. |x\'ii., 15), and that from the v_ Nations the Lord is gathering out a people ~. loes for.His name, to form a great spiritual tem- " 308- j pie as a dwelling place for God (Eph. ii., 21, he are- j 22), and that Peter was the first to open the f0i hua , door to the Nations (Acts xv., 14). . fled i 12. '-Jesus saith unto them, Come and ? rhe I break your fast" (R. V). See now why they he had had goDe fishing. They were evidently hun- wi )ry; f?ry. had been fasting for some time, and no j7 ?* one seemed to care. So it looked as if they the must do something, but their somewhat was ri< all in vain till He commanded. Without be I"9 Him all our efforts will amount to nothing 0f (John xv., 5). He was visibly before them now. and they saw His provision for their vf oity I need. Their lack of confidence in Him when di< em- j invisible kept them from saying much. ; oti in a i3. "Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, i M | and iriveth them, and fish likewise." He is It?* always serving and supplying and caring for < ou? j His people. The Son of Man. who came not ! to be ministered unto, but to minister (Math. J?'" I xx., 28), is still our High Priest with girded ] breast (Rev. i., 13), whose love and power een combine for the best interests of all who are ' His. "He who spared not His own Son, but an ites delivered Him up for us all. how shall He "] ,n? not with Him also freely give us all things?" ^ (Rom. vjii., 32.) . ind 14. This is the third appearance to tho l)ij (are disciples recorded by John; see chapter xx., CO. *nd j9t 26. While it is probably the seventh ap- tt ( not pearance since the resurrection, it is the xu t"e third to any number of the disciples, the other four being to Mary, who first saw Him; 2e iua then to the other women, and afterward to ba i to Peter, then to the two who walked to mj It Emmaus, or possibly to the two before He ua* appeared to Peter. fter is, "Lovest thou Me more than these?' ev end Djd He ask Peter whether he loved Htm thi y* more than the other disciples loved Him, belan cause Pete- had made the strongest prol,r" fessions of love before the crucifixion (Math. J-1 W? xxvl.. 33,35: John xiii., 37), or did He ask rttlx peter whether he loved {the service of Christ, son even though it should involve some hunger t *8 and fasting, more than food for the body r0d such as had now been provided? We all the need to remember that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word of God inc* (Math, iv., 4). and that it is possible to 5" eat esteem the words of Hia mouth more than our 11 6 a necessary food (Job xxili., 12). 16. "Lovest thou Me?" The second timo cles the question comes, but He does not add llts '-more than these." We sometimes hear peo- T n*? pie testify in public as to how much they 0U1 the ]ove ^e Lord. I confess it always makes . the me feel that they would do better to testify o?" to the great love of God to them, for our vill E? love to Him is, I fear, scarcely a thing to be ev< th? talked of in public. Let us manifest our love Dy canngxor n.is sneepanu minus; uy uuiu^ i<j ( ll?y others as He would do were He here: by actjug on John's admonition, "Let us not love the 3W. word, neither In tongue: but in deed and h0i in truth" (I John ill.. 18). . Pu" 17. "Lovest thou Me?" The third time the - < Jo' question comes, for it is a heart searching of the one- Would Peter think of his three-fold wa the denial? Why was he grieved? How little we j c * " thins of how we grieve the Lord! Let us ?t? pray Ps. cxxxix.. 23, 24, margin. Peter had aD< offered to die for Christ. Jesus now tells him res le~ that he shall have that privilege (verses 18, w 19); has he love enough for that? Have you? T , *?* ?Lesson Helper. 1 ( ii ha ELLIPTICAL BATTLE TURRETS. jn. Lng i?n COl One of the Novelties That "Will Make th? f * Iowa More Formidable, les fee ids Elliptical turrets will be one of the novel* em ties of the battleship Iowa, Naval Construe, "j" ;nd tor Stahl's design having been approvod by ing the department. By the adoption of this in- ? r it novation one hundred tons of dead-weight ay armor will be dispensed with. Instead of a 1 iea circular structure with twenty-six feet diame- *)o ree ter the minor axis of the new turret is but jry nineteen feet, and the major axis being par- ' "I allei witn the line of Are. there is seven feet J1.? lot less width offered as a target. The circular ? eof turrets originally designed for tho Iowa were ' >ne to be protected by llfteen-inah armor, which J ' he is preserved in tho elliptical form around jy? ill, three-fourths of the structure, the remaining j rve part near Itio muzzles of the guns beinjr ;?n or- made seventeen inches. The new turret will n-o also bo manipulated with one-third less r ok- power than the olderone. Naval authorities j en. are so impressed with the advantages of the 'A e of improvements that few. if any. circular tur- ri ' ich rets will hereafter be used on naval vessels. |1)(> OU bo 21 'i? amroiraii r* a -r-r-i c a ooo a n luc niiitniv?nn ^n l i lc. nLtr\wnu. J. tfl Dot V irt. Doterminlni* "Whether "\Vc Are IMscrimi- nes !SPt natetl Against in Kurope. reli ;ter E Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Ani- jeB ut. ma I Industry of the Agricultural Department, iyi )(jy is examining into the facts in the ease to tie- ?egl tch termine whether or not European countries, ted and especially Great Britain, discriminates fttft l0W against cattle from the United States in the gciJ ell. matter of regulations governing importation |,eo the and slaughter. Mr. Buchanan, United States itI the Minister to the Argentine Ilepublic, reports *)[e, ell. that he is informed that cattle from that jnaj lite country imported into Great Britain are not fry, lje- rei|uired to be slaughtered at the port of enthe try, which is the case with cattle from the os 30n United States. This matter is being looked j)r's )od int0 by th? department previous to having a protest made by the State Department ia case it should prove to be the case. k Horse's Tall, [a well-formed horses the tail should strong at the root, rising high from i croup, the direction of which it lows. When this is horizontal the 1 is gracefully carried, especially en the horse is moving. With werful, good-shaped horses it is en carried upward, or even curved er tho back, especially when the rse is lively. The health and ength of the animal are, according popular notions, indicated by the jistfanee the tail ofifers to manual inference and by the way in which it 3arried. To some extent also it af"3s an indication of the horse's dissition. A. fidgety horse usually has tho tail, c i?Lie in uiouou } wuen out to kick, the tail is drawn downed between the legs; when the aniil is fatigued or exhausted then it is ooping and frequently tremulous; d with some horses, when gallopj, it is swung about in a circular inner or lashed from side to side, tere can scarcely be any doubt also at, like the tail of birds, it assists in e horse's movements, as when the imal is galloping in a small circle, rapidly turning round a coiner, it curved to the inner side. With well-bred horses the hair oi e tail is comparatively tine and aight, and often grows to such a lgth that it reaches the ground; arse-bred horses may also have the ir long, but then it is usually very ick and strong, and more or less zzly, though soft curly hair may casionally be noticed in the tail oi oroughbred horses. In some horses ere is a tendency to shedding of the LI hair (this, like that of thS mane, il, forelock, fetlocks, and some othparts, is permanent, and not shed certain seasons, as in other regiont tho body); the horse is then said be "rat-tailed," and there is a ipular 6aying to the effect that such horse is never a bad one. In othei stances the tail hair falls off excepl lift an/l A f f KA /IAAIT toVIAI*/} if tnft, and the horse is then "cow Lied" or "mule-tailed."?Nineteentl sntury. Most Confirmed ol W ontan Haters. Probably the most confirmed misonist who ever lired was a wealthj d bachelor who has jnst died ir enna. After his death a bundle ol icuments was discovered among lii? longings, labeled: "Attemptsmad< r my famiJy to pat me under the ike of matrimony." In this packel ;re Bixty-two letters, tbe dates rangS from 1845 to 1893, a sufficienl oof of the tenacity of his relations, i afraid was this strange man of evei ;ting near a woman that whenevei went to the theatre he booked ree seats, in order that ho mighl ,ve one on either side of him empty, hen traveling in a railway carriage was always careful to smoke a large, al-smelling pipe, to keep away inaders of the female sex. In his wil] RdirJ "I liprr that mv exfifliitori II see that I am buried whero then no woman interred either to th? jht or left of me. Should this no1 practicable in the ordinary conrsc things, I direct that they purchase ree graves, and bury me in the mid3 one of tho three, leaving the two liers unoccupied."?London News. Contrast Between East nnrt West. "The open-handed style of doing siness begins to go out of fashion pidly as you come East," remarked Omaha man at one of the hotels, n my town, for instance, the public sks in the banks are liberally supied with blank checks and anybody d help himself. Here if you want :heck you have to ask for it and ii e teller doesn't know you you don't t it. If a man set about it to get a nk check for the purpose of comitting forgery he could do it witht very much trouble, I imagine, bul ery precaution helps to keep down 9 volume of dishonesty in this eked world, I suppose."?Chicago mes-Ueraid. A LIVING SHADOW. SMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION Ol A NORTH CAROLINA MAN. 'ange, but Trne, Story From the Ltuner Regions of a Southern StateVerified by Personal Investigation. (From the OreenviUe, N. C.t Reflector.) rhe following interview has just been giver r reporter by Mr. G. A. Baker, the overseei the farm of Col. Isaac A. Sugg, of Green le, N. C. It wlLl interest anyone who ha* sr had typhoid fever. Mr. Baker said ir t: 'I was living in Beaufort County, and or i 2d day of October, 1898, I was Strieker svn with typhoid lever. I had the best ysicians to attend me and on the 15th da} January, 1894, I was allowed to get up. 1 semuciated, weak and had no appetite, ould only drag along for a short distance 1 would be compelled to sit down and t. This continued for some time and I jon to give up hope of ever getting well. >st my position in Beaufort County and ving secured one in Pitt County, clerking a store, I undertook it, but was so weak I lid not do the work and had to give it up. s disease settled in my knees, legs and t. I was taking flr9t one kind of medicino 1 then another, but Dothinp did me any >d. I was mighty low-spirited. I moved to Col. Sugg's about four or five mouths > and commenced taking Dr. Williams' Is. I took three a day for about three T hunnn tr\ mu ,, nnotilu in n LMU.I. * UlfcHU IV/ tti j ,.j ik's time, and then my weakness began to ippear, and hopesprung up with a blesseds that is beyond all telliug. At the exition of the three mouths I was entirely ed and could take my axe and go in the ids and do as gcod a day's work as any n. I was troubled with dyspepsia and t hns disappeared. It is also a splendid ic for weak people. I say. Mr. Editor, J bless Dr. Williams; may he live for a long e; 1 know he will go up yonder to reap reward for he has done a wonderful lot jood. Tell everybody that asks you about Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People that hey will come to me I can certainly satisfy m as to their merits. I always earry a ; of pills with me ;ind when ever I feel bail ,ke one." ire were forcibly struck with tho earnests of Mr. Dakor and his statements may be ed on. ?r. Williams' Pink Tills contain, in a ooniscd form, all the elements necessary to e new life and richness to the blood "and ore shattered r.erves. They are an uding specific for such diseases as locomotor xia, partial paralysis. St. Vitus' dance, iticn, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous daehe, the after effects of la grippe, palition of the heart, j?ale and sallow collisions, all forms of weakness either in le or female; and all diseases resulting n vitiated humors in tho blood. Pink s are sold by all dealers, or will be sent t paid on receipt of price. (50 cents a box, iix boxes for ?2.50) by addressing Dr. liams'Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y. I Take no Sub I Royal Bakin I It is Absolu IS s js "f- All others contain alt Driltrrood Pete's Streak of Luck. ( While splitting wood near his boat q house at the foot of Loughborough avenue, yesterday afternoon, "Driftwood Pete" made a lucky strike of the ax, which put him in possession of nearly 8*00 in gold. He was pound- Qut ing away at the hollow log, when the eye ax cut through and struck some metallic substance, which proved to gej( be an iron pot tight sealed. With eager haste he broko the top, and to te0j his delight gold coin came rolling out. Upon counting the coins they ?Qjj amounted to $400. The pot had been jgn incased in the log apparently for a ^ j ; great number of years, and it is ^ thought to have been hidden in the ^we tree during the war. Where the tree ^ came from will probably never be ^ , known. It had been felled somewhere , up 'the river, and drifted along with 1 , the current to yield its treasure to . "Driftwood Pete." "Driftwood Pete" ' has earned a livelihood all his life by ^ , catching drifting wood and other , Boating articles on the Mississippi River during the summer months. ,It was seven months ago that he caught q [ the log which contained the pot of ^e , gold, and it has lain near his cabin jqq ever since, until yesterday, when he jn started to split it up for firewood.? prj St Louis Globe-Democrat. tiT( Curious Deep-Sea Fishes. j?eJ j There are many curions forms i8 . among the fishes known to inhabit see i the very deepest portions of th? deep an< sea, but there are few such tiaique specimens as that recently reported to the Berlin Institute from the coast of U Morocco. It was brought up from a | depth of one and one-half miles and was a wonder to behold. The crea1 ture was only about twenty-nine inohes long, but fully four-fifths of 1 its entire length was head and mouth. I Ei was estimated that if the body had ' been severed just behind the hinges of the jaw ten such "bodies" could have j [ been stowed away in its great pouch- a ' like stomach.?San Francisco Exam- $ iner. K English syndicates have ?91,000,000 Eh ^ invested in breweries in the United * State*. i _______^ .......__ > LOOK OUT FOR BREAKERS AHEAD u\ when pimples, _W fc A\ eruptions, boils, _M u\ find like manifes- ? ) rTlflM m tations of impure "j fSf&n \\\ blood appear. They VV\ wouldn't appear if \W your blood were * Vu pure and your sysV\ tern in the right iJDHKS \\\ condition. They S WHBpB . . \\V show you what you [ need?a good blood- 1 >A-?Y purifer; that's what fr Ti% \V "^V you get when you fl y /take Dr. Pierce's " I 1 v /Golden Medical L ' 4 \ , Discovery. E iE"' It carries health p nj with it. All Blood, ]t 7' IVNa Skin and Scalp Dis- a 1 \? eases, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula, are cured by it. It invigorates ? , the liver and rouses every organ into 0 healthful action. In the most stubbon.1 h ' forms of Skin Diseases, such as Salt- a ' rheum, Eczema, Tetter, Ery.sipelas{ Boils o ; and kindred ailments, and Scrofula, it is an \ unequaled remedy. * DADWAY'S : : ? PILLS, : , For the cure of all disorders of tbe Stomach, Liver, Ci Bowels, Kidneys, Blalder, Nervous Diseases, Lass of Appetite, Headache, Constipation, Costlveuew, tt Indigestion, Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation of the ? Bowels, Piles, and all derangements of the Internal {j Viscera. 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It will show a cut IItA I of 1 Style of d DAVIS CREAM SEPARATORS t would tako several pages to (fire details about these leerless machines. Handsome lllustruted Pamphlet Mailed Free. Waoints Wa.vtkd DAVIS & RANKIN BtCC. AND MFC: CO. Sole Manufacturers, Chicago. n a World Where " Cleanliness i Praise is Too Gr SAPO Keep flie E "My baby was a living skeleton. The d mus, Indigestion, etc. The various foods I ti did not strengthen or fatten him. At thirte what he did at birth?seven pounds. I begar times putting a few drops in his bottle, then again fcy the absorption method of rubbing it velous. Baby began to stouten and fatten, ai a wonder to all. Scott's 1'mdlsion supplied Scott's En is especially useful for sickly, delicate c fails to nourish them. It supplies in a < form, just the nourishment they need to health and strength. It is Cod-liver O: assimilate, combined with the Hypop most remarkable nutrients. Don't be persuaded to ac< Scott & Bowne, New York. All I V ' ' ~ #: *?$& ' n ? mi .<> . . r.jr' stitute for I J g- Powder. I tely Pure. I - J lm or ammonia. 9 )nc ol tlie Highest Eels on Record. ?he crew of the fishing steamer oie L. Wilcox, of Mystic, took oa .3 ird Saturday the largest sea eel that r one could remember. The midof the week the crew had hauled . ; ^ the biggest eel any of them had r seen, but Saturday's capture beat first one. The biggest of the two ' j weighed thirty-four pounds. He i five feet nine inches long and nineq inches in circumference. The ' "* lensions of the other eel were m ows; Weight, twenty-five pounds; gth, five feet three inches; circum- v. snce, fifteen inches. 'hese eels were taken in ponnds been Watch Hill and Point Judith, ch the steamer visits every day. }v were not so lively as the little -t;?i _ 1.1. _ X- II..;. .f'.a 3 are, 10 proportion to meir bim, thej would have made things ior V ssting. 'But they looked decidedly y as they thrashed around in the -,, s.?New London (Conn.) Day. 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" : tiulsion :hildren when their other fnnd concentrated, easily digestible i build them up and give them il made palatable and easy to hosphitcs, both of which are zept a substitute f )rug?ists. 50c. and 31/