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mB Pari* Kailway Franchises. mm Paris is learning how to handle a municipal franchise. It will allow a company to build forty-five miles of ' railway through its streets at a cost of $40,000,000, the fare to vary from two cents to four cents. At the end of thirty-five years the city will take possession of the entire property without pavinc a cent. The craze for the appellation of "greater" seems to have struck Indianapolis. Five suburban villages have eeqn recently annexed by that city. Mysteries of Waterloo. - The historical student i9 considerably bothered by the details of the battle of 'Waterloo. Starting with the one thing certain, that Napoleon was defeated, it is not yet satisfactorily determined whether it was the English or the PrusJ eians that won the fight. It is also not known with certainty whether "Welling/ ton surprised his enemy or overcame I him by superior strategy; whether he ; / and Blucher met at La Belle Alliance i ( or some miles away; whether Grouchy /disobeyed orders, or carried them out too literally. It is even not settled that Wellington said, "Up, guards, and at them," or that Cambronne cried "The old guard dies, but never surrenders," or where the famous ball of j the Duchess of Richmond was actually I held. It is estimated that the turkey trade of the United States exceeds $12,000,- ; 000. Playln* Po**nm. "Playln'possum" comes from the fact that the possum will feign sleep or death when p pushed into sudden danger of being captured. But pains and aches never play that kind of a game. They never try to fool anybody, and go to work" to wake up people, leaving no chance to feign sleep. On the other hand, there is a remedy known as St. Jacobs Oil that will lull a pain or an ache so that It won't wake up again in the cure that follows its use. Pains and aches are great or less in intensity just in degree as we treat them. Prompt "treatment with the best remedy?St. Jacobs Oil?prevents their increase and by curinpr prevents the:r return. Everything Is gained by taking pains and aches in time for a prompt and permanent cure, and there is nothing better than the nnfl r>f St .Tnf?r>hq Oil. It is estimated that there nre 600,000 bicycles in the State of New Jersey. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco'? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00 at all druggists. The number of abstainers in Great Britsin Is estimated at 7.000,000. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet It oures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and instantlv takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach lcr "eet. Try it t>-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. Bv mail for 25c. in Btamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., Props, of Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer $100 reward for any cape of catarrh thatcannotbe cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testunonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c. ??????? / To insure the eradication of eruptive com J plaints wash daily with Glenn's Sulphur Sonp^ Hill's Hair & ^ hisker Dye, black or Drown, 50c, B I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved W my boy'slife lastsummer.?Mrs. AulieDocgUL6S, Le Roy, Mich., Oct 30,1894. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Impure Blood Eating rich and hearty food, sweets and fats In winter, close confinement and breathing vitiated air in office, store, shop, house, factory or school- T ?!^z*room* necessar" !lly makes the I ? KG blood impure, and eruptions, boils, pimples, humors are the result. Dizziness, indigestion and many other troubles are also caused by impure blood. I_l ? _ Sarsa noou s oarilla I Ib the best?in fact the OneTrue Blood Purifier. Q..JI. Dillr* cure nausea, indigestion, noou 5 r 1115 biliousness. 35 cents. TJadway's n puis Always Reliable Purely Vegetable Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated, regulate, purify, cleanse and strengthen. "RADWAY'S PILLS for flip cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Bowels, Kidney#, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Dizziness, Vertigo, Costiveness, Piles, I OTriTT TT-O A TV A /-ITTTP OXV/H FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, t CONSTIPATION and all Disorders of the Liver. Observe the following symptoms, resulting from diseases of the digestive organs: Constipation, inward piles, fullness of blood in the head, acidity of the stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust of food, fullness Df weight of the stomach, sour eructations, inking or fluttering of the heart, choking or suflocating sensations when in a lying posture, dimness of vision, dots or webs before the sight, fever and dull pain in the head, deficiency 01 perspiration, yellowni'ss of the skin and eyes, pain in the side, chest, limbs and sudden flushes of heat, burning Is the flesh. A few Joses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the system of all the above-named disorders. Price !J3c. a Box. Sold by Druggists, or dent by tnaii. RADWAY & CO. Elm Street. New York. GET RICH quickly: send for "800 Inventions i Wanted.' Edgar Tate 4: Co. 346 B'way, N. Y. " I am I only too glad to tes-1 J tify to the great value \ J of Ayer's Sarsaparilla 1 I which has beeua house-1 I hold companion in our I I family for years. I takei I from 3 to 5 bottles of It every\ / Spring, generally beginning! I about the first of April. After* J that I feel like a two year old j for it tones up my system, givesl A i / me an excellent appetite and l\ il / sleep like a top. Asabloodmedi-\ f I cine it has no superior, at least that\ \ I is ray opinion of it.? H. R. Wildey,\ I Philadelphia, Pa., March 20,1896. \ WEIGHTY WORDS \j FOR Ayer's Sarsap Height Limit to Building*. In Vienna. Austria, the height of a ! house must not exceed eighty-two feet; , the floor of the last story must Dot be i more than sixty-five feet six inches above the level of the street. When j the ground slopes this measure must j be taken from the highest point. The ; house must not have more than five j c+Yvrii><i irirhitiiniT the cellar and attics. ' 1 j A new libel law in Utah requires j double publication of a retraction for J a period of three clays in mitigation of j damages. The British Are Butter Eaters. The 38,000,000 people who comprise j the population of the United Kingdom j are the greatest butter eaters in the i world. In addition to what they make 1 for themselves, they have imported i during the last six years an average ; of 269,843,549 pounds of pure butter j annually, for which they have paid an , average of S62,302,777. In 1896 they ran their total up to 340,250,06*4 j pounds, and paid ?74,671,980 for it. j In addition to this, they have im- i ported an average of 131,941,443 : pounds of bogus butter, for which , they have paid annually the average \ price of $16,087,102. In 1S96 the im- ! - ' j -n 1 j j ports of oleomargarine into rmgianu j fell off considerably, and amounted to i only 103,704,608 -pounds, valued at ?12,158,585. The increased consumption of butter in Great Britain has been remarkable. It has more than doubled during the last ten years. In 1886 the I Britons imported ?39,620,30S in butter, and in 1896, as has already been | stated, the total was over ?74,000,000. | The high tide in the imporation of oleomargarine was reached in 1892, when the total was 146,199,200 pounds, valued at a little more than ?18,000,000.?Washington despatch to the Chicago Record. The Peruvian Potter. A long slim neck is a distinguishing feature of much of the Peruvian pottery, and nearly every vessel is ornamented with a figure of some sort, hav ing holes to represent eyes and other openings. These afford a passage for the air forced out by the liquid -when poured into the vessel. By an ingenious contrivance the air in escaping produces a sound similar to the cry of the , creature represented. Thus a utensil decorated with two monkeys embracing each other on having water poured into or from it would give a sound like the screeching of those animals. One decorated with a bird would emit birdlike notes, while a mountain cat on one jar would maw; snakes coiled around another would hiss. The most curious that we have seen was the figure of an aged wowan. When the jar was in use, her sobs became audible, and tears i trickled down her cheeks. The manu- 1 facturers seen* to have known all about : atmospheric pressure. De Le Plon geon had in his own collection a piece that demonstrated this. It represented a double-headed bird. The vessel had to be filled through a hole in the bottom, and yet in turning it over not a drop would spill, but the liquid would readily flow out when the jar was simply inclined.?Popular Science Monthly. Great Even at Fowl Cultu. B. . The biggest of everything in 'the i world is across the Atlantic, and poultry farms are no exception. The very largest establishment of the kind be- < longs to Mr. Isaac Wilbur, of Little j Compton, E. I. Mr. Wilbur ships about 150,000 dozen of eggs a year. He keeps his fowls on the colony plan, j housing about forty in a house eight , feet by ten feet, or eight feet by twelve j feet in size, these houses being about 150 feet apart, set out in long rows over the gently sloping fields. He I has one hundred of these houses, > scattered over three or four fields. I ( The food is loaded into a lo-w wagon, I which is driven about to each house in turn, an attendant feeding as he goes. At the afternoon feeding the eggs are collected. The fowls are fed twice a day. The morning food is a mash of cooked vegetables and mixed meals. The afternoon feed is whole corn the year round. ? Westminster (London) Budget. i Eighteen-Story Hotels. Two more eighteen-story hotels, to cost ?3,000,000, are to be erected at once in New York City, and the architects say they are to be the finest | structures of this class in the city. It j seems to be the opinion of shrewd real , estate people in New York that the ' transient population of New York has j already been vastly increased by her j magnificent hotels. Try Graln-O ! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a pack, age of Grain-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink 1 it without injury as well as the adult All who try it like it Grain-O has that rich seal | brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from ! pure grains, and the most delicate stomach re- j ceives it without distress. One-quarter the i price of coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums,redueing inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 35c.a bottle. Wlipn hilimio nr enst.ive. eat a Hasoaret candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., ^5c. It is estimated that there are 1,300,000 Irish people in Australia. SICK NEARLY THIRTY YEARS. BRILLIANT SERVICE IN THE WAR I FOLLOWED BY PROLONGED SIFFERING. High Private Briggg Brings H1b War- j time Valor Into a Ufe nml Death Combat?He Speak* of His Struggle* Sinee the War. From the Tribune, Hornellsvillc, X. Y. There is no man in Oneida County, New York, who stands higher in the community than Mr. William H. Briggs, a wealthy farmer, and resident of Bridgewater. and a prominent member of the G. A. R. His j statement will not he new.- to his friends,as they all know whereof he writes, but it is commended to the consideration of the public. Mr. Briggs writer) as follows: "It gives me great pleasure and satisfae j tion to be able to give honor where hono1 I is due. and to that end I make this certificate. hoping it may be the means of others | being benefited as I have been. "I am a farmer residing near Bridge- ' water. unema voumy. i>nv iurs; my uuiuc is Wiiiiam H. Briggs, and I am 56 years old. 1 air. an old soldier, and member of tbe G. A. Tl.. having served as high private in Co. A, 1st Xew York Artillery, during the whole four years of the Rebellion. Though not 8 I pensioner, and never an applicant for pension. I contracted through malarial climate disease of liver and stomach, from which I suffered continuously, in various forms. In 1863 I had the jaundice, and it continued for years, to a greater or lesser degree. I never was free from dyspepsia, and palpitation of the heart, and" su:Tered from nervous debility to ;?uch an extent that I could neither rest by night nor work by day. Xight after night I walked the floor tormented by vague fears, which I knew were purely imaginary, and yet I could not shake them off. I came home in June. 18C5, and from then until 1894 1 was constantly attended by physicians, having employed* three at different times dirfag that period. These good doctors gave m6 occasionally temporary relief, but the good effects of their treatment quickly disap- j pearcji, and left n?e more despondent and wretched than ever. "I did not believe in giving up, and was j about to send to Utica for another physician, when Mr. H. Seifert, tbe blacksmith ' who attends to my horses, recommended 1 me to try ur. wiinams hdk nus, as ae as sured me they had done wonderful things for him. I had read of these pilis before, and felt somewhat inclined to try them, before Seifert spoke of them, but 'his recommendation settled the matter, and I became Dr. Williams' patient. I took Pink Pills steadily until I have consumed four boxes, Krowing better and better every day, my liver working freely, my kidneys acting normally. My heart no longer troubled ; me. and'I could digest my food. All the i water brash, heart burn, buzzing in the head, as if there were a great empty space in my cranium, disappeared, and life began . to be" worth living, which it had not been since my army service. I was cured in less than one year from the time I began to take Pink Pills in 1894, and have been in fair health ever since. Of course, I have to be careful, as I easily catch cold, and it is apt to settle in my right side, but a dose or two of the Pink Pills soon set ma to rights apain, and I shall never be without them, unless something very unforeseen occurs. "I do not want it understood that I am easting any stress against those who are ! pensioners. If I were needy I should cer- I tainly ask for what I am entitled to, but being amply provided with this world's goods, I do not require it. My old comrades can testify that I have helped many a one of them to get a pension. "The above statement is true in every rmrtifiilnr T certifv on honor. "(Sipned) Wm. H. Briogs." Dr. Williams' Pink Tills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to irive new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar" to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all torms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of wbatsver nature. Pink Tills are sold in boxes [never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 82.50, and iray be had of ail druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. VVillian.s' Medicine Company, Schenectady, X. Y. IIow Fast Wild Gvefe Fly. T\??:? ii? ,i,-? Tvr?..?r. JL/U1III^ ILIC LUICC UKJO CUUlii^ lUUI tu 22 numerous flocks of geese were seen migrating northward, or, rather, northeastward, since they were following the general trend of the coast line, which, in New England, is nearly northeastward north of Cape Cod. On the morning of March 22, while A. E. Sweetland and I were measuring clouds at the ends of abase line 1178.4 metres in j length, extending from the Blue Hill j Meteorological Observatory to the base ' of Blue Hill, we succeeded in measuring, with our cloud theodolites, the j height and the velocity of flight of one { of these flocks of geese. So rapid is 1 the velocity of flight that the flock was j visible to observers only about two j minutes, but during that time two sets of measurements were taken with the theodolites on the leader of the flock. The first measurements, at 8.49 a. m,, were accurately taken at the ob- i servatory station, but were only ap- j proximate at the other station. The j second measurements, at 8.50 a. m., were accurate and simultaneous at both stations. Using the second set of observations at both stations for the ?,w1 +1,.^ auu ilic i *t u ocio wi uuoti xvuuuo | at the observatory station for the j velocity, the calculations gave the i height as 903 feet above the Neponset i River Valley, of 960 feet above sea j level, and the velocity of flight as 44.3 ! miles an hour. The direction of flight j was from southwest to northeast. On a previous occasion, as described j in Science of January 1, we found a j flock of ducks flying from the northeast j at a height of 958 feet, with a velocity : of 47.8 miles an hour.?H. Helm Clayton, in Science. A New Iielmet for the German Army. a new neiinei uus ueeu dci vcu uui, j by way of experiment, to several regiments of the German Army. It is very light, being made of aluminium, and is bronzed in order to obviate the drawbacks which might arise from a bright metal head-dress. Germany has already tried aluminium horse-shoes, | buckles, and accoutrements, with a < view to lightening the weight which ! the soldier must carry. For horse- | shoes it has been found too soft, but j in other respects it has answered well, j There is one drawback which has not ! been foreseen, namely, that when ex- j posed to the influence of the sun alumilium will store up heat to a remark- | able degree,eventually becoming so hot j as to blister the skin. Whether bronz- j ing will obviate this defect remains to J be seen, but the German experiment ' nnp which is well worth the atten- I I.ion of nil military men.?British Army | iml Navy Gazette. I I.iiiuiflcd Air on Tap. Liquified air can now be ordered by | tbe dozen bottles in Munich, Bavaria. I But just what it can be used for in a ! general way is in donbt. It is t:o cold j that it blisters the skin at a touch, but | its excess of oxygen is a valuable fea- j ture. At present chemists are the | only customers for it. The average number (if wrecks in the Bultic Sea is seven a week, which is more than in any other place in the world. DR. TALHAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOl RSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Helping: to Fill the Ships That Aro to Carry Food for the Starving P??ople of India?An Eloquent Plea for Millions of Famine Sufferers in a Distant Land. Text: "This is Abasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia.''?Esther i.,1. Among the 773,693 words which make np the Bible only once occurs the word "India." In this part of the Scriptures, which the rabbis call "Megillah Esther," or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against because the word "God" is not even onc? mentioned in it, although nnc n'chflv riisnnspH crti spa find In it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with 2,000,000 men, but returned in a poor fisher's boat, had a vast dominion, among other regions, India. In my text India takes its place in Bible geography, and the interest in that land has continued to increase until, with more and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Heber'e hymn about "India's coral strand'' is being sung. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through my body and mind and soul when after two weeks' tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India?for the winds did not. according ito the old hymn, "blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle"?our ship sailed up one of the mouths of the Ganges, past James and Mary island, so named because a royal ship of that name was wrecked there, and I stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid the shrines and the temples and sculptures of that City of Palaces, the strange phyuiognomies of the living and cremations ol the dead. I had never expected to be there, because the sea and I long ago had a serious falling out, but, the facilities of travel are so increasing that you and your children will probably visit that land of bound less fascination. Christ during His earthly stay was never outside of Asia. "When He had sixteen or eighteen years to spare from His active work, instead of spending that time in Europe I think he goes farther toward the heart of Asia?namely. India. The Bible says nothing of Christ from twelve j'ears of age until thirty, but there are records in India and traditions in India which represent a strange, wonderful, most excellent and supernatural being as staying in India about that time. I think Christ was there much of the time between His twelfth and His thirtieth year; but. however that may be. Christ was born in Asia, suffered in Asia, died in Asia, ascended from Asia, and all that makes me turn my ear more attentively toward that continent as I hear its 2ry of distress. Besides that I remember that some of the most splendid achievements for the cause of that Asiatic Christ have been mtule in India. How the heart of every intelligent Christian beats with admiration s.t the mere mention of the name of Henry Me.rtyn! Having read the life of our American David Brainerd, who gave his life to evangelizing our American savages, Henry Martyn goes forward to give his life for the se.lvati on of India, dying from exhaustion of service at thirty-one years of age. Lord Maca ulay, writing of him says: Here Martyn lies. In manhood's early bloom The Christian hero found a pagan tomb. Poli am l'atfnm'nrf a'ov ffimrlto oi*m Points to the glorious tropies which ho won. Immortal trophies! No t with slaughter red, Nor stained with team by friendJes.1! orphans shed, But trophies of the cross. In that dear name, Through every scene of danger, toil and shame, Onward he journeyed to that happy aliore, Where danger, toil and shame are Ju:.own no more. Is there in all history, secular or ruligi- j ous, a most wondrous character thao William Carey.the converted shoemaker ol' England, daring all things for God in India, translating the Bible into many dialects, building chapels and opening mii-sion houses and laying foundations for tliti redemption of the country, and although Sidney Smith, who sometimes laughed at things he ought not to have satirized, had In the learned Edinburgh Review scoffed at the idea of what he called "low born, low bred mechanics" like Carey attemptir.g to convert the Brahmins, Carey stopped not antil he had started influences that eternity, no more than time, shall have power to arrest. 313.000 Bibles sroinc forth from his printing presses atf Serampore. His sublime humility showed itself in the epitaph ho ordered from the old gospel hymn: A wretched, poor and helpless worn, On thy kind arms I fall. Need I tell you of Alpljonse Lacroix. the Swiss missionary in India, or of William Butler, the glorious American Methodist missionary in India, or of the royal family of the Scudders of the Reformed Church of America, my dear mother church, to whom I give a kiss of love in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Duff, the Iscotch missionary whose visit to this country some of us will remember forever? Whon he stood in the old Broadway tabernacle, New York, and pleaded for India until there was no other depth of relipious emotion for him to stir and no loftier height of C hristain eloquence for him to scale, and closed in a whirlwind of halleluiahs, I could believe that which was said of him?that while pleading the cause oi India in one of the churches of Scotland he got so overwrought that he fell In the pulpit in ii swoon and was carried into the vestry to be resuscitated, and when restored to his senses and preparation wa3 being made to carry him out to son: e dwelling where he coulcl be put to bec'l he compelled his friends to take him back to the pulpit to complete his plea for thu salvation or India, no sooner getting on his feet than he began where he left off, but with more gigantic power than before he fainted. But just as noble as any I ht.ve mentioned are the men and women who are there now for Christ's sake and the redemption of 1 hat people. Far away from their native tand, famine on one side and black plague on the other side, swamps breathing on them malaria, and jungles howling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras, the names of those missionaries of all denominations to be written so high on the roil of martyrs that no names of the last 1800 years shall be written above them. You need to see them at their work inschocls and churches and lazarettos to appreciate them. All honor upon them and thoir households while I smite the dying lips of their slanderers. Most interesting are tlm people of India. At Calcutta I said to one of their leaders, who spoke English well: "Have these idols whiaa I see any power of themselves to help or clestroy?" He said: "No; they only represent uou. There is but one God." "When people die, whe re do they go to?" "That depends upon what they have been doing. If they hav been doing good, to heaven, and if they have been doing evil, to hell." "But do you not believo in the transmigration of souls, and that after death we go into birds or animals of some sort?" "Yes. The last creaturj a man is thinking of while dying is the one into which he will go. If he is thinking of a beast, he will go into a beast." "I thought you said that at death ihe soul goes to heaven or hell?" "lie goes there by a gradual process. It may take him years and years." "Can any one beeorne a Hindoo? Could I become a Hindoo?" "Yes; you could." "How "could I become a Hindoo?" "By doing as the Hindoos do." From that continent of interesting folk, from tha" continent that prave the Christ, from that continent which has been < ndeared by so ninny missionary heroics, there conies a groan of 80,000,000 people in hunger. More people are in danger of starving to death in India to-day than the entire population of the United States. In the famine in India in the year 1877, about 6,000,000 people starved t:> death. That is more than all the people of Washington, of New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago, put together. But that famine was not a tenth part as awful as the one thero now raging. Twenty thousand are dying there of famine every day. Whole villages and towns have died?every man, woman and ehild; none left to bury the dead. The vultures and the jackals are the cnly pallbearers. Though some help has been sent, before full relief can reach them I suppose there will be at least 10.000.000 dead. Starvation, even for one person, is an awfuJ process. No food, the vitals gnaw upon themselves, and falntness and Janguo; Q?d pangs Iccm, head to foot, and horror and despair and insanity take full possession. One handful of wheat or corn or nee per day would keep life going, but they cannot get a handful. The crops failed, and the millions are dying. Oh, It is hard to be hungry in a world where there are enough grain and fruit and meat to All all the hungry mouths on the planet; but, alas, that the sufferer and the supply cannot be brought together. There stands India today! Look at her! Her face dusky from the hot suns of many centuries; under her turban such achings of brow as only a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow with unutterable woe; the tears rolling down her sunken cheek; her back bent with more agonies than she knows how to carry; her ovens containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt, ghastly, wasted, the dew of death upon her forehead and a pallor such as the last hour brings, she stretches forth her trembling hand toward us, and with hoarse whisper she says: "I am dying! Giye me bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give it to me quick. Give it to me now?bread! bread! bread!" America has heard the cry. Many thousands of dollars have already been contributed. One ship laden with breadstuffs has sailed from San PrflnnioAA f rw Tn^lo Hnr aan nta on/1 house of representatives, in a bill signed by our sympathetic president, have authorized the secretary of the navy to charter a vessel to carry food to the famine sufferers, and you may help fill that ship. We want to send at least 600.000 bushels of corn. Oh, what a relief ship that will be! It Bhall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until we have had something to do with its cargo. Just seventeen years ago from these, Easter times a ship on similar errand went' out from New York harbor?the old war, frigate Constellation. It had once carried guns of deaths, but there was famine in; Ireland, and the Constellation was loadedj with 500 tons of food. That ship, oncej covered with smoke of battle, then covered with Easter hosannas; that ship, con-' structed to battle England, going forth! over the waters to carry relief to some of her starving subjects. Better than sword into plowshare, better than spear Into pruning hooklwas that old war frigate, turned into a white winged angel of resurrection, to roll away the stone from the mouth of Ireland's sepulchre. On like errand five years ago the ship Leo put out with many tons of food for famine struck Russia. One Saturday afternoon on the deck of that steamer, as she lay at Brooklyn wharf, a wondrous scene took place.' A committee of the King's Daughters had decorated the ship with streamers and bunting, American and Russian flags inter-! twininfF TRnnoon/Ta ftf npnnlA nn thfl ^uvuLii. ?? ? ? , wharves and on the decks join us in invoking God's blessing on the cargo, and the long meter Doxology in "Old Hundred" sounded grandly up amid the masts and ratlines. Having had the joy of seeing that ship thus consecrated, we had the additional joy of standing on the docks of 8t. Petersburg when the planks of the relief ship were thrown out and the representatives of the municipality and of royalty went aboard her, the long freight train at the same time rolling down to take the food to the starving, and on alternate cars of that train American and Russian flags floating. But now the Hunger in India i3 mightier than any that Ireland or Russia ever suffered. Quicker ought to be the re-j sponse, and on so vast a scale that the one snip would become a whole flotilla?New York sending one, Boston another, Philadelphia another, Charleston another, New: Orleans another. Then let them all meet in, some harbor of India. What a peroration, of mercv for the nineteenth century! I, would like to stand on the wharf at Calcutta or Bombay and see such a fleet come( in. With what joy it would be welcomedlj The emaciated would lift their heads on shriveled hands and elbows, and with thin hands ask, "Is it coming?something to eat?" Christian people of America, I call your attention to t"he fact that we may now, as never before, by one magnificent stroke open the widest door for the evangelization of Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way Christianizing Asia has been the difference of language, but all those people understand the gospel of bread. Another obsta cle Has been tne law 01 caste, uui m wuan better way can we teach them the brotherhood of man? Another huge difficulty in the way of Christianizing Asia has been that those people thought the religion we would have them take was no better than their Hindooism or Mohammedanism, but they will now see by thia crusade for the relief of people 14,000 milea away that the Christian religion is of a higher, better and grander type than any other religion, for when did the followers of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Confucius or Mohammed ever demonstrate like interest in people on opposite sides of the world? Having taken the bread of this life from our hands, they will be more apt to take from us the bread of eternal life. The missionaries of different denominations in India at forty-six stations are already distributing relief sent through the Christian Herald. Is it not plain that those missionaries, after, feeding the hunger of the body, will be at better advantage to feed the hunger of the soul? When Christ, before preaching to the 5000 in the wilderness, broke for them the miraculous loaves, He indicated that the best way ito prepare the world for spiritul and eternal considerations is first to look after temporal interests. Oh, church of God in America and F.nrnnfll And now I bethink myself of something I never thought of before. I had noticed that the circle is God's favorite figure, and upon that subject I addressed you some time ago, but it did not occur to me until now that the gospel seems to be moving in a circle. It started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic river; Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this gospel moved on to Europe. Witness the chapels and churches and cathedrals and Christian universities of that continent. Then it crossed to America. It has prayed and preached and sung its way across our continent. It has crossed "to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands in its way, and now in all the great cities on the coast of China people are singing "Rock of Ages" and "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood," for you must know that not only have the Scriptures been translated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical hymns. My missionary brother, John, translated some of them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave me a copy of the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul,"" which he had himself translated into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent sixteen or eighteen years of His life in India is there now in spirit, converting and saving the people by hundreds of thousands, and the Gospel will move right on throuerh Asia until the story of the Sav iour's birth will anew be made known in Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour'g sacrifice be told anew on and around Mount Calvary, and the story of a Saviour's ascension be told anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet. And then ao you not see the circle will be complete? The glorious circle, the circle of the earthl May 10, was a memorable day, for then was laid the last tie that connected the two rail tracks which united the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The Central Pacific railroad was built from California eastward. The Union Pacific railroad was built westward. They were within arm's reach of meeting, only one more piece of the rail track to put down. A great audience assembled midcontinent to see the last tie laid. The locomotives of the easern and western trains stood panting on the tracks close by. Oration explained the occasion, and prayer solemnized it, and 1 A?1 -* fin ipiic tyioHm nf music encnameu it*. nc polished laurel wood, be- nd with silver bands, and three spikes were used?a gold spike, presented by California; a silver spike, presented by Nevada, and an iron spiko presented by Arizona. When, all heads uncovered and all hearts I thrilling w?th emotion, the hammer struck the last spike into its place, the can- i non boomed it amid the resounding ! mountain echoes and the telegraphic instru- j ments clicked to all nations that the deed ! was done. My friend, if the laying of the I last tie that bound the east and the west of > one continent together was such a resounding occasion, what will it be when the last j tie of the track of gospel influence, reaching I * 'j -l.nll Ka l<W,l a m id j clear arouini uiu wunu, suuu , the anthems of all nations? The spikes will j be the golden and silver spikes fashioned j out of the Christian generosity of the hem- j ispheres. The last hammer stroke that completes the work will be heard by all the raptured and piled up galleries of the universe, and the mountians of earth will shout to the throne of heaven: "Halleluiah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Halleluiah, for the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord J Jesus Christ!" LA statue to Lord Randolph Churchill is to e erected ia Westminster. Since the movement for open spaces started in Philadelphia ten years ago, twenty-seven email parks have been established. wo ll \( makes t 1^1 \ \ ' \\ woman "who >\\ /U every sympt /mV, / I \ her advice i y > I 1 based upon I 1' /' 11 by man or w I . 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