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The Court on Canine r?ycliology. Miss Eulberg is an Iowa girl. She Oail a misunderstanding with a neighbor's dog. In the course of it she ucrt only spoke severely to the dog. but threw sticks and stones at him. A few months later the dog lay in wait t'other aud bit her. She sued the dog's owner, a Mr. Van liergen, for damages and got a verdict. The Iowa Supreme Court sustains it. "A dog." say the justices, "has no right to brood over his wrongs and remember in malice."?Hartford Courant. Look Thf?e Fp. In many educational journals nowa * fACtc /-?nt says we see pronuiiciuuuii words, etc., which may be valuable for technical use, and yet not being needed every day In every-day talk are?like certain folks I know?chiefly interestSag on public occasions. I should like to put down here a list of words that arc very generally tnis-pronounced. Everybody knows how to pronounce them, perhaps, but being such common little things?mere street waifs with unwashed faces, nobody takes the trouble to "speak them fair." Now, to know widat is our duty and fail to do it is a much more culpable thing than not to do it because we don't know what our duty is. So here they are. little, commonplace creatures which are mispronounced every day: Toward, again, bade, brooch, apricot, often, catch, hearth, aye, lien, greasy, sew, scare, years, idea, area, bouquet, ague, bleat, rise (noun), arctic. shone, route, gaunt, canine, juvenile. corporal, tete-a-tete, bicycle, were, recipe, frontier,'depot, process, recess, romance, tirade, essay, tarpaulin, won. The above are in common use and | of common abuse. Some of them. of course, come from our sister. France, and people are likely to say they are not expected to pronounce foreign words correctly.?Texas Sc-bool Journal. Claim* t? Br> Kins of Tramp*. "The King of Tramps,"' as he called himself, appeared at Spring Mill, Penn., the other day. and showed relics and autographs which he had collected from all parts of the world. He calls himself the king because he claims to have traveled farther than any other wanderer on earth, and also from the fact that he has never been in any one place over two days. This man's make-up consisted of a well-worn silk hat. a faded Melton overcoat several sizes too big for him, and checked trousers. The wanderer said they were given to him by a wealthy London banker about one year ago. His hair is black as coal, while his mustache and goatee are almost white, which . combination gives him a vnthot- pnifnrp'! look. He claims that lie has done without money for one year, depending solely on people's good nature fot the necessaries of life. ?Philadelphia North American. ? Toed of Criminals. A great doctor has studied the finders and toes of 4500 criminals, and finds a deficiency in the size or number of toes quite frequent among them, although very rare among ordinary men. He has also observed that pre* nensile toes, marked by a wide space between the great toe and the second toe. is a condition quite common among criminals. .Hodical liooli Free. _ "Know a hook for men only, seuleu, ?n s"'e reader mentioning this paper ; 6;*. for poefc* age. Tbe Science of Life, or Self-Preser- * /ation, the Gold .Medal Prize Treatise, the best Medical Book of this or any age, 370 pp., with engraving* and prescriptions. Only 25c.. paper covers. Library Edition, nil rrilf ? 1 HO A it H PM 4Q T) 1M Pp A bOll V Mfttl icai Institute, No. 4 Bulflnch St., Bo?toD, Mass., tb? oldest and best in this country. Write to-day for these books; keys to health. ! Sixty-two new silk factories were estab- j vk. lished in the United States last year. BP1 n'hat Sliall We Have For Dcsaert! j Jfr This question arises in the family daily. Let j is answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious . ,nd healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 miu. No wiling! no baking! Simply add a little hot pater Jb set to cool. Flavors: Lemon,Orange, iasnberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c It's the rich people who usually give Door excuses. ToCnrwft CoM In On# Day. fa*? Laxative Bromo Qcihinb Tablets. All ' Irugglsis refund the m .nt y if it falls to cure I e. W. obovb'b signature Is on each box. 23c The Boston Clearing House was estabished in 1S56. Uncle -cam uses the best of everything, Fncle Sam uses Carter's Ink. He knows. When a man is as hungry as a bear he s just about as cross. TO WOMEN WHO DOUBT.' Every Suffering Woman Should Read this Letter and be Convinced max i^yaia r., Plnkham'a Vegetable Compound Doe* Care Female Weakness. "I have been troubled with female weakness in its worst form for | about ten years. I had leueorrhcea j and was so weak that I -could no$ [ do my housework. I also had fall- j ing of the womb and inflammation of ^ the womb and ovaries and at menstrual periods I suffered terribly. At times my back would ache M&BHHjMBt very hard. I could not lift anything work; was not able ^ to stand on my feet, y? I concluded to try your medzV.n; and j I can truly say it does all that yc% claim for it to do. Ten bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and seven packages of Sanative Wash have made a new -woman of me. I have-had bo womb trouble since taking the fifth bottle. I weigh more than I have in ! years ; can do all my own housework, ! sleep well, have a good appetite and | now feel that life is worth living. I , owe all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- i ble Compound. I feel that it has saved j my life and would not be without it for anything. I am always glad to recommend your medicine to all my sex, for I know if they follow your directions, they will be cured."?Mks. An>'1E Thompson, South Hot Serines. Ark APVERTISTN6 nDOPQY NEW DISCOVERY;**,. U I % I VJ Q'Jick relie'?nd cures wor-t oh.' Sou* ol testimonial aud 10 day*' treitmeU Vrtl> Pf- a. . 9USLM i aoa?. Box B, Allft&tft. 6ft. I ( v SUNDERED. T.Y (LINTON SCOJ-LARD. O love, since vou and 1 must walk apart. S; are me "ti" little cornel* ol your heart? A shrine That shall be wholly mine! ( tliers mav claim, ami rightfully, the rest; It there I know I am not dispossessed. All Miss 1. eager, sha1! not miss. And if so lie you sometimes offer there, Though but in.thought, the fragment of a prayer, No more Can I. alas! implore. But that is much, and shall, forsooth.avail '? ? ? ????1 *a?i *i/? nor fl 11 i <? Tlia'il* IUV lUULSU-p ;auv.i Iivu HV* Though far Our pathways sundered are. Then, love, since you and T must walk apart. Spare me one little corner of your heart? A shrine That shall be wholly mine! ? Harper's Eazar. j^npid With a Jin?n?y| ^ Ey Heleri Fcilett. j| "T~ ~JT C"T"IIEX 'John Trumbull fell \ /V J In love with vivacious and V V sprightly Gertrude Moore no one would ever liave suspected that he was a scholar, a thinker and a settled roan of forty, j His general actions were those of a [ youth of eighteen undergoing his first ease of love. The upshot of it was that when these two became engaged Miss Moore pulled Mr. Trumbull around by his philosophical nose and made him dance to her fiddling iu> suited her capricious and changing moods. Matrimony rouiiu ine saint condition of affairs. Every domestic question; wa%jd|Clded by Mrs. Trumbull, no mat^r whether it was the choice of an apartment or the selection of a new coffee-grinder. Mr. Trumbull, being a state of blinding affection, and fimrtlration for the little girl of twenty,he had woed and won, let her 1#*?! feer way, with tlie result t^at-to^al^elng henpecked to But M the years wont by, as the years ha$e a way of doing. Mr. Trurnbuir j&l&uaily awakened to the onesidedt/state of affairs. Mrs. Trumbull, beiOK^flsH and possessing a thistledo^'intellect, fancied that it would notltkito tet Mr. Trumbull know that she a,t all fond of him. Some old lad^haditfld her once that when a maoknpVsia woman loves him his :iffectfon Ifewmes chilled like whipped /VWA?? or* nh/iot ?A clio CtllfV tipper nose?it stuck up of its own accOTd.jUy the way?and went lier usual pa&wfbullyragging and worrying hlm.C She would do this, she would do thar?what John thought didn't matter. '> -But, as said.before, a change Anally came over'John's heart. He still considered that dainty wife of his quite the'smartest, cleverest woman in the world,' but, strange to say, he was becoming aware of her peculiar powers of dictating and laying down the ! law. John was quiet and inoffensive 1 and just the kind of man that offers [ splendid opportunities for the woman with a will of her own. For a long time Mrs. John did not observe that her husband's substantial admiration ' was growing thin, almost to a shadow. But when she did realize it, the blow ' was something fearful. It liad been 1 her opinion that even though she were 1 to sell his best clothes to the rag man cr burn trie nouse-np or turn ins nair white with her fVerlastiuy criticisms John would ever remain the samefaithful, adoring, enduring. One mor rflng John didn't kiss his 1 wife wheri>vlSgpiweiit downtown to ' business. She moped and wept and scold* d the baby and the kitchen maid, and then decided she didn't care. From that time on thing* went from had to ?' worse and from worse to even worse I than that. Once in a great while : when John's old time vision of love for his wife came up he would take ' her in his arms and tell iicr that she ' was the prettiest tiling in the world. ' Following her old-time tactics. Mrs. ' John would in return comment on his 1 bad choice of a necktie or let loose the pleasant information that his collar ! was soiled oil the edge. John's heart 1 would sink ;.nd he would tramp off to work feeling like an orphan asylum f in a derby hat and creased trousers. As it was not John's nature to war : against any one, lit* simply kept himself out of Mrs. John's way. Sunday 1 afternoons he went out for a walk. Sometimes he went over to the North 1 Side to see an old colleire chum of liis. f These trips were his only dissipations. On Sunday afternoon, when lie and : his old friend were discussing some 1 particular exciting college scrimmage that had taken place fifteen years back, the telephone bell rang, and a ' woman's voice begged to speak to Mr. Trumbull. lie went u> the 'phone. 1 "Is that you. <?ertrnde':" "Yes. John. And won't you come ; home, please. I let Sadie take baby over to your mother's, and everybody ' in the building is out and I'm having the Jidgets. 1 don't know what I am ' seared about, but I'm just nervous." "All right, dear." said John, and ' home he went, not stopping long I enough to finish up the recollections of the college light. At home he found his wife sitting curled up on a little settee looking very much as she had looked when five years before he had begged and entnated and kissed her into saying "Yes." Sh<* was twisting her hand-1 kerchief into little wads and ropes, mil in* kn?'\v liv lii.ii th:ii sin* \v.'!s distracted about something. "1 know ymi t!iil:k I'm silly ;<? fee! this way whoa it's not even twilight yet. Jiut I know positively Unit somebody tried th'.' kitchen windows Avhih I was l.viii.t? ilown. and i just couldn't j get over it. I always was afraid of burglars or ghosts." And then she bad a nervous ehiil. John said nothing. He took out :i j copy of Spencer and lighted a cigar. | After a time the baby was brought | home ami put 10 bed. Mrs. Trumbull I lutd teeoverod from her nervousness :md was peeking out from behind a I window shade listening to ;i conversation that whs goiinf on in the court. The s:-rv:int employed by the family Tfr the ;ipartment just below the Trumbull's abode was in the flat opposite toiling the occupants of thai place * A > that she was unable to-get into tae house. "I can't turn the key. and if you don't mind, ma'am. I'll go through your window." The people didn't mind at all. They even held the girl's parasol and pockethook while she clambered from one window sill to the other. Then came a crash. It was a terrific crash. Had the girl fallen into the court? No. The sounds that came from the floor below were unlike those heard when Hendrick Hudson played ninepins in the Adirondacks^ At that point came a shriek, such as the stage heroine gives vent to when the villain gets after her with a butcher knife. It was sickening. .Mrs. Trumbull waited half a second, then stuck her head out of the window, and with the help of half a dozen other feminine voices called: "Mary! Mary! What's the matter?" The reply was a volley of sobs 'and annanla n-inilinfr nn with: "The flat's been robbed!" Mr. Trumbull was surprised to see his wife with hair streaming dowD her back and hands clutching the folds of a bath robe, go shooting through the library out into the hall aud down the stairwr In ten minutes she returned. Hei eyes were big and black and scared Her teeth were chattering, and hei hands were busy with each other. She curled up on the divan and looked at her husband. ' "John, what do you think? The Smith's fiat has been robbed and there's hardly a scrap of anything left. They came through the kitchen window. They even took some Persian rugs and Mrs. Smith's sealskin. And the silver's all gone, and the house?oh. you just should see it! It's knee deep with the things that they've pulled out cf the dressers and ward-1 robes!" John continued to read "his Spence.*. "That's too bad." he said. Silence of five minutes. "John," she spokeT very softly. "Yes?" he asked, not looking up from Spencer. "John, do you know I'd just fie 'i scared stiff if you weren't here." John smiled sadly. "You won't no off on that hunting i trip, will you?" , "Well-ll-ll." lie drawled uncertainly, j "I just won't let you, now. They , might come in and take my candlestick, or the baby, or my grandmoth- 1 er's set of china. And I'm not a bit afraid when you're here. Honest, I'm not!" ? ' John's chest swelled up. This was j something new. He'threw Spncer on i the floor and went and looked at his J revolver. Then ho tried the diningroom windows. After that he threw i his arms out and doubled them up to 1 see if his muscle swelled as it did ! when he was a lad at school. j He walked back and forth through their bit of flat and held his head up ! high. Then he sat down beside that j little tyrant of a wife and looked her In the eyes. ' She giggled hysterically and ran her , fingers across his moustache, just as she used to do when poor John was I so crazy with love for her that she ! could have pulled out every lwir of liis head and he'd never have known it. "Dear." John said softly, "I never knew before that there was any place for nie in this house, that I filled any want here. But now I find that I am useful, that I am a burglar-searer. (i'od bless that man that stole those things downstairs. It'll he hard on the Smith's, but it's a mighty fine thins for mo." And they lived happily ever after. Or had for a week, as the burglary only took place that far back.?Chicago Tilucs-IIorald. MenzelV Idea of Heat. The German artist. Adolf Jlenzel. is 1 great favorite, and his vagaries af ford endless amusement to the Berlin irt fraternity. It seems that Menzel was engaged jn a mural decoration. lie had rigged ip a scaffolding in his studio, on which lis model was requested to stand. For wo long hours the poor "poseur" stood up aloft in a most fatiguing posture. Menzel. meanwhile, worked at his ! sketch, heedless ofrthe fact that his j model was growing tired. At lengtli the model found it necessary to speak. r "Herr Professor." said he, "how ' il?out a recess?" Menzel apologized profusely for his t forget fulness. : "Certainly, certainly, my dear sir," 1 aid he, "Come down and rest your- ! elf a hit." i The model had clamliered from the j H-affolding to the ladder which led | . lown from it to the studio floor. "Stop!" cried the artist. suddenly, t That pose is line! Don't move a inus- t trie!" I And once more the model was f orceu nun stra neu rnruity. wane me * i enthusiastic draughtsman set about i j sketching liini. | n At tin* end of half an hour Mcnzel , ' looked up from his worn. { | "There," said he. "that will do nice- ' a !y! <Jet back on the scaffold. We i have had our rest. Let us get back j j in work again."?The Youth's Com- * [(anion. t Diamonds Scarce and High Triced. "Nothing doing" is the plaint of men ? who work on diamonds. The stones I r are hisrli in price and hard to got at ! any price. From South Africa there i < practically has been no output for | v six months. The Australian dia- J J monds are so hard that the cost of i > preparing them for the trade pre- s dudes tlieir being available, except ; for tools and other mechanical'pur- ] poses. .. ' 1: ' i "Diamonds that a few' months ago } eould be bought for $40 a carat, now j cost from $(50 to $75. There's nothing < in the business at such prices," declared an importer. ' ' 1 Uses of the Automobile. . Rome curious expedients are necessary at times in the medical applied- 1 lions of electricity. It is not unconi- ' nion now for the electric cabs In New York City to be pressed into service as perambulating sources of electric power liy physicians "who are called upon su<ldenl>vro make X-ray examinations i of patients who are in localities where elc.-tricity from street circuits is not on tap. / / M DR. TALMAGE'ff SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Beit of All Books?The Bible's Divine Origin Upheld?Fulfilled Prophecies of the Old Testament Prove Its Emanation From God. fCopyrtffht IH'JJ.1 Washington, D. C.?In the great conflict now raging in Europe, as in this country, between Christianity and agnosticism Dr. Talmage has taken a decided stand, and in this sermon declares his unwavering beliaf.in the divine origin of the Script ires; test, Matthew vii, 10, "Do men gulber graves of thorns?" Not m this country. Not in any country. '1 horns stick, thorns laceratc, bat all the thorns put together never yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isabella grapes. Christ, who was the master of apt and potent illustration, is thus Betting forth what you and I well know?that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthful and good from that which is bad. If you find a-round, large, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it was produced by a good trranevine, and not from a tangle of Can ada thistle. Ivow, if I can show vou that tnis liible yields good fruit, nealthfifr fruit, grand fruit, splendid fruit, you will come to^the conclusion it is a gocd Bible, and all the arguments of the skentic against it when he tries to show it is a bad book, will go overboard. Do mon gather grapes of thorns? Can a bod took yield good results? Skeptic? with great vehemence doclare that the Uiblc is a cruel book. They read the story ol the extermination of the Canaaniics and ot all the ancient wars and'of the h'8tory of David and. Joshua, and they come to the conclusion that the Bible is in favor of laceratibn and manslaughter and massacre. Now," a bad book will produce a bad result, a cruel book will produce a cruel result. You have friends who have been in the habit of reading the Bible a great many years. Have you noticed a tendency to cruelty on their part? Have you ever heard any of them come out and practically say, "I have been reading the story about the extermination of the Canaanites and I an? seized upon with a disposition to cut and slash and maul and pinch and murder and knock to pieces everything I can lay my hands on?" Have your friends in proportion as they become diligent Bible students and disciples of the Christ of the Bible, shown a tendency toward massacre and .murder and manslaughter? Has that been your observation? What haS.been the effect upon your children of this 'cruel book? Or, if you do not allow the book to be read in your household. wlfat has been the effect upon the children of other households where the Word of God is honored? Have they as a result of reading this cruel book gone forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings off flies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel book ought to make cruel people: :! they diligently read it and get absorbed with its Drinciples that cause must produce that effect. At what time did vou notice that the teachings of :his Holy Bible created cruelty in the heart inrT thp' life of CJeorce Peabodv. of Miss I Dix, of Horence Nightingale, of John Howard, of John Frederick Oberlin. of Abbot Laurence? Have you noticed-in reading the biography of these people that in proportion as they became friends of the Bible they became enemies to humanity? Have ynu not, on the contrary, noticed that .ill the institutions of mercy ivere established, or, being established, were chiefly supported by the friends of this book? There is the hospital in war time. There are twenty Christian women. l'hey are binding up wounds, they are of'erine cordials, tbev are kneeling down by ;he dying,'praying for their departing spirts. Where does the cruelty crop out? They have been reading the Bible all their ives. They read it every morning; they ead it every night; they carry it under ;heir arm when they go into the hospital. Again, infidels go on and most vehenently charge that this Bible is an impure Dook. Yon all know that an impure book produces impure results. No amount of noney could 'hire you to allow your child :o read an unclea .* book. Now. if this Bi}le be an impure book, where are the victims? Your father read it?did it make lim a bad man? Your mother read it? lid it make her a bad woman? Your sis:er fifteen years in heaven died in the :aith of this gospel?did it despoil her nature? Some say there are 200,000,000 copes of the Bible in existence; some say there ire 400.000,000 copies of the Bible. It is mpossible to give the accurate statistics. Jut suppose there are 200,000.000 conies of he Bible abroad, this one book read more ;han tiny twenty uookc t "it tne worm !vtr printed, this book ab. ad for ages, or ages, for centuries?when are the violins: Sjhow me 1(K)0: show ine 500 vic;ims of an impure book; show me 100 deipoiled of the llible; show nu fifty; show ne ten; show me two; show me one. Two lundred million copies of an impure book, ind not one victim of tne impurity. On i be contrary, you know very well that it is vhere the Bible lias the most power that he family institution is most respected. Again, agnostics go on still further, and i hey say the Bible is a mass of contradicioiis, and they put prophet against pro>het, evangelist against evangelist, apos- , ,le against apostle, and they say if this be 1 rue how, then, can that be true. Mr. . llii], who was a friend of the Bible, said le had discovered 30,000 different read- ' ngs of the Scriptures and yet not one im- \ )ortant difference out of 30,000, only the lifference that you might expect from the , act that the book came down from gener- ( ition to generation, and was copied by a ( treat many hands. And yet I put before : oil this fact to-day?that all the Bible writers agree in the four great doctrines of he Bible. "Wbat are these four great doctrines? , Jod?good. kind, patient, just, loving, o,m- ' iipotent. Man?a lost sinner. Two uesti- < iic6?one for believers, the other lor un>elievcro. All who accept Christ reaching , hat home and only those destroyed who | lestrov themselves, only those who turn j heir back upon Christ and come to the i irecipice and jump off, for God never j jushes a man off; he jumps off. Now, , n these four great doctrines all the , Jible writers agree. Mozart, Beethoven, landel, Hadyn, never wrote more harmo- , lious music than you will find in this per- , ect harmony of the Word of Cod, the bar- uony in providence and in grace. , You must remember also that the au- \ hors of the Bible came from different , ands, from different ages and from diferent centuries. They had no communicaion with cacli other, they did not have an dca as to what was the chief ucsign of the Jible, and yet their writings, go'; up from ill these different ages and all these dif- , crent centuries, coming together, make a , icrfect harmony in the opinion of the ery best scholars' of all lands. Is not that ; t incst remarkable fact? Again, infideis vehemently charge that lie Bible is an unscientific book. In a , ormer discourse 1 showed you tliat there vas no collision between scfence and reveation. and 1 went from point to point in he discussion. But now Jet us have autarky in this matter. You and J cannot rive the lorty or li.iy or sixty years exclusively to the study of science thr.t some nen give. .Let us have authority in this natter. Who says there is a collision between science and revelation? Well. Herbert >pcncfc'\ Tyndall. Bar win. lliey say there s a discord between science and re vela:ion. lint J will bring you names 01 men vho have found a iicrfect accord between science ami revelation, men as much higher in intellectual character above those ivhom i have mentioned as the Alps and Mount Washington and the Himalayas ire higher than the hill liack of your house, llerscnel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Boss, Isaac S'ewton. My frien ' we arc in respectasle company when we believe in I lie ?\'ord )f God?ve^y respec able company. Now, I might, as inlulels have failed to prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that the BibleMa an impure look; that the Bible is a contradictory book, that the Bibie is an unscientific*book?I might move i nonsuit in this case of infidelity, the plaintiff, against Christianity, the defendant, but 1 will not take advantage cf the circumstances, for when the skeptic goes on to that .we are a gullible people, when he goes on to say, as he often does, that tlje greater the improbability the more we like to believe it; when he goes on to say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscript*, one picked up here arid another there, and another from some other place, an 3 that the wl,olc_thing is an imposition on the credulity of the human race. I must reply to .that charge. The Bible is made iip of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Let us take the New Testament first. Why do J believe it? Why do I take it to my heart": It is because it can be traced bac to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle caD be traced to that door and that aisle tc that door. Jerome and Eusebius in the first century and Crimen in the second century, and other -writers in the third and fourth cent-cries gave/ a list of the New Testament writers just exactly correspond ine with our list, showing that the same New Testament which we have they haa in the fourth centurv. and the third century and the second century and the first century. But where did they get the New Testament? They got it from Irenaeus. Where did Irenaeus get it? He got it from Polycarp. Where did Polycarp get it? He got it trom St. John, who was the personal associate of the Lord Jesus Curist. My grandfather gave a book to my father, my gave it to me, I give it to my chuu. lg there any difficulty in tracing this line? On communion day 1 will start the cha* lice at that end of the aisle, and the cha* lice will pass along to the other end of the ai6le. \\ ill it be difficult to trace the line of that holy chalice? No difficulty at all. This one will say. "I fave it to that one,",f and this one will say, "I gave it to that one." But it will not be so long a line ae this to trace the hew Testament. It ie easier to get rt the fact. But you say: "Although this was handed right down in that way, who knows but they were lying imposter6? How can you take their testimony?" They died for the truth of that book. Men never die for a lie cheerfully, and triumphantly, /l'hey were not lying' impostors. They died in triumph for the truth of that New Testament. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to believe that the New Testament is from the heart of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believe that?" 1 believe the Old Testament because the prophecies foretold events hundreds and thousands of years aheadevents whieh afterward took place. How far can you see ahead? Two thousand years? Can you see ahead a hundred jears? Can you see ahead five minutes? ho, no. Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Here these old prophets stood thousands of years back, and they foretold events which came accurately true far on in the future centuries. Suppose I should stand here and say to you, "Twenty-five hundred and sixty years from now, three miles and a half from the city of Moscow there will be an advent, and it will be in a certain familv, and it will be amid certain surroundings." It would make no impression upon you, because you know I cannot foresee a thousand years or one year or one minute, and 1 cannot tell what is going to transpire in a land far away. But that is what these old prophets did. You must remember that Tyre and Babvlon and Nineveh were in full nomD and splendor when these prophecies, these old prophecies, said they would oe destroyed. Those cities had architecture that makes the bouses of modern cities perfectly insignificant. Yet these old prophets walked right through those magnificent streets and said, "This has all got to come down; this is all going to be leveled." Suppose a man should stand up in these cities to-day and say, "There will be harvests of wheat and corn where these cities now stand, and these streets will be pasture lor cattle." Such a man woulu be sent to the insane asylum. Yet the old prophets did that very thing. Where is Babylon to-day? You go and walk over the ruins of Babylon and you will not find a leaf or a grass blade of those splendid hanging gardens, and in the summer time the grouncLactually blisters the feet of the traveler A Babylon destroyed according to the prophecy. \\ here is Tyre? In the day of its pomp the prophet said, "Jhe fishermen will dry their nets where this city stands." If you should go to that place to-day you would find that literally. The fishermen are drying their nets on the rocks where the city of Tyre once stood. Tartar and Turk and Saracen drying their nets on the rocks. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to take the New Testament as from the heart of Christ, and 1 ain ready to believe the prophecies, The evidence is beyond all dispute. But you must remember," says my friend, "that the prophecies are only a small part of the old oook. You don't expect us to believe all the old book." If you lound one of your good, honest letters in an envelope with ten or twenty cruel, lying, filthy letters, how long would you allow that honest letter to stay there? In a half minute you would either snatch it out of the envelope or you would destroy the whole envelope. Besides that, you must remember that this book has been under fire fcr centuries, and after all the bombardment of the skeptics of all the centuries they have not knocked out of this Bible a piece as large as the small end of a sharp needle. Oh, how the old book sticks together! Unsanctilied geologists try to pull away the book of Genesis. They say they do not believe it. It cannot be there was light before the sun shone, it cannot be all tliis storv about Adam and Eve, and they pull at the book of Genesis, and they have been pulling a great while, yet where is the book of Genesis? Standing just where it 1 _11 A 1 J.T 'I >1 _ i. sioou mi uie nine. j.nere is not ;i inan on eiirth who has ever i :ed it from his Bible. And so the infidels have been trying to pull away the miracles, pulling away at the blasted lig tree, at the turning of the water into wine, at the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Can you show me a Bible i from which one of these miracles has been i erased? How marvelously the old book sticks together! All the striking at tiiese chapters . only driving them in deeper until they are clinched on the other side with the hammers of eternity. And the book is going to keep right on ! until the fires of the last d-y are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side and j some on the other side of the oid book, i'hey will not liud a bundle of loose manuscripts easily consumed by the fire. j \\ hen the fires of i last day are kin- i died, some will - urn on this side, from Uenesi6 toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation toward lienesis, and in all their way they will not tind a single chapter or a single verse.'out of place. That will be the first time we ' :an atlord to do without the Bible. ' What will be the use of thj book of Genesis. descriptive of how the world was nade, when the world is destroyed? What ivill be the use at the prophecies when they sre all ful tilled' What will be the use ol the evangelistic or Paunna description of Jesus Christ when we r Him face to face? But 1 do not think we will give up the Bible even at that time. I thmk wc will want the Bible in heaven. 1 really think the tires of the last day will not consume the last copy, for when you and I get our dead children out ?jf ttie dust we want to diow them just ths passages, just the promises, which comforted us here in the riark day of interment, and we will want to talk over with Christians who have had trials and struggles, and we will want to show them the promises that especially reIreshed us. I think we shall have the Bible in heaven. Oh, 1 want to hear David with his own voice read, "The Lord is my shepherd;" I want to hear Paul with his own v??ice read, "Thanks be unto Uod that givttli us (he victory;" 1 want to hear the archangel play Paul's march of the resurrection with the same trumpet with which he awoke the dead! O blessed book, com! L-nough for earth, good enough for heaven. Dear old book?book bespattered with the blood of martvrs who died for its defense, book sprinkled all over with the I tears of those who by it were comforted! 1'ut it in the hands of your children on rneil* ~*u*iuu?iy; jkii. iu uii uic wiuju jii tut fitting room when you begin to keep house; put it under voi'.r head when you die. Dear old hook! 1 press it to my heart: I press it to my lips. "Where shall I go?" said a dying Tlindor fo the Bruhmitic priest to whorn lie hud pi von money to pray for his salvation "Where shall 1 go after 1 die?" The I'rahinitic priest said, "Yon will first of al' go into a holv quadruped." "But," said tlu* dying Hindoo, "where shall I go then?" "Then you shall go into a singing bird." "But," said the dying Hindoo, "where then shali I go?" "Then," said the Brahinitic, "you will go into a beautiful flower." The dying Hindoo threw up Ins arm* in an agony of solicitation as lie -aid. "Hut where shall I go last of all?" Thank <J?h| this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you. tellme. not where 1 shall go to-day. not when I shall go to-morrow, not whrir 1 shall yo next year, but where 1 shall last of all! The sulphur mines of .Sic'ly viold over ::W.OO'J tons u year. Coat Made T>y President Johnson. ; Dr. John H. Glrdner, of New York City, who is a warm friend of William J. Bryan, has a coat which is interesting from its long tail to the tailor's band on the collar. It is a wedding dress coat, which belonged to his grandfather, and it was made by Andrew Johnson, afterward President of the United States. At the back of the coat, under the collar, is a little clip of cloth marked "A. Johnson, Tailor." The coat was made long , Deiore jonnson auaineu any pouucai prominence. Twelve and a Fraction. The raler of a small German state has discovered one way of warding off the dire calamity which may result from having thirteen sit at a table. His serene highness is in the habit of giving little dinners and parties to 'jrhich only the social elect are called. . At one of these exclusive affairs held lately the prince ordered a cover to be laid for Herr L , one of his Cabinet council. A superstitious baroness exclaimed, as he entered, "Good gracious! There are thirteen of us!" "Calm yourself, my dear baroness," said his serene highness! . "Herr L is not one of us; he belongs to a burgher family."?Youth's Companion. > Shirt Waists In Africa. Helen Caddick, one of the few white woinen who have ventured into the heart of Africa, has recently written about her trip from Zambesi to the great lakes?a trip for pleasure. The cotton blouses or waists which she wore were washed and "ironed" by her native "boy," and the process was extraordinary. The laundryman first spread a mat on the ground. Next the clothes to be "ironed" were placed on it and smoothed out as well as possible. Then placing a^towel or-some large cloth over the garment he rubbed his feet back and rortn over it until ne tnougm It was smooth enough. Tlie Student of Spencer and the War. H. C. Thomson tells in the Cornhill of having traveled some distance in the Transvaal when there eighteen months ago with a young Free State Boer who had spent some time in England at one of the universities. "I have always been a student of Herbert Spencer," he remarked, "and strongly opposed to war, but when the Jameson raid occurred I forgot all about Herbert Spencer and rushed for my rifle." Try ftrain?0! Try Grain.O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of Ghaiit-O, the new food drink tbat takes the place of coffee. Children may driu? 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