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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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? It without injury as well as the
adult. AJ1 who try it nice 11. ubais-u
has that rich seal brown of Mocba or
Java, but Is made from pure grains; the
most delicate stomach re.ceives it without
distress, yi the price of coffee. 15c. and
25c. per package. Sold by all grocers.
Last year sixty-seven officers were placed
on the retired list'of the United States
Army. '
. Are You UMng Allen's Foot-Kane?
It is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting,
Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
and Bunions. Ask for Alien's Foot-Euse,
a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures <
while you walk. At all Druffcrists and Shoe |
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address i
Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. \
Portland is the largest prison in Eng- (
land. Nearly 2000 convicts are located <.
there. 1
Jell-O, the Mew Dessert
Pleased all the family. Four flavors:? t
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. ,
At your grocers. 10 cts. E
l'he man wno agrees witn noDoay mmus c
everybody else is wrong.
The Beit Prescription for Chills
and Feyer Is a bottle of Ghovb'i Tastii.im j
Chill Toxic. It Is simply iroD and quinine la
a tasteleis form. No cure?no pay. Price 50c. S
A kiss is never worth more than its
face value.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous- .
ness after first dav's use of Dr. Kline's Great 1
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Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. r
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We never outgrow cur juvenile contempt \
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If you want "pood digestion to wait upon
your appetite" you should always oheve ?
a bar of Adams' Pepslu Tuttl Frutti. I
The one vice that all men are addicted .
to is advice. |
E. B. Walthall & Co., Druggists, Horse Cave, 1
Ky., say: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every
>ne that takes it." Sold by Druggfsta, 75c.
In 1503 the first English shilling was
minted. It bore the King's image.
[ am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.?Mrs. 'ihos. Rob- ,
If?i?t:? V V Fph 17 1901. '
DlHOl tuaptv *'V* *? ?v*-? ?, ?
The Fire Department of Chicago has 1
ninety-eight steam fire engines.
Mrs. Wlnalow's Soothing Syrup for children
eething, softens the gams, reduceslnflammaiOD,
allays pain, cures w'qd colic. 25c.abottJe.
The State of Washington furnished over
500,000 tons of coal to California last year.
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Since then kingdoms have risen and
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scent of musk has remained in the
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Average English Helens.
The average duration of the reign of
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It is a bad custom to take Blue Pill or Cai*
)mel, and trust to clearing out of the system . M
jy Salts, Seldlitz Powders, etc., etc. You yd
Evtil retain the mercury In tbe system notwithstanding,
to plague you in after years
Another injudicious system is the free ua?f i
>f carbonates of Soda, Magnesia and ft Salts,
and the various mineral waters jfis
axative*. These agents merely acWas
cashes, c-nd in many cases cause the ?or-'
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kidi<eys, gallducts, etc. One of find-vay'sPi'ls
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D Mrs. 13. C. Svnan, Gordonsville, Ve.:
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Ci \v. E. Fowler,
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