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These books ] are mailed free by the Fe-ru-na Medi- | cine Company, Columbus, O. All ; druggists sell Pe-ru-na. MAN'SDIVINE OllIGIN. CHRISTIANITY THE ONLY RADICAL IMPROVING FORCE. Dr. Talmage Advocates, a Christian Evo- ; lutlon In Contradiction of an Infidel ! Evolution?Oat of Mortality Into Glo- I ?? T rxuuo xuiiuuri*i4bj? {Copyright, 1898, by American Press Association.] Washington, Aug. 28.?Dr. Talmage in this discourse advocates a Christian evolution in contradiction to an infidel evolution and declares that the only radically improving force in tho | world is Christianity; text, Romans i, i 22, 23, "Professing themselves to be J wise, they became fools and changed j the glory of the uncorruptible God into 1 an image made like to corruptible man j and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things." This is a full length portrait of au I evolutionist who substitutes the bestial j origin for the divine origin. I showed j you last week that evolution was con- j tradicted by the Bible, by science, by ' observation and by common sense; that ; the Bible account of the creation cf ; man and of brute and of the world and ! the evolutionist's account collided with each other as certainly as two express trains going in opposite directions at j 60 miles the hour, their locomotives t meeting on the same track. I showed that all the evolution scientists, without any exception, were pronounced infidels; that evolution was a heathenism thousands of years old; that such men as Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farraday and Dawsoa and Dana had for that doctrine of evolution unlimited con- | tempt. I showed you that their favorite j Vior.r.T? of <-V?o ' cnrvi trn.1 nf fhft fittest" I was an absurdity'and an untruth, and j that natural evolution was always i downward and never upward, and that I there had never been any improvement J for man or beast or world except through the direct or indirect influence ! of our glorious Christianity. And in j the closing part of that sermon I told j you I was not a pessimist, but an opti- ! mist, that instead of it being 11 o'clock at night it is half past 5 in the morning. Now, I go on to tell you, it seems to ! me that evolutionists are trying to im- ! press the great masses of the people j with the idea that there is an ancestral line loadiug from the primal germ cn ; up through the serpent, and on up I through the quadruped, and on up : through the gorilla to man. They ad- ! mit that there is a "missing link," as > + % 4- Knf *int- Q . llicjr KsCklJL X tj UUl liiuy AO uvv * link. It is a whole chain gone. Between ! the physical construction of the highest animal and the physical construction of the lowest man there is a chasm as wide j as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists \ tell us that somewhere in Central Afri- | ca or in Borneo there is a creature half way between the brute and the man, i and that that creature is the highest step in the animal ascent and the lowest step in the human creation. But what are the facts: The brain of the largest gorilla that was ever found is 30 cubic inches, while the brain of the most ignorant man that was ever found is 70. Vast difference between 30 and 70. It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span that gnlf. Besides that, there is a difference between the gorilla and the man?a difference of blood globule, a difference of nerve, a difference of muscle, a difference of bone, a difference of sinew. The horse is more like man in intelligence, the bird is more like him in musical capacity, the mastiff is more like him in affection. That eulogized beast of which we hear so much, represented on the walls of cities thousands of years aco. is iust as complete as it is now, showing that there has not been a particle of change. Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant why would not all the apes have the same J ~^ 'o?l -it- ) flmf flint*. KIJUU Ui UC^cuuautc. iv vuuv ?..v.v one favored pair only was honored with bninan progeny? Besides that, evolution says that as one species rises to another species the old type dies off. Then how is it that there are whole kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla and baboon? Inconsistencies of Evolution. _ The evqluiipnists have come together "W. IE2 ET, Solicts a Share ei and Lave tried to explain a Lfrd'sVing. Their theory has always been that a faculty cf an animal while being developed must always be useful and always beneficial, but tho wing of a bird, in the thousands-of years it was being developed, so far from being any help must have been a hindrance until it could be brought into practical use away on down in the ages. Must there not have been an intelligent will somewhero that formed that wonderful flying instrument so that a bird 500 times heavier than the air can mount it and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument, the wing, with between 20 and 30 different apparati curiously constructed, does it not imply a divine intelligence? Does it not imply a direct act of some outside being? All the evolutionists in the world cannot explain a bird's wing or an insect's wing. So they are confounded by the rattlo of the rattlesnake. Ages before that reptile had any enemies this warning weapon was created. Why was it created? When the reptile, far back in the ages, bad no enemies, why tins warning weapon? There must have been a divine intelligence foreseeing and knowing that in ages to come that reptile would have enemies, and then this warning weapon would be brought into use. You see evolution at every step is a contradiction or a monstrosity. At every stage of animal life as well as at every stage of human life there is evidence of direct action of divine will. Besides that it is very evident from another fact that wo are an entirely different creation and that there is no kinship. The animal in a few hours or j months comes to full strength and can take care of itself. The human race for the first one, two, three, five, ten years is in complete helplessness. The chick just come out of its shell begins to pick up its own iood. The (Tog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn their own livelihood and act for their own defense. The human race does not come to development until 20 or 30 years of age, and by that time the animals that were born the same year the man was born?the vast majority of them?have died of old age. This shows there is no kinship, there is no similarity. If we had been born of the beast, we would have had the beast's strength at the start, or it would have had our weakness. Not only dif- | fereut, but opposite. Darwin admitted that the dovecot pigeon has not changed in thousands of years. It is demonstrated over and over again that the lizard on the lowest formation of rocks was just as complete as the lizard now. It is shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was just as complete as the sturgeon, another name for the same fish now. Darwin's entire system is a guess, and Huxley and John Stuart Mill and Tyndall and especially Professor Haeckel come to help him in the guess, and guess about the brute, and guess about man, and guess about worlds; but, as to having one solid foot of ground to stand on, they never have had it and never will have it. I put in opposition to these evolutionist theories the inward consciousness that we have no consanguinity with the dog that fawns at our feet, or the spider that crawls on the wall, or the fish that flops in the frying pan, cr the crow that swoops on the field carcass, or the swine that wallows in the mire. Everybody sees the ' outrage it would be to put aside the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, I and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat | Judah, for the record that the microscopic animalcule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole begat the polliwog, and the polliwcg begat the serpent, and the serpent begat the quadruped, and the quadruped begat the baboon, and the baboon begat man. The evolutionists tell us that the apes were originally fond of climbing the trees, but after awhile - they lost their prehensile power, and therefore could not climb with any facility, and hence they surrendered moukcydom and set up in business as men. Failures as apes, successes as men. According to the evolutionists, a man is a bankrupt monkey. Divine Origin. I pity the person who in every nerve and muscle and bone and mental faculty and spiritual experience does not realize that he is higher in origin and has had a grander ancestry than the beasts which perish. However degraded men and women may be, and though they may have foundered on the rocks of crime and sin, and though we shudder as we pass them, nevertheless there is something within us that tells us they belong to the same great brotherhood and sisterhood of our race, and our sympathies are aroused in regard to j them. But, gazing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of most flamboyant wing, or upon the | curve of grandest courser's neck, we feel there is no consanguinity. It is not that we are stronger than they, for the lion with one stroke of his paw could put I us into the dust. It is not that we have ! better eyesight, for the eagle can descry a mole a mile away. It is not that wo ; are fleeter of foot, for a roebuck in a | flash is out of sight, just seeming to ' ' * '? ^i _ ir ! toucn rue eartn as ue gues. -.uau^ ui ; the animal creation surpassing us in J fleetuess of foot and in keenness of nosI tril and in strength of limb, but notI withstanding all that there is soinei thiug within us that tells us we are of ! celestial pedigree. Not of the mollusk, i not of the rizipod, not of the primal i germ, but of the living and omnipotent i God. Lineage of the skies. Genealogy of heaven. I tell you plainly that if your father 1 was a muskrat, and your mother an ' opossum, and your great-aunt a kaugai roo, and the toads and the snapping : turtles were your illustrious predecesI surs, iny father was God. I know it. I feel it. It thrills through me with an ; emphasis and an ecstasy which all your i arguments drawn from anthropology and biology and zoology and morology ! and paleontology aud all tho other | ologies can never tdiake. Evolution is one great mystery. It hatches out 50 mysteries, and the 50 hatch out 1,000, and the 1,000 hatch out 1,000,000. Why, my brother, not ???cawa mi mii imii in nnn ^oi^rcs:Ton>' r Your Valued Patron i?? w iuiiwi iii ii hit in w wi in r i unm ? n - r~ 1 for ft i g uinisEu I H2-&3 w&m&n r; I ;NE-TEJJTH,S Of ~~~G~?>' and sickness from tl which women H i by weakness derangement in \ ? ^ the organs of/ s j menstruation. USv^J rpA ? Nearly always f! when a woman is not well these f \ organs are affected. Eut when ? ?- they are strong and healthy a ? I woman is very seldom sick. ft' yne?Mi Is nature's provision for the regu- Bj lation of the menstrual function. j& It cures all " female troubles." It g is eauallv effective for the S'irl in S her teens, the young wife with do- K I I mestic and maternal cares, ar.d 5j ' the woman approaching the period ^ known as the "Change of Life." gj They all need it. They are all ? I benefitted by it. For advice in cases requiring spe-'al 9 directions, address, giving symptoms. la the " Ladies' Advisory Department." a The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ch-tta- *nooga.. Tenn. s * THOS. J. COOPER, Tupelo, Hiss., scys: f' My sister sufiered from very Irregular ' j and painful menstruation and doctors 1 could not relieve her. Wir.e of Cardui t| entirely cured her and also helped my *\ mother through tha Change of Lilo." rj admit the one great mystery "of Cod ami have that settle all tho other mysteries? I can more easily appreciate tho fact that God by one stroke of his omnipotence could make man than I could realize how out of 5,000,000 ages he could havo evolved one, patting on a little here and a little there. It would have been just as great a miracle for God to havo turned an orang outang into a man as to make a man out and out?the one job just as big as the other. It seems to mo we had better let God have a little place in cur woi Id somewhere. It seems to me if we cannot have him make all creatures, we had better havo hirn make two or three. There ought to be some place where he could stay without interfering with the evolutionists. "N?," says Darwin, and i so for years he i3 trying to raise fantailed pigeons and to turn these fantail pigeons into some other kind of pigeon or to have tbem go into something that is not a pigeon?turning them into quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrasher. But pigeon it is, and others have tried with the ox and the dog and tho horse, but they staid in their species. If they attempt to cross over, it is a 1 hybrid, and a hybrid is always sterile ! and goes into extinction. There has ' been only one successful attempt to pass over from speechless animal to the articulation of man, and that was the attempt which Balaam witnessed in the beast that he rode, but an angel of the Lord, wirh drawn sword, soon stopped ?Aiur norn/1 ovnlnl lntlKf I liJ(U VT But says some oue, "If we cannot have God make a man, let ns have bim make a horse." "Oh, 110!" says Huxley in his great lectures in New York years ago. No, he does not want any God around the premises. God did not J make the horse. The horse came of the j pilohippus, and the pilohippus came from theprotohippus, and the protobippus came from the miohippus, an the miohippus came from the meshohippus, and tho meshohippus came from the orohippus, and so away back, all the living creatures, wo trace it in a line until we get to the mouerou, and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you get to the monercn, and that, Huxley says, is of so low a form of life that the probability is it just made itself or was the result of spontaneous generation. What a narrow escape from tho necessity of having a j God. As near as I can tell, these cvolutionj ists seem to think that God at the start | had not made up his mind as to exactly what he wcu|d make, and, having made , up his mind partially, he has been changing it all through the ages. I bcI lieve that God made the world as he | wanted to have it, and that tho happiI ness of all the species will depend upon their staying in the species where they were created. rarliameiit of Beasts. Once upon a time there was in a nat ural amphitheater of the forest a convention of animals, and a gorilla from western Africa came in with his club and pounded "Order!" Then he sat down in a chair of twisted forest root. The delegation Gf birds came in and took their position in the galleries of the hills and the tree tops. And a delegation of reptiles came in, and they took their position in the pit of tho valley. And the tiers of rocks were occupied by the delegation of intermediate animals, and there was a great aqvariI qui, and a canal leading into it, through which camo the monsters of the deep to join the great convention. And on one table of rock there were fonr or five primal germs under a glass case, and in a cup on another table of rock there was a quantity of protoplasm. Then this gorilla of the African forest with his club pounded again, "Order, order!" and then he cried out: "Oh, you great throng of beasts and birds and reptiles j and insects, I have called you together | to propose that wo move up into the j human race and be beasts no longer. I Too long already have we been hunted j and caged aud harnessed. We shall j stand it no longer." At that speech the whole convention broke out into roars of enthusiasm like as though there S-.A 1 ? 1 \vero many meuagerics utiug icu T, XZE2., lage. Frompt and I ?<?? 1 . 1 their keepers, ana it am seem as if the j whclo convention would march right I up r.ud take possession of the earth and the human race. But an old lion arose, his acaue white with many years, and I.q hiu nti.i whm f.liat nlrl UV l.VlViVU f V4VV) " ??? *?MVM VMM* lion uttered bis voice all the other hearts of the forest were still, and he j said: "Peace, brothers and sisters of 1 the forest. I think wo have been placed j in the spheres for which we were intended. I think onr Creator knew the place that was good for ns." Ho could ! proceed no fxtrthcr, for the whole con- i vention hroko ont in an uproar like the j honso of commons when tbo Irish ques- j tiou comes up or the American congress the night of adjournment, and the reptiles hissed with indignation- at the j leonine Gambetta, and the frogs croak- j ed their contempt, and tho bears growled their contempt, and the panthers ; snarled the'r disgust, and tho insects buzzed and buzzed with excitement, and, : though the gorilla of the African forest with his club ponnded, "Order, order," j there was no order, and there was a thrusting out of addcrine sting, and a j swinging of elephantine tusk, and a j strode or ceaK, auci a swing or ciaw, nu- i til it seemed as if the convention would : be massacred. Just at that moment at the door of , this natural amphitheater of the forest I the curtain of the leaves lifted, and the i bolts and bars of the tree branches were shoved back, and there appeared Agas- j siz and Audubon and Silliman and . Moses. And Agassiz cried out: "Oh, ' you beasts of the forests, I have studied j your ancestral records and found yon j always have been beasts, you always will be beasts. Be contented to be j beasts." And Audubon aimed his gun j at a baldheadcd eagle, which dropped i from the gallery and as it dropped j struck a serpent that was winding i around one of the pillars to get up | higher. And Silliman threw a rock of tho tertiary formation at the mammals, I and Moses thundered, "Every beast after its kind, every bird after its kind, ! every,fish after its kind." And, lo, the parliament of wild beasts was prorogued , and went home to their constituents, 1 and tho hat flew out into the night, and the lizard slunk under the rock, and the gorilla went back to tho jungle, and j a hungry wolf passing out ate up the J primal germs, and a clumsy buffalo up- j set the protoplasm, and the lion went j to his lair, and tho eagle went to his j eyrie, and the whale went to his palace j of crystal and coral, and there was , .u, ~ I P'JUUU^pCill'U IJLi llil' till, pcULU JU bUU : waters, peace in the fields. Man in bis | place, the beasts of the earth in their j places. Bratali::Ing Tendencies. j But, my friends, evolution is not only j infidel and atheistic and absurd; it is j i brutalizing in its tendencies. If there j is anything in the world that will make i a man bestial in his habits, it is the i idea that he was descended from tho i beast. Why, according to the idea of j these evolutionists, we aro only a su perior kind of cattle, a sort of Alderney among other herds. To be sure, we j browse on better pasture, and we have I better stall and better accommodations, ! but then we are only Soutbdowns among the great flocks of sheep. Born of a beast, to die like a beast, for tho . evolutionists have no idea of a future j world. They say the mind is only a su- ' perior part of the body. They say our thoughts are only molecular formation. They say when the body dies the whole j nature dies. The slab of the sepulcher : is not a milestone on the journey up- : ward, but a wall shutting us into eter- j nal nothingness. We all die alike?the } cow, the horse, the sheep, tho man, the reptila Annihilation is the heaven of ! the evolutionist. From such a stcnchful j and damnable doctrine turn away. . Compare that idea of your origin?an idea filled with the chatter of apes and j the hiss of serpents and the croak of ! frogs?to an idea in one or two stanzas ; which I quote from an old book of more i than Demosthenic or Homeric or Dan- j tesque power: "What is man that thou i art mindful of liim, and the son or man that thou visifest him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned bin: with glory and hon- | or. Thou madest him to have dominion I over the works of thy hand; thou hast 1 put all things under his feet, all sheen j and oxen?yea, and the beasts of the field., the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our j Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth." How do you like that origin? The | lion the monarch of the field, theeaglo j the monarch of the air, behemoth the j monarch of tho deep, but man monarch of all. Ah, my friends, I have to say | to yon that I am not so anxious to know what was my origin as to know as to I know what will be my destiny. I do j j not care so much where I came from ! as where I am going to. I am not i so interested in who was my an- : J cestry 10,000,000 years ago as I am ! ; to know where I will be 10,000,000 j j years from now. I am not so much ! interested in the preface to my cradle j as I am interested in tho appendix to my grave. I do not care so much j about protoplasm as I do about eternasm. j The "was" is overwhelmed with the I "to be." And here comes iu the evolution I believe in, not natural evolution, but gracious and divine and heavenly j evolution?evolution out of siu into i holiness, out of grief into gladness, out j of mortality into immortality, out of eartn into neaveu. xnat is me evojuuuu I believe in. Evolution from evolvere, unrolling! Unrolling of attributes, unrolling of rewards, unrolling of experience, unrolling of angelic companionship, unrolling of divine glory, unrolling of piovideu: tial obscurities, unrolling of doxologies, i ! unrolling of rainbow to canopy t.iie , j throne, unrolling of a new heaven and J a new earth in which to dwell righteousj ness. Oh, the thought overwhelms me! 1 I have not the pLysieal endurance to consider it. J Monarchs on earth of all lower orders J of creation and then lifted to be j hierarchs in heaven. Masterpiece of ; God's wisdom and goodness, our humau- ! itv^ Masterpiece of divine grace^our ? <-^1 ? ?.w, c ^olite Attention. enthronement. I put one foot on Darwin's "Origin of the Species," and I put the other foot on Spencer's "Biology," and then holding in one hand tho book of Moses I see our Genesis, and holding in the other hand the book Revelation I see our celestial arrival. For all wars I prescribe the Bethlehem chant of tho angels, for all sepulchers I prescribe tho archangel's trumpet, for all tho earthly griefs I prescribe the hand that wipes away all tears from all eyes?not an evolution from beast to man, hut an evolution from contestant to conqueror, and from the struggle with wild Leasts in tho arena of the amphitheater to a soft, high, blissful seat iu the King's galleries. Deafness Cannot be Cured. By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to care Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed }ou have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucousurs,faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarih Cure. Send for circulars, free. Sold by all druggists. Price 75c. -O Lunchtiine In San Francisco. For a year a wholesale house in San Francisco lias experimented with the plan of closing its place of business each day front 12 to 1 o'clock, during urhirh hnnr all tho emolovees obtain their noonday meal. The arrangement was found to have many advantages over the old way of permitting the clerks to go to luncheon by relays, and it has so commended itself to other wholesalers there that a movement is on foot to make the plan general. In most of tho largo houses the first relay goes to lunch at 11 o'clock, and generally it is well on into the afternoon before the: last of the clerks get a chance to get away from their work for the midday meal. The managers of the houses say that the working forces of the stores are demoralized for at least, say, three hours each day on account of the lunch hour system now in vogue. With the proposed system the store would be closed for an hour every day, but during business hours all hands would be ready for service, making less friction in the transaction of business and securing greater attention to customers. If this plan works well in San Francisco, there is no reason why it should not work well in other places, and perhaps the retail stores might also fiDd pleasure and profit in it.?New Haven Journal. The Car "Ilove To." An old bo'sun's mate of the U. S. S. Princeton, a hit wabbly as to his underpinning, at the corner of Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue the other night was waiting for a navy yard car. Two or three of the cars passed him by winzzmg because, m ice ouscumv, luu motorman couldn't make out the figure of the old time flatfoot. The old navy bluejacket didn't appear to like this, and when the next navy yard car came whizzing around the corner of Fifteenth street he took his stand in the middlo of the track and let out a ship's call that could be heard two blocks. "Heave to, till I board ye!" he shouted. The car "hove to," and the old bo'sun's mate pulled alongside, climbed over the gangway and was off in a bunch.?Washington Post. \Vant? to Do S^me Christening. Sfrs. Louise II. Pratt of Sherwood, Wis., thinks that sweet young things with golden hair should not monopolize the privilege of naming warships; so she wants to bo allowed to name the battleship Wisconsin. Among her qualification she mentions the following: She is 51 years old, got her education in a little log schoolliouse in Wisconsin, knows how to cook, knit, spin and make soft soap, wears her hair short and has christened aud reared two boys and two girls of her own. Mr. A. C. Wolfe, of D indee. Mo. ?? c_ who travels lor Oiausur ?x iiuwhp, Implement Co., of Sc. Louis, gives traveling men and travelers in gene-ai, some good advice. "Being a Knight cf the Grip,"' he sap, "I have for the past three years made it a rule to keep myself supplied j with Chamberlain's Colic, Cnolera j and Diarrhoea Remedy, and have found numerous occasions to test its merits, not only on myself, but on ; others as well. I can truly say that j I r.ever, in a single instance, have I known it to fail. I consider it one ' of the best remedies travelers can I carry and could relate many instances j wbeie I have used the remedy on i skeptics, much to their surprise and i relief. I hope every traveling man ' in the U. S will cirry a bottle of j this remedy in his grip." Fur sale : by J. K Kaufmann. The government has seutone mi! lion rations for distribution to the ! starving people c f Cuba. When you call for DeWitt's Wiich j ? ... . . ., Hazel Salve, tbe great pne cure, ilon't accept anything else. Don't be talked into accepting a substi tute, for piles, for sores, fur burn3. j J. E. Kaufmauu. I r i h. Cm 6 & c (Mober 13?tf. j - > The Royal is the highest grade baking powder Itsown. Actual tests show it goes otto- t third farther tbao oay other bread. r. 3 ROM j Jts ! POWDER Absolutely Pure i J I i ROYAL BAKIHO POWCfR CO., HEW YORK. ^ A CURIOUS CURE. j The Heeling Power of Light, Sun ana ait i Applied. We hail come to Veldes, in the Julian Alps, for a month as tho paying guests among a hundred others of a man who for 30 years past has been preaching? not altogether in the wilderness?the healing power of light, sun and air applied to the body of man as God made it. The tailor's art, he insists, is antihygienio, a-source of moral and physical degradation. There may bo occasions for simple covering, but there are equally, in the interests of wholesomeuess and vitality, occasions for absence of clothing. In accordance with the rules of the game therefore we rose every morning soon after 5 and, having walked, my friend and I to the Hill of Men, our wives to the Hill of Women, in the scantiest cldthiug consistent with what is called decency, we forthwith spent the early hours wandering or reclining in sun or shadow, jumping, digging or reading, according to temperament, and breakfasting on the milk, bread and honey we had brought with us from tho hut. ^ After our strange air bath on tho top of the hill we used to walk back, clothed, to another strango bath at the hot- ( torn, where for the best part of au hour we lay out ou a slanting roof bare, save 1 for our heads, to the full blaze of the sun. Then for 20 minutes by the clock ^ we were swathed tight in our blankets and then taken indoors, plunged into a j tub of tepid water and massaged by export attendants. By the time we got back on our bare?and not infrequently tender?feet to the huts we were quito ready for the simple vegetarian midday j meal that awaited us under the huge common dining room. The virtue of strenuous laziness dur- . ing the healing time being also sternly inculcated by the healer, the afternoon generally opened with delicious sleep, ' followed at tho option of the individual ^ by either a modified repetition of the morning's airing and sunning or by a lazy stroll with camera or book. Soon j after 6 the evening meal of soup, vegetables and sweets was over, and by (J? j coffee, tobacco and chatter having achieved their purpose? we were gen- ^ erally eleeping our Adamic sleep. On ( the nights when, for tho purposes of j the cure, the body or some part of it , was "packed" in a cold water bandage j dreaming was sometimes delayed, but ^ if that particular part of the treatment W38 CllSlSblUXUi ^uu wciu a ncc uiuu <*o ^ soon as the attendant's back was turned. The first and every subsequent night of our stay we spent upon the edge of the j lake within a few feet of the water in a j couple of rough wooden huts without ^ fronts?with some forebodings, it must j be comfessed, although it was in August, but as we afterward found with ^ only good effects.?Strand Magazine. f Fall of Marat's Lime Tree. Murat's lime tree on the battlefield of Leipsic has fallen a victim to a violent storm. The tree which witnessed c snch terrible carnage was already, ac- f cording to popular belief, 200 years old ? and more when the three days' battlo j was fought. Perhaps it drew new f strength from a soil enriched by the countless dead; perhaps, liko proud v Bolingbroke, "blood watered it to make j it grow." In any case it has survived j for more than fourscore years the great event of its history and now lies pros- s trate on the battlefield?the last fallen f in the battle of giants. The tree has j sometimes been called Napoleon's lime, s and the legend has been told that the leader in the battle of nations used it as a watchtower at a critical period of the fight c But, according to authentic evidence, c it was not Napoleon, but Marat, who c made it famous. The great captain of r squadrons, who headed the veterans of t Spain, seems to have climbed into its t branches and established his observatory ^ here on the morning of Oct. 1G, 1813, ? and here for some time he remained t till an intrusive cannon ball passed through the branches and drove tho c bird from the nest. It is a grand old c veteran, grand even in death. Its trunk is 20 meters high and l)g meters in diameter. It has several times been struck by lightning and is at last over- x thrown by tempest. Near it is the ivy colored monument to the French who c fell, whose epitaph it may justly share, * "Let none disturb their rest."?Pall Afoll j J i For broken surlace*, sure?, insect bites, burns, skin diseases and especially piles there is one reliable rwn- J edy, DeWitt's Witch Ilazel Salve. u When you call for DeWitt's don't \ accept counterfeits or frauds. You g will not be disappointed with DeWiti's Witch Hazel Salve. J. E. Twnfmann. 0 The Spanish colonial authorities t have decided to collect custom duties at Havana. }. "REMEMBER THE ALAMO!" rhe Battlecry of General Sain Houston and His Urave Soldiers. "Remember the Maine!" and the old nan who had been through some of the uost exciting scenes in our national listory repeated the famous warcry everal times as though trying to revive ome memory of long ago that it replied. "I have it now," as tho recollection ighted up his face. "I heard the story vben wo were going to tho front in the Mexican war, for many of my most iniraafce acquaintances at that time were Dexans. During tho troubles of a dozen rears before Colonel Travis was in comnand of 1 Sti Texan soldiers in Fort Mamo at Bexar. There he was sur oundcd by many times his own force, be enemy being in command of Santa \nna, the Mexican dictator. "March 6, 1836, the little garrison surrendered, having first received a iledgo from Santa Anna that the lives )f all his prisoners should be spared. Despite this positive assurance of safety, ;be characteristic treachery of the Spanard asserted itself. No sooner were Dolonel Travis and his men disarmed ;hau they were massacred in cold blood, :be last sound thev ncard on earth beng the cruel tauuts of their enemies. \s a fitting climax to this savagery the Doaics 01 uie oravo ueau were inxowu nto a heap, an immense pile of wood was placed upon them, and their ^ashes, singled with the ashes of their funeral pyre, was all that was left of the brave ittle garrison. " You can imagino to what burning rath this act of fearful barbarity would stir the people of Texas. By the 19th of the next mouth General Sam Houston, with 700 brave and determined followers, confronted Santa Auua, whose forces were more than :hree times as strong. Before making in attack Houston, a master of fervid speech, made a thrilling address, and Remember the Alamo!' were the words that rang ont like a trumpet call at the ilose of his burning appeal. The effect was wonderful and indescribable. The :ry was repeated till it became a mad shriek for revenge that struck terror iuX) the hearts of the treacherous foe. "'Remember the Alamo!' was the inspiring shout with which the Texans rushed into that brief but terrible bat:le at San Jacinto. Despite disparity in lumbers Houston's little force drove ;ho Mexicans like chaff before the wind, narking their course with dead and wounded. The Alamo was remembered with a terrible reckoning, for G30 Mexican dead were left upon the field while ;he avengers lost but 70."?Detroit b'reu Press. Bos Butter. Mr. David Boylo, the curator of the 3ntario Archaeological museum, is in receipt of an exceedingly curious survival from prehistoric times in the shape of a good sized lump of "bog butter." In Ireland in the very old times the art of making butter was known, but the preservative effects of salt were is yet undiscovered. Nevertheless the people of that age possessed some means if preserving it, burial in a bog being part of the process. Firkins of it were frequently left there for safekeeping, and from time to time these relics of prehistoric housekeeping are unearthed. Mr. 13. St. George Lefroy of Toronto, who is now in Ireland, is the donor of a good sized piece of cheesy looking stuff to the museum. Mr. Lefroy's letter to Mr. Boyle is in part as follows: "I have just sent off per parcels post a piece of 'beg butter' to yon. I don't titnsv whf>thf>r it is a thine of sufficient lutiquity and rarity to be of any value jr interest to you, but as the Dublin museum has a keg in a prominent posi:iou perhaps you may consider it worthy admission to a place in the museum. [ notice the Canadian customs forbid substitutes or imitations of butter.' I lope red tape won't signalize itself over :kis. "The keg of which this is a portion vas dug up recently this year in a bog lear Dunlavin, County Kildare. The tares are said to have been round it, )ut to have fallen off on removal It ay in a peasant's garden, and the dogs :'ed cn it for a time. Mrs. Hopkins of Blackball castle, Kilcullen, County vildare, got it then, and I got this xagment from her. I melted a piece, md it seems decidedly butterish." ? roronto Globe. i * ? i A Misplaced Comma. The London Naval and Military Rec>rd says that a new rule was recently rained for the guidance of field marhals. It was, with other regulations, rot into type, and appeared in proof as ollows: "1,972 Field Marshals?Field Marshals will wear buckskin pantaloons, ack boots and gilt spurs only, at drawng rooms, and on all such occasions." It is almost unnecessary to add that is soon as attention was called to the act that in such a meager costume field uarsLals would create some sensation it a drawing room the order was varied. That Monster Globe. A French geographer is trying to inluce the Royal Geographical society to icnstruct a revolving globe on the scale >f eight miles to the inch, which would nake it possible to represent every narked elevation or depression on the tartk's surface. The diameter of such a jlobe would be 84 feet. This project is i modification of the plan proposed for he Paris exhibition in 1900, for the ixecution of which sufficient money :ould not be raised in France.?Exihaiige. What She Would Do. She?Do you know what I would do f I were a man? He?Oh, I suppose you'd hurry right iowu to where they are fighting and mock out the Spaniards. She?No, I'd put my feet up on tho jorch railing and take a little comfort n life.?Cleveland Leader. . -? Trulli wears well. People have 9irne.l that DeWitt's Little Early Lsers are reliable little pills for re? i!*?ing the bowel?, curing constipaioi and sick headache. They don't ;ripe. J. E. Kaufmann. Gen. ZSTerritt cables that the terms f capitulation of the territory aplie 1 only to city, its defenses and he suburbs of Manila. Spaiu has lost 50,000 men in the Antilles. - - x