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Everybody knows that Rheumatism is a diseased state of the blood, and only a blood remedy is the only proper treatment, but a remedy containing potash and mercury only aggravate! the trouble. S.S.S.ri Blood being Purely Vegetable, goes direct to the very cause of the disease and a permanent cure always results. It is ilia only blood remedy guaranteed to contain no potash, mercury or other dangerous minerals. Books mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. IN OUR GENERATION. GLORIOUS REWARDS OF WORKING FOR OUR. FELLOW MEN. Dr. Talmage Points Out the Lesson of the Life of David?Service Which Suffering Humanity Now Needs?A Blissful Awakening. (Copyright, 189S, by American Press Association. 1 Washington, Sept. 4.?Iu this discourse Dr. Talmage changes our lifetime from a meaningless generality to practical helpfulness to the people now living; test, Acts xiii, 36, "David, after he had served his own generation by the will cf God, fell on sleep." That is a text which has for a long time been running through my mind. Sermons have a time to be born as Well as a time to die, a cradle as well as a grave. David, cowboy and stone slinger and fighter and dramatist and blank [ verse writer and prophet, did his best J for the people of his time, and then j went and laid down 011 the southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound slumber which nothing but an archangelic blast can startle. "David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep." It was his own generation that he had served?that is, the people living at the time he lived. And have you ever thought that our responsibilities are chiefly with the people now walking abreast of us? There are about four generations to a century now, but in olden time life was longer, and there was perhaps only one generation to a century. Taking these facts into the calculation. I make a rough guess and say that there have been at least 180 generations of the human family. With reference to them we have no responsibility. We cannot teach them, we cannot correct their mistakes, we cannot soothe their sorrows, we cannot heal their wounds. Their sepulchers are deaf and dumb to anything we might say to them. The last regiment of that great army has passed out of sight We might halloo as loud as we could, not one of them would avert his head to see what we wanted. I admit that I am in sympathy with the child whose father had suddenly died, and who in her little evening prayer wanted to continue to pray for her father, although he had gone into heaven, and no more needed her prayers, and, looking up into her mother's face, said: "Oh, mother, I cannot leave him all out. Let me say, thank God that 1 had a good father once, so I can keep him in my prayers." But the ISO generations have passed off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then there are generations to come after our earthly existence has ceased. We shall not see them. We shall not hear any of their voices. We will take no part in their convocations, their elections, their revolutions, their catastrophies, their triumphs. We will in nowise affect the 180 generations gone or the 180 generations to come, except as lrom the galleries of heaven the former generations look down and rejoice at our victories, or as we may by our behavior start influences, good or bad, tbat shall roll on through the advancing ages. But our business is, like David, to serve our own generation, the people now living, those whose lungs now breathe and whose hearts now beat, and mark you, it is not a silent procession, but moving. It is a "forced march" at 24 miles a day, each hour being a mile. Going with that celerity, it has got to be a cornVfl nn nnr nurt or no service at all. We not only cannot teach the 180 generations past and will not see the 180 generations to come, but this generation now on the stage will soon be olf, and we ourselves will be off with them. The fact is that you and I will have to start very soon for our work or it will be ironical and sarcastic for any one after our exit to say of us. as it was said of David, "After he had served his own generation by the will of God he fell on sleep." Our Owu Generation. TTT.-.11 Qtrrmrw? IVY 1, UUYV, ici no - nestly, prayerfully, iu a common sense ' way and see wba^we can _do. fur our T77". IE3 ;et, Solicts a Share oi own generation, .first of all, let us see to it that, as far as we can, they have enough to eat. The human body in so j constituted that three times a day the body needs food as much as a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want Clod has girdled the earth with apple orchards, orange groves, wheattiehls and oceans ! full of fish and prairies full of cattle, I and notwithstanding this I will under! take to say that the vast majority of ! tho human family are now suffering I either for lack of food or tho right kind | of food. Our civilization is all askew, ; and God only can set it right. Many of the greatest estates of today have been built out of the blood and bones of unrequited toil. In olden times, for tho I building of forts and towers, the inbab! itauts of Ispahan had to contribute 70,000 skulls and Bagdad 90,000 human skulls, and that number of people were ! compelled to furnish the sknlls. But I these two contributions added together ! made only 100,000 sknlls, while into ! the tower of tho world's wealth and ! pomp have been wrought the skeletons of uncounted numbers of the half fed i populations of the earth?millious of j skulls. Don't sit down at your table with ~ r _ i 1 i. I1V8 or six courses 01 auummui eujjpijand think nothing of that family in the next street who would take any one of those five courses between soup and almond nuts and feel they were in | heaven. The lack of the right kiud of 1 food is the cause of much of the drunkj euness. After drinking what many of l our grocers call coffee, sweetened with ] Vhat many call sugar, and eating what ' j many of our butchers call meat, and j chewing what many of our bakers call j j bread, many of the laboring class feel j so miserable they are tempted to put in! to their nasty pipes what the tobaccc1 nist calls tobacco or go into the drinking j raloons for what the romsellers call I beer. Good coffee would do much in ' driving out bad rum. How can we serve our generation with enough to eat? By sitting down in embroidered slippers and lounging back in an armchair, our mouth puck- ; ered up around a Havana of the best brand, and through clouds of luxuriant smoke reading about political economy and the philosophy of strikes? No, no. By finding out who in this city has i been living on gristle and sending them I a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out somo ) family who through sickness or con- | junction of misfortunes have not enough to eat and do for them what Christ did for the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves and the fishes. Let us quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we cannot choke down another crumb of cake and begin tho supply of others' necessities. So far j from helping appease the world's hunger I are those whom Isaiah describes as | grinding the faces of the poor. Yon I have seen a farmer or a mechanic put a j scythe or an ax on a grindstone, while some one was turning it round and I round and the man holding the ax bore J on it harder and harder, while the waj ter dropped from the grindstone and the I edge of the ax from being round and j dull got keener and keener. So I have | seen men who were put against the j grindstone of hardship, and while one turned the crank another would press the unfortunate harder down and harder down until he was ground away thinner and thinner?his comforts thinner, his prospects thinner and his face thinner. And Isaiah shrieks out, " What mean ye that ye grind the faces of the poor?" Battle For Bread. It is an awful thing to be hungry. It is an easy thing for us to be in good j humor with all the world when wo i have no lack. But let huuger take full J possession of us and we would all turn into barbarians and cannibals and fiends, i Suppose that some of the energy we are j expending in useless and unavailing i talk about the bread question should be I expended iD merciful alleviations. I i have read that the battlefield on which j more troops met than on any other in the world's history was the battlefield of Leipsic?IGO.OOUmen under Napoleon, 250,000 men under Schwarzeberg. No, no. The greatest and most terrific battle is now being fought all the world over. It is the battle for bread. The j ground tone of the finest passage in cno | of the great musical masterpieces, the | artist says, was suggested to him by j the cry of the huugry populace of Yien: na as the king rode through and they I shouted: "Bread! Give us bread!" And I all through the great harmonies of muj sical academy and cathedral I hear the mthos. the nround tone, the tracedv. j of uncounted multitudes, who, with streaming eyes and wan cheeks and . broken hearts, in behalf of themselves I and their families, are pleading for i bread. j Let us take another look around to I see how we may serve our generation. Let us see as far as possible that they have enough to wear. God locks upon the human race and knows just how many inhabitants the world lias. The statistics of the world's population are I carefully taken in civilized lands, and every few years officers of government go through the land and count how many people there are in the United States or England, and great accuracy j is reached. But when people tell us J how many inhabitants there are in Asia \ or Africa at best it must be a wild : guess. Yet God knows the exact uura] ber of people on our planet, and he has I made enough apparel for each, and if I there be fifteen hundred million, fifteen ! thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen j people then there is enough apparel for I fifteen hundred million, fifteen thoui sand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not ! slouchy apparel, not ragged apparel, | not insufficient apparel, but appropriate om.ovol Af tffn suits for evoi'V ! being on earth, a summer suit and a j winter suit. A good pair of shoes for ; every living mortal. A good coat, a ; good hat or a good bonnet, and a good I shawl and a complete masculine or feni| iniue outfit of apparel. A wardrobe f->r I all nations, adapted to all climes, and | not a string or a button or a pin or a i hook or an eye wanting. Redistribution. But, alag, where are the good clothes r Your Valued Tatron Beats the Klondike. ATr A (J Thomas, of Marvsville, Tex., Las found a more valuable discovery than Las yet been made in tbe Klondike. For years Le suffered untold agony from consumption, accompanied by hemorrhages; and was absolutely cured by Dr. King's New j Discovery for Consumption, Cougli9 and Colds. He declares that gold is of little value in comparison with J this marvelous cure; would have it, j even if it cost a hundred dollars a j bottle. Asthma, Bronchitis and all i throat and lung affections are posi tively cured by Dr. King's New Dis-covery for Consumption. Trial bottles free at J E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. Regular size oO cts. and $1. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. fcr tureeiourths of the human race? The other one-fourth have appropriated them. The fact is, there needs to be and will be a redistribution. Not by anarchistic violence. If outlawry had its way, it would rend and tear and diminish until, instead of three-fourths of the | world not properly attired, four-fourths : would be in rags. I will let you know | how the redistribution will take place. By generosity on the part of those who have a surplus and increased industry on the part of those suffering from deficit. Not all, but the large majority of cases of poverty in this country are a result of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part of the present sufferers or their ancestors. In most cases the rnm [ jug is the maelstrom that has swallowI ed down the livelihood of those who are in rags. But things will change, ! and by generosity on the part of the I crowded wardrobes and industry and i sobriety on the part of the empty wardrobes there will be enough for all to wear. Gcd has done his part toward the ; dressing of the human race. Ho grows ! a surplus of wool on the sheep's back | and flocks roam the mountains and valI leys with a burden of warmth intended for transference to human comfort, j when the shuttles of the factories, reaching all the way from Chattahoochee to the Merrimac, shall have spun and woven it. In white letters of snowy fleece God has been writing for a thonI sand years his wish that there might j be warmth for all nations. Whilo others | are discussing the effect of high or low j tariff or no tariff at all on wool you j and I had better see if in our wardrobes ! we have nothing that we can spare for the suffering or pick out some poor lad j of the sfreet and take him down to a I ilothiug store and tit him out for the j season. Gospel of shoes! Gospel of hats! ' Gospel of clothes for the naked! Food For Souls. Again, let us look around and eoe how we may serve our generation. ! What; shortsighted mortals we would ! be if we wereauxious to clothe and feed | only the most insignificant part of a man?namely, his body?while we put forth no effort to clothe and feed and save his soul. Time is a little piece | broken oif a great eternity. What aro ; we doing for the souls of this present | generation? Let me say it is a generation worth saving. .Most magnificent men and women are in it. We make a great ado about the improvements in i navigation, and in locomotion, and in ; art and machinery. We remark what ! wonders of telegraph and telephone and I the stethoscope. What improvement is ! electric light over a tallow candle. Cut , all these improvements are insignificant j compared with the improvement in the j human race. In olden times once in awhile a great and good man or woman ! would come up, and the world has j made a great fuss about it ever since; j but now they are so numerous wo I scarcely speak about them. We put a ; halo about the people of the past, but I think if the times demanded them it i would be found we have now living in J this year 1S9S 50 Martin Lutheis, 50 j j George Wasbingtons, 50 Lady Hunting- j : dons, 50 Elizabeth Frys. During our j ' civil war more splendid warriors in ; | north and south were developed in four j | years than the whole world developed j in the previous 20 years. I challenge ; the 4,0u0 years before Christ and also the 18 centuries after Christ to show mo the equal of charity on a large scale of George Pea body. This generation of men and women is more wortli saving than any one of the 180 generations that have passed otf. Where shall wo begin? With ourselves. That is the pillar fr mi which wo must start. Prescott, | ; the blind historian, tells us how Pizarro j i saved bis army for the right when they ! j were about deserting bim. With bis J sword bo made a long mark 011 the ; ground. He said: "My men, on the j north side are desertion and death; on j the south side is victory; on the north j side, Panama and poverty; on the south ; j side, Peru with all its riches. Choose I ; for yourselves. For my part I go to the { j south." Stepping across the line one by i i one his troops followed, and finally his i ; whole army. The Dividing LSue. The sword of God's truth draws the ! dividing line today." On one side of it j : are sin and ruin and death; on the other i | side of it are pardon and usefulness and ! I happiness and heaven. You cross from j i the wrong side to the right side, and : ' your family will cross with you, and ; ! your friends and your associates. The j ! way you go they will go. If we are not j j saved, we will never save any one else, i How to get saved? Be willing to ac- i . cept Christ, and then accept him in- j j stantaueouslv and forever. Get on the : ! rock first, and then you will he able to i help others upon the same rock. Men i | and women have been saved quicker ! than I have been talking about it. ' ' What! Without a prayer? Yes. What! j Without time to deliberately think it over? Yes. What! Without a tear? j Yes. Believe; that is all. Believe what? | rru..fc ..... a;..U rim frnm sin XiiUl UC2U2 Ui^U tv-? OiiViir 4 ---* r, TIES., aire. Prompt and I and death and hell". Will you? Do you? You have. Something makes me think you have. New light has come into your countenance. Welcome, welcome! Hail, hail! Saved yourselves, how are you to save others? By testimony. Tell it to your family. Tell it to your business associates. Tell it everywhere. We will successfully preach no more religion and will successfully talk no more religion than wo ourselves have. The most of that which you do to benefit the 6ouls of this generation you will effect through your own behavior. Go wrong, and that will induce others to go wrong. Go right, and that will induce others to go right. When the great Centennial exhibition was being held in Philadelphia, the question came up among the directors as to whether they should keep the exposition open on Sundays, when a director, who was a man i\f the \rnrld from Nevada, arose and said, his voice trembling with emotion and tears running down his checks: '"I feel like a returned prodigal. Twenty years ago I went west and into a region where we hud no Sabbath, but today old memories come back to me, and I remember what my glorified mother taught me about keeping Sunday, and I seem to hear her voice again and feel j as I did when every evening I knelt by her side in prayer. Gentlemen, I vote for the observance of the Christian Sabbath," and he carried'everything by j storm, and when the question was put, "Shall we open the exhibition on the Sabbath?" it was almost unanimous, "No, no." What one man can do if ho does right, boldly right, emphatically right! Glorious Sleep. I confess to you that my one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonize it, not to damage it, not to rule it, but to servo it. I would like to do something toward helping unstrap its load, to stop its tears, to balsam its wounds and to induce it to put foot on the upward road that has at its terminus acclamation rapturous, and gates pearline, and garlands amaranthine, oiifl ff\nnloina r;i i 11 mirl dnmin. ions enthroned and coroneted, for I cannot forget that lullaby in the closing ! words of my text, "David, after he had served his own generation by the will ! of God, fell on sleep." What a lovely sleep it was! Uufilial Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adouijah did not I worry it. Persecuting isuul did not harrow it. Exile did not fill it with night- i mare. Since a redheaded boy amid his j father's flocks at night he had not had , such a good sleep. At 70 years of age ! he laid down to it. He had had many a troubled sleep, as in the caverns of Adullam or in the palace at the time | his enemies were attempting his cap- j ture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious i sleep. "After he had served his genera- | tlon by the will of God he fell on j sleep." Oh, what a good thing is sleep after j a hard day's work! It takes all the j aching out of the head, and all the weariness out of the limbs, and all the smarting out of the eyes. From it we j rise in the morning and it is a new world, aud if we, like David, serve our j generation we will at life's close have most desirable and refreshing sleep. In : it will vanish our last fatiguo of body, j our last worriment of mind, our last sorrow of soul. To the Christian's body that was hot with raging fevers, so that the attendants must by sheer force keep on the blankets, it will be the cool | sleeD. To those who are thin blooded and shivering with agues it will be the warm sleep. To those who because of physical disorders were terrified with night visions it will be the dreamless sleep. To nurses and doctors and mothers who were wakened almost every hour cf the night by those to whom they ministered or over whom they i watched it will bo the undisturbed sleep. To those who could not get to bed till late at night and must rise early in the morning and before getting rested it will be the long sleep. Away With Gloom. Away with all your gloomy talk about departing from this world! If wo have ser\ed our generation, it will not be putting out into the breakers; it will not be the fight with the king of terrors; it will be going to sleep. A friend, writing me from Illinois, says that Rev. Dr. Wingatc, president of Wake Forest college, North Carolina, after a most useful life, found his last day on earth his happiest day, and that in his last moments he seemed to be personally talking with Christ, as friend with friend, saying: "Oh, how delightful it is! I knew you would be with me when the time came, and I knew it would be sweet, but I did not know it would be as sweet as it is." The fact was he had served his generation in the gospel ministry, and by the will of Cod lie fell asleep. When in Africa Niajwara, the servant, looked into the tent .1 1 iriiur.t-niHi anil frill ltd ll i Til nil Lis knees, he stepped back, not wishing to disturb bim in prayer, and sometime j after went in and found him in the same posture and stepped back again, but after awhile went in and touched him, and, lo, the great traveler had finished his last journey, and he had died in the grandest and mightiest posture a man ever takes?011 his knees. : He had served his generation by unrolling the scroll of a continent, and by the will of God fell on sleep. In the museum of Greenwich, England, there is a fragment of a hook that was found in the arctic regions, amid the relics of Sir John Franklin, who had perished amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of that piece of a book was turned down at the words, "When thou passes! through the waters, I will he with thee." Having served his generation in the cause of science and discovery, by the will of God he fell oil sleep. Why will you keep us all so nervous talking about that which is oulv a dor imtory ami a pillowed summer, canopied by angels' wings? Sleep! Transporting sleep! And what a glorious awakening! * You ami I have sometimes been thoroughly bewildered after a long and fatiguing journey. \Ye have stopped at j a friend's house for the night, and after j hours of complete unconsciousness we I Mite Attention. have opened our eyes, the high risen sun full in our faces, and before we could fully collect onr faculties have said, " Where am I, whose house is this and whose are those gardens:" And then it has flashed upon us in glad reality. Wistful Awakening. And I should not wonder if after we have served our generation and by the will of Cod have fallen on sleep, the deep sleep, the restful sleep, we should awaken in blissful bewilderment and fur a little while say: "Where am I? What palace is this? Why, this looks like heaven! It is. It is. Why, there is a building grander than all the castles of earth heaved into a mountain of splendor?that must be the palace of T \...l 1 1. *1 nuu luun mnc at iuuw ?uin? lined with foliage more beautiful than anything I ever saw before, and see those who are walking down those aisles of verdure. From what I have heard of them those two arm and arm must bo Hoses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai and him of the halting sun over Gibeou, and those two walking arm in arm must be John and Paul, the one so gentle and the other so mighty. "But I must not look any longer at those gardens of beauty, but examine this building in which I have just awakened. I look out of the window this way and that and upaiul down, and I find it is a mansion of immense size in which I am stopping. All its windows of agate and its colonades of porphyry and alabaster. Why, I wonder if this is not the 'house of many mansions,' of which I used to read? It is. It is. There must be many of my kindred and friends in this very mansion. Hark! Whose aie those voices? Whose are those bounding feet? I open the door and see, and, lo, they arc coming through all the corridors and up and down all the stairs, our long absent kindred. Why, there is father, there is mother, there are 1he children. All well again. All young again. All of us together again. And as we embrace each other with the cry, 'Never more to part; never more to part,' the arches, the alcoves, the hallways echo and re-echo ?rnr/Jc 'Vfivnr mnn? tn nnrt! nfivpr more to part!' Then our glorified friends say, 'Conn; out with us and see heaven.' And sonic of them bounding ahead of us and some of them skipping beside us we star ; down the ivory stairway, and we meet coming up one of the kings of ancient Israel, somewhat small of stature, but having a countenance radiant with a thousand victories, and as all are making obeisance to this great one of heaven I cry out, ' Who is he?' and the answer comes: 'This is the greatest of all the kings. It is David, who, after he had served his generation by the will, of God, fell on sleep.' " mm ? Deafness Cannot be Cured. By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of tho ear. There is only one way to euro 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 g<ts inflamed you have a rumbling sound or impel feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deftness 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 cut 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 he cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. Sold by all druggists. Price 75c. -> Russia's Millions. The census of 1724 gave tho number of Russians as 1(5,000,000. In 17(52 there were 20,G00,0u0. In 1796, chiefly owing to the Polish conquests of Catherine II, the population jumped to 37,000,000. Conquests in Finland and Poland account for the gain of 9,000,000 indicated by the census of 18.09. The prodigious increase in the Russian population, due simply to the excess of births over deaths, commenced after this date. Without any important change in the forutiers the inhabitants in 1857 iium.bered (57,000,000; in l*(5s, 74,000,000; in 1885, 108,000,000. The census of Jan. 18, 1897, counted 129,000,000 Russians, and at present there are fully 130,000,000. Australian Opals. The opal production of Queensland, Australia, is becoming very important. More than $100,000 worth of rough stones were exported last year. In the western districts of tiie colony the opal deposits are very considerable. Tho Queensland opal is of brilliant quality, and experts pronounce it to be equal to the best Hungarian varieties. Wheeler and Shatter. "Things have changed," says the Boston Herald, "since Major Shatter, now General .Shatter, was captured by General Joe Wheeler's cavalry and sent to Libbv prison. The man who would have prophesied that Wheeler would be serving under Shaftt r 3(5 years later would have been considered daft." For broken rui faces, sores, insect bites, burns, skin diseases and especially piles there is one reliable remedy, De-Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. When you call for DeWitt's don't accept counterfeits or frauds. You will not be disappointed with DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. J. K Kaufmanu. Chicago's new directory claims for the city a population of II,893,(.00 which is an increase of 05,000 over the figures of 18l?7. COIATMBIA, S. C? O.-tubrr 13?tf. Tie Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes onethird further than any other brand. I pom &AKIHG POWDER Absolutely Pure CHINAMAN DID NOT TRUST. Wm Good Himnelf, bat Ui<l Not Think Other People Were. "Speaking of laundries," said a Chicago woman who was entertaining friends, "I had a most amusing instance once of trying to obtain laundry service, and it was in the kingdom of the Celestial lauudrymeu, too?I mean his American kingdom?Washington." "Tell us about it," entreated her friends, and Airs. B. said: "I was visiting in Washington, and not only had seen the ordinary, everyday Chinaman in his stronghold, but had been at the White House on a reception day when the members of the Chinese legation had paid their respects to the president. I was charmed by their gorgeous apparel, the length and variety of their pigtails and their genuflections. On Sunday I attended the Chinese gathering in theC Street Methodist church and saw the Chinaman studying the Bible with a pretty American girl for teacher. Ho was dressed in full Chinese costume of silk 01* satin and made a picture, and ho was obedient, but shy." "Who were the teachers?" asked one of Mrs. B. 's guests. "The daughters of senators and congressmen, some of the fair society girls of Washington, and is it any wonder that now and then a Chinaman fell hopelessly in love with his toucher and embarrassed her by presents of live ducks and other tokens of his affection? Well, I promised my Washington friends to give my laundry to a Chinaman, and one particular Chinaman at tnat, anu one nay, uappeuiuK iu uo uui alone, I stopped at the laundry in question and saw the identical !Sam Che Lung to whom I had been introduced the preceding Sunday. He was net dressed in his womanish finery for business, but looked a very ordinary Celestial. The dialogue which followed was something like this: " ' Who are you?' "I gave my name and told him whero I had seen him. " 'Where live?' "I mentioned the private hotel where he was to send for my laundry. " 'Me not knowy.' "Then he handed me a printed circular, which gave in English the price per dozen, and, pointing with a broad, yellow forefinger to a conspicuous line at the foot of tho list, walked off and left me. I got out on the street as quickly as possible and then perused that line. It read: " 'Strangers not get trust. Must come recommend by policeman on their beat.' "?Chicago Times-Herald. Sinecure* In Drazil. "Some time ago," says a San Paolo (Brazil) paper, "a general was sent to one of the northern states to investigate the management of a government raili road. He belonged to the set of men who had made themselves obnoxious by their eudeavors iu the service of reform, and here are some of his experiences: The very firet day he found in one of the rooms of a railroad station a strong young man who was doing nothing. Thinking the young fellow had come to see him, he asked, "Do you wish any thing, my friend?' 'No, sir; I am cm ployed here.' '.So? What are your duties?' 'I have to fill tho water jugs in ; tho office every day.' "The general was a little astonished. ! In the next room he discovered another j able-bodied young man smoking a cigarette. 'Are you au employee?" he asked. 'Yes, sir; 1 am the assistant of the gentleman in the next room.' "Rnf tliah tv;i*5 nnthinu to what Was to come. The geueral harl already been ; informed that the road employed 18 en! pincers, while only eight were working. | He ordered that in future these men j should at least take turn about. The ! next day one of these 'engineers,' a beardless youth, came to him and told him that he could not run a locomotive to save his life. 'Then how did you get on the pay roll?' 'Well, you see, general, it's this way; My family are poor, j but I wanted to study law. We've got I some pull, so I managed to get an apJ pointment as honorary engineer, to i make a living while I pursue my i i studies.' " Free Piils. | Semi your address to H. E. l uck- j j leu k Co., Chicago, and get a fiee j i sample box of Dr. King's New Life j | Pills. A trial will convince you of j ! moiila Tlir.so nillsi are O'lSV in ! ; LUC11 UiVi 'be. ~ ~,-j action and Sick Headache. For j Malaria and Liver troubles they have i been proved invaluable. They are ; guaranteed to be perfectly free from ! every deleterious substance and to j be purely vegetable. They do not I weaken by their action, but by givj ing tone to the stomach and bowels j greatly invigorate the system. Reg | lar size 2oc. per box. Sold by J. E Kaufmann, Druggist. TRUE STORY OF "CAMILLE." Letters From Dumas Fits, Who Was the Armand Duval of the Flay. A Parisian review has a very curious article upon the story of the "Dame aux Camelias," that poor Marie Duplessis who (lied so sadly after a life which certainly was not exemplary, but which romance and the staee have made fa mous. The author of the article, M. Georges Soreau, publishes letters by the younger Dumas, which leave uo doubt that he introduces himself iu the character of Armand Duval, the principal character in the piece in which Marie Duplessis is immortalized under the name of Marguerite Gautier. The story was whispered about for a long time among theatrical people, but here are some authentic documents with which M. Soreau reveals the facts. Dumas tils not only knew Marie Duplessis, but was in love with her. He simply describes himself in the character of Armand Duval. In presenting the piece to the public Dumas wrote: "Marie Duplessis did not have all the pathetic adventures which I give to Marguerite Gautier. but she was perfectly willing to have them. If she sacrificed nothing to Armand, it was because the latter did not wish any sacrifices. To her great regret she played only the first and second acts in the piece." In a letter addressed to Sarah Bernhardt the celebrated playwright and novelist said: My Deau Sarah?Permit mo to giro you a copy of an edition of the "Dame aux Caraelins," which is now very rare. What makes this volume unique of its hind is the autograph letter which you will And on page *12 and which is pretty nearly the same as the letter printed on that page. This letter was written by the genuine Armand Duval about <0 years ago. ?lc was then the same age as your son. The letter is tho only palpable thing that ro- ' mains of the story. It seems to roe that it belongs to you of right, since you have Just brought the dead man back to youth and iife. Keep it, at all events, as a souvenir of the pleasant evening of Saturday last and as a feeble testimonial of my great admiration and profound gratitude. A. Dumas Flls. 26 January, 1884. The following is Dumas' autograph letter to Marie Duplessis: My Dea? Makik?I am not rich enough to love you the way I would wish nor poor enough to be loved after your fashion. Let us forget, therefore, on your part a name which must be somewhat indifferent to you and on my part a happiness which becomes impossible. It is useless to tell you how sad I feci, since you know already how much I love you. Farewell. You have too big a heart not to understand the significance of this letter and too much intelligence not to pardon me for it. A thousand remembrances. Alexandre Dumas. In 1896, during tbo time when the Renaissance presented the piece with the costumes of 1S30, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt often told her friends the following little anecdote: "At Marly, about 1884,1 asked Alexandre Dumas to give me a personal description of Armand DuvaL " 'That will not be difficult,' said he, smiling. *1 have only to send you my portrait when I was 20 years old.' "? Paris Cor. Courier des Etats Unis. A Wet Country. Tbo railroad which with its branches connects Colombo, the capital of Ceylon. with tlie interior of the island, is remarkable for the engineering skill shown in its construction and for* its prosperity. It makes an ascent of 3,500 feet by a succession of loops and curves, with here and there a tunnel. The chief difficulty in running the railroad is due to the way in which the rain comes down. A recent book of travel, "A Run Round the Empire," describes what the rain did to a train crawling up the mountain side. On Dec. 27, 1896, 11 finches of rain fell in 24 hours. The engineer of a train saw that beyond a certain tunnel the line was washed away. -He stopped the train, and the passengers got out One of them, seeing stones rolling down the mountainside above them, advised the engineer to push for tho tunnel. Just as the train entered the tunnel down came a huge mass of rock, which carried away the embankment as well as the last car of the train?a goods van fortunately. Close behind the tunnel the ends of the rail were hanging free over a precipice, and a similar condition existed not far ahead. A messenger came down from a planter's bungalow above the tunnel to say that water was accumulating in the cutting in front, and that if it broke through the debris which served as a dam it would wash the train out of the tunnel. The passengers hastened to leave the cars, and in walking through the water in the cutting found it up to their breasts. Edible Birds' Nests. The birds build in great numbers on the precipices and in the caverns of the steep islands of the limestone series which form one of the characteristics of the gulf, aud fragments of which occur at Mergui, on tho west coast, in the Malay archipelago and in Tonquiu. Each of the islands under Praya Chaiya has a guard of men upon it, living in small cottages high up in some nook of the limestone rock, like a Norwegian hut, or down on the spotless eaud of the single little cove, beneath a palm or two. The collecting of the nests is effected by these men three times in the year?in the hot seasou and at the beginning and end of the rains. Great care has to be exercised that the nests should be taken at the moment when the birds have just finished building aud before any eggs are laid, for if this has happened the birds are said not to build again. The collection of the nests is risky, nwin<? tn tlioir inacrpssihilitv. but it is profitable, owing to the high prices they fetch (about 50s. a pound for whito and 25s. t j 30s. for the inferior or red colored nests), and not a little poaching is indulged in by the crews of boats navigating the gulf. The consequence of this is that the guards are all armed and open fire on any boat they see approaching their island nearer than 100 yards without further explanation being deeded.?Geographical Journal. ^ A Cure for Bilious Colic. I was troubled with coiistipUion for a long time. 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