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I A. REV. DR. TALMAOK THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. TEXT: "-4 certain man roent down from Jerusalem to Jericho."? Luke x., 30. It is the morning of December 5 in Jerusalem, and we take stirrups for the road along which the wayfarer of old fell atiioug thieves, who left him wounded and half dead. Job's picture of the horee in the i orient as having neck "clothed with thunder" is not true of most horses now in Palestine. There is no thunder on thairjMhh&fl though there is Some liahth^r Kaalt* PamIW whacked, they somett met retortTT^AmS^ cans aud English, who are accustomed to 1 guide horses by the bridle, these horse* of toe orient, guided only by foot and voice, make equestrianism au uncertainty, and the poll on the bridle that you intend for slow ing up of tko pace may bo mistaken for a hint that you want to outgallop the wind or wheel in swift circles liko the hawk, Hut aey can climb steps and descend precipices 'th skilled foot, and thoonoTchooso for our [inicv in Palestine shall have the praise of eoing ror weeks without ouo stumbling stop f f amid rocky steeps. where mi ordliinry would not for an hour malututn suroibotedness. There wore eighteen of our party, ami twenty-two boasts of burden carried our camp equipment. IV e are le?l by an Arab Rheik, wit h ins black Nubian servant carrying a loaded gun In full sight, but It is the /act that this sheik represents the Turkish Government which assures the safety of Hie caravan. Wo cross the Johoshnphat Valioy, which, if it had not been uiomornblo in history and were only now discovered, would excite the admiration of ail who look upon it. It is j liko the gorges of tho Yosemitoor the chasm s of the Yellowstone Park. Tho sides of this Jelioshaphafc Valley are tunneled with graves | and overlooked by Jerusalem walls?an eternity of depths overshadowed by mi eternity of architecture. Within sight of Mount Olivet mi l Gethsemnno aud with tho heavens ami the earth full of sunshine, we start out oil the very road mentioned iu tho text when it sayt^ "A certain man wont down from IITUNURIU lO IIBnCUO mill lOI^ (UUOIlg thieves." No road that I ever saw was si? well constructed for brigandage ? deep gulloys, sharp turns, caves on either side. Thore are fltty places on this road where u highwayman might surprise and overpower an unarmed pilgrim. Ills cry for help, his shriek of pain, his death groan would be answered only by the echoes. On this road today we met groups of men, why, judging from their countenances, have In their veins tho blood of many generations of Rob Roys. Joseph us says that Ilorod nt one time discharged from tho sorvico of tho temple forty thousand men, and thut tho great part of them tiecamo robbers. Bo late (is 1820 Sir Frederick irenuikor, an English tourist, was attacked on this very road from Jerusalem to Jericho aU(l shot and almost slain. Thero has novcr lieen any scarcity of bandits along the road we travel to-day. With tho fresh memory of some recent, violence in their minds Christ tells tho people of tho good Samaritan who canio along that way and took care of a poor fallow that | liad been set upon by villainous Arabs and | robbed and pounded and cut. We encamped (or lunch that noon closo by an old stono luilding, said to bo the tavern whoro tho Bcono spoken of in tho Bible culminated. Tumbled in the dust and ghastly with 'wounds the victim of this highway robltery lay in the middle of the road?a fact of which 1 am certain, because the Bible says tho people passed by on either shlo. Thero were 12,000 priests living at Jorlcho, and they hail to go to Jerusalem to officiate at the temple. And ono of theso ministers of religion, I suppose, was on his way to me loiupie service, nun 110 is startled as ho sees this bleeding victim in tin middle of the road. ''Oh," he says. "hero Is n lnun tliat has been attacked of thieves. Why don't you go hosnoi''' says the minister, alio man, in n comatose state, makes no answer, or, with a half i in zed look, puts his wounded hand to his cashed forehead. drawls out, "What-:"' "Well." says the later, "I must hurry on to my dutiesat.JegH* valom. ( have to kill a laiiih ami Two plgqSfl in saerilice to-day. 1 cannot spendaxiy.t^g^E tune with this unfortunate. 1 imnss-yfillvF lxidy elso v""l take euro ot liiin. ? one of tiro things that cannot lie " j how. Hesido that, my bushiess iryfTtft souls and not with Ins lies. (.liMid mornltiijT l\'lu i you got well enough to sit up I \Vi^l, lw glao I to see you at tho temple." sr; And tho minister curves hflk way ou.v toward tho overhanging liwr-ot the road and passes. You hyjw'wn'JRM Ono of the chief otllcers of religion is to heal wounds You might have done hern a hiudn^s ttiu* would have been more iiccopty\/<|_J<) (! than all the incense that will smoke up from you censer for the is -x? three weeks, and you Jnksed the chance. tlo on your way?execrated hy the centuries. '' *' * Js'oon afterward a l.evite came npon ttio BCeno. Tho Levtt s lookeii after thepnude of 'ue temple and waited upon the priests and provided the supplies of tho temple. Tin- i.evite, passing along this road where we are to day, took a look at the iuh-h of ' bruiv anil laceration in tlio iniddlo of the road. "My! my!" s-.ys tlio l.evite, "this, rnan i- awfully hurt and he ought to l>e 'helped. Hut my business is to .slug in the choir id tho temple. If 1 am not there no Jone will carry my part. Besides that there may not he enough frankincense for tho eon seis and the i\ irio or oil may have given out. and what a fear.ul balk in tho service that Would make, i hen one of the priests might ftel his breastplate on crooked. Hut it s?v;ns too had to leave this man in this condition I'l-iii'.iiv f lind in- ?<? dniii.i.tlii. tvU.? I ' liiy; and givo him a little stimulant. IffliFho! ^ I'll remony at Jerusalem is of moro importance than taking care of the wounds a mun w ho w ill jinOiably UiMtt Jm, ifrprt, ' tif.nr ffrivr-fM^^nTay Troonery ouftr.c ro ne| tor it n\m\orR us Ij?vitw on our way ni> to the tomplc. There, I have lost live minutes already! (?nnlung, you beast!" ho hhou's as he strikes his heels into the siiles of the animal curryinghhn, and the dust rising I from i ho road soon hides the hard hearted ollicial. But n thy d person Is coining along this 41. You cannot expect him to do anyg by wav of alleviation, Localise ho and wounded man belong to ditroront tia tions which have abominated each other for centuries. The wounded man is an Israelite, and tho stranger now coining on the scono of suffering is a Samaritan. Tliex belong to nutions which hate I each other with an objurgation and mahvlirtion din liolic. Tlicy had opposition toinples?one on Mount (ierizim and tho other on Mount Moriali? and I gne*s this Samaritan, when he comes up, will give the fallen Israelite unotlor clip and say: "Ciood for you! I w ill hi->t finish tho work thesobandits began, nud givo you one more kick that will put you out of your misery. And hero is a rag ol your coat that they did not steal, and 1 will take that. What! l)o you dare to np jHvil to ill" for MHTi y - llusH up! Wliy, yotir wur*'.ii|>: I at Jem mi lot it \yh-n tli'". ought t > have worshiped at Oeri/in K.>\? take tli't? : .I'll thai' he'd that* 10H (-/iv tho Samaritan as ho pounds tho fallen Israelite. No: tho Samaritan ri<l<%s up to thoscone />f sintering, g? ts oiY his boast uml stops down, anil looks into tho faco of tlw wounded iiMtiami says: "This poor follow <loos not led-nig to my nation, nsul our ancestor* worsliiiMtd in different places, bat li? is a man, and that makes us brother*. (hoi pity him, as I do." And he get /loivn on his knciv; uud. iH^ian to examine his wounds nn?l straighten Aut'his' limbs to see if any of his bono* aro br.Aen, ami says: "M v dear follow, ohoor up; you npod havo no more oaro about yourself, for f am going to tako earn of you. Let mo feel of your pulse! Let me listen to your breath ingl I liavo ia these "botth?-two liquids' that will help you. Tho one is oil, and that, will soothe the pain of those wounds, and tine other is wine, and your pulso is fecblp -;wi(l{ you rc"' faint, and that will stimulate yen Now I must pet you to- tho nearest tavern." "Oh, no," say s the man, "I can't walk; l$t mo stay hero and die. "Nousensof' *>aysf the Samaritan. "You aro not going to die.' 1 am going to put you on this beast, and I; will hold you on till I get you where you can have a; soft imttranHMH easy pillow." Now the Samaritan has got tho woundea man on his feet, and with inucli tugging and lifting puts him on the lieast, for it is astonishing how strong the spirit, of kindness will make one, as you have seen a mother after three weeks of sleepless w atching of her boy, down with scarlet rover, lift that half grown boy, heavier than herself, from eoueh to lounge. And so this sympathetic ttainaritnn lias unaided put tho wounded man In tho saddle, uud ut slow puce tho extemporized V. . ... ? ? ambulance is moviug toward tho tavcru. "You feel bettor now,-1 think," says tho 8u naritan to the Hebrew. "Yos," ho says, "I do feel better." "Halloo, you landlord! hei[i mo carry this mnn in and innko him comfortable." That night the Samaritan eat up with the Jew, giving hirn water whenever he felt thirsty and turning his pillow whenever it got hotv and in tho morning before the Samaritan started mi his journey ho said, "landlord, now I am obliged to go. Take good care of this man, uaJ 1 will bo along hero soon agaiu and pay you for all you do for biin. Meanwhile hero Is something to meet present expeusee." The "two Cce" be gave tho landlord sounds small, it was as much as ten dollars here and now, considering what It would there and Mien buy of food and lodging. that December noou we sat under ^^ dow of the tavern whero this scene of pH^^iad occurred, and just having passed JjaEng tho road where the tragedy haa happened, I could, su plainly as I now see the nearest man to this platform, see that Hihie story re-enacted, and I said aloud to our group, under tho touts -'One drop of prao tleal Christianity Is worth more than a teinj pleful of ecclesiastioiam, and that good Sal murltau had more religion in five minutes j thun that minister and that Levito had in a lifetime, nn.i the most accursed tiling on earth Is nat ional prejudice, and t bless C!u I that I llvn in America, whero Oentllo and Jew, Protestant and Catholic can llvo to. getlior without quarrel, and where in tli<> great national crucible tho differences of sect and trlla- and tieopio am being molded Into a great brotherfuxHl, and that tho question which tho lawyer florin ut Christ, and which brought forth this Incident of tho good Kaniaritan?'Who Is my neighborl" is bringing .'orfh tho auswer, 'My neighbor is the first mail I meet in trouble,' ana n wound close at hand calls louder than a temple sovenbvn miles off, though it covered nineteen acres." 1 saw In Lomioii the vast procession which one day last January moved to 86. Paul's Cathedral at the burial of that Christian hero Lord Napier. Tho day after at Ha warden, in conversation on various themes, I usked Mr. Gladstone if be did not think that many who wen under the shadow of false religions might not nevertheless lie at heart really Christian. Mr. Gladstone replied: "Yes; my old friend Lord Napier, who was yester<lny buried, ufter ho returned from his Abyssinian campaign, visited us hero at Ilawardeu, ami walking in this park where wo are now walking be told me n very beautiful Incident. Ho said: "After tho war in i Africa was over we wore on tho march, and wo had a soldier with a broken leg who was not strong enough to co along with us and wo did not <laro to leave him to bo takeu care of by savages, but we found we were compelled to leave him, and we went into the house of a woman who w as said to boa very kind woman, though of the race of savages and wo said, "Here Is a sick man, and If you will take care of him till he gets wed we will pay you very largely," and then we offered I..... A.... ?i,....... Ilw.l ivl,i..|, w?iil,< narily bo offered, hoping by tho excess of pay to secure for him grout kindness. The woman replied: "I will not take care of him for the money you otlVr. 1 do not want your money. Hut leave him here, and 1 will take care of him for the wtko of tho lovo of God."'" Mr. Gladstono turned to uie and said, "Dr. Talmnge, don't you think that though she belonged to a race of savages that was pure religion;'" Aud 1 answered, "Ido; i I do." May God multiply all tho world over the number of good Samaritans! In Philadelphia a young woman was dying. Sho was a wreck. Sunken into the dopths of depravity, th>ro was no lower depth for her to reach. Word eamo to the midnight mission that she was dying in a haunt of inhiuity near by. Who would go to tell her of the Christ or Mary Magdalen? This one refused ami that one refused, saying, "I dare not go there." A Christian woman, Iter white locks typical of her purity of soul, said, "i w.n go, and 1 will go now." Sh went and sat (town hy tho dying girl and told of Christ who earn < to seek and save thut which was lost. First to the forlorn one eamo tho tears of rejientaiico. and then the smil", as though sho had begun to ho.'o for tho pardon of Hint who came to save to tho uttermost. Then lust before she breathed her last she said to rT*a angel pf fncroy bending over her nil low, ^Wouldyou kiss me?" "I will," said tho rytrfstiau woman, as sho put upon her check salutation before, in tho heavenly WL^kjL I flunk. (hid gave her tho woleomiug was religion * Vo-^, that was iv4<^od jdm.mi iiuns along every street flflNwKMfr'crv road as well as this one on -IfclJs Aor Ih'oc. .- i n. of sightseers Ls again in to4^ utvdchorw w: na.s< through a deep raVlfl^ftnii 1 rry to the dragoman" nuviti, ! whnfc^ylace do y>>n call tfiisv" and ho reii!ieiV>" "This it tho lirook Chcrith, wdiere Kiilikf 'Was fed by tho ravens." And in that, answer fin overthrow my lit'" long notkms of tlio place where Elijah was waked <>h Nj? the black servants of the sky. A brook Jto ine bail meant a slight depression c^jgWytul ami a stream fonlnblo, ami pereon feet wide. itnt hern was a chasm thit^Nfu earthquake must havo scooped out wijji Its biggest shovel or split with itIi/ik'hfhvst Uittl" ax. Six hundred feet <|e?i? Is it. and the brook Ch -rith is a rivet which, when in full f -rce, is a silver wedge sollt^itisthein-Hini'i.ii iit ? precipices. Tin ' 1 ntlierM dose nd\uts o: Elijah s ravens still , n in ; thoir way a-Tos-:ins ravine, but ar< noV like the crows u > sunposod them to b" '1 hey areas largo a i ngf-- . and one of them could carry in its ii -a!; a\ I clinched claw at once enough t'o. d lor a hall' dozen Elijahs. No thauksto til i .-iv.-ii-., they are carnivorous, and would rath r nave picket out tin eyes of Elijah, whom they found at tin month of th-c ivo oa the side of Cheritli waiting tor hi h;v.v<!a*t, having drunk liis ,, o.'iiui'i hover tfr.rit t'l? . tsu'ng stream beneath, than have boon his butlers niv purveyors. But Ood compelled them, as Ho always hn compelled and always will compel black am cruel and overshadowing providences t ?utrrr hri(> ?r? HM ohl/rfren If they onty hav Ui catch l.hnlili>snlni? lis it ilroji from the seeming ndversity, the grentes tilessing always coining not with white wing but black wings. Hlack wings of convii tioti, bringing pardon to tho sinner. lilac w ings of crucifixion over Calvary, briagin redemption for the world. I Slack wines ? Anifrionn revolution, bringing Iron institi ;iiiiis t<> u oniitiii"iit. black wings c A mcrican civ il war, bringing mittloi tion nn<l solidarity to tlio republic black wings of the judgment da bringing resurrection to an entombo biiin in race. Ami in the last day, when a your lifo and initio will bo summed up, w will find that tlio greatest blessing wo eve received caino on tlio wings of the bine ravens of disaster. Moss l?od for troubh bless (Joti for sickness! bless Ood for jiersi cation! Mess(bul for poverty! You nevi beard of any man or woman of great use t tbe world who bad not bad lots of trouhb I lie diamond must bo cut; the wheat mm be threshed; tlio black ravens must Ijy. Wli are tlie.io nearest the throne? "lie so ar tliey who come out of groat tribulation, an hint their robes washed and made white! ho blood of tho Lamb." Hut look! I/iok what, at 1 o'clock in th 1 .,n, i. - ? ? u]nni urn vision?lily piUI of Jericho, mi l tho valley of Je"dan, anil tli > I...I.I It'" ?I i.?i hni wn mil so iiiiie/i \v;iIk a- <111111 1100 tln-ir haunches, mill wo all dismount, for tli stoe;> descent is simply "r rifle, though J'rinoess of \riiUnehia who fell here ami wn dangerously injured, after recovery siient large amount money in tryin< t? make tli r* ad pa.?:ubl". Down and down! till we sni ilfe white tents pitched for us by our muh tears amid the ruins of unci' nt Jericho, ivhie fell at tho sound of |Kior inusie played on "rani's horn," that ancient Instniineii which, taken from the head ot tho lender < the (lock of sheep, Is perforated and jir< pared to 110 lingered I?y the musienl loriner, ami hlowii upon when pressed to tli lift-'. As 111 another sermon l have fully d< eribed tlmt scene, i >vdl only say that ever lay for seven days tho ministers of religioi uout round the city of Jericho blowing upol thosornms' horns, mul on the seventh uuy without tho roll of a war chariot, or tli stroke of 11 catapult, or tho swing of a bal lista, eras':' crash I crash! wont tho walls o that magnificent capital! Ou tho oveniug 01 December fl wo wnlkot amid tho brick ami mortar of thut shat tared city, and I said to my.so If 1 A1 Hkdono by poor music blest of God, foi PRItellot a harp, or a flute, or a ( lapping cymbal, <>r an organ played, at tho soum of which tho city surrendered to destruc tion, but a rudo instrument making rudi music blest of God, to tho demolition o! that wicked place which, bad for cent uric defied tho Almighty. And I said, if all this was by the messing of God on ihxu music, what mightier things could >>0 uouo by tho blessing of God ou good music, skill ful music, gospel music. If all the good that hes alreaoy been done by uiusie were subtracted from tho world I believe threefourths of its religion would be- gone,' The . ^ ^ - . " "1 Ilullaliya of mothers which keep sounding on, though the lips that saug them fetrty years , uuo bvcumo ashes; the ola hymns in log cabin churches and country meeting houses, and lisaltns in House's version in Scotch kirks: t he ailtheui in English catbedmlri the roll of organs that will never let Hansel or Haydn or iiocthoven dto; the thump oc harps, the sweep of the bow across ban viola, the song, of Sabbath school j storming the Wveinm. doxclogy of great a*kriubUgof^-v5yV thousand Jerichoa of afn uave by them all been brpugbt down. .? Moauxi by tbo warmth or our cnrapnres that evening of December 0L aroid the brick8 and ? i>:-* OC Juricho.and tliJuktfcg what poor music boa done and what mlKnsfor thru an <x>uld bo accomplished by themesalng* of Ood cm good rauplc t said to fnVieK? Mlnistars have boon doing a grana Work, and sermons Have boon Mowed, bat would It not bo won for us to pat mors emptiest* on muslcf Oh, for a campaign of. "Old Hundred!" Oh, for a brigade of Mount Ptsgalisl Ob. for a cavalry charge of "Coronations f Oh. far an army of Antiochs and St. Martins and Arielsl Oh, for enough orchestral batons lifted to marshal all nations! As Jericho was surrounded by poor music for seven days, and was conquered. So let our earth be surrounded seven days by (rood goepel music, aud the round nlanet wlllbo taken for God. Not a wall of opposition not a throne of tyranny, not a (wil.ico of sin, not an enterprise of unrighteousness, could stand the mlghtv throb of such .itumspherlc pulsation. Music I It sounded at the laying of creation's corner stouo when the morning stars sang togetherMusic I It vyill be the last reverberation, when tho archangel's trumpet shall wake the dead. Musiol Lot Its full power be now tegted to comfort and bless and arouse and save. While our evening meal is being prepared in tho touts we wait out for a moment to the "Fountain of Ellxha," tho one into which tho prophet threw tho salt because tbo waters were poisonous And bitter, and loj they became sweet and healthy; and over since with gurglo aiul laughter, they have rushed down tho hill and leaped Croat the rocks, the only cheerful object m all that region being these waters. ? Now on this plain of Jericho tho snn is setting, making the mountains look like balustrades and battlements of amber nndm&roon nml gold; und thomoou, justnbovoChe crest#, seems to be a wiudow of heaven through which immortals might be loooking down upon tho scono. Three Afrabs as watchman sit beside tho camp fire at tho door of my tent, their low conversation in a strango language all night long a soothing rather tnan nu Interruption. I had a dream that night nevor to be forgotten, that dream amid tho complete ruins of Jericho. Its past grandeur returned, and 1 siiw the city ns it was when Mark Antony gave it to Cleopatra aud Herod bought ft lrom her. And 1 heard tho hoofs of its swift steeds and tho rumbling of its chariots and tho shouts of excited spectators in its ampbitiieat re. And there was white marble amid green grows of palm and balsam; cold stoue warmed with sculptured foliage; hard pillArs cut Into soft lace; Iliads and Odyssoys in m-anite: basalt lot as tho night mounted bv carbuncle Burning as the morning; upholstery dyed us though dipped in the blood ot battle field5 robes cuerusted with diamond mosaics white as sea foam flashed on by auroras; gayeties which tho sun sawbydav rivaled by revels the moon saw by night; blashpheuiy built against the sky; ceilings stellar as the iiiidulglit heavens; grandeurs turreted, archivolted and intercolumnar; wickednoss so appalling that established vocabulary fails, and wo must make an adjective and call it Hcrodie. Tho region round about the city walla seemed to nio white with cotton such as Thenlus describes as once growing there, and sweet with sugar cane, and luscious with * orange and figs ami pomegranates, and redolent with such flora as can only grow where a tropical sun kisses the earth. And the hour camo back to me when in tin? midst of all that splendor 1 lore J died, commanding his sister Salome immediately after his death to secure the assassination of all the chief Jews whom he had brought to the city and shut up in n circus for that purpose, and tho nmv<j came to tho audience in tho theatre as some one took the stage ami announced to the excited multitude: "Herod is dead! alerod is dead!" Then in ray dream all the pevmp ot | Jericho vanished, uud gloom was,, waded to J gloom, and desolation to desolntloiK and woo to woe, until, perhaps tho ripplint waters of the fountain of Elisha suggesting it?as sounds will sometimes give direction to a dream?I thought that the waters/of Christ's and utu'leanuess" were rolling thrt>fl]$i' Than' plain and across tho continent, ahd rolling round tho earth, until on either side of their banks all the thorns became flowers, aud I nil the deserts gardens, and all the hovels mansions, ahd njl the funerals bridal processions, and all the blood of | war was turned into dahlias, and all the | groans became anthems, and Dante's "In1 ferno" became Dante's "Divlna Commedia," | and "Paradise Lost'1 was submerged by - I ?'p ...r Regained," and tears became crystals, cruel swords came out of foundries i glistening plowshares, and in my dream at i the blast of a trumpet tho prostratod walls of Jericho rose again. And some one told mo that as these walls in Joshua's time at tho sounding trumpeta of doom went down, now at the sounding trumpet of the gospel they come up again. And I thought a man appeared at tho door of my tent, and I said, "Who are i you and from whenco have you come?' i and he said, "1 am tho Samaritau you heard i of nt the tavern on the road from Jerusalem i to Jericho, as taking care of tho man i who fell among thieves, and I have . just come from healing tho last wound of the last unfortunate in nil the earth." And I rose from my pillow in the tent to greet him, I and my dream broke and I realised^ ,r i fuiiiu ? i cnuwjr n.i miroij as uriHi 13 " I iruK and Christ's gospel is tlio world's Ca? ** | tholiron. "Ulory 1m> to the Father, and to the Son, nml to tiie Holy t J host, us it was at s the beginning, is now and ovor shall bt\ '* world without nml. Am.ml" k K ^ ^ A Wig Tor Krory I?nf. ' "So you do not believe that Mr. IT? '* ? wears n wig?" he asked. y | "Ceriainly not." I j "Where's your proof?" II ! "Look at his hair?smooth, flossy ,'r ami natural." k "Very good wigs are made nowadays." ?1 "Well, tiiil you ever see a wig grow?" v "Not exactly." ? "His does, if it's a wig." ?. 4'Are you sure of it;"' lt "Of course I am?that is, sure that his hair is his own, for I have seen him on ,i the day when he has had his hair out. I n have seen it grow day by day until it needed cutting. In fact his hair is won,, iTfifully vigorous. Hardiy a day passes o that I do not seo II ami oncol reii marked to him how rapidly his hair grew. " 4 4 4 Do you think it's too long?'he said, is 11 oi'.ii 1 .1.. .. ? r .... >x Mill, JC, <<w, I. ...ill', ? ...ll0 swcrcd. ,v ? 'I'll get it cut this afternoon,' he eaid. "The next morning T met him ami his it hair was rut and trimmed almost too f i olosoly. Whore in tho world did you 1 get tho idea that he wore a wig?" ? "My dear young innocent," was tho - reply, "wigs are so skilfully made iio.v >' that ono can't detect them. II hat [J a wig for every day in the month. When lie wants to have his hair rut ho 0 puts on his shortest wig. Tho next day 1 lie puts on a longer one and so on a! Op by step, as his luiir grows. Finally his 1 hair gets too long and ho has it cut? that 19, ho goes back to tho r.hort wig 1 and begins all overngipu. Seeing is not * bcllovluir."?Heio York 'J'ritytnr. ' Wlion Fating Fish. , "When you cat fish," said a distin I guished physician to me, "don't cat nay tiling with it. Hones are apt to slip int< | tho bread or tho cracker or tho potatooi I or anything else you take with tho fish ' and thus become lodged iu the throat.' j, ?Epoch, PECULIAR INFATUATION. ' UlhrMt NMk*4aafFj?ll?wla( the lajsao tloi "Lot* Ob? A??h?r." Do men ever fall in !<** with each other* Women dot Not * young wotnar In New Jersey was mamhd to a youthful la borer on her father's faan>- Sometime afterward it was diaooveroaR|at the husband wai a female; the young wiflf refused, however, though earnestly eutrcuUvi by her friends, to give up her chosen oousdr*. The strangest part of the disoovery was |ho fact that the bride knew her husband ?ya woman befors she wasted to the altar. II meu do not exhibit thir strange infatuation for one of their own fox, they at I?wst oftentimes give evidence of the fact that they k>vo one another. Those are many instance* on record where one ujupai given his life for another. ThcroSSgHLiy more were men have givi2JUr? to^gBether. it is a proud possession -the knowledge tli a tone has saved a procloua human life, lieridett Conn., is tho ImuM of such a happy man. John H. Preston, of that city, July 11th, 1890, writes: "Five year* ago I was taken very sick, I bad severnlof the best doctors. and oue and all called it a complication of diseases. 1 was sick four years, taking prescriptions prescribed by these same doctors, and I truthfully state I never expected to got any better. At this time, I commenced to have the 'most terrible pains in my back. One day an .old friend of mine,. Mr. R. T. Cook of the linn of Curtis & Cook, advised me to try Warner's fc>nfe Cure, ns ho had been troublod the sumo way and it httd effected a cure for him. I bough) six bottles, took the medicine as directed and am to-day a well man. I am suro no one ever had a worse case of kidney and liver trouble than I had. Before this I was always against proprietary medicines but not now, <>h, no." Friendship expresses itself in very peculiar ways sometimes; but tho true friend is the friend in need. Living by Itnle. Oliver Wendell Holmes thinks that he ojyea his good' SoJth afuLxhe retention of his mcntaiWigor, in nl9 Olgkky flr* year, to tho extreme care ho has long taken of himsolf. Never robust, ho was' still wiry in his earlier and maturer life, but sinco he reached eighty his hygienic vigilanco is unceasing. Tho rooms that ho daily occupies arc oquippod with barometers, thermometers, aerometers, every kind of instruments, iu short, to prevent his incurring the slightest risk of taking cold. Ho knows that pneumonia is the most formidablo foe of old ago, nnd he is determined to keep it at a distunce if possible. IIo nover gets up uutil ho knows tho exact temporaturo, during winter, or takes his bath without having the water accurately tested. He liyes by rule, and tho rule is indexible. His timo is scrupulously divided, so much allotted to reading, so much to writing, so much to exercise, so much to recreation. His raoals aro studies of prudence ?ud digestion, Ho understands the specific qualities of all ordinary foods, and never departs from the JsrB6lost discretion in eating. i*. , One might think that it wirold bo a serious infraction to keep up exercise by such precise methods. But the little doctor eujoys them, having settled firmly in theso habits years ago. Philosophic as he is about death, ho has an eager curiosity to see how long he can live by follow iug the laws he has rigorously prescribed for himself. He has long had vnrimia thpnrma rtn tVirt unhinoh nf hrvilfh nii(l longevity, and he relishes experimenting upon himself. He thinks soractirno that ho may attain one hundred, which he would ueariy iiko, if ho could rotuin, as he has retained thus far, tho full possession of all his faculties?Chicago Mail. Measuring the Flow of Tides. A young scientist councctcd with tho United States steamer Fish Ilawk, which is used iu op the sounds - - . _ , | i M I lllff i ) i i i M j moasuring tho nowdf the tides. It is mado of sheet copper in tho shape somewhat of a flsli, and in about four feot long. It is, when ill use, suspended from the end of a twenty-foot spar rigged to the sido of tho steamer, and extending at right angles with her, io make tho actiou of the machine entirely independent of currents that might be caused by tho steamer. Tho head of this mechanical'fish consists of a dolicately made revolving screw or whcll, not unliko in construction and shape the propelling 6crcw of the steamer. When this fish is lowered into tho-water, it turns its head towurd tho current, and is hold in that position by the tail, which serves tho purpose of a rudder. Within the body of the fish is plaoed delicate machinery, which registers its revolutions mado by tho revolving scrow, and tho rapidity of tho revolutions is transmitted to the laboratory on tho stepuier by an ingeniously constructed ^Aictrical anparatus. thus recording the fapiiiTcjf of the current. An interesting fact ascertained bj tho Government observers on this vessel Is that at the extremities of tho sound the tide begins to tlow inward near the bottom one and one-half hours heforo it begins to How in the same direction at tho surfueo of tho water.?New York Telegram. Opera by 'Phone. A novol method of hearing opera, which tho readers of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" will recollect as tho one in vogue in tho year of grace 2000, has just been instituted at tho Castle of Ilhonstock. The ltoyal Opera llouso at Berlin was connected by tclcphono with the music 100m iu the castle p.t Khoustock. Iu the ovening tho Emperors of Oermanj and Austria, the King of Baxony and tho rest of tho rmal party assembled in that room and >??? opera of "Los riuguenots," which was performed ill Berlin.?New York Jour/nil. A Plenftliiff Sense Of health ami strength renewed and of (uum and comfort follows tho use of Syrup of Figs, as It aclaln harmony with nature to effectual. ly cleanse tho system when eostlve or bilious. For sale In fiOe. and ?1 bottlen by nil leading dnunrlsta. Men make laws, r omen make manners. A. M. I'KIKST, Druggist, Shelby villa I?i?1., says: " Hull's Catarrh Cure gives tIn !>< st c.f satisfaction. Cannot p|*nty of testimonial*. as it curesavery one who take it,' I triiiceist-i sell it. 7f?o. From the oil of grasshoppers a Spanish inventor claims to mako the finest soap yet produced. Woman, her diseases and fhstr treatment. Jt pages. Illustrated; price SOo. Sent npnnreeefnl of lOtv, cost of inattlng.eto. Address Pro*. B. II. Kianm. M.D.,*iVdPfi> ?C, Phi la., Pa. The crow does not fly from a oornflelci without caws. Timber, Mineral, Kama and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler A Oo^Khnsaa City, Mo. L ven ver has to be watched to see that it docs a full day's work. FTTH stopped free by Da. KuWi Orsat Nikvm RcsiroHSH. No flu after first day V aaa. Marveloae emeu. Treatise and S3 trial bottie free. Dr. Kline, 8U Arok BA, PMa, Pa. J?* w. llow Cetywayo Became King. Uuibaudo was desirous to see bis eld- ' est son Uuibulnzi placed at the head of \ the Zulu nation; but Cetywayo, a i younger and more ambitious prince, was determined to dispute the succession, and nie father, seeing no sign of having his own way, said to his sons, "You i may tight it out." The nation was im mediately thrown into intense excite| ment. 8words were sharpened, ox hides convorted into shields and a day fixod on which the two parties of Zulus under their respective chiefs were to settle the matter of sovereignty. A moro bloody I af.tlo was perhaps never fought in Zulua id. Mo mercy was shown to either cor. Hie infant was speared on its m ithcr's breast, old and young alike wure butchered. Umbulaxi was probably nsscgnid, as ho was nover seen afterward ; and it was reported that nearly or quite 10,000 Zulus woro either killod in battlo or drowned in tho river Tugela which forms tho northern boundary of this colony. In timo Cetywayo" becamo king.?Nw> York Observer. Secret History of a Great Battle. I A OUUii^C UU9 JUBb llOtJU pUU* ! lished in Germany on the strength of a letter from an eyo witness, now dead, to the effect that General Adel Douay, who fell at the battle of Worth, was really shot bj an officer in a Turco regiment, who was furious at Dauay's order of retreat before tho advance of the Bavarian bayonet chargo. This tale has confirmation in the fact that whon tho Crown Prince Frederick rode over tho battle. fidld and found the body of Douay ho publicly marveled that tho general had neon kulod at a spot beyond tho'rcach of German riflo fire.?New York Tittles. Beecham's Pills cure Bilious and Nervous Ills. White pine boards are now made by 'reducing small trees and limbs to pulp and pro-sing in molds. Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sont any where on receipt of 60 cte. Tyler <Sc Co., Kansas City, Mo. The preacher falls jv ho trios to preach a dectrino that hasn't been tested in nis own heart. Lee Wa*j? Chinese Headache Cose. Harm, lees In effect. quick and positive In action, fc^ent prepaid on receipt of fl per bottler Adder <fe Co., 622 Wyandotte st., Kansas City, Mo There are a great many things that go wilhout saying, but woman is not ono of them. Da Yaa Srer Hpacalate V Any person sending us their name and addrees will receive Information that will lead to a fortune. BenJ. Lewis A Oom, Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. Economy is wealth; but it is a kind of wealth that the rich man finds it hard to ti ansfer to his son. For impnro or thin Blood, W? _ness, Mala-1 rla. Neuralgia, indigestion " Biliaasnesa, __ tako Brown s Iron BICters- . ,-tvea strength, i < making old persons feel young?and young . persons strong; pleasant to take. The toughest fowl can bo made eatable if | put iii cold water, plenty of it, and cooked vi ry slowly from live to six hours. Life Is Misery To thousand* of peoplo who have tbo taint of scro?ula In their blood. The agonies caused by the dreadl tit running sores and oth r manifestations of t'ds disease aro beyond description. There Is no remedy equal to Hood's Sars iparlllu for scrofula, salt rbouni and every form of bloa l dlNMt We know that it hns cured the severest eases and It will benefit all who give It a fair trial. "Scrofula bunches In my neck disappeared when 1 took Hood's Sarsaparllla."?a K. Kkiakv, Farkersburg, W. 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ISflt, u (A di "VK IHM III.K III >JI V B SI IMPLEMENTS. .? ji The Yout Comtt Kr< Id condemning the vanity of women, m complain of the flro that they tbemselv have kindled. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stoma< disorders, use Brown'n Iron Bitters. The Be Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the libs and strengthens the muscles. A splendid to ic for weak and debilitated iwrsons. The surest way to please is to forget one self and to think only of othore. ? Will! Well! That's the way you feel after one ( two of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelle liavo done their work. You fc well, instead of bilious and const patcd; your sick headache, dizz ness and indigestion are gone. It done mildly and easily, too. Yc don't have to feel worse beforo yc feel better. That is the troub with tho huge, old-fashioned pil These are small, sugar-coated, ea iest to take. One little Pellet's laxative, threo to four aro catharti They rcgulato and cleanse the live stomach and bowels?quickly, bi thoroughly. 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(ivllii prlvll go of examination., n sample lot of 150 CI*8 nars for (retail value $7.50), an I In the same paek, age a gold-tilled, stem-wludlng Watch, accompanied Cl by the inanufneturor's guarantee to wear 'AO years. nruoinuc new law clams. ?: I tn o IU n 0 * w" Mils G. Stevens & Co, Attorneys, 1418 F Ht., Washlsitsa, D. O. ?U Eiaacfc O Otoe a, Cl?v?l??4, Pstrslt.Cfclsrga. Big <1 is theachnu Hedged leading remedy for a lit ha IO Cures In^H Unnatural dlsohargrs and ^VIto11)AY8.v private diseases of men. A MBi;ut>iib?i noi i*V certain cure for the deblllM? (sum buuiu*. tatlng weakuees peculiar a PiS ?? to women. 8" RHl Mrdei.lt \j I prescrloeltand feel safa ISS The Evans CHtuirAUja in recommending it to '* ^^^OINOINNATI.O all sufferers. c. r> P?fCE 91.00. * js^For c?u9hs^c?,t,s IWKiti Sg There Is no Uodiclne like l- S|<?| DR. SCHENCK'S y 1 mm pulmonic : Mm syrup. W tl jHB ' It is pleasant to tho taste and j Km Bp p W dor* not contain a particle of i. 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The smith .t wesson Revolvers are all stamped u|h>u the barII rel with (Irtn's name, address and date of patents; I and nro gunrnnteed |>erfeet In every detail. lu1 alst upon having the genuine article, and ir your I dealer cannot supply you au order sent to mldreas J below will receive prompt and careful attention. , / Descriptive catalogue and prices furnished U|hiii apf plication. SM|TH & WESSON, Jlf".Mention this paper. HprlnKlioltl. i>ln*s. . SmvfcURL%?| Warren St., New York, l'rlco 50 Ctl By j&f ?5SI \SKSM3SMSSCSMBM i iiffMil JliyWBL?Bfclri> i ^iMiiBfai6pgSai 'lire Heading at so tow a price." $ mis! ST ON APPI IOATIOJf. ijj nes. jj) t ami Finely Illustrated, Scawell. jtj jccca Harding Davis. cc; l>y Elizabeth W. Bellamy. vj.' Vc 0 * Life and Adventure. If1 a Middy; Admiral David D. Purler. (fl :ys; by Admiral S. 13. I.ucc. ,jj Samoa ; by Admiral I.. A. Kimberly. Man-of-VVar; Admiral J. H. Gillis. cience- $ (ft tlie greatest Specialists in Science. ' R. S. It y Prof. N. S. Shalcr. |fj Prof. C. A. Young. jp ;o Choose a College. great value to any young man considering College l-'.diicatinn ; bv i ,v. Hon. Andrew D. White. |ji Smith. Pres. Merrill E. Ga'esj. ? Q-if-r i SIM If l|' , Chief Justice of England. f|i ir Morcll Mackenzie, M. D. romincnt Kailroad Officials. J lules Vcfiio. (( r llus. I>y The Princess Louise. ;( ti Her Own Resources. :an a Ciirl of Sixteen do? jf, iir |irnr|i.'n) nml In l|>fnl Aiii.'h, uhhii ppe?tiv? nml \iilmiMe to >in\ pill; i-v r. "Jei.ny June." more. " Marion Harland." / other Favorite Writers. " tj ; Children's Pn/;e I'vcry Week. i| ^ ir varioiH <|i>|>!irtiik iit s of home life,? //. w , Cooking, uiiil Ilinl* on llouftckrt |>ing. j ? j if 91- WITH I it slip, willi mi mi' iiml 1 1 "" j?; i Ciiiiiimninn FHI'.I". In I'll is nllrr inrlnili's llm "PSP" ;? "THATKI. ?'KI:UI.I /, jj oston, Mass. if 'MM A7i?m7>Y*. |fj