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REV. DR. TALMAGKj THE BROOKLYN DIVINE 1> SUNDAY SERMON. Text: %'So I lifted ? /? mtn? eyes the tmy toirard the north."?Kaoklel viil., 5. At one o'clock on a Detvmlier aftern<>on, through Damownn cate. wo are passtn. ? out of Jerusalem for a juurnoy northward.' Hot for lletlicl, with its stairs, the bottom step of __ which was a stone pillow; and Jacob's well. its iminortat colloquy; and Nazareth, BHbvltli its divin ' Im>v in Ilis father's carpenter r <t*ho|>, and the most glorious lake that evar rippled or flushed? blue it alt Ice, sweet Ualllce. The lake where Jesus loved to bo; and Damascus, with its crooked street called Straight, and a hundred ??i * >iiiu Kiti una surcharged with apostolic, evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal, kingly and Cbristly remIniswnw. In traveling along the roads of Pulestin? I am impresstsi, n* I could not otherwise liavo Iiwh, with tlio fuot that Christ for tho most part went afoot. Wo Hnd Him occasionally on ? lioat, ami once riding in a triumphal urowsiidii, as it is sot notitnos called, nlthoiigti it seems to me that the hosauuns of the crowd coulil not iiavo made u ride on a stubltorn, unimpressive and funny creature Hko that, which paltered with Him into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. Hut woaroinado to uudcrtmid that generally lie walkixl. How much that means only those know who liuvo gone over tho distunco traversed hy Christ. We are accustomed to rend that Betlmny is two nriles from Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue. But not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany to Jerusalem without exhaustion. It Is over the Mount of ' ilives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion Is necessary to keep you from falling prostrate. 1, who am accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty miles without lassitude tried part of this road over the Mount of < hives, and confess that I would uot want to try It often, such demand does it mnko upon one's physical energies. Yet Christ walked It twice a day?In tho morning from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in tho evening from Jerusalem to Bctlinuy. Likewise it seemed a small thing ttant Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth. But it will take us four days of hard liorsebnck i (ding, sometimes on n trot and sometimes on a gallon, to doit this week. Tho wnv is mountainous In the extreme. To those who went up to tho Tip Too house ou Mount Washington before the railroad was ?nid f will say that this journey from Jerusalem to Nazareth is like seven such American journeys. Ho, all up and down and across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked. Ahnh rode. Jinvid rode. Holotiion rodo. Herod rode Am? - ..j *'n.i?7. IMIt Ul'NIM wnlktnl. With hwdIIhii tinkles and Horn I muscles of the legs and bruised heel mut stltf joints ami punting lungs ami faint head, along tlio roads nn<l where thero wero uo roads at nil Jesus walked. Wo tried to get a now horse other than that on which we had ridden on tho journey to the Head Reo, for lie hud faults which our close acquaintanceship had developed. Hut. nft<-r some experimenting with other nuwlriipeds of that species, and finding that all horses, like their riders, have faulte( we concluded to chi?oRO a sadiiio on iiiat ltonst whose faults we wero most prepared to pity or resist. We rode down through the volley mid then up on Mount Hcnpus and, as our dragoman tells us that this is the last opportunity we slinll have of looking ut.lei nsah ni, we turn our horse's lead toward the city and tako a long, sail and thrilling look at tho religions capital of our planet. This is t ho most impressive view of the most tremendous city of ull time. t)n and a roil ud this hill the armies of tho crusaders at tho first, sight of the city threw themselves on their faces in worship. Here most of tho besieging armies encamped the night before opening their vol leys of death against Jerusalem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount Zi?n. M<nint 1 Morinb, Mount, of Olives, Moihit t'ulriirv*f ' \Vill we never seo them ngalnf The world is so large and ^lm^lf?wio''sU)brt, aud there are so many things we have never seen nt all, tlint we cannot afford t<? duplicate visits or ROC any thing mora thanonce. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray rook, and the three thousand yearn of architecture and battlefleldB. Farowol), sacred, sanguinary, J-u<KiIffiim I "Across ] tliis valley of the Kedron with iny right hand I throw thee a kins of valedictory. Our 1 last- look, like our first look, an agitation of , Lody, mind and soul indescribable. And now, like.Kzekic! in my tent, I lift , tip mine eyes the way toward the north. Hoar lit re won one of the worst tragedies of , the ages mentioned in the Hible. A hospitable , old man coining home ut. eventide, from lity work in the ill-ids finds two stropgera, n litis- , band and wife, proposing to 1odgf* in tjio j ~ street because no shelter is offered thnni, iftdinvites them to come and spend the night in lii - home. During the lilpht. the ruffians of t; tti-- neighborhood conspired togothor, nnd^ surrounded the house, and left the WiJEinn dead on the doorstep, nnd tli" husbdrnvfty^ rally in reveugo the twvlvo ^ vut the oorpso of the woman into' twelve parts and sent a t welfth of it to each tribe, and the fury of the nation was roused, and a peremptory domaiid was made for tho surrender of tli? assassins, and, tlui demand refused, in one day twenty thousand people were left dead on the field mid tin- next day right eon thousand. Wherever our -borso U*-. nay plants Ins toot in those mieientoWaiestiT" corpse lay, and tho rua Is were crossed l?y red 1 rivulets of caera;; . ,1 Now we pass on to wli?ro seven youths i were put to death and Ih-ir bodies gibIs fed or hung in i bains, nut for anything bey hud tlienis-'lvea iliaie, but as a reparation for u-li-it their father and grandfather, KhiiI, had done, burial was denied tlicro y out lis from May until November. Hizpnh, the mother of two ?.f tin-so dead , boys, appoints herself as sentinel to guard ' ri'<> seven ciu jives from li-'nk of r.ivcn ti>i< 1 toother wolf ii11<I |>;iw nf lion. Mh? |>iI -I-?-s ? black lent on I ho rock close by tlu* ribbefs. fti/pali by ilnv sits on the ground in front of her tent, unit when n vulture be { .ilis to lower out- of the noonday sky seeking it.: prey nino'or (h<< gibbets Ki/puli rises, her long liuir tly ??;; in "to wind, and swinging lier arms wildly about shoos away the bird <>f |>rey until it retreats to itseyrie. At night she rests under the shadow of her tent, and sometimes fells into a drowsiness or half sleep, (hit the step of a jackal among the dry leaves or the panting of a hyena arouses Iter, and with the fury of u ma nine she rtishes out uiHin the rock .Tying, "Away! Away I" and then, examining Min gibbets to see that, tliey still keep their burden, returns again to her tent till some swooping wing from the midnight sky or some growling monster on the roek again wakes her. A mother watching her dead children through May, June, July, August, Hoi item Iter and October! What, a vigill Painters have tried to put. upon canvas the scene, and they succeeded in sketching tile hawks in the sky and the panthers erawling out from the jungle, but they fail to givo tlio wanness, the earnestness, th? uipernatural courage, the infinite self socrilleo of Rizpali, tlio mother. A mother in the rpiict home watching by the casket of ? (lend child for one night exerts the artist, to his utmost, but who 1s sufficient to put upon canvas a mother for six months of midnights guarding her whole family, dead uud gibbeted upon the mountains'' Oo home, Rizpali! You must awfully tired. You are sacrificing your reason and your life for th<se whom you ran never oring back again to your bosom. As I say that, from ill-darkest midnight of tlio ceil- 1 tnry Ki/.pah turns upon me and criea: "How dare vou tell inn to go homo? f am a mother. 1 am not tired. You might ?h well expect OM <? got tired a* tor a mother to get til ed. I earml for those boya when they lay cn in* breast in infancy, and I will not forsake tliem now that they nro dead. Interrupt mo not. There Htoojis 911 eagle that I must drive Isn^'i .with my no ml zed cry. There is h panther I mlnflAit linelt vAft* ifty chili"' >)o von know what that scene livoiir roadside in Palestine mak'-s me think of? It is no nniisilnl scene, nigllt here in these throe cities I>v the American s woast there are 11 thousand cases this moment worse than that. Mothers watching hoy 1 that, the rum saloon, that, annex of hell, has gibbeted in a living oratti 1 toys hung in chains of evil habit they cannot break. The father may go to K'eep after waiting until 12 o'clock at night for the ruined lioy to como homo, and, gi vine it up, lie may say: "Mother, coma to bed; thorn's no uaa sitting up any iongor." Hut mother will not goto I wo. It U1 o'ciook in the !t, I* halt-m4 S when he comes (daggering through the hsll. Do von say that vnung man ts yet alive? No; he is (legil. Dead to his father's entreaties. I)e?il to his mother's prayi rs. Dead to tlte family altar where he was reared. Dead to all the noble ambitions that once Inspired him. Twice dead. Only a corpse of w hat lie om* was. IJibbotod beforeHod and man an<l angels aul devils. Chained In a dentil ihat will not loosen its cold grasp. His father is asleep, hta brothers nro asleep, his sisters are asleep; but his mother is watching him, watching mm in Iho night. After ho has gone to lied and fallen into a drunken sleep, his mother will go up to his room and sec that lie is properly covered, and liofore she turns out the light will put a kiss upon his bloated Hps. "Mother,.why don't you go to bed?" "Ah!nshe says. "I cannot go to lied I am Kiz|>ah watching the slain!" And what are tho political parties of this COUUtt'y doing for sucu r ise! They are taking care not to hurt tho feelings of tho jackals and buzzards that roost on tho shelves of the grog shops and hoot alsivc tho dead. I am often asked to what political party 1 belong ami I now declare my opinion of the political parties to-day. Each ono Is worse than the other and tho only consolation in regard to them is that they havo pu trolled until they have 110 more jiower to rot. Oh, that comparatively tame aceno upon which ltizpah kukall American motherhood and American wifehood this moment arc looking upon sevontv of the slain, upon seven hundred of tho sfaln, upon sovonty thousand of theslalu. Wool wool wool Mv only consolation on this subject is that foreign capitalists are buying up tho American breweries. Tho present owners boo that the doom of that business is coining as surely us that itod i f not dead. Thoy are unloading upon foreign capitalists, and when we can get- these breweries into tho hands of pooplo living on the other sklo of tho sen our political parties will raw to Imi afraid of tho liquor trulllc, and at their conventions nominating Presidential candidates will put in their platform a plank as big as tho lilggest plank of tho biggest ocean steamer, saying: "ltesolved unanimously that wo always havo been and always will be opposed to alcoholism." But I must spur on our Arab stool, aoi hero wo conio In sight of Dooroth, wild to l>o the place wliero Joseph utid Mary missed tho boy Jesus on the wny from Jerusalem to Nnztiroth, going homo now from a groat imtioiuil festival. "Wboro is my child, Jesusf says Mury. "Whero is my child, Joans?" says Joseph. Among tho thousands that nro returning from Jerusalem th<*y thought that certainly Ho was walking on in tho crowd. They described Him, saying: "Ho is twelve yours old, and of light complexion und blue eyes. A Inst child?' (Ircnt excitement iu nil tin* crowd. Nothing ho st irs folks as the news that a child is hist. I shall not forget tho scene when, in a great outdoor mooting, I was preaching, nud some one stepped on the plntroriu and said that, a child was lost. We went on with the religious service, but all our minds were on tho lost child. After a while n tnan brought on ths platform a beautiful little tot that looked like a nieoo of heaven dropped down, and said, "Hew* Is that, child." Audi forgot all that I whs preaching about, nud lifted the child to n?v shoulder and said, "Here Is tho hist child, and the mother will come and get. her right away, or 1 will take her home find add her lo my own brood!" And some cried and some slvutcd, nud nmid all that crowd 1 instantly detected tho mother. lOvirvlvidy bad to get out of her way or lie walked over. Hats were nothing nud shoulders w.<ro nothing innl heads were nothing in Ji--? p .thrva.T, and 1 realized something of what, must Imve been Mary's anxiel y wh 'ii sir* lost Jesu-, nml wbnt her k'riIip* s when Hi" found her liny in tho temnle of Jerusalem talking with loose old minister* of religion, Kliauimui, Hill el aivl Uetirah i iie.-sr down nn you lo-day with a mlghtj comfort-. Mary and Joseph said: "Wli to is cui Jesus'" and you say: "Where is John! or where is Henry? or where is tleorge?'1 Well, I should not w inder if you found him after n v.Iplo Where? In the same placn tvliere .1 *?s* ph and Mary fonn 1 their ln?v--iu tin* temple. What <l'i 1 menti by that? I mean von do vonr duty toward (bid and tonard yourehiM and urn o ill find hininft-er rar.wliii" in tie* kingdom of Chri-t. Will you sify, "t do not have unv wey of inHtpniciug ^14$. -philA?" I answer you have tie* most treuiouiloLs line of inlhiciivn open right hetore vou. As you write a letter, and there are tliivo routes by which il may go, but you want it to go the quickest route, and you put on it "via Southampton." or "via Kail Francisco," or "via Marseilles," (he tlirniv* of Hod." How long will such a *fio?l wish take to get to its destination? Rot quite as long us tho millionth part of a .. ond. I will prove it. The promise is: "Heforo tb.cv call I will answer." That m<vins <it, your first motion toward such prayerful exercise the hl"ssing will couv.nnd it' tlye prayer lie made at in o'clock at night it will l>o answered five minutes before ton. $4i5f*orc tlioy cull I will answer." So el),, you say, I am clear discouraged pi&outhiv son, and J am getting on in years, aud i fear I will not livo to sou him converted , Perhaps not. Nevertheless 1 think you wi^ find hint in the temple, the heavenly temple. There has not been an hour In heaven the last one hundred years when patents in glory had not had nnnouiiced to t l*iii tliu salvation of children whom they left in this world profligate. Wo often have to say "iiorgot," butCiol lias never yet on^e said "I forgot." It may hi after the grass of thirty summers has greeted the top of your grave that your son may befoiui I in the earthly temple It may ho llfty years from now when some morning the towers are chiming the nuilius to thoglorlllol In heaven that you shall llnd him In the higher temple which 1ms "no ncal of candle or of sun. for the I,ord tied and tlio Lamb are the light theroof." t'heer up, Christian father nnd mother I Cheer npl Where Joseph and Mary found their hoy you will find yours?in the temple. You see, Ood could not afford to do otherwise. One of the things He has ttosltively promised In tlio Bible is that He will answer earnest and Itclicvinir itrnver. Knlliuir to do Hint I f<' would wreck His own throne, and tlit* foundation of His palace would give way, and the l>nnk of heaven would suspend payment, and the dark word, "repudiation," would l>" written across the sky, and the eternal government would bo disbanded and tied Himself would liecome an exile. Koci on with your prayer, and you will yot. find your child In tlio temple, olthor the temple here or the temple al?ove. Out on flu'western prairlea was a happy hut Isolated home, father, mother and eldld. By the wile of cattle quite a large sum of money wan one night in that cabin, and the father was away. A rohlier who had hoard of the money one night looked In at the window, and the wife and mother o( that home saw him and she was helpless. Her child by her side, she knelt down and prayed among otlcr things for all prodigals who were wandering up and down the world The rohlier hoard her prayer ami was over whelmed and entered the cabin and knell beside her and liegnn to pray. He had conn to roll that house, hut the prayer of tha woman for prodigals reminded him of hii mother and her prayers before he became i "**?l "ti.l from thr f K/#tF H o I?f r Mir% i rnte ? t?*l* titrti/ nuitiftli Wftn til rt t.'lff lii a great audience, and the orator who cant on tlio platform and plead gloriously fo rigiiicoienem ami noo was the man wh many years lieforc had looked into tliecnhj op the prairie asa robber The speaker an the auditor immediately recognized < ae other After so long a time a mother pre vers answered. Hut. we must, hurry on, for the mulcted and baggage men have been ordered to pitc our tents for to-night at Bethel. It is alrond getting so dark that we have to give up n idea of guiding the horses, and leave them I 1 ttn'ii- own sagacity. IV> rido down mm f mud cabins mid into ravlnw, where ft horses li'in from depth to depth, riwks l#ld rocks. riK'Kii under ruck*. Whoa' Whoi \V?> dismount in thin plarr, nwmornliln f< many things in liiblo history, the two inoi prominent.? theological seminary, whereof o they made ministers. and for Jaootfn dreau The students of this Bethel Theological Hem nary were called "win* of the prophet* Here the young men wero fitted for tl ministry, and those of na who ever had tl advantage of such institutions will cverlai ingly lie grateful, and in the calendar i saints, which I read with ?*|x-cinl affectfo are the doctors of divinity who blessed m with their care. I thank t tod that from these then logic seminaries there in now coming forth a mai nlficent. crop of young minister* who ai taking the pulpits in all parts of t.n<> land, hail their coming, ana tell these your brothers to shake off the aonsnolenca of eo turies, and get out from under the dus1 shelves of theological discussions which ha no practical l>aaring on this age, which nee to get rid of its sins and have its sorrov comforted. Many of our puiptte or* <lyir I '.vecause they cannot endure the technicalities : and profound explanations of nothing, and arnnona about toe "eternal generation of ' the son," and the difference between sublaiwnrianisin and siiprn-lnpsarianism, and about who Melchlsedec wasn't. There ought 1 to be as much difference between the modes i of presenting truth now and In olden time 1 ns between a lightning express rail train aud n canal (mat. Years ago I went up to the door of a fao, tory lu New Kngland. Oil the outside door I saw the words, "No admittance." I went | In and came to another door ovor^fehlch were I the words, "No admittance." Of course I went in, and came to the third door ipscribed | with the words, "No admittance." Having I eutered this I found the people ineide raaJdnjr j i)ins, lieantlful pins, useful pins, and nofmmp nut pins. Bo over the outside door of niaulp | of the churches litis been practically writt"!1 the words, "No admittance." Some have* entered and have conic to the inside door andl found tho wor.ls, "No admittance." Hut ^ persisting, they have cotno inside ami found ns sounding out our little nicotics of lieiiof pointing out our little differences of theological sentfinciit?making pins! Hut most distinguished was Bethel for tliat famous dream which Jacob had, his head on n collection of stones, lie had no trouble in | tills rooky region in finding a rocky pillow. There is lardly any thing else but stone. Yet I the people of those lands have n way of dr.twi lug their outer garment up over their lr-id and face, and such a pillow I suppose Jacob hud under Ills head. The pinrnl was u:-- d ill tho Hiblo story, nnd you llnd it was not a pillow of stone, hut of stones, 1 suppo:>', w? that if one proveil to be of uneven surfae lie would (urn over in tho night nnd tnV. anotner stone, lor with such a hard loutt ho | would often change in the night. Well, tlint I night Qod 1'iiilt. in Jacob's dream a loug, splendid ladder, the feet of it on either side of the tii ed pilgrim's pillow, and tho top of it mortised in the sky. And bright Immortals came out from too cnstl?s of nnd>er and gold and put their shining foot.on the shining rungs of the ladder, and they kept coming down and going up, a procession lioth ways. I suppose they had wings, for the Bible almost always reports tlieui ns having wings, but this wns a ladder on whicb tliey usdl hands aud feet to encourage nil those of us who have no wings to cliuib, and encouraging lis to believe (lint if we will use what we iiHvctiod will provide a way, nnd if we wiii emirioj the hnnd and foot lie will furnish tile Indder. Young mini, do not wait, for wings. Those angels folded theirs to slmw you wings arc not necessary. Let all the people who have hard pillows?hard | for sickness, or hard for poverty, or hard for Jieiitwm'nw-know uihiu nam pillow is the anding place for angels. Tliey seldom ilwcnMl to pillows of eiderdown. 'I'll, y aelilum bniM dreams in the hrnhi of the one who sleeps easy. The greatest dream of nil time was thai of Nt John, with his head on the rocks of I'atmos, and in that vision lie heard the seven trumpets sounded, and saw all tho pomp of heavi n in procession cherubic, ecrapliicu archangelfc. The next most memorable anrl glorious dream was that or John Htmvnn, liis uillow the cold stone of the lloor of liedfoid jail, froui which lie saw ttin celestial city, ami so many entering it lie cried out in his dream, "I wish myself among them." The next most wonderful dream was that W usliington sleeping on Hie ground at Valley Forge, his head on a white pillowcase of snow, where he saw the vision of a nation emancipated. Columbus slept 011 u weaver's pillow, hut rose on the ladder let down until he could see a new hemisphere. Demosthenes slept on a cutter's pillow, hut on tho ladder Hn?n arose to see the mighty assemblages that were to be swayed by hlsoratory. Arkwright slept on a barber's pillow, biit went up tne ladder till he could see nil Kngland ipiake with tho factories lie set going. A kenside slept on a butcher's pillow, and took the ladder up till he saw other generations helped 1 by his scholarship. i John Ash wort n slept 011 a poor man's pit' low, but took the ladder up until he could see hisprayers niut exertions bringing thous'ovis of the destitute in Kn ;land lo salvation 1 and heaven. Nearly all those who arc to1 day great in merchandise, in statesmanship, in law, in medicine, in art, in literature, wero once at the foot of the ladder, and in their boyhood had a pillow hard as Jacob's. They who are born at the top of the ladder are npt to spend their lives in coming down, while those who ure ut the foot, and their head oil ? a Imwlder, if they have the right kind of dream, are almost sure to rise. ! notice that thoso augels, either in coming down or going up on Jacob's lud<|M| tix>k it rung by rnug. Thov did nul tiVrise. Faith nddetl'to faith," good deed to gowl deed, industry to industry,' consecration to consecration, until you reach the top. rung by rung. Gradual going up from a clock of granite to 11 pillar of throne. That night at bethel I stood in front of my tent anil looked up, ami the heavens wero full of ladders, first a ladder of clouds, then n larlilor of utot*d uml oil un ottrl flown t.lio heavens were angels of l>eauty, angels of consolation, ungels of God, usccnding and descending. "Huroly, God is in this place," said Jacob, "and I knew it not." But tonight God is in this - lc.ee and I know it. A Sunken Forest. There is a sunken forest of white cedar in New Jersey which has lieen continuously "mined" for its valuable timber for over eighty years. The curious industry of digging for the sunken logs is carried on by the people of Dcnnisville, Cape May County, a village which was brought into existence solely through the wealth of the buried timber in its vicinity. Over the sunken foicst trees of large size are growing, und in many instances these are < it away in order to get at the more valuable timber, which lies only three or four feet below the surface. All the sunken trees aro of enormous size, two to live times largor ' than those now growing on the surface. | riie exact age in which they lived is a matter of curious conjecture. It is prob' rhlo that they were buried many centuries ago by the action of an earth, quake.?Netn York I'onmrrciul Ailcei titcr. I ? A Sensitive Ibilauce. in a lecture to the British Association on his ikTw celebrated quartz fibres, Proi feasor C. V. Hoys exhibited the applica fion if the minute threads as suspender* . for extremely delicate apparatus. Tin ' heat from a candle at tlio extreme end ol the hall was sufficient to turn a mirroi i Hiispended from one of the fibres, th< movement being made visible by tin spot ?f light rcfleete<l on a screen. i musical rote even produced a defloctloi ? of the spot. What was perhaps evei ? more wonderful was the demons! ratioi * that, attraction so small as the 25-mil r lionth of a grain might he weighed, th ? attraction of gravity of flint amount pro ( during a visilde effect on a torsion ha] t anee made of the ipiart/. lihre.?Trento\ ' (A'. J.) American. Tke (Jrent Carpet City. ? Tlio Philadelphia I'rata says the fextil industry is the greatest of all Industrie I in Philadelphia, and tlio largest brand ;< ,of that industry is carpets. The trad ((( ho* been in a nourishing condition, am s, in one ward in the city more carpets ar * -made than in all England combined, th " former homo of tho industry. Thor l' are at least one hundred Nnd fifty mill ii. i^tie city producing goods worth prob \ ably #40 ,000,000 a year, employing full lf ; seventeen thousand persons. u * A Fire Legged Calf. [J1 Ii. 8. 8tuples, of Belfast, Mo., lifts e ? exhibition at the Phcenix House stable steor calf witli five legs. The fifth or starts from the nigh hiud gambrel joii m nnd branches down with a perfect foo 1 upon which he steps tho same tut upc 'K the others. In addition to this freak i nature the calf is a beauty, being ?n v* six months old, and weighing 618 pound '? Hi* girth i* four feet nine inches, j -?mm rt . rfaiftT " a j Sledding Upline. I A lame man, abj?c:ir* ' lias j uat in."do the a?lont Bla?o? . n? In the Swiss Alps. $ J??* sen has been a great. Ho is the President of tty>A,PJn? bo C'lub and an astronomo#4" Pe up on a sledge whtelir *wn an* i dil pushed by twenty-two *hll? they bad a rather H 10 sotn# y( parts of che^^ukgentleman snt ' p I ver.JF^b "'Jwswlr, . n / '**'* of snoW'y^y *? t*n ' b I nralnrmhes ,W ?otlon. Th? a kl tweiity.tWo J"'10 wwa up to their h \l waists In thol t|?wlltt,le ?,d 8**' I 1 llenum to yydpforallttlovariety, c and iisst/n-d lift*? ory short pull would land iyp^?P the moiin i J daiu. ^ I lie finally cV"1 *? trJ i4? got ofl t his Blwlge nod.'l'* or nrea itspi, ! when ho tun?bl^^n the snow. He i said the work "'H too hard for hit ' 1 strength ami tt get hirn np ou I the siedgo Honi)* j Another hour's hard work and teyotnorwae on top of the inouutoinibiVt time that any 1 one has ever tab'T^g? journey Uf Mont iilanc. \ It took hiui tw *1^*? uiake the as? | cent, hut ouly oi l^lp return to tbo hotel near the foi'jLjJJountaln, and j during the many ^/"Hides wett putting away twe j luilUs, pine s!e<lgo travelor, Xlthc veranda of the hotel watchimrltnovemeut ol of their relative tbrouMllocope. H* therefore not only ascAhe mountain | with a considerithlu ilfcof cotn^ort, but afforded all the wA very unlqua and interesting s|iectA thoae who were watching the j?r?ow.? WimAington isbtr. I Tlio Ancient UuKThe ancient game ohf is likely to bo extensively playodi'bis country, now that fashionable E?hwomon have developed such a siid?e;ndne?s for it. Its violent popularity iraitli Britaiu la a new thiug. A moflc visitors to the South of France wil( rll having witnessed golf matches at n, whcre'therc is u "golf links," nsthemml prepared for its play is called^ > one way the game is nioto violent exeno than tennis. To "drive" a ball at goi however, one lias t<> swing iduh'i ^Jbyi*b botl hands over tWshotildd, vXmneli as i carpet beater would do it. ?t is not ai ungraceful sport, lioweveAnd for th moment it is tlii iage li English women, golf link* being cued ovcrj where and golf clues lnol Jiving. by th score. As a test ft deliver it is pre nouneed by thosoiotnpeJit judges, th men, even supcriogo crenet. I'atienci sweetness through lonAmtinuod n? versity, and a resolute (Iting down < an inclinalioii to advamluno's ball 1 other means than fair, tJ some of tl traits it develops.?A'no m-L Timet. Safety Wheels for (Anibpun. H ifety wheels have recMly lnsen fltt< to some of the London e'Miibusos. The are small wheel*?custom would perhu| lie a more expressive n?{H4~ ulUuiied the body of the y>dfcTc, nnl ordinnri carried a few elf the ground, that iu breaking of Are or six inches. It'is said that attempt will be made to have the apf cutiotr of these safety wheels uiudc co pulsory in order to prevent accide simitar to those which so puiuft lliarred the hut couching season.?1 York Journal. Aii A indent Egyptian Scythe. An Egyptianscythe, recently unearth is exhibited .miung the antiquities in private museum of Flinders Petrie London. The shaft of the instrumen wood, supporting a row o( flint an which are recurely cemented into This discovery will set at rest the sp< lations which have l?eon made as to 1 the crops of tho land were gntherc< the flint and early copper age. It long been HU?|>ectcd that such an ins ment as Mr. Pctric has brought to li was used, hut there was no direct dcucu. Cure n."^ v To euro ti felon, srfys fi correspond mix equal parts of strong ammonia water and hold your linger in it fi.i toon minutes. After that withdrav aud tio a piece of cloth completely s rated with the mixture around it keep it there till dry. If this treatn in adopted when the ailment is nt realised the pains will cc.ise at cue boicntific American. ? | ONU BNJOYB Both the method and result* wl By mp of Figs is taken; It is pleaa and refreshing to the taate, and a n gently yet promptly on the Kidne a Liver and Bowels, cleanses the c 11 tern effectually, dispell colds, he " aches and fevorn end cures habit constipation. Brrup of Figs is I ^ only remedy of Its xjnd eser jp " duced, pleating to the taste and H ceptable to the stomach, prompt "T "*'t 'r"'iMrilfl ii j en?cts, prepare^ onnviHuf rn I healthy and agreeaMSattPtanc | Its many excellent #we> at I mend it to all and made ,n the most popular reafidy known n Brrup oi Figs is usale in I ' and ll bottles by nil WJuUpgdr it ' gists. Any reliable fir^^ist a t, may not hare it on hand /will p m | cure it promptly for ant one a 'f wishes to try it Do xbt aoo 1J any substitute. \ !*: ' CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP I - , , 9AM FMUtCmOO. 04tA WakLmm+JL if M A noCTOR'S CONFESSION. A i Do?w'i T>k? Mack MeiixUii and Ad. Tim tke Reporter Ket Te. . . Humbug? Of course it is. The so-culled J* ence of medicine is a humbug and has '? r an from the time of Hippocrates to the |tfO( tstent. Why the biggest crank in the In- towl in tribes is the medicine man." ., "Very frank was the admission, especially when it came from one of the biggest ? c >ung physicians of the city, one whose the notice is among the thousands, though ho is been graduated but a few years,'1 says . 10 Buffalo Courier. "Very cosy was his of- t,ial oe too, with its cheerful grate Are, its Queen and .nne furniture, and its many lounges and ,n uy chairs. He stirred the Are lasily, lighted fresh cigar, and wont on." "Take the prescriptions laid down in the for ooks and what do yon And? Poisons mainly, ?l( nd nauseating stuffs that would make a ealthy man on invalid. Why in the world / a ten co should go to poisons for its remedies trie cannot tell, nor can I And any ono who m< *? " Int "How does a doctor know tho effect of his nedicine?" be asked. "He calls, prescribes, ind goes away. The only way to judge would ?rj >o to stand over the boa and watch the pa- re ieot. Thia cannot be done. So really 1 ^ lon't know bow he is to tell what good or turt lie does. Sometime ago, you remember, the Boston Globe sent out a reporter with a stated set of symptoms. He went to eleven prominent physicians and brought ki bock eleven different prescriptions. Tills m Just shcTr; how much science there is in J.? medicine." " There are local diseases of various charaotera for which nature provides positive remo- i, dies. They may not be included In the regu- | 8 lar physician's Ust, perhaps, because of their * simplicity, hut the evidence of their cura- V tlve power Is beyond dispute. Kidney disease is cured by Warner's Bafe Cura a strictly herbal remedy. Thousands of persons, every year, write as does H. J. Gardiner, of Pontiao, R. I.. August 7, 1800: fwr JlWIt .1 juffered more than prdbably ever win be mown outside of my- | self, with kidney and Aver complaint. It is I the old story?1 visited doctor after doctor, I but to no avail. I was at Newpor t, and Dr. Blackman recommended Waimer's Bafe Cure. 1 commenced the use of it, and IootkI relief immediately. Altogether I took three bottles. and I truthfully state that it cured me." I SCIENTIFIC AN1> INDUSTRIAL. I What is known as Dutch gold is a combination of copper and tine. Nearsightedness Is overrunning tlir French peoplo as much ns the German * Dr. Hammond says that thin Boles are tho worst propagators of disease among women. Sawdust Is being compressed and used for gun wads In England, and seems to enhance penetration and pattern. L A large number of the carriages in I ( cities are now supplied with rubber tires to prevent jolting and deafening clatter. 3 Urauium was unknown a century ago, x lint, a lode has been found In a mine in it Cornwall, England. It sells for $12,000 1 a ton. 0 It is said that a solution of chloral hydrate of a strength of tive grains to tin r* ounce of water will clear the hulr o 10 dnndruff. About 859 species of birds aro now ? known to make North America then home, and representatives of eighty-two * additional species find their way to this ' continent from other countries. '*A good many people spoil the effect of ngood night's rest by the ridiculously heavy bedclothes thoy use," says the London Hoapital. "Bert clothes should bt like body clothing, light and warm." ! The are about 18110 paper-mills In 80 Europe, and of these 300 were built Ins! year. Tho daily product of pulp ami paper is nlmnst 7500 tons,^nd the chiel ? material used is wood, algnuugb jute ii 80 In demand. r " Mttl*: ?t A p8r*enT~ 61 ^^TO^glycerlne Mid two per cent, o ,11^ castor oil has shown very satisfactory re |Q1< suits at the Springfield (Mass.) Armor; nt4 for use with small anus, illy The United States Navy Departinen V?i? is collecting samples of nickel oro froi all sources of supply from this and othi countries, and with the design of usiu the material for armor plate will invit proposals from all mine owners, fjj'* An elcctricnl company of Antwerp hi .e despatched by the last steamer whic ,n sailed for the Congo, in Africa, all tli 18 material necessary for the installation o W8' the first telephone Hue which is to b " placed along the Congo rnilway. [jOW A novel leech jar has been brought oi j in 'n Germany, the iunovation consisting < has tt vcf'cal partition dividing the vesa into two equal compartments, to be 0I1< ight respectively with puro water and wi< evj_ moist peat, so that the inhabitants mi change their abode at pleasure. The cracking of tho knot at the en of a whip is simply the conclusion < cnt> the air produced by its rapid mov and tient. Tho effoct differs with tho m . gf. teriai U9cd for the whip-lash, becau1 v jt some textures present a much groater r 9(u. sistanco to the air than others, and William J. Chamberlain, an inventc tent of Norwich, Conn., has patented an i first gun with a pressure behind the project o? ir.no 4nrinmmul. u !?> hydrogen to give a pressure of huudrt of atmosphere*. It (tends a shot fas and further, Mr. Chamberlain says, th any other weapon. Sit Is said a good cement for join! parts of apparatuses, etc., permanen solid and waterproof, and wbioh res! heat, oils and acids, Is made by mlxl concentrated si ru potts glycerine w finely powdered litharge to a thick, i cid paste, which is applied like gypsa Glass, metal mod wood ews be oemeti together by It. Who Are Ike Greatest Keadersl k Which class of our population is k most addicted to reading? Home B teresting light is thrown on this quest il by the latest report of the Hirtningl Free Libraries Committee. Among ol tables therein given is one slowing '*1 occupations of borrowers admitted < ant |ng 1880. Here are some of the ftgu LCt* Hcholsrs and students, 1302; clerks ija, bookkeepers, 1138; errand and o ijf. boys, 301; teachers, 293; shop as art I ants, 2W<>; jewellers, 210; eornposl U?l and printers, 192; milliners ana dr thg makers, 109. Almost at the bottom iro> the list omo journalists, six; r agents, two, and reporters, two. Is because they havo libraries of their o' or because the people who write in m .if papers lose tb" aste for reading bo< ?-Pull Mat) Cat > >m- m . flew'* This v We offer One Hundred Hollars reward ' any ca<e of catarrh that osnnot be cured >0q taking Hair Catarrh Cure. K. J. Cskniy A Co., I'ropa . Toledo, We. the undersigned, hare known K rbo Cheney f??r the laat 15 years, and believe ' reriet: ly honorable In all budnees Iran Tl> tlons, and financially able to carry out .l. obligation* made by their firm, rno Wnr A Truax, Wholesale Dru^fliiU, 1 apt do, O. r Wai.ncno, Kinman a Marvin, WboU Druggist*. Toledo, O. ta Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, 'U Ing directly upon the blood and mucous fifthsii%?& An Inventor's Folly. few months ago an inventor of cet*j apparatus of a very simple character, :h could have been readily duplicated nany different forms, was offered H) for the right to a certain inland, a. He was a poor man and needed money badly. The reader supposes, ourse, that tho inventor jumped at chance and pockoted the money on \ spot. Not he; he told the buyer, t the pateat was worth $100,000, . he was not going to sell one town New York State for $6000. The le inventor was offered a similar sum another large town in the State, or 1,000 for only two cities in the coun, but ho refused to take it. We havo ?e facts from tho inventor himself, 1 thoy are correct. Before it was too . e to nogotiato wo berated the man V indly for his folly, but he was deaf to 0 jjuincnt. Tho sequel was that the inntor never sold a single right, and ha3 s palent to this day. ? Engineering,. Trades nnd Occapatleas. Th* Youth's Companion for 1081 will jive 11nstructive and helpfnl Series of Papers, irh of which describes the character of some adtng Trado for Boys or Occupation for |n iris. They givo information as to tho Aprentlceship required to learn each.the Wages IS i he expected, the Qualities needed in order n, > enter, and the prospects of Buooess. To New ul uhscrihers who send $1.76 at onos the paper 11 rill be sent free to Jon. 1. 1W1, ond for a full , eor from Uut dote. Address, K Tua Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. Q In condemning the vanity at woaea, bmu }' nip'eln of the Ore that they themselves 1 sve kindled. t FITB stopped fro> by I>Miifig$nL*t OasAT t gsava RnrroHKH. No fit naffer first day's use. . Marvelous euros. Treatise andfS trial bHUe ' free. l>r. Kline, Wl Arch St.. Phlla.,Pa. , Kium the oil ot grumh'tppors Hpnui b in 1 claims to make the finest n mp ye , 1*1? I. Timber, Mineral, Karm lands and Ranches In Mlssonri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Ma licqm iiiy is wielth; bat It is a kind of VI (til II IIIIU Hiu 1icu iiwu uuvia www w i nnsfer to Ills s n. _ Woman. herdiaeeaes ami their treatment. 72 i>tRe , Illustrate I: price 80c. S nt upon receiiit ot 'IV , coat ot ntailiiUto^Bk Address Prof. H. 11. Ki.ink, M. D.,o^B^rch 8t, Philadelphia, I'a. 5^ White |ilne koanla are now made by re lucing email trees and llrabe to pulp and * pre aing in molds. For Impure or tbln Blood, WeaJtneee, Malaria, Neuralgia. Indtjcestlou and Blllouanem, take Rroirn h Iron Blttcra?it gives strength, making old persona feel young?and young persona strong: Dleaaant to take. The preacher fails who trim to preach a . ctl ino lb it hasn't been tested In nis own east. Oklahoma Onlde Book and Map sent any whero on rocolptof GOcta.Tyler ?fc Co., Kansas City,Mo. The toughest fowl can bo luade eatable If ,itit in told water, plenty of It, and oookai vi ry slowly from live to six hour*. The Crar ol Russia has Issued as ordat forbidding srudause In the theetrea. llo I nn Ever ftprcnlntr t Any person sondlni us their nam- an I a 1dress W'll receive Information that will l?ftd to a fortune. BcnJ. lewis & C ., Socurily Building, Kansas t lty. Mo. Ho feats enough whose wife scolds at din r lime. 1/ec Wa's Chinese Headache Cafe. Harm, i lees In effect, quick and positive In action. Sent prepaid on receipt of II per bottle Adeler & Co.,h&iNVyHmlottest..Kansas City ,Mc L ve n vcr has to be watched to see that ii t lops a full day's work. ! Kon Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Btmnact dtsoidern, use Brown's Iron Blttora. The Bee > Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans ttao Blnoc and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton Ic for weak and deoiV" '"doer-soae. i ith ut caws. ______ ' [( afflicted with sore eyes use I?r. t hou on's Fve wnt ?r. Ilriigglst. sell at 2fte ner lw>tl| ' Ringing Noises In the ears, sometimes a ruarlnK. bumming aound, o snapping like the report of a pistol, are caused b :r catarrh, that exceedingly dt agreeable and vet g common disease. I.oas of smell or hearing also r e lutsfrom catarrh. Hood's BarseperlUs, the gret b'ood purifier, to a (ecullarly succeaaful remedy ft catarrh, which It cures by eradicating from it IS blood the Impurity which causes and psomotss th :ll Try Hooa's narsaparilia. I0 "I used Hood's Harsaparllla for oataf ill, and r f reived great relief and benefit from It The eataii wan very disagreeable, especially In the win to ? causing constant discharge from my Dose, rtnglr noises In my cars, and pains In the back of my bea 1 he effort to clear my head In the morning by bawl f tug and spitting waa painful. Hood's Paraaparfl l> gave me relief Immediately, while In time I waae 1C' tlrely cured. I am never without the med'clne ;d my house as I think It Is worth Its weight In gold th ?Mrs. O. B. Uibb, 1039 Eighth Street, H. W., Wai xy Ington, D. O. Hood's Sarsaparllla i sold by aU druggists. $1| six for gs. Prepared oa \ by C. I. HOOD * CO., Lowell, Mass. ? IOO Doses One Dollar O" <i " I For a Disordered Liver I Try BEECH All's PILLS. J; I 26cts. a Box. 1^ | OK AliL OIltJCJOlMTB. ids fc?gg? ? ? PATENTS Patrick O'Parrill, wAslggTotf, I /Bm ?l? mwramraF^ a PENSIONS iSS mm S DON'T!! res: . DON'T buy a l?bcent OlR*r when you run ri * good a on* for 5 c n(?. our "HON'T" bran fnOfl ?x|ual to the inajor.ty of f #r. ('(OA KM and n lift- only a trjnl to r>nvln-o tho trade of It* merit*, tors Manufactured only by W. II. KliLISIlt ygg. Wlaew, N.C. "The I.* r neat Cigar Firm In W :z " ^ r)" "'T ii any 'PTHO'8 RKMEDY FO ^B * Cheapest. Relief to role- ^B Co** la UM need It has at wale ^ ^ rj b " :^a | MUSICAL. Tliero scorns to bo little going ow i musical circles of late, but theremuch talk, atuong musical people^ f the marvelous cure of Miss fe?-?r vo high contralto singer, who has j >ng suffered from a severe throat1 r bronchial affection, superinduced iy Catarrh in tho lload, and who1 ins been perfectly cured by the tse of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, ioupled with die use of r Dr. Pierce's' y 3olden Medical Discovery.^ For - ill bronchial, throat and lung offeotions, and lingering coughs, it is an unnqualcd remedy. When complicated with Chronic Nasal Catarrh,' its use should bo coupled with the tn use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. .11 JmnrrrintA. Wi ?u U>uKN. | If yon, hare a !, COLD or COUCH,! | onilo or Irnillm to J !j CONSUMPTION, 1 SCOTT'S EMULSION ... (OF PORK S.'OW LIVER OIL) ( AND HYPOPHOSPHITES { j OF IAMB AND SODA ( 11* sunin curtM foii rr. ( I Title prepnrntlon contains tlio stlnl?ln. C f ting properties of the II ypoplia?phit*? ? } *Ha flno Nortrrglnn Ox I IAvrr Oil. Usttf 1 bt physicians nil tlio world over. 11 Is a$ f palatable rt* tnilk. Tlirno times iw ffflrs- I I nous its plain Cod Liver Oil. A perfect t | RtflUlBlafi, better than bIIothers matin. For # , all forms of ft anting Dim a tee, Unmckitit, j CONSUMPTION, \ Scrofula, a?(! 35 * Flesh Producer { II thero Is nothing liko SCOTT'S (MUL8I0N. \ It Is gold by nil IHobrIsih. f.et i?o one by I I profuse explanation or Impudent entreaty | | Indtleo you to accept tt substitute. f i IPtK 0BMT8.?H Alt ft 801>># gold phtied. Ji.-.rin !!(! rtor 1 eatter combined. Fred Ualeutt. Swsrthiuure, Pa. ' trinity college. I i High crude College for Young Men. Rest Innmctloii, leading to Ktve Degrees. V ' ' jjtSJrs?1!" I tin nwi 4l>> to e n tear. . Five new building* to l*> en ?ted till* year. M in attlculatea and graduate* In rucrtrt bltH Uf | latature. f end for Catalogue. Itullrtln, Degree Hook, BMk. Free. Jon* F. cnovrru, A. lb. Dm. I.rr?., Pre*, _ ' trinity Oottegu, lUudotph Go, lb O. #? ~ae*?a?..ri ii l aannai v rut. ~ L IA8THMAfiMRSgfFREE I a 1?? " * "ftnn. r?r ?. KMinm.it. rm."'- J UDMF 5*t,UX" Rookdtueplng, Rualneaa Korrna I H"1"* Arithmetics, Short-hand, etc. ' ; ^y-jsag Fr; I gAGGy KNEES Oreely I'lint HIreti'her. it adopted hv tudoiiti 111 llnrt.no. Anilicrat. and otbor oihrges, nlso, bv pr<ii<?*Aintiul ntf I l?n>liiem motr evayr* K* for 11,1,0 1,1 J'"*" town sr?i?1 Mr- lo H. 1. OUKRI.Y Mlr* t Kitifim. ? B N 0. 41 / C" ORN Meal. Flour & WHITK roil I* It IC'KH. RICHMOND CITY Mil.!.*, 3400 I* 33<H? WllllHiiiib?rf AY*., _ RICH MONO, VI RUIN IV. t In Wblakey Hatotla W I I Houred at liotna wltb> - UriUIHwjawK UmAmmmm? It M WOOLLKY.M.D. YRAtifHiin.w,,. Oili. e 101!, WUlteb?UI WL_ -VASELINE-, IOC A ONK-DOI.E.AR III I,!, aeat n? lijr gJl w? wlH MIti r, free or all charge*, to any mrtoa ta Oa>|UoitoQ tsataa, all ot tha loUowlog ariloL* ow? Oaa two-onnoa bottle of Para aaethie, - MM One two-oance bottle of Vaaotine >'<*n*6et - tt" Oaa Jar of Taarllno Cold Cream. - 1?# Oaa c eke of Taaallne Camphor loa, - - * , Oaa t'aka of Taaaltne Hoap, anaeMird, - 8* Oaa Cake at Vaedlnc Bono,exqulalteir aoaaked^t" Oaa tawoaaca bottle orWbMe asellDe, - - ?' ? j Or /Or v ml u if i ttampt any ikigk art tote at & J la, I ?a marl On no aamtal (m perewrwled to aaeapt Aa> it a I roarttmayW day KaeeMne or preparation fhuijfl ?i an. I anlam MHM afil our name, bcoaoee era o> aorta. falnty reaetoe an lettt afire irAicA hot attic or nanafcar CC < hoaafcreneti Mfg. Oa? 44 (Rata St., I. t. , i ... . ... ^WSTANTn?"H|[^^8 _ A if p A MONTH O Br,?,,t V**M W??*nV 0f i M SKh ft Hoar4 for O l.nrflra lnr*<* V* *?.7 ^?' F S ^ y?W. Wnl<rAC?., l'hU*d*lphla,Pki Aj B <**r| L9 fl I preacrlbo and fully an. fl P? rtorao lilK 43 Ihn only II SJt Owwla nprrlflc for Ihocortaln car* I ^^LLI21i^L jl "' ii'i?'ii???'?'. Lw O. ll.lNdHAIIAIf.M n,, |J |M - - - ' Amsterdam, N. T. Jr CS *ri?i7?jfti Wo hav* m>ld Rig G far f > HflUriai Ckral-al Or oikiiv jrrar*. nnd II h*a * .. KIVan tlio boat of Mil*- jfl d la D. R DYCHBft CO.. 0 MKl* Roldby ^9 ly For Coughs # CfWi m'IH Tb^.l... Madid*. Uk* j H IfrU OR-SCHENCK'8 1 I III IpULMONIC I I |||IrSYRUP. 1 SIISII It I# plMaaat to tha taat# a^dY B M *1 r" rrtM, fl? par koitla. Dr. Maaeli'i Bm* ?a (? W ' ftyyU?M1 f1 j?.Oy\ ?aHo4 ft**. AMttm ?f]j m. MVUOUU& ?* DUQ, r V K CATARRH.?Bent. KasKat to use. m ; f; 1 ImnrwdUle. A cure U cerUin Kor j^B I