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IB b?? ???b^?? REV. DR..TALMAGE. ^ Brooklyn Divine's Snndav Sermon i Text: "Aral ichcn nil them kina* WtTt Itnef together theg Cttme ami pitched together 'mtthf waters of Alcrum to tight against Is rarl -jcli, f- We are encamped to-night in Palestine jby the waters of Merom. After r lon<? inarch we iiavn found our touts pitched, |M lr Jour ttres kindled, and. though far away from civilization. n vurietv <>r '??' ''' ? rj would not compromise a tirst class American Itaotel, for the most of our caravan starts an | hour and a half earlier in tho morning. We detain only two mules, carrying so much of our baggage as we might accidentally need and u tent for the noonday luncheon. Tho malarias around this Lake Merom are so poisonous that at any other season of the year encampment licit* is perilous, but this wiuter night tho air is tonic and .. -- healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua fought his last great battle. The nations had banded themselves together to crush this Joshua, hut nlong tho banks of these waters Joshua lett their carcasses. Indeed it is time that wo more minutely examine this Joshua of whom we have in these discourses caught only a momentary glimpse, although he crossed and rccrossetl 1'alcstine, and next to Jesus is the most stirring and mighty character whoso foot ever touched the Holy Land, i Moses was dead. A beautiful tradition says tho Lord kissed him, and in that act - drew forth the soul of the dying lawgiver. He had beeu buried, only one I'erson at the burial, the same One who kissed him. But E ^ God never takes a man away from any placo *' of usefulness hut he hus some one ready. The Lord dpes dot go looking around amid a great variety ot candidates to tlnd someone especially fitted for the vacant position. He makes n man for tbnt place. Mosos lias passel oft the stage, ntul Joshua, tho hero. puis ms loot on tho platform of history s<> solidly that all the ages echo with its trend. Ha was n magnificent fighter, but he always fought on tho right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. lie got his military equipment front God, who gave him the promise at the start: "There shall not any man he able to stand before thee all the days of thy life."' God fullilloi this promise, although Joshua's first battle was with tho spring freshet, an I tho next with a stono wall, and tho next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards, and the next, battle against darkness, wheel ing the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last against, tho king of terrors, death?five great victories. This first undertaking of Joshua was greater th.ai the leveling of Kort I'ulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing of tho Jordan ut tho time of the spring freshet. Tho snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured dowu into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. tsothe Canannitos stand on ' one bank, anil they look across and see Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and ray, "Aha! aha! they cannot disturb us in time?until tho freshets fall; it is impossible for them to reach us." Hut after a while they look across ti.e water and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say: "What's the matter now? Why, there inu:-t lie a panic among these troops, pJ t.lv'T are g"iug to fly, or perhaps they are goinc to trv co ui-r.-h .wMih. m... Jordan. Joshua is ? lunatic." Hut Joshua, the chieftain, looks at his army anil cries, "Ferwiirrf, march!-' and they start for tho bank of the Jordan. Ope mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering bo:? four ieel and '*o feet will?. It is tho ark of the conveiiant. And thpy come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their l'eet {'.inn by ?? Almighty lint Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches cn without, getting their feet wet. over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lav hold of tho oleanders anil tamarisks and willows and pull th^'mselvQ^.-up a bank thirty or forty feet bi?h, and,"baking * gained tire other hank, they clap theirjthield* ,"^ ""'*,"TveSS%o!?lT!n>r "JUMftl'AM. i* Out yonder thoy have slopped, thirty nines of distance they halted. On this Bide the waters roll cfT toward the salt sea. v But as the land of tlis Lord Hod is taken away from tho thus uplifted waterswaters perhaps uplifted half a mile?as the Almighty hand is taken away those waters rush down, and some of 'the unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what n misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid parted? Becauseperhaps we may want to go back. O Ijord, w? are engaged in a risky business. Those Canaanites may eat)' us up. How if we want to go hack? \Voulilf ] it not have been a more complete Miracle if ! the Lord liuit parted the waters to let. us - , come through and kept them parted to let us i go back if we aro defeated?'' ..My. friends, J ,Uod makes n.? provision !<>r n <'hristjuD's re treat. Ho clears the path all thoitfay 1>> Caiman. To go back is to die. fir sanjb 1 gatekeepers that swim.,hack the amethystiiieanil crystalline gate <.f the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swing shut the ante* thystuie and crystalline rate, i But this is no ttme for tho Inst to stopt Joshua gives the r.>minund, "Forwaw,t march I" hi the distattco there is a long 'grove of trees, and at the "ltd of tho grigr its a city. It is a city of arbors. -wAii mini* seeming to reach to the heaven, t^ buttress the very sky. It is the groat Metropolis that commands the mountain pi*--. It is Jericho. The city was afterword ca) turod L>y Pompcv, (in.I it was afterward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward captured by the Mohninmei'ans; but this campaign the l/>rd plans. Tlc-re shull be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There sliall t?e only ?no weapon of war, and that, a ram's horn. The horn of the slain rain was sometimes tato i. and holes were punctured in it, an.l then the musician would put the m-t.iunicnt to his lips, and ho would run his lingers over this rude musical instrument and ina'to njrre it deal of sweet harmony for tlii people. 'I'nat was the only kind of weapon. .Seven priests were to fake these rude rustic musical instruments, and they were to go a round the city every day for six days ? two a day for six days and then on tho seventh day llsey were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the close of tbe sevent h blowing of tho rams' horns on the seventh day the peroration of those greav walls should tuuii.lo from capstone to base The fovea priests with the rule musical instruments pass all around th" city walls. 11 tho first day, and a failure. Xol - > nut'-'i as i n pieceof p'ast.'r broke loos, fr >:n tho wall; e noi, so much as a looscnc 1 rock, not so onicli c Hm!1 mortar log. from it- >.i,n "There."' sav ...? niioor.eving Israelites, "didn't i tell you so? Why, those minis! t arc fools. The idea of gv'ng nmund 11* * ?*if.y R w<th those musical insir iui nts, mid esp !,- P incj in that way to destroy it! ha* ' Imou spoiled; he thinks because he lias or r (j thrown an l destroyed tho spring f:e->h*fc ho can overtln ow tlo- stono wait. ei Why, it is not philosophic. l)on't at vou see thero is no relation between the blowing of these musical mstni II menis and the knocking down <>f the wall? do It isn't philosophy.'' And I supnoss there elr were many wiseacres v.dm stood with then- till brows knitted and with tlio forefinger of the -to ri^ht. hand to the forefinger of tin* left han I eat arguing it all out and showing that it. wm yei not possible that such a en ise could produce *iteh an effect. And I tuippo?a tliat. night, in th? the encampment there was plenty of ptiil->s- his ophy and caricature, and it Josliun had been ter nominated for any high military p nition lie he? would not have got, many votes. Joi Joshua's stork wn= * .....iuitii. intfNOlul ilnf gre the priests blowing the musical instruments ?'< (t i yo around tlie city, anii 9 furhire. Third day, wh end a failure; fourth <Uv, ^f'ylyi'e; tittli wli day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. her Th? seventh day conies, the ciimantrrie day sen Joshua is up early in tho morning ami ex-' or nininw tlie troops, walks all around uhout, mh looks at tlie city wall. Tho priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go nil "n( around 011 e, all around twice, three tunes, " four limes, live times, six times, seven times, ,n.^ e , whs and a failure. .. There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see tho IsrAelititih nriny straightening themselves A> up, (illing their luugs for a vociferation such or tl a? was never heard before and never heard tdlr alter. Joshua feels that the hour has come, nnav an 1 ho cries to Ids host, "Ahout. for the I/ord not hath given you tlie city!" All the people not. begin to cry, "Down, Jericho I down, J or I- coiue cho!" And the lone line of solid masonry I begins to quiver, and to move, and to rook. Ktar.d from under! She falls! Crash I go the walls, the temples, the towers, the palncos, the air blackened with the oust! The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canannites commingle, and Joshua standing there in the debris of the wall haars a voice saying. ''There shall not any man be able to stand i before thee all tho days of thy life." 1 Only one house spared. Who lives there? Home great king? No, Horn# woman distisgnished for great kindly deeds? No. 8he I had been conspicuous for her crimes. ?t Is the house of Hnhub Why wan her house spared? Because she had beou a great sin- . ner? No, but because sh-? repentou, demonstrating to all the ages that thero is mercv ! for the chief of sinners. The red cord of di( vine injunction reaching from her window to ] the ground, so that when the people saw i that red cord they knew it. was tho divine . indication they should not disturb tho premises. making ns think ot tho divine cord of a ' Saviour's deliverance, the rod cord of a Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a ' Saviour's morcy, the rod cord of our rescue. ! Mercy for iheehief of sinners. Put your trust in that. God. and no damage shall befall you. When our world shall lio more terribly surrounded than was Jericho, even by the trutu- ' pets of the judgment day. and the hills and the mountains, the metal bon.'s ami ribs of nature slmll break, thoy who have hud ltalinh's faith shall have Haliab's deliverance. But Joshna's troops ntny not halt hero. The command is, 'forward, inarch!" Thero 1 is the city of Ai; it must ho taken. How ] shall it bo taken'.' A scouting party comes back and savs. "Joshua, wo can do that without you; it is going to he a very easy 1 iob; you just stay here while we g"> nnd t capture it." Thoy march with n small regiment in front of tho city. Tho men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Is- < raelites run like reindter. The Northern j troops at Bull Hun <1 d not make such rapid i t ime se these Israelites with the Cnnnuni'tes alter thorn. Tlicy never cut such a sorry llgure as when they were on the retreat. Anybody that goes out in tho battles of God with only half a lorce, instead of your tnking the men of Ai, (ho men of Ai ! will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. Tho Bornesian cannibals ate tip Munson, the missionary. "Fall hack!" > said a great many Christian people. "Fall 1 back, 0 church of (tod! Borneo will never he : taken. f>?.n'r v.... n? " '? 1 i J-,WX? .'X ,7 IliC i'UI IICMdll run HI* buls have eaten tip Mnnatm, tin- missionary?" ' T.vndnll delivers liir, lecture at 1 ho University of Glasgow. and i\ great ninny good pooplo say "Full back, O church of Hod! Don't 1 you see that Christian philosophy is Koine { t o he overcome hy worldly philosophy? Full * huckl*' Geology plunges its crowbar into < the inountnius, and there area groat mmiy people who say: "Scientific investigation is Koine to overthrow the Mosaic account, of \ the creation. Fall hack!" Friends ot tho | ? ehurch have never had any right to tail bark. " I .loshtia falls on bis faro in chagrin. It is tin* only time yon ever see the back of his N head. He falls on his fare and begins to whine, and bo sn vs: "Oh, Lord Hod, where- j, foro hast thou at nil brought, this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of j the Amorites to destroy us? Would to flod f we had been content and dwelt on the r other sid < of Jordan. For the t'anaanites t and nil the inhabitants of the land shall ^ hear of it, and shall environ as round and cut off our name from the earth." God comes and rouses hint. How does he rouse hint? Ily coinplimetiiory apostrophe? ' No. lie says. "(Set t her up. Wherefore liest. ] thou upon thy face?' Joshua rises, and I ^ warrauii you with a mortified loo!:, but his old eourngolmiutes back. The (act was that * was not his buttle. If iie bad been in it ho wool 1 have gone on to victory. He anthers his It oops around him and says, "'Now, let us (jo up nnd capture the city ol Ai; lot us t go up right away." s They march on. lis puis the majority of . tho troo|>s behind a ledge of rocks ill the night, and then lie sends comparatively t small regiments up in front of the city. The j: men of Ai < or.;c out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in stratagem tall back and fall buck, and when nil the men e of Ai hnvu left I ho city and lire in pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered ? - regiments, Joshua stands on a rock?I seo his loekf Hying ill the wind as he points 01 speaiijotvnr.ls tho doomed city, and that ai vi iiia *ii)md. The uien rush out from be i?-gja? ^ , c? incnts of Israelites leturn, una bet ween uK r*" t wo waves of Israolitish prowess tho uieu ot I K\ are destroyed, nnd tho Israelites gain tho ftt victory. And while I see tho curling smoke q sit that destroyed city on the sky. and while . f hear tho hur.cn of tho Israelites, and tho A "tfri>$}ii of the t'unniinites, Joshua hears b, something louder than it all, ringing and uj .echoing through his soul. "There shall not nny tiian lie able to st.umi i>?f?? *1? D ?.v.O VIIDU Ull (110 * ?(i?vb of thy lifo." _jiut thin in no place for t.hi? host of Joshua heo mIojj. "Forward, inarch I" cries Joshua vtoihe troops. There is the city of Oibeoa r"it has put. itselt under the protection of '.l,oshim. They sent word, "There nre Ave r, 'ipngs after us; t!iey are going to destroy us; send troops quick; send uh help right away." n Joshua has a three days' march nt more p t han double quick. On the morning of the jt y liird iln.v he is lieforc the enemy. There are , two long lilies of battle. 1'lie battle opens with great slaughter, hut the t'&nanuites tl soon discover soinet liing. They say: "That ?t is Joshua. That is the man who eonquereil r. the spring freshet and knocked down the stone wall mid destroyed the city of Ai. c< There is no -jse fighting." And they sonnd it( a retreat, and as lie.i !..-;dti to retreat Joshua at and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing llieni over the rocks; and ev as these t'annnnites with sprained ankles w and gashed foreheads retreat-, tlio catapults ni ol the sky pour a volle.v of hailstones into the wi valley, and all the artillery of tlie heavens with bullets of iron pound the Cunaanites against the ledges of Hetli-horon. Ah "Oh!" snys Joshua, "this is surely a vie- In tor.v." "Hut do you not see the sun is going down? Thoso Amorites are going to get ? uwav after all, and llien they will eoiue up Pr some ot her time and bother us. uml perhaps tin destroy us." See, the sun is going down. iv till, for a longer day than lias ever lieen seen * in this climate' What is the matter with Joshua? Mas he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No. Ho is in prayer. Look out when a good innit makes the Lord his ally. Joshua , raises his luce, radiant with prayer, and s looks at. the descending sun over tiiheon and dm at. tlie faint crescent of the moon, tor you ]jq know the queen of the night sound imps will linger around the pulaces of the day. Pointiligonc hand nt. tlu? .1.. . .. ....'vwnumn nilH III1U III? W other ut the faint rroscont of tint moon, in Ma t.lie name of that (loil who shaped the deg worlds and moves the worlds, he erie*. *<?<(#, wnni" *? - f.iKn/tii littll 11 thou inoon, in the valley of Ajalon. ' They the halted. the Whether it was by refraction of the sun's nlte ays cr by the stopping of tho whole plan jgg tnry system 1 do not know and do not , are. I leave it to the Christian Icirnthln Ball nd tho infldol scion tints to settle that tjuei- his ion, while I tell yon I have seen the same yyhii hing. "What!" any von, "not the snn a}ir.r landing still?" Yes. The same rairiicle is vV erformed nowadays. The wicked do not mid ve out half their day, and the sun sets at, had non. Put lot a man start out in battle for her ( od and truth und Against sin, and the day stunt ' his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged Qf id prolonged. .. f Hut it is time for Joshua to go home. , n is 110 years old. Washington went ing s inn the Potomac, and ut Mount Vernon lory < lsed his days. Wellington died peace- H!lnfi ly at Apsley House. Now, where shall ' shun r. sl? Why, tie is to have Iiih great- watei ; battle now After a hundred mid ten then Firs lis has to meet a king who tins more there hjects tliiiii all the present population of , ? earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, wnen i parterre the grave yards mid the rwnn- of C iea of the world, his chariot the world's ? irne-tlio if f- "" iODg ...ik hi mrrorn. But if this is Jourfi dtun's battle, it is going t?? be Joshua's ip.Unt victory. Be gathers his friends >un<l him and gives his valedictory, and s fnil of reminiscence Young men tell Ber nt they are going to do; ohi men tell lying I at they iinve done. Ami aa yon have 3 B . ird a grandfather or great-grnnd'ather. ?<> > I ted h.v the evening fire, lell of Monmouth withst Yorktnwn, and tlien lilt, (lie crutch or of his II hk though it were a musket, to fight that I allow how the old battles wore won, so youngi !ma gathers hie friends around his dy # < couch, and he telle them the story of t it lie has heen through, and a lie lies cease ( e, his while locks snowing dou u on his dincovi titled forehead, I wonder if flod has v<??lit* this promises all the way through. tugaitM i lie lies there ho tells the story one, two on thl tree times?you have heard old peo;>V I had ha t story two or three times ov<i ?and li<> | *;or,f.rv rors: "I go the way of all (lie earth end j itVIj one word of the proihi?e has lai .d, I j?Ctlon one word thereof has failed, all ha' one in 1 i to pass, not one word thereof has failed." And thon he tarns to his faHrtlyt as a dying parent will, and says: 'QhooiKN now whom you will serve, the Ood of Israel, or tho God of the Amorites. As lor me and my house w?? will servo the Lord." A dyhtg purenfc cannot be reckless o r thoughtless in. regard to his children. Consent to part with then forever at the dcor of the tcjmb ??i cannot. By the cradle in ivbich their infancy was rocked, by the bosom on whicii they Bret Iny, by the blood of the covenant ' by the God of Joshns it ahalt not be. If*> will not part, we cannot part. Jehovah lireh. we take thee at thy promise. "1 will he u God to thee and tby seed afterthee." Dead, the old chieftain mnet be laid oat. Hand's him very gently; that eacred body is over a hundred and ten ycam of age. Lav_ liim not. stretch out those feet that walked^ ilry-shod the parted Jordan. Olose those lips which helped blow the bla*t at which the walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm that.Ifted the spear toward the doomed city of Ai. Fold It. right over tho heart that exulted when the five kings fell. But where shall wo ?et the burnished granite for the headstone ind the footetono7 1 bethink myself now. I innge that for the head it shall be the sun [hat stood still upon Gihcon, and for the oot the moon that stood atill in the valley >fAjalou. ^ SCIENTIFIC AN!> INDUSTRIAL. A torpedo net constructed of interlocking steel rings is soon to be put to a< practical test. A now gun has been perfected by Siglor Guidolli, of Lucca, which will firoi lixty-four shots a minute. Tho British Admiralty engineers nre> :onductiug experimental ninety six-hour uns of boilers uudcr forced draught at Portsmouth. About 4500 species of wild bees and 1100 species of wasps arc known. Great Britain has 170 species of the former and. sixteen of the latter. In the Oermau tests of the Maxim gun, 14,000 rounds were fired from a single jarre i, ami tuc ruling was not materially injured until after 20,000 steel bullets, lad been discharged. Much improvement has been made in lecuring color lints in pictures. One irocess combines a hcliotype priut with ithographic tints. Hotter work of this :lass is constantly being turued out. A small battery has been brought out vhicli promises to be very useful to 'ouug electricinns. The outfit includes t six-candle power lamp, nud a battory asting a couple of hours on continuous vork. A brilliant black coat upou zinc "an >o obtained by immersing the zinc obucts in a solution of ten parts copper rec sulphate of iron and six parts of amnoniac salts in liftceu parts of boiling vater. The saltcst piece of water upon earth s the Lake of Urumia, in Persia, situated nore thau 4000 feet above the sea level, t is much salter than the Dead Sea, the vater being found on aualvsls to contain learly twenty-two per cent, of salt. A lasting machine that enables one iperator to last 3000 pairs of shoes a veck is ouo of the latest things in laboraving machinery. It tackles anythiug rom light feminine foot wear to the icaviest brogans, and the product is su?crior to hand work. Mr. Edison is trying to genernte lcctricity from coal in sufficient tjuantiies to be of value as a motivo power, fo 6ays that a pound of coal contains oough latent energy to carry itself round the globo. Fully eighty-five per ;nt. of this power is wasted in the pro? < i l I m i i soV tubular frame oiuht-wheel wagons, p .ted with automatic brakes, on the | M.oiuiuoui. runways iu Natal, South frica, and that they shall be paid for y one-half the annual savings made by sing them in moving freight as comarcd with the cost of moving an equal uautity on ordinary wagons. The Height of Waves. It is not uncommon in prose works to jad of mountaiuous waves. Exact icasurcmcuts seldom confirm first ituressions. Scoresby found that forty :et was the height from trough to crest f the largest waves measured by him in ic North Atlantic and in a cyclonic orm, when bound for Australia in tho oyal Charter. This has long been acjpted as the ext reme limit jight. Captain Kid J "J""0* ? . 1 , aiK inn no.v nuv ' id experienced nf ? . __ 1 _ 'er, encountered vo )! g\Ve\* ere seventy feet hig?AJnt' but Carolina iral Fitzroy had previously aves as high ; and some obscr( fl ado at Ascension in 18156 support these ithorities. In 184-1 k r Majesty's ship constant was scudding with hnr stern >on tho crest and her bow in the dccssion between two successive waves, d the wave ahead was observed exactlevel with her forctopsail yard, just iron ty-seven feet above tho water line. ( On the 27th of July, 1888, the Curder Umbiia was struck by a wave not < s than fifty feet high, which did much i J inage. Two days before, the Wilson i er Martello had a similar experience; enormous solitary wave struck her, npletely submerging her decks. The I rtcllo was much smaller and more ^ iply laden than the queenly Umbria. connection could bo traced between I so waves, which woro referred to in /, dailies as tidal waves, although of gether different origin. In October, 1, the Italian bark Itosma had all ' ds, except one man who was ill in tl bunk, 8wept off her decks by a wave a ch broke on board as tliey wore teuing sail duriug a heavy squall in Atlautic. Tho British bark Undine one watch washed overboard and a] Jap tain killed under similar circulates. It is said that the motive bell W tie Bishort ?.?< " * t . ?,u. wreucnea from W istenings by tho momentum of driv- p] can in a gale of wind, and the galcontaining it thickly strc\*? with , although 100 feet abovp high T r mark. Hcoresby gave 600'feet as ^ laximum length of sea waves, but are many longer. Mr. Douglas, building lighthouses on tho coast CI* ornwall, noticed waves 1300 feet from crest to crest.?Chinmbert't al. ~T ? , JJ> A Tatooed KtnrfT ^ ' A 1 nadotte, King of KAedeo, when at the point of deathj was ordered, as iled in the arm, buji refused, not- ?*? anding the ear pest representations' medical attendants, on the plea y. Alexander I, although a much H? rsr man, had succutnbod to the ef- ?gyi )f a blood-letting. After his dethe true reason for his refusal waa >red. The words "Llberte, Hi i, Fraternite" were plainly legiblo al i King's arm, where Beroadotte HI d them tatooed during the revolu- ?period, but he had a decided ob- i RiC to exhibiting the legend to any |Sg lis lifetime.?Time$-Pmoarat, j !. TheTwe Whlt^pw Watchmen. These two wat%y* we among th oldest .employes White House a Washington, and one of l1^wnclosely 1 associated, in a humble r.? V, with one o the most exciting perflr ^ history, W. 8. Lewis was onew"w*?*White Housi doorkeepers in the tiiflW'' Lincoln, ant each night, between' 10:80 and 1] o'clock during the waSf'pcriod, be actec as the escort of th??*wldant when h< went from the fJxecmr? Mansion to th< War Department to gk latest newi of the conflict betifct going to bed t -.Irfinm left, tfo* AVbito acid went OB the city poHcrr^'^rtnTN^ined for many yowC About twelvfHyCftP ho came bnclrdo the Whito House service, where he has been ever since. T. P. Prndel, tho other night doorkeeper, has been employed in the White House foi tventy-six years. These two men'knew tlo face of every man of prominence in public life, and they can spot a crank at tho other end of the avenue by gaslight. They open any telegrams which come to the Exccutivo Mansion after midnight, and determine whether it is advisable to to show them to the President or not. There is no one at the Executive Man sion at night who can act for the Prosident. Only the members of his family 1 and the domestic employes of his household sleep at the White House. 8o il anything demanding immediate attention should bo delivered at the Executive Mansion uftcr midnight, the President would be aroused from his sleep to attend to it. It is seldom that a telegram of anyjuad-injelivered at the Executive Mansion between mTuuight and daybreak, for the local manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company has instructions to hold all messages which are not of the utmost importance until morning. Aud it may not occur once in six months that the President is called from his bed to read a late dispatch.?New York Star. Fascinating to Watch the Pilot. There is somcthincr ertremolv funninnt. ing in observiug the managing ol a ferryboat in a dense fog. On< is likely to forget that there if any danger, for ho finds himscll wondering at the skill with which the host is coaxed across the river against wiud and tide And safely into its slip. Long training and discipline enablo tho pilots to find thoir way over the water when there are no lights and no lsndTimaks^Lgaidc^thptn. But while the passenger hears many 'i<5g-bells sending out thoir sharp clangs from piers, the pilot hears oply one?the ono toward which he is working hiscraft. He knows its tone, the regularity of its strokes,and can judge its distance from him by tho way it smit *. the air. It isn't much of n trick for him tp do all this, but to tho man ignorant of the pilot's knowledge and skill it seem* far different. Thero aro the/Mississippi Itiver pilots, too. Many off them are familiar with ?vo.rv bend, cv?fry current, every sandbar and evory snag lor It BllUvCh of ?thousand miles. In tho/ blackest night, when an amateur's eye cannot see the sharp prow of the packet, the pilot up in his dark box will wheel his craft to the loft, take her clear across the river, and bringing her gracefully around again, swoep in so closely to the bauk that he skirts tho My.l1 teSfrdflfeiPg over the water. IRifflcultcJMK^e ?ther bank thb night, Uar or 8a*S' changing hi.<^^fi There he is all through selLpossessc^BjRg his wheel always, and aWlityJ^P&urae untiringly, calm, sees better^^mcoutident in his strength rays of thc^^wt. for all you know,who the pilot-h^Vnight than in the blinding get tired. flp* If he will let you sit in one hour'sfiroe with him you will never the next, fie may not opeu his lips from mechanism Aeginniug to the ending of * 1 I.. I- - -- # . mm lie 18 li JH5I"ICCl? pl6C0 Ol new.?iy5" hat looks swiftly and silently, /&tes you by its elusive subtleJu<> York Tribune. The A? ? disturbed' nlana of istrian Government is much LP . '^crnyver the discovery that fifty !*> '^1 the fortifications of Cracrow It is feared that the 0f theui to Russia. Whiskey is m.ii ^ - i, young and old, * N|Onle to buy ??f 50 ^*aK> up $500. -atarrh ftefceuy. One failure take the profit from 4000 sales. Its makers profess to cure " cold in the head," and even chronic catarrh, and if they fail they pay $500 for their 1 WfOf J-.? j vvi '^VUUUCUCC| Not in newspaper words )Ut in hard cash / Think of vhat confidence it takes to )ut that in the papers?and Heart. JA... Jits makers believe in the Semedy. Isn't it worth a rial? Isn't any trial preferble to catarrh? After all, the mild agencies ! re the best. Perhaps they J ork more slowly, but thev ( ork surely. Dr. Pierce s 1 leasant Pellets are an active [ t t - v rpnru Knf J ? y?~j wuii ijiiici ana ttuld, t hey're sugar-coated, easy to A kc, never shock nor derange J e system and half their pow- p is in the mild way in which '< eir work is done. Smallt, cheapest, easiest to take. p dose. Tw3fity-five cents ^ = ttZxsrtX tlfi'tssz n lDinii^yiffisssK I I M0>lt P*<? Book of parBR \| Rh0 tlcal?r? <wnt VMS UmUU n m wooi.i.ky.m.ix L rSHMkSk OSMlMKWlUMMUfi I CV iuirre roirriTiu ?k*?oi*t> I Ul liilLLO OrMlr Put Utrotck**. ^ M ? nBhW m Himrf. Amhorot. tod ?tW MM|B HoMMmI Ik l tUllMH MM tTK^ . r tf?gjuaftteta roar town londM*. to | * WILT. TUWatttoftoo Mml. Bwt? 1 k : f. i r ? 1 . SELECT SIPTINSS. 9 t The latest fad ia Parisian society Is tho f decorated skirt front. I Claude Lorraine, the Italian pointer, was bred a pastry cook. | Executions are public in Ecuador, and | the musket is tho instrument of death. I An orange measuring a foot in ciroumferance has been found ia Starke, I F1?i Within a distance of five or six squares. In Philadelphia, near Chestnut and Wali nut streets, 200 physicians have been I cglffted wtyx loosed for a chase at Pottstown, Is" !Vmi., got the better of sixteen horsemen and several packs of hounds and i escaped. r A service of carrier pigeons is to be ' established between Zanzibar and Lake 1 Nyassa, in Africa. The stations will be ' thirty miles apart. Australian cannibals show a great pre' ferenco for Chinamen, whose rice diet is ' supposed to make their flesh esner.iall* sweet and tender. Of the original thirteen States, Delaware was the first to ratify the Constitution, doing so on December 7, 1787. Rhode Island was the last, on May 29, I 1790. i Two fig trees in California are thirty i feet high and bear 1000 pounds of fruit ; each year. The man who owns thom very naturally think there is monoy in the fig i business. Take in your hand a crystal of quartz, a stick of deal, a daisy and an acorn and you will not find in them a single ele- ' ment of matter that is not also found in your physical frame. A line of railway through Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales to connect with the Russian railway system through Siberia is said to be perfectly feasible and the future is sure to see it accomplished. The alligator is one of those animals which, like the parrot and tortoise, live for au iudefinite term. It is never full I grown at less thau twenty years, and may grow after that. It is not known how long it may live, but it commonly attains the age of 100 years. 'Boston cockles," which are famous over a very large area of England, are gathered from the sands, parboiled, shelled, aud in this half-cooked conditi >n are sent by railway ill bags, chiefly to Bristol aud the west of England at largo, where they are sold and consumed as delicacies by the masses. "Nephelococcuquia" is a Greek word, and means translated into English, "cloud-cuckoo-towu," built by the birds, and found iu Aristophanes i ou "The Birds." This town was V built in midair, so as to cut oil the gods from men. It was used as satire on Athens, or, perhaps, on the riv^i? of conquest in Sieily, Italy. The Cowboy's Day Is Cone. I met a cowboy yesterday who was reiuiuicg fro*** the Western plains to his heme in Ohio. Ho was sad and his face bore a doleful expression us bo narrntted the memories of happy ranch life never to be again. "The plains," said he, "are nothing liko they used to be. Instead of herds of butlalo and cattle they now have 'boomers' scrub stock and scalawag dogs, and iustcad of cowboys, as in the past, the inhabitauts arc settlers who have during the past twenty years 'squatted' in nearly every Stato and Territory west of the Missouri Itiver. 80 long as they kopt out of the grazing country we didn't mind thcin, but since there has been such a demand for more land for settlers those fellows have crowded their society upon us until wo had either to Oght, get out or accept them as neighbors. "I guess the general run of my kind of fellows would much prefer the first proposition, but it doesn't pay. As for the last, it doesn't go at all. I know we are rough fellows, and maybe we don't seem any better in the eyes of tho world than 'boomers' but that sort of calculation is agin' us. I guess no fellow evei made s success ef 'cow punching' who was lazy, and I know I never met any fellow on the mniw wtinM u<"> - - ? o- "? "I 1 'schooner' and starve his family sooner I than work. A good many of us could 1 get-little herds and keep at th? business I if It ??r lb. ' S2iT?" a?d m??J ot tb. ?14 oow, \ think you u u this year, and I ^ ^oa't know by visiting 1 there was such a set dw gaeao gountry tnntl Kantaa City Timet. lJ'.owbojJrH Curious Old Indian Signs. About five miles above Morvcn is a mystery which tho peoplo of that community cannot explain. In a hummock near the river are two complete circles, one ninety and the other 140 feet in diame| ter, the smaller circle inside the larger. These circles, which are much like those left by a circus performance, are completely barren of vegetation of all kinds. These circles have been there since the recollection of the oldest citizen, and none know how or when they came there. It mint h? " kite; tint Indian signs, relics of bj-gone days, when tho Savage warrior was lord of all he *uc>'veyed.?Macon (Oa.) Telcffraph. . Potatoes for Starch. The annual "potato raid" is in progress in Aroostook, Me., as the starch rnctoriea are beginning their season's work. Jays tho Boston Transcript: "This is me of the most novel sights to be wittessed in this section of tho country?tho ong line of teams hauling the potatoes O the -??" I ~ .wvwkcd noiU standing waiting their I urn to unload. There it a great crop in iroostock this year, the largest for many ears, in fact, and there will he a good ipply for the factories, as the latter aro ayiug very fair prices. There are about >rty factories in Aroostock County and a its border, and as they nse upward of ro million bushels yearly; it is seen that >tato raising and starch making in Arooock are industries of considerable mag* tude." gy^For Coughs 4 Ctlds BBnBM tWi to to VeUdM Uke IjMI DR. 8CHENCK'S li^lDULMONIC iilll SYRUP. ~ f ^^>91 It toplaasanllo Iliataataaa4 & B MB B Bl doea not contain a parilcla of BMeMSI optunaf anything Inlurkoi* It latbeBeatOnngfe M<?1t?tn?tni)i* - m WtrW. For tohto all DniiiUU, Ytea, ft.00 par bottle. Dr. 8rh?nck'a Book M 1 J vneumntton aod 111 Core, mailed free. A46r?a I >r. /. M- nok A Aon, Philadelphia. * a? ' "?V 6 *!* >' V- '*** ' , ? IRuwii lias agreed to bear the expenso of iucrensing tho efficiency of the Montenegrin army, ami that principality is virtually'n Itussiau province. There is more Catarrh in tbia aectio iof th#countiy than alt other disease put together, and uulill the last fow years was suppos d to bo incurable. For a great many year.', doctors pronounced it a local pisesse, and preset Ibing local remedies, and by constantly a'llng to cure with local treatment, pr ?nouncep it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to bo a constitutional disease, a d therefore requires constitutional treatment? Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J Chi nay & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con stitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea spoonful. It acts directly upon the blrod and muoou i surfaces of the system. They offer on? hundred dollars for any case it fulls to cure. Send for circulars and t s tlmonidls. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Egy Sold by Pi uggista 75c. A la*T appetite bothers th# rich man a great deal more than an active on# doss the poor man. Fok Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach disorders, use Brown's Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Blood and strengthens the muscles. A splendid tonic for weak and debilitated persons. Bridle the appetite with reason and save he stomach. De Yew Km BpeewlaseV Any person sending ua their name and addrem will receive information that will lead to a fortune. Bonl. iowta A Co- Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. l.ive leisurely unless you are anxious to ' die in a hurry. For Impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Malarla, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Blltousnesr take Brown's Iron Bitters?it gives strength, making old persons feel young?and young persons Btrong; pleasant to take. When a man cannot bare what ho loves he must love what he has. FIT8 htopiKxl froo by Dr. Kuan's Orsat Nsrvs Kkstorkr. No Kits after first daps use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $3 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, nil Arch St.. FhQa.. Fa. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo. Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harm- 1 less in ellcct, quick and positive In action. Bent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle. Adclcr & Co.,5&! Wyandottest..KansasCity,Mo Oklahoma Onlde Book and Map sent any where on receipt of 6Ucts.Tyler & Co.,Kansas City,Mo. ' If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Thom- Fl son's Eve water. D ruggist sell at "35c per bottle Malaria s ti believed In be caused by poisonous mUam.i arts- ^ Ing from low, marshy land, or from decaying t030table innlter, and which, breathed Into Ibe luntt _ enter end |iolhon the blood. It a healthy condition | f t the UIoimI In inalutalucd by taking Hood's 8ar*.v I nrllln one is much leM liable to malaria, and Unod'i ? borsaparllla has cured many severe cases of this dls- d IressltiR nfieetlou even In Ibe advanced stages when Ike terrible chills aud fever prevailed. Try It. ~ And if you decide to tako Hood's Saraeaparilla do m not be Induced to buy any substitute. Hood's Sarsaparilia u Sold by all druggist*. $1: six for fs. Prepared ouly ^ by C. I. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mask IOO Looses Ono Dollar | Some Children \ i Wm)l?row*n0 ' I ! Too Fast \ 1 become listless, fretfui, without ep.?r? 1 gy, thin and weak. But you can fortify them and build them up, by the use of SCOTT'S 1 EMULSION t 1 OF PURE COD LIVER OIL AND ! 8! HYPOPHOSPHITES 8 Or IJine nn<l Noda. 8l They will take it readily, for it is almost as palatable as milk. And it o should be remembered that AS A PHB- "< EHTITK OK t I KK OK < Ol'UIIS OK COLDS, ( ? IN BUTH THE OLD AND YOUNO. IT IS ? ? ? UNHJUAllED- Avoldaubetltutloiiaaff'rrert. j C Farmers' Alliance Badges! ? . ? Every nwmlter Of Ihe order should have one of there Mfbeautiful badger; Ihe cut wN _ fik*8?/.// /w Khuwiexactaleeandabapr; v / they are made of atWer, k?ixv; F/*{M lieaiitlfully enameled. They Mr > k// ? ill ln:'Uilifetime. We have I mj placed there badges at the . I U! 'ibflffff iJ* ' very low price of aaly 'Ai ml lr?i>li each, or aajn t~HI 11 M i y I duxen. ? tamps, etc. I '' "'JJ M?,n 8t- Hlchmond. ya. | kacEci jS^PAINLESS. PI LI ) 53^WORTH A GUIN For BILIOUS &NERVI <, SmcA ns Wind and Pain in the Stomach, F ( Ui/ziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills, FU I Shortness of Breath, CostirSness, Scurry f Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous ( THE FIRST DOSE WILL OIVE RELI / BELCHAM8 PIUS TAKEN A8 DIRECTED RE8TC ( For Sick Headache, Weak S Digestion, Constipation, Di; S they ACT LIKE MAQIC, Strengthening the muscnl C ptexton, bringing back the Keen edge of appetite, / HfAllH i ho whole phgtlcal energy of the human ) to the Harous and Debilitated Is that BEECH AM'! s ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. > re p li ed only by Til Oil REKOIIAM, ) ,V?.Vi In/ irrtii/f/letnuenrrallg. B F. ALLEN ( L Aireotg for tint iJnitrd Hlnter, w?o (If e,.-. -> ? ) IlKKOII lieu o.?. 'reuevesinsi IHHHHBkly BUCri'UKRS, 04 Wftrmi Be, ll ***? v ??vi?rttt JfWfg | mMMz This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 omta. J. F. SMITH A CO., hi Maker, of " Bile Bmm," U 255 4 257 Qr?wtch St., H. Y. City. U | JHaMfpOTy<BP?lfpi BBmI >1 MkZMZJLM a"^ BMtCoafh IMiolM. Recom Cum where all elae falls. Pleaaai taste. Children take it without ol ^ np^wwnFW1 BHSISAKJBiSiyii m YMIW& <T_ * ^:E?"ES^! ," ON? BNJOY? Both the method and results Syrup of Figs is taken; it is plposinr ;|J and refreshing to the taste,-"and acts . gently yet promptly on the Kidneys Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual' ' constipation. Syrup of figs is the . only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana ao- 1 oeptable to the stomach, prompt ia its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable snbstanoe^ its many excellent qualities oommend it to all and have made ift tiie most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60o And $1 bM*?** Jr: all leading druggists, f l ^lv)bble druggist who may nf-1 - iveTfZ^p hand will pro* cure it & /iptly ior any one who wishes tb'iry it accept Any substitute. ' CALIFORNIA F/0 SYRUP CO. \ SAM FKAM0I800, OAL. wsmvtuE, *y mew ton*, n.t. RINITY COLLECE. A High crude College for Young Men. Beet lug.motion, leading to Five l)rin?M, Reasonable K xLKiises-Si.V) to tfl t'ajrtar. Five new lnilMfnj:* to l?e ereeted thin year. SC tn atrleulutee and grnduntex In reeent Klate Leg* lalure. tend for Catalogue. Hull.tin. Degree Book, Btc? reo. Jong F. Okowix?.. A. n., Dr. LtTT., Pres., Trinity College, Randolph Co., N. O. J>llAM'!ll*]rl?? ?wl <1 beatitlhil Silk A Hatha lll'tSBi Millil|?a enough to cover IN aq. |n% V?.; bcst.ifSo. I.kharik'kSilx Mux, UtUe Ferry wTj. SOflll A^,n0or loeat.r.felly l>mMkm|IU|a AwUIAM t>rla* ASSl'ALI.Y rrm TWRNTY U I UU g TMI U. TAtuai I5VKSTMKKT 10., TAVOSA, WAU. lank. free. JOSXrH U. llLimu) ISf.VlKSJTsS j 1 XIV!AS HEALTH GIFT (ExGrclser Complete $5) /I jBP . Ubst op Alu Circular Fut, sy' AH^j Books: For "An Ideal Complexion , .n Complete Phyaical Development," Iiit I I Ilia 50 eta. Health A Strength In * " * It hvitcal Culture," .0 Ilia 50 eta. Chart of mm I |> -v : Ilia for Dumb Bella A Pulleys, 95 eta. Ag 111 V*?~ d JNO. E. OOWO*S Vocal A Phyaicai f \U|A' ulturc school, 116 Monroe St. Chloaaa fr.-Va-Ul a I preacrlbe and fully aaa> dene Big a aa the outy Cereals apeetflo for UtacariadSSSSS' to a dats.^H of thia dUaaaa. whiz:taps* ?* 9 uraeoiy fey An Wa hart aold Mg O lW Rg.'g?Tq5T.oo?. hat^VnJIlLM. MlhyBncAMa 8. Nr U. 1. IT CI TIT VtfVV -VflJJiLlBtOR A flNK.DOI.UR 111 I.I, sent ua by a^> wUI delWi r, free or all charges. to any person ta e Unltd Stales, all or the following articles, oarnilly paeksj: le two-ounce bottle of Pure Vaseline, . - lteti lie two-ounce bottle of Vaaellna Pomade, IB ae Jar of Vaaclltie fold Cream. ..... If < no Ci-ke of Vaseline Camphor tee, .... tf* Be Cake of Veaeiine ronp, unsoentrd. - t$" ae Cake of Vaeellne8oap, esqulsltely eoantcdjfl" ae two-ounce hot be of White VaseUna. - - M" i for postage stamps any HngIs article at yrU0 \ >>, mat. On no aeoount be persuaded to accept ft are ' rurdrvyoUl any VassHne or preparation Itiijdae . tfess labelled tcUb our noma, because won tern eat- > Inly receive an Imitation which hat little or asaahw hescfcreugh .Ufa. Co., '14 Htata Ot.> W. ? frJH CO MB I XHfg5 ARTIC U up?c?o airai'co^ lia M. au fAH'S I*j5pEFFECTUAL^5 I PU8 DISORDERS f I ut/neaa and Swelling after Meal*. C *?mngs or Heat, Loss of Appetite, I J , Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed I fl and Trembling 8ensations. Ac. ? 1 EF IN TWENTY MINUTES. / I W Ft MALI8 10 OOHPLtTE HEALTH. > $ Stomach, Impaired c sordered Liver, etc., ar Suitem, restoring long-lost Oom~ S i snaarousing wltU the H08EBUD OF C , - A frame. One of the beat gnaran tecs / I S FILLS HAVE THE LAR6EST SALE OF ) ' * ? t. HflrM, I.Mtiikiif, Iktfland. ? '''fl CO.. 365 and 367.Canal St. Mew York, > fl nmtdoM Di)tkMpthini)WlLL MAlu S IS fcua box. (mkntion this pmaji / th JRE Biliousness, M 8lck Headache, mended l*f Physician*. feS ? . H nt and otfrceablo to in* rjwuon* ??y dnnrctete. MSB/ * om ^ \