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49* ^ I £EY. DR. TALMAGE. THR BROOKLYN DIVINE’S DAY SERMON. SUN- Subject: “New Springs ot Joj. n Text: “Thou hast given, me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gate her the upper springs, and the nether springs."--Joshua, xv., 19. The City of Debir was the Boston of antiq uity—a great place for brain and books. Ca leb wanted it, and he offered his daughter Achsah as a prize to any one who would cap ture that city. It was a strange thing for Caleb to do; and yet the man who could take the city would have, at any rate, two ele ments of manhood—bravery and patriotism. With Caleb’s daughter as a prize to fight for, Gen. Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of Debir wer«. thundered into dust, and the city of book# fey at the feet of the conquer ors. The vdrk done, Othniel comes back to claim his bride. Having con quered the city, it is no great job for him to conquer the girl’s heart; for however faint hearted a woman herself may be, she always loves.courage in a man. I never saw an ex ception to that. The wedding festivity- hav ing gone by, Othniel and Achsah are about to go to their new home. However loudly the cymbals may clash and the laughter ring, parents are always sod when a fondly cher ished daughter goes off to stay; and Achsah, the daughter of Caleb, knows’ that now is the to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good old man, had given as a wedding present to his daughter a piece of land that was mountain ous, and sloping southward toward tho deserts of Araoia, swept with some very hot winds. It was called “a south land.” But Achsah wants an addition of property; she wants a piece of land that is well watered and fertile. Now it is no wonder that Caleb standing amidst the bridal party, his eyes so fall of tears because she was going away that he could hardly see her at all, gives her more than she asks. She said to him; “Thou hast given mo a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.'’ TVliat a suggestive passage ! The fact is, that as Caleb, the father, gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land, so God gives to us His world. I am very thankful He has given it to us. But I am like Achsah in the feet that I want a larger portion. Trees and flowers, and grass, and blue skies are very well in their places; but he who has nothiAg but this world for a portion has no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by fiery siroccos; it is “a south land,” a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it. What has been your experience ? What has been the experience of every man, of every woman that has tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the surroundings of pomp, is unhappy because the painter sketches too minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indignantly cries out: “You must strike off my likeness without any shadows!” Hogarth, at the very height of his artistic triumph, is stung almost to death with chagrin because the painting he had dediated to tho King does not seem to be acceptable; for (Jeoigo II. cries out; “Who is this Hogarth? Take his trumpery out of my presence.” Brins ley Sheridan thrilled the earth with his eloquence, but had for his last words: “I am absolutely undone.” Walter Scott, fumbling around the inkstand S ing to write, says to his (laughter: “Oh, e me back to my room; there is no rest for Sir Walter but in the grave.” Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day, or, at any rate, only second in wealth, says: “I live the life of a galley slave; when I arise hi the morning my one effort is to work so hard that I c*ui sleep when it gets to benight.” Charles Lamb, applauded of all the world, in the very midst of Ills literary triumph says: “Do you remember, Bridget, when ,we used to laugh from the shilling gallery at the play? There are now no good plays to laugh at from the boxes.” But why go so far as that? I used to go no further than your street to find an illustration of what I am saying. Pick me out ton successful worldlings— n iretell ir- -religion, and you know what I ful worldlings—pick me out l orbitings, (did jou cannot find more than ^>nc that looks happy. Care i him across the bridge; care drags him back. Take your stand at 2 o’clock at the corner of Nassau and Wall streets, or at the corner of CanaJ street and Broadway,and see the agonized physiogomies. Your bankers, your insurance men, your im porters, your wholesalers, and your retailers, as a class—as a class, are they happy? No. Care does their steps; and, making no appeal to God for help or comfort, they are tossed everywither. How has it been with you, my . hearer? Are you more contented in the house of fourteen rooms than you were in tho two rooms yon had in a house when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment since yon won that fifty thousand dollars than you did before? Some of tho poorest men I have ever known have been those of great fortune. A man of small means may be put in great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit suicide because of monetary losses are those who cannot bear the burden any more, because they have only a hundred thousand dollars left. On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house where Tallevrand used to go. He was a favorite man. All the world knew him, and he had wealth almost unlimited ; yet, at the dose of his life, he says : “ Behold, eighty- three years have passed without any practi cal result, save fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, great discouragement for the future and great disgust for the post.” Oh, my friends, this is “a south land,” and it slopes off toward desserts of sor rows ; and the prayer which Achsah made to her father Caleb, we make this day to our Father God: “Thou has given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave them the upper springs, and the nether springs ” Blessed be God! We have more advan tages given us than we can really appreciate. We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall call the nether springs, and glories in the world to come which I shall call the upper springs. Where shall I finds words enough threaded with light to set forth the pleasure of re ligion? David, imable to describe it in words, played it on a harp. Mrs. Hemans, not find ing enough power in prose, sings that praise in a canto. Christopher Wren, unable to de scribe it in language, sprung it into the arches of St. Paul's. John Bunyau, unable to present it in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fascinat ion of allegory. Handel, with ordinary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses it up in an oratorio. Oh, there is no life on eartn so happy as a really Christian life. I do not mean a sham Chris tian life, but a real Christian life. Where there is a thorn, there is a whole garland of roses. Where there is one groan, there aro three doxologies. Where there is one day of cloud, there is a whole season of sunshine. Take the humblest Christian man that you know—angels of God canopy him with their white wings; the lightnings of heaven are his armed allies; the Lord is his Shepherd, picking out for him green pas tures by still waters; if he walk forth, heaven is his body guard; if he lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angel blossoming, are let into bis droanis; if he be thirsty, the poten tates of heaven are his cup bearers; if he sit down to food, lus plain tabic blooms into the Icing's banquet. Men say: “Look at that old fellow with the worn-out coat;” tho angels of God “ky: “Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let him come in!” Fastidious people cry: “Get off my front steps;” the doorkeepers of heaven cry: “Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!” When he comes to die, though, he may be carried out in a pine box to the potter’s field: to that potter’s field the chariots of Christ will come down, and the cavalcade will crowd all tho boulevards of heaven. I bless Christ for the present satisfaction | of religion. It makes a man all right with reference to the past; it makes a man alt right with reference to the future. Oh thesa nether springs of comfort! They are peren nial. The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal: “The Lord knoweih them that are His.” “The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, bat My kindness shall not depart from the thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord, who hath mercy upon them.” Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs of comfort bursting through all the valleys of trial and tribula- tionJ When you see, yon of the world, what satisfaction there is on earth in re ligion, do you not thirst after it as the liter of Caleb thirsted after the _s? It is no stagnant pond, rsr with malaria, bat springs of water leaping from the Rock of Ages! Take \ip one cop of that spring water, and across the top of the chalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly wall the yellow of jasper, the green of emerald, the bine of sar donyx, the fire of jacinth. I wish I could make yon understand the ioy religion is to some of us. It makes a man happy while he lives, and glad when he dies. With two feet upon a choir and bursting with dropsies, I heard an old man in the poorhouse cry out: “Bless the Lord, oh my soul!” I looked around and said; “What has this man got to thank God for?” It makes the lame man leap like the hart, and the dumb sing. They say that the old Puritan religion is a juiceless and joyless religion ; but I remember reading of Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in his last moments said: “ Is this dying ? Why, my bow abides in strength ! I am swallowed up in God.” “ Her ways are ways of pleasant ness, and all her paths aro peace.” Oh, you who have l*een trying to satisfy yourselves with the “ south land ” of this world, do you not feel that you would, this morning, like to have access to the nether springs of spiritual comfort? Would you not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and bless your table and heal your wounds, and strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your dead? Tis religion that can cive Sweetest pleasures while wo live; ’Tla religion can supply Sweetest comfort when we die. But I have something better to tell yon, suggested by this text. It seems that old father Caleb on the wedding day of his daugh ter wanted to make her just as happy as pos sible. Though Othniel was taking her away, and his heart was almost broken because sue was going, yet he gives her a “south land;” not only that, but tho nether springs; not only that, but the upper springs. O God, my Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast given me a “south land” in this world, and the nether springs of spiritual comfort in this world; but, more than all, I thank Thee for the upper springs in heaven. It is very fortunate we cannot see heaven until we get into it. Oh, Christian man, if you could see what a place it is, we would never get yon back again to the office or store or shop, and the duties you ought to perform would go neglected. I am glad I shall not see that world until I enter it. Suppose we were allowed to go on an excursion into that good land with the idea of returning. When we got there, and heard the song, and looked at their raptured faces, and mingled in tho su pernal society, we would cry out: “Let us stay! We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble of going back again to that old world? We are nere now; let us stay.” And it would take angelic violence to put us out of that world, if once we got there. But as people who cannot af ford to pay for an entertainment some times come around it and look through the door ajar, or through tho openings in the fence, so we come and look through the crevices in that good land which God has pro vided for us. We can just catch a glimpse of it. We come near enough to hear the rumbling of the eternal orchestra, though not near enough to know who blows the cornet or who fingers the harp. My soul spreads out both wings and claps them in triumph at the thought of those upper springs. One of them breaks from beneath the throne; another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the temple; an other at the door of “the house of many mansions.” Upper springs of gladness! Up per springs of light! Upper springs of love! It is no fancy of mine. “The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water.” Oh, Savior de- vine, roll in upon our souls one of those an ticipated raptures! Pour around the roots ot the parched tongue one drop of that liquid life! Toss before our vision those fountains of God, rain bowed with eternal victory. Hear it. They are never sick there; not so much as a headache, or twinge rheumatic, or thrust neuralgic. The inhabitant never says: “I am sick.” They tire never tired there. Flight to farthest world is only the play of a holiday. They never sin there. It is as easy for them to be holy as it is for us to sin. They never die there. You might go through all the outskirts of the great city and find not one place where tho ground was broken for a grave. The eyesight of the redeemed is never blurred with tears. There is health in every cheek. There is spring in every foot. There is majesty on every brow. There is joy in every heart. There is hosanna on every lip. How they must pity , us as they look over and down and see ».», and say: “Foot things avtaj down in that - world.” And when some Christian is hurled into a fatal accident, they cry: “Good! he is coming T’ And when we stand around the couch of some loved one (whose strength is going away) and we shake our heads fore bodingly, they cry; “I am glad he is worse; he nas been down there long enough. There, he is dead! Come home! Come home!” Oh, if we could only get our ideas about that future world untwisted our thought of trans fer from here to there would be as pleasant to us as it was to a little child that was dying. She said : “ Papa, when will I go home ? ” And he said: “To-day, Florence.” “To day? So soon? I am so glad!” I wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts, oh Christian man, to the highest possible exhilaration. The day of your de liverance is coming, is coming. It is rolling on with the shining wheels of the day, and the jet wheels of the night. Every thump of the heart is only a hammer stroke striking off another chain of clay. Better scour the deck and coil the rope, the harbor is only six miles away. Jesus will come down in the “Nar rows" to meet you. Now is your salvation nearer Jian when you believed. Unforgiven man, unpardoned man, will you not to-day make a choice between these two portions, between tho “south land” of this world, which slopes to the desert, and this glorious land which thy Father offers thee, running with eternal water courses? Why let your tongue be consumed with thirst wheu there are the uether springs and the upper springs, comfort hero and glory here- alter? Let me tell you, my dear brother, that the silliest and wickedest thing a man ever does is to reject Jesus Christ. The loss of the soul is a mistake that cannot be corrected. It is a downfall that knows no alleviation; it is a ruin that is remediless; it is a sickness that has no medicament; it is a grave into which a man goes but never comes out. Therefore, putting my hand on your shoulder as one brother puts his hand on the shoulder of a brother, I say this day, be manly, and sur render your heart to Christ. You have been long enough serving the world; now begin to serve the Lord who bought you. You have tried long enough to carry these burdens; let Jesus Christ put His shoulder under your burden. Do I hear any one in the audience say: “I mean to attend to that alter awhile; it is not just the time?” It is the time, for the simple reason that you arc sure of no other; and God sends you here this morning, and He sent me here to comfort you with this mes sage; and you must hear now that Christ died to save your soul, and that if you want to be saved you may be saved. “Whosoever will, let him come.” You will never find any more convenient season than this. Some of you have been waiting ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and sixty years. On some of you the snow has fallen. I see it on your brow, and yet you have not attended to those duties which belong to the very spring time of life. It is September with you now, it is October with you, it is December with you. I am uo alarmist. I simply know this; If a man does not repent in this world he never repents at all, and that now is the accepted time, and now is the day of salva tion. Oh, put off this matter no longer. Do not turn your back on Jesus Christ who comes to save you, lefet you should lose your soul. On Monday morning a friend of mine started from New York to celebrate her birthday with her daughter in Virginia. On Saturday of tho same week, just after sue rise, I stood at the gate of Greenwood wait ing for her silent form to come in. It is a long journey to take in one week—from New York to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia to Baltimore, from Baltimore to Washington, from Washington to Virginia, from Virginia into the great eternity. “What thy hand findeth to do. do it.” Tex years ago the superintendent of an Iowa railroad booted a tramp out of his office for having the cheek to ask for a pass. To-day that tramp is the superintendent of that same road, while the man who lifted him on his boot keeps a restaurant and sends bim o lunches. er The United States is the greatest producer of gold, silver, lead and cop per in the world. Our annual mining product amounts to $550,000,000. RELIGIOUS READING. AT LAST. 1 When on my day of life the night Is falling And in the Winds from unsunned space* blown, I hear far voices ont of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown. Thou who hast made my home of life sc pleasant. Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O love divine, O Helper ever present, Be thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting, Earth, sky, home’s p.cture, days of shaue and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine. I have but thee, O Father! Let thy spirit ^ Be with me then to comfort and uphold: No gate of pearL no branch of palm, I merit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if, my good-and ill unreckoned. And both forgiven through thy abounding grace, I find myself by hands familiar beckoned Unto my fitting place. Some humble door among thy many man sions. Some sheltering shade where sin and striv ing cease. And flows forever through heaven’s great expansions The river of thy peace. There from the music round about mo stoal- ing, I fain would learn the new and holy song. And find at least beneath thy tree- of heal ing The life for which I long. , - —John Greenleaf Whittier. lany full RESIGNING THE RUDDER. For those who are troubled about man; things, these words from the Quiver are of comfort: It was a prayer of George Herbert’s that he might wholly be led to resign the rudder of his life to the sacred will of God, to be moved “as Thy love shall sway.” How much fretting, how much worry, it would spare us ali if we asked our Heavenly Father that He would cau-e us to lean utterly in per fect faith, in cheerful, unquestioning obedi ence, upon His will and wisdom, whether in life’s trivial concerns or in those shades of darkness from which we reepil in fear! We can ask Him nothing beyond His power; some of us know the feel ing, “In all but this, I could say Thy will be done”; but if we will ouly tell the story at His feet, pouri ig out our hearts be fore Him, we shall.be able to trust our'Father, even to rejoice in Him, through every change ful pathway. Not long ago a Christian visitor called upon a poor woman who had just bt ea told by the matron of the h spital cf t e incurable nature of her complaint; the E oor suffe er tearfully declared si.e accepted red’s will patiently so far as her own pain and death were concerned. I ut sbe could not bear the thought of her motherless children; nobody could in duce her, she said, as concerned the ch 1- dren, to feel patient and resigned. It was a painful scene; the visitor could not remon strate with her uron her spirit of impatience aud murmuring,.but felt as though she must weep with her, as she said, “Yours is untold sorrow, beyond my understanding even, but God knows all about it—God understands. Will you not tell Him just how you feel—tell Him what you have told me—all your pain, anxiety and (tread of leaving your little ones alone! I am going now to tell tho leader of our prayer-meeting about you: to-morrow, from three to half-past, prayers will arise on your behalf; will you not at the same time be on your knees before God and tell him all?” The sufferer promised; next day, relates the vis itor, e .riiest, pleading supplications laid her case before God, and what was the result? The next intervi w found That woman as ca'm as she had been impa’ient; she had poured out her own heart in prayer, and others had prayed for her, and she told the visitor, “I am just leaving everything with God—not only whether I live or die,but e*?ch of my little children. Everything is safe with Hmi; I feel it—I know it;' 1 —Verilyonr God is the same now as in past ages—prayer- hearing, prayer-answering. An Indi&n'sTrtdition. “Uncle” D. W. Hughes, a well-pre- served and intelligent citizen of the county, who has spent sixty-four years of his life in this immediate section, visited the Times office and told many reminis cences of his younger days. Mr. Hughes said that the Indians who lived here were the very personification of hoaesty, and they regarded truthfulness a* one of the greatest of all virtues. When a man knowingly told a falsehood he was per petually taunted vith it, two fingers spread out in the shape of a V were held up before him on every occasion, which meant “forked tongue.” He relates a story of Indian tradition which was very interesting. In a village a mile and a half beldW the present site of Oxford two squaws gave birth to twins, and the little pappooses were all as spotted as leopards. The squaws were tried and all condemned to death at the stake. On the day the enitire population gathered at the scene of execution, more than seventeen hundred in number. When all had b;en bound at the stake and torches applied/there was a sound as of thunder, the earth opened and every soul, with the exception of two young braves, were swallowed in its depths. These young braves went off to tha Cherokee nation, got them squaws, came and settled down near the scene of the great accident and remained until driven away before the civilization of the whites. This happened only sixty years before the coming of the Hughes family into this section, and was often related to the family. A large pond of beautiful water now covers the spot. Itisfealled “Blue Pond,” and soundings on different occasion have failed to find its bottom. A few years ago a great tree was floating in this pond. Alternately it would .raise its trunk high above the surface of the waters, then as regularly would its roots be turned up ward and project above the water in the same way. This is not tradition, but facts.—Anniston {Ala.) Times. DR. MACLAREX OX FLOWERS. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Maclaren, of Manch ster, England, in opening a flower show at West Gortoi, said there could be nothing but affinity and conco' d between beauty in any form and the highest truth. There can be nothing except harmony be tween Gods works in nature and God's works in his higher revelation of himself. The flowers of the field our Master had used as a text of one of the lessons which had sunk deepest into the imagination and heart of the whole world; and when he said “Con-ider the lilies of the fie d, how they grow,” it was bidding us to do what his manhood, that was so tremblingly sensitive to all things fair and wondrous, had often done before It' gave that command. If we thought of those words of our Lord they pointed us to the mysteries of growth in the lowtr world as typical of the true nature of Christian life and progress. The flowers not only preached the lesson of uncareful drinking in of all the blessings that God gave, but they preached to us likewise the lesson that growth in its highest and noblest form need not be effort, aud should not be conflict. But we could not all of us come tc that. The flowers grew so. We could not grow so, except very occasionally. Some irees grow under all manner of disadvan tages and ad .erse circumstances, and so it was that Chrisi’s children often had to grow. He was gratified at seeing this attempt to bring beauty, and a love of beauty and a care for beauty, into homes that would be all the happier in the measure in which this taste was cultivated. He did not suppose that growing flow-rs would do much to make people Christians, but it might do a great de.l to help to keep them out of the public-house. He did not suppose it would sanctify human ity, but an unsanctified humanity was better when it had learned some sensitiveness to some forms jf God’s revelation than when it had none, and anything, however small, that help d people to understand how much pleasure tht.. e might be in common thing-:, and how fair God m ant the world to be was all on the side of goodness. “Every little helps,” and in view of the conditions of life under which sc much of our town po; ulation E assed its days, any auxil ary on the side of eauty. or goodness, or elevation of auv sort ought to be welcomed and not looked askance at by Christian men. He hoped the dayi were passing—if they be not passed—when good, saintly sou’s that had Christ’s Gospel to preach would say “Nothing e se will save men except the gospel, and therefore 1 shall have nothing to do with anything el-e.” He believed himself that nothing else would save men except the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and people might work at culture and refin ment to all eternity, if they sep arated it from Christianity, and they ’would do nothing. But notwithstanding he hailed all efforts in the direction of goodness, and as the water from the river nfight permeate tlie soil far away iroiii itschanueJ,«na nngut refre-h many a plant that grew very distant from its course, so the Gospel of Christ, passing and percolating beneath mauv of these apparently independent works, m’ight make them bring ferth fairer flowers and grow with a brighter lustre. Talmagc Sketches an Ideal Home. Make your home the brightest place on earth if you would charm your children to the high path of virtue and rectitude and religion, says Rev. T. De Witt Tal- mage in the New York Observer. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light .which puts gold ou the gentian and spots the pansy pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a Dead march. Do not cover yp your walls with such pictures pictures as West’s “Death on a Pale Horse,” or Tintoretto’s “Massacre of the Innocents.” Rather cover them if you have pictures, with “The Hawking Party,” aud “The Mill by the Mountain Stream,” and “The Fox Hunt,” and “The Children Amid Flowers,” and “The Har vest Scene,” and “The Saturday Night Marketing.” Get you no hint of cheer fulness from grasshopper’s leap, and lamb’s frisk, and qfiail’s whistle, and garrulous streamlet ’fehich from the rock; at the mountain top clear down to the : meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep, comes looking for the steepest place to leap off at, and talking just to hear itself talk. If all the skies hurtled with tempest and everlasting storm wandered over the sea, and every moun tain stream were raving mad, frothing at mouth with mud foam, and there About Doctors’ Bills. ; family has all it can do n the da Many a i to keep the wolTCram the door without being called upon to pay frequent and exorbitant bills for medical advice and attendance. True, the doctor is often a necessary, though expensive, visitant to the family circle: nevertheless, pore and well-tested remedies—like Warners Safe Cure—kept on hand for use when required will be found a paying investment for every household in the Sickness is one of tee legacies of life, and yet every ill that flesh is heir to has an anti dote in the laboratory of nature. Hon. H. H. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y., President of the Chamber of Commerce of teat city, was a few years ago stricken with kidney disease, which the physicians declared incurable. In this extremity a friend recommended to him a vegetable preparation now known through out the civilized world as Warner’s Safe Cure. He tried it and was quickly restored to perfect health. The incident led him to begin the manufacture of the wonderful pre paration, and to make its merits known in all tongues and among all peoples. He has now laboratories and warehouses in the United States not only, but in Canada, England, Germany, Austria, Australia and Bunnah. His preparations meet the require ments and effect the cure of a variety of dis eases, and are all compounded from medicinal plants of the highest virtue. Mr. Warner is a man of affairs, of wealth, culture and the highest standing in his own city and throughout the State. His character is the best guarantee of the purity and excel lence of his renowned Remedies, which may be found in every first class drug store of Europe and America. A Remarkable Deposit of Salt. The Independence (Cal.) Independent says: It is doubtful if there is elsewhere in the world a more remarkable deposit of salt than is found near Silver Peak. The salt is almost perfectly pure, the grade by chemical test being ninety- eight per cent. It is shoveled into sacks where found, and is ready for use in that state. It is as white as snow and of fine grain. It has been proved to be the finest salt in use for' curing meat. When we have a railroad to Los Angeles meat pack* ing will be one of the big items of Owens valley business. There will then be use for this fine salt. In Saline valley, across the Inyo mountains, is another vast de posit of salt. Indians gather this salt, pack it over in Owens valley and ex change it for goods. hills, and them were Vtl oxxri n r the lulls, and them wete neither lark’s; carol nor hummingbird’s trill nor water fall’s dash, but only bear’s bark and panther’s scream and wolf’s howl, then yon might well gather into your homes only the shadows. God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to them who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right by anything that we do or neglect to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits wh ch it was in our power to bequeath.—John liuskin. Opium is got by cutting the capsule of the poppy flower with a notched iron instrument at sunrise, and bv the next morning a drop or two of juice has oozed out. This is scraped off and saved by the grower, and after he has a vessel full of it it is strained and dried. It takes a great many poppies to make a pound of opium, and it goes through a number of processes before it is ready for the market. In a liquid state it looks like a dark strawberry jam. __ Flapping of a Fly’s Wing. In his book “On the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals,” Sir John Lubbock records some of his later obser vations, among which are these: The slow flapping of a butterfly’s wing produces no sound, but when the move ments are rapid a noise is produced, which increases in shrillness with the number of vibrations. Thus the housefly, which produces the sound F, vibrates its wings 21,120 times a minute, or S35 times iu a second, and the bee, which makes a sound of A, as many as 26,400 times, or 440 times in a second. On the contrary, a tired bee hums on E, and therefore, ac cording to theory, vibrates its wings only 330 times a second. Marcy has succeeded in confirming these numbers graphically. He fixed a fly so that the tip of the wing just touched a cylinder, which was moved by clock work. Each stroke of the wing caused a mark, of course, very slight, but still quite perceptible, and he thus showed that there were actually 330 strokes in a second, agreeing almost exactly with the number inferred from the note produced. Kanawha’s Pictured Rock. The “pictured rock” of the Kanawha Valley, near Charleston, W. V., has been covered by the river, owing to the build ing of a dam by the Government. It is one of very few documents of the Indians left in the Eastern States and has often been attributed to a vanished race of the ordinary Indian type. Figures of men, bears, fish and fowls are carved on a smooth part of the stone in a fashion that is, thoroughly Indian, though perhaps not the work of the tribes last in posses sion of Paint Creek and the Valley of the Kanawha. The habit of taking ether is said to be extremely prevalent in the North of Ire- and. The President’s Fathcr-in-Law. The Rev. Dr. Scott, President Harri son's father-in-law, keeps steadily at his desk in the Pension Office, according tc the New York World, which also say* that “his daughters and the President himself have asked him to resign his po sition, but he refuses to live in idleness. Shortly after the election, Airs. -Harrison wrote to her father asking him to quit work and live at the White House. Her husband also wrote to Dr. Scott, cor dially supporting his wife’s request. But the old gentleman sturdily refused the temptation, and said that he had been so long used to the routine of his office that he could not give it up. His compan ions in the Pension Bureau say that his habits and manners have not changed at all since last November.” • a «• S '•ip ■3 n* <r 'j' SEAL THFU1. EXERCISE. Onh y a few -.months ago these romping, rosy-cheeked lasses were ptmy, dell* tie, sickly girls. By the aid of Dr. Pierce’s world-famed Favorite Pre scription, they have blossomed out into beautiful, plump, hale, hearty, strong young women. “Favorite Prescription” Is an Invigorating, restorative tonic and regulator and promoter of functional acuon at that critical period of from girlhood to womanhood, it is a perfectly safe remedial agefif^and produce only good results. It is carefully compounded, by an- experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. It is purely vegetable in its composition and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. It imparts strength to the whole system. For overworked, “worn- out,” “run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses “shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, D*. Piercb’s Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaied at an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It is the only medicine for women. " " - * : it wfll sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee, from the manufacturers, that i give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee haa been printed on the bottle-wrappers, and fajthfully carried out fo’r many years. Copyright, .1883, by 'World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors. 100 Ladles Wanted, And 100 men to call daily on any druggist for a free trial package of Lane’s Family Medi cine. the great root and herb remedy, discov ered by Dr. Silas Lane while in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys it is a positive care. For consiiration and clearing np the complexion it does won ders. Children like it. Everyone praises it. Large-size package. SO cents. At all drug gists’. There are about 100,000 Americans in Bariar- The ployed nappyi man or woman who is profitably em is generally happy. If yon are not iappy it may be because you have not found your proper work. We earnestly urge all such persons to write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St.. Richmond, Va., and they can show you a work in which you con be happily and profitably employed. A Radical Care far Epileptic Fits. To the Editor—Please inform vour readers that I have a positive remedy for the abovs named disease which I warrant to cure ths worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir tues that I will send free a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P. O. and Express address. Resp’y, H.G. ROOT. M. C.. 1«3 Pearl St.. New York. Catarrh Cared. A clergvman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease, -Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured and saved aim from death. Any sufferer from this dread ful disease sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren St., N. Y., will receive the recipe free of charge. 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