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REV. DR. TALMAGE. I TllC BROOKLYN DIVINE7S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Gleaners In Life's Field.” (Preached at Glen wood. Col.) Christ’s anguish beat against eternity,to be echoed back b] Text: “And the ivent and came and gleaned in the field after the reavers; and her hap axis to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kin dred of Elimelech."—Ruthsi., 3. Within a few weeks I have been in North Carolina. Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Indiana, Ulinon, Kentucky, Missouri, and they are one great harvest Reid, and no season can be more enchanting in any country than the season of harvest. The time that Rath and Naomi arrive Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the old custom when a sheaf fell from a load in the haraest field for the rearers to refuse to gather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might happen to come that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place, so that the poor coming along that way might glean it and get their bread. But, you say, “What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; and can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister her hands in the harvest field?’ Boaz owns a large farm, and be goes out to see the reapers gather in the gi ain. Com ing there, right behind the swarthy, sun- browned reapers, he beholds a beautiful wo man gleaning—a woman more fit to bend to a harp or -sit upon a throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an event ful day I It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner—an attachment full of undying interest to the Church of God in all ages; while Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a bushel of bar ley, goes home to Naenai to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Ruth, who left her native land of Moab in darkness, and journeyed through an un dying affection for her mother-in-law, is in the harvest field of Boaz. is affianced to one of the best families in Judah, and becomes In after time the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory l Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning? im in the first place from this subject louble develops character. It was be- pent, poverty and exile that developed, ^ted and announced to all ages the sub- jf Ruth’s character. That is a very ite man who has no trouble. It >w that made John Bunyan the and Dr. Young the better O’Connell the better orator, and l the better preacher, and Have- [ better soldier, and Kitto the better 1st, and Ruth the better daughter- ked an aged man in regard to his was a very brilliant man • “Why your pastor, so very brilliant, veso little tenderness in his ser- WeU,” he replied, “the reason is has never had any trouble. When comes upon him his style will be After awhile the Lord took a that pastor's house, and though r was just as brilliant as he was the warmth, the tender- |is discourses: The fact i* ble is a great edl • see sometimes a musician sit instrument, and his execution >rmal and unfeeling. The rea- 1 his life he has been prospered, ^rtune or bereavement come to d he sits down at the instru- t u discover the pathos in the first eys. Misfortune and trials are ?rs. tor comes into a sick room wnei'e~T^MV a dying child. Perhaps he is veryEfeugnfc bis prescription, and very rouglyfn his manner, and rough in the feel ing vu the pulse, and rough in his answer to/the mother’s anxious question, tut e years roll on and there nas been one Read in his own house, and now he comes ' into the sick room, and with tearful eye he looks at the dying child and he says, “Oh, how this reminds me of my Charlie!” Trouble, the great educator! Sorrow—I see its touch in the grandest painting; I hear its tremor in the sweetest song: I feel its power in the mightiest argument. Grecian mythology said that the founda- tw»n of Hippocrene was struck out by the loot of the winged horse, Pegasus. 1 have often noticed in life that the brightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian com fort and spiritual life have been struck out by the iron shod hoof of disaster and ca lamity. I see Daniel’s courage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace. I see Paul’s prowess best wnea I fiud him on the foundering ship under the glare of the light ning in the breakers of Melita. God crowns His cniloren amid the howling of wild beasts and the chopping of blood splashed guillotine and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It took all our past national distressas, and it takes all our present national sor rows, to lift up our uaiiou oa that high career where it will marcn along after the foreign despotisms that have mocked and the tyrannies that have jeered shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God, who hates oppression, and who, by the strength of His own red right arm, will make all men tree. Ana so it is individually, and in the family, and in the church, and in the world, that through darkness and storm and trouble men, women, churches, nations, are developed. Again, I see in my text the beauty of un faltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity. But of all her acquaint ances, how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judea, when she had to make that lonely journey? One—the heroine of my text. One—absolutely one. I suppose when Naomi’s husband was liv ing, and they had plenty of money, and all things went well, they had a great many callers. But I suppose that after her hus band died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled very much with callers. All the birds that sang in the bower while the suu shone have gone to their nests, now the night has fa'len. In this world, so full of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversitv as in days of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onrsiph- orus, who visited him in jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adeered to Him on the cross; Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out, “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; aud where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy ]>eople shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, and there "will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship end darkness of ten come out in Diaces of io v. When Ruth *rom Moab to warn Jerusalem, to go along »ith her mother-in-law. I suppose the people Aid: ‘•Oh. what a foolish creature t<* go away from her father's horse, to go off with a poor old woman toward the land of Judea! They won't live to get across the desert. They will be drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the wilderness will destroy them.” It was a very dark morning when Ruth started off with Naomi; but behold her in my text in tbe liar vest field of Boaz, to be affianced to >ne of the lords of the land, and become one of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. And so it often is that a C th which starts very dandy ends very ightly. It was very hard for Noah to endure the ■coffing of the people in his day, while he was trying to build the ark, and was every morning quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use. But when (he deluge came, and the tops of the mountains disappeared like the backs of sea monsters, and the elements, lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoicad in his own safety and in the safety of his family, and looked out on the wreck of a ruined earth. Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied a pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human bate smacking its Ups in satisfaction after it bad been draining His last drop of blood, the sheeted dead ours ting from the sepulchers at His crucifixion. Tell me, O Gethsemane and Golgotha! were there ever darker times than those? Like the booming of the mid- the i the gates of by all the thrones of heaven and all tbe dungeons of helL But the day of reward comes from Christ; all the pomp and dominion of this world are to be bung on His throne, uncrowned heals are to bow before Him on whose head there are many crowns, and all the celestial wor ship is to come up at His feet like the hum- mmg of the forest, like the rushing of the waters, like the thundering of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters: ' “Hallelujah, for the Lord God omuipotent reigneth "’ Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignificant may be momentous. Can you imagine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judea? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the fact that this Ruth just happened to alight — aa they say — just nappeneu to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all ages, all generations, have an interest in the fact that she was to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations an d kingdoms must look at that one little inci dent with a thrill of unspeakable and eternal satisfaction, bo it is iu your history and in m ne - events that you thought of no impor tance at all have been of very great mo ment. That casual conversation, that ac cidental meeting—you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your life! It seemed to Be of no importance that Jubal invented rude instruments of music, calling them harp and organ, but they were tbe introduction of all the world s mm* strelsy. And as you bear the vibration of a strineed instrument, even after the fingers nave oeen uiaeu away from It, so all music now o' lute and drum and cornet is only the long continued strains of Jubal’s harp and Jubal’s organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importance that Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and iron, butthatrude foundry of ancient days has its echo iu the rattle of Birmingham ma chinery and the roar and b**»g of factories on the Merrimac. Again, I see in my subject an illustration of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Boaz handed to her. The customs of society of course have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to which Ruth was subjected, every intelligent woman will find something to do. I know there is a sickly sentimentality oa this subject. In some families there are persons of no practical service to the house hold or community, and though there are so many woes all around about them in the world they spend their time languishing over a new pattern or bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lover who shot himself! They would not deign to look at Ruth carrying back the barley on her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. Madame de Stael did a world of work in her time; and one day, while she was seated amid instruments of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid manu script books which she had written some one said to her, “How do you find time to attend to all of these things?’ “Oh,” she replied, “these are not the things I am f rond of. My chief boast is in the fact that have seventeen trades, by any one of which I could make a livelihood if neces sary.” And if in secular spheres there is so much to be done, in spiritual work how vast the field! How many dying all arounl about us without one word of comfort! We want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, more Marys, more Doborahs consecrated—body, mind, soul—to the Lord who bought them. Once more I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. Ruth going into that harvest field might have said: “There is a straw and there is a straw, but what is a straw? I can’t get any barley for myself or my mother-in-law out of those separate straws.” Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws and she put them to gether, and more straws until she got enough to make a sheaf. Putting that down she went and gathered more straws until she had another sheaf, and another and an other and another, and then she brought them altogether and she threshed th'jm out. and she had an ephah of barley, niarh a bushel. Oh, that we all might be gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith’s shop, Abercrombie,_ the worldVenowned philosopher, was ^•phy sician in Scotland, and begot his philosophy, or the chief part of it, while as a physician he was waiting for the door of the sick room to open. Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no time for mental or spiritual im provement; the great duties of life cross the field like strong reapers and carry off all the hours. and there is only here and there a fragment left that is not worth gleaning. Ah. roy friends, yim could go into tbe busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportunities, which gathered might at last make a whole sheaf for the Lord’s garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which taken up and bound together and beaten out will a£ last fill you with much joy. There are a fewmoments left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each one have a measure full and running over! Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And if there be in your household an aged or a sick relative that is not strong enough to come forth and toil in the field,t'ien let Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning. “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt less come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” May the Lord Go i of Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever! PEARLS OP THOUGHT. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON* FOR AUGUST 23. Lesson Text: “Christ the Breatl of Life,” John vi., 20-40—Golden Text: John vi., 34—Com mentary. 23. “Jesus answered them and said. Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye seek Me, not be cause ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.” Having fed the hungry thousands He sent His disci ples away by boat across the sea while He went away alone into a mountain to pray. Later He went to them walking on the sea, in the midst of a great storm, and as soon as they received Him into the boat they were at the land. Next day the multitudes re turn across the sea seeking Him, and having found Him they ask, “Rabbi, when earnest Thou hither?” 27. “Labor not for the meat which per- isbeth. but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you.” We are reminded of the question in Isa. lv., 2, “Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” Also Ps. Ixiii.. 5. “My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness.” “For Him hath God the Father sealed.” This is given as the reason why the Son of Man is qualified to give the meat which en dureth. 28. “Then said they unto Him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God?’ He spoke of giving them enduring meat as His gift. They talk of doing something, so blind were they and so blind are we to God’s way. How much had they done in the matter of being fed a little while before on the other side of the sea? Just so much could they do and no more in reference to obtaining this enduring meat. £9. “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.” They spoke of doing the works of God. He speaks of the work of God, for it is impossible for God to work through instruments which He does not control. To believe on Himis to receive Him (John i„ 12), and no amount of knowl edge of Him will give life apart from re ceiving Him as God’s gift to us. 30. “They said, therefore, unto Him What sign showest Thou, then, that we may see and believe Thee? What dost thou work?’ It does not seem possible that those who had so recently witnessed the multipli cation of five loaves and two fishes to feed five thousand men could ask for a sign, or that those who had seen so many of His mirecles (verse two) could say, “What dost Thou work?’ Had they not seen enough? And yet they ask that they may see. Are they blind? Yes, truly! their heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest they should see and hear and understand, and be con verted and healed. 81. “Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” Reminding Him that in the wilderness the people were fed with manna every day, and doubtless saying in their hearts, “You fed us yesterday, it is true, but now feed us again to-day, as Moses did our fathers.” Thus they proved that the testimony of Jesus concerning them was true (verse 26), that they sought Him only because He fed them with food for their bodies. 32. “Then Jesus said unto them. Verily, verily, I say unto you. Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father givethyou the true bread from heaven.” He would direct their thoughts not to Moses, nor even to Himself, but to the Father in heaven. This He always did. 33. “For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world.” Bread is mentioned in this chapter sixteen times,and at least ten times it refers to the True Bread. By considering verses 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 48, 50, 51, 58 and their context, it will be seen that He is Him self the True Bread, and that we are to eat Him, or eat His flesh and drink His blood .^verses 53-56), which, by comparing verses 54 and’47, “Will be seen to mean that we are to believe on Him, for there are not two ways of obtainii ‘ ' ’ TEMPERANCE. AXD THE RIGHT SHALL WIN. We arefizhtinga mighty b-ittie 'Gainst liquordom’s drea i array; j We are waging a deadly conflict, But we know we shall win the day! | Though the odds are often against us, I We’ll labor and work and pray; i Our rallying-cry soars above war's din— I We fight for the right, and the right shall win! We have captured some spoil from our foe- men. Borne citadels counted so strong; We are battering still at his strongholds. We will conquer them all yre long!. We have planted our flag on his ramparts, ’Mid music and shout and.^feong. Our triumph means victory o’er drink-caused sin, We fight for the right, an<J the right shall win! ; We fight gainst the desscration That marketh God’s holy Ray; We fight ’gainst the daily traffic In poisons, that myriadKlay. We fight ’gainst the drinl^ng customs— The customs that lure astray, 'Gainst the foes of our friends, our kith and kin— We fight for the right, and the right shall win! —National Temperance Advocate. — TWO CHTLDREW KILLED »T WHISKY. At Walkerville, Montana^ one night re cently, two children, Michael. J. and Mary Ellen Downey, aged four and three years re spectively, died from the effects of drinking whisky. That morning Mrs. Downey stepped out to a neighbor’s house. A neighbor called during her absence and saw on the kitchen floor a demijohn of whisky. The boy and girl had been drinking the liquor. When the mother returned the boy was quite intoxi cated and soon fell limp to the floor. Emetics were given and a physician applied restora tives to keep the heari beating. The girl died about 11:30 at night and the boy breathed his last an hour later. DRINKING AND LONGKVI: Y. A medical authority, says an English pa per, has advised life-insur mce companies to issue policies to reformed inebriates only at the same rates as to old men in order that financially they may be prcperly guarded. It is held that a man of forty-eight who had been a hard drinker, but had abandoned the practice, would probably have longevity so far impaired as to warrant a life-insurance company in dealing with him as though he were from sixty-five to seventy years old. It will be seen from this that the chances of longevity are promoted by abstinence in early life as well as in later years; that in the matter of using strong drink it is better, as Dr. Cuyler with much pertinence has said, to “stop before you begin.” STRYCHNINE VS. ALCOHOL. An analysis of the vaunted Russian speci fic for the redemption of inebriates has con firmed the fact that total abstinenca is, after all, tbe best cure, as well as the best pre ventive of alcoholism. The plan of Dr. Fedor Portugaleff consists in treating topers to a subcutaneous injection of a fluid which now proves to consist of a rather strong solution of strychnine. Experience seems to show that repeated doses of the antidote actually beget an indifference, and at last a positive aversion, to alcoRol, but also that the patient becomes dependent upon the tonic effect of the counter-poison. In other words, the supposed reimidy delivers the re formed toper into the hands of another poison habit. We might as well recommend the introduction of French roulette to pre vent the spread of the baccarat epidemic.— Voice. NON-ALCOHOLIC TREATMENT OP DISEASE. The Board of Managers of the London Temperance Hospital, iu their annual report for 1890, give the number of in-patieats ad mitted to the hospita 1 during the year as 753, of whom 390 were cuped, 256 were re lieved, sixty were unrelieved and forty-five died; a mortality of not quite six per cent. (5.98). From the opening tif the hospital to night against the rock, the surges of To be selfish is to be ignoble. Amusement to an observing mind is study. AVe may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. Laughing cheerfulness throws sun light on all the paths of life. Fighting is a variety of fruit better nipped in the bud than picked after it is ripe. He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. A man who is not ashamed of him self need not be ashamed of his early condition. It isn’t safe to estimate the quality of a man’s time by the size of his watch chain. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. It doesn’t take a shipbuilder long to learn that it is the fleetest yacht which has the quickest sale. It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. How difficult it is to get men to be lieve that any other man can or does act from (^sintercstedness. It is Eot work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthful; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon tbe blade. Content is the best opulence, be cause it is the plea-antest and tbe sur est. The richest man is he who does not want that which is wanting to him; the poorest is the ihiser, who wants that which he has. 34. “Then said they unto Him, Lord, ever more give us this breed.” Like the woman at the well, wno said. “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw” (chapter iv., 15), she thought only of natural water, and they think only of natural bread. Our temptation is to think more of the gifts than of the giver, and to be ever asking Him for that which we have in Him. 35. “And Jesus said unto them, 1 am the bread of life, he that cometh to Me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” Continuing the thoughts of the last verse that He is our forgiveness, cur peace, our assurance, our salvation, read such words as Eph. i., 6. 7; ii., 14; II Tim i., 12; Isa., xii., 2, and do as the people did with the words of Hezekiah, rest yourself upon these words (II Chron. xxxii., 8) and you will know the meaning of this verse of our lesson. “Hunger and thrist” is a phrase embracing all individual needs and unsatis fied desires of man, in all their variety. 36. “But 1 said unto you. That ye also have seen Me and believe not.” “Tnere are some of you that believe not.” “Ye will not come to Me.” “How often would I, and ye would not.” “In returning and rest shall ye be saved, and ye would not.” “They de spised the pleasant land; they believea not His word.” “They could not enter in be cause of unbelief” verse 64; chapter v., 4">; Matt, xxiii., 37; Isa. xxx., 15; Fs. cvi., 24; Heb. iii., 19). fe’uch is the sad refrain aB through Scripture, while the loving, tender* heart of God is seen in such words as these: ‘Ob, that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My wavs! * -* * He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out. of the rock should 1 have satisfied thee” iPs. Ixxxi.. 13-16). 37. “All that the Father giveth Me shall corae'fc Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” The last part of this verse is familiar to all Bible readers aud gospel bearers, and has given rest to many a soul which, having come to Christ, has gone on rejoicing and saying, “Thank God I am not cast out, I have* His word for it; and if not cast out I am cast in, I am savari.” But the first part we do not hear so much about, for it seems to teach an election, some given and some not given, and this troubles many who will not open their eyes to see the whole truth. 38 “For I cane down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me.” He sought not His own, will but tbe will of God the Father, which He de lighted to do (Ps. xl., 8). He sought not His own glory, but in all things glorified God (chap, viii., 50; xvii., 4). 39. “And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath giv en Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” The elect will not enjoy perfect redemption till the resur- rectien of the just at the coming of Christ for His saints (Lukexiv., 14; I Thess. iv., 16- 18). They may have perfect peace here and now; they will have at death as perfect bliss as an unclothed spirit can have, but only at the first resurrection will they have a re deemed bodv and fully enjoy perfected re demption (I John iii., 2; Rom. viii., 23). 40. ‘‘And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on ilim may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Pet. iii., 9). He has provided redemption for all in the gift of HisSon, that whosoever believeth should not perish, but have ever lasting life (John iii.. 16).—IJesson Helver. the end of last Dec am were 6896, of who 428 died; a mortal! patients’ departmen’ patients in 1890 wer gate since the o) 36,284. In the treai bor al (Hggyfif hospital practice istered in not more but in none of these Referring to the year, the managers “Nfithing has arisei anything likely to an seding that institution the in-patients cured and In the out- ospital the new king an aggre- he hospital of large num- to general been admin- dozen cases; efficacious, of the past n we imagine ,ble of super- rd to its own the treat- cases without of alcohol, the ravages of and it must be a medi- his hospital , to say the hat holy war forces of dis- !d benevolence person :fies bis facul ty drink is re- Ihe total number conscience forbids he first s ties. The courage inspire] sponsible for nine-tenths of of crimes that stain humamUy- “It is well known that alcohol deadens the voice of conscience, and, people deliber ately make use of it for this jpurpose.’ D NOTES. /clists prefer to >lic-houses and [stainers. convention at ire decided to id temperance larolina has set [n North Caro- id treatment of Be systematic in whatever yoa do. Nothing can ever be accomplished by spasmodic attempts. System, no less than order, is one of the first mandates of the Creator. A well-defined plan is absolutely essential to the material success of every undertaking, whethei it is to throw up a mountain or a mole hilL In the regimen of life, write "system” at the head of each list of things to be undertaken and accom plished. xtte was tne nrst person in me news paper business; at least she was an Ad. •olicitor when she wanted the cld man to try the apple.. T&arERAXCE NEWS A According to Wheeling patronize coffee-shops to ij the majority of riders are The temoerance women Lake Bluff, near Chicago, “combine the newspapers' work.” The Legislature of Nort aside a portion of the We; lina Hospital for the car^j inebriates. The Caicago Public Lib^ry 18 opsmu: free reading rooms in diffe® nt parts-of the city, hoping that they may i 0 an antidote to the saloons. A bill for the suppression ^P* inebriety is being prepared for the Gsrm?u Parliament. It is said tnat the Emperor ta^® 8 the liveliest interest in the scheme to check drunkenaess. The story comes from Vinc ;Qne& > Indiana, of a saloon- keeper who becam® crazed by the closing of his saloon on Sunday- ,/tit had been one of his customers ^ no had been crazed by leaving it open on 8 la: lay- nobody tvruiM hava thrill;-tit anvthins' about it. jrts the great sembly held West, Mrs. Holmes and women were I in the exer- would have thought anything Miss Mary Allen Wesff success of the ChautauA recently in Chester, IlL| Zerelda Wallace, Mrs. other well-known W. C. in attendance and took rises. Alcohol has not any mid total of its mortality will bmed effect of all the b ever passed tbe microscop oped in the culture-tube < gut. The subject is now ning to receive some of thi eervoe.—Sooular Science | but tbe grand ‘ the com- fia that have Id or devel- ie hactariolo- wever, begin- ientkm it de- thlg. .... Calls for Domestic Animals. In controlling the movements of do mestic animals bj the voice, besides words of ordinary import, man uses a variety of peculiar terms, calls and inar ticulate sounds—not to include whistling —which varies in different localities. In driving yoked cattle and harnessed horses, teamsters cry “get up” (usually “git ep); “click, click” (tongue against the teeth); “gee,” “haw,” “whoa,” or “wo,” “vhosh,” “back,” etc. All of the above are used in English speaking countries. In Continental Europe the same terms are expressed as “arri,” “juh,” “jah,” “;/io,” etc. In the United States “gee” directs the animals away from the driver, hence to the right; but in England the same term has the oppo site effect, because tb^e “drive side” is different to what it is here. In Virginia the mule drivers “gee” their teams with a cry of “hey-yee-ee-a.” In Norfolk “woosh-we” is used to the same effect. In France “hue” aud “hu-haut” turns the team to the right; in Germany the words “hott” and “hotte,” while in Russia the term “haita” serves the same purpose. To direct animals to the left another series of terms is used. In call ing cattle in the field the following cries are used in the localities given: “Boss, bosse,” “sake, sake” (Connecticut); “coo, coo” and “sook, sook” (Virginia). In Maryland they saj’, “sookey” and “sookew.” “Kope, kope” is the com mon call for horses over most of the United States. Iu Maryland and Ala bama they say “kope-nanny” when they call sheep.—St. Louis Republic. “Japan Wax.” “Japan wax,” as it is called, is ob tained from a tree, the Rhus Succcdunea, which grows in Japan, China aud the East Indies. The Japanese call it Haje, or Haze. The tree commences to bear fruit when five or six years old, and in creases its product every year, till, at the age of fifty years, a single tree will pro duce 350 to 400 pounds of berries, from which seventy to eighty pounds of wax i can be obtained. The wax is formed in the middle of the berry, between the skin and the seed, like the pulp of a grape. It is extracted by boiliag the berries iu water and allowing it to cool, when the wax separates from the skin and seed, sinking to the bottom of the vessel in a solid cake. The specific gravity of the wax is 0.970, and its melting point 131 degrees Fahrenheit. It is largely used, either alone or mixed with tallow, by the Chinese in the manufac ture of candles. This tree should not be confounded with the “tallow tree” of China, which has a pith of solid tallow in all trees that have fully matured.— Picayune. Fire Thousand Tears Old. Mr. Flenders Petrie has made another important discovery in Egypt, at Medum, where he has untombed the oldest dated Egyptian temple yet found, and the only pyramid temple known. It was buried under forty feet of rubbish, and belongs to the old Empire. Hieratic inscriptions in black paint within the chambers fix the name of the builder as Suef ru, a King, connecting the third and fourth dynas ties, and sometimes placed in one or the other (4000 B. C., or earlier). Mr. Pe trie thinks the rubbish choked up the entrance about three hundred years after is siti IS seding definite and appropriate ment of medical and surgi’ the ordinary administral Every hospital testifies to strong drink in social 1 wise to encourage ite cine, if, as the experlen goes to show, such a disuse; least, not inimical to success which is carried on against tl ease by the forces of science combined.” ALCOHOL DEADENS THE CONSCIENCE. Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, in Contern- porarg Review, writes: People explain their use of stimulants ant^ftarcotics, such as brandy, wine, beer, ^ffbacco, hashish, opium, morphia, ether, etch by saying ‘It is pleasant; every one drinks;' it keeps up the spirits;’ or ‘Totlrive away ' melancuoly; the habit is universal; everyoddy smokes,’ etc. But it must be very evident that the man who, placed by circumstances or hiS own acts, iu a position that forces him to choose between the infliction of hardship aui misery upon the family that is dedv to him, on the one hand, and absence froif 1 stupify:ng stim- ulantsand narcotics on the-other, chooses the former alternative, is impdhod to the choice by something far more pptent than the de sire to keep up his spirits, (or the speculative consideration that every V ne e l se does the same. ^ “Thereal reason for the extensive use of these stimulants and narcOf * cs is that they stupefy and deaden the con; science, and con ceal from one’s self its record 8 - . “A sober man scruples to d° that which a drunken man will execute wi thout hesitation. People enjoy stimulants and narcotics either for the purpose of stiflin; > remorse after having performed an actioii* disapproved of by their conscience, or else ib order to induce a state of mind in which thi®? shall be capa ble of doing something contrary to the dic tates of their conscience, a n d to which the animal nature of man is implehing him. “A sober man has conscientious scruples about stealing or committing murder. A drunken man, on the contrary, is troubled with no such scruples. HenO®. it is that if a wishes to do something which his ffety Bridges. Next to minipg disasters railway acci dents have done most to counterbalance the partiality of nature in exempting large portions of the Temperaate Zone from the earthquake and tornadoes of the equatorial regions. In the United States alone the perils of the iron high ways have proved more destructive of human life than the wrath of hostile ele ments in the tropics of the entire West ern Hemisphere, and, since the invention of air-brakes, no other contrivance has promised to do as much in diminishing those perils as the device by which a French engineer now proposes to in sure the safety of railway bridges. This apparatus is founded on the principle that a weak link in the construction of 8'ispensicn bridges, etc., will betray it self by yielding more readily to a uni form strain, and will greatly lessen the possibility of such disasters as that of the Ashtabula express and the Swiss ex cursion Lain.—New York Voice. The Mikado's American Soldier. A soldier of fortune who has had an interesting career in the Orient is Colonel Wasson, the first American officer ever admitted to the Japanese army. The Colonel is a tall, distingue and well pre served man. He went into the Civil War a private aud came out a major, going afterward to Japan, where his ser vices in reorganizing the Mikado’s army procured him a colonelcy^ In one.of the Japanese insurrections he was sentenced to be beheaded, but he escaped, was re stored to favoi, and is now high in the Mikado’s esteem.—Chicago Post. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., Propra. of Hall's Catarrn Cure, offer JUKI reward tor any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by tak ing Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send tor testimoni als, tree. Sold by Druggists, 7oc. Russia’s harvest, it is said,will be tbe worst on record. FITS stopped free by Da. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No nts after nrst day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and #2 trial bottle tree. Dr. Kline, U31 Arch Sb. Rhila., Pa. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle 'A .l ; OICE Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taAeu; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidney Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys* tem effectually, dispels colds, head* aches and fevers and cures habituai constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its Kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in xts effects, prepared only from the most COPVR/GbT 189/ Every one suffers from Catarrh in the Head. Those who don't have it suffer from those who do. It’s a disease you can’t keep to yourself. Here are some of the symptoms: Headache, obstruction of nose, dis charges falling into throat, some times profuse, watery, aud acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody, putrid, and offen sive ; eyes weak, ringing in ears, deafness*; offensive breath; smell and taste impaired, and genera’ de bility. But only a few of these likely be present at once. The cure for it—for Catarrh it self, and all the troubles that come from it—a perfect and permanent cure, is Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. The worst cases yield to its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties. A record of 25 years has proved that to its proprietors — and they’re willing to prove it to you. They do it in this way If they can’t cure your Catarrh, no matter how bad your case, or of how long standing, they’ll pay you $500 iu cash. Can you have better proof of the healing power of a medicine ? “August Flower” Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca, Mo., during the past two years has been affected with Neuralgia of the Head, Stomach and Womb, and writes: “My food did not seem to strengthen me at all and my appe tite was very variable. My face was yellow, my head dull, and I had such pains in my left side. In the morning when I got up I would have a flow of mucus in the mouth, and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes my breath became short, and I had such queer, tumbling, palpitating sensations around the heart. I ached all day under the shoulder blades, in the left side, and down the back of my limbs. It seemed to be worse in the wet, cold weather of Winter and Spring; and -whenever the spells came on, my feet and hands would turn cold, and I could pet no sleep at all. I tried everywhere, and got no relief before using August Flower Then the change came. It has done me a wonderful deal of good during the time I have taken it and is work- (3) Ingenious Cup and Sancer. An ingenious cup and saucer has been devised for the special purpose of keep ing the food of invalids warm when re quired. The cup is molded with three feet, allowing an air space of about half an inch between its bottom and the saucer. In the centre of the saucer is a rimmed depression, within which is placed a piece of lighted charcoal, which is supplied at a cheap rate in the form of tablets. From this there are no fumes or unpleasant smells, and the *ood of the invalid, of whatever nature it may happen to be, is kept warm for fully an hour.—Chicago News. the most pop Syrup of Figs is for sale" and SI bottles by all leading drug* gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. users vi Lit. *►. new york tt.t. bust 1 itet tne Genuine; II A V CCUCD CUHED 70 STAY llyt I C £ f Lll We want the name and ad- aressof every sufferer in the & A QXU Ml A U. S. and Canada. Address, HOI niVIH f. Harold Zsjes. M.D., duffilft, tfTT. SICK roe. Weak, Nervous, Wretched mortals?st well and keep well. HeaUh Heiper tells now. 'octs. a year. Sample sojf l»r. J. if. DYE, Editor. Buffalo, N. Y. —ELY’S CREADfl E£!!.M—cleanses t,5e N.-snl w», Allayc P: Jn ai- 1 < Passages, I the Sores, 1 -.flamma.-on. Heals! 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