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EEV. DB. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Glories of Che Chris- tLm Kelijflon,’’ Txxr: “Behold, the half was not told me." Kings x., 7. Solomon bad resolved that Jerusalem should be the centre of all sacred, regal and commercial magnificence. He set himself to work and monopolized the surrounding desert as a highway for his caravans. He built the city of Palmyra around one of the principal wells of the east, so that all the long trains of merchandise from the east were obliged to stop there, pay toll and leave part of their wealth in the bands of Solomon’s merchants. He manned the fortress Thapsacus at the chief ford of the Euphrates, and put under guard everything that passed there. The three great products of Palestine— wine pressed from the richest dusters, and celebrated all the world over; oil, which in that country is the entire substitute for bat ter and lard, and was pressed from the olive branches until every tree in the country be came an oil well, and honey which was the entire substitute for sugar—these three great products of the country Solomon ex ported and received in return fruits and precious woods and the animals of every clime. He went down to Exion-geber and ordered a fleet of shVps to be abstracted, oversaw the workmen, and watched the launching of the flotilla which was to go out on more than a year’s voyage ^o bring nome the wealth of the then known wtorld. He heard that the Egyptian horses were large and swift, and long maned and r6und limbed, and he re solved to purchase them, giving eighty-five dollars apiece ior thenp, putting^ the best of these horses in bis owd stall and selling the surplus to foreign potentates at greatWotit. He beard that there wAs the best of tim ber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent one hundred and eighty thousand men to hew down the forest and drag the timber through the mountain gorges, to construct it into rafts to be floated to Joppa, and from thence to bo drawn by ox teams twenty-five miles across the land to Jerusalem. He heard that there were beautiful flowers in other lands. He sent for them, planted them in his own f &rdens, and to this very day there are owers found in the ruins of that city such as are to be found in no other part of Pales tine, the lineal descendents of the very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign groves tbere were birds of richest voice and most luxuriant wing. He sent out people to catch them and bring them there, and he put them into his cages. Stand back now and see this long train of camels coming up the king’s gate, and the ox trains from Egypt, gold and silver and precious stones, and beasts of every hoof, and birds of every wing, and fish of every , scale 1 See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run and the char iots wheel! Hear the orchestral Gaze upon the dance! Not stopping to look into the wonders of the temple, step right on the causeway and pass up to Solomon’s palace. Here we find ourselves amid a collection of buildings on which the king had lavished the wealth of many empires. The genius of Hiram, the architect, and of the other artists is here seen in the long line of corri dors, and the suspended gallery, and the ap proach to the throne. Traceried window opposite traceried window. Bronzed orna ments busting into lotus and lily and pome granate. Chapiters surrounded by network of leaves in which imitation fruit seemed suspended as in hanging baskets. Three branches—so Josephus tells us— three branches sculptured on the marble, so thin and subtle that even the leaves seemed to quiver. A laver capable of bolding five hundred barrels of water on six hundred brazen ox heads, which gushed with water and filled the whole place with coolness and crystalline brightness and musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon on a throne of ivory. At the seating place of the throne, on each end of the steps, a brazen lion. Why, my friends, in that place they trimmed their candles with snuffers of gold, ' th -v nit Ihgir-friiifev-with knives of gold, ieir faces iu basins of gold, t the asbes w^th jrred thej^tar fires with reflected iu the water I Tsbing from the apparel 1 Gold blaz ing in the crown! Gold! gold! gold! Of course the news of the affluence of that place went out everywhere by every cara van and by wing of every ship, until soon tbe streets of Jerusalem are crowded with curiosity seekers. What is that long pro cession approaching Jerusalem? I think Irom the pomp of it there must be royalty in the train. 1 smell the breath of the spices which are brought as presents, and I hear the shout of the drivers, and I see the dust covered caravan showing that they come from tar away. Cry the news up to the palace. The Queen of Sheba advances. Let all the people come out to see. Let the mighty men of the land come out on the palace corridors. Let Solomon come down the stairs of the palace before tbe Queen has alighted. Shake out the cinnamou and the saffron and the calamus and the frknkin- cence and pass it into the treasure house. Take up the diamouds until they glitter iu the sun. The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace. She washes at the bath. She gits down at the banquet. Tbe cupbearers bow. The meat smokes. You bear the dasb of waters from molten sea. Then she rises from tbe banquet, and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on tbe archi tecture, and she asks Solomon many strange questions, and she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, and she then and there be comes a servant of the Lord God. She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spices she brought, and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into harps and psalteries and into railings for the causeway between the temple and the palace, and tne one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money—-she begins to think that all these presents amount to nothing in such a place and she is almost ashamed that she has brought thqra, and she says within herself: . “I heard a great deal about this wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but I find it far beyond my highest anticipations* I must add more that fifty per cent, to what has been re lated. It exceeds everything that I could have expected. The half—the half was not told me.” Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social poaition and wealth surrender themselves to God. When religion comes to a neighborhood, tbe first to receive It are the women. Some men say it is be cause they are weakminded. I say it is be cause they have quicker perception of what is right, more ardent affection and capacity for sublimer emotion. After the women have received the Gospel then all the dis tressed and the poor of both sexes, those who have no friends, acceot Jesus. Last of all come tbe people of affluence and high social position. Alas, that it is so! If there are those here to-day who have been favored of fortune, or, as I migbt bet ter put it, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you expect to be to the Lori who blessed this Queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed to be found in this queen’s company. I am glad that Christ has had His imperial frien Is in all ages — Elizabeth Christina, queeuof Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, queenot Russia; Marie, em press of France; Helena, the imperial moth er of Constantine. Arcadia, from her great fortunes building public baths in Constanti nople and toiling for the alleviation of the masses; Queen Clotilda, leading her husband and three thousand of his armed warriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth, of Burgun dy, giving her jeweled glove to a beggar and scattering great fortunes among the dis tressed: Prince Albert, singing “Rock of Ages” in Windsor castle, and Queen Victo ria, incognita, reading the Scriptures to a dying pauper. I bless God that the day is coming when royalty will bring all its thrones, and music all its harmonies, and painting all its pic tures, and sculpture all its statuary, an 1 architecture all its pillars, and couquest all its scepters; and the queens of the earth, in long line of advance, frankincense filling the air and the camels laden with gold, shall ap proach Jerusalem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and the great burden of splendor shall be lifted into the palace of this greater Solomon. subject teaches me what Is i tbe search of truth. Do yon chere Sheba was* It was in Abys- ;jome say in the southern part of ' In either osse it was a great \ Jerusalem. To go from there i had to cross a country in- its and go across blistering deserts. Why did not the Queen of Sheba stay at home and send s committee to inquire about this new religion, and have the dele gates report in regard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself and hear for herself. She ooold not do this by work of committee. She felt she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a robe richer than any woven by oriental shuttles, and she wanted a crown set with tbe jewels of eternity. Bring out tbe camels. Put on the spices. Gather up tbe jewels of the throne and put them on the caravan. Start now. No time to be losU Goad on the camels. When I see that cara van. dust covered, weary and exhausted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say, “Tbere is an earnest seeker after the truth.” Bat there are a great many of yon, my friends, who do not act in that way. You all want to get the truth, but you want the truth to come to yon; you do not want to go to it. There are people who fold their arms and say: “I am ready to become a Christian at any time. If I am to be saved I shall be saved, and if I am to be lost I shall be lost.” Ahl Jerusalem will never come to you; you must go to Jerusalem. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you; you must go and get religion. Bring out the ccmels. Put on all the sweet spices, all the treasures of the heart’s affection. Start for the throne. Go in and hear the waters of salvation dashing in fouatains all around about the throne. Sit down at the banquet —the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the angels of God the cup bearers. • Goad on thaaamels; Jerusalem will never come to you; you must go to Jerusalem. Tbe Bible declares it: “The queen of the south”—that is, this very woman I am speak ing of—“the queen ot tbe south shall rise up in judgment against this generation and condemn it; for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;and, behold! a greater than Solo mon is here.” God help me to break up the infatuation of those people who are sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. “Strive to enter in at the straight gate. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” Take the kingdom of heaven by vio lence. Urge ou tbe camels 1 Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that religion is a surprise to any one that gets it. This story of the new religion in Jerusalem, and of the glory of King Solo mon, wno was a type of Christ—that story rolls on and on and is told by even traveler coming hack from Jerusalem. The news goes on tbe wing of every ship and with every caravan, and you know a story en larges as it is retold, and by the time that story gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix, and the Queen of Sheba hears it, it must be a tremendous story. And yet this queen declares in regard to it, although she had heard so much and had her antici pations raised so high, the half—the half was not told her. So religion is always a surprise to any one that gets it. The story of grace—an old story. Apostles preached it with rattle of chain; martyrs declare i it with arm of fire; deathbeds have affirmed it with visions of glory and ministers of religion have sounded it uhrough the lanes and the highways and the chapels and the cathedrals. It has been cut iuto stone with chisel and spread on the canvas with pencil, and it has been recited in the doxology of great congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palbvce of God’s mercy and to see the royalty of Christ, and the wealth of this banquet, and the luxuriance of His attend ants, and the lovliness of His face, and the joy of His service, he exclaims with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumphs, “The half—the half was not told me!” I appeal to those in this house who are Christians. Compare the idea you had of the joy of the Christian life before you be came a Christian with the appreciation of that joy you have now since you have be come a Christia.-i, and you are willing to at test before angels and men that you never iu the days of your spiritual bondage had any appreciation of Wnat was to come. You are ready to-day to answer, and if I gaye you an opportunity in the midst of this assem blage you would speak out and say in re gard to the discoveries you have made of the mercy and the grace and the goodness of God, “The haj^Athe told me!” Well, we deal abof* the good time «flrt-»^lll!ng to this wori J, when it is hi be girded with salvation. HolqP® 38 on the bells o: the horses. The lion’s m iW® patted by the hand of a babe. Ships of Y ar * hl ® h bringing cargoes for Jesus, and thy^nat'd. dry, barren, winter bleached, storm scV rred . thunder split rock breaking into floom? o' bright water. Deserts into which drotoe- daries thrust their nostrils, because thtT were afraid of the simoom—deserts bloom - mg into carnation roses and silver tipped lilies. It is the old story. Everybody tells it. Isaiah told it. John told it, Paul told it, Eze- kial told it, Luther told it, Calvin told it, John Milton told it—everybody tells it, and yet—and vet when the midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal His great army, and China, dashing her idols into the dust, shall hear tne voice of God and wheel into line; and India, destroying her jugger naut and snateking up her little children from the Ganges, shall hear the Voice of God and wheel into line, and vine covered Italy, and all the nations of the earth shall hear the voice of God and fall into line; then the church which has been toiling and strug gling through the centuries, robed and gar landed like a bride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her vail and look up into the face of her Lard and King, and say, “The half—the half was not told me!” Well, there is coining a greater surprise to every Christicsn—a greater surprise than anything I have depicted. Heaven is an old story. Everybody talks ab out it. There is hardly a hymn in the hy mn book that does not refer to it. Children read about it in their Sabb ath-school book. Aged men put on their spectacles to study it. We say it is a harbor from the storm. We call it our homes. We say it is the house of many mansions. We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilaraut words: we weave them into letters, and then we spell it out in rose and lily and anaranth. And yet that place is going to be a surprise to the most intelligent Christian. Like the Queen of Sheba, the report has come to us from the far country, and many of us have started. It is a desert march, but we urge on the camels. What though our feet be blistered with the way? We are hastening to the palace. We take all our loves ana hopes and Christian ambitions, as frankincense and myrrh and cassia to the great King. We must not rest. We must not halt. The night is coming on, and it is not safe out herein the desert. Urge on the camels. I see the domes against the sky, and the houses of Lebanon, and the tem ples and the gardens. See the fountains dance in the sun, and the gates flash as they open to let in the poor pilgrims. Send the word up to the palace that we are coming, and that wa are weary of the march of the desert. The King will come out and say; “Welcome to the palace; bathe in these waters, recline on these banks. Take this cinnamon and frankin cense and myrrh and put it upon a censer and swing it before the altar.” And yet, iny friends, when heaven bursts upon us it will be a greater surprise than that—Jesus on the throne, and we made like Him! AH our Christian friends surrodndingus in glory! All our sorrows and tears and sins gone by forever 1 The thousands of thousands, the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can num ber, will cry, world without end, “The half —the half was not told us?” THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS. Tbe evils which the drunkard inflicts on his posterity are beyond computation. Dr. Henry Maudsley once traced back for four generations the history of an idiotic youth m the asylum at Rome. Iu the first genera tion he found the habit ot driuking, the great grandfather was finally killed in a tavern brawl. In the second he found hereditary drunkenness, ending in paralysis; iu the third, the father of the youth, sober by habit, but the victim of delusions and diseased tendencies; in the fourth, stupidity and the beginning of idiocy at sixteen years. Dr. Howe, of Massachusetts, found that fifty per cent, of tbe idiots the examined were the offspring of intemperate parents. It is said that alcohol every year turns two hundred thousand little children into vaga bondage and misery, a pitiful multitude, enshrouded in sorrow from their birth, hurt beyond help before they draw their first breath of pain. So cruel is every father who is a drunkard. A Lord's Neckwear. Lord Londesborough is as famous for his ties as Gladstone is for his col lars. He wears a silk tie of a broad, Sat shape. TEMPERANCE. LOGIC. A bartender said to a teetotaler: “Since seven-eighths of your body is water, and the greater part of whisky is water, what harm can whisky do you!” “The alcohol in the whiskey,” said the teetotaler, “would eat up the water that is in my body, and leave me in a state of fever, and so ruin my nerves and flesh and blood.”—Temperance Banner. ▲ VAST POWER FOR EVIL. The saloon in this country has become a vast organized power for evil. It corrupts politics, debases society, inflicts vast burdens on t:ie people, destroys multitudes of souls. It is acknowledged by all to be the chief cause of povery, misery and crime. It is every where the foe of the Christian Church and an obstacle to what tbe Church seeks to do. It can best be met and overcome by those who have nothing to do with that in which it deals and by which it lives. The Christian must give all the weight of his influence by example and word and action against this great evil.—Sacred Heart Review. THE EFFECT OF DRINK ON INDUSTRY. A large factory in London, which employs 7000 hands, has been compelled to suspend business because so many were disabled by Sunday drunkenness. This caused an an nual loss of #175,000. Tbe Akron (Ohio) Iron Company, with a force of 1380 men in their rolling mill, estimates that drink de creases the productive power of their men fully twenty-five per cent. At times it causes the loss of whole heats of iron. They discharge a man for getting drunk once. W. G. Peunypacker, of Philadelphia, with a force of 150 men, has to employ twenty per cent, more than he would if all were sober. f ENGLAND’S DRINK EVIL. The Rev. R- Sykes, S. J., preaching re cently in Liverpool on “Drink Evil,” quoted Mr. Samuel Smith, M. P. This latter gen tleman, three or four years ago, spoke thus of tbe comparative iutemperadfce of England and other countries. “I have often said, and I will say it once more, that we have in the British towns, I mean the towns ot the United Kingdom, tbe most drunken residum of population that is to be found on the face of the earth, and the most drunken, the most degraded, and the most hopeless class of people that are to be found iu ttnv civilized country in the world. * * There is a shameful peculiarity about English drunkenness; England stands alone, so far as 1 know, for the amount of its female drunkeness, which is almost unknown on the continent of Europe. I have hardly ever heard of a drunken woman in the many journeyings I have made across the con tinent.” “And this,” commented Father Sykes, “is the greatest and most civilized country on the face of tue earth! This is the great nation that turns u, > the white of its sancti monious eyes, and with a lie in its mouth and a snuffle tnrough its nose, thanks the Lord that it is not like other countries, like priest-ridden Spain, to which it sends its superfluous Bioles. Poor, benighted Spain! It has not travele 1 as we have along the highroads of civilization.” DRINKING AMONG WOMEN. In the City Court of Brooklyn, recently, two women were examined with the view to having their mental condition determined by a jury. They have lived for several years in their own house in verv comfortable cir cumstances. having ample means for their support. The legal proceedings thus com menced concerning them were instituted by near relatives, whose testimony showed that both sisters have been confirmed drunkards for several years, and that they are now suffering from alcoholic dementia. Even while in the court it was evident that they were under the influence of alcohol, and did not take in their surroundings. Some of the neighbors testified that they were seldom sober, and that they frequently quarrelled and threw lamps and other missiles at each other, and have sometimes appeared in the street but partially dressed. One of the witnesses, a physician, testified that on call ing at the house recently, he found one of the sisters lying drunk under the bed, and money and jewelry scattered on the floor. In view of these facts, the jury, naturally enough, found that the sisters were incapa ble of caring for themselves and of looking Legal guard appointed for the care of their persons and estates. Thus does alcohol, improperly in dulged in, degrade and dethrone alike man hood and womanhood." The right thing for all to do is to wholly abstain from its use.— National Advocate. SWEET VERSUS STIMULANT. I have two little tots, aged five and three years. They take great interest in my work, and “want to help pa” every way in their power. It would do you good if you -j^puld see them come into the workshop every morning about nine o’clock, each with a lit tle afluare of paper, and say, “Honey, papa;” andnien I go to the barrel of candied honey And Higsout a suitable quantity. It makes me smile\? h ear their “thanky, papa,” and see them sit down by the stove and enjoy it. In the after^ooa they repeat the same, as regularly as «ockwork, from day to day. Some may think, they might eat too mufeh of it, and so getfijrad of it; but care is taken not to give too mtt® i at a time. I find that, when given honey- >n that way regularly, they care little or Aptbia^Jor the ordinary candies we buy; and you can r fc'*k}d_h®althier, rosier or more active children any&heFe.-—_ And by tbe way, friend R., I have a theory that, if they grow up accustomed to the daily use of such pure sweets as honey, they will never acquire a taste or fondness for stimulants or intoxicating liquor. Have you ever observed that any one given over to the use of intoxicants seldom or never uses sweets in any form? When a young man I met at social gatherings many friends and acquaintances; and when refreshments were served I noticed on quite a number of occasions that three or four young meu pres ent never touched anything sweet, but were very fond of pickles and stimulating dishes. In a few years every one of them died of delirium tremens, from excessive use of in toxicants taken in secret. Since then I have found it the rule that in ninety-nine cases out of 100, those that use sweets rarely care for stimulants, and vice versa.—Gleanings in Bee Culture. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The retail liquor-dealers in the United States in 1891 numbered ‘.140,797. A Norfolk (England) brewery firm recently advertised for a machine man, “an abstainer preferred.” Mr. Gladstone writes to a correspondent: “Our present licensing system is a discredit and calamity to the country.” The German military papers publish alarming statistics as to the zpread of drunkenness in the German army. The British Postmaster-General recently issued a recommendation to householders not to offer intoxicating liquors to postmen. It appears from a recent report that the total amount of British capital invested in American breweries aggregates $rd.0l9,210. Gojumra. in Japan, is a total abstinence village, and each nouse has a motto on thi door: “Frugal in all things; liquors pro hibited. - ’ George W. Childs says: “It is an un doubted fact that the serving of many and heavy wines at large dinners is gradually becoming a thing of the past.” Railroad managers in Hollan i have foun I it impossible to man the switches with men who can be depended upon to let liquor alone, and so have substituted women. In a speech before the Massachusetts Log- islature a short time ago the Hon. Henry H. Faxon asked for the repeal of the driuti law of 1891, condemning it in unqualified terms. An Italian of Sierra City drank a half- gallon of whisky ou a wager. He fell to the floor in a drunken stupor, and the next day his friends buried him with the stakes he had won. In South Australia the Government pro vides a pledge book for every State school, and teachers are instructed to draw the chil dren’s attention to it. Scientific temperance instruction is given in all the State schools. As a reward for their persistent efforts the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Beaumont, CaL, have seen the last saloon depart from their village. They are de termined that their prohibitory law shall “prohibit.” Cardinal Manning was faithful to the last to the total-abstinence principles. His hor ror of alcoholic drinks was so great his physicians were compelled to find pharma copoeia! substitutes when they considered it necessary to adopt a stimulant process. SABBATH SC100L. INTERNATIONAL LESS MARCH 20. Review of the Past Quarter—Golden Text. Psalm cl., 1. REWIEW EXERCISE. Superintendent—How is Christ’s coming foretold? School—There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Supt.—-What shall be the condition of kingdom? School—They shall not hurt nor distroy in all Mv holy mountains: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as tbe waters cover the sea. Supt.—What will the Lord do for His trusting people? School—Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because tie trusteth in Thee. Supt.—What woe does the prophet pro- nonnoe upon Ephraim? School— Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim. The crown of pride, tbe drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet. Supt.—What charge does he bring against Judah? School—They also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way, Supt.—What did Hezekiah do when he received a threatening letter from the king of Assyria? % School—Hezekial went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. Supt.—How did the Lord answer Heze- kiah’s prayer? School—Tbe angel of the Lord went forth and smote in tbe camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand. Supt.—For whom did Christ suffer? School—He was wounded for our trans gressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of "our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. Supt.—What is Christ’s gracious call? School—Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and with out price. Supt.—In what form is the same call again given? , School—The Spirit and the bride say. Come. And let him that heareth say. Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the. water of life freelv. Supt.—iVhat is the new covenant that the Lord will make with Israel? School—I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will Be their God, and they shall be My people. Supt.—What did Jeaoiakimdo when Jere miah’s prophecies were read to him? Schoo’—He cut the roll in pieces, and cast it into the fire until ail the roll was con sumed. Supt.—What sentence did the Lord pro- nounce upon Jehoiakim? School—He shall have none to sit upon the throne of Dav;d, and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. Supt.—On what false charge was Jere miah’put in prison? School—He was charged with treason in deserting to the Chaldeans. Supt.—By whom was he taken from the prison? School—Zedekiah the king sent and took him out: and asked him secretly, Is there any word from the Lord’ * Supt.—What was Jeremiah’s reply? School—Jeremiah said. There is: for thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Supt.—When did Nebuchadnezzar take Jerusalem? School—In the ele of Zedekiab. Supt.—What his sons? School—The king of of Zedekiab in Riblah put out Zedekiah’s cha ins. to cay^ ^ Supt.—What people? School—The city xvi people were carried Babylon. Supt.—What promise oF cleansing did the Lord make to the captives :n Babylon? School—Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. from all f our filthiness, and from all your idols, will cleanse you.—Westminster Question Book. ACCIDENTS TO TRAINMEN. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Chicago, 111., will hare the biggest electric plant Waves exert a force ot one ton per square inch when they are only 20 feet high. When whalebones have become bent, they may be used again by first soak ing them in tepid water for a few hours and then drying them. The Sims-Edison torpedo has been tried successfully in the Tyne, Eng land, from a moving ship, and it is de scribed as being “unquestionably the weapon cut re in the It was year of the reign ;h Zedekiab and t slew the sons his eyes, and him with oyed, and the y captive into most formidable world.” A tree 200 years old, was cently at Kochester, N. H., presence of Governor Tuttle, five feet through at the butt, and six choppers were kept hard at work for two hours before the tree fell. Au excellent substitute for coal is now being made in Sweden. It is composed of wood charcoal and coal tar. A paste of these substances is made, which is run through a press. The briquettes thus formed are allowed to dry for several weeks before using. There are about 1,500,000,000 in the world, with very nearly an equal division of sex. One-fourth die be fore the 15th year, and the average duration of life is about thirty-three years; 33,033,000 people die each year, making a total of 91,501 each day, 3770 each hour, sixty-two each minute, and about one each second. A magnet carried by Newton in a finger-ring is said to have been capa ble of raising 746 grains, or about 250 times its own weight of three grains, and to have beeu much admired in consequence. A magnet formerly be longing to Sir Jotin Leslie, and now in the Physical Collection at Edin burgh, has still greater power, how ever, weighing 3 1-2 grains and being able to support 1,560 grains. The Mangisklak peninsula, in the Caspian Sea, has five small lakes. One of them is covered with salt crystals strong enough to allow man or beast to cross; another is as round as any circle and a lovely rose color. Its banks of salt crystals forms a snow- white setting to the water, which not only shows the colors from violet to rosy red, but emits a perfume of vio lets. Both perfume and coloring are due to sea-weeds. Only three substances—iron, nickel and cobalt—are known to be appreci ably magnetic at ordinary tempera tures, but it has beeu supposed that other metals so at very ternperatui^^^^TRfessbr" James Dewar of the University of Cam bridge, England, has just made the interesting discovery that oxygon— statut L wo XoJn. of nth untrj ye ot for ttio Fail n.nffio-9axou in (no oenpeuroo* The proportion of Anglo-Saxon words In the English Bible is 97 per I . 4 . V. n .. • V, . \ 1 ^ Soma Startling The number of nilway employes killed in this country yearly is appall ing. In 1889, 22,000 men were killed and injured, and in the next year 25,- 000. Henry Cabot Lodge quotes against these figures the number killed and wounded in various great battles. “At the battle of Sedan, jwhieh sealed the fate of the Second Empire,' cm both sides in killed and wounded w^s_a trifle more than the killed and wounctecLamong our trainmen last year. At Txbave- lotte, where the loss was heaviest in the Franco-Prussian war, the Ger mans lost 20,577 men. Wellington won Waterloo and Meade Gettysburg with a loss of 23,185 and 23,003 re spectively, and the total loss on both sides at Shiloh in two days’ murder ous fighting did not reach 24.000. In America, in the year ending June 30, 1889, among all railway em ployes there was one death in every 357 and one injury for every 35, while , among trainmen alone there was one death for every 117 and one injury for every 12. For the year ending in 1890 there was one death for every 306 and one injury tor every 33 men employed. This number of killed and injured is much greater than there is any necessity for, for some risk there must be, since in England the condi tion of the employes is considerably better, for there only one death for every 875 men occurs and one injury for 158 men. With us the increase in the death rate is due to the coupling of cars and the braking of freight trains. To these two causes 37 per cent, of the deaths and 45 per cent, of the injuries are due, for by coupling, in 1889, 300 were killed and 6,757 injured, and, in 1890, 369 were killed and 7,341 injured. By falling from trains and engines in braking, in 1889 there were 493 deaths, 2,011 injured; in 1390, 557 deaths, 2,348 in jured. Mr. Lodge believes that leg islation is the only remedy for this state of things, legislation compelling the use of some uniform safety coupler. “What we want,” he says, “is an act requiring :he adoption of uniform safety couplers by the rail roads throughout tfit-, country. A reasonable time shouldMfe given to enable the roads to make this change, and they ought to have at least five and perhaps ten years. Which is the average life of a freight car, to com plete it. Then at the expiration of the time fixed by law the use of uni form safety couplers ought to be com pelled under penalty.” v Danger from braking isi even easier of remedy. Accidents oc&ir from the trainmen having to run at, night over the car roofs which are, often, covered with ice. In this case, all that is necessary is to employ brakes worked automatically from tbe engine and which are, to a certain extent, la use now among us. _ A husband at home is worth two In a saloon. not, like hydrogen, I'egarded as metal lic in character—is strongly magnetic when cooled to liquefaction. Gentlemanly Davy Crockett. One of the most fascinating conver sationalists in Texas is Dr. S. H. Stout of Cisco. The Doctor is a Tennes seean from Nashville, “the centre of Southern history,’’and is himself brim- ful of historical reminiscences. Dr. Stout was born at Nashville in 1822, and in his boyhood knew Gen. Jack- son, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and other prominent characters of that day. In an interview the Doctor said: “Davy Crockett was a giant, Intel- lectually and morally, and had he sur vived the ill-fated Alamo, he would have made a far greater record for statesmanship than Sam Houston ever made. No man has ever been more grossly caricatured than Davy Crock ett. I never saw him dressed in the outre costume of buckskin shirt and coonskin cap he is generally repre sented in in our histories. He dressed in a neat, genteel manner, in con formity with the styles of his time. He was of Scotch-lrish descent, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a great hunter and a fine shot, and probably a braver or nobler man never lived.”—[Dallas (Tex.) News. A Wonderful Plano Player. “That is Orpheus,” said the young man; “he was a wonderful musician. He was such a forceful player as to move trees and stones.” “So?” replied the old gentleman, looking at the statute in a contempla tive mood; “not so bad; but you never heard that cousin of yours play’. She’s only a little puny thing, but they do say she’s made no lees than twenty whole families move, and I guess it’s no more’u the truth.”—[Bos- Vm Transcript. One On the Teacher. First Little Boy—What you laughin- so about? Second Little Boy—I had to stay in after school. He, lie, he! “Wot is there to laugh about in that?” “Why, the teacher she had to stay iu, too. Haw, haw, ho!”—[Good News. An Affectionate Daughter. Sweet Girl (affectiom.tely)—Papa, you wouldn’t like ms to leave you, wMuld you? Papa (fondly)—Indeed I would not, my darling. Sweet Girl—Well, then, I’ll marry Mri Poorchap. He’s willing to live here.—* [New York Weekly. -F.W-AJRflSnEi BAKER dc. 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