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liiinsiioF The Brooklyn Divine Preaches at Beyrout. A Chris<iiias Sermon in Which He t?i ves I'd era tiers i.> .some 1'iioiishU Inspire I by MioSiingonhi' Ail-els at the liirlh of Christ. Text: "O/ori/ to Codin (he highest, and on earth peace, (jood will toward men."? Luke ii.. lb At last I Imve what I longed for. a Christmas eve in Ihe Holv Land. This is the limo of vcw that Christ landed. He was a December Christ. This is the chill air through which Ho descended. Ilook npthrough these Christinas skies, and I see no loosened star hastening southward to halt above Uethlo hem. but all 1 he slurs surest the Star of Bethlehem. Mo more need tlint any of them run along the shy to point downward. In quietude they kneel at the feet of llim who, though once an exile, is now enthroned forever. Fresh up from Bethlehim, I j am full of the scenes suggested by a visit to that village. You know that whole region of Bethlehem is famous in Bible story. Thcro wore the waving harvests of Boa'z, in v hieli Kuth ale,",lied forJiersclf aud _ .??- JYvepitrg-Iva.mii. There David the warrior wn.i thirsty, nud three men of unheard of self denial broke through the Philistine army to get hici a drink. It was to that region that Joseph and Mary came to have their names enrolled in the ceusus. That is what the Scripture means when it says they cauie "to bo taxed,'' for people did not in those days rush after the assessors of tax any more than they uowdo. The village inn was crowded with tho strangers \\ ho had conio^ip by the command of Government to have*their names in tho . census, so that Joseph and Mary wefre obliged ?to lodge in tho stables. You have seen some of those Nrgo stone buildings, in the center of which the camels wefo kept; while run niug out from this center in all directions there were rooms, in one of: which Jesus was born. Had iiis parents been more showily appareled I have no doubt they -would have found more coinforlable entertainment. That night in tho. fields the shepherds, with crook nud kindled fires, were w a Idling their flocks, when bark! to the sound of voices strangely 6iveet. C'an it be that the maidens of Bethlehem have come out to serenade the weary shepherds? But now a light sloops upon them dike tho morning, so that tho (locks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleating to their drowsy young. The heavens are filled with armies of light, and the earth quakes under the harmony us, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rings over the midnight hills: "Glory to God in the highest-, and on earth peace, goou wiii to men." it seems umv mo | crown of royalty and dominion and power which Christ left behind Him was hung 011 the sky in sight of Bethlehem. Who knows but that that crown may have been mistaken by tlio wise men for the star running and pointing downward? My subject, iu the first place, impresses me with the fact that indigence is not always significant of degradation. When Princes arc born, heralds announce it, and cannon thunder it, and tlags wave it, and illuminations sot cities on lirfe with the tidings. Some of us in England or America remember tin time of rejoicing when the "Prince of Wales was born. You can remember the gladness throughout Christendom nt the nativity in the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious . Prince was born, there was no rejoicing 011 earth. Poor and growing poorer, yet the heavenly recognition that Christmas night shows the truth of the proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. In nil ages there have been great hearts throbbing under rags, tender sympathies under rough exterior, gold in the quartz, Par- \ inn marble in the quarry,and in every stablo j of privation wonders of excellence that have been the joy of the heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations wero born in homes without affluence, and from tlicir own privation learned to speak and fight fcr the oppressed. Many a man has held up his piuo knot light from the wilderness until nil nations and generations havo seen it, and ofC of his hard crust of peuury has broken the bread of knowledge and religion for the starving millions'^of the race. Poetry, and science, and literature, and commerce, aid laws, nnd constitutions, and liberty, like Christ, were born in a manger. All the great thoughts which have decided the destiny of nations started in obscure corners, and had Herods who wauted tn cl-?r ilioni niwl lavtrints who betraved ' tbcni, and rabbles that crucified them, and - sepulchres that confined them until they burst 1 forth in glorious resurrection. Strong char- j actcr, like tho rhododendron, is an Alpine plant, that grows fastest in tho storm. Mon | are like wheat, worth all the more for : being flai'-d. iiome of tho most useful j peoplo would never have come to posi- t tions of usefulness had thoy not been ground and pounded and hammered I in tho foundry of disaster. When I 1 see Moses coming up from the ark of bul- . rushes to be din greatest lawgiver of tho ages, and Amos from tending tho herds to | make Israel tremble with his prophecies, and , Duvid from tho shecpcoto to sway the poet's ] pen and the King's scepter, and Peter from j tho fishing net to l>o the great proacher at the j Pentecost, 1 find proof of the truth of my j propositiou that indigence is not always significant of degradation. My snoject also impresses me with tho thought that it is while u; our useful oc- ! cupa tions that v>o iia'O the divine ! - ? manifestations. llad iuo"> shopliords i gene that night into Bethlehem end ; risked their flocks among the wolves, they | would not have heard the song of the angels. J In other words, that man socs most of brod and heaven tyho minds his own business. Wo ' all have our posts of duty, and standing there God appears to us. Wo are all shopherds or sheperdesses, and we have onr flocks of carer, aud annoyances and anxieties, and we must tend them. We sometimes hear very good people say: , "If I had a month or a year or two to do nothing but attend to religious things, I would be a great deal l>ei tor than I am now." j You aro mistaken. Generally the best poo- "j pie are the busy people. lilisha was plowing j in the field when tho prophetic mantle fell on him. Matthew was attending to his custom house duties when Christ commanded him to follow. James and John were mend- j ing their nols when Christ called them to be ' flut.?r^,.r If ,.1 (I,..- lunn rnnpin. in 1 the sim Christ would not have called their indolence into the apnstleship. Gideon was at work with the flail on tho threshing floor when ho saw tho angel, i Saul was with groat fatigue hunting w> the : lost asses whoa ho found tho crown of Israel. Tho prodigal son would never have reformed ! and wanted to have returned to his father's house if lie had not first gone into business, though it was swine feeding. Not once out of a hundred times will a lazy man become a Christian. Those who have nothing to do are in very unfavorable circumstances for tho receiving of divine manifestations. It is not when you are in idleness, but when you are. lilce the Bethlehem shepherds, watching your flocks, that the glory descends and there ; is joy among the angels of God over your soul penitent and forgiven. My subject also strikes at the delusion that the religion of Christ is dolorous and grief incusing. The music that broke through tho midnight heavens was not a dirge, but an anthem. It shook joy over the hills. It not oulv dropped upon the shepherds, but it sprang upward among the thrones. Tho robe of a Saviour's righteousness is not black. The Christian life is not made up of weeping and cross bearing and war waging. Through tho revelation of that Christinn? itiwlif F Hit 1 flifil'. ntlicri.tit h nnh fi grovn, but u son.";. In a world of sin an I sick bod and sepulcherSj wo must havo trouble; but in the darkest night the hcaveus part with angelic song. You may, liko Paul, be shipwrecked, but I exhort voa to bo of good cheer, for you shall all escape safe to the land. Religion does not show itself in the elongation of tin face anl the cut of the garb. The Pharisee who puts his religion into his phylaetory has none left for his heart. Frotfulness and complaining do not belong to the family of Christian graces which move into the heart wnen tho devil moves out. Christianity does not frown upon amusements and recreations. It is not a synic, it is not a shrew, it chokes no laughter, it quenches no light, it defaces no art. Among tho happy, it is the happiest. It is just as much at home on the playground as it is iu the church. It is just as graceful in the charade as it is in the psalin book. It sinjjs just as well iu Surrey gardens as it prays iu St. Paul's. Christ died that we might live. Christ walked that we might ride. Christ wept that wo might laugh. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that glorious endiugs sometimes have very humble beginnings. Tho straw pallet was the starting point, but the shout in the midnight sky revealo 1 what would be the glorious consummation. Christ 0:1 Mary's Ian, Christ on tin throne of universal dominion?what an humble starting! What n glorious ending! Cra-ce begins on a sin ill souls in the heart. You sjaonly men as tress wdkhig. Tiio grace of Col in the heart is a feeble spark, an I Christ has ti koep both hands over it lest it he blo .va out. What an Im n'de beginning! Cut lo ok at that same in in when Ho has outare I heaven. No crown able to express His royalty. No palace able to express His wealth. N > sceptre .able to express His power .an I His do ninion. Drinking fr o:n t!ie fountain that drips from the everlasting R >ek. Among the harpers harping with their harps. On a sea of glass mingle I with lire. Before the throne of C ?1, to go no more out forever. The spark of grace that Christ had tokeepbeth li vi Is over le;t it co ne to extinction, having lli ae I up into honor and glory an I immerteUty. What humble starting! What glorious o >n summation 1 Tlie New Testament Church was on a s nail scale. Fishermen watched it. Against th e uprising walls crashed itifenidl enginery. The world sai l anathema. Ten thoasml people rejoice 1 at evory seeming defeat, an 1 sua: "Alii: ana: se we woiua nave u. Martyrs on lire criol: "flr.v long, O Lord, haw long?" Very humble starting, but son the difference at the can aim nation, when Cnrist with His almighty arm ha? struck oil! tha last chain of human bondage, and Himalaya shall bo Mount Zion; and Pyesnoos, Moriuh; and oceans, tha walking placoof Hint ivh<r tfod~t!iS "Wnw't? CTifE^ '.it-- stormed Tiberias, and island shall call to island, sea to sua, continent to continent, and tho song of the world's redemption rising, the heavens, like a groat sounding board, shall strike hack tho shout of salvation to the earth until it rebounds again to the throne of God, and all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat tiuio with their scepters. Ob, what an humble beginning! What a glorious ending ! Throne liukod to a manger, heavenly mansions to a stable. My subject also impresses me with the effect of Christ's mission upward and downward. Glory, to God, peace to man. When God sent His Son into the world, angels discovered something new in God. something they had never seen before. Not power, not wisdom, not love. They knew all that before. But when Go I sent His Sou into this world then the angejs saw tho spirit of self denial in God, tho spirit of self-sacriiice in God. It is easier to love an angel on llis throne than a thief on the cross, a seraph in liis worship than an adulteress in her crime. When the angels saw God?the God who would not allow the most insignificant angel in heaven to bo hurt?give up His Son, His Son, llis only, only Gon, they saw something that they had never thought of before, and I do not wonder that when Christ started out on Hint pilgrimage tho augels iu heaven clapped their wings in triumph and called oa ail the hosts of heaven to help thorn celebrate it, anil sang so loud that tho Bethlehem shepherds heard it: "Glory to God in the highest." But it was also to bo a mission of pence to man. Infinite holiness? accumulated depravity. Hew could they ever cone together! The Gospel bridges over tho distance. It brings God to us. It takes us to God. God in us, and we in God. Atonement 1 Atonement! Justice satisfied, sin3 forgiven, eternal life secured, heavea built oa a manger, . But it was also to bo the pacification of all individual and international animosities. What a sound this word or peace had in tno : Roman Empire that boosted of tho number , of people it lul l massacred, that prided itself j on tho number of th? slain, that rojoiced | at the trembling provinces. Sicily and Cor- j sica and Sardinia and .Macedonia and Egypt [ had bowed to her sword aud erouchod at the | cry of her war eagles. She gavo her chief | houor to Scipio and Fabius and Caesar?all men of blood. What contempt they must have had there for the penniless, unarmed Christ iu the garb of a Nazariue, startiugout to conquer all nations. There never was a place 011 oarth- where that word peace sounded so ofifonsi vely to the ears of tho multitude as in tho Itomau Empire. Thoydiduot want peace. Tho greatest music thoy over heard was tli3 clankiug chiins of their captives. If all tho blood that has been shed iu battle could be gathered together it would upbear a navy. The club that struck Abel to tho oarth has its ocho in the butcheries of all ages. Edmund Burke, who gavo no wild statistics, said that ;hore lul bnii spout in slaughter t'lirty-flvo thousand millions of dollars, or what would bo equal to that; but he had nob soeu into our times, whan in our own day, in America, we expended throe thousand millions of dollars iu civil war. Oh, if we could now take our position on soma high point and seo the world's armies march pa3tl What aspectaclait would bo! Thero go tho hosts of Israel through a score of itod seas?one of water, the rest of blood. There go Cyrus and his army, with infuriate yell rojoiciug over tho fall of the gates of Babylon. There goes Alexander, leading forth his host3 and c mquoring all the world but himsolf, tho earth reeling with the battle gash of Arbela au I Persepolis. There goes Ferdinand Cortes, leaving his buthered euemies on the tablo lands once fragrant with vanilla an I covered ovor with groves of flowering caeao. _ There goos tho great Fconeam in, leading his arm/ down through H jypt like ouo of its plaguss, an lu;> through It issia like one of its own icy : blasts. Von I >r is the grave trench under tho J shadow of Sevastopol. Thero are tho ruins i of Delhi an 1 AUuhubvl, an I yonder are tho j inhuman Sepoys an 1 tho brave regiments | under II tveloek avenging the insulted Qagof R;-itnin: while cut ri-rht through the heart of j iny native Ian 1 is .1 trench in which there lie j oiie million Northern an 1 Southern dead. Oh, tho tears! Oh, t'ai blood! Oil, the long ! marches! Oh, the hospital wounds! Oh, the I m irtyrdom! Oil, the doith! Bat brighter ' than the light which ilishel on all these swor ds and shields an I musketry is the light | that foil o:i Bithloham, aa i lou ler than the j bray of the tru-upets, aid the neighing of the | chargers, and the crash of the walls, and the groaning of the dying armies, is the sou* ! 'that unrolls this moment from iho sky, j sweet rs though all the bells of heaven rung a jubilee: "Peace "on earth, good will toward men." Oil, when will the day come? God hs.ste:i it!?when the swords shall bo turned into plowshares, anl the fortresses shall be remold*J into churches, and the men of blood battlui; for renown shall boco:no good soldiers of Jesus Ciirist, and the cannon now striking down whole columns of > death shall thunder the victories of the truth. "When we think of the whole world saved we are apt to think of the few people that j now inhabit it. Only a very few compared with the populations to come. And what a | small part cultivated, l)o you know it has been authentically estimated that three- I fourths of Europe is yet all barrenness, and that nine hundred and ninety-one one-thousaiulth part of tl?.* entire glol?e is uncultivated? This is nil to be cultivated, all inhabited and nil gcspeliml. Oh, what tears of | repentance when nations begin to weep! Oh, what supplications when continents begin to pray! Oh, wlmt rejoicing when hemispheres begin to sing! Churches will worship on the places where this very hour smokes the blood of human sacrifice, and wandering through the snake infested jungles of Africa Christ's heel will bruise the serpent's head. Oh, when the trumpet .of salvation shall be sounded everywhere and the nations are redeemed. a light will fall upon every town brighter than that ivmcn fell upon Hothlchotn, an.l more overwhelmin.1; thin the song licit fell on the pasture fields where the (locks fed, there will lie a j song louder than the voice of tho storm i lifted oceans, "CIlory to (hid in the highest," and from all nations and kindred and people and tongues will como the response, "And on earthjicaee, good will toward men!" On this Christmas EveT bring you good tidings 1 of great joy. Pardon for all sin, eonifort for all trouble and life for the dead. Jhall wo now take this Christ into our hearts?. Tho time is passing. This is the closing of tho year. How the time speeds by. Put your liah l on your heart?one. two, three. Three times less it will beat. Life is passing like gazelles over the plain. Sorrows liover like petrels over the sea. Heath swoops like a vulturo from the mountains. Misery ; rolls up to our cars like waves. Heavenly ' songs fall to us like stars. 1 wish you a merry Christmas, not with I wor'dlv dissipations, but merry with Gospel 1 gladness, merry with pardoned sin, merry with hope of reunion in the skies with ail your loved on^s who have preceded you. In that grandest anj best sense a merry ; Christmas. j And God grant that in our final moment wo may have as bright a vision as did tho dying girl when she said: "Mother"?pointing with her thin white hand through ihe window?"Mother, what is that beautiful land out yonder beyond Ihe mountains, tho high mountains?"" "Oh," said the mother, "my darling, there are 110 mountains within sight of our home." "Oh, yes," she said, "don't you see them?that beautiful land beyond the mountains out there, just beyoud the high mountains?" The mother looked down into the faccTof her dying child and said: "My dear, I think that must be heaven that you sco." "Well, then," she said, "father, you cortio, and with your strong arms carry mo over those mountains into that beautiful land beyond the high mountains," "No," said tlie weeping father, "my darling, I can't go with you." "Well," she said, clapping her hands, "never mind, never mind; 1 sco yonder a shining one coining. He is coining now, in His strong arms to carry me over the mountains to the beautiful land?over the mountains,over the high mountains!" POPULAR SCIENCE. The throe hundredth anniversary of the invention of the microscope is to be celebrated in Antwerp in 1SOO. Sir .John Lubbock has just discovered that the death rate in London is sixteen and one-half per thousand as against 1?? ??a l,olf in nt-Pf,,. F.nrrlish M'VIMIIUCU iUlU wiiv-uiui if vw.w. ? -> cities. In a Moscow foundry castings arc made from metals fused in an electric furnace. The operators work two hours per day, the glare being greater than that of the sun, and unendurable for a long time. ?AtiJne;uldescent lamp arrangement for showing the iitiefier of toilers while un derstcun has been made by a German inventor. The device is likely to he of practical, as well as of scientific,value. The first astronomical observatory is said to have been erected on the temple of Belus, at Babylon; but one on the toinb of Osymandyns, in Egypt, with a golden circle 200 feet, in diameter, and one at Benares, also date from a very early period. Of the first turkey in America,the only records wc have are iu the recently discovered fossils of the post-tertiary period. These prove that the turkey 'not only antedated Columbus, and even the Norseman, but that in all probability he was the original "oldest inhabitant of America." An electric balance has been exhibited in Paris. The placing in the pan of tlio object to be weighed closes an electric circuit, when the current operates a motor on the weight and carries the weight out on the-beam until au equipoise is established, breaking the circuit. With the emptying of the pan, the weight returns. The attempt to acclimatize the Swedish reindeer in the Uarz Mountains of Germany has not been quite so successful as was anticipated. '] ne neat 01 ine summer having caused the death of many of the animals. A new attempt is to be made next spring in the Algau, which, it is expected, will give better and lasting results. It has been shown very satisfactorily that the banaua plant contains a greater quantity of pure fibre than nny other of the numerous vegetable products used in the manufacture of paper. The adaptation of the plant to commercial purposes will, it is anticipated, revolutionize the paper material market and largely affect the .induct rv. It is not a fact generally known that the real inventor of the powder used for the "Lebel" rifles is not the Colonel of that name, but M.Vieille, a young French engineer. M. Vieillc will be the fortunate recipient ere long of a prize of $10,000 awarded every three years, under the auspices of the Academy of Science, to the author of the most important discovery made within that period. A Honolulu paper thus describes a curious substance thrown off by the molten lava and found close to the lakes of fire at the volcano: "It clings to the adjoining rocks in fiber-like threads of a fiaxen color, and has the appearance of human hair; but mixed with it are sharp ^ -i? -t ui-.I. i fKnf parucics Oi IJIUUK liivn. vyucimvuu^ vuuv this substance is a mineral production, it is wonderful flexible and tough?bending easily, but not ductile in its present state or capable of being lengthened. It is peculiar to this volcano, and is certainly a singular production." According to Dr. S. S. Kilviugton, the Mississippi River received during the year 152,075 tons of garbage $ud of all, 108,250 tons of night-soil, and 3705 dead animals, from only eight cities; the Ohio, 40,700 tons of garbage, 21,157 tons of night-soil, and 5100 dead nnimals, from Ave cities; and the Missouri, 36,000 tons of garbage, 22,400 tons of night-soil, and 31,000 dead animals,from four cities. Dr. Kilvington urges the cremation of most of the refuge, and twenty-three out of thirty-five health officials consulted by him favored the plau. Uncle Sam's Timepieces. It costs Uncle Sam thousands of dollars a year to have his clocks wound. Every Monday morning you see men in Washington going about the departments carrying little ladders, like those used by the lamplighters. Their business is to wind and keep in order the clocks in the departments. Each mau has his own department or a section of the department to look after the clocks, and this is his sole business. In some places men are employed by the month for this pur pose, while in other cases the contract is let- by the month or year to some enterprising clock repairer, who sends a "journeyman" around to wind the clocks and see whether they are in order, and then goes himself to make such repairs as art necessary. The cost of winding and caring for the clocks in the departments runs at the rate of $75 to $100 a month in each department. There are in the Treasury Department nearly four hundred clocks. Some of those arc expensive ones, and cost away up in the hundreds of dollars, though the average value of departmental clocks is not more than perhaps $15 or $20 apiece. A good many of the clocks in the halls of the public buildings, and also those in the rooms occupied by the heads of departments are very valuable, costing away up in the hundreds.?Omaha I Yorid-iuraui. A Second Edition of Paris. Society in Buenos Ay res, Argcutine Republic, is gradually becoming more and more European. One walking the streets just now observes that we have become almost a second edition of Paris, says a correspondent of the Export find Financier. The fashions of that gay city are cjpied by women and men alike, and the fact that we have 200,000 Frenchmen in the Republic, in round numbers, has made a decided impression on the social customs of the people. A man landing here from Paris finds himself perfectly at home, and would hardly dream that he was so far away from his native land. The same applies equally to a Frenchwoman. She hardly misses the gay life of the gayest capital of all the world. The Englishman, too, finds himself, in a certain measure, among hi? own 1'dndred here, but to the American u certain lonely feeling is ever present. She Had Not Entirely Forgotten. Mr Billus sat in his comfortable armchair, with his feet comfortably resting on another chair. Mr. Billns was enjoying himself.' He hacl dined, and he defied fate to do its worst, even as another great man is said by historians to have done under like circumstances long before the period of Billus. "Maria," he observed, "this is the anniversary of our wedding, isn't it?" "It is, John." "Twentv-threo years, Maria," said Mr. Billus, reflectively, as ho took the poker and stirrod the fire in the grato, "is a thundering long ?li'm ! h'ni!? long timo for soino married folks, isn't it?" "It is, John." "And yet it doesn't seem?li'm! h'ra ?as if it were thirty years since I first met you at the Jasper County fair, does it ?" "It isn't thirty years," replied Mrs. Billus. rather shortly. "It is only twenty-six." "I mean twenty six years of course, Maria. Speaking of that fair," continued Mr. 13illus, "I wonder if you remember that big artichoke in the agricultural hall." _ "No, I don't remember any big artichoke.**? -"Have you forgoof corn sent in by old Absalom Wykoif ?*"" "I have no recollection of it." "Don't you remember the big boot that Uncle Jakey Dubois had on exhibition ?" "No." "Maria," said Mr. Dillus, impatiently, "whore's your memory? Don't vou recollect the great big pumpkin that weighed 17(5 pounds that Cal Heppcrly was .showing everybody that came to the fair V" "Jt .'-coins to mo }. do remember a big pumpkin." "I thought so. Your memory is a mighty poor one, Maria, but you could not forget that big pumpkin. Do you have any idea" persisted Mr.Billus.wilh growing recollections of sundry pies his pood mother had made shortly after that fair, "whatever became of that pumpkin, Maria?" "I think 1 have, John." "You have, hey," he retorted in sur- ! prise. "Jf it is all you can do to re member the biggest purapKin at tnnt fair how do you happen to know what-' j ever become of it, madam V" "I married that pumpkin, John." The lire burned feebly in the grate, the canary bird slumbered peacefully in its cage, and amid a silence so profound that the shadows could be plainly heard dancing on Ihe wall Mr. and Mrs. Bill us sat in (heir ohoerful little parlor and dreamed the happy hours of their wedding nnniveisary away.? Chicago Tribune. On business. The Governor of Georgia lmd just dismissed a delega1 ion of Piohibitionists, when a card bearing the name "Judge J. T. "W. Madison" was handed him. The chief executive was very tired, having been harassed with dry speeches, ami would have sent down an excuse, but the high-sounding name on the card bespoke a visitor of importance; so, wearily yielding, he told the porter to kIiow the gentleman up. A few moments later one of the most deeply colored gentlemen in tho Stale stepped into 1 lie room. "I)is yeredo gubner?" "Yes. "What do you want?" Ts called on biznoss, sah. I's er jedge down " " Von are a judge?" "Yes, Justice o' do Teacc down in do 6wamp distriek." ""Weil, state your business with mo as quickly as you can." "I'll do it. e ah. C'aze dat's wliut I come yore fur. Lemnie see, now. Oh, yas. fc'omo time ago, sail, I had er man named Sam Bly 'rested an' tried for stealin' co'n. 1 tried him myse'f and lined him four hundred dollars aii' tix munts in jail. Pis wuz all satisfactory, 'spociully terrne, but de blame lawyer he tuck er 'peal ter de circus con't. Now, fall, my bizness vid you' is dis yevo: Ef you's got any 'lluenco will de jedge o' dat circus cou't, Iwush you'd drap him a few lines an' toll him tor send dat case back ter me. Now, is you got much 'fluenco wid dat judge?" "You old scoundrel, get out of here or I will have you thrown out.' "Jest wait er minit, sah; jest wait er minit. I know dat nigger stole dat co'n, an' I know dat ho wants ter tako or 'peal just so he ken skape de justice dr,c is attor him. Par's anuder thing: Hat nigger is er mighty p'litical bother down dar an' de folks wants tor git rid o' him till atter de leckshun?knows da does, er da wouldn't er promised me er hnnnud dollars ter send him tfli. I Now. it's or gubnor's duty ter do whut de folks wants him ter do an'?hoi' on, hoi' on. I'll go. Neber seed sich times cz dose comin' ober folks. Hoi' on, fur l'bc dun gone."?Ar/causaw Traveler. i The Cook's Revenue. A very civ ions case lias just been derided ia a Frankfort police court. It ' appears t hat a cook, no longer quite ; young, was courted by a tailor somewhat younger than she. On Sundays, I and occasionally during the week, the gallant lover was i:i the liahitof taking ; his lady for extended promenades and i visits to restaurants, -where the latter i always pail r,he expense. She also pro I Titled him reguhuly with hit supper, j Presently, however, tho awful truth I was brought home to the cook that sho J was not the only "friend" on whom the "man of scistors and the needle lavished I his affections. Nothing loath, she went ' to tho ncare-t police court, suing the ' faithless o 10 for the expenses ofaffthe 1 clandestine meals ] rovided]jor, and all the money : ] cn^-tfTIcu "walking ' out" v.ilh himlellcr. Some of the compound Kalamazoo Greek names suggested for the killing of murderers by electricity are more terrifying than the thing itself. Mr. Bauiiitt, tho late soap manufacurer, made nbout $3,000,000 by living on the fat of the land. It may be love that makes the world I go round, lint you cau't make the old I maid believe it. Pains and Aches J In various porta o' the body, more particularly in lie tacit; shoulders and Joints, ate the unwelcomeIndications that rheumatism has gained a foothold and you i re "in for It" for a longer or sbortc. period. Ithcumatisni Is caused by lactic acid In t'l blood, aud Is cured by Hood's SarsaparlUa, which ' neutralizes Hie acidity and eradicates every linpu j itv from the b'ood. "I Miftcred froni acute rheumatism luduced by . ! severe sprain of it once dislocated ankle Join*, which cause 1 great 3 well In.; aud intense pain. One bottle of Hood's Snrs.iparllU restored circulation cleansed the blootl and relieved the pa'n so that am nearly we'd."?I.. T. llosrr, Springfield, Mo. Hood's Sarsapanlla Sold by all druggists, fcl;sixfor$j. Prepared only py C. J. HOOU * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell Mats. 100 Doses One Dollar I Hints for Amateur Sportsmen. j An excellent treatment for a bullet , wound is to wash the wound clean and 1 cover with clean muslin saturated with I a solution of carbolic acid or alcohol. , The great object is to keep the wound ' clean and protected from the air, Do ! not foolishly probe for the bullet. It can be bettor extracted after the healI ing of the wound. To extract fish hooks from your flesh or clothing cut the leader free and push the hook on through, depressing the upper end so as to bring the point out a<- near as possible to where it wont in. Don't try to pull the hook back over the barb. Thirst can be abated by the eating of acid fruits or plants. The chewing of twigs, barks o.: leaves of trees and ehrubj will also afford temporary relief. Snow a.jd ice aggravato the ' thirst l?y chilling and closing tho salivarv crlands. Learn to shoot without closing your eyes when you pull the trigger, 13eginners will find it hard to do this, but it must he done. In sighting either shotgun or rifle the left eye should he closed, except in the case of left-handed persons; then the right eyo should he closed. Some men keep both eyes open, hut the majority of shooters stin till .?he. crack shots close the left* eve. "* *? extra pair of socks are handy on a one-day*out trip. Then, with your shoes nicely dried at mv lady host's fire you will be in comfort for the next morning 011 your way home. Avoid sleeping in close rooms. Keep the apartment well ventilated. Lot in fresh air, hut keep out the draught. When out shooting carry a small square of shumois skin saturated with pure oil. Then you are prepared to well-grcnsc your gun in case of a rainstorm.?Nature. Don't Fool Away precious time p.nd money and trifle with your health expo1 irnen ting wi h uncertain medicines, whoa D . Piorce's Golden Med cat Discovery is so positively certai 1 in its curative action as to warrant its manufacturers in guaranteeing it to euro diseases of the blood, skin and scalp, and all scrofulous afflictions, or money paid for it will bo refunded. G'O) Reward offered for an incurable case of Catarrh by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Remedy. 50 cts., by druggists. The constim- r may consider li'mso'if luck> if lie gets milk of tie- first wafer. State of Ohio, City of Toledo,!,. Lucas County, f * Fiukk J. Ciik.nky makes oath that he la tho Fcnior partner of Ihetirmof F. J. Chunky & Co., doing business in the Cit.v of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, nrnl that said lirm will pay 1 lie sum of one hundred dollars for each and every rase of Cntnrrfc that cannot be cared by the usa of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. oworn to ncioro mc anu suuecnueu m niv presenco, this OtL day of t'eeember, A. D., 1836. (-?i A. \V. (j t.eason. < seat, v , Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure fs taken intcrna'ly and nets directly upon (ho Wood and mucous surfaces o. the system. bend for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. t?f' Sold by Druggists, ~.'c. A. businesseneapemetit?S curing the mat-, r.monlal promise of en I eiress. Are any of tho new-fa gled washing comSounds as good as tho olei-fnshioued soaps', lobbins's Elect tic Scup bus been sold cverj day for ^4 yearn, nud is now just as good or cvor. Ask your grocer for it and tuKe no other. The raining lavorite?A goid umbrella that belong' to enotht r ma?. Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equable cliraat", certain and abundant crops. IJcst fruit, grain, grant and stock conntry In tho world. Full information free. Address Oregon Im'lgrat'a Hoard. Portland. Ore. When a train is telescoped the pLSsengci s a-e apt to see stars. A 1 ox wind m?t' hos fiee to smokers o! * Ta' 6 l-'s Punch" 5e. C par. Has no redr sv-The man wbh hut one suit ?' c otbos, Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts Eintly yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowek-, cleanses the system effectually, d ispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Sjrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most j healthy and. agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commpnd it in nil and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitutes" CAU?OftflJA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. ^ySLMSV'UE, KY. NEW YORK, N Y. ely'S Cata a R H CREAM BALM^Pclys^ Cleanses llio fel^JcuRreCOW Nasal Passages, Allays I'ain andM Inflammation. J?M Ileals the Sores. K* , jm RCSti r.'S lilO WLamag-^ Senses oi' Tas!e"^sl >n<l Smell. TRY THE CURE. HAY-FEVER A p.vticlp h applied into ovjH n utril and ih ngra-j able. PricoaO cts. at druxKiSti; by mad, reRiatefHd, ii etc. KLY tlltOTliKKS. .io VVarrau St.. 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It is purely vegetable in composition and perfectly harmless in any conctition of tho system. Contains no alcohol to inebriate; no syrup or sugar to ferment in tho stomach and derange digestion. As an invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to tho wholo system. For overworked, " worn-out," " run-down," debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakerg?>eaiustresses, "shop-girls," housekeeperaCnursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Fiorce's Favorite Prescription isHhe greatest earthly boon; being unopialed luNm-uppotizing cordial and restoratr o tonicN As a soothing and stren&j lening nervine?. " Wiivr>rilj-i Vrr>?erintion " i. uneaiialcl. and " i ii??j? PELLETS^ ^^ ^ Bh 8 ?V?^?\ t One tiny, Sugar-coated Pellet a dose. Ccnstiption, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and Bowels. 25 cents a vial, by drugg IF YOU WISH A, ..a^, te4WfSSOH HEVOLVERw 1 ^ inns. The flne^WnmSnfin^^ ever manufactured and tho \V // )) first choice of all experts. *$,?[ Manufactured In calibres :n, wand 4t-li0. 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Mention thu pspir whan writingAFTER ALL OTHERSTAIT lit MSULT DR. LOBB 3tfitt North 1'lftecnlh St., Philadelphia, Pa,, for the treatment of lllood PoUons, Skin Krnptlnns, Nerrous Comjtla'lts/Itrlcht's Iilscase, Strictures, Impotcncy and kindred diseases, no matter of how long Standing or from what cause originating. HTTcn days' medicines fnmiahed by mall EDCC Bend for Book on HI'ICC IA I. IHseimcs. rntt? 'erajesTAXLE GREASE tir Uet tlio Oenulnc. Sold Kvcrywhcro. I 3 BilMC STUDY, Bock-kwlng. r.uatnem Voriaa. ItflUHib Penmanship, Arl hui' tic, short hand.etc.. SI thoroughly taught by MAIL. Unnliii fr?o. Drynnt'a (Jollcge, 437 Slain BUlInffato, N. Y. nniBIBJ I1ABIT. Duly Certain no4 lOriSlSvl cu It Kin the World. D* W8IUIII J. L. tSTJil'IlEtiS, Lebanon, Q ATI AC of U. S. and World 5E? tFi I !an%I tntp.gr.. 01 Kulir.jr flip. abC#WB I Many of them colored. 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