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THE TlfflGE SERMOH. DKOOKiY.WS DIVIDE PREACHES ON AX G ECOLOGY. There are Two Nations of Angels: The Xatiou ?:i'Goo?l Angela and the .Nation of Rail Ajijjc:*. Text: ".lnrf (he angel did wondrously." ?Judges xiii., It'. Fire built on a rock. Jlanoah aucl his wife had there kindled the flames for sacriliee in praise of God and iu honor of a guest whom they supposed to be a man. But as tin! flame rose higher and higher their stranger guest stepped into the flame and by one ret I leap ascended into the skies. Theu they knew that he was an Angel of the Lord, ' file angel did wondrously." Two hundred and forty-eight times does the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never heard or read a scriuon on Angelology. The whole subject is relegated to the realm mythical, weird, spectral ami unknown. Such adjournment is unscriptural and wicked. Of their life, their character, their habits, their actions, their velocities, the Bible gives us full length portraits, and why this prolonged and absolute silence concerning them? Angelology is my theme. There are two nations of angels, and they are hostile to each other; the nation of good i i ii.? 4.: .c i i nr ?i,n nugeis itiiu tuu iiiufiu ui u;tu miiki-is*. v/t tuc former I chiefly speak to-day. Their capital, their headquarters, their grand rendezvous, is heaven, but their empire is the universe. They are a distinct race of creatures. No human being can ever join their confraternity. The little child who in the Sabbath school sings, "I want to be an angel," will never have her wish gratided. They are su perhuman; but they arc of different grades and ranks, not all on the same level, or the same height. They have their superiors and inferiors and equals. I propose 110 guessing on this subject, but take the Bible for uiy only authority. Piato, the philosopher, guessed, and divided angels into super-eelesti-.i. celestial and sub-celestial. Dionysius, tin Areopagite, guessed, and divided them into three classes?the supreme, the middle and t he last?and each of these into three other classes, making nine in all. Philo said that the angels were related to God, as the rays to the sun. Pulgentius said that they were composed of body and spirit, Clement said they were incorporeal. Augustine said that they had been 111 danger of falling, but now are beyond being tempted. But the only authority on this subject that T respect says they are divided into Cherubim, iserapbiiu, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities. Powers. Their commander-inchief is Michael. Daniel called him Michael. St. John called him Michael. Those supernal beings are more thoroughly organized than any army that ever marched. They are swifter than any cyclono that ever swept the sea. They are more radiant than any morning that over came down the sky. They havo more to do with your destiny aud miue than unv lininrr in tVio iinivni'cn oron*\f ( ' a/1 Mow the Angc! of the Now Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus, open our eyes, mid touch '-ur tongue, and rouse our soul, while we 6peak of their dcathlessncss, their intelligence, their numbers, their strength, their achievements. Yes, deathless. They had a cradle, but will never have a grave. The Lord reinem bers when they were born, but no one shall eves see their eye extinguished, or their momentum slow up, or their existence terminate. The oldest of them has not a wrinkle, or a decrepitude, or a hindrance, as young after six thousand years as at the close of their first hour. Christ said of the good in heaven, "Neither can they die anv more, for they arc equal unto the angels." Yes, deathless ore these wonderful creatures of whom I spea's. They will see world after world go out, but there shall be 110 fading of their own brilliauco. Yea, after the last world has taken its last flight they will be ready for the widest circuit through immensity, taking a quadrillion of miles in one sweep as easy as a pigeon circles a dovecot. They are never sick. They are never exhausted. They need no sleep, tor they are never tire 1. At Gol's command they smote with death, in one night, one hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sennacherib's host, but no fatality can smite them. Awake, agile, multipotent, deathless, immortal! A further characteristic of these radiant folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah was right when she spoke to King David of tho wisdom of an angel. We take in what little we know through eye and ear and nostril and touch, but those beings have no physical encasement and hence they are all senses. A wail live feet thick is not solid to them. Through it they go without disturb* ing flake of mortar or crystal of sand. Knowledge! It flashes on thorn. They take it In at all points. They absorb it. They gather it up without any hindermcnt. So need of literature for "them! The letters of their 1 honks ?rp stnis. Th<* rtflshAs of t.lipir hooks are meteors. The words of their books are constellations. The paragraphs of their books \ are galaxies. The pictures of their books are sunrises, and sunsets, and midnight auroras, 1 and the Conqueror on the white horse with ! the moou under His feet, and sens of glnss 1 mingled with fire. Their library is an open 1 universe. No need of telescope to see something millions of miles away, for instantly they are there to inspect and explore it. All ' astronomies, nil geologies, nil botanies, all ' philosophies at their feet. What au oppor- ' tunity lor intelligence is theirs! What laeili- ' ties for knowing everything and knowing it right away. 1 rhcro is only one thing that puts them to j their wit's end, and the Bible says they have to study that. They have been studying it ] all through the ages, and yet I warrant they have not l'ully grasped it?the wonders of lie- 1 demption. These wonders are so high, so ' deep, so grand, so stupendous, so magnificent, that even the intelligence of angelhood is con- J founded before it. The apostle says: "Which things the angels desire to look into." That i is a subject that excites inquisitiveness on their part. That is a theme that strains their J faculties to their utmost. That is higher than they can climb, and deeper than they can dive. They have a desire for something too j big for their comprehension. "Which things the angels desire to look into." But that does 1 not disere lit their inlollisen??. No oao but Cod Him-jif can fully understand the won- I rlei's of Redemption. If all heaven should 1 study it for fifty eternities they would get no further than the A B C of that iuexhaustiblo 1 subject. But nearly all other realms of 1 knowledge they have ratisacke I and explored ! an ! compassed. No on* but God can tell ' them anything tliey do not know. 'They have ! read to the last word of the last Hue of the ! last page of the last volume of investigation. 1 And what delights me most is tint all their intelligence is to be at our disposal, and, com- j ing into their presence, they will tell us in five minutes more than we can learn by cue ? hundred years of earth It surmising. A further characteristic of these im- ? mortals is their velocity. This the Bible !' puts sometimes under the figure of wings, sometimes under the figure of a (lowing gar- 6 uient, sometimes under the figure of naked sl feet. As these superhuiuaus are without * bodies these expressions are of course flgup- ^ afcive, and mean swiftness. The Bible tells us that Daniel was prayiug. and Gabriel flew from heaven and touched him before he got up from his knees. How far, then, did. the Angel Gabriel have to lly in those moments of Daniel's prayer? Heaven is thought to be the center of the uni- " verse. Our suu and its planets only the P rim of the wheel of worlds. In a mo- ? ment the Angel Gabriel flew from that center to this periphery. Je-us told Peter He could a instantly have sixty thousand angels present ^ if He called for theai. What foot of antelope V or wing of albatross could equal that veloc- 1 ityV Law of gravitation, which grifs all p things else, has no influence upon angelic momentum. Immensities before them open ' and shut like a fan. That th?y are here is no c reason why they should not bo a quintUlion of miles hence the uext minute. Our bodies V hinder us, but our minds can circle the earth , in a raiuute. Angelic beings are bodiless and , have no limitation. God may with His finger point down to some world " in trouble on the outmost limits of creatiou, and instantly an angelic 1 cohort are there to help it. Or some celestial may be standing at the furthermost outpost M of immensity, and God may say "Comer' ^ and instantly it is in His bosom. Abraham, ? Elijah, Linear, Joshua, Gideon, Manoah, , Paul, St. John, could tell of their unhindered ' locomotion. The red feet of summer light- t ning are slow compared with their hegiras. This doubles up and compresses infiuitudes * into infinitesimals. This puts all the astro- J nomic heavens into a space like the balls of . a ch s rattle. This mingles into one the 11 II' and the There, the Now and the Then, *' Jeyond and the Yonder. ^ ?neither remark I have to make concern- : ig these illustrious immortals is that they V( arc multitudinous. Their census has never been taken, and no one but God knows how ? many they are, but all the Bible accounts suggest their immense numbers. Companies tl of them, regiments of them, armies of them, j mountain tops haloed.-bs~tiierm.skiaa.naiu*. " lous with them. John speaks of angels and other beings round the throne as ten thousand times tea thousand. Now, according to my calculation, ten thousand times ten thousand are one hundred million. But these are only the angels in one place. David counted twenty thousand of them rolling down the sky in chariots. When God came away froui the riven rocks of Mount Sinai,the Bible says lie had the companionship of teu thousand angels. I think they are in every battle, in every exigency, at every birth, at every pillow, "at every hour, at every moment. Tho earth full of them. The heavens full of them. They outnumber tho human race in this world. They outnumber ransomed spirits iu plory. When Abraham had his knife uplifted to slay Isaac, it was an angel who arrested the stroke, crying: "Abraham! Abra| ham!" It was a stairway of angels that Jacob saw while pillowed in the wilderness. We are told an angel loci the hosts of Israelites out of Egyptian serfdom. It was an angel that showed Iiagar the fountaiu whore she filled the bottle for tho lad. It was an angel that book J.<ot out of doomed Sodom. It was an angel that shut up the mouth of the hungry monsters when Daniel was thrown into the caverns. It was an angel that fel Elijah under the juniper iron. It was an an- i gel that announced to Mary the approaching uawviry. mey were cuuu uiiauccu when Christ was born, it was an angel that strengthened our Saviour in His agony. It was | an angel that encourage 1 Paul in the Med- | iterranean shipwreck. It was an angel that . burst opeu the prison, gate after gat.?, until ; Peter was liberated. It was an angel that j stirred the Pool of Siloain where the sick were healed. It was an angel that John saw j flying through the midst of heaven, and an j angel -with foot planted on the sea, and an i angel that opened the book, aud an angel that I sounded the trumpet, and an angel that j thrust in the sickle, and an angel that poured ' out the via's, aud an angel standing in the j sun. It will be an angel with uplifted hand, j swearing that time shall be no longer. lu th 3 great final harvest of the world, the | reapers are the angels. Yea, the J Lord shall be revealed from heaven ; with mighty angels. Oh, the numbers j an I the niijjlit and the glory of these : supernals! l'leets of them! Squadrons of them! Host beyond host! ltank above rank! Millions oil millions! Aud all 011 oar j side if we will have them. This leads mo to speak of the offices of j these supernals. To defend, to cheer, to rescue, to escort, to give victory to the right, and overthrow the wrong; that is their business. Just as alert to-day and efficient as when in Bible times they spread wing, or unsheathed sword, or rocked down penitentiaries, or filled the mountains with horses of fire hitched to chariots of fire and driven by reinsuien of fire. T'liey have turned your steps n hundred times, and you kuevv it not. You were on the way to do some wrong thing, and they chauged your course. They brought some thought of Christian parentage, or of loyalty to your own home, and that arrested you. They arrauged that some oiio saouiu meec you at mat crisis, nnu projkiso somet >ing honorable and elevating, or they took from your pocket some ticket to evil amusement, a ticket that you never found. It was an angel of God, and perhaps the very one that guided you to this service, i and that now waits to report some holy | impression to bo this morning made upon your soul, tarrying with one foot : ui?ou the doorstep of your immortal spirit, and the other foot lifted for ascent into the j skies. By some prayor detain him until ho | can tell of a repentant and ransomed soul! Or you were some time borne down with j trouble, bereavement, persecution, bankruptcy, sickness and all manner of troubles beating their discords in your heart and life. You gave up; you said: "I cannot stand it any longer. I believe I will take my life. Where is the rail train, or the deep wave, or the precipice that will end this torment of earthly existence?" But suddenly your mind brightened. Courage came surging into j your h;art like oceanic tides. You said; "GoJ is on my side, and all these adversities He can make turn out for my good." Suddenly 3Tou felt a peace, a deep peace, the peace of God that passeth all understanding. What made the change? A sweet, and mighty, and comforting angel of the Lord met you. That was all. What an incentive to purity and righteousness is this doctrine that we are continually uuder angelic observation! Eyes ever on you, so that the most secret misdeed is committed in the midst of an audience of immortals. No doors so bolted, no darkness so Cimmerian as to hinder that supernal eyesight. Not critical eyesight, not jealous eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but friendly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight. Confidential clerk of store, with great responsibility on your shoulder, and no one to applaud your work when you do it well, and sick with the world's ingratitude, think of the aimels in the counting-rooiu raptured at your fidelity! Mother of household, stitching, mending, cooking, dustiug, planning, up k^ir ?n *-I?A dai- M-.ii/i nan ulu ul ciu ihquu mm vuu 01 v,n vuwm, Jay in nud day out, year in and year out, worn with the monotony of a life that no one seems to care for, think of the angels in the nursery, angels in all the rooms of your toiling, nuzels about the sick cradle and all in sympathy 1 Railroad engiueer, with hundreds of lives hanging on your wrist, standing aniid the cinders and the smutch, round the sharp I curve and by appalling declivity, discharged [ iud disgrace ! if you make a mistake, but not | me word of approval if you take nil the , trains in safety for ten years, think of the angels by the throttle valve, angels by the roaring furnace of the engine, angels looking from the overhanging crag, angels bracing the racing wheels off the precipice, angels when you mount the thunderbolt of a train iud angels when yon dismount! Can you not hear them, louder than the jamming of ;he cu* coupling. Ion ler than the bell at the crossing, loudei than the whistle that sounds like the scream of a flying fun I, the au- 1 ;etic voices sayiug: "You did it well! You did it well!" If I often speak Df engineers it is because I ride so much with them. 1 always accept their invitation to join them on their locomotive, because I not only get ti my destination sooner, but tUoit o??.? nluMif tU/> iv!?a?r1aef man i utr;uu9Q mv:; mu c*wiu vuu ulive. Men nnd women of all circumstances, only ! partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all. j never feel lonely again, or unregarded again! Angels all around; angels to approve, angels | to help, angels to reniombsr. Yea, while all j thogoad angelsare friends of the good, there j is one special agent your body guard. This i idea, until this present stil ly of ang ilology, I supposed to be fanciful, but I fin t it clearly state I in the bible. When the disciples were prayiug for Peter's deliverance from prison, mil he appeared at the door of the prayer meeting, they could not believe it was Peter. They said- "It is his angel." So these disiples, in special nearness to Christ, evidently clieved that every worthy soul has an angel, esussaidof His followers. "Their angels benld the faco of My Father." Elsewhere it , isaid. "He shall give His angels charge over j hoe. to keep thee in all thy ways." Angel | liel lcd. augol protected, angel guarded, ngel canopich art thou. No wonder that j 1 diaries Wesley hymned these words; Which of the petty Kings of earth Can boast n guard like ours, Sue relet from our second birth With all t'w heavenly poworsf j 1 Valerius an 1 Rufiuus were put to death for j ' 'Wrist's sake in the year 2Si, and, after t he j I ay when their bodies had been whipped and ; jt> i lei into a jelly, iu the night in prison, ( nd before the next day when they were to e executed, they both thought they saw ngcls stan ling ivith two glittering crowns living; "Ha of good cheer, valiant soldiers ! f Jesus Christ! a little moroof battle aucl j lien these crowns are yours." And I am , lad to know that before many of those who rive passed turougn great suuermgs in tins fo. some angel of God has held a blazing ' oronet of eternal reward. j i Yea: we are to have tuich a guardian angel . o take us upward when our work is done, j i ,'ou know wo ure told an angel conducted in/.arus to Abraham's bosom. That shows | : :nt none shall be so poor in dying he caunot 1 il'ord angelic escort. It would ben long way | > go alone, and up paths we have never . roil, and amid blazing worlds swinging in uimaginable momentum,out nnd on through ich distances aud across such infinitudes of iace, we should shudder at the thought of oing alone. But the angelic escort will ">me to your languishing pillow, or the place C your fatal accident, autl says: "Hail, imlorlalone! All is well: God liath seut me > take you home;" and without tremor or ightest sense of peril you will away and dward, further on aud further on, until ,'ter awhile heaven heaves in sight, and the ! ruble of chariot wheels, and the roll of i lighty harmonies are heard in the dis- 1 nice, aud nearer you come, aud nearer ill. until th? brightness is like many morn- . igs suffused into one, and the gates lift and J iu are inside the amethystine walls, and on I le banks of the jasper sea, forever safe, for- | rer free, forever well, forever rested, for- j *er united, forever happy. Mothers, don't link your little children go alone when they lit this world, Out of your arms into an go lie arms. Out of sickness into hoalth. Out of the cradle into a Saviour's bosom. Not an instant will the darlings bo alone between the two kisses, the last kiss of earth and the first kiss of heaveu. "Now, angela, do your work!" cried an expiring Christiau. Yes, a guardian angel for each one of you. Put yourself now in accord with liim. When he suggest the right, follow it. When he warns you against the wrong, shun it. Sent forth from (*od to help you in this great battle against sin and death, accept his deliverance. When tempted to a feeling of loneliness and disheartenment appreciate the promise: "Tho angel of the Lord cncampelh around about them that fear Him and deliverelh them." Oh, I nrn so glad that the spaces between here and heaven are thronged with these supernatural? taking tidings home, bringing messages here,rolling back obstacles from our path and giving us defense, for ter rific are the forces who dispute our way, and if the nation of the good angels is on our side, the nation of bad angels is ou the othor side. [ Paul had it right when he said: "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities. against Powers, against tho rulers nf the ilnrlfnp? r,f this world ncninst snirit uai wickedness in high places." In that uvsfu! fight may GckI send us mighty angelic rc-uniorcenient! We want all their wingi on our si*i?, all their swords on our side, al' their chariots ou our side. Thank God that those who are for us are mightier than those who are against us! And that thought makes me jubilant as to the final triumph. Belgium, you know, was the battle ground of England and France. Yea, Belgium moro than once was the battle ground of opposing nations. It so happen! that this world is the Belgium or battle ground between the augelic nations, good and bad. Michael, the cominander-in-chicii on one side. Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or Mepliistopheles, as Goethe calls him, 01 Satan, as the Bible calls him, the commander iu-chief on the other side. All pure angelhood under the one leadership, and all abandoned augelhood under the other leadership. Many a skirmish have the two armies had, but the groat and decisive battle is yet to be fought. Either from our oarthly homes or down from our supernal residences, may we come in on the right side; for on that side are God and heaven aud victory. Meanwhile the battle is being sot iu array, and the foroes celestial and demoniacal are confronting each other. Hear the boom of the great cannonndo already opened! Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities and Powers are beginning to ride down their foes, and until the work is completed, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon, aud thou, Moon, in the valley of A jalon I" CANNED GOODS. Some of the Articles Which Foreign Countries "Put Up." "Wc "no longer have the monopoly of canned goods," said one cf the leading manufacturers to a New York Star reporter. "Nearly every nation has learned the wisdom, and, above all, the profits of putting up goods in this manner, and has gone into the business on a large scale. The public has not yet awakened to the fact, as the imports of these goods are still comparatively small, but they are familiar to every man in the trade. "In Mexico and Central America," he said, "the wonderful peppers for which those lands arc famous arc put up in cons, und the manufacturers are beginning to send them out over the world. Most of their output goes to the West Indies, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy, where it meets with a ready sale. A small amount comes to New York and other cities in the Uuited States, where it is purchased chiefly by Spaniards or Spanish-Americans. The peppers thus treated arc of many kinds, the large red and long green, the small red and the small green. When canned they are ready for use upon the dining table. "The Chinese," he continued, "can bamboo tips, ginger and special vegetables. The former looks exactly like asparagus tips upon a large scale. An average bamboo tip is about ten inches Ion" and three iuehes in diameter. It slices like a boiled potato, aud has a taste something like that of the yam. It is a great luxury with all the Oriental races and brings anywhere from twenty cents to a dollar a pound. The Japanese, who make lish their main article of diet, cook and preserve fish very much as Italians and Frenchmen do sardines, only the Japanese sardine boxes are never less than a cubic foot in size, and their sardines from a half-pound to two pounds in weight. The fishes thus treated are half familiar in appearance to American eves, belonging to the same classes as the bluetish, herring, mackerel, Spanish mackerel and sea bass. The Central Americans arc beginning to can green turtle and terrapin. They have not become very skilltul as yet, but now and then turn out first-class goods. The industry is bound to get ahead, as turtles, thrive wonderfully well in that part of the world. Brazil has started the canning of pineapples aud coeoanuts. They have adopted a novel system in spicing and sweetening these two fruits, which make thein admirable preserves, but not preserved fruits. How Convicts Get Pardoned Henry Southgatc was one of thj met engaged in robbing the Indiana National Bank some years ago in what was known as the "orange box robbery," the box being used to stand upou while the thiel reached over the "lass framework unon the counter and lifted out several thousand dollars iu bank notes?it was, 1 think, $20,000 or $2o,000. Southgute's friends pressed an application for pardon on the ground that he was dying of consumption. Governed Hendricks believed the story and pardoned him. "In n very short time after his release Southgate was as lively and healthy an evil-doer as there was in tho State," said a prison official. "He had simply been playing the snap trick." "What's that?" "Eating soap. The effect was to bleach his skin by producing a dearth of blood, or rather by changing the corpuscles, increasing the white and diminishing the red. There arc no serious consequences following the use of soap, and wlien discontinued the man rapidly gets well. "Governor Hendricks, naturallv enough, was much chagrined over the deception, ind made an entry in his office to the effect that it was never safe to pardon a man merely because he looked sick. Men in prison will do other things to excite, sympathy and inakeitappear that they are dying of consumption. "Now and then a fellow will strike tiimself in the throat, or even cut himself within the throat or under the tongue. Then he will spit blood in the presence of the physician, walk feebly, and talk in a ivhisper. Sometimes they eat dirt, which stops digestion, and this is followed by a falling off in flesh. "A short time ngo a request was mailc | For the pardon of a notorious criminal, j )n the ground that he was dying. He vas, upon that showing, placed iu the I tospital. front which lie escaped, but j iVus captured four days later."?[ludianipolis Journal. it is alleged that the falsification of English coins by clipping and count orbiting has gone on to a greater extent luring the last few years than for a long irr.e before, and that things have got to such a pass that it isn't safe to accept certain coins at all. JAPANESE LIFE. Surloe aatt ^Howera as Seen by, American Eyes. A correspondent writing from Yokolama has much to tell of the curios of Japan. He says: "Out here there arc rittle gods, big gods, good god ' and bad jods. They can be had from 50 cents to fcl 0,000 each. They are made f*om every material known to man, from clay to crystal and gold. Of course the wood Buddhas, as they arc called are the eldest and most unique. Good old Buddies can be had from $15 to $35 Mex. These arc prices hsre. It. is a ways the oest way to figure that an article costing, say, $20 Mexican here will cost the purchaser $20 gold landed in the United States. "I thick Japan is the most beautiful country in the world. The people arc . juaint and picturesque; the niwcrs arc marvelous. At present writing I see before mp two r>lnm trees about twentv-four inches high, in full bloom, <neh tree ihont ten years old. A few days ago we had a little snow, and it was a sight to >ee roses, geraniums, plum ani cherry^ blossoms, all in full bloom, with snow on (hem. Next month we will have the camellias, which arc now in bui. They ire all out in (he open air, and in April (he large cherry trees, ranging in size from eight feet to forty, though many Japs assure me thit there are cherry trees eighty feet high. I have never seen them, but it would not surprise me if it were true, as I firmly believe a Jap gardener can do most anything vith trees and plants. I suppose youngnters will come that way some time in the future. In August we have the lotus flowers; these also are worth traveling a thousand miles to see. October and November the favorite flower, chrysanthemum, for a month. This is the flower shew of the year. "There is a little place called Dayozaka, near Tokio, where they have the chrysanthemum shows, and they are, for all the world, the same as old English fairs. Two criers at the door, clapping together two pieces of hard wcod?this is to call attention to the show withinthen you plank down two cents and get your ticket, which is a piece of wood about two inches wide, six inches lotfg, and half nn inch thick; they are made this size so as to last a few years. I never tire visiting these quaint places. I have had several invitations to visit the shibiya (theatre) at Tokio when the great Danturo acts. This man is called the Ronth of .Tanao! his oav is $1(1.000 for twenty-one nights. "The costumes of the companj- are the most lovely things I ever saw; they arc beyond description. I frally came out here to form another Japanese village, together with a Japanese opera company composed entirely of Japanese .adies and gentlemen, with brass and string band combined. I am sure of all except the opera part; although there arc sixty graduates from the Conservatory of Music (in our music"), they cannot, sing. My idea was to do ' The Mikado' with a Japanese company and proper costumes; not one of the companies at home ever cos- | turned the piece properly. "The brocades one sees out here are perfect dreams, particularly old priests' robes. "We have paid as high as !$160 for a full suit. If I had come out here ten or fifteen years ago, I could have retained the finest collection in the world for my little racney that would have been worth half a million at this moment. There are several men who cumc here tweaty-five and thirty years ago who bought little 'odds and ends' from time to time at very small prices, and find now their collections to be worth from $150,000 to $300,000. Pieces of gold lacquer work that cost a mere trifle ten to twenty years ago arc now worth hundreds of dollars each." The Difference. "'Father," said a young son of Deacon Sqnibbs, "what is the difference between a man that dyes woolen lambs and a New York editor?"' '"Well, now, really, my son," beaming bonignly on his offspring, "I em not prepared to stnte. What is the difference?" w ny, pa, one is a lamo oyer, e na me i other a " "What! what! nay son!" "New York editor," continued the youth, rolling his tongue around in his cheek.? Exchange. m There May Be Other Senses. The Presid *nt of the British Association, Prof. Flower, indorses Sir John Lubbock's idea that the field of inquiry is limitless, and that .there may be "fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight ; and even within the boundaries of our own senses there i may be endless sounds which we cannot ! hear, and colors as different as rcc from green of which we have no conception. These and a thousand other questions remain for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we cannot, hear, of color which we cannot see. of sensations which we cannoi; conceive." Now is t To purify your blood and fortify your system / against the debilitating effects of spring weather. I At no other season Is the bitter taste In the mouth ] i more prominent, the breath so offensive, the i i drowsy dizziness so frequent, or that extreme tired j i feeling so prevalent. Hood's Sarsaparllla Is Just | the medlelno to build up the system, purify the ' ] blood, cure biliousness and headache, overcome j I that tired feeling and create a good appetite. The j peculiar medicinal merit of Hood's Sarsapa dlla Is | t shown by the many remarkable cures It accom- ! i pllshes where others fall. ! I Hood's Sarsaparilla "For a first-class Spring medicine my wife and I think very highly of Hood's Sarsaparllla. We both I took it last spring. It did us a great deal OJ' good | and we felt bettor through the hot weather than I ever before. It cured my wife of sick headache, i from which she has suffered a great deal, and relieved me of a dizzy, tired feeling. I think every one ought to take something to purify the blood before the hot weather eotnes on."?j. H. Pkauce, Supt. Granite By. Co., Concord, JJ. H. I Hood's Sc Polcl by *11 drasel?t?. $1; six for ?J. Prepare! only I by C. I. HOOD * CO.. Lowell, Maw. IOO Doses Qne Dollar [ EMPLOYMENT! Hnnn S^.?) brn);>le. Agents wan'?d. vn?t(.oodf, j lUiii. t>0'8 'Sency (f re't t> a P\Y. Acidro-s | ?*UU wi h ct.*iu;> W K. BkVKltllJii'.Bd.lO MD. P1TPMTQ ^'Pidenr is'o Pity! nook (ree. rnlklll) x. w. Kiusgerel'l .'c t.-!).. Wash., .!>. (;. W JEFFEB86B flireo editions in iLrce v eels. Eraulifully Winsrrated. Locil ond CcncrtI irrDted. Complete ?>oat ?1.00. K U. WOOL1". AKD, UBitlxoore, ild. "Chip of the Old Block." t At a recent banquet a blight young theologian told a very good story on his respected father, who is an old and tried member of the cloth. .\sis well known, ! the theological students, before they begin the formal practice of theology, are required to preach a sermon before an assemblage of the gray-beards of the church, who have pounded pulpit cushions for decades. This is a most trying ordeal for the students, and they go through with palsied knees and quivering lip. The young theologian in question was well known to the ministers of the denomination, as his father had been of their number for years, aud, as the. old gentleman was nnturnlly proud of his boy, thp young man's effort was listened to with interest by all present. To tell the truth, the old gentleman was a bit disappointed, but the young man was dreadfully embarrassed in the presence of his elders, and did not do himself justice. As he walked slowly home with his father the old gentleman said, after a long pause: "Charlie, that was a regular 6ehoolboy essay of yours." The young man was about to make some excuse i J : i-_ i i i wnen one 01 me uuiiiiiucs who uau occn present, walked up behind him, slapped the boy on the back, and said: "Charlie, you're evidently a chip of the old block." The old gentleman made no further criticism of his son's first effort.?[Chicago Herald. "Wann't Taking Chances. The bootjack is one of the implements of domestic welfare and warfare that has gone out of date along with the boot, but it is occasionally found on farms and in small towns, where the boot is still worn, or noisily worn still. Once in a while the bootjack is found in a great city in the bedroom of Rome old gentleman who is not too proud to allow a pair of bootlegs to wriggle his pants up to his knees. Over on the West Side there lives one of these old gentleman. lie is a club man and somewhat convivial in his habits; accordingly the bootjack is often quite a help to him in retiring. One night last week he returned home from the club and wns unable to find his bootjack. He started to hunt it up, but as he noisily encountered one chair four times he gave up the search and sat down to pull off his boots unaided. As he tugged and perspired his wife arose in bed, saw what ne was attempting, and said severely: it TT 1 .1 1A _ iL. nenry, way uon i you use me iwiijack?" He did not want to say that he could not find it, and like all men he was ready with an excuse. "Martha,1' he said solemnly, as ho paused and wiped the sweat from his brow, " I was reading in the paper to-day of a man who, while removing his boots with a bootjack, lost his balance, fell backward, and broke his collur bone. Martha, I am taking no more chances." Then he resumed his task.?[Chicago Herald. Pneumonia and neuralgia, with an occasional departure at the end of a noose in the West, constitute the bulk of the news at this season. The Only Gnnranteed Core For all blocil taints and humors, pimple?, blotches, eruptions and skin diseases of every name and nature, is l)r. Pierce's G'oldcn Medical Discovery. A cevliticatc of guarantee from a responsible business house warrants it to benefit or euro, or money refunded. Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by Dr. Cage's Itemed}*. ?0 cents, by druggists. iVrrp. Gnzzain: "Jhre'san nrt cle about an organ w.tu fifty stopr." Gazztm: "Urn! J wish tbut piano n xt door haa even oni!" Progress. It is very Important In this age of vast material progress that a remedy bo pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy In Its nature and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is* the one perfect laxative and ino6t gentle diuretic known. "Foci* n ust niffer hcforo they can write," ssys a p'.it osopin r. After that it is o'her People wi o suffer. Stat* of Onto, Cmr of Toledo, 1 ? Lttcas County, f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he la the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.. doing ousino s in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay ihe sum of one hundred dollars for each o.nd every case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. () A. W. Gleason. < seal v Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is takwi lnterna'ly and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces o. the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CnENKY & Co., Toledo. O. 0T~ Sold by Druggists, 7 c. Better be tood than great. YouM have less i competition. Tlie etier bu^in^ss i? overdone, j 5tr Novcb Free, sent by Cragin A Co., Phlla.. I Pa., to any one in U. 8. or Canada, post paid. I upon receipt of 25 Dobbins'J Klectrical Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars arounu ' each bar. This soap for sate by all grocers. Silence is colden; but it is t ,te other fellow's slience that is in -i-nt. R ch! fra rant! fine! i.re the eyn-'ssionsof tin s j who smoke "Tansi l's Punci." cc. Cigar- ( Th? switchmen's interest in ti e railroads they represi jit seems to lie flacrcing. M'ntcb for 'Murray" Buggy adv. next week Mystery h-iids a charm to a.most every* , th nc except mr mince pie. he Time Hood's Sarsapurllla Is the best blood purifier before the public. It erad cates scrofula and all humors, cures sail, rheum, bolls, pimples, etc. The severest cases of blood poisoning have yielded to Its superior curative power. "This Is to certify that; have used Hood's Sarsa[sarllla In my family for some time past and ha ve i found It to be a good blood purifier. It has been of j jrcat benefit as recommended and I have no hesita- j tton In recommending It to all who are In want of j tny medicine of the kind."?Hob-sit A. Smith, Justice of the Peace, Honesdale, Pa. The Spring M nvi^uiwiii^ m i "1 wish to enroll my name as one of those who ! hare derived health from the use of Hood's Sarsaparllla. For many years I have taken It, especially | In the early spring, when I am troubled with dlzzl- ! ness, dullness, unpleasant taste In my mouth In .he J morning. It removes this bad taste, relieves my ; headache and makes me feel greatly refreshed. The two bottles I have used this spring hare been worth a dollar a dose."?Johs Bisss, 663 43d Street, i Town of Lake, Chicago, III. J irsapariiSa |! Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only . ' by C. I. HOOD k CO., Lowell, Mass. j j ICO Doses One Dollar | FRAZER^j BEttT IN THE WOULD U I! LMO t 1 tW CHX tb?G?uuino. Sold Evemrhartw flnri WHISKEY HAB- 1 ' ^ |J* B |j ZTS cured at-home wiih- j W Bl M , T. R NLU OOLLKV.'lL O." ATIAJvlX unlet WtitduU St, J THE BROWN'S. Brown has a houseful of girls and boy?, Rosy and healthy and full of noise. They are sprightly at work and brigut at their book?, And arc noted for smartness and wit and good looks. Brown is healthy, his wife is lair, And their faces arc free from wrinkles and care: They spend no money for powders and pills, And never a dollar for doctors' bills. The reason the Brown's are so exempt from sickness is the fact that by an occasional course of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery they keep their blood, which is the fountain of life and strength, pure and rich.' In this way their systems are fortified to ward off attacks of fever, and other dangerous diseases. Those not so prudent, who have become sufferers from torpid liver, biliousness, or "Liver Complaint," or from any of the innumerable eases caused by impure blood, will find the " Golden Medical DiscoveiflMBnA a positive remedy for such diseases. ^ Especially has the " Discovery " produced the most marvelous cuiVOHB nf nil manner of Sir in anrl Snnlr* rlicnoeoa 5oU rr<-ii? 171 ? -uinvuo^o) uain ucillll, xclw^lj lltCAtfi Erysipelas, and kindred diseases. Not less wonderful, have been tlS?9p| cures effected by it in cases of " Fever-sores," "White Swellings," joint Disease," and old sores or ulcers. It arouses all the excretory organs into activity, thereby cleansing and purifying the system, freeing it from all manner of blood-poisons, no matter from what source ibey have arisen. " Golden Medical Discovery " is the only blood and liver medicine, wm sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from its manufacturers, of its benefiting or curing in every case, or money paid for it will be returned. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Manufacturers, 663 Main Street, Buffalo,. N. Y. CATA RRH Bt 1 , , _ Is conquered by the cleansing, antiseptic, soothing and healing properties of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedr. 50 eta., by druggists. March, April, May | r should be renovated J Ayers Sarsaparilla change of Seasons. W. L. DOUGLAS Prepared by S3 SHOE forCENTLEMEM r\? I r\ o And Other Advertised Specialties Are the ^ Dr. J. C. Aycr 8c Co.. . BeetlnthotVorld. I * ' None genuine unless name and price are stamped jowell. Mass. on bottom. SOLD EVERYWHERE. If Tour dealer ' will not supply yon. send postal for Instruction* how - to buy direct from factory without extra charge. W. I.. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mios. SMOTHERS MpS -dw ^^t/REro^i^ _-*ii CACU) OW' |?Ba] HAY- f-m fever LMm SfSJSteSJ!!?? $ 50 cts. gjjg' "Z'SbjtjMOTHER. , COLD-HEAP wmmwisumm DO^uwIT'^ ELY BROTHERS, E6 Warren St., New York. " " r SOU) BY ALL OKUGSJ3TB,, - TF TOO ffI8HA/>. ^v/ i Manufactured in calibres 33.* end 44-loa 8ln- jwH To cure Biliousness. Sick Headache. Constipation. ! ale or double action. Safety Bammerleee and v5* Malaria. Liver Complaints, take the safe I Target models. Constructed entirely of beat qaal. and certain remedy, SMITH'S i Ity wrought steel, carefully Inspected for wort* _ _ __ _ manahlpand stock, they are unrivaled for flnUh. rl 1 C A RBA durability end accuracy. Do not be deceived br 0 I r" ffs |f" ?1 |U ; cheap malleable cast-iron Imltatlonii which Bsc* I Bas ka U Em I m 1 are often sold for tnegei.xtne article and are not ? . 1 onlv unreliable, but dangerous. The SMITH k Use the SMALL SIZE (40 little beans to the bot- | WESSON Revolvers are all stamped upon the barlie). They are the most convenient; suit all age* rela with Arm's name, address and dates of patera Price of either sUe, 25 cents per bo'tle. ; and are grnarantped perfect in every detail la* KISSINGS.lii'i.M'SiS'En ' z5^ra2Sg.a"?,au?"""4 ?isais,sr.rs^,ssx?."s i & WESSON, fffffu.1 iiwjB?niHM? j WTtaWa ibis wiw; a^rmgUold. Mas* - ' *? ?- ?a- - ?%? I - ^ ? ?* aa#aaaasirt If (A PITEKTS?PEN3I0N5 Monw send "orrdV ?T ,,E OR. SUHtNUK3 Best of Pension and Bounty laws. Send forlnventors* ' H Guide or How to Get Patent. Patiuck O'Fakrell, I* ISII*PI\ Attorney at Law, Washington, n. u ttU ' ttfef DYSPEPSIA I And all Disorders of the DigestMb ISiSsB^AAr'*3 , ? I <$ ire Organs. It is likewise a Y?. ta "* ^5^ lor Ifim WgB corroborative, or strengthentt^ay lO-Vr .DJnoh'imiorv NY ?msi Medicine, and may be -> vM?or\lN. T. L J2& taken with great benefit in all . " cases of Debility. For Sale bf 1 nmnn ITT nmrrnnn n 1 TT all Druggists. Price, $1.00i>er bottle. Dr.8chenek? A L'I'L!/ A I I II I'll Ll 1/ V LAN New Book on Lung* Liver and Stomach mailed free. ANM ALL UlllljillJ fAllj *gdres8' Dr. J. H.SCHENCK & SOW. Philadelphia. CONbULT int. Ml IIII, 3Ut North Fifteenth CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH I'liilinleluhin. Twcuty yesrs' experleuoe I iftp&iiiunnvaB niR b a fflSssrtKss: ruRR ?nu??l ri&xa l-iles Catarrh, Ulcer?, Sores, Impaired Memory, .h&x "?ltrcr??i??,*,,?.?.7,0.b a?-0" a Desp ndeney. I""'"'- n^lrnt^0'' t' ifi&k A stomach, Xldncy iBrlghi * Disease), confidential r ro^ BrUimc botni# >rnicd Wllh biue>x^ r^Call or wrlto fur question list auii boo lb * ^^-JjSyvrthboo. Take no other. 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R. jJYCHE * 00 . Ill 111 III J. L toTEf liENB, L?tianna,0 G Chicago, 111. ? e_ Sold by Druggist* DElKlftMC SUiIU fOl? AM. or NO I'AY. ? ; ? I tTwiV/fW y, \\. FiU<omM. Att'y, Wash., D. C. | Ji N ^ 14 nest. tjougn Medicine. J ^commenrted by Jflivslcians. PIB h?? Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the fa | I . I ?