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M 1 TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subjrcti ".My Second Day In Pnle?tlne.,f ,? Text: "I went up to Jerusalem."?Galatians, i? 18. 3Iy second dav in the Holy Land. V.'e are in Joppa. It is G o'clock in the morning, but wo must start early, for by night wo aro to be in Jerusalem, and that city is fortv-ona miles awav. Wo may take camel or horso or carriage. As to-day will be our last opportunity in Palestine for taking the wheel we choose that. The horses, with harness tasscled and jingling, are hitched, and. with a dragoman in coat of many colors seated in front, we start on a road which unveils in twelve hours enough to think of for all time and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean, with such a blue as no one but the Divine Chemist could mix, and such a fireof morninj* clow as only the Divine Illuminator could kindle. Hail! mountains of Ephraim and Judea, whose ramparts of rock we shall mount ia a few hours; tor modern engineers can make a road anywhere, and, without piling Ossa upon Pel ion, those giants can scale the heavens. We start out of the city amid barricades of cactus on either side. Not cacti In boxes two or three feet high, but cactus higher than the top of the carriage?a plant that has more swords for defease, considering V?o nmminf r\9 hooiitv it r?an AThihlt. th:iri anything created. \Vo passed out aml.i about four hundred gardens, seven or eight acres to the garden, from which at the right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons, figs, olives, citron and pomegranates, and which hold up their censers of perfume before the Lord in perpetual praise. We meat great processions of camels loaded with kegs of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan with four wives?three too many. The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous shape, stalking out of the past. The driver with his whip taps the camel on the foreleg, and he kneels to tako you as a rider. But when ho rises hold fast or you will fall off backward 03 he puts bis fore feet in standing posture, .and then you will fall off in front as bis back legs" take their place. But the inhabitants are use to his ways, although I find the riders often dismount and walk as though to rest themselves. Better stand out of the path of the camel?he stops for nothing and seems not to look down; and in the street I saw a child by the stroke of a camel's front foot hurled seven or eight feet along the ground. Hero wo mcot people with faces and arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors tattoo their arms with some favorite slii^i or admired face. It was to this habit of tattooing among the orientals that God refers in a figure when he says of his church, "I have graven thee on the paims of my hands." Many of these regions are naturally sandy, but by irrigation they are made fruitful, and as in this irrigation the brooks and rivers are turned this way and that to ! water the gardens or farms, so the Bible 6aya, "The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord, and he turneth it as thorivcrsof water are turned whithersoever he will." ivs we pass out anu on wo una aoout eigne hundred acres belonging to tho Universal Israelitish alliance. MonteSore, the Israelitish centenarian and philanthropist, and Rothschild, tho banker, and others of tho large hearted have paid the passage to Palestine for many of the Israelites, and set apart i lands for their culture; and it is only a beginning of tho fulfillment of divino prophecy, when theso people shall take possession of the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all tho roads loading to Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with processions of Jews going to the sacred places, either or holy pilgrimage or as settlers. All the fingers ot Providence nowadays are pointing toward that resumption of Palestine by tho Israelites. I do not take it that the prospered Israelites of other lands ore to go there. They would bo foolish to leave their prosperities In our American cities, where they arc among our best citizens, and cross two seas to begin llfo over again in a | strange land. But the outrages heaped upon them in Russia, and the insults offered .them in Germany, will soon quadruple and centuple the procession of Israelites from Russia to Palestine. Facilities for getting there will be multiplied, not only in the railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which I referred last Sabbath as being built, but permission for a road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has been obtained, and that of course will soon connect with Joppa and make one great ocean shore railroad. So tho railroad from Jerusalem to Joppa, and from Joppa to Damascus, will scon bring all the Holy Land within a few hours of connection. Jewish colonization societies in England and Russia are gathering money for the transportation of the Israelites to Palestine, ana for the mirchasefor them of hinds and farmlne im elements, and so many desire to go that it is decided by lot as to which families 6ha!l go ; first. They were God's chosen people at the first, i and He has promised to bring them back to their home, nnd there is no power in one thousand or fivo thousand years to make | God forget Kis promises. Those who are prcso red in other lands will do well to stay where they are. But let the Israelites who are depreciated and attacked and persecuted turn their faces towards tho rising sun of " their deliverance. God will gather In that distant land those of that race who have | been maltreated, and Ho will blast with the j lightnings of His omnipotence those lands on ! . either side of tho Atlantic which have been the instruments of annoyance and harm to that Jewish race, to which belonged Abraham and Davia and Josbua and Baron Hirsch and Moptefiore nad Paul the Apostle and Mary tho Virgin and Jesus Christ the Lord. . On the way across the plain of Sharon we , meet many veiled women. It is not respect- , able for them to go unveiled, and it is a veil that is so hung as to make them hideous. A man may not even see tho face of his wife . until after betrothal or engagement of mar- j j riago. Hence tho awful mistakes and tho j \ unhappy homes, for God has made the face j an index of character, and honesty or dishon- ' < esty usually is demonstrated in the features, j J I do not see what God made a fair fac3 for if j 8 it wore not to bo looked at. But here come \ tho crowds of disfigured women down the ( roAd on their way to Jop;>a, bundles of sticks for fire-wood on their heads. They started ] \ at tlireo o'clock in tho morning to get the \ fuel. Thoy stagger under the burdens. ] "Whipped and beaten will some of them be if i 1 tceir ounuie ol sucks is too small. All that is required for divorcement is for a man to ' gay to bis wife, "Be oiY, I don't want you any j more." Yv'oman a slave in all lands, except those in which the Gospel of Christ makes her a queen. And yet in Christian countries , there arc women posing as skeptics, and men with family deriding the only religion that makes sacred and honorable the names of wife, mother, daughter and sister. 1 "What is that? Town of Ratnleh, birthplace, residence and tomb of Samuel, the florions prophet. Near by, Tower < V rty r lartyrs, so called because that nuiuoer of 1 disciples perished there for Christ's sake; : i but if towers had been built for all those ' c who in the time of war ns in lime of jx-ece havo fallen on this road during the ages ' c post you might almost walk on turrets from j p Joppa to Jerusalem. j t, Now we passed the guard houses, which I e ere castles of chopped straw and mud where j c at night and partly through the day armed 1 1 men dwell and keen the bandits off travelers. \ In the caves of these mountains dwell men ' r to wnom massacro would be high play and ; t a purse with a few pennies would do "com- ! c ponsution enough ror the struggle that tho i ^savage might have with the wayfarer. ! ^ There is only one other defense that amounts ! v to much in these lauds ami that is the lav.- of j 0 hospitality. If you can get an Arab to eat j s with you, if only one mouthful, you uro sure j i of his protection, and that has been so from ! n age to age. The Lor.i's sapper was built on ! * that custom, a special friendship after par- j t taking food together. To that custom \Vrd- j v ter Scott refers in his immortal "Talisman," j fl where Saladin, with cue stroke of the sword, j .. strikes the head from an enemy who stands j J in Saladin's tent with a cup in his hand and 1 j before he has time to put it to his iip, an l j c . does it so suddenly that the body of his en- I emy, beheaded, stands for a moment after | | the beheading, with tho cup still in his riglit j I hand. After the cup had been sipped it | would have been impossible, according to tho i I laws of the oriental hospitality, to give tho | s fatal blow. i b Tho only lands whero it is safe to travel ! I unarmed are Christian lani3. Human life is ' I more highly valued and personal rights are better respected, and I am glad to believe that in our country, from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean, there is not a place today where a man is not safer without a pistol than with one. But all through our journeys in Palestine we required firearms. "While the only weapon I bad on my person was a New Testament we went through the region where I said to tho dragoman: "David, aro you armed!''' and he said "Yes," and I said: "Aro those fifteen or twenty muleteers and baggage men and attendants armed;-" and he said "Yes," and I felt safer. On we roll through the plain of Sharon. Here grew the rose after which Christ was named, Rose of Sharon, celebrated in nil Christendom and throughout all ages. There has been controversy as to what flower it was. Some say it was a marshmallow that thrives here, and soma claim this honor for the narcissus, and somo for tho blue iri3, and some for tho scarlet anemone, for you must know that this plain of Sharon is a rolling ocean of color when the spring breezes move across it, But leaving the botanists in controversy as to what it is, I would take tho most aromutic and beautiful of them all and twist them into a garland for tho "name which is abovo every name." Yonder, a llttlo to the north as we movo on, is the plain of Ono. Tho Bible mentions it again and again. Tho village standing on this plain of Ono is a mud village. Two great basins of rock catch tho rains for tho people. Of more importance iu olden tiir.s than in modern time was this plain of Ono. But as the dragoman announced it and in tho Bible I read of it I was reminded of tho vast multitudo of peoplo who now dwell in tho plain of Ono. They are, by thoir nervous constitution or by thoir lack of faitlr in God, always in the negative. Will you help to build a church? On, no! Will you start out in some new Christian enterprise? Oh, no I Do you think the world is getting any better? Oh, no! They lie down in tho path of all good movements, sanitary, political and religious. They harness their horses with r.o traces to pull ahead, but only breeching straps to hold baclt. For all Christian woig I would not give for a thousand of them the price of a clipped ten cent piece. They are in the plain of Oh, no I May the Lord multiply tho numbers of those who when anything good is undertaken are found to live in the plain of Oh, yes! Will you support this ne.v charity? Oh, yes! Do you think that this victim of ovil habit can bo reformed? Oh, yes I Are you willing to do anything, whether obscure or resounding, for the welfare of the church and t he salvation of a world? Oh, yes! But, I am sorry to say that tho most populous plaiu in all the eartu to-day is tho plain of Ono. Here now we come where stood the Holds into which Samson fired the foxes. Tho foxes are no rarity in this land. I counted at oao time twenty or thirty of them in one group, and the cry all along the line was "Foxes! Look at tho foxes!'' and at night they sometimes bark until all attempts to sleep are an absurdity. Those I saw and heard in Palestine might have been descendnrvf-c r>f t.hn v-nrw fnrr.c that. Snmsnn nmnlnvrvl for an appalling incendiarism. The wealth of that land was in the harvests, and it was harvest time and tho straw was dry. Three hundred foxes are caught and tied in couples by some wire or incombustible cord which the flames cannot divide, an i firebrands are fastened to those couples of foxes, and the affrighted creatures are let loose and run every whither among the harvests, and in the awful blaze down go the corn shocks, and tho vineyards, and the olives, and all through the valleys and over the hills and among tue villages is heard the cry of "Fire I" AnMn tho burnt pathway walk hunger and want and desolation. All this for spite. And some theologians learn one thing and some another. But I learn from It that a great man may some times stoop to a very meau piece of business, and that if men would use as much ingenuity In trying to bless as they do in trying to destroy, the world all the way down would , be iu better condition. Yet the fire of tho j foxes kindled that night in Palestine has not J gone out, but has leaped tho seas, und the sly i foxes, the human foxes, are now still run- j nlng every whither, kindling political ilros, I tires of religious controversy, fires of hate, I world wide fires and the whole harvest of j righteousness perish. It took the hard work | of multitudes on these plains of Palestino for months and months to rear the vino and raise tho corn, but it took only three hundred1 j worthless foxes one night to blaze all into ashes. Brace up your nerves now, that you may , look while I point them out. Yonder is Kir- j jath-Jearim, whero the ark of God staid uutil David took it to Jerusalem. Yonder John j tho Baptist was born. Yonder Is Emmaus, where Christ wolKeu w;ta nis uiEcipies an eventide. Hero are men plowing, only one handle to the plow, showing tho accuracy of Christ's allusion. When we plow in America or England there are two hands on two handles, but In Palestine only one handle. And so Christ used the siugular saying, "No j man having put his hand to the plow and looking bacK is fit for the kingdom." The ox | is urged on by a wooden stick pointod with j sharp iron, and the ox kuows enough not to : kick, for he would only hurt himself instead j of breakiug the goad. And the Bible refers I to that when it says to Saul, "It is hard for tkoe to kick against tho goads." Here is the valley of Ajalon, famous for j Joshua's pursuit of the live kings and tho j lunar arrest. And in imagination I see the { moon in daytime halt. Who has not some- i times seen the moon dispute the throne with the suni' But when the king of day and tho j queen of night, who never before Joshua's i time nor since then stopped u moment in ' their march, halted at Joshua's command it j was a scene, enough to make tho universe j Bhiver: "Moon, stand thou still in the valley | of AjalonAt another time we will see the sun stop above Gibeorubut now we have only to do with the moon, and you must remember it was more of an orb than it is now. It p a burnt ou 1 world now, a dead world now. j an extinct world now, a oorpse laid out in I state in the heavens, waiting for the judg- i ment day to bury it. But on the day of I which I speak the moon was probably a liv- i ing world, yet It halted at the wavo of Josh- j uaTs finger, "Stand thou still!-' Do not budge ! nn inch until Joshua finishes those five kings, j who are there tumbling oyer the rocks,sword ; of man slashing them, hailstones oat oi tho I stfy pelting t rem. And there is the cavern of Makkorlah, | where they fled for safety, and where they wero afterward locked in. and from which they wero taken out to he plain, and in which they were afterward buried, and you do well to ex amino that cavern, for within a few hours it became three things which no jther cava ever was?fortress, prison, >'.'pulchor. Now we pass the placa where onco lived duo of the greatest robiiers of the cvjr.try, A.bou Gosl. by name. From this point yon see he could look over the surrounding crantry, and loug before the travelers came up to aim the plan for taking of their money or their life, or both, was consumated. He one j lay found a company of monies who would i aot pay, and he smothered them to death in I a hot oven. In his last days he live I hero I ike un oriental prince, an I ha 1 attendants I ind admirers to whom he told his stories of jrigandago and assassination. 60 lato as vhen our eminent and beloved American, IVilliam G. Prime, passed througli, Abou 5oi.b, the scoundrelly Bedouin, sat at his loorway smoking his pipe. His descendants ive in tftis village, ana probably ar 1110 m it' lonest than their distinguished ancestor, but naraudiug and murder are not as safe a msiness now as when all this route to Jerusalem was subjected to outrages paulemouiac. Hero we pass the village of Latrun, homo if tho penit'eut thief, the village, a few strag;ling houses on steep hills, rising from the alley of Ajalou. Up these steep hills in his arlier days the thief had carried tho spoils if arson and burglary, and down them he lad born tho heavier burden of a guilty isart. But. higher than these hills he nounted after ho had repented, from the | ransfixed posture on tho cross to the bosom if c forgiving God. Now we conio to tho brook Elab, from ] vhicd little David took the smooth stones vith which ho prostrated Goliath. There is j l bridge spinning the ravine, but at the sea- j on we crossed there is not a drop of water j u the brook. Wo went down into the ravine md walked amid the pebbles that had been vashed smooth, very smooth, by the rush of be waters through all the ages. There is vhere David armed himself. Ho walked iround and picked up five of these polished jebbles. Ho got thein of Just tho right size, do prepared himself for hvo volleys, so that f the giant escaped the first ho will notesrape the whole five. The topography of the 1 dace so corresponds with the fiib.o story ha^I couid see the memorable fight goon, t is the only fight I ever did watch. Pugilism I abhor; but here were two cham- | lions?tho one God appointed, tho other ! Satan appointed, and deciding the destiny of } i nation, the destiny of a world. It was a : ilarathou, an Arbela, a Waterloo, a Bleu- ' leim, a SedaD, concentrated into two right | arms. Here are two ridges of m ouw.tains 500 feet high, the Philistines on one ridge, the Israelites on the other rid^o. The fight is in the valley between, at tint season shaded and sweet with torebinth and acacia, David the champion for the Israelites, Goliath the champion for the Philistines, David undersized and almost effeminate, only a mouthful for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high. The}* advance to meet each or,her, but the Bible says that David made the first step forward. Nearer and nearer they come, but I do not think David will wait until ho comes within reach of Goliath's sworJ, for that would be fatal, and David has a weapon with which ha can fight at long range. Closer and closer they come, hut David advances the more rapidly. "Coma to me," said tbo giant, "and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to tho boasts of the field." You seo Goliath going to give David for a banquet to tho vulture and j ckah He, tho mountain of flesh, will fall over on that littlo hillock. I hear him laugh through tho mouthpiece of his helmet. Ho will toast the littlo whiffet ou tho top of his long sword. He will call all tho crows for a breakfast. . "Come to me, you contemptible littlo fellow, and I will make quick work with you. Tne ilea that a flveCootcr should dare to come out agaiust a ten-footer! L:-t tho two armies looking down from tho ridges watch mo!" David responded, "I come to thea in tho name of tho | Lord ol Hosts!' auh mac is cno rignc kind of huttlo shout. "Iu the uaino of tbo Lord cf. Hosts!" How that cry rings through the WadyosSuuipt! He who lights in that spirit wins the day. The almost Israelitish dwarf enlarges into omnipotent proportions. Thi moment to strike has come. David takes his sling, with a stoue in it. aud whirls it round hi3 head until he has put the weapon Into sufficient momentum, and then, taking suro aim, hurls it. Tho giant throws up his hands and reels back and falls. Tho stone sank into his forohead. That was the only j available point of attack. But how about | the helmet on his head? Did the stone that | David fluug crush through tho helmet? No. An old rabbi says he thinks that when GoI liath scoffed at David the giant so suddenly j and contemptuously jerked up his head that I tho helmet fell-off. That is liko enough. David saw tho bare forehead, a foot high,and j aimed at tho centre of it, and the skull cracked and broke in like an eggshell, and j the ground shook as this great oak of a military chieftain struck it. Huzza for David! | But we must hasten on, for tho dange now i3 that night will bo upon us before we reach Jerusalem. Oh I we must see it before sundown. Wo are climbing the hills which are terraced with olive groves, uplands rising above uplands, until we come to an immensity of barrenness, gray rocks above gray rocks, where neither tree, nor leaf, nor bush, nor grass blade can grow. The horses stumble, and slip and pull, till it seems tho harness must break. Solemnity anil awe take J possession of us. Though a vivacious party, and during part of tho day jocularity haa reigned, now no ?no spoke a word except to j say to the dragoman, "Tell us when you get tho first glimpse of the city." I never had ! such high expectation of seeing any place as I of seeing Jerusalem. I think my feelings i may have been slightly akin to those of the Christian just about to enter the heavenly Jerusiaem. iuyiueusui llio eui vlu_> ucnualora were bewildering. Had I not soon pictures of it? Ob, yes; but they only increased the bewilderment. They were taken rrom a variety of standpoints. If twenty artists attempt to sketch Brooklyn or New York or London or Jerusalem | tney will plant their cameras at different j places and take as many different pictures, but in a few minutes I shall see the sacred city with my own eyes. Over another 6houlI der of the hill we go,and nothing in sight but | rocks and mountains and awful gulches bei tw<en them, which make tho head swim if | you look down. On and up, on and up,until | tho lathered and smokiDg norse3 are reined in. and the dragoman rises in front, and j points eastward, crying "Jerusalem 1" It was I mightier than an electric shock. We all rose. There it lay, the prize of nations, the terminus of famous pilgrimages, the object of Roman | and crusading wars, and for it Assyrians had I fought, and Egyptians had fought, and the ! world had fought?tho place where tho Queen of Sheba visited and Richard Cceur de Lion bad conquered. Home of Solomon; homo of Ezekiel; nor.- of Jeremiah; home of Isaiah; home of Saiadin. Mount Zion of David's heartbreak, and Mount Moriab, where the sacrifices smoked; Mount of Olives, where Josus preached, and Gethsomane, where He agonized, and Golgotha, where He died, and the holy sepulcher where He was buriea. O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Greatest city on earth, and typo of the city r.elestial! After I have oeea ton thousand year3 in heaven the memory of that first view from the rocks on the afternoon of December 2 will be as vivid as now. An Arab on a horse that was like a whirlwind, bitted and saddled and spurred, its mane and flanks jet as tho night?and there are no such horsemen as Arab horsemen?had come far out to moot us and invite us to his hotel insido the gates. But arrangements had been raado for us to stay at a hotel outside the gates. In the dusk of evening we halted iu front of the place and entered, but I said: "No; thank you for your courteous reception, but I must sleep to-night inside the gates of Jerusalem. I would rather have the poorest place insido the gates than the best place outside." So we remounted our coach and moved on amid a clamor of voices, and between camels grunting with great beams and timbers on their backs, brought in for building purposes ?tor it is amazing how much a camel can carry?until we came to what is called the Joppa Gate of Jerusalem. It is about forty feet wide, twenty feet deep and sixty feet high. There is a sharp turn just after you have entered, so planned ns to make the entrance of armed enemies the more difficult. On the structure of these gates the safety of Jerusalem depended, and all the Bible writers used them for i lustrations. Within five minutes' walk of the gate wo entered David wrote, "Enter into thy gate3 with thanksgiving," "Lift up your heads, O ye gitesF "The Lord loveth the gates of Zion," "Open to me the gates of righteousness." And Isaiah wrote, "Go througli, go through the gates." And the captive of Patmos wrote, "The city had twelve gates." Having passed the gate wo went on through the narrow streets, dimly lighted, and passed to our halting place, and sat down bv the window, from which we could see Mount Zion, and said: "Hero we are at last, in the capital of the whole ea:-tfi." And thoughts of the past and the future rushed through my 6oul in quick succession, and I thought of that odd hymn, sung by so many ascending spirits: Jerusalem, my happy heme, Name ercr ccar to me! When ehall my labors lave aa end, In joy and peace and thee7 When shall these eyes thyheav'n built walls And pearly gates behold? Thy bulwarks with salvation etroug, Aud streets of ehlnlDg gold? A J U mha?.U?JVA /1UU bU YWWii UUI uwu Kzy 1UU I^iuiibuuo VJ God for journeying mercies all the way from Joppa to Jerusalem, and with bright anticipation of our entrance into the shining gate of the heavenly city when earthly journeys are over, my second, day in Palestine is ended. Statistics of Tornadoes. The tornado, with hardly an exception, occurs in the afternoon, just after the hottest part of the day. The time of greatest frequency is from 3. JO to 5 o'clock. The tornado 'reason include.*? March, April, May, June, July, August and September, hut storms of this nature may occur in any pait of the year. The mouths of greatest frequency, as determined from a record of 203 years, are April, May, .Tune and July. The single month of greatest frequency is May, April following next in order. The State in which the greatest number of tornadoes has occurred is Missouri, followed next in order by Kansas and Georgia. A record of more than 500 tornadoes uud "windfalls" (i. paths of tornadoes through forests) iu Wisconsin considerably exceeds the number from any other State, but little weight can be given this comparison owing to the want of thorough investigation of the subject of windfalls in other States. From a careful investigation of the origin of tornadoes and their geographical distribution, there is every reason to believe that these storms were as frequent and violent 200 years ago as now. Moreover, there appears to be no cause for any unusual change in the annual frequency of tornadoes for a like period to come.?[The Forum. * ??? *- te.. COURTIT *Q TWO GIRLS. | Kaf<> Thorn IUa S bmcthingt? fny on That" ! S tal>jg? t. ( It ti^kcs quite a- ;unart x/iau to court two gir.\e at once, at id doit successfully. Where t be iuri oort es iu, we do not understand; perhaps, because we havo never been' a max , and courting two girls at the ?arue 1 ime. The man t 'ho J ;o > this, must bo vory circumspect a lid ^-.ireful, or he may get things mixed. Mi inie's jiicture may be worn when bo Vw its Laura, and via versa, if ho bo n?t careful. Tlio lock of fair hair may bet brought to the front, when the ebon iret 9 ought to bo displayed. The trees tired lenot of blue ribbon nnty creep ot it of the vest-pocket on tho heart side, at tho very time when ' it would seem .so sw? :ot to her to sco the scarlet in its st> tad. v When tho yoiuig na an who is courting two girls," wr/'tes love-letters to them, what, if ho shou hi put the dolicioua > missives in the wr ing onvelopc? What if ho shorn d take Minnie to th.3 opera, und Laura si tonld sit opposito? ? 1 *e _? Ho must lio in a ] nsrpioxea irame oi mind for the most of the time. He loves tliom both the* bosf, and if .ill were in tlio river drow oing at once, ho would not know wh.'cbto save, and would bo obliged to It 4 them drown,, and save himself. He is as happy as a prince with either one 01 them, but if both should appear on th 3 scene at, the same time, ho would be su preftnety miserable. flo divides his time between them; lie buys candy, and peanuts, and perfumery, for both of thorn; ho ^olays backgammon with both piapas,; and holds yarn to wind for both mams ias; and allows the little brothers audi sislers of both girls to put molosses-tjoa dy in his whiskers, and cracker cram ha down his back. He admires Minnae 's pet cat, and submits to have her ru b her hairs off on his black clothes, lom? ing to wring her neck while she doe3 afc,; and he keeps cool while Laura's pootlla snaps at his heels, and trie3 cot thiuk of hydrophobia when the littiVe wretch's sharp teeth penetrate his cor*duroys. > He vows to each fair enslaver that ho* f never loved before. That the sun, and: i moon, and stars, and most of the respectable comets, may fall, before ho< proves untrue. He hopes the earth may open and swallow him if ho ever ceases: to love. For him there is but one guidr ing star?but one beacon?but ono heav- j en?and ' u?. is there. Unfortunately,, j there a* tv * shes in the arrangement j The t. .ntalogue of vows answer j in both cases. They are patented, and. { roady for use on any occasion. Both: girls are the dearest, and sweetest, and. , loveliest, and he is so anxious to marry' ' ?so very anxious?just as soon as he- j cecs which pater familias is likely to. i come down the heaviost in bridal por- j tions. Of oourse, a young man has to< i look out for his own iutorest. He loves. I them both, but he can marry but one, i and as long as his affection for both is. | so sincere, he must decide in favor of j the ono whose family dosiro the most. 1 earnestly to get rid of her, and insure, success by "bestowing on her a liberal, dowry. It seems to U3 that the young man j who is courting two girls, must be be- I tween two fire3. We don't envy him the struggle he must make to keep hie ] affair with one girl a secret from the j other. And it is generally all a man's. 3 life is worth to be able to please ono 0 woman, and how on earth does our 3 A. 1 I O i youDg man manage iu pi?usu t?ur By and by, both girls find out the J game he has been playing, aud then, j ten to one, they both "mitten" him, and < lie has to begin the world anew. And j all the bouquet, and candy, and per- J fumery business has to be gone over again; and by the time he really gets, ready to marry, all the girls have found hira out, and wouldn't marry him to save themselves from having Miss engraved on their tombstones,?New York Weekly.' Big Mistakes. Preachers who get sour and scold when things do not go to suit thorn, make a big miecako. People who leave their politeness at home when they travel on railway trains, make a big mistake. Young people who put off becoming Christians because they think they have fifty years to do it in, make a big mistake. Men who aro afraid to give their wives a word of praise, for fear it will i spoil them, make a big mistake. Parents who want their children to keep out of the church until they are 1 old enough to understand all the doctrines and decide for themselves, make ? a big mistake. < Farmer: who feed their pigs and cat- 1 tie good corn, and pay no attention to what kind of books and papers their children are reading, make a big mistake. Women who are overly anxious about their complexions, and underly anxious ; about their salvation, make a big misLake. Young men who think they know it ? nil, and that father and mother don't know anything, make a big mistake. Fathers who whip their boys for do- j ing on the sly what they themselves aro doing openly, make a big mistake. ^ People who expect to get to Heaven, 1 just because they have shaken hands with the preacher and had their names j enrolled on the church book, make a great mistake.?The Rani's Horn. rrobably Gnessod Correctly. ' Lift up that package in the end ol i the seat, will you?" demanded the stoul individual, crowding in bv the side ol r the lean passenger. i "Certainly, air," replied the lean party, taking the small package un his lap, "but you are not entitled to more than half of this seat, aro you?" "Iam ontitlcd, sir," retorted the stopt pnrty, "to all the space I occupy." "And if you were big enough to fill four seats you would claim them all, I suppose ?" "You can bet your bottom dollar I would." "And you wouldn't want to pay more than ono faro either, would you ?" "Woll T falmnlrl Rfiv nnt. voiincr man " MH'm! What house in St. Louis are you traveling for, may I ask?"?Chicaa o Herald. Scrofula Humor "My little daughter'-, life wa< save.!, i s we beDove, by Rood's Sarsap r lla. Before she was s'x months olJ she had seven runnln-serjf tlasorcs Two physicians were called, but they gave us no h pe. Ono of thetn advised the amputation of on >of he." flng.'.u, to which wo refused a-so at. On Riving her Hnrl\? I ?mip rllla a mar o I Improvement was 11 t < ?! an 1 by a continued use of It her rce ?ver.v w;> c >mpletc. An i she Is now, beln; seven ye irs I t. ii { and hoallhy."?li C. Joncs, Alna, L'nco n c ... Me. / Hood's Sarsaparill 3 Fold by all drugghts. <1; six for 1'rppare I >il< by C. I. HOOD ? CO., Lowell, Mas-". 1 J00 Doses One Dollar ! I \ LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY. Ills Symcfaibetlo Nature and Ills Early Misfortunes. Those'who saw much of Abraham Lincoln during fjlo later years of his HCo, wore greatly impressod with tho expression of profound raalanr holy his face always wore in ropose. Mr. Lincoln was of a peculiarly sympathetic an it kindly nature. These strong charaeterist its influenced, very happily, as it provod, his e' ttire political career. They would not seem, at first glance, to be efficient aids to polil jcal success; but in the peculiar emergen' jj which Lincoln, in the providence of God [was called to meet, no vessel of commr fi clay oould possibly havo become tho "f iiosen of tho Lord," Those acquainted with him from boyhood 1 now that early griefs tinged his whole life /pith sadness. His partner in tho grocery business at Halem, was "Uncle" Billy Green, of Tallula, 111., who used at night, when tho customers wero few, to hold the grammar while Lincoln recited his lessons. It was to h s sympathetic ear Lincoln told tho story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge; and ho, in return, offered what comfort ho oould when poor Ann died, and Lincoln's groat heart nearly hroke. "Aftor Ann died," says "Uncle" Billy, "on stormy nighta, when tho wind blew the rain against the roof, Abe would sot thar in the grocery, his elhows on his knees, his face in his hands, and the tears 'runnin' through his fingers. I hated to see him feci bad, an' I'd env 1A Hnn'f. ni-r-' nnrl LaM WV ?n on* say! 'I can't help it, Bill, the rain's a falllu' en her.'" There are many who can sympathize with this overpowering grief, as thoy think of a lost loved one, when "tho rain's a fallin' on her." What adds poignancy to tho grief sometimes is the thought that tho lost one might have been saved. Fortunate, indeed, is William Johnson, of Corona, L. I., a builder, who writes June 28, 1890: "Lost February, on returning from church one night, my daughter complained of having a pain in her ankle. Tho pain gradually oxteudcd until her entire limb was swollen and very painful to tho touch. Wo called a physician, who after careful examination, pronounced it disease of the kidneys of long standing. All we could do did not seem to benefit her until wo tried Warner's Safe Cure; from the first sho commenced to improve. When aha commenced taking it sho could not turn over in bed, and could just move her hands a little, but to-day she is as well as she ever was. I believe I owe the recovery of my daughter to its use." A Courteous Prisoner. The other night the only prisoner it tho jail at Tattnal County, da., opened tho jail door with a wooden key he had whittled from a broomstick and walked out. He left this letter for the Sheriff: "Bcforo sunrise to-morrow I will be out of your county. As I am in somewhat of a hurry you will plcaso excuse me fot not calling and paying my respects. If 1 stay hero in jail nil summer my muscles will pet soft and I will not bo able to do 3 ?00(1 day's work in the full. Then, there Is no use in my being ut an expenso to Tattnell's taxpayers for months, when I might just as well be out making my own living and a littlo for my family, who live in anqthcr State. For your uniform courtesy please accept my sincere thanks. The peo-. pie of Tattnall have been kind to mo, and I appreciate it. Yours respectfully. "John F. Fbazer. "P. S.?I will bo back in October to stand my trial, and I liopo to be acquitted."?Pittsburgh Dispatch. . ltoth Stayed at Homo. Johnny?Ma, where'm I going to stay while you and pa are gone ? Ma?Your pa isn't going away. Johnny?Yes, he is. He's going to Pome. Ma?What put that foolish notion into your head? Johnny?I heard him tell a man that as soon as you went away he was going to make Rome howl, and how can he do it without going there??Chicago Evening Post. Tailor?I really do hope yon will rotlle this little account to-day, sir. I have a heavy bill to pay iny cloth merchant. Captain (calmly) ? Confound your impudence, you go aud contract debts and come dunning me to pay them. Get out, or I'll send for tho police." uab" says there are no women cranks. As soon as they become cranks they cease to be women. It requires courage to acknowledge to gray hairs, and that is why a bravo wan dyes but once. Is It economy to save a few cents bnylng n cheap soap or strong washing powder, and h>M dollars in ruined rotted clothes? If not, usu Dobbins's Electric Soap,white as snow, and as nurc. Ask your grocer lor It. Soino men wnit for opportunities, ,bnt slher* v,o to work and make tliom. many persons arc broken down from overwork or household cares. Brown's Iron Bitters rebuild* tno system, aids digestion, roInnvcs excess of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. It costs m?5re to be proud than It does for ; verytliing else put together. "Woman, hor diseases and ihelr treatment. r2 pages, illustrated; price 50s. Sent'^>on receipt of 10c., cost of inailing.otc. Addriw. Prof. EL H. Kline, M.D., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. The man who never thinks is a man who :IrlIts toward destruction. LceWa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harmless in elTect, quick and positive in action. Sent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle. A-Ucier oc > y } uuuuuc ou(?uiui?g v?vj tiuu The strongest man on earth is the one whe an best control himself. FITS stnppod froo by Dr. Kltnk's Great S'erve Restorer. No llta after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatiso and S" trial bottle Iree. J)r. Kline, 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa, No man can ever bo rich whose happiness lepend9 on money. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches n Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, oouKht and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo. The mo?t dangerous place in which to be, a to be alone. Oklahoma Gnldo Book anil Map sont any where >u receipt of ftJcts.Tyler & Co., Kansas City,Mo. 1 he higher you raise a iitt c man tho more le shrinks. "the POINT. it . From a Catholic Arch* bishop down to the e\ Poorest of the Poor ga 5 a all testify, not only to the | virtues of 0 ST. JACOBS OIL, The Great Remedy For Pain, but to its superiority over all other remedies, expressed thus: It, fnrw Prnmnt.lv. Pfirmniifflitlv: v?v., - -"?r"mj i 1 which means strictly, thut the pain-stricken seek a prompt relief with no icturn of tho pain, and this, they say, St. Jacobs Oil will give. This is its excellence. /b\ Xjones\ TON SCALES \ / OF \ ( $60 BINSHAMTON V Beam Box Tare Beam/ v? N. Y. a / ALL S1ZC8 % / \/i A cj/ >]>E^av JD I pro*crlbo and fu'lyen<1or#e nix Ci as th- only AJEUr On??lo -Wm cpoolflc forthecerloi .cure /SWl to e datb. > of tniB dise.-vne. M&gBn*ru*KK2 dm leH O. Ii. I NO Tt AIIA M, M P., gj aa??p?rtet?.-?. Amsterdam, N. V. Bm xrinlj by lis We have sold TtiR G lor ICVw^mrv??wi fln many yearn, and It tins V he ?' *d. k.'ajycttf:* co?(| f3*3^BSP>v**8l.Q0. Sold by Druggists., One Tfaonsnnd Dollar*. I will forfeit the at>ovo amount, if I fail to prove that Floraplexion istho best medicine in existence for llyspepsiajndigestioa Or Biliousness. It Is a certain cure, and affords immodiato relief,in cases of Kidney and Liver Complaint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. Floraplexion builds up the weak system and cures whero other remedies fail. Ask vour drufpHst for it and vet well. Valuable book "Thing Worth Knowing," also, samplo bottle sent free; all charges prepaid. Address Franklin Hart. 88 Warren street. Now York. A better thing than being a giant is to be a giant killer. Guaranteed flvo year eight per cent. First Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest payable ovory six months: principal and inter, est collected when due and remitted without expense to lender. For sale by J. H. liuucrlein & Con Kansas City, Mo. V\ rile tor particular^ It tnkes something more than wool to make a sheep. Lapies needing a tonic, or children who want building up, should take Brown's Iron Hitters, it is pleasant to ta'^e, cures Malaria, Indigestion.Biliousness and Livof Complaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. Ourhijhost Joy comes when others rejoice with us. Do Yon Ever Spccnlnto f Any person sending us their name and address will receive information that will lead in :l fortune. lien I. Lewis & Co'.. Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. No man can judge right whose standard :s wrong, P. .1. Ohrmkv & Ci)? Tnlc 1", O., Pronri. n! Hall's Catarrh Curt", oiler $1'? reward for any case of catarrh tlint cannot he cured by taking Hall'/. Catarrh Cure, trend for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c. The on'y real kings are those thnt rue themselves* Money Invested In cholco one hundred dollar building lots in suburbsof Kansas City will pay trom live hundred to one thousand i-er cent, the next few yeurs under our plan. cash and per mouth without interest controls a desirable lot. Particulars on application. J. tL Bauerlein JSc Co., Kansas City, Alo. A pig pen Is a poor diumond market. For a Disordered Liver try Beecham's Pil s. Bid trees ire only good to burn. ! Oil!? Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Smip of Figs is tho only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, Its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Svrup ot 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 substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8 AN FRANCISCO. CAL IWISVILLE, KY. fEW YORK, N.t. jSCOTT'S j; Of Pure Cod Liver Oil with ! | Hypophosphites Of Lime and Soda. There art emulsions and emulsions, 1 and there is still much skimmeil milk which masquerades as cream. Try as they urill many manufacturers cannot 1 so disguise their cod liver oil as to tnako it palatable to sensitive stomachs. Scott's Emulsion of PUItIS NORWEGIAN COO LIVER OIL, combined with Hypophosphites is almost as palatable as millc. For this reason as well as for the fact of the stimulating qualities of the Hypophosphites, Physicians frequently pre- |j scribe it in cases of I CONSUMPTION. SCROFULA, BRONCHITIS t.id ] j CHRONIC COUQII or SEVERE COLD. I I All Druggists sell it, but be sura you get ! I the genuine, as there are poor imitations. t Great PENSION Bill rtP!5IUilU is Passed. !^ ?? i ' ?=?? 'n and Father# are entitled to $12 a inn. Fco 110 *v|u-n you get your money. Clank# li ce. JO.SM'lt U. lll'STIM. AUj. ITuhlwU*. ft. L gnyr ftTUUV. Hook-keeplng, Business Form*, HUlflC Peumaiisliip, Arithmetic, Hhort-hand, etc., "thoroughly taught by MAlU Circular* free. Bryant'# (.College, ->57 Main at., Buffalo, N*. V irET^ ('I/UKU. Trial Bottle and Trentl*o H H 3? sent free by mall. TUomiunda Cured h u U Xs7 after all o/hora failed. Andrea* HALI. OIJKMJCAL CC? Il'iflO Fjlr.iionut Ave., Phlla., Pa. PATENTSS'^'iSS? B B PnliM V ? i?lllcnt. Sent Free. Patrick O'Farrell, wash'i'xwtok. frh: |A8THMAPJaB5B?FREE| I hy nail to ?niT?ri>r?.- Dr. a. BCHirFSAI Bt. F?ol,?Un. nrypinyo new law claims. r t n 51 u n 0 A,2'y MUo B. Eteyeos & Ca Attorney*. 1411) F St.. \Vnnhlngton, l>. C. J Branch OQlcor. Cleveland, Dct roit,Chicago. Honey in MfiNF.T ra mnnras ?. UlUlliJA *A1 ( _ ?if YOU? _/y ^ M KNOW HOW Stl 4' ^ To keep them, but it is (I Jj&jil) 4rl/jB wrong lolet the poor things ssjl , Mlm Suffer and Die of flie va- M. 1/? W rious Maladies which afflict M \\V? IjL. v them when in a maiorlty of fa cases a Cure could have uV^V^1 been effected had the owner k\?*wv possessed a little knowli dgc, such as can be pro* cured from the 0^ >V ONE HUNDRED *\y$s2 PAGE BOOK JJg% ' " offer, embracing the ~ rfc* p '--irAI. EXPEIUEVCES of ' _ rP S^r. ril'TY noLLA Its FOlt || PALSVIS BUSH O 1700 Chestnut St.. PHILADA., PA. 3 to 4 in on. Ileal Lcjuipped, liestt'oui 1 * There are some patent medicines that are more marvellous than a dozen doctors' prescriptions, but they're not those that profess to cure evcrytlrijig. Everybody, now and them feels " run\ down," " played out." Thej^ve the will, but no power to gefitsj^tevitality. They're not sick enoughvto call a doctor, but just too^*?^ sick to be well. That's where the right kind of a patent medicine comes in, and does -for a dollar what the doctor wouldn't do for less than five or ten. < We put in our claim for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. We claim it to be an un equaled remedy to purify the blood and invigorate the liver. We claim it to be lasting in its effects, creating an appetite, purifying the blood, and preventing Bilious, Typhoid and Malarial fevers v j if taken in time. The time i to take it is when you first feel the signs of weariness and weakness. The time to take it, on general principles, is NOW. CAUTION l? DoPfclns (Sbnrs am . 1/ i warmnted, nod crerr pair bnaiils name and price ttuuipcd on bottom. W. L. DOUGLAS S3SHOE gentlemen, fWSend address on postal for valuable information. W. Ii. U01ULA8, Brockton, fll*st. GRATEFUL?COMFORTING*-EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws wh ch govern the operations ofdigootlon and nutritl >n, and by a careful appllc at Ion of the fine propcrties of wel -a lected Coooa, Mr. Epos has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It Is oy the Judicious use of such articles of diet i hat a constitution may bo gr dually built upnntii strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around as ready to attack wborevor there Is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortifled with pure blood a" d a properly iv urlshod frame."?"CM1 Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold nlr In half-pound tins, "y Grocers, labelled thus: -I A.11K8 EPl'sJ it: CO.. Homoeopathic Chemist* J-OSDOS, EXOI.AID. .* V.-*Vii TV TOH WISH A t- ' R EVOl.'vEE I rurchsse one of the oele- Ifesfc?JV* ,*fsC ; Wated SMITH ft WESSON t mi Thu flneat small arms a Vs-if \C*BMk jr?r~manufactured and the IV )J )J Wll flnt choloe of all expert*. H Manufactured In calibre*32,3? and O-lflt. Sin- MB rleor double action. Safety Haxnmerleaa and v56V r?n?rt model*. Constructed entirely of boat aaab ity wrought steel, carefully Inspected for wart* manihlp and itoci, they an unriraled for finish, darnbllltv nnd neon racy. Donotbedecdredfy cheap mnllenble cast-iron Imitations whloh are often sold for the genuine article and an met pnlv unreliable, but danKerona. The 8M1TET6 WESSON HeTolvera arc all stamped upon tne baaa tela with firm'a name, address ana dates of patent and an annrnniecd porfeot In crary detail. Ia? list npon baring the genuine article, and If roar Ssaler cannot supply yon an order m-nt to addreas below will reonlve prompt and careful attention. DeocrptlTecataloTue r.nd prions fnrntahe-1 npon a? SMITH & WESSON, Vlleatitti this nana. Bar ins Held, Hiaj#BFor Coughs 0 Colds Tbcro 1* no Mcdlctno liko DR. SCHENCK'S DUURONIC I SYRUP. It Is pleasant to tha tasto and docs not contain a particle of opium oranyihlngliijurions. It is the Best Congh Mcdlclno In the World. ForSalebyall Druggists, Price, fl.no per bottle. Dr. Schcnck'a Book on Consumption iin<l ils Cure, mulled free. Address Hp. J. H. richenck <Sc Son. Philadelphia. FRAZER6^als| UEST IN THE WORLD U II Lit Ob CT Qet tha Pennine. Sold Everywhere OI^IH HR&IB arf1 WinSKEY HAB-- _ SUB 8 0 flLS ITS enred at home withritJiil sm'-j!* mum*fa. fi2e - - ? Here It Is! Want to Irani *11 about a At Bone 1 How to Pick Out a A , flood One ? Knowlmperfec-?)l?',^y.^"",? "TV Bona and so Guard Sffala.it \ > IV fraud ? Detect Disease and / \'m' ' '7 \ Effect a Cure w?,aa same It / \ , / Vj possible? Tell the age by w V J \ be Teeth 7 What to caliph - Different Purts ot tha animal? How to Shoe a Horse Properly? AU thl) and other Valuable Information can be obtained bi feadlnr our 100-PAUE IM.U STK ATED IIOltEE BOOK, which wo w.U forwarJ, re^t paid, on receipt of only cents iu stamps. BOOK PUB, HOUSE. I3<1 l.?r>nnret r;-?.v York City. BjFuli" Chickens. _ a man who devoted 25 years ?^Tl?v of his life to CONDUCTING N. \ A POULTRY YARD AS A BUSINESS, not as a pas* N. time. As the living of him\'fl Tfi/li/lili, " ?e'f and family depended V J'n 'll a 0,1 il- he P?ve ,he Object 'MILIL 1 .Jl eU('' >*t<t-ntlou as only a / nnn ** r il neci' ?' ^read win com/lilNIJJ 1 II maud, antl llie result was a f grand Miceess, offer he had spent much money and lost ! hundreds of valuable chickens in experimenting. What he learned in all these veara is emboli led in this book, which we send postpaid for 25 cents in stamps. It tearnes you how to Detect and Cure Diseases, how Jo Feed for Eggs and also for Fattening, wnirh Fowls to Save for Breeding Purposes and everything, indeed, you should kuow on this subject. BOOK rt'B. HOUSE. 121 l.eonard St.. N. Y. City. LIFE SCI TOLA liSHTP "3JE2 MESS COLLEGE (B-e'.iSflxes.l PnMition tor (fradunten. Time rse ol Study. Circulars tree it you name this paper.