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TlifEminent Brooklyn ,'Sun' :: j./ day Sermon.?3^; * s : ? I'll* "%?f1 y : . Subject:' "Thf <Jsn??lc?* or Solomon." UO "J' ' " : 1 ! ~ Tfjctr 'X7;w>cdt Hir-prent \vork%'I?buildsd rotItouya.j f v'ontrxl mc i-ine^c&ds, ] viad* vie par/ipn'fia>idjH*i]Utrds,nnd-planted trjrrs iwtfirin yf alj^kinjts tffntii#; I made wis pro! fro A ird}?r tar'ntiier therewith thf icobd that' wiwjcth forth, -trees?'?lEcclesiastfcs ii.t 4*n< .. | :>?' _ * A ir'^iri^xnoniyi^ nnf! breakfast at !Jem? snterii. -.^kirig WjLth robes sy<jwy white, in chariot de&ed, Ayabrn by-eight horses, high*. nieVtfed, aM housings aitbrilliant as if scollopeit.^ut of.t-h^tVcry sunrise, a it-1 like, the winds, for. speed, followed SjJre^ucilt.-. ni aivhers on horseback, wflK nanftl'bit joined-l)ow and arrows with' steel jmmta (lashing in the sun, clad from buad t.o loot in.Jvriaa purple, and black, hair spr.nkled with gold dust, all dash lug down the road, the horses at full run, the' reins loose on their riecks, and the crack of whips and the liailco of the reckless cava! Cddo putting t he miles at defiance. Who is jr, awa wnat< is n; tvijig >~>o:o;non latmig an outing before breakfast from Jerusalem to his gardens and parks and orchards and reseryo.rs, six miles down the road .tqwaivl, Hebron. ^Vhat a contrast between that and my self on that very road one moraine last December going atoot, fen* our plain vehicle turned back for photdghuphic apparatus forrotten; we on the way to find what is called So'bnion's' poo', the ancient wat<sr works of Jerusalem, and the gardens of a king nearly three thousand years ago. IVe cross the aqueduct again and again, and here we are at. the three great reservoirs, not ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs themselves, that colemon built three millenniums ago lor the purpose of catching the mountain streams and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of the city, and also to irrigate the most glorious range of gardens that ever bloomed with ail colors or breathed with all redolence, for Solomon was the greatest horticulturist, the greatest botanist, the greatest ornithologist, the greatest capitalist and tho greatest scientist of his ceutury. Come over the piles of gray rock, and hero we are at tho firs of the three reservoirs, which are on three great levels, the base of the top reservoir higher than tin? top of tho second, the base of the second reservoir higher than the top of tho third, so arranged that the waters gathered front the several sources above shall descend from hasin to ba.-iu, the sediment of water deposited in each of the three, so that by the time it gets iloa-n tn tho nmieduct which is to take it to Jerusalem it has lia'l three filterings, and is tss pure as when the clouds rained it. Wonderful specimens of masonry are these three reservoirs. The white cement fastening the blocks of stone together is now just as when the trowels three thousand years ago smoothed the layers. The highest reservoir 380 feet by 529, the second, 4'i3 feet by 160, and the lowest reservoir, 586 feet by 1(59,and deep enough and wide enough and mighty enough to float an ocean steamer. On that December morning we saw the waters roliing down from reservoir to reservoir, and can well understand how in this neighborhood the imperial gardens were one great blossom, and the orchard one great basket of fruit, nnd that Solomon in his palace, writing the Song of Songs and hcclesiastes, may have been drawing illustrations from what he had seen that very morning in the royal gardens when lie alluded to melons, and mandrakes, and apricots, and grapes, and pomegranates, and Jigs, and spiken, and cinnamon, nnd calamus, and camphire, and "apple trees among the trees of the wcod," and the almond ireeas flourishing, end lo myrrh and frankincense, and represented Christ as "gone down into his gardsns, nnd the bids of spices to feed in the gardens, anil to gather lilies," and to "eyes like fish pools," and to the voice of the turtle dove as heard in the land. I tbiuk it was when Solomon was showiug the Queen of Sheba through these gardens that the Bible says of her: "Ifhere remained no more syirit in her." She gave it up. But all this splendor did not make Solomon __ hack, from nis morning rule ana before tne Horses nau yet been cooled off nnd rubbed down by the royai equerry, common wrote me memorable words following my text, like a dirge played after a grand march, "Behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." lu other words, "It don't pay!" Would God that we might all learn the lesson that this world cannot produce happiness! At .Marseilles there is a castellated house on high ground, crowned with all that grove and garden can do, and the whole place looks out upon as enchanting a landscape as the world holds, water aud hill clasping hands in a perfect bewitchment of scenery, but tne owner of that place is totally bliud, and to him all this goes for nothing, illustrating the truth that whether one be physically or morally blind, brilliancy of surrounding cannot give satisfaction; but tradition says that when the "wise men of the east" were being guided by the star on the way to Bethlehem they for a little while lost sight of that star, and in despair and exhaustion came to a well to drink, when looking down into the well they saw the star reflected in the water and that cheered them, aud they resumed their journey; and I have the notion that though graudeur and pomp of surroundings may not afford peace at the well of God's consolation, close by, 3*ou may find happiness, aud the plainest cup of the well of salvation ma}* hold the brightest star that ever shone from the heaveus. Although these Solomonic gardens are in ruins, there are now growing there flowers that are to tie found nowhere else in the Holy La .d. How do I aceouut for that? Solomon sent out iiis ships aud robbed the gardens of the whole earth for flowers, and planted these exotics here, and these particular flowers are direct descendants of the foreign plants he imported. Mr. Mesliullann, b Christian Israelite, on the very sight oc these roval gardens, has in our day, by putting in his own spade, demonstrated that the ground is only waiting for the mht call to vieid iust as much luxuriance and splendor eighteen hundred years after Christ as i5 yie'deel Solomon one thonsan 1 years before Christ. So all Palestine ts waiting to become the richest scene of horticulture, arboriculture a'ud agriculture. Recent travelers in the Holy Land speak of the roeky and stony surface of nearly all Palestine as an inv assable barrier to the future cultivation of the soil. But if they had examined minutely the rocks and stones of the Holy Land they would find that thev are being skeletonized and are being melted into the soil and, being for the most part limestone, they are doing for that land what the American and English farmer does viten, at great expense and fatigue, ho draws his wagon load of lime and scatters it on the fields for their enrichment. The storms, the winters, the great midsummer heats of Palestine, by crumbling up and dissolving the rocks are gradually preparing Palestine and Syria to yield a product like unto the luxuriant Westchester farms of !New York, ana Lancaster County farms of Pennsylvania, and Somerset County farms of New Jersey and the other magnificent farm fields of .Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the opulent orchards of Maryland and California. Iiet the Turk be driven out and the American or Englishman or Scotchman go in and Mohammedanism withdraw its idolatry and pure Christianity build its altars, and the irrigation of which Solomon's pools was only a suggestion will make all that land from Dan to Beersheba as fertile, and aromatic and resplendent as on the morning when the king rode out to las plea ure grounds in chariot so swift aud folio .vc . by mounted riders so brilliant that it was for speed like a hurricane followed by a, cyclone. As I look upon this great nquemot of Palestine, a womlrous specimen of ancient masonry, about seven feet high, two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the solil rock and then rolling its waters through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work ten rubes before it gots to those three reservoirs, and then gathering their weaith of refresh ment and pouring it on to the mighty city of Jerusalem an i filling the brazen sea of her tenvde. and the bathrooms of her palaces, nn-i the great poolsof Siloatn. and Hezekiah, an 1 Beihesda, I find that our century has no monopoly <>f the world's wonders, and that _tir* conceited age in which we live hail better ta ;??in some of the sails of its pride when it. remembers that it is hard work in later ages to get masonry that will last fifty years, to say notmng of the throe thousand, and no modern machinery could lift blocks of stoeo like some of those standing high up in the walls of Baa I hoc, and the art of printing claimed for recent ages was practiced by the Chinese fourteen hundred years ago, and that our midnight lightning express rail train was foreseen bytihe prophet /Nahum. when in the Tiibie-hewrote,,"The chariots shall rare in the strgeis.Hhejy shall jestlcone against anpther-in ihs brte.l ways, tjipy shall seam like : Jtorchjsyth^y .shacll run lii^e lightning," and jour eieqtpo Jtojfcgi'aph'was foreseen by Job, whe^'iijj.fhe Jlfbhyhe Wrote/'Canst thou send 1 issbrriitiiat'they nmv: go and say unto thCe. *Her<> wo 'are?'" What is that talking by the lightnings but the electric telegraph!' I do not know but that the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed if ay have been employed in ages ext inet, and that the Ugh taxings all up and down the sky have been running around lltelost hounds to find their former master. Embalinent was a more thorough art three thousand J ears ago tha x to-day. Dentistry, that we suppose oriool the important arts discovered in recent centuries, is proveu to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth ot' the mummies in the museums at Cairo, E;j*pt. and artificial teeth on gold plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of departed nations. We have been taught that Har vet 'discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solomon announces it in Ecclesiastcs, where first having shown that lie understood the spinal cord, silver colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age?"the silver cord be loosed," goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three t canals of the heart do receive the blood like h pitchei;, "or the pitcher bo broken at rno j fountain*" AVbnt is that but the circulation of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred i yen s before Harvey was born? After many centuries of exploration an 1 calculation asi trononiy finds out that the world was rouu.i. . Wlir, Isaiah knew it was round thousauJs of I yeartj berore when in the bible lie said: "The j Jx>rd'sitt6th upon the circle of the earth" j Scientists foiled on for centuries and found out refraction or that the rays of light when j touching the earth were not straight, but I bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when i aces before in the Bible he wrote of the light: 1 "It is turned as clay to tho seal." I In the old cathedrals of England modern ! paint ers in the repair of windows are trying | to make something as good as tho window j painting of four hundred years ago, and ; always failing by the unanimous verdict of ail who examine and compare. The color of modern painting fades in fifty years, while the color of the old masters is as well preserved after five hundred years as after one j year. I saw last winter on the walls of ex- i (mined Poinpcii paintings with color as fresh j as though made tho day before, though they I were buried eighteen hundred years ago. ! The making of lyrian purple is an itnpossij biiity now. In our modern potteries we nre ' trying hard to make cups and pitchers and bowe s as exquisitely as those exhumed from | Herculatieuni, and our artificers are ntj tempting to make jewelry for ear j i and neck and finger equal to that | brought up from the mausoleums of two I | thousand years before Christ. Wo have in 1 our time glass in all shapes and all colors, j ! but l'iiny, more than eighteen hundred years i ago, described a malleable glass which, if | thrown upou the ground and dented, could | be pounded straight again by the hammer or | could be twisted around the wrists, and that i confounds all tho glass manufacturers of * '? TVmxocmie Kv-rin 5ur own t'lnie. a. uiw j?? ?, :o buy ft Damascus blade, oneof those swords that could be bent double or tied in a knot without breaking. 1 could not get one. Why ? The Nineteenth century cannot make a Damascus blade. If we go on enlarging our cities we may after a while get a city as large as Babylon, which was five times the j >ize of London. These aqueducts of Solomon that I visit to- j day, finding them in good condition three ! thousand years after construction, make mo I think that the world may h.avo forgotten | more than it now knows. The great nonor of our age is not machinery, for the nncieuts had some styles of it more wonderful; nor I art, for the ancients had art more exquisite j nnl durable: nor architecture, for Roman j Coliseum and Grecian Acropolis surpass all j modern architecture; nor cities, for some of : the ancient cities were larger than ours in the sweep of their porap. But our attempts must be in moral achievement and gospel victory. In that we have already surpassed them, and in tba* direction let the ages push on. Let us brag less of worldly achievement and tliauk God for moral opportunity. -More good mcnandgco.1 women is what the world wants. Toward moral elevation and spiritual attainment let the chief struggle b?. The source of all that I will show you bpfqre sundown of this day 011 which we have visited the pools of Solomon ana the garden* of the king, j We are on this Dec ober afternoon on the J way to the cradle of I. m who called Himself ' greater thau Solomon. We are coming upon j the chief cradle of all the world, not lined ! with satin, but strewn with straw; not j sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; j not presided over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant girl; yet a cradle the I canopy of which is angelic wings, and the j lullaby of which is the first Christmas carol : ever sung, and from wfcich all the events of i the past and all the events of the future have | and must take date as being B. C. or A. D.? 1 -hfi&r. nr after Christ. All eternity pa>t occupied in getting ready for this cradle, and all eternity to come to be employed in j celebrating its consequences. I said to the tourist companies planning I our oriental .journey, "Put us in Bethlc| horn in DeeSnb>r/the place and the month cf our Lord's birth," and we had our wish. I am the only man who has ever attempted to tell how' Bethlehem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February, or March, or April, when the valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild flow.-rs, and anemones and ranunculus are flushed as though from attempting to climb the steeps, and lark and bullinch are floodlug the air with bird orchest ra. But I was th ?re in December, a winter month, the barren beach between the two oceans of redolence. I was told I must not go there at that season, told so before I started, told so in Egypt; the books told me so; all travelers that I consulted about it told me so. - But I was determined to see Bethlehem the same month in which Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuade me. Was I not right in wanting to kuow I how the Holy Land looked wheu Jesus came i to it? He did not land amid flowers and ! song. When the angels chanted on the 1 famous birthnight all the fields of Palestine were silent. The glowing skies were au| swered by gray rocks. As Bethlehem stood i against a bleak wintry sky I climbed up to 1 it. as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus cleI scended upon it. His way down was from I warmth to chill, from bloom to barrenness, j from everl istin; June to sterile December. ! If I were going to Palestine as a botanist and I to study the" flora of the land 1 would go in 1 March; but I went as a minister of Christ to | study Jesus and so I went in December. I j wanted to see how the worm's front door ! looked wheu the heavenly Stranger entered i it. I The town of Bethlehem, to my surprise, is I in the shape of a horseshoe, tho houses ex: tending clear onto the prong.-, of the horsej shoe, the whole scene more rough atid rude 1 than can be iniagiued. Verily, Christ did I not choose a soft, genial place in which to ba | born. The gate through which our Lor,I entered this world was a gate of rock, a hard, cold gate, and the gate through which He departed was a swing gate of sharpened spears. We enter a gloomy church built by Constantine over the place in which Jesus was born. Fifteen lamps burning day and night and from century to century light our way to the spot which all authorities. Christian and Jew and Mohammedan, agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth, and covered by a marble slab, marked by a silver star sent from Vien ia, and the words: "Here Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary.'* But standing there I thought, though this is the place of the nativity, how different the surroundings of the wintry night in which Jesus came! At that time it was a khan, or a cattle pen. 1 visited one of these khans, now standing and looking just as in Christ's time. We rode iu under the arche I entrance ?...i .i:-? ,_.i M*? i ,i.? u..:i.u?_ | UUU UI3I.W1UIIW, .. C ll'inm I.IO .. stone, and around an open sfjue.ro, without roof. The building is more thun two thousand years old. It is two stories high: in the center are camels, horses and mules. Caravans halt hero for the night or dur ng a long storm. Tho open square is la:-ge enough to accommodate a whole herd of cattle. a flo"'c of sheen or caravan of cam-ds. The neighboring Bedouins hero find market for their hay; straw and m-ats. O.T from this center there are twelve rooms for human habitation. The only light is from tho door. I w >nt into one of these rooms an I found a wouian cooking the evening men!. There were six cows in tho same room. (?n a little elevation there was some sti nw where the people sat and slept when they wished to rest. It was in a room simi'ar to that our Lord was born This was the cradle of a King, ntv! vet what era lie ever h"ld so much? Civilization! Li'rertv! It lemption! Your pardon mdiume! Your peace and mine! Your heaven and mine! Cradle of a universe! Cradle ot a Go t! The gardens of Solomon we visitel this uioruiug wore only a typo of what all the world will be .when, this il'ius- I trious personage pow bopn .Shall-haye cdhr-' ' plcted His missiot. Tlfe horses of finest limb, I and gAyest champ of bit. and sublinicst arclr of ne"k, that'cyeV brought SolomOn down tb these adjoining gardens was but" a i>oor type ; of the horse upon which this cbnqqcror, boot ! in the barn, shall ride, when'- according to apocalyptic vision all the 1'armies erf heaven I shall follow Hitn on white horses." Tho . waters that rush down these hills into yonder three great reservoirs of rock, and then pour in marvelous aqueduct into Jerusalem till the brazen sea is full, and (ho baths are full, and Siloam is full, Are dnlyViA imperfect type of tho rivers of delight, which, as tho result of this great one's coming, shall | roll ou for the slaking of the thirst of i^ll tyy. , tions. The palace of-Lebanon cedar, jTronrl i which the imperial cavalcade passed out'iu | the early morning, nil J to which it returned j with glowing cheek and gingling harness and la the red >ir.'es, is feeble of architecture compared with tho house of many mansions into which this one born this winter month on these bleak heights shall conduct us when our sins are all pardoned, our battles all I fought, our tears all wept, our work all ; done. Standing here at Bethlehsm do you not see that the most ho lored thing in all the earth is tho cradle? To what e'.so did loosened star ever point? To what, else did | heaven lower balconies of light filled with i chanting immortals? Th3 way tn? cranio j rocks the world rocks. God bless tho j mothers alt the world over! The' cradles j decide the destinies of nations. In ten thou- j sand of them are this moment the hands that j will yet give benediction of mercy or burl fcoltsofdoom, tho feet that will mount the ! steeps toward God or descend tlie blasted way, the lips that will pray or blaspheme. ' Oh, the cradle! It is more tremendous than the grave. Whereare most of the leaders of tho twentieth century soon to dawn upon us? Are thev on thrones? No. In chariots? No. In pulpits? No. In forums? No. In senatorial halls? No. In counting houses? No. They are in the cradle. The most tremendous thing in the universe and next to God is to be a mother. Lord Shaftesbury said, "Givo me a generation of Christian mothers, and 1 will chauge the whole phase of society in twelve months." Oh, the cradle! Forget not the one in which you were rocked. Though o!d and worn out that cradle may bo standing in attic or barn, forget not the loot that swayed it, tho lips that sang over it, the tears that dropped upon it, the faith in God that made way for it. The boy Walter Scott did well when ho spent the first five guinea piece ho ever earned as a present to his mother. Dishonor not the cradle, though it may, like the one my sermon celebrates, have been a cradle in a barn, for I think it was a Christ ian cradle. That was a great cradlo iu which Martin Luther lay, for from it came forth the reformation ot the six- ; teenth century. That was a great cradle in which Daniel O'Conuell lny, for from it canio forth an eloquence that will be inspiring while men have ej'es to read or ears to hear. That was a great cradle in which Washington lay, for from it came forth the happy deliverance of a nation. That was a great cradle in which John Howard lay, for from it came forth a mercy that will nqt cease until the last | I dungeon gets the Bible and light and fresh air. Great cradles in which the John Wesleys and the John Knoxes and the John Masons lay, for from them, came forth an all conquering evangelization. But the greatest cradle in which child ever slept, or woke, laughed or cried was the cradle over which Alary bent anil to which the wise men brought frankincense and upon which the | heavens dropped song. Had there been 110 manger, there had been no cross. Had there j been uo Bethlehem, there had been no Golj gotha. Had there been no incarnation, there had been no ascension. Had there been no I start, there had been no close. Standing in the chill khan of a Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what He did for us, j I ask. What have wo dono for Hiin? "Thero , is nothing I can do," says one. As Christmas ! was approaching in the village church a good woman said to a group of girls in lowly ami straitened circumstances, "Lot all now no something for Christ." After the day was over she asked the group to tell her what they had done. One said: "I could not do much. ::or we are very poor, but I had a beautiful flower I had carefully trained in our- home, and 1 thought much of it, and I I put that flower on the church altar." Ami 1 another said, "1 could not do much, for we I are very poor, but I can sing a little, and so I went don to a poor sick woman in the lane, i and sang as well as I could, to cheer her up, a i Christmas song." "Well, Helen, what did ' you do?" She replied, "I could not do much. 1 but I wanted to do something for Christ,anri ! I could think of nothing else to do, and so I | went into the church after the people who J had been adorning the altar had left, and I | scrubbed down the altar back sfairs." BeanI 1 Ihot tho Phrtcf-. nf t.hnt j 111 Ul I A niuinuv ?mv w i Christmas Day gave her as ranch credit for j that earnest act as He may have given to the | robed oflicial who on that day read for the j people the prayers of a resounding service. Son- .'thing for Christi Something for ! Christ! i A plain man passing a fortress saw a Rusi sian soldier on guard in a terribly cold night, t and took oft' his coat and gave it to the scli flier, saying, "I will soon bo home and warm, and you will bo out here all night." So the soldier wrapped himself in tlio borrowed : coat. The plain man who loaned the coat to j the soldier soon after was dying, and in his i dream saw Christ anil said to Him, "You | have got my coat on." "Yes," said Christ; j "this is the one you lent Me on that colli I night by the fortress. I was naked, and ye I clothed Me." Something for Christ! By the j memories of Bethlehem I adjure j*ou! in the light or that star 1 in the ages empearlcd. That ?ong from afar B?.s swept over the world.i Chinamen in Mourning1. I When a Oliinaman is in mourning ho bra his whito silk into his li lir, and lias ; oven the sel -s of liia slice* pa nVil ! white. Ho entirely discards, for all j t me, all things of a red vol r, and ho ! lulu s the 1 e.l coloring off the furnitr.ie , of his house, l ed is lite color of prosI jkrity in China?it nie.ti s lucky; and 1 the ordinary Chit.etc uniting eaid is a strip of lei paper as long as a govern ! jiient envel'ip >. While in mourning l:e print* liis name o i while \isiting-earo8, | and he d: es tli.'s for three yi ars. At the I o.ul of that time he puts on garments i of a no ditied color, and wri es < u his i visiting-cards the word tam, which means "my grii f is not so bitter as beI fo e. ' Ti e Chin sc, and, in fact, all n itions of the Orient, arc more rigid as to their Cans of mourning than we arc. The Chinaman who would not put on , mo ruing for li s father would lie ar1 nsto 1, and in Korea a man is ex o ted -11V vnllnw K 'Al'/'liifll , Id (H'LlIf ilium u in ...... m .v?w. .... and trot around the country under a lint us big as a dish-p.m, holding u Inn bei fore li s face for thro years uf e.- the death of any near relative. | During this time he e.in do 110 business, < aunot enga <e in ran ri ige, nor attend any festivities. Chinamen do ne t attend theatres during their mourning period, ami the law to a certain e\t *nt logu ates the mourning cud. m of Japan. Dur.ng mourning the leading otheia's of many of the countries havo the ri^ht to r< sign, and 11 >t long ago Li Hung Chang, the gira' viecioy, asked to be e cased from liis duties as premier of the Chinese emp'iro in order that lie | might go off and mourn for his mother. ?[Chi- ago Times. The Earliest Electric Lamp. The first electr'c light in a dvv. llinglioilse iu tie- world is said t have b en used in Ka'o 11, Mas%, in a parlor which was lighted e ery < v. ning during the month of .1 i.ly, 1-S.V.l, by tin- cleat lie light, and it was subdivided, two innips being used, e ther of wliieli could 10 1 glited by turning a lit'le In tt ?n to the riglit. ' The current," s ivo Light and Heat, "was tnk"ii from a gal van ie battery of a' out three doz? n six-gallon jars." The eleclri al g. nins who thus aec omplislio 1 so much w. s Mr. Mo.ea G. J'armer, an cmin -utile-tri * an. who is still alive, though in feel 0 h a tli, at Elliot. Ma k '-- - ~ HOUSEHOLD" MATTERS. TOMATO CONFECTIONS.. .V'1'. ; A .very1 delicious confection-rr.ay lie ! made ofotomatoes. The'single; or pearshaped, tjomato Is the best for tjiis purpose, ' Take'six pounds of sugars to , one peck of the.fruit; scald and remove, the skin,-spriiikfle the. sugar oyer tiife: tomatoes, -aeiddct them stand two.;days m >tone'jr'tra; thetL'cook them in'this juico<imttt tthc<bugar penetrates,; and they ; look clear; tl.ke them osjt, spread oh.j disinj^- flattening, caqh tomato, and;dry. ii?4hc sun; AnhUiU'iputilUt.y : of the syrup ! shouldOccasionally sprinkled over tb m .while drying; when dry,-pack them. .down., in boxes, with powdered sugar flefweeta each layer. The iyrup rls cooked, .dowTi and bottled for use. When tiicatcdf iodhfs way the flavor of: the dried." tomato is ntuch like the best quantity of tigs.*?-ttarpi(>"$ aa&ir. : - i . . " . V* CtCUMUF.n PICKLES. Covcr'thow bottom of a cask, -with salt; gather e very.day or bay fresh from the market. Lay-them in the cask tliree or four inchtts deep, cover with salt and rcpeat the adding of cucumbers until all are in; pour over little water. .Spread a cloth over the top of the cask, then cover with a board, weighed dowu. If kept closely cwvered, these pickles will keep syund aadifresh for years. When wanted for use, , soak for twenty-four hours iu cbld water; put in a porcolainlircd kettle; to\cvery, gallon of vinegar add half a teacup) of bustard seed, half a teacup each of celery .seed, bruised ginger root and garlic, two small white onions, chopped, a ' tablcspoonful of black pepper,, a teai-poonful each of ground cloves*, mace,turmeric, two tablespooofuls of grated i horse-radish and a pound of broawn sugar. Let scald.put in a .jar over the picklies, let stand over night,,heat and ;pour over the pickles again. Tjicy wilK.be, ready for use in a week.?JVcwi TorhlWUneu. PU1CKE OK? ASPiVItAGUS. Use''.canned asparagus, reserving the 1 best stafks for the dish with cream sauce, and makothe basis ofl the soup and the sauce at uhe same time. Lay the best I stalks upou.a-steanier.ifrainc ready to heat by steaming.nnd serve with the sauce, and ?ut all the remainder through a sieve or colander, making a prtlp, about a cupful of which will make u quart of soup ot puree. Put over the fire in a thick saucepan for each quart erf soup and each pint of sauce a tablespoonful each of butter and of flour and stirtkem together until they are quite smooth^ then gradually stir in enough hot milk$and water to make a creamy sauce; take /up a pint of this, nnd after seasoning it^ palatably with salt and cayenne keep:ilhot until it is wanted to serve with thestenmed .asparagus stalks. The rest of the creamy sauce is to be Ihinncd-with moreihot milk and water to the proper consistency for soup ; add tho asparagus pulp to it, season it with salt nnd cayenne, and keep it hot until dinnerlime by placing the saucepan containing it in a pan of hot water. Remember to allow one ta'blespoonful each of buttci nnd flour for each quart of soup or each ! pint of sauce*, the soup being thinner thau j the sauce.?iChiaujo News. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. | To obviate the shiny appearance of I 6ilk, sponge withuinswectencd gin. Lamp-burners, *to give good light, should be cleansed. at least once a month. After greasing your cake tins, sift some flour into tlicm, and your cake will not stick. Always serve oysters in hot dishes. Cook the oysters only until they curl. If cooked too long they are indigestible. To remove spots on velvet, the trimming must be unpicked on one side, and put over hot water to steam; theu brush up the nap. To banish red ants lrom^thc pantries, strew whole cloves around.,the shelves. The some is also considercdta good moth exterminator. When the skin is coarsetand red, oatmeal and water is indispensable, and if one perseveres in its use arsoft white skin will be the reward. When washing fine, white flannels add a tablespoonful of/pulverized borax to a pailful of water. This will keep them soft and white. Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine will take paint out of clothing, even if it be hard aud dry. Saturate the spot as often as necessary, nnd wash out in soapsuds. If the complexion is "greasy" and thick, soap with carbolic acid or sulphur is excellent, and flour of sulphur,a teaspoonful to a basinful of water, should be used for washing. Bait your mice traps with pumpkin seeds, as the mice are very fond of them. Camphor is very objectionable to them, ^md if-placed in drawers or trunks the mice will keep away. Steel pens are destroyed by the acid in the ink. If an old nail or old steel pen is put in the ink, the acid therein will exhaust itself on them, and pens in daily use will remain in good condition much longer. Careful housekeepers will find the J ravelled threads from old linen the most satisfactory means of stopping tiny breaks in tablecloth or napkin, although linen j floss from the draper's may be procured j for this purpose. Tablecloths and napkins that have be< I come yellow or stained should be soaked j in sour milk for two or three days. Dur: ing this time the linen should be stirred j und shaken every now and then. When I the liuen is washed and boiled it will be | found perfectly white. To Renovate Jilack Lace?If lace is I narrow wind it tightly around a bottle i and pin it on. Wet it thoroughly with j alcohol and let it remain until perfectly ; dry. It will be like new. If the lace is ? wide take the wooden roller from a win; dow shade to roll it on. j How to Take Coal Oil Out of a Carpet . ?Saturate the carpet with benzine and : then rub dry with a clean white cloth. ' If the first application does not take it j out go through the same process until it j is out. As benzine is very explosive be I careful and not have a light in the room I nor a hot stove. j Any sort of dark wood may he freed i from all traces of dirt and grease by n j good spongiug with strong tea, just warm; 1 it will not, however, answer for light, I unpolished furniture, as it would staiu ! it. Very old furniture that is becoming j worm eaten may be greatly preserved and improved if some carbolic oil is ! poured into the wood. J 1 United States bonds are not taxable. WHAT CURES ) ? ill Eilitortal Difference of Opinion on nn Im- j portant Subject. ' j , What is the force that ousts disease: an 1 j [ i which is the most convenient apparatus for: 1 applying it? How far is the regular phv.-i-; j cun useful to us because wo believe in him, [ | , and how far aro bis pills and powders an!; tonics only the material representatives of i hisjwrsonal influence on our health? 1 .: The regular doctors cure; the homoeopath JC doctors cure; UlO riiiuiiviiiitijini^a UUIK, | and so do tho faith cures and tho mind [ cores, and tha so-called Christian scientists, i and'thi four- lollar-aud-a-half advertising;j i itinerants an I the patent medicine men. They All hit, a'?d they all nii^s,.and the great dif- ' f eraace?-one great'-ditf?ronee?in tkio result: ! Is that Whin the regular- doctors Jo,se a pa-; i ; tient no ortp gram bios,' and whpiltjnj irregu-; | J*r doctors Josb one tho. donujiamty stands oq end -and howls.'?liochcsler 'Undon and ; uU/vcrti.1tf-:: j . Nature cures, but uqtiir?; can be aided, hindered i>r-dyfeafiyl ju-.tte ;fc?rAtjye;?jftcc8s. And the UbmnierfiihFr cbnfontioqi isth'at it is tho part of- rational beings; to seek and trusts ^he advlde.bf' {nail of goodchAfheter who' have studied -ih?v human system an I Tearfiod, as far as modern -science lights tho' way, how far they can aid ..nature and.howj they can best avoid obstructing her.-liuf-' fulo Commercial. v j;; It is notour purpose" to consider tho evils; that result from employing the unscrupul-j ous, the ignorant, churlatnns and quacks toprescribe for the maladies that atllict thoi human family. We simply declare that the! ; physician who knowssomething is better than the physician who knows nothing, or very! little indeed about t he structure and the conditionsof the human system. CK course "hd does not know it all.''r-f?oeA<59ter Mornintf Herald." '' : y /" j 1 have used Warner's 8ofo Cure-apd. butl for its timely use would have beed, t verily lielievo, in my grave from what the doctors termed Bright's Disease.?D. F. Khriuer, scn-j ior Editor Scioto (iazelle, Cliillicothe, Ohio, in a letter dated June di, 181).). Dniihlo Moil. There are people in the world who seem to live, if we may so express it, a ] double life, and to have, each one of them, two distinct and often antagonistic characters. Some of these double men premeditatedly carry two faces under one hood; others do so unconsciously. AVe know individuals of lamb-like countonance and demeanor, who are essentially vulpine, or worse, i Behind their lamb vizards lurk the features of beasts of prey. Outwardly, they seem to belong to the herbivora; "inwardly, they are ravening wolves." On the other hand, there are thousands of double men who have no suspicion of their own duality. Look at Mr. Bottomry Bond, for instance, of the great shipping house of Bond & Charter. Money-making Bond, tho man of habit, in his counting-house, is not a bit like Bond, tho hr spitable, whole-souled fellow you meet in his own house up-town. The former is a short-spoken peremptory, despotic personage, who inspires his employes with fear and dread; whose talk is of freights, manifests, bills of lading, marine insurance, and tho like. But when business hours are over, that Bond disappears, and a very different port of a man jumps into the Bond carriage and drives home. Arrived there, ho kisses Mrs. B., tickles the children, and cheers the whole household with his jovial voice and beaming smile. His wife never having been in the groat, gloomy warehouse of the firm down-town, knows nothing of the surly Bond that makes it. gloomier with his grimness from 10 toll. Tho saturnino, long-headed,vigilants chemer, with all his unsocial habitudes, is non est, and will be seen no more until he meets his amiable double at the counting-house door the'next morning, and blots him out as a tliunder-eloud might blot out, for the time being, the pleasant sunlight. This double nature?or rather donblo character, resulting from the nlternato supremacy of nature anil habit?is a curious anomaly. We leave the meta physicians to account lor it.?jstw l'ork Ledger. Instead of laving down the law with absolute certainty, the true thinker is better pleased to put his convictions to every test. Even when he is fully persuaded of their truth, he has no desiie to force them upon others, knowing such a method to be utterly unavailing. When an exquisite young gentleman is lirst married lie uses the softest side of a velvet brush to polish his silk hat; after the seventh child has come along he sometimes uses the blacking brush ! instead. Commendable. All claims not consistent with the high characler of Syrup of Figs are purposily avoided by the California Fig Syrup Company. It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels.clennsIng the system effectually, but it is not a cureall and makes no pretens'ons that every bottlo will not substantiate. While whnv' Undo Stni in America there is Ant-Wi rp in Belgium. Ivee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harmless in effect, ?iuick and |ositivo in action. ISent prepaid on receipt of $1 per bottle. Adelci'ik Co^5?! Wyandottest.,KaiiSttsCUy,alo To'.iva lor-ver mi)i?n-? to low forever. Catarrh in the Head Originates In scrofn nus taint In the blood. Hence the roper method l>.v wh.eli to eure catarrh Is to purifu I'hi'xt. It - many disagreeable symptonis [ and the danger of developing Into brnnoli'tls or mat I terribly fatal disease, eo sumption. are uitlrely rein ved by Hood's Snrsspiirilln, which euros catarrh by purifying the blond; it a so tones up the system. "For 2fi years I have been troubled with cntarr.i In the head, Indigestion ami general debility. I never bail faith In sueh medicines, l.lit concluded to try a bottle of Hood's Snrmpnllla. It did nte o mueh good that I com rued its use II I I luive taken five irottlcs. My he Ith has greatly Im: roved, and I feel like a different iv, mail."?>.lis .1. II. Adams, S Hlele moml St.. Newark, N. J. Hood's Sarsaparilla fold by all druggists. t; m* for ft. 1'repured o.dy 10 C. I. I tool-) ,* CO., Ijuivell, Mas?. IOO Doses Ono Dollar eS3a R C H ? a and V/HISXEY HABSB H ITS cured a: p.oine withK hft-finad Herders sent FREE li. .M. WOOLI.EY, VL D., ATLANTA fj-a utile* CS)i Vrhlb-htii St. I1 Iftt lu P"""1 11 Covin I'.r i [SSI Fh Thanksgivii ^ TYtCYbUTH's' ,To any NcT (iX COMPANION v \ t moment. wt <\ r The Youth'* from thnt tli L.-r\fln' NniBF-Rs, V H ' 45 Aildrc-s, ? One Thousand Dollar*. ( I wfll forfeit the above amohnt, if I fail to jrove that Floraplexion'is the best medicine in ixistoncc for Dyspepsia,Indlpentlop qrBiliousioss. It is a certain 6nfe, and Hfforas'itametin to rolief.in casus of Jyidney and 1/i.vqr Conqilaint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. TioraplexiOn build3 up the weak system and surcs whore. other remedies fail. Ask your Iruggist for it and get well. Valuable book 'Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample.bottle lent free; all charges prepaid. Address Franklin Hart. 86 Warren street. New York. It is the 'ocorootive that wlrstlesat its work ? Money Invested In choice one hundred dol- ' Lar building lets in suburbsof Kansas City will pay truiu live hundred to one uiousaad per j cent, the next lew years under ohb plan. $&i I cash and S-i per inonm without' interest cou- : troisaUesirablelot. 1'articularson application. ! J. H. liauerleiu & Co., Kansas City, ALu.' | Tlio seamy side?The inside ot a'coat, i Malaria chrod and ?ra lioit:-d,i from Ihe system by Brown's Iron Bitters, wuich cnnchi-s the blood, tones the herVes, aids digestion.. .Acts like a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strung Ii. Honey bces.neyer stiqe one nuolln-r. ' ' k- o? I." , iw.'a rilllOT . MIS sroppefi ire;' ,? >. ........... Nkkvk Rrstokkiu No tits after llrpt day's use. Marvelous eiuvs. Treatisi and ? ' trial bjlile free. I)r. Kline, 931 Arch-Si., l'hila., Pa.*; r .There are at present about 1?">,0U0 Hebrew* in the Russian urmy.; ' IJn You F.ver.Speculnto f i Anv person PPtidinr us th?ir /tame and ad-' dress wdl receive information'that will lead; In a fortune. IStsiij. .lawvis & Co., Security Building, Knnsnt Lily, >lo. Never cast p.m-rls befo-o swine. Pearls nra not very fait-nine. . _ " j Cuaranteod itvo year eight per cent. Fifst Mortgagej on Jvu.us.v-s City property, interest payable ovbry six months; principal and iiiter-i eat collected wtien tine and remitted without expense to lender, tor sale by J. ii. Bauarleio & Co? Kansas City, Mo. rile lor particulars If tn-n won d sit cool examples they rnilht hatch better hah.tK. Woman, her dlseives md their treatment. 72 pace-1, illustrated; price Or. Sent upon receipt of lie,., cost of inailin r.ete. Address I'rof. It. II. Koisk. M.I).. 931 Arch Sr.. l'hila., Pa. he truth never upo ai-z s lor i oming. Brown's Iron Bitters enrot J)ysp?psia, Malaria. Biliousness an I tie teral Dob.lity. (Jives M.rength, aides uitestioi, tunes tin nerves? crea es ajipo.ite. T.i > nest tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak woim-n anil children. Lidics in wniMiu? Old maids. If evtrji iroman in I his land knew for lieraelf the actual <|iiaiitv of Dohh ns's Electric Sonp, niutlhcr wnshin c roup could I o sold. Millions douse it, but other millions have never tried it. llave )i' U J Ask jor grocer for it. The moro love a hian has in his heart the. | moro he needs br lins in his head. Timber, Mineral, I-arm l*stn(ls and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler A- Co., Kansas City, Mo. Even a d ad duck can claim that he di d gam-*. Oklahomr.Gulrte Hook ami Matiaentany whera on receiptor 30cts,Tylcr & Co., Kansas City,.Mo. Calch words?S'op ih'rf. SyACoBs oiX GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND SATS : !T EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. IS *Innapoli8, ifld., Jan. 6, '90. "f hare often vscd ST. JJIVOBS OIL, and find it a good Liniment.'' EL9MU E. JACKSON, THE Cov- ?'Md- best. ^^PAINLESS. ffl WORTH A For BILIOUS ? NE Such as Wind and Pain in the Stor Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold CI Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all I THE FIRST DOSE WILL CIV BEECHAM'S PILLS TAKEN AS DIRECTI For Sick Headache, Digestion, Constipatic they ACT LIKE MAOIC, Strengthening th< plexlon, bringing back tho keen edge oj HEALTH iho whole physical energy of tb to tli? Nervous and Debilitated Is that Bl ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINF IN THE Prepared only by TIKIS. 1IKEC Sal'l bi/ Ibruii(/>sls generally. B. F. Solo Airent* for the United States, irhn <i gyp. plSo-S REMEDY FOR ( tgfji Coltl in (lie He;ul it has no eqii -VASELINE-" FOB A <INK.DOI.hA It IU 1,1, sent us by ma wo will rleljvi r. free n nil charges, to any person I the Unit <1 state*, all of the following articles, car* fully pneko : ' } One two-ounoe bottle of fare \nsellne, . lOcti ; ('no two-ou eo Imitle of Vaseline Pomade, 15" ' One Jnr of Vns line Cold ('renin. 15 " One i ke of Vssell e Cnm, hor Ice. - 10 " | One C'nke of Vosel lic Soap. Iin.-eeilt . - 10" , ? ? l?l,..I,. ?,| .1 "unmi'iii . ii-.iinu.-.'i.f.. .-v. | Ouc two-ounce foot l e of While Vaseline, - 23 " $1.10 Or for pnitofl xltrnp* hnt/ single article at the prh named On no account '? pcivuaileil to accept froi I i/ot ailrihpjitt on a Vaseline or preparation therefroi | unlcsn labelled with one name, because i/ou will ce i tairly reeeirean i mi tat Ion which liui little or no vail I ("li: tr'troutfli Ufa. Co.. '? I Stale St , N. V I ASTHc^ASH,RJS;FREE I by wall toaulTrrrra. Dr. R. St'llIFfJIAS, St. faol.Blan, winsir *TUIM. iHM>K-kee|>iiinc, Huaine.is Korin jj-lUitIU l'eiiiiian>lii|\ Anriiinot.lv.-, StiorHiaiKl. el< S 5 Ilioriiii.'hly taught by .MaII. Circulars ire Hrvonl's ('ol'ear, -la? Main St., Uuffalo, N. ' I "a?*? Inventor** ?;?!iic PATENT a rrV.^.'V^ | Patrick U'Farreli, ?S?? !>"" cry irccfc ? Finely Illustrated ? Fend in -1.10,0 re Double Holiday Num ig, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, f FREE TO 18S1. r Subscriber who WILL (XT OUT nnd crad til mime nnd PoNt-Offire addres* and f 1.7.' Companion Fit EE to Jnnunry 1. 1.N01, and tic, Thin offer include* the FIVE POUR and nil the ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY Si The Youth's Companion, cos : 1 ' Let,.every, enfeebled woman Tcnow it ! There's a medicine that'll cure her, and the proof's mi/, i , j'l i i positive! ' ? Here's - the proof ? if ..it doesn't' do you good within reasonable ,:time, report; the fact". to its makers and get * your money back without a .wo)rdT7ibutt you won't^do it! The remedy is Dr.' Pi&fCeV^^ Favorite Prescription?afti}, it has proved itself the right remedy in nearly every case of female weakness...., It is. not' a miracle. It wonjt cure. everything1? but "it* has done more to build* up tared, enfeebled and broken - down women# than ' any! other medicine iknown.. \ ' /, ' ; . .Where's the woman who's not - ready for! if ? ' All that we've to ' do is to -get the news to her! The medicine will do. the ; rest. WantedrrrWo^h-. First to know it.--- Second,to use it. Third to be cured ..by; it. The one comes of the1 other. : it The seat of sick headache is not in the brain. Regulate the stomach and you cure it. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are the little regulators. * Money in Chickens v'X If yon know how to property can I f forthom I'nr'25 crnta in ataropa * I I you ran procure a 100-PAGE BOOK M I / \ glflng the < xiierience of practt- . ?i / V / S cal p. ultry haiaer?not an ama. I % tour, but a man working for do!L S lain and cent*?during a period of ,1 -* ? yearn. It teachen you how to Vw^1 y-tect and Cura Dlseaaca: to Fa-d i \ iT,rF po and aluo for F ttenlnin I I which Fowla to Sara for Bracdiaf I I Purposi a: and i rerything, ndea<5 yon ibonld know on (hia subject to make it prolV able. Sent poatpald foi '2Sc. BOOK. PoK liOlbl., 134 I.eonard Sticet, N. Y. CiO> CB A TED AXLE I* 11 ML Cll cdfior IJKST IN THB WORLD UilLHUb XW Oh the Genuine. BoldEverywbec* PENSi'ONSlS 1 ?r? and Fathers are Mt titled to $13 a nin. l ee 110 when you eel rour mooes. Lf!.nfc? frco. JUSK.ril II. UlXTtlB, ill/. WuMacMo. & k OCMPiflUP HEW LAW CLAOK. . i LnolUno ak'-filito B. Lteress iCi At nrnrye, 1415) V St., Wnnblnstton. 1). C* Ci'riicIi OfJlcti'*. Clcvclnnd. Detroit.Chleoco. figiPMflfAS 9 M Sure enre for Rheumatism !,**r ?C Ml I Q and Gout. Crdluai7easei Wiibll nbhn??|iiom fir ever requtr.j ?i"ro thin one bottle. Krlce 8*4.00 per bottle. WU. U'll VNN. 1IOXS05. Xrw Orlewne, I.e. .^saESfifc* A] * |.ic'>'noe and fn'ly.eodorse Blp O as tlx only /JBr Oerals specific for the certal~cur? >B?rl TO I daTS/v of tills disease. , fiWOesraMMd not ul O.H.INGRAQAV,]!. O, fga ctMUriaoe ? Amsterdam, N. Yi SS Mrd eoiy by the We have sold Btf G for; *D. SiOYCHEd^CO^ Tw7^^n^iirkltl<00. Sold by DtrafrtoU. TIVECUR ET rrcn St-, New York. Price 60 M? Wr 50c | HAHi LLS effectual!^ guinea a box.-wd < RVOUS DISORDERS nach, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, ( iills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, ( Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed I lentous and Trembling Sensations, <Sc. ) E RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. ( :D RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH. ) Weak Stomach, Impaired ( in, Disordered Liver, etc., ) i muscular System, restoring long-lost Com- ) f appetite, und arousing with tho ROSEBUD OF v 0 human frame. One of tho best guarantees / EECHAM'S PILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF ) WORLD. S HAM. SI. nclcnt, T.iincnalilrr. Fnglnnd. / ALLEN CO.. 365 and 367 Canal St.. New York, ) f ?/<iiu drueuiht does not keep themi WILL M AIL 1 ATA URIL?Best. Easiest to use. ?? ncdiate. A cure is certain. Lor. r|jg f For Coughs^Colds There U no Jlcdiftne like j OR. SCBENCK'S PULMONIC S SYRUP. < It ia plenennt to the taete and dont not contain particle of opiumoranyihlns Injurious. It i* the Beet Cough Mediciueiti tlio n j J* v. 1 World. KorSale by all Dniggiata. r. | Price, ?1.00 per bottle. Dr. Srhcnck'e Book on ,, t'onenniptioti and ile Cure, mtiibd free. Addreet Dr. J. n Sohonck & Son, Philadelphia1LE3NTID YOUR y^\. | ItMt Luw-Pricrt (iPRBAM lilt TIO.VtKY publuhed, ot the remarkably low price /mwr /Km V of ouJ/tl-OO.^HWtpai.l ^ Till* Poo A cou- *~5k Jfc'j typo O.I excel If-It lujior un 1 i? hnn 1- I Br . lonwlv vol i ervl -wM.r Iwmn I In cloth. 1 It iflvoK Enclwh w t.I? with tlio U?rmat? \Wtl\ '* ' nuivaloufH u.i.i pnmu notation, mli? I < 1 Gertiiau ?ordf with Dutllah detlnltloni. \ , 1" ! ]t t<* invaluable to (Irrrnnnv who are not J ? \ ? I thoroughly familiar with Knitluh. or to V M ' Ainorlcana who wlah to learn German M j Iioua. lit Loomed Si.. Saw Urfc Uir. j B N U 41) ifflNION "tfle youth's i bers. Companion y(.l :ourth-of-July. I tin fh:.J ndvrrvr?. will - -.MI I 1 lor n full your I I.C HOLIDAY t Pl'LDHENTS. CWSTM^-15*^3 I ton, Mass. l__ _J