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ALVAN CLAER. The Interesting Story of a Busy Life, The city of Cambridge, Mass., has lost her most widely known and time honored citizen. At the ripe age of four score years and three, Mr. Alvan Clark, the world-renowned telescope maker and astronomer, has joined the hosts of illustrious men who have passed through death into life im mortal. He was one of the most famous men that this century has pro duced, yet, withal, one of the most modest and unassuming of gentlemen. When in company with a friend, a few weeks prior to his death, the conversa tion turned on his own great age and the short time that must elapse ere he should go to his final rest, and he recited with a simplicity that was touching and impressive those beautiful lines ALVAS cLA. from Bryant's "Thanatopsis," which have been an inspiration to many since they were -penned by their noble author. "Who could constantly study the works of the Creator as I have without trusting him?" he said. There is something grand in the life of such a man. and his name will live for cen turies in the list of those who have risen from the ranks to be our nation's noblemen. Mr. Clark was a typical gentleman of the old school. It was once my privilege to enjoy his hospitality and to visit his manufactory in his company. A more entertaining host could not have been found. His style of conversation was somewhat quaint and desultory, a fact which added to its interest, .and he seemed to take pleasure in telling to me the story of his unrivaled success as a lens maker. In a jocular tone he asked: "Would you think I was over eighty years old? I will be -eighty-three on the 6th of next March," he said. "I hold my own pretty well, though I don't expect it will be for long now. Eighty-four and a half is the average at which men die after having reached my time of life. Very few of my old associates are left. I retain full possession of all my facul ties, and with my eyesight in particu lar I have been very fortunate. I have exposed myself night after night, dur ing the past forty-five years, to the cold and rain while making astronomical observations, and it is a great wonder that it has not wrought a detrimental effect on my system. "I was born and brought up in Mas sachusetts-born in Ashfield March 6, 180f. I served nine years at engraving and calico printing-first in Lowell. then Providence, New York, and three years under IRobinson at Fall River. Thence I came to Boston and made a modest livelihood for about twenty years by pursuing the self-taught art of portrait and miniature painting, be jnanLU& mny oLnawaL2 nn6U 2L ?2 t one o .n =* of small telescopes. Here is a miniature portrait of old Dr. Bemis which I painted almost fifty years ago. It haa just been sent back to me. That picture you see there is of a man who was once the sheriff of Boston, a man widely known in those days. "But you want to know how I came to be a manufacturer of lenses. Well, LIcK TELEscOPE AT MT. HAMILToN%, cAL. it was, I suppose, my taste for astron omy. While my son was at Phillips Academy, in Andover, he made all the castings of a telescope without consult ing me first. In taking hold to teach him I became interested myself, and finally devoted my whole attention to it. Having been led by accident to at tempt the grinding of lenses, Iproduced some objectives equal in quality to any previously made. "You can, of course, recollect old Dr-. Bigelow, your family doctor. On his return from a visit to Europe I met him, and during our conversation, knowing he was somewhat interested in astronomy, I asked him if he called on Merz & Mahler, at Munmch, while he was away; also, I said I had been making some telescopes. 'Ah,' said he, 'if you wish to know anything about telescopes you must go where they are made.' About forty years later, when he was President of the American Academy of -Sciences, he was present at the time I had the honor of receiving the Rumford medal. I recalled the conversation, and said to him: 'If you wish to know any thing about telescopes come and see me at Cambridge.' We enjoyed a hearty laugh over the reminiscence. Both of my sons and myself are mem bers of the American Academy of Sciencees, an~d my eldest son is a mem ber of the Rumford Committee. I am also a member of the Philosophical Society, and have the degree of M1. A. from four different colleges-Chicago, Amherst, Princeton, and Harvard. "While testing telescope lenses, I made the discovery of some ditlicult double stars. My son Alvan, while we -were completing an eighteen-inch glass for the Chicago Observatory, turned his glass on Sirius, the dog star. 'Why, tather,' he exclaimed, 'the star has a companion.' I looked, and there was a faint companion due east from the bright star, and distant about ten sec onds. This was the predicted direc tion for that time, although he knew nothing of it. As news of the discov ery spread, all the great telescopes were turned upon Sirius, and it was found that many telescopes would show it, now that the observers knew where! to look. For this discovery my son was awarded the Lalande medal by Professor Chancenac, of the French, Academy of Science. While trying a glass on Hercules, which is a double star, I found that its companion was double also. In one year alone I discov ered eight new double stars, and with *telescopes of my own construction. B3ev. W. B. Dawes, one of the leading member of the Royal Astronomical Society. purchased an object glass of me and found it so efficient and perfect in definition that he finally ordered a whole telescope. Soon after this my glasses began to be appreciated in my own country. In 1860 I received an order from the University of Missis sippi, of which Dr. F. A. Barnard was then President, for a refractor of eighteen inches aperture, which was three inches greater than the largest telescope that had then been made. While it was in progress the civil war broke out, and prevented the party originally ordering the instrument from taking it; but it was shortly after ward sold to the Astronomical Society of Chicago for :20,000 and mounted it 1863. "After we had proved that efficient instruments could be made of mor TELESCOPE AT WASHINGTON. than two feet aperture the attention of Congress was called to the deficiency of the National Observatory. It had nothing better than an ancient Munich refractor of nine and a half inches. In 1870 a bill was passed by Congress authorizing the Superintendent to con tract for a telescope of the largest size of American manufacture. The aper ture agreed upon was twenty-six inches, and the contract was given us, 8s we are solitaire in our line in this country. It proved extremely difficult to obtain rough glass even of this size, and it was over a year before we were ab!e to get rough disks completed of the required size. We import our glass froir Paris. The glass arrived in December, 1671; the polishing was completed in October, 1,72; the whole instrument in a year more, and was finally mounted and ready for observation in Novem ber, 1873. We were paid forty-six thousand dollars in gold for it, and gold was then at a premium. In im porting rough lenses we were obliged to pay thirty per cent. duty because the edges of the glass used to be ground smooth and polished, so that the maker could inspect them to see if there were any defects before they were shipped. Now I order them ground off rough again, which allows them to be passed under the head of raw material, es +hey should be either way." "Have you shipped many out of the country?' "Quite a few." "Any large ones?" "The one we made for the Russian Government was the largest refractor at that time in the world. It is thirty "How did you come by the contract ? I inquired. "Mr. Otto Struve, the great Russian astronomer, received permission irom the Czar to contract for a telescope which would be more powerful than any which had been made up to that time. After traveling over his own Icountry and Europe, and not finding anything which appeared to suit him, Ihe came to America. He might pos sibly have seen some telescope of our manufacture in Europe. He visited the Naval Observatory at Washington and then came to see us. Before he went away he contracted for an instru ment to cJost 8.32,000. I asked him if he required bonds of us for the fulfill ment of the contract. He laughed at the idea and gave me a check for 812,000 as a guarantee that he meanit business himself." "Do you ever make any small-sized instruments?" "What we call small size. Yes. For schools and colleges of lesser note. We made one for the Madison College, Wisconsin. One day a man came intc the workshon and asked. to be sho~wn some good telescopes, saying that the LOOKING FOF. FLAWS. people 'out his way ' seemed anxious to have a good telescope. Theirs was too small, and, as he was coming in 'this way,'he thought he would lcok the matter up for them. Hec ta'hed bus. ness for pretty good-sized figures, and iinally ordered an instrument at a good round price, in fact, expensive. Not knowing-who he was, I asked him his name. He said: 'O-well--h'mphi! Excuse me, my name is Washburn. If you would like to know a little more about me. I have been Governor of the State.'" Mr. Clark then invited me to enter his house, and exhibited some fine oil portraits of Henry Clay and other emi 'ent men and prominent statesmen of a gcneration or so ago, all of which were eeuted by himself.. Mr. Clark was also the inv-entor of a micrometer that has proved to be of almost inealculable value to astrono n' ers, as through its use any distance can be measured with acc :rac-y up to one degree. Although e:ghty-three years of age. Mr. Clark performed manual labor and took actifre interest in his basiness up to the date of his death, and worked with eq{ual zest to that of his sons. He was a self-made, representative, progressive man of this century, whose genius at invention placed him alone and unrivaled in his specialty, a specialty without which much that is now known of the once mysterious blank that surrounds the universe never could have been brought to light. His life-work can never be overestimated, and no appreciative praise of his endeavor-s can be too great in honor of his memory. -Burt Ar nold, in Keokuk Democrat. 'THE inventor of the saw is said by the old Greek writers to have been Talus or Perdox, and the invention is said to have been suggested to him while using the jawbone of a snake to cut through a piece of wood. His master, jealous of the honor won by Talus, caused him to be privately put UPRIGHTNESS. DR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. The Christian Should Be as Straight, Morally, as a Plumb Line. I'EXT: "And the Lord said untome.Amos what seest thou? and I said, a plumb line. -Amos vii.. S. The solid masonry of the world has to me a fascination. Walk about some of the trium phial arches and the cathedrals, 400 or 600 years old, and see them stand for centuries, as erect as when they were builded, walls of great height not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that. So greatly honored were the masons who builded these walls that they were free from taxation and called"free" masons. The trowel gets most of the credit. for these buildings, and its clear ringing on . stone and brick has sounded across the ages. But there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes it. Bricklayers, and stone masons, and carpenters, in the building of walls, use I an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it over the side of the wall, and as the plum met naturally seeks the centre of gravity in the earth, the workman discovers where the wall recedes, and where it bulges out, and just what is the perpendicu lar. bur text represents God as standing on the wall of character, which the Israelites had built, and in that way measuring it. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? and I said, A plumb line." What the world wants is a straight up and down religion. Much of the so-called piety of the day bends this way and that, to suit the times. It is horizontal with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been building a wall of character, and it is glar ingly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into the perpendicu lar? Only by the divine measurement. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? and I said, A plumb line." The whole tendency of the times is to make, us act by the standard of what others do. If they play cards, we play cards. If they dance, we dance. If they read certain styles of books, we read them. We throw over the wall of our character the tangled plumb-line of other lives and reject the infallib'e test which Amos saw. The question forme should not be what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the , behavior of others, asthough it decided any thing but human fallibility, is a mistake as wide ns the world. There are 10,000 plumb lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the line of God's eternal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to re construct and fix up the len Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and people go thousands of miles to see its graceful inclination, and by extra braces and various architectural con trivances it is kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the ten granite blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as goo-l as a square I Why is not an oblique as good as straight up an-l down? My friends, we must have a stand ird; shall it be God's or man's? The divine plumb-line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Sclomon discovered the tendency of buy ers to depre. iate goods. He saw aman beat ing down an article lower and lower, and say ing it was not worth the price asked, and when he h id purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck, and how he had outwitted the mer chant. Proverbs xx, 14: "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way then he boasteth." So utterly askew is society in this manner that you seldom find a seller asking the price that he expects to get. He puts on a higher value than he pro ses to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. If he wants fifty he asks seventy five. And if he wants 2,000 he asks 2,500. "It is naught," saith the buyer. "The fabric is defective the style of goods is poor: I can get elsewhere a better article at a smaller price; it is out of fashion; it is damaged;it will fade; it will not wear well." After a while the merchant, from over-persuasion or from de sire to dispose of that particular stock of e--- --- "All. to it at :ur own price," and the purchaser goes home with light step and calls into his private offie his confidential friends, and chuckles while he tellshow that for half price he got the goods. In other words, he lies and is proud of it. Nothing would make times as good, and the earning of a livlihood so easy, as the univer sal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain making. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shipped will be in accord ing to the sample. and what, with the large number of clerks who are making false entries and then absconding to Canada, and the ex plosion of firms that fail for millions of dol lars,, honest men are at their wits' end to make a living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sym atyfrtelaboring classes who toil with randanfooet. But we must nut forget the business men who, without any complaint or bannered processions through the street, are enduring a stress of circumstances terrific. The fortunate people of to-day are those who are receiving daily wages or regular salaries. And the men most to be pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling, and yet try to pay their clerks and employes, an-1 are in such fearful straits that they would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others. 'When people tell me at what a ruinously low price they purchased an article it gives me more Idismay than satisfaction. I know it means the bankruptcy and defalcation of men in nmnny departments. The men who toil with the train need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hands. All business life is struck through with suspicion, and panios are only the result of want of confi dence. Th rsueto do wogis allthestronger fothfat that in our dy the large busi ness houses are swallowing up the smaller, the whales dining on bluefish and minnows. The larre houses undersell the small ones be cause they can afford it. They can afford to make nothing, or actually lose, on some styles of goods. assured they can make it up on others. So a great dry goods house goes out side of its regular line and sells books at cost, or less than cost, and that swamps the book sellers: or thedry goods housesells bric-a-brac at lowest figures, that swamps the small dealer in bric-a-brac. And the same thine goes on in other styles of merchandise, ana the consequence is that all along the business streets of all our cities there are merchauts of small capital who are in terrific struggle to keep their heads above water. The Cunarders run down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This is nothing against the man who has the big store, for every man has as large a store and as great a business as he can manage. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires divine sup port, requires celestial reinforcement. Yet there are tens of thousands of such men getting splendidly through. They see others gomng up and themselves going down, but they keep their patience and their courage. and their Christian consistency, and after a while their turn of suc'ce-s will ('ome(. Theu owneirs of the* big husiness will dil- andl their I :oys will get powNssion of the l:usiess, and with a cigar in the mouth, and full to the "hin with the best liquor, ann behind a pair of spanking bays they w'.ill pass everything on the turikeh~ road to temnporal and eternal perdition. TIhen the business will break up. and the smalle r dealers will have fair oppoxr tunity'. Or the spirit of contentment ami ri'i:ht feeling ilnl t'ake possession of the hrge* lirni.a recently in the canse of A. A. Low~ & C~o. and the firm w'ill say: "We hav e enoughr money for all our nedsand the needs of our children; now, let us dissolve business~ and make wvar for other men in the 'samne lin." Instead~ of being star tied at a solitary instance of magnanimu ity, as in thie ease .iust mentioned, it ih be conme a common thini". I know of scores of gre'at business houses that have had their o;> portunity of vast accumulation, and who ought to quit. But perhaps, for all the days' of this generation the struggle of small houses to keep aim" e under the overshadowing pres sur of g1reat houses will continue: therefore. taking things as they are, vou will be wise to preserve your equilibrium, and your honesty. and your faith, and throw over all the coun ters, and shelves, and barrels and hogsheads, and cotton hales, and rice casks, the imeasur ing line of divine right. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thoui andI said, A plumb line." In the same way we need to measure our theologies. All sorts of religions are putting forth their pretensions. Some have a spirit ualistic religion and their cgief work is with ghosts, and others a-rgligionf f political econ-' ery by a new style of taxation, and there is a humanitarian religion that looks after the body of men and lets the soul look after itself, and there is a legislative religion that pro to rectify all wrongs by enactment of tter laws, and there is an aesthetic religion that by rules of exquisite taste would lift the heart out of its deformities, and religions of all sorts, religions by the pe.k, religions by the square foot, and religions by the ton-all of them devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the only re ligion that will ever effect anything for the human race, and that is the straight up and down religion written in the book which be gins with Genesis and ends with !Revelation, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says: "Love God above all and your neighbor as yourself." All religions but this one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Bibie religion demands that we first get right with Go:. It be gins at the top and measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the wall up to their knees in the mud of human theory and speculation, and have a plummet and a string tied fast to it. And they throw the plummet this way and break a head there, and they throw plummet an other way and break a head there, and then they throw it up, and it comes down upon their own pate. Fools! Why will you stand at the foot of the wall measur ing up when you ought to stand at the top measuring down? A few days ago I was in the country, thirsty after a long walk. And I came in, and my child was blowing soap bubbles, and they rolled out of the cup, blue, and gold. and green, and sparkling, and beautiful, and orbicular, and in so small a space I neversaw more splendor concentrated. But she blew once too often and all the glory vanished into suds. Then 1 turned and took a glass of plain water and was refreshed. And so far as soul thirst is concerned, I put against all the glowing, glittering soap bubbles of worldly reform and human speculation one draught frm the fountain from under the throne of God. clear as crystal. Glory to God for the religion that drops from above, not coming up from beneath! "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? and I said, A plumb-line." I want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives up the straight up and down re ligion in the Bible for any new fangled relig ion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in Col orado mining stock, telling some one if he will t in $10,000 he can take out $10,00, or he as sacrifced his chastity, or plunged into ir remediable worldliness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion,and he bezomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep their sins, and then at death say to them: "Well done, good and faithful servant," and tells them: "Allis well, for there is no hell.' What a glorious heaven they hold before us! Come, let us in and see it. There is Herod and all the babes he massacred. There is Charles Guiteau, and Jim Fisk, and Robes pierre. the friend of the French guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, house burners, gar roters. pickpockets and libertines of all the centuries. They have all got crowns, an.i thrones, and harps, and scepters, and when they chant they sing: "Thanksgiving, and honor, and glory, and power to the broad re ligion that let us all into heaven without re pentance and faith in those disgraceful dog mas of ecclesiastical old fogyism. My text gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a plumb line? Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because they are in sufficient, because if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law of gravitation' a wall Must be straight in order to be symmetrical and safe. A young man is in danger of getting a defect in his wall of character that may never be corrected. One of the best friends 1 ever had died of delirium tremens at 60 years of age. though he had not since 21 years of age-before which he had been dissipated-touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not feeling well in a street on a hot summer day he stepped into a drug store, just as you and I would have done, and asked for a dose of something to make him feel better. And there was alcohol in the dose, and that one drop aroused the old appe tite, and he entered the first liqor store. and stayed there unti thoroughy under the power of rum. He entered hi ome a raving maniac, his wife and daughters fleeing from his presence, until he was taken to the city hpiatodie. The combustible material of earhabit had lain qniet nearly forty years, and tat one spark ignited the confiagatton. Remember that the wail may be one hundred feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundation affects the entire stiruct ure. And if you live 100 years, and do right the last eighty years, you may, nevertheless, do something at twenty years of age that will am age all your earthly existence. All you who have built houses for youselves or for others, am I not right in saying to these young men, _you cannot build a wall so high as to be independent of the character of its foundations? A man before thirty years of aemay commit enough sin to last him a lifetime. A cat that has killed one pigeon cannot be cured. Keep it from killing the first pigeon. NTow, John, or George, or Charles, or Willicm, or Alexander, or An drew, or Htenry, or whatever be your Chris tian name or surnam.-, say here and now: "No wild oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me. no wine or beer for me, no nasty stories for me. no Sunday sprees for me. I an going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for I am very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousness let down to me the princioles by which I can be guided in building everything from foundation to castone. Lord Go.!. by the wvounided hand of Christ, -hrowv me a phurnb l ne! Lord Nelson's general directioni when go ng into naval battle was, no mn cani do wron th~t places his ship close alongside that of the Ienemy. My frieind, you wvill ne' er do wrong if you will 'keep your life close a'o1gsid~e the T~n Commandments. Do right, and y ~ou can be as brave as Maria Theresa, who rode up the Hill Defiance. and s.hook her swo: d at the four corniers of the earth. "But." you .say,. "vou shut us young folks out from all fun."~ Uh. no: I like fun. I be lieve in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me, but because of an extraordiary parental example and influence I was kept from outward tragressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. I have had fun illiitilble, thouzh I never swore one oath, andl never gambled for so much as the value of a in, and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when, ten years ago, wth commissioner of police and a detective and two elders of my church, I explored these cities by midnight, not out of curiosity, but that I might in pulpit discourst set before the people the poverty a?nd the horrors of un derground city life. .Ylet though I never was intoxicated for an instant, and never com mitted one act of dissoluteness, restrained only by the grace of God, without which re straint I would have gone headlong to the bottom of infamy, I have had so much fun that I don't believe there is a i. an on the planet in the present time who has had more. Hoar it, men and bys, women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful, and like the manchineel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genuine happiness is in an honest Christian life. The Chippewa, wanting to see God, blackens his face with charcoal and fatis till he has a vision of what he cails God. Mr God I can see best when I take my hat oif and let the sunshine blaze in mv face, an-l after a rea sonable breakfast. lIe is not a God of black ness and, starvation, but of light and plenti tud, and the glory of the noondany sua is Egyptian midnight compared to it. There they go-two brothers. 'lhe one was convert ed a year ago in chuirch,one Sunday morning, during prayer3, or sermon, or hymn. No one kne w it at the tim". The persons on either side of him suspected nothing, but in that young man's soul this process went on: "Lord, here I am, a young man amid the teiptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone; come and be my pardon and my help; save me from making the mistake that some of my comrades are making, and save me now." And quicker than a flash God rolled heaven into his soul. He is just as jolly as he used to be,is just as brilliant as he used to be. He can strike a ball or catch one as easily as before he was converted. With gun or fishing rod in this summer vacation he was just as skillful as before. The world is brighter to him than ever. He appre ciates pictures, music, innocent hilarity, so cial lie, good jokes, and has plenty of fun, first-class fun, glorious fun. But his brother is going down bill. In the m.orning his head aches from the champagne debauch. Every body sees he sis in rap.d descent. What cares he fo'eght, or decency, or the honor of his fanily nae? Tuxrned out of employment, 4n+e~pe in heath, mas Anwn in spirita the typhoid fever strikes him in the smallest room on the fourth story of a fifth rate boarding house, cursing God, and calling for I his mother, and fighting back demons from b his dying pillow, which is besweated and p torn to rags, he plunges out of the world, with the shriek of a destroyed spirit. Alas for that kind of fun! It is remorse. It is de spair. It is blackness of blackness. It is woe 1" unending and long reverberating, and crush- o ing as though all the mountains of all t continents roll on h:m in one avalanche. My soul, stand back from such fun. Young man, there is no fun in sip wrecking your character, no fun in dis- u g your father's name. There is no c. fun in breaking your mother's heart. There is i no fun in the physical pangs of the dissolute. There is no fun in the profligate's death-bed. a There is no fun in an undone eternity. Paracelsus, out of the ashes of a burnt rose, is said he could recreate the rose, but he failed: n in the alchemic undertaking, and roseate life c once burned down in sin can never a gain be made to blossom. Oh, this plumbline of the everlasting right!; God will throw it over all our lives to show f us our moral deflections. God will throw it t over all churches to show whether they are doing useful work or are standing instances of idleness and pretense. He will throw that plumb line over all nations to demonstrate whether their lives are just or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or' infamous. He threw that plumb line over 0 the Spanish monarchy of other days, and what became of her? Ask the splintered hulks of hr overthrown armada. He threw that plumb line over French imperialism. t, and what was the result? Ask the ruins of n her Tuileries, and the fallen column of the V Place Vendome. and the grave trenches of D Sedan, and the blood of revolutions of differ e ant times rolling through the Champs Elysees. He threw that plumb-line over ancient Rome, and what became of the realm of the t Casars? Ask her war eagles, with beak dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian t Empire of a thousand years, the thrones of Semiramis, and Sardanapalus, and u Shalmaneser, of twenty-seven victorious ex peditions, the cities of Phoenicia kneeling to the scepter. and all the world blanched in the presence. What became of all the grandeur? Ask the fallen palaces of Khorsabad and the corpses of her 185,00 soldiery slain by the angelof the Lordin onenight,and the Assyrian sculptures of the world's museums, all that now remains of that splendor before which i nations staggered and crouched. God is now throwing that plumb line over this American republic, and it is a solemn time with this nation, and whether we keep His Sabbaths or dishonor them, whether righteousness or m- 1 iquity dominate, whether we are Christian or infidel, whether we fulfill our mission or refuse it, whether we are for God or against him, will decide whether we shall as a na tion go on in higher and higher career or go down in the same grave where Babylon, and Nineveh, and Thebes, and Assyria are sepulchered. "But," say you, "if there be nothing but a plumb line what can any of is do, for there is an old proverb which truthfully declares: 'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.' What shall we do when, according to Isaiah, God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet ? Ah, here is where the Gospel comes in with a Saviour's righteousness to make up for our deficits. And while I see haning on the wall a plumb line, I se also hanging there a cross. And while the one condemns us the other saves us, if only we will hold to it. And here and now you may be set free with a more glorious liberty than Hampden, or Sidney. or Kosciusko ever fought for. Not out yonder, nor down there, nor up here, but just where you are you may get it. The invalid proprietress of a wealthy estate in Scotland visited the continent of Europe to' get rid of her maladies, and she went to Baden-Baden and tried thos3 waters, and went to Carlsbad and tre I those waters, and went to Homburg anl triel those watersand instead of gettin, better she got worse, and; in despair she said to a physican: "What shall f do?" His reply was: "Medicime can do nothing for you. You have one chance in the waters of Pit Keathly Scot land." "Is it possible?" she replied. "Why, those waters are on my ownestatel" She re turned, and drank of the fountain, and in a few months completely recovered. Oh sick, and diseased, and sinning, anl dying hearer, why go trudging all the world over, and seeking here and there relief for your dis couraged spirit, when close by, and at your I very feet, an. at the iloor' of your hieart. aye within the very estate of your own consciou ' nes. the healing wate'rs of eternal life may be had?, and hadl this very hour, this very minute. this very Sabbat! Blessed be God that over against the plumb line that Amosi saw is the cross thr:ou-rh the emncipatin: ; power of which you an.i I ma~y live an I live forever! Granulated Eyelide. "What is granulation of the eyelids: What are its cause, symptoms, and: cure ? Is it the cause of morable linee over the sight?" are questions that are often asked. There is no connection between disease and the lines mention ed. The latter are of little importance. Most people may see them on looking' steadily at a white wall or a cloud. They are supposed to be shadows of objects within the eye-parts of its structure-thrown on the retina, and' thence projected, greatly enlarged, in to space. They trouble short-sighted people more than others, but they do: not indicate disease. Granulated lids are a form of con junctivitis, an inflammation of the mucous membrane which lines the lids and front of the eyeballs, called the conjuncti'va. There are four varieties of conjun"' tivitis. 'With two of thenm we have, at present, nothing tou do. The infantile, which is due to contagion, and may speedily result in blindness if not promptly treated; and the diphtheritic, which occurs mainly in feeble and ill fed children, and which is a serious dis ease, but, thus far, it is not known to have appeared in this country, though German immigration may at any time bring it here. The other two varieties are the simple and the contagious. The simple is Igenerally due either to some irritating substance getting lodged under the lid, or to exposure to cold. In the first ease the trouble subsides on the ro Imoval of the offending cause. In the second, a simple wash, which should: be prescribed by a physician, with rest for the eyes and protection from dast and sun, will soon remove intamma By neglect and aggravation from surroundings it may run into the con tagious. In the simple form the secre 'tion is only mucous, but if it passes into the contagious the secretion becomes Asle agnrlthing, the contagious form is due to contagion from a similar case, or from some other foul secretions in the blood. A single infected child at school may give it to many of his mates. Cases of blindness have so re slted. A towel used in common has often imparted it. One should never wipe with another's towel. The granulations are minute, swollen protuberances under the lid, sometimes quite'fine, sometimes large enough to give the lid a puffed look. They strong 'lv incline to be. ome purulent, and thus I ontagious. They are most common among children living in badly venti lated rooms. In both simple and contagious 'on utivitis the main reliance is on astringent washes, but for the treat ment of a contagious case the physician should be promptly called. No one suffering from it should be allowed to' attend school-Companionl. GAs was Er: t evolved from coal by Dr. Clayton in .7:i9, and first applied as an II umninating n"ochum by Mr. Murock, in Cor .waV, in 139L2. Thei first disp av of gaslight was in Birm-| ingham, 1ngIandi, in 1602, on the oc- | Main of the npea reioicinirs. Treatment of Gapes. Obtain a wooden box large enough to :commodate as many chicks as you will e likely to want to treat at one time, erforate the bottom and use a window ght for the top; procure a second box f the same breadth and length of the rst so that one will set snugly upon the ther; place the chicks in the per!ora fd box and in the other place an iron r a brick, hot; drop upon this hot -on a spoonful of carbolic acid and im tediately place the box containing the cicks over the fumes of the acid aris ig from the hot iron. The chicks will ough and sneeze anal after a while will ppear much releaved. This treatment also good for lice. Care and judg ent are necessary when the chicks be ome too much affected by the vapors ed acid. Remove the glass top of the ox a moment and give then a little tesh air. Give one treatment a day unA i a cure is effected-usually about 4 or days.-W. B. Hinsdale, M. D,, in N. "Poultry Bullstin." Fifteen officers of high rank are to be ried at St. Petersburg, Russia, accused f being Nihilists. Good for Hard Workers. It Is fully claimed and pretty well sustained cat hard workers can accomplish almost rice as much and save themselves from ill ess and loss of time if they take eight cents' orth per day of the extract of the Moxie erve Food Plant, now creating so much dis 2ssion. The dealers gay its sale is the largest rer known. If a nervous woman gets hold of bottle ihe gets the whole neighborhood to ilking about it, and a u oman's curiosity has > be gratified if it costs the price of a bonnet. A poet sent to an editor a contribution en tled, 'Why do I liver' The editor answered Because you sent your contributions by madl 2stead of bringing them,' "The Blood I. the Life." Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the ountain of health,by using I)r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair kin, buoyant spirits,vital strength,and sound iess of constitution will be established. Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, rom the common pimple, blotch, or eruption, :o the worst Scrofula, or blood-poison. Espe dally has it proven its efficacy in curing Salt heum or Tetter,Fever-sores,ip-joint Disease, 'crofulous sores and Swellns Enlre ilands, and Eating Ulcers. Golden Medical Discovery cures Consume ion (which is Scrofula of the Lungs), by its onderful blood-purifying, invigorating and tutritive properties. For Weak Lungs, Spit ing of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, ,evere Coughs, Asthma, and kindred affec ions, it is a sovereign remedy. It promptly ures the severest Coughs For Torpid Liver, Biliousness, or "Liver jomplaint," Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, it is t unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists. General Booth, the London Salvation Ar ny leader, has just put out an appeal for 5, O0 officers to be trained as missionaries. Silk and bilious headache, and all deran. nents of stomach and bowels, cured by . Eeirce's "Pellets"-or anti-bilious granules. 25 :ents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste of rirtues. By druggists. A Nashville paper says "the cream of the >ase ball club should be found in the pitcher," iut it is sometimes found in the batter. 0 * * * Delicate diseases of either sex radi ally cured. Send 10 cents in stamps for book. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Associa lion, Buifalo, N. Y. The most economical man has been heard rom. He tried to pawn a coat of tar ad feathers, the gift of his neighbors. In every community there are a number of nen whose whole time is not occupied such as eachers, ministers, farmers' sons, and others. o these classes especially we would say if you wish to make several hundred dollars during the next few months, write at once to B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., and they will show you how to do it. ROYAL GLUE mends anything! Broken Chi ia, Glass, Wood. Free vials at Drugs. and Gro. Tired All Over s the expression a lady used in describing her condi ion before using Hood's Sarsaparilla. This prepara Ion is wonderfully adapted for weakened or low tate of the system. It quickly tones the whole body. ives purity and vitality to the blood, and clears and reshens the mind. Take it now If you feel "tired L over." " eeling languid and dizzy, haing no appetite ad no ambition to work, I took Hood's Sarsaparilla, ith the best results. As a health iavigorator ad nedicine for general debility I think it superior to nything else."-A. A. BErs, Albany St., Utica, N.Y. N. B.-Be sure to get the Peculiar medicine. Hood's Sarsaparilla lold by all druggists. $1; six for *5. Prepared only yy 0. L HOOD a Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar KIDDER'S A SURE CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Over 5000 Physicians have sent us their approval of DIGES'LIN, saying that it Is the best preparation. for Indigestion that they have ever used. We have never heard of a case of Dyspepsia where DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not cured, FOR CHOLERA INFANTUMs IT WILL CURE THE MOST AGGORAvATED CAsES, IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREGNANCY. IT WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. For summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhcea, which are the direct results of im erfect digestion. DIGESTYLIN will effect an immediate cure. Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and disorders of the stomach ; they all come from indigestion. Ask our at for DIGESTYLIN (price $1 per large bottle). I he does not have It send one doular to us and we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid. Do not hesItate to send your money. Our house Is telable. Established twenty-five years. WM. F. KID DE R & CO.. Manufacturing Chemiet'. 53 John St., N.Y. , 1foundit a specife for LYS Hay, Fever. For ten iyears I have been a great sufferer ne" from August 9th tilt frost. ,El y's Cream Balm is the only H A1EV E R preventire I have ever found. Hay Fever sufferers sr should knolc of its efficacy. Frankuf B. Ainsteorth, Pub lisher, Indianapolis, lnd, '" uta. Apply Balm into each nostril. COCKLE'S ANT I-B L IOUS PILLS, THE GRE A TENGLISH REMETY For Liver. Bile. Indigestion. etc. Free from Mern en: C NCE T TlITO . ew -ok D .HAIR ' UR Eflias ab olu~e.y cured tens of thou Cu sands. The only Asth ma Cure and -- -....Treatmenut Ianown to the medical world that will, positively, y rianently cure Asth ma and Haty I ever. Lnques.tionable evidence wrill be found In moy .4-page 1 reatise. sent free. DiR. 15. W. 11411 n~.i W. 4th s . CincinnatI. o. EAUTY WA ant nppe*at"Totconceu "Pleae send me another box of your most precious Dr. Campbell's ArsenIc Complexion wafers: they are ImprovIng my complexion very muich; many, many thanksi. Send rltht away." By nail. $1. Depot. 1 46 west 1;th e -e t. New York. DruggIsts. AGENTS WANTED ?*n0a~a r he eo*. SH A 31S: Sample patirzmailed. Sk'. Also Tidies. i5Iats. Sationery Pkgs., :c, Business 1ight and iJen eel CLOiWE-S Reedsville, Pa. L oensggnuine r1e"~ Don'twvssteyottrmonev: lamped with the a; ove is boltly" t nden TRAD ..AR- ._Aklori'he''FISH BRAI' ot haveOt nO.f' -rAsm 5vo.nd for deserintive ca THRE Irab~Orchard Wat "nCRAB nORCEAbD WA-R~ CO. Prop ra. HAT AILS YOU? Do you feel dull. languid, low-spirited, life. ess, and indeseribably miserable, both physi :lly and mentally: experience a sense of ullness or bloating after eating, or of gone. ~ess," or emptiness of stomach in the morn ug, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in nouth. irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent 7eadaches, blurred eyesight," floating specks" efore the eyes, nervous prostration or ex 2austion, irritability of temper. hot flushes, lternating with chilly sensations, iting, transient pains 'here and there, oold Feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or isturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant, ndescribable feeling of dread, or of impend ag calamity? have all, or any considerable number )f tese symptoms, you are suffering from :hat most common of American maladies Bilious Dyspepsia. or Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia. or Indigestion. The more Complicated your diease has become, the Treater the number and diversity of symp "oma. No matter what stag It has reached. Dr. Pierces Golden Meical Dscovery will subdue it, if taken according to direc ions for a reasonable length of time. If not ured, complications multiply and Consump ion of the Lungs. Skin Diseases, Heart Disease, heumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave aladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner )r later, Induce a fatal termination. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and :hrough that great blood-purify'ing organ, Cleanses the system of all blood-taints and im rrities, from whatever cause arisian. It is ~quall efficaciousinacting upon t e Kid ieys. and other excretory rang ps, cleansing. trengthening, and healing their diseases. As .n appetizing, restorative tonic, it promotes igestion and nutrition, thereby building up >oth flesh and strength. In malarial districts, this wonderful medicine has gained great elebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dumb Ague. and kindred diseases. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis. covery CURES ALL HUMORS, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, caly or Rough Skin, in short, all diseases mused by bad blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying, and invigorating medi ine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influence. Especially has it mani ested its potency in curing Tetter. Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Cai jncles. Sore Eyes. Scrof ots Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease. "White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck. nd Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in stamps for a large Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount (or a Treatise on Scrofulous Affections. "FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." Thoroughly cleanse it b using Dr. Plere'S Golden IlIedical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and bodily health will be established. CONSUMPTION, ? which is Scrofula of the Lungs, is arrested ' nd cured by this remedy, if taken In the earlier stages of the disease. From its mar velous power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world-famed rem edy to the public, Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling it his "Co;SUMPoTI Cua," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine which, from its wonderful com bination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-biious, t a d nutritive properties. is unequaled, not only as a remedy for Consumption, but for all Chronic #1seases of the Liver, Blood, and Lungs. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Short ness of Breath, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Bron chitis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or Six Bottle. for $5.00. 'Send ten cents in stamps for Dr.Plerce'S book on Consumption. Adrs World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main St., BUFFALO, N.Y. P N4 U39 ROU O " Rb on Itch," Ointment cures SIdn HU mors flpes, Flesh Worms. yPoisn Baber's ltchSea d Hen a m ROUGHUPILES Cuespie or hemorodIcigp~rd exenlremedy In each -aksS Sure enrn, 50. Drggt or mail. E.8S.WelS Jersey CitY. Small Dose. For Sick Headache Billousness Liver Complaint, ConstipatIOn, -nUBIous. ROUGHiCATARRH u lOlHEOOTHACHE jl~. ROUGHCRNSS&o~. 15G. DAL NAMMRLESS. |DALY ThREE BARRB.' MANHATTAN HAMMELS. IPIEPER BREECH L.SDER Send for Catalogue of Bpecialties. seMOVERn1xwe. DALY & GALUSa, sad se cambers Street. New York. FR AERDAL E INt Te G enunD Sold Everywhere. PensionSm.der, He. Snsam $1000 13 N. 11th 5t.. Philadelphia. Fa. sold by ani Drgstl' ine not unde the orse'sfeet Wrte Brevrster Safety Rein Holler Co.. Holly. Nc HERRAND FIFTH WHE EL A~ g" Improvemet._ HERBRAND CO., Fremon, P A TE N T Sinvetr.- Me"L% nur Paen AtornyWashington, D. C. = g aGreat English Gout and PiS illS. anematey.. OL woth 340 proud lb. PetiEelve ~.rthl 1t) bati sol at 2.abx by delrs. 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