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FORBIDDEN HONEY DR. TALM.UE'S SUNDAY SER310\. The Evils That Come to Us in Seduc tive Ways. TEXT: "I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand, and to! I must die."-I Samuel xiv., 43. The honey bee is a most ingenious architect, a Christopher Wren among insects, a geome ter drawing hexagons and pentagons, a free booter robbing the fields of pollen and aroma, a wondrous creatureof Goa, whose biography, written by Huber and Swammerdam, is an enchantment for any lover of nature. Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable of Arista'us, and Moses, and :Samuel, and David, and Solo mon, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and St. John used the delicacies of bee manufacture as a Bible symbol. A miracle of formation is the bee: five eyes, two tongues, the outer hav ing a sheath of protection, hair on all sides of its tiny body to brush up the particles of flowers: its flight so straight that all the world knows of the bee line. The honeycomb is a palace such as no one but God could plan and the honey bee construct; its cells sometimes a dormitory, sometimes a store house, and sometimes a cemetery. These winger: toilers first make eight strip; of wax, and by their antenna, which are to them hanuuer and chisel, and square and plumb line, fashion them for use. Two and two, ti:ese wbikers shape the wall. If an accdent happen they put up but-; tresses or extra bears to remedy the dam age. When about the year 1776 an insect, before unknown, in the night time attacked the beehives all over Europe, and the men who owned them were in vain trying to plan something to keep out the invader that was the terror of the beehives of the continent, it was found that everywhere the bees had ar ranged for their own protection, and built before their honeycombs an especial wall of wax, with port-holes through which the bees might go to and fro, but not large enough to admit the winged combatant, called the Sphinx Atropos. Do you know that the swarmingof the bees is divinely directed? The mother bee starts for a new home, and because of this the other bees of the hive get into an excitement which raises the heat of the hive some fonr degrees, and they must die unless they leave the-r heated apartments, and they follow the mother bee and alight on the branch of a tree, and cling to each other and hold on until a committee of two or three have ex plored the region and found the hollow of a tree or rock not far off from a stream of water, and they here set up a new colony, and ply their aromatic industries. and give themselves to the manufacture of the saccha rine edible. But who can tell the chemistry of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the very life of the bee and part of it th3 life of the fields: Plenty of the luscious product was hang ing in the woods of Beth-aven during the time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army was in pursuit of an enemy that by Gods com mand must be exterminated. The soldiery were positively forbidden to stop to eat any thing until the work was done. If they diso beyed they were accursed. Coning through the woods they found a place whe-e the bees had teen busy, a great honey m-nufactory. Honey gathered in the hollow of the trees until it had overflowed upon the ground in great profusion of sweetn"ss. Ail the army obeyed orders and touched it not save Joaa: than, and he not knowing the mii.tary order about abstinencedipe I th> en-l of a stick he had in his hand into the candle I iquid, and as, yellow and brown,and te:npting,it glowed on the end of the stick he put it to his mouth and ate the honey. Judgment fell upon him, and but for special intervention he would have been stain. In my text Jonathan an nounces his awful mistake: "I did but taste a little honey with the end of th? rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I must die." Alas, what multitudes of people in all ages have been damaged by forbidden honey, by which I mean temptation, delicious and attractive, but damaging and destructive. Corrupt literature,fascinating but deathful, comes in this category. Where one good, healthful book is read now there are o.ie hundred made up of rhetorical trash con sumed with avidity. When the boy in the cars comes through with a pile of publi:"a tions look. over the titles and notice that nine out of every ten of the books are denl-etin' and in jurious. All the way from New Yorf-I -to Chica~o or New Orieaas notice that ob Sectionabi'e books dominate. Taste for pntre literatume is poisoned by this scum of the -publishing houses, Every book in which sin triumphs over virture, or in which a glamor is thrown over dissipation, or which leaves you at its last lineivit.a less respect for the marriage institut~on and le-ss abhorrence for the paramouc, is a depression of your own moral character. The book bindery may be attractive, and the plot dramatic and startling, and the style of writing sweet as the honey th at Jonathan dipped up with his rod, but your best inter ests forbid it, your moral safety forbids it, your God forbids it, and one taste of it may lead to such bad results that you m-ty have to say at the close of the experiment, or z~t the close of a misimproved lifetimne: "I did but taste a little honey with the rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I must die!" .Corrupt literature is doing more to-day for the disruptbon of domestic life thanany other cause. Elopements, marital intrigues, sly correspondence, fictitious names given at postoftice windows, clandestine meetings in parks, and at ferry gates, and in hotel par lors, and conjugal perjuries, are among the damnable results. When a women, young or old, gets her head thoroughly stuffed with the modern novel she is in ap palling periL. But somne one will say: " The heroes are so adroitly knavish, an'i the per sons so bawitchingly untrue, an;d the tumn of the story so exquisite, and all the charac ters so enrapturing, I cannot quit them." My brothor, my sister, you can findI styles of literature just as charming that will elevate and purify and ennoble, and Christianize while they please. The devil doe;s not own all the honey. There is a wealth of good books coming forth from our publishing houses that leaves no excuse for the choice of that which is debauching to body, mind and soul. Go to some intelligent man or wonan and ask for alist of books that will bel strengthening to your mental and moral condition. Life is so short and your time for improvement so abbrev'atcd that you can not afford to fill up with husks and cinders and debris. In the interstices of business that young man is reading that which will prepare him to be a merchant prince, and, that young woman is filling her mind with an intel-igence that will yet either make her the chief attraction of a good mani's home or give her an independence of character that will qualify her to build her own home and main tain it in a happiness that requires no aug mentation from any of our rougher sex. That young man or young woman can by the right literary andmoral improvement of the spare ten minutes here or teein every day, rise head and shoulders in prosperity and ch~arac ter and inflnence above the loun-ers who read nothing, or read that which %ewarfs. See all the forests of good American litera ture dripping with honey. Why pick up the honeycombs that have in them the fiery bees which will sting you with an eternal poison while you taste it: One book may for you or me decide everything for this world and the next. It was a turning point with me when in Wynkoop's bookstore, Syracuse, one day 1 picked up a book called " The Beauties of Ruskin." It was only a book of extracts, but it was all pure honey-, and I was not satisfied until I had purchased all his works, at that time expensive beyond an easy capacity to own them, and what a heaven I went through in reading his "Seven Lamp; of Architecture" and his "Stones of Venice" it is impossible for mne to describe. except by saving that it gave me a rapture for good books and an everlasting- disg'ust for decrepit or immoral t ooks that w~ill last me while my immortal soul lasts. All around the church and the world to-day there are busy hives of intelligence orcupied by authors and authoresses, from whose pen drip a dis tillation which is the very nectar of heaven, and why will you thrust your rod of inquisi tiveness mnto the deathaful saccharine of per dition Stimulating liquids also come into the cate gory of temptations delicious but deathful. You say: "I cannot bear the taste of intoxi cating liquor, and how any man can like it is to me an amazment." Well, then, it is no credit to you that you do not taste it. Do not brag about your total abstinence, be cause it is not from any principal that you reje:-t alcoholism, but for the same reason that you reject certain styles of food-you simply don't like the taste of them.Bu multitudes of people have a natural fondness for all kinds of intoxicant. 'They like it so much that it makes them smack their lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic, and they take it to aid digestion, or they are annoyed by insomnia, and they take it to produce sleep, or they are troubled, and they take it to make them oblivious, or they feel grww, anA they must celebrate therAo hilarity. They begin with mint julep mucked through two straws on the Long Branch piazza and end in the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid half kerosene and half whisky. They not only like itbutit is an all consuming passion of bodymind and soul, and after a while have it they will, though one wine glass cost the temporal and eternal :lestruction of themselves, and all their fam ilies, and the wuole human race. They would say: "I am sorry it is go:ng to cost me, and my family, and 'all the world's population so very much, but here it goes to my lips, and now let it roll over my parched tongue and down way heated throat, the sweetest, the mo.t inspirin, the m s: rapturous thing that ever thrilled mortal or immortal. To cure the habit before it comes to is last stages, various plans were tried in olden timts. This plan was recommended in the books: When a man wanted to reform he put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of strong drink-ne additional shot or bullet each day, that displaces so mach liquor. Bullet after bullet, a-lded day by day. of course the liquor b'c:ine 1.ss and less until the bullets would entirely ill up the glas and there was no room for the li-luid, and by that time it was sail the in-briat : would be cured. Whether any on was ever curesd in that way I know not, but by long experiment it is found that the only way :s to stop short off, an t when a man dons tha he nee:ls Gol to help him. An I thero haylvebc more cases than you can count when (itd has so helped the man that h" quit fer'ver, and I could count a score of the:n here to day, some of them pillars in th! hou of Go 1. One would suppoe that men would take warning from some of the ominous names iven to the iutoxicants, and stand olt from he devastating intlae:ice. You have noticed. for instance, that some of the restaurants are called "The Shades," typical of the fact that it puts a man's reputation in the shade. and his morals in the shade, and his prosperity in the shade, and his wife and children in the shade, and his immortal destiny in the shade. Now. I find on some of the liquor signs in all our cities the words: "Old Crow," mightily suggestive of a carcass, and the filthy raven that swoops upon it. "Old Crow!" Men and women without numbers slain of ruin but unburied, and this evil is pecking at ther glazed eyes, and peeking at their bloated cheek, and pecking at their destroyed man hood and womanhood, thrusting beak and claw into the mortal remains of what once was gloriously alive but now morally dead. --Old Crow:" But alas, how many take no warning. They make me think of Csar on his way to assassination, fearing nothing; though his statue in the hall crashed into fragments at his feet, and a s:roll con taining the names of the conspirators was thrust into his hands, yet walking right on to meet the dagger that was to take his life. This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty in many a man that, though his fortunes are crashing, and his health is crashing, and his domestic interests are crashing, and we hand him a long scroll containing the names of perils that await him, he goes straight on to physical, and mental, and moral assassina tion. In proportion as any style of alcohol ism is pleasant to your tast^, and stimulating to your nerves, and for a time delightful to all your physical and mental constitution, is the peril awful. Remember Jonathan and the forbidden honey in the woods of Beth aven. Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence must be put to the list of t m:nptaitions deli cious but d-structive. I have eros sI the ocean eight times, and always one of tha best rooms has, from morning till late at night. been given up togambling practices. 1 heard of men who went on board with enough money for European excursions who landed w.tliout enough money to get their baggage up to the hotel or railroad station. To many there is a complete fascination in games of hazard or the risking of money on possibili ties. It seems as natural for them to bet as to eat. Indeed, the hunger fer fool is often overpowered with the huneor for wagers. as in the case of Lord Sandwich, a persistent gambler, who, not being .iilling to leave the dice table long enough for the taiag of food, invented a preparation of fcod tht lie could take without stopping the game--namely, a slice of beef between two slices of bread, which was named after Lord Sandwich. It is absurd for those of us who have never felt the fascination of the wager to speak slight ingly of the temptation. It has slain a mul titude of intellectual and moral giants, men and women stronger than you or I. Down under its poner went glorious Oliver Gold smith,and Gibben, the historian, and Charles Fox, the statesman, and in olden times fa mous Senators of the U:nited States, who used to be as regularly at the g'ambling house all night as they were in the halls of legislation by day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro tablel I know persons who began with a slight stake in a ladies' narlor, and en-led with the suicide's pistol 'at Monte Carlo. They played with the square pieces of bone with black marks on them, not knowing that Satan was playing for their bones at the same time, and was sure to sweepl all the stakes off on his side of the table. The last New York legislature sanctioned the mightv evil last spring by passine a law for its defense at the race tracks, andl many young 'men in these cities lost all their wages at Coney Island this summer, and this fall are borrowing from the money tills of their employers or arranging by means of false entries to adjust their &emoralized finances. Every man wvho voted for the Ives pool bill has on his hands and forehead the blood of these souls. But in this connection some young converts say to me: "Is it right to play cardcs! Is there ay harm in a game of whist or euchref' Well, I know good men who play whist and euchre and other styles of game without any wa"ers. I baa a friend who played cards witt his wife and children, and then at the close said: "Come, now, let us haveprayers." I will not judge other men's consciences, but I tell you that cards are, in my mind, so as sociated with the temporal and eternal dam nation of splendid young men, that I should no sooner say to my family: "Come, let us have a game of cards," than I would go into a menagerie and say: "Come let us have a game of rattlesnakes," or into a cemetery, and sittino down by a marble slab, say to the grave aiggers: "Come, let us have agame of skulls." ~Conscientious young la-ies are silently saying to me while I speak: "Do you think card playing will do u-s any harmr" Perhaps not, but how will you feel if in the great dlay of eternity, when we are asked to give an account of oui' influence, some man shall say to you: '-I was introduced to games of chance in the year 1.97, in Elrooklyn, at your house, and I went on fromn that sport to something more exciting, and went on dlown until I lost my business, and lost my morals, and lost my soul, and these chains that you see on nay wrists mid feet are the chains of a amester's doom, and I am on may way to a gambler's hel!." Honey at the start, eternal catastrophe at the last. Stock gambling comes into the same cata logue. It must be very exhilarating to go into Wall street, New Y ork, or State street, Beston, or Third street, Philadelphia, and depositing a small sum of money, run the risk of taking out a fortune. Many men are do ing an honest and safe business in the stock market, and you arec an ignoramus if you do not know that it is just as legitimate to deal in stocks ds to deal in cotlree, or sugar, or flour. Bait nearly all the outsiders who go there on a little financial excursion lose alL The old spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies. I had a friend who put his hand on his hip pocket and said to me in substance: "I have there the value of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars." His home is to-dlay peniless. What was the matter? .Wall street. Of the vast majorit rwho ai'e victim ized you hear not one word. One great stock firm goes down, and whole columns of newe papers discuss their fraud, or their dis aster, and we are preszented wvithi their features and their biography. But where one sach famous firm sinks five hundred un known men sink with them. The great steamer goes down and all the little i.oats are swallowed in the same engulf ment. Gamn bling is gambling, whether in stocks, or breadstufts, or dice or race-track betting. Exhilration at the start, and a i'aving brain and a shattered nervous system and a satc rificed property and a destroyed soul at the last. Young man, buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on no base ball games or yacht racing, have iio faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro posing great income for smaill investment: shoo away the buzzards that hover around our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out an-I make an honest living. Have Gol on your side and be a candidate for heaven. Reiember all the paths of sin are banked with flowers at the start, and there are plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay charger to your door and hold the stirrup while you mount. But further on the hoi'se pl geto the bit in a slough inextricable. Ihe bet honey is not like that which Jona thun took on the endI of the rodl and brought to his lip, but that which God puts on the banqueting table of liercy, at which wve are all invited to sit. I was reading of at boy among the mountains of Switzerland ascend ing a dangerous place with his fath~er andI the~ guides. The boy stopp~ed on the edge of the cliff and said: ''There is a flower .1 mean to gt." "Come away from here," said the i-hr "o ill fall off." "No," said he, "I guides rushed toward him to pull I back. when they heard him say: "I almost have it," as he fell 2,00? feet. Birds of prey were seen a few days after circling through the air and lowering gradually to the place where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers on the edge of a precipice when you may walk knee deep amid the full blooms of the very Paradise of God' When a man may sit at a king's banquet, why will be go down the steps and contend for the gristle and bones of a hound's kennelf " Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb," says David, "is the truth of God." "With honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee," says God to the recreant. Here is honey gathered frorA the blossoms of trees of life, and with a rod made out of the wood of the cross I dip it up for all your souls. The poet Hesiod tells of an am a brosia and a nectar the drinking of which would make men live forever. and one sip of this honey fro:n the Eternal Rock will give you inncrtal life with (o I. Come off of the malarial levels of a sinful life. Come and live on the uplands of grace where the vineyards sun themselves. Oh. taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Be happy now and happy forever. For thos, who take a different course the honey will turn to gall. For many things I have ad mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet. but I deplore the fact that it was a great sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem "Queen Mab" has in it the maligning of the deity. The infidel poet was impions enough to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey chapel that he might denounce the Christian religion He was in great glee against Gol and the truth. But he visited Italy, and c-ne day on the Mediterranean with two friends in a t oat which was twenty-four feet long, he we coming toward shore wlien an hour's squall struck the water. A gentleman standing on shore through a glass saw many boats tossed in this squall, but all outrode the terror ex - cept one, that in which Shelley, the infidel poet. and his two friends were sailing. That never came ashore, but the bodies of two of the occupants were washed upon the beach, one of them the poet. A funeral pyre was built on the sea shore by some classic friends and the two bodies were consumed. Poor Shelley! He would have no God while he lived and he probably had no God when he died. "The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Beware of the forbidden honey! Funniest Man in the United States. The funniest man in the United States has been in Chicago recently. He is not down on the "lists of humor ists" and has no connection with the "paragraphers' mutual" If he ever wrote a book he concealed -the author ship, and if he ever lectured, it was for the benefit of somebody else or something else. His coming and his going are like unto the quality of mercy which cometh like the gentle rain. Ilis right hand is a stranger to his left. Before him the biggest states men of this country have quailed, while a no less soldier than Phil Slier idan has smarted under his wit. Mr. Handy, or Col. Handy, the rhila delphin editor, is the gentleman. He is President of the famous Clover Club of that city. There could be books written of his witty sayings and his retorts, which come like lightning flashes. There is not a politician of distinction in the United States who has come before Handy that did not instinctively feel that Handy was about ten stories higher than himself, and yet 1!andy is as free from pre sumption as a child is free from the deceit of its mother's powder-rag. Chic-aao Mail. Caught by a Clam, A traveler among the South Sea islands gives an account of huge clams -so big that a single shell makes an admirable bath for a child-- the ver touching of which is sometimes atteud ed with fatal consequences. Diving for clams generally falls to the share of the women, and many a one has met her doom fronm getting nipped by th'e ponlderous dentated shell and so held a prisoner in the depths, never to rise again. Quito recently a poor fellow ishing on one of the Paumotu atolls dived to the bottom of the lagoon, feel ing for -pearl oysters, when he un~ucki lv slipped the fingers of his left hind into a gaping clam-shell, which closed and held him in a vise. The shell lay in a hole in the coral, so that it was impossible to reach the byssus Dy which it is moored in that safe harbor. The wretched man, in agony of mind and body, severed his own fingers with his knife and rose to the surface, h av ing, indeed, escaped drowning, but be ing maimed for life. TIhere have been other cases where a diver thus impris oned has, w'th greater deliberation, contrive~d to insert his knife into the shell and so force it open sufichiently tc release his other hand.--The Argo na' Firing a Locomotive. The work of firing an engins comes very near being skilled labor, espe cially on a lightning run. Then one has to be feeding coal almost constant ly from the start. And the coal must not be thrown into the firebot carelessly, ut it nrzst be placed where it will do the most good. The steam must be ket up to the frgure, and no great va riatons from the standard are allowed. IA fireman has so much to do with an engine ofad on that if he is intelli gent it isntlong before he is able to handle a locomotive all right. But that isntsaying he gets one. I have been !iigfor six years, and my engine is ntytin sight, although three years ago 'I ran an engine several trips. ire man, in Glob -Demo",ra!. Reducing the Stock. Customer (in drug store)-"I see you a 'dvertise 'selling off at cost.' Druggist-"yes, sir." Customer-'"What are you getting for Dr. Dropsy's Killemquick cure for con sumption, large bott:es?"~ Druggit-"One dolar." Custmer--"But tha:t's the same old price.' , Druggist-"Tes, sir. We arc selling off our one and t wo-ccnt postage stamps at cost. We are carrying a larger line of them than the present stagnation warrants." Martyrdom. Roinson stood on the corner. his atti tud expressive of pain. "What'~s the matter, Robinson?" in quied Dunmley, who chanced to be pass ing. "Rheumtism again? You look "No," responled Robinson, "my wife has just mate me haif a dozen new shirts, and I've got one of 'cem on."-Kew York A C:mndid Author. A.-"I see that in the preface to youi book you state it is written to fill a long-felt want." i.-"Yes; and so it is." "What do you mean by filling a long, cit want?" "What do I mean? Why, I've been needing a square meal for the past two -ears. Don't you call that a long-felt want?"-Texas &fJtings. THEnE can be no peace in human life without the contempt of all events. IHe that troubles his head with draw ing consequences from mere contingen "Long John'" and the Mail Bags. Years ago, when "Long John" Went vorth was Chicago's representative in Dongress. the Government used to ;end out its reports wrapped up in two )ushel corn sacks or mail bags. So whenever a man got a public document hrough the courtesy of the Congress man of his district, he also got a first ,lass bag with it. Just why the Gov arnment used bags, unless to gratify the whim of some farmer Congress man, instead of wrapping paper can >nly be conjectured. It did it, and 0hat is enough for this story. "Long ohn" as Congressman naturally re eived everything in the way of a "pub. toe." that was sent out, and with them many meal bags. hundreds of his onstituents, too, received the books md bags because their names had been 4 placed on the lists at Washington at I the long Representative's bidding, and most of them turned their bags over to I John with the understanding that they would be returne I by him to the Gov 3rnment. He, however, with that thrift that has ever been his distin guishing character.stic, and that in a measure accounts for his payment of i:100 taxes per year on $1,000,000 worth of property, sent the bags out to his farm in Will County, where they were used to carry corn to town. The bags were of the best quality, and they proved a valuable addition to the equipment of the farm. One day the authorities of the Post office Department took a notion that they would like to get back some of the "pub. doe." bags, and a secret order was sent out to inspectors, instructing them to seize all the bags they could find. The inspector at this point was Paul H. Denis, the present claim agent of the 11!inois Central Railroad. Mr. Dens first ascertained that "Long John" had been shipping bags out to his farm by wholesale, and then lie planned a raid on the farm, which he speedily carried into effect. He went out there one afternoon, when he sup posed "Long John" was snoring peace fully in his room, and entered a little outhouse in which he found stored nearly five hundred Government mail bags. To seize the lot and load it into his wagon was the work of less than half an hour, for Mr. Denis was a yo'ing and vigorous man at that time, but to get the bags off the farm with out trouble was another thing. The inspector had scarcely started away from the outhouse when the towering form of the Congressman appeared in the roadway just ahead. "Long John" came up at a canter, growling execra tions and deep-toned curses at every jump, but before he could reach the outhouse the inspector and the bags were gone. Denis saw that he must re s t to strategy if he would avoid trou e, and he turned his horse off the road and started across a wheat field at a furious gallop. "Long John" wheeled round and started in pursuit of the daring officer, calling at the top of his voice for him to stop, but the of ticer paid no heed to him and kept on until he got clear of the farm. The horse proved to be too fleet for the Congressman, and he gave up the race in d'gust when he reached the open gate. The Government got back its bags, and Inspector Penis got abused by 11 ong John."-Chi ago Herald. Common Myths. Igrnorant folk, wonder-mongers and even scientific observers have dissem nated many erroneous and exaggera ted notions which are not reaidily crad eated. We are still told, for instance, f the Norwegian maelstrom, a fright [ml whirling chasm ini the sea capable :f sucking down the largest ships, thogh in reality this fearful "whirl pool" is simply a run of the tide hrough a sloping channel, is rarely langerous, and then chiefly on account f the rocks on which it may draw yes els. Sir Johm Herschel gave his in orsement to the statement that stars an be seen in the daytime from the bottom of a well, Lut this has been proven to be an error by tests from a shaft nearly half a nile deep. Mr. ohn Murdock has recently shown that the Eskimos do not, as text-books of physiology allirm, doze through theirj ong winter nights, keeping up their bodily heat by enormous meals of raw blubber and lamp-oil, but that their winter life is active, their food mostly cooked and their con.umiption of oil not excessive. A still wldely accepted belief is that the hiair-snake is a won derfa! transformation of a hiorse's hair when kept in water, though these od creatures (knownu to s -ience as Gordins a ,u.iticus) really grow from eggs, and in early stages inhabit the bodies of insects. A very old idea, without foundation in fact, is that crocodiles shed mournful tears, while stories of toads imprisoned in solid rock are nn merous and supported by much cvi dence, b it have probably resultedl from imperfct obser vation. Accounts of the germination of grain from the mummy-pits of Egypt have arisen from deception practiced by the Arabs in placing fresh seeds with the belong ings of the mummies. Though now known to be incorreet, the infe'rence that the moon infinencer the weather is a very natural one to untrained ob servers,~ and is far lets absurd than a thousand vagar'es that gain credence, such as the dropping of live reptiles from the clouds, the ejection of live snakes and other creatures from the human stomilW the localization of water by a forkea stick, the extin guisment of fire by sunshine, et. Arkanaw Tray-ler. Two Pluzcky California Girls. Nisses Fannie and Alice Orton, Futte Greek. are doing what many a young man might be proud to do in the w-o ecurngthemselves homes. 'lN ahsecured 1030 acres of G ov enment land and are now fulfilling the law requiring them to live upon the land and make the necessary improve-' ments. Each has a residence upon her quarter-sction, fences have been bailt and trees planted to test the land. It is found that plums, apples, and prunes do splendidly, while all the small fruit reach perfection. There are many line springs on the land and some appear to be medicinal in their nature. T1here is no prettier or more pleasant summer retreat, while the winters are mild and agreeable. 1'ine winter apples can be grown and transported at a good profit, and in a few years their lands will be come very valt:able. -Cror~ ill R1egie .rucompatibility. Jenkins -Ah! my dear fellow, I n derstand that you and Miss Ponsonby are friends no longer. De Slingsby-Yes, i've given her the cut diwect.I J.-Indeed! What was the matter ? De S.-Oh, her tastes are too hor wid, 'pon honor. J.--n what respect ? De S.-Why, she weally pwefers som ne leto ....Boston~ udaget. MINOR MISCELLNY. Statistics show that girls who work in match factory do not get married any iuicker than those who work at other laces. A naturalist in Arcadia, Fla., adver ises for 1,000 young alligators, 500 >ounds large alligator teeth, 500 roseate, poonbill wings and all the alligator kins in the cot'ntry. The latest agony for pet dogs is a huge ace frill, made of the richest antique >oint. This is supposed to injure the iarling's hair less and to cause less )eat about the throat. The newest dog farness is made of leather, with Roman oins set in gold. "Heart disease, due to tight lacing," vas the cause -of death given by the :oroner's jury in the case of Bertha )ppenheimer, of Philadelphia, who 'ell back with a cry of pain while aughing at a comedian's joke in a the. Lter in that city. The English army "consists nominally yf 211,474 officers and men, but it is ;aid that only one army corps can actu 11y be put in the field, and that only by frantic makeshifts. Of the 71,810 offi ;ers and men stationed tin England, it is dleged that 15,000 are boys under 19, md that 10,000 more are under 20. The Rev. W. Eliot, vicar of Aston, Birmingham,is trying to collect his tithes rome his parishioners by legal proceed ings. One man who had lived for twen .y-five years on his property without earing of tithes, had a levy put on,and in another case a distraint for r3 was put on the Smallheath Liberal Club, but the Chairman defied the bailiffs and the warrant was not enforced. A report based upon an inspection of 1.214 factories in 125 different branches f work in Russia states that the hours Af labor there vary from six to twenty, and that in one or two special instances workmen were compelled to labor 24 hours uninterruptedly. These differ rces are purely arbitrary and not con. trolled by the kind of the work. In the ;ame district in the same sort of work there is sometimes a difference of 11 hours in the amount of work required in a day in the different factories. Important news from several English papers;-"In the United States the tel !phone is already being superseded. A writing telegraph is already working on a commercial Ecale and with marked success. The writer uses a stylus or pen, with which he writes in ordinary fash. in, but only on the empty air. Before his face is a second pen, which reproduces his words on the tape in front of it. At the other end the receiving pen repro iuces the message in fac simile." Eighteen hundred men struck in the olieri- s in Durham county, England, because the proprietors had recovered nom'nral damages in an action against several men who had quit work without notice on account of some dispute in one of the nnnes. The men would not pay and six of them were sent to jiil in de fault. The strikers refused to go back util their comrades were released. One night some stranger went to the jail and paid the fines of the men, who were at rnce set free. The men held a meeting next day and decided to go back to work. The house of 13. II. Warder, on K treet, Washington. is the handsomest private residence in that city. Mr. War er is a very wealthy man, who formerly lived in Springfle'd, u. His redently erected mansion at the capital is a val ace. When completely finished and furnkhed the house will have cost over ~4(0, 000. The building is especially notied for the great variety of rare mrbge; uscd in its construction. The dining room is the most striking feature c tl e house, and is said to be the finest room of the kind in America. Paid in Goldt Coin. In Dec., 18$6. I. S. .John'son & Co., 2s Custom Ihouse St., Biston, 3Mass., otfered eight premi ums payable in gold coin, which they say crea ted a great interest among people who kept Iens, so much so, in faect, t hat they authorize s to say that they shall offer Nov. Ist, 1l5, :mother list of premiums for the b~ests results from the use of Mheridan's Powder to 3Iake Iens lAy. Of course all whLo compete cannot get one of the premiums. but some of the last years renoorts sent us show that t he parties ught tolhave been well satistied if they bad niot received any other her.efit than the im erese of eggs they' got while making the triail. For examiple the *first premium was t wenty five tollars taken hv C. A. French, Washing ton N. H1.,who fed thiirty lhene the Sheridan's Powder for eight weeks. Thie first week lie got only ten eggs; the third week the lhens laid 201 egir. and the eighth week 20 eggs. During the eight weeks trial he got it:l98 eggs which, at the price of egg~s in Boston or New York markets in mid-winter, wvould have yielded $4.60, or .~5for each hen in cight wveeks .time. Con. sidering the snmall expense of keeping a hen ne animal on a farm will pay like that. The fourth premium. which was ten dollare. went to Mirs. I'. B. ('arlin. ('klin Centre, N. V.. who ini the ei.-:ut m * re:-ened from for'ty hn' 13; m-.~Thav ir.,t week shte only got :m eggs. but the last weck' e - This clearly demostrates thiat the use of Shridan's Powder to 3Make T~ens Lay will im crease the protit several hundred per cent. .lhnsoni & Co. will send t wo:25 eent packs of Serdan's Powder postpuaid to any address foi -10 cents in postage stampls; or a large :N( pound can of Powder for $1.:.1. To each person or dering a large can as abo-e they will send free one copy of the "Fru-mer*'s Poultry Guide" (price,:25 centsh. Name for a ridint 5table-H1otel de-Canter. Womuan and tIer Diseases s the title of a large illustrat ed treatise, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo.N. Y..sent to any address for ten cents in stamps. It teaches successful self-treatment. To remove mildew--pay off what is due on the mill, of eotmrse. P'rofessitonal Etiquette prevents some doctors frotm advertising theic skill, but we are bound by no such convention al rules and ihinuk that if we make a discovery that is of henelit to ourm fellows, we ought to spread the fact to the whole land. Therefore we cause to he published throughout the land the fact that D~r. It. \. Pierce's "Golden 3Iedi cl Discovery" i" the be.-t known remedy for consumpt ton (ecrofula of the lungs) and kin d red diseases. Send 10 cents in stamps for Dr. ierc's complete I reatise on consumption.wit h unu rpassed means of 5elt-treatm.:nt. Address. World's D)ispensary Mledical Association, ra;: Maini street, BuEalio, N. Y. Wheut dentists are partners, they ought to ptl together. Unlike ot her cathatrt ice, Dr. Pierce's "Pel lets" do not render thme bowels costive after oerationm, but. on the cont rary, esta blish a per manently healthy action. Briny entirdy r'e'jc htble,no part seular care is required while using them. B3y druggists. The A tlantic is crossed in 1 ve every time a bridal party goes over. "1 want to thiank you," writ es a youing maro to I. F. .tohntsoni & (Co., itichmond, Vam., "for pht(*ting me in a posit ion by which I am enabled to nmake money faster' than I ever did before.' This is but. a sammple ext ract of tiho many hun drecd stiilar lett--rs receivedt by theabove firm. See their advertisetment in atnothier column. PT ov m. LUEx amenids attythingc: Broken Clhi na, Glass. Wood. Free vials at Drugs, and Gro. Purity and Strength The for'mer in the blood and the tatter throughout thie sy stem, ee ne'cwy to the enjoymont or per fathealth. Thlebest way to secure both Is to take toods Sartapartia, which expels alt impurities from the blood, rouses the kidneys and liver, overcomes that tired feeling, and imparts that freshness to the whale body which makes one feel perfectly well. "I have tahen not quIte a battle of Hood's sarsa parila, and must say It is one of the best medicines or giving an appetite. pnrifying the blood and regu Itating the digestive organs, that I ever beard of. It did m a great deal of good.' -Mias. N. A. Sn.LrST, Canastota, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla sold by all drugsts. $1; six for s5. Prepared only by c. I. HOOD & Co.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. iO0) Doses One Dollar ?7IOLDAi0swo 5 prlb.rettit'sEge Salveit --~ -is fln -e - on rep osdto co 5100? hl8 Cs T~u t V ;i rcta coted sa rj d. bs will 1T E f1A ' r ERCOMP' W ) 1TMO - tr. KIDDER'S A SURE CURE FOR iNDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Over 5 000 Physicians have sent us their approval of DIGESTYLIN, saying that it is the best preparation for Indigestion that they have ever used. We have never heard of a case of Dyspepsia whorm DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not cured. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. IT WILL CURE THE MOST AG(RAVATED CASES. IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREGNANCY. IT WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. For Summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhea, which are the direct resui.. of imperfect digestion, DIGESTYLIN w~ll tfcat ans immediate cure. Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and disorders of the stomach; they all come from indigestion. Ask your druggist for DIC 1 i'YLIN (price $1 per large Dottle). If he doss not bpve it send one doliar to us and we will send a bottie to you, express prepaid. Do not hesitate to send your money. Our house is reliable. Estalilsbe.I twecty-l a ea. Manufacturing Chemis.t--. 43.1ohn St., N.Y. LY'S Ely's Cream Balm C JN AB PRICE 50 CENTS. -EEER Will do More in Curing ..CATARRH SThan $100 In any o.;her w ay Appy Bairm into each nostril, u t., NBROS., 235 Greenwich GCUNS DALT HAMMERLESS. IDALY THREE BARREL. MANHATTAN HAMMERLESS. IPIEPER EREECH LOADERS. Send for Catoguo of Specit.ties. SCHIOVERLINQ. DALY & GALES, 84 and 88 Chambera Street, New Tcrk. One Agent (31erchant only) wardin every townfor vour* e ansldis Pun' Is te ect 5 cia hy iaeo ever smokedI. 3lany c nim that it Is at go as the majority of those at tOce.t,30wueWs Address R. W. TANSILL & CO., Chiengo. JO NE S = rer m tr' acds si' p r i eesweis JOES IF B'OAMTS BINGH A&MTON. N. T. DT I H OLDGR EASE $2r Gt th Oenine. Sold Ererywhere. who cia turnish their own htorsest and givei lseir time to the business. Spare momtents may be profitably B. P. JHN & CO, iot .I St.o Rinhmod, Vts. relieved; 22ears' practIce. Success or no fee. Lms ent tree. 'A.W.EcCormick & Son. Wahngteu, D, t> Solirs%x icies. .e'sdstamn Pension ___ __ c_ flS fe r . ireaar. r CO... INch HA3. atntAtt. nty. WDingon D. C eusu PrfT l It. .'t W Y CO. Cineinnasti, G. Thougotitariou seneslfo smitUBL uBEANS Guie. the ls diretly nd rmptly. oni thescLIver, hasno qua i meical' CO.scinn. 0.e ion relri, n s ayshcplth, ande a ple package anputest the TR THofW Enaledto ny addrepns, postpaid. DOS1 1.'. BE :T312 cr CO.:, 'The mmwho ha.s mive tedi trow three to liveurs in a Rtubber C it. and at his dirot half. hou~r's experience in a stortm itn to h:.is srrows that it is hardly a better protection thanc a nmos at beim:' so ba~dly taken in,. bitt also tees it it does not lolk exactly tike osk to: tie "FISi II iAND'"SLiitKE CTHE CNT 'ii ..e--------=T 'lii THE Bl For Grnding Ea 4 - .--.'Small Crain. ~THE FOO8 Mi f iAT A AILS4 fYOU? Do yu fel dll.languid, low-spirited, life. e indescribably miserable, both phy pally and mentally; experience a sense of 'ullness or bloating after eating, or of "gone less," or emptiness of stomach in the morn ng, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in nouth. irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent eadaches, blurred eyesight, "floating specks" efore the eyes. nervous prostration or ex austion, irritability of temper. hot flushes, tternating with chilly sensations, sharp )iting. transient pains here and there, co14 ect, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or listurbed and unrefreshing sleep constant , ndescribable feeling of dread, or of impend ng calamity? f you have all, or any considerable number >f these symptoms, you are suffering from .bat most common of American maladies ilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more oinplicated your disease has become, the rter themnatter han diversityofsy - ,ems. N matterewhatstage iti hasoreached Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery rill subdue it, if taken According to direc ions for a reasonable length of time. If not lured, complications multiply and Consump ion of the Lungs. Skin Diseases, Heart Disease, theumatism, K idney Disease, or other grave naladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner ir later, induce a fatal termination. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis. overy acts powerfully upon the Liver, and through that great blood-purifying organ, eanses the system of all blood-taints and is >urities, from whatever cause arising. It is .qually efficacious in acting upon the Kid iys, and other excretory organs. clemnsing, strengthening, and healing their diseases. m appetizing, restorative tonic, it promotes ligestion and nutrition, thereby bulding up both flesh and strength. In malarial disrcs his wonderful medicine has gained great elebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dumb Ague. and kindred diseases. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DiC. covery CURES ALL HUMORS, rom a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the Borst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, caly or lRough Skin, in short, all diseases aused by bad blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying. and invigorating meth *in. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under ts benign influence. Especially has it mani fested its potency is curing Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles. Sore Eyes. Scrof Llous Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease, " White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck. rod Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in stamps for a large Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a Treatise on Scrofulous Afections. "FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." Thoroughly cleanse it b using Dr. Pierces Golden Itledica' Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and bodily health will be established. CONSUMPTION, which is Serofula of the Lungs, is arested and 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 ofTering this now world-famed rem edy to the public, Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling it his "CoxsuEpTION Cush," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine .vhich, from its wonderful com bination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not oni as a remedy for Consumption, but for all Chronic Diseases of tho Liver, Blood, and Lungss 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 Bottler for $5.0. Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierces book on Consumption. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main St., DUFFALO, N. Y. P N U 42 Great Starching AND IRONNG POWDER. HOW TO WASH AND IRON Th:- art of starching, Ironing and washirg bogtto perffection in "RoUGH ON DIar. Added to starch gives splendid gloss, body, stiffness and polish. The only washing com pound that can be so used. Prevents starch rolin or rbbing up. Maes Iro slipeay A. revelation In housekeeping. A boon to wo men. A new dicvr, beats the world. Cleams and purifies, everyhig. Invaluable as the only safe, non-in urous and perfect washer and cleanser for general household pups. STA RCH ING.The msexper n Dirt, do as nice washing and Ironing as can be 0 &25.jpas. atall first-cas, welstce Grocers. E.S.Wells, Jersey City. N.J.,U. S.A EXHAUSEJ VITALITY A Great Med!cal Work for Yong and Middle-Aged Men, & F LIFE / P IT SED by the PEABODY IEDI. eo utin Ph lin nttn one mion cpe sol.t trea r i an PyIcal Deblt mrks ~'n.urt t"er on. Contains dust En Ush ln uag. Prie~ ony SIbymailpstad sup e Iyon send now. Add res a; above. MPo r. 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