The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, December 07, 1887, Image 3
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
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DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not cured.
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DIGESTYLIN w~ll tfcat ans immediate cure.
Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and disorders of
the stomach; they all come from indigestion. Ask
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at his dirot half. hou~r's experience in
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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
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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
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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.
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