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THIRST IN A CAVERN, DR. TAL3IAGE'S SUND Y SERMON. The Water of the Well of Bethlehem, Vihidh is by the Gate. Text: "Oh. that one tcould gire me drin2 If the water of the well of Bcthlehem, which i by the gate.'"-2 Samuel, xxiii., 15. War, always distressing, is especially ruin tus in harvest time. When the crops are all leady for the siekle, to have them trodden town by cavalry horses and heavy supply trains gullying the fields, is enough to make my man's heart sick. When the last great war broke out in Euronue. and France and sermany were coming into horrid collision. I :ode across their golden harvests, and saw the sents pitched, and the trenches dug in the very midst of the r'pe fields, the long scythe of battle sharpening to mow town harvests of men in great rinrows of the dead. It was at this season of harvest that the army of the Philistines !ame down upon Bethlehem. Hark to the mamor of their voices, the neighing of their :hargers, the blare of their trumpets, and the tlash of their shields: Let David and his men fall back! The Lord's host sometimes loses the day. But David knew where to bide. He had been brought up in that country. Boys areinquis:tive, and they know all about theregion where they were born and brought ap. If you should go back to the old home stead, you could, with your eyes shut, find Tour way to the meadow, or the orchard, or the hill back of the house, with which you were familiar thirty or forty years ago. So David knew the cave of Adullam. Perhaps, m his boyhood days, he had played "hide and-seek" with his comrades all about the old cave; and though others might not have known it, David did. Travelers say there is only one way of get Ling into that cave, and that is by a very narrow path; but David was stout, and steady-headed, and steady-nerved; and so, with his three brave staff-oficers, he goes along that path, finds his way into the cave, tits down, looks around the roof and the hark passages of the mountain feels very weary with the forced march; and water he must have or die. I do not know but there may have been drops trickling down the side of the cavern, or that there may have been some water in the coat-skin slung to his girdle; but that was not what he wanted. He wanted a deep, full, cold drink, such as a man gets only out of an old well with moss-covered bucket. David remembered that very near that cave of Adu'lam there was such a well as that, a well to which he used to go in boyhood-the well of Bethlehem; and he al most imagines that he can hear the liquid plash of that well, and his parched tongue moves through his hot lips as he says: "Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the wellof Bethlehem. which is by the gate!" It was no sooner said than done. The three brave staff-officers bounded to their feet and start. Brave soldiers will take even a hint from their commander. But between them and the well lay a host of the Philistines: and what could three men do with a great army? Yet where there is a will there is a way, and, with their swords s'ashing this way and that, they make their path to the well. While the Philistines are amazed at the seeming fool hardiness of these three men, and cannot make up their minds exactly what it means, the three men have come to the well. They drop the bucket. They bring up the water. They pour it in the pail, and then start for the cave. "Stop them!" cry the Philistines. "'Clip them with your swords! Stab them with your spears! Stop those three men!" Too late! They are gone around the hill. The hot rocks are s lashed with the overflowing water from the vessel at it is carried up the cliffs. The three men go along the dangerous path, and with cheeks flu'hed with the excitement, and all out of breath in their haste they fling their swords, red with the skirmish, to the side of the cave, and cry out to David: "There, Captain of the host, is what you wanted: a drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gath." A tctt is of no use to me unless I can find Christ in it; and unless I can bring a Gospel out of these wo-ds, th-it will arouse and corn fort and bless. I shall wish I had never seen them; for your time would be wasted, and against my soul the dark record would be made that this day I stoolI before a great au dience of sinning, suffering, and dying men. and told them of no resen'. By the cross of the Son of G<-1, by the throne of the eternal judgment, that shall not be! May the Lord Jesus help me to tell you the truth to-day I You know that carrier pigeons have somne times letters tied under the wing, and they fly hundreds of miles-one hundred miles in an hour-carrying a message. So I have thought I would like to have it now. Oh, heavenly Dove! bring under thy wing to-day, to my soul and to the souls of this people, some message of light, and love, and peace! It is not an unusual thing to see people gather around a u ell in summer-time. The husbandman puts down his cradle at the well curb. The builder puts down his trowel. The traveler puts down h's pack. Then one draws the water for all the rest, himself taking the very last. The cup is passed around, and the fires of thirst are put out; the traveler starts on his journey and the workman takes up his burden. My friends, we come to-day arou"'d the Gospel well. We put down our pack ar bur dens and our implements of toiL One man must draw the water for those who have thered around the well. I will try and w the water to-day; and if, after I have poured out from this living fountain for your soul, I just taste of it myself, you will not be grudge me a " drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." This Gospel well, like the well spoken of in the text, is a well of Bethlehem. David had known hundreds of wells of water, but he 'wanted to drink from that particular one, and he thought nothing could slake his thirst like that. And unless your soul and mine can get access to the Fountain open for sin and uncleanness we must die. That fountain is the well of Bethlehem. It was dug in the night. It was dug by the light of a lantern -the star that hung down over the manger. It was dug not at the gate of Caesar's palaces, not in the park of a Jeru salem bargain-maker. It was dug in a barn. The camel's lifted their weary heads to listen as the work went on. The shepherds, unable to sleep. because the heavens were filled with bends of music, came down to see the open iofthe welL Theangelsof God, atthe first guhof the living water, dipped their chalices ofjoy into it, and drank to the health of earth and heaven, as they cried: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace." Sometimes in our modern barns the water is brought through the pipes of the city to the veynostrils of the horses or cattle; but this welin the Bethlehem barn was not so much for the teasts that perish as for our race, thirst-smittten, desert-traveled and simoon struck. Oh. my soul, weary with sin, stoop 'do'wn and drink to-day out of that Bethlehem 'EAs the heart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, 0 God." You would get a better understand lng of this amidst the Adirondacks in sum mer-time. Here comes a swift-footed deer. The hounds are close on the track; it has leaped chasms and sealed cliffs; it is fagged out; its eyes are rolling in death; its tongue is lolling from its foaming mouth. Faster the deer, faster the dogs, until it plunges into Schroon Lake and the hounds can follow it no farther, and it puts down its head and mouth until the nostril is clean submerged in the cool wave, and I u n derstand it:. " As the heart panteth for the 'water-brook, so panteth my soul nfter thee, O God." Oh, bring me water from that well' Little child, who has learned of Jesus in the Sabbath-school. bring mc some of that living water. Old man, who Ilfty years ago didst find the well, bring me some of that water. Stranger in a strange land, who used to hear sung in the Highlands of Scotland, to the tune of "Bon nie Doon," "The Star, the Star of Bethle hem," bring me some of that water. Whoso ever drinketh of that water shall never thirst. "Oh that one would give me drink of the wa ter of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate." Again, this Gospel well, like the one spoken of in the text, is a captured welL. David re membered the time when that good water of Bethlehem was in the possession of his ances tors,' His father drank there, his mother drank there. He remembered how the water tasted w~ben he was a boy, and camne up there from play. We never forget the old well we used to drink out of when we were boys orgirls. *There was something in it that blessed the lips and refreshed the brow better than any thing we have found since. As we think of that dear old well, the memories of the past flow into each other like crystalline drops, sun-glinted, and all the more as we remember that the hands that used to hold the rope, curb are still now. We never get over these reminiscences. George P. Morris, the great song writer of this country, once said to me that his song, "Woodman spare that tree," was sung in a great concert hall, and the memories of early life were so wrought upon the audience by that song that, after the singing was done, an aged man arose in the audience, over whelmed with emotion, and said: "Sir, will you please to tell me whether the woodman really spared the tree?" We never forget the tree under which we played. We never for get the fountain at which we drank. Alas for the man who has no early memo ries. David thought of that well, that boyhood well, and he wanted a drink of it, but he re membered that the Philistines had captured it. When those three men tried to come up to the well in behalf of David, they saw swords gleaming around about it. And this is true of this Gospel well The Philistines have at times captured it. When we come to take a full. old-fas'iioned drink of pardon and comfort, do not their swords of indignation and sarcasm flash? Why, the skeptics tell us that we cannot come to that fountain! They say the water is not fit to drink any how. "If you are really thirsty now, there is the well of philosophy, there is the well of art, there is the well of science." They try to substitute, instead of our boyhood faith, a modern mixture. They say a great many beautiful things about the soul, and they try to fee:l our immor tul hunger on rose leaves, and mix a mint julep of worldly stimulants, when nothing will satisfy us but "a drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is at the gate." They try to starve us on husks, when the Father's banquet is ready, and the best ring is taken from the casket, and the sweetest harp is struck for the music, and the swiftest foot is already lifted for the dance. They patronize heaven and abolish hell, and try to measure eternity with their hour-glass, and the throne of the great God with their yard-stick! I abhor it. I tell von the old Gospel well is a captured well Y pray God that there may be somewhere in the elect host three an nointed men, with courage enough to go forth in the strength of the omni potent God, with the glittering swords of truth, to hew the way back again to that old well. I think the tide is turning, and that the old Gosoel is to take its place again in the family, ana in the univer sity, and in the legis'ative hall. Men have tried worldly philosophies, and have found out that they do not give any comfort, and that they drop an arctic midnight upon the death-pillow. They fail when there is a dead child in the house; and when the soul comes to leap into the fathomless ocean of eternity, they give to the man not so much as a broken spar to cling to. Depend upon it, that well will come into our possession again, though it has been captured. If there be not three anointed men in the Lord's host with enough consecration to do the work, then the swords will leap from Jehovah's buckler, and the eternal three will descend God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost-conquering for our dying race the way back again to "the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." "If God be for us, who can be against us?" "If God spared not his own Son,but freely gave him up for us all,how shall he not with him also freely give us all things!" "For I am persuaded that neither height, nor depth, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come," shall take from us, into final captivity, the Gospel of my blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Again, the Gospel well, like the one spoken of in my text, is a well at the gate. The traveler stops the camel to-day, and gets down and dips out of the valley of the East, some very beautiful, clear, bright water, and that is out of the very weil that David longed for. Do you know that that well was at the gate, so that nobody could go into Bethlehem without going right past it? And so it is with this Gospel well-it is at the gate. It is, in the first place, at the gate of purifica tion. We cannot wash away our sins unless with that water. I take the responsibility of saying that there is no man, woman, or child in this house to-day that has escaped sinful defilement. Do you say it is outrageous and ungallant for me to make such a charge ? Do you say: "I have never stolen-I have never blasphemed-I have never committed un chastity-I have never been guilty of murder?" I reply, you have committed a sin worse than blasphemy, worse than un chastity, wors? than theft, worse than mur der. We have all cominitted it. We have by our sins re-crucified the Lord, and that is deicide. And if there be any who dare to plead "not guilty " to the indictment, then the hosts of heaven will be empane:ed as a jury to render a unanimous verdict against ra;~guilty one, guilty all. With what asiash ing stroke that one passage cuts us away from all &ir pretensions. "There is none that deth good-no, not one." "Oh," says some one, "all we want, rgl the race wants, is development." Now I want to tell you that the race develops without the Gspl into a Sodom, a Five Points, a great Salt Lake City. It always develops dowaward, and never upward, except as the grace of God lays hold of it. What,then, is to become of our soul without Christ! Blanishment. Disaster. But I bless my Lord Jesus Christ that there is a well at the gate of purifiction. For great sin, great pardon. For eighty years of trans gression, an eternityof forgiveness. For crime deep as hell, an atonement high as heaven; that where sin abounded,so grace may much more abound; that as sin reigned unto death, even so may grace reign through righteous ness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord. Angel of the Covenant, dip thy wing in this living fountain to-day, and wave it over this solemn assemblage, that our souls may be washed in "the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." Further, I remark that this well of the Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you Iknow where David was when he uttered the words of the text? He was in the cave of Adullam. That is where some of you are now. Has the world always gone smoothly with you? Has it never pursued you with slander? Is your health always good? Have your fortunes never perished? Are your children all alive and well? Is there no dead lamb in the fold? Are you ignorant of the way to the cemetery? Have you never heard the bell toll when it seemed as if every stroke of the iron clapper beatyour heart? Are the skies as bright when you look into them as they used to be when other eyes, now closed, used to look into them? Is there some trunk or drawer in your house that you go to only oxe anniversary days, when there comes beatin'g ag-ainst your soul the surf of a great ocean of agony? It is the cave of Aduliam! The cave of Adullam! Is there some David here whose fatherly heart wayward Absolom has broken? Is there some A braham here who is lonely because Sarah is dead in the family plot of Machpelah? After thirt or forty years of companionship, how har it was for them to part! Why not have two seats in the Lord's chariot, so that both the old folks might have gone up at once? My aged mother,, in her last moment,said to my father:"Father, wouldn't it be nice if we could both go to getheri" No, no, no. We must part And there are wounded hearers here to-day. The world cannot comfort you. What can it bring you? Nothing. Nothing. The salve they try to put on your wounds will not stick. They cannot, with their bungling surgery, mend the broken bones. Zoppar the Naamathite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Eliphaz the Temanite, come in, and talk, and talk, and talk, but miserable comforters are they all. They can not pour light into the cave of Adullam. They can not bring a single draught of water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.'' But, glory be to Jesus Christ, there is comfort at the gate! There is life in the well at the gate. If you give me time, I will draw up a promise for every man, woman and child in this house. Ay, I will do it in two minutes. I will lay hold the rope of the old well. What is your trouble? "Oh," you say, "I am so sick, so weary of life-ailments after ailments." I will draw up a promise: "The inhabitants will never say 'I anm sick.'" What is your trouble? "Oh, it is loss of friends-bereave ment." you say. I will draw you up a promise, fresh and cool, out of the well. "I anm the resurrection and the life; he that be lieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." What is your trouble? You say it is the infirmities of old age. I will draw you up a promise: "Down to old age I am with thee, to hoary hairs v.ill I carry thee." What is your trouble: "Oh," you say, "I have a widowed soul, and my children cry for bread." I bring upthis pronise: "Leave thy fatheress chi~dren-I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me. ' I break through the armed ranks of your sor rows to-day, and bring to your p-arched lips "a drink of the waters of the well of Bethle hem, which is by the gate." Again, the Gospel well is at the gate of heaven. I have not heard yet one single in telligent account of the future world from anybody who does not believe in the Bible. They throw such a fog about the subject that I do not want to go to the skeptic's heaven, to the transcendentalist's heaven, to the worldly the poorest room in your house for the finest heaven that Huxley or Stuart Mill, or Dar win ever dreamed of Their heaven has no Christ in It: and a heaven without Christ, though you could sweep the whole universe into it, would be a hell. Oh. they tell us there are no songs there; there are no coronations in heaven-that is all im agination. They tell us we will do there about what we do here, only on a larger scale-geometrize with clearer intellect, and with alpenstoek go clambering up over the icebergs in an etrnal vacation. Rather than that, I turn to my Bible, and I find John's picture of that good land-that heaven which was your lullaby in infancy-that heaven which our children in the Sabbath-school will sing about this afternoon-that heaven which has a "well at the gate." After you have been on a long journey, and you come in. all bedusted and tired, to your home, the first thing you want is re freshing ablution, and I am glad to know that after we get through~ the pilgrim age of this word-the hard, dusty pil grimage-we will find a well at the gate. In that one wash, away will go our sins and sorrows. I 'do not care whether cherub, or seraph, or my own departed friends in that blessed land place to my lips the cup, the touch of that cup will be life, will be heaven? I was read ing of how the ancients sought for the fountain of perpetual youth. They thought if they could only find and drink out of that well, the old would become young again, the sick would be cared, and everybody would have eternal juvenescence. Of course, they could not find it. Eureka! I have found it! "The water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate." I think we had better make a bargain with those who leave us, going out of this world from time to time, as to where we will meet them. Travelers parting appoint a place of meeting. They say, "we will meet at Rome, or we will meet at Stock holm. or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethle hem." Now, when we come to stand by the death-pillow of those who are leaving us for the far land, do not let us weep as though we would never see them again, but let us, there standing, appoint a place where we will meet. Where shall it be? Shall it be on the banks of the river? No. The banks are too long. Shall it be in the temple? No; no. There is such a host there-ten thousand times ten thousand. Where shall we meet the loved ones? Let us make an appintment to meet at the well by the gate. Oh, heaven! Sweet heaven! Dear heaven! Heaven, where our good friends are! Heaven, where Jesus is! Heaven! Heaven! But while I stand here there comes a revul sion of feeling when Ilook into your eyes and know there are souls here dying of thirst, notwithstanding the well at the gate. Be tween them and the well of heaven there is a great army of sin; and though Christ is ready to clear a way to that well for them, they will not have his love or intercession. But I am glad to know that you may come yet. The well is here-the well of heaven. Come; I do not care how feeble you are. Let me take hold of your arm, and steady you up to the well-curb. " Ho, every one that thirsteth, come." I would rather win one soul to Christ this morning than wear the crown of the world's dominion. Do not let any man go away and say I did not invite him. Oh, if you could only just look at my Lord once: if you could justseehim fullin the face: ay, if you could only do as that woman did whom'I read about at the beginning of the services-just come up behind him and touch his feet-methinks you would live. In Northern New Jersey, one winter, three lit tle children wandered off from home in a snow storm. Night came on. Father and mother said, "Whereare the children?" They could not be found. They started out in haste, and the news ran to the neigh bors, and before morning it was said that there were hundreds of men hunting the mountains for those three children, but found themnot. After a while a man imagined there was a place that had not been looked at, and he went and saw the three children. He examined their bodies. He found that the older boy had taken off his coat and wrapped it around the younger one, the baby, an then taken off his vest and put it around the other one; and there they all died, he probably the first, for he had no coat or vest. Oh, it was a touching scene when that was brought to light! I was on the ground a little while after, and it brought the whole scene to my mind, and I thought to myself of a more melting scene than that: when Jesus. our elder brother, took off the robe of his royalty and laid aside the last garment of earthly comfort, that he might wrap our poor souls from the blast. Oh, the heigh, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth of the love of Cnrist! PRINTING B00ES IN LUCKNOW. An Immense Concern Where the Koran and Other Books Are Prepared. The Kishore publ'shing house is sit uated on the Hazrat Gunge, the main street of Lucknow. The buildings are numerous, but low, mostly of one story, after the native fashion, and ex ceedingly plain. Many of them are mere sheds, where the work is done ini full view of others on the premises. The roofs are of brick tiling. These bu ldings cover a vast space, which is divided into many alleys and nonde script passageways running at all angles with each other, and describing such curves as one can find in the denser parts of Lubeck and Nurem berg. I entered the premises by a long lane running at right angles from the main street, says Bishop Hurst, in Harper's Magazine. No one in pass ing along the street would suspect, un less he should turn into the lane, the number of men hard at work at the farther end or the w nderful magni tude of their operations. The orders are constantly coming i.2 from all India, and even fro-n Afganistn, Arabia, and Turkey in Europe. The many people engaged in carrying on this business have all they can do to fill the orders and prepare for new ones on the way. Were the buildings covering such an area as this in Europe, and four or five stories high, yet turning out no more work than these primitive huts and sheds, their value could not be ]ess than $500,0i0. But in Lucknow value those many buildings and the ground covered by them would not sell for more than~ about $40,001 The huts have no wooden floors. Mother earth is the common resting-place. The men and boys in great number sit on-the earthen floor in all possible positions and ca ry on their work. They set type, read proof, and bind the sheets while sitting squat on the ground. There is a great disproportion be, tween the amount of type and the vol umes printed. While there is an im mense quantity of type used in Eis ore's house, the lithographing of a whole book is a favorite procedure- I have a copy of tbe koran, bought upon the pre:1iisesa, which is one foot long and eight inehes broa-1, and I am quite sure that not a type was used in the printing of it. The plates are lithographs, and of excellent finish. As this particular volume was intended to be illustrated in colors, the ditliculty was to supply the cuts. This, of course, could have been met by a sep arate impression. Bunt that is not Kishore's methods. All these blanks are filled by colored illustrations ap pied by hand. These arc quite rudely done, and yet the pictures are striking, and to an Oriental eye must be attract ye. For the koran which I bought, wing 317 p~ages, with numerous anual illustrations, bound in full leather, the price was only $2.50. But while a large portion of the work inl this Mohammedan publishing house is done upon stone instead of type, there is also an immense amount of the usual type-setting and casting. The Arabic and some of the Hindoo tongues are very favorable for engraving on stone. The whole alphabet, in several cases, consists of curves which can be '.asily executed by sharp tools. raos:Tso.,. is the name of a post, -MARJORIE. "Oh, dear," said Father Brown, one day, "I never saw such weather! The rain will spoil my meadow hay And all my crops together." His little daughter climbed his knee; "I guess the sun will shine," said she. "But if the sun," said Farmer Brown, "Should bring a dry September, With vines and stalks all wilted down, And fields scorched to an ember" "Why, then, 'twill rain," said Marjorie, The little girl upon his knee. "Ah, me!" sighed Father Brown, that fall, "Now, what's the use of living? No plan of mine succeeds at all" "Why, next month comes Thanksgiving, And then, of course," said Marjorie, "We're all as happy as can be." "Well, what should I be thankful for!" Asked Farmer Brown. "My trouble This summer has grown more and more, My losses have been double; rve nothing left"-"Why you've got me!" Said Marjorie, upon his knee. -Wide A wake PiThI AND POINT. A piller of the church-A pious apoth ecary. " Bessie, what scratched your arm in that way?" " Mamma, I hit it with the cat," The clergyman miy not be much of a carpenter, but is a pretty good joiner. - Ba:ar. The lightning-rod agents motto - "Spare the rod and spoil the property." Burl ington Free Press. The thing that a woman always knows best is how some other woman ought to dress.-Yomerrille Jvrnal. A married man can always pack a trunk more easily than a bachelor. 1e gets his wife to do it for him. One doesn't care much for the flattcry of a cannibal when he says: "You're good enough to eat."--ew YorkDi patch. An oatmeal trust has been organi -ed in Canada. Where will this gruel tyranny of manufacture end? "--NrwicJh Luhitia. "A New Jersey man has invented a stove to carry in the hat." Wanted to utilize a stovepipe probably.--Nac liuceu Newcs. We do not see what it is that a eleck is ashamed of, that it should be con stantly striving to cover its face with its hand.-Lowell Citi:en. The forming of a pool by the pepper mint growers indicates that stomach ache will be something of a luxury next year.-Pitts?'urg Cironicle. While Bostonians may feel proud of the provender which has made them fa mous, they object to being called plebeans.- -ashing'on Hatchet Snooks-""I suppose you have a wide acquaintance in New York, Blinks?" Blinks-"Well, yes-one that weighs about 250."-Burlington Free Pres. "Why can a man walk farther on a cold day than on a hot one?" asked in quisitive Jack. "Because," said the Major, "warm weather makes him limp." This quality in dudes one finds, Nor does one deem it strange, Through life they never change their minds; They have no minds to chango. -B:>s'on Courier. It always bothers a Frenchman who is learning Eng:ish to read one day that a murder has been committed and the next day that the murderer has been com mitte.-New York Tribun". Frank James, ex-bandit, is clerk'ng in a store in Austin, Tex. When he rceches into his pocket for a lead pencil and shouts " Cash !" all the customners .ump to their feet and hold up their hands. Burdette. Hasheesh pills are growing very popular among the opium eaters of Farns. \ ery astonishing dreams are said to result from them, but they are probably not more so than those produced by ordinary hash.-New Jiaren Yews. Paint is a monster of such frightful build, That to be hated needs but to be smelled. But, smelled too ott, famliar to the face, We first endure, then pity, then catch the painting fever and go around all over the premises, and daub it en every available place.-Dansville Breeze. A Boonville school teacher had a great deal of trouble making a boy understand his lesson. Finally, however, he sutc ceeded, and, drawing a long breath, re marked: "If it wasn't for me you would be the biggest donkey in Boonville." Joisrille 2imes. Smith--"You seem particularly jolly this morning." Jones-"I ought to, as Ijust made a cool $500."-nth "How did you make it?" Jones -"Wh~y, I bought a lot for $2, 500 and raised the price to $:3, 000. Cood deal, that." &n Francisco Wap. He sang it with vigor, He sang it cacti clay, "I would not live ?iways, I ask n~ot to staty." But wvhen with a fever And chills takeni down, He unickly had in all The doctors in town. -Bostonm Courier. The Largest Criminal Court. What is claimed to be the la-gest criminal court in the world is the United States District Court for the Western district of Arkansaa, located at Fort Smith, on the line of the indian Terri tory, over which it has jttrsdict ion in all cases where a white man or non citizen is a party to the crime. Fronm this court there is no appeal, and whnn a crininal is once convicted is only loophole through which to escape the puishment which the law imposes on him is through executive clemency. It is well known that no court in a l the land despatches business with the rapid it of the United States Cout for the Western district of Arkan-aa, and no court exists where cases are tred with greater care for the uights of all. It is in session the year round, there being four terms-viz~., February termi, 3lay term, August term and November ternm. The grand and petit jur~es are all com posed of citizens of Arkansas, being selected from the se~eral countie' cim braced in the district. Mr. Isaac C. Parker has been for twelve years past the Presiding .Judige in this court, and during that time has ds osed of over six thousand criminal cases, besides a very lar~re number of civil cases. Prior to the app~ointment of Judge Parker, there had been sevecn mna convicted of murder and hanged. IDur ing his term of o'fice the:-e have been $4 persons convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death by hinm. Of those sentenced to death since 1870, 5~2 were hanged, 27 had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, and 4 to short terms of imprisonment, 3 died in jfs while awaiting execution, 1 was killed while attempting escape and one was pardoned unconditionally.-Nac York Ik-ald. The cotton crop of Virginia during the past 10 years is estimated to ha e aver age neary.,,000 bales2. ON THE WHEEL. What 'Round-the-World Stevens and Champion Howell Say of the Sport. The popularity of 'cycling is growing. Thomas Stevens, who has just been around the globe on a wheel says that the best roads in the world are found in British India. The Grand Trunk road is 1,600 miles, an unbroken highway of marvelous perfection, from Per shawar on the Afghan frontier to Calcutta. It is made of smooth, hard, natural concrete, beds of which lie along the line. How such roads would be apreciated by the enthusiastic 'cyclers of this countryI The wonderful achievement of Mr. Stevens, in the face of myriad dangers, entitles him to all his honors. The fast riding champion of the world, however, is Richard Howell, of Leicester, England. 2e is a splendidly made fellow, be tween twenty-five and thirty years of age, six feet high, and weighing, in training, about 160 pounds. He commenced riding in 1879, and in 1881, at Belgavia grounds, Leicester. he won the one-mle championship of the world, beating all the best men of the day. From that time his career has been one of almost unbroken successes. He came to the United States in 1684 and 1885, and at the great Springfield tournament in 1885, won seven out of eight races. In the 'Cycling News (Eng.). October 1st, 1887, is the following interview with him. "What are your best performances?" "This year I did a full mile on the track at Coventry in 2 minutes, 35 seconds. Good judges think, with everything in my favor, I could do 2:10 for the distance." "What is your system of training?" "I eat plain good food, and plenty of it. I take a little walk before breakfast, and then, after that meal, if I am loggy, ride eight or nine miles on the track here, in thick flannels. After dinner I do some more 'slogging' work, and may be a walk and early toted. "But there is one idea of mine which I have found invaluable. If I have done too much work, or my system is out of order, or if I don't feel quite sound, I take what I have used since I was 'queer' in 1885. I have al ways found that Warner's safe cure sets me up and puts me to rights again and it is a remely which I believe in and tell all my friends about. "In the winter-time especially, when you can easily understand I am not so careful of my health as in the spring, summer or au tumn, I have found it it invaluable. "All I want to beat the fastest bicyclist in the world, is plenty of practice, an occasional dose of my favorite, and my 'machine.' "When I am about right in weight I con tent myself with short, sharp brushes as hard as ever I can go on the track, and when I can cover 440 yards in thirty seconds with a flying start, I reckon to be moving as well as I want to. "Bicycling is glorious sport, but it has its physical ill effects which, however, can be easily overcome by the method used by cham pion Howell." For several weeks a noble eagle, measuring nearly six feet from tip to tip of its wings, made its nightly perch on the steeple of the First Baptist Church, in Galveston. Then came along a gun and killed it. A NOTED BENEFACTOR'S Deed of Kindness, and the Marvelous Ben efts to the Sufferers in Warren County Hospital. WASHINGvOy, N. J., June 2, 1887. S. Andral Kilmer, M. D., Binghamton, N. Y.: DEAR SIa-Like the rest of the profession, I have a prejudice against proprietary medi cines; but, like the rest, I can give no good rea son for it. A me dical friend of mine in the west called my attention to your SwAMP RooT and bade me try it. I wrote you for a sample, and you sent me a generous one indeed. I have tried it very carefully, and find it to be a wonderfully invigorating tonic in cases of broken down constitutions. Thusfar, I find it gives great relief in kidney and bladder trou bles; in in -Ipient stagrs of Bright's disease diabetes and Urinary troubles in general. In a hospi at, you know. I have ample oppor tunity to test a medicinc . All the patients treated successfully are so many advertisers of its merits. Yours truly, Da. S. A. DEros. In charge of Warren County Hospital, Washin;ton, N. J. The above is a true copy of the original let ter-Editor Binghamton Republican. This specific is meeting with marvelous suc cess in the treatmen t of diseases for which itis so highly recommended. If you value good health anid hope for long life, use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. At Druggists, SI.03--O bottles for $5.00, or by exprss, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. The steel tubing made in Cleveland for the Lick telescope has reached California. It is fifty feet long and three feet in diameter. A Lovety Con-plexion. "What a lovely complexion," we often hear persons say. "I wonder what she does for it't" In every case the purity and real loveliness of the complexion depends upon the blood. Those who have sallow, blotchy faces may make their skin smooth and healthy by taking ensough of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis covery" to drive out the humors lurking in the system. __________ The United States Circult Court in Boston has decided that a man may import his coschman, since the prohibitory law does not apply to contracts for personal service. The Poor Little Ones. We often see children 'ivith red eruptions on face and hands, rou'h, scaly skin, and often sores on the head. These things indicate a de praved condlition of the blood. In the growing period, children have need of pure blood by which to build up strong and healthy bodies. If Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" is given, the blood is purged of its bad elements, and the child's development will he healthy, and as it should be. Scrofulous afi'ections, rickets, fever-sores, hi joint disease or other grave maladies and suttering are sure to result Ifrom neglect and lack of proper attention to such cases. The venerable Simon Cameron takes great pridie in his cattle. His presentparticular pet is a steer that girths over eight feet and weighs 2,100 pounds. Mild, soothing, and healing is Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Rkemedy. Peter Lawson, a Swede, of Goshen, Cal, is 9years old, and confidently expects to live many years yet, beaye, as he declares, his grandmother lived to he126 years old. "Taylor's Hospital Cure for Catarrh" can be obtained on application by letter to the City Hall Pharmacy, 264 B'way,'New York. Free pamphlet. ________ If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle. Cons'umption, i-urcly Uured. To the Editor:-Pleaso inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. [ shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any (f your readers who have Con sumpjtion if thy will aenud me their Express T. A. SLOCUM MC. m P~earl St., N. Y. R OvAL GLUE mends anything! Broken Chl na. Glass. Wood. Free vials at Drugs. and Gro. Catarrh in the Head Originates in,,.crofulous taint in the blood. Hence the proper metaod by which to cure catarrhi is to purlfy the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms and the danger of developing into bronchitis or that terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely re. tmoved by Hlood's sarsaparlilla, which cures catarrh by purifying the blood; it.also tones up the system and greatly itmproves the general health. Try the "pecuiar medicine." "I have use -I htood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh with "ery* satisfactory results. I received more per tmanent benefit from it than any other renmedy." 3M.E. READ.waniseon.O0. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by~ C. I. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries', Lowell, Mass. 10OO Doses One Dollar THE YOUTH! See E To any i E this Slip, Money Ord TO JAN 1, n at once thi 1888. 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Manufactured at the Chemical Laboratory of WORLD's DISPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.J. $5" REWARD is offered by the manufactur ers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh jisRemedy, for a ease of Chronic Nasal Catsxrh which -,. they cannot cure. SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.-Dull. heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal passages, discharges falling from the head into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are weak, watery, and inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing to clear the throat, expectoration of offensive matter, together with scabs from ulcers; the voice is changed and has a nasal twang; the breath is offensive; smell and taste are im paired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hacking cough and gen eral debility. Only a few of the above-named symptoms are likely to be present in anyone case. Thousands of cases annually,wthu manifesting half of the above symptoms, re sult in consumption, and end in the grave. No disease is so common, more deceptive and dangerous, or less understood by physicians. By its mild, soothing, and healing properties. Dr. Sage's Catar Rmed cures the worst cases o Catarrh "cold in the head," Cor and Catarrhal Headache. by druggists everywhere; 50 cents. "Ujntold Agony from Catiarrh." Prof. W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist, of Ithaca, N. Y., writes : "Some ten years ago I suffered untold agony from chronic nasal catarrh. My family physician gave me up s incurable, and said I must die. My case was such a bad one, that every day towards sun set, my voice would become so 'hoarse I could barely speak above a whisper. In themorni my coughing and clearing of my throatwould almost strangle me. By the use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I was a well man, and the cure has been permanent.' "Constantly Hawking and Spitting." THoxAs J. RUSHISG, Esq., 1902 Pins Street, St. Louts, Mo., writes: "I was a great sufferer from catarrh for three years. At times Icould hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking and spitting, and for the last eight months could not breathe through the nostrils. I thought nothing could be done forme. Luck ily, twas advised to try Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, and I am now a well man. I believe it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now manufactured, and one has only to give it a fair trial to experience astounding results and a permanent cure." 'Three Bottles Cure Catarrh. EI. BOBBINS, Runyan P. 0., Columbia Co., Pa., says: "My dau gter had catarrh when she was five yRs 01dvery badly. I saw Dr. Sage's CatarrhRmey advertised, and pro. cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that it helped her; a third bottle effected a perma nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and sound and hearty." 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