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TliE DIVIN MBUL. Pillars of Snn'ke Typify God's Power and Mercy. DR TALMAGE SPEAKS Of Trials Through Which T'uth H as Tritrinh--t-y s g gled. The'C;wrch to ze AZbier cf N ors The tr'o:L has sor k i a Cye set it. u great su ei. ' p',' lar- of Sm J. The a r wondrol~'s' i~r I eurves iL i 'Ito adme, or o r in a pia the cr.un ' e ' Ie e nmorningi, hy dusuis have b ou. '-r :c it & ing from tle ch im 'f s toe te c ing of the house' fd i ' turning out vaI a1ric :h pnn ingz presses pre i a:i andk a paper. and a1 "eIt h w i of work in motin. 0.1 a .eariay toi' vapor spoken of nu unsue buoyancy and sproa'.:s t u ai ea veil across the mkv and traces uh graceful lines of circle and em,ieee and waves an'd tCs-sO. and soars and scrters with such tlaenee of shape and coor ani su' niene that if you have neoer noi a it :.ou are like a man who has ab r.:s e lived in Paris and yet never eni the Luxem bourg, or all his life in Rome and rever seen the Vatican, or all his life at Lockport and never seen Niagara. Forty four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that somebody preached a sernon r-co-nz ing this strange, weird, lbautiful, ela tic, charming, terrifi- and faszeicating vapor. Across the Bible sky 2 >ats the smote of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the voleanic hills when God touches them. anq in ny text the gloriouz twh of God comit g up out of the wnd, r-cs like pillars of smoke In the first -lace. these pl'ars of smoke in my ieit iodicate the sud, rinz the church of God has endured. What do I mean by the chureh? I mean not a building, not a seet, but thos' who in all azes and all lands and of all beliefs love Gd and are trying to do right. For many centuries the heavens have been black with the smoke of marty r dom. If set side by side, you could girdle the earth with the firE s of perse eution-R wland Taylor burn'd at Hadleigh, Latimer burned ;t Oxford, John Roa~ers burmed at Smjitatield. Johu HoOper burned at Ghuuce-ter, John Ross burned at Constance, L Lw rence rs burn, d at Coventry, Joan of Arc Ourn d at R :uen. Witness the sueri.s of the Wal denses, of the Aioigense~s, oif the Nes torians. Witness St Btrtolome'w's mas sacre. Witnress the Duke of Alva driv ing out of life 18.O00 Chri-tians. Wit ness Herod arnd Nero and Decius and liidebratnd and Torquemada atnd Earl of Montfort and Lord Claverhouse, who, when told that he must give e e count for his crueities, said, I have no need to account to man, and, as for God, I till take him in try own ha ds. A red line runs throu.:h the ehurch history of 1 9u0 y ears, a line of blod. Not by the hundreds of thouanas but by the milliotns nust we e unt tho-e Flain for Christ s sakC. No wo~e TJhn Milton put the groans of t e martyrs to an immiurW tuDe. wrmtfg: Avenge, 0 Lord thy shughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains, cold. The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies if rouling up all at once gould have eclip'sed the nooeday sun ano waned the brighte-t day the world e-:er saw into a muidalirht. "Whon is this that cometh up t ut of the wi:derI ness like pil'ars of smoke ?' Has p ;'- i n cease'uY Ask that young m~ t:.ng t beasrs tian in a s*v "r factr. a er from morning o i e bu.tt of all thle mean i.ie.ms 'fu -e g em poyce. Ask 1t -: ' eC na makes her fo cd'ess for thiC 11" God and even her kneeling p ::r the bedside a derision and, is no moc fit for htr holy companionship than a fithy cro'v would be fit compi in for a robin or a gIlden oricle. Comraomise with the worldi and surrende- to its conventionalities and it n~av o alone, but all who will li ve ol ia Christ Jesas must stuff ri per- teation. Be a theater goiog. card pla ii , witie drinking. round dane'.n" Ci.,:in. and you may escap~e ertu-sa andsel pressure. B3.t be an up and dow, out and out ?ollower of Chlit, an worldling will win-c to worl ing a he speaks your nau~e, and y'u wil 'e put in many a doggered and snubbted y those not worthiy to biUke 'o~~s sho s. Wh en the bridge at AVhtabuia broke and let down the aost of the ar load of passengers to 1intt d ea th, Mr. P. P. Bies was seate d on oncid of the aisle of th ecar writig' down a Christian song which he was~ co'to-i' g~ and on the other ei le a "roup ofut were playirg cards Whos ladin place in eeriy3 wou..c you fe that of P. P Biiss, the~ "o-;el -iner or of the card playe-rs? A great coamplaint comes fromt the theaters about the lades' bigh hats be cause they construe; the view (f the stage, and a lady reporter a-ked me what I thought about it. and I tb i her that if the Inudecent pie:u.resof' aoctess in the show windows were aecurato pwe ures of what goes on iu man'y of the theaters nxit byv niight ti. ' t would be well if thbe ladie~- iats wr a .-! high, so as to coai;!eIt.l obtr ct the vision, if professtd Chritiars go to uth places durit g the reek, no one will ever persecute thec"n for ther e ligion. for they lav' no, an bey are the j ke of hcil. Ba: 1. t te i, coner.ted a: d Ct rit an lii., an theyv will soon run aci t nern t' position. For a compr.'i-e ('-t'" cha"r-'er an easy t:me now. t f ' rte -i behavior grimaec atnd 1ai ue '. r the body, thiaaks to the G'odf free America, i-re vr n " n 'ords or fiery stakes -utif' t! s 'o hu ands of th ao d,0 i a' -..v ene rack ad-'ibbet and To In i b sy m bol of :1.dn::c. : private a'd u li sureo r lars of -otk. W ra'exvtn scene in ILdiaw ndui t y rebellion a a:a IfM:ad came up and fcu -''-b one of Ucearrl 'O. who Lad tecn i:sulte slain by the rep'y s. n- ar ua t e a oat a. , , - i e rc i d d d t i th ur f th iAs e.e r ra our ci, A andb~rt nei oroos are 'i -1 d o' -I.AU It r t * z r A r- ~ Ai itA i- nA I-,[, A. U a' t'1!I 1 t hAe we-rui ry prospr i aI d I IC epur Amoa, an-. d t !e apy suS. Men ay deser te it, a- ~re Then he Stabled h;s cA nor, es InI Sr. Paul's eathedral. or brA eif ( LA tle 'nua"' of Christ, as did the ic'nLela ts il York mirister: or hurl agair.,t it august hterary.a pa:.1s, as ,id Gh bon.; or plot its ocrthro-s, as ,-o souw hate and deloauc-iery are repnlvea by ;he Ten Commna! daents which it tha ders and thre sermon 02 the A! t which it breatic. But it wIl s'and a, Zrga- the earthj stand . tl!' S:1,114 uni laead wonder worktun a" bCe-ulEa wliraeulous thing for wi-ich GU de; creed it. Su ill wit.; tax t h(ir brain to ;_ay things that will p-it lert at i'sad vantag, but many of them will send for its coidolence- when dying, and their children will b eather, d up un .ier its benedictions after the parental urse has been removed. Through her gates will m-rch all the i~nl-nees for oed that shall ever retch our world. 'ake her membership as a miss, not peaking of the aikaowkdltgA excep ions, they are the nobcs', b -st riea: and womeA-u of the a e But for thei: :e earth would loig -A L-ve bcee a burned out v, lcano. Tney iale he sit that has kept th! hmittniti from putrtfatin insufferabe either to human or anelie oifactories. Y1u lyig aud hypocrtjeal wri(, snut up those slander: about the ehur.-h of Christ, an institution which, Lr from being what it o(ogit to be, aind never pretendiog to be perfect. i, 5(0 times better than any other institution that the wrTi eversaw or ever dreamed . The highest hoior I ever had, and the highet'ouor i fhall eer r, Ceive, anu the highest honior I ev. r waut is to have my name on her recrd, a, a mjei ber. At hetr a'tars I repented. At h--r sacraments I blitved e h. r sA'r ice let me die. Fr-(I h r dtes l-t ae be buried. O) c'hurch oft (i(! Thou h,-me oAf the riehceou,! 'Thou harbor froiti teuip-sil ThoAu liebtho~uwe of many' nations! Thou typte (Af heaveu I eA ul'd kiss thy very duat with ecstasy For her my tears shall fall, F-or her moy pr'vers are--ud, To her my toils and cares be given Till toils and cares shall end. ' rfumeid smoIke," say's SJAonanl in the words follinsii uly te xt. N At like the fu:nes cot hed upA f Aon the thYr wat Af a s:eamn pAipe or poisoad~ (2 'the clses of chle!'uid1 fteorics or Ul'atin in black wrati fron the conasg tHie of homuesteads or su'pharous fromt blaz ig batti ries, but sweet as a burning grve of cinnamon or junlie of ita'sa fas or the odors of' a temple eenser ''Io is this thet cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of s noke tper fmed with :cyrrh and fratkineense' [ear it, tuen and women everywhere, that the advance of the genuine church of Christ me~ans peace for all niatiAons. Victor Hiugo in his ho'k entitled "Nuet3 -three." says: "Nothling cal mer than smoke, but nithing rnwre startling. There arAe peaefuli sma.k-s, and there are evil ones. The thienness c >lor of a line of smolke wake the, doe difference between war and peace, between fraternity and hiatredi. Tue whole happiness of man or his co~mpl-tA misery is sometimes expressed ini this thin vapor which the mind scatters at wl" The ;:ret Feecnehti was right, but I go further ard sav that as the indoin of G.od advaunces like pillars of smoke the baek volume'. belching' fr-tn :atteries of war and jpouine: out fromn portholes of s.hips wil aih The churTh of Go d will yet become the arbiter t'f ti'ti,. . It the world woudI al! .xV it it co todayil. stIp i'd :etween GjernL ]any . an Fra'dce andi 'et ie the truble IAl-out Al-c and Lor ~ite, and hmvee EC:' iln and her ratoitZOd'~ alndk ietweenC all the (other at..ns that ale fly irg at each othe-r's .rats and comtuand pea(ce, and ComH tand peace and di-bau~ dtrmies a id arness for the plow theC w:ir i-rees5 LAw being hitched to) amunmes-I va.nor s or saddled for cavalry charge. hat titne mtust comec, or t ro-uh lin nereas- d facility for hiomi Ag meu 'andI U IWlowig u~p cities and whelingin h--ts o nstant death, so that we can kill a TCmen~t < asier than w.e A'ouldi on'ce i a comipany and kill a urizace ('a'ier than we coui~ onee' killarg~et e[patent itieso te we .re cg'::ey dsutinth o rce Ir', anti o l ing wA.itt on o , A'' tobbt with b-oni. a nd -( umli inentor ins i ed of the A areati If to blow this h-u k -f a pue into frac :ers. dtropp ig th :n.LetCi stonmes en Ba t Is shal noULI t b A ''1 ha.tr I et Ao I I a ot' to lmy B K, w :.i Ali ' e th t h blat~ . - shall t eo Ae -oe z tade! u n - -I:1tho iA o is l r ie his a: es nt a Ikatc.aeda -e cu't in tao n l a n ha~ 3re 'arnh u es anlamsua t &"s(' A F!4 C. 1 litx IN tI . i i: o z ro~ h'ri a o nith "Glor a~~~~1' nteblht Oio e.innL~ rom t - r i L f l , 1 l n aT. At \a A .1X1i Nit1 a-, hie Valkyi Ei I,. Nil e t. irm-wt;ons ha en ex in to allf i lilmi-.Atd men S 1e Ie i, thCe truest b h.k ever I .. T . nJ thlo ieOs of I' l' 7l: 4f m.m's expulsin f'rua' d dw aerbtiee i f a ira t r 1 ace t fi :he 'r ,,rea dt by the hameuur - ers. H ir, onli 1 v U lanien'S aid: 't lng vi'y; Tae'ius aud lizy .;:., t he Bi e a e u t f d r .:tu a .i'm.irrdh Ta it *'d I' !tyr teling the saM e :? IN . i'er,'e tel ig of the iassac're of ar the eciti It i; d..mstrate~d to al urioest *!ei : i tso cer4in tbat Williani Gia li~ t wr.t "Thanatop-i~ 'r L s o vro.te "Hiawathia" ', tha: od. UV t*-e iru ofi' pohiet and6 A 0t e.. wre th 1Ale. Ai. the w~ie ne i!! science, an.. lax an~d meiine-ii( ..i icratri to blie ve ia Chris tIn. a Lem there wll be io peo > hle I in it escept tiose C - .- ,uti''ous f...r lack of brain or nluri wt.i t so faiie, aho do not like the BA" 1:aue it rebukes their s -, iih The time is harter.Ing when there w:ll be no inidels left except liber tine"s ani harlots and wu-derers. MI i iCs ot Christi ius were once there were tLouands, and thou,ands where oce :here were hundreds. What a brighi evening this, the evening of the nine t enth centur! And the twentieth ceiturC. whieh is about to dawn. wili. in my ( iniiioin, brit-g universal vi tor3 0o C. hrist aind tie chur':h nowi arhin on with'i s-ep double quick or. it voi prefer the fiLure of the text. is o ini" Swept on in the mighty gale: of bt-siun imuro-sing and grand and m"!t"stie and ssift like pillars of swoke. OA, come int) the church throuuh Christ the door. a door more gloriou! than that of the temile or Hercules. which had two pillars, and one was oli and the other ewerald! Corie ii, toda:.! The world you leave behind is a p.or world, and it will burn and pa. 4t like pilars of ,moke. Whether thi tinal con.fibier.ioa will start in the ni ine. of Pennsytvania, which, in ie pleces, have for many years been tiurnin- and eating into the heart of the imounitains, or whether it sh1ab '1u 'er the California geysers or I liether from out the furnaces of Coto paxi and \ rmiuvius and St:owboli it .sha 1 burst forth upon the astoi!bec nationis I make no prophecy but all o-'!Oist S tell us that we stand on th< id of a world, the heart of which ik a ragiga roaring. aAfal fhmaie, and ,onW day God will let the red mou.'ter: of their iiipri'.ontnent of centuries, and Ne w York on fi - in 1835, atid Charle" too on fire it ISO. and Chicago on fir in 1872, ated Btoa on tire in 1S73 er, only like onei spazk from a bhei sami', force as compared Iith that li't univ er-al lae which will be ste in~ othe r -sorldis. But gtradtually the fi ues will lesn, anid the world vmili beceune a great living coal, and tita will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined pa. et will begin to emoke, arid th is. a es w.ill stu4.ke, and the vati c.x wiii s.ntke, arid the islands wil -,woke. andi ithe seas will stuoke, anid the c1iie will sunke, and the tive can iiicnts wil'l be tit'e pillars of smoke. B t the black vapors will begiu to e-en in height anid density and then will beem'ne hardiy visiible to those who 1' up ,' i- from the galleries, arC a e' a-.a il fOm i st one tttint ti le wn i. i e o i u a. thi:;. slitary vapor, anui t e.xiat w.iil vanitish, aad tiwCre Cw io be nth'i'g lef~t except the charni d risfa bur.) I ut world, the corpse ofa dead .ar, ue a'hes of an exuin gui--hed pltt a fallen pillar of smroke. Dat that ili rot interfere w'th .your ivestmeursit if y.'u have taken Christ as sour Saviour. S.ncare heaven as your eterna! ltmea, arid you can look down nuon a distnantled, disrupted arsd denwehvd earth without any pertur ~Wen wrarpptd in fire the realns of ti'der i.4w, Arid 1.eavxeti's l?st thunders shake tihe Iearth blAu, Thou, undiismaayed. shalt o'er the ruins And liith: the torch at nature's funeral ;,ile. The Mi;;rutiom. of Rtosina. For many years naturalists like Au dubon and Wilson studied and wrote of this bird before it was known that there were "robin roosts," as well as pigeon roosts. Only within the last few years was the fact brought out that a bird more familiarly known than the passenger pigeon followed this mode of spending the night, although it adopted spring instead of fall for massing by hundreds in a high shel tered wood for a n~ght's protection from cold, or because it is the period before pairing time, or for some other r'son at present beyond marn's ken. With what stealth must this well-known and mucht-observed bird have found its way in such ntumbers to the same patch of timber night after night in the early months of the year. according to 1o ca!ty coming from all directions so swiftly that a secreted observer could not count, keeping up a chatter that could be heard for a long distance, un til the last bird, somewhat belated, perhaps, found shelter in the darken ing grove, when all became silent as thousands of wings were folded to rest. Another peculiar trait of the robin, nnoted except by so keen an ob server of bird ways as M1aurice Thcmpson. Is that, with all its friendly and conrfidtng relations with the human family during the time of nosting and rearing its young, in the fall of the year. it bceturies a wild bird, betaking itself large~y to the woods and even the secluded parts of mountains, at this seson showing little dIsposition to he on familiar terms with man, giving a noe of alarm and flying high and Awity when surprised at his approach. Athis time they range over extensive trcts of country, but nearly always evince a tendency to seclusion. The wrier has seen them in small flocks flying over a wide valley at such an ele ration that only by the wen' known X:i rt seuitak. rather than by the eye, cot:e he surely determine that they were robins. Evnints migratory habits thN lird i ewt pecuml'am. Thry secm to moeo~ward In the fail vwIth more tar4.n. than~ most other birds, al 1cowing th increased severities of the od seasona to push them off the win t s dge. Or are these late goers th 'irds inured :o cold by a residnee in the States further north, which, comng southlward, take the place of others that have gone rlie~r In the a'sn? Th" quiestionl of identity, al 'ays a diflirlt one, almost precludes argument on this pcint Ltrumort is a distinct koss to thec ntm 'x. lie was an intelligent, trlant officer. 40 YEA RlY 2TRUGGOLE E'SY. ACK-3 ME D A AV: SER ISSUES A STA~ . :N . reve.s Tha'tt the Jran Clhance-lor Was Fae to I ace Urom U11-iease 31any Timvs '!rn: h:t: ixrnzt h of Years --At Times1C wa. Ou: of IN.; Minrd. Pro.'. S< n mdcal ad ef P:e : durn his de in : .S . i e . p m decibn hitritlsad t n 7 o Lisi.' p at re:: .. says the Vo.rd. I befoe the hum,'Iing of e in 1.70 1is miarck .SOljae ch.isamu tion w,%vs thh ; ta in the Sa he broke d "n': c r lk a chld; that- so ealr':y as 1_::; e a almost in a dying s-ate, ar. he not ouy s'uab e agonies but was smin s r brief periods out of his mind. For forty a -:i of this man of iron, v e Lvas in the pou la.r esimu'nai:.:st a synonym of rugged stren;:h, wa . ne continual fight with die-e, u'err.g ard death. Pro. Shw ints a thriiing p:icture of I-we ismarcks' grim strigie With dah. "Several tin:es dri ng nearly forty years," he writes, murelt was face to face with d ." 1":,57 an injury to his leg, re.c.ve, w.ile hunting, de veloped, from neg:cet and quack treat nient, into asericus wound, so that the doctcrs stronumy advised the am putation of the le.'t leg above the knee. But Bismanrck decided to fight the dis ease. "A fter two years of keen suffering he regained his strength, but this left leg always remained the seat of weak ness. In the Ko:_gratz campaign of 1s66, when he was Lroken down by wo'rk and v;orry, t: leg became vio lently painful. Ie was reduced to the lowest state of nervous prostration, the attack cuizril:ating in a violent storm of hysterics, in which he 'man of iron' cried like a child. When he returned from the campaign 14e had aged greatly, but the excitement of the war of 1S70 once 'more raised him above his play sical il's. "When I saw him first, In ISS2, I said: *If he ;:L.3 .0s hie is LOW, there will be a sruus collapse in six months, with rese.s concerning Vhich I should ertertuin great fears.' "My prediction was fuuiilld. The Chancellor was reduced almost to a dying state in 1SS3 by mistreatment, his doctors diagnosing his case as can cer of the liver and stonich. put him under a strict regimen and in a fortnight he was so well that in my absence he drn.l an immense quantity of butterilk-enough for three ordinary men-bringing on jaun dice in a serious form; but careful treatment and dieting mitigated his sufferings from fLeachaee and headache and for years he was almost rejuven ated. "But again from time to time gout like pains in his lict leg came on, the precursors of his fatal illness, and on Oct. 17. 197, (nine months before his death on July 30. 1893), there began an intolerable pain whose sudden appear acce and terrific st:ength were almost inexplicable, rendexing his life thence forward an unbearaLle burden. "I diagnosed there symptoms as In cipient old age rortification, which the prctracted and re'entlcs course of the disease had carnfirmed, though the Prince was never informed of it and harmless bulleti::s w'ere prepared for the papers. so that hie might not learn the truth ft cm that source. "The process of decay w"as attended by shight aberations of tne mind, by delusions of which he was afterward conscious. 'his afternoon I was part ly .au:side of myself; row I have found mself with~ninm agin,' was his de soription of the e at~tacks. ".But two days~ before his death he was able to st inhi.acustomned p'ace at dinner and d"rank the foaming wine in which he de' 'ghted. His intellect was as bright "s ever. "So he was t"a. After ten months of this awful agony deathnwas agen tIe deliverer and we had succeeded in our o bject of arre.ging the disea'se u': til the decay of the vital forces brougnt about the end." "Ulip-hip-hurrah" has always been re garded as a thcroughly British cry, typical or the exui.iant temperament of the race. Compared with it the "Vive" of the Frenehman, the "Hoch" of the German, and the "Slava" of the Russian are tamne cad expressionless; but the "Hip-hip-hurrah" from Anglo Saxon threats rings through the spheres and carrie". everything hefore It. It is a cruel b:ciw to find that the words are nct Eagli::h at all. The one consolation left us is that they were nct "m:.de in Ger:rany." A renteman na:r' d Adams has been investigating the r--."steries of the pyr amids and mocur:a:s of Egypt, and has found the ph:'ase "Hlip-hip-hur rahi" amcng the er':ly hleroglyphics of that country. The only consolation derivable from this remarkable discov ery is the argumert which may rea sonably b!" e deduce. that the nrp: an3 gv e us' a prior r!.:ht t) the whol ing' to Mr. Adamn Lh ieoglyphic 'Hip-lipn-hurah ns hen trans Pled. "On, on to 'liender." IWa, r .r \rtn-'!!:g to Nor'' I Daca wile thie train Is pai"ng thriough the been rin: n 'lon "''"hr 'h :ht inter P.'ston 1:ulyv came'~ :"mo 0i~ in n'- 'r for he" dine'r. Ca'.tin" h'r cye out of the car windo I~naso ht changed inndc"pe Sh s"id toth waiter, with purely """-raph cat incer es: s"nAhrl anw oae-rn hr -Emerson1 h.7-" ii N eeded in I 1th Uu ness "I say," said :he im uess man to the deetie'some fellow. h~ss been rep ren :ghmself as a colletor of ours. le has. been tutk!::g in mare money thr "anyu two of :loe n we have and I want5 h'im co~tarcd as quickly as you "AV! right: P1'1 have hi it j Il in es th'an a wek. "Gre:: S . :::' I don't w"nt to a monh. ar C:. 1:e I.'~e ofr miege erLa '"l a iace o ,f cwec:e 'nt , he- *. this I wa tryng o rivhr without blndrs I 7) . . Ne \t case."-Cleve SOM.THING3 v NEW IN STEEL A Discovery That Is Expected To Rfevolutionize a Great Industry. Just as Americans begin to feel that they are upon the verge of developing superiority to Great Britain not only in shipbuilding, but in the steel trade. in which such a nuwber of valuable foreign contracts have lately been taken by our manufacturers in the face of British competition; and just as na ture seems to encourage the American aspiration by showing that the English coal mines will be exhausted within another fifty years, science seems to be coming to the aid of the Britisher and may be about to open new fields of com:etition in s:cel in which Amer :(a nist take part if she is to main tain her hard-earner' ;,restige. The discovery has en demonstrated in London. and is beln; made mue! of by the Eriisi press, that the ubil ity to produce perfect steel by casting it In a vacuum made by liquid hydro gan with a process that it is not pro posed to mai:e public, has at last at tained practicability. A company has been formed with a capital of thirty tbousand pounds to experimentally de velop the proecrs and if the plan is as successful as Prof. Dewar, the d's coverer, presumes It will be, the air bubbles that now cause flaws and weakness In steel will be done away with and a metal will result such as the world has never seen. To say that this means a possible revolution in the steel trade Is to put it mildly, and if the English government can control the process. as it is now intimated may be the case, then American scientists and those of other countries will be put upon their mettle to get even with the Dritishers, says the Marine Jour nal. Liquid hydrogen. which Is the great agent now disc(,ered, is described as a clear, colorlass. transparent and very volatile fluId, no clearer than pure water, but only one-fourteenth the density of water. In its Lwhtncss it is out of all proportion to any known li quid. A piece of paper when placed in it sinks. The difference between liquid hydrogen and liquid air is as great if not greater than the difference between the ordinary temperature and liquid air. Liquid hydrogen places temperature at within twenty degrees of absolute zero, which is represented by 494 degrees Fahrenheit and 273 de grees Centigrade below zero. The boil ing point of liquid hydrogen is 252 de grees lbelow zero, at which It Is capa ble of enormous pressure. The discovery must affect every problem of physics and chemistry. Its possibilities are illimitable. It may revolutionize the methods that have been laboriousiy built up during the last three hundred years. The Horse and Half Dollar. She was a very easy going person, and the repose with which she told the story was beautiful, aggr-ivating, rimue ulous. --The man came and woke me up. It was 2 o'clock, but he said 'that our horse had got out of the barn, so we got up and dressed and went out after the horse, and we found the horse and put him back in the stable. The next morning we gave the man half a del ia r. "And the .ext night the man came and, woke us up; and it was 2 o'clock again, just like the night before. And the man said our horse had got out Lf the stable again. .o we got up and dressed and we found the horse and put h'm back in the stable. And my hus band gave the man 50 cents again. "-Then the third night the man came and said that our horse had got out again. And it was about the same time, 2 o'clock. But we were very glad the man came to tell us. And when we found the horse again we decided that we would loc-k the stable this ti-ne so that the horse couldn't get out, and so the nman wouldn't have to come and get us out of bed to go out and get the horse hack into the stable again. "And we did lock the stable. But the next night the man came and got -us up and told us the horse had got out of the stable again. And we had to get up just like on the other nighta to go and get our 1:orse again. And each time we gave the man 50 rcnts. But this time we saw that the stabe had been broken oipen. "So my hushand askred our neightbor. and he said that his horse got out of his stable nights, only a little earlier than our horse did, and the same man todi himr a bout his horse getting away. And he paid the man 50 cents every time. So my husband decided that we would watch. "And we did watch that night, but the horse did not get away. So we never found out whether the man let the horse out to get the 50 cents or not, because thle day before the man had hung himsekL." gina to Law Notes, gives us the fol lowing jury story: In a prosecution for horse stealing tried in Bedford County, Virginia, just after the war, the evidence was conflicting and, as usual, the attorney for the prisoner obtaine dfrom thce Court an instruction that the prisoner was entitled to the beneit of ever-y reasonable doubt-. Tphe jury retired, and after they bad been Iout about two hours the dinner hour arrived. The j'atge seat the sheriff to as if the jury were likely to agree. IThe answer cane, "-Yes." The court waited until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and again sent word to know if the jury were likely to agree. Again an allimative answer camne back, Supper ieu canme, and no jury. Once more the sheriff madec his pilgrimage to the jut-v room and returned with the same sv. en. Lights were procured, and :out I) o'clock the jury filed in with their verdict, which the Court read solenly: "We, the jury, find the de fendant not guilty by a d-.n tight squeeze." Upon the first ballot the jury had agreed to "not guilty," but one juror hung the jury nearly twelve hours on the "d-n tight squeeze" add endm---Law Notes. Convincing Testimony. I am sorry to have to say it, but 1 have good ason to believe that young ma who la paying atteations to your dauhter is not a person of steady hab "And I have good reason to believe to tecontrary, my friend, for he has been calling on her stead ily for the last nine years."-Boston Pilot While manmy astro'omers regard the panet Mars as a "dying world," oth ers, no ably the Abbe Moreux and Col. du L gondst, cons~der it as a young ad growin'g plmnet. Morerux explains the doubt ofe the "canals" by an op ic e '-- ..d the other holds that IM eA ' ed after the earth and * ar wing to its distance from t e'' -un adIts light atmosphere, Mars mhtto be an icy desert, but observa tio shows that it IS not, and hence he cncludes that the body of the s,1anet is sill warm. The "canals," he t-:nks are cracks produced bty contrac enfc the~ crus:t. The white poles of .'srs are fomed not by snow. but hai! toes. Mars, in short, Is, according to .!!ete earth when she was in the mary era. S. Rmbho-Abralom, are you a :ntan t? 0o-At the ofiee they think hat above the average. Why? mho-You couldn't dy!e a . daccount of yours'if when Scamre in at three o'e&ock this Cring-that's all.-Thicago Tribune. L 'ttle Nel-John-ny, what Is a philso B~roher Johnny (e. little older)-A o'I ow that rides a. philosopede of c ourse. he 1+1 Tll so f-t NATURE'S D)AINTIES. C U 5U AR !'CLES O' FOOD THAT ARE EJT LITTLE KNOWN. Dislhk., fo-- 1orqP!vih Foute.i on I'reju d ieei F'le-ii t Dee:di'd I'avorito .hin1iocero, Meat Not Wititit Ai rers --Lion I'lesh Saill to H. Goe'd Eatin; . It was Punch oI pathtically otm phiinedil of the L1..lon1 0; eterial beef and miuiton. ::: p . fr the inventon ol a lit'W ilt':. I1- ee-l. til En..glisl bill of fare is': '.' I:.'ly lituitcd one. andi Iu::y he t a uch 1:1vc souit,tims v1.ishfi Idit a lew IuI,-at 1wla be .-.-,-1n1,-. U'. Wv( d1 11o1 tnl-e lv ut . - dl' :.II T. I li. n' 'ile: wvhich1 naturez off--3: it is n t utccessa rv to invIit 1 It\% 1: 1. but :1mip6 to acquire coulra*:e to! 1 : m- ni (at hith erto unealten i:::l.brsadr til es. 'The cow, S..1 ;, - 11 o .: i'oi ls. of the vurious' hii - of 're: ii'l'e thc food of tilh Ias 1 .ia.i ' t*h;- . eple Simiply conlsi:ts i; a1.1 multtron. wvtith ceensI'II i n - to :ork andi fish. Th ree r, lc m.r. n.:ly other animals wi0li pn-ju ' :ip.1rt. would furnish just as'n-urihn. .n d tdSty and more novel fo.;.! llori !!esh i regarded it plopni;I !Iorror, but the dislike is one ipyfon!.ti i on preju dice. No loubt t.c titsh o& old. worn out niags is neit lher very p:.iiable o1 nourishing. But aI orse t 'ieh from its birth is intended for fcod. and fed and cnred fir like an Ox. supplies ex c-lient ienat. It is tmuch finer in flavor than heef or murton, and Lunch more exiensi.ve. In 11a:Is the restaurants! include horse lieef in theit daily menus. In Entland it is sonetimes serve( at great feasts as a novelty. and 10 shillings a pound Is Ile usual price paid for it. Sinihirl. donkey flesh is very good earing, pravided it is young. A donllikey miore 'I!n eight monts old is not edible. In taste it is said to niuh resembl a turkey though very mouch tner in flaior. Two shingii a poundi'l is the price for (Ion key mnlt. but a b%_r detand iould, of course. reduce this to a reasonable fig un: the sameo reillark ipplies to horse flesh. In Arabia the horse : eaten and considered a great delica-7. Custom and prejudhice alone prevent many really tasty and coimlon ani iinls being used for food. 01 all ani mals the pig. with its filthy, groveling habits and food, seems the u.ost in likely to be appreciated by uman be ings. Yet the pig. whose mnmtte is a synonym for all that is low an( bestial, is eaten without relugna!e-nay. with relish. Chr::les Lamb wrote a prose epie in praise. of roast pork. A dainty lady will -:it and cijoy roast pork, but she woull screan :..d shud der at the very idea of entir.- a roast rat. Yet the rat is :I veget:iran. and most (leanly in its habhits while no body can claim tht for the 1ig. Rat pie is a great dlelicacy, and was a dlsh of which the Rev. .1 6. Wood, the celebrated naturalist, v as ex tremely fond. During the siege of Paris. in 1871. the starving ir.babitants ate up all the animls in the zoo. Elephant and lion steaks and the flesh of oiler wild animals -were enten. and, tl:ough it was a case of Hobson's ehoice-that or none at all-the Parisians found that they were very palat-ti'e. Even now the gourmets of Paris i-light in the flesh of camels. lion, -Ind ele phants. Camel's flesh is brought from Algeria, and is said to be reinarkably Ike beef. It is as tender as s eal, and the Arabs regard it as ver.y nutri tious. The hump of a camel is the tit bit of the beast, and when plump and fat is a daiinty indeed. lIn the South of France snazkes are soild. ready for cooking. under the nameo of hedge eels. Frank Btuckland, the famous naturalist. stated that he cIe made a hearty meal oft' a boa con 5iitor, its tL'sh being cxctedlingly white and tirm. and not unlike veal in taste. Fried or stewed rattl-snake is very like el hc epefa ih out a qualmsofaccscic. Lion flesh is said to be very -good i-nrtng. btut tiger ia tough and sinewy. ."ve'rtheless. the latter is e:len ini In c:t. as there is a superstition that it iparts strength and eunmnig to the eliter'. Beair's flesh is a great favorite in Germany, aund smoked tonne'es and !a:tns are considered great d:'liencies. <Hn account of' the rarity of brtain, they ar!e expensive. Sausage-so dear to the Teutonic heart-and stomach-Is aiso made with bear liver; 2~> pounds of' sausage can be made from a single liver. There appears to be eoan'derable diversity C)f optinion as to the merits of el-nhiamt's flesh. In India aral Africa it is a favorite dish with th.i natives, but a EuAropean who has traveled muct(h in Africa says: "I na.1 tasted elephan~t over and over again. It is more like soft leather and glue than :tnythitng else I can compare it to." Another traveler, however, declares that lie cannot imagine how an animal so coarse and heavy can produce such delicate and tendler flesh. All authori ties, however, agree in e.anmending elephant's foot. E~ven tha traveler quoted above, who comp~ared ele phlant's flesh to leather and glue, ad milts that "baked elephant's toot is a dish fit for a king. When atn elephant is shot in Africa the flesh is cut into strips and dIried: it is then (enlled "bil tong.'' The elephant's foot is c-ut off from the knee joint, and a hzole, about three feet deep is dug in the earth. with the sides of it baked hard '-rith burning wootd. MIost of th u..- fagots are then removed, and the ehlant's foot placed in the hole. It is tilled up with earth, tightly packed dowvn. and a blazing fire butit on top. which is kept burning for three hours Thus cooked, the flesh is like -a jt'lly. :1 enn be eaten with a spoon. it is the greatest delicacy which '';: he g to a Kattir. To Coire Warnt4. "An Ii'ish cure for warts is to prick them with a gooseherry thioi'n passedl thirotugh a wedding iing.'' So says "IHerbal Simples: Approved for 3t id ern Uses of Cure." Si'venti'en othe remedies are credited by the autho with the same positive ptower. I'ut h makes this comment on their ~s e:'"By; somec sutlte bodily ac'tion wroug~t through at suggestion recei'.'d b y ;l:e mind. warits do undoubited ly disa ppeatr as the result of these and ma'ny other equally trivial proceeditngs." FREE BL33D CURE A.ff Tr P? n; Faithi to Suafferers. Eatings Sore-1 T .mor. licecrs. arc .11 curable by 1. 1. 1. (Bot:nie Blood Bam.) which is tade especially to cur e .:or l;.oo ed Skin Biomi.-ihes, i .Tht rr.,i',t other trcr truents - ky eure by B B3. B. (R~otanuie Ied. jtching ,LErzema, Scales, 3 't~ rs. Boil" ,~ Ciu ni.s. Bietehos, rb.- R 1heumiati-m, etc .are all due o bad blood. and h ence easily cured .' B. Bl''d Po'is -n irctducin tince "r.s, Erptins. Ss'ollec '. S 're Thirnott tt., eured by B.. o'B(Ht:tie )lerd Bnalm). ln tone tI nwtat h'- B. 1. B. does ntot ect: ain ertble r mneral poisin )ae hottle will test it in an cas-e. l' otti1 -s. ix for flve 8. IWrite iol ree samplle battle. which will be sent rpaid t. Times readers, di (scri b 'pronus and ;ersonal free mecdica dvice will be given. Addrcsa Blood B.lm Co. Atilantae Ga. A mLUT ELY ' Makes the food more de RoYAL eMKIRG P1Y A CHINAMAN'S FATE. Dee2are4 Dead by a Scciety, He Was Tb, booed and Wiled Uinelf. In San Francisco there's a Chinese secret society, the laws of which are as strict and unchanging as those of the Medes and Persians. One of the members of this society told some of its secrets-an offense punishable by Jeath. He was to be tried in the usuali way before a tribunal of the society. The night of the ordeal was fixed. The culprit was represented by able counsel, but the sentence was death as was expected. An executioner wac called from an adjoining room. He was a strapping big Chinaman, and wore one of those hideous wooden masks that art critics think so beauti ful. He carried a double-edged sword fully five feet long. To test the edge he folded a newspaper in eight parts, and the knife went through those eight thicknesses of paper as if it were a bit of butter in summer time. The culprit was brought in upon his knees, and another Chinaman, also on his knees, faced him and caught the traitor by the cue. He drew the cul prit's neck toward him, the smockwas pulled over the shoulders, and with one mighty swing the double-edged sword descended. Like a flash it clove the air and then stopped. A fractional part of an inch separated the sword from the victim's neck. Very, very gently the executioner brought the weapon down until it just touched the traitor's neck. Then, as it is a crime to kill a man in San Francisco, he stop ped. He brought the sword to his side again, turned to the jugdes and said: "The culprit is dead." The newly executed got on his feet and said something to the judge. The Judge did not heed- for the culprit was dead. He tried to speak to the Chinamen, who were hurrying from the hall But he spoke to deaf ears. To all intents and purpose he was a dead man. le made his way Into the street. md the first thing that caught his eye was a hugh poster proclaiming to all Chinatown that he had been executed that evening. No one would speak to him, no one look at him-lie was a dead man-just as dead as if the exe cutioner's sword had in reality de scenled. For a whole week that man wan tlev-ed about Chinatown, the posters ,c:-el::ii..!ng his execution staring him n' TC:ce at every turn. Not a crust - ' Could he beg-not a mouth m His people knew hirp was past, gone, buried. . day he wandered up into :an portion of San Fran A stole a revolver from a mes ioy. who was showing it to nions. Then he ran down Itown, sat down on the pave .a..!oth one of his own death :dl blew the addled brains ouS r Chinese head. -. Tooth set in a Rina. :- .-young matrons of the sma. i set who are also doting mo::.-.hav e just introduced into fatshion a new ring, which is exciting t!:e z:-t' est attention. Trhe '-om~an who first wore one of these miys terious iings told all about it the other day to a girl friend who was admiring it and wanted to copy i t She said, "Why, the little white stone wouldn't be considered' a gem to any one but me. It is only one of my baby girl's pearly white teeth. She knocked out a little front tooth not long ago, and as it was too precious to throw away, I took It to my jewel ers and asked him if it couldn't be set in a ring. And here is the result. I told him to surround the tooth with diamonds and turquoises, alternating wntn one ancther, as I think just the touch of blue adds much to the beauty of tile ring. The baby tooth encir ceu with diamonds looks too white. A number of my frien~ds who have copied my idea have ta'.en one of their baby's te1 th to the jeweler's and had it surrounded with the child's birth stone." The. Hee in Battle. A veteran cavalry horse partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the same as his rider. As the column swings into line an~d waits, the horse grows nervous over the waiting. If the wait is spun out, he will tremble and sweat and gr-ow apprehensive. If he has been six mnonths in tile service he knows e very bugle call. As the call comes to advance thle rider can feel him working at the bit with his tongue to get it i-t ween its teeth. As he moves out he will either seek to get on faster thain he should or bolt. H-. cannot bolt, however. The lines will carry him forward, and after a minute he wvill grip. laiy back his ears, and one can feel 1his sdden resolve to brave the worst anad have done with it as soon as possible. Ep:eures are developing a taste for miiature .sceimens of the earth's products. Ta- suippy the demand in larger ci r *s for -otng vegetables, such as ti.:- :'rench conlsider the most delicate nul apre izing, tbe truck farmers lan: to ma-ket tiny potatoes, turnipsl. en :-o. eml litiower and even headis of enL':g. tile size of a baseball. Such ver' hs :are it is said, more easily di.:e- m-!. t heir fiber being tender and sucent. instad of tough and often of : wo:'dy na -ure as the growth Desplite tE: i:v rt difliculty of find ing spnee for the iiterment of public men within the wads of Westminster A bbey at least one otable family still enjoys a prescriptire right of burial there. 'These are tha Dukes of North umberland, who hav' the exclusive use of a spacious vault in the chapel St. Nicholas. The vaulh, which was the last resting place of .he Seymours, was opened as recently 4, 1883 to received he remains of Lady Louisa Percy, the -h'r erister of the present Duke. , Automnaien nck. -Mrii iiveators of mechlanical curios .s.nques Vauca..son was certainly it.: . .as the S..ientific American. -: a 'eti duel,. was to connois - . r t of admiration. The *.. - o'r in e9archi of food and * .ad' swr.liowed the seeds - bP. It was hrwpossihle to ..... dcki from a living one. ail.wilt in tue water and The town conni! of Wahterboro has rn-de an appropriation for the estabhanh lient of aa~ardintn regulationls against he towns :f lWmpton. \amOvill, e. ria. I).. ;nrk, Badmberlz and against the turpenlhte farms of Georgia, thee aes being reported as infeet a with "I has e used x our 'Life for the Liver 'ad Kidneys' with great beneiit, and 'fr I).ipepsia or any derangemient cf he Livcr or Kidiecys I retard it as be ont without an cqjual." James J. Cs irne, Attor-ney at L::wE Bioo. UET dbrsnn so.. - . licious and wholesome DER CO.. NEW YORK. HOW PEOPLE LAUGH NAPOLEON MADE HIS SOLDIERS RAISE A LAUGH THAT WON A BATTLE. It is Said That Laughter Was First Used When Adam, on Awakening, Saw Eve By His Side. Since the days of Adam, who said to have invented laughter when he awoke andi saw Eve by his side, no two peo pie have laughed alike. The laugh is as distinct as the voice. Women laugh differently from men, children from women; indeed, even the laugh of a full-bearded man is different from that which he laughs when he has shaved. The Abbe Damr.Y!ent thought he had discovered in the ,rarious enunciations of laughter a sure guide to the temper aments of the laughers. Thus he said: "Ha! Ha! Ha!" belonged to acholeric 'person; "He! He! He!" to a phlegmat le one, and "Ho! Ho! Ho!" to the san guine. And it is a scientific fact that while men commonly laugh in A and 0, women usually laught E and L Those who practice laughing to any extent have been divided wittily into dimplers- and to know how charming they can be. one has only to go back to Charles Reade's "Simpleton with a Diniple-smilers. grinners, horse laughers and sneerers. This is to lay down a scieuce of laughing, for which there might have been need had our generals in the late war taken up the idea cf old Bulow, who proposed to form troops. in face of the enemy, In line of battle, and order them to ad vance with their arms at a shoulder and salute the foe with ringing bursts of.laughter. "Be sure." said Bulow, "that your opponents, surprised and disnayed at this astonishing salute, would turn about and run off." Perhaps this scheme would not work now, while the present long range ar tillery is used; but, as a matter of fact, it is related that the Mamelukes once. turned tail from an assault upon the French in Egypt on hearing the roar of laughter with which Napoleon's vet erans greeted the command: "Form in squares, asses and men of science in the centre." Great men often have fancied it a. part of greatness to refrain from hilar ity. -Philip IV. of Spain is said to have laughed only once in his life. That was:when his bride, Anne of Austria, wept at hgring that the Queens of Spain had.no feet. She took with Ger man literaln'ess an old piece of Span ish courtesy. As she was journeying toward Spain some German nuns met her, and desired to present Some stock ings -ol their own knitting. The worthy Princess was about to accept the gift when a Spanish grandee of her suite interfered with the remark that it would be against etiquette. as the Queens of Spain were not supposed to have any use for stockings, whereat the Princess began to weep, under ctanding, poor woman, that on her ar ri':al in Spain her feet would be cut Lord Chesterfield said: "Nobody has seen me laugh since I have "come to my reason."- and Congreve makes his Lord Froth in the "Double Dealer" say: "When I laugh I always laugh alone." iYoung people and fools laugh. easily, says an old proverb, which of ten has proved. true. Nevertkeless.' the singer Robert gave lessns in -laaghter in Paris and in London in 1805, and, so far at least as filling his own purse went, with success. He held that men and wo men couldi not laugh "decently and sys tematicaly" without proper training, and said that a person who could laugh only in o'ne tone seemed to him like one who &ould say only oui and non; but that (trained laughter should ex press many things. . - It is a curious fact that it is only among th4 French and among the an cients that we read of people laughing themselvesto death. We, in our days, must haveeither more jokes or a-dull er appreciation of wit. Zeuxis is said to have died of laughing at a painting of an old ioman, his own handiwork. Philemon epired laughing at a don key who age so contentedly the phil csopher's gs- that with his .last ar ticulate brdjth, he sent out his last glass of wid to the beast, 'who drank it with equal 41joyment, and thus proved himslf, it g-ould seem, not such a do?ey aftea all. It remnainsitrue, however, that laugh ter is goot for the health. "Laugh and grow fat" is the old proverb. Sy denhanm maitained that the arrival of a clown in alvillage was-as wholesome as that of tjenty donkeys laden with drugs. Tisset. the famous French physician. cured consumption and liv er complainti by causing his patients . to laugh, arAd Erasmus, through im moderate laughter at the rude Latin of Huttens "Letters of;'Obscure Men," broke an internal abscess which had long plagued him. "When a xnan smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life," said Sterne, who wished laughter enumerat ed in the materia medica, holding it as a curative of the same kind as cough ing, sneezing. land perhaps vomiting. only much pleasanter than any of these." Bit Buncoat and Died. Policeman A4ert W. Owens, of -the Flatbush station, Brooklyn Borough, was strolling utj Ez asmus street when a big Newfoundland dog with an anti athy for policsmen jumped over the fence of No. G4iand savagely attacked him. Before the brute was driven off the policeman's band was badly lacer Owens did notavait to ask questions, but hurried to a physician's office and had the wound cauterized, then he went back to look up the dog and settle accounts. "Where's that dog what bit me?" asked the officer. holding up his ban daged hand as proof of the accusation. "H e's d ead" s|d the owner. Dead:" said Owens, incredulously. "What did he die of?" "I am sure I don't know. He died about ten minutes after you went away. Perhaps the bite kille-d him," said the owner, wiping his eyes and sobng bitterly. Policeman Owens returned to the sta:ionho.se. but he has been doing a tile of thinking ever since. Greene-How did Jones come to mar ry that redi-headed girl? White-Poor .Jons 't notice it: e is color !hiia'..lT2' i7 The Pit burg Postlearns that ''sorn e of -i frien ds are itnclined to accept tiue' irri~e stryi th~a Major dehn A. Loaa f run't, whose dea~th in bat was- ridcr:ted f c'm Malilla a few d:g ,, a ht hy one of his on' men a re~en N' . real or fan cie~l a aom." it way be diflieu pig.rove 'om la a a of thec kind, the Pa.-l b- the-Goveron't owes it itlt and the memo'rv f the dead 05.r to) ma-- every e vnti~ron Now is the int turn over- a new