The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 24, 1892, Image 4

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Weak-I>lmt>f><i Children Operated Upon and Mired for Par j ? poses? At the Gingerbread Fair. OW true it id that one -half of the world has act the faintest idea how the other half lives! Any one who -wishes a con ftrmstxon of this maxim has only to see at the Paris . the sight which I hare just seen "Gingerbread* Fair," writes a correspondent of the New York Journal. This fair is a species of survival of the Middle Ages. It is annually held on the great Place de Trone, and the peasantry comes from dozens of miles around to at tend it. Imagine a country eattle show multi plied by about five hundred, and you . have some idea of the '"Gingerbread Fair.* Long lines of booths fHJed Wh every conceivable kind of rustie show, with acroieis, jugglers, tire- eaters, tumblers, circus riders and historical actors, display their gaudy signs and tempt the gaping peasant to enter. And everywhere there are mountains of gingerbread, made into quaint grotesque figures of men and women, or elepha^tr, or camel?, or windmills, or fishes/ or dragons! => ^ ? There is something Chinese inf the oddity and childish in the simplicity of tfiis fair, to which tens of thousands of ble Parisians pay one visit at 'ore it closes. many people are admitted to see the c^mcos spectacle which I saw. in a booth at the back of the fair yesterday. \ It was a colony oi professional beggars, I of the peculiar variety known as th<? wooden "bowl men. "Sawed-olf3" would i || lie the American vernacular for them, i And the name certainly strike* one as appropriate, when he see? the curious, j whimsically deformed creatures hppping ' about under his very feet, looking'Npp in his face, and in a whining voice demWl- i ing alms. - * X I These beggars fcave eithet lost theirs lower Ifcabs ectircly.or they are withered oTparalyzed, so thst each man, and wa man, too, present the singular spectacle of the half of a body seated in a large " wooden bowl, to which it is strapped. The cripple then propels himself or her ;; ?elf by using the hand as feet, and mak ing the <w>wl clomp, clump, clump along pver the pavements. It is almost iin C'ble to refuse charity to one of these >ie creatures when you find him blocking the way at the entrance of a booth. I found so many of these personages tt tile fair that I Was ajtonished. I coa ? flnded that they mu3t know each other, *nd haig some general place of rendez ]? TOtti- So I looked them up? " - J I found, as I suspected, that there was great gathering of these cripples to ^work" the fair. They were under the1 tare of one man, who gave them regular weekly wages, and very good ones, too,. pad ?who was coining '.a fortune out of ariN& they brought in. About forty of Aiem in ajjeod day's work,- would turn ' ih nearly atliousand franc3 (3<J08}7wiiich 4 Ulowed more profit apparently than any tttab&shment on the ground was mak :j tog* I ventured to express that opinion to 3>e man who ha i charge of the ,{sawed hSm^ snd who, *4for a consideration," tnd introduced me to some of the more renowned of the beggars. | ?*Tfee investment is heavier than you !ttp|K*e,"c this man said, "for before a -*v J^ood boggv of this kind is ready for the ttairk4t,he represents qaite a large sum ia cash. There were plenty of these r peculiar cripples in the Middle Ages, when the making of artificial limbs was ~ltmos? unknown, and they used to get ibont- very.^^ickly in their wooden bowls. modern d&ys these cripples are < Hot numerous enough for business, so f tkere is a company which produces them by artificial means. Most of these poor > matures whom you see hopping about .' ft their bowls come from Spain, and the ?\- geater part from the villages near J&osa, not very far from the French l^mtier. , : "The agezij goes arcu^d amcng the poor families in search of children with [:! tame slight dcfect in the lower limbs. |L fife finds a aood many In the course xof a "?? smongXhe peasantry, an 1 he peirv ' "to let thechildbe I yearit""'f6i9lsgen^ coctfpanied with the condition child shall be transformed into bowl cripple, but sometimes its are deceived. ? child has withered limbs they amputated, and in sis months * is a "first-class sawed-off, pro a terrible story of a "fright n and he works tho large ?rs with great success. thnbs are simply deformed, -makers*' as they are called, mib* child by compressing the ^tJh'lNUidages until they wither, (topping the circulation of the blood This i3 done with the Id th? children are pet - ^^.rgo the torture by the thtt, having sacrificed them V*|vT?l&fcj2iegood of their families, they i will ceirti^^yo to Paradise. T'nis is "%f. great argument also used with the B*t3ie?e to, cojvmce them that they wjgit to permit their offspring* to be % \0 mi rl WwciDea . , "Tbe families receive an annual sum tqtrivalent to the interest on $400 or Hie sawed -offs are proud of their pro fession* Some of them, when they reach iXiir majority , go into business for tiiem . veUvM^and accumulate fortunes by work ing the public skillfully. Others are j lept down by their vices? tbey are ncstly fond of drink ? and reniaiu in a I fed of apprenticeship ail their lives, rh^y seem to live as long as anybody \ ' -T i ** ; ' *v. i "^Sometimes a father will not "let' his told short of . one or two francs daily. ^*8ot u? wages r*Telv tun so high as that. J**r a caravan, as it is called, F!i00, and consider themielves well ^?t4. ; sf sawed-offa is sent nn North, ^bout three hundred children are opera nd on every fear. That is barely wmlgfc to keepwhe market t?oin<z. for," *ddedany informant with a little sigh, tbere it a great mortality among >m . " It seened to me that it must be so, al One sawed ?>}f, strapped to a *hair, soddeni^ ''humped him^elfr" af ? tbacook,^o had given him some no? like for^is break by the vigorous manner in moved the chair legs 1 con . least had vitst?ty g life. 'That man." I^cao go do'.vustairs :bing the !>alus 8S6ffllB8 MADE TO ORDEF? A XBQ T3T.AB TRABE I H THE PBO DTJC-TIOX Oi' CSIPPL2S. ||i?efce? la dimeter/ This hole w charged fav'te t|M asaalwar ind tamped with sand, [:L Nlitateafae* fo/ an iron screvr having a if feioli ^MMiigh j i lor the fme, to u* K_-' WIIIH.d doctor on tbe tamping. Tfee k jfe)MK?^breft|p up the stump, and the mmm xyfy *or u0?> a^a*D- -o?* screw KmfteF'ier JwC*. It & etsil j &und af * bi%?t. geMt^tiy i? the hole in the mgm*' ?? Wp t^MP^ SELECT SlFTllTCffi. ' . '-t There are said to be 20,000 kinds of butterflies. Granite is the lowest rock ia the earth'* crust. It is the bed rock of the world. One pound of cork is amply sufficient to support a man of ordinary .size ia the, *water. A North Carolinawoman only learned to write after shejria passed the age of , eighty-two. No chemical black ink his yet been made which will write black immediately on exposure. The combined debts of all the Nations in the world amount to more than $30, 000,000,000. Patsy Sears, of Howard County, led., agecflOS years, has been a chureh mera ? ber a hundred years. i Except in cooking their scanty meak-v the poor Italians seldom hare s 3 re even in the severest winter weather. A gentleman in Port Smith, Ark. , has haogea eighty persons sentenced to death by the United State* court. Cornelt University has opened a diary school, where cheese and butter making breeds and feeding are the subject for study. . y The agricultural society of Paris is ex perimenting in the making of artificial clouds to preserve plants from the effects of frost. I Wax camein to use for ctfidjes in the twelfth ceatory, and wax candles were e3teemed "a luxury in 1300^, being but Tittle used. It would take forty years for all the water in the great lakes to povrr over Ni agara at the rate of one miition cubic feet a second. Some of the African tribes pull their 1 fingers till the joints "Crack" as a form j of salutation, and one trib9 has the curi ous fashion of showing friendship by standing' back to back. The bones of Jumbo, Barnum's big elephant, that was killed a few years ago at Qt. Thomas, Canada, weighed even ?240,$ pounds. The total weight of the -Wdy, bones and all, was six tons. The law of evolution works in lan guage as well as i6 other things. Twen ty thousand words have been added to the English language in the department of biology alone since Dai win's discover w. -/ . . . A double-bodied lamb has maie its appearance in Pilot Knob^Ind., >and is cwned by Alexander Riftjyfe. Its head and neck are perfect; but attached to the head are two perfect- bodies, which have two sets of legs. The chentf cal inks of the present are, of too recent invention to determine whether they wiil last, but it is quite probable that most of them will bs a3 legible at tfce end of fifiy or seventy-five' ?years as they are to-day. G. Bonnier, Professor of Boiany at ithe Paris Sorbonne, disputes the preva lent notion tbat the mistletoe is injurious: to the apple or other tree on which it grows. He maintains not only that this is not the case, but that it is actually , beneficial to its host. 4 Not until the tenth day fe the Zuoi child put into the cradle. The baby's arms are placed by Its sides, and it is so strapped in its cradle tbat it cannot move a hand. These cradles ha>e hood shaped tops, and ovei the whole thick coverings are placed, and it i* a wonder the chil^ doesnot smother, ij In England in the reign ?f Edward IV., 1481, riden on post-horses went j stages of the distance of twenty miles from each other, in order to procure the i king the earliest intelligence of the i events that passed in the course of the> ; war that bad arisen with the Scots, and , Richard III. improved the 83 stem of* couriers in 1483. ' The results of the great Japanese : earthquake h Gifu-ken, where the dam- i age was grAteat, are thus officially sum- i marized: A 889 deaths, 12,314 persons wounded, f 4*4, 203 dwelling houses com- ! pletely an \ 21,S78 partially demolished, ! 23,379 damaged, and 4159 burned after collapse/ ft addition to 1744 other buildings demolished or damaged. A cat bonMn' Germany with only two ! legs (the hinder pair) ia healthy, and i goes about easily, the body in the nor mal condition. When startled or watch iog anything, it raises itself to the atti- j tude of a kanyanj^jjgjng its tail as a support. It b ^ ? " ' of which had four and llR'BRPiJttty two feet. warn Dear the well kaown W< House in Newcastle, N. H. Ta WISE WORDS. Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Gratitude is one of the rarest of vir tues. As soon as we form a habit we have a Smaster. Every sin that is not forsaken marries and raises a family. The best way to teach children to do good is to show them how. Friendship is the gift of the gods and the most precious boon to man-. A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. Never lose your temper. Nobody wants it; all have enough of their own. The acorn of genius is the most arro gant and the most boundless: ol all scorn. i " >v^ The man who has the right kind of wisdom never makes the same mistake twice. The more you love yourself the better, if you love your neighbor to the same extent. Goodness does not more certainly mske men happy than happiness makes them good. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. There is do remembrance which time doe* arot obliterate, nor pain whfch death does'not terminate. TJre3?!n? Far Snakes Treasare. A Boston syndicate is operating a dredge in Hell Gate, New York City, for the purpose of recovering an alleged ira nense amount of gold shipped by the Governor of -Jamaica to the Bank of England in a vessel called the Bucking ham in 1812. On account of a gale the vessel hfi'T" to seels refuge in this port and the war of 1812 broke out before she got a^vay. Sha tried to make a night escape through Long Island Sound and sunk near Flood Rock in Hell Gate. Hct mate escaped and settled in Boston. After he died a caart was found tunon? his papers which purported to show where the Buckingham went down, and a grandson of his is interested in the present search for her remains. The dredge is JiiPfcsyBMid of Caotain - y - - ? ^ IW^I the Buckingham was reported at Ltoyos, ; but her cargo was stated to 4>e ram. I sucar and W. I. goods, of the value of ?; JJ50,00>, no nation beins made ??? gold. , It is heW that the Governor oi Jamaica shipped the -..old secretly* i tending to iollow and enjoy it in person, i ? 2*ew brie**** ?icayune. I .. ... ; ? ,? ^ <* I FIRM AHD GARDE* woke? jlsd ths garden. fake year wife's advice about making a -garden, but do not leave the hard ?work it involve! to her. A man *ith howe and cultivator can do the work quicker .and easier than a woman "can do the work by hand power alone, is they wiD if no help be given.? Boston Culti vator. ? BEtAiSELtNO CORN. ^etaaseling corn is again a subject tot consideration. The process consists in N removing the upper portion of the Stalk to which the spray of male or pollen bearing flowers is attached. Several ex periments have shown that it increase# I the crop to remove the tassel from fully obe-half of the stalks before the pollen j,_!s shed. The results of some extensive testa made by the Nebraska Experi- j | mental Station show the oppesite effect, i j There was a uniformly lessened yield, upon the plats when one-half or the sta.ks were detasseled. Similar results obtained when the tassels were removed after the pollen had been matured and scattered.? New York World. <5 PROPER PRE6StTRE IN CHE BSE ItAKlNO. . A frequent mistake is to apply too strong pressure at first to the newly hooped curd. The pressure should be I gradual, ahd the snug squeeze only given I after several hours. The white whey ; toat starts from a severely pressed curd , is flcb in butter fats, which will net ap | pear if the cur^ Is allowed to settle firmly in the hoop before strong pressure i is applied. The facts g0 to show that th? average full cream cheese has parted ; ; with far too much of its fats in press, ! j vats, drainers and hoops, and is often ! I found to be a half ikim when it reaches the consumer. Great hue-aod-crv is I raised over tne idea that it is commer cial wisdom to take out a pound of but j ter fat to^each hundred pounds of milk, which tests four and 'one*half per cent, fat for cheese making. The cheese is no better that has lost that amount of fat in manufacture than is another cheese from which has been skimmed an equal amount, and the balance of ths fat retained by skillful manufacture. A little care at the beginning of the opera tions will always prevent such wastes md result in a better product. ? Ameri can Agriculturist. A YETERrNAHY VIEW OF CRUELTY. The following is the repDrt of, a com mittee appointed by the British National Veterinary Congress for the purpose of further considering the subject of cruelty to animals from a veterinary point of view, and publishing a declaration in the name of the Congress on certain practices and painful operations on animals. . Lameness may be painless or painful. Those cases where the lameness p\3ses off with exercise are prima facie cases that are accompanied by pain?this specially applies to cases of navicular dis ease and spavin. In such cases horses ought not to be worked, and when- , worked it is cruelty. The practice called twitching causes* acute pain and is frequentlv unjustifi able. Burning gas for lampaa is cruelty. Knocking out wolf teeth is cruelty* Extracting temporary teeth save for a surgical reason is cruelty. Docking and nicking horses are cruel. Marking and branding1 animals when necessary, should be performed by the quickest aud least painful method. Worming the tail, docking and crop ping the ears of dogs are unnecessary and therefore cruel operations. Operations of various kinds are fre quently performed on animals by igno rant persons, an^ much cruelty is calised thereby, w hie hn&ught to be publicly dep- ! recated and preveuted by law. All pain- i ful operations not required for the good of the animal operated on are of a cruel o : t ure. No operation causing pain to an animal should be performed bv an unskilful person. -All necessary opera tions ought to be performed in a scien tific manner and by the most human^ methods, in order thereby to prevent thev infliction of unnecessary pain.? Western Agriculturist. LAHLMTIS, OR FOUNDER. JToutfder may arise from various causes, ' such as continued bal shoeing, freezing -*f thfi asudden chill f from drinking or overloading the ssz^^^eo^setiq'.e hard com or other glL-r/^Tn'the initial stages there is usually a stiffness of one or both front iegs, and by careful exam ination you will Had that the feet^are feverish and tender and this i3 why the mare moves about in her endeavor to re lieve the pain in her legs aud feet. Re move her shoes and poultice her frout feet until the fever subsides and tender ness is entirely removed. Warm poul tices are be3t during cold or^^jol weather, but in warm weather oold ones ; are preferable. Give the mare twenty drops of tincture of aconite iij three or four ounces of water to allay the fever, and repeat the next day if the*fevev con tinues unabated. Keep the mere's stall well covered with clean straw foe bed ding, and encourage her to lie down as much as possible. Give steamed or boiled corn or oats while under treat ment, and when all signs of fever have subsided put on a bar shoe it the soles of her feet are at all tender; if not, allow her to run out to pasture during warm weather until the stiffness disappear#. If you cannot afford to give the mare a rest, then apply the warm poultices to her front feet as soon as she come3 in from work in the evening, leaving then on all night, removing in the morning, after which wash in warm water and wipe dry. Also give her a few doses of the aconite and work her as gently as possible, re membering that she is in pain and ever / i step only increase* her misery. ? New I York Sun I ? FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Soapsuds are good for moat garden plants. The grape loves sunshin?. Fruit for market, as a rule, is not well sorted. JL rich soil is necessary to secure crisp vegetables. Flowers cost little in summer and are always a joy. Never altow the hens to drink from stagnant frater. If a la^n is to* be made, prepare to sow the seed early. A slow but healthy growth is desira ble in a fruit tree. * Potash is au essential ele aent in the | soil of an orchard. be in a hurry to pull the mulch way place i< the* average farm batter does apfcpey rot , the m?vf?g t Manure from thepig pea is one Of th< beat that' can be u:>ed around the rhu barb plants. "Two is company and three is t crowd" applies to triplet lambs a? yell as to lovers and the gooseberry. Shrewd flocb masters put to use t ewe "that has lost her lamb by her act as wet nurse fcr lout or discarded lambs. If they are picked regularly during the season geese should average a pound of feathers each, and this should make them pay On rich, level bottom land stock farm :ing can be mad^proStable, if anywhere. But do not waste sach an opportunity or? Jscrub cattle. Hay that in cut, cured and housed be tween daylight and dark does not ofreo lose its sweetness by being sun burned or water soaked. J , Often when the lamb3 are doing well one is apt to think a little extra feedina will make them do better, but this gen^ erally prove? a mistake; . Host of the disease which is reported . each year among sheep is the direct re sult of exposure, neglect, rtarvatio? and unhealthy surroundings. Jt may not pay the majority of fanners to niake a soettalty of dairying, but is xinnection with other products it cac readily be made profitable. Why not train the calves to lead and train the boys to lead them, and if well followed^would often save much trouble .in the handling of the cattle. Both the animal and vegetable king ? doms are subject to the same laws. Seeds as Well as stock may be improved by careful selection and bfeetiing. The advantage of barn cisterns cannot be over estimated. Providing water for the stock, they prevent water lrorn the roofs filtering through the manure. There is only one way to' run a* dairy luccessfully, and that is to make a busi ness ot it. The farm mu?t be adjuuet to the dairy, not the dairy to the farm. Give the boy all the hard jobs and the chores that _you don't want to do your self, if you want him to leave the farm; It is a pretty sure way to accomplish this^ On a majority of farms milk could b3 Used with more profit in feeding it to the pigs, poultry, and calves than in making it into butter and selling it at ten cents a pound. -.J^re you thinking of feeding corn and making- "big" hogs for next winter^ market? If so, you have not observed that "light bacon" hdgs are the ouesthat bring top prices. If you plant a field of sweet corn, in order to experiment a little with green soiling this fall, don't have it a half mile away from Aihe stable. A fiiend of ours who did tfcis found that soiling didn't pay- ^ A When the farmer finds his cattle withx a husky cough he may attribute thesalfre to indigeition from ofer feeding. (Jut down the supply fifty per cent, for two days and fte result will be immediately beneficial. We should lend every encouragement to steps that tend to develop new agri cultural-industries. Even if we do not wish to engage in them ourselves it re leases laud from the production of other crops, $nd that beneSts us alt verV directly. A Canadian ap/arist is of the opinion *.hat bees wear out and dievmore quickly in windy weather or in wiirjy localities then where the air is still, ^Hence the importance of selecting a ^sheltered locality. I How Edward Burnett thinks that "cows are made; not bred." He say? take the best bred calf and put it into the hands of one man, and a poor cow results, while in another man's hands the same calf would make the highest type of dairy cow. Hence his theory. Do not spray fruit trees until the bloom has fallen. If you do you will destroy the honey bees, who have been worki% so industriously to make your fruit set. And your enemies are not on hand to be destroyed until the little fruit appears to lay their eggs in. The man who wants to buy a Jersey bull and who has not made a siudy Of pedigrees will have to trust a good deal to the honesty of a reputable breeder to 1 supply what . A trade-mark for I fjaonesty is valuable property whether 1 seujHftiTfs, fertilizers, or Hour. Careless -and uukempt attendants whD force cows into filthy stables are respon sible for the inferior if not poisonous milk served to customers. Clean sur roundings conduce to good health, whether of man or beast. Time con sumed in making a cow comfortable will be as monev in the dairyman's pocket. Sweating of Coins. The Mongolian e!.ec?riciaus of Califor nia have, according tfc* the Engineering Magazine, develoyed the ait of coin clip ping by means of electricity. A, consignment of $60,000 in gold eaglw was recently sent to a New York bank Worn California, which on exami nation, was found to contain twenty lierht weight coin# bearing the date of 1891. These were apparently new and bright, but on being examined with the ; lense, showed tho surfaces were covered with infinitesimal pores. About a dollar's i worth of gold bad been extracted from each eagle by electrolysis, and it is to be noted that this offense can hardly be j reached by law, even if the offenders : were caught, w the law only reaches^ cases where the operation is proved to have been performed with fraudulent in tent. This would in any case be a diffi cult thing to prove. We do not know what has led our ? contemporary to the conclusion that the deficiency in weight of the coins in ques tion was caused by electrolytic action. It eeems moTe probable that it was caused by the much simpler and more available method of solution in aqua regia, which is a process well lenown, and alas, too < often practiced. This method of ex- | traction of a portion of the metal from j coins is termed "sweating." The Engineering Magazine is certainly in error when it states that this offense can hardkbe reached bv law, even if the offenders were caught, as the law oniv reaches cases where the operation is proved t<i have been performed with fraudulent intent. The fact is, that th? debasing of a coin by clipping from it, rolling it. out, melting it up, or other wise rendering it unfit as a coin for cir culation, is aD offense against the Unite!) States laws. Id many cases there could be no iDlention 4o defraud, as in the case of melting up or rolling .out of coins, in order to u?tfthe metal for other purposes, sti$y tho person convicted of such prac tice wfeuld be amenable to the law, al though aotr-Hable to the tame penalty as one who abstracted from the weight with the iiiiimtipuiof passing -the coin there original face value. ? Elec j York. * ^ ? ? ? . ? \ South Carolina Railroad to be Sold. Charleston, S. C. ? A decree ^a^ filed in th-- United States Court today in { -the suit of Borend against the South i arolina railroad ordering sale of ? he road i free of aH incumbrances. The date and j tenns of the sale will be forced 3 y a later ! decree. Thi? the r^ad* of it* j old first Jo o*r cent, feynds TABltfAC The ftroofclyh fcivltie't Sun d?v iernioH* : ; I ? ? j : ?* the\ch+l4 armor of Qod?? Epheeians vi., 1L \ 1 Thare is in this test a fcreat rattle of shields and halmete ?ndv^nh. Soldier* wadvfor battla^fa hare had rec^&yjff tilis chtirch dew enlistfdatts, and I shail address myself to tho*s In this and other churches who are patting on the armor of (tyd, and: who may feel themselves to be ^ y^t only raw recruits. "Master)? re o-*atf' is a tjerm often used in Military cir cles, but in religion thare is no touch thing. It is either glorious advance or disgraceful end ignominious falling back.; It would be a strange thing if all our anxiety about men ce^ed the moment they were converted. You would almost doubt tike sanity of that farmer who, having planted' the contain seen it just sprout * bo re ground, should saw is all done. I have no more anxiety for the field." No. There Is work for the plow and the hoe, and there must <**?!? ?T???P ^thefenm and there mtbt te.a frightening awdv of the birds that would pillkge the fl?Sd. Arid I say the entrance dpon Christian life is only the implantation of grace ia the heart, there is earnest, hard work yet to be done and perhaps many years of anxiety before tbereshall be beard the glorious shout of ? Harvest home.'" , The beginning to be a Christian is only putting down the foundation, but after that there are ysars of hammering, polish in r carving, lifting, before the structure ij com pleted- " takes five years to make a Chris tian character; it; takes twenty years, it t&fces forty years, it takes seventv year^ if a man shall live so long. In other wor dk a man dying after half a century of Christian , fe!ls thllt he hM onQy learned the A B CTs of the gloriods alphabet..- The I next year Will decide a great de*l in yotir history; young Christian mari: It wflf de cide whether you are to be a btirning add shining ligljt of the church; or a spar ^ of grace oov>ed hp in a " barrel of ashes. It will decide whether you are to be a strong man in Christ Jesus, with gigantic blows striking the iron mail of darkness, or a bedwarfed, whinntng, grumbling soldier, that ought to be drummed out of the Lord's camp with the "Rogues' March." You have only just been launchel; the voyage is to be made. Earth and heaven and -tell are watching to see how fast you will sail, how well you will Weather the temp test, and whether at last, amid the shouting of ail gels vou shall come into the right hirbor. May God help me this morning to give yod three br foilr words' of Christian counsel, is I ad dress myself more especially to thoee who have just now entered the Christian life. My first word bf?.cpunsel is, hold before your soula very hagf model. Do not toy. "I wwh I could pray like that man, or speak like th:s man, or have the consecration of this one." Say: "dere is the Lord Jecns Christ, a perfect pattern. By that I mean. with God's grace, ?0 shape all my life." In other words, you will never be any more a Christian than you strive to be. If you build a foundation, twenty by thirty feet yon will only have a small house. If you build a foundation one hundred by one hundred feet you *ill have a4arge hoUse. If yod re Bolvetobe only a middling Christian yod will oiily be a middling Christian. If yod have no high aspiration in a worldly direc tion you will never succeed in business. If yoh have no high aspiration in religion^ things vou will never succeed in religion, f -You have a right to aspire to the very* highest style of Christian character. Prom your feet there reaches out a path of Christian attainment which you may 'tatai and I deliberately say that you may be a 'letter man tban was Paul or David or Summerfield or Doddridge ? a better woman than Hannah More or Charlotte Elisabeth. Why not? Did they hive * monopoly of Christian grace? Did;they have a private key to the storehddse of God's mercy? Dog* God shut you out from the gladness and goodness to which they were: introduced? Oh, no. . You have just the same promises* jvlsfc the same Christ, just the same Holy Ghost, just the same offers of present arid ever lastihg love, and if yod fall short of What they were -aye, if you do not cdme dp to the point which they reached and gO beyorid it ? ft is-not because Christ has shut you cmt from any point of moral and spiritual eleva tion, but because you deliberately refused to take it. I admit that man cannot become a Christian like that without a struggle; bat what do you get withoat fighting for it? The fortresse^of darknesrareto be taken bf^-1 storm. Yoir may by acute strategy flank l the hosts of temptation, but there are temp tations, there are eviis in. the way that you will baveito meet face to f^pe, and it will b^ Bhot for ehot, gun for gun, grip for grip, slaughter for slaughter. The apostle Paul over and over again represents the Christian life a3 a combat. **. "When the war vessel of Christ's church comes into glory bringing its crew and its passengers it will not come in like a North River yacht, beautifully painted and adorned, swinging into the boathouse after a pleasure eicrirfeion. Oh, no; it will be like a Vessel fi comidg with a heavy c*rgo from China or* India, the marks of the wave and the hurri cane upon it? sails rent, rigging spliced, pumps all working to keep ""her afloat, bul warks knocked away . 1 see such a vessel oomirig and get out my small boat and pu?h toward her, and I shout: "Ahoyi cabtain! What are you going to do with those shiv ered timbers? That was a beautraul ship when you went out. but you have ruined ir.' "Oh." says the captain, 41 1 have a fine cargo on board, and by this round trip f ^T^V-j^ade ten fortunes "' Sol'Seneve K. v^-b$"wtr*r^rChr#iUa?3' soul at last comes into the harbor 0* heaven. Jt will come bearing upon it the marks of a great stress of weatber. Yon can see by the very looks of that soul as it comes into glory that it was driven by a storm and dashed in the hurricane, but by so much as the vov age is rou?h, will the harbor be blessei, "If ye suffered with Him on fhrth, ye shall be florified with Him in heaven." Aim high. >0 not be satisfied to be like the Christians all aroilnd you. Be more than they have ever been for Christ. My s cond word of oounsel to those who have recently -entered upon Christian ltfe is. Abstain from all pernicious associations, and t ike only those that areus;ful and benefi cent. Stay out of all associations that would damage your Christian character. Take only those associations that will help you. A learned man said. "If I stay with that man Feneion any longer I shall get to be a Christian in sDite of myself." In other words there is a mighty power in Christian associations. Now what kipri of associa tions shall we. as young Christians, seek afterv I think we on ?ht to get into com pany better tban ourselve?~"hever going into company worse than ourselves. If we get into company a little Letter than ourselves and there are ten people in that company, tea chances to one we will be bettered . If we geft int > company a little worse than ourselves, an 1 there t>e ten people in that company, ten chances to one we will be made worse than we were before. C I do not -pretend to point out any evil in flueoices, but are there not some surround ing influences that are pernicious to your growth in grace1' Stand back from tbat fur nace in which so many young Christians bave been destroyed. T in this church there , is a large company of roung men and youn? women consecrated to Christ. I know of no better than they are. Young convert, I invite you into their friendship. Contact with them will elevate you. All bail, young followers of Jesus Christ, my joy and my pride! My heart thrills at every step of your advancement. I talked with you in tbat hour wb?o you most tried to break from sin, and now I re joice as I see you putting on the armor of a conflict in which God will rive vou oroeent ana everiastmg victory, stand off trom all evil associations. A man is no bet tar than tiie company he keeps. Go among' those who are better tha#you are and you will be i made better. Go among those who are worse than you are and you will be made worse. * My next word of counsel is that you be | actively employed. I see a great: many | Christians with doubts and perplexities, an I they seem t<3 be proud of tham . Their entire | Christian life is made tip of gloom, and they x ! seem to cultivate that spiritual despondency, when I will undertake to sav. that in nine i cases out or ten sjancuai despondency w * judgment ofGoi?upon idleness. Who are. the happy peop!j*iii the church to-day? The - busy peopR Show me the man who professes the religjon of Jesus Christ and is idle, and 1 w,il show you an unhappy man. The very first prescription th'it X give to a man wheo 1 Iilad bira full of doubts. and fears about hw ' tnerpnt luujresn. ts to go 10 wor* ror uoi . : Ten t-bonsan 1 voices are lifted up asking for ! your help. Go a*nd help. J a 1 1 have Another word of counsel to give I those who bave just entered Christian life, ! and that is, be faithful in prayer. You 1 might as well, business men, start out in tb#~ ? morning: withnofcfood and expect to be strong I a!l that day? you might as well abstain ! from food all the week and exoect to be ! ? ' * : ' strong bnvsioany, as to De stron; wttUouo 1 prayer. 1 he only way to get any strength f mto the soul Is bv prayer, and the only j 'iii^erence between tbat Christian that is i worth anything and that who is ^orth j nothing i*the lacttiiattbe last does not j pray and the other doe?. \ c An-I the only difference between tbi< } Cor -tinn, who is getting along very fast in ?j tne boiv life, and this, vrtto is only getting mr kOOUMptfOI I W oi l Chmtiai ant who ' at duty; and I wiB show 'n iTiianL Show me ? fflan who prtpk and his tiMgfll tad hit power cannot be exaggerated. Why. just give to a man this pO war of prayer and you gire him almost omnipotence. This afternoon you will see two Sabbath school tee nhira That one doe* not gain the attention other class. This one does. What IS the diffslinca between them, their total led* bebig about equal.- Dm first thought oily oMier own apparel. The otter came mm. peat prostration Before God izi earnest soppneatton, asking that God's mercy might come upon the school and that hi the after noon she might gain tbe attention o? t'aos* fire or six immortals that would bp ? round her. The one teacher ha> no control over her daw The other sits as with the strength of the Lord God Almighty . Another word of counsel I bare to gire Be careful in Bible research. A great many good books are now coming out. We can not read half of them. At every revolution of the printing press they are coming. They cover our parlor tables*, and are in our sit ting rooms afid libraries. Glorious books they are; We thank God ever? ddy for the work of the Christian printing press. But 1 Have thodght that per&nps the followers of ! Christ sometimes allow tais religiousntrr*? j tare to*, take their attention mml t^di's , Word, and that there may not bejw much Bible reading as there ought to be. _ . How is that with your own experience* Just calculate id your minds how much re ligious literature you have r^ai during tbe year and then how l*rze a uortion of th?5 * Word of God you have read, an I then con trast the two and answer within your own soul whether you are giving mora attention to the books that were written by the hau 1 of man (Mr that written by the hand of Go! . Now, you go to the ^rugstors and you get the mineral watery but you have noticed * that tbe waters are not so fresh or spark libg or healthful as when you get these very ifratete at Saratoga and Sharon? getting them right *here they bvbble from th-? rock. And I have noticed tbe sime thin? in re gard to the truth of the Ixospel; whiie ther^ is a good deal of refreshmenVagd health of the Gospel of God as it co:nw Kirougb goo J books, 1 find it Abetter when 1 eome to tbe eternal rock of God's Word an FQrink forth that fountain that bubbles up^fresh and pure to the life and the/efreshmeut aui fae health of the soul, Jr Read tbe Bible and it brings you into the association of the best people that ever live J. Toil stand beside Moses and learn nis mejk riess, beside Jot arid leard hi.- pitleuc*. be side Paul arid catch something of bis enthus iasm, beside -Cfcr.st arid you te3l His love . Arid vet How stiiarige it is' that a great many tried naye given their whole lives to the as saulting! or that book . I candot Uuderstad 1 it. Toii Paine worked against that book as though he received large wages and was in spired by tbe very power of darkness, cou fessing that all tne time he was writing he did not have the Bible anvwhere near him. How many powerful intellects have erideav ored to destroy it. Hume, BoKngbroke, Voltaire have been after it. Ten thousand men now are warring against the truth of God's Word. What do you think of them':' I think it is muao and will prove it. I will prove it is the meanest thing that has ever beeh done in all the centuries. There is a ship at sea and in trouble. - The ' Qiptairi arid tbe crew are at their wits' end! You are on board.' You are an old seaman. 11 You come up and give some good counsel, which is kiiidly token. That is all right * Bdt suppose, instead of doing that, in the midst of all the trouble,you pick up the only compass th^t is onboard drid pitch it' over the taff rail ? -Oh, you say, that is dastardly. But is $ as mean as this? H^re is the veesel of tbe world going on with eiajteen hundred millions of passengers, tossed and driven in the tempest, and at the time we want help the lnfiael comes and he takes nold of the only compass and he tries to pitch it over board. It* contemptible beyon 1 everything that is contemptible. Have you any better light? Bring it on if you have. Have you any better comfort to give us? Bring it on if you have. Have you any better hope' Bring it on if vou have, and then you ?nay have this Bible and 1 shall neve;* want it a t it I can think of a meaner tbid; than that, and that is an pld man going along on the mountains With ' a staff in one hand and a lantern in the other. Darkness has come bp, siiddenly. He is very old. just abia to pick his way out amid the* rocks and preci pices, leaning on bis staff with one han<i add guiding himself with tbe li jht in the other. You come up and say. "Ifcther, you seem to be lost. You are a'lon^pay fismr if&uje." "Yes," he replies- Ana then you take him by the hand at^lead him home. That Is very kind of you. But suppose instead of that vou should snatch tbe staff from bis hands ana nun it over tne rocks, ana snatcn the lantern and blow-it out? That would be dastardly, contemptible until there is no depth of contempt beneath it. If you have a better staff, give it to him. If you have a better light, give it to him . When God has out the staff of the Gospel iri OUr hands and the lamp of God's W ord to light our feet, are you going to take from us r our only support and our only illumination' I Iote the sting of the wasp and the rattle snake better than I do tbe man who wants td clutch the Word of God from my grasp. Cling to your Bible! If this flibie should be destroyed, if all th* Bibles that have ever been printed should be dettr oyed?-w e coul 2 make up a Bible right of this audience. From tnat Christian man's experience I take one cluster of promises, and from that old Christian tn&H^ experience another, 1 put them all together, and [ think I woU'd have a Bible. You see. my friends. I have not tried to |Bd> th^fact th3t. I have large expectation ' Ikf you who have entered the Christian life. Do not be discouraged. Press on toward the j*rt^?v.(Tod beside you and heaven before^ you. Keep your courage up. Look in thir?yu years from no v upon this church. Another man in the pulpit. Other face? in the news. Another man leading the soug. Others carrying arouud the alms boxes of the church. All ^hanged. Thirty years have gone and I look into the faces of the people, and I say: "Why, it- seems to me T have seen the** people somewhere, but I cannot exactlv sav where. Ob. ves. now 1 berin to think. These were tbs converts In 1891 and 1890. Why. how you have change I!'' "Ob, yes".'" they say, "of course we have changed. Thirty years makes a great change. I say "now many wrinkles there are in your "faces,? V ,lOb. yes," they sav. "thirty years make a great many wrinkle!-.'' "Have you kept the faith ?' "S'es. we have kept the faith. *' "vV'ber* are those peop'.e who used to sit in the [iew with you?" "All gone!" "Then 1 say, "Well, 1 feel lonely; come, let us sing one of th? o'd hymn ; w .?> used to siug thirty years ag). in 189?, on communion day. Any of you know toe ol I tune? Some one hum it. Ye-, that's it. that's it. Now. altog'tuer, let u< sin?, just as we did in l^M;: *? There is a fo mtun tWei vit.h H|<v> I. i>r*w!i trotn T-nmninel's vein*; And "?ionert? p.m;e ! 'wnvUn thV rt x>1 l.o?e all their guilty >?' The dyin? t ?le ' rej v ce I f.o * s-j Tha' fo'iotlin in hi? div. Amltaere may f, th ?a;i vil ? is he. Wash all iny ,<iq- aw??.'' 8'>me Curious Lobster*. Visitors to Portland Pier, Me. , who hap pened one day not Ion:* since to 3rop into the lobster house of Mr. Lewi* McDonald ? were favored with a view of a bright blu? j lobster which was caught off Cape Eliza- 1 beth by a Peak's Island fisherman. Th< color was decidedly different from tin green of the ordinary lobster. On th< back the blue was of that deep vxrietj ; that belongs to indigo, and toward thi 1 extremities and under parts shaded off U a fainter but 3till unmistakable tint, and thence into a pure white. The undei part of one of the claws iB almost a pur? white. The lobster is about elevet inches long. One claw is of full size, while the other is very small. It is said that one other blue lobster has beee caughto ff the cape this season, Mr. Mc Donald thinks of preserving the speci men. ^ He hao also a pure white lobster caught about rive year, ajo and pre served in alcohol, Mr. McDonald thinki It is the oy\s one ever ciught. Some of those who viewed the blu< lobster recalled other <jueer lobsters thii have t*en seen in Portland. Not looi agiW. S. Trefeihen had a lobster thai wjga,half green and half red. A. straight, perfectly distinct line ran trom head to tail along the luffck of the crustacean. Upon one side of the line the c?ilor w* a viv d irreen aa<l upon the other i bright red. The lobster wa's sent tc Prof^-sor Speucer Baird,ao J is now iu thi Smithsonian. ? Scientific American. A syndicate hss been formed in ?v<1 r:*r v . and an a^e'it dispatc:*e I i ? ? ? ? u- j.' -n up and permanent ?y esuoi??ii .1 m*. iStt for Australian h jr? .-a. ? ? % ? !'i ? * i :"4 I ; ? % wolf hounds to the ext?minttif%pr wolm, wWph^tfi of Ute been Mlignwnbtrt of ealfwgft* colt*. | j . j.. ??UhMCu'ilfCinl Br local application*, M they cannet ***$& *>? diseased portloa of thn ear. Thsre ts^nly on# way to cure deafnass^ind thai is by teggtitu tioual remedies. Deafness it caused bf fth ?? flamed condition of ^he mucous lining of tM Eustachian Tuba, when thie tube gets in flamed yon hare a jtanbling sound or lm feet hearing. and when It la entirely deafness Is the result, and unless tot - matlon can be taken out and this tube rt* stored to its normal condition, hearing will be deetroved forever; nine case* out of ten aft caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollar* for any Caaeof deafness icaused by catarrh1 that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. 6end for circular*, free. F. J. Cfrtkit * Go.. Toledo. .0. fcy?td '?> Dru^ist*. ?*-. Th? sponge industry of the Bahama M; ends erap'.ov? 500 boats and nearly 5000 men. Te Cleanse ??e lyitw Effectun'ly y#t geetly, when oostive or bil ious. or whdn the blood is impufe or sluggish, to permanently ewe habitual cobs' Ipitlot, to awakeii k'lnevt an i liver to a he ilthf activity, without irritating er weakening tliem, to dispel headaches, eold or fevers, use g\ run of Mrs. H ar**W nictttf says CorkhiU,of Pittsburg; ? the king of outfielder*. . . The Only One Ertr Printed. CAST YOU n*D IB* WORD? Jhese is a 3 inch display advenlsement In this paper, this week, which has no two words ali ie except one word. The same is troe of each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a 't>e scent" on everything they make and pub l?vh. Look for It. send them the name of the ' " BOOK, lEAUTt rttKE. *? ?.. 1 IVI 11, ecuu I. LlC Ul worqand tbey wih return you tft uithooraphs1 or pamplks Canada' 8 internal revenue far Utl 17,000,000, or tSOO.OOJ less than is 1M0, the decreii e from 9r?u its oeing oyer gl, 009,000. 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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isnao Thomp son's Eyo-water.DruggiaU sell at tto,per bottle Thousands Of dollars J spent trying to find a cure for Bill Rheum, which I had 13 years. Physicians said they never saw eo severe a cat*. My legs, back and arms were covered by (ha humor. I began to take HOOD'S 8AR8A PARILLA. and the mr. o. v. uerry. flej.fi became mor* heal th v, 1 1)?* sores soon healed, the scale* fell off, J \va? sinn able give up bandaje* and cratrlu*..?n<l a Itapuj man I ?m" 8. G. f>BR ry, 45 Bradford ?>trfet, Providence, R. I. \* HOOP'S PILLS euro liver lit*, conatlpa? Hon, biliousness, jaundioa and .*ick headsets^ ? had a malignant breaking out on my I below the knee, and was cured sound and w with two and a hrdf botilcs cf KS2R* Other bleed modicineahad failed ImSSSmI to do me any good. WlLI. C. J'eatv, VrtkWIJe.?.C TRflPf. I was troubled ffdti? childhood wl?.h nn *#? rravatcd oasecf Tetter, and threo t> ittlea oi cared ?n?!>ernianei?tljr. 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