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W*a*ll?r Lore of th^ Sai. Am??g the peopie of ail couutr:e3 and j ag*s, aay? the at. Loa is Republic, the sub's xedaoss oa rising or setting sai aiways oeen regarded aa omoioas. i hese notions have furnished material for ma .ny . proverb*. Aa ^id jEngiish adage in* forms as that ? l? red ttia sui twgias ofc riee, B? sure tbas raia will fail apa-2?. ' Even Christ alluies to the same popu lar Idea of the sua'tf color -and i? re-a* tioa to wet or dry weather, waere he j says (Mattiiew xvi.,, Z, 3>: "When ifc is evening, ye say, It will be clear weather : for the sky is red. And in the , moraiag, It will befoul weather to-day; : for toe sky " red and lowering." It ' may be remembered, too, how graph ically Shades peare puts forth this same proterb ia bis "Yeaus and Adonis:" LikaSTe^nora, that ever yet betolceaed WreBfctolhaseamin; temper tzrta^ dalds, Borrow to fche snaphard, woa aato taa s3irJs, Gttsa and foal flaws to the herdsmen and to ! herds. If we tarn to European observations wa find that the Italians says: "If the nora bo red, rain is at haad," aad, j again, 4ti( the sky be jed when the mora* ; an g star is shining, there will be r$in daring the week." As is well known, j however, a ted saa3et is just aa propit- j low aa a xed rising is unlucky ? ua red ?fcy at night being a shopaeri's de according to a saying very popular ' when *he writer was a child? Evirao^'red, molding gray, \ Sends the traveler on ha w*y. O Is Germany it is commonly said that "a red suaset and a gray rising sets the pilgrim a-walking.w At M ilt* the stable boy will toll you that "a red subset says: ?Oet your horse ready for to-morrow.' " la ^Richard III." Shakespeare gives a? r the same proverb in different word* : The weary sua hath tn*ie a ^oHea set, And, by She bright trac* of uti f k*y car, 6ivw token of a gooily day to-morrow, ' Indeed, therf are numerous proverbs on Jhis subject, all to the sams purpose, aa ancient Scotch rhyme being as foJL? "lows: The- evening rei aopd th8 morning gray V 1* a sign 0t "a bright an i ch<jsry day; J\ Evening gray and morning red Pot on your hat or you'll wat your haad. JLiberun Coffee The Liberian coffee is a species of - comparatively recent introducaioa to , commerce; It is a native of Africa, culti vated aod grown in Liberia. The plant is 01 larger and stronger growth than the Arabian; coflee plant, and the fruit is larger. It has beea Tej>orted as being more prolific than the ordinary coffee a plant, but according to Mr. Saunders, of *t4e Department of Agnculture, the statement has not been borne out ia Brazil and/ Mexico, where it has been tested. It ts also more tender than the oraer known species. ? New York World. ? KEi^ATIVE EXPENSE. A cettaia minister^ not a thousand miles from here, loves a dollar with a ?fc>*e iSection. Not long ago a young mairaskedhim how much he would chargc to marry a couple. "Weli," sfid the prjacher, "the bride groom pa?s what he pftaiies. but I never charge less than $ 50. ^ uWh?w:" exclaimed tho prospective' bridegroom. that's a good lot of money. I thought that kind of work went in with Toor regular salary.7 "Oh. ? no,'' explained the minister, "salvation is free, bfct it costs mcnoy to get nam^d.*-? [Detroit Frqf Press. * Mr. Oeo. W. Turner _ SIMPLY AWFUL Worst Case of $erofula the Doctors Ever Saw Completely Cured by HOOW9 8AM SAPABIZLA. "When I wm for 5 years old I had a scroful ous sow on the middle finger of my left band, which got so had' that the doctors out the fin ger off, and later took off more than half my hand. Then the sore broke oat on my arm, came oat on my neck and- face on both sides, nearly destwyina the sight of one eye, also on myngKtarm. Doctors said it tos the Worst Case of Scrofula they ever saw. It was simply awful! Fire yean ago I begazrto take Hood's Sarsapartila, Gradually I *>und that tffc sores were begin niag to beaL I kept on till I had taken ten Sot ten d6?!ar?! Jnst think what a return ' ?fgot.ror that investment ! A thousand percent"? Y?. many thou-an 'a. ntorthe past tyears i have tad no sores, I ? ^ Work all the Time. Before, I could do no work. I know not what to say strong enough to express my grat- ? vfqtfajto HoedV Sa:,saparilla for my perfect cum" Tvzs BR, Fanner. Gal wa<v, N. Y. Hearf'aPWs Go &7t aad tone tbe stomach. Try them. Sc. " - I lower tors seated me for Heart on 2 for Rheumatism, so *ood. I could not ?Mfe ry thing that I took itttotite Stoniixii dis tressed- me. I could not^slesp I had taken all" kinds of \yedkines. through ,a neighbor I \ot one exf y our books. I procured a/battle oljGpcU^s Aug ust Flower an.i ~ook 'M I aui :cj}ay fcearfiyaj^g&ong and eftjo^ a ? k Ifiuh. August Flower a w _ and gave in e myiealtb. Mis. SarakJ Cbx, Deuance, O. % \ !,*! ? . \m: ;i: """* Did you etcr see a sickly , baby with dimples ? or a heal-' Ay -one without them ? \ A thin baby is always deli cate. Nobody worries about ,a plump one^ ? If you caa get your baby phimp, he is almost sure to be well. If you can get him well, he is almost sure to be* plump. r The way to do both-,- there b but one way ? is by c.^e FUL GIVING. Soni?k {&?$ tbfS depends on Scott's Emulsion ot*co^fver ,-^T v We will 'sand you. a bbofc . ;oo?r;free. ? ? ? s' * > : . f: . ... . - ' cw: Sta ?- J Sfc^h^feAv? au, ? , 3* FORTUNES ON THE DOCKS; HEAP3 OF VALTTELBSS-LOOXIKG BTU77 WOBT* MILLIONS. Million* of Tons of Iron Ore Find Their Way to Lake Erie Port*? A Gigantic Industry. s T T >T"HEN the great trans porta \ \ J tion ball of the Columbian Y V Exposition next year ia -filled with representations ! of systems and methods of moving the ?world's products it w|H have a few, says a Cleveland (Ohio) lettef t^the New York Advertiser, tlat *111 'surpass in 1 unique and peculiar interest the sight that may be seen dailj at the ore ports of Lake Erie. The discovery of extremely rich and almost inexhaustible deposits of Bessemer ore ftr the Lake Superior districts s quarter of a century ago, as well &s rhore recently, has been followed by the growth of a commerce that is unrivaled of its kind ia the wbrld, and nowhere to-day will such mountains of rich ore be fopnd heaped riady for the trans forming fire of the furnaces*! at Cleve land, Ashtabula* Fairport and BuSalo and at South Chicago, on Lake Miehi gan. ; ' I - The o?, being less bulky than coal, can be carried farther than the coal in t'^e journey toward each other, so that btk little ore is reduced in the upper peainsula of Michigan. Much of it meets the coal at Qhicago and Cleve land, but the greater nart is carried to the Mahoning VaHey and Western Penn sylvania furnaces. As the lakes art open for navigation but seven months in the. year, it is necessary to find a storage plate for the ore requited to supply the furnaces during the winter months. As* c lofcdingly, at Cleveland, Ashtabula and Fairport mita of docks have been built, lining the narrow river* that put Into the lake at these points, a}d 'here, during the summer, is unloaded hundreds of thousands of tons of iren ore and gradu ally forwarded to the furnaces by rail. It is almost impossible ~to appreciate the magnitude of this great traffic with ont.a walk along the docks between great ranges of iron ore hills, thirty and forty feet ia height, ojjly a few railroad tracks separating them li)ce narrow val leys, and overhead a gr^at steel frame work of ore hoisting machines. The rattle of the steel buckets as they are raised from the holds of the great black hulled vessels by the i docks and go creaking on the cantilevers back to whatever point the engineer has electa^ to dump them startles one, and the stranger dodges in voluntary as they rash backward and fprward oeer his head. Half hidden behind tie ranges of Ted, brown orjgparkling gray ore, the colors varying with the qualities, is the pony engine operating each set of hoisting ? machines, puffing and: hissing away, f adding a familiar eletne^t to the strange scene. Now a train of fiat* cars comes creeping along, drawn! switch engine. In each by a snorting car are a dosen | fills of those great ton buckets, looking tike such a light load, as; compared with the heaping coal cars so iusual ia other t places, yet testing the strength of the gondolas, quite as fully. A red dust rises ind falls, and the laborers are covered with it. Their clothes are ocherous red, boots the color of the tactbark piles they knew as leather, and sw^at furrows are down their dusty faces and through the rus* tinged beards. The i unloading of a vessel at one of these docks is rapid workl All the lake 1 ore carriers have six and many of them | eight hatches, and when they come to | the dock a hoisting margin* is put to work in each. The great buckets are filled below, while the others are drawn up and emptied, sometimes being carried back on the overhead Railway of the cantilevers three hundred feet or more. , Thus it is possible to take*; two thousand tons ? enough to load one hundred and fifty ordinary flat cars ? fitom a vessel ia ; six or eight hours. Few persons can appreciate what 1,500,000 tons of -stare means without haying u put in some more familiar shape. ' The docks at thfe port, where that amount or more is received every year* have a river frontage of over two mi'es, aud are from 1501 to 285 feet I deep. Here is heaped hills of fine red and brown hematite, like se much ocher ous gravel, or the coarser lumps of sparkling gray magnetic j ore, varying . widely in quality and price| The casual observer as hf walks along can distinguish but four < r five, ot at most baif a dozen, grades of ore. But experts know that these iqc nense cubical ?"piles are strictly classified, aad that up : ward of eighty different 'grades have their place in the market liits. But how much is 1,590,(RKF tons of efel Loaded i on flat cars thirty-flvo feet long and carrying fifteen tons each ifc would make ! a train 700 miles long, or niore than five ; times the distance from Cleveland to Pittsburg! Yet this is but about one third the iron ore laid dcjwn at Lake Erie ports every summer] The total would^oure^than fill two trains of such | flat ?irs extending from ChrScago to New L YorVCity 1 r-| Besides this gTeat ore traffic, which annually amounts to $20,ooo|oo0 of more in mue, there is slapped from the ports o i Lake Erie an immense amount of coal, both anthiacite and bituminous, to Chi cago, Mitw^ukee^DuJuth and smaller points, where it is stored fyr shipment farther west during the winjter months. This requires a very different set of docks, and in extent they exceed the ore 1 docks. Cleveland leads in ihe amount of bituminous coal shipped, handling over 1,000,000 tons annually, The coal docks are over tVo miles in length, but narrow, and the ooai is usu ' ally loaded directly from the cars by uieans of derricks that handle great ? buckets holding half a ton or snore. The work is slower than that of Ijpading ore or unloading it, but a new {device has | just been erected here that fromises to } makes it easy to dump a whole carload ! into a vessel at once, and if It succeeds ? the work will be greatly Expedited. Without this the Cleveland pO^ka can handle 1000 ordinary carloads ot coal a day, and the total shipment* from the port each reach 70,000 cai Toads, or enough to make a train over 450 miles long*. Nothing could better illustrate the magnitude of these greai interests than 'that stupendous fact. Weathfrnfse P^ri-rts. Mr. L. M. Dej; trfjfce Philadelphia signal. service, under the direct on oi the "Weather Bureau, is making a Election of all the weatherwiseaaws andl wyinga current in the United State?. I Order? hare been issued to ail the weajther oh servers in the country to request the co operation of the pablic, and ask; all per v sogS familiar with such saying* j to send i ^thcm to the department. Wo en the I "collections is complete, an attempt will i- bet mad^io classife*-*!** r.mT?a?K^ ? i- be ma<V^class^H^e proverb-si on some 1 8cientificDal^aad they will be pub. ?ishe-i in a. big book. Mr. Dey toys thai in foreign countries the weather j author : ities hoid these popular sayings In great leapect, and mike a good deal of use of them in their prognostication* ? New Orieaos Picayune. I , ? ? ? 1 REV. DfL TALMAGE 1HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S W8 DAY SERMON. ; JF*? :, ^ **?* frrtat tiiy Bah* fon. thai Mt{ fhty city , /o* in on* hour is thy judgment comeF? Revelation xvni"., 10. Modern scientists are doing a splendid wort ic excavting the tomb of a dead em pire holding in its arms a dead city? moth er and child of the sane name, Babylon. j- 06 ancfent moon i invites the spades and shovels and crowbars while the unwashed look c? withrtrprise. tttese scien tial find yellow bricks still impressed with tee name >ebuchadnezz ir. and they go down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy bcried more than two thousand years ago. May the explorations of Rawiiaaoo ani Lay ardand ChetaSeif todOpperto and Loftus fee d Cheimey be eclipsed "by the ?resent j archaeological uncovering ' i But is it possible thia i? all that remains of Babylon ? a city once five times larger than London and twelve times larger than I*ew York? Walis three hundred and sev?x anty -three feet high and ninety-three feet thick ? -Twenty-five burnished gates on each side, with streets running 5lear j through to corresponding gates on the other ? Six hundred and twenty-five squares. I More pomp and wealth ani' splenic* and sin taan could be found in any five I modern cities combined. A city of pal *cea tod temples. A city having within wa garden on an artificial hill four hun high, the sides of the mountain terraced All this built to keep the king's Amytis from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Eu pkrates spouted up to irrigate this great ?Jtitude into fruits and flowers and arbo rescence unimaginable. A great river run1 ning from north to south clear through the dty. bridges over it, tunnels under it. boats on it. A city of bazaars and market places, uu I rivaled for aromatics and unguent*, and high ratttled horses with groom"! by their aide, and thyms wood, ani African ever green, and Egyptian linen, and all styles of costly textile fabric, ajsd rarest purples ex tracted from shellfish on the Mediterranean coast, and rarest scarlets taken from bril liant insects in Spain, and ivories brought from successful elephant hunts in IndiV and diamonds whose flash was a repartee id the sun. ? Portress Within fortress, embat tlemeet Hsing above em battlement. Great capital of the ages. But one night, while honest citizens were asleep, b?t all the saloons of saturnalia were in full blast, and at the king's castle tfiey had filled the tankards for the tenth time, and reeling and guffawing and hies coughing around the state table were the rulers of th& land. General Cyrus ordered his besieging army to take shovels and spades, and they diverted the river from its usual channel into another direction, so that the forsaken bed of the river became she path on which the besieging army en tered. ; . When 1 he morning dawned the conquef jrs were inside the out iide trenches, BaBy ion had faiteh, and, henc6 the sublime threnody of the text : "Alas, alas, that great 4ity df Babjlon, that mighty city, for in one four is thy judgment come r But do Nations die? Oh, yes ; there is great mortality among monarchies and republics. They are like In dividuals m the fact tfeat they are born; they iave a middle life; the^ have a decease ; they have a cradle and & grave. Some of them ?re assassinated, some destroyed by their own hand. Let me call the rofl of some of the dead civilizations and some of the dead d ties and let some ofie answer for them. Egyptian dyilizition, stand up. "Dead!" toswer the ruins of Karnak ana Luxor, and from seventy pyramids on ths east side of the Nile there comes up a great chorus cry ing, "Dead, deadi". Assyrian Empire, stand ap and answer. "Dead P' cry the charred ruins of 21 ineveh . After six hundred year of magnificent opportunity, dead. Israel - itiah kingdom, stand up. After two hun dred and fifty years of divine interpositions and of miraculous vicissitude and of heroic behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead, Phoenicia, stand up and answer. After-in venting the alphabet and giving it to the world, and sending out her merchant cara vans in one direction to Central Asia ^ an) , sanding out her navigators to the Atlantic Ocean in another direction, dead. Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which theTyriah fisherman dried their nets all answer, "Dead Phoenicia." Athens, after Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Miltiades, dead, Sparta, after Leonidas, after Euri after Salamis, after Thermopylae, dead.- Roman empire, stand up and answer ?empire once bounded by the British Chan nel on the north, by the Euphrates on the <?st, by the great Sahara de3ert in Africa oh the ?mtb, by the Atlantic Ocean on the : *eat; home of three great civilizations owning all the then discovered world that was worth owning? -Roman empire answer. Gibbon in bis "Rise and Pall of the Roman Empire" saya, 'Dead?' aud th/7 forsaken seats of the ruined Coliseum, ana the skele ton of the aqueducts, aui the miasma of the Campagna, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge T riumphalis, and the Mamertine prison, holding no more aposJolic prisoners, and tht silent Forum and Basilica of Constan tine, and the aTeh of Titu?. an I the Pantheon co ne ia with great chorus, crying "Deai, dead." After Horace, aftfcr Virgil, after Tacitus, after Cicero? dead. After H-jratus on the bridge, and Cincinnatus. the farmer oli ofTjrr V-\ n ryav n ftfir Hpinio Rftflr Cassius, after Constan tine, after CsBsar? dead. The war eagle ?f Rome flew so high it was blinded by the &tin and cams whirling down through the heavens, and the owl o? desolation and darkness built its nest in the forsaken eyrie. Mexican empire? dead. French empire dead. You see, my friends, it is no unusual thing for a government to perish, and in the same necrok>?v of deal batons an I in the same zraveyird of expire! govern nents .will go the United States of America unless there be some potent voice to call a halt, ani unless Gol in His mercv inter feres, ani through a purified fc allot box and ?u widespread public Christian sentiment the catastrophe be averted. This nation is about to goto the ballot box to exercise to 3 right of suffrage, and I propose to set be?ord you the evils that threaten to i destroy the American Government and to annihilate American institutions, and if God will help me I will show yen before I get through the mode in which each ani every one may do something to arrest that appalling calamity. And I shall plow up the whole field. The first evil that threatens the annihila* tion of our A met ican institutions is the fact that political bribery, which once was -con sidered a crim-*, has by many come to be considered a tolerable virtue. Tnere is a legitimate use of money in elections iu the printing of political tracts, and in-fche hiring of public hall?, and in the obt uningG^gani paign oratory, tut is there any homuncuTh* who supposes that this vast amount of money now being raise! by the poiitic.il parties is going in a legitimate direction? The vast majority of it will go to buy votes. Hun.iredsand thousands of ;n ? j w,l'. h iv^ set before them so much money f>r a Re publican vot>, and so muc'.i raonev for a Deoiocrat.c vote, ani the superior financial inducement will decide the action \ou want to know whica party will carry th doubtful States day after tn-aorroW'' 1 wi]itell you. The party that speeds the most money. This moment, while 1 sp^aV tne peddlers carrying gold from Wall street, gold from Third !<tree\ goTcT from State street, and gold from tne Brewers' associa tion are in Till the-politiesl heaiquartsrs of the doubtful State;, dealin- out the infa mens inducement . There used to be briber/; but it hSd its head in shame. It was unler the utm^.t i secrecy that many years a^o a railroa 1 company bougjRt np the Wisconsin le^is lature and) many otner public officials m that Stated The Governor of the Stats at tbat time ret?ir?d ^3 ).0>1 for his s;en> twe. His private secre ?ry received 15000. fPMrteen members of the Senate received [ 1175,000 among them m bond*. Sixty \ member* o? the other boas* received* from t&50G to $L0,OOOflecb. The Lieu tenant>Gov- j army received $10,00>1 T be clerks of the hcuae received from $oQ>3 to ?10,000 each. The bank comptroller received $10,000. ! Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars J I were divided among the lobbyists. Yon ?ea j tK? railroad company was very generous \ \ E^: all that was hidden, an 1 only through ' i the severest scrutiny on the part of a legis- ; lative committer was this iniqaity displayed. ; Now political bribery defies you, dares you, j is arrogant, and will probably decide" the election next Tuesday. Unless this diabolism ceases in this coun try Bartholdi's statue on Bailors Island, with upitf tad torch to light other Nations into tto harbor, had better be changed ani ; the torefa dropped as a symbol of universal mwniiarism: - [ Unless this purchasa and sale of snffragj shall cease the American Government will j expire, and you .might ns Weil be getting ! ready the monument for another dead Na- i tion and let my text inscribe upon it thesa words, "Alas, alas, for Babylon, that great j city, that mighty city, for in one hour is j thy judgment co.neT My 'frieedf, if you j have not noticed tnat political bribery is j one of the ghastly crimes o* this day, yen ? have not kept your eyes ope*. Another evil threatening- ths dastractio.i of Amiricen ia-titutioas is the solidifying of the aectioss arairwc each o&her. A sc*tl oortl". ' A sol id 'South. If ttiis s\>es on ^e.j "daKlldOh^tet ? ?ooa Kentucky It is ( twenty .?ev?c iatigootooi 'fitatt rtfhif.iT ? ? -r~ iB tfaf gA^SS ^?^?p "? or ttree POM po !?f f?nao4 exist ,aaJass ??sts as one body, the National Capita', the out through all the arteries of w:nmttnx?tion vfarmth and life to the Terr SHS? 11U* Nation exist Uh- I i~rf^ 44 ??e fam:J7. and yon mizht as weL hare solid brothers against solid ilJrT5, a5^ * ??d bfead tray ajayiit a ?o-id cradle, and a solid nursery against k wi room, and you mi?bt as well tare solid earj against solid eye sT an i solid -J tod against solid foot- What is the inter ne of Georgia ? the interest of Massachu setts; what is the interest of New York is the , tofirert of Soctb Carolina, Do??tl? ^10 River change its politics when it eets below Louisville? It is not possible for these sectional antagonisms to continin for s great many Years with permanent cotri ponnd fracprov / Another bvII threatening the destruction or our American institutions is the low state of public morals. 2!2Li.depr**ity' &ni Aa fraud. and the drunkenness, and the leohery which have destroyed other Nations will destroy ours nntess a merciful Got prevent. To shov you the low state of pablia morals I hare to Sail your attention to the fact that man? 1?J offlcSi ia different Btat? at different time* are entirely unfit ror the postaons for which they hare be*n nominate 1. * They have no more qualification for fched than a wolf has Qualification to be professor of pastoral theology in * of sheep, or a blind mole has Qualification to lecture a class of.eagles on optic?, or than a vu'ture has qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere pronunciation of some of their names makes a demandfor carbolic acid an t fu uigatbn' Yet Christian men will follow risrht under , the political standards. I bare to tell ybrj wo*t yoii know alreAiy that American politics have sunken to such a '?w depth that there is ncfthing be neath. What we sea in some directions we see in nearly all directions. The pecula tion and the knavery hurled to the sur face by the explosion of banks and busi ness firms are onry specimens of great Co StciMBOolis of wickedness that bCu atid roar and surge beneath, btit have not regurgitated to the surface. W hen the heaven descended Democratic Pvty enacted the Tweed rascality it seemed to eclipse everything but after awhile the heaven descended Republican Party outwitted pan defflonium with the star route infamy My friends, tfe have In this country people who say the marriage institution amounts to Nothing. They scoff at it. We hav" people walking in pdtite parlors in our diy whoare not good enough to be scavengers m Sodom ! I went over to San Francisco ten or fifteen years ago-that beautiful city, tnat queen of ^Pacific. May the blessmg or uod come down upon her great churches and W* npble men and women! When I got mto the city Bf San Francisco the Mayor of the city and the President of the3o?rd of Health called on me and insisted that I go and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt so that on my return to .the Atlantic coast I mi^ht bell what dreadful people the Chinese But 6n the last Uight o i my stay in ksh Francisco, before thousands people in their great opsra house, I said, "Would you f hke me to tell you just what I think, plainly and honestly*" They said, "YeCyei ] yes. I said, "Dp you think von jt 8llr 1*e-7 "Yes, y? yes: "Then 'I said, ".ny opinion is that the curse of Sen Francisco is not your Chinese quarter, but your millionaire liber tines I?, And two of them sat right l*fore me Fehx and Drusilla. And so it is in all ths cities. I never swear, but when I see a man go unwhipped of justice, laughing oter his shame and Calling his da mnabW deeds ?U lantjt and peccadillo, I am tenipted to hurl rea hot anathemfa and to conclude that if according to some people's theology, there is no hell, were ought to be I There is enou ;h out and oat Hcentioasnew m American cities to-day to hring down uponthem the wrath of that Gou who. on j -d August, 79. buried Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep in as ies that the eight sen hunared and thirteen subsequent years iave cot been able to complete exhumation, ihere are in some of the American eities to lay whole blocks of houses which the au thorities know to be infamous, and yet by purchase they are silenced by hush money, so that such piacas are as much under the defense of government as public libraries and asylums of mere. i These ulcers on the Dody politic bleed and gangrene awa> the life of the Nation, and public authority in many of the cities looks i the other way You cannot cure such"' wounds as these with a silken bandage. You will have to cure them by putting ^jeep in the lancet of moral .surgery, ana burning them out with the caustic of holy wrath, and with most decisive amputation cutting off the scabrous and putrefying abominations. As the Romans were after the Celt?, an i as the Normans wera atter the Britons, so thera are evils after this Ration wbica w;il att 'ud its obsequies un? less we fir?t atten \ th Mrs. Superstition tells of a marine reptile the qrb-icb enfol<lei ani crushed a if? when I ?!/v.that the, hlstoi7 of many of the J>r?C'?ms to us the fact that cur ship of state is in danger of beinjr 5S5tr cvfc6 c?Ph9i?P^r a Of National ' , , ^ here the Hercules to elay this hydra. it not time to speak -by pen bv h?l0? "?x? ^ the ro^*ng of the prison door , by h&mrman's hiafter, by earn est prayer, by Sinaitic detonation? I ' a,?.1 vn 0,\King Crce us is 8aid to' have been dtim^an 1 to have never ntterefii word un ra he sa^v his fatuer being put to death. Sfl ?ef0ru? e,, shackles of silence and cr'e.l cu . X-'l not mv father Cro?sn?P* When j see the cheatery and wantonness an 1 the mamfoid crime of this country at tempangto commit patrici le? yea, matri th?M U?<l"^Uulastlturions' ifc S3ern,i m I f t!a . t)fnre have dumb to^of^p^"930' with J want to put all of the matter before wm' k?no^t ?Verjvh0nest man an1 ^oman 5? JU ? '^tters stand, and A * ?U?nt t0 do>4f th?y vofce, and .at they ou^ht to do if they pray. This Nauon is not goin-: to perish. Alexander ^vide5eMai*d1Cfthe wealth of the- Undies', divided Macedonia amon? his ?o>di??M hfmWf1* a5?al hifn what ^ ha 1 k?Pt for ' AaD<! ^8.repUe3' "A am keeping hope. An i that jewel I keep bright and shining in mv soul, whatever else I shall WlT?i ^P9.^ in'^od. He will set back these oceanic tides of moral devasta f?U ? kanw what i$ the Fiz* tor nHi?^K-en on is to-day? It is the p. >2e 0i this continent Nev^r since, according to John Milton, wben "satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down," have the powers of darkness been so determine i to win this continent as tbey now. are. What a jewel it is? a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet ! On one side of us the Atlantic Ocean, dividin ; us from the wornout Gov ernments of Europe. On the otlnr side the Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the super stitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic Se9. which is the gymnasitfm in which the explorers and navigators develop thetr courage. A continent 10,50) miles long, ir, ooo, <100 squire mile*, and all of it but V, u,. or no;, ouitiv*. ?:? -j>V' ? i\ '' I-. ? j( TLk ron's wooora Banker-^ lo you want to marry my daughter, Baron? "Well, all I can say is that I will ; hot consent to her marriage vsifh any rnian who is not f&e from debit t Baron? You are quite right; sir, and. if I am assured of yoilr sanction on those cond.vons, I am quite ^ady to wait until I am free from debt. \ Banker ? Really! In tharcafio my young eft daughter will just suit^you. She is three years old and can wait several years for von THB DOG MUST BE PUZZLED. < ''*1 don't see how you can treat your landlady's ugly dog so ' kindly when he sticks his nose^ into your plate at din ner/' I" Y 4iOh, I nierelMo it for appearances soke. She sees roe patting him gently on the head, but she doesn't knowty^L at the same time I t\m kicking him under the table." \ 7 , 'i " OljfBECOND THOUGHT, - .Tack? When she declined me I threw i'he engagement ring away in a rage. Tom? TYh?t do you mean } j-ek? Welt I "put it in my pocket. That's wherJ my rage was. She wss rich. ? 'Xew York Herald. ' ' i I j ? . ^ <? t i ? i jvj The last year has been the most prosperous/^ the Sixty-five years of The Companion's history. It has now o^r 550'000 subscribers. This support ep^les it to provide more lavishly than ever for 1893. Only a partial list vv of Authors, Stories and Articles can be given here. *? ! b \ i ? i - . ? i % ! ?' ? - . V i j Prize Serial Stories. 4 The Prizes offered for the Serial Competition of 1892 were the Largest ever given by any periodic First Prize, $3,000. Larry; "Aunt Mat's'' Investment and its Reward; by ? Miss Amanda M. DcUflas* Second Prize, $1,000. Armajo; How a very hard Lesson was bravely Learned; by Charles W. (Sarke. Third Prize, $1,000. Cherrycroft; The Old House and its Tenant; by Miss Edith E. Stow? (PitoDfie Wcjsley). Fourth Pri2e, $1,000. Sam; A charming Stary of Brotherly Love and Self-Sacrifice; by, MiSS M. 0. McClelland. . SEVEN OTHER SERIAL STORIES, during the year, by C. A. Stephens, Homer Greene and others# The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw, will be described in graphic language by Officers of thie^Vmted States Army and by famous War Correspondents. t ? General John Gibbon. General Wesley Merritt. Captain Charles King. / Archibald Forbes. 4 ; ? . r i . . ? Great Men at Home. How Mr. Gladstone Works; by hi* daughter, j Mrs. Drew. Gen. Sherman in Ws Home; by Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch. Gen. McCIellan ; byhwson, aeorge E^lcCiciian. President Garfield ; by W? d?o|htcr, Mrs. MoUy Garf^ld Brown. Your Work in Life. : . 1 1 , r . *.i .i\ ! What are you going to do? These and other similar articles may offer ^ou some suggestions. Journalism as a Profession. By the Editor-in-Chief of the New York Tiftie% Charles R. Miller,. Why not be a Veterinary Surgeon? An opportunity for Boys ; by Dr. Austin Peters. * In What Trades and Professions is there most Room? by Hon. R. P. Porter. Shipbuilders Wanted. Chats with great shipbuilders on this Subject j by Alexander Wfcijiwright. Admission to West Point; by the Supt. of U. S. Academy, Col. John M. Wilson. Admission to the Naval Academy ; by Lieut. W. F. Low, U. 5. N. Young Government Clerks at Washington. By the Chief Clerks of Six Departments. ? - \ : I ^ * J / Things to Know. What is a Patent? by The Hon. Carroll D. Wright A Chet With Schoolgirls; by Amelia E. Barr. Naval Courts-Martial) by Admiral S. B. Luce. Patents Granted Young Inventors j by U. S. Com. of Patents. The Weather Bureau; by Jean Gordon Mattill. Newly-Married in New York. What will $i.ooo a yetr do? Answered by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher and Marlon Harland. \ ? Over the Water. How to See St. Paul's Cathedral 5 by Th$ Dean of St. Paul, Windsor Castle. A picturesque descriptioq by The Marquis of I. erne A Glimpse of Belgium. The American Minister at Brussels A Glimpse of Russia; by The Horn Charles l=mory Smith Adventures In London Fogs; by Charles Dickens London Cabs. "Cabbies;" their "hansoms." Charles Dickens, Jr. A Boy's Club In East London. Frances Wynne i7 Short Stories and Adventures. K ?:> * JF . .. I j # ! . L ' ' f ' Mote than One Hundred Short .Stories and Adventure Sketches will be fiven in the vohme for 1893. Knittln' Susan. In the Death Circle. A Monntalnville Feud. Mrs. Parshley's First Voyage. Bain McTickePs "Vast Doog." yMT'AM# Mariner. Uncle DanTs WIH. Oil the Hadramaut Sands. An April First Experience. Riddling Jimmy, and other stories. Quality's Temptation. A Bad Night in ia Yacht. Leon Kestrell : Reporter. Uncle Sim's Clafc-voyancc. How I Won my Chevrons. W. J. Bakfer, A A Boy'E Proof that he was not a Coward; by The Cats of Cedar Swamp. Strong "Medicine." The amusing e Sect of a brass instrument on a hostile Indian; by Cftpt. D. C. Kingman, U. 5. "How I wrote Ben Hct* by Gen. Lew Wallace, opens a series, "Behind the Scenes of Fajbous Stories." Sir Edwin Arnold - writes three fascinating articles on India. Rudyard Kipling tells the "Story of My Boyhood." A series of practical articles, the World's by Director-General Davis and Mrs. Potter Palmer, will be full of valuable hints to those who go. ,;Odd House keeping in QueerTTaces" is the subject of half a doren bright and amusing descriptions by Mr?. Lew Wallace, Lady Blake, aruLcthers. All the well-known features of The Companion will be maintained and improved. The Bditoriala will be impartial explanation! of current events at home and abroad. The Illustrated Supplements, adding nearly one-half to siie of the paper, willTe continued. FREE Send This Slip with $1.75. To any New Subscriber who will cat oat and send us this slip with name and address and $1.75, we will send The Companion Free to Jan. 1, 1893, and for a Full Year from that date. This offer Includes the Double Holiday Numbers at Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Easter and Fourth of July. The Souvenir of The Companion illustrated in colors, 42 pages ; describing the Few Building, tcilh all its 10 departments, uri!l be sent on receipt of sir cents, or Free to any one requesting it tcho sends a subscription for one year. 45 to 1803 Specimen copies sent frte on application. The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. Sen4 0>i i or r?tl Of,ce Order r*l cur risk. Bow's This f We offer One Hundred Dollar* reward {of any case ot catarrh that cannot as cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Curs. F. J. Chenev & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, nave known F. J. r Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him ? perfectly honorable in all business transac tions, and financially able to carry out any ob ligations made by their firm. West & Tru ax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, - 0. Waldino, Kinnan & Martin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. In India there is a species ol crJw that laughs just like a human being. Browits iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma laria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves? crea*e* appetite. The best tonio for Isursing Mothers, weak women and children. Fourteen logs, each sixteen feet longf were cat from one sugar pine tree, felled la?t winter inJhe_Sierra Jtott&talria. in Olden Time* People ^overlooked the importance of per manency beneficial effects and were satisfied with transient action, but now that it is gen erally know that Syrup of Figs will perma nently cure habitual constipation, well in formed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but finally injurs tne system. Last year 3,000,000 books were issuec to the people of London from the fret libraries. Beecham's Pills cost only 25 ceatsabox. They are proverbiaiJy known throughout the world to be "worth a" guinea a box." Durable brick, formed of chipped granite and clay, is a recent Scottish in i . * / veation. The Only On* Krvr Printed. CAS TOD 1T>*D THX WORD? These is a 8 inch display advertisement is , this paper, this week, which has no two words Lali<ecxcept one word. The same is trnejor ?w one ~ xuo MltUO <p VTIAO VI ne appearing each week, from The "ledlclne Co. This house places a word and they will return you book, axAtm TCL Ll5?OaRAJ>? Or SAXPLES FiUUL A field of corn in Kansas i<? reported s to hare g^own thirty-nine inches in; fifteen days. >?' - ( ! If afflicted with sore eyes Qpe Dr. Isaac Thomp i ten's E yet water. Druscists sell at 25c. per bottle ? i L Florida jilver half dollar of 1760 ii worth |10. ? 'i IV. " . 1 A J L \| Jfcffclllftfl Morphia* HabtSTwred in 10 I 0P1UI Dlt?4. Lebanon ,Ofc to SHIL0H3 CURE. C^rcsCor^inpU?,?M?h?, CrtWp, Sore Throat* Sold by jtH Droggists en a Grmaatec, Ptt* R?m*!y for Cstafrh to Am Bat. Tflwf to ITeevsnjTcbMMt ?* -Sold by or ?*ct by mall. E. T Hareltfc*, Warren, Pa. Burled iu State. Professor Wesselowski has difcovered in the neighborhood of Simferopol a Bcythian grave. The corpse, probably of a military leader, lay on its back, the [ head directed to the west. A cap on the head had a gold ornament, and plates of1 gold ornamented the dress. Near the head of the corpse stood two amphoras, and against the wall was a leathern quiver with copper-hesdcd arrows. On I one side lay a coat of s.rms and a rusty I iron sword. At the feet were still more rusty lances, four amphoras, and the bones of an ox, close to which lay an iron knife. The quiver was ornamented with a large piece of gold-plate excel- ! lently worked. It represented a flying ?agle holding an animal, perhaps a sa ble, in its talons. The skeleton of the corpse fell to pieces at the slightest touch. The grave is believed to belong to the second or third century B. C. At ! Novellara, near Pesaro, Professor Gamu rini has discovered a burial-place of the eighth century before Christ. Eighty skeletons have so far been excavated. They are all of exceptional size, being between five feet eleven inches and six feet six inches. The skull is dolichoce phalou*, and the teeth extraordinarily strong, white, and well preserved. Bronze ornaments, lances, and also or naments in amber are numerous. The | skeletons all lie on their right sides, and | are in a cramped position. Professor > Gamunni thinks the skeletons are Etrus can, and that he will be able to prove that the Etruscans had commerce with the Phoenicians.? Pall Mall Gazette. ? m I , How Plants Feed. / Plant nutrition ii carried out through the agency of the rodt, stem and leaves; the root absorbing foodstuffs, the stem circulating and the* leaves elaborating them. Plants, like animals, assimilate their food ? that is, convert the sub stances on which they*eed into their | own substance, but whilt ^e animal I feeds mostly on organic or al^dy living i matter, the plant builds up its living ' tissues directly from inorganic materials. The leaves are the chief organs of assimi lation in plants. Therein the fluids cir culate and are exposed to the action of light, and to the influences of the chloro [ pbjU, or jjreen coloring matter, whereby carbon, obtained from the carbonic acid ' of the air, is fixed, and the oxygen given off. This carbon goes to form the solid ["tissues of the plant, and the elaborated sap largely owes its nutritive and forma tive powers to the chemical actions in virtue of which carbon has been added to it in the leaf structures.? Yankee, Blade. ADVANTAGE FOR ONE. She ? Well, if I can't live on my in come, and you can't live on yours, where would be the advantage in our marry ing? ? He (thoughtfully* ? 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