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rev. dr. talma gl TEE BROOKLYN DIVINES >l*N I DAY S?kMON. T zXt: Presnj.mfjf.uous are they, self' toilled; they are not a ft did to speak ex ii . cf diQwJ.ie*? ? II P?ter ii.. SO. Arm ag a most repreheosibse ere -v Peter ?here painte by one stroke the portrait of those who delight toslasn at peoole in au thority. Now we all have a r.^ht to criti cise evil behavior, whether :n bijh places or Jow, bat the fa<it that one is hi^h up is do proof that he ought to be brought down. ' It ia a bad streak of human nature now, as it was in the time o? the text a bad streak ?f human nature, that success of any kind excites the jea;ou3 antipathy or thosa who cannot <iimb the same steep. Thf-re never was a David on the throne that there was not some Absalom who wanted to get it There never was a Christ oat the world ha i saw and hammer ready to faalrion a cross on which to assassinate Him. Out of this evil spirit yrow not oniy indi vidual but national and international def amation. To no country has more in ju-ftice l>een done than to our own in days that are past. Loiag before "Martm Chnzziewitf'' w* p-rinted the hteratuf*: of tbe wori 1 1 at everything Arner.cac. V:clor Hu,'o, as honest as be was uaeqaaie i ii literary power, wtf?so misinformed concerning Amer ica that be wrote: "ii-e mo-t Ihiu^ .9 the n?>d of whittling, wirh which all Americans are pos.- -?se 1- it is s|jca that on Jb'tfriday they i?!Ve r,i<s sailors little bits of wood, b^Ciuie if tiiey did not t bey woui'I whittie the ship. In court, at ths m^st critical moment, tbe j ?i ? -'?*. whittling, say-; ? 'Pri.?o ner, are you Kuist'v '? a-: i the a-: -us * i tranquilly respond*, wait'ling, *1 am not ? guilty.' 'r Lord John Russell calls I tis "a bubble bursting nationality." Bat our o vuutry ha at last recovere* 1 \iorn >ucli c tr;oatur.\ an I theie is not a streeVm any city of Europe r>r Asia where tbe v*>r I "AmericV will n -t w n deference. BuAt'iereisu sister nation on the other sice ^kthe .sea now going through the proc^^Mn'Htfernnliomil de &ur ation. There is hofrountry on earth so mi> under.-stood as Ru-^ia, and no mouarch mor ; misrepresented than- it3- emperor. VV ill it N not be in'the cause of justicj if I try to set right the min is o' tins* wbo compose this august assemblage and the minds of those to whom, on bcth sides of the ocean, these words shall come? If the slander of one oerson is wicked* then the slander of on~: aundred and twelve million people is one hundred and twelve million' tiuies more wicked. In the name of rigateousnos?, an 1 in be half of civiiizition, and for the entourage m?ct of all those cool people who- have neen disheartened by the seandaliZition of Russda^fnow speak. But Russia i3 so va^t a sfroject that to treat it in oae discourse is cikfe attempting to run Niagxra Falls over ? ode mid wheel. Do not thmx that the verv 'naked courtesies extended me by the em peror and empress of Rus-ia have comp i raented me into the advoc^y of that em pire, for I shall present you' authenticate 1 facts that will revecse your opinions if they have been aa$agonistic, as mine were -re versed. t I went last summer to Russia with as many baleful prejudices as wonl I nia'ce an avsancbe from the mountain of fabrication which has for years been heaped up 'against that empire. You aa chow is it possible that such appalling misrepresentations of Russia couki stand? ' I wc-it^py iha fact that the Russian language is to aloii an impa. sable wall- Malign the U nK^l a States or" malign Great Britain or Garmany or France, and by 'the next cab!e>^m the falsehood is exposed, for we al! un le;"^and English, and many of our peooie are famiHur wiw German and' French. But the ?U*sfcin language, beautiful and easy to those bc^;: to speas it, is to most vocal organs an up pronoun cab. o ton^nte, and i at St. PettfTi ourg or Moscow any anti-Russian caiumny were denied tbe most of the world outside -ni Russia would never see or hear the denial.^ What are the motives for misrepresenta tion? Commercial interest and interna tional jealf/tuiy. Russia ?s as large as all ? the rest or Byrope put together. Remember that auction is onlv a man or a woman on a I ?^&de. Go into any neighborhood of America and as* the physician wao ha^ a unaii practice what he tainks of the physi cian who haw a large practice. Ask a lawyer who nas no briefs what hetbinirsof the law yer wbo has three rooms fiiied with clerks trying In va>n to transact tbe superabundant business that comes to him. A"*k the minis ter who has a very limited au iience what hff thinks of the' minster who has over flowing audiences. ^ Why does not Europe like Russia? Be \ cance she has enough acreage to swallow all \ Europe ami I eel soe had only hak' a me.il, ?~Y -"Bxm la is as ?ong as !Xorta an t South America put together. "But,1' $ay.^ so:ne one, "do ;j you mean to charge the autaor and tbe tec turers who have written or spoken ag un^t Kcsna with faiseboo .if* By iio means. Yon can find ia any city or nation evils innumer able if you wish to discourse about tbem. I said at St. Petersburg to the most emi nent la<fcr oC Russia outside of the im^-ria! famiiy^U.re those stories o? cruelty and outrage tint I wave heaivl and read about true?" She re >iied* "No doubt some of theen are cru'-, .>ut do you net in America ever have officers of Ice law cruel and out rageous in their, treatment of ot?er?ders? -Do vou not have instance > where tko police wive c abbed inncc.-nt, person*? H iva you nc instances where people in br^-: authority act arrogantly;-" I r'eoiied, "Yes, we do.n Tben she said; "Waydo-s ti; world ho.d our government responsible for exceptional outrages? As soon as an officii! is foun I to be cruel he immediately loses his place."' Then I bethought myself. Do tbe oeople in America hold the Government of ~ Washing ton responsible for the Homestead riots or lor railroad insurrection?', or for the torch af^^vUHan that consumes a block o' for t ie ruffians wbo arrest a rail ing the passengers hold up the;r .. the pockets are picke i? Why, th?n hoM the emperor of Russia, who is as impJressriveand geoia.^a inan as I h ive ever ? looked at or talke I with, responsible for the wrongs epacie i in a nation with a popula tion twice as large ia nu nber> as the mil - vtns of America? Suppose oue raon Vch m &trope ruled over England, i'c ?uian I, Ire ani, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Aus tria, Norway ann Sweden. Would it be fair to-boid the monarch re ? sponsible for all that occurred in that raishty dominion? Now voa must remem i ber tbit Alexander the Tnird reigns over wider dominion than ail taose empiree put together. As a nation is only a man or a woman on a big scale, let me .ask, would individually prefer to bo ju ige 1 by your fault; or your virtues? All poodle except c ur serr^/oatve faults. The pes3tot?w?. attemotin:: to write your biography wouli m, >ocjr weiaker moods, and the picture of you on the tirst page of your biography wouid bo as yon looked after sO:ne meanness had been prac ticed on yoa and you were tearing ma l . l?w>. as I am an optimist, 1 give you fair ? :ng that if I ever write your biography take you as yoiv4*H7^ri the day your ?a came in twenty pir c:nt% larger you ev?r anticipated," yor the morning i your way to fusme^B after your first Od waa bora, or the mooring after your ^version, when heaven i| id rolied in on soul. .Tbe most ac5rfr.se 1 homunculi ot eartti are pessimists, who, y juJg^mdividual or national -J Aether they wield tongue fed, with anathe n^tizaliou, mora to say abouitho fr=jc':le* of beauty than of the son rises It"" is. tDGitf kapor&tu that taw \?unt ry hav? ritht W??3 concern ui ;.' Russia, for .?rcnong afitbe natioas this siie of heaven Russia is America's bsst friend. Therwfadr^ notbeea an boar in the last ye year* that tee shipwreck of f r i^-mSciZati on s in America would not Jiav? called forth from all the despotic?' of Europe and wide as earth ami ^a||^ Hi: ion. But whoever elite faiiel ??, Russia ae"V*r did, and whoever else was uoubtfuJ, Russia neVer was. Russia, then an t>Ed government, smiled on the eradie of our government while yet in its earliest infancy, impress Catherine of Russia, in 177ft or thereabouts offered kimlly interference that our thirteen colonies might not go down un der the cruelties of war. -Again, in 1813. Russia strdtche 1 forth to ! . wars us * ttwrcif ul hand . w cei> our areaa fai civil war Was ragms and the two thu-v I <itr doods o< northern and southern valor dashed, Russia practically said to the na tions o# Europe. "Keep your hands off an i Jet the brave meao: the north and the south ? ;^tUe their qwn troubles. n I rehearsal ? some of those scnte th ? '"U'leror ^ias* - JojJ, ?yia , "iiou were prooaoiy too ; oung to remember the position your father \ocfc at that ume." but with radiant smile he responded, "Ob, yas, I remember, I re ^member." and there was an accentuation of t#he words Tjt&icb demonstrated to methas ^bcaecaaaebces ha d often been talked of - in the'fiwperfal household. ' I stood on Jfew York Battery during the war, as I suppose many of yc fu di J, looim^ vft tnrocga a magmivrng ?raS3 upon a *eec '. -tit Russian sh$p^. "W&at are they doing. * 'ommr I asir*? and so every one asked." f< -?*' What hcsinesj have the Russian warsSiips in our ?* York harbor?* Word carrie that another fleet of Russian warships* was in Sa* Franc ^v ^ har cor. "IjThat does this ,i mean?" our rulers ask id, did not get ina- ] ; >.jedarte aoswcK*. In these two American harbors th# Russian lieet* seeded soaad ; , asleep. Their gr^ac mouths of iron spoke ; cot a word, and the Kussian wnetner floating in the air or drooping by the flag staff, made no answer to oar inqaistive ne-s- | - . VVUiiataH. Seward, secretary of state, asked th* Russian minister at Washington tee meaning of those Russian ships m Amer ican waters and got no satisfactory re sponse. Admiral Farragut said to a Russian officer after dining in the home of the emi nent politician, T a or low Weed, that ?atr~. j acd unmbker of presidents, " What are yon do mzhge with those Russian vessels of *rar- jot until the war was over was it jj.fi *r'*t io <**** <* foreign lotervea- j tgaall tjie guos and the last gun of thesa I in New York and Sin Fraacisce harbors were to open in full diaoason upon ! any ioreign ship that shoul I dare to inter- . fere witd the right of American*, north and fccu.b. to settle tneir own controversy. tho?e fl *e?s and their presence in ! ^?n>^htiest nations of Europe would hasve mingle! in our fefe But tZ wo^f/h ?vfl?tS th' .Anwric*n Koverament torr 7^aly a na ne ia ! th?" i f!f ret^fore Go: ani th- nation that I teiieve Russia saved ths United i fir : I^r,Ca* LlSt Jut-V 1 Stood bo | fore a great ibrong ot' Ru-sians in the em- : barrassiaj; position of speaking to an audi ence three-fourths of which could net nn f ^r*i?! od !?y ^nguage aay more than I ' could understand theirs. But there wara ' C tae7 tborourhiy under stood I as well as you understand them, and | Srtfi ranc^ of those two names brougiit I ^a,an acclamation that made the cTt/ t haUof St. (roVVoanlla. ! !!!? and those two names i Lincr.fo '*?rgS n?ton Abraham f .'tovr <s Jit not laijxjruuut inai ??? xmuct ! ie?l right, toward that mighty, that Go i ! given friend of more than on '3 hundre i ' y r*3 r - ' Tea. bocause it is a nation of more 1 -sibiiities than anyothe , except our own should *ve cultivate its friendship. There is v.ist reilm o: R ussia as yet unoccupied i: tne popjiat.on o; the rest of Europe w-re laure l into Ras.ua it would beoniy parti ;liv occupied . j After awhile America will be so well populated tnat the ti les of emigration Tr^L %> riJe <***:* and by railroads Irom Russia at Bohrmg straits? inhere \sia comes witom thirty six- miles of joining America? tmllions of people will pour down t a rough Hus3ia and Siberia, and on down through all th3 regions waiting for tha ' cjvi!is??io-4 of the next ceatu^y to come aad culture great harvests an 1 build mighty ' cities. : - ? J ^ hat the Unite 1 States now are on the western hemisphere Russia will be on the eastern hemisphere. Not only because of * aat Kussia has beon to our repub ic, but because of what she wUl be, let u. oisi the deiamatwu of all that pertains to that great emp re. If Russia can afford to be the friend of America. America can afford to be the Jf***- And now I proceed to do ! what 1 to?d the emperor and the en press and all the imperial family at the palace of Peterho., I would do if I ever got back to America, am i that is to answer some of the ?VUJaTl?!rhieh hav8 660,1 announced an j j re.terated 4nd stereotyped against Russia. I C^.-umny the First? fh? emperor and all the imperial family are in perpetual dread of assassination. They are practically pris oners in the winter palace, and trenches with ciynaroite neve been found due around the Winter palafce. They dare not venture forth, t xcspt pr- Oided and followed and surround ??1 by a most elaborate military guard My answer to this is that I never Uw a face more free from worriment than the em reK-0^iJ*Ja i * The wiater nalace, around which the troche? are said to have been charged wi|h dynanute, and lu which Ehs imperial family are said ?o be prisoners, has n-iver been the residence of the imperial famiiy one moment since the present em peror lias been on the throne. The winter palaco has b?eu changed into a museum and a picture gallery and a o; sreat levees. He spends his summer in ! tae pajace at Peternof, fifteen or twenty mi es Arom $t. Petersburg his autumns at ! > ae palace at iJ-ratschna, and his winters in ! a palace at $t. Petersourg but in quite a j d fferent oart of tne city to that occupied by the winter palace. He rides through the ^streets unattenled, except by the empress a* his side and the driver on the box. There is not a person in this audience more free Irom fear o Z harm than he is. His subjects jiofromy admire him but almost worship | There are cwnks in Russia, but have we a HP Cuarfcg Guifeau an 1 John V\ ilkes Bootsh* says some one, "did not the R issians kill the father o: the pres ent eoiperoif' Ye?, but in the time that K-ussia has had one assassination of eoi fieror Amertea has had two presidents assa* .-inare^. ? 3ut is not the emaeror an auto? <ra :r By ^h.rh you m-an,* has he not l ower witadut restriction? Yes, but it all ?wpei? ;s upoi> what use a man makes of his tow?r Are you aij autocrat in your factory, or an e&tccrat in \ your store, or an autocrat in your style of business? It all depends on . waat use you make ot your power. whether to bless or toioppress. and from tfia time qt j feter tna Great ? that Russian who was the wonder of alqtime, the emperor who became incognite a ship carpenter that "he might J help ship carpenter.-;, and- a mechanic tnaA be might help mechanic*, and put on poor] men's garo tljat he might sy npatii.Bi with poor meu, and who in bis. last words siid: i "Mv Lord, I Jim dyjr^. Oh, help my unbe- ! lief I' ? I say f^om that time the throne of j Russia has, fqr the most part, b^enoccupie 1 bv rulers as beneficent ani kin 1 ani sym- ? pathetic as they were powerful. To go no fuj ther back than Nicholas, tae grandfather I of the present emperor. ! Nicho'as had for the dominant idea of his | admin stratiofc the emancipation of the serfs. When it was fouad that he premedi- j tated the freedom of the serfs he received the following letter of threat from a deputa- : tion of noblemen- "Four Imperial Majesty ! ?? A e iearn tbut the council and senate of the empir&Aata before tbem for delibera tion, with your sanction, the plan to abolish serfdom throughout tha Russian empire. We are perfectly willing to abide by vour majesty's decision in this matter and to loyally support your wilf; but there are in Russia a larg? number of small owners of serfs vybo ared--p3n lent for actual subsist- J ence "On the liibor of those serfs, and ?>ijo 1 co' isequsntty 4- ill be left wholly penniless | an i without aqy resource by the operation of emancipation. Th*y wiii then undoubtedly retort to desperate measures, and in the ex- j tremity of tbslr despair will put the lire of ycrur majesty in jeopardy." Toe emperor replied in words that will u ,asJon? ** history. "Gentlemen, if I should Hie because of my devotion to such a cause, 1 am wiUiag to meet my fate." When, under an attach of pneumonia from ex- : pc6ure to severe weather in th e service of his people, that emperor put down his head on the pillow of dust, Russia lo3t as good a monarch as was ever crowoeJ. Then came Ah?xan. er the Second, father of the present emperor. Amid the mightiest opposition and innumerable protests, h?, with om strode of his pen, emaucipated twenty mil- t lioosen?, practically sayinj, "Go free Be ' your own inagfcjjs, an! this is for you and your coildren forever." Ox the day the was basely assassinated (and I will parenthetica.lv say that I saw his carnage in splinter*, as it looked when he stepped irom it, not to save himself, but 1 !fw^i^ttwrso^'poorPeoP,eof the street | Qu j j n jhurt' aQ i I saw the bed on wh.cj. he died tie mattress yet crimson with s uiea blood) on thedav he was assassin, atel he ha I on iiis table, found afterward a free const ltntion that proposal to give the r.li J?' sufiEfa^ to tbe people of Russia . If k had not be~c for the assassination he l-ui^hirS signed that constitution, i. that horrible v.oleaca put things beck, as violence aJwavs does. U'hat a marvelous character of kinines* ^ Alexander the Second, the father of the I present em peror, so that the present em I^ror. Alexander the Third, inherits his be. n.gnity. Alexander the Second, hearing ?^o<eaxao had formal a conspiracy agaiust hi^ life, had him arrested. Therfthe : eyes of the criiraaa: were ban dagwJ, and bt was put in a carriage, ani for some time ; traveled on, only stopping for foal. After ? awoi e the bandage wm remove ?, and sup pos ng that he must by that time have been aiDBost in Siberia, he fouud that he was at the ooor of his cfwa borne. Bat this pun, ishment was snfideot ^I?t3^rn??i?ptror? toeing heard thai * poet had written a poem damnatory of his empress, ordered the post into bis presence. SSSSS great severity, the poet entered ^ -a palace and found the emperor and em pre? and dukes and duche ses gathered to fr~eT- ^ ^pod morning;" said tae emperor ?Mlhearyou haTe written I vou that you may read it to us and we may have the p.easurd of bearing it" Tfce man cried out, 44 .Send ma to Sioeria or do anv-1 thing with me, btt do not make me read thij r-oetn m your presence." He was compelled : then the ' empres^gamst wnom it was aimed, aiid: ? X d not thmk he will write any more verses acout us again. Let him go " And J >o be was freed " | And now comes? in Alexander the Third ^ thlb^ for the nation wh ch he loyfts ana which ?s ardently loves h? -atwnataii undertaking to rule one of antif7?lf miUion p^ple. made up j ^ ^8s and rac^ and speak - j ing forty diffsretotl languages 1 But, notwith standing ad this, things there move oa mar- ! veioBs.v well, and I do not believe that out ' buadrei thousand Russians you wonH tin t more tian one person who di - I she emperor, and so that calnmnv or dreai of as<?sin4tioa droos so flat it can iai no darter. i 4 'oluaaoy tne Seccad? If you go to Russia ' vou are under severest espionage, stopped I aere and auestioaed there. in of j arrest. Bat my opinion is that If a man is disturbed in Russia it is because be ought to ? disturbed. Russia is the only country n Europe in which my baggage wasnoteraminea. I carried in myhLid, tied together with & chord so their titles could be seen, a pile of eight or ten books, all of them from h" " Russia, but I had no trouble me the books. There is ten culty in getting your luggage through the American custom house taau through the Russian . I speak not of myself, for friends intercede for me on American wharves, and I am not detained. I was several days in ! Russia before I was asked if I had any pass port at all. Depend upon it, if hereafter a man be Leveshe is uncomfortably watched by the police of St . Petersburg or Moscow it is be cause there is something suspicious about j him, and you yourseif hal better, when he j is around, loo:; after your silver spoons. I j promise you, an honest man or an honest j woman, that when you go th^re, as many of : you will ? for European travel is deUinei to change its course from southern Europe to those northern region-;? you will have no roore molestation or tuptrvual than in Brooklyn or New York or the quietest Lon; Island village. Calumny the Thir i ? XujsH and its ruler ) me so opposed to any oLb*'Veii 5:0a except 1 the Greek religion that they will not al!o*v any otter religion , that nothing but perse cation and imprisonment: aud outrage into!- " erable await Uie discipe* of any other re-/ ligion. But what are the facts? I had a' long ride in -St. Petersburg an lies suburbs with the prefecr, a brilliant, efficient and lovely ma t, who-jS th* highest official in the city of St. Peters nr/. and whose chief bcs-in<=-9s is to atten 1 th* emperor. I said to him, "I suppose y < a.- religion i* that of the Greek church?' ".No," sail he; "I am a Lutheran." "What is your religion?" Isail to one of the highest and most influential officials at St. Petersburg. He said, "I am of the Church of England." Myself, an American, of still another de nomination of Christians, an 1 never having be?n insire ? Greek church in my life uutil I wtnt to Russia, could not have receive 1 m^re consideration had I been baptised in in the Greek church and all my life wor- - shiped at her alters. I had it de r.onstratei to me very piainlj' tbat a man's religion in Russia has nothing to Co with hi.- prefer ment for either office or social position; The only questions taken into consideration are I nesty, fidelity, morality and adaptition. I had not been in St. Petersburg an hour before I received an invitation to preach the Gospel of Christ as I believed it. Besi ies all thi?. have you forgottou that the Crimean wor, which shock the earth, grew out of Russia's interference in behalf of the prose cuted Christians of all nations in Turkey? "But," says some one, "have tilers : not. been persecutions of other religions in Ru? Bia?' No doubt, just as in other times in New England we burned witches, ani a-; we billed Quakers, and as the Jews in America have been outragecu-ly treated ever sine? I can remember, and the Chinese in our land have teen pelted, and their stores torn down, and their way irom the steamer wharf to their destined quarters tracked with their own blood. The devil of persecution is in every land and in all ages. Some of us in the a fferent denominations of Christians in America have felt the thrust of persecution ' because we thought differently or did things differently from those who would, if tiiey bad the \ ower, put us in a furnace eight times heated, one more decree of caloric thau Nebuchadnezzar's. Persecutions in all lands, but the?mp<Tor 0f plUSSia sanctions none of them^ ? id to lid cursing in taking with times more diff? . I bad a most satisfactory talk with the emperor about the religions of the world, and he thinks and feels as you and I do, that religion is something between a man and his God, and no one has a right to interfere with it. You may go right up to St. Peters burg and Moscow with your Episcopal liturgy, orycur Presbyterian catechism, or your Congregationalist's liberalism, or your Immsrsionist's Baptistry, or any other re ligion, and if you mind your own affairs and let others mind theirs you will not be mo lested. Calumny the Fourth ? Russia is so very grasping of territory, and she seems to want the world. But what are the facts? Dur ing the last century and a quarter the Lmted States have taken possession of everything between the thirteen colonies and the Pacific ocean, and England, during the same length of time, has taken possesion of nearly three million square miles, and by the extent of her domain has added two hundred and fifty million population, while Russia has added during that time only one balf the number of square miles and about eighteen million of population? England's acvauce of domain . by two hundred and 'ffifty million against Russia's advance of do Tflfiain by eighteen million. What a paltry Russian advance of domuin by eighteen mil lion as compared with the English advance of domain bv two hundred ani fifty mil lion! The United Slates and England bal better keep still about extravagant apd ex tortionate enlargement of domain. v Calumny the Fifth ? Siberia is a den of horrors, and to-day people are driven like dumb cattle; no trial is afforded to the sus pected ones; they are put into quicksilver i - mines, where they are wbippedand starved, and some day fiud themselves going around without any head. Some of them do not get so far as Siberia. Women, after being tied to stakes in the streets, are disrobed and whipped to death in the presence of howling mobs. Offenders hear their own flesh siss under the hot irons. But what are the facts? There are no kinder people on earth than the Russians, and to most of them cruelty is an impossi bility, I hold in my hand a card. You see cn it that red circle. That is the govern ment's seal on a card giving me permission to visit all the prisons of St. Petersburg, as I had expressed a wish in that direction. As the messenger handed this card to me he told me that a carriage was fct the door for my dispo-al in visiting the prisons. It so hap pened, however, that I was crowded with engagements and I eoul 1 not make tbe visi tation. But do you suppose such cheerful permission and a carriage to boot would have been afforded me if the prisons of Rus sia are such hells on earth as they have been v described to be? I a-kei an eminent and distinguished American, "Have you visito 1 th3 prisons of St. Peterslur a.n I how do tiy-y differ from American j risontf' He 5e.>?ied, '*1 have visited them, and they ore as well ventilated and as well conditioned in ev<?ry respect as the majority of the prisons in America." Are women whipped lu the street? No; that 1 statement comes from tbie manufactory of fal rication, a manufactory thit runs day and Eight, so that thi supp y may meet the demand. Put how about 'iberip? Mv answer is S-teria is the pr son of Russia, a prison more than twice the sizi of tbe United States. John Howard, wno did more for tbe im- j provement of prisoners and the reformation j of criminals than any man thit ever liv^d, j his name a synonym ;or mercy throughout ' Coristeniom, dpclare l by voice and pen that i the system of transp rtation of criminals ] ffom Russia to Siberia was an admirable I plan, advocating op-:n air punishment ratb*r ! than enriunge ument, and alsi becaufe/it j was taking ail offenders hundreds of miles i away from their evil com?nions. John i Howard, after witnessing t$ plan of de- ; portaticn of criminals from Russia to Sib"- ? na, commended it to Englan \ If a man commits murder in Russia he is i not electrocute! as we electrocute him, or choked to dea tn by a halter as we choke ' him to death. Ru-tia is the only country on ! earth from which the deatn 'jeuady has been dri ven, ex;eot in eise o: hi ,'h trats >o. Murderers an 1 riesperjta vili'iins are s^nt to ! tbeharuest parts of Sitwi ,, but no man is' sent to S:"h?ria or ordered to any kind of ! punishment in Russia until ha has a ta:r 1 tria'. So.'ar as their being hurtled off in > the night <md not Knowing why they are ! exiled or punished is concerned, ail the i criminals in Ru->ia have an open trial be- j fore a jury juntas we have in Anri'-rica, ex- ! cept in revo.u.ioaary an 1 riotous ti ne^gfcnd you know in Americ i at suca tunes the writ of habeas corpus is susp?n led. There are in Russi i gran 1 juries and j petit juries, and the right to challenge the ? jurors, and the prisoner confronts his ao , cuser, and, mark this, as in no other cmn- j f aftdip the prisoner has been condemned ? by juries and judge* he may appeal to the ; minister of the interior, an t alter that to I the senate, and after that to the emperor, I who is constantly pardoning. As I said, if the violent and murderous are sentito tb<* I hardest part of Siberia, but th* more moder- ] ate criminals to propitious parts of Siberia, | and those who have only a >ittla criminality to parts of Siberia positively genial for I climate, for you ought to know, if y<ju do * not know, that Siberia is so large and wide and Jon# that it reaches from frigidity to torridity, from almost arctic blast, to climate as mild as thnt of Italy. Run your finger along the map of the ?world, and you will flad that the lowest { part of Siberia is on the foriv-flfth decree of latitude, and the richest part of Italv is on the same forty-afta degree of latitude-, so that Silveria reaches from the furs at the north to the palm leaf fans at the south, it has been demonstrated that ninety per cent, of tbe Russian criminals colonized into Siberia go into a climate milder than New York ? a land songful with birds and em broicered with flora eiuugh manifoll to ccn found the botanists. Much of the soil is a rich lontn, and harvests wait for a plow to liberate W hen a criminal is sent to Liberia, in the ? vast majoi-.ty o." cas?s itgives him an op l^'-awty tn mak-? a n?w start under the itest possible c rou nst incas. ihe criminal , ip aiiow^ ( to tak? h:s or her family atoog, and jiiat is a mei cy no other country grants. , iu the qu cksLver mines of Siberia ? the " hardest place of expatriation? only one fbcrth of tha miners are criminals. The ! . i other three-fourths go tbbre oecaUse they choo66 it as a place to earn their livinr. .Alter being in Siberia awhile thF^con detuned go to earning a livelihood, and tbirp comfc to own their own farms and orchards and vineyards, many of these people coming to wealth, and thousands of them under no inducement would leave those parts of Siberia which are paradises for salubrity and luxuriance. Now which do you think is the best style of a prison? Siberia or many of our American prisons? When a man commits a big crime in our country, the judge looks into the frighted face of the cul rrit and says, "ifou have been found guilty sentence you to the pennitentiarv for tan j ears." He goes to prison. He is shut in between four walls. No sunlight. No fresh air. No bathroom. Before he has served his ten years he dies of consumption or is so enervated that for the rest of his life he sits with folded hands? a wheezing invalid. Iu preference to the shut in lift of the ? average American prisoner, give me Si beria. Besides that, when offenders come out of pris-Hi in America, what chance have tcey? Ask the poorly supported societies formed to get these people piaces for wor?c. .Ask me, to whom the newly liberated come from all the prisons imploring what they shall do. No oai wiil coalmen i theai. The eirtlor of incarceration is on their cheek, s /vVho wantr to employ in factory or store ay ( man or woman who, in answer to the ques tion: "Where did you live last!"" should make for reply; "State's prison at Auburn or MojamensingH' Now in Sio-ria they have a better ch mce. They are never spoken of as criminals, but as unfortunates, and they are allowei every opportunity of re trieving tneir lost r.'patatioa aud lost for tune? . I talked with the President of the Na tional Society of Pat ^sia for the E lucation and Moraluwtionof the Children o: Si j-r.an Convicts. The president of that society, appointed by t'le emperor, is a laiy of great accomplishments anl much sympathy, which illu nines her face an 1 makes teariul her eyes and tre ouious her voic?. The r?emng 1 passea at ner nou*s tn sr. Peters burg was on; of the ineaiorable events of r y lifetime. I ^ ill not attempt to pro nounce the name of that noble woman ap pjinted by the emperor as the President of the National Society of Russit for the E iu cation and Mora ?*itioT of t'.ie Children of Convicts. Piease to name any su;h national society in our country, supported by govern ment, for taking care of the children of convicts. You know, if you know anything, tint there is no chance in this country for a man who ha# been imprisoael, or "for hij chil dren. God pity them and hasten the tim? when we shall by some national institution * established by the congress of? the Unite! States, imitate the m?rcy o" the Russian governraeut toward the innocent children of imprisoned^ off mler.-. Ha who charges cruelty on the imperial fami y an 1 the no bility of Ru sia belies men aa l w men as gracious and benignant 'as ever breat le I oxygen . The merciful character of the present em peror was well illustratad in the folio wing occurrence: The man who supervise! the assassination of the father of the present emperor, stan-Jing in the snnw that aw.ul day when the dynamita ?hatterel to pieces the legs of Alexander the Second? i say t ie man who supervised all this from St. Petersburg and quit Russia. But after awhile the maa repented of his crime, airl wrote to the emperor asking for forgiven *s for the murder of his father, and pro uising to be a good citizen, an I asking if he mi; it come back to Russia. T*ie emperor pardoned the murderer of his father, aud the forgivan e.ssasssn is now living in Russia, un'ec re cently deceasie-J. When I talked to the empress concernm; the sympathy felt in America for th j suf ferings of the drought-struck ragions o" Rus sia, she evinced an absorbing interest au I a compassion and an emotion of manner an I speech such as we men can hardly realiz.% because it seem* that Gol has reserved for woman as her great adornment the coronet, the teaj^ jewellei coronet of tendemoss an t c mim'iseration. If you say that it was a n an. a divine man that came to sava the world, I say yes; but it was a woman that I yave the man. Witness all the Ma-fennas? Iralian. German, Eaglish and Russian? that bloom in the picture galleries of Christen dom. Son of Mary, have mercy on us ! But how about the knout, thB cruel Rus sian knoufc, thst comes down on the bar* back of agonize 1 criminals? Why, Russia :r*K>lished the knout bef >re it was aboiishe" I : rora our Americ in navy. But how aboui. the political prisoners hustled off to Siberia? According to the testimony of the most Oil ebrated literary enemy of Russia, only four hundred and forty-three political prisoners j were sent to Siberia in twenty yeprs. How many poetical prisoners did we put in prison j-ens during our four years of civil war? Wei', I will puess at least one hundred thou i *:ind. America's one hyadrei thousand po litical prisoners versus Russia's four hundred and forty-three political prisoners. Nearly a 1 these four hundrel and forty-three of twenty years were noblemen or people dfs^ l erately opposed to the emancipation of the ^ sorts. Aud none of the politic.il prisoners is j Stnt to the famous Kara, mines. For the most part you are dependent, for j information u K>n the testimony of prison j ers who ore sent to Siberia. They all say j they were innocent. Prisoners always aro j innocent. Ask ad the prisotjwS'cif. America. : to- lay, "Guilty or nofgullty?" and nine teen out of twenty will plead "Not guilty." Ask them how they like their prison, and how they like sheriffs, and how they like the government of the United States, an I you wi 11 find these prisoners admire the au thority that arrested th*m and punished them just aboat as much as the political prjsontrs of Russia like Sibaru. But you ask how will this Russophobia, with which so many have been bitten and poisoned, be cured? By the trod of Justice Dressing such books ani pamphlets as are now coming out from Professor de ArnauJ, of Washington, Mr. Horace Cutter, of San Francisco; Mr. Morrill, of England, and by the opening of our American gates to the writings of some twenty-four of the Russian authors and authoresses. in some respects a-? brilliant as the three or tour Russian author .i already known? the translation of those twenty -four authors, which 1 am authorize I iron Russia to offer free of charge to any responsible American publishing honse that will fyo them jusricr*. ! L?t these nussi ins tell their ow.j story, j for tfeev are the only ones fully coijnetsnt I to :lo tae work, as none but Americans can lully tell the story oi America, and as nbio j but G ?rmans can fu-iy tell the story of Ger I many, and none bu > Englishmen can fuily | tell the story of Englan I. and none but i Frenchmen can fully te:l ill? story o: France. .Meanwhile let the international defamation co ne to an en J. Cease to speak evil of di^uities merely becausj they aro | dignities, anl of presidents merely because th~y are presi eats, and of e:n;>?r rs merely I beacuse they are emperor.-. I And n ay The l lesi-inz Oi G >i the Father, | and God tue Son anl Gol th? Holy Ghost j be upon all the members of the imperial | household oi Russia, Irom th^ illustrious head of tl at family down to the princess seven years of yg.-, who came shipping into my presence in tlie r a lace cf Peterhof last summer! Glory to 'Jed m the highes1-, an l on earth peace, gooi will to nienl nOUi'Si. CHiance ^ives the cuc. Pride manifests itself in folly. Temptations are bydra heaie l. Life is a road that has no b.tC\ tura- j in 23. Prejudice is the yellow jaun lice of j judgment. The incorrigibility of the social anit j lies in his unrea>anablene>s. Inconsistency has the special eyil Of J putting others in the wrong Everywhere endeavor to be useful, ani everywhere you wiiy^^homj^f*.,^ ^ It is no point of wisdom *fDt a man to beat his^bcains about things impossible. Jh jOtder to exercise one's faith it is soft always necessary to put teasoa under a buthel. A woman is supposed to be born with the patience wuicii a man acquires through special grace. k-3 We are always unselfishly willing that ; our friends should reap advantages on aDy field but our o?vo. AmoBg the prerogatives of immortal genius is that of struggling for tho body's daily sustenance. Certain people kesp thifms elves all day long full of vexatioa.belorehand for some coming event or other. The road to ambition i3 too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty and too dark for science. * It is much easier to find a sore of rcen wise enough to discover the triu than to find one intrepid enouz.'i, ia t&e .j face of opposition, to stand up for it. j "Then m?.rry her." 4'&oe won't have me." ? New Tor* WeeKiy. - . HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS*. ? BAKE BREAD DURING DAYLIGHT. All kinds of raised bread or cake rise much quicker in a kitchen in the da; time whet the kitchen is warm, than at night, when the fire is out. -x Therefore ? five or six hours in the day are equal to twelve hours at night. In cold weather anything made with yeast should l>e made early in the evening, that it may get started to rise before the kitchen is cold. Some housekeepers keep a piece of an old ironing blanket, kept clean, to fcld and lay over the cotton or linen bread cloth, to keep the biead warm while rising. ? Boston Cultivator. TO PRESERVE PEPPERS. Take a mixture of red, green and yel low peppers, cut off the tops and remove the seeds, throw them into brine suth ciently strong euough to float an egg, and stand aside for twenty- four hours; then drain and wash them, put the pep pers carefully into stone jars, sprinkle a layer of salt over each layer ??f peppers. When the jar is full put two or three cabbage leave3 over the top, then a small saucer to keep them in the brine: stand in the cellar until ute ied. Tnc day before you wish to use them take a sufficient number from the brine and soak them over night in cold water. They may then be stuffed with a mixture $f meat and rice or rice and tomatoes. ? New York World. COMFORTS FOR SERVANT*. Certainly the hardest working woman in the house should have at night as comfortable a bed as anyone, but very often this is not the cise even in lux ? J? unous houses, a sprinkle* cot being thought good enough ft* the girl's room. Though in a cit^f home, the room of the raaid-of-jtll-wyrk is a small hall bedroom on the tep floor. This may still be neat, even line in its ap pointments, with dainty spreads, con venient toilet articles and a whole look ing-glass. There should be a bureau of some description, with a draw reserved for her towels and be4 linen, so that she need not call on the mistress for these things common enough in the rest of the chambers, but luxuries here. A very good wuy to appreciate a girl's weariness by those who seem never to dream that she can get tired, is to try some day to take her place. After get ting thoroughly tired out with half the work undone, the mistress begins to understand what day after day of do mestic toil means. When on Tuesday an ambitious girl is hurrying to com plete a large ironing in one day, it is hardly fair to call on her repeatedly to do something else, as often happens when there is only one servant. ? Detroit Free Press. ...... CHEMISTRY OF THLE BAKED POTATO. Usually the first vegetable prescribed by the physiciau for the sick person who is beginning to use solids is h baked potato. A baked potato, however, may be no better than a boiled unless it ba done in so high a temperature that the starch is affected. Bailed poUtoes cannot be subjected to a higher temper ature than 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Baked potatoes may be done in such a way that they are little better than boiled ? for instRuce, doue in a slo v oven. Od the other hand, if they are put into a temperature of 330 or 4')0 degrees Fahrenheit, or what is calle i a "hot ovenl>' they will be done in such a mauner that the conversion of starch will in a degree take place and the po tato be conseqncntly palatable and easily digested. Potatoes roasted in hot em-"" bers arc delicious and for the same rea son. The high decree of heat coo ts the starch properly, but it must not be understood that by cookiug potatoes in . a high temperature the starch which - ' they contain is all changed into dex- ! trine. This does not usually take place except in slight degree; however, by the high temperature it i3 better pre* ' pared for this change iu the processes j of digestion. Probably what does take place is* a sort of hydration of the starch, resulting in the complete swelling and final bursting of the granules. Ju3t at the moment when this take3 place the potatoes arc done and should b3 imme diately taken from the fire and served at once. ? St. Louis iiepublic. I*. - RECIPliS. golden Cake ? Turee cupfuls of Sour, one cupful of butter, one cupful of milk, two teaspooufuls of baking powder, two cupfulsof sugar, the yolks of eight eggs and the whites of one. Cabbage Salad ? lelect a solid heal, and one that is white after the outside leaves are taken off; lay on a board, and with a sharp knife cat fine; set in icj box until ready to use. Canned Salmon ? If you prefer it heated, immerse it in a kettle of boiling water until heated througu, or put ;.t in the steamer over h kettle of boiliug water; open and drain od all tlie liquid, then remove to a platter, takiu * out any skin or poor pieces. G irnish with pars ! ley. Pop-Overs ? Three eg^s, three cup? j of dour, three cups of mtik, a Uttie sait, butter hnlf the size of an egg, two tea spoonfuls baking powder. B?'at the whites and yolks of the eggs separately, and add last. Bike in small muifin pau3 in hot oven. Milk Biscuit ? Two cupfuls sifted Hour, add two teaspoonfuls baking pow der, mix and sd<l one heaping teaspoon ful of cold butter, cut in bits, iflix through the flour, then slowly add suf ficient sweet milk to make a soft dou^h; | roll and cut out; bake iu a very quick oven. Floating I*hnd of Apples? Bake niue j apples; when cold ? ift. Beat iu enough ! sugar to sweeten. Add the whites of ti ve e?rgi, fiivotwitl) ro^e water, mix until light and heap on cold boiled custard made from the five yelks of the eggs, a cupful of sugar, a pinch of salt and one quart of milk. Mushroom Sauce for Fowls ? Peel about a pint of youu^ mushrooms or usa a can of canned mushrooms; put them . into a saucepan with a little salt and jjepper, a v?rv little mace, a pint of rich,, sweet cream and a gill of butter rubbed1 njp with a teaspoouful of flour; boil up once aud serve in a gravy boat. ? T?e Color of India s. The color of the li;dian race varies much individually, as does that of (hk own Caucassian race, and it also varies ! much with the different tribes. It is safe j to describe them in general .terms ai brown. Some tribesv lire, of a decided Ij light, shade of brown, while others are so dark ? the California coast tribes, foi j instance ? as to almost suggest the negro, i Numerous individuals have been noticed ! by travelers in some Indian tribes as the Mandau, Zuni and others, who are so light that the idea o{ tteir descent \ from European peoples iraine i currency, j It was chiefly thislfact that lent weight j ! to the theory propounded le?* than 100 : j years a^o that colonies of W-lch had i ; been pianted in the wild? ol America, j I As we know now, however, these li,'ht ! ! colored Indians are synply of a, natural light brown, or are albino*. (): tne la ter class perhaps ti.o-e at Z i"i are the ; j bc.it known.? San Francisco Caronicis. ' Aboat Pillows for IWiV4 The use of t pillow is not a matter of mere blind usage. Ii has a physiological basis. We sleep for the moat part oa kthe side, and without a pillow the head would be uncomfortably and harmfully lower than the body. It will be re membered that Jacob, when fleeing from Esau, took a stone for a pillow. Ho needed something for the purpose, and nothing better than a stone presented it self. Such practices are common in Africa at the present day. Some peoples rest the neck instead of the head on hard pillows. In Africa extraordinary headgears mako this practice necessary, and many a civilized woman has been compelled by a somewhat similar coiSure to forego both the pillow and the recumbcnt pos ture. A consideration of the physiologal reason for p;llows will suggest their proper thickness. They shoiitd merely briug the head to the natural level. Some pillows are much too thick. By bend ing the neck unduly they interfere with the outflow of the veuous blood from the head. The pillow that just tills up the space above the shoulder best suits its eud. Again, pillows of feathers are objec tionable. While they furnish the needed support for the head, they are too heat* ing, as they have a remarkable capacity for holding and accumulating heat. It should be remembered that more blood, aad hence more heat, goes to the bes?d than to any other part of the body. Head-heating pillows are against the wholesome maxim, "Keep the feet warm, but the head cool." There is nothing better than the hair pillow. Further, the pillow i? .'or the head, not for the shoulder?, lo rest the shoulders on the pillow defeats the very end for which it is u^ed. ? New York Advertiser. The Muse3. - i no Muses were demi-gods, or, rather, deuii-goddesses, the patrons oL-litera ture, inysic, poetry^danowg aad the fine arts generally. l*hey dwelt upon the three sacred mountains, Helikon, Parnassus and Pindus, in Greece, aud there were nine of them. Clio was the muse of history. She is generally represented carrying a roll of manuscript. Melpomene was the muse of tragedy aud isnaade to wear a mask and sometimes carry a sword or club. Thalia was the muse of comedy and bur lesque. She wore a mask and carried* a shepherd's crook. Then came Calliope, the muse of heroic poems, sometimes called the chief of the Muses. She carried a writing tablet and a stylus. Urania presided over the study of as tronomy. In the lepresentations s'ae sits beside a globe, nolds a compass with one hand, while with the other she points upward to the starj. Euterpe presided over ramie. She was figured as playing the flute. The muse of song and oratory was Poljhymnia, or Polym nia, generally pictured in an attitude of contemplation and wearing a laurel wreath. Love and marriage songs had Erato for their inspiiation. Erato wore a wreath aad played on a large lyre with many strings. Terpsichore was the last of the musei. She presided ovtr danc ing, and is represented as wreath crowoed and carrying a lyre. Muemosyne, mean ing "memory," was the "mother of the muses." The muses occupied a prominent place in the later mythology of Greece a&d.^ Rome, and are the subject of very fre quent allusion in literature. ? New York Voice. Jtni'is Her Oun Ton. Mr?. Increase Sumner, of Starke, | Bradford County, raises iber own tea and I has treated her guests to cups of the i homemade beverage, which was pro- j ncunced delicious. She says that owing to rapid growth she has to cut off the i bushes every three or four years, while in China thi3 is done only once in seven ?years. She gathers three crops a year; the tinest tea costs ?15 a pound, but will not stand a sea voyage, and never gets further than Russia; but her bushes fur nish it to her for the picking. ? Florida Dispatch. *rni> ONLY TEST. Sister ? What! Do you mean to sav vthat you have engaged yourself to that Belle Bloadie, and intend to bring the horrid thing into the family? Brother? Horrid thing! I heard you tell her youHoved her dearly. Sister? iluli! You never heard mv tell any one else so.? f N'?w York Weekly. The Esquimaux are gamblers by na ture, but tttey never impoverish taern Ecivcs by thek-games. Cards they do not care for, but\dominoes and even chess arc played with a skill that at least equals the best of the white men who via it tliam The morning sUr, or spiked club, I came into use in' the Eleventh Century. | OI R Oi.o Rni.um.K ?T* WATER cares weak or int!a? <h1 eyes. ?>r scrsuiulated IHs witli tut pafn. i ? i cniv Jolts H. Diaucr Lru# Co.. Bristol. V&. Boise City, Idaho, will u?e the boiling i water from artesian wells near the city ! to heat its hotiys. Beecham's Pilus cure bilious and nervous j illness. Beecham's HUs Bell well because ] th?v cur p. 25 cents a box. The pine tree is said to attain no age of lrom 500 to 700 years. If afflicted with sore eyes use I)r. Isaac Tbomp- ; Eon'e Eye-water. Druggists sell at ~>c. per bottle The inoose in Penobscot County, j Maine, are getting so accustomed to the | Canadian Pacific's trains that they gaze 1 calmly at the locomotive and are notdis- j turbed in the least by whistles or hissing i steam. ietA. N out* Work in Lite. A series of 15 articles i>v successful men in as many pursuit* is one o i t i? many si ron_' crouj* ' of articles whir s are announ<- <\ in Tin Y>.uth'< CV/mwixiH for -Ve>t ! > *?? 1 I Frer | Saw" is the topic of :uu?t her series by I'mfd States (jenerals. The pro-pec u? for t (?? c-.m m; ve;tr 0 'fhr I '"tnjj intuit is niur?' varied and 1 i-r.ms than ewr. Those who -ub-criln; a* ?? :? < ?? wi!l r.* eive tbcpawr free to Jan. 1. Jyy \ <tI j >- a lull vear frotn tha< dat*?.')nly *1.7?a v-nr. Ad dress T H e Yoxrr h \s Co M p a n / o N , Bo ? t on , M a na Water c^ess contains much sulphur and is one of sthe best remedies for scurvy known. It should be eaten raw ' with salt. Bewir* of Ointment* for Catarrh That CaaJnin Mercury. As mercury will" surciv destroy the of Binell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the isu'-om? sur- ' faces. SacU artii-itt' sLVald never be used ?*a- ! cept on prescription irum reputable physi cians. as the damage tbov will do i? t<n r Id to tbtfgood you can pob&ibiy derive from them. I Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured bv F. J Cheney & Co.. Toledo, () .contains no mercury j and is takeu iutcrnully. and acts directly upon the blo<xi and mucou> surfaces of th? In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you k'?-t the genuine. It is tak:-n internally, and uiade in Top-do. ( )hlo, bj F. .1. Cheney & Co. X2T Soid by Druggists. price 75c. per bottle. A ?mn is called a onnrtned liar when rotiiia^ lua". ho s^ys is coairrued. The Only One Ever fluted. can vor nND tbe ?*>kd? Tbe-eisa3 io' h di-play adver i-ement in thin paper, this ne?k, which has no two *or?it4 | a i ?- ??v<"pT on?" word. The ha-n?* is trn<- o' e?v It n"w oil* app<arinz each wet-k. f*om Tlr J I far' er Medicine Co. TTii> hou-? p :w \ "< v- - ? nt" on everything they ??<?? ? t?<l :? ib 1 l/oo'c lorlt. s?tnd them th" n ?m?- of 1 he j wurd %n<i they will return yoa B ">k. bk a f'T c- , n l. LITHOGRAPHS orfeASLpi.U# f Kit it. 1 An Odd Fish. The Umatilla River, in Oregon, Is be-4 coming quite famous as the abiding place of unlooked-for curiosities. Not long since a number of remarkable and raw fi*h were found in its waters, and n or* another strange animal has been discov ered by an old Indian. It is described as having three eyes, six legs and a flat bill like a duck. It is about two feet in length and has hair and tail like those Of a muskrat. Nothing similar to it ha* ever been seen or heard of. ? San Fran cisco Chronicle. v. " Y I ? A Child Enjoys ? j The pleasant flaw, gentle action an! sooth* ing effect of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, an 1 if the father or mother bo cos tive or bilious, the must gratifying results fol low its use; so that it is the best family rcru edy known and every family should have bottle. 3B i Mr ?. Annie W. Jordan Jrf 165 Tremont St., Boeton, was in very poof ealth, from bad circulation of the blood, hav? ihg rush of blrrxl to the head, numb spells and chills.and the physician said the vein* were alf imn?t bursting all over her body. A collision with a double runner brought on neuralgia of tlie liver, causing great suffering. She could not take the doctor's medicine, so took HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA and soon fully recovered, and now enjoys per fect health. She says sho could praise Hood's Sarsaparilla all day and then not say enough. Hood'* Pills are baud-made, aad are perfect in composition, proportion and apjearance. "MOTHERS' FRIEND" To Young Mothers Make* Child Birth Easy. Shortens Labor, Lessens Paid, Endorsed by the Leading Physicians. Jlcoh to "Mothers" mailed FREE. URADFIELD REGULATOR CO ATLANTA, OA. COLD 13 Y ALL DRUGGISTS. BileBe&ns Small. , Guaranteed to cure BfHoua Attack*, 61c k Headache and <'ona(lpaUon. 40 In each oottle. Price Sfc. For Bale by druggiata. Picture "7, 17, 70" and tampl* dose free M. f. SWTH d CO., Proprlitort. NEW YORK. " For tfto years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, and was for all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying everything, said iny stomach Vas worn out, and that I would hav? to cease eatl .g solid food. On the fec ommeudation of a friend I procured a bottle of August Flower. I item ed to do me good at once. 1 gained strength and flesh rapidly" I feel now like a new man, and consider that August Flower has cured me." Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.8 ->KoU/ vi/y - 2 I had a malignant breaking oat on my leg below the knee, and wascurcd sound and well to do me any good. V? n.L C. I'eatT, Vvtkvillc, 6. C. with two and a half bottles of Other Llood mcdicincs hid f-i'.cd MARK TRADE I wastrouMe ! from chillho-d v. i'h r>n a."* arravatcd case of T??ttrr. nrs<l ilirrc t> ttle* c! cured mo jivrrnanpntly. Walla- f. M \^n. Our bock on Hli-nl a'vi SUin iiM'otl free. Swut brccU'W C\>., AUu.t-, I. a. It is better to take Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil when that decline in health j begins? the decline which precedes consumption ? rather than wait for the germ to begin to grow in our lungs. "Prevention is better than cure;" and surer. The say ing never was truer than> here. What is it to prevent con sumption ? Let us send you a book on careful living; free. $rtyi : ?.? H-,v. ???<, (>.? tji ' ?, i a South A v??ru? N"! V V ? - . I :? ' " Ivi.iai jii of coi lr.-^r ?!? ? il ?!: ?.:???! ? r. $ I Piko's Ilr* !!)<*? j- for Catarrh la the JVst. Kacieet to T*?*. <-hea,r)#?K( I >y a >)T H-rit t(j' j?jc- K. T Ifav-Iitue. Warren. LUXURIES? LESKSVILLE BUNKhTS. lU'iv-k^ p- r- ' :N . $.1. C&T"lljl3> ' ' i-. . *6 j*t pjor. I ?!>.?? v-ii;.- Ji-anf ? I * -? an l Hj* k ? ? -V" ? tor. an'l CMr_ \a_i yanl L' r.< y finy, H'J l-.f, l'i i?n, ?i U a ytir<t ? r> *<*.?*. \v..ji Varu. %U ?? 3r. a if \'.>ur 'li-jli r d f<t kK-pthw* ?# ?^r?i?-r ->f J. . >< oTT d: CO., BidStUl SelJluj l.itcii.'joio, N, C, i MCTU AT AOMIIIATIO^ Mr. Hucklefxrry? -No one 2 Miss Wallflower ? No one ji either. Mr. Httcktebcny? Wo had ' ganizc a mutual :?imiratioQ j admire your eyes. What do j about me ? Miss Wallflower ? Your verji -[Rare Bit^. H XpTHIXO TO TELL.*' Prftcilln? What is the newsf Prunella? There is none. hild me h secret since last weel HthVJS. ESS* *"* <n?nr? tne Iron. *"<1 tur*of. i Tb? RUtiv* Suo Storo PolUh U BrlHJg Dur?W?,?nd ">? COftwntCHTMl or wttbQTerypartbMO. * OPIUM Mon>l>ln0 v' to SO day*. 0R7j.STEPHEH<Leb HAVINC INVENT?0A HA VIOASlf , I wish to find some party with C'APlTJ velop It. For particulars addrma II a BKOOK. J15 Jmrrl* St., TorontVfl )rypus A Chronic oim iterfby mail Uy the Latimer .M^Uoinert iultlnt; phyiOo<an. 1045 North Tenth . no eonaultW ph y si c(ft n ? ? - -- r Pa. All letter* confidential. ----- - ny? in ttaraps for sample of DR. IMT l&friffrgB Ac NBl'llALCtlA *A SHILOH: . cure; Oar?tfon?umptlon, C?agn>>OfWgJB Throat* Sold by Druaiitt THE ONLYTRUC TON 10 lujr ii>.HolutclTer*dlctfWB| Mind brighUmedT63B k. rower tncretiMfl ?offering irorn compiftinu mm SSir to their mz, luldr tt^fl , a Mf?, ppwtlr cure. lUtani LIDKS Njuc$, nerve*. HI dcs. receive new reM r?>M bloom on cliccW*, ho*uunc? Sold ererywhere. All jtemiin* liCrc*?uU*' bend as 2 cent ?Ump pampblat. II ?MrtER MedCINK CO.. ft A Choice GijBr Y Y v Y* V A Grand Family Educator y A Library iii Itself Y Y y The Standard Authority v NEW FROM COVER TO COVER. Fully Abrc&$t of the Timer SucccMor of the authentic " Una bridged " Ten yeirs spent In revUltur. 100 i-ditora employed,-, ever $300,000 expended. SOLI) BY A 1.1, BOOKSELLER*. GLT Til U ItEST. I <o ?"t -li'v of S?'iv1 foDVt-'' t>?nipl !'-t t:ir r *n tu??!| pt??w #u<rri"i.f, rAimct LAii-v G. & C. MERRIAM CO . PublUhcrc, Springfield, Mass., U. S. A. A WOMAN HAS rrry little rtaalre U> enjoy the pi ????? of life, and ? entirely unfitted for lb* of bouaekecptaf flf ?B.T ordinary dutlee, If a?llct?d with SICK HEADACHE DAY AFTER DAY ?ad yet there ere few dLvKuv^i that yield imi prorr.ptly to proper treatment. It U there for* of the otmoct iroportaaoe U\at a reliable rfraodf ehould al wayi be at hand, t.uitcg a period of more SIXTY YEARS C-.ert he* b**n bo lnetanoe report/-* wbere mm have not beca permanetmy and PROMPTLY CURED BY tfte qjw of a fl&fU box ol Uu genuine and Jojttj celebrated DR. C. McLANE'S LIVER PILLS, which may be procured at any Dru? store, or win be mailed to any addreai on tin r?-oelpt of X> cent* ta puriac? ?t aznp*. J^irrhaaer* of theee PtlU ifcould be careful to pro cure the tcuuine article. Tfcece are MT?rtl munter telU on the market well gelra!ale*J to The gonulne Dr. C. MclAne'e C?lebrav*l U**r Pllia an manufactured only by FLEMIHG BE0TKEE3 CU.; PUUfeurgh, fa. S. N U. V IF YOU p?^Y tuei.r trrtn If tou mcj ?-ly k?ep them a* a dlrortlon. In or rVr to haudlo K< > v/U judlcl< tiMy, yon mutt know lometb'.nt? airout tfcem. To naret thu want we ere ttUtng a book firing tbe experience / ft-l- 4E? o C a practical poultry ralwr fof Twill J ?DCt rrremtyftr? year*. It vraa wrlttrn by a man who pul ail hla mJnd, and time, and money to making a ?uc cewof Chicken ra^ng -not a? a pa*ttme, but v a tooilneee? and If jWj *111 profit by hie twenty-fire fMra' work, you can tare many Chicks annually, sfffHItnf" yjf OWN / CHICKENS 1 ^ \ X ? T IT ?? . _ ?? Ra(*iny < noC maJEe jour Fowls earn <3? >1 '.nr.* f?r you. Tb? 1 potat 1* th*t you i to ",-v. t troubU la I tb? Poultry V nr4 *? *o>>u * ami* r?. #nd know feew to * li. 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