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'"WJ Ufa's Scolptnre. [PARTI.] ?? , : .?% | x* ?- +*?. Oat <kv npon the 8??hot# ^ Two T5C7? -with Uugbing eyes, iggj watching in the sanlight The sail boeil 2a.il aad rise. - l i ? TEl, fired of idling, one proposed Thai each should write his came I'pott the shore, that passers bj Might see and read the same. do up they sprang: and one m haste ? I Baa to the long, smooth strand Asd oft the surface, Begavwritthg his name in sand. Ii was easily done, and when finished Be returned to hit comrade once And,* atirprised; fotaid him digging / and delring,. ? : In the smaSest nook on the shore. He bad chosen the ffcee of a low, rood) rock, , ^ ~ And with duly a worn, out knife, ? He was earring, mid scratches and braises, -- [' | The symbol of his life. "O fie'" cried his fries*!, "why labor To write m such a small pi**? Mine's writien out there in big letters Without, half the trouble to trace!" '?Well/1 ar& -rered the other, while rising.] '?My hands don't look rs if 'twould pay, j Bet if the work tr-a* harder ? My nan if scut thers to stay?' GOB IS {EVERYWHERE. DR. TALMAGE\C0*4TiNUES H>3 SER HONSON TH0?I8LE AND NATURE. The Bible Abooad* In Reference to Fi?h, and They Are indirectly Becom mended for r?fed? Why TUbermen Were Choeect tax Apostle*. J ; BsooitL^t*, Fj^). 5 ? Rev T. De* W rtt Taimarei^ia (morning preached to a great audience in the Tabernacle ?a remarkably interesting and eloquent sermon on ^Tfce J Ichthyology of the -Biblas or, Qod Among the Fishes," beiagva eo^tin cation of his series of diisceniw on God everywhere. The Uxtihyeqp. waa Genesis i, 20, "And Gxi said, "let the waters bring forth abundantly the moviag creature that >$Piaia.new book the Bible is! Afior S^yea# preaching from it and Ik?| over 3,000 different subjects fciteided ?a the word of God, the book k m &tah to- use as when I learned, with af stretch of infentiie memory, the shortest vers^ia i&eBible, Jesos wsft," and I Opened a few weeks ago a a#w realm c $ Biblical interest that Beftfee* my j?8pit not any one else?* hid mpr explored, and having spoken t< ?terju?|his course of sermons on asjery where concenung the "As tronomy of the Bible; or, God Among t he* 8tar?f' the ?'Chronology , of the Bible; or, God Among the Ceatories^ the "Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Bird*;" the "Miner al c$y | of the Bible; or, God Among the Amethysta/' this morning, as I may b^jf?j|torhelped, I will speak ?f j the party wa?, "Let ok breakfast on Stinday nwtfniag o? fresh fish from ^14ke\ Gtennesafetfc," xfo? you mcgt I " knowjthat that lake ha^foar naifies, v_ and a is worth a profusion of nomen clature, and it is in the Bible called [ ChiBneareth, Tiberias, Gennesarethand i Galilee. To our extemporized table on Sab bath aaoming came broiled perch, on ly a hours be&re Med 00 1 ^ the [ sacred It was natural" that . i oarjaittd^l&dd revert J? &e ool^ k breakfast thai Christ ever prepared, on those very shores where ^wk&sted. - Christ had in those |^jwes struck two Uinta together ? H ^ sense ihaviugs or )ig& , *31 and then put on larger ;| |IPEHIml pile of glowing bright ft ^ fish were salted or dried and brought inland, and so much of that article of _?ood was sold in Jerusalem that a fish market gave the same to one of the j \jgk tea of Jerusalem near by, and it j was called the fish gate. The cities had great reservoirs in which fish were kept alive and bred. The pool of Gibeon was a fishpool. Isaiah and and Solomon refer to fish pools. Large fish were kept alive and tied fast by ropes to a stake in these reservoirs, a ring having been run through) their gills, and that is the meaning of the Scripture passage which says, "Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn? So important was the fish that the god Dagon, worshiped by the Philis tines, was made half fishand half man, | and that is the meaning of the Lord's indignation when in I Samuel we read that this Dagon, the fish god, stood beside the ark of the Lord, and Dagon was by invisible hands dashed to piece* because the Philistines had dared to make the fish a god. That explains the Scripture passage, "The head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the thresh old; only the stump of Dagoon was left to him.'1 Now, the stump of Dagon was the fish part. The top part, which was the figure of a man, was dashed to pieces, and the Lord, by demolishing everything but the stump orfish part of the idol, practically said, "You may keep your fish, but know from the way I have demolished the rest of the idol that it is nothing divine." . the fishlike idols. Layard and Wilkinson found the fish an object of idolatry all through Assyria and Egypt The Nile was full of fish, and that explains the hor rors of the plague that slaughtered the finny tribe all up and down that river, which has been and is now the main artery of Egypt's life. In Job you hear the plunge of the spear into the hippopotamus as the great dramat ic poet cries out, "Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fii spea rsf ' Yea, the,, fish be gan to swim in the very firittx>ok of Genesis, where my text records, " And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life." Do you realize that the first living thing that God created was fish? It preceded the bird, the quadruped, the human race. The fish has- priority of residence over every living thing. ^Sbe next thing done after G ?d had kin&ed for our world the golden chandelier of the sun and the silver chandelier -of the moon was to make the fish. The first motion of the prin ciple of life, a principle that all the thousands of yeare since have not been able to define or analyze ? the very first stir of life? was a fish. What an hour that was when in the Euphrates, the Gihon, the Pison and the Hiddekel, the four rivers of paradise, the waters swirled with fins and brightened with scales. All the attributes Of the infinite God were called into action for the making of that first fi*h. Lanceolate and trans lucent miracle! There is enough won * in the plate of a sturgeon or in cartilag^-of * shark to confound.^ itists. It does not take the i 'to prove a God. A fish does wonder that Linnaeus and ^^Cuvier and Agassizand the greatr minds of all the centuries sat en raptured before its anatomy. Oh, its beauty and tb*vadaptedness of its structure to the element in which it must live; the picture gallery on the sides, of the mountain trout un veiled as they spring up to aoatoh the flies; the grayling, called the flower of fishes #the salmon, ascending the Oregon and: the Severn, easily leaping 4>e falls, that would stop them; the bold perch, thie gudgeon, silver and -black spotted; the herring, moving in squadrons five miles long; the carp, for cunning; called the fox of: fishes; the wondrous sturgeons, formerly re served for the tables of royal families, and the isinglass made out of their membrane; the tench, called the phy sician of fishes* because when applied to human ailments if is said to be cu rative; the lampreys, so tempting to the epicurean that too many ot them slew-Henry II? aye, the whole world of fishes! Enough of them floating Tip and down the rivers to feeJJ-' the* hejcis nheres il every ear of com -and e^ery head of wheat and every herd off quadruped and if every other article of feed in til the earth were destroyed. Universal drought, leaving not so much as % Spear of grass on the round planet, would leave in tne rivers and lakes and seas for the human race a staple^ commodity of food which, if brought t? shore, would be enough not only to feed , lgit fatten the entire human race. , In times to come the world my bej so populated that the harvest* andj Vineyards tad land animals may be insufficient! to feed the Iranian '.fkmily, and the nations may be obliged to come to the rivers and ocean ijeaches to seek the living harvests thai; swim thie deep, snd that would mean more health and vigor and brilliancy and hrakbthaz* the human race now own. IMPORTANCE OF PLAIN FOOD. The Lo*d, by placing the fish in the first coarse of the menu in para " "" it precede -birds and the world the im falide of th.it |K, yas be-;; paxefced corn fantastic food us before 30 and whipped mechanics, in law, in medicine, in theology, in legislative and congres sional halls, and all the presidents from Washington down ? at least those who have amounted to anything ? k because they were in those coun try* districts of necessity kept on plain diejt No man or woman ever amounted to anything who was brought up on floating island or ange] cake. The world mast turn back to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac morals and paradisiac health. The human race to-day needs more phosporus, and the fish is charged and surcharged with ^ phosphorus? phosphorus, that which shines in the dark without burning. What made the 12 apostles such stalwart men that they could endure anything and achieve everything? Next to divine inspiration, it was be cause they were nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and a few plain con diments. Paul, though not brought up to swing the net and throw the line, must of necessity have adopted the diet of the population among whom he lived, ? and you see the phosphorus in his daring pl*a before Jehx, and the phosphorus in his bold est of all utterances before the wise acres on Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he went without fright to his., be heading, and the phosphorus vou see in the lives of all the apostles who moved right on tmdaunted to certain martyrdom, whether to be decapitated or flung off" precipices or hung in crucifixion. Phosphorus, shining in the dark without burning. No man or woman that ever lived .jwas independent of questions of diet. Jbet^tbose who by circumstances are compelled to sim plicity of diet thank') God for their rescue from the temptation of killing delicacies. The men and women who are to decide the drift of the 20th century, which is only seven or eight steps off, are now five miles back from the rail station and had for breakfast this morning a similar bill of fare to that which Christ provided for the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake Galilee. Indeed the only articles of food that Christ by miracle multiplied were bread and fish which the boy who acted as sutler to the 7,000 people of the wilderness handed over ? five barley loaves and two fishes. The boy must have felt badly when called on to give up the two fishes which he had brought out after having caught them himself, sitting with his bare feet, over the bank of the lake and expecting to sell his supply at good profit, but he felt better when, by the miracle the fish were multiplied and he had more returned to him than he hadf surrendered. ' ^ I THE MIRACLE OF JONAH AND THE GREAT FISH. Know also in order to understand the ichthyology ol the Bible that in the deeper waters, as those of the Mediterranean, the e were monsters that are now extinct. The fools who become infidels because they cannot understand the inguliiiient of the recreant Jonah in a sea monster might have saved their souls by studying a little natural history. 'Oh," says ?some one, "that story of Jonah was only a fable." Say others, "It was interpolated by some writer of later times." Others say, "Itl^a^a repro duction of the story of Hercules devoured and then restored frotn the monster." But my reply is tiat his tory tellsft; that there wei<e monsters lar*e enWgh to whelm shij^ The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages was 30 feet long, and as late as the sixth century of the Christian era up and down the Mediterranean there floated monsters compared with which a modern whale was a sardine or a herring. The shark has again $nd again, been found to have swal lowed a man entire. A fish erman on the coast of Turkey found a sea monster which contained a woman and a purse of gold. I have seen in museums sea monsters large enough to take down a prophet. ? But I have a better [reason for believing the Old Trestament account, and that is that Christ said it was true anH a type of his own resurrec tion, and 1 suppose he" ought to know. In Matthew xtf, 40, Jesus Christ says, "tor as Jonas was thre^tays and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the ? Son of Man be three days and thrve nights in the heart of the earth." And that settles it for me and for any man who does not believe Christ a dope and an impostor. Notice aiso how the Old Testament writers drew similitude from the fish eries. Jeremiah^ uses such imagery to propfcesy destruction, ."Behold, I will aeud^ for many fishers, saith the Lord, amijjbfty shall fish them." Ezek^l uses fish imagery to prophesy pro? ferity, "It shall come to pass that the. nshers shall stand upon it from1 En-gedi even to Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many," the explanation of which is that Engedi and En-eglaim stood on th^ banxs of the *Dead sea, in the waters of which no fish can live, but th&- prophet says that. the time will odxne when these wafers will be re generated, and they will be great places for fish. Amos reproves idola tries by saying,, "The day shall come upon you when he will take you away with* hooks and . your posterity with, fishooks. bolpmcn, in Ecclesiastes, declares that those captured of tempta-1 tion are as fieheJtakea in an evil net. Indeed Solomon knew all about the finny tribe and wrote a treatise on ichthyology which has been lost. THE ANCIENT FISHERMEN. Furthermore, in order that you may underetafld the ichthyology of the Bible* you must kntw that there were five ways of SsbhSg. One was by a fence of reeds and canes, within which the fish were caught But the Hero die government forbade that on Lake iP&lUee, lest pleasure-boats Jbe wreck ed by the stakes driven. Anothe? mode was by spearing, the waters ef Galilee sp clear good aim could be taken /or tihe transfixing. Another ^as bt^hook and line, as where Isaiah fishers also shall mourn, "and thai cast angle into the .^^ll^nent" And Job says, djaw out leviathan vpth Habakknk says, ' " """" & rifflgp !$$!? . V- .. -? "They take up all of them with the angle.'' - Another mode was by a casting net or that which was flung from the shore; another, by a dragnet or that which was thrown from a boat and drawn through the aea as the smack sailed on. How wonderful all this ! is inwrought into the Bible imagery, and it leads me to ask in which mode are you and I fishing, for the church is the boat, and the gospel is the net, and the sea is ;the world, and the fish are the souls, and God addresses us as he did^Simon and Andiew, saying, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." But when is the best time to fish for souls? In the night Peter, why did you say to Christ, "We have toiled all the night and have taken nothing?" Why did you not fish in the daytime? He replies, "You ought to know that the night is the best time for fishing." ? At Tobyhanna Mills, among the mountains of Pennsylvania, I saw a friend with high boots and fishing tackle starting outat 9 o'clock at night, and I said," Where are you going?" He answered, "Going to fish." "What, in the night!" He answered^ "Yes, in the night" So the vast majority of sotj Is captured for God are taken in times of revival in the night meetings. They might just as well come at 12 o'clock at noon, but most of them will not. Ask the evangelists of olden times, ask Finney, ask Nettleton, ask Osborn, ask Daniel Baker, and then ask all the moH^rn evangelists which is the best time tb gather souls? and they will answer, "The night; by all odds, the night" Not only the natural night, but the night of trou ble. [ Suppose I go round in this audience and ask these Christians wh6n they were converted to God. One would answer, "It was at the time I lost my child by membranous croup, and it was the night of bereavement," or the answer would be, "It was-just after I was swindled out of my proper ty, and it was the night of bankrupt cy," or it would be, "It was - during that time when I was down with that awful sickness, and it was the night of physical suffering," or it would be, "It was that time when slander took after me, and I was maligned and abused, and it was the night of perse cution." Ah, my hearers, that is the time for you to go after souls, when a night of troul)la-ia_ai^ them. Miss not that opportunity to save a soul, for it is the best of aU opportunities^ Go up along ,the /Mohawk, op/the Juniata, or the iTelaware, or theTom bigbee, or the St Lawrerfce right after a rain, and you will find the fishermen all all up andfdown the banks. Why? Because argood time to angle is right after the hiin, and that js a good time to c^tch souls, right after a shower of rfiafortuue, right after floods of disaster/ And as a pool overshadowed with trees is a grand place for making a fine haul of fish, so when the soul is under the long dark shadows of anxiety and distress it is a good time to make a spiritual haul. People iff the bright sunshine of prosperity are not so easily taken.- " . THE BEST FISHERS OF MEN. But be sure before you start out to the gospel fisheries to get the right kind of bait. "But how," you say, am I to get it?" My answer is, ."Dig for it" "Where shall I dig for it?" "In the rich Bible grounds." We boys brought up in the country had to dig for bait before we started for the banks of the ftaritan. We put the sharp edge of the spade against the ground and then put our foot on the spade, and with one tremen dous plunge of our strength of body and will we drove it in up to the handle and then turned over the sod. We had never read Walton's "Complete Angler" or Charles Cot ton's "Instructions How to Angle for Grayling in a Clear Stream." We knew nothing about the modern red hackle or the fly of orauge colored mohair, but we got the right kind of bait. No use trying to angle f^f flsh or angle for souls unless you have the right kind bait, and there is plenty of it in the promises, the parables,- the miracles, the crucifixion, the heaven of the grand old gospel.^ Yes, not only must you dig for bait, but use only fresh bait. You cannot do anything down at the ~pond with old angle worms. New views of trnth. New views of God. New ! views of the soul. There are all the ' good books to help you A dig. * But j make up your mind as to whether j you will take the hint of Habukkuk j and Isaiah and Job and use hook and ; line, or take the hint of Matthew and Luk^ and Christ and fish with a net. I tfcink many lose their time by wanting to fish with a, net, and they nevef get a place to swing the net Wother words, they want to do gos pel work on a big scale or they will not do it at all. I see feeble minded Christian men going around with a Bagster's Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work of an evangel ist and use the net, while they mighf: be better content with hook and line and take one soul at a time. They are bad failures as evangelists. They would be mighty successes as private Christians. If you catch only one soul for God, that will be enough to fill your eternity with celebration. All hail the fisherman with hook and line! ? t\|*aye seen a man in roughest cord uro^v outfit come back from the woods loaded down with a string of finny treasures hung over his shoulder and his game bag filled, and a dog wiith his teeth carrying the basket filled with the surplus of an afternoon's angling* and it was^Ul the result of a hook and line, and in the eternal world there will be many a man and many a woman that was never h&rd o i outside of a village Sunday s<?ool or a prayer meeting buried 'in a ah urch basement who will come be fore the throne of God with a multi tude of souls ransomed through his or ier instrumentality, and yet the work all done through pergonal interview, one by one, one by one. j I You do not know wjho that one soul may be. Staupitz helped one Soul into the light but it was Martin Luther. Thomas Bilney brought salvation to one soul, but if was Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was the means ot saving one soul, but it was John Summerfield. Our blessed * f .- j < - i ; ki,-* Lord healed one blind eyfe at a time, one paralyzed arm at a time, one dropsical patient at a time, >aa4 raised irom the dfcad one girl at a time, one young man at a time. Ad mire the net that takes in a great many at once, but do not despise the hook and line. THE APPLICATION TO CHRISTIANITY. God help us amid the gospel fish eries, whether we employ hook or net, for the day coneth when we shall see how much depended on our fidelity.! Christ himself declared: "The king dom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the -good in the vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the eod of the"world ? the aDgels shall come forth and separate the wicked from the just" Yes, the fishermen think it best to | keep the useful and worthless of the haul in the same net until it is drawn upon the beach, and then the division takes place, and if it is on Long Island coast the mossbankers are thrown out and the bluefish and shad preserved, or if it is on the shore of Galilee the fish classified as siluroids are hurled back into the water or thrown up on the bank as unclean, while the perch and the carp and the barbel are put into pails to be carried home for use. So in the church on earth the saints and the hypocrites, the generous and the mean, the chaste and the unclean, are kept in the same membership, but at death the divigion will be made, and the good will be gathered into heaven, and the bad, however many holy communions they may have cele brated, and however many rhetorical prayers they may have offered, and however many years their names may /(iave been; on the church rolls, will be cast awa#. God forbid that auy of us should/ be among the "cast away." But maj/ we do our work, whether small of great, as thoroughly as did that renowned fisherman, George W. Bethune, who spent his summer rest angling in the waters around the Thousand Isles and beating at their -own craft those who plied it all the year, and who the rest} of his time gloriously preached Christ in a pulpit only 15 minutes from where I now stand, and ordering for his own obse quies: "Put on me my pulpit gown aud bands, with my own pocket Bible in my right hasd. Bury me with my mother, my father and ray grand mother. Sing also my own hymn: "Jesus, thou prince oflife! Tby chosen cannot die; Like thee, tbey conquer in the strife, To reign with thee on high." THE GUNS OF THE VESUVIUS. Official Trials Show That Naval Warfare in t?> be Revolutionized. ; Port Royal, S. C., Jan. ? The official trials of the pneumatic guns of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius^ began at 11 o'clock this morning. The board of officers appointed to coadnct the trial? ('apt M. Sicard, Capt A. S. Baker and LieutA. P. Nazro ? arrived on the ship at^Ta. m., so as to station observers to watch the fall of the pro jectiles and to watch the loading of the guns, and gave orders for the firing of the first shot at 11.15 o'clock. lu all, twelve shots were fired, six at a range of two thousand yards and six at fifteen hundred yards, the thiee guns being fired in succession. With exception of the first two shots fired from the starboard gun, no shot fell more than twenty yards distance from the required range, and every shot fired would have struck a man-of-war at the distance designed by the board. No target was used, but the board specified -the distance required, and the observing officers with the odolites recorded the results. There was no difficulty in the "working of the air guns, nor of the supply of air to the reservoirs, nor in the controlling of the shell by the wind vanes. The first two shots fired from the starboard gun fell about one hundred feet short of the required distance. This was probably due to a slight error in the assumed form of the range curve, an error arising from the limit ed number of projectiles available for preliminary woriu As soon as the error was detected ia the range, the j curve of the starboard^ n was slight ly altered, and the^temaing shots gave the same good results as those from the other guns. Tbese\first shots fired from the starboard gun riocbeted in the same line of fire, plunging about seventy-five yards ahead \ They ex hibited a slight divergence the left as they came from the water. During the trials the Vesuvius was securely moored to the naval "wharf. Twelve more shots will be fined to morrow, under ^imilar conditions^ and then the trials \wfh the ship inf motion begin. Lieut Schroeder said this evening that he was highly pleased with the day's work. The board declined to give official figures, and preferred not to express an official opinion at this time. The friends of the Vesuvius are, however, jubilant of the -result, and claimed that the day has demon strated facts which will revolutionize naval warfare. CLEMSON'S FUTURE. The Board of Trustees to Spend this Week j Attending to It. ^5tate Feb. 1.] This weeK' the exact time for the opening of Clemson College to 'the young men of the State will be fixed, and plans for the future of the college will be arranged, i The board of trustees will meet at Pendleton to-day and will continue in session for several days. Governor Tillman and Secretary of State Tindal went to Pendleton yesterday. In addition to declaring when the college will be thrown open, the trus tees will have to consider the details of the opening, the energetic pushing of the wor|;, and the election of a president to succeed Profes*?r Str<xle, who recently resigned." There are a.j good many names men tiwned in con-* nection with the place. Death of Nellie Grant's Haaband. New Yobk, Feb. 7. ? A cable dis patch to the World from London says: Algernon Sarforis, who married Nellie Grant, Hied on Fr&Uy at Capri, Italy. Heihad not lived with his wife for some yean, - CLEVELAND IN LAKEWOOD. What Congressman Wilson Says A boat the Prospect* of the Silver Parchase Bepcal BlU? Cleveland's Mail Must Go to New Tork. Lakewood, N. Feb. 5. ? Con gressman W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, who came from Washington on Saturday to consult with Cleve- \ laud, presumably on the prospect of j |?he repeal of the Sherman silver pur chase Act at this session of Congress, spent last evening with Cleveland and j Don M. Dickinson at the Cleveland cottage and has had another long talk with the President-elect to-day. Mr j [? Wilson does not consider the outlook very encouragiug for the hill to repeal the Sherman law reaching the Presi dent before March 4. He said that if a straight vote could be obtained the law would be repealed at once. With a determined minority there is little hope of a straight and, therefore, little hope of change in silver legisla tion at present. Mr Wilson declined to discuss the Cabinet possibilities. He will leave j on the morning express for Washing ton. Cleveland remained quietly at his cottage all day. Don Dickinson was his guest over Sunday. Cleve land announced this evening that he will remain here all of the coming week in order to dispose of several matters of importance which- have been awaiting his attention for some time. He desires that his ordinary mail shall be directed to his office iu New York, as it will reoeive more prompt attention there than here. The sudden death here this morn ing of Dr W. C. Stone, physician and ' friend of the Cleveland family, was a j shock to both Mr and Mrs Cleveland, j A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE. An Island iu the Grecian Archipelago Vio lently Shaken ? Casualties. Athens, Jan. 31. ? The island of Zante was shaken early this morning by an earthquake, and many lives have been lost. . \v. lu the town of Zante maDy houses were wrecked, aud the occupants ran in their night clothes iuto the street. The roof of the prison fell in and many prisoners were wounded. The guards were doubled. The walls of the prison, which had been sprung and cracked, were braced. The hospital was shaken partly from its foundations, all the floors set tled, and the roof sunk several feet. The attendants ran from the building, and were iuduced with difficulty, half an hour later, to return aud" help re move the patients to another part of town. Two hours later, the town was shaken by related shocks. Houses fell in all quarters, and the prison be came so unsafe that many prisoner were removed. The people, in pauic, fled from their houses aud crowded the streets and market place. Scores of families left the town, to camp in the fields on the outskirts. Many dead bod i .-s have been found | in the ruins, and one. hundred or j more people are reported to have been j injured severely. It has l>een im I possible to get further details. The | government has sent out troops with tents and provisions tor the relief of the homeless. - Earthquake and Volcano. Rome, Jan. 31. ? Stroinboli. the most northwestern of the Lipari is lands, .in the Mediterranean, off the north Coast of Sicily, was visited by a ! severe - earthquake yesterday. The volcano at the west extremity of the island, which is in almost constant eruption, had an eruption of unusual violence immediately after the earth quake shock. A ft? r the Again. Beklin, Jan. 31. ? A report of an j attempt upon the Czar's lite was j circulated here late this evening. ' The Czar and several members of iiis ? suite are said to have been injured by j a bomb. No further details were i given. At the Kussiau embassy all j knowledge of such an attempt is dt- j nied. The report is believed to he a canard. Witnesses Feared by Lawyer*. The best witnesses are nervous ones, ! who are afraid that they will never be : able to speak so as to be heard in court. And the worst ones to tackle are those j who are telling the truth. If a witness has truth on her side she may lie ever so J timid, but she will tell a straight story, and the most astute lawyer in the world can neither shake nor break her word. ' ,If a witness is telling a lie a clever law yer will make her tell another and an other and another, until she has woven such a network of lies around herself that it is comparatively easy to break j up one of them, ai^d so the whole struc ture falls through.' It is easy to win a case for a woman. The natural chivalry of American men makes them in sympathy with a woman when they would feel none at all for a man. Any able lawyer will tell you that he finds it easier to carry through one weak case for a woman than half a dozen strong ones for a man.? Abe Hummel i:i New York Press. The Cranberry Season. " The cranberry picking season on Cape Cod is now at its height, and thousands j of the poorer people have been profiting j by the opportunity to make money. Of late years, however, it has been found that the native workers are insufficient, 1 and foreigners have been introduced. ' An average picker gathers from twenty ! to thirty measures per day. A fast 1 picker can " easily earn five dollars per day. The working hours are short, as | the heavy autumn dew does not dry off until about } a. m. and begins t^> fall again about 5p:m.? New York Tribune. It is said that the emeralds of Mexico and the Andes regions of South America are of better color and often superior in size to tljose found in the south of Asia. Caveats, ap4 Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for Moderate Fees. Our Ornct is Opposttc U. S. Patent Orncc indjppe can secure patent in less time Uiau those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing-or photo., witl^descrip tion. We advise^ if oatentable or not, free of sharge. -Our fee not due till paiensjs secured. A Pamphlet, "Hov to Obtain Patents," with :ost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. % ;Opp. Patent Ornct, Washington. D. C. What is ? ! ? V J ! ? * , V V j Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays fevcrishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea ami Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas* toria is the Children's Panacea?the Mother's Friend. L ^ Castoria. "Castoria is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of us good effect upon their children." Dr. G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. " Castoria is the IkjsC remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1 hope tho day is not far distant when mothers wiHconsiderthe real interest of their children, and use Oastoria in stead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Da. J. F. KnfCHKLOK. Conway, Arl:. Castoru. " Castoria is $o well adapted to cI.Lunr it that I rtvouimead i# ua superior loauy prescription known to me.'l R. A. AucRKn, M. D., Ill So Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. L ? I "Our physiiians in the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi enee in their ouh^ide practice with Castoria. and although we\ooly bar? anions our medical supplies wb*t is known as regular products, yet we are fiVe to confess that the merits of Casooria has won us to look with favor upon ft.'? United Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Mass. 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