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W.,L WINNSBORO S.- C., AUGU'[ST 9, 1894.ETALIEDI4, a 'ea hich orn o! dnight. f anels of devils. hether it , that de at what we aughter of b, or that of hat of soirit gh, or that of h, or that of en's laugh, or The oenpantq erbaps wrinkled, guests are three y one of them. In y shown by the old. arah that she shall of the Lord Jpsas in the fac' of God. t. Sha is atfrighted at She denies it. She ."iThen God retorted at silence-1 all disDuta-. st augh." 'My friends, icism in all ages is only 's laughter. God says H a thing, and men sty it can great multitude laugh at thd ey sy the?y are contrary to the What is a law of nature? ofdoing a thing You or. river at one ferry. To-mor e for one day. and you go ferry. You made the rule.. the right to change it? You me in at that door ofthe church. next Sabbath you come in at or. It is a habit you have. Hav' ight to change your habit? ture is God's ha',it-His way o infs. If He makes the law. has He ht to change it at any time He wants geit? for the folly of those who lauzh at d when He says, "I will do a thing.' responding. "You can't do it." Go I that the Bible is true-it is all tru. op Colenso laughs, Herbert Spenrer hs, Stuart Mill laughs, great Ger:na .rsities laugh, Harvard laughs-sotly. eat many of the learned Institutions, long rows of professors seated on the between Christianity and Infilelity. softly. They say, "We didn't laugh:" was Sarah's trick. God thunders from eavens. "But thou didst laugh !" The en of Eden was only a fable. There was any ark built, or if it was built It too small to have two of every kind. pillar of fire by night was only the era lights. the ten plagues o. Egypt a brilliant specimen of fugglery. Te arted becuse the wind blew violently a while from one direction. The sun oon did not put themselves out of the for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only ontal an I picturguelandsdTha-" t was only cholera Infantum become mic. The gullet of the whale by ve measurement, too small to swallow phet. The story of the imm sption a says le that book of ose pass imply the .oW," sayS lation-how man w.ith the sharp sword in oak of Reovela. pieces left. What 'Oh." says smoe "I don't bnlieve a one endi io the oth ane. Now you havec for the nations. No of etemnal mi-inight. friends, we had bettet little longer intact. It has eli for a good many years. are old People who find it a comn ye it on their laps, and chil'ren e the stories in it. L1at us keep it for ta uriosity anyhow. If the .Thhle is to hai town out of the school and out of the cortroom, so that men no more swear by it~ anit is to beput in adark corridor of th - cy library, the Koran on one side and! th witings of Confucius on tho other, then le; ueach one keep a copy for himself, for we ight have trouble, and we would want to bunder the delusions of its consolations, ad we might die, and we would want tha dlusion of the exalted residence of Go-l's riht hand, which It mentions. Oh, what an awful thing it is to laugh In God's face ant, hul His Revelation back at Him! 'After awhile the day wi come when they will say thy did not laugh. Then all the hyper cticisms, all the caricatures and all tha --arned sneers in the quarte'rly revIews will bbrought to juigment, and amid the roc~~ -n of everything beneata and amid the. fming c everyt hlng above God wIll thun 'r, '-But thou didst laugh !" I think:t ost fascinating laughter at Christi'anity eer rememb -r was a man in New Enadan d.i Hemade the wori of Got istem ridlienlin. ad he lauguest en at our holy religion untif hecame to die. ni then he satid : "'ly liin~ ha been a faite~-a~ fa!!ur's domstiealiy. I ave no childrenr. A failure socialy. for I amtreated in tue stre'ets htke a pirate. A flure professionally because I know but on.' nnister that has adopted my sentimnents." or a quarter of a century he laughed at hristianity, and ever since Christianity has ben laughing at him. Now. it Is a mean ting to go into a man's house and steal his oods, but I tell you the most gigant ic lur giry ever invented is the proposition to sal these treasurers of ou~r hoey religon. The meanest laughter ever uttered is the augh of the skeptic. The next laughter mentioned in the Bile Is avid's laughter, or the expression of siritual exultation. _"Then was our mouth YPled with laught"?." rie got very mnuch down sometimes, but there are other chap trs where for four or ive times he calls upon .he people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips-it was a demnonstra ton that took hold ot ids whole physicai na ture. "Then was our mouth ftlle'd with lughter." My friends, this world will never be converted to God until Christians cry les a lne an sngmore. 29 agrrors BZO eopip are ro be persuadel yv reigion, it will be because e up their minds it is a happy ey don't like a morbid Chris ow there are morbid nopinwho eral. They erno early to ;ethe ~ke l :v' of the erps. and the'v st.ani o the e"meterv. ult all healthy p.onie a Weddingbetterthan they do a burial. . you make the r.ligfion of Christ 'pulcbral an.d hearselik. and you nake it repulsive. I sny plant the roso o sharon along the church walks and 3olumbine to olamher over the churoh wall, Lad have a smile on the lip. and have the mouth fIl1d with holy laughter. There is ao man in the worl4, ex.:ept the Christhin, 'hat has a right to feel an untrammeled ge. He is promised evervthing is to be for the best here. and he is on the way to a delight which will take all the processions with palm branches and all the orchestras harped an-1 eymbaled and trumpeted to express. "Oh," you say. "I have so Truch tronI'le. . Vou more troue than Paul had? What does le say? "Sorrowful, yet alwaya rejoicing. Poor, vet making many rich. Having noth lug. yet po;sessing all things." The merriest laugh I think I have ev-r heard has been in !he sickroom of God's dear childrn. When rhoodosius was put upon the rack, he suf fered very great torture at the drst. Somebody asked him how he endured all :hat pain on the rack. He replied : "When 1 was first put on the rack, I su'ered a gret leal. but very soon a young man In white tood by my side, and with a soft and corn -ortable han-ikerchief he wIped the sweat rom my brow, and my pains were relieved. it was a punishment for me to get from the razk, because when the pain was all gone :he angel was gone." Oh. rejoice evermora! kou know how it is in the army-an army in ?ncampment. If to-day news comes that )nr side has had a defeat, and to-morrow inother portion of the tidings comes, say ing we have had another defeat, It demora! Izcs all the host. But if the news comes of rictory to-day and victory to-morrow the whole army is imp.sssions. for the contest. Now, in the kingdo-n of our Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats tells us the vie :ori-s-victory over sin and death and hell. Rjoice evermore, and again I say rejoice. I )elieve there is more religion in a laugh :ban in a groan. Anybody can groan, but :o laugh in the midst of banishment and persecution and indesribable trIal, that re 4uired a David, a Daniel. a Paul, a modern aeroine. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's laughter, or :he expression of sinful merriment. Solomon was very quick at simile. When he makes a 3omparison. we all catch it. What is the aughter of a fool like? He says. "It is the 2rac(kling of thorns under a pot." The ket-. lie is swung, a bunch of brambles is put una ler it, and the torch is applied to It, and there is a great noise, and a big blaze, and a sputter ant a quick extinguishment. Then It is darker than it was before. Fool's laugh ter. The most miserable thing on earth is a oad man's fun. There they are-ten men in i barroom. They have at home wives, :nothers. daughters. The impure jest starts it one corner of the barroom, and crackle, rackie. crackle it goes all around. In 500 iuh guffaws there is not one Item of happi aess. Tney all feel bemeaned if they have tny conscience left. Have nothing to do wth men or women who tell immoral stories. L have no conidenco either in their Chris :ian character or their morality. So all merriment that springs out of the lefects of others-caricature of a lame fcot, >r a curved spine, or a blin'] eye. or a deaf tar-will be met with the ju Igment or God, either upon you or upon your children. exas -n-1-b~~ ew a man who was less of a neighbOr. N% he skillful mimic had he very defect t long ago a son of is leg amputated for ich his father had e. I do not say it was 1. I leave you to make e. So all merriment born that w:nch starts at the drinking restaurant or the he home circle, the mau Ilin aningless joke, the saturnalian rarcxysm or mirth about not b -on sometimes see in the fashion. orm or 'le exqisite parlor at 'ock at night. are the crackling ol der a pot. Such laughter and such In death. When I was a lad, a book~ out entitled, "Dow Junior's Patenl ns." It made a great stir, a v.'ry widi ,all over the country, that book did. as a c'aricature of the Caristian minist ry~ 'I of the word of Go]. an.d of the day oI .ig'nent. Oh. we hali a great laugh ! The -nmentary on the whole thitng is that th-e thor of that book dhIl in pov-erty, shame tebiuchery, kleka I out of soc~ety and curse. if Almighty God. 'rThe latughter of sun9 n'n is the echo of their own damnation. Th3 neoxt laughter that I shall mention as teling i the Bale is the laugh of God's con lemanation, "He that sitteth in the heaveng hall laugh. Again, "The Lord will laugri t him." Again, "I will laugh at his c-ala'n ty. With such demonstration wIll Go I freet every ktn I of great sin aud wlcked iese. But men build up villainies higher in . higher. G'oo I man almost pity God be mnne Ho is so cherne.] against by men. kI'ldenly a pin drops out of the machinery ;t wico~ies or a secret is revealed. and ho ioundation begins to rock. Finally the ihole thlhg Is demolished. Wnat Is the nlatter? I w~il tell von what the matter Is. that crash of rain is only the reverberation f God's laughter. In the money market hare are a great many good men and a treat many fraudulent men. A fraudulent nan there says, ".[ mean to have my mil ion." He goes to work reckless of hon sty, antI he gets his first $300.000. He e.ts after awhile his j200.00). After awhile 1c gets hIs $500,000. "Now," he says, "I inve only one more move to make, and] I hail have my million.' He gathers up all its resources. He makes that one last tran I mov, he fails and losas all. and he as not enough money of his own left to pay he cost of the ear to nis nome. People can tot understand this spasmnodic revaislon. soane said it was a sudden turn In Erie Rail vay stock. or In Westorn Uion, or in Illi is Central ;some said one thing and some tuother. They all guesned wrong. I wil eli you what It was. "He that sitteth In the eavens laughed." A man in New York said me would be the richest man in the cIty. Ho ett his honr-st work eas a mechanic an.I got nto the city 'onn'vlS so:nle way and in ten rears stole $15.0OJ,000 from the cIty govern nent. Fifteen million dollars ! H" held tho begilature of the State of New York in the trip of his ?ight hand. Suspieions were troused. Tho gran i jury presented indliet nents. The whole land stool agha:-t. Tas nan who expected to put half the city in his rest pocket goes to Blackwell's Island, goes o Ludlow street jail, breaks prison and goes across the sea,. Is rearrested and brought kaok and againa remanded to jail. Wity? "lHe that sitt'eth in the heavens laughed." Rome wasa great empire. She had Horace ndi Virgil amnonig her po-ts tshe had Anmauw I and Con~:antina amnOag har e-np'ror<. hiat what mean the defac'd Pantheon, and lme Forum turned Into a e~"'Je market, and Ihe broken wailed Coliseum. and the archi :eotural skeleton of her great aque unts? Whtwas that thund1er': "Oh." you say, -t was too rar or the ontrn ramS mainst her walis." No. What was that priver? "0Oh,"you say, "that -ras the tramp >f hiostile iegions.' No. The quiver and :hn roar were the outr~urst of omnipotent aughter from the detied and insulted beay ins. Rome deflali GMa. andt He lauighel har lown. Tuobes deflel Ga I. and Hl" laughd :uer down. Ninevoh anede~ God, and He .aughna her down. Babylon defled ('o I. an eluhed her down. There ts a great :litore between Go i's lanen and H.e smile. HIs smile is "tornal beatitude. He smiled when David sang, and Miriam clappe I the cymbals, and Hannah made garments kindled w'th pocalyptic vision, and when any man has anything to do and does it well. His smile ! Why, It Is the I5th of May, thbe apple orchards in full bloom :it IS morn. Lnz breaking on a rliana a It i heaven at igfh nhon, all the llN betng the maN ringe peal. But His laughter-nay it never fall on us! It is a condemnation for out sin : it Is a wasting away. We may 1-t tbe satIrist laugb at us, and all our companions may lau.;h at us, and w4 may be made the target for the merriment of earth anl nell. but o.l forbi.l that we should ever vomefl to the fulfillment of the prophecy against the rejectors of the trai, "I will laugh at your calamity." But. ny friends, all of us who reject Christ and the inardon of the gosp-l must come under that tremendous bomhardment. God wants us 4llto renent. He cousAls. He co-ixes. He importunes. an.1 He dies for us. He coms ilown out of h.-aven. He puts all the world's FIn on one shoulder. He puts all the world'i Forrow on the other shoulder, and then with Ihat Alp on one side ant that Himalaya on the other He starts up the hill back of Jeru salerm to nchieve our salvation. HA puts the palm of His right foot on onq lor-z spike, nnl He puts the palm of His leit foot on nrither loni spik.. ani then, with Hit h-inds spotted with His own boo1. He gestioqiates. saying: "Look. look and ve. With the crinson veil of My sacrillce I will eover up all your sins : with My dying rroan I will qwallow up all your groans. ool: ! Live !" But a thousand of you turn hur ha-k on that, an:! then this voice of ivitation turns to a tone divinnly ominous, aint sobs like a sinoom through the first chapter of Proverbs. "Because I have rill.d an-! y % re'neel. I have stretched out Kvright han-1, anA no man regarled, but yA have set at naurht all My counsel ant would none of My reproof. I. also will laugh at your calamity." Oh, what a laugh that is -a dmep laugh, a long. reverberating laugh, an overwhelming laugh. God grant tre may never hear it. But in this day of mercUint visitation yinid your heart to Christ. that You mar souind all your life on earth in ter His s-nile an oseape forever the thun der of the laugh of GoA's Indignation. The other laughter mentioned in the BioN, the only one I shall speak of, is h:aven's lau:bter, or the expression of terna-l triumph. Christ said to His dis ciples, "Blessod are ve that weep now. for ye shall laugh." That makes me know p.,sitivAy that we are not to spend our days in heav-n singing long meter psalms. The rmallstic and stiff notions of heaven that om people have would makememistrable. [ am glad to know that the heaven of the Bible is not only a place of holy worship, but of magnifcent sociality. "What," say you, "will the ringing laugh go around the ~ircles of the save-l?" I say yes-pure aughter. cheering laughter, holy laughter. It will be a laugh of congratulation. When we meet a friend who has suddenly come to a fortune, or who has got over some dire slokness, do we not shake hands, do we not laugh with him? And wben we get to heaven and see our friends there, some of them having come up out of great triulation. why, we will say to one of them. "The last time I sawyou you had been uffering for six weeks under a low intermit tent fever." or to another we will say ' "You for ten years were limping with the rheu natism, and you were full of complaints when we saw you last. I congratulate you on this eternal recovery." We shall laugh. Yes, we shall congratulate all those who have come out of great financial embarrassments In this world because they have become mill enaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. It shall be a laugh of reassociation. It is jist as natural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for ten years as any thing is possible to be natural. When we meet our friends from whom we ave been parted ten or twenty or thirty years, will it not be with infinite con r i - n. W e mp veC, we w now eaca other at a flash. We will have to talk over all that has happened since we have been peparated, the one that has been ten yearsin heaven telling us all that has happened In the ten years of his heavenly residence, and we telling him in return all that has hap pened during the ten years of his absence from earth. Ye shall laugh. I think George Whitedleld and John Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly colli sions, and Toplady and Charles Wesley wiil have a laugh of contempt for their earthly. misundertandlings, anl the two farmers who were in a lawsuit all their days will h*ave a laugh of contempt over their earthly disturbance about a line fence. Exemption rom all annoyance. Immersion In all glad ness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye phall laugh. Yes, it wIll be a laughi of tri ti'ph. Oh. what a pleasant thing it will be > stand on the wall of heaven and look own at satan and hurl at hIm defiance and ee him cazed and chained and wa forevir ree from his clutchbes !Aba ! Yes, It will e a laugh of royal greeting. You know how the Frenehmen oheered hen Napoleon came back fromn Elba; you now how the English cheareI when Wel ngton came back from Waterloo ; you know how Americans cheered when Kossuth ar rived from EIungarv . you remember how ome cheered when Pompey came back vie orious over 900 citIes. Every cheer was a augh. But, oh, the migatier greeting. the glader greeting, when the snow white cav lry troop of heaven shall go through the streets, and. accor ling to the Book of Rave aion. Christ in the red coat, the crimson oat, on a whIte horse, and all the armies of heaven following lHim on white hoeis ! Oin, hen we see and hear that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall laugh ! Does not yoar, eart beat quickly at the thought of the great jubIlee upon which we are soon to en ter? I pray God thait when we get through th thi's worn I an.! are gomng out of it we may have some such visIon as the ying Christiniu had when he saw ittn all over the clouds in the sky the letter "W." an I they askce.l him. stan-ding by his ie, what he thou-rht that letter "W" meant. ''O,"' he sai I. "ihat stands for wol ome." And so may it be when we quit tuis world. "W' on the gate. "W" on the door uf the mansion, "W" on the throne. Wel oe ! Welcome ! Welcomae! I have preached this se'rmon with ive prayerful vlshes-that you might see wnat a mean nig is the laugh of setpticisma, what a 'right this is the laugh of spirituael exulta I on ,wm-.t a hollow thin. is tne laugh of sin l merriment. what an awful thing is the laugh c f condenation, whuat a ra liant, rumA ud thing is the laugn of eternal tnrip. void the Ill ; co )we t he right. lle cco a fort e I. "'BM-se I are ye th't we-:p no w-ye shall laugth ; ' shall laug'. The Elephant Remembered Him. An elephant with a good memory ame near killing a small boy at the P'ittsburg Zoo the other day. Some months ago the boy, with several com panions, was engaged in feeding the elephant buns fromt the end of a stick in which he had fastened a small nail. Wathing his opportunity the little ras cal jabbed the nail into the elephant's trunk and run away. Monday last the sone boy camne to the Zoo with some others, and as soon ats the elephant caught sight of him it trumpeted and made a rush for him. The keeper ran p and drove the beast back. and none too soon. for it was just in the act of wrapping its trunk about the lad, e in another miomient it would have beent all up with him. On being questioned the boy at iirst denied ever having done any harm to the elephant, but finally confessed the facts. The keeper told him that he had better stay awiy from the Zoo and take good care to keep out of that elephant's way a?ll his life, as the anin':a would never forget him. New Orlicns Picavune. 'TAINTED UEERT. A REMARKABLE REGION 0 ARIZONA. p It Play the Most Wonderful M1 rages Known to Man-Objects Many Miles Away DJ tinctly Reflectedl ORTH of the confluence of th Little nd Great Colorad< Rivers, in Arizona Territory, (, lies oue of the most remark rble regions in this country of remark i.ble things. The painted desert is g tract on which "no flower blooms oi verdure grows." Its surface is covered with lofty columns shaped from sand stone by the wind and rain storms o: centuries. There is little variety ii these spectral buttes, and all show the workmanship of the same persisteni hand. The phenomena, however, whici make this district unique, and whici have given it the somewhat fanciful but appropriate name it bears, is the mirage which appears with punctilione regularity. There is no monotony in this sameness, however. The scence p.resented to the wondering beholder's gaze, depicted as by the hand of a ne cromancer on the viewless canvas of the air, have as much variety as ihey have distinctness of detail, shading and per spective. No speculative scientist oir imaginative theorist has so far been able to give even a plausible explana tion of the visions of palaces, hanging gardens, colonnades, temples, fountains, lakes, fortresses, groves, armies, herds of deer, bands of people, none of which exist near the place, but all of which are shown with as much accuracy as if a master painter had been at work night and day with his brushes. To the minds of the untutored Indiani this region is a spirit land, and a good place to keep away from. While the painted desert presentd most wonderful optical delusionsthere are numberless other places through out the territory which make oocaJ sional mirage pictures that delight the beholder. One of the more commonj and a really remarkable phenomenon of this character, can be seen by Den ver people en route to Los Angeles,' via the Atlantic and Pacific, near the Colorado River. Sixty miles this side of the great cantilever bridge, as the train winds around the canyon ap proaching the river, a train will be noticed leaving the eastern approach of the bridge and steadily winding in and out of the tortuous twists of the adjoining barranca. This, naturally, ehe is with whereas he is a good safe two and a half hours' distance from it. The Tonto Apache Indians declare that somewhere in their country (the exact locality is kept secret) there is a huge mountain, from the summit of which can be seen cities and towns never known to the white people. These towns, they declare, are walled, and the buildings are three and fouz stories in height. The people work in great fields and manage reservoirs and canals and possess quantities of gold and silver and precious stones. The Indians themselves have never visited this country,because of a tradition that it means certain death. They go up on the mountain, however. in the fall of the year, where at sunrise they can look down upon the pleasant fields be low, once the heritage of their own people. Some people set the whole story down asalegend without founda tion. Others believe that the Indiane see one of the territory's mirages. The Moquin villages, which are "walled towns," are less than fifty miles away in an air line, and the Laguna towne of New Mexie, not much over 100. In-. stances are on record of the reflection of objects at much greater distances than 100 miles, so that it would not be improbable for the pueblos northeast of the Tonto country to be seen under right conditions. Regarding the gold and silver portion of the story, thai may have been a fabrication to test the cupidity of the white men. Indians de these things sometimes. Castle Dome rock, on the Coloradc River, is plainly discernible on a calm, clear morning just before sunrise at San Bernardino, Cal., 150 miles dis tant. This mirage is so common that it has grown to be looked upon as one of the fixed features of the landscape. New York Recorder.. A BARREL CLoTHES EAM~n A verv satisfactory recep~tacle foi siled ciothes e-au be made, says th Country Ge.ntlemnan, by covering a bar rel with5 whait used to be called furui tre calico, but is now sold under th name of comfortable print. The bar rels that pulverized sugar comes in ar~ of good size for this purpose. Care fully break off all nails that project bothi on the inside and outside. Lint the inside of the barrel with smooti brown paper, or remnants of wall papel can be used, using flour paste to fastes the paper in. Measure four pieces o print the depth of the barrel, allowmn four inches extra for the frill at the top Join the pieces and rrn a strong threat around the lower edge to draw it on foid over two inches at the top, an< gather at the boittom. Draw this cove ovr the barrrl. even the fullness an seure- it in place with small tacks~ Place a two-inch band of silesia arouw the top and hottom to hide the tacks Cover the lid of the barrel, inside anu ou. with the print. Make a knob i: the centre of this lid by putting a scre, throgh the hole in a medium-size< sool and screwing it firmly in place Cover the spool with silesia like th bands on the hamper. This makes neat and handy place to keep soile, artices., and each week when they ar removed the hamper should be given faew h oursur to the sun and aii French Anecdote. M. de la Reynie, traveling one day Incognito, met a man of enormous obesity at the inn where they change the horses on the road to Paris. lie was a farmer, and he had with him two letters of recommendation from the Governor of his province-one to the King's physician and the other to a celebrated lawyer. When they ar rived in Paris, La Reynie took the man to his hotel, and assured him that he was in a position to help him in his quest. He at once led him to a dungeon where there were a jug of I water and a piece of bread suspended by a string from the ceiling. Rage, screams, and cries of the despairing 2 prisonpr were in vain. In the nat- I ure of things, the man was presently compelled to attempt to get the only C food he had, aud after numerous t jumps and as many tumbles, he sue- a ceeded at length in gaining posses-! sion of the bread. After two months I of this diet and these gymnastics, z La Reynie gave him his liberty. But g his protege, beside himself with rage, p threatened to lodge a complaint with o the prefect of police. "Nothing could be more simple," said La Reynie to t him; "you are at this very moment I before him. But let us think a mo- b ment. You came to Paris to cure p your obesity. You now stand before n me as thin and slender as a young n man. What have you, therefore, to gain? Besides that, here are docu- d ments to show that you have won e the lawsuit you came about and a, which you told me on the journey b you were so anxious to win." Amazed I and stupefied, and with his breath I taken away, the poor man was only a, able to stammer: "Oh! monseigneur:" w THE PRICE OF WIVES. ej ei Savages Can Buy Them for Almost Noth-- e Ing. In the earliest times of purchase, d a woman was bartered for useful t1 goods or for services rendered to her father. In this latter way Jacob purchased Racbael and her sister Leah. This was a Beena marriage, where a man, as in Genesis, leaves st his father and his mother and cleaves unto his wife, and they become one flesh or kin-the woman's. The price of a b.ide in British Columbia and Vancouver Island varies from ;E20 to E40 worth of articles. in , Oregon an Indian gives for her 7 ; - i horses, blankets, or butfalo robes; in California shell money er horse,; in Africa cattle. A poor Damara will sell a daughter 4 for a cow; a r:cher KafIr exoects from ? 3 to 30. With theanyaj, Itnoh.U ing can l--given, her family claim ir .ildren. In Uganda, where noj marriage recently existed, she may:" be obtained for half a dozen needles, ' or a coat, or a pair of shoes. An or dinary price is a box of per::ussion 91 caps. In other parts, a goat or a 3 couple of buckskins will buy a girl. Pi Passing to Asia, we find her price is I a' sometimes 5 to 50 rubles, or at oth- fc erE a cart load of wood or hay. A b1 princess may be purchased for 3,000 w rubles. n( In Tartary' a woman can be ob- - tained for a few pounds of butter, or where a rich man gives 20 small m oxen, a poor man may succeed with W a pig. In I i., her equivalent is a bi whaie's tooth or a musket. These, i t and similar prices elsewhere, are elo-b quent testimony to the little value a savage sets on his wife. Her charms w vanish with her girlhood. Sh2 is fl usually married while a child, and ti through her cruel slavery and bitter ei life she often becomes old and re- p pulsive at 25. a4 By the end of the present year we y shall probably know, much more ex- *6 actly than at present, the area of ~ Unele Sam's territory, and be able to ir dicate upon our maps the true Id' bou)lndary 1ie hetween it and the rI lomain of Queen Tietaria. The roast and Geodetic Survey has started 1pon its third summer's work on the i. Alaskan frontier, in to operation nu with the Canadian Land Survey, and fi it is confidently expected that the 84 work will be completed this year. We speak or A'aska as our Arctic 8 provinee, and not altogether inap propriately, since a large part, of It lies within the Arctic Zone. YCt' almost tropical conditions prevail in the .couthern part of it. Mosqiuitoes ' and other insect pe~ts are inconceiv- a ably numerous, and vegetation is e jungle-like ini its rank profusion. I Th surveyors have to struggle with a nbstacles moure like those Mr. Stanley found in the ituri wilbierness thnini those whieb confront Arctic adven- C turers.d . 31oist Name. B Mrs. Fa mer-I wish you would do* a littie hoeing to 1.ay for that meal.t Silvery Turng-I would, mum, but ~ I'm no use on a fair day. You see, L'm a MacIntosh, mum.--Judge. Better than reposseaslfa. First Club'man-I see Moneylove has just ma ried a fortune: is his F wire preposseming? Second Clubman ~ --A o, not prepo-ecssing; just yonsess ing -New Y ork Tribune. ivWhom Time Galliops WithaL Teai.her-James what is the short- . 2st day in the year. James ifrom ex- I 2peience)-The nay your father prom-. ises to give you a iickin' atore you go to bed.-'uckC. t A Natural Question. a"I hear Harkins was struck by t I lightning down on the Jersey coast i last week." "Yes." "I1 wonder what c they charged b mn for it?"-.Harper's two isuneigroups, alu the doein o each divisi.'n being connected by pas sages or entrances. Vessels have aocesa fto the docks through entrances that gen erally consist of a double pair of gates, which are open two hours before high water, and are closed on the turn of the tide. These double gates give the shipping in the docks almost absolute security, and the value of having two sets of gates has been demonstrated on more than one occasion by the serious damage done to one set of gates by their being run into. They also have the ad vantage of locks for the "flats," which Aerve the shipping with coal, and carry goods for transshipment, etc. In some cases the entrances are api proached through a tidal basin whic4t entry or exif~~~'ie ifgc e's fiWa of recent build are sixty-five feet wide.: There are, however, at both Livt-rpool and Birkenhead entrances anel locks 100 feet in width, provided originally for paddle-wheel steamers. The look lead ing to the Canada duck is 489 feet. As many as twenty-three large steamships, having an aggregate burden of 34,200 tons, have been let in or out of the docks through the Canada basin in a single tide, during two and a quarter hours before high water. The Mersey Dock Board spares neither pains nor expense in keeping the en Gre estate in thorough order and in making such improvements as the con it ons of trade warrant. During the year 1892 nearly 81,000,000 was voted simpiy for alterations to some of the new North End docks and waterways, in order that they may be able to meet th- reirements of the Western Ocean tr.iej. When the improvements are completed. the docks will accommodate va-is 700 feet in length and eighty -, i.i, and will also permit them to -tr tor lave on auv tide.--New ITGUSEHOLD MATTERS. FURNISHING A ROOM. Tim b':st way to decorate an interior is to limve everything that is put into t'he blhrinient either manufactured or selected by a real artist. There are so manV second and third rate artists in existence who are unable to do any thing beyond copying the eccentrici ties of the real artists that they quite miss the delicacy of decoration, the imagination and sentiment that form the basis of all true art. Their work, however costly, is simply an. abomina tion, although the ignorant mind may pronounce it "quite too lovely for anytbing."-The Decorator and Fur V% AsHINaG cREToNNYE. Tise wl hbave iherited hand-woven linen sheets utilize them as bed-spreads. They are embroidered with flax threads in sone conventional all-over design, or worked with natural-looking flowers. The ediges are finished with a heavy lace )r fringe for brass bedsteads, and in ether eases have no extra finish and are tucked in at the sides. When a fancy sprtad of this kind is used, a bolster-cast to match it is liked. The bolster itself is filled with either hair or excelsior. and removed at night. French sateen makes handsome spreads that look miucih like silk. Both sateen and ebintz are likely to be laundried with better effect than cretonne, though the latter is o fien used for them. When the cretunne is rLot sent to the profes sional cleaner, a sample of it should be washed, first setting the colors with salt and water or ox-gall and water. Dry as quickly es possible in a dark room, as the fading often takes place in the drying. Only a pure white soap should be used in the washing.--New York Post. - How TO cooK MEAT. IMeat to be in perfection should be kept several days, if the weather will admit, advises the Detroit Free Press. Beef and mutton should be kept at least a week in cold weather, and poul try three or four days. It should be kept in a cool, airy place, and if there is any danger of spoiling, a little salt shoul be rubbed over it. Boiling--The best way to b)oil meat is to put it into warm water, boil gently, ss it hardens by furious- b~oil inz and add one tablespoonful of viegar to make it tender. Tfake off all te scum as it rises. Salt when half doe Do not let it remain long in the w ater after it is done. Roasting-Have a large fire, so it will extend six inches beyond the roaster. Whien your rueat is thin and tendler have a small brisk fire. but whn von have a large roast. str' ng lire., etnnally good~i in all parts. Alw ab.nt lif t-eniII minuites to evry poundl of imeat in warmi weather, but in win ter twenty minils. When the meatl is nearly' done stir up the lire iandI brown it. The meat should be tasted a good deal, especially the iLAt part of the time. When the meat is nearly done the steam from it will be udrawa towards the nre. Baking-Bakingi a cheap nnad 'en y,'nient mode. of cooldng. The met should be rathe fa' t-a poor pic wili never give satisfaction. The lengti: - time fou. baking depends much on n statc of the oven, of which you should be the judre Broiling-Keep the gridirona between thc bar-s an'd brighit on Oil it with sweet oil and have it v hot before putting on the meat. Chu~a:m rubbed on will sometimes pren.. sticking. Watch diligently and re move the meat as soon as dlone. N' v. h~aten the broiling lest you spoil it. Serve very hotL. She-" '.i:: I i'sk what it WWi? -~ -Wil you 1i r.;ise to kep ii H-I W. Ii th.-y failed to sendi me tiL'A a t't'un."-Vue.5 IIMIXE NSE DOCKS. rHE LARGE ST HOME FOR VES SELS IN THE WORLD. )eserlption of the Famous Structure at Liverpool-Facilities for Shipping That Cover an Area of 1611 Acres. LMOST the first sight tha greets the voyager enterini the Port of Liverpool is thi marvelous and extensivi ocks that line the Mersey, and th< %ost apathetic individual must at one, a impressed with these wonderful an( igantic harbors of stone which throv pen their gates for the reception (: be commerce of the world, and ad'ori wcommodation for the mereaitilt imrine of every country on the globe. 'rom north to south, for nearly sevei iles, the river is faced with a wall o. ranite laid in massive blocks, ap. arently capable of resisting the actior f both sea and atmosphere for s. The entire dock estate comprises r tal area of 1611 acres-1105 on dverpool side and 506 on the Birkein ead side. The quay line at the formier lace, including basins, neasures tiles, and at the lattter pAace nearlk t:i. iles. For many years the control of the ocks remained in the hands of the rporation, according to the origi: t of Parliament, and were nanage: 7 a committee of the Town Council. 1 the year 1857 an act was passed by hich a board of control, ntow known] the Mersey Docks and Har bor Board, as constituted. This Bard (in! )rporated in 1858) consi-.ts of twaitr:.' ght members, four of whom are (ov -nment members, the others being ected by the dock ratepaye-rs. The number of vessels wbich paid ck tonnage rates to the Board, it eir tonnage, for the year endin-, ly 1, 1892, was as follows: sumber of vevss). 'Trr..'. dling-Foreign........... 903 7-:5.74 Coastwise.......... 2.251 159.777 eam-Foreign........ 8,761 6.195.632 Coastwise....... 7.601 1,742,437 Total 1891-2.............14,516 8,843.5P3 Total 1890-91. ........ .. 14,875 8,609.021 Besides the above, 597 foreign (hav g a tonnage of 296,407 tons) and .91 coastwise vessels (having a ton ge of 828,695 tons) paid only harbor tes. The grand total of all vessels 6ying rates to the Board was 22,304 annage, 9,968,697), being a decrease 471 in the number of vessels.and an crease of 196,191 tons in the tonnage rer the previous year. The docks th-emselves extend in a tinuous line along the Mersey for arly seven miles, broken only near e centre by the approach road to the eat landing'stage, so well known to arly all travelers arriving at or de xting from Liverpool by steamer, d which furnishes accommodation r water-borne traffic which has not en equaled in any other part of the rld, and which forms such a promi nt feature in front of the sea wall at incloses the docks. ising and falling with the tide, this ammoth landing stage is connected Eth the land by seven hinged girder -idges, which may vary in inclina an with the height of the stage, and ra floating bridge 550 feet long and irty-five feet broad, by means of sich an easy incline for carriage traf , is maintained at all times of the fe. This stage, 2063 feet long and ghty feet wide, supported by 138 iron toons, provides a platform four res in extent, which is used by more an twenty millions of persons each ar. The south end of it is devoted :lusively to the passenger ferries, ile the north end is given up to for gn and coastwise traffic. The mid e section is reserved for boats con ying freight and goods, and is so ar tged that carts and other vehicles y be driven on board. The original and experimental land g stage was built in 1847 at a cost of arly $300,000. It was then but 500 et long and eighty feet in width. A cond stage, 1002 feet long was con ruted ten years later at a cost of 597,000. In 1868 arrangements were Lade to unite these two stages and in. ease its total length to 2063 feet. he work was almost completed and ady to be opened, when, through th. mut of a gasfitter, July 28, 1874, a re broke out and destroyed the entire ructure. The loss fell upon the Liv rpool Ga? Company. The present 'ructure was completed April 8, 1878, Sa cost of $2,350,000. The two landing stages for the o' ommodation of vessels and] passr n the Birkenhead side of the river are f smaller dimensions than the one just escribed. The northern, or Wallasey, tage accommodates the larger elaas o. teamers, and is 350 feet long and sev nty feet wide, and is connected witt Le shore by two bridges and plationm n iron piers. It cost 8-305.750. The oodside stage, to which the ferry >oats run, is 800 feet in length by ighty feet in width, and cost $77:3, The dock system on the Liverpoo ide comprises fifty docks and twenty wo branch docks, etc., having a tota ater area of over 362 acres, and qua' pace o over twenty-four miles. Thec a re seven basins, covering more 1a ighteen acres, with quay space of on< nl one-sixth miles. Two tloats on th< lirkenhead side have a combined nte ra of 112 acres, but even with snel ,n immense area they are much snmalle han either the Albert or Victoria docL t London, which are seventy-four urt ighty-four acres respectively, a hil Le C~avendish Dock at Barrow, which s the largest in the world, has an are: if 102 acres. The Liverpool landing stage divide: e docs ou tat aid of the river int..