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TI-W EEKLY E!ITION. WINNSBORO S. C.. SEPTEMBER 8, 1894 EST.AELISHED 1849. ItE. D1. TA L V I E. VDE BROOKCLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. SubJect: "Suicide." TrTX: "Re drew out his awor.d anl wlui have kilied himen1f, supposing that the nr oners had been fl-d. But Paul erie I with a loud voice. saying, Do thyself no harm." Acts xvi., 27, 28. Here is a would he suicide arreo-a1 in his attempt. He wis a sheriff. and n "cor2Hg to the Roman law a bailiff hirs-11 must suffer the punishment dua an prisoner. nnd if the prisoner breakin- jail was sentenced to be Pndung-oned for three or four years then the sheriff must be "n dungeoned for three or four years. an.1 if the prisoner breaking jail was to have sri imod eosital punishm-nt then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial elarge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The governmr-nt had not had confilen'e in bolts and bars to keep safe thece two cl'-ri-y men, about whom there seemed to be soine thing strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheriff, waing out of a sound sleep and supposing thes. ministers have run away. and knowing they' were to die for preaching Christ. and realtzing that he must therefore die, rather than go und'r the executioner's ax on the morrow and suffer public disgrace resolves to precioitt.e his own decease., But b-fore the shaerp. keen, glittering darzer of the sheriff rtoul strike his heart *ne of the unloo:en.'.l Frisoners arrests the blade by the command, Do thyself no harm." In olden time, antd where Christianity bad not interfered with it. suicide was con sidered honorable and a s:cn of courage. Demosthenes poisoned hims-If when told that Alexander's emiassador hal demnnded the irrender of the Athenian orators. lsocr Aes killed himnself rather than sur render to Philip of Alaced-n. Cato, rather than submit to Julius Cmaar, took his own life, and alter thre times his wounds nad been dressed torey them open and perished. Mithridmtes killelt himself rather than suo mit to Pompey. the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed his lifle by poison Irom his ring, eonsidering life .inhearable. Lyurgus a suicie. Brutus a J'uicide. After tue disaster of Moscow Napoleon always carried with him a preparstio4 of opium, and one nienht his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put something in a g as and drink it. and soon after the groan arouse all the attendants, and it was ontIy tnrough utmost medical skill he was resiiscitated from the stupor of the opiate. imes have changed. and yet the Amern nscic-nce, needs to be toned upon tie L cjde. Have you seen a paper th that dii not announce the of life by one's own behest? armed at the idea of exposure, ipitately. Men losing lartre out of the world because they e earthly existence. Frustrat domestic infelicity, dyspectic anger, remorse, envy, Jeaiou y, misanthropy, are considered uses for auseondfing trom this is green, by laudanum, by bella Othello-s oanger. by halter. by he abutment of a bridg', by tire ore cases of "felo de se" in the last f the world's Pxistence. The evil d more spreadin-t. not long ago expressed so-ne o whether there was really any g about quitting this life when it greeable, and there are foan.l in e circles people epologetic for the hPaul in the text arrested. I you before I get througa that is ttbe worst of all crimes, and I shall warning unmistakable. But in the part of this sermon I wish to admit some of the best Christiaus that have r lived have committed self destruetion, t always in dementia and not responsible. hare no more doubt about their eternal elicity than I bare of the Christian woo dies in his bed in the delir:um of typioid fever. While the shock of the catastropne is very great, I charge all those who have had Christian friends uncler cerebral aberration step off the bundaries of this life to have no doubt their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed andI fren rsied stat e into perfect safety. How Christ leels toward the insane you may know fromn the kind way he treated the demoniac of Gardara and the child lunatic, and the p tency with which he hushed the fempeats sither of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellectu'l giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller, great for science and great for God. He same of the best Highland blood, and he was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for his piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, clirnbing up as rne did from the quarry and the wall of tire stonemason, drew forth the astonished at miration of Buck'land and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the tht-ologian, and held universities spelluound waile ne told them the story of wnat he had seen o God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the Got of the hilis is the God of the Bible, and he struck hrisi tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty' unt i he brought geology and theology accorriant in divine worsniip. His two book's, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testi mony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banui of an everlasting marrmage between genunh science and revelation. On this latter boo he tolled day and na ht, througat love e \nature and love or God, until he eculd not Isleep, and his tbmin gave wary, an I he war found dead with a revolvor by his side. tao cruel instrument having. hat two bullete one for him and the orer for the gunsmith wuo, at the coroner's ing'iest, was exa'nmu ing It and fell dead. Have you any doubt o the beatification of Hag.a Miller alter his hot1 brain had ceased throabing th at wint er nlient in his study at Portoiello?. Amrong th mighti-st of earth, among tiue mightiest o~ heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of William Cowper, the aut tir of those three gor hymns, "Oh, For a Closer Walk With Go "What Various Hinorances We M' + "There Is a Fountain Filled Wita Blood William Cowper, who shares with Isia' Watts and Charles Wesley tue ch i-f honiors of Christian hymuo ogy. In hypoebon :ria he resolved to take his ownU life ant no ,e to the river T'hameus, but found a man seatted on some goods at the very point :roma wtnen rwe expected to spring.. ain m rode back to his home and that nigat tirew himnseif upon mrs own knife, but tite bla-me :,roke, rin.1 tunu tie hanged hi"melf to.thre ceiut, rut truo rope parted. No wonder tirat waen Go Imr fulby delivered him from tiat aw itt :e:u--n tia tie sat ulown ant wrote that otdr um Just as maemorLoi - Go' moves-n a mysteriouis way His wonter, to .-ritr.n. Het piants' His foot,'t'ea i th SeW Anu rade. upo. t-e sit u. An.' scani Hi. wo-it in 'a.un God itHis own interpret r. And He will manse .t plain. While we mnake this mereiil i a n rt.'o'is allowance in regard to tuos-i wao werus th-it the man who int ti" rru' of h-e r "*ion' by his own act, snacs the boa.1 betw -n a-t body anid bis en' gone str-lighti m' -'rdi tion. Snall I nrove it ? Ik.v..lat i'on xx.. "V-a'~lrerq -Mil h-t.. Itheir nart in th- ' w h.urneth with fis an-i hrme-on' B-v tion xx'.. 15. "i'M'it no da -u soreerere ant wan -mno~" an a r ere." You do ot beli'-v" t~ Y v T- a meat? Then voeo von hoev'- tu' TI Commandmrnns. "Thou eh-' t not i. Do you say all thes" n-uta-e' rar to IMth takini' of the life of others? Tnon f a'.i VO-3 J~I' To ar ot a rearonsible w r your own ia n.--iii ru t iin our Iir .. Ile nad.' 011 th. r'-toiian i v ,r vii - at made you the ' .:i. At' w f " y10' -n I it fw.s !r" !or 'vi%--4on an :in r i Ilove f ife wh(" -ht r--r to0 "n thi * rt. A-s 's3natioa .:oi h-rs; is a mihli ori-ompto wath the -t.r easo it 1: tro-thery to an espeial ru t is the surr:ni.r of a: castie you were e 0ly appoint"d to k-p. it is !reason to a naturd Iihw. an. it is treason to God added to arn n u r To zaiow la* ('. In t'I VI ,iP i looked1 o% t- -rin - I pInt you to tie ro.:td e-::"ry in 1)a part o' tho il .. itr o t n 0; ha.vo eo t mn n:: oar: i. lr' is the hI es run.: of :-; m! 01 t"m Qal W AOf D its !'in. H -r- i14 h mai wo chased little I ixil-n t 'n t-, 1' it - c'ising four. Here i6 the man fiva:o eiisulte. a clairvoyant, wift of En lor. T-r is a Tin who, waiip'i in fattle. iwsea I of surren lering his swor.1 with 'li-nity, asks his servant to s'ay him, and whon the servant declinesthon tho ziant pant, thp hilt of the sword in the earth, the shiarp point sti-king upward, and he throws his bo it on it and expires, the eowar., the suicide! Hre is Ahithophel, the Ma. hiavAlii of olden times, betraying his bh-st frionl, David, in order that he may be com prime mijister of Ahsalo-n and joining that fellow in his attermpt at parrici-le. Not :wtting what he wante I by change of politics he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life to the suicide's eternity. There he is, the inurate ! Here is Abimelech practically a suicide. He is with an army oombarding a tower, wh.'n a woman in the tower taizes a grind slone fro n its place an-i drops It upon his head, and with what life he has left in a er-ioies skull he comman 's his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me. lest men say a woman slew me." There is his postmortem pho'o-rapii In the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a martyr, and we have in our .ay apologists for him. And what won der in this day when we have a book reveal ing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in thi7s day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of litera tur-, and in this day when there are be tray. Is of Christ on the part of some of His pretenledl apostles--a betrayal so black It inayz.'s the intamy of Judas Iscariot white I Yet this man by nis own hand hung UP for t. execration of all the ages, Judas Iscariot. All the good m-n and women of the Bible le.t to God the decis.on of their earthly ter o nua. an i thev could have said with Jotu w'io lad a right to commit suicide iZ any man ever hal-what with his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insuf lerable earouneles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it a p-stiferous wife-and four garrulous peo. p!e pelting him with comfortless talk while be sits on a he.,p of ashes scratching his seabts with a piece of broken pottery, yet cryin out in triumph, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change Com e." NotwIthstanding the Bible Is against this evil and the av-rsion which it creates by the lo-dthsorme and ghastly sDectacie of those wuo have buried themss-ives out of lift', and notwithstanding Christ lanity is against it and the argu ments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its discipl -s, it Is a fact alarming ly pat-nt that su eide is on the increase. Nieat is the cause? I charge upon intidelity and a::nost:cisa tuis wio.e thing. If there .-' no .rea. tr, or ini at nereafter be bliss till wit hon ref-rence to how we hveandhow w.- .ii., w.v unt move bsicktre folding doors betwepn this worlI an I the nexty And when our ext-noe ne-re becomes trouble-omne why not pass right over into Elysiun? Put this down among your most solemn reflections ani cousi-ter It alter you go to your homes --there has n-v-r been a case of suicide ware the operator wasnot either demented, fn itherefore irresponsible, or an infideI. I enallenge all the ages, and I challenge the wao e universe. There never has oeen a CaSe of st-if destruction while In full appre cation of his immortality and of the fact that that im-uortality woald be glorious or wrtehed aceorhing as ie accepted Jesus C:rist or rejectet Him. You say it is bu ness trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is at, or it ist ne otncer tiiing. Why not go Heiar back, my fri-ni, and acknowledge that in every caiss it is the anodication of reason or tne teael-uig o; inidelity w~hicai practically says, "If you~ don't like this life, get out of it, and you wil land eitiier in annihilation, wo-re tuere are no notes to pay, no persecu tons to sulT'-r. no gout to torment, or you will land whre tb-re will bo everything gorious and not fing to pity tor it." Infideli ty aiways nias neen apoiogetic for self immo lition. After Tomnmmuie's "Age of Reason" was publisaed and widely r'-ad there was a nruedt increase of self-siaughter. ner certain circumstances, were apolo etic for self immoition. Indldelity puts up o bar to people's rusainlg out tromn this word into t he next. They teach us it does not make any diff--rence now you live here or go out of this world, you will land eitner in an oliiviot.s niwinere or glorious some were, An ti belity holds the upper e.d 01 the rooe fer the suicide, and aims the pkiwol withi waicii a man blows his brains ot, and mixes the stryehnine f or the last swalow. It inti ility could carry the day n t p'-rsuadIe tile majorIty of people that it does not matde any cifference how you go out 01 tue world you will land safely, the r: mrs would tie so fail of corpses the ferry ots would be impeded In their progress, ad the crack o: fa uicile's pistol wouid be o more alarmirg tuan tne rumole of a street ::ar. Ah, infidlelity. stan-I up and take thy son t-ne ! In tiihe prescnce of G o i and angels an i me'n, stain I up taou monster, thy lip bist'd witn ijiastaemiy, thy eneak scarred wta lust, thy breath teul with the corrup ion of the ages ! StandI up, satyr, fitny ot, iouzzaird of the nations, leper of the cni uries Stand up, thou monster infldel i, part man, part paunther, part reptile, part :ragon, stan-: up and tage thy sentence I 1y nand is red with the bloo:1 in wnich :.u hc ast washe I, thy feet crimson with the I. u:an :;ore through wvaich thou nast waded. Sani up and tage thy sentence ! Dawn with tee to the pit andt sup on thne soos an.I gr ons of tam lies thou hist olasted, and roll on tn ae ed ot I'uives whiicn tuou hast sharp ,ne 1 bor otners, andI let thy musi'l be tue everlsutng miserere of those waom thou ha it 'iamnied !I brand the forehead of iti '-itv with a;i the crimes of seif Immolatiou or tn Ia-vtt century on the part of those who la tuir rea-on. .Mt fr"'n .i, ever your life through Its a' -~~ its mleeOt:ulions shonhi seesn to -" una->rn:: an-a you are temptea to gn: t by year own behest, do not consider v urs"'v-s as worse than others. Christ 11 mred was toted' to cast Himself from t: oo: of tie ti-mole, but as HeI. resisted so r -i-i x'. ( -r st cam" to medhicino all ouar woun.~ In your trouble I presentbe life in 1-n o' cit. P-'ople who have had 'lt w .r-' th'an von will eve-r hatvo it have gone 1ou u1 tn thir war. Re-member that God ke -t"he 'hron o -y of yo-ur life with as ,- un ire'ci'ion as He keeps the chronology V x"' w it at t"'izbt, je 1-" 1 I, t-- ro'io :n-:-l struek the blow that .1 1 sr elie :r.'e trmm bondage? Tips 4a y -'"rs we're~ u at 12 o'el o.k that night. T dxcO eir were not up at 11. and lo'clock wnaldi iv- been- tarlv and too late. The 4 ) years wer-. u:p at 12 o'clock, and the d~e-1 Iryreae strit--.; he blow, and Israel - a e. An ( Ga ktnows in,r ine hour w onl It is lhmr to i-adI 'ou up from enrity l 'a .i". IN- 1 nruc'e matk" nom the worst 0'" 'n m', u the~ :'est o! them. If you must i'teps :0 not chew themn. Yourever a - r w' lr N'wil ac'oor i with your'-arthly teturLtins just as (Aiue gave to Agrippa 'inoni oi got as hoavy as had been his 'have the snne grace that was elven to tei Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down In tho aarkest of dung.*ons, dated his letter fror "i delectabe orchard of the Leonine pris oil.' Teire i; a sorrowless world, and it Is so rali :nt that .the noonday sun is only the lowoet doorstep, and the aurora that lights up our nortbern heavens, conioUaung ais trunumers as to what it can be, is the waL\ in: of the banners of the procession -om to take the conquerors home from churet militant to cturch triumphant, and you and I have 10,000 reasons "or wanting to ^e t:wre, but we will never get there either by self imno.ation or impenitency. All our sins slain t~y the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at ju-t the timt divinely arranged,and from a couch divine ly spread, and then the clang of the sepul enral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of tne solid pearl before us. 0 God, wnatever others rnay choose, g.vo me a Christian's life, a Caristian's death, a Christian's burial, a Caristian's immortality! Crocodiles and Their -iays. "E. K." gives in the pages of the Lon don Field some interesting informatiol respecting crocodiles. "During an eigb years' residence in India," he writes, caught many, varying from fifteen t twenty-six feet. Let me prsmise by say inz that there existed at that time, abou ei e t to ten miles from Calcutta, a farm With a large mill, built on the river sid, in a bight, where pigs were killed an< cured in large numbers, the offal being thrown into the river. In this bight alli gators swarmed. I for a long time trie< shooting, but I never got one, for whei shot they sank, and getting into the cur rent, were carried down the stream. I have shot small ones in tanks, and they invariably took from two to three days to come to the surface. The largest in bulk that I ever caught measured onlj nineteen feet three inches, but at least four inches to six inches of his tail ha I been taken eff. He measured close od to twelve feet in girth just behind the fore legs or fins. The head when cleaned weighed sixty-four pounds and the larges tooth 7j ounces. He ha I eight sho wounds in the head, one eye was gone, and nearly all of his snout, and four but lets were cut out of his body. His in side passengers consisted of "a dead Hindu," seven pairs of bangles, three arm ornaments, and about fifteen inches of twisted brass wire; he had also three hair balls, similar to those found in cat tle-no doubt all formed of pig's hait from the oQfal. "The longest one I ever caught was for the late John Waterhouse of Halifax, who was traveling with a taxidermist. He measured close on twenty-six feel (twenty-tive feet ten inches). He was, however, lanky and would not have weighed more or so much as the one 01 nineteen feet three inches. I have frequently had in the pen, where they were put, two together, and a pretty bobbery they made, growling like dogs, lashing one another with their tails, and wrestling with their jaws locked. My pparatus for catching consisted of forty fathoms of lj inch white mianilla rope, t the end a barrel to serve as buoy, a pile driven into the ground for a long urn where necessary, two shark hoois tied together, and for bait the lights of a pig inflated through part of a wind pipe which floated trie hooks. By these neans I have landed over twenty. The )anks were sloping and muddy, so no onder the big one draggei seveateea nen down into the water before he gave n-in fact, drowned, as one hook held Lad kept his mouth open; the other hook ae straightened, and tore the barb o1f. How Seime Fires Originate. A list of unusual and curiously causel fres has been compiled and the Railway leview mentions some of the number: It includes a factory fire which was traced to a railway truck, an over-heated axle having thrown a car from the track and set fire to a petroleum tank from which the dames spread to the building. An instance is given in which a bucket greasy waste was ignited by the friction ofa belt which sagged against it. In a brmless case of spontaneous ignition of oiy waste, this material, with some wood chips, had been thrown into t ie re box of an idle locomotive, shortly after which the workmen were surprised by the blowing off of steam by the ugine. Another fire was due to oily waste in a manner which could not well be foreseen. Only heavy mineral oils were used, and a place was provided for he waste, but a cockchafer crawled frm the receptacle directly to a gas jet, when the creature was quickly con sumed, and the oily cotton tilaments ad ering to its body spread the fire. Well kno wn incendiaries are photographic and other lenses which act as burning glasses, and bright tight plates, which serve as concave mirrors. A plum',er's exploit consisited in applying the dame est to a newly made joint in a gas pipe, hen covering the pipe without noticin; a sall blue tia-ne, which was discovered iome six w eeks afterward, when the leak ad become somewhat enlarged. A ail glanced fron a carpenter's hammer into the conveyor of raw material in a jute factory, rubbed against the drum and produced a spark which set fire to :he place. A flood burned one factory ay causing a pile of iron tilings to oxi ize so rapidly as to beco-ne intensely eated. A stream from the firemen's ose s:arted a second fire in Ne.v York while putting Out one in a small build. ng, a neighbo-ing shed containing ~uicklime having been penetrated by the ~~er. A BOY AND A MAY. Customer-"Thatt boy's tool-chest 1 bought of you was a fraud. The tooh dn't Tadt a week." h - Dealer--"You must haebeen dn them yourself." "Of course." "Those tools were intendcd ii ovs, not men. They would have tsted your boy a year, at least." "I handled them more carefully than a boy wonld." "No doubt. But you used them week. A boy would have tired of them in two days and a half. "-aas re Blnds. . Tne coior or numan wooa. When the physiologist tells you that Lblood is the nutritive flaid of the fissues of living creatures" he has told Vou about all that he or anybody cise -nows about the mysterious current of jife. To be sure, he can quote whole Itext-books on the subject-:ia tell you bout "dissolved fibrine, albu:uen, so idium, potassium," etc., that the liquor Ianguineus contains; ibout th. amote o.i.I movements of the corpuscles anu the rouleaux way in which these sa:ne cor puscles pile up when separated fron tae iquor sanguineus, and aiout nucleoeus appearance of the same waen they are examined with a microscope, and yet the -whole reverts to the fact that "blood is ja nutritive fluid, transparent and ainit colorless when deprived of the minite solid bodies known as "corpuscles." As may be inferred from the hints above given the color of blood depends entireiy upon the presence of the corpuscles, which, by the way, are of two different iants, red and white, the proportion in the blood of a healtby adult, woman or man being three white corpuscles to 100J red ones. The size of the red bioodJ corpuscles ,of the hunan being is oulj one thirty'-two hundredth part of a-i inch in diameter; those in the blood of some of the lower animals being larger in some cases and smiller in others. A apecies of reptile, Proteus, has the larg est known blood cells, the average being one four-hundredths of an inc.i. Tno color of the blooi is entirely dependent upon the presence of hemalglobin in the red corpuscles; but, it may be remarked as a curious fact, even these red corpus cels are only red when 9 considerab!o number of them are collected together single ceils being almost transparent and of a very light straw color. It has only been a few years since a distinguishe i European scientist announced to the astonished that white blood cells were really the scavengers of the sanguineus fluid; that they were capable of inde pendent motion, and that they octcupe J the time in catchiug and devouring mi crobs.-St. Louis Republic. Trailing Escaped Convicts. Cody, a convict who escaped from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary recently, was a young man who had only nine months to serve, says the Idaho Inter Mountain. He was engaged in cutting brush to build a dam when he escaped. He ran up the railroad track and took his shoes off to throw tho dogs off the scent should they follow him. But that was where he made a mistake, as the bare feet gave the dogs a better scent. Cody left the railroad and ercssed the Deer Lodge River. The dogs were put upo- his trail, one on each side of the riv&. Where Cody crossed the river one of the bloodhounds stopped and barked t) his companion on the other side, who immediately took up the scent. When Cody saw the dogs coming after him he was on the railroad agaiu. He threw up both hards and ran toward one of the guards, who was followigi the dogs on horseback. In orl-r to i prevent the bloodhounds from jump ing upon Cody and tearing him to pieces, they had to let hin climb ii a telegraph pole. While he was up there the dogs were cined togethIr and kept from him. Warden Conley says the pr ivr~s live in terror of the bloo ihonml-:, and~ their presence is more etYdxive in' ire venting escapes than all the~ giur they could hire. A Mystery of Bird ILe. Why some birds which could pick p food among us all the year round hould leave when food is lenlti 1ul, rhile others with similar ways of lif emain is still a mlyste-rv. It is etsv o understand thalt a 'species whirl rvs on fresh water fish and on tre'rs houldi seek other quarters when the onds are frozen and the frogs are >uried in the clay. But it is not qummte o clear why the swallows and the fly ateher leave a region where there is ~erpetual sumnner anud winge-d foil in bundance to risk a long journey ove-r en and land, .rnly to find a g~ret carity of the same hind of food. It is equally puzzling that the sed nd fruit eaters, who, since Oct 'ber, ae been faittening among the gard--us f Algeria and Egypjt, shouldl suddenly, a March or April, lb .seize-d with -uchx n inordinate craving~ for a change of iet as to fly 3000 miles on the, ehmencO f icking up the short coummo'ns of ipring. Perhaps it will b~e founid that airation is natural to all bir-b, and a greater or less as cireunm-tanes tmv letermine. Eve-ry aninud shifts its uarters according to thme plent ifulnss r sarcity of food.-New York T. le It is a well-known fact thiat se-a ne mones have a sense by which they rec nie tood. This has been studied r& cently by Herr Nagel, at the Z )Ologicd Station in Naples, and he has endeamvore'd to localize it. Among other expermnent~s a small piece of a sirdine was brought carefully to the tentacles of one of tue~e animals; tbe teatacie first toucaied, then Iothers, seized the food and surroundel it, and the morsel was swallowed. A similar ball of blotting paper, saiurated with sea-water, brouget near in tae same way,was not seized. If. howrever, the ball was soakced in the juice of fiai it was seized with the same energy as the piece of fish, but often liberated again after a time without being swval lowed. Blotting-paper saturated with ugar acted like the otuer, but more wak-If saturated with qufinine, it was reflissed, the tentacles drawiug bac :. -ew Yo'i.5Post Poet-"How does it happen that yon pay me two dollars more fM- this poe' Ithan for my last?" Editor-'"This is two st oasorter.' Must Have Reen Delicious. A dainty feast was spread not ]ong ago by a tribe of Sitka Indians to entertain some visitors from otIIr tribes. The rare dish of the feast consisted of last seasn'rs wild straw berries preserved in seal oil. I. the report be true that Prince s hatrice, of England. learns all ti e topicval sings and sings them, we have another argument for the abohL-' lion or ruYaILtv. THE use of corn weal in Europe is increasing, partly owing to the efforts our Agricultural Department has made to increase the foreign demand for this great American staple. The I Italians are the latest converts to the new food. They now use corn meal in making polenta, instead of using ground chestnuts, which was the material formerly employeti. The corn meal is cheaper. and better, because not so hard to digest as meal from any kind of nuts. TnE Czar's method of determining whether or not the path of the royal train is beset by bombs is exce lent in its way. A trusty subject is sent ahead on a heavy tricycle to exploit. If the Czar's engineer observes a rain of faithful sub.ect, accompanied by an occasional spoke and fragments of t pneumatic tire. he knows that some- h thing is the matter and shuts of b steam. It is a great scheme. and t while. apt to thin out the populace. 1 t promotive of the longevity that is a fad with the Czar. U A MissOURI enitouolgist informs 0 the public that quail, lady bugs, and v frogs destroy hosts of chinch bugs. il He says that the chinch bug does- t not become a grandmother in twen 0 V ty-four hours. As to so-called locusts, he says they are harvest flies, and that only the females do the eating: t the males having no digestive appar- ji atus. If female muosluitoes are the t only ones that bite, and female lo- t custs are the only ones that destroy I ( crops, is it not well to beware a little c of femininity in general? THEr are some responsibilities assumed by the French newspaper b from which his A merican brothers are u t exempt. A reporter of the Socialist I. journal, La Libre Parole, for in stance, has just been designated by a lot to challenge M. Denoix, of the t French Chamber of Deputies, for an 1n insulting remark about the press I t during the debate on the new anti- I1 anarchist law. If a French duel c meant anything we would coinmiser ate our confrere: but it involves nothing more serious nowadays than c getting up an hour or two earlier than usual. p WE incline to the belief that it o pays for retail grocers to advertise. v We believe that there is as large a t fld for judicious advertising in the t retail grocery as in any other line of business. It pays to let people know 3 what you have to oger, to acquaint them with new attractions, to ad- v vise them of some bargain or other S which you are able to ogfer them_. t and, above all, to let them knew t that you are enterprising and look- 1 V ing out for an opportunity to please U t hem. But judgment should be used. e It Is folly to advertise goods out of C season. Good judgment and print. ers' ink go well together. -New Eng- i: land Grocer.u A GOOD aeal more, in the way of exceedingly intei esting information as~ to how railroads are managed, would be discovered if reputable men v were appointed by the courts to act t as receivers. The usual method Is to 1: appoint the man who brought the ~ road to bankruptcy its receiver. He will not lay bare the frauds and blun dars. But what an honest and im partial receiver might reveal is sh'wni in the case of tihe Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. To be sure the re ceiver, who had been its president, never unearthed a thing or b: eathed a word. It was an Independant ac countant working in the ir~terest of bond and stock~holder's who discov ered crooked accounts, illegal relates lid other eviii nees of cloer m tian iciring in t .e Santa Fe's books. iT is not very ilong ago that the hou2 was hardly known as a farm f proiuct out of the great corn regions, h but while the pork-er Is becoming less of a roving rooter and more civiliad than in the earlier time, ht' is taking pos-essin of all parts ovf the lind. In mountain re~i. ns West. includ in New Mexico. the idea is to con vert alfalfa into pork. andI in Califor 'a use is mja:e of Egyptian corn,1 w cien is said to make a finer grade o pork thamn Inrd ian corn A Rigid Test. I The test of excellence applied to Japanese swords years ago was very rigid. It was to suspend the blade borizontall:, edge upward, under a tree, and a good weapon was ex pected to cut in twain any leaf that fll unnn it.4 It KilleL the Cure. "Johnnie Smith: You whi-tiering Lgainy" demanded an Oaklanw eacher of a particular 3 mischievous )oy. "Yessum" ''Well. co-me up here and get the nousetraps on." She stcod the boy in one corner vith a heavy mouse-trap dangling roi each ear. They pinched and )ulled. and Johnnie winc-. twisted, td then comuence(i to bawl. -What's the matter now?" asked he teacher. "Those don't hart 1uch." -That ain't it." whispered the boy. "Well, what is it!" "it's a shame. That's what it is,", ie sobbed. "What' a shame? To punish you 'or whispering?" "No. but I was born with big ears hat stUck out lilke a barn door opon, mid I've had to sleep with 'lem tied )a k to my head ever since. "ow ny step-father pulls 'em and y.:u put nouse traps on 'em till this tving tack don't do any good, and I'll have ars like a veal cutlet.' The teacher reioved the mouse raps from his ears and in'erted the 'muty waterbuc; et over hisihead as substitute.-San Francisco Post. Colt Punishes a Ram ror Cruelty. The folowing is a little incident -hich came under the observation of dae writer. Two 3 oung horses have een kept in a pasture with a nui 'r of cows and a year old calf, and aey were accustomed to come up to ne gate every night with the cows, be older leading the line, and the ounger bringing up the rear. Ow Ig to a want of water in their past re some sheep were brought to the ie in which the horses and cows -ere kept. and these soreti'mes ful )wed the cows when they came at ight to be milked. One night they id so, and when all the animal' -ere st iding together the ram but ad the calf, which could not defend isef, and the older colt. going over' it. seized the ram by the wool on s back and, lifting it entirely off he ground, shook it vigorously. lie ben placed it on the gr->und and ;t uickly ran away. while the horse antinued to stand guard over his iend.-Our Dumb Animals. The House of Hapsburg. Rudolph von Hapsburg, riding to is Swiss home from hunting, came pon a priest carrying the sacrame.it ) a sick man. Tbe priest on foot as stopped by a river. Rudolph iin iediately dismounted, set the priest nd sacrament on horseback, and led ae steed by the rein to the sick ian's house. He declined to take ie horse again to daily use, but gave to the priest fir the service.of the auirch. Remembering this deed, Werner, rehbishop or Mainz, in 123. pro red the election of Rudolph as King f the Romans and Eaiser. .lence 'e have the source and fount of the road imperial house of H~apsbu-g. ,--hiller enhances the legend in one f the best of his ballads. "Der Gra? or> Hapsburg." It may be mentioned mt the late heir to the imueria: brcone o~f Austria was named after is iillustrious ancestor Rludo lph. ausic Composed WhuIe You Wait It would certanly apl ear that lihen a man may run in und hate a >ng set to music while he waits, for fl cents or one do lar, the end of he century is gett nr pretty close at and. There are plac's in New York here this is clone daily. By the side 1 and in conipetiti" n with this Itlern composer the late Beethven, hopin. et al. wotuld not be "in it." ltusic:al composition at these places a mecre natter of time-~ yon ru-h psta~rs with your verses or idea, the rnmposer l(;oks at the clock, seizes a encil and blank score. moutts the i no stool. and goes at it. When lhe et< through. which in a measure d> ends upon the difliculty or ease with hich he can satls: y you, the time is iken. you pay' your money and de art with the c-onosit on. T]he time ba rge is about t hat of a bri ckl ayer, rinterc, and other n 'table arts. 'ittsburg iopatch. :'irs. Live-rmo're -' ew I thb it aiI j. n iice uk steak is mior t.nd, i udi much( jicir than a sirloin. 3Ir. Fe eder ''f s, I hav' e kno wn t , ari oter Mr. eeder -''Oh, yV: the ' ept boar'ding2 hion . -.LLi''. A thriftv German, who owns a le.ech rin Dalmatia., selected. 10,000i of is most bloodthirsty -pecimens ana~i artedi for America. On his passag~ ither an ignloralnt barkeeper, whc ad offered to care for thiem, threw the ~eches were d-:ad., and' no~ w t he str-ai air compianty is being sued. for amt Do)i not watit f' r (xt raordinrary eir unsta'ees 10i do goodi actots; tr-y to se ordiaatry siltlmous. Adverr iths the e-fYct of &eleitmg; der.ts which in prospe:'ou -,'ereu u anees would have him dormaaut. As we grow elder our pI)entsr's e mt ss. but it takes more u'wey to cure ur aihuents. The sunshiie of life is madte no' of ery i:tle beams, that are bright all be time. The chi ins of habit are to~ small to >c felt, until they are too striag to be 'rn.n How Some Fires Originate. A list of unusual and curiously cause .1 fires has been compiled and the Railway Review mentions some of the number: It includes a factory fire which was traced to a railway truck, an over-heated axle having thrown a car from the track and set fire to a petroleum tank from which the flames spread to the building. An instance is given in which a bucket greasy waste was ignited by the friction of a belt which sagged against it. In a harmless case of spontaneous ignition of oily waste, this material, with some wood chips, had been thrown into the tire box of an idle locomotive, shortly - after which the workmen were surprised by the blowing off of steam by the engine. Another fire was due to oily waste in a manner which could not well be foreseen. Only heavy mineral oils were used, and a place was provided for the waste, but a cockchafer crawled from the receptacle directly to a gas jet, whea the creature was quickly con sumed, and the oily cotton filaments ad hering to its body spread the fire. Well known incendiaries are photographic and other lenses which act as burning glasses, and bright tight plates, which serve as concave mirrors. A. plumber's exploit consisted in applying the flame :est to a newly made joint in a gas pipe, then covering the pipe without noticing a small blue flame, which was discovered some six Neeks afterward, when the leak had become somewhat enlarged. A ail glanced from a carpenter's hammer into .the conveyor of raw material in a jute factory, rubbed against the drum and produced a spark which set fire to the place. A flood burned one factory by causing a pile of iron filings to oxi bize so rapidly as to becone intensely heated. A stream from the firemen's ose started a second fire in New York while putting out one in a small build. ing, a neighboring shed containing uicklime having been penetrated by the ;ater. Oil On the Wavos. The excellent use that has recently been made of oil for allaying the force of storm waves when the steamship iUmbria was disabled at sea has led to the appearance of various improved Iethods of spreading the oil on the face of the waters. Formerly oil bags were sed, and sometimes with good results, but their liability to be washed in oard, the necessity of resaturating and >utting them out again and other attendant disadvantages made them un reliable and seriously milItated against ;heir use. All these drawbacks are said to be overcome in the invention of Captain Couves, which claims to supply a reliable mechanical apparatus'for die tributing oil from ships and boats, which .s always ready for use and not likely to et out of order or fail in any emergency, or endanger in any way the. safety of the ersons operating it. The apparatus consists of a cast iron reservoir above a vertical cylinder. A heavy piston work ing in the cylinder, attached to a tubular rod and acting by its own weight, ejects he oil on the water through a delivery pipe, A hand wheel on the spindle rod is used to raise the piston when the vlinder is being filled with oitfr6in ne reservoir, and the supply valve through which the oil passes from the reservoir o the cylinder is opened -and closed by neans of a small wheel. The appliance s fixed as near the bows of the ship as possible. There are two delivery pipes, ach fitted at the end with a conical ozzle, the aperture of which is not more than one-sixteenth of an inch in :iameter, running from the lower part f the cylinder and passing out at the bows near the load line. Each pipe is itted 'with a brass coczk, so that the oil may be emitted from one side only, if re uired. All that is needed to put the appliance into action is to open either or both the brass cocks of the delivery pipes, as occasion may require, and the il issues forth in a fine but sleady jec everal feet beyond the bows. If the vessel is in motion the oil is throwna way fromn the bows with the broken water as she makes her way onward, and the effect is at once apparent, particu larly ona heavy-breaking seas, which usually work such destruction to life, limb or property. Tne new mechanism, being a permanent fixture, is always ready to be put in operation; it is, more >vr, small anad requires little space, and the only attentioa it requires is the dharging~ with oil, which, even with both ets ou, need only be done about mee every four hours.-Chicago News HTs CRITEcIsfl OF THE PIcTURE. Painter (to a gentleman whose portrait he has just zompleted-"Well, sir, how does your portrast please you?" Gentlemnan (atlter gazing at the picture for some minutes)-"Say, you'd oblige mc very much if you'd just change this portrait into a landscape. "-Fiigende B~laetter. AT THE LUNcH CoUNTER "There's Bonely yonder, getting . with corned beef and cabbage and ap of doughnuts. How can a man ot his delicate build eat such a combination as that?" "Humph! It's just the combination he's eating that gives him his delicate buiid: '-P'uckt. -rT; meaC~ AKES A ruEImCE. English village. Sunday morning Lit tle Girl-"Please let me have a penny orth of soao." Druggist 3Icnot, my dear. Thero 3 r-o soap sold here on Sunday morn ~ow is that ! I saw you sell a stiek4 'f I 'orico to a girl a~ few minuftes Oh. thit's differeni; she is goingit) Sit n en chmrch. "-New York Ad