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TRI-WEF KLY EDVITION. WINNSBORO, R. C., MARCH 2,189.ED EY. DR TAIMAGE TmE BROOKLYN IVINE'S SU SDAY SERMON. Subject: "Opportunity." , Tzrr: "As we have therefore opportunW ty, let us do good."-Galatians vi., 10. , At Denver ago an audience had as sembled for 'vine worship. The pastor of the church for whom ! was to preach thai night, interested in the s'estlng of the peo .plestood in the pulpit looking from id t( side, and when no more people could be crowded within the walls he turned to me and said, with stl emphasis, "What an opportunity!" I ately tha tword began to enlarge, and while a hymn was being sunA at every stansa the word "opportunity swiftly and mightily unfolded, and while the = ayer was being made the word e upto Alps and Himalayas of mean out into other latitudes and longtitdes ef signtficanes until it became and it still grew In altitude and c4rcumferenc until it encircled other words and swept out and on and around until it wasp bg as efernity. Never since have I or- heard that word without being thrilled with its magnitude and momentum. ,pportunityl Although in the text to some itmay seem a mild and quiet note, in the gospe harmony it is a staccato pas a Its one of the lovellest and awfulest words in our langurge of more than 100,00) w*ds of English vocabulary. "As we have let us do good." * ~is an opportunity? The lexicographer would coolly tell you It is a conjunction of favorable ircu!mstances for accomplishing a 'poebut words. cannot tell what it Is. Take 1000 years to manufacture a definition, And you could not successfully describe it. Opportunity! The measuring rod with which thosngel of the Apocalypse measured heaven could not measure this pivotal word of my text. Stand on the edge of the precipice of all time and let down the fathoming line band under hand ahd lower down and lower down and for a quintillion of years let it sink,"and the lead will not strike bottom. Op portunityl But while I do not attempt to measure or define the word I will, God help ig me, take the responsibility of telling you something about opportunity. First, It is very swift in its motions. Some times within one minute it starts from the throne of God, sweeps around the earth and reasoends the throne from which it started. Within less than sixty seconds it fulfilled its mission. In the second place, opportuni nevei somes back. Perhaps an oppor ty very much like it may arrive, but that one never. Naturalists tell us of insects which are born, fulfill their ission and exDire in an hour. but many opportunities die so soon after they are born that their brevity of life is in calculable. What most amazes me is that op portunities do such overshadowing, far reaching and tremendous work in such short earthly allowance. You are a business man of large experien'e. The past eighteen months have been hard on business men. A young merchant at his wits' end came into your offce or your house, and you said: "Times are hard now, but better days will come. I have seen things as bad or worse, but we got out, and 'we will get out of this. The brightest days that this country ever saw are yet to come." The young man to whom you said that was ready for suicide or some thing worse-namely, a fraudulent turn to get out of his despairful position. Your hopefulnes0.ispired him for all time,*and thirty years after you are dead he will be reaping the advantage of your optimism. Your opportunity to do that one thing for that young man was not half as long as the time I have taken to rehearse it. In yonder third gallery you sit, a man of but you wish everybody well. While the clerks are standing round in your store, or the men in your factory are taking their noon spell, some one says: "Have you heard that one of our men has been con verted at the revival meeting in the methodist Church?" While it is being talked over you say: "Wel, I do not believe in re vivals. Those things do not last. People excited and join the church and are no tethnthey were before. I wish our mien would keep away from those meetings." Do you know, 0 man, what you did In that! minute of depreciation? There were two young men in that group who that night would have gone to those meetings and been saved for this world and the next, but you decided them not to go. They are social natures. They already drink morel -thaih Is good for them and are disposed to be wild. Prom the time they heard you say that they accelerated their steps on the down ward road. In ten years they will be through with their dissinations and pass into the great beyond. That little talk of yours de-! sided their destiny for this world and the! next. You had an opportunity that you mis mroeand how will you feel when you eofotthose two immortals in the last judgment and they tell you of that unfortu nate talk of yours that fiung. them over the precipice? O man of the world, why did you not say In that noon spell of conversation: "Good! I am glad that man has got re ligion. Iwish I had It myself. Let us all go to-night. Come on. I will meet youat the church door at 8 o'clock?" You see, vou would have taken them all to heaven. and . uwoud hvegot there yourself. Oppor. -The day!I left our country home to look after myself we rode across the country, and! my father was driving. Of course I said nothing that implied howl1 felt. But there are hundreds cf men here who from their own experience know how I felt. At such a! time a young nan must be hopeful and even Impatient to get into the battle of life for himself, but to leave the homestead where everyhighas :>een done for you,your father 'or older brothers taking your part whenyou were imposed cn by larger boys, and your mother always around when you got the cold 'with mustard applications for the chest or herb tea to make you sweat off the fever and' s weet mixtures in the cup by the bed to stop the cough. taking sometimes too much of It because It was pleasant to take. and then to' go out, with r:o one to stand between youj and the world, gives one a choking sensation at the throat and a home sickness before vyou have got three miles away from the old folks There was on the day I spoke of a silence for a long while, and then my father began 1 tell how good the Lord had been to him 5 slckness and in health, and when timeso hardship came how Providence had alway j Srvedthe means of livelihood for thq household, and he wound up by say, ing, "Do Witt, I have always found it sare r'g trust the Lord.." My father has been deadi thirty years, but in all the crises of my life and there have been many of them-I havd felt the mighty bocst of that lesson in thi farm wagon, "De Witt, I have always foun~ it safe to trust the Lord." The fact was m;, father saw that was his opportunity, and he 1nnroved It. ,.'jhis Is one reason why I am an enthusias tie friend cf all Young Men's Christian As uoeiations. They get hold of so many young men just arriving in the city and while the:, are very impressionable. and it is the best og. ortunity. Why. how lMg the houses looked' tous as we first entered the great city. c.ud sc many peoploe! It seemed some meeting must have just closed to fill thestreets in that way. and .tgen the big placards announeing a!) styles of amusements and so many of them or: the same night and every night, after our boy hood had been sen:; In regions where only once or twice in a whiole year there had bcI. n entertainment in school-house or churchi That Is the opportunity. Start that innocent young man in the right direction. Six -ve-'ks after will be too late. Tell me what such a young man does with his first six weeks in the great city, and I will tell you what he will be throughout his life on earth and where he will snd the ages of eternity. Oppror -Wis e manie tai commeali~ a liter. ary and ponrcel successes aepena upon tak ing advantage of opportunity. The great IL surgeons of England feared to touch the a tumor of King George IV. Sir Astkpy Cooper I looked at it and seid to the kinm. " C win et I ,)ur majesty as mogn yr were a piow nan." That was Sir Astley's oppodunity 'ord Clive was his fatler's dismay, elimbint shurch steeples and doing reckless things (is father sent him to Madra India as a a rlerk in the service of an English oloez 9 Olive watched his time, and when war brok ti mut cane to be the chief of the host that o; saved India for England. That was Lord d Olive's opportunity. Pauline Lueca, the o %lmost matchless singer. was but little recog- q aized until in the absence of the soloist in the Ge-man choir she took her place and be- y gan the enchantment of the world. That day a was Lucca7s opportunity. John Scott, who afterward tecatE Lord Eldon, had stumbled ii his wa:7 along in Z'e practice of law until the u ese of Ackroyd versas Smithson was to be G tried, t.nd his speech that day opened all ave- Y aues o: success. That was Lord Eldon's op- D Dortunitv- P - William H. Seward was given by his ratner a 1000 to get a collegiate education. That money soon gone. his father said "Now you niust fight your own way," and he did, un til gu'ernatorial chair and United States bi enatorial chair were his, with a right to the P PIresldential chair if the meanness of Ameri- m an po tics had not swindled him out of it. 4 .he day when his father told him to fighthis ti own way wap William H. Seward's oppor tunity. John Henry Newman, becalmed a whole week in an orange boat in the Strait of Bonifacio, wrote his immortal hymn. "Lead, ti Kindly Light." That was John Henry New nan's opportunity. You know Kirk White's immortaf hymn, "When Marshaled on the a lightly Plain." He wrote it in a boat by a lantern on a stormy night as he was saling along a rocky coast. That was Kirk White's st opportunity. n 'The importance of making the most of op- di portonities as they present themselves is ac- P3 knowledged in all other directions. Why w not in the matter of usefuless? The differ- Q ence of usefulness of good men and women th is not so much the di erence in brain or so cial position or wealth, but in equipment of n Christian common sense-to know just the . time when to say the right word or do the [ right thing. There are good people who can )j lways be depended on to say the right thing at the wrong time, A merchant selling oods over the couner to a wily customer who would like to get them at less than costi the railroad conductor while taking up the r ;ckets fropn passengers who want to work o ast year's free pass or get through at h ate a child fully grown a housekeeper try Ing to get the tableready in time for guests, 50 hithough the oven has neglected to fulfill the order given him-those are not opportuni ties for religious address. Do not rush to , inan in the busiest part of the day and w en 6 half dozen people are waiting for him and ask, "How Is your soul?" IA But there are plenty of fit occasions. It is " nteresting to see the sportsman, gun in :and and pouch at side and accompanied by C he hounds yelping down the road, off on unting expedition, but the best hunters in I hsworld are those who hunt for oppor tunities to do good, and the game is some bing to gladden earth and heaven. I will point out some of the opportunities. When 4 soul Is in bereavement is the best time to alk of gospel consolation and heavenly re-ia nion. When a man has lost his property is he best time to talk to him of heavenly in- I :eritance that can never be levied on. When ne is sick is the best time to talk to him 1 bout the supernatural latitude in which un health is an impossibility. When the Holy T pirit is moving on a community is the best Lime to tell a man he ought to be saved. By word by a smile, by a look, by a rayer the work may be thoroughly done at all ternity cannot undo it. As the harp was avented fromi hearing the twang of a bow g, as the law of gravitation was sug- 3h Eeed by the fall of an apple, as the order g ,India for the use of a greased cartridge h ptarted the mutiny of 1857, which appalled .he Nations, so something insignificant may ppen the door for great results. Be on the Lh atch. It may be a gladness, it may be a orror. but it will be an opportunity. Ka A city missionary in the lower parts of the h pity round a young woman in wretchedness P.nd sin. He said, "Why do you not go home?" She said, "They would not receive me at home." He said, "What Is your ather's name, and where does he live?" having obtained the address and written to ~ the father, the city missionary got a reply, n the outside of the letter the word "imme- ~ diate" underscored. It was the heartiest ossibole invitation for the wanderer to come ,ome. That was the city missIonary's op portunity. And there are opportunities all~ gbout you, and on them, written by.the hand of the God who will bless you and bless those ivhotr. you help, in capitals of light the vord "Immediate." A military officer very p:-ofane in his'hab~ ts was going down into a mine at Conll, England, with a Christian miner for many of those miners are Christians. the officer used profane language while in the cagego nug down. As they were coming up out o ~he mine the profane officer said, "If It be so ~ar down to your work, how much farther would it be to the bottomless pit?" The .v Christian ixdner responded, "I do not know ~ how far it IS down to that p lace, but If this 1 rope should break you would be ther'e in aW ininte." It was the Christian miner's op ortunity. Many years ago a clergyman wa n a sloop on our Hudson River, and hearing man utter a blasphemy the clergyman saidK "You have spoken against my best friend,'t Iesus Christ" Seven years after this same reryman was on his way to the general as ic'mbly of the Presbyterian Church at Phila elhawhen a young minister addressedj him nd akedhim if he was not on a sloop , on the Hudson River seven years before. Ihe reply was in the affirmative. "Well' said the young minister, "I was the man whom you corrected for uttering that oath. It led me to think and repent, and I am try- ~ lng to atone somewhat for my early behavior. . I am a preacher of the gospel and a delegate ~ to the general assembly." Seven years be ore on that Hudson River sloop was the alergyman's opportunity. I stand this minute in the presence of many a eads of families. I wonder If they all real- L ze that the opportunity for Influencing the ,T househiold for Christ and heaven Is very brief t and w.ill soon be gone ? For awhile the house ,5 Is full of the voices and footsteps of children. r You sometimes feel that you can hardly stand g the racket. You say : "Do be quiet ! It seems as if my head would split with all this noise." n And things get broken and ruined, and it is. di "Where's my hat !" "Who took my books ?'t "Who has been busy with my playthings?" y3 And it is a-rushing this way, and a-rushing li that, until father and mother are welU nigh 'i bsidle themselves. It is astonishing how much noise five or si h ~hidren can make and not half try. But the v years glide swiftly away. After awhile the t voices are not so many, and those which stay t are more sedate. First this room gets quiet, and then that room. Death takes some. and marriage take others, until after awhile : the house is awfully still. That man yonder du would give all he is worth to have that bo3 who is gone away forever rush into the roon: ; once more with the shout that was once a hught too boisterous. n That rrother wflo was once tried because a, ser little girl, now gone forever, with care- a less scissors cut up something really valuable N would like ta have the child come back, willing to put in her hands the mest vait ale wvardrobe to cut as she pleases. Ye, yes. The hou'w na nluw will (en be still eough', I warr.nt' yo:u, and as lien ycou be gan hou.ee:im: there we're just two of you. there will be juAt t wo again. Oh. the alarm ing brevty or infancy and childhood ! The opportunity is glorious, but it soon passes. Parents may say at the close of life, "What a ity we did not <do more for the religious elfare of our children while we had' nem with us:." Blut tho lamentation will be of no avail. The opportunity had1 wings, and It vanished. When your child gets out of the cradle, let if elimb into the outstretebed arms of the beau. I i h'ul Christ. "Come thou and all thy hous' ato th" ark." ut+ +he,-re is a a~ nnor+nnity an mnah righter tian any otner, so muen mbre invit ag, and so superior to all others that ther re innumerable fingers pointing to it, and ii i haloed with a glory all its own. It is yours. t is mine! It is the present hour. It is the ow. We shall never have it again. WhIle speak and you listen the opportunity is rest s as if to be gone. You cannot chnin it own. You cannot imnris n it. You c , Lake It stay. All its pulses are throbbing Ith a haste that cannot be hindred or con. oled. It is the opportunity of invitation a my part and acceptance on your part. The oor of the palace of God's mercy is wide pen. Go in. S:t down and be kings and teens unto God forever. "Well." you say. I am not ready." You are ready. "Are u a sinner?" "Yes." "Do you want tc 3 saved now and forever?" "Yes." Do you believe that Christ is able and will ig to do the work?" "Yes." Then you are Lved. You are inside the palace door ol od's mercy already. You look changed. ou are changed. "Hallelujah, 'tis done!" id you ever see anything done so quieklys ivitation offered and accepted in less than minute by my watch or that clock. Six dward .Creasy wrote a book called "The ifteen Decisive Battles of the World, From :arathon to Waterloo." But the most de sive battle that you will ever fight, and the reatest victory you will ever gain. is this .oment when you conquer first yourself and Len all the hindering myrmidous of perdi on by saying, "Lo Jesus, here I am, un me and helpless, to be saved by Thee and hee alone." That makes a panic in hell. at makes celebration In heaven. Oppor Lnitv! On'the 11th of January, 1866, a collier brig in into the rocks near Walmer Beach, Eng ad. Simon Pritchard, standing on the ach, threw off his coat and said, 'Who will "lp me save that crew?" Twenty men outed, "I will," though only seven were *eded. Through the awful surf the boat ished, and in fifteen minutes from the time eftchard threw off his coat all the ship reeked crew were safe on the land. ctoker work to-day. Half that time more an necessary to get all thisassembla einto e lifeboat or tae gospel ana asnore, stana. g both feet on the Bock of Ages. By the ro strong oars of faith and prayer first pull r the wreck and then pull for the shore. pportunity! Over the city went the cry, Jesus of Nazareth passeth by! Let the world go. It has abused you Lough, and cheated you enough, and slan red you enough, and damaged you enough. ren those from whom you expected better ings turned out your assailants, as when ipoleon in his last will and testament left 00 francs to the man who shot at Welling a in the streets of Paris. Oh, it is a mean )rld! Take the glorious Lord for your mpanlionship. I like what the good maa id to the one who had everything but re 4ion. The affluent man boasted of what he rued and of his splendors of surroundings, itting into insignificance, as he thought, e Christian's possessions. "Ah," said the iristian. "Man, I have something you have >t." "What is that?" said the worldling. ie answer was, "Peace!" And you may all 6e it-peace with God, peace with the st, peace with the future, a peace that all e assaults of the world ana all the bom .rdments satanio cannot interfere with. A Scotch shepherd was dying and had the stor called in. The dying shepherd said to s wife, "Mary, please go into the next om, for I want to see the minister alone." hen the two were alone the dying shepherd id "I have known the Bible all my life Lt am going, and I am 'afeered to dee.'' ien the pastor quoted the psalm: "The rd is my Shepherd. I shall not want." [es, mon," said the shepherd, "I was fa liar with that before you were born, but I a a-goin', and I am afeered to dee." Then id the pastor "You know that the I - V5, 'Though'I waml tnrough me-a ey of shadow of death. I wf fear no evil."' ,e " said the dying shepherd, "I knew atIefore you were born, but It does not lp me." Then said the pastor, "Don't you LOW that sometimes when you were driving e sheep down through the valleys and vines there would be shadows all about >u while there was plenty of sunshine on e hils above? You are in the shadows now, tt it is sunshine higher up." Then said the ring shepherd: "Ah!-that is good. I >ver saw it that way before. All is well. hough I pass through the valley of the adow of death, Thou art with me.' adows here, but sunshine above." So the ring shepherd got peace. Living and dy g may we have the same peace! Opportunity ! tinder the arch of that splen-I d word let this multitude of my hearers ss into the pardon and hope and triumph the gospel. Go by companies of a hundredI oh. Go by regiments of a thousand each, a aged leaning on the staff, the middle :ed throwing off their burdens as they pasel Ld the young to have their present joys gmented by more glorious satisfactions. >rward into the kingdom! As soon as you Ls the dividing line there will be shoutingI I up and down the heavens. The crowned unortals will look down and cheer. Jesus the many scars will rejoice at the result His earthly sacrifices. Departed saints 1ll be gladdened that their prayers are swered. An order will be given for the reading of a banquet at which you 11I be the honored guest. From the im rial gardens the wreaths will be twist for your brow and from the hall ol ernal music the harpers will bring their rps and the trumpeters their trumpets, and I up and down the amethystine stairways of e castles and in all the rooms of the house many mansions it will be talked over with >ly glee that this day, while one plain man md on the platform c.! this vast buildin;, ving the gospel call, an asemblage made up . ram all parts of the earth and piled up in ese galleries chose Christ as their portion id started for heaven as their everlasting >me. Ring all the bells of heaven at the lings! Strike all the cymbals at the joy! are all the palm branches at the triumph' .'toryl Victory! A New Care for Hiecoughs. Samuel A. Hochkin, of West Haven Conn. as hiceoughing his life away at the home o is nephew, Charles E. Hochkin, Newark, N ,until Dr. Bailey was called in. The pa eat is seventy-three years old. On Januarn he began hiccoughing violently. The usua 3medies were prescribed, but Mr. Hochkiz rew worse. At this time Dr. C. H. Clark, of Plainnleld -as afflicted with the mnalarly. and thie reme es used in his case without avail were e. Dr. W. 0. Ba.iley was cailed in. D)r aley saw that the agcd sufferer coule ve long unless the throat spasms ceased. here were intervals of half n hour of rest, hlen the hiecough returned. Mr. Hochin~ ad given up the battle for life and told his ife, who accompanied him from West Haven,~ iat he proposed to settle up his earthly af-I irs. Late that night Dr. Bailey bethought hirt the "musk" cure, and prescribed moschus iten grain doses to a drathm, giving one rachm every three hours. The ef et was electrical. The throat spasmi asd, and Mr. H>chkin was pro ounced out of danger and gained strengtl: pidly. The remedy in this case was for arded to the physician attending Dr. Clark tPlainfield in the hope of saving the lat ~r's life. too Higi,. Mrs. Snappson--Why didn't yoi. uy some of that Chippendale at the 7an .Aillion sale? 1 hear it went fo' ,song. Snappson-So it did; but you know ay dear, I can't sing. ALMOWST eviery girl confides to hel timnate friend that sne is the CO lerella of her family. PEOPLE have either t00 muCil or not nnngh to da. I Extracted With saeuty. The taciturnity of backwoodsmen needto be much iliustrated byAmeri ;an writers, but now, perhaps because b)ackwoodsmen are too few to form as :-onspicuous a national element - formerly, their p-ulinrities are not often 1cntion'd. Fro!m Canada which still has vast arcg of alnost unbrok.eti fore-4. we recerved the fal iowin-; verbatim report or a conversa ti bctweefn a city spartsman and !,is imei*t wodsgnie Bll Bc hw "ou have k ii ie.d moose, .Bill, J suppmose?" -Sorueo." -Any big bulls?" "Some." "Where?" -Da-c yonder." "Were you ever charged by one?" "Onet." "hlow was that?" "He come ai nie." "Hal you wounded him?" "Yas." "How did he come?" "Acrost the swale." "Couldn't you stop him with at other shot?" "Hadn't on'y a muz -de-loader." "Did he get clu;e to you?" "Clost as you be." "Then you killed him?" "No." ''What then?" "I clumb up." "Where?" "On the root." "What root?" '-The big pina '-A fallen pine?" "Yas." "What did he do?" "Lammed into it." "Into what?" "The root." "How?" "Lickety pelt. Head fIrst. Twict."1 "Did he go off then?" "I near did." "He shook the root, eh?" "You bet."I "But you held on?" "Sure." "Were you sitting?" "Stannin'." "How could you hold on?" "Branches of root." "Well, what then?" "I fetched 'aim." '-Oh, you had anothershot?" 6"a 'oaded up." "Then you killed him?" "You c!ould 'a' killed him yourself then." "With that," says the sportsman, "I gave up the questioning, and im agined the details. After a long ilence Bill said: "'That cured me of muzzle-load. !krs.' " In the Name or the rropftet-2g; . It used to be jestingly said that the iame of Mohammed was invoked for L11 purposes, even down to the itin rant fruit-seller, whose cry was "In he name of the Prophet-figs." But t appears to be the practice for en. erprising and pushing British man ifacturers to have recoirse to the ame lici inrofit. eiems, have been accustomed to place Arabic inscriptions on their wares. such as calicoes, candles, ates, etc. According to the Con ul at M1agador, the Sultan has lately isued the following warning through ihe customs administration: "Having earned that certain goods imported, ,neluding calicoes, matches, etc., have .een imported, bearing In Arabic :haracters the name of Mohommed, >f Hessan and Ali, and others held acred by Noslem, and bearing other vriting not suitable to be on such rticles, I order you to give notice to he merchants to advise the correspon lents in other countries to discon inue the sending of goods so marked. A reasonable time will be allowed for his notice to reach them. Any such rods imported after due notice has been given will be seized by the gov arnment and treated as contraband. hou'd the importer be a Moslem, he will be punished in addition to the 'orfeiture." It is evident, the Consul adds, that he practice of inscribed goods des ined for Mohammedan countries with ;hc name of the Prophet and other holy names and sacred allusions, loubtess inltendled by the manufac urer to be flattering and pleasing to lis Mohammedan customer, may have luite the contrary effect upon the rthodox, and should be avoided ac -ordingly.-Leisure Hour. The Code Should Be Amended. A dentist puts a door plate on the door of his house, or a window plate in his window, bearing his name, and the word or words that Indicate his vocation, and, perhaps, likewise, an anotomical device emblematic there-' r. It is an excellent custom, often serviceable to people of both sexes who are troubled with toothache, or whose molars need fixing, and who, but for these signs, would not know where to find ready relief. Now, when a dentist puts his busi .iess card in a new.spaper, it is merely another way of 2ai ing his door llate, window plate, or sign board in pres nce of the public. Multitudes of people see the advertisement, and thus obtain Information that may be useful to them and Inure to the profit of the dentist, yet the First District Dental Society of this city has a code of manners by which its members are prevented from adver sing in the papers, a code which is generally recognized by the profession here, but which was attacked at a meeting of t*. aociety recently. Truly this provision of the code is hsurd. It is not founded on solid eason: it is not for the benefit of the public.; it is disadvantageous to the practitioners of dentistry; it is not in accord with the spirit of the age. It s borrowed from an old an effete code f the English tooth pullers, a cod1e that is not now regarded even in England. There is no such code in F'rance, which is a country of very high polish, in which the people give proper heed to their teeth. The ad rertisements of high-toned dentists ay be seen in the papers of Paris. E. Y. Sun,. When a Colorado judge askea two ladies who wanted to be jurors, "Do you know that you will have to be shut up in the rooms in the evening delib erating upon the verdicts with men?" one of them stoutly answered, "I sup pose that in a court of justice, the pro, per authorities will make the necessary arrangements for carrying on the bust' ness of the court." With the ballot in her hand, it seems altogether likely that the Colorado woman will go on the juries whenever she shall choose to dq so, and that the "arrangements" will be made for her. The last few months have been es pecially productive of vast fortunes left to waiters, sewer-builders, bakers and others, but we believe that the crop of heirs is exhausted. The discovery of the grandson of King George IV. has turned the tide in a new direction, and we confidently expect to have nephews of Franklin, grand-cousins of Wash ington, nieces of Robert Bruce and di rect descendants of Adam spring at us from every telegraphic dispatch. There is a new and unworked field in this de scendant business that will make the fortune of some bright newspaper cor. respondent. One day recently Judge Dallas of the United States Circuit Court at Phila delphia had a batch of fifty-three per sons before him who wanted to become i citizens. Of these fifty-three he reject ed twenty-eight because they were too i Ignorant not only of our institutions, 1 but of pretty nearly everything else to entitle them to citizenship. Judge Dal las appears to be one of the few Judges on the bench who think it necessary to 1 make any examination into the qualift- i cations of aliens for citizenship. Were there more such upright and patriotic Judges there would be fewer naturali zation mills grinding out citizens at the rate of one a minute and fewer manufactured citizens who not only know nothing but care nothing for our form of government farther than citi zenship opens up an opportunity for the dirty work of bosses and a market for the sale of votes. The friends of the feud-sunderea Astors guard that silence which will not I stand in the way of future invitations < to dinner. Ward McAllister is positive- I ly painful in the apoplectic politeness i which he wraps around his inability to say anything. Elbridge T. Gerry teeters < in his endeavor to stand straight be tween the Jacks and the Waldorfs., From Society, nothing on the quarrel itself, but from Mrs. Paran Stevens came something lurid "On the Right of Rich People to Have a Row in the 1 Family." Always original, "Aunty j a ruction shall be as free to an Astdi~as to Mulberry Bend. If two ladies of the latter may row over "which owns the clothes-line," why not two Mrs. Astors or two Mr. Astors over equally petty things? Why, indeed? But here Mrs. Stevens is at fault. She would not al low "the rabble" to enjoy the Astor row, much less to shudder at its unseemli ness; whereas the real delIght in the tenement row, which Mrs. Stevens so keenly appreciates, is that assistance and comment which the neighbors,1 craning out of the tenement windows, bcstow upon it. Mrs. Stevens evidently wants Society's interest 'n the Astor vendetta to be a class affair, or con fined to experts in domestic difficulties. Unfortunately the tenements of the As tors are in view of the whole world, and people will look on, and comment and, shudder as freely as if Fifth avenue was Cherry Hill. The higher the tene mient the bigger the audience, Mrs Stevens. Xenophon as a Dog Fancier. Xenophon opens his disquisition on hounds by an enumeration of all the de-r fects, physical and moral, which a3 bound should not possess, wherein It is easy to recognize all the failings which are still among us. Leggy hounds, weedy hounds, fiat-sided hounds, flat footed hounds, undersized hounds,' headstrong hounds, flashy hounds, sul ky hounds, dwellers, babblers,skrters all are faithfully portrayed and uncom- 1; promisingly condemned. "Hounds i with such faults as these, whether due to nature or bad training, are of little a worth; they are enough to disgust even e a truly keen sportsman." A good hound should have a light, c small, sinewy head, a long, round, flex ible neck, broad chest, free shoulders, straight, round, wiry forelegs, straight knees, round sides, muscular loins, full e flanks, but not too full; his thighs o should be firm, compact and well leta down, his feet round, and his sternt long, straight and tapering. Such is t Xenophon's description of a goodp hound; it seems to us not amiss for the , fourth century before our era.-Mao millan's Magazine. How lHe Knew. He-I observe my company is pot ~ agreeable to you. She-How did you observe it? 1 He-By the clock. You've turned it forward instead of back--New York I Herald. t Latest in Biscuit, Mistress-Yu brroke my Sevres plate. You are discharged. How did you beak it? Servant-I carelessly dropped one ofg the biscuits you made yesterdaby on it Woonsocke-t (Rl. I) Rleporter. Easy to Explain. The retirement of Jim Root from the I stage is easily explained. He would ather ride in the cab of an engine than ount ties.-Utica Observer. There are occasional people who hide a good deed as carefully as they would a skeleaton. - STRUCK A BARBED WIRE FENCE rhat's What Put an End to the Pict uresque Cowboy. The Texas cowboy is passing away The day is gone when he not only rule< the plains, stretching in endles: Leagues, but ruled and terrorized th< small towns as often as he descendet upon them, and stored away a plentifu supply of fire water. This picturesqu< igure of Texas life has run up agains the barbed wire fence and got th4 worst of it. At Waco the other day tray-haired veteran said to a corre spondent: "I am th' last of th' original Texa, cowboys who is not dead or in the peni entiary. The cowboy of to-day has i zood deal of th' tenderfoot in 'im. Yoi ee, he don't git th' practice what h iused to git, and he don't have th' free [om to do as he please. In most part: of Texas now th' Sheriff is a bigge1 wan than a cowboy. To my mind th barbed wire fence is to blame. Tht plaguey railroads cut through Texa, verywhere, but the railroads wouldn* Lave done it if the barbed wire fenc( ad been kept out. You see, it's jes1 t'Js way: Texas is fenced in wit barbed wire. It's jest strung out ove he State. Every ranch and herdei Las 'em or is going to have 'em. 01 -ourse, when you get a fence around : erd of cattle they're bound to keep to gether, 'cause they can't get apart Mhen, somehow, a fence tames a stee ightily. He don't seem to want to b( igly. He jest takes care of himself When you git a barbed wire fenc< round a herd o' cattle you don't neet o many cowboys to look after 'em, and :hat's the case. A cowboy can't stau ip agin a barbed wire fence. "And then, you see, th' pay ain't wha1 t used to be," continued the org~rina owboy. "We used to git $125 a mouit! -th' common cowboy, I mean. Tha was something like. How's it now W by, a foreman of a herd in a barbed wire fence range don't get but $60 nonth! That's no pay for a regula1 owboy. I woudn't stand It I saw whal as coming. and I zot out."- - A Proposal by Telephone. A proposal of marriage by telephone s not a remarkable or infrequent oc iurrence, in this age of electricity and )ashful men, but this one is really inique. At a certain swell club on New Year's lay a string band was in attendance, Ls was also a bashful young man who akes himself agreeable at regular in ervals at a fashionable home in one of :he suburbs. The young man's chief ffability at these night sessions is cen :ered on the daughter of the house. In 'act the young man's intentions are of Eertousnatur ten-haste fired n his mind just what he WouTaTRo7ut hen he would present himself at the iouse with this resolve, the honeyed entences have died of their own sweet iess, and courage has failed him. New Year's day, however, it all hap >ened. He was meditating in an easy chair Lt the club when gradually he was be :oming conscious of something that re ninded him of the young lady. It was he music. They were playing "Lohien' ~rin," and as he listened they swept in :o that grand wedding march. H~e ounced to his feet, and in a moment he exchange had connected him with he suburban residence, and when he -ecognized the voice he only s'aid: "Listen, Clara." The orchestra was seated just under he telephone, and the sweet strains were being reverberated to the hills. When the band had finished he saId: "Hello, Clara; wastn't It just grand?'" A moment's silence, and then: "May I engage the band to play the ame march at your house some after oon during Easter week, dear? Say res, darling.' Another moment of silence, and then: "Clara, I'm the happiest man alive." -Cincinnati Tribune. How Eskimos Trap Bears. An original and unique device is in se with the Eskimos for hunting and filing the polar bear. K~nowing the ear to be fond of blubber, they take a ee of it as large as a man's list, and, tter letting it freeze, hollow out the enter s'ufficiently to admit a strip of whalebone coiled into a spring. This is overed with more blubber, and the hole again frozen. Dressing themselves like seals (the ears' favorite food). the hunters take everal of these frozen balls and start ut. When a bear is discovered they .pproach near enough for im to see hem. As he begins to creep stealthily oward them, they slowly retreat. driop) ing a number of the balls in such a ay that the bear must surely come up n them. Bruin, seeing these delicate morsels, wallows them whole and continues his talthy chase of the supposed seals, ut he does not progress far before the nbber melts and releases the whale one springs. These new "wors" in l internal economy soon put him in uch agony that he rolls and tumbles *on the ice, and becomes an easy vic m to the weapons of the hunters. Short Shrift in Ohio. The failure of an Ohio man wals an ounced In just one week after he be an busies. No Such Possibility. "Doctor," said Mrs. Weed, "I can't et it out of my head that possibly my poor dear husband was buried alive." "Nonsense!" snorted Dr. Peduncle. 'Didn't I attend him myself in his last lne~ss"-Life. Porcelain fin eeth. It has been demonstrated that por elain s hetter than gold for filling The Code Should Be Amend. A dentist puts a door plate on the door of his house, or a window plate in his window, bearing his name, and the word or words that indicate his vocation, and, perhaps, likewise, an anotomizal device emblematic there Df. It is an excellent custom, often serviceable to people of both sexes who are troubled with toothache, or whose molars need fixing, and who, but for these signs, would not know where to find ready relief. Now, when a dentist puts his busi tess card in a newspaper, it is merely another way of raising his door plate, window plate, or sign board In pres ee off the public. Multitudes of people see the advertisement, and thus obtain information that may be useful to them and inure to the profit (f the dentist, yet the First District Dental Society of this city has a code of manners by which its members are prevented from adver tising in the papers, a code which is generally recognized by the profession here, but which was attacked at a meeting of the society recently. Truly this provision of the code is absurd. It is not founded on solid -eason; it, is not for the benefit of the public; it is disadvantageous to the practitioners of dentistry; it is not in accord with the spirit of the age. It is borrowed from an old an effete code Df the English tooth pullers, a code that is not now regarded even in EnglanC. There is no such code in France, which is a country of very high polish, in which the people give proper heed to their teeth. The ad vertisements of high-toned dentists may be sen in the papers of Paris. N. Y. Sun. A -oman Butcher's Shop. The iaseum of Antiquities at Dres eone into possession of an in "resting marble relief from Rome, which represents an ancient butcher shop, of oblong shape, and divided by a pilar into two unequal parts. In the greater stanIls the butcher, with a high chopping block resting on thres - stantil legs before him, Fhie behind him, hang the steelvd 'and a cleaver, he himself bijoccupied in dividing a rib of meat with another cleaver. On the wall above him, just as with us, is a row of hooks near to each other, on which 2ang pieces of meat already dressed-a rib and a leg of meat, a pork joint and udders (a tit-bit of the Romans'-a.lso lungs and liver, and last of all the favorite boar's head. On tho left, in the smaller division of the shop, the wife of the butcher sits in an easy chair, with an account book on her knees, engaged in assisting the business of her husband by acting as bookkeeer.. Following Line of Least Resistance Proofs of the truth of this proposition ire constantly passing under our eyes. If we upset a Jug of water on table or door, the stream of liquid does not fol., low a straight line, but moves in little curves and bends, caused by the exist, ence of obstruetions very imkely so minute as to be unnoticeable, yet of sufficient importance to influence the direction of the stream of water byl making its passage over the spots where they exist slightly more diffcult thant where they do not. We ooserve the same phenomenon on a large scale in the beds of rive'rs, and the advantage of lightning conductors is also due to the principle of least re' sistance. Though In this instance there is no fiuid stream, yet there is a mo tia. of something and the motion is mere esily transmitted by means of mietal than by stone, brick and wood buildings. Consequently, if the latt, are provided with well-constructeg lightning conductors, the electric dis charge will take place by their mneang aind without affecting the rest of the eaifice, although the accidents whicle still occasionally occur indicate thai protection from lightnIng is not yel completely understood. Organic growth also takes the dfrc. tion oZ least resistance, though here the conditions are so much more comn plicated than in the case of inorganic mcotion that the principle is less read - s distinguished.-Good Words. LEVEL OF THE GULF RISING. rt Is Now One Foot Higher than It Was in 1859. According to the engineers of the hydrographic bureau, the level of the Gulf of Mexico is one foot higher than It was in 1859,. and, of course, the en croachment on the surrounding coasts has been greater or less, depending on their character. In some places, where the marginal lands are composed of'- . some high, rocky bluffs, this change of level has gone on from year to year without attracting attention. On the other hand, many low-lying points (some that were once inhabited by the primitive inhabitants or by the pioneer white settlers) are entirely submerged. The cause of this change of level has .tnot as yet been ascertained, but It is reasonably certain that it is the result of either a settling of the dry land or of a general and uniform rising or up heaval in the gulf bed. On the contrary, there Jsn't the least doubt but that there is much less. However this may be, if this aqlueous eneroachment Is steadily maintained, Keokuk will be a deep water harbor and St. Louis and the whole of Missouri will be entirely submerged in less than 40,000 years from Jan. 1, 1805. Hard to Explain. Little.Johnnie-When did Santa ClausI begIn going around at Christmas? Brown-A couple of thousand year, ago. Little Johnnie-Why. pa, they didn't have stockings in those days-Judge.