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TRI-WEFKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 6 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849. 11EV; DR, TALMAGE. TRE BROOKLYN DIVNBWS SUN DAY _3RMGL Subject; ''A Seraphic Diet" TEXT: "Man did eat angels' food." Psalms lxxviii., 25. Somewbat risky would be the undertakins. to tell just what was the manna that fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, of what it I was made and who made it. The manna was called angels' food, but why so called? Was it because it came from the place where angels live, or he'ause angels compounded 1 it, or because angels did eat it, or because it was good enough for angels? On what crystal platter was it carried to the door of heaven and then thrown out? How did it taste? We are told there was in it something like honey, but if the saccharine taste in it bad been too strong many would not have liked it. and so it may have had a commin gling of flavors, this delicacy of the skies. It must have been nutritious, for a Nationlived on it for forty years. It must- have been healthful, for it is soInspiringly applauded. It must have been abundant, because It dis missed the necessity of a sutler for a great army. C Each person had a ration of three quarts a day allowed to him, and so 15,000 pounds were necessary every week. Those were the times of which my text speaks, when "man did eat angels' food." If the good Lord, who has helped mr- so often, will help me now, I will first tell you what is angels' food, and then how we may get some of it for ourselves. In our moral state we must have for mastication and digestion and assirailation the products of the earth. Cortoreity, as well as mentality and spirituality, characterizes us. The style of diet has much to do with our well being. Light and frothy food taken exolusively re sults in weak museie and semt-individualism. The taking of too mu.ni animal food produces sensuality. Vitet r'ans are cranks. reason able seintion of th. farinaoeous and tha solid ordinarily produces physical stamina. Bat we have all occasionally becn li an ecstatic state where we forgot the necessity of earthly food. We were fed by joys. by anticipations, by discoveries, by companion shi-s that dlwindled the dining hour into insignificance and made the pleasures of the table stupid and uninviting. There have been eases where from seemingly invisible sources the human body has been main tained. as in the remarkable case of our in valid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Fanch er, known throughout the medical and Christian world for that she was seven weekIs without earthly food, fed and sus tainal on heavenly visions. Onr belov':l Dr. lrenais Prim-, editor and theoor:r recorded the w-vi-rs emn'n:, this gr1. Professr Vest. the great srientist, marveled over it, and Willard Parker of worldwide fame in stirgery threw up his hands in amnar.ement at it. There are times in aIl our lives when the soul assorts itself and says to +.he bo.lv: "h stan I bal! Stand down!" I am at a baniiut where no chalices gleam and no viands smoke and no culinary im-, plements elatter. I a-n feedin -on that which no humaft hanA has mixed and no earthiv oven baked.. I am eating "angels' fooud." I. you have never been in such an exaltel state, I commiserate your leaden tempera nt anl dismiss you from this service as inc-1mpetent to understand the thrilling and !->ri -; snggestiveness of my text when it says, "Man did eat angels' foo:l." Now, what do the sunornaturals live ons m'nt in the shape of bone and muscle and , flesh, and hence tiat which may delectate t our pal.ate or invigorate our poor, dying : frames would be. of no use to them. But t they have a fool of their own. My .textsays so. There may be other courses of food in the haavalv meni that I am not aware of, but I know of flve or six styles of fc ed always on celestial tables when cheru bim and seraphimn and archangel gather for heavenlv reptat-the mystery of redemption, celestialized musie, the heavenly picturesque, sublime colloquy, eternal enterprises, saintly assciation. divine companionship, celebra tive jubilaaee. There is one subject that ex-, eites the curiosity an. in-isitiveness of all those angels. Sr. Petar says, "Which thing the angels desre to look into"-that Is, why did Christ exchange a pala--e for a barn? Why did He drop a scepter from . His right h-nd to tatke a spear .into His lcrt side? Why quit the anthem of the worshipi!ng heravens to hear, ___ the crooning of a wa mother's voice? Was a straw better tham a gar'and? "Could it not have been done in some other way?" says angel the first. "Wag the human race worth -*"How could heaven get along without Him .for thirty-three years?" says angel the third. I "Through that aseassination may sinful mar rise into our eternal companionship," says angel the fourth. Seulptuire will halt this si tho gravc hv' ca-1se it chiefly comm:remuorates the~ formis ol -those who in heaven will be rec'onstrueted, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation whens we stand in the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this! side the grave because the colors of earth would be too tame for heaven. and what uso to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be. described to us by those who were I -the participants? One of the disciples willj tell us aheut the "Last Supp ar" better than Titian with mighty touch set up in art gallery. The plainest saint by tongue will des4cribe the* "Last Judgment" better than Michael Angelo with his pencil put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this side the grave, for wvhat use would there be for archi-1 tect's compass andl design in that ciy whicht is already bruit and garnished until nothing can be added? All the Taileries and Windsor Castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled up not equaling its humblest re'sidences; all the i St. Pauls and St. Peters -nd St. Izaaks ant t St. Sophius of the earth built into one cathed ral not equaling the heavenly temple. But music will pass right en, right up and right in, and millions in heaven will a"-' knowledge that, under God, she was the :a chief cause of their salvation. Oh, I would : like to be present when all the great Chris- ; tian singers and the great C hristian players Y of all the ages shall congregate in heaven. Of course they must, like all the rest of us., be cleansed and rausomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the A gat artists of sweet sound have been as . 'istinguished for profiigaicy as for the way they warbled or sang or tingered1 thte key * board or trot the organ pedal. Some t who have been distinguished bassos and so pranos and prima donnason earth, I feel willh never sing the song of M3oses and the Lamb, or put the lips to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throng. Ent many of thet masters who charmed us on earth will more mightily chnr:n us in heaven. Great I music hall of eternity! MIay you and I be there some day to acelai-n when the ~ "HaIlleluiah Chorus" is awakenel As on earth there have bee . har:nonids' -made up of other harmonies, a strai a of , music from this cantata, and a strain of music fromn that overture and a bar from this and a bar from that, b'ut on' great tunue or. theme, into which all the others w're p ur'. as rivers into a sea, so it may b' given t. t mightiest soul in the h'avenly' world to gathcr something irom all the sa'red sonigs ti we have sung on earth, or which have be'en sung In all the ages. and roll themn on in y eternal svmuch.any. hut the o great themea and thi on" overmaitering tone that t shall carry nil before it and upift all heavenp from central throne to farthest gate of pe'arln and to hithet ea: tOne of amnefhyst will be, t "Unto h~m wiho oved us~ and washed us a, from our sins in is ownu l''od, and made us kings an i pri'ts unro (I d and the'La:nh, 1;o Ijiun bn gI' -y'." That wdl be' manna enoun for all heave-. to f-edt on. That will be a bzugnet for immortals. That will be Now, in the emerald palace of beaven. let :he cupbearers and servants of the King re nove this course from the banquet aud brinz ,LA noer cours of angeA' food, which Is aying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible ets us know positively that the angels have >ur world's affairs on their hearts. They af ord the rapid transit from world to world. dlinistering spiritq, escorting spirits. defend ng spirits, guardian spirits-yea, they have LlI worlds on their thoug9. We are told heysangtogetherat the ereation.and that im >lied not only the creation of our world, bat >f other worlds. Shall they plan cnly for >ur little planet and be unconcerned for a )lanet 300 times larger? No. They have all he galaxies under their observation. Mighty chemes of helpfulness to be laid out and ixecuted, shipwrecked worlds to be towed in, lanetary fires to be prt out, demoniac tosts riding up to be hurled back and down. hese angels of light unhorse an Apollyon vith one stroke of battleax celestial. They alk these matters all over. They bend toward ach other in sublime. colloquy. They have !b:ne. meetings of wirge:l mortals. Thc3 sso....a the mightiest of them in holy con ultation. They plan out stellar. lunar, solar, :nstellated achievement. They vie with ach other as to who shall do the grandest hing for the eternals. They compose doxol cies for the temple of the sun. They pre iae over coronations. If in the great organ f the universe one key gets out of tune, they >lan for Its retuning. No undertaking is so Lifficult. no post of duty is so distant, no aission is so stupendous but at God's com nand they are gladly obtained. When they sit together in heaven's places, rabriel and Michael. the archangel, and the angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in he desert, and the angel that swung open he prison door of delivered Peter, and the ngels who ran to the ro be the reapers at he end of the world, and the angel that tood by Paul to encourage him on the oundering cornship of Alexandria, and the wo angels that sentineled the tomb of hirst, and the four angels that St. John saw n Apocalypse at the four corners of the earth, nd the twelve angels that guard the twelve winging pearls, and the 20,000 char oted angels that the psalmist de eribed, and more radiant than all of hem put together. and mightier than all, and nvelier thah all, "The Angel of the Coven it," the cadences of His voice, the best nasic that ever entranced mortal or immor al ears. His smile another noon risen on mid ioo.i, His presence enough to make a heaven f there were no other attraction-I say, when hey meet together in the council chambers lose to the throne-Ah. that will be regale neat infinite. That will be angels' food. Lnd one of my exciting anticipations >f hea en is the prospect of seeing mId talking with some of them. Why nont? What did they come out for on ho bal onv on that Christmasnight and sing or our world, if they did not want to be put n comiunication with us? I know the ser 'nade was in Greek, but they knew that their rords would be translated in all languages. : they thought themselves too good to have mything to do with us, would they Lave iropped Christmas carol upon the shep. ierds, as ba-1 as any of us have ever been' tye! If they sat..; for mortals, will they not ;ing for us whe a we become immortals? Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let he cupbearers and. servants of the King re nove this coursbe from the banquet and bring n another course of angels' food-the last :ourse and the best, the dessert, the cul nination of 4,e feast, which is celebrative .bilance. f 'u and I have known people vho pridel themselves on never getting ixcited. They have cultivated the phleg natic. You. never saw them. cry; you iever heard them in a burst of laugh. er. They-are monotonous and to me in oTe-irme. I am afraid of a man or a woman hat cannot cry; I am afraid of-- nman or a roman who cannot langh. Christ says in hebook of Revelationthat such people are o Him nauseating and cause regurgitation -(Revelation iii., 16) "Because thou art luke varm and neither cold no' hot I will spew hee out of My mouth." Bnt the angels in teaven have no stolidity or unresponsive tess. There is one thing that agitates them nto holy warmth. We know that absolute y. If their harp be hung up on the panels if amuthyst, they take it down and rith deft fingers pull from among he strings a canticle. They run in to their eighbors on the same golden street and tell he good news. If Miriam has there cymbals nything like those with which she- per ormed on the banks of the Red Sed, she laps them in triumph, and there is a festal dthle spread, and the best of the angels' food a set on it. When is it? It is wvhen a man or roman down in the world who was all vronug by the grace of God is made alliright -(Luko xv., 10) "There is joy in the >resenlce of the-angels of God over one sin ter that repenteth." Why are they so happily .gitated? Because they know what a tre rendous thing it is to turn clear around from he wrong and take the right road. It is be ause they know the difference between wines' trough with nothing but husks and a Eing's banquet with augels' food. It is be ause they know the infinite, the everlasting ifferenice between down and up. And t hen their festivity is.catching. If we ear the bells of a city ring, we say, "What Sthat for?" If we hear rolling out from an uditorium the sound of a full orchestra, we ay, "What is happening here?" And when he an~rels of God take on jublance over a ase of earthly repentance your friends a heaven will say: "What ne w thing .as happ~ened? Why~ full diapason? 'Why he chime froma the. oldest towers f etoraity?" The fact is, my hearers, here are people in heaven who would like to ear from you. Your children there are rondering when father and mother will omne irto the kingdom, and with more glee 'ian they ever danced in hallway at your oming home at eventide they will dance ve Iloor of- the heavenly 'mansion at the dings of father and mother saved. Be ide tha~t the old folks want to hear from ou. They a-e standing at the head of the elestial stairs waiting for .the news iat their prayers have been answered, ad that you are coming on to take from leir lips a kiss better than that which now tey throw you. Calling you by your first ame, as they always did, they are talking bout you and saying, "There is our son," r "There is our daughter down in that -orld of strnggle battling, suffering, sinning, *.ping. Why can they not see that Christ thet only one who can help and comfort Tihat is what they are saying about you. ni if you will this hour in one prayer of irrender that will not take more than a cond to make decide this then swifter than liegraphic dispatch tbe news would reach tern, and angels of God who never fell 'ould join your glorified kindred in cele ration, and the caterers of heaven would do teir best, and saints and seraphs side by de would take angels' food. Glory to God >r such a possibility! Oh, that this momeont 1ere might be a rush. for heaven! he Spirit and the Bride say, Come. Rejoicing saints re-echo, Como.. Ihto faints, who thirsts, who will may cony Thy Saviour bids thee come. THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANALi tis Scuring a Very Small Part of the Cotton Trafnic. At the hat" -yearly meoting of the corpora ant of the Manch'ster (England) Ship Canal te Chtairman said that the canal had hitherto irtuatll'y failed to secure anything like a fair tare no the cotton trafile'. the canal having irried within th" la4t six months only 13.600 mn, against 300,000 tons~ arriving at Liver 'tol. The Cha'irmnan contended that they u-t shiow the cotton sellers of the world it Manc~h.ster has a powerful association buye.rs who were willing to buy in Man ister if the sellers would only send their >ttoni th'er'. The great dificulty confronit tthem- in the near future, he said, was the iymnent of the interest on the loan capital. AftEer the- meeting the shares of the canal ill havily. THE FLOWERLESS PLANTS SOME IMPLAC BLE NEIES O THE HUXAN RACE. .trange Fungi Plants and Theii Power For Evil to Crops-MliOnW Spent in Their Eradication. HE flowerless plants are Sgbroadly classified inte two 7 kinds-those that live in dark prison cells, never seeing the light of day, and those that are always exposed to the light the same as ordin ary plants. If one enters a potato field at the harvesting time, he is pretty sure to find examples of the frst. Cut open one of the tubers attacked by the potato "rot" so called, and thousands of these flowerless plants are revealed. Black spores run in all directions, and in the dark, decaying mass the plante have found a prison that is just suited to their needs. Enter a wheat field next and select a head of wheat thai has a dull reddish growth covering parts of it, and an example of the sec ond class will be seen. The reddish growths represent thousands of minute yet distinct plants that altogether form what is generally termed "wheal rust." Fungi are so numerous and in so many forms that one hesitates at the thought of ever-classifying all of them, and the text-book designed to explain them would be more stupendous and cumbersome thaa several dictionaries of the "unabridged" style. There are many thousands of fungi that live on dead organic matter, and others on living organisms. We find them grow ing on decaying matter, buildings, stones, leaves, wood, bones, bread, fruits, jellies, and all vegetable life. Most of them are injurious, but a few even of the parasitic sort are nearly harmless. All fungi are small plants, which are both fiowerless and lacking in green coloring matter. The growth of fungi in living plants is a source of great concern to the cul tivators of farms and gardens, -and the question of controling their growth i one that involves millions of dollars. The enormous grain crops of the coun try are often reduced twenty per cent. by the ravages of these minute plants, and if it were not for the poisons that are used for spraying in the spring and summer our fruit harvests would be sadly diminished. The plant fungi are more numerous than the cultivated plants, and under favorable conditions they can multiply with a rapidity that is astonishing. Many millions can be created in one day, but their vast multiplication is partly checked by nature. If the spores fail to obtain the conai*iouso e &reeary for germina tion they die, and a large percentage, perish from this cause. Figures hardly give an adequate idea of the numbers of these plants, and yet they are always quoted. A single grape Ieaf, or a wheat plant, contains when affect ed by disease many millions of the spores of.the plants, and it is said that 8,000,000,000 corn-smut spores are eld in a single cubic inch of space. This race of flowerless. plants is the most implacable enemy that mankind has to contend with. It has destroyed enormous crops of cereals, fruits and vegetables, and like destruction is only prevented every year through a cease less war against the enemy. The wheat rust ruins the finest fields, and farmer. have to fight against it with great persistency. The spores of one of the rusts grow on the barberry bushes, and to check their growth all of these bushes near wheat fields have to be destroyed. The other two kinds of rusts grow on the wheat plants, and the spores are mingled with the seed, year after year, when planted. Con sequently in sections where the rust appears the seed has to be soaked in hot water before planting, heated at a temperature that will kill the spores without destroying the germinating powers of the grains. The downy grape mildew that ruinm so many of our grape-vines, and threatens grapa culture with extinction in parts of the country, produces spores that live in side and outside of the leaves. The spraying of deadly poisons over the foliage early in the season is the only way to kill the spores and the peculiar parasiti& plants that follow. The lay eelium, which under the microscope looks much like fine linen interwoven, is inside the grape leaf, and special brnhsare thrown out through the breathing pores of the leaf, so that the perfect trees or plants are formed in appearance. The tip of each branch bears a spore, and on many vines these spores become so abundant that a downy appearance is given to the nnderside of the leaves, from which he downy mildew derives its name. A fresh crop of these spores is often cre ated every morning during damp weather, and if a wet season prevails the grape crop may prove a failure iz spite of all spraying methods. In the potato field the strange fungi plants do a tremendous amount of damage. A solitary spore may drop: upon the young potato lant and send' a slender tube throu~ one of the' breathing spores, into which the semi fluid protoplasm can pass. The plants flourish inside of the growing potato and pass easily, from the leaves and* stalks to the tubers under the ground. In this dark prison the strange plants thrive and develop until the tubers, are nothing but rotten masses. The: spores of the corn-smut likewise enter the corn plants as they conmA ap, and' in the stalk they remain for a long time, showing no signs of their pres ence. But suddenly when the corn is reaching its ripening period the soot like spores burst out in great tumors and bunches. Some remain hidden in the ears until the husks are pulled aside, and then the decomposing mass has Fislted a corn field in the husking season must have seen the sooty ears that have been condemned by the rarmer zor cremation. 11is, in Iaes, is the only sure way to kill the per sistent plante that attack the corn. On the leaves of nearly all of ou, trees, flowers, and vegetables specimens of these strange plants can be traced. Watch the leavesq in the summer, and fine threads of the mycelium can be detected running through and across t them. These will increase in number, producing in time thousands of deli cate spores, which in many cases cover the leaves with a white mildew. No fungi take their nourishment from the soil or atmosphere, and that is why t these plants are entirely devoid of all green colorine matter. The.v live unon the plants which we raise in our gar dens, and suck out their life by send ing "suckers" down to the very sources of plant existence. Our green plants draw something from the soil which supplies the queer race of flowerless plants with nourishment, so that they can live independent of the air in small, dark prison-cells that have been fashioned by and for themselves. New York Post. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The average "fall" or slope of North. American rivers is about four inches per mile. Fish, fruit and rare steak shoulA be the diet of the aged, according to a magazine writer. Six centuries before Christ, ThaleL of Miletus measured the height of the Pyraids by triangulation. A new telephone transmits a whispea to a distance of 500 miles, and a keen ear, if familiar with the speaker, can recognize the voice. .A medical journal figures that the United States has the highest death t rate from diphtheria, 480 in 10,000. According to the same authority Hol land and Sweden come next with 440 nach. A thrifty resident of Atlantic City, I N. J., is making money by shipping c barrels of salt water to various parts of the country to persons who desire f 1o take a salt-water dip in their own 6 ath~ .us. 9 TL male wasps and hornets are the t scavengers of the community, being c required to keep the nest clean. They remove the bodies of the dead, and when these are too heavy they bite off i the head and divide the body again at ( the waist. Experiments made by the scientists t appointed for the purpose by the 2 -rench Government, show thai the I resistance of the atmosphere to the i motion of a high speed train' o0 -_ amounts to half the total resistanT which the locomotive must overcome. About the last thing done to silver w %are in the factories is to cleanse the g sarface of all'grease and other material r used in the polishing, a process that usually involves a deal of hard labor. I A mechanic who had noted the expen-< sive character of this work invented a bath in which the foreign substances that cling to the surface of silverware are easily and quickly removed. From this bath the silverware comes clean and brilliant. The employers of the ii enter have patented the process with his consent, and the patent 3s re garded as a valuable property. It has generally been assumed that -t a considerable time elapsed, say from three to nine minutes, from the time when the blood left the right side of the heart, traversed the whole system and then again returned to the start ing point. Professor Dalton's experi ments make it appear that the time is much shorter than that. Dozens of carefully tabulated tests, says Pro fessor Dalton, show that the blood of man makes a complete circulation once every fifteen to twenty-five seconds, according to the physical con ditions of the subject experimnented upon. . The sting of a bee is composed of 3 two spears of polished horn held in a sheath. One gets a notion of the ~ sharpness of the Weapon by a .very t simple comparison. The edge of a very keen razor, when examined undert a good microscope, appears as broad as the back of a thick knife, rough, uneven and full of notches. An ex eeedingly small and delicate needle similarly scrutinized resembles a rough bar from a smith's forge. The sting of a bee, viewed through the same instrument, shows a flawless polish, without the least blemish or inequality, ending in a point. c Mineral water syphons commonly t in use are subjected when full to a a prssure of about 150 pounds per d square inch. The best of them are g made in Germany and tested up to 200 A pounds per square inch, but .the most I careful makers of mineral waters test a their syphon bottles up to 300 pounds o per square inch. The glass, after c: having being placed in ice-cold 'water, e is suddenly plunged into boiling water. The loss from breakage in the testing process is very great. A g syphon bottle has been known to keep 1] pure and sweet for seven years a smalli quantity of mineral water accidentally left unused. This accidental test o a water and bottle was thought highly ti satisactory-.t Glady-''How did he let you know s he was well off?" Eleanor-"He wrote me."o Gladys-"And told you so? Wha t wretchedly bad form !" Eleanor-"Oh, no; he only igne'. his name, 'Sincerely yours, S. 5 Smith~on. "-Truth.1 THEIR LIFE A SAD ONE. *itiable Condition of Thousands of Labrador Fishermen. An * i-estigation recently condacted nto the condition of the fishermen of he inhospitable coast of Labrador re ve ils a state of things pitiable in the xtreme. During three or four months f the fishery season each year 25,000 iewfoundland fishermen, with their vives and children, make the coast heir home and live there In misery, piractically without civil, medical or ;piritual guidance." The fishermen ud their families, says the report, aiust take this voyage to Labrador or hey will starve, and: if there are not AI ESKIMO FAMILY. nou;gh sound vessels they must and vill go in rotten ones. Shocking over rowding, attended with loss of :ife, s the result, and at times thoasands f people have been left in Labrador, vhen the time of return arrived, owing o the fact that their boats had been ;hivered to pieces in storms. All of hese fishermen are in the clutches of nerchants. From them the fishermen btain all their supplies in anticipation of the season's catch, and all the fish aken go to the merchants to Indem, Lify them for the advances of the iecessaries of life they had made. rery seldom does any money pass into he fishermen's hands. The merchants isually make a good round sum out if their business, charging whatever rices they chose, and the unfortunate shermen come to grief. During bad easons the merchants are the losers, .nd it is the principle of this system hat has led to the gloomy financial ondition of Newfoundland to-day. Were it not for its sea wealth Labra, [or would seldom be visited by civil zed man. The country has a rigorous limate, snow lying on the ground rom September to June. In winter the emperature sinks to 30 degrees below ero, and the whole coast along the ttlantic is blocked by Ice fields drift ng from the various outlets of the gegi Ocean. In summer icebergs nhe te coast, imparting a sterner as ect to the stern coast. The interior f the vast peninsula, which has an rea of 420,000 square miles, Is a bar en, boulder-strewn tableland, rising ,240 feet above the level of the sea. n some places, notably at the heads f fiords, 'there are patches of culti able land, but generally the region is desolate and dreary wilderness-the ome of the bear, reindeer, caribou nd other forms of wild animal life. long the coast, south of Cape Harri on, are white-settlements, and In the rterior are 'the Eskimos. These to ether number about 8,000 and sustain hemselves by' fishing for salmon and od during the brief but beautifui A LABBADOB HOMB. umumer, and by trapping In winter.1 lost of the natives are Christianized, be Moravians, Catholics and other enominations having missions among iem. Their usual mode of travel is y sledges drawn by dogs, and some mes aspeed of 10'0miles aday is at unable. Labrador, according to the North rn sagas, was discovered about the ar 1000. Its modern discoverer was ohin Cabot, who explored a part of ie coast in 1497. Two Kinds of- Politeness. An anecdote, told by Frances Power obbe, in her "Life," is a good illustra on of the difference between English nd French politeniess, and also of the efects of both nations in the matter of ood manners. Miss Cobbe had a friend, lice L'Estrange, who was going from ondon to Paris alone. Knowing that distinguished old French gentleman ' her acquaintance, Baron de T., was rossing by the same train, Miss Cobbe rote and begged him to look after her iend on the way. He replied in the kindest and most, raceful manner that he would be de ghted to render any service to her *iend. They met at Charing Cross station, rid no man could be more charming ian the baron made himself in the -ai and on the boat But on arrival tBoulogne it appeared that the lady's iggage had either gone astray or been :opped by the custom-house people. he was in a difficulty; the train for irs was ready to start, and the Frence' icials paid no attention to her en eaty that her trunks should be deliv-j ed and put into the van to take with~ Of course the appearance by her side~ Sa French gentleman with the ribbon~ t he Lerinn of Hnor in his butonn. hole would nave pronabiy cecimea tnei case in her favor at once. But Mon sleur le Baron had not the leant It'- -f losing his train and getting Into an Im broglio for the sake of a damsel in dis. tress, So with many assurances that he was broken-hearted to lose the pleas. ure of her society up to Paris, he got into the railroad car and was quickly carried out of sIght. Meanwhile a rather ordinary-looking Anarlahnan whn had natA MiDa L'Es crange s awawara situation, went up to her and asked In a gruff fashion what W4. the Matter, When.he Na.informA ed, he let his train go olf and ran hither and thither about the station, till at last the luggage was found and restor ed to Its owner. Then, when she strove naturally to thank him, he simply rais ed his hat, said it was of "no conse quence," and disappeared to trouble her no more. "Which, therefore, was neighbor to him that fell among thieves?" An Invalid Stamp Collector. Ednee Brower, the 12-year-old h%, Springs, Ark., invalid who was known either personally or through correspon dence to people all over the United States, is dead. For seven years she had been unable to walk or move any part of her body except her hands and head, on account of injuries to her spine, received by a fall when she was only 5 years old. She was a bright child and could read and write. For a year or more past she has been collect ing canceled postage stamps, and friends from all over the United States were sending them to her. In this way she supported herself by selling .stamps to dealers. During the past year she' collected 1,000,000 stamps in this way, for which she received $100. She had to lie on her stomach all the time, and in that uncomfortable posi tion she would work day after day, writing letters and counting stamps that had been sent her, but she was al. ways bright and cheerful. A few days ago the nails brought her a copy of the Washington Post, which contained a notice that she was a fraud, that she was not an invalid. This was an error, which probably grew out of the fact that a Miss Edna Brown, of Illinois, Is also collecting stamps in a similar way for the support of an in valid sister. This notice had the effect of breaking Ednee Brower's heart, for she became ill and died shortly after. She talked of the publication all the while, and said she would collect no more stamps, for she would rather starve than be pronounced a fraud. A few moments before she died she open ed her eyes and asked the physician, Dr. W. H. Barry, how long it would be before she could go to heaven, then she closed her eyes as though she had only fallen. asleep, Bible Law. In the early days of interior Minouri, says the Green Bag, the late Judge E. cut cord-wood, cleared up his home stead farm, and was employed, on near ly every case that came up; for he was for some years the only lawyer in the country. He had no books save an old leather-covered Bible and an odd vol ume or two of history; he had only read law In Kentucky a short time during his youth. A young attorney from the East set tied In the little country town, with his library of half a dozen new and hand somely bound law-b.ooks, and on his first appearance in court, he brought most of his library to the justice's office, in a fine, beautifully flowesed carpet bag. E. was engaged against him, and as usual, had not a book. - When his adversary drew his books from the pretty carpet-bag, E. looked astonished, but quickly recovered his ready resources, and'asked the justice to excuse him for a few moments. He hurried to his homestead, half a mile away, put his old Bible and histories into a grain-sack, brought them into court, and laid them on the table. The evidence was Introduced, and the. Eastern man, who was for the plaintift', made his opening argument, and :read at some length from his text-books. -E. made his characteristic speech in re ply, closed by reading from his old Bible a law just the reverse of- tliat by his opponent, and took his sed% 'His adversary reached over, picked up the Bible, and looked at It. "Your honor," said he, eagerly ad dressing the justice, "this, man.,isf a humbug and a pettifogger! Why', str, this is the Bible from wlhich he, has pie tended to read law!" The old justice withered him with a glance. "Setdown!"he thundered. "Set down. What better law can we git than tbhe Bible?". He decided the case in favor' of the defendant :r i Full Conf'ession. A story of Scotch honesty c'omes fromz Dundee. A little boy there, a piuil in ne of the schools, had taken the prize. ~or an exceptionally well-drawn mapil. fter the examination the lechelr, ittle doubtful, asked the lad: "Who helped you with this mapo ames?" "Nobody, sir." "Come, now, tell me the truth. D~hI' rour brother help you ?" "No, sir; he did it all." The News Puzzled 11cr. "I see," said Mrs. Wickwire. "the. ,000,000 boxes of oranges were fr->zen n the trees in Florida. I don't urnIier stand t" "Do'it understand it?" e{ch-oau M. Wick Wire. "The statemeut is phi t eough." "Yes, but do they gr-ow in bos~ on :e trees?"-Indianapolis Jour-mJ. Hlow weak a thing is gentilhty if it ants virtne. It must be acknowledged that tme rarwing industry in varioa secticus of the country Is not flourishing as it should. In many States farming no longer pays and agricult-re languishes. Many reasons have been assigned for this, such as the development of the country, the Introduction of new indus tries, the improvren.eLg in transporta tions and freight ft c.e and compe tition of foreign countries. But above and beyond all these causes, we be tieve, mest b. pLaced the conservat4A of the farmer, who fails to make use of the knowledge which the Department of Agriculture deals out to him by the cartload. We acknowledge the receipt from the Department of Agriculture of a very valuable work on *'Gophers," handsome uncut octavo, 326 pages. It. lustrated, from the able pen of Profes sor C. Hart Merriam. Now. almost every farmer knows something, in a general way, about gophers, but how much it would lighten his farm labors ifl he knew the subject thoroughly. Why be content to call a gopher a go pher when a beneficent government has hired a dozen experts and expended :bousands of dollars to teach the farmer that what he in his ignorance has called a gopher in reality is the geomys per ;onatus fallax? Professor Merriam has prepared a set of elaborate colored maps and plates showing the construe tion of the skull of the geomys. These plates show the vomer and meseth moid, the anterior palatine foramen, Incisive foramen, meatus auditorins internus. floccular fossa. upper part of sphenoidal fissure, alisphenoid, basioc cipital. basisphenoid, condyle of exocci pital, frontal, hamular process of ptery 'oid, interparietal, mesethmoid plate, maxillo-turbinal, maxilla, nasal, naso Iurbinal, lower part of periotic capsile, palatine, preinaxilla, presphenoid, pterygoid. supraoccipital, squamosal. tympanic bulla. vomrine sheath of I maxilla, ind first endoturbfna. No :mer who studies these plates cure fully can help but be a better man. Nut the body of the work is equally naiuable. In languiage so simple that iny f;!rmer boy ought to understand it the distinguishing marks and charac teristics of the gopher are pointed out a:nd classified. If the directions of Si-of. Merriam are followed it is Very e:isy to tell a gopher from a cow or a horse. The Professor explains how to identifly the gopher unmistakably. He says: "The single bones forniing the basicranini axis are early ankylosed with the adjoining paired bonez of the saime segments. Thus the presphe noid. is inseparably united with the or bitosphenoids; the basisphenold with the alisphenoids and pterygoids; the bausioccipital with the exoccipitals. The onAon of -the lateral with the median I lements of the sphenoidal segments occurs before birth; that of the occip ital segment later. The exocipitals are always distinct in early life, but soon become ahe4-ylosed with the basioc cipital below and the supraoccipital above. The latter, except in a few species, is inseparable from the inter parietal. The parletals in adult life are commonly ankylosed with the squamosals." We believe this ought to prove entirely satisfactory. No farmer can consistently ask for more gopher knowhdge than is contained in this treatise: Henceforth if he can't. tell a gopher when he sees one it will be his own-fault. .- . What the Telegram Contained. - coinposure.- if not "despisement," in our daily relations with the tlegraph, hardly any one is pioof against the ex citement created by -the: arrhal-it un wonted hours of .one-Of those- messen gers of fate that bear-their utterances -into our homes.. A lady, whom iwe will call Mrs. Jones, the motherof a school boy named Percy, then at'home for the holidays, wa -recently a-roused from deep sleep by a violent ringing at her front door bell in the dark hours just before daylight. As none of the servants heard of paid attention to the appeal, which continued intermittently, she went at last to the window of-her bed rom, and looking into tile styeet saw on the stoop., below- e: telegpsph boy, who;spelling out~hernaine on his enve lope by the dim. light o.t the street, de manded to know if this wis its right house. "It Is froni mny iusband, of c~urse,"- she said ~to -herself,. s~mitten with' terror at - the -thoughtf ot what might have happened1- to--hber gabsent lord. With palpitating heart and chat tering teeth she put on a wrapper and slippers and rin'doen the steps, while depictitig inwardly every misfortune a lively -imagination could LEcnjure up; thien, partly .epening -the ..door, she stretched out an agitated .ha~nd for the envelope, signed thegeqigit, anid await ed the courage to opjen and~ read the mIssive of 1Yoriar." Whdu~ifer emo tion upon finding' "Jack- Smith n cepts withi pleasure- Percy Jones' invi tation to hfs: birthday. p-rt"-4be be0 !ated resp-onse to an .n.vitatiov extend ed. for the coming dayl-Newv York .Ienld. Friend from the next stre (to hap. py father)-H~alloa, Jills, let mue con grat-ulate you. I hear that you have a new boy-at your house. Happy- father -By George, can you hear -him all that distance?-Tit-Bits. Banker (to applicant for clerkshipl "Have yolf -had any experience in a' bank?" Appflcant-"Yes, sir; I was a depositor in one, until the cashier ran away with all 'th'e funds!"-Harper's Bazar. $Omme4how people~ nerer appreei-ite the( liberality of the man 7.1.o otTers to puil thcir teeth for nothing. Dn't give a leure with your cbhn.