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T RI-WEFKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 27 le ta lbS EEV. DR. TAIMAG WEE REOOKLYN DIVINWS UIP DAY SERMON. Subject: UThe dosp'el Ship " I'r: "Thou shalt come into the ari u an. thy sons and thy wife and thy son with thee."-Geness vL,-18. In this day of the steamships Lueania an Majestie and the Paris I will show you ashi] that In some respects eclipsed them al an which sailed out an ocean undernea an another ocean falling upon it. Infddel solen tists ask us to believe that in the formatioi of the earth thre have been a halt down de lges, and yethey are not willing to be 1eve the Bibestory of one deluge. In what way the oatastrophecameweknol got-whether by the stroke of a comet, or b: Sashes elighudm changing the air tnt, .ater, or by a stroke of the handof God,lik< the stroke of the ax between the horns of th es, the earth staggered. To meet the atas trophe God ordered a great ship built. I wasto be without prow, for it was to sail t4 no shore. It was to be without helm, for n human hand should gula It. It was a vas structure, probably as lIrge as two or thre modern teamers. It was the Great Easten of olden time. The ship is done. The door Is open. Th Asards crawl in. The cattle walk in. Th oppers hop in. The birds fly in. Th vittion -goes forth to N "Come thoi and all thy house into the ark" Just on human taay embark on the strange voy age, and Ihear the door slam shut. A grea storm sweeps along the hills . and bend the cedars until all the branches snap in th, gale. There is a moan in the wind lik anto the moan of a dying world. Th< blaaknees of the heavens is shattered b the dare of lightnings, that look down int the waters and throw a. ghastliness on th Iace of themountains. Howstrange it looks How suffocating the air seems! The bil drops of rain befn to plash upon the up trned faies of ose who are watching thi tempest. Crash! go the rooks In convulsion Boom! go the bursting heavens. Theinhabi tants of the earth, instead of flying to hous, top and mountain top, as men have fancied sit down in dumb, white horror to die. Fo: when God grinds mountains to pieces an< lets the ocean slip Its cable there Is no plac for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tum bae In the surf, while from its windows th pasenges lookout upon the shipwreck of i race and the carcasses of a dead world. Wo1 to the mountains! Woe tothe sea! I am no alarmist. When on the 20th o September, after the wind has for three day been blowing from the northeast, you proph sy thatthe equinoctial storm is coming, yot simply state a fact not to be disputed Neitheraml an alarmistwhenI saythat i storm is coming, compared withwhich Noah delge was but an Aprill shower, and thatit i wisest and safest for you and for me to ge safely housed for eternity. The invitatioi that went forth to Noah sounds In our ears "Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Well, how did Noah and his family com into the ark? Did they climb In at the win dow, or come down-the roof? No; they wen through the door. And just so if we get in to the ark of God's merey, ltwll be throug] Christ, the door. The entrance to the ark o old must have been a very large entrance We know that it was from the fact that ther ,were monster animals in the earlier ages and in order to get them into the ark, twi and two,, -Apcordi gAeBbe -ae-ror must b en very e d ver high. So the door intothe mercy of God isi 3arge door. We go in, not two and two. bu by hundreds, and by thousands and by mill ions. Yea, all the Nations of the earth mal go in, 10,000,000 abreast! The door of the ancient ark was in th Aide. So now it is throughtbe side of Chris -the pierced side, the wide open side. th4 heart side-that we enter. Aha, the Btonar soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour'! side, expected only to let the blood out, bul he opened the way to let all the world in Oh, what a broad gospel to preach ! If i man is about to give an entertainment, hi issues 200 or 800 nvitations, carefully put ul and directed to the particula persons whon he wishes toentertaisi. But Gol F3ather snakes a banquet and goes out tothe fron door of heaven and stretches out His handi ever land and sea, and with a voice tha1 pnetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Green lanc~e castle, and Brazlhan grove, and Eng lish factory, and American home, cries out "Come, for all things are now ready !" It Is a wide door ! The old cross has beeri taken apart, and its two pieces are stood ui for the doorposts, so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, oum King, comes andseattersthejewels of heaven. Bowland Hill said that he hoped to gel into heaven through the crevices of the door. Bnt he was not obliged thus to go in. After having preached the gospel In Surrey Chapel. going up toward heaven, the gate. keeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye ever lasting gates, and let this man come In!" The dying thief went In. Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America may yet go through this wide door without crowd ing. Ho! every one-all conditions, all ranks, all people! Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one's knees from Bome to ,Terusalem, but Ithink It worth earrying all around the globe and all around the heavens, that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever belleveth in Him should not ers, but have everlasting life." Whosoever wllet him come through the large door. rciedes wanted a fulcrum on which to pae his lever, and then he said he could move the world. Calvary Is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by that power all Nations shall yet be lifted. Further. It Is a door that swings' both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our woes; It swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings In to let us In; It swings out to let our ministering ones comes out. All are one in Chrit-hristians on earth and saints in heaven. One army of the living God, At His command we bow. ..Part of the host have crossed the flood, "And part are crossing now. Swing In, 0 blessed door, until all the sarth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory. But, further, It Is a door with fastenings ghe Bible says of Noah, "The Lord shut him in." A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When )ioah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad. Unless these doors were fastened the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed heand they might as well have per. Ibdoutside the ark as inside the ark. "The Lord shut him in." Oh, the per foot safety of the ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted Into a garland of snow and fire depto deep, storm to storm, darkness to dakess-but once in the ark all is well. "God shut him In." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. He had his thousands to lend. Now he cannot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses in Bosten. Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton, carriage and cur ricle: aow he has ?iard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great dee p of comnmercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hurricane deck the waves struck him. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. "The Lord shut him In!" A flood of domestic troubles fell on him." Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted; the winds blew. The heavens are anlame. All the grens of earthly delight are washed anay. TemonDtaina of joye.vhureA: fen ubits deep. -31t, stanng vy mie empty crib and in the desolated nursery and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forever, heb eried, "The I Lord gave, the Lord hath taken eway: blessed be the name of the Lord." 'fTh. Lord shut him in." All the sins of a lifetime clamored fat ah overthrow. The broken vowi, the dis. honored Sabbaths, the outrageous profaa. ties, the misdemeanors of twenty years, eached up their hands to the door of the I;rk to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a ulmoom, raving like an euroolydon. But, looking out of the window, he saw his sin ink like lead Into the depths of the see. The iove of heaven brought an olive branch to I the ark. The wrath of the billow only. rushed him toward heaven. "TheLord shuti 'xim in!" The same door fastenings that kept Noah - keep the troubles out. I am gla to know hat when a man reaches heaven af earthly toUbi are done wisM mm. Mre no may have bad hard work to get bread for his family; there he will :never hgr any more. Here he may have wept 'tterly; there "the Lamb that is in the mfdst of the throne will lead him to living founfains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes." Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in my Father's house are many mansions, and rent day never comes, Here there are deathbeds and ooMn and graves; there no sickness,no weary watching, tao choking cough, no consuming fever, no shattering chil, no tolling boll, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admittance. The psr plexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe forever! &ll the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of %elestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, seas! The Lord 'the Lord shut him in.'e Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, so usally swung both ways and with such sure fastenings. No burglar 's key can pick that look. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft with leak ing hulk and broken helm and unfastened door, but an ark Afty cubits wide and 300 oubits long and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the post, -ilht be bowled in. Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live and die and triumph, 3ome into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut others out, an though, when the pitiless storm came peltA ing on their heads, they beat upon the dor paying: "Let me in! Let me in!" the d;;; a tot open. For-120 years theywere ine -41. They expected to come in, but the antediluvians said: "We must eultivate these felds; we must be worth more flooks of sheep and herds of cattle; we will wait L until we get a little older; we will enjoy oul old farm a little longer." But mewhile the storm was brewing. The fountains oX heaven were filling up. The pry was beingl placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash an ocean dropped from the sky and another rolled up from be. neath, and God rolled the earth and sky into t one wave of universal destruction. So men now put off going into the are They saythey will wait twenty years first. Thewill have a little longer time with theiz worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say; "You cannot ex. peiet a man of my attainments and of my ion to surrender ust now. But will. IknowwhatI am about. Trust me! After awhile, one night about 12 o'clook, go. Ing home, he passes a scaffolding just as a gst of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead, and outside the ark I Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horses becomes unmanageable, and he shouts, "Whoa, whoa!" and takes another twist in the reins and plants his feet against the dashboard and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he files as on the way to eternity, Out of the wreck of the crash his body Is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind aswifter courser into the great fu ture. Dead, and outside the ark! Or some night he wakes up with a distress that mo mentarily increases until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors come In, and they give twenty dops, but no relief; forty drops. fifty drops, sixty drops, but no relief. No time for prayei-. No time to read one of the promnisee. No time to get a single sin par. doned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The pulses fail. The heart stopsa l'he soul flies. Dead, and outside the ark! I have no doubt that derision kept-many people out of the ark. The world laughed to see amaui go in and said: "Hero is a mataring for the ark. Why, thore will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha, going into Ithe ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Hero, follows, have you heard the news7 This man is going into the ark!" Under 'this artillery of scorn the man's good reso 'ntion perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks him self: "What would they say at the store to morrow morning if I should become a Chris lian? When I go down to the club house they will shout, 'Here comes that new Chris tan. Suppose you will not have anything' tod ihus now. Suppose you are pray ing now. Get down on your knees and let us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do it, oh? Pretty Christian, you are!'" Is It not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of the kingdom of God? Which of these scorncers will help Iyou at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of them will be there? In the day of eternity will they beal you out? My friendsgand neighbors, come in right iway. Come in through Christ, the wide door-the door that swings out toward you. Come in and be saved. Come and be happy. "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." Boom in the ark! Boom in the arki But do not come alone. The text invitea you to bring your family. It says, "Thou and thy sons and thy wife." You cannot drive thoemIn. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark he would only have scattered them. Some npar snts are not wise about these things. Te make Iron rules about Sabbaths, and the~y force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child's nose and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomeL. You can not drive your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but youz cannot coerce them. The cross was lifted. not to drive, but to draw. "If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me." As the sun draws up the drops of the morning dew so the sun of righteousness exhales the tears ol Bsure tat you bring your husband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he heard the rain pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No; she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outward bound" for heaven. But your ompanion Is unsheltered. You remember the day when the marriage ring was set. Nothinir has yet hen able to break it. Sick ness came, and the lnger shrank, Dut the ring staid on. The twain stood alone above the child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes, but the ring dropped not into the open gravn. Days of poverty came. and the hand did many a hard day's work, but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lost? Will the Iron clang of the sepulcher gate crush it forever? I p ray God that you who have. been married on earth may be together in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your earthly home, by the babe's cradle, by all the vows1 of that day when you started life together, I beg you to see to It that you both get intc the ark. Come in, and bring your wife or your hus :nn Q14nedon0pngtaan ahn tltn but Dy a Consistent life and by a compelling prayft: that shall bring the throne of God down into your room. Go home and take up the Bible and read it together, and thenkneel down and commend your souls to Him who hias watched you all these years. and before you rise there will be a fluttering of wtxes over your head ; angel crying.to angel, "Benoid, they pray! ' But this does not include all your family, Bring the children too. God bless the deai children! What would our homes be with out them? We may have d->ne much foz them. They have done more for us. What a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp oi flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good night'" From our coarse, rough life the angels of God are often driven back. But who comes into the nursery with out feeling that angels are hovering around. They who die in infancy go straight into glory, but you are expecting your children to grow up In this world. L It not a ques tion, then, that rings through all the corri dors and windings and heights and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eternity? "Oh," you bay, "I mean to see thattheyhave good manners." Very well. '1- mean to dressthem wellif I have myself to go shabby." Very good. "I shall give them an educa tion; I shall leave them a fortune." Very well. But Is that all? Don't you mean to take them Into the ark? Don't you know that the storm Is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no heaven? How to get them in? Go in yourself! It Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that his sons-Shem, Ham and Japheth-would have staid out? Your sons and daughters ,rill be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and the orobability is thal your children will reject Him. . An account was taken of the religious condition of families in a certain distric Tn the faiillesof niousnarents two-thri q the oblidren were Christans. In the ramiller 'where the parents were ungodly only one twelfth of the children were Christians. Which way will you take your children? Oai into the deluge or into the ark? Have you ever made one earnest prayer for their im-. mortal souls? What will you say in the judgment when God asks, "Where is George or Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Where are those precious souls whose interests I sommitted into your hands?" - A dying son said to his father ',"Father ougsve me an education and good manner Lod aenthig that the world could do for me, but, father, you dever told me how to ie, and now my soul is going out in the II" i Oh ye who have taught your childrea pow lo 11) have you also taught them holf to die? nie here is not so important as the gat hereafter. It is not so much the few longs this side of the grave as it is the unending leagues beyond. 0 eternity, eternity! Thy looks white with the ages, thy voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy rims reaching across the past and all the future! 0 eternity, eternity. : Go home and erect a famiy altar. You m&3 break down in your prayer. But never mind, God willtake what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house Into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up? Is heso dissipat ed that you have stoppd oounseling and praying? Give him up How dare you givE him up? Did God ever give you up? WhilE you have a single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prod. 1ga]. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hong Kong or Madras. meditating a return to his father s house. Give him up? N.-. .: __1 T.;! Go~ Cd jirnlzd to 'ear th rayer only to mock thee? It s not too late. In St. Paul's, London, there is ng gallery. A voice utteredmost feeb at one side of the gallery is heard dist at the opposite side, a great distance off. So every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark-not to sit down, but to stand in tde door and call until all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is yaph. eth? David, where is Absalom? Hannah where is Samuel? On one of the lake steamers there were 1 father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gen tlemen stepped up to the poor man to prof. fr some form of relie an said, "You seem to be very poor, sir." "Poor, sir," replied the man, "if there's a poorer man than me a-troublin the world, God pity both of us!" "I will take one of your children and adopt it, if you say so. I think it would be a great relief to you." "A what?" said the poor man. "A relief! Would it be a relief to have the hands chopped off from the body, or the heart torn from the breast? A relief indeed!i God be good to us! What do you mean, sir?" Howvever many children we have, we have none to give up. Which of our families can we afford to spare out of heaven? Will It be the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will It be that one that was sick sometime ngo? Will It be the husband? Will it be the wife? No, no! We must have them all in. Let us take the children's hands and start now. Leave no; one behind. Come, father; come, mother; come, son; come, daughter; come,: brother' come, sister! Only one step and we are in dhist, the door, swings out to admit us. And It is nott the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but the voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, sayiar, "Come, thou and all thy house. into thy ar." And there may ehe Lord shut us iii Subm~arine Photography. A short time ago Louis Boutan brought himself to the knowledge of scientific naturalists by undert akinc an exploring tour of the Red Sea, from which he brought back a strange and curious collection o f fish and shells, embracing several spe-cimnens entirely unknown. Continuing his researches on the coast of France, Mr. Eoutan as. sumed a diver's costume in order tc observe at the bottom of the sea the metamorphoses of certain mnollusann-. possible to cultivate in aq'uaria. Hie was struck with the wonderful be:a;t of submarine landscapc, and res~':'. to photograph what he could, s'nee simple description would savor too much of an over vivid imagination. At first he worked in shallow water with' a water tight apparatus, and the clear ness of the water allowed him sudli ~ient light to sensitize the plates. But >roportionally as the water deepened clearness diminished, and the motioul of the waves clouded his proofs. Then' the young scientist conceived the idea of utilizing magnesium in an appa ratus of his own invention. This ap - paratus consists essentially in a barrel flled with oxygen and surmounted by a glass bell containing an alcohol lamp. On the flame of the lamp, by means of a mechanical contrivance, powdered magnsium is thrown, flaring as often* as a view is taken. The barrel is. pierced with holes on the lower side In Such manner that as the oxyg' n di-: minishes the sea water enters, 1.o pre serving the equilibrium between ex lernal and internal pressure. By the aid of this machine he has already made great progress in a direction new o naturalists, and one likely to con er per - .ent benefitis in the results btained by their science.,-Fr'ank Les Lie' Weeklry. A Romance of War Origin. Just after one of the big battles, in which the Union soldiers won a great victory, a number of the wounded ' men were brought to Harrisburg. Harrisburg at the time-had many hos pitals in churches, schools and facto ries, and they were crowded so much that the patriotic citizens volunteered to take the wounded to their homes and care for them. Among those who did this was William D. "Martin, of North Third street. He had a son in the army and naturally his heart went out to the sick and wounded com rades. There was taken to his house a E 47oung soldier, who was suffering from o four bullet wounds and hurt so a badly that it was hardly expected he a would recover, chronicles the Harris- a burg (Penn.) Telegraph. Mr. and Mrs. p Martin nursed him carefully, minis- ] tered to his wants, -ent for Doctor Rutherford, the elder, to treat him, and every way made the young soldier as comfortable as possible. For a long 9 time there was no ihiprovement and Doctor Rutherford expressed the opin- a ;on that the lad would die. t But Mr. and Mrs. Martin would not si have it that way. They determined t to save his life, and -after long weeks of suffering, the soldier boy, under their careful nursing, began to im prove. He became strong and well, a and one day there came a time for him to again shoulder his gun and go to V the front. As he bade Mr. and Mre, tV Martin goodby he said, with tears in t, his eyes, "if I live I shall never forget d you. You will hear from me again." 8 Occasionally they would hear from h him in the army, and when the war ended he returned to his home and be gan business. In the years that fol- b lowed Mr. Martin receivedletters from his soldier lad, and an occasional in quiry as to his business affairs, his property, etc. Recently, after the lapse of thirty years, came a reward unexpected for Mr. 'Martin. The sol dier boy he .and his good wife had nursed back to life and health and strength has written him a letter tell ing him that hereafter he shall take no thought for the. future so far as finances are concerned, that the writer is well off in the world's goods, and proposes that Mr.Martin shall share a them with him. As a consequence Mr. a Martin has gone out of a business that he conducted for the better part of half a century, and his declining years of life are made glad by the return of the bread cast upon the waters thirty Tears aeJ. V The Origin 'of Anthracite. The main differencebetween anthra- A cite and bitumin'us coal is that the b former is'devoid of %olatile niatter. b Heretofore the theory generally ac cepted to account for this difference was that presented a half-century ago a by Professor Rogers while conducting a the first geological survey of Pennsyl- h vania. Observing that the anthracite d beds lay in the eastern part of the State, in close proximity to the Arch- VI ean axis of elevation, he surmised that these coal beds had, so to speak, been "coked," upon the elevation of t the Appalachian chain; that is he sup-: posed that the heat and pressure ac companying the Appalachian elevation, m acting most vigorously near the axis,w had distilled and removed the volatile nmatter of the coal beds nearest it. To adjust the theory to increasin& o facts, Professor Lesley added the sup-1 di position that the heat involved in this theory was brought up by conduction' when the superincumbent layers of rock were extremely thick, which have since been mainly removed by the ero sive agencies which have been active. . aver the region for millio-ns of years. The inadequacy of these theories hac led Professor J. J. Stevenson, of the University of New York, to propound another and simpler theory which was aliy defended by him at the recent meeting of the Geological Society of as America. He would account for the c~ lack of volatile matter in anthracite V coal by the simple fact that it had been w longer exposed to that kind of decay which takes place in vegetable matter a. when immersed in water, and which 'as consists chiefly in the loss of the by- Ib drocarbons which constitute the vol- ~ at ile' elements in bituminous coal. On Ci this supposition, the anthracite beds are those which were formed earliest " in the swamps and lagoons of the car. a boniferous period, and remained long est devoid of the covering of sedimen- c tary deposits which subsequently pre. served them from further change. This theory is confirmed by the fact . that there is no such strict relation of . P the anthracite beds to the Appalachian axis of elevation as Professor Rogers *" had supposed, and by many other con siderations which Professor Stevenson is about to publish. This simple cause seems adequate to account for all the a phenomena, and probably solves one of the long-standing mysteries of geo- 1 logical science.-New York Independ ent. ( te ARTIFICIAL COTTON CLOTH. iS 4 Cheap Substitute Made From Wooe ti Pulp in Belgium. As if the unfortunate cotton planter had oC iot enough to contend with in natural fr forces, the science of chemistry has been in- t voed to enter into competitIon against the great staple. United States Consul Morriia at eint, Belgium, in a special report to the qi State Department, at Washington, describes w a new process of making artificial cotton hch has been remarkably successful, the product being much cheaper than the natural CS otton and possessing most of its qualities. exa 'he basis is wood pulp, which is changed ~ into pure celulose and spun into thread and then woven into cloth. It resembles ordi- m nary cotton, but is not as strong as the natural th product, I~t weaves and works well, and can g be dyed as well as cotton. By coating it with h parafflue and passing It over glass a beauti- 11 [ul brilliancy may be given to it. Much of greater strength can be imparted by parch- a entzing when It acquires a semi-transpar ar CHINESE CURIOS. 'WEY ARE MADE FROM ROOTS, SHELLS, METALS AND GEMS. 'he Quantity of Trinkets Wornby the Women of China-The Mongolian Merchant's Method of Bill Ing a Purchase. 7 ONSUL EDWARD BEDLOE writes from Amoy, China, a L very interesting report con cerning Chinese curios. Dr. edloe has already written one report n this subject, and the minuteness id unflagging interest with which he escribes the curios and rare as wel] 3 common articles for decorative pur oses to be bought in Am6y compel ie conclusion that his reports are not terely perfunctory. Among the curious things enumera )d are tea-root figures, made from the narled roots of tea plants and other -ees. The commonest form is that of monk in a ludicrous attitude talking ) a bird. Their cost varies with their ze and beauty, from fifty cents apiece >$130. Dr. Bedloe says that nothing, not ren the shells of the sea, goes to aste in the extreme Orient. At least dozen industries are supported by hat we would call the refuse of shells. Then these industries have exhausted xe raw material what remains is sold ) the limekiln and the kitchen gar ener. One family of univalves (the trombus) is used for making fish orns, toy trumpets, war horns, and ie like. The animal is extracted and )ld in the market. The shell is oiled, scraped, and dried, and the Lnor apex or spindle cut off at an btuse angle with the axis of the arped surface. The resultant shape a success so far as the production of ise is concerned. As a musical in rument it is a dire failure. Another and ingenious way of using iells is as buttons, sleeve links and airpin heads. More ingenious are ie shell cups, saucers and spoons ade from the larger types of tropical nivalve shells. The largest industry the cutting of beads, buttons, stude 2d other small articles from shells of high lustre. There are some fifty yeoies which are utilized in this man or. One variety gives a black, blue ad white button similiar to the cat's res of Ceylon, and named after these moy or Canton cat's-eyes. A second %riety is of a pale fawn ranging te !anslucency, called white cat's-eyes. third is half an inch in diametea ad resembles light brown onyx. .The Lack and whit.-e&Vs-ayeaare used foi racelets, necklaces, ladies' dresa but. mns and also as dress ornamentssimilai > pearls.. The balls are strung and 3ed as necklaces, bracelets, earringi id rosaries. Though apparent3 'agile they are really tough and very 2rable. Their price depends upor me inscrutable Chinese rule and ries from half a cent to five centi iece. A queer wr.y of settling both 6t's-eyes and onyx balls practiced by to Chinese consists of alternuting thezi ith small carved fruit stones. Silver jewelry and curios in China re universal. The poorest coolie', if e has usually argent bracelet and arrings, In curios and bric-a-brae ie number of silver articles is legion. ne class consists of miniature repro ction of features of daily life and is lapted for earrings, watch charms, mdants and bangle attachments. mnong the more familiar objects are te pagoda, sampan (or native boats), .nk, the sedan chair, the small-footed dy's shoe, the Goddess of Mercy, the elestial Poodle, the King of Fishes, Le sitting Buddha, the dragon, the ring serpent and various animals. ie work and finish are admirable, the tures and hair of the human beingE id animals, the scales of the fish and ocodiles and the marking. of the rtrle's carapace being reproduced ith the highest care and skill. Another class includes ifiagree worb d tissues made from fine silver wire, id is marked by the highest skill and aty. The designs at times are mply marvelous. One from Fuchan nsisted of a bouquet, over which wae osely wrapped a silken veil. It was perfectly made that the veil looked if it might blow away at any mo ent. Through its filmy folds the wers and leaves were all visible. An her artistic gem was a little bouquel ,which ferns, lilies of the valley and milar botanic beauties were perfectly otographed in metals. A custom of the Chinese trade do. rves mention. In selling his goods e Mongolian merchant in silver ware ves the weight of the metal, its fine ~ss and its value as bullion; and then a separate item the cost of the work anship. Thus one day, in purchas g a pair of corded bracelets, Dr. adloe's bill ran as follows Silver i ounces eighty-five per cent, fne), .20 (Mexican) ; workmanship, $2.15; tal, $6.35 (Mexican). The first item mathematically correct and can be ~pended on as the intrinsic value ol 2 material used in its manufacture. The Flowery Kingdom is full ol [dities and novelties to the newcomer rn Christendom. The first thing at attracts his attention on landing Shanghai or Hong Kong is the eerness and the quantity of jewelry >rn by Chinese women in their hair. varies from place to place, so that a reful student, after a little experi ce, can tell where a woman coms ->m by simply looking at the orna 3nts on her head. There are first e purely decorative pins, which sug st knitting needles or fashionable t pins. The finest kinds arc made gold; below these are silver ones, d below these, for the poorer classes, o brass ones tipped with either of e precious metals. In addition to metal, ivory, ebony, horn, tortise, shell, bamboo and celluloid are largely 2 employed for the same purpose -0 The head of the pin discloses the wealth of the wearer. The wife of Hon .r Qua, the Canton banker, had a pin . whose head was an immense diamond. I The wife of the Viceroy of Fokien has one which terminates in large ruby. Pins of this sort are worth thousands " of dollars. Chinese women are as g eager for these pins as European wo- a men are for finger rings. They will h economize a year to buy a new one, t and take a particular delight in own- f ing many. The proprietress of a Hong d Kong sampan tor passenger boat) is y the envied possessor of over 100 of these precious instruments that are said to reoresent nearly 83000 in value. let she lives in her boat and AI seldom makes a dollar a day. U The hairpin in the East, unlike that b in the West, is generally of silver or gold. It is a thin bar, slightly flat tened, waved, and corrugated, in order C to get a grip. and is usually straight, k and six to eight inches in length. Its P owner bends it according to the style , in which she dresses her hair. Every one but the extremely pooi in China is the owner of a tongue scraper. It is a ribbon of silver or gold with a ring at one end. by which it is suspended when desired. The cheapest are ef plain metal, more ex pensive 'ones are engaaved, while a few are jeweled at either end. Thumb rings are very common in the East. They are often made of pre cious metal, ivory, jet, and semi-pre cious stones, but generally they are of c fine jade. The cavity is not cylindri- ti cal, but swells out at the base and tl middle. This enables the owner to tl wear it lower down, and also prevents b its slipping. Celestial dudes often use a rings so high as to pass the middle It joint of the finger and so produce a b partial stiffening thereof. The jade is el usually polished, but may be engraved c4 or carved in intaglio or relief. h< Luck pieces are of constant occmn sI rence. They are the Chinese charac- t< ter for the word "Fook," meaning 01 good luck or happiness, and are made 0: from the jade or the precious metals. t( They are worn as watch chains, pen- m dants on necklaces, bracelets and p) rings, ornaments to tobacco pouches S( and spectacle cases, or as a decoration 9 pure and simple. Jade buckles are another jewel of great value. They are nearly always handsome carvings D and are fastened to the belt, which SI they are supposed to clasp. They are V a necessary part of a gentleman's out- t fit. Wealthy mandarins have as many as the colors and textures of their suits. They are never cheap, and a sometimes very costly. The presente Taotai of Amoy has ~one valued at 01000. It represents two interlaced dragons, and is said to be four cen turies old.-New York Times. S Piler% Git Ad. FILLERS til PILLS of to Mr.Getter-I've called, Dr. Piller, to et see if you won't give me a donation for our church fair. $0S Dr. Puller-Why, certainly; here's ar It1 nmbrella for you. Don't mention it, d( don't mention it. You're very welcome m indeed. d fra ar - -hi Mrs. Getter-I declare he's just too ce liberal for anything. We'll make hiir a 'ne of the pillars of our church. Graceful (-U Bicyclists. bi The enthusist whol declares in a bt- er ycle maigazine that "the bicycle is a Ia: positive means of grace as tell as of th ealh" clearly couldn't have been bi hinking of the hump-backed scorcheri yc vhen he wrote.-Somnerville Journal. 81] -~ at Doubtful, fr de Bi -EK .EM E e T he b ev I to to: He-JTust as I was going out of the ste last night I met your father com-, Ig in. She-Was he pleased to see you?~ - He-I can't make out He said if heI ad known I was calling on you he would have been home eae. A Kansas City theatrical manager as gone at the high-hat nuleaae with at waiting for legislative 'id. He mply posts a notice asking ladies to move their hats during the play and ie request is complied with. No law a the subject Is needed. Another red-handed murderer has cne to glory." At least John Milli in, of Oklahoma, who had committed most atrocious homicide, expressed is conviction that he was*ticketed for iat uncertain goal. It is a curious tct that of those who ille the gentry ying at the hands of the law are the tost sanguine of immortal bliss. One of the New York papers has an rticle In which it is sought to show iat the young men In that city are the est dressed young men in the world, mtrasting them with the young men Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and hicago, to the disadvantage of the res ents of these latter cities. And, apro )s, in another column of. that same ew York paper we read of an auction tle of unpaid tailors' bills against )ung men in New York who like to ear good clothes, and who either can At or will not pay for the same. This iction sale of unpaid tailor bills is a gular annual feature of New York re. While the English press is dendun g German sailors for brutality to pas. ,ngers of the Elbe, the German press is taken up the cudgels against the )mmander and crew of the Crathie, ie small British steamer that pierced ie side of the big ship and sent her to ie bottom with 350 souls. Considera e international animosity has been oused. The contradictory statements ade by the Crathie officers warrant ?lief that they were either as indiffer it as the Elbe crew to the consequen -s of their deed or that the Crathie rself was so desperately injured that ke dare not linger to save life lest she, >o, should go to the bottom. There ight to be a relentless inquiry into ie of the most shocking marine disas rs of the age of water-tight compart ents and disciplined sailors. Exam e should be made that will render Iamn ship on the ocean more mindful Its responsibilities. The death of Worth, the "man milh r," recalls the fact that the vogue he long enjoyed was due far less to any traordinary superiority in his designs an to a clever American woman's un tended advertisement of - his estab ;hment She had accompanied there friend with a deep purse and an in nse love of finery. The novelty of iding a man taking the measurements r a young woman's gowns and man !s filled her with astonishment, which te expressed in a brightly written tter to a London newspaper. That as the beginning of Worth's Interna >nal fame, and almost the foundation ' his fortune. His lead in the world 'fashion was due in large measure his sense of composition In costume. e "saw" every feature, every detail, d harmonized them. With every der for a gown were designed all the cessores-numbers of pairs of glove, ppers or shoes, hosiery, handker iefs, parasols, fans, bonnets, wraps, e., according to the use to which the wn was put. Even to jewels and .rd cases his aesthetic sense extended. p much a fad did he become- that the ademark on the belts of his mantles ul gowns has been cut from cast-off .rments and placed upon articles ade In inferior establishments In der to delude buyers -Into paying ncy priees. Has Fun with His Coftse. "Some folks can't drink coffee unless s hot," said Mr. Goslington, "and 'I in't like coffee unles It is freshly ade and served hot; but I like to ink It through all Its varying phases m hot to pretty nearly cold. I like sip of It, when first poured, without gar or any milk or cream, when is oma Is fresh and pungent and com ete and quite nnmarred by the ad Ixture of any foreign substance atever. Then I put In the usual tantity of sugar and of cream, and en you have the cup of coffee in its ghest normal state, and how delight t it is! Then aslIdrinklitlIadd more am; the remainder becomes more d more diluted, cooler, and lighter d lighter In color. The coffee flavor comes more and more attenuated, it it is nevertheless keenly defined .d t so continues to the end. The st of the cup is only tinged with e color of the coffee, it Is not cold, Lt nearly so; by contrast with what ui have drunk it is gratefully cool: a > of cream with a coffee bouquet, .d you set down the cup with a tendly feeling for it for what it har ntained."-New York Sun. Up-to-Date Grip. 'La grippe" In America seems, after. ,to be nearly 100 years old. Brissot Warville wrote and published in ston1 in 1797 a book entitled "New avels in the United States of Amer t, In which he told of an epidemic indluenza here at that time, its symp) ms being lassitude, feebleness, chills, ats, and a headache. Diseases, like erythini else, have progressed. The -fahoned country doctor who used come around Inspecting family agues knew a1 of the diseases that ~re Moing In his day, and knew how to t'them. Hie cohiethrow down and ock out the grip in. the first round pills. Noelithe grip inakes combina ~ns with otheredjseases~nd helps kill m who mlihtiv lojiger. if the grip yuld attend-to Its own busness. Bloodhounds on the Police Force. Lderson, Id., has bought two trained unhundstnn au to intsa oiefre