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toeNe TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 11 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849. 7ET. DR. TATMARiE CBE BROOKLYN DIVIN1PS SUYI MAY SERMON. Subject; "Words With Young Men." In his audiences at the New York Aeaiemy of Music Dr. Talmage meets many hundreds of young men from different parts of the Union. and representing almost every calling nl -profession in life. To them he specially addressed this discourse, the subject being .'Words With Young Men." PAYETT~E, 0. Reverend Sir-We, the undersigned, being earnest readers of your sermons, especially request that you use as a subject for some one of yourfuturesermons "Advice to Younn Men." Yours respectfully, H. S. Mutzorr. CWAnLzS T. RUnzaT. - V. 0. MMLLorr. M. E.ELDER. J. L. SmMwooD. S. J. ALruts. Those six young men. I suppose, represent Innumerable young men who are about un dertaking the battle of life, and who have more interrogation points in theirmind thiLu any printer's case ever contained, or prin ter's fingers ever set up. But few people who have passed fifty years of age are cat'a ble of giving advice to young men. 'oo many begin their counsel by forgetting tney ever were young men themselves. November snows do not understand May time blossom week. The east wind never did understand thesouth wind. Autumnal goldenrod makes a poor fist at lecturing about early violets. Generally, after a man has rheumatism in his right foot he is not competent to discuss juvenile elasticity. Not one man out of a hundred can enlist and keep the attenkion of the young after there is a bald spot on the cranium. I attended a large meeting in Philadelphi. assembled to discuss how the Young Men's Christian Association of that city might be made more attractive for young people,when a man arose and made some suggestions with such lugubrious tone of voice and a manner that seemed to deplore that everything was going to ruin, when an old friend of mine, at seventy-fve years, as young in feellnz as any one at twenty, arose and -said, "That good brother who has just addressed you' will excuse me for saying that a young man would no soone' -o and spend an evening among such funereal tones of voice andi funereal ideas of religion which that brother seems to have adopted than he would go and spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery." And yet these young men of Ohio and all young men have a right to ask those who have had many opportunities of studying this world and the next world to give help. ful suggestion as to what theories of life on:e ought to adopt and what dangers he ourght to shun. Attention, young n?ri. First, get your soul right. You see. that Is the most valuable part of you. It is the most important room in your house. It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put the best pictures onitsmaiius. Put the best musia; under its arches. It is important to have the kitchen right. and the dining room right, and the cellar right, and all the other rooms of your nature right: but. oh! the parlor of the soul! D+ particular about the guests who enter it. Shut its doors in the faces of those who would despoil and pollute it. There are rinces and kings who would like to come nto it, while there are assassins who would the desperate and murderous. Let th King come in. He is now at t0e door. Let - s'her to an nounce is arrival, and introdue - of this world. the King of all worlds, tht King eternal,>immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand-bik. Clear the way. Iw, kneel, worship the King. Have Him once for your guest, and it does not make much difference who comes or goes. Would you have a warrantee against moral disaster and surety of a noble career? Read at least one chapter of the Bible on your knees every day of your life. Word the next: Have your body right. 'How are you?" I often say when mect a friend of mine in Brooklyn. H4 is ove-r sev exity, and alert and vigorous, and very p rominent In the law. His answer is, "I an ling on the capital of a well spent youth." On the contrary, there are hundreds oA thousands of good people who are sufferin g the results of early sins. The grace of God1 gives on'e a new heart, but not a new body. David ,the Psalmist hand to cry out,"R member notthe sins of my youth." Leta young man make his body a wine closet, oi rum jug, or a whisky casek, or a beer barrel, and smoke poisoned eigare'ttes until his band trembles, andi he is black under the eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at! some church seek and find religion; yet all the praying he cnn do will not hinder the physical consequences of natural law frac tured. You six young men of Ohio and all the young men, take care of your eyes, thiose windlows of the soul. Take care of your. ear", and listen to nothing that depraves. ".' .te care of your lips, and see that they utter no profapities. Take care of you! nerves by enough sleep and avoiding uan. healthy excitements, and by taking out-j door exercise, whether by ball or skate 0or horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarating bi-? cycle, if you sit upright and do not join that throng of several hundred thousands who by the wheel are cultivating crooked backs and orampedchests and deformed bodies. rapidly aoming down toward all fours, and the attitude of the beasts that perish. Anything that bends body, mind or soul to the earth Is unhealthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to be well, but do not depend on pharmnacy andl the doctors to make you welL Stay well. Read John Todd's Manual and Coombs's Physio logy and everything you can lay your h'ands on about mastication and digestion and assi m ilation. Where you find one healthy man or woman, you find fifty half (lend. From my own experience I can testify that,: being a disciple of the gymnasium, many a time just before going to the parallel bars and punching bags and pullies and weights, I though? satan was about taking possession of society and the church and the world, but SI' after one hour of climbing and lifting and pulling I felt like hastening home so as to be there when themillennium set in. Take a good stout run every day. I find in that habit, which I have kept up since at eighteen ye-ars I read the aforesaid Todd's Manual, more recuperation than In anything else. Those six men of Ohio will ne.ed all possible nerve and all possible eyesight andl all possIble muscular development before they get 1:hrough the terrifie struggle of this life. Word the next: Take care of your intel lect. Here comes the flood of novelettes, ninety-nine out of a hundred belittling to * every one that opens them. Here come de * praved newspapers, submerging good and elevated American journalism. Here comes a whole perdition of printed abomination, dumped on the breakfast table and tea table and parlor table. Take at least one good newspaper with able editorial and reporters' columns mostly occupied with helpful in telligence, announcing marriages and deaths and reformatory and religious assemblages, and charities bestowed, and the doings of good people, and giving but lIttle place to nasty divorce cases, and stories of crime, which, like cobras. stIng those that tou'h them. Oh, for more niewapapers that put virtue in what is called great primer type and vice in nonpareil or agtate! You have all seen the photographer's ne;.a civo. He took a pirture from It ten or t wenty years ago. You ask him now :or a picture from that same negative. H e opens the c-s 'hn'4 containinU black n.'gativecs of I8Wor~I%, End ho r~prioduces thre picture. Young ifien, your memory Is made up of the * negatives of an immortal photography. All that you see or hear goes into) your soul to make pictures for the future, You will have with you till the judgment day the negatives of all the bad pictures you havo ever looked at, and of all te debau.chel scenes you have read about, Show me the newspapers you take and thie books you read, and I will tell Z!an tae -voQzonQ?S .for well being in this lite, ona wnat win1 Do your temev " a million years after the star on which we now live shall have dropped out of a the constellation. I never travei a. on Sund' r uneS3 it he a -vqte or neeeso.'. w mercy. *;ut last autumn I was In India ini a if city pliue struck. By the hundreds the t(, people vf'--re down with fearful illness. We 1i went to ttq apotheeary's to get some pre- ' ventitive of the fover, and the place was le crowded with invalids, and we had no conl - n: denee in the preventive we purchased from tv the Hindoos. The mail train was to start Sabbath evening. I said, "Frank. I thinit x the Lord will-excnso u1: if we get out of tis Jr place with tho first train," and we took it. :t not feeling quite comfortable till we wore th hundreds of miles away. I felt we were right to in flying from the plague. Well, the air it hP many of our cities is struck through with a 1 worse plague -the plague of corrupt and in damnable literature. Get away from it at th soon as possilde. It has already ruined the th bodie, minds and sonl of a multitide n which, 1t :. d In eaui.1 column. would h reach from New York Battery to Golden br Horn. The plague! The plague! r Word the next: Never go to any place M mhere you wouldl be ashamed to die. AAlopt La that plan and you will never go to any evil hi amusenent nor he found 'in compromising fli mrroundings. How many startling caise P! within the past few years of men called su'i- fa denly out of this world, and the newspapers bc urprised us when they mentioned the local ty and the companionship. To put it on the 'a least important ground, you ought not to go bi to any such forbidden place, because if you a' depart this life in such circumstances you G, put officiating ministers in great embarrass- 0, ment. You know that some of the minlsterQ r believe that all who leave this lire go Po straight to heaven. however they have act- at e in this world, or whatever they have m believed. To get you through from such to surroundings is an important theological un- st. dertaking. One of the most arduous an-1 th besweating efforts of that kind that 1 bl ver knew of was at the obsequies of a man se who was found dead in a snowbank with his eli rum jug close beside him. But the ministei fte did the work of happy transference a- well th at possible, although it did seem a little Ian,- I propriate when he read: "Blessed are the A. lead who die in the Lord. They rest froc tVi their labors, and their works do folloi tie them." If you have no mercy upon yourseli al have mercy uron the minister who may he ta ialled to officiate after your demise. Die at of home. or in some ;,lace of honest business, pt 5r where the laughter is olean, or amid com- at panionships pure and elevating. Remember gi that any place we go to may beeome ou gs tarting point for the next world. When we m 5nter the harbor of heaven, and the officer m )f light comes aboard, let us be able to show Ip that our elearing papers were dated at the b ight port. hi Word the next: As soon as youcan, byin tu .1ustry an I economy, have a home of your at 'iwn. What do I mean by a home? I mear two rooms and the blessing of God on botb At )f them; one room for slumber, one for foo, tti its preparation and the partaking thereof. th Wark you, I would like you to have a home vi with thirty rooms, all upholstered, picture: se tud statuetted, but I am putting it down at at :he minimum. A husband and wife who can. RB riot be happy with a home made up of twc dc rooms would not be happy in heaven if they I to Zot there. He who wins and keeps the alTec. tr :on of a good practical woman bas dont fo zoriously. What do I mean by a good Gi roman? I mean one who loved God before to the loved you.- What do I mean by a practi. ba al woman? I mean one who can help you it o.ear a livin- for a tirs.e comes in almosi TI ery man's life when he is flung of hard mis- A !rtune, and you do not want a weakliu go. th Ing around the house vhining and sniffins shout how she had it before you mar. -i~ aher. The simple reason wh e sands o mE~ ever get on in orld fi is because they naElt ties and ti never got over it. The only thmg that Jols gi wife proposed for his boils was a warm pou!. p< tice of profanity, saying. "Curse God and of die." It adds to our admiration of Joht A Wesley the manner in which he conquere] as domestic unhappine-ts. His wife had slan- (( dored him all over England until, standing fe in his pulpit in City Road chapel, he com- ef plained to the people saying, "I have beer si carged with every crime in the catalogue tr except drunkenness;" when his wife arose w in the back part of the church aud said tt "John, you know you were drunk last N night." Then Wesley excaimed, "Thanl it God, the cntalogue is complete." When s 01 man marries he marries for heaven or hell. t1 and it is more so when a woman marries ui You six young men in Fayette, Ohio, hai gi bett er look out. Word th.: next: Do not rate yourself' tot .e nigh. Better rate yourself too lowv. If yin ti rate yourself too low tho world will say, Itc "Come up," If you rate yourself too high Im the world will say, "Come down.'' It is ai at bad thing when a man gets so exaggerated am irt dea of himself as did Earl of Buchau, whose tt speech Ballantyoe, the Edinburgh printer, al iould not set up for p'ublication because he ft had not enough eadital Ps among his ty.e. at Remember that the world got along without b you near 6000 years beforo you were boi n, It and unless some meteor collides with us, 01 W eomie internal explosion o" urs, th > wortd c< will probably last several thousand yeari T after you are dead. e Word the next: Do not postpone too ion. fi doing something decided for God, humanity and yourself. The greatest things have ben t lone before forty years of age. Pascal at sixteen years of age, Grotius at seventeen, Romulus at twenty, Pitt at twenty-tw" Whitetleid at twenty-tour, Bonaparte al tenty-seven. Ignatius Loyola at thirty 01 Raphael at thirty-seven, had made the world gI feel their virtue or their vice, and the big- I est strokes you will probably make for the W truth or against the truth will be before you at reach the meridi'am of life. Do not wait ford something to turn urp. Go to work and turi a it up. There is no such thing as good luer.4 No mani that ever lived has ha:l a better time than I have had, yet I never had any gooJ te uck. But instead thereof, a kind Providence d as cro' 'ded my life with mercies. You will never accomplish much as long as you go at ~ your work on the minute you are expected E and stop at the first minute It Is lawful tc at quit. The greatly useful and successful men W of the next century will be those who beganb alf an hour before they were required and b worked at least half an hour after they might bi bae quit. Unless you are willing sometimeS fe to work twelve hours of the day you will re- ii man on the low level, and your life will be a lrol'nged humdrum. It 'Word the next: Renmlmber that it is on.: P~ a small part of our life that we are to pass on earth. Less than your finger nail compared i with your whole body is the life on earthW when compared with the next life. I sup po-e there are not more than half a dozen t~ people iin this world 100 years old. But a h vry few people in any country reach eighty. ' 'he majority of the human race expire be- OD ore thirty. Nowv, what an equipoise in such " consideration. If things go wrong It Ie I" nly for a little while. Have you not enough Y~ noral pluck to stand the jostling, and the I ajstces, and the mishaps of the small par- i ma~iesis between the two eternities? It is a ~od thing to get ready for the one mile thsis ddethemarble alab but more imoortant to net fixed up for tne intermniable 6*5le hi g stretch out into the distances beyond ; a the marble stab. A few years ago on the ti ashvile and New Orleans railroad we D were waked up early in the morning, . tn told we must take carriages for - D tome distance. "-Why" we all asked. |Pi Bunt we soon saw for oufrelvesin hat, while the tlrst four or five . ipans of the bridge were up, farther on her was a span that had fallen, and we 'culd not but shudder at what might have| Seen the possibilities. When your rail train tarts on a long bridge you want to be sure a hat the flest span of the bridge is all right, in yut what if farther on there is a span oft the y v ridge that is all wrong; how then? what l 'hen? In one of the Western cities the'W 'reshets had carried away a bridge, and r I L Dan knew that the express train would soot Ibc ome along. So he lighted a lantern and d tarted up fte track to stop the train. But eafor ha hna ot far enemah nn tha trac.h e wind Diew out the light or his lanteri, id standing in the darkness as the trairI ,me up he threw the lantern into the loco. otive, crying, "Stop! Stop!" And the irning was in time to halt the train. And any of you by evil habits are hastezing ox ward brink or precipice or fallen span, I row this Gospel lantern at your mad r.er: Stop! Stof,! The end tiiemot it ath! Young man, you are cagel now by mny environments. but you will after hile get your wings out. some one caged a Rocky Mountain eaglb d kot him shut un between iho wires til all the spirit and conrage had gone t of it. Released one day from the cagv, 3 eagle seemed to want to return to its rmer prison. The fact was that the eagle d all gone out of him. He kept his wines wn. But aftOr awhile he looked up at the n, turning his head first this side and then .t side, and then spread one wing and 3n the other wing, and began to mount til the hills were far under his feet, and was out of sight in the empyrean. My rther, when you leave this life, if by the. ace of God you are prepared, you will me out of the cage of this hindering mor ity, and looking un to the heavenlv ights you win spreal wing for immorta rht, leaving sun and moon and stars he. ath in your ascent to glories that never is and splendors which never die. Your dy is the cage, your soul is the ea-lo. ord the next: Fill yourself with be phies of men who did gloriously in the siness or occupation or profession you are out to choose or have already chosen. )ing to be a merchant? Read up Petet oper and Abbott Lawrence, and James nox and William F. Dodge and George abody. See how most of those merehants the start munched their noonday lunheon ide up of dry bread and a hunk of cheese, hind a counter or in a storeroom, as they arted in a business which brought thew to e top of influences which enabled them to -ss the world with millions of dollars con. 3rated to hospitals and schools and urches and urivate benefactions. where itherrignt hand nor left hand knew what s other hand did. Going to be a physician? ad un Harvey and Gross and Sit am Clarke and James Y. Simpson, e discoverer of chloroform as an aninsthe and Leslie Keeley, who, notwithstanding the damage done by hisincompetent imi ors, stands one of the greatest benefactor the centuries, and all the other mighty ysloians who have mended broken bones. d enthroned again deposed intellects, and ren their lives to healing the long, 'deef sh of the world's agony. Going to be a wihanlc? Read up the inventors of sewing wchines and cotton gins and life saving ap. ratus, and the men who as architects and :ilders and manufacturers and day laborert ve made a life of thirty years in this cen. ry worth more than the fikli 100 years of y other century. You six young men of Ohio, and all tht bgryoung men, instead of wasting youi ne ob dry essays as to how to do great Ings, go to the biographical alcove of youi lage or city library, and acquaint your. ves with men who, in the sight of eartb d heaven and hell, did the great things. member the greatest things are yet to be ne. If the Bible be true, or as I had bet - put it, since the Bible is beyond all con versy true, the greatest battle is yet to be ight, and compared with It Saragossa and ttysburg and Seden were child's play witb r pistols. We even know the name of the ttle, though we are not certain as to where ill be fought. I refer to Armageddon. A greatest discoveries are yet to be miade, scientist has, recently discovered Is Sair . h*" w* iff'-fet'rivi y. e mo f things have nol t been found out. An explorer has re. ntly found in the valley of the Nile a whole oet of ships buried ages ago where noti ere is no water. Only six out of the SIX asses have bean turned into food like the >tato and the tomato. There are hundreds other styles of food to be discoverel. wrial navigation will yet be made as saft travel on the solid earth. Cancers aal nsumptions and leprosies are to be trans. rred from the catalogue of incurable di. se to the curable. Medical men are noxi .cessfully experimenting with modes o1 nsferring diseases from weak constitutions ich cannot throw them off to stout consti. tions which are able to throw them ott orlds like Mars and the moon will be with. hailing distance. and Instead of confining r knowledge totheir canals and voleanoe ey will signal all styles of intelligence tC , and we will signal all styles of intelli nee to them. Coming times will class our boasted nin. enthi century with the dark ages. Undet e power of gospelizationthe world is going be so improved that the sword and thi usket of our time will be kept in musenmi now we look at thumbscrews and ancient struments of torture. Oh, what oppor,. nitles you are going to have, young met I the world over, under thirty. H ow thank. 1 you ought to be t bat you were not born iy sooner. Blessed are the crad les that are log rocked now. Blessed are the studenta the freshman class. Blessed those who ill yet be young men when the new century smes in, In five or six years from now. is world was hardly fit to live in in the ghteenth century. I do not see how the old ls stood It. During this nineteenth century e world has by Christianizing and educn nal influenees been fixed up until it doei' ry well for temporary residence. But the rentieth century! Ah, that will be the ne to see great sights and do great deeds. i, young men, get ready for the rolling in that mightiest and grandest and most orious century that the worid has eve: en! Only five summers more; five autumns ore; five winters more; flve springs more, td then the clock of time will strike the math of the old century and the birth of the iw. I do not know whatsort of a Decemn. er night it will be when this century lies >wn to die; whether it will be starlit os rpestuous; whether the snows will be ifting or the soft winds will breathe upon e pillow of the expiring centenarian. But Liswill mourn its going, for .nany ha~ve ceived from it kindnesses inuumerable, Ld they will kiss farewell the aged brov dnkled with so many vicissitudes. Old nineteenth century of weddings apo irials, of defeats and victories, of nations irn and nations dead, thy pulses growing bler now, will soon stop on that 31st ghst of December! But right beside It will ~the infant century, held up for baptism. Ssmooth brow will glow with bright ex etations. The then more than 1,700.000, 0 inhabitants of the earth will hail its rth and pray for Its prosperity. Its reige 11 be for a hundred years, and the most ol sur life, I think, will be under the sway of Sscepter. Get ready for it. Have yons art right, your nerves right, your brain fht, your digestion right. We will hand er to you our commerce, our mechanism, i arts and sciences, our professions, out ipits, our inheritance. We believe is u. We trust you. We pray for you. e bless you. And though by theI ne you get Into the thickest of the at for God and righteousness we may ,e disappeared from earthly scenes, Swill not lose our interest in your strug s, and if the dear Lord will excuse us for ittle while from the temple service and e house of many mansions we will come t on the battlements of jasper and, cheer u. and nerhaps If that night aot---N.d I very quiet y~u may hear out rig from afar as we cry, "Be tL .a sto death and though shalt havt. ,,ail" A Limited Indorsemenr. A pplicant for position-i have here letter of recommendation from my iister. Head of House-That's ry good so far as it goes. But we >n't need your services on Sundays. ive you any indorsemnents from any dy who ksaows you the other six ys of the week? BUILDING 0eF PERRY'S FLET ;tory Told by Noah Brown, One of thy Contractors. - In view of the fact that Perry's rictory on Lake Erie in the war of 812 will probably be fully illustrated t the October ceremonies at the iVorld's Fair, iniornate4n as to hov ;hat fleet was built may prove of in erest. A. W. Brown, the last repre ;entative of the Isrown family, which )uilt that fleet, is t t'e Palmer. ouse le furnishes the statement of Noah irown, ils great-un(clc, as regardt ;he work. The Brown brothers, Noah and ,tani, engwaied in the ship-ouildiig )usine.ss at New York in 1804 with -'urman Cheesemiian. As to the Perr: loot, Noah Urown says: "In 1813 we were called upon by he United States Covernment to go nid build Perry's fiect. I started rom New York, Feb. 14, and with a mall gang arrived in ten days at thc own of Erie. The weather then was itormy and the snow deep. More ands arrived the last of April, and -e began to drive business with con iderable speed, and the navy agent if Philadelphia sent on muen, and ney-began to arrive in the middle of Jav. In all there had collected b.out 200 men, and then we Vere short of iron, oakum, and pitch; ut there was a British schooner o:! n the ice. We proceeded to her and aot out about twenty barrels of pork nd a quantity of rigging and cables. Ve made oakum of them, and burned he schooner and got her iron. It elped us with the gunboats, and I ode all around to the neighboring owns and bought of all the mer hants every bar of iron I could find. 'he Government was to send iron, itch, and oakum, but the roads were o bad that I had almost finished the et before any arrived at Erie. "My men several times raised and eclared they would work no longer f they could not-dave better fare. I atisfied them by giving them liberty o go and bu7all e cattle and other rovisions the'y-' cld find. Several ere gone four or live days, and when hey came back their report satisfied hem all, so I had little trouble after ards. "The enemy often appeared before ur harbor and several times came to 1 anchor within three miles of us. )ur men drew arms and volunteered o protect the ship-yard, but the nemy did not venture to land, as we ere as willing they should not land s they; so we had no use for arms. "We had comple.ted our vessels b3 'hree gun-boats armed and fitted for ea; two brigs and one sharp schoonet or a dispatch vessel and a lookout, s she could outsail anything that vas in the English fleet. "We built also a block-house, 3t eot square, of heavy timber: like vise a guard-house of 40x20 feet, a ook-house of 100x20 feet and a loft bove to accommodate 200 men, a lacksmith shop 80 feet long by 16 ct deep and a house for fifty men to leep in, an oflice for myself and oiniodore Perry IS feet square, like ise four camels, about twenty ton: ~ach, fourteen boats for the use of hie fleet, and we mounted all the uns for the tleet, and repaired tiv( id vessels that belonged to thei: eet an~d all their gun carrlaLges." Mr. Brown says that after comi leing the work at Erie he was sen1 o Lake Champlain to build Commto. ore McIonough's fleet there of one ~hip and nine gunboats. In this way e became connected with the two -ictories of the inland seas of 1812 hich al-e familiar to every schoo )oy and girl. Continuing, Mr. Brown said: "In iebruary, 1815, we received orders te roceed to Sackett's Harbor to build wo large ships to mlount 130 gulns of arge caliber-100-pounders on the wer deck, rifty-pounders on lthe siddle deck, and tirty-t wo-poutnders n the~ upper (lock-likewvie thr arge-sized frigates. 'Peace comningT on we diid not com icte our contract, but we got the arge ships wvell along. We proceeded nf to the hartnr with about 1,200) lei, and~ whenl we were stopped we a:d tbeen to work~ ouiy about sic e1s, and if we hadl 1or, ben stoipped n six'weeks longer both largze ships ouldl have been completed andl in he lake. We returned to New York nd had not the pleasure of seein:.: he largest ship alloat in the inhl;i raters of our State that ever was uilt-. These ships were 250 few-t en he upper deck andl 200 feet st r;:ight. ''In11814 we b~uilt a locku-heouse, orty feet square, - dill llouk, ;in Ileil Gat e, East Rtiver; likewise. th eondl b lock-house at Willio nsbur, ong Islanid, oppiositel the eity oft New ork. We built a block-house oni tockawayjfeach, south side of Long sland, and furnished all the ma erials to complete these three luhk ouses. We also built a steant igate. "Under the direction of 1Robert ulton, we built a vessel called the ute, bomnb-proofed, and to bue re olled by machiniery under water. since the war we have built eonly -. evenue cutter and one light ye ror the Government." -Chm "ribtu ne. Fulfiling His Mission. Miss Goodsoul-That was so true, what our min ister said today. tsay oy-What was that? Mliss Giod. oul-Man lives but for a time. ayboy-Well, he generally has it -tuils. * NarcoticN. "Have you read Siowt..'s lateet o'ely" '-No I generally try smadj oses of opium.'' Train Robber Perry has been criticis ing the management of the Matteawan insane asylum. He must be crazy. Some women are so- ill-mannered a. to go right into a store and try to in terrupt a conversation between the ,Qerks. Men should really be in favor ti bloomers. No matter how awkward they are, they can't possibly step on 8 lady's train If she wears bloomers. A little paper up in Victoria expressea decided disapproval of the Monroe doc trine. The atuthoriteies at Washing ton ought to know this before they do Quything rash. A TROLLEY FIRE ESCAPE It Way Easily Be Rolled from One Window of the Building to Ancther. The device illustrated in the picture here printed seems to be a great, in deed, a very important improvement upon the old style, fixed fire-escape with which factories and other build ings are geneially fitted. Where the escape is permanently attached to the building access to it may be had only from one window on each floor, and it sometimes happens that the fire cutf off the occupants of the building fron that window. This so-called "trolley fire-escape," however, runs on a track under the TROLLRY FIR~E rscApg. eave of the building, and may be ed from one window to another so as to permit access to it from any desired point A standpipe for water connec tion may also be permanently attached to the escape, with a nozzle at each floor and a coupling below, and watei may thus be immediately thrown wher weeded. The device seems to be admirably ldapted to large buildings, wharemany people are likely to be endangered by the breaking out of a fire. The Troublesome Rhedive, The Khedive is not a wise ruler-pen' Iaps not even an endurable onebut still it is in his name that we English govern; and to have to be perpetually hinting that he must be deposed, oi even his house superseded, is not pleas ant-not a process which, however necessary-and we are not denying its necessity-tends to diminish the Eng lish civilian's drawback in governing their disagreeableness to the upper classes of the governed. They get aong with the proletariat well enough, for the latter like justice and light tax ation, but the gentry, who feel throt tled by our- inflexibility and "priggish" dsire for European justice, cannol reonelile themselves to our authority. They fr-et, and their titular ruler frets, and those whom they influence fret, till. whenever there is a jar, rumors are ciculated of approaching revolt, and alr-mists talk of massacre, and halt Europe looks on, thinking that though tie Eniglish govern successfully, they govern without amiability or consider align for feelings, which the continent hohini to be exceedingly important. The hedire is, we do not: doubt, a forward person; but we do not know a Euro peanm prince w~ho, in his position, would ntbhiing over, or who, if a weak nun. ouldnot be temp~ted to give lit' i(' in priicks to his aggressive tutor wlenever he saw that that was safe. "he Sp~ectatuor. Silver Street. Tihe curious C'handni Chiowk, or "Sil ret- s1reet," of Delhi, one of the most picturesque thoroughfares in the Efast, derives its name from the filigree wrought with unrivaled skill and -:asto hi thme Mogul capital. Sunlight and shadow contendl for mastery among ir regular nmasses of tumbledown houses, where carved wooden balconies ap proched by extornal stairs glow with rich embr'oideries, which form but a tithe of the varied treasures found ir he Chandlni Chowk. The munslin-r"b"d merchants stand o)utside the sho'ps to pr(.cl'aim the value Mf the w:1res andm to solicit inspection. Dark and wind'ag steps lead to dusky chambe,,rs. whre n nall-pervading odor f .sandazlwood anid musk creates the traditional Oriental atmosphere, and impregnates the bales of silk and cash mre piled aroun md teak wood chests filled with silver, gold andl jewels. Iargaining proceeds with Eastern de liberation, whichi yieldls to the raid methods of the West when the adlapt able Hindu mind detects a trace of dawning impatience on English faces. Temptation is rife. andl throungh tons of rubbish innumerable gmns of art re ward the Axp'lorer who can afford the ' necessary outlay of time and money.--I Al t he Tear Round. SMOOTH-EORE GUNS NOW. Vow It Is Proposed to Reduce tho - - Coot of Great Cannon. The very heavy cost of modern guni is largely due to the time and laboi which are necessarily expended upoi the operation of rifling them. It is al most impossible so to make the gur and the projectile that the soft driving bands of the latter shall at the niomeni of discharge, accurately fit into thE grooves and lands of the bore and al. low no gases to pass ahead. When these gases do pass ahead of the pro. jectile they score and damage the inter ior of the gun; and, where the newv powders are used and the gases of consbustion attain an enormous degree of lIeat, the process of deterioration, especially in weapons of large calibre, is often very rapid. A Swedish engi neer, W. T. Unge, has devised a meth od whereby he hopes to save, not only the cost of rifling, but also the inter for wear and tear for which rifling is responsible. Ie proposes to construct all guns as smootl bores, and to fit the projectile with gas cheeks, which shall render it practically impossible for any gases to rush Ist thiem. In order to convey to the projectile an axial rotary motion. such as is at present conveyed to it by the action of the rifling, lie has invented a mechani cal arrangement, which, at the instant of firing, gives to the gun itself an ax ial rotary motion. The device con sists of a rotary mounted holder con taining the projeciile, and a spindle provided with a bearing in the rear wall of the casing, by means of which the rotary movement to the projectile is exactly the same as is produced by the constant or increasing twist of an ordinary rirled gun; and he is of the opinion that the adoption of his system, while giving equal or even improved accuracy of fire, will reduce the cost of heavy guns 'y one-half and add full, 1.00 per cent, to their endurance. Wanted a Change of Diet. An old gray-haired woman stands about the entrance of a big downtown building and asks for alms in about this strain: "Mister, please give me a few pen. iles to buy bread." This she has been repeating over and >ver until the occupants of the build Ing have all become familiar with ev ?ry intonation of her short song. The >ther afternoon a stout, middle-aged; man, who had heard her plaintive ap peal many times a day for several months, was rushing into the building. Re evidently had some important b.usi ness o- '-4dthat must be attend ed to quickly. AnSugb -_11i stuck out her hand and greeted hiir with: "Mister, please give me a few pen ales to buy bread." Stopping suddenly, and quickll thrusting a bill in her hand, the man full of business said gruf.ly: "Here; you go buy some pie. You eat too much bread."-New York Ad vertiser. In a covered RInic. Canada is probably the only place on hie continent where dancing on skates nay be witnessed. Every afternoon t the skating rinks are seen graceful roung girls, accompanied by stalwart, tthletic looking youths dancing to the music of a military band. It is im pssible to describe the grace, ease and] pparent lack of exertion with which hese captivating young women ge hrough the most intricate figures. The mlooker is completely mystified and atches the scene as if in a trance. When it is over, he votes ball-room per ormances insipid in comparison. 31d Linen and Cotton Are Valuable Never destroy a bit of linen or cot on cloth. Make a matter of principle >f this, for such pieces are far too val able to be put out of the way. If an artist friend does not seize greedily pon them all, send them to any hos pital; there is always a crying need ere of soft. worn stuff for bandages. Kewv linen will not fill the require mients, they must have been used nough to be free from dressing and stiffness. UJnless some men ore on the pay rol it every election. they are not patti ots. The Comng Woman. Th Dg o ars Lat reun so ht ai hs8, tebtthe dogs on tunarfor oc. pation to twenty-five manufacturers of ol'lars and muzzles, four bakers of og's bread, ive fa(ctories5 where dlo. biscuitsq, consisting of meat fibre. are made; three special dog phiarmnacirs. a ozen infirmaries and two dog hospir sl-...Chicango Heald.r Tie aiainlti kiner. It has a bright blue body, nearly two inches long, and wings of a golden hue. As it flies here and there in the sun light, glittering like a flash of 1re, one moment resting on a leaf, the next on a granite boulder, it keeps up an In cessant buzzing, which is caused by the vibration of its wings. No sooner does the tarantula hear this than he trembles with fear, for well he knows the fate in store for him when once his mortal foe perceives his wherea bouts. This It soon does, and hasten .o the attack. At first it is content with flying i circles over its intended victim. Grad ually It approaches nearer and nearer. At last, when it is within a few inches, the tarantula rises upon its hind legs and attempts to grapple with his foe, but without success. Like a flash the giant wasp is on its back. The deadly fangs have been avoided. The next Instant a fearful sting penetrates deep Into the spider's body. Its struggles almost cease. A sudden paralysis creeps over It, and It staggers, helpless, like a .drunken man, first to or.e side then to the other. These symptoms, however, are only of short duration. While they last the wasp, but a few inches away, awaits the result; nor does it have to wait long. A few seconds and all sign of life has disappeared from the taran tula; the once powerful legs curl up beneath the body, and It rolls over dead.-Chambers' Monthly. No Offlcial Announcement. "I am told that Smithers is quite ured of his illness." "I don't believe it," replied the blun' "Itizen. "Why not?" "I haven't seen his picture in any patent medicine advertisement" Washington Star. Domestic Infelicity. Husband-Darling, is there anything i can do for you? Wifey-Yes, love; give me a 1-ceni stamp. I want to send one of your pho tographs to a friend-"second-clast uail matter," you know.-Truth. A Sure Thing. Jess-So their engagement is off; how did it happen? Bess-He knew himself so well tha' he was sure she would get tired of him.-Kate Field's Washington. She Did Not Mean It. A couple of neighboring, women on Cherry street quarreled recently and aibused each other over their respective porches. At last one of the women ro orted hotly: "You must think I am a fool!" r,''ai. . are next door to one, maine the incautioifs rep. . 'i 'ree Press. One Consolation. "There's one consolation about this I rike," said the Coal Vein to the Emp, "What Is,, that?" "No one has a pick at me now." *itts;burg Chroniele-Telegraph. A Great Record. "You say the Colonel is a great mill ary man?" "A perfect hero." "'What's his record?" "Seventeen oaths a minute."-Cleve 'and I'lain Dealer. Napoleon and Talleyrand. "There is one unpleasant feature about dying," said Talleyrand, "one :annoct read one's obituaries. I should like very much to read my obituaries." "So should I," returned -Bonaparte, dryly. "Hiurry up and die, will you?" -IHarper's Bazar. Explorers and Volcano. I.1 II.4 -New York World. A Last Resource. Reporter-I suppose the living skele Lon married the mammoth woman for advertising purposes? Museumn Manager-Not at all, sir. The doctor told him he had to get fleshr ned that seemed to be the only way hi -ould get it. Rivals. -3 Plobby Skyfiats-Say, papa,4ileard .'o-day in the chemistry- crass, tha; :here's an English professar who freez 1 s hydrogen and he can make a tem perature of 300 degrees below zerd sasy 'nough. Mr. Skyfiats-Weli, I don't think he sould give any pointers to the janitoi