University of South Carolina Libraries
- Edison's ]inor Inventionse i'LIt is not the electric lights nor Op photographi, nor any of the other things with which Mr. Edison's nanae is connected that strikes the visitor as the greatest part of his work. It is the invention of the innumerab1s 'nachines with which these things wre made. The idea of the electric light would have been of no use-in the world without machines for making the lanps and the other parts. All of these machines had to be Lvented and made by the electricians, and there are thousnds of them-some no bigger than a toy engine, some as large, nearly, as a house. Many of them are so delicate that they are operated with a belt no larger than a shoestring. One of them is used for polishing jewels for use in the phono graphs. Without being - touched by anybody it holds the tiny jewel in every possible position, shifting it, turning it, absolutely feeling it, to learn whether it is smooth, and all the while its delicate fingers are at work rubbing. rubbing at the jewel, which is no bigger than the head of a large pin. No boy could move his fingers more dexterously than this vachine moves its parts in turning the jewel arouni. Five State Senators were appointed at Har risburg by the Pennsylvania Legislature to <xamine the municipal affairs of Philadel thia. ________ A HapPy Woman. At last I am a well and happy woman again: ghanks to McElree's Wine of CarduL. I have suffered fcr four years from womb trouble af the mo-t horrible kind. Twelve years ago I went to the San Antonio Hospital, where hey performed an operation, but it left me in auorse state than ever. I went to Dr. Kings ley and Dr. D. Y. Young, but they gave me little relief. After spending $12.00 I was not able to leave my bed, and mo-t of the time suffere I pains to cqual a thousand deathe. On the tenth of last October my friend Mrs. Ste ven:s, advised me to try McElree's Wine of Cardui. The first bottle did me good, and I got mo:e, and to-day I am a new Noman; am able to do all my cooking and house-work. I am runnin; a boariing-house and doing all the work my3elf. I still use the Wine, and always keep it in the house-:t saved my life. Ms. M. J. MEYE as. Appleby, Texas. Always Cures Indigestin, Dyspepsia, Rsd Breath, Debility, Sour Stomach. Want of Appetite. Distress After Eating, and all evils arising from a wcak or disordered stomach. It builds up from the fir.,t dose, and a bottle or two will cure the worst cases, and insure a -:ood appe tite. excellent digestion and result in vigor ous health and buoyancy of spirits. There is no better way to insure good health and a long life than to keep the stomach rirht. Tyner's Dys epsia Remedy is guaranteed to do this. The Tranquilizin- Atter-Dinner Drink. -For sale by Druggiss. Manufactured by C. 0. Tyner, Atlanta. Tou Don'1 VUave to Swear Off, Snys the St. Louis Tournal of .Agriculture in in editorial about No-Tc-Baec. the famous to bacco babit cure "We know of many cases cured by Nc-Tc-Bae. one, a prominent St. Louis architect, smoked and chewed for twenty years; two boxes cured him so that even the smell of tobacco makes him sick." - Nc-Tc-Bac told and guaranteed by Drug gists everywhere. No cure no pay. Book lree-. Sterling Ilemedy Co., N~ew York or Chicago. _________ MceDonad's Mills, Ga. Tetterine is the only remedy I ever sold that would cure Tette'ine so it would not return. I've sol-d six dozeu in a year. and guaranteed every box. I've never bad to return the money for a single box. I t old a box to a man who had Totter for 52 years: 2 boxes cured him sound and well. I consider I am doing the public a favor to recommend Tetter.ne. B. H. Tanner. Sent by mail for 50c. in stamps. J. T. Shuptrn , Savannh, Ga. Worse Than Rumi. Indigestion spoils mord lives than rum. But sou think you have "malaria" or "grip,' or somnethting worse. The trouble is all in the digestive tract. Rinans Tabules bring a -r oel Milennium withthemt. One gives relief, ' and their harditual use keeps the wh ole syste.n ini tone. Get them of yo:xr druggist. Mothers Who Use Parker's Ginger Tonic insi-.t thit is benetits more than other medi cines for every form of distresis. Noziee. - I want every man and woman in the United Zt tee interested in the Opium and Whisk? habits 1o have one of m' hooks on these dis sases. Addr ess ii. M. n oLev. Atlanta. Ga.. Box 351, and one will be sent you free. I believe Piso's Cure for Consumnption saved my boy's life last Summer.-N'rs. ALLIE DorG LASS, LeRoy, Mich, Oct. 3,' '94i. A committee of the British House at Corn mons '-eportra against the right of Peers to sit in that body.______ - ~A. .M. PresS, Drugg'st, Shelbyville, .Id. -sys: all's Catarrh Cutre gives the best of sat ist'action. Can get plenty ot testamon~als as it cures every one who takes it." lDruggiste .eell it. 75e. Hlindererrns is a simtie flemede, unt .* takes out c -rns, and what a cons->:ation it al Makes walking a plewitre. l5t. at druggists. - / Mrs. Winelow's Soothinu Syrup for children teethine, sof~tens the gums. reduces inflamma tion, allays pin, cures wind colie. 25c. a bottle. Dyspepsia Antd didtress after eatinig are cured by the lotir-, appetizing, bloodI purifying efects of IHcod's S.areapanilia. Rlead Stis letter: "XI am happy to write a fewr words about the good Hood's Sarsaparilla has done ,-me.I was troubled with A- ysv~pepsia. Myv food distressed mae and I had dizzy spells and a Sdull, heavy feeling in my headi. Since using several bottles of H~food's Sars.aria 7 _ , my food no longer dis _ rse me at all and my heal has been relieved from~ all dizzy spells. I gladlyv rocomnmend Ihood's Sarsa parilla for any troubled as I was." llonsa J. CLa.YEL.WD, Iloxhury, Vermont. Hood's Sarsaparilla . Is the Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye. _ H ood's PiIs5?3 5rb' * ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR * j PERiA IT IS * THE BEST* /NURSING I10THERS,INFANTSSS* * JOhiN CARLE & SoNS, Nuew Y~oric. * Rre CuhSyu.Tastes Good. t'e RtEV D. TALMAGE d THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S h q ti SUNDAY SERMON. TzrT: "Let God be true, but every man c a liar."-Romans iii., 4. b The Bible needs reconstruction according tl to some inside and outside the pulpit. It is b no surprise that the world bombards the t< Scriptures, but it is amazing to find Chris- a tian ministers picking at this in the Bible g and denying that until many good people a are left in the fog about what parts of the a Bible they ought to believe and what parts a reject. The heinousness of finding fault it with the Bible at this time is most evident. t] In our day the Bible is assailed by scurrility. p by misrepresentation, by infidel scientists, by all the vice of earth and all the venom of fh perdition, and at this particular time even a preachers ot -the Gospel fall into line of ti criticism of the word of God. Why, it makes ' me think of a ship in a September equinox, tl t he waves dashing to the top of the smoke- a stack, and the hatches fastened down, and I many prophesying the foundering of the l steamer, and at that time some of the crew n with axes and saws go down into the hold of - the ship, and they try to saw off some of the o planks and pry out some of the timbers be- I cause the timber did not come from the right n forest. a It does not seem to be a commendable bus- p Iness for the crew to be helping the winds t and storms outside with their axes and saws f; inside. Now. this old Gospel ship, what with the roaring of earth and hell around the C stemand stern and mutiny on deck, is hav- t' Ing a very rough voyage, but I have noticed n that not one of the timbers has started, an I t the captain says he will see it through. And b I have noticed that keelson and counter tim ber knee are builk out of Lebanon cedar, and ta Ehe is going to weather the gale. but no T credit to I hose who make mutiny on deck. 0 When I see professe.1 Christians in this particular day finding fault with the Scr*p- t] tures. it makes me think of a fortress ter- 0 rifically bombarded, and the men onthe ram- t] parts. instea-1 of swabbing out and loading t the guns and helping fetch up the ammuni- b tion from the magazine, are trying with a erowbars to pry out fiom the wall certain blocks of stone, because they did not come from the right quarry. Oh, men on the ram- 0 parts, better fight back, and fight down the t common enemy, instead of trying to make t breaches in the wall! t While I oppose this expurgation of the ' Sitiptures. I shall give you my- reasons for t suchi opposition. "What!" say some of the theological evolutionists whose brains have g been addled tIytoo long brodding over them r by Darwin and Spencer, "vou don't now f really believe all the story of the garden of t Eden, do you?" Yes. as.much as I believe a th-re were roses in my garden last summer. S "4But." say they. "you don't really believe i that the sun and moon stoodstil]?" Yes,and 3 if I had strength enough to create a sun and 'I moon I could make them stand still or cause T the rcraction of the sun's rays so it would d appear to stand still. "But," they say, "you C don't really believe that the whale swal- t lowed Jonah?" Yes, and if I were strong t enough to make a whale I could have made c v'ery easy ingress for the refractory prophet. I lecaing to evolution to eject him if lie were c an unworthy tenant! "But," say they. "you I dor't really believethat the water was turned I into wine?" Yes, just 's easily as water now f is often turned into wine with an admixture y of strychnine and logwood! "But,'" say they. "vou don't really believe that Samson I slew 1000 with the jaw'bone of an ass?" Yes, c and I think that the man who in this day 1 assaults the Bible is wielding the same 1 weapon' There is nothing in the Bible that staggers t me.. There are many things I do not under- t sandl, I do not pretend to understand, never 1 shenlt in this world understand. But that I would lbe a very poor God who could be fully C understood by the human. That would be a C very small Iulinite that can be meastired by e finite. You must not expect to weigh the s thunderbolts of Omnipotence in an apothe- a cary's balances. Starting with the idea that t God can do anything, and that lie was pres- a ent at the beginning, and that He is present I now, there is nothing in the holy Scriptures I to arouse skepticism in my heart. Here I C stand a fossil of the ages, dug up from the t tertiary formation, fallen oiT the shelf of an i antig'erian, a man in the latter part of the t glorious nineteenth century believing in a r whole Bible from lid to lid! I I am opposed to the expurgation of the r Scriptures in the first place, because the i Bible in its present shape has been so mirac- 5 ilously preserved. Fifteen hundred years t after H~er->dotus wrote his history, there was ( enly one manuscript copy of it. Twelve a hunidred years after Plato wrote his book 3 there was only one manuscript copy of it. God was so careful to have us have the Bible t in just the right shape that we have fifty manuscript copies of the New Testament a t thousand years ol'd. and some of them 1500 3 years old.' This book, handed down from the time of Christ, or just aftei- the time of r Christ. by the band of such men as Origen in the secon.l century and Tertullian in the i third century, and by men of different ages 'Tho died for their principles. The three best copies of the New Testament in mann script in the possession of the three great churches-the Protestant church of England, i the Greek church of St. Petersburg and the 1lomish churc.h of Italy. It is a plain matter of historythat Tischen dorf went to a convent in the peninsula of Sinai I and was by ropes lifted over the wall into the i convent, that being the only mode of admis- I icn, and that he saw there in the waste basket for kindling for the fires a manuscript of the Hfoly Serintures. That night he cop ied many (of the passages of that 'ible, but it was not until fifteen years had assed of earnest entreaty and prayer and coaxing and purc'hase on his part that that copy of the ] ii- :v~ Scriptures was put into the hand of I the Emperor of liussia-that one copy so marvelously protected. D)o you not know that the catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testaments as we I have it is the same catalogue that has been coming down through the ages? Thirty nine books of the 01(d Testament thousands I of years ago. Thirty-nine now, Twenty- 1 seven books of the New Testament 1600 years ago. T wenty-seven books of the New Testa ment now. '3arcion, for wickedness, was turned out of the church in the second cen- i tury. and in his assault on the Bible and Christianity he incidentally gives a cata-., logue of thc books of the Bible--that cata- : logue correspondiing exactly with ours-tee- i timony given by the enemy of the Bible and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue now just like t he catalogue then. Assaulted and spit on and torn to pieces and burned, I yet adhering. 'The book to-day, in 300 lan guages, confronting four-ilfthe of the human race in their own tongue. Four hundred 1 million copies of it in existence. Does not i that look as if this bo'ok had been divinely < protected. as If God had guarded it all I through the centuries? Is it not an argument plain enough to I every honest man and every honest woman that a book divinely protected and in this ] shape is in the very shape that God wants it. It pleases God and ought to please us. The epid.::nies which have swept thousands i ..f othe'r books into the sepulcher of forget fulness have only brightened the fame of tlhim. There is not one book out of 1000 that1 live'. aye years. Any publisher will tell you thait.1 Ther" will not be more than one book out of 20.000 that wiill live a century. Yet here is b-i*k. muceh of it 100 years old and m'ch of it 400l vears old and with more re oind. andi re'silence an.l strength in it than when th'e hook was first put upon parohment or paipvru.t T...:'-,o' raw. the eradie oif all ether bo .andli will see th'oir graves. Would vou'o th'rnk that an o)l hook like this, .o'ne of it fortnv centuries oblI. woul 1 enme an hobblinu with ag' and on crutohws ] Inte ii tr tha. mor" potent than any' dther boo 'o thie time '\ore copies of it printed in the~ last ten y'ear's thatn 'f any' other book --Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. Macau lav's "IlI tory' of England." Disraeli's "En ivion." the works of Tennyson and Long fellow, anti all the popular books of ourtimne ha ring no such sale in the last ten yearsa this old worn out hek Di youi kniw whait a struz'le a b'ook has in order to' get throughi ~o "'nt urv or t w cenuturies? Same olid books.I durin.g a li"' in a s'ravliu of Constanti no>. wer' t hrovwa into the street. A m'.an without any "in .ationl pi'okeA up one of thos.e bok.:. real it. an I did no t see the value of it. A scholar l' oke.1. ov'er his shoulder ala it was th' llrAt and see nd decades of Livy. an'] h~-' offer:'d the nman a lang" rewar1 if he woul i bning the books~ tom his study, but in the e'x";tament of the fare the t w. parted, and ,he fh-st an I :o son ! dle:-a1s o Livy'were for ever l-e. l'iinv wrote twenty boo.)ks of lilt torY. All lost.' The mnost. of Menander's ..it:-ss. O+ft 1-0 coomde of Plrantu.=. I gone but twenty. Euripiues wrote 100 umas, all gone but nineteen. .Eschlyus rote 100 dramas. all gone but seven. Varro rote the laborious biographies of 703 Ro ans. not a fragment left. Quintilian wrote is favorite book on the corruption of clo aence. all lost. Thirty books of Tactitus st. Dion Cassius wrote eighty books, only renty remain. Berosius's history all lost. Neatrly all the old books are mummilled Ad are lying in the tombs of old libraries, d perhaps once in twenty year. some man )mes alon'.t and picks up one of them anI ows the dust off and opens it and finds it e book he does not want. But this old )ok, much of it forty centuries old, stands -day more discussed thati any other book. Ad it challenges the admiration of all the >od and the spite and the venom, and the 3imosity, and the hypercriticism of earth ad hell. I appeal to your common sense if book so divinely guarded and protected in s present shape must not be in just the way at God wants it to come to us. and if it eases God ought it not to please us? Not only have all the attempts to detract om the Ibook failed, but all the attempts to Id to it. Many attempts were made to add e apochryphal books to the Old Testament he council of Trent, the synod of .Terusalem, e bishops of Hippo. all decided that the >ochryhal books must be added to the Old estament. "They must stay in," said those arned men, but they staid out. There is >t an intelligent Christian man that to-day ill put the book of lifaccabees or the book Judith beside the book of Isaiah or oarans. Then a great many said, "We iust have books added to the New Testa Lent," and there were epistles and gos els and apocalfpses written and added the New Testament, but they have all len out. You cannot add anything. You Lunot 3ubstract anything. Divinely pro -eted book in the present shape. Let no an dare to lay his hands on it with the in tion of detracting from the book or cast kg out any of these holy pages. Besides that,1 am opposed to this expurga n of the Scriptures because if the attempt ere successful, it would be the annihilation I the Bible. Infidel geologists would say, Out with the Book of Genesis;" infidel as 'onomers would say, "Out with the Book Joshua;" people who do not believe in i atoning sacrifice would say, "Out with e Book of Leviticus;" people who do not lieve in the miracles would say, "Out with I those wonderful stories in the Old and ew Testament;' and some would say. Out with the Book of Revelation;" and thers would say, "Out with the entire Pen ,teuch," and the work would go on until xere would not be enough of the Bible left be worth as much as jast year's aimanac. he expurgation of the Scriptures means ir annihilation. I am also opposed to this proposed expur ation of the Sriptures for the fact that in roportion as the people become self-sacri eing and good and holy and consecrated, tey like the book as it is. I have yet-to find man or a woman distinguished for self icrifIce. for consecration to God, for holi ess of life, who wants the Bible changed. fany of us have inherited family Dibles. 'hose Bibles were in use t wenty. forty, flity, erhaps 100 years in the generations. To av take down those family Bibles, and find ut if there are any chapters which have een erased by lead pencil or pen, and if in y margins you can find the words, "This hapter not fit to read." There has been lenty of opportunity during the last half entury privately to expurgate the Bible. )o you know any case of such expurgation? )id not your grandrather give it to your ither, and did not your father give it to ou? Besides that I am onposed to the ex urgation of the Scriptures, because the so illed indelicacies and cruelties of the Bible ave demonstrated no evil result. A cruel ook will produce cruelty. An unclean book ll produce uncleanness. Feteh me a vic m. Out of all Christendom and out of all e ages fetch me a victim whose heart has een hardened to cruelty or whose life has een made impure by this hook. Show me ne. One of the best families I ever knew f, for thirty or forty years. morning and vening, had all the members gathered to ether, and the servants of the household, nd the strangers that happened to be within he gates-twice a day, without leaving out chapter or a verse, they read this fly ok, morning by morning, night by light. rot only the older children, but the little hild who could just spell her way through be verse while her mother helped her, the ither-beginning and reading one verse and hen all the members of the family in turn ading a verse. The father maintained his ategrity, the mother maintained her integ ity, the sons grew up and entered pro essions and commercial life, adorning every phere in the life in which they lived, and e daughters went into families where lhrist was honored. and all that was good nd pure and righteous reigned perpetually. 'or thirty years that family endured the criptures. Not one of them ruined by Now, if you will tell me of a family where tie Bile has been read twice a day for thirty ears, and' the children have been brought .p in triat habIt, and the father went to ujn. and the mother went to ruin, and the ns' add daughters were destroyed by It you will tell me of one such incident, I -l throw away my Bible or I will doubt 'our veracity. ~I tell you if a man is shocked vith what he calls the indelicacies of the ord of God he Is prurient in his taste and nagination. If a man cannot read Solo non's Song without impure suggestion. he seither in his heart or in his life a libertine. The Old Testament description of wicked Less, uncleanness of ail sorts, is iurposely and righteously a disgust g account, instead of the Byronic ad the Parisian vernacular. which makes in attractive Instead of appalling. When hose old prophets point you to a lazaretto d understand it is a lazaretto. When a an having begun to do right falls back into rickedness and gives np his integrity, the ible does not say he was overcome by tho slnations of the festive board, or that he endered to convivialities, or that he be nine a little fast in his habits. I will tell 'o what the Bible says. "The dog is turned o his own vomit again and the sow that was nashed to her wallowing in the mire." No ~ilding of iniqunity. No garlands on a death's Lead. No pounding away with a silver mal et at iniquty when it needs an iron sledge iammer. I can easily understand how people brood g over the 'description of uncleanness in he Bible may get morbid in mind until they Lre as full of it as the wings, and the beak, ad the nostril, and the claw of a buzzard ire full of the odors of a carcass. but what s wanted is not that the Bible be disinfet-' d, but that you, the critie, have your mind Lad heart washed with carbolic acid. I tell you at this point in my discourse hat a man who does not like this book, and 'ho is critical as to its contents, and who is hoked and outraged with its descriptions, is never been soundly converted. The lay a on of the hands of presbytery or epis pacy does not alway3s change a man S cart, and men sometimes get into the pul t. as weil as into the pew. never having nen changed radically by the sovereign race of God. Get your heart right and the ibe will be right.~ The trouble is men's atures are not brought into harmony with he word or God. Ah. my friends. expurga n e the heart is w'::..i wr:ted! You cannot make rue believe that the criptrea, wvhichi this moment lie on the able of the purest and best men and women f the age. an i which were the dying solace if your kindred passe-d into the skies, hiave3 a them a taint which the strongest micro ope of honest criticism could make visible. f men are uncontrollable ini their indigna ion when the integrity of wife or child is as, ailed, and judges and jurors as far as pssibe excuse violenco under such provo aion. what ought to be the overwhelming ,ld long resounding thun-lers or condemna ion for any man who will stand in a Chris ian pulpit'and assail the more than virgin 'irity of inspiration. the well beloved daugh erofGod? Expurgate the Bible! You nmight as well oo to the old picture galleries in Dresden ad in Venice and in Rome and exp)urgate he old paintings. Perhaps you could find a ot of MIichael Angelo's '"La:t Judgment" hat might be impr.oveil. Perhaps you could hrow more expression into Raiphael's "3Ma. onna.' Perhaps you coul t putl more athos into Rubuens's 'Descent from the ross." rerhaps you could change the rest of the waves in Toirner's "'Slave Ship." 'rhaps you might go into the old galleries )f culpture and change the forms and the lsture of the statues of Phidias and Praxi eles. Such an iconochist would very soon lad himself in the penitentia~ry. But it is vorse vandalism when a man proposes to re ashion these masterpieces of inspiration and : emodel the moral giants of this gallery ow, let us dividle off. Lat those people critical of this anA that part nif it go clear over to the other side. Lat them stani1 be hind the devil's gun-. Th-:.:can be nC ZM promise natween innaelty an'i ciristanity. Give us thf- out an I out oppositiol of infi delity rather than the work of these hybrid thnologians, thesn mongrel ecelesiastics, these half evolute-1 ieople, who believe the Bible and do not befieve it. who accept the miracles and do nAt a.-e:pt-them, who believe in the inspiration of the Seriptures and do not believ'e in the inspiration of the Scrip ture.-trimiing their belief on one side to suit the skepticism of the world, trimming their belief on the other side to suit the pride of their own heart, an-1 feeling that in order to demonistrate their courage they must make the Bible the target and shoot at God. There is one thing that encourages me very much, andl that is that the Lord made out to manage the universe before they were born. and will probably be able to make out to mange the universe a little while after they are dead. While I demand that the antagonists of the Bible and the crities of the Bible go clear over where they belong, on the devil's side. I ask that all the friends of this good book vome out openly and above board in behalf of it. that book which was the best inheritance you ever received from your ancestry. and which will be the best legacy you will leave to your children when you bid the good-by as you cross the ferry to the golden city. Young man, do not be ashamed of your Bible. There is not a virtue but it com mends. there is not a sorrow but it comforts, there is not a good law on the statute book of any country but it is founded on these Ten Commandments. There are no braver, grander people in all the earth than the heroes and the heroines which it biographizes. Of all the works of Dore. the great artist, there was nothingq so impressive as his illus trated Bible. What scene of Abrahamic faith or Edenic beauty. or comtnlon navmia or Solomonic, of miracle or parable, of nativity or of crucifixion or of last judgment but the thought leaped from the great brain to the skillful pencil. and from skillful pencil to .Invas immortal. The Louvre. the Luxem bourg, the National Gallery of London com pressed within two voiumes of Dore's illus trated Bible. But the Bible will come to bet ter illustration than that. my friends, when all the deserts have becotne gardens and all the armories have become academies and all the -lakes have become Gennesarets with Christ walking them. and all the cities have become Jerusalem,; with hovering Shekinab; and the two hemispheres shall be clapping cymhals of divine praise. ana the round earth a footlight to Emanuel's throne-that, to all lands and all ages and all centuries and all cycles will be the best specimen of Bible illustrated. SELECT SIFTINiS. California evaporated pears are ex ported. The condor is the largest bird in existence. Exports of Irish wool were prohib ited in 1821. It 1871 it was decided that a bank rupt could not sit in the House &)f Lords. Thirty London tradesmen boast the title of purveyors of whisky to Queen Victoria. At the Odeon Theatre in Paris 600 manuscript plays are received and read every year. When first taken from mines opals are so tender that they can be picked to pieces with the fingernail. One of the most popular religions books in Japan is "Pilgrim's Progress," illustratedi by Japanese artists. The possible "permutations and combinations" of a game of dominoes are reckoned at 242,528,211,840. The oldest cathedral in England is probably that of Winchester. It is believed that it was built in 177 by the newly converted British King Lucas, on the site of a great pagan temple. The oldest portions of the pr.esent edifice date back to the year 980 A. D. One of the most conspicuous peaks on the western coast of Alaska has been named Emmerich Mountain, in honor of the late Lieutenant Charles F. Emmerich, of the United States Navy, who died in California last year. Lieutenant Emmerich was executive officer of the Hassier. The British House of Lords at present is made up of five Princes of the blood royal,twenty-six Archbishops and Bishops, 482 Peeks of England, Great Britain and~ the United King dom, six teen representative Scottish and twenty-eight representative Irish Peers, in all 557 members. Cleanest Town in the World. The cleanest town ~in the world is said to be Broek, in Holland. It is only a few miles from the capital, and has been famous for its cleanli ness from time immemorial. It ise also notable on account of the fanci fu style of its houses and yards and gardens and streets. The people, though only peasants, are all well to do, and all feel a pride in their town. It seems to be the first business of their lives to keep their houses freshly painted, their gardens in perfect order, and their yards and streets as clean as a parlor. No carts are al lowed in the streets, and no cattle, Though the raising of stock and the making of batter and cheese are their occupations, a stranger would never imagine that there were any cattle in the region, unless he went to the beautiful green meadows at the back of the houses, or the stables out there, where cows are kept in stalls scrubbed and washed like a kitchen. The streets are too fine and neat for the feet of animals to step on; all are paved with polished stones, intermingled with bricks of -different colors, and kept so scrupulously clean that a lady could walk anywhere in white satin slippers. -Pall Mall Gazette. first Love the True Love. "Those who believe that first love is the true love and on never wholly die will be interested to hear about a case that recently came to a happy concusion up in Pennsylvania," said Walter Craig, of Philadelphia, at thai Riggs House. ",3ixty years ago Wal ter Chapin and Mary Harkness lived on ad joining farms in Luzerne County, and were sweethearts. There had been close intimacy between the fam lies, and the prospective union of the young people was pleasantly re garded on both sides. Trouble arose between their fathers, however, over the ownership of a narrow piece of land, and a bitter quarrel ensued. The lovers toolk sides, however, much igainst their will,, and young Chapin moved to Ohio, where he prospered nd mrried. Miss Mary married also. A couple of years ago Chapin's wife ied, and a year after ward Mary was left a widow. Last winter Chapin came back to revisit his old home and met his sweetheart of sixty years ago. In March they were married in Wilkes brre, the groom being seventy-nine years old and his bride two years ouner. "-Washington Star. ./B1 Pure Ceylon Rest Houses. The "rest-house" is a Governmental system ef providing road side accom modatAns, carried in Ceylon to a higher standard of excellence possibly than in any other of the Eastern coun tries. English occupation has every where been synonymous with the de velopment of resources, and it has ever been recognized that the first step in this direction must be the opening of roads and their mainte nance in good condition. 1t was early found that the use of the roads f6y Europeans and the better class of na tives depend to a large extent upon the possibility of breaking journey at convenient stages, especially at night. In a newly opened up-country it could not be that suitable places for the en tertainment of travelers would exist at points where most required, and as the natives themselves were not to be depended upon to furnish adequate entertainment, tho Government de cided to erect and furnish rest-houses as a part of the general system. The result in Ceylon is that through out the island, where means of com munication by roadways have been established, there aro at convenient points neat and comfortably furnished stoppiag places, managed by natives, it is true, but under the close super vision of the roadway officials, who are Europeans. The rest-houses, many of them, eompare favorably with the best of the private bungalows in the sections where they are -located, and not infrequently the taste displayed in the planting and training of flow ers, foliage plants, vines, and fern% together with the artistic architecture, renders them pictures worthy of a painter's brush. TheEe hous-is are in charge of a native, who is known as the butier, and who for the care of the estsaolishment has the privilege of supplying the edibles, substantial as well as liquid. All the charges are fixed by the Government, and those for rooms, etc., become a part of the Government revenue, while those for meals, etc., are the butler's. As a rule the accommodations are limited to such as are requisite for a half-dozen people, and the cost of entertainment is very moderate indeed, especially to those traveling with English letters of credit, which insures Ceylon money at.the ratio of about two for one. Five or six rupees per day, or from a dol lar and a quarter to a dollar and a half, meets all requirements, includ ing the indispensable tips all around. -Harper's Weekly. Our " Ruined " Inidustries. - Nothwithstanding the high price of leather, the shoe manufacturers of the cuntry are keeping up with the in dustrial procession. During the last three weeks 238, 099 boxes of shoes hvc been sent out from the New Eng 4.nd factories, against 207,98i in the corresponding period of last year. Since the 1st of January there has been an increased export demand for boes as well as for leather. At the w e time the cotton spinners and n- olen weavers of New England have ' ore to (10 than for a longr time, and advances in wages are thle order of the da. These are the industries, above altothers, upon which the protection ists predicted that the new tariff would have a "ruinous'' effect. But their prophecies of evil have already been disgraced and their howls of calamity ienced by the huta of the cotton and woolen mills. As for the iron and steel manufactures, also doomed to "ruin" by the new tariff, the blaze of the furnace tires and the tremendous nie of the mills have quite bewild ered them. This is painfully betrayed in their absurd efforts to disparage the industrial movement and to mis interpret its causes. Their present as sertions and denials are as worthless as were their past predictions. -Phil adelphia Record. uaint Superstitions About She:-s. When you buy a pair of new shoe a never put them on a shelf higher than your head, unless you want. to bring bad luck; and if you blacken them before vou have had both shoes on you may meet with an accident, or even have a sudden death. This is an old Irish superstition. The Scoich girls believe that if they drop their shoes before they are worn, trouble will ensue, while a Frenchlady loosing her heel is sure of some disappoint ment in love, and a German mother in the same predicament feels that she will soon lose one of her children. You must not put your right shoe on your left foot or your left on your right, nor must you put your left shoe on before the right unless you want bad luck. This superstition dates back to one of the Emperors of Rome, who, it is recorded, put on his left she first one morning, and came near be ing assassinated durgg the day. The singalar Forked-Tail Caterpller. The singular forked-tail caterpiller of erura, as it wel~l known, sends out when disturbed a jet of vapor contain ing formic acid. It also appea~rs irc. the researches of Mr. Satter that these creatures in the image state secrete free potassium hydroxid, a substance for the first time known to exist in the ~nimal kingdom.-New York In All othe are cheg and inf leave eit alkali ir WAL BAKING POWDt. CO,106 WALL er-, NLW-VOR Bismark's Old Sweetheart. One of the most popular pictures at the present day in Germany is the portait of a woman who was Bis marck's sweetheart in his early days. Bismarck was Eving at Kniephof in the year 1839. His personal life dur ing that year was of that lively char acter over which he afterward lament ed so bitterly. It was the Sturm und Drag Zeit of his existence. Stories of his dissoluteness and pride, his daring fests as a rider, and his achievements as a boon companion, his disregaid of conventional rules, and his love of wild adventare are numerous. The youthful owner of Kniephof was toe be often seen careering wildly scros the country alone or in the compsny of gay friends who were his guesto, and such was the impreesion he produoed on the quiet population that he came to be generally known as the "Mad Bismarck." Near Kniephof there lived a farmer of the name of Goetz. He had an only daughter, Malvina, who was known as the beauty of the neighborhood. Bismarck met her and paid his addresses, but as it was im possible for the proud young master of Kniephof to make this lowly maid his wife her father frowned upon their intimacy. Soon after Bismarck, on his mother's death, moved to Pomerania and probably forgot all abouthisearly attachment. Malvina Goetz married in her own station of life. Years aftewards, "when Bismarck's name became famous throughout the world, the respectable middle-aged Malvina became a local celebrity, and the Chacellor's enemies tried to'make capital out of his old jlove affair.-Il lustrated American. A P'rehistoric Idol. F. Conihay, aged sixteeP,, has brought to Charleston, W. Va., a most novel piece of wood carving which will give the learned antiquari ans much to study about. It is a wooden idol, of great age and~ most peculiar shape. It represents a'bd~y, about five feet tall, nude, and hold ing in his arms a small animal which looks like a buffalo calf. The wood is hard, and on the outside appears to be locust, but by cutting into it it is found to be almost blood jed on the inside, a sort of wood never seen in this part of the country. It is a most hideous thing, and is supposed to have been ant idol of some prehistoric race. The features are almost perfect. One ear is in good shape, but the other is worn or broken off. One hand is also gone, but both arms and the calf which they support are perfect. The image has no feet, the legs being in~ serted into a block of wood, which ser ves as a pedestal. Conihay, who lives at Lewiston, discovered the image in a cave near that place. - Louisville Conrier-y'ouriai. Mary E. Wilkins, the story writer, is so shy in general society that it it the usual verdict among Boston and New York literary circles that no one feels acquainted with her. She scarce ly speaks on social occasio~is. except to answer when spoken to. Mtrs. Sophie. Hayward, wife of _Ger ald S. Hayward, a landscape painter, an English woman, took the full oath of full citizenship in New York City a few days ago. She declared her in tentions in 1880, and she took the step she did, it is said, "in orde eha she might legally own property in New York State." PROSPECTIVE MOTHlERS .and those soon to become mothers, .should know that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre / scription robs child 'birth of its tortures / and terrors, as well as of its dangers to both mother and child, by aiding nature in pre paring the system for parturition. There .- by "labor " and the - period of confine ment are greatly shortened. It also promotes the secre tion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. Mrs. DORA A. GUTrtIm, of Oakley. Overtons Co.. 7 un;.. wrrites: " When I began taking Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I was not able to staud on my feet without suff'ering almost death. Now I do all my house work, washing, cooking. sewing and every thing for my family of eight. I amn stouter now tihan I have been in six years. Your ' Fav'orite Prescription ' is the best to take before confiuement, or at least it proved so with me. I never suff'ered so little with any of my hilren as I did with my last." withstanding a] S precedence beh breaking way Now, why C dreds of mil have been used $ U washing~comp U do your CPearline see, It takes out any ns~ \ so .t the hes r'Wdees iper made erior, and her acid or i the food. Salting a Corpse. One of the most curious burial ens toms still existing in Ireland and in Somersetshire, England, is that of placing salt upon the breast of a corpse as soon as it has been properly "laid out" on the cooling-board. In Eng land, where the custom". still.prevails among a people who hoot the imputa tion of being superstitious, it is claimed that it is done in order "to prevent air from getting- into the corpse and thus swell and bloat it. Campbell and Moresin, says the St. Louis Republic, both refer to the practice as a survival of old-time sup erstious burial rites. They quote largely from ancient writers to prove that early Christians all regarded salt as an emblem of immortality and. eternity, and that on such account its was anciently used in the manner above mentioned. Harmon is author-.. ity for the statement that the early Germans not only put salt under the tongues of their dead, but also Dut little cylinders of rock salt in the right hands of their sick as soon as it %ase learned that such persons were near death's door. In most heathen countries, where all kinds of superstition. prevails, salt is used as a charm in frightening away evil spirits, and it is alleged tlat the Ptagonians frequently strangled their children to death by forcing salt 4own their throats to drive out devils Th'e largest tomb in-the world is the pyramid of Cheops, 461 feet high and coverning thitteen acres of ground. Both, emethodndeslts wen~ Syrup of Figs is taken; it isplean and refreshing to the taste, and atl gently yet promptly oni the Kidneys, LvradBowels, cleanses the tern effectually, dispels colds, aches and fevers and cnres habita constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duce&, pleasing to the taste and Sc. ceptable to the stomach, prompt zi its action and trul beneficial m itsi effects, prepaedon from the most( healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syro3p of Figs is for sale in 501 cent bottles by all leading drug gsts. Any reliable druggist who may not have it oft hand will pro cure it promptly fo-r any one who wishes to try it. D~o not accept asiy substitute. CALIFORNIA $16 SYRUP CO. -84A FRANCJSO, ?4A4 - LOWCI'ILLE.K. NEW V0ONK.N?. --- uian grwt Noticeeto Maill entr r7 Pu -~ n Cura s scndalp ~isd esf air suppl. nd thatold-ahodlOa ack Y OwashOdeing Yihsatou Was ite Why rics it terms hun onfes ofwpackgs power Pearine n aos clthe few yelarns sitnce t isawae 3nd wlas '.iveAlnted ?a Jousrt waeeshing and clroeing s.o wirthb forey ad moftnth and aloull