The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, June 18, 1895, Image 5
- 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
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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
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Prominently in the public eye. _
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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.
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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
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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]
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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.
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