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Tliat Terrible Sparrow. Perhaps the strongest argument against the sparrow is that he drives away the song birds. In certain cases, that is possibly true. When the com ing of song birds is encohraged by tho building of boxes for them to nest in, the sparrow is quite prone to oust the song birds and take possession ot 'the boxes. If he finds a tree to be particularly convenient, he takes pos. session of that, and so it is unfortun ately true that some of our native songster6 are rarer than they used to be. Unfortunately, hovever, the spar row is the least of the enemies of our song birds. The bobolink has become rare in New England, but it is the mowing machine and the early cut ting of hay, not the sparrow, that has dnven him away, and elsewhere it is to the small boy and the purveyor of the restaurant, who go out to kill everything and anything that has got wings that we owe the disappearanco, of our song birds, much more than to the sparrow. - In Europe song birds and sparrows thrive together, and for one tong bird that is native to the United States, there are at least ten or twenty that are abundant in Europe. In ths United States we have few song birds,. and they ought to be protoctedagainst all enemies, even the sparrow; but in Europe the larks, the finches, the nightingales, find no difficulty in liv ing in the neighborhood of the spar row, and in this country, if we would take away the gun from the small boy and put the purveyor of the restar rant in jail, it is probable that our song birds would flourish quite well in spite of the sparrows. -Our Animal Friends. Manufacture ot Wild Men. There are many curious trades in the world, but the most strange must surely be the "artificial manufacture of wild men." Yet a well known doc tor in China has just certified from his own personal experience that this ait is regularly practiced in the flowery kingdom. First a youth is kidnapped, then bit by bit he is flayed alive, and the skin of a dogor bear grafted, piece by piece, upon him. His vocal chords are next destroyed by the action of charcoal to make him dumb; and tht double purpose of causing "etiola tion" of the skin and utter degrada tion of the mental faculties is effected by keeping him immured in a per fectly dark hole for a number of years. In fact, by treating him like a brute for a sufficiently long time he is made into one. At last he is exhibited to the en tirely'credulous Chinese as a wild man of the woods, and his possessors reap a rich harvest. The priests, it seems, are adepts at the art. When a kidnapper, however, is caught by the people he is torn to pieces, and when the authorities get him they torture him and promptly behead him. Such is life under the rule of the son of heaven. The~:nani who considers himself all wool and a yard wide wants to make himself felt.-Galveston News. Always Cures , or tise ~ , ad Breath, Debl Fating, and all evl aiin from a rakor disordered stomach. 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Tens of thonsard.d of siekieds! What shall we do with them? Shall man, with his rough hand and havy foot and imroatient bearing. minister? No. h- cannot soothe the pain. Hle cannot quiet the nerves. He knows not where to set the light. His hand is not steady enough to pour out the drops. He Is not wakeful enough to be a watcher. The Lord God sent Miss Dix into the Virginia hospitals, and the Maid of Saragossa to ap pease the wounds of the battlefleld. and has equipped wife, mother and daughter for this delicate but tremendous mission. You have known men who have despised women. but the moment disease fell u pon them they did not send for their friends at the bank, or their partner in business, or their worldly associate. Their first cry was, "Take me to my wife!" The dissipated young man at the college scoffs at the idea of being under home influences, but at the first blast of the typhoid fever on his cheek he says. "Where is mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment when he said: 0 woman, in our hour of ease. Uncertain, coy and hard to please: When pain and angnish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! I think the most pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest fleld of Shunem and got sunstruck-throwing his hands on his tem 'Des and crying out: "Oh, my head! My head!" And they said, "Carry him to his mother." And then the record is. "He sat on her knees till noon, and then died." It is an awful thing to be Ill away from home in a strang.e hotel, once in awhile men com ing to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear that they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bed! How loudly they talk! How you long : for the ministries of home! I knew one such who went away from one of the brightest of 1 homes for several weeks' business absence at i the West. A telegram came at midnight that 1 he was on his deathbed far away from home. ,By express train the wife and daughters, went westward. bnt they went too late. He teared not to die, but he was in an agony to live until his family got there. He tried to* bribe the doctor to make him live a little while longer. He said. "I am willing to die, but not alone." But the pulses fluttered, the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The 1 express trains met in the midnight-wife and daughters going westward, lifeless remains of husband and father coming eastward. Oh. It was a zad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle! 1 When we are sick, we want to be sick at home. When the time comes for us to die, !we want to die at home. The room may be very humble, and the faces that look into ours may be very plain, but who cares for that? Loving hands to bathe the temples, Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus. In our last dreadful war men cast the can non; men fashioned the musketry; men cried to the hosts, "Forward, march!" men hurled their battalions on the sharp edges of the enemy, crying, "Charge, charge!" but , 'woman'scraped the lint; woman adminis-. tered the cordials; woman watched by the dying couch: woman wrote the last message to the homs circle; woman wept at the soli tary burial attended by herself and four men with a spade. We greeted the general home with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the story is too good to be written anywhere, save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady. who came down among the sick in the swamps of the Chicka hominy; of Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who came to men who had been for weeks with their wounds undressed, some of them frozen to the ground, and when she turned them over those that had an arm left waved it and filled the air with their "Hurrah!" of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago with blan kets and with pillows, until the men shouted: "Three cheers for the Christian commission! God bless the women at home ;" then, sit ting down to take the last message: "Tell my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me In heaven. Tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well. Tell her we shall meet again in the good land. Tell her to bear my loss like the Christian wife of a Christian soldier," and of Mrs. Shelton. into whose faco the convalesent solder looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne cured me." Men did their work with shot and shell and carbine and howitzer, women did their work with socks and slippers and ban-dages, and warm drinks, and'Scripture texts, and gentle strokings ofthe hot temples, and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said. "On which side did you fight?" Women koit chva vva eu &. woum. ed and said: "W tiere are you hurt? What nice t'hin:g can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?' To-night, while we men are sound asleep in our blaes. there will be a light in yonder joft: there will be groaning in that dark alley; there will he cries of dis tress in that cllar. Men wilt sleep', and women will watch. Again, woman has a saceriative right to take care; of' tac poor. There' are ihundreds and thous ::ai of them in nii ou~r cities. There is a kind of wocrk that men cannot do for the poor- .cr 'ercmes a group of little bar-foot children' to thbe door of the Doreas Society. They need to be clothed and pro vided for. Whi-:h of these directors of banks wvould knaow how many yards it would take to make that littie girl at dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that little girl's head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way. and it falls like the fruit of a tree in the East, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. But woman glides so softly into the house of destitution, and fnois out all the sorrows of the plac'e. and puts so quietly the donation on the table, that all the faily come out on the front steps as she departs, expecting that from under 1her shawl she~ will thrust out two wings and go right up toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down. 0 Christian young woman. if you would make yourself happy and win the blessing of Christ, go out among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bun-ile of socks may make a homely load to carry. but the angels of God will come out to watch, and thte Lord Almkhty will give His mews-enger hosts a charge, saying: "Look after that woman. Canopy her with your wir gs and shelter her from all harm," and while you are seated in the house of destitution and sutiering the little ones around the room will whisrer: "Who is she? Ain't she beautiful?" and if you listen right sharply. you will hear drip ping down the leaky roof and rolling over tne retten stairs tnle an::;e cenant that shook Bethlehom."Glory to God in the highest. and on 'arth pece,'.good will to men." 'Can y.ou tell me why a Christian woman, going dlown among the 'haunts of iniquity on a Christian errand, never meets with any inttignikv? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chainaes. the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chainm-rs. in the most aband oned part of the city of Edinburgh. and I said to her as I looked around upon the fearful surround ings of that place'. "Do you come here nights to hold service?" "Oh. yes." she said. "Can it hv- roassible that you never meet with an insult while perlorming this Christian er rand?" "Never.'' she said. "Never." 'That young woman who has her father by her side walkic g down the street. an armed policeman at each corner of the street. is not so well defended as that Christian who goes forth on gospel work into the haunts of ini quity, carrvinag the Bibles and bread. God. with the right arm of His wrath omnipotent. would tear to pieces anyon~e who should offer indignity. He would smite him with light nings and drown him with floods and swal low him with earthquakes and damn him with eternal indignation. Some one said; "I disli!:e very much to see that Christian1 woman teaching those bad boys inathe mis shea school. I am afraid to have her instruct them." "So," said another man, "I am afraid, too." Snid th"' llrst. "I am afraid they will usce vile languace before they leave the' pla'ce." "Ah." said the otner man. "I am not afraid of that! What I am afraid of is that, if any of those hoys should use a bad word in that presence, the other boys would tear him t o pieces and kill him on the spot." Tha woman i. be seltered who is shel etenby omriptoen'Me. anT it fr alwsys safe .o go where God tells you to go. It seems s if the Lord had or-iained woman for an special work in the solicitation of charities. Backed un by barrels In which there is no lour. andby stoves in which there is no fire, Lad wardrobes in wbich there are no clothes I woman is irresistible. Passing on her triand, God says to her, "You go nto that bank or store or shop ad get the money." She goes in and gets t. The man is hard fisted, but she gets it. 5he could not help but get it. It is decreed rom eternity she should get it. No need of rour turning your back and pretending you lon't hear. You d: hear. There is no need )f your saying you are begged to death. [here Is no need of your wa=ting your time, .nd you might as well submit first as last. rou had better right away take down your :hockbook. mark the number of the check. Tir up tie blaak, siga your nane andl hand t to her. There is no need of wasting time. Chose poor children on the bark street have een hungry long enough. That sick man nust have some farina. That consumptive nust have something to ease his cough. I neet this delegate of a relief society coming )ut of the store of such a hard fisted man, ind I say, "Did you get the money?" "Of ,ourse." she says, "1I got the money. That's vhat I went for. The Lord told me to go n and get it. and He never sends me on a col's errand." Again. I have to tell you that itis woman's ipeiflc right to ccmfort under the stress of lire disaster. She is calleL the weaker ;el, but all profane as waell aq sacred history Lttsts that when the crisis comes she is bet er prepared than man to meet the emer ;ency. How often you have seen a woman vho seemed to Oe a- trisple of rnvoilty an dolence. who, under o:e stroke of calam ty, changed to a heroine! Oh. what a great nistake those business men make who never ell their business troubles to their wives! Mhere comes some great loss to their store or ;ome of their companions in business play hem a sad trick, and they carry the burden di alone. H1e is asked in the household gain and again. "What is the matter?" but ie believes it a sort of Christian duty to keep al that trouble within his own soul. Oh, ir. vour flrst duty was to tell your wife di about it. She perhaps might not have isentangled your 11nances or extended rour credit. bui she would have helped ;ou to bear misfortune. You have no right o carry on one shoulder that which is in ended for two. There are business men who mow what I mean. There comes a crisis in our affairs. You struggle bravely and long, y-t after awhile there comes a day when rou say. "Here I shall have to stop," and mou cai'Ta your partners, and you call in :he most promrinent tnen *n your employ, ind you say, 'e have to stop."' You leave :he store suddenly. You can scarcely make ip your mind to pass through the street and er on bridge or on tho ferryboat. You eel everybody will be looking at you, and amlng. you, and denouncing you. You 2asten home. You tell your wife all about :he affairs. What does she say? Does she play the butterfly? Does she talk about the ilks, and the ribbons, and the fashions? No. Ihe comes up to the emergency. She quails aot under the stroke. She helps you to he gn to plan right away. She otTers to go out :f the comfortnhin iniLsO into it smaller one id wear the old eioak another winter. She s one who understands your affairs without bamin yon. You look upon what you hought was a thin, weak woman's arm holding you up, but while yon look at that irm there comes iuto the fe',ble muscles of t the strength of the eternal God. No chld ng. No fretting. No tolling you about the beautiful house of her father. from which ;ou brought her, ten, twenty or thirty years go. You say: "Well, this is the happiest lay of my life. I am glad I have got from under my burden. My wife don't care-I lon't care." At the moment you were ut erly exhausted God sent a Deborah to meet the host of the Amalakites and scatter them ike chaff over the plain. There are sometimes women who sit read ing sentimental novels. and who wish that they had some grand field in which to dis play their Christian powers. Oh. what grand and glorious things they could do If they only had an opportunity! My sister, you aed not wait for any suca time. A crisis wll come in your affairs. There will be a 'hermopye in your own household, where Qod will tell you to stand. There are hun reds of households where as much courag~e is demanded of woman as was exhibited by race Darling or Marie Antoinette or .Toa~n of Arc. Woman Is further endowed to bring us Into the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for woman to be a Christian than for a man. Why? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine love. The fact that she can more easily become a . Christian I prove by the tatement that three-ourths of' the members of the churce in all Christtendom are women. So God appoints themi to be the chief agencies for bringing this world back to God. The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms. They are preached with an audience of two or three and u private home life. A patient, loving, Christian demeanor in the presence of trans gression, in the presence of hardness, in the presence of obduracy and crime, is an argu ment from the force of which no man can escape. Lastly, one of the specifne rights of woman is. through the grace of Christ. finally to reach heaven. Oh, what a multitude of women in heaven'. Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven; Elizabeth Ery a heaven, Char lotte Eliza'oeth in heaven, the mother of Augustine in heaven, the Countess of Hunt ingdon, who sold her splendid jewels to build chaels. in heaven,wltiin a great many others 'who have never neen heaird of on earth or known but littie have gono to the rest and pece of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window, the glass broken out, and the aching side ad wornout eyes, to the "house of mnany mansions!" No more stitch ing until 12 o'clock at night, no more thrust ing of the thumb by the ehmployer through the work to show that it was not done quite right. Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for aching heads. Heaven for broken hearts. Heaven for anguish bitten frames. No more sittig up until midnight for the coming of staggering steps. No more rough blows aros the temples. No mere sharp, keen, bitter curses. Some of you will havo no rest in this world. It will be toil and struggle and suf fering all the way up. You will have to stand at your door fighting back the wolf with your own hand, red with earnage. But God has a crown for you. I want you to realize that He is now making it. and whenever y.ou weep a tear He sets another gem in that crowni; when ever you have a pang of body or soul He puts another gem into that crown, until, after awhile, in al11 the tiara there will be no room for another splendor, and Ge-l will say to His angel, "The crown is done; let her up that she may wear it." And: as the Lord of righteousne'ss puts the crown upon your brow angel will cry to angel. "Who is she?" and Christ will say: " wil tel you who she is. She is the~ one that came up out of greet trnibuiti'n anid had her rob' washed and made wbite in the blood ofi the Lam." And then God will spread a banquet, and He will invite all the princip)alities of heaven to sit at the ':&. and the tatds will bluhi with the best elu:s:rs fro:m the vine yards of God. and erimson with th" twelve iannerof fruits from the iree of life, and wm'rs from the fo'utain 'f the rook will flash from the 7;olden la:nkardls. and the ol harmera of heaven will sit there, making lu; with their harps. and Christ wvill point you out amid the celebr ities~ 'of heaven, say ing: 'She suffered with 31' 'on earth. Now we are going to be glorified toge'themr." And the anqueters, no longer ale to hold their peace. will break fortt' with .on.gratuilationl: HiI! Hal!" And ther''vwll b~e ha~nd wrings on the w:,l!---not su--h a struck the Persiia nobl.man with horror. but with lirA ipel lingers. writin; in blazing capitals or ight and love and '.i'ery "''d has wiped 'avay r.ll tears from aill face;." A Use for Condemtid (ilnS. Lnst week we mntione that the Lesaon (Penu-) U'nit and Nut Com-' pan had received two car loads oE conemnel cauuon from the United States, It was the,purposo to break them up and use the metal for mer ontile purpuose. Since then the firm 's received inquiries from all over the state ,romaGrand Armnyposts, ask jog the privilege of buying the guns Io decoration purposs The dte nud from this source created con -iderale surprise, and the firm has dcidd to let'the Grand Army people ite them rather than meclt up the metat. -The Manufacturerb BILL ARP'S LETTERe HE WRITES TN DEFENSE OF MOTHERS AND WIVES. Believes That Women Should Have the Same Rights the Men Have. Another woman killed-killed by her bus band. And another and another, Four horri ble murders within a few days past. When, will thit thing stop? We don't read of any bus bands murzderdl by their wives. Is the world getting worse? Ia the devil turned loose in this gouthern coutry? Before the war uoman was more honored, luore respected than she is now She stood side by side with her husband as his equal psrmner in everything that became a "ife or a mother. Marriage vows were serious and solemn prom.ises then and they were generally observed, but now the vow, when recited by the minister, seerrs a mere formality and is soon forgotten. Tnie ceremony, the maids of honor, the troueseau, the attendants and the falsome description in the morning's paper are of more consequence. Fast women and fastet men are married nowadays, but not mated. "Who giveth this woman away?" said the preacher, and a fast young man in the gallery whispered to his companion: "I could, but I won't." B-fore thd war maidenly modesty was at a premium, but now in society it is at a dis count. A girl must be fast to attiact attention and catch a lover. The purity of both is sus pected; purity of thonght and person and ence divorces follow right along in the wake of marriages. They have increased largely in late years. A suit for divorce was a rare thing in the days of our fathers. So was a separation, so were suicides, so was a case of lunacy. Some say that these things were as common as now, but we did not hear of them, for there were few news papers and no telegraph. This is a great mis take. Since the war divorces have doubled and lunatics trebled according to our white population and suicides follow right along with them. The race between crime and morality is neck and neck, especially In our cities. How many weeping women who have been deserted by their husbands! How many are supporting vagabonds whom they call husband! How many are enduring oppression and cruelty that they dare not disclose! Only a few days ago a man was tried in our court for best'ng his wife. He pleoded guilty, thinking to get off lightly, and, when interrogated by the judge, sad he only slapped her twice. The pitiful wife was there and the judge asked her if he slapped her often. She reluctantly answered: "Yes, sir, whenever he gets mad." "Does he ever beat you or kick you?" said the judge. ' Ye.i, sir," she said. Her answers satisfied his honor that he waa a brute and he sentenced him to the chaingang for the full term. A trifling young man married the daughter of one of my tenants. After a few months he told a neighbor that he couldn't do nothin' at all with her and was gwine to take her back to the old man. Said he: "I have whooped her and whooped her and it don't do her a bit of good." That is the idea that thousands of men have of the marriage state. Dominion on his part and slavery on hers. Alas! for the women the credalous. unsuspreting girls who tied themselves in matrimonial chains to such men. No wonder we ca!l them chains, for the wife cannot break them whcn she chooses, though the husband can. Will the time never come when the breaking of the marriage vow by the man shall entail upon him the same disgrace that follows the unfaithful wife? When will woman stand side by side with man? There was a time in the blesse:1 past when it was al most universal for h er to receive homage and protection from husbanl and father and broth er and children. The idea of womin suffrage was then not entertained. She had love and support and protection. and that was all she wanted. But now a sad and serious chqnge has come over the condition of woman. There are thousands who cannot marry and have neither support nor'/pro'ection, and hence they have to become bread winners and protect themselves. They are in the stores, the shops, the counting rooms and school houses all over the land. They are doing the business of the men and should have the rights and .privileges of the men in secular affairs. As John Tem pe Graves said in his beautiful address at Athens, the arguments in favor of woman suf fram'e cannot he answered. Tlet:ials of a woman'st married lire are aw ful to contemplate. The pains and perils of maternity-the constant care of children mn in fancy and youth--the watchful days and sleeplers nights. The not nfrequent loss of a husband's love when she has her charms. The grief over a wander ing son or an unfortunate daughter. Her helplessness in poverty or old age or sickness. Her liability to feminise diseases to which the men are not subject. Her constant confinemient at home or her house, or it may be her prison. When all these perils are considered,is ii not a wonder that any thoughtful woman will ven ture upon that sea that has wrecked so many of her sex? If trouble and .grief could be measured or weighed, there is no bin large enough to hold that of many a hoart-broken wife and mother. if she falls it is nine cases out of ten the sin or the fault of a man. Woman loves attention, admiration, praise, homage, caresses, and if she does not get a moiety of thess at home sometimes she looks for them abroad. This is her feminine nature. But, of course,- there is another side to the picture. Marrisges are not always failures. There is no godlicr sight in all nature than a consierate, loving husband and wife going down the vale together loved by their children and grandchildren. To them life was not a curse nor marriage a disappointment. Neither money nor fine clothes nor a carriage at the door will scea conjugal happiness. Nothing but duty-conscientious, thoughtful duty--and the performance of every sc'ntilla of the mar riage vows will insure it.--BLn ARP, in At lanta Constitution. SELECT SIF~TINUS. Tue Atlantic Ocean takes its name from Mount Atlas. The water in the Strait of Gibraltur is 150 fathoms deep. The cost of beconiing a naturalized Englishman is about $30 The sea is estimated to contain 2,250,000,000 cubic miles of water. Twenty million dollars' worth of bank-notes leave the Bank of England daily. Rtico paper is not made from rice, but from the membranes of the bread fruit tree. The Ferris wheel is being put up Rgain in Chicago, nd ilb ed for business by fall. Like all people with whom the heard is scanty, the Indians regard it as a blemish and pluck it out. Jacob Fogel, of Perry, Ind., has been exhibiting with pride a hen's eg: weighing a quarter of a pound. The Grecks have two places of wor ship in New York City, where the sier vice is carried on in the Greek tongue. Tvwo New York public school teach r who are twins look so much alike that they are obliged to wear different colors to avoid embarrassing sitixa tios. The Japanese begin building their houses at the top. The roof is tirst h ilt and elevated on a skeleton frame. Then it affords shelter to the workmen from storms. Acceording to Dr. Kukula there are 119 untiversities in the world with 157,53 students. Berlin with 7771 students is the largest and Uirbino wit b seventy-four the smalles;. The only monstrosity mentioned an Ithe Bible ~was the giant who had "six finers on every hand and on every foot six~ toes, four-and-tweflty in all." See II. Samuel xxi.20 anperstitions dite nard. Ak noy was born with a caul in Clapham Jaunction, England, recently, and his father has sued the woman doctor who was called in for keeping the caul. He said it was wor th10i:or $1 to him. The wheat erop or F'rance ior rnis year How to Make a Novel Mouse Trap. Mice are very knowing little an nals and are often too shrewd to I -aught by even the best steel trap: Lo make a very effective mouse tra ake a large jar-the kind used f< am and preserves-and tie over tl op a piece of stiff brown paper. I he center of this cat a cross. Set th ar in a closet and suspend by a strin ? piece of toasted cheese or bacc rind over the centre. If the mu -annot easily reach the top of the ji a runway may be constructed by pla ing one end of a board on the edge the jar and allowing the other end rest on the floor. If there are a1 mice about the bait will attra them. Just as soon as the first mon reaches the centre of the paper I THE HOME-MADE M01= T". will drop through into the jar, and I paper will fly back ready for the n comer. The same kind of a trap may ased for catching rats, only a bar must be substituted for the jar. rat will soon gnaw out of such a ti if not prevented. The best way avoid this is to fill the barrel par with water. This trap is a great vorite with country people. They a good-sized stone or brick in the b tom of the barrel, and pou- in j enough water to come level with top -ot this. The first rat that tu bles in. of course, climbs on the br to get out of the water. As soon another victim arrives there is a fi for possession of the only dry sp The noise attracts other rodents, by morning a dozen or more may swimming and squealing and fight: for dear life. How to Tell the Key. "Amateur musicians often are sor what embarrassed by the unexpeci query as to what key a piece of mu is in when playing in company," marked a well-known music teach "They can tehs on a little reflecti< but an array of four'or five sharps fats is apt to temporarily confusei best of them. "Here is a simple little guide or minder which, if rehearsed a times, will always keep them ris and ready to make a quick respons< suh a question: "In shiarps just dot down this 8 tence, the capital letter beginning ei word representing an additional sha from one to. six: 'God Deluged Earth By Flood.' In flats the s rule obtains in* connection with t amusing line: 'Fanny Baker EatsJ ple Dumplings Greedily."-Phailai phia Record. The Tarantula. The tarantula is a giant spid sometimes measuring four inches length. It is fawn-colored above, w white sides, marked with -whit lines. It has four pairs of well-develoj egs, in addition to the maudibles jaws, which contain the poison appa tus. These are grooved, and the pc onous secretict, which is similar composition to the venom of snad is contained in a gland at the base the mandibles and is forced throt the grooves when the spider is an; and grasps its victim. The body legs are thickly covered with hair. Although the bite of the tarant can hardly be classed as deadly, it always extremely painful, and. probably in some cases caused deat The tarantula is remarkable b for its fierceness and its extraord ary swiftness. By the use of ei long and vigorous legs it .dashes o the ground, and as these legs are sh and prehensile, it can run up a j '' THI IsA ANTLA pendicuar surface with great ei No one need therefore be surprised see a tarantula ran up from the gro1 to his chin. The tarantula catches small bi mice and insects, It is able to use poison with greater relative effect these than on man and other large i mals. British offcialdomi believes in I salaries. The Victoria Legislatur4 cetly reduced the Governor's sal from $50,000 to S25,000, which t thought a good compensation for hard times in the colony. A pro: protest came from the home offic the effect that the latter figure too low, and the obliging coloi have raised it to $35,000. The ( ernor is one of the oflicials which British Government doe.~s not allow colonists to elect. Hyglenic Luncheons for Pupils. !. The hygienic luncheons furnished e from the New England Kitchen of 5. Boston, to a number of the public p school pupils are planned on a scien r tifio basis, and designed to contain Le the proper amount of proteids, fat, n carbohydrates and calorios for bod e ily nourishment. These luncheons, g which cost five and ten cents, consists n of. soups, with crackers or bread, sand :e wiches, with or without meat, of white tr and of wholesome bread, crackers or bread and milk of the best quality, >n ager cookies, buns, gingerbread or to fruit. The scups served are tomato Ly soup, fish chowder, pea and potato At soup, barley, corn and clam. A se marked improvement has been ob ie served by parents and teachers in the condition of the pupils who partake of the luncheons regu larly. Some such plan as that now carried out by the Boston school au thorities has for some time been in the minds of thoughtful educators who have realized for growing boys and girls to renrain without food from eight in the morning until one or two o'clock in the afternoon was treating neither body nor brain in the right way. The luncheons are served in the basements of the different school buildings, where only a simple ahd inexpensive otitfit is necessary. as the food is cooked and delivered from the "Kitchen." The funds for 'Putting the experiment in motion were con tributed by citizens interested in the public schools. -New York Post. His Prescription. Commenting on the general ten dezicy of humanity to indulge in fan cied diseases, a well-known doctor of Philadelphia says that half his pa he tients were not in the slightest need xt of medicine. Some of them, he said, were tired and worn oat; but all they be needed was a little rest, and if he re rel fnsed to prescribe he would surely be A discharged. He has a special remedy .ap for all such cases, and while the pre to scription looks formidable, the ly apothecary understands it as a little fa- bread with just enough soap added to ay give it flavor and to keep the bread in ot. the form of a pill.-Philadelphia Rec ast ord. the .M DTamonds-In the Buins. i Over four hundred diamonds are ,ht known to have been recovered from A the ruins of Babylon, Many are unz s ot..-Colntbus Dispatch. be _ __ ing ng iorgia peaches by the carload are on tme move. ;ed gA re-I or $ * Every housekeeper w *things to eat, andl ht $ ** "The Royal Baker rp, e+ Contains One thous me * every kind of cookii his * Rudmani, New-Yo e -* Free by mail.' Add: * mentioning this pape * er, D OYAL BAKIN * >is- Foolish Birds of Paagonia. in Some bir.s in Patagonia have a foot :es, ish habit of roosting lowi down, close of to the ice, and in the morning may rgh somnetimes be seen the cnrious sight of 1ry scores of these unfortunates with their tnd tails fast frozen into the ice. There they are compelled to remain until the nla anut, by the process of meltinir therm is out, liberates the prisoners.--Chicago liSB TCnies-Herald. :>th .Toseph H. Choato's ree for arguing against n the inooie tax before the Supreme Court htwas $1l50,000. ver To Cleans She System P Eirectually yet gently, 'when costive or b!!lous, >er- r we th blood is impure or slugglsh,to per marnertly cure habitual constipation, to awak en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity. wthout irritating or weakening them, to d. pei headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrr- of S. X. Coburn, Mgr., clare Scott, weites : N' lind IHaLs Uatarra '.ara a valuable remedy.t DruggI-ta setlt it, 7ic. The Ibeviving Vowers of Park er's Ginzer rnenic make it the need of every home. Stom meh treutnes, colds and all distress yield to it. Tebacco User's Sore Throat. 7ts so -cromron that every tobacco user 1-as an irritated throat that gradually devel or.e ir.Lo a s.erious conditioD. frequently con sump~tioni. andi it's the kind of a sore throa1 Ibat never gels well as long as you use to 1acco. '*jh tobacco habit, sore throat and JA~ inmanhood cured by No-Tc-Enae. Sold and . puarateed to cure by Druggists everywhere. . (4e l itild "on't Tobacco S pit or Smok4 Your Life Awayv.' free. Ad. Sterling Rem. edy Ce., New lork City or Chicago. TiThRsian Government Is coining the 6O0Ai0,! 00 rubles or gold' It owns, which ive.rk. will take much ever a year. This is thon:ght to point to a posible adoption of a _. go'd. standard. i se. .__--__-_ Ito - 1OTHERS ind --recov ering from 'A - the illness -at d tending child its -' birth, or who suf onl - '.. */fer from the ef mi-, fects of disorders, e derangements - and displace ugh j 'I; ments of the wo igh lamanly organs, r- '' will find reliel ary and a permanent cuiz in Dr. Pierce's hey avorite Pre-scriptionl. Taken during the pregnancy the "Prescription" mpt 1AKES c'iLDBlRTHi EASY B to by preparing the system for parturition, was thus assisting Nature and shorteming ists "'labor." The painful ordeal of child -- birth is robbed of its terrors, and the the dangers thereof greatly lessened, to boti the ' mrothxer and child. The period of con efinement is also greatly shortened, the mother strengthened and built up, ancE of an abundant secretion of nourishmei 'ofofr ihc child promoted. a" From Byho00 l%~om ae Be4 Win, Mfinn, REepublican #* am now twenty-four years old," saI Edwin Swanson, of White Bock, Goodhue County, inn., to a Eppublican repreetr tive, "and is you can see Iam not verylare of stature. When I was eleven years old I beeame aMicted with a sickness which bat-; Aed the skillandknowledge of thephyldan. X was not taken suddenly ill but on the con-' trary I can hardly state the exact time when it began. The first symptoms were pains In my back and restless mights. The disease did not trouble me much at first, but it seemed to havesettled in my body to say and my bitter experience during the last thirteen years proved that to be the case. I was of course a child and never dreamed\ of' the suffering In store for me. I complained. to my parents and they concluded that in, time I would outgrow my trouble, but when they heard me groaning during my sleep they became thoroughly alarmed. Medical advice was sought but to no avail; I grew, rapidly worse and was soon unable to move about and finally became confned continu ally to my bed. The best doctors that could be had were consulted, but did nothing fe me. I tried various kinds of extensively af vertised patent medicines with but the same result. "For twelve long years I was thus a suf ferer in constant agony without respite, abscesses formed on my body in rapid suo ession and the world indeed looked vety dark to me. About this time when all hope. was gone and nothing seemed left but to re sign myself to my most bitter fate my atten tion was called to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. for Pale People. Like a drowning man gasping at a straw,in sheer desperation Icon eluded to make one more attempt-not to re gain my health (I dare not to hope so much) but If possible to ese my paL. "I bought a box of the pills and they seemed to do me good. I felt encourage& - and continued their use. After takine sir boxes I was up and able to walk around the house. I have nct felt so well for thirteM years as during the past year. Only one year have I taken Dr. Williams' Pink PIs and I am able now to do chores and attiend to light duties. "Do I hesitate to let you publish what I have said? No. Why should I1 It is the truth and I am only too glad to let other suf ferers know my experience. It may help those whose cup of misery is as full to-day as mine was in the Dast." Dr. Williams' Pink Pitls contain, in a con densed form, all the elements necessary ao give new life and riehness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiarto femiles, such as suppressions. irregulatrities and all Torms of weakness. They tuibl up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effeet a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over work or excesses of whaterer nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists. or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Mcdikine Company, Schenectady, N. Y it is reported that Frank E. 1. Woodward, who went to Cuba to join the revolutionists' determined to "make a reputation or die in the attempt," has realized his ambition. He was killed in the fight at Baca de Dos Bios, where Marti.Jell. ants to know the best tow to prepare them. * and P'astry Cook.' * and useful r'ecipes for * ig. Edited by Prof. t rk Cooking School. * --- ess (writing plainly), ' G POWDER CO. 6 Wall Street, N. Y. $ I nesagnflea C csareanerszaamns bowl ing alongon a bicyefe is one of the sights of N(ot So Convenient. Physicians indorse Ripans Tabules by pro. rcrihing the remedies tby '-ontain, but is. fonn not so convenient, inexpensive and s curte asin Ripans Tabules. I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure for Consumpltin.--Mrs. FRac Mosss, IEla W. 22d Street, New York, N. Y. The Greatest fledical Discovery4 of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBU'RY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common pimtple. He has tried It in over eleven hundred eases, and never~failed except In two essec (both thunder humor). He has now In his possession over two hundred certifi cates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston, Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect care is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes ahooting pains, like needles passin"' through them; the eame with the Liver or Bowels. This is causel by the duets being stopped, and always disaopears in a week after taking It. Bead the labeL. If the stomach is foul or billous Ji cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. 'a the best you can get, and enough of It. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. Notice to Mill Men fCIno m -- SA Mi n x ctnc to- y. sa man fctured by',. Ite5MA Cli t i)l 06['fr - .O . tip to the targ..-st. Pric.e renced. Scnut for cata Pders ana stfting and all kinds of mill suppl.cs. TO A7()ID TflIS TOmi Do TETTERINE r~ he o-rr paintess and hrls S TeTit r. R~v rmnuglyrhpth AT Groiund itch. chiares, chaps, pim- - - e. Pouon f om ior poi'ouoa. *txa..s or ech to J. T. ESouptrioa Sarannah Ga.. for one bor. if .)UI druggit &on't keopi. Coegh Syrup. Tates Go.Use in im. sldby4ru