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WILD HOGS. Pierce and Aggressive Animals in Louisiana Canebrakes, They Are Captured With one Aid of Trained Dogs. In Louisiana the hunting of wild hogs is not as exciting as the boar hunts of the Black forest of Germany. In the latter country the sport is attended with considerable danger to the sportsman; in Louisiana all the hunter need do is to sit on the fence and watch the dogs as they attend to the business. In Catahoula county is a peculiar breed of canines know as the hog dog. Their ancestors herded and hunted wild hogs many years ago, and so strongly has the instinct been developed that the' present strain needs no training whatever. They take as naturally to -"rounding up" wild hogs as a spaniel to water. The wild hog of the Louisiana cane brake is an animal to be shunned by every one not clad in steel armor. He is as fierce as a mountain lion and ab solutely tireless in a fight; very ag gressive, and needs only a hint to arouse his fighting temper. Louisiana hunters treat the wild hog with great respect until he is securely trapped. Then they shoot and eat him.- In the thick woods of Catahonla county are large herds of these wild razor-back hogs. To hunt them afoot, even when armed with a rifle, is an unpleasantly dangerous sport. A good marksman might easily kill one wild hog, but if charged by a drove the top of the nearest tree would be the safest re treat for him. At the same time, the flesh of the wild hog is very good-if there is no wild turkey-and so this is the way the shrewd Louisiana planters secure their quarry. The trained hog dog, at a signal of his master, goes scurrying off in the woods much as a sheep dog goes after a flock of lambs. The dog beats about, barking and yelping furiously. Wild hogs object to the society of dogs, and so before long a herd of wild hogs is rounded up prepared to argue the question. The dog, still barking loudly, pretends to rush furiously at the hogs. He is trained to do : Uat. When a few yards away he turns and retreats. The hogs accept the chal - - lenge and give chase. On the out skirts a t the woods a large pen is built, with one gate. If the dog is a good one-and all hog dogs are said by Louisiana hunters to be good-he .has .no trouble in leading the infuriated razor-backs directly to this corral. The dog dashes into the corral, the wild hogs, blind with rage and anger, following closely behind. Once within the bars the dog jumps over the high fence, while the hunter, who has been sitting patiently all the time an the fence, jumps down, shuts the gate. and the wild hogs are prisoners, They cannot jump the fence, which is the only re straint that baffles an agile razor back.. .Wild hogs are very dangerous when wounded. Instances of rash hunters being killed by a herd have not been infrequent. The hogs have very [long fangs, which they use as fiercely as the incisors of a tiger. It is said that wild hogs will eat human flesh with great relish and once they have tasted it their appetite for it is as insatiable as a maneating tiger. They Sell a Horse a Minute. The bicycle enthusiast who thinks horses are going out of fashion would learn something to his advantage by spending an hour in the auction ring of the Kansas City Stock Yards Horse and Mule Market. The boast is made that in that ring a horse: changes ownership every minute, and the boast is made-good four days a week, as the following figures prove. From 200 to 250 horses are sold in the ring be tween 10 a. mn. and 12 m. and 1 p. mn. and 4 p. mn. on these days. There are 300 minutes in the selling hours, but some of these are wasted at the begin ning of every session, so that it aver ages a horse a minute nll the year around.' This is said to be the busi est horse auction ring in America. As a rule, working and ordinary driv ing horses are sold under the hammer, but occasionally a lot of "blooded" stock is shown in the ring, compris ing saddlers and trotters.--Kansas City Star. Suing for Graveyard Grass. A year or two ago, says London Truth, the R~ev. John 'Vallencey, a Church of England clergyman, sued a young lady for damaging his "hay crop." His "hay" grew in the village churchyard and the damage caused by the young lady consisted in trimming the grass on her sister's grave. V'al lencey was non-suited, but he did not profit by the experience, for he has just brought another suit on the same lines against one of his church wardens who cut dow:n and 'removed the knee deep grass that had. been allowed to grow in the same cemetery, Vallen cey wants the value of the crop. "It is not," says Truth, "edifying, this spectacle of the village clergyman seeking to gather a crop of hay from the hallowed soil where the village dead are buried and going to law to r-cv- the vialu of it" Lava Caves of the Azores. The formation of caves in a lava I stream is a curious process, and one wKihiz the e_nlorer will be interested to realize as his investigations pro ceed ; and in these islands it has some remarkable and perfect illustrations. It will be understood that the stream of molten matter proceeding ordinarily from a volcano soon begins to cool ex ternally as it travels. But with a great stream, say thirty or forty feet thick, a long time passes before it becomes finally cooled and solid to its centre. A large body of melt ed lava still remains liquid in its interior, forming as it were a huge conduit, or tubo full of the white hot matter. As this accu mulates by the continued supply from above, the vast pressure of the liquid on the lower end of the stream in creases. The effect may be easily im agined. The solid crust at the front of the flow breaks out; the melted interior rushes on again,and the great tube is emptied of its contents so far as they remain liquid, leaving behind a hollow cavern which may, and occa sionally does, extend for an uninter rupted length of several miles. In the course of centuries subsequent erup tions may deposit new beds of cinder or ash or new streams of lava to any extent above it;but the cave so formed may remain intact. -Outing. smallest State in the World. A correspondent of The Standard writes: '.Until the other day, I was always of opinion that the miniature republic of Moresnct-which is, perhaps, not altogether so little known as your Paris correspondent seems to think was the tiniest state in the world. It would seem, however, that Toresnet, with its 1,200 inhabitants, is almost a giant as compared with the Lilliputian republic to be mentioned. I read in The Tablet: "'Do you suppose that Monaco, or the republic of Andorra, or even that of San Marino is the smallest state in the world? If so, you will be surprised to hear-as we are- that a little island off the northeast cost of Sardinia, not far from the Bay of Terranova, and Tavolara by name, en joys that proud distinction. It is some three miles long,by about 3,130 feet in breadth, with a population o fifty-five souls. From 1836 to 1886 Tavolara was a tiny monarchy, but upon tho death of Paolo L, (and last,) and by express desire of that potentate, it beco me republican in government, with a president elected for six years, with the women voting as well as the men. Italy, we are told, recognized the microscopic republic in 1887.'" Frozen 1ilk for England. Mild and cream are now thus shipped from Denmark and Sweden to England in considerable quantities and sold as fresh milk in London a fortnight -after the fluid has been drawn from the cow. This is handled mostly in the winter months, the busi ness as one time exceeding 45,000 gallons monthly. The process of freezing the milk consists in placing it in suitable receptacles and refriger ating it until ie floating layer of frozen milk has for- :sd on the surface. Thus transpo:.:.. it is delivered fronm ship at TLondon and taken to an inter. ior point for distribution. Each day in the week a seventh of the number of barrels are emptied, over each barrel is placed a melting apparatus into which the frozen milk, then about one-ixth of the whole bulk, is packed and melted by means of hot water, so that the milk when thawed runs down into the barrel. It is thea well stirred before the tapping takes place. The empty packages are returned to Gothenburg, where they are cleaned by hot lime wvater and.also with steam. During the past winter the business fell away materially and it remains to be seen whether it will amount to much another season. -American Agri culturist. Emerald ining in the Uinited States. Emerald mining in the United States is of recent development; at Stony Point in Alexander county, North Carolina, in 1880, beautiful light col ored specimens were found, but noi in profitable quantities or of good quality. They occur in a red gravelly clay, and in the gneissoid rock of the Blue Ridge; the former a decompo sition of the latter. As crystals they are magnificent, but they have little gem value. All those obtained by the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Com pany, in a dozen years of working ai these mines, have not exceeded $15,. 000 in value. Some fifty miles we9 of Stony Point, in Mitchell county, a new locality was discovered in 1894, but none of the material afforded gems. -Washington Star. Willing to Please. New Boarder (gazing suspici OUSit on a leatherly piece of beefsteak) My teeth are very poor, Mrs. Slimdiet, and if you have anything a little more tender than this Mrs. Slindiet-Certainly, certain. -ly. Jane I This gentleman does no' eat steak. Always bring him liver. - New York Weekly. Augusta, Ga., has a population, so eording to the laetcity directory, or LAW OF Nril\ pec abc DR. TAL3IAGE'S DAY THE3t. tol the It Asserts Itself Wiit Reference to for Social or Polltirindition. Tgr:: "Whose sdt 43 thoa young ne lan?"-I Samuel ivii.-, TiB Never was there a morequal fight than that between David and 'ith David five l feet high, Goliath ten; Dsa shepherd boy brought up amid rural 2es Goliath a warrior by profession; Go a 'mountain of te braggadocio, David a m1 of humility; e Goliath armed with an i spear. David armed with a sling, with sr{ sones from b the brook. Bat you are no; despise these latter weapons. There wk reginent of slingers in the Assyrian arnd a feiment of slingers in the Egyptian iv, and they . made terrible exeeution, and.ev could cast P astone with as much accura ei foree as "ow can be sent shot or shel;The Greeks in their army had slingers whvould'throw leaden plummets inscrted w: the irritat ing words, "Tskc ihis!" So it wtt a mighty wear David em ployed in that famous comba A Jewish rabbi says that the probability -hat Goliath; was in such contempt for Dal that in: a paroxysm of laughter he thnr his head back and his helmet fell ofg, antDavid saw the uncovered forehead, and his,pportunity had come, and taking this sling .ud swinz ing it around his head two or trEe times and aiming it at that uncove'rt fireaead, crashed it in liko ah ezgsh'l!. The.atle over. behold the tableau: King Saul sti:>;, little David standing. his fingers elutc d iito the. hair of decapitated Goliath. A:.Sa'1 sees David standing there holding in hsh:nd the ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, .idcce of the complete victory over God's ersetais, the king wonders what parentage was hnored by such heroism, and in my text he asks David his pedigree, "Whose son art hou, thou young man?" The king saw wha you and I see, that this question of hereditl is a mighty one. The longer I live the more I believ in blood-good biood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood, honest blood, thiev ig blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood. The tendency may skip a generation or tva, but. It is sure to come out, as in a little chttu you sometimes see a similarity to a great-; grandfather whose picture hangs on the wall. That the physical and mental and moral qualities are inheritable is patent t o any one who keeps his eyes open. The sim ilarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary, are apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in such families may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years h.ae no power to obliterate the dif ference. The large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all the generations and is called the Hapsburg lip. The house of Stuart al ways means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuality. Witness Queen of Scotts. Witness Charles I and Charles II. Witness James I and James II and asll the other scoundrels of that line. Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fond ness for the sea. Indian blood means roam ing disposition, Celtic blood means fervid Ity, Roman blood means conquest. The Tewish facility for accumulation you may trace clear back to Abral am, of whom the Bible says. "he was rich in silver and gold and cattle," and to Isaa; and Jacoh, who had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity, and'they have. a tenacity of life positively Methuselish. Oth ers are characterized by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two generations. five generations, in all the gen-, erations. Vigorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on in the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes. Phil-f anthropy runs on in the lines of the Wilber forces. Statesmanship runs on in the mie of~ the Adamses. You see these peculiarities in~ all generaine s K en A rhrn n. biavarre religious, all their families religious. The celebrated family of Casini, all matthe '.:aticians. The celebrated family ot the Medici. grandfather, son and Catherine, all remarkab~le for keen intellect. The celebrat ed family of Gustavus Adolphus, all war riors. This law of heredity asserts itself without reference to social or political condition, for you sometimes find the ignoble in high place e.nd the honorable in obscure place. A de seendant of Edwar,l I a toll gatherer. A descendent of Edward III a doorkeeper. A descendant of the Duke of Northumberland a trunk maker. Some of the mightiest fam ilies of England are extinct, while some of those mos.t~honored in the peerage go back to an ancestry of hard knuckles and rough exterior. This law of heredity is entirely independent of social or political conditions. Then you find avarice and jealousy and sen suality and fraud having full swing in some. families. The violent temper of Frederick William is the inheritance of Frederick the Great. It is not a theory founded by world ly philosophy, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bible speaks of a. chosen generation, of the generation of the - righteous, of the generation of vipers, of an: untoward generation, of a stubborn genera tion, of the iniquity of the fathers visited! upon the children unto the third and fourth: generations? So that the test comes to-day with the force of a projectile hurled from mightiest catapult. ''Whose son art thou, thou young man?" "Wcll," says some one, "that theory dis charges me from all responsibility. Born of sanctified parents, we arc bound to be good, and we cannot help ourselves. Born or un righteous parentage, we are bound to be evil, and we cannot help ourselves." Two inaccuracies. As much as if you should say: "The centripetal force in nature has a ten dency to bring everything to the center, and therefore all come to the center. The cen trifugal force in nature has a tendency to throw everything to the periphery, and therefore everything will go out to the pen pheryv." You know as well as I know that you can make the contripetal force overcome, the centrifugal, and you can make the cn trifugal overcome the centripetal, as when there is a mighty tide of good in a family' that may be overcome by determination to evil; as in the case of Aaron Burr, the liber tine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of Pierrepont Ed wards, the scourge of New York soc:iety eighty years ago, who hatd a Christian ances try, while, on the other hand, some of the best men and women of this day are those who have come of an ancestry of which it would not be courteons to speak in their presence. The practical and useful object of this sermon is to show you that if you have come of a Christian ancestry +ha . you are solemnly hound to preserve and develop the glorious inheritance, or if you have come of a depraved ancestry then it is your duty to brace yourself against the evit tendency by all prayer and Christian determination, and you are to find out the family frailties, and in arming the castle put the strongest guard at the weakest gate. Wit:h these smooth stones from the brook I hope to strike you, not where David struck Goliath, in the head, but where Nathan struck David, in the heart. "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" There is something in all winter holidays to bring up the old folks. I think many of our thoughts at such times are set to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne." The old folks were so busy at such times in making us happy and perhaps on less resource made their sons and daughters happier than you on larger resources are able to make your sons and daughters. The snow lay two feet above their graves, but they shook off the white blankets and mingled in the holiday festivities-the same wrinkles, the same stoop of shoulder under the weight of age, the same old style of dress or coat, the same smile, the same tones of voice. I hope you remember them before they went away. It not, I hope there are those who have recited to you what they were, and that there may 'e in your house some article of dlress or furniture with which you associate their memories. I want to arouse the most sacred memories of your heart white I make the i1mpassioned interrogatory In regard to your pedigree,. "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" First I accost all those who are des~ede of a Christian ancestry. I do not ask if your ~parents were perfect. There arc nope:t people now, and I do not suppose the:-3 were any perfect people then. Perhaps there was sometimes too much blood in their eye '7hen they chastised you. But, frora what I know of you, you got no more than you deserved, and perhaps a little more chastisemtent would have been salutary. But you are willing to acknowledge. i1think, that theiy wanted to do right. From wh at you over ham-d n conversations and from what you ited iers scana old Thamar a ubt ever to be $denized 'get infected families of the earth et generated, and there will some one ar!s each family line and ooen a new ger rn logical table. There will be some Josepl got arise in the line and reverse the evil ted fluence of Rehoboam, and there will be sc nt Mary to arise in the line and reverse iwe evil influence -of Bathsheba. Perh f r the star of hope may point do :If. tG your manager. Perhaps you ou to be tb6 hero or the heroine that ou to put down the brakes and stop t -as long line of genealogical tendencies a nd switch it off on another track from that lv which it has been running for a contui us You do that, and I will promise you as 8 : a palace as the .rchitect of heaven can bui to the archway inscribed viith the words, "Mc a.' than conqueror." But, whatever your h is ediy. let me say you maybe sons n, dau* is: ters of the Lord God Almighty. i1J Estranged children from the homestea come back through the open gate of ado r t:irn. There is royal blood in our veir . thera hre crowns on our escutcheon; o: 1. father is king; our brother is king; we m; t be kings and queens unto God forever. Con a and sit down on the ivory bench of tl palace. Come and wash in the fountait ?- that fall into the basins of crystal and al; bastar. Come and look out of the uphol -- tered window upon gardons of azalea a: amaranth. Hoar the full burst of the or echestra while you banquet with potentat( y and victors. Oh, when the text sweeps bace t ward, let it not stop at the cradle that roeke your infancy, but at the cradle that roeke the first world, and when the, text sweet forward let it not stop at your grave, but a the throne on which you may reign for eve and ever. "Whose son art thou, thou youn; man?" Son of God! Heir of immortality Take your inheritance! PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Con naught are the first knights of the new Vic torian Order. Princess Helene. the Duchess of Sparta'. baby, is Queen Victoria's twenty-second grsat-grandchild. Rudyard Kipling is open to engagement a< a war correspondent. This is said to be the ambition of his life. Physically Mr. Austin is the smallest Poet Laureate Great Britain ever had. He is only a little over foor feet tall. There is a movement in Pittsburg to erect a monument to Stephen Collins Foster, the song writer, who was born in that city. Marie Corelli, the novelist, plays well on the mandolin. She is petite, the embodi ment of gentleness and cultured to a fault. The late Baron Hirsch received an average of 400 begging letters a day, and never read them, though he gave away in a single year as much as $15,000,000. It is a curious circumstance that Queen Victoria has never seen her "faithful Com mons" in session. She Is denied a spectacle that may be witnessed by the humblest of her subjects. Ex-Presiient Casimir-Perier, of France, has entered political life again, at the bot tom. having been chosen municipal coun cilor of the Commhne of Pont-sur-Seine. where his estate is. Sardou. the French playwright,is now sixty years old. but, though' wrinkled and half bald, in his elastic step and brilliant eye he is as youth ful as a boy. His earnings from his plays _.-e estimated:at $1,000,000. Captain HarryNorth,,the elder son of the "Nitrate King." is not ikely to play ducks and drakes with his fathet's millions. He is one of the class known as'"steady," and has imbibed a good deal of his father's shrewd ness in business matters. I Mrs. Abigail Bush. of Oakland, Cal., who was the firstwoman to preside ovver a woman, su_frage convention in this country, held iy 1847, is now eigity-six years old. Notwith itanding her great age she is: active and aigorous and intends to stump 'the State in he interests of woman suffrage . during the, iresent campaign. Itis sai~ that whenex-Congressman "'om' z; icc~o..hio- neemanLeAnterestod3E Ienry George's gospel of the sjinglo tax, he lid not have time to investigatofor himself? o he employed a lawyer, in whase honesty, cumen and learning he had confidence, to iplore the subject. The lawyeri, after dill ent research, duly informed -hisaclient that he single tax was right and just. From that ay to this "Tom" Johnson has b'een one of ~, e most enthusiastic of aposlsoHer c reorge. --slsoHer CYCLING NOTES. Longer cranks are becoming fashionabe, pecially with tall ridets. In France, where everybody and' every ing are taxed, bicyclists pay $2.2ija year. I There is a terror of the town in Kansas ty who reads his K'orning newsp:gper as scorches through the streets. , Tamp.er with your machine as ]ittle as ssible. Your tinkering will do no good less you are a practical mechanic. SIost riders pedal more strongly with one than the other. An uneven pedalling tion is a proliflc cause of side-slip spills. L'hera are probably more bicycles per id of white population in4ohannesburg, ath Africa, than anywheire else in the rId. L.t a recent bicycle wedding in Aurorn, :the bride was attired in dark green i omers, trimmed with gold; to match her eel. A bicycle honeymoon?tzip followed. fa collision with -a dog see:as unavoida grasp your haudle bar very :tlrmly close he steering pillar, and you Jwill proba come Out of the accident f much more lhy. he chain is a vital part of fiho wheel and more to do with the easy rdnning of the thins than any other onei thing. See , it is kept clean and have f it soaked in nee a month. :-ooklyn is far <-nd away Fahead in ad-' se of New York in tne matter of good/ Is for cyclists, thanks to Ithe energetic -ts of the riders themselves. And'the I work still continues. cycle saddles which have become :ched by use may be renovated to a cr extent by dampening the unmderside of eather. This will cause it to shrink and e saddle is not too badly out: of shape. 11, after treatment, be nearly,as goodtLas sorts of attempts have been, made to Brt Mrs. Cleveland to cycling, and if ranted to ride she could ride, a golden le studded with precious stones. A .mgton cycle agent, who used to be in nsurance business, said the pother day: Id.a White House employe/ $250 once tipig me to insure Presinent Garfield's .nd I won d give twice that amount to >dy who. 'ill help me to get3rs. Cleve :o ride one of my wheels." Ise gear cases are virtually unknown some experienced riders favor their The chain is the cause of a great deal uble and Inconvenience. If it were dly incased, so that no mud or dust reach it, cycling would lose one of its sources of annoyance. However. the isu.s of opinion here is so stroingly it gear cases that their general adop extremely unlkely. Wheels are not here with proper clearances for them. . 1 34 costir tf fears are entertained in Cairo.Egypt; insta2 olera will spread throughout the Sou' .edge Doedition. ia crenc at ha n,. v alue, more skill, care, expense, more eful cures and more curative power in Sarsaparilla i any other. Be sure to get only Hood's, 's Pills cure biliounuess, ind.gestion. 1J.t W itR Ali. ELSE FAILS. est Cough syrup. Tastes Good. Us - 7 at the family altar and at neighbor gvios yan.lknow that they Rid in l into their heart and their life. omething that sustainet the pie supernaturl'F" You have nettheirdestnYYou expect if you eaven to meet them as you e'ie. Lord Sesus Christ t to n hat early association has been yeou. Th1ere was a time whe ht up from house of iniquity you into the fresh air because yo d way t niotier-":as lookinn at yott. thou er been very happy in sin b Yo h eet old face- that would p ~ emulous voices from the past eat its, til they were sesmingly au ccosted y yked around to see who spok le, and estate not mentioned in th There tamteant, a vast estate of pra last will a :ampie and Christian entreat -er and i, emory. The survivors of t -and aloric -ed to hcar the vill read. an e family gal kept and that was to be s this was share and sharO alike." B d u1i aeritten. will that read sont t therre w In the nam'h of God;ame Din lik th aind, bequeath td my chlId- beim- of soi rs for tieir salvation; I tro n Pd my rr 11 the tesults of a lifetime's teath to the o them the Christian red .oil; I beq*uea een so much comfortto m ion, which h; e solace for tem; I bei , and I hope m: tope of teuniion when the eath to them >ver. 'Share and share >arings ofife a: ierit eternal riches. Ib like.' may tbeya wish that they my a queath to t'e tt ,opy anytbin tbat m old my errors au n thc name of God ; hav, been worth Christ whi redeemet .ho made me, end tU Ghost who sacrifices' me, and the Tu .il and testament, P. I make tis my l1 heaven. Witness Witness all you host Bigned, sealed and ime, witness eternity ying hour, Father delivered in this out not get that will P=o nd Motaer." You did offie, but I take it o ed at the surrogate' to you. I take it ou t to-day and I read it heart. I ehake t of the alcoves of your wlli accept that lust off it. :I ask if you breait the will? . heritance, or will you e of C ' ,tiat ancestry, you have a e onsibllity t beyond all measurement. Go d W not et you off with just being as good-as ord ary people when you had suc:i utraodun advanta_o. Ought not a hiowe P ted in a hothouse be more thrifty than- ii wer planted outside mn a storm? Ought , a factory turned by the Housa toni more work than a factory turned by at d shallow mountain stream? Ought not y u of great early opportunity be better th ose who had a cradle unblessed? A fath - ets his son up in busioess. He keeps U account of all the ex,er.ditures, so much f store fixture. so much for rent. so much f this, so much for that, and all the Items egated, and the father expects the son to 've an account. Your Heavenly Father c arges against you all the advan tages of pious ancestry-so ma'iy prayers, so much hristian example. so many kind *ntreaties- -all these gracious influences. one tremendo'-s aggregate, and he csks you 1or an accog'nt of it. Ought not you to be bettez than those who had no cuch advantage? Bet ter have been a foundling picked up off t"e 3ity co.nmons than with such riagnifcent inheritcnceof consecration to turn out in. liffere .tly. Ought not you, my brother. tc be betti r, hiving had Christian nuture, thas the ms n Wio can truly say this morning. "The frst Wrdlremember my father speak 'ng to 'ne vas an oath; the first time I re nembs my Uther taking hold of me was in vrath; :I ne'er saw a .Bible till I was ten Fears <f age, and then I was told it was a pack c" lies. The ifrst twenty .y+!ars of my life Iwi a assocted with thc'vicotn3. Iseemed to be w;tdled iny sin and death." Now;my broher. ought you not--I leav6 It as :. matter oairnesswithvou--oughtyou nor to be better an those who had no early Obristianinfluene? Standing as you do be treen the genertion that is past and the generation that i:to come, are you going to >dass the blessing-n, or are you going to have your life the:ali in which that tide of Mlessing shall drolout of sight forever? You are the trustee of 'ety in that ancestral line, and are you going:o augment or squander that solemn trust4nd? Are you going to disinherit your sir and daughters of the heirloom which yar parents left you? Ah, that cannot be posbie-it cannot be possible that you are goito take such a position as ..tat. You are "i- careful about life insur careful about. ti mortgage, and carefal about the title your property, because when yen step ci the stage you want your children to get 1111. Are you making no provis'en that t17 shall get grandfather's or grandmotherteligion? Oh, what a last will and testamt you are making, my brother! "In iname of God, amen. I, being of sound nd, make this my last will and testament. ibequeath to my children t all the money Ier made and all the houses I own, but I diherit them. I rob them of the ancestral .ca and the Christian in fluence that I itrited- I have squandered that on my o wor:dliness. Snare and share alike muhey in the misfortune and e l the everlasting trage. Signed, sealed and delivered in st.'presence of God and men I.ti: and angels at:evils and all the genera tions of eartbd heaven and hell, July, I I896." hi 0 ye of higYavored ancestry, wake up this morning sense of your opportunity and responsili. I think there must bo an u old cradle or agmenlt of a cradle some- u where that ci tell a story of midnight supplication 0ur behalf.. Where is the Ice old rocking c in which you were sung to ac sleep with thly nursery rhyme? Where is the old cltftht ticked away the mc- be ments of thakness on that a wful night So when there ' but three of you awake-- wc you and God mother? Is there not an old staff in S closet? We beg you to turn Ill over a new Ihis very day. blo Oh, the pc of ancestrai piety. well il' wh lustrated bpung man of New York who attended a er meeting one night and bl asked for Irs and then went home and ib wrote dowse worais: "Twenty-ilve years Ito ago to-nig? mother went to neaven, my bly beautiful, id mother, and I have been saf1 aline. toss and down upon the billows Ti of life's telluous ocean. Shnll.t ever go has to heaven9 told me I must meet her in ma< heaven. Islie took my hand in hers and that turned heitle, loving eyes on me and oil< gazed eart and long into my face and B: then liftem to heaven in that last van, prayer, sl:yed that I might meet her in roa< heaven. mder if I ever shall? Miy moth-- ciro er's prayeb. my sweet, blessed mother's gee prayers! aver e.boy have such a mother Bi as I had?twvemly-iive years I have nor tr heard he' until ro-night. I have heard te her pray' ever agrdn. Tihey have had, te :in fact, ele rdsurrection. Oh, how she .was won-ay! She prayed as they prye it t to-nightfaest, so importunate, so 'be- i lieving.: I ever be a Christian? She new. was a CA. Oh, how bright and pure All and haTs.her life! She was a cheerful conv and haristian- shev "They mother's Bible. I have not bicyc openedg,ears. Did sne believe I c:;ld Wasi ever neer preciouas Bible? She sureli? the thouglpul d read it much and often. "I pa How os she read it to me' How did for h< she ca4do kneel by my littIe bed and life,a put np hands up in' tlap attitude ai anyb< prayef has she knelt byrme and over land 1 me, age felt her warmj'tears raining Wh downmy hands and/face! Blessed 'ne motheoI pray in vai' for your boy! use It shs in vain. A o no, it shalt of trc not be-, I will pra9' for myself. Who prope has ainet so mueth instruction as I could havepst so man precious prayers chief put utven f/r me y one of the most consea lever, N)ous, co fiding. trusting of agaizu mottr Heavenly Father's care and -tion is gracnever dou ted; she believed, built She .-ay'ed as if he did. M~y Bible, my #bleandmy conscience teach GrP whn ht I have made myself, that el Oh,ar pangs of an accusing con- dan es si-da Sai iour mightv to save. -~ - - I mim. I ill. I am ~or,the sea I7 of clad I e- a neve~r get off from it. I arbo anc "or, nio rudder, no corn pas Of Insf aeins. for I have put * .-nml no'. Sa'.iour ot the 7 'Aayh" rAs in prava'r' :'Sf t.rthrenu, I stand entm 'j God's amazing Iwoujd, u.eoyness, forever blessed be His holy il I have and all I am I conse crate'-, my Saviour and my God?". Oh, ti of ancestral prayer! Hear it! Hear Buir a moment to those who had evil I, and I want to tell you that the hjones in heaven and the might lest t.nd the brightest crowns will be fcvho had evil parentage, but. | who 'ace of God conqueredeon- Than n: quert)od. as useful, as splendid a Ho -dentle ever knew had for a f'ither a H__ood man i blaspheoming God until the neighto put thbeir fine,rs in taoir earst the borror. One of the most conset useful Christian milnisters I of to>he son di a dirtunken h're' jockeof evil tr'mnendou- in some~ fatniijlike Niagara ratids,, ariy vet ea- It to in half a . fled evil or wicked. Thomas Fu] the used the expression "a shrewd fel_oi tps meaning a wicked man. The w4 "hoyden," now applied exclusively :re.aw ande a noisy young woman, formerly den lit ed a person of like character, but nd either sex. Equivocation, a word n< on applied to any evasion, was once I .O derstood to mean the calling of direr d, things by the same name. Pecld or; r( inally meant a basket or receptacle f h grain or other substances.. The expr( sion at first had no reference to- si2 3 To starve was once to die any mann of death. Wycliffe's sermons tell ho a "Christ starved on the cross for ti y redemption of men." Bombast on< signified the cotton that was employe to stuff garments, particularly th - enormous trunk hose worn in the fou: - teenth and fifteenth centuries. Acr d once meant any field. It is still use s with this significance in allusion to burial ground. 3 Moles. t A mole's eyes are believed to give th nnimal nothing more than an impreS sion of light, which is probably pain ful, or. at least, annoying, the sensatiol prompting the creature at once to bur row into the earth and escape the an noyance. Did He ~now It? A little boy was practIcing a piece for Children's Day. His teacher told him to speak louder. He said, "I don't know it loud." . - -5'ersonal. Axy ocE who has been benefited by the use of Dr-. 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