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DR. TALMO SERMON. tWO YOI'NO MEN WHO CAME TO LIVE IN THE CF TV." , ?ii: "Ponder the path of thy feet."-Prov. ?Ul'.. ?I lt irai Monday, Sopt?mborCO, ata couutry flepd. Two young mon RI O to tako tho cars W tie city. Father brought thom m n wagon rvitt two t: unks. 'J ho evening before at tho oki homo was rather a tad timo. The noigh jori had gathered iu to say good byo. In Je*d, nil tho Buuday afternoon there had bein a strolling that way from adjoining jinns for it wa* generally known that tho wo boys tho next m niling were going to tho ci y to live nnd t'io whole neighborhood was lut??ro<t<'d, sotiio hoping they would do well audotheis, Without saying nnytuing. hoping for them a city failure. Hitting on tho fonco talking over the matter, the neighbors woul I Interlard tho r conversation about tho wheat crop of Inst summer and the apple crop yet to begathurol with remarks about the city pros pecta of Edward and Nicholas, for thoso ?vero the mimos of tho two yoting mon; Ed ivani, seventeen, and Nicholas, nineteen, but Edward, although two years younger, hoiug ?ulckerto leam, knew as muchos Nicholas, 'hey were both brow n faced and hearty anti hal gouo thrungli nil tho curriculum of coun try sports hy which muscio is dove'o* cl:! tbo cliest tilled out, Father and tuothor on Mouday morning bad both resolved to go to tho iiopot with the boys, but tho mother at tho last moment backed out, mid sho said that somehow S'JO felt quito wonk t'-it morning, and had no I tp|H>titc foi i il?.>? oi I w i, mi.I M> concluded rn ey .,<. . .JJ V. .it ttio frontdoor of tho old I p.u o. VVnoio sho went nnd what she did 1 after th?) wagon left I leavo other mothers to . guess. Tho breakfast things itood almost till noou bcf.'it? they were chared a wa v. Hut little was said on the way to the railroad sta tion. As the locomotivo whistle was heard ming around tho eui va Uio father put out (ns hnud, somewhat knotted nt tho knuckles sad ono of tho joints HtilFoned vonrs a0'o by k wound from o scythe, and -aid: "Oood-byo Edward, good-bye, Nicholas I Taso go?d care Of yourselves and write ns s ion ns you pet there and h t ns know how they treat you. Your mother Will bo anxious to hear.'' Lauded ii. tho city tboy sought out with tons do. able tuqulry of policemen on street corners and questioning of car-drivers tho two common lid establishments tn which they woto destined, so fer ap.nl that thereafter they seldom mw oacb other, for lt 1* aston Isbing how far a|>art two persons can lie m a laren city, especially if their babita are different, Practically a hundred milos from : Bowling Groen to Canal street or from At lant iv nvenuo to Fulton. Edward, b iUg the youngest, wo must look hitor hiru first Ho uovor was inso large a itere i'\ nil his hfo. bu li interminable ?helve-, sc.-'i skillful imitation of real men sud women to <iis?.lay goods un, snell agi itv ot cash boys, s ich immense st ick of goods inda whola community of employ?:. n?5 head is confused ns li ? seems dropped liko n pel b.o in thu gr at ocean of business lifo. '.?lave you seen that greenhorn from tho country*1 whispers young nein to young man. 1 "Jo ts "ii such and a do nrtuient. \\ o w ill ha: o to bronk him in i-oino night " Ed wa"j -timi- at hi> new place all day so homo* ?sick tba) any mo i ont ho could hive cried kloud if his prido had not suppressed every thing. Hero mid thoron tear bo carelessly lashed oil'as though it were iro n influenza or a cola in tho hoad. Itutsomoof you know how a young man feels w hen set down in a ' ..itv or strangers thereafter to light his own ?battles and no ono near hy seeming :.. aro Whither he lives or dies. "The < entro of a .Sets*t, a month's journey to the first iQttle iii'ni, is not mu h more solitary. Hut that evening ns tho hour for closing has come, there aro two or three young men who sidle up tn Edward,and ask him how ho likes the city,and ?lure ho ox peel s to gotha; , night, and il he \v< nhl like them to ?how bim tiiosight?. Ho thanks them, and says he sha I have to take some evenings for unpacking ' ninl makin arran ;emeiits, a- bo bm just ar rived, but Miys that after a while ho will bo glad to accept their company, Afterspeud lng two or tl.reo evenings in his ii ardiug botiso room, walking un and down, looking a' the hare wall or an ol I chromo hung thero at the tune tim1 religious now spn| er-,i v su h pri/os advau <d their subs ription l.st.s, und niter toying an hoir with tho match box,and ever aud auon examining his wal h ton o it it is time to retiro, nnd it scorns timi ten o'clock %t night, or evi n niue o'clock, will never rome, ln> resolvo-i t h?ren ft r to ne -opt the Chaperoning ol bis new friends at tho ?V' rc Boon tho ul gb I i mi s when they niv nil out together, Although his silnry is not large ho i- iiuit" Hush with pocket money ?vlifch tho i 'I I fi 'Ik - gave bim aftor sir. ing up (?.r som* time. Ho cannot lie monti and the.-o friends are doing all this for his pleasuroaud to he pays tho bills. At tho door of places of amusement his companions cannot Un 1 tho chango, or th. y a ?< Idontnlly fall hehind just a- tho ticket olllce i- approached, or the. say thc will make it all right nnd ?ill them ft? . i ny tho uoxl limo. Edward, aeons ' od to farm lifo <r village lifo, is dated und enchanted wit h the glitter of spo 'taculnr sin. Plain and blunt iniipiity Edward would have immediately repulsed, hut sin ncc om pauiisl bv Iwwitehing orchestra, sin amid gilded pillars and gorgeous upboht 'i-y, sin arrayed in all tho t rn :tions thal thop .wei S of darkness in combination . nu arrange to magnetize n young man, is vory iliircront from sin in Its loathsome and disgusting shape. Hut after a few nights, being vory late out, bo says : "1 must st< p, my purse won't stand this. ' My ho*?b won : (and tilts, My r .; ll tation W-OJO'I staud this.' Indi o I ono of tho biisines>{iriii ono night from his private box, m whj?i h bo api lau ?od a play in w inch atti tudes and phraseology occurred which, if takeu or uttored in h s own parlor, would have caused bim tosh mt or stab tho actor on thespot, from this hlih-prieerl twx seo. io u chea; er pla e tho now i Icrk of his store, and is lcd to ask questions about his habits and wonders how, on Ibo Biliary Uio hons.; , pays bim, ho i nu do ai he d ?es Edward, to recover his i bysical vig >r mil his llnatiees, stops a whil- "ami spends a few more ovou ings examining tho rh rom ?on tho wall and counting tho mat hes in tho match box, or goes down m tho honrdln/-h uso parlor to hear tho goss pub uttlnotherb ardors or a dls:ourso <m tho io ufflcloncy of tholobin faro, considering Ibo pri o pa d tho criti cism revere In proj'ortl n as the fault- tinder puys little or is i es ive I to loo ve unceremoni ously and pay n thing nt all. "C. nfound Itt" cr es the young ?nan. cannot stand thi- lifo an) longer, and 1 mint go out and -oe the world " Tho s ime young men and other* of a now largor a..-qunlntance annoadv to es "i t him. There H never any lack of snell guidance. If a man wants to go the wholo round of sin ho < nu lin I plenty to take him, a who e regiment who know ino way. Hut after nwlnlo Edward's money lt all gone. He his reroived his mlary agaiu and again, but it was spent before he got it, born.win* a 1 tile here nu l a little there What shall h.. do now Why, he ha-seen in , his rounds of ibo gambling tables men who put down a dollar and t .ok lipton, put down a hundred and took UP a thousand. " liv n i i.et To re onstruct his finances ho tau-* aband und wins ls BO pleased ho nuces: an othor hnndar.d win?, ls Inphren'.y of dellgbl and take? another hand sn I ??es au. When ho fust, ame to this city Edward wasdisposed to keon Sunday in .pi.ctm n-ading a little ?nd gotng ocasiona,v t< hear a aormon. Now. Sunday is a dav <> carousal. He i< ?o full of Intoxicant* hy ll o'clock int?. . day ho staggers on tho stieot Seine morning, MwaJT. b sbreath itench ful with mm, toko bli place In tbejtore. H ls not lit to bo there. He is list-is or Slllj or Impertinent or in some way '"'' ""'I ?L? anda messenger comes to bini nu li savs "The firm de-ires to iee y OU in tho privat. O?Tno gentleman in the private OfflMMTj "Kilward wo will not ne*? I you ?ny moro Weowe"you a StlO money for services sine we ra'd you last an I her? lt I* "What ll the mst tr 1 Mt th? TOOTI man. "I cannot understand this. Have done anything I" Tbs reply Ul "Wa do not wish any wordi with you. Our ongagetnent with each ut ior ""ufof employment!" What does that meantoagocil young mani It means n \ opportunity to get another and l,0,hnl,,i^ft i*tierpiac?. It mean*opportunity form? . tsl i.tiprovement and preparation for mg nar work. "Mut of mnplovuicnt:" What does that mein to a diwi|ratod yung manf lt inwii-i lightnm: oxprens tram eni i down Rradi-nn tho r-rand Trunk to I'erdl ion Al Hjrak was a winged horse on which Ma homet pretended to have ridden bvnlgM from Mcc-ato .leru.nieui, and i'on? .",'^? !? n to the seventh ben-en w.th such srH WJ that each step was as lar as the ey-could rea-h. A young man out of employment through hi? d-slpntlons ls seated on an AI IJorak, riding as fast in the opposite direc tum, t? H.ul out warwrobo Bnd Soon to tho city ?hi?hAho h,w not Im? hore for a lone while/- ??y the gentleman of Ste* ?Si mSSEiiJ* torry * say'u 0Q *. tonia??S goos h,.,ntiDR hi,n fTO,? " ' l ,?n,u comos suddenly upon bim that SS- ?ixf P.lac6 of ?baudomaom\ Tho father h.^vn"f7 "?n.C0ine with mo. Your mother 5" ?rln8 .you homo. I hoar you u-n\?, ?f monov nud K?0(l clotho^ Hud you hom. o(u.Kus 7?, 've you can hnvo S tin I M k CT"8 R.II5HT ?w?7l" ??o Rays. put in M^tSSa^?S?? m*n'" .hoiilder *u HiiKry louo dawaro reimos: --laKo your hands off mo! Yotl mind your own buslnes, I will do as I please Tak^yotir hauds ofT of Ino 01. j waf ?o? your \ OU go your way and I will go nuue." That Saturday night or rather Bundai i or.n"K-f"r lt 18 hy this time two o'clock in h. morning the fatW goes toti.ocitv hom* if.'"."? Nicholas, auoVringa tkebdl ana rings again and again, and it seems ns if UK S T??ld 1)0 K'vo?. ?Jut after n whilo ? .'s holst -1 nnrl a voice crios : JW ho's thoi o f ' Dis nm." says tho old man. ? hy, father, is that you I" in a iniuut > tho door h oponed on I th? ann ".'. 'ct !h the worid ;.. 'JJ J "U , ,. ills nourof the in'xht <u " Uh, l-.dward has brought mo boro. I foarod your mother would go stark crazy not lear LNK. r?m "" 1 1 l,nd out that lt is worss with him tiian I suspo ted." "Yo," Ftiy? Nicholas, '1 had not tho heart to write-you auy thing about it I have tried my JW win, |,? " .,",1 all in vn(n llut it js after two oi?l ? nays Nicholas to his fnth-r, "and t will tako you to a bo I." On n comfortable , ouch in that house the ohi rather Hos down, coaxing Bloop for a few hours but no sh e;? conies. Who.o house is H One rento 1 by 1rs ?on, Nicholii?. Tho [actis teat Nicholas soon after coming t> Ibo city became tndfs|)unssbIo in tho com mercial establishment where he was pla-ad. Ho know, what fow persons know, that while in all departments of business and mechan ism and m t thoio is a surplus of people of ordinary appli allon and ordinary diligence, thorn i. ii e. real s?-an-ity mid always has boon 1 groats -arcity of | opie who excel. Plenty ot people to do thin-s poorly or tolerably well, but very few clerks or business mon or mo hann s who can do splendidly woll. An preoiating this, Nicholas had resolved todo io grandly that tho business tlrm could nwt do without him. Always at his placo tioforo tho time ho vas roi ll ?roil tOCOine. Always st bis place n little after o very b > ly lin 1 gone. As oxtromely pout . to th so who do lund purchasing As to those who made largo pur chases, lb- drank no wino, for ho saw it was tho empoisoutnent of multitudes, ami when any ouo askod him to tio<o something ho said "No," with tho p'-ulinr intonation th .t meant no. His couvorsation was always as pure a. if bis sister bad been listoning. Ho wont to no pla-o of amusement whore ho wo dd t?o ashamed to ?lio. Ho novor bet or camble I. oven nt a church fair. Whon he was nt tho boarding bouse after ho got all tho artistic development ho could possibly ro eivo from th ? chromos on tho wall bo be gan t > study that whi h would bolp him to promotion, st my penmanship, stud\ biog raphies of successful mon, or wont forth to places of inn.nt amusement and to Young Mon's Christian Ass elations, and was not ashamed to bo found at a church prayer mooting. Ho roso from position to position mid from -nie saint y to nn th -r salary. Only five ;<... > in town and yot ho has routed his own h i-o or n suit of rooms, not very largo, hut r. homo ?argo enough in its happiness to nc a tvuo of heaven. lu the morning as the oil father with handkerchief In hand comes cry tig do wn stairs to tho table, there arc four ] er ons. ono for each sido; tho young mau. and opposite t > him tho host, blessing that a < Iod of infinito goodliest can lx*stow, namely, a goo I wit -, and on another side tho high chair lille i with dimpled and rollicking glee that ina os tho grandfather opposite suido outddo while ho has a broken heart within. Well, as I said, il was Sabbath on 1 Nich olas and his father knowing that thora is no pla o so expropriate for a troublod soul as *.ho house of God Uni tho lr way tn church. I? i- o n. :. ry i d-.v, and what is tho old mnu's surpriso to soo bb son pass down th-? aisle with ono ol the s Iver chilli ?'-, showing him toi-- a char di olll ?al. Tm? fnel was t!:nt Nicholas from tho slnrl in city life hon oro I (!o| and Clod lind honored him. Winn tho lir-' wave of city t 'in ?tal on struck him ho ha I felt th-> n ol ol Divine eui laneo an I I ii vino protection and in prayer ha 1 s acht a regenerated h ?art, and had obtniue 1 that mightiest of all armor, thal mightiest i all protection, that mightiest of ail roiuforco monts, tho multipotontnnd omnipot mt grace of God, and you might aswellthrow thistlo down a^alust Gibraltar, exp . iting t idestr ?y it, ns with all tho conmino I temptations of earth and bell try to overthrow a young man wn iran t ru? nt oily sny: 'dod is my refuge mid strength." Come, lol us mensuro Nicholas nroun 1 tho head. As many inches of brain n-i any other Intelligent man. Lot us mi nsuro him around tho hoart lt Uso largo it takes in nil tho earth ?nd nil the heavens. Measure him around the inns-. Ho has moro re sources than nine t lillis of any of thoso who, on that Monday, Bopteml er carno in on any of tho railroads from Nor,l> or South, or K?st, or Wost. lt it that Habbalh afternoon, whlloIn tho ba k room, ?icb >ln - an I lus fatter aro talk in? over a now plan for tho reclamation of Edward, 'l">r<' 's " ringing of the door boll, and a mun with a uniform of a policeman stands Ibero, nw! with some embarrassment and sonto halting, ami ma roundabout way eavs that in a fight In SOtUO low haunt of Mi< city lid word has boon hurt lb? Bays tn Nicholas: "I heard that 1)6 wMsomerekv lion of yours and thought yon ought to know it." "Hurt? ls he badly hui tr "Yes. cory badly hurt ' "Is thc wound in r'.nl!" "Yest lt is mortal. I'o toll yt. a tho wboln truth, sir," says tho polieoman, "although ] can hardly boar to toll you, ho is dead " "Dead! ' cries Ni 'bolas. And by this time th'? whole family am in tho ballway. Tho father says: "Just a< I foarod. It will k'll his mother when she boars of it. Oh, my ROU, my son! Would to (iod I had diod for th e. t di, my son. my son " "Wash . r th? wouid ," says Nicholas, "ami bring him ri^ht boro to my houso ami lot thorn i o nil respect an I gentleness shown him. His the bust we can do for him " tih. what obsequies) The next door neigh bors hardly knew what was going on, but Nlchoias aud tho father and mother know. Out of tho Christian and boautiful homo ol tho ono brothor is carried tho dissolut* bi-othor. No word of biomo uttered. Nc harsh thing saul. On the bank of camellia! is spelled out tho word "BIIOTBEB." Had tho proded I KM) n true and puro and noble it ii o anti bonorablo in death, bc could nol have l>eon carried forth with moro tondor noss, or slept ia amor., b -a ilii'ul tcard n of Rodead. Amid t ie loosened t irf tho brothers who loft tho country for city lifo live yeats bcioro now part forover. Tba lastsceneof tho Of th act of an awful tra^o ly of human life I-? ended ^Wlint mad.) tho dlffcrouco betwoon these two voling m-ni Religion. Tho ono do pended on h.m elf, the othor dononded on God. They stored from tho sain 'li'ino, hid t IQ s unn opportunities of o location, arrived in tim City on tho saino day and if th -re was any difference IMwnrd hal tho advantage, for ho was brighter ami rmi 'ker anti all tho neighbors prophesied greater sa :cosa for him than for Nicholas, but behold and wonder at tho tremendous issie. Voicoi como up out of this nu llen o and say . Did you know theso brotho-s f Yoi. knew thsin well. Did vou know thoir paro its ' Yo?, intimately What was the City, What tho street, whit tho last names of Hmso young mon. You have ovate I our curiosity, now tell us all. I will. Nothing iii thoso chara tors is ficti tious except tho liamos. Thoy aro in overy city ami in every street of c. cry city and in every cemetery. Not I wo of thom but ton thousand, Ave, nye! Hight boforo mo to day an I on eithr snlo of mo and abovo mo they sit nu I stand, tho invulnerable through religious defence and tho blasted of city ai iuromonts. Those who shall have longevity in beautiful homos and Others who shall have early graves of infamy. And lam hore to day In tho name of Almighty God Ut Jive von tho choi. o of two charoctors. tho two hist n ins tho two experiences, the two domi ni s, the two worlds, tho two eternities. Standing with you at tho forks of tho r">ad . . ,i ill ag i takes mo think tba? it to-day I s it before the people the termini of the tw > roads thoy will all of thom take tho right ono. There are before mo in this house and In tho Invisible andlonoe i>aek of this -for journal I .rn bas generously given mo every weall full importunity to address the po >plo in all the town? And ? itlos of Christendom - I say, In the visible and invlnlblo audience there aro many who have n t fully mat le up thou ! iv;uis which road t aka. "Com* with ul" err ?ll th? role?? of righteousness. "Ooma with us!" ory all th? voices of sin. Now tho troubla ls that many make disgraceful surrender. As wo all kuow, there is honorable and dignified sur render, aa whoo a small ho*t yiolds to superior numbers. It is no hu miliation for a thousand men to yield to lo i thousand. It fs better than to keop on when there con bo no result oxcopt that of massacre. But those who surrender to sin mako a surrendor whoa on their side thoy bavo enough reserve forces to rout all tho armies of ]>erdition whether led on by what a demonographer calls Belial or Beeb xebub or Apollyoa 01 Abaddon or Ariol. The disgraceful thing about tho surrendor ut 8 dan was that th ? French handed over 41!? field guns and mitrailleuses, six thousand horses and olghtv-throo thousand armed men Ana it Is base for that man to surrender lo sm when all tho armaments of Almighti ness would have wheoled to tho frout to light his battle If ho ha 1 waved ono earnest signal. But no! ho surrendered body, m ud. soul, reputation, homo, potligreo, timo and eter nity,while yet all tho prayers of his Christian ancestors wore on his side and all tho prof orod old, supernal, cherubic, seraphic, arch ive have talked so much tho last fow wooka about the abdication of Aloxandor, of Bul garia, but what a paltry th rone was that which tho Unhappy King descended compared with tho abdication of that young man or middle-aged mau or old man who nuits tho ? >f '''-J otw>"t'tnlty and t u ns his back i:.o:n 'mtv n'v th..MO iud tia ups off into ignominy aud everlasting oxilo. That Is an abdication enough to shock a universo. In Persia they will not havo a blind man on tho throne, and when a reigning monarch is jeal ous of 8orao ambitious relative ho has his eyes extinguished so that be cannot |w>ssibly ever come to crowning. And that BUggesta the difference between tho way sic. ami di vino graeo takes hold of a man. Tho former blinds him so ho may novcr reach a throne, while the latter Illumines tho blind that ho mnv take coronation. Why this sermon? I have mado up my mind that our city lifo is destroying too many young mon. Tina o comos in, ovory Septem ber and October, a largo Influx of those be tweens! xtoon and twonty-f our years of ngo. and New York and Brooklyn damn at least a thousand of thom every year. They aro BUoVel?d off rtnd down with no moro "com punction than that with which a coal heaver scoops tho authrnoito int > a dark cellar. What with tho wino cup and tho gambler's ?ii o nmi tho sea riot enchantress, no young man without tho grace of Ood is safe ton minutes. There is much discussion about which is tho worst city of tho continent. Homo fay Now Y'ork, some say New Orleans, some sar Chi ago, some say St. Louis. What I havo to say is you cannot moko much com I orison between tho infinities and in all our cities tho temptation sconi>inlinito. We koop a groat many mills running day and night. Not r.co mills nor cotton iu:lls. Not mills of corn or wheat, but mills for grin ling un mon. S ich aro all tho grog-sbors, licons<*J or unlicensed. Such are nfl tho gambling saloons. Such aro nil tho houses of infamy, and Wo do tho work a cording to law an l wo turn out A now grist ovory li >ur, and grind up warm hearts and clear bonis, and tho ea-th about a cider mill is not more satu rate-1 with tho Iwverago than tho ground about all tho^o soul dos'roving Institutions is saturate I with th > blood of victims. Wo say to Long Island neighborhoo ls and villages: '.Send us moro supply," and to Westchester and Ulstor and all tho othor counties of Now York: "Send us more men and women to put nuder tho wheels. (Jive us full chanco and wo oou'd grind ut? in tho municipal mill tlvo hundred a dav. Wu have enough machinery; we have enough men who cnn run them. Give us more h mies to crush! (iivo us more parental hearts to pul veriee I Pat into tho hopper the wardrobes und the family Bibles and tho livelihood of wives and children. Give us moro material for these mightv mills win li aro wet with tears and sulnhurous with woe and troubling with tho earth piakes of an Incensed Ood who will, unless our cities repent, cover us up ns rpiick and as doon aa in August of tho year Til \ esuvius avalanched Herculaneum. Oh, man or woman, ponder tho peta ??f thy feet' Soo whl -h way you aro ::u...". Will you havo thodlstlny of Edward ?a- Nicho las? Ou this sacramental dav wdien tho burnished chnli es Btand In tho presence of the pcoplo, start from tho footol tho cross for usefulness and heaven. Plutarch tolls m thai after Cesar was slain and his twonty tinco wounds had boon displayed to the poo plo, arousing nu uncontrollable excitement, end tho body of tho doad conqueror, accord ing to ancient custom, had been put upon tho funeral pile and the (lamosaroso.pooploru -boil up, toi?!< from the blazing mass torchos with which they ran through tho city, crying thu glory of tho assassinated and tho shnmo of bis assassinators. On this sacramental day when the live bleeding wotin ls of Christ, your King, aro shown to von and the fires of los earthly Buttering blaze beforo your imagination, each ono of you toko a tor h and start, heavenward, a lurch with light, for yourself and light for others, for tho race that starts at the cross onds nt tho throne. While tho twenty-three wounds of Cesar wrought nothing but tho consternation of tho pt-oplo, from th> tlvo wounds of our Conqueror tbero (lows a transforming powor ti make all tho un counted millions who will accept it forever haopv and forever fro\ The Herminia Islands. The Bermudas aie a group of sinai" Blands belonging lo Great Britain, situ dod in tho Atlantic Ocean, ?80 miles lOUthcnsI of Ca, c Hatteras. Tho group H formcil upon a coral reef, and is eight ion miles in length and six in greatest ?road I h. Tho group contains nearly 404 ?lets, most of Hiern being mero points of 'ocks, und not moro than twelve of their, ire inhabited. Thc area of their entire iurfa< e is not more than 12,000 a rcs. Bermuda, tho largest island, is sixteen niles long and ab nit one and a half miles .ti width. Thc other pr luci pal islands ire: St. George's. Ireland, Somerset and St. David's. Tho Islands aro nearly sur oiinded with biddon corni reefs, niak np: approach to them difficult, bul there ir.- j-evcial go?d harbors. St. George's Isle, the militarv t Uion of thc colony, :ommnnds the entrance of the only pas iago for large vessels, which is defended ay strong batteries. Tho climate of th* Blands is peculiarly delighful, tho thor munder ranging (rom sixty to sixty six degrees 1'ahienhcit in thc winter season, md from eighty to eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit in the heat of summer,and tho liris ino st nt nil times. Thc Boil is fertile, tnd vegetation remains green through tho mtire ;.car. Thc chief productions ol mo islands uro arrowroot, codec, cotton, garden vegetables and fruit. (?um is ilso mado nnd exported. Cedar trees ??row abundantly, and their wood is ex potted and also used in tho ninnufacturc )f (he small, swift vessels with whose nd tho islanders visit ono another for business; or pleasure. The fisheries of thc islands arc very valuable There aro io fresh water streams or wells on thc .slands, but rain-water, caught in eis :crns, is used for nil purposes The only large towns aro Hamilton, situate 1 on , Bermuda, and St. George, on tho islo o' dio same mun -. Tho Bermuda Island? wi rc. discovered In 1522, by Jean BcfftlU ilcz, a Spaniard, who was wrecked ou (hem. Thc Government of thc Bo:mu ina consists of a Governor and Council tppointcd by tho Crown, and nu asscm oly ol thirty-six members elected by tho pcopl \ Tho population, according to the census takon In i*si, is I rt, 04a in habitants, of whom about o,f:0t) ara tvhito pcoplo. There wns a penal colony IStablished hero carly In tho century, but it was given up in 1812. There aro a aumber of schools nnd churches on tho islands, an I tho white persona resident ibero arc. possefsed of much wcnlth and refinement.-Inter-O em. ?"TPW broth In which mutton hai beor? boiled cnn bo mndo into good tomate soup. The tomatoes must bo biked until soft enough to pulp through a sieve. Thc chief object of rattlesnake hont lng i t. extra I thc oil which is valued nt H per ounce. BATHS OF HAKONE. : SCENES AT A NOTED JAPANESE HEALTH RESORT. A Nativo Correspondent Describe? a Placo Frequented by Invalids -Traveling by tho Kngo A Japanese Hotel. Ter. M. TJyoDo, o Japaneso sends tho following letter 'rora Hakone, Japan, to tho Now York Commercial Advertirer : Hakono is s generic name given to a range of mountains nomo fifty mile?? away from Tokio, and it is ono of tho summer resorts for tho pcoplo of the capital. These mountains divido tho island of Nippon into two parts and there is a steep path over them, connecting ono part with thc other. Tho length of this path is 6omo twenty-five miles from end to end, and is supposed to bo tho most difficult of thc mountain passes in tho country, <-n top of thoso mountains, and about thc midway of tho path, there used to stan?!, in old feudal times, a Strong goto, where every parser by was required to identify himself beforo tho olliccrs in charge. On whatever busi. ness he might be. should ne fail to satisfy tho officers, ho was not allowed to pass through. How such a law could have successfully boen carried out is simply a matter of story to tho ideas of tho present generation. Bo it as it may, along the spot where tho old feudal gate used to stand there is a largo lako, and on ono of thc islands in thc lako an imperial summer palace has, of recent years, been built. From this fact alone ; thc render may nt onco conclude that ! Hakono must bo a nico and cool summer resort. Thc waters of tho lako run down the mountains on all sides, forming sov cral little rapids. On and near oue of these rapids thcro aro tens of hot springs i scattered about. As you walk down from tho lake, on tho eastern sido of tho moun tains, through a narrow path (not tho wide, traveling road),you will find Tillage after village. Some of thc buildings aro so large and tine that you will bo sure to think that they arc something more than the houses ff peasants. These aro tho "hot spring towns ' of Hakonc. Formerly there were seven of those places and they aro called tho "seven hot springs" of Hakonc. Hut, of late, new hot spring beds have been discovered and a number of new towns started. This i1? not all. In some of thc towns you find springs of cold mineral w ater as well. Homo towns are built on plateaus, while others aro at thc bottom of valleys. Tho scenery must of necessity be various. I am now writing this letter in a vnl lev village where I have specially como down for the purpose of en joying tho moonlight, lt is full moon this evening, and she is so clear and beautiful that tho locust is singing and the crow is crying. Hight ill front of th?: window wticro I am writing there arc a couple of small waterfall*, nnd tho waters of these falls nulling against tho rocks and thoso of the rapids dashing against thc stones add grandeur and sublimity to tho beauty of tho ' vening. Last evening I engaged a roupie of fishermen and they and I jumped from stone to stone, crossed and recrossed tho rapid?. Tn an hour or so wc raught a number of tish by notting. Now to re! urn to tho hot spring con cern. The hotels of tflOSO hot springs villages are run in nearly thc same style, and a brief description of ono is sufficient for nil You travel on foot or tako thc kago, a very simple arrangement. The kago is a framework made of bamboos; at tho bottom a few bamboos aro framed up like a tray and in front and rear a few more bamboos are. framed up. Oa top you have a bamboo roof; and a rr cit big woodon pole passe; through the arrange ment lengthwise, right under thc roof. You enter from tho side. Tho si/e is only as much aa is necessary -about two feet wide, three feet long and three feet high. It is not vi ry comfortable to sit in it, however you have entered it. Two men, unless you sp cially require a third, come before and after tho kago and carry you with the pole on their shoulders. As you arrive at a hotel you aro greeted by tho pro rictor, bis wife, sons, daughters, bookkeepers, porters, boys, chambermaids and all. Some of them will lu lp you to take shoes off abd show the way to your room. Une neat look nggirl brings you a cup of tea and tray ol' sweets; another will bring you a Japanese gown. You chango your cloth ing for tho gown; then clap your hands and some one will answer you and show you down thc way to tho bath room. Most of the hotel-; have many b?th rooms, to meet the requirements of visitors. Tho hot springs aro usually located at tho side of valley-;, and long bamboo pipes carry tho water into tho towns. Some bath rooms have thc waters falling ovor your beni; others arc made to rush out from tho bottom of tho bath. Some bath rooms have arrangements of cold water baths as well as tho hot. 1 have visited several rd the origins of these hot springs. They all rush out from crevicos cf rock*, and they aro so hot that you cannot put ?(Vut linger in it without burning it. They have all Iren chemically ana lyzed by competent men and by thom pro nounced n< of greet medical service to all soit? of diseases. Tho statistics sharp has been Investi gating tho Connecticut rivers. He dis covers that tho rivers and tributario? furnish power to 2,208 mills, which use? 118,020 horse power, Miller's River and its branches supply 218 mills, with 7,572 horso power; Chicopeo Hiver, 182 mills, with 14,004 horse pow er, and Farming ' ten Hiver, 17? mills, with 9,882 horse 1 power. Tho C onnecticut itself has fewer I mills-- ninety-eight but supplies 28,880 i hor.se power. in ten year? the consumption of horsoi ns food in Paris has risen from 4, MM to fl.485; of asses, decreased from ill8 to 1 307, and of mules, increased from six to 1 forty. Alpine Aooldente. Mont Blanc- is responsible for tho loss of no fever than twenty-four lives; but it is when wo compare bim with othor mountnins that we realizo how much fatal he has been than tiny of his fellows. Tho following table, compiled from thc Alpine ?7bur7ui/,will best bring homo thia fact: Aeei- Ltve.t\ Arc(- Lirra dentt.LoalA denta.Lcit. Mont Bane... 7 24 Haut de Cri_1 2 Matterhorn ....3 6 Titlis.I 2 Uskamm.2 A! Jungfrau. 1 2 Monte Rosa ...2 4!Wetterhorn_1 2 MountCovedale. 1 1 AiguilleBlnnchol 2 Dent? Blanche.. I 2 I arg ed Turtle In the World. Thia turtle ie the largest in tho world, nnd is owned by a friend of mino in New South Wales. His natue is John Mc- i Donald. Ho received this turtlo forty years ago ns a gift from an Australian chief, in whoso family thc monster is said to have been for moro than 300 years. This gigantic turtle measures twelve feet in length and stands four feet in height. Mr. McDonald has built for his favorito I pct a large pen inclosing several acres, in thc back part of his beautiful country pent in Australia, and he entertains ids guests and children hy giving them rides upon thc monster's back. The turtlo knows his master's voice and answers to his call, boudes performing several tricks, showing that he is possessed of considerable intelligence. Mr. McDonald ha* several times had thc tutti-.: hitched lo loaded wagons, for tho purpose of testing its strength, and has proved by experiment that he ctn haul a load which would require four of thc 6trougc-t lior?cs to move."-Omaha B:e. The New Madrid Earthquakes. The similarity between the earthquakes of tho Mississippi Valley in 1811 and 1812. and that which prostrated Charles ton will bc remarked, also thc fact that the New Madrid convulsions, if they had happened in Europe, wou'd have de stroyed a nation. They took place in the midst of an enormous wilderness, where there were but few pooplo and little property. From first to last thc New Mndrid shakes were experienced for twe year?. Some of tho disturbances were awful beyond estimation. firent forests disappeared and still exist under sheets of water many miles in extent and more than one hundred feet deep. Immense lakes were formed in a night. Pome Vavc vanished, others remain. Thc course of the mighty Mississippi was stayed, and in many places changed, Islande were lost and others formed. Thc area affected was largor than thc whole state of South Carolina, The continent trem bled. Thc shaking in Cincinnati wa* Severe, and thc tradition lingers of thc stopping of clocks, thc banging of doors, ; the falling of dishes, and that guns hang ing on buck hort? supports were thrown to the floors. - Cincinnati Commercial] (iazttte. Open the Windows. Directly the sun begins to decline, let ? every maiden and housewife, und man and woman and child, with an eve fot ! thc picturesque and a feeling for health I nnd beauty, throw up the Venetian and j Parisian blinds. Open your rooms to thc \ glories of tho evening; throw tip and j pull down the sashes; open wide all your j doors. Let cool breezes enter into cor j ridor and cellar and garret and room ; Iel thc "caller'' air circulate, through every ! inch of tho house hour after hour, while j you arr getting your evening meal, while you say your prayers, while you think ol others after thc toils of thc. day. If it bc your priceless lot to dwell apart from city life, and have outside your cotrngo or villa or mansion dovers, those lovely gifts of Darno Nature, let scents of rose ! and thymo come in at every gap in thc hedge, at every rift of tho wall, at every cranny of the homo--scents of rosemary and mignonette, and lavender and ber gamot, and lily and elderberry. Wel come tho delicate perfumo on its cooling, refreshing, healthy mission. It is Hy gcia's gift-a superlative born for tie dog days.- Chambcri?* Journal A uniform and natural color of the whiskers is produced by using Buckingham's Dye. Wo h.'.ve used Aver s Cherry Pectoral, in ? our family, for colds, wi h perfect success. The Montreal winter carnival IE- to toko ?lncr tho first week iu February this year, "lie icc palace is to lie grander than ever before. A Quick Recovery, lt niveo in, groot pleasure to state that Ibo merchant who wos reported hi-lngot ihc ixilnt of ileoth fmm on ?Mock of rnouuinnia, ho?' entirely recovered by the r.flo of DR. WM. HALL'S IIALSAM FOR TUF. I.t'NOS. Nwrurolly ho feels grateful for the benefits dciiviMi from unlng thin remedy, for the lungs and nu.-nt. ?nil in giving publicity to this statement wu i?r^ notuotod hy motives of publicbCBef*Clion, trust lng that other* moy i>o hcncntiii in asimilar manner Blight chocks of earthquake continue tobe felt in Charleston .ocaslonally. (...I,I Field?. 11 wi t pan out richly, are nrt so abundant ns in tho carly California days, hut those who write ; to Hallett &. t n . Portland, Maine, ?ill, by return mail, receive free, full information about work which they can do, and live nt hom? wherever they are located, that will pay thom fruin to i'2f> per dny, and up wa.uls. Hither sex, yoting or old. Capital not required; yon are started In business free. Thom who start at once are absolutely sure of snug litt!? fortunes. Tho faro on tho Third A venn? Elevated noilroad In New York has hoon reduced to S cents. if nfHlctcd*withsorvoyo?uwI)r. Isaac Thomp son ?. Eve water, Druggists foll ftt25c per bot tl? A snowstorm prevailed nt Marquette, Mich., Sept em!* r Indies! Those dull tired looks and feelings speak volumes! Dr. Kilmer's FEMALE HKMK DY corrects all conditions, r08toren \ i.Tjor and vitality anti brings back vouthfull bloom and beaut v. Brice il. CO.-?bottle? 15.00. Violent shocks of onrthquako occured in portions of Germany, Oototior !), A groat mnny people nro complaining bit terly about tho times, wasons, ftc., but there is ono class of people who nro rejoicing, and thal is those wideawake mon who entered into arrangements to work for tho well known publishing hotiso of B. F. Johnson ev Co., of I Bichmond. Many who have made grieviotia mistakes can speedily mend their fortunen by ' ?P> ly'"* to them fer Information. St. Jacob? Oil is pronounced a mot extra ordinary cure for rheumatism by Hon. Jam?-: Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor, LoulsvifJo, Ky. A burglar broke into n b use mar Akron, O., and being corm r -1 II a in ui, 'hot thc proprietor with a pistol. Mr. J. Howard James, muna , or Stuckert'? Livery, ant N. 5th street, Philadelphia, Pa., says.: After trying ul I other remedies with out relief, for a heavy col?.! on the chest. ae> companied by ? severe cowall, I usc 1 Ked Star Couch Cure, and inn very Bhort time was entirely well While a drove of 200 cattle wore crossing over n Buspension bridge near Gilead, Me., the bridge gave \? av, preclpitatl.ig seventy five cattle into Mie w Uer. Fivo were drown? d and UH many nur* injured. The others swain to . he shore. We \ PIM ul tu Exp?rience. For a long time we steadily refuscil i<> pub lish testimonials, iHjliovingthat, in theopinion of the public geneiflly, the great majority wer^ manufactured to order by unprincipled parties as a means nf disposing of their worth less pr?par?t ii ms. Ti ut this viow of thc case is i a certain extent true, there can bc no doubt At last, several years ngo, we cunio t<> th'' conclusion that every intelligent person can readily discriminate between spurious and bona Dde testimonials, and determined tu usc as advertisements a few of thc many hundreds of unsolicited certificates in our possession lu doing this, we published thom us nearly as possible in thc exact language uso I by our cnrrcs|*itidcnts, only channin;; thc phrase ology, in some eases, so as to compress them into a smaller space than they would other wis.upy, hut, without in tin'least exng gerat i ng or destroying thc meaning of 111? * writers. We arc ^la<l to say that our QnnI conclusion was a corn et one. that a letter recommend ina an article having true merit finds favor With thc people. Thc original of overy testimonial published by ns is on Ide ju one oflice, un Inspection of which will provo to the most skeptical that mir assertion mndu utiove, that only thc fnets are given as they appear therein, is' true. Put as ii would Ix- very Inconvenient, if not inipossililc. for all om- friends to inii ?m usfor that purpose, we invite those who doubt (if there he such) to correspond with any cf the parties whose names arc signod to our tcsti montais, and ask them if wc have made any mistatemcnts, so far or their knowledgo ex tends, in this article. In other words, if we have not published their letters us nearly ver bat ism as possible Very respectfully, 15. T. lIAglSLTIKK, Proprietor Ptsn's Cure, for Consumption ami Piso*? Kcmedy for Catarrh We append a recent letter, which mine t., us entirely unsolicited, with pemission to publish it : DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. Vi, issn. You may add my testimony as to tlc merits cf Piso's ('inc for Consumption. | timk a severe cold last February, which settled on my linios. Tiley I.ame ulcerated and were so painful that I hud no rest for two days and nights. I got n bottle of Piso's Cure for Consumption, ami was relieved hy thc time I hud taken half nf it. Since that tillie I have kept Piso's Cure in thc house, nm I usc it as a preventive, both fur lung troubles and croup, lor which I cnn recommend it ns tho best iiH-dlcino I ?-vcr used; and that is saying a great deal, for I have used at leos! twenty others, i, si !, .- nhout as many physicians' prescriptions Piso's Cure for Consumption has never tailed to give relief in my fa mi I v. A .1. UHU IIB, " ,''T Springfield St. Thc hearing of a motion fora new trial in , th?1 case of il)i- Chicago anarchists has IMS-MI commenced in that city. Three months' treatment forWe, Piso's Remedy fm-Catarrh. Holli by druggists. lui) strnin cr cold ?Murks thal WCCk. birril nn:l marly prostrates jiu. THE BEST TONIC -i KtreiiRllieiin llie MIIPCICH, !M?-n?UeH ?lie >'?'i *> cw. KnrlrhfM the lil.I. ?Niveo New Viftnr. Mn. JOUN EDWARD TAYLOB, Fort W.-chim HM., Mya; '. I have aufferod with tnInt In lim mill iii im Melt for about twojraara. ur<v.in'ii ii m Hil e-rs has "l,>ti? me a graal <f"il ot K<?VI." Mun NANNIK E, ItonEllTS, Milton SC ? <.?? I pulfor?d with Mian pain? m ray luck un i inn; H ona co at Inrdly K? about One bottle of Brown'-? lr"n uittarauroatiy rellovod roo andthrcel Itlc nw . mo I ,;r.n.'fnlly f-commend it " Qanuixta hal st >ro Trade Murk sud rr, ?.-il e l mt wrap;ier. Take no other. Muli inly hj uno? .N < IIE.M1CAL CO., BALI IM O UK, Mil Skunk, Raccoon, Mink, And ?ll other 'low Kins IIOl'OIIT FOI! ?" A^-l^ n UI?sut>T PUK KS. Sen?! for circular m i K. C. UOrt.llTON. U Ilond St., Kew York. NO LADY Ii Tt<nll7 BEAU TIFUL without a CLEA lt, WHITE COMPLEXION, isl. Orrai imtrl'M i.iiio? 'nr hr. .nf,I.; ll,, lomplri nm .cl ll?all?| IS. SLIn. . A 'Ai*.', i ?ont i once?is Kc 1 vltlcnc?) M ntfO, A few ippli? filion? ? ill nuki- Ina kin i i ?i un i.i.i sm r. mooth :I:I>! ?.lilt? a ls ct , Mint ? r i- 'lo? e al will Ullin th? {mw of the skill. ' uni Uv m .:, li c ei'Wkie ms , RAH of lite ? n, i ich A? i implo?, nc, lu i li a par Icily clear h ,'?ri ft *al itablo rtlsvoitti ? I liol i nu*?? ?he check i" us ?? ?uh health ?-i l ilval . ..:> In uintciicMi ll ls impossible t., iii ii-, i in tho beauty it confers lt eui*? dir sk-ic, !'imples. Kn. li, a.lltot? lia?, Pace i.mi... Bin >k id aili. Slinutim, un. : limits .ml Face, i ii I IT'? luh. etc, lt fie? Hie l'u-ea, oil -lund?, mut lulu? ot th* .kin from Ihr Injlirlolll*f reta ?f pondera ?ml coa .inti- waahci iniitdtiiing Hie ?kin. [liing lt ll>?l "iii h lt !. i healtliy. natural ami youthful appcaraiiM ?1 possible lo obtain hy (Uir other nu ?ns. n i? ronrerleil ny Connoisseur* in thc art to he the host ami latest liemitincr the worlil ever produced. For aale by Prut-gists and P\\n,-y Ooo.li Psalcif W.J. SCOTT & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. Holiday AT HALF HOI IF BOUGHT NOW! BEA t^f-it DICKENS' Ll Hrtntisd la ifivj clear type and prettily I ...und In elctl amont thc ol?! nader., doa? not recall tho wonda Little Nell, Th > 'lim. nolly Vardon, the Kat Hoy Juc. trancing at-irl-1> to "Little Volk?" tvlio would nut rea This explain wuy the Bala of Uieae ( hil I Hooks In ao KI Volume j . i.i .ne Dolly Varden, Little Ni-I Volume 7 c nta;ns SmiUc, Ilnmc Durden, Tl Volume 3 contains Hi ?si y .lupe, Little I'nul, Volume 1 c.ml.ilns Oliver mid Ihe Jew Vt The single volumes will lie sentjmstiuild on rece: delivered lo expreaa on receipt of SM,OIL IW"0 I HANS ANDEF FOR CHILDREN MifV?lf?? Volume 1 contain? 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