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' SEA MONSTERS.* GIGANTIC HORRORS THAt'ROAM THE DARK DEPTHS. |The Great Sea Serpent ami What It Really Is — Giant. Squids and Mighty I'oulps That Oltcu Attack Man. T THIS season of the year the sea serpent is accustomed to turn up at odd spots along the Atlantic seaboard and supply interesting sum mer reading for the newspapers. There is nothing that people are more eager to hear about thau this mystery of the ocean—lor one reason, because science readily admits the possibility of such a creature’s existence. Although the ig norant are accustomed to pooh-pooh such a notion, as they do everything which Hoes not come within the grasp of their (understanding, the mass of reliable testi- atnony in the sea serpent’s favor is recog. (nized by those who have studied the eubject as well-nigh incontrovertible. That some prodigious monster of actual fact has by its occasional appearance af forded a basis of truth for what is gen erally supposed to be a myth has been entirely demonstrated, and will be suf ficiently shown in this article. It re mains to bo determined whether other monsters besides this, as big or bigger, have a share in responsibility for the etories. It is rather extraordinary that the monster when seen is always referred to as the sea serpent, as if there could not be more than one such animal In exist ence. But surely if one exists there must be others, else how would its kind bo perpetuated? It is hardly to be supposed that the sea serpent has a life of indefi nite duration and that a single specimen has been astonishing the world at inter vals for thousands of years, for it must be remembered that observations con cerning the beast have been made a mat ter of written history for at least three thousand years. One finds in Virgil’s “■dSnid’’ a description of the manner in which two sea serpents came out of the ocean at the behest of an angry goddess, and gobbled up Laocoon and his two sons, twining about them with slimy and hideous coils. Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water, the far depths of which, miles and miles below the waves, have never been approached by the hu man explorer. Who can say what frightful creatures, vast and formless nightmares of the deep, may lurk there in the darkness of an aqueous night never illuminated by a sun’s ray? No one has any reason for asserting that tho enormous plesiosaurus of the oolithic age, skeletons of which are found at this day does not still survive in the unfath omed caves of ocean. This extraordin ary aquatic reptile, which resembled a gi gantic snake threaded through the body of a turtle, having the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a neck thirty feet long like the body of a serpent, tho ribs of a chameleon and the paddles of a whale, would answer very well to tho usual description given of the great sea serpent. It is very likely, however,that the monster which has given cause for a majority of such stories is one of unques tioned existence at the present time, al though up to a very recent period, sci ence was not well acquainted with it,nor was it known what mighty proportions this ogre of the ocean attains. With the giant squid, however, tho fishermen of the Indian Ocean have been • unpleasantly acquainted for many cen- THE GIANT SQUID. turies. In fact, the professional angler in those south seas is compelled con stantly to indulge a rather exciting an ticipation of meeting one, and a certain percentage of loss of life consequent upon these encounters is a matter of regu lar estimate in the business, for the hum ble toiler of the sea, while engaged in his peaceful employment, must bo pre pared at any time to see a monstrous creature with cnormcn goggling cycn rise out of the depths and fling across his boat a gigantic tentacle armed with scores of suckers so powerful that noth ing short of horse power can pull them from the object to which they have been once attached. For such an adventure the fisherman has always ready at hand a keen knife with which to slash off the tentacle before it has dragged him over- boaid in fatal embrace. He must work quickly, for the monster has another tentacle to help him in tho attack, aud it. is hardly an even fight between one or two meu and a creature with an arm reach of 100 feet. Such and even greater are the propor tions reached by the giant squid, which is considered by some excellent authori ties to be in actual truth not only the supposed sea serpent but the semi-fabu lous krakeu as well. It inhabits all seas, though it is most numerously found in tropical waters. A full-grown specimen weighs more than 10,000 pounds, has a body 50 feet in length and, besides its ‘eight smaller tentacles, is armed with two ! greater tentacles for purposes of attack each 100 feet long, the greatest dimen- nion of the animal being therefore not less than 150 feet. No wonder that etories are told of its attacking ships and even dragging them under the sea! As for the poor fisherman, once captured and held fast by the horrible sucking tenta cles he is drawn into the closer embrace of the beast’s eight other arms, which are likewise equipped with suckers, and the frightful creature sinks with its captive to the bottom, where it tears him to pieces at its leisure with its powerful parrot-like beak. Should it be fright ened while engaged at its hideous meal it discharges from an organ called its ink bag a fluid which renders the water round about as black as night for hundreds of yards, thus effectually concealing itself. This is the creature which not a few men of science declare to be what those who thought they had seen the great ser pent of the sea have attempted to de scribe. The accompanying illustrations show it in the act of swimming in its ac customed fashion during calm weather, with a large part of its body elevated above the water. Extended observations of small specimens made in the aquarium at Brighton, England, have demon strated the fact that this is its favorite method of feeding. Inasmuch as it al ways swims backward, making progress by expelling Water rearward from a big siphon in its body, observers casually viewing a giant squid at sea may have most naturally imagined that the part go ing flrat was tho head, the appearance of a tentacle upraised in the water, as In the picture, being mistaken for a tail. Such, at alt events, is n theory maintained with great array of evidence apparently most valuable. For the present, however, it must remain a disputed question whether this animal of fact is to take tho place of the sea serpent of ancient end respected tradition. It is worth saying, by the way, that the two great snakes which attacked tho Laocoon family may very well have been the two groat tentacles of a giant squid, making allowances for er rors of tradition. Tho “kraken,” which advocates of tho giant squid thoory likewise Indentlfy with the same monster, was believed for cen turies to inhabit tho seas aud fiords of Scandinavia, whore it is now known that squids of the largest size dwell. There seems, in truth, no good reason for doubting that the two creatures, the ouo real and the other half mythical, are one. The famous bishop and naturalist, Pon- toppidan, member of tho Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen, wrote that e kraken grew to bo half a mile long and was frequently mistaken while float ing asleep upon tho surface of the sea for an island; so that people landed upon it and were engulfed iu a maelstrom by its sinking. It will be remembered that Sinbad the Sailor is said in the ‘ 'Arabian Nights” to have had a like adventure. The kraken was big enough to lay hold of the largest man- of-war and pull it down to tho bottom with its arms, which it frequently raised up os high as the masts of a ship out of the water. Pon- toppidan speaks of the manner in which the kraken was accustomed on occasions to discolor the water about it, and his description otherwise proves that it aud the giant squid were the same animal. A SQUID NAVIGATING One of the best attested sea serpents on record was seen on the 6th day of Au gust, 1848, by the officers of the H.M.8. Dtcdalus in the North Pacific. About sixty feet of its length was visible, and It bad all the appearance of a gigantic snake, its head and shoulders held four or five feet above the surface of the water, through which it swam at the rate of perhaps fifteen miles an hour. It was viewed at quite close quarters through field glasses from the ship's deck, aud was observed to be of a dark brown color, yellowish white about the throat, and with what appeared to be a mane. On the 24th day of February, 1849, about forty miles from tho spot where the serpent above mentioned was seen, Capt. Hcrriman of the ship Brazilian saw a strange creature astern stretching along the water for thirty feet or more, with its head lifted several feet above the sur face and a mane running down the neck. A boat was lowered and the monster was approached with harpoons. It was found to be an immense piece of sea weed, to which the swell caused by the subsidence of a previous gale gave a sinuous snake-like motion. This latter story illustrates the possibilities of optical deception in the case of most conscientious ob servers, A creature closely resembling the monstrous Ichthyosaurus of antedi luvian times was seen in the Gulf of California by Captain George Hope, of H. M. S. Fly. The sea being perfectly calm and of a glass like transparency bt beheld lying on the bottom, a few fathoms down, an enormous animal with the bead and general figure of an alliga tor, except that the neck was vastly longer and, instead of legs, it had four large flappers like a turtle’s. It appeared to be pursuing some prey, and moved in serpentine fashion, its body having ring like divisions. An emiuent zoologist has referred to this as the most interesting natural history fact of the present cen tury. • <? THE GIANT POtT.P. That other enormous horror of the sea. the giant octopus, with which Victor Hugo mixed up the great squid, is of the same family with the latter beast—a soft and pulpy monster with eight ten tacles of equal length radiating from its central mass and armed with suckers. Its habit is to lurk in some dark cranny lu the depths waiting for an unwary victim to venture within reach. With three or four of its mighty arms it clings fast to a rock, while with the remaining tentacles waving, gliding aud feeling about in the water it keeps on the alert for prey. A man coming within its reach—and human beings are often its victims—is instantly embraced. Instantaneously as the pull of a trigger the pistons of the hundreds of suckers on the tentacle are simul taneously drawn inward, the air is re moved from the pneumatic holders, a vacuum being created in each, and.the victim is so completely pinioned that hardly a struggle is possible. Mon have been known to cut themselves loose from this death-grip, but the chance is small indeed. Immediately the other ten tacles not occupied with clinging to the rock are wrapped about tho man, and he is drawn into the close embrace of the poulp, to be torn to pieces by its beak and absorbed.—Washington Star. Immense Amount of Eggs Imported. It would surprise many people to know the immense amount of eggs im ported into this country, principally from Holland, to supply the increasing demand in the United States. The num ber amounts in a single season to thou sands of dozens, and the tariff men never dreamed of such a commodity being sup plied from a foreign source, else they would not come in duty free as is now the case. Surely if thos e slow-going, painstaking and frugal ol d Hollanders can find a profit in shipping eggs to us so many hundreds of miles away from where they are produced, we should not complain of the profits we secure oa our home production. Even with this for eign supply of no mean size the demand steadily increases faster thaa the supply, for while the consumption of eggs for domestic purposes is enormous the thou sands of dozens used in the arts and sci ences scarcely fall short of the number used for food.—Farm, Field and Stock- man. Disease has ravaged some of the grouse p-eserves in Scotlaud to an alarming ex tent. On one moor recently out of 280 birds lulled all had to ha buried. NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOXEN. REV. DR. TALMAGE Lace is gradually creeping into farvr again. Save with tailor suits, linen collars are not worn. Children’s dresses are longer than in past seasons. THE BROOKBYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Silk sleeping gowns take the fancy ol young ladies. The colored leather shoe appears to have come to stay. Women’s secret societies are being boomed in Boston. An effort will bo made to introduce Colors in the saddle. • The dog-rose is a new pattern for rich white satin brocades. Two-toned twilled louisine silk para sols are the most stylish. Collars aro either cut very high or very low. There is no medium. Birds are again making their appear ance among fashionable garnitures. Crepe, ruches and picot ribbons are not much used in the necks of dresses. Many of the house dresses have a bow of ribbon pinned under the car as a finish. The women’s exchanges in this country have paid out $1,000,000 in twelve years. Gold-headed umbrellas are regaining the popularity extended to the silver handled ones. Fashion has a new posy—the corn flower, better known as bachelor’s but ton, or blueys. The fashion of planting large fuchsias on the grass is popular ia lawn decora tion in England. .The strongest woman now living in Mme. Victorine, a Swiss, who lifts 25.0 pounds with ease. Reefers and blazer jackets are made in lilk, serge or flannel, and are ths fa vorites for outdoor wraps. Some of tho most practical papers published of late in leading bee journals have been written by women. Ladies’ shirts are in greater variety as the demand increases. Dotted muslin, percale and linen are used in negligee at tire. Illuminated nets are all the rage. The square-mashed Greek net, ribbon-striped or with chenille dots, is most fashion able. Miss Mary Sharp, a Brooklyn (N. Y.) school-teacher, has just returned from an exploring expedition in the wilds of Africa. A noticeable feature of recent bee keepers’ conventions is the increased number of ladies who take part in the exercises. Vieux rose broche and forget-me-not silk is one of the many beautiful com binations displayed on the hotel piazzas aloL-g the beach. A new style of mourning paper drops the band of black all around the sheet, and has it drawn diagonally across the left-hand corner only. A sailor hat is dark blue straw, with band ot blue ribbon dotted with white, sets off a boating dress of dark blue flan nel with small white dot. The Queen of Sweden, who still suf fers from shattered nerves, finds ease in working like a house-maid, and in weed ing and digging in her garden. An autumn hat has appeared above the horizon of fashion. It is an open steel braid faced with velvet, and is large and round and has a medium crown. A Hindoo woman doctor, Miss Jag- snnadnam, has been appointed house surgeon at the Edinburgh (Scotland) Hospital for women and children. A woman owning a small farm in Wake County, N. C., plows with a goat, and raised last year thirty bushels of corn and seventy-five of potatoes. The decline of English beauty is as serted, of course, with serious regret. Bad teeth, short sight and round shoulders are the increasing faults. A West Virginia girl wanted a gold watch. She had no money, but she trapped musk-rats enough to raise an amount sufficient to gratify her desire. The leather belts which are worn with outing dresses aro many of them of nlaitcd leather in two shades. They aro fitted with pockets for purse, watch, etc. It is no longer the thing for a low- occkcd dress to bo sleeveless., but the sleeves are slashed in such a way as to effectively display tho prettiest part of the arm. Tiny jet bonnets with delicate lace trimmings are very popular in Paris. A late novelty in large feather trimmed hats is a soft, fluffy feather ruche inside the brim. The Primrose League, of England, has a membership of 915,000 persons. This is the first popular organization for po litical purposes which has awarded equal positions to women and meu in its ranks. Low-crowned hats have insertions ox edgings of openwork in passementerie or embroidery devices at the edge of the brim, presenting an effect like lace. These hats have wide, flat, projecting brims. A charming little toque is covered with a wild-roseviue, with leaves, buds and foliage, and with full-blown roses over the forehead, and is finished with tics of narrow black velvet ribbon com ing from the back. Gray and black form a stylish com bination. Dresses for cool days are made with gray skirts, around the bottom ol which from three to nine rows of black velvet are placed, and plain gray basques with black velvet sleeves. ■ vj sjnuynuc. WHO was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen be- ferns Aim, and he with the twelfth.—I Kings, Fanners of America! Accept my saluata- tion. Our text puts us down into the plow’s furrow, where many of us have been before. My boyhood passed on a farm and my father a farmer, your style of life is familiar to me One of my earliest recollections is that of my father coming in from the hot harvest field exhausted, the perspiration streaming from )is forehead and chin, aud fainting on the doorsill, and my mother resuscitating him until seeing the alarm ot the household he said: “Don't bo frightened. I got a litUe tired and tho sun was hot, but X am all right now.” And I remember mother seated at the table, often saying, “Woll, I am too tired I ho fact is I hat I do not think the old folks got thoroughly rested until they lay down in the graveyard back of Somerville to take t he last sleep. Offlco seekers go through the land and they stand on political platforms,and they tell the farmers the story about the independent life of a farmer, giving flattery where they 0l L 8h . t ! { i lvc sympathy. Independent of what? No class of people in this country have “■ ,, rd ?r, t . han ,Hn,,t ‘ rs Independent of what? Of the curculio that stings the peach trees? of the rust iu the wheat? of the long rain with the rye down? Indeiwudent of the grasshopper? ot the locust? of the army worm! of the potato bug? Independent of the drought that burns up the harvest? Indepen dent of tho cow with the hollow horn? or the sheep with the foot rot? or tho pet horse with a nail in his hoof? Independent of the cold that freezes out the winter's grain? Inde pendent of tho snowbank out of which he must shovel himself? Independent of the cold weather when ho stands threshin" his numbed fingers around his body to keep them from being frosted? Independent of the frozen ears and the frozen feet? Inde- pendent of what? Fancy farmers who have made their fortunes in tho city and go out into the country to build houses with all the modern improvements, and make farming a luxury, may not need any solace; but the ywmanry who get their Jiving out of the soil, and who that way have to clothe their fomilies and educate their children and pay their taxes and meet their interest on mort gaged farms -such men find a terrific strug gle. Aiid my hope is that this great Na tional Farmers’ Encampment may do some thing toward lifting tho burdens of the ag riculturist. Yes, we were nearly all of us born in the country. Wo dropped corn in the hill, aud went on Saturday to the mill, tying the grist in the centre of the sack so that the contents on either side of the horse balanced each other, and drove the cattle afield, our bare feet wet with tho dew. and rode the horses with the halter to the brook until we fell off, aud hunted the mow for nests until the feathered occupants went cackling away. So wc all understand rustic allusions. Tho Bible is full of them. In Christ’s sermon on the mount you see the full blown lilies and the glossy back of the crow’s wing as it flies over Mount Olivet. David and John, Paul and Isaiah find in country life a source of frequent illustration, while Christ takes the responsibility of call ing God a farmer, declaring, “My Father is the husbandman." Noah was the first farmer. We say noth ing about Cain, the tiller of the soil. Adam was a gardener on a large scale, but to Noah was given all the acres of tho earth. Elisha was an agriculturist, not culturing a ten acre lot; for in my text you find him plow ing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. In Bible times tho land was so plenty and tho inhabitants so few that Noah was right when ho gave to every inhabitant a certain portion of land; that land, if cultured, ever after to be bis own possession. They were not small crops raised in those times, for though the arts were rude the plow turned up very rich soil, and barley, and cottco, and flax, and all kinds of grain came up at the call of the harvesters. Pliny tells of one stalk of grain that had on it tween three and four hundred ears. The rivers and tho brooks, through artificial cbannels, were brought down to tho roots of the corn, and to this habit of turning a river wherever it was wanted Solomon refers when be says: “fhaving’s heart is in the band of the Lord, and Ho turneth it as Iho rivers of water aro turned, whithersoever Ho will.” The wild beasts were caught, and then a jock was put into their nose, and then thoy were led over the field, and to thit God re fers when He says to wicked Senacherib, “I will put a hooK in thy nose and I will bring thee back by tho way which thou earnest ” And God lias a hook in every man's nose, whether it be Nebuchadnezzar or Ahab or HeroJ Ho may think himself very independent, but some time in his life or iu the hour of his death lie will find that tho Lord Almighty has a hook in his lose. This was the rule in regard to the culture of the ground, “Thou shnlt not plow with an ox and on ass together," illustrating tho folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with tno stubborn and tbe unmanageable. The vast majority ot trouble in tluf churches and in reforma tory institutions comes from the disregard of this command of the Lord, “Thou shnlt not plow with an ex nud an ass together." i nere were large amounts ol property in vested in cattle. The Moabites pa iu 100,000 sheep as an annual tax. Job liad 7000 sheep, 0000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen. The time of vintage w f as ushered in with mirth and music. The clusters of the vine were put into the wine press, and then five men would get into the press ami trample out the juice from the grape until their garments were saturated with tho wine and had become tho emblems of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until covered with the blood of crucifixion, made use of this allusion when the question was asked: “Wherefore art Thou red in Thine ap parel and Thy garments like one who tread- eth the wine vat!" He responded: “I have trodden the wine press alone." In all ages there has been great honor paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths of the people in every country are disciples of the plow'. A government is strong iu proportion as it is supported by an athletic and industrious yeomanry. So long ago as before the fall of Carthago Strabo wrote twenty-eight books on agriculture; Hesiod wrote a poem on the same subject—“The Weeks and Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of all his military conquests. But I must not be tempted luto a discussion of agricultural conquests. Standing amid the harvests and orchards and vineyards c*f tho Bible, and standingomid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of our own country—I want to run out tho analogy between tho production of crops and tho growth of grace in the soul- all these sacred writers making use of that analogy. In the first place I remark, iu grace as in the fields, there must bo a plow’. That which theologians call conviction is only tho plow • share turning up tho sins that have been rooted and matted in the soil. A farmer said to his indolent son, “There are a hun dred dollars buried deep in that field." Tho son weut to work and plowed the field from fence to fence, and he plowed it very deep and then complained that he had not found the money, but when tho crop had been gathered and sold fora hundred dollars more Miss May Rogers, of Dubuque, Iowa, is the author of a Wavcrly Dictionary, in which the 1300 or more characters in Bit Walter Scott’s novels are described, with illustrative extracts from tho text; the book is said to be a complete key to Scctt’s works. The Fate of Stale Candy. “What becomes of all the stale candy?” was asked a well-known confectioner by the Cincinnati Times-Star. “It is made up into fresh candy. There is not an ounce of waste about conlectionery. You like chocolate caramels? Well, they con tain more scraps than any other candy. They are especially adapted for this on account of their dark color. They were first made by a confectioner who received the inspiration from his great stock ol stale sweets.” than any previous year, then tho young man took the bint as to what bis father meant when he said there were a hundred dollars buried down in that field. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a soul. Ho who makes light of sin will never amount to any thing in the church or in tho world. If a man speaks of sin as though it were an inac curacy or a mistake, instead of the loath some, abominable, consuming and damning thing that God hates, that man will never yield a harvest of usefulness. When I was a boy I plowed a field with a team of spirited horses. I plowed it very quickly. Once in a while I passed over some of the sod without turning it, but I did not jerk back the plow with its rattling clevises, i thought it made no difference. After a while my father came along and said: “Why, this will never do; this isn’t plowed deep enough; there you have missed this and you have missed that." And ho plowed it over again. The difficulty with a great many people is that they aro only scratched with conviction when the subsoil plow of God’s truth ought to be put in up to the beam. A Farm Without u Whip. There is a beautiful farm just back of Ocean Springs, Mias., owned by Mr. Parker Earle, who, very wisely, allow* no no man on tho place to use a whip on any of the stock. It is said thatthert is but one old whip on tho farm, prob ably a relic of some other owner, bui the old whip is not used, and the farn | does well and the animals work with i will and never feel the lash Kindneei i can run anything, even a farm.—iVsi j OrUan* Picayune. English capitalists have just purchased a large area of chalk rock land near Yankton, South Dakota, and propose to ipYeit $5,000,000 capital. Mv word is to all Sabbath-school teachers, to all parents, to all Christian workers— plow deep! plow deop! And if in your own personal experience you are apt to take a lenient view of the sinful side of your nature put down into your soul the ten commandments which reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp and glittering coulter will turn up your soul to the deepest depths. If a man preaches to you that you are only a little out of order by reason of sin and that you need only a little fixing up, he deceives! You have suffered an appalling injury by reason of sin. Ti ere are quick poisons and slow l>oisonB, but the druggist could give you one drop that would kiM the body. And sin is like that drug; fco virulent, so poisonous, so fatal that one drop is enough to kill the soul. Deep plowing for u crop. Deep plowing for a soul. Broken heart or no religion. Broken soul or no harvest. Why was it that David and the jailer and the publican and Paul made such ado about their lias? Had they lost their senses? No. Tho plow share struck them. Conviction turned up a great many things that were forgotten. As a farmer plowing sometimes turns up the skeleton of a man or tho anatomy of a mon ster long ago buried, so the plowshare of conviction turns up the ghastly skeletons of nn long ago intorabeJ. Geologists never brought up from the depths of the mountain mightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium. But what means all this crooked plowing, these crooked furrows, the repentance that amounts to nothing, the repentance that ends in nothing? Men groan over their sins, but get no better. They weep, but their toars are not counted. They get convicted, but not converted. What is tho reason? I re member that on tho farm we set a standard with a rod flag at the other end of the field. Wo kept our eye on that. We aimed at that. We plowed up to that. Losing sight of that wo made a crooked furrow. Keeping oui eyes on that w'o made a straight furrow. Now iu this matter of conviction we must have some standard to guide us. It is a red standard that God has set at the other end of tho field. It is the cross. Keeping your eye mi that you will make a straight furrow. Losing sight of it you will make a crooked furrow. Flow up to the cross. Aim not at either end of tho horizontal piece of tho cross but at the upright piece, at the contro of it, the heart ot tho Son of God, who bore your sins and made satisfaction. Crying and weeping will not bring you through. “Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance." Oh, plow up to the cross! Again I remark, in grace as in the field there must be a sowing. In the autumn weather you find the farmer going across the field at a stride of about twenty-three inches, and at every stride he puts his hand into the sack of grain and he sprinkles the seed corn over the field. It looks silly to a man who does not know what he is doing. He is doing a very important work. He is scattering tho winter grain, and though tho snow may come, the next year there will bo a great crop. Now, that is what we aro doing when wo aro preaching tho Gospol— we are scattering tho seed. It is the foolish ness of preaching, but it is the winter grain; and though the snow of worldliness may cotno upon it, it will yield after a while > lorious harvest. Let us be sure we sow the right kind of seed. Sow raullen stalk and mulien stalk will come up. Sow Canada thistles and Canada thistles will come up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us distinguish between truth and error. Let us know the differenco between wheat and hel lebore, oats and henbane. The largest denomination in this country is the denomination of Nothingarians. Their religion is a system of negations. You say to one of them: “\V r hat do you believe?*’ “Well, I don’t believe in infant baptism.’ What do you believe?" “Well, I don’t be lieve in the perseverance of tho saints." “Well, now tell me what you do believe?’’ “Well, I don’t believe in the eternal punish ment of the wicked." So their religion is a row of cyphers. Believe something and teach it; or, to resume the figure of my text, scatter abroad the right kind of seed. A minister in New York preached a ser mon calculated to set tho denominations of Christians quarreling. Ho was sowing net tles. A minister in Boston advertised that he would preach a sermon on the superiority of transcendental and organized forces to un- transcendent:* 1 and unorganized forces. What was he sowing? The Lord Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ago planted the divine seed of doctrine. It sprang up. On one side of the stalk aro all tho churches of Christen dom. On the other side of the stalk are all tho free Governments of the earth, and on tho top there shall be a flowering millen nium after a while. All from the Gospel seed of doctrine. Every word that a parent, or fSabbath-school teacher, or city missionary, or other Christian worker speaks for Christ comes up. Yea, it comes up with compound interest—you saving one soul, that one sav ing ten, the ten a hundred, tho hundred a thousand, tho thousand ten thousand, tho ten thousand one hundred thousand—on, on for ever Again I remark, in grace as in the farm there must be a harrowing, I refer now not to a harrow that goes over the field in order to prepare tho ground for the seed, but a har row which goes over after the seed is sown, lost the birds pick up the seed,sinking it down into the earth so that it can take root. T^ore are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow as I remember it was made of bars of wood nailed across each other, and the under sido of each bar was furnished with sharp teeth, and when the hor des were hitched to it it went tearing an i leaping across the field, driving tho seed down into tho earth until it sprung up in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow, persecution are the Lord’s harrows to link the Gospel truth into your heart. There were truths that you heard thirty years ago that have not affected you until recently. Some sr.eat trouble came over you. and the truth was uarroTveu iu, tmu it nascoiue up. rv n»o did God mean in this country iu 1857? For a century there was the Gospel preached, but a great deal of it produced no result. Then God harnessed a wild panic to a harrow of commercial disaster, an l that harrow went down Wall street and up Wall street, down Third street and up Third street, down State street and up State street, until tho whole land was torn to pieces as it never had been before. What followed the harrow? A great awakening in which there were 500,000 souls brought into the kingdom of our Lord. No harrow, no crop. Again I remark, in grace as in the farm there must be a reaping. Many Christians speak of religion ns though it were a matter of econ >mics or insurance. They expect to reap iu the next world. Ob, no! Now is the time to reap. Gather up the joy of the Christian religion this morning, this afternoon, this night. If you have not ns much grace as you would like to have, thank God for what you have, and pray for more. You are no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse trouble l than was David, no worse scourged than was Paul. Yet. amid the rattling of fetters, and amid the gloom of dungeons, and amid the horror of shipwreck, they triumphed in the grace of Goi. The weakest man here has 500 acres of spiritual joy all ripe. Wby do you not go and reap it? You have been groaning over your infirmities for thirty year?. Now give one round shout over your emancipation. You say you have it so hard; you rateht have it worse. You wonder **uj i/itio Momne KW-J W iyjvuivuj- through your sou 1 , turning and turning, with a black hand on the <\\ink. Ah, that trouble is the grindstone oa which you are to sharpen your sickle. To tho Hel ls! Wake up! Take off vo.ir green sjocta *ios voir bin* soocta • cles, your black spectacles. Pull up the cor ners of your moutli as far ns you pull them down. To the fields! Reap! reap! Again I remark, in grace as in farming there is a time for threshing. I tell you bluntly that is death. Just as a farmer beats the wheat out of the straw so death boats the soul out of tho body. Every sickness is a stroke of the flail, and tho sickbed is the threshing floor. What, say you, is death to a good man only taking the wheat out of the straw? That is all. An aged man has fallen asleep. Only yesterday you saw him in the sunny porch playing witn his grandchildren, Calmly he received the message to leave this world. He bade a pleasant good-by to his old friends. The telegraph carries the tidings, and on swift rail trains the kindred come, wanting once more to look on the face of dear old grandfather. Brush back the gray hairs from his brow; it will never ache again. Put him away in the slumber of the tomb. He will not be afraid of that night. Grand father was never afraid of anything. He will rise in the morning of the resurrection. Grandfather was always the first to rise. His voice has already mingled in the doxol- ogy of heaven. Grandfather always did sing in c .urcb. Anything ghastly in that? No. The threshing of the wheat out of the straw. That is all. The Saviour folds a lamb in His bosom. The little child filled all the house with her music, aud her toys are scattered all up and down the stairs just as she left them. What if the hand that plucked four ©’clocks out of the meadow is still? It will wave the eternal triumph. What if the voice that made mu sic in tho homo is still? It will sing the eternal hosanna. Put a white rose in one hand and a rod rose in the other hand, and a wreath of orange blossoms on the brow; the white flower for the victory, tho red flower for the Saviour’s sacrifice, the orange b’ossoms for her marriage dav. Anything ghastly about that? Ob, no. The sun went down and the flower shut. The wheat threshed out of the straw. “Dear I»rd, give me sleep," said a dying boy, tho son of one of my elders; “Dear Lord, give me sleep.” And he closed his eyes and awoke in glory. Henrv W. Longfellow, writing a let ter of condolence to those parents, said: Those last words were beiutifully poetic: ‘Deir I/tJ, give me sleep.’” ’Twas not In cruelly, not in wrath Thnt the reaper ettne that day; Twas an ans^el ihat vithod tho earth And took toe flower away. Bo it may bo with us when our work Is all done. “Dear I.*ord, give roe sleep." I have one more thought to present. 1 have spoken of the plowing, of the sowing, ot the harrowing, of the reaping, of the threshing. ! must now speak a moment oi the carnering. Where is the garner? Need I tell you? Oh, no. Bo many have gone out from your own circles-yea, from your own family—that you have had your eyes ou that garner for many a year. What a hard time some of them had! In Gethsemaneeof suffering they great drops of blood. They tool tho “cup of trembling” and they put it to their hot lips and they cried; “If it be possible let this cup pass from me.” With tongues of burning agony they cried; “O Lord, de- liver my soul!” But they got over it. They all got over it Garnered! Their tears wiped away; their battles all ended—their bur dens lifted. Garnered! The Lord of the harvest will not allow those sheaves to perish in the equinox. Garnered! Some of us remember, on tho farm, that the sheaves were put on the top of the rack which surmounted the wagon, and these sheaves were piled higher and higher, and after a while the herses started for the barn; and these sheaves swayed to and fro in the wind, and the old wagon creaked and the horses made a struggle and pulled so hard the harness came up in loops of leather on their backs, and when tho front wheel struck the elevated floor of the born it seemed as if the load would go no farther until the workmen gave a great shout, and then with one last tremendous strain the horses pulled in tho load; then they were un- harnessed and forkful after forkful of grain foil into tho mow. Oh, mv friends, our get- ting Into heaven may be a' pull, a hard pull, * vary hard pull; but these sheaves are bound to go in. The Lord of the harvest has promised it. I see tho load at last com ing m the door of the heavenly garner. The sheaves of the Christian soul sway to and fro in the wind of death, and the old body creaks under the load, and as tho load strikes the floor of the celestial garner it seems as if it can go no farther It is the la.t struggle until the voices of angels and the voices ot our departed kindred and the welcoming voice of God shai! send the harvest rolling into eternal triumph, while all up and down the sky the cry is heard; “Harvest home! Harvest home!'’ An Eccentric Lord In Colorado. The familiar form of Lord Ogilvie has lot been seen this week in the vicinity it tho Victoria Hotel, where ho makes his headquarters during recent visits to the city. According to report Lord Ogilvio is spending a brief vacation at Los Vegas, N. M., to test the benefit of the mud baths and to get rid of the de bilitating effects of tho races. In speak ing of this remarkable character, for all who know Lord Ogilvie will agree that he has capacities of a high order, a gen tleman said yesterday: “I have never tnown Ogilvie to go to bed while paying his periodical visits to this city. Thirty ninutes’sleep in a chair each twenty-four hours is about all his system seems to re- )uire and he awakens apparently as re freshed as if he had slept all night. Ho ’a only twenty-eight years of age and first iropped into Denver about ten years ago »n a visit to the mountains with his father. The elder Ogilvie took sick at it the Windsor Hotel, and died after a brief illness. The remains were sent to Scotland for burial in the old family vault. Ogilvie is remarkably well read upon subjects, and when at home on his ranch, near Greeley, he spends the main part of his time poring over books. He is peculiar, one of hisqieculianties being his manner of dress and the odd-looking ’ plaid vest by which he is recognized all 1 jver the West. ‘That vest,’ said he to ne one day, ‘is patented, and no other nan in the world can wear a vest just like mine. I have a contract, duly signed with the firm in England manufacturing the material, that it is never to be dupli- :ated except at my order.’ The vest is jf immense dimensions, and when stretched at full length extends nearly i to the knees of the wearer. Its only or- lament is a huge steel watch chain, which is also made upon a pattern peculiar to itself. Ogilvie dresses plainly, but always wears a flannel shirt with high collar, [ starched perfectly Stiff and fortified by a high cravat of pongee silk. “I have visited him at his ranch,” con- j tinued the narrator, 1 ‘and it would be difficult to imagine a more royal welcome than is accorded by Ogilvie to his friends. ; He lives in the enjoyment of all the good things that might be desired, and takes l special pride in his herds of blooded borses and cattle. I was surprised at the ixtent of his wardrobe. He showed mo it least fifteen trunks full of clothing, all made by Poole, the London tailor, and not one suit in the lot has Ogilvie cvei worn. I’ll venture to say thnt he has 150 complete suits of clothes on hand. Take him all in all, he is the strangest con glomeration of oddities to be found in the State of Colorado.”—Denver Newt. Mysteries of Amber. Amber has only recently come to be understood. The ancients regarded it as altogether mysterious and even magi cal, says the Washington Star. They found that it was rendered electrical by friction so as to attract light substances, and our word “electricity” comes from the Greek name for amber, which was “electron.” A favorite puzzle with them was how the insects so frequently found inclosed in amber came to be so situated. I have myself seen a chunk of very transparent amber in which a small liz ard with five legs was encased, looking as if it might have been alive yesterday, though doubtless it had been dead for thousands of years. The mystery of this sort of phenomenon is easily enough ex plained when it is understood that am ber is actually the fossil gum of an ex tinct kind of cone bearing tree. In the process of hardening it imprisoned the flies and other creatures preserved in tho chunks of it that are found to-day. The finest specimen of amber in Eu rope is a cup made of that material, now at the Brighton Museum, England. Am ber now is worth from $2 to $50 a pound, according to its quality. The most important uses made of it ii for meerschaum and other pipes. Tapping the Underflow. What promises to be one of the most important features in water irrigation in California has been brought forward at Riverside, in the question as to the right to tap underground flow, or percolating IIoiv Mcuh Wo Eat. A curious calculation of the amount ol food consumed in a lifetime of seventy years has recently been made by Mr. Soyer, a French savant, now chef of the Reform Club of London. Among othei things, M. Soyer says that the averagi epicure of three-score and ten will hav« consumed thirty oxen, 200 sheep, 10( calves, 200 lambs, fifty pigs, 2200 fowls, 1000 lish of different kinds, 30,000 oys. ters, 5475 pounds of vegetables, 241 pounds of butter, 24,000 eggs and foui tons of bread, besides several hogsheadi of wine, tea, coffe», etc. This enor mous amount of food will weigh but lit tle short of forty tons.—St. Louis Jtqruh lie. A Bean Clnb. A bean club is the latest social wrinkle for masculines. It is a Friday night din ner club and meets at a popular hotel in the Tenderlion precinct. The bill of fare for next Friday is as follows: Bean soup, Lima beans, stewed beans, bean fritters, string beans, pork and beans, beans and brown bread, bean ome let and beans with mushrooms. A pretty heavy penalty in the way ot treating is imposed upon those who fail to partake of every dish.—Few Fori World. FITS stopped free by Dn. Kune’s Great Nerve Restorer. 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Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of Its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most ponular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60o ®nd 81 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept •ny eubstit ute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. FOR WEAK STOMACH, BILE BEANS. J. F. Smith & Co., St. LooIp, Mo. 1 have derived more benefit from the nae of “Bile Beans Small’’ than from anj other mediclo* 1 have yet used. Kindly sendfl worth of. thi>small size for the •mount enclosed. Jno. G. Froidbl, bheboytren, Wl*., April 3,1890. Try "BILE BEANS SMALL" 140 lit tle beans In each bottle). Very small—easy to take. 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The question is fraught with immense importance to Southern California, and the result will be watched with great interest.—San Diego (Cal.) Union. SAVEbbefoR’sEm SAVE HEALTH! Statistician Dodge estimates the value of the export! for 1889 at $530,000,000 at the seaports,and at $400,000,000 on the farms. In other words, it cost one-quar ter of their entire rain* to market fham. Pure Blood Is Essential tn Health. To Have Pure Plood Take Hood's Sarsaparilla, By knowing bow f take core of yonrdeor once when first at larked by flbea/w. THE TIME TO CIIBrK 1LLNKKN IS IN ITS INCIFIKN- CY i but how many persons know what In do In such a case. Not one In a thousand. Do yon V If not, you need a physician to tell you ; and ron don "I generally have a doctor at hand in the middle of f* night, or at a moment’s notice, and tn any event services arc expensive. A Book containing the In formation you want can be at hand, however, and If yeu ore wise will be at hand. 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