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[A SOLDIER AND A SOT ITHE QUEER ANTICS OP GENERAL j MELGAREJO, OF BOLIVIA. jCompelllnff a Company of Troops to Walk Off a Balcony Fifteen Foot ! High—Other Eccentricities. Fannie B. Ward, in a letter fi'Jtn La iPaz, Bolivia, to the Washington Star rays: One of the most distinguished warriors Bolivia has produced was Gen eral Melgarejo, who appears to have (been as original in character as he was (fearless and determined. Evidently he (was designed for those feudal times that jhavo long gone by, and his methods would not *o tolerated to-day in any (civilized land. At one time ho lived in (the big house at the northcaft corner of Ithe central plaza of La Paz, which is mow the residence of the bishop. He (was extremely fond of “the rosy,” which jin his case not only cheered but inebri- jnted. One day when ho had been en- jtertaining a foreign minister and had im bibed considerable more than was pru dent he boasted that his troops were the best drilled in the world and absolutely (infallible in the accuracy of their move- ments. Tiie statement being received fby the guest with polite incredulity, ffllelgarejo ordered up a company to drill in the patio of his house. After many curious and before unheard of evolutions he formed them single tile and marched them up into the second story front room where the minister and himself had lately breakfasted, opened a window di rectly in front of the lino and gave the order “March I" Having no order to halt, every man, accoutred as he was, stalked straight through the window and dll the balcony, a drop of fifteen feet or imore, to the curbing below. A lot of (broken bones was the consequence, but Ithe General's “disc pline” was proved beyond cavil, the unfortunate soldiers knowing that to falter of disobey meant instant death. I Melgarejo had some French blood in his veins and was very fond of the land of his ancestors. On the night that news was received in Bolivia of war hav ing been declared by France against Germany in 1871, he was, as usual at that hour, more than “half seas over,” and at midnight assembled all the troops to arms in the plaza with orders to march, but with no hint as to their des tination. Great alarm possessed the peo ple, who naturally imagined that some dire peril threatened them from foreign foes. At length Melgarejo himself ap peared, mounted on the famous steed “Holofcrnes,” which had carried him to many victories, notably those of Soca- bya, Yanacoeha, Igari, Iruga and Monte negro. The great Captain-General of Bolivia’s army, who was also General of the division of Chili and wearer of the badge of the Imperial Order of the Cross of Brazil, a rare distinction, entitling him to be ever afterward known as “Grand Cross Melgarejo,” halted in front of his brave men and addressed them, with voice of thunder, with these momorable words: “Soldiers, the in tegrity of Franco is threatened by Prus sia. Whoever threatens France threat ens civilization and liberty. I am going to protect the French, who are our best friends, and whom I lovo as my own countrymen. You are going across the ocean with me. If there is not a vessel in readiness we will swim to meet one; but let every man take care not to wet his ammunition.” | Neither officers, men nor citizens dared venture, a word of protest, and with Melgarejo at the head of the col umn they filed out of the city and up the mountain by the only road that leads from this cup-like hollow to the outer world. Meanwhile in the city all was confusion and dismay A pouring rain came on and thunder and lightning added terror to tho scene. Near the cemetery the troops were obliged to halt to recover breath. Hero the cabinet minister, who had been sent out to make one more etlort to dissuade Melgarejo from tho mad enterprise, came up with him, and tho General, his ardor having been somewhat dampened and his intoxi cation subdued by a thorough wetting, consented to return and cheerfully ordered the soldiers back to the barracks. A thousand talcs aro told of this singu lar man, some of them terrible enough to curdle the blood of one’s veins. That he was not altogether cruel is proved by his conduct after tho battle of Tetanias, in January 1860, on which occasion his army routed tho constitutional forces under General Castro Argucdas. In the midst of the field, with the dead and dy ing around him, the victorious Melgarejo, using a drum head for a tabic, wrote that historic proclamation beginning, “Men of Bolivia! The smoke of gun powder has purified tho political atmos phere.” A great many prisoners had been taken; among them a number of prominent officers. They were confined to the prison of Lorcnto, that place of somber memories, where, a few years be fore, ex-President of the liepubllc, Jorje Cordova, and his political associates were jaerificed by the ferocity of tho com mander of the department. Colonel Placido Y’anes, whose name, meaning “tranquil,” docs rot seem to have been very well applied. On tho day after the battle, Mel- garejo, mounted on horseback, mado his way to the plaza of Loreto anti ordered all the prisoners to lie brought before him and placed in a row. Know ing the character of the man, this order was received by tho prisoners as their death sentence, and the people of the place, overcome with terror, expected to witness a horrible scene of bloodshed and vengeance. The prisoners were filed out, among them many of Melgarcjo's army, who had fled from his stern rule and joined the enemy on the day of battle. When the row was formed, every wretcli ex pecting instant death, General Melgarejo approached and contemplated them with a gaze that froze their blond in their veins. He said: “8o these are my op ponents; these are the curs who thought to cetvywr Melgarejo! Away with you, ye vermin, ye olfscouiingl Slink back to your homes and return not to seek quar rels with me. Dedicaffc your miserable lives in the future to the service of your families. Away with you, ye corajo demagogues 1” I It is needless to add that tho prisoners skedaddled, fleeing through the streets in all directions like so many frightened deer, fearing that tire great General might change his mind before they were out of reaeti. Melgarejo then took up his position in tho village of Yiaelie, where, in the public square, ho signed upon a cannon the celebrated decree of convocation which assembled n national convention in tho following Augutt. He then and there announced ms inten tion to make a triumphal entry into tho city of La Paz mounted, not on his stately Holfernes, but astride the same cannon on whicli lie had written tho de cree, and he actually carried out tho pro gramme to tho astonishment and terror of tho inhabitants. If pure milk only were sold in London, it is estimated that from twenty to thirty thousand more cows would bo wanted t< kfep uj the supply. lime is tno essence ot uu contracts, except when you endeavor to contract for a suit of clothes on I imj. —-Jeicclcft' Qirtnl r v. TIIE FABH AND GARDEN. VALUE or SALT AS A FERTILIZER. All plants contain more or less salt, and the more of it as tho soil is suffi-' ciently provided with it. Sait is neces sary for the digestion of food, hence salt is an indispensable clement of plan) food. Grass and pasture are especially benefited by it. Five hundred pounds of cheap salt, sold for tho purposo at about $6 per ton, may bo applied now as soon as tho grass starts growth. Clover is equally benefited by it. Man gels and other root crops should receive from four hundred to six hundred pounds per acre; cabbages, and especially asparagus, need salt. Oats and wheat arc benefited by it, the effect of it being to stiffen tho straw and enlarge the grain, giving it a clear, bright skin. The, salt has also a beueefiial effect on the soil by its chemical action. THE CARE or LASIHS. At lambing time tho pen should be made extra warm and comfortable, as lambs dropped during severe cold weath er (especially if Merinos or lino wools) soon become chilled unless the room is warm, or prompt attention is paid to them by the attendant. Should the ewe fail to own her lamb, it is best to tie her up in a separate stall; or, better still, partition off one corner of the pen so that she may not be shut away from the flock. If the lamb becomes chilled it may be fed a few tablcspoonfuls of warm milk, mixed with one-tenth part of brandy of whisky; or, in the absence of these, a few drops of Jamaica ginger or pain-killer may bo administered with the milk. This treatment, with wrapping in a woolen blanket and placing near tho stove,' should soon restore the lamb to vigor. If it is placed in tho pen with others, it is a good plan to place upon the iiosc of the mother a few drops of the same ma terial that was mixed with the lamb's drink. This hint will often cause the ewe to own her iamb, or even a strange lamb, when otherwise trouble would be experienced. The first six hours of a lamb’s life is the most critical time; hence many farm ers will go to the barn at midnight to look after their flock, and it often pays to do so, as a well-kept lamb is worth in October not less than $2.50, and often $1 is obtained for them. When a week old lambs will begin to cat the leaves and clover heads, and also the line leaves of timothy, cornstalks, etc. But clover is their favorite, and should be given them if possible. It not only adds growth, but makes them strong and hearty. No doubt some of the ewes will be come thin in flesh. Those, witli their lambs, should have a separate enclosure, and bo fed an extra ration of grain, plac ing tho feed trough low enough so that that tho lambs may also eat a portion of it. Remember that to he successful in lamb raising one needs healthy sheep, good food, warm quarters and prompt uttention.—New York Examiner. CARE or MILK. A cheese manufacturer in this State, says George E. Newell in the American Agricultural, has had tiie following pointed advice printed at the head of the dividend sheets he issues to his patrons : “Take good rare of your night's milk, it will pay you.” Where milk is delivered at tho factory only once in twenty-four hours, more than ordinary attention at the dairyman’s hands is necessary to pre serve its quality. Especially is this true in hot weather, and on nights when tho air is disturbed by electrical storms. It is of vital interest to the’manufacturer to always receive good milk, for the repu tation of his stock must lie maintained, nnd profitable money returns yielded to his patrons. Of deeper significance also is tno public health, which may bo jeo pardized as greatly through carelessness and ignorance in the dairy us by loose sanitary conditions in tho face of a pesti lence. Tiie thought of eating “hurt meat” fills every one with abhorrence, yet tho consumption of tainted milk is as dangerous to human health. Milk may develop a fatal poison, and yet reveal little of it to the sense of smell. There are two general species of taint that affect knilk. When warm from tho udder and lying in a deep vessel it generates one character of decomposition, and rank odors emanating from decaying animal or vegetable matter cause tho other. To avoid both, milk must be set in a draught of pure air, and bo aerated thoroughly by stirring, or by driving air through the mass. Tho fluid should not bo vio lently handled while it Is cooling and niring, or a partial separation of the but ter globules ensues. In whatever char acter of vessel milk is stored over night, the material of course being tin, free circulation of air should bo secured un der the bottom as well as around the sides. Cans of large diameter should bo employed, and only a moderate quantity of milk be stored in a can. For u dairy man who regularly patronizes a cheese factory and makes a day delivery of milk once a day, a properly constructed cooling stand should bo a part of his equipment. It should stand on an ele vated location convenient to the milk ing barn, and one open to a free circula tion of air from all quarters. Posts are set on ten feet high with a shingled roof, and a floor as high above the ground as a wagon box. This will make a struc ture that the wind can not blow down, and it will be rain-proof unless from a driving storm. A low roof, or hoaided- iip sides should be avoided as tiie object is to offer no obstruction to the freest aerial circulation. The cans of milk should rest on cleats raised at least six inches above the floor, and they never should in any case be covered over night unless by a screen. A flight of strong steps should lead up to tiie platform for the use of milkers, and the opposite side face a driveway for facility in loading on a wagon. Milk thoroughly freed from tiie animal heat before it is massed in bulk is quite certain of keeping sweetly till morning. It is a good practice to have plenty ot pails, and let the milk stand in them an hour or more lieforo storing it in greater bulk. Not over one hundred pounds should lie kept in one can, and the the greater the diameter of the can the better. Don't put sour whey in milk cans, hut rather take a barrel to the fac tory for that purpose. After a thorough cleansing of tiie receptacles, they should be treated to a rigid scalding with boil ing water. This may seem an unneces sary precaution; it ij often neglected to the detriment of tho milk. Taint in milk can not always he de tected by the sense of smell, ami it pres ents its most dangerous character when, odorless in the lacteal fluid, it arises as gaseous eflluvia from the cooking chccsc. FARM AND HARDEN NOTES. Many repairs arc now in order. Frequently give your hens now, cleai nests. The market is seldom overstocked with tho best. A light and effective movable fence u a desideratum. Cut the burs nnd cockles before turn ing in the sheep. • Keeping the weeds cut is better that pulling the:n out. Rats destroy millions of dollars’ wortl |of grain annualiy. F Wait until the frost kills tho flie be fore painting your buildings. 1 Tho fall is the seeding time for weeds. Destroy them before the seed falls. Tho toad is one of tho best friends of the farmer nnd destroys many insects. To kill blue grass growing between bricks around tho lawn, wash the bricks with salt water or strong solution of soda. It is said that typhoid fever has been traced to a dirty pig pen, the virus com ing into tho house on tho unwashed feet of flics. Coro should bo taken to keep castor bonus out of horse or cattle feed, for they are fatal to stock. Horses will not,how ever, cat the stalks while gathering. Bright oat straw run through a cut ting box and mixed with bran and a little ground oats, slightly moistened, makes one of the best fodders for horses. In cutting seed potatoes cut tho eye with a slant toward the butt or stem end, and cut past the middle of tho potato leaving as much of the eye on the potato as you can. Be careful that your hay does not be come heated in tiie barn. Hay, to keep well, should lie well cured nnd dry be fore storing, nnd it should not he packed too heavily. Professor Augur, of Connecticut, rec ommends sprinkling cabbage with brine strong enough to bear nu egg as a remedy for the cabbage worm. It is also good for the cabbage. It is only in exceptional cases that it will pay the average fanner to breed horses for speed. Generally, all things considered, good drift horses will return a safer and better profit. In plowing stony land for seeding to grass, put all small stones into the furrow and cover them, anil lay all larger ones out on tho furrows and afterward draw them off on a stone boat. Three-quarters of an ounce fit salt to tho pound of butter will be the right quantity for most markets for immediate consumption, nnd one ounce to tho pound for packed butter. When tomatoes aro on stakes or trel lises it is a good plan to nip oil the tops. Bide shoots push out the sooner, and from these come the fruit. There is no advantage in so mucli height. Kickers among colts and calves aro usu ally bred, not born. Handle them gently and kindly and kickers will be rare. Teasing by heedless boys and hired meu originates most of the farm kickers. Teach tho boy to do his farm work se that it will lie admired, and you give him something to think about that adds zest to ids work. Teach him to be as neat and tasteful in his work as in dress, and you develop valuable qualities, such os may hold him to tho farm. If the corn crop is not harvested and siloed when there is moisture in the stalks to start rapid fermentation, wo should certainly, says Hoard’s Dairyman, add water to the contents of the pit, and if the water was hot, it would be all the )iore effective in starting the fermenta tion. Early cabbage arc not usually ns hard and largo as the later kinds. They are intended to afford a supply while wait ing for tlio lietter varieties to come in. They are but of little value unless early. It is time to have the seed for early plants sowed in tho hot bed, and ths young plants should be set out as sosn as possible. The introduction of the bush lima beay is a valuable aid to the beau grower. Tin chief expense in growing lima beaus if the poles, which require labor in staki iug and replacing when affected b] winds. Those who have tried the inisl) beans claim that they are fully as pro* lilic as the pole beaus, as well as being equal to tho latter in quality. To make thorough work of the weeds they should bo carted off the land at once and burned up if dry enough, or dumped in a pile and workeil over for two years before returning to the land ns compost. This working over may ho done witli a cultivator and harrow in a largo pilo; it does not take much time, but needs attention every ten days in tho growing season. One of tho reasons why peaches do not succeed on land long cultivated, is lack of mineral plant food. Tho peach is usually planted on light or sandy land, that lias at best very little mineral. Tho seed cannot form without potash, and lacking this tiie seed fall off soon after setting. It is believed by some that lack of potash is tho predisposing cause of the disease known as peach yellows. When taken early enough this disease has been cured by heavy applications of German potash salts. , 1 _ Power of the Sc.i. From experiments at Bell Rock and Skerry vole lighthouse, on tho coast of Scotland, it is found that while tho force of tho breakers on the side of thq German Ocean may be taken at about a ton mid a half to every square foot of ex posed surface, tho Atlantic side throws breakers with double tliat force, or three tons to the square loot; thus a surface of only two square yards sustains a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty-four tons. In March of this year a heavy gale blew for three days and nights at Bkerryvole, washing out blocks of limestone and granite of three nnd five tons weight ns easily ns if they had been empty egg shells. One block of limestone, estimated to ho of fifteen tons weight, was moved over one hundred and fifty feet from a place in tho surf where it had been firmly grounded since 16117, it having first been rolled in sight by the awful gale of the “windy Christ; mas” of that year. This is quite a high sea record for 18‘JO, showing that tho gale of March 3d was the worst known, on (he SceoUisli coast for 11)3 years. Scientific American. 1 Escape of a *'.>0,000 Manuscript, file novelist Stevenson recently came near losing all of Ids unpublished manu scripts, among them u story already con tracted for and for which the author is to receive $20,000. The vessel on which ho with ids wife was Hailing from Samoa to Auckland, caught lire, and tho sailors began to throw overboard the movables that had become ignited. Mrs. Stevenson stopped one just as he lifted her husband’s box containing all his papers. The man was persuaded to deluge the box with water instead. AVio York Sun. The Fastest Boat In tho World. Tiie torpedo boat Adler, constructed in Germany for tho Russian Black Sea fleet, is described by the Russian papers as the fastest war vessel afloat, having attained during its trip a speed of 26.55 knots. The boat is 150 feet long nnd seventeen feet broad, witli a displacement of 150 tons. Three gunboats, one of which—the Nurghen—is finished, are being constructed in German shipyards for tiie Baltic fleet, and these will lie al most as fast steamers as tho Adler.—Sci- enlijic American. In portions of the unsurveyed terri tory at tho foot of Mount Baker and Mount Tacoma tliero are hundreds of trees that measure 650 feet in height. Some of their trunk a measure thirty feet in circu inference. REV. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. I Paralysis of his liest hand, the witheriuc a Its muscles and nerves, is here invoked if the author allows to pass out of mind the grim deurs of tho Holy City where once he dwelt Jeremiah, seated by the river Euphrates wrote this psalm, and not David. Afraid ) am of anything that approaches imprecation and yet I can understand how any one wh< has ever been at Jerusalem should in entlm siasmof soul cry out, whether ho besittiir- by the Euphrates, or tho Hudson, or tl.1 Thames, If I forget thoo, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning!” Yot see it is a city unlike all others for topog raphy, for history, for significance, for style of population, lor water works, tor ruins, for towels, for domes, for ramparts, for lit-’ erature, for tragedies, for memorable birth places, for sepulchers, for conflagrations and amines, for victories anil defeats. I am hero at last in this verv Jerusalem and on a housetop, just after "the dawn ol the morning ot December .'i, with an old in habitant to point out the salient features of the scenery. “Now,” J said, “where is Mount . He r. e at y oU1 ' ri ? ,,t ■ ” ’‘Where isMount • * 1,1 front of where you stand?’ W here is the Garden of Gethsemane?” “In fonder valley.” “Where is Mount Calvary?” Before he answered 1 saw it. No unpreju- diced mind can have a inomont’s doubt as to where it is. Yonder 1 see a hill in the shape of a human skull, ami the Bible says that Calvary was the “place of a skull.” Not only is it skull shaped, but just lie- neatb tho forehead of tho hill is a cavern that looks like eyeless sockets. Within the grotto under it is tho shape of the in side of a skull. Then the Bible says that Christ was crucified outside the gate, and this is outside the gate while the site form erly selected was inside the gate. Besides that, this skull hill was for ages the place where malefactors were put to death, and Christ was slain as a malefactor. 'Hie Saviour’s a^issination took place bo ride a thoroughfare along which people went “wagging their heads," and there is tho an cient thoroughfare. I saw at Cairo, Egypt a clav mould of that skull hill, made by the late General Gordon, t he arbiter of nations. ^ Idle Empress Helena, eighty years of age, ami imposed upon by having three crosses exhumed before her dim eyes, as though they were the three crosses of Bible story, selected another site as Calvary, all recent travelers agree that the one 1 point out to you was without doubt the scene of the most terrific and overwhelming tragedy this planet ever witnessed. There were a thousand things wo wanted to see that third day of December, and our dragoman proposed this ami tint and the other journey, hut I said: “First of all show ns Calvary. Something might happen if we went, elsewhere, and sickness or accident might hinder our seeing the sacred mount. If we sec nothing else we must see that, ami see it this morning.” Some of us in carriage and some on mule back, we wore soon on the way to the most sacred snot that tin* world has ever seen or ever will see. Coming to the base of the hill wo first went inside the skull of rocks. It is culled Jeremiah’s grotto, for there the prophet wrote his book of Lamentations, rhe grotto is thirty-live feet high, and its top ami side are malachite, green, brown, black, white, red and gray. < ’oming forth from those pictured subter raneous passages we begin to climb the steep sides of Calvary. As we go up wo see cracks ami crevices in the rocks, whicli 1 think were made by the convulsions of nature when Jesus died. On the hill lay’ a limestone rock, w hite, but tinged with crimson, tho white so suggestive of purity and tho crimson of sac rifice that I said, “That stone would bo beau tifully appropriate for a memorial wall in my church, now building in America; ami the stone now being brought on camel’s back from Sinai across the desert, when put under it, how significant of the law ami tne gospel! And these lips of stone will continue to speak of justice and mercy long after all our living lips have uttered their last m ossa ere.” So 1 rolled it down the hill ami trans ported it. When that day comes for which many of you have prayed—tho dedication of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third im mense structure we have reared in this city, and that makes it somewhat di 111 cult, being the third structure, a work such as no other church was ever called on to un dertake—we invito you in the main en trance of that building to look upon a me morial wall containing the most suggest ive and solemn and tremendous antiquities ever brought together—this, rent with the earthquake at the giving of the law at Bhm\ the other reLt at the crucifixion on Calvary. ’t is impossible for you to realize what our emotions were as we gathered a group of men nnd women, all saved by the blood of the Lamb, on a bluff of Cavalry, just wide Miough to contain three crosses. I said to my family and friends: “l think here is where stood the cross of the imi>eni- tent burglar, and there the cross of the miscreant, and here between, I think, stood the cross on which all our hopes depend.” As 1 opened the nineteenth chapter of John to read « chill blast struck the hill nnd a cloud hovered, the natural solemnity im pressing the spiritual solemnity. I read a little, but broke down. I defy anv emo tional Christian man sitting upon Gol gotha to read aloudand with unbroken voice, or with any voice at all, tho whole of that account in Luke and John, of which these sentences are a fragment: “They took Jesus and led Him away,and He.bearing His cross, wein forth into a place called the place of a skull, where they crucified Him audtwooth- ers with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst;” “Behold thy mother!” “I thirst;” “This day shall thou bo with Mo in Pnraoise;” Father, forgive them, they know not what they do;” “If it lie possible, let this cup pass from Me ” What sighs, what sobs, what tears, what tempests of sorrow, what surging oceans of agony in those utterances I While we sat there the whole scene came before us. All around tho ton and the sides and the foot of the hill a mob raged. They gnash their teeth and shake their clinched fists at Him. Here the cavalry horses champ their bits and paw the earth and snort at the smell of the carnage. Yonder a group of gamblers are pitching up as to who shall have the coat of the dying Saviour. There are women almost dead with grief among tiie crowd—His mother and Jiis amt, and some whose sorrows He had pa' iloned. Hero a man dips a sponge into sour vine, and by a stick lifts it to tho hot an i cracked lips. The hemorrhageof the five wounds has done its work. '1 he atmospheric conditions are such as the thr world saw never before or since. It was not a solar eclipse, such as astronomers reci t’d or we ourselves have seen. It was a ben a vement of the heavens! Darker! until the tow ers of the temple were no longer visi ble. Darker! until the surrounding hills dis- amieared. Darker! until the inscription above the middle cross becomes illegible. Darker! until the chin of the dying Lord falls upon the breast, and He sighed with this last righ the words. “It is finished!” As we sat there a silence took possession of us, and we thought, this is the centre from which continents have been touched, and all tho world shall yet be moved. Toward this hill the prophets pointed forward. Toward this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed backward. To this all heaven poinlod down ward. To this with foaming exwrations perdition jiolnted upward. Hound it circles all history, all time, all eternity, and with this scene painters have covered the might iest canvas, and sculptors cut the richest marble, and orchestras rolled their grandest oratorios and churches lifted their greatest doxologies and heaven built its highest thrones. Unable longer to endure the pressure of this scene we moved on and into a garden of olives, a garden which in the right season is full of flowers, and hero is the reputed tomb of (Ihrist. You know the Book says. “In tho midst of the garden was a sepulchre.” I think this was the garden and this the -sepulchre. It is shuttered, of course. Alniut four steps down we went into this, which seemed a family tomb. There is room in it for about live bodies. We measured it nnd found it about eight feet high and nine feet wide ami fourteen fe t l< ng. Tho crypt where I think our Lord slept was seven feet long. I think that there once lay the King wrapped in His lust slumber, tin some of these rocks the Roman government set its seal. At the gate of this mausoleum on the on the first Easter morning the angels rolled the stone thundering down the hill. Up these steps walked tho lacerated feet of the Con queror, and from these heights He looked off upon the city that hail cast Him out and upon the world Ho had. come to redeem and at the heavens through which He would soon ascend. But we must hasten back to the city. There are stones in the wall whicli Solomon had lifted. Stop here and see a startling proof of the truth of the prophecy. In Jeremiah, thirty first diaper and fortieth verso, it is said that Jerusalem shall be built through the ashes. \Y hat ashes, people have been asking. Were thoie ashes put into the prophecy to fill up? No! The meaning has been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now being built out in a certain direction where the ground has been submitted to chemical analysis, and it has been found to be tin* as lien cast out from the sacrifices of tho undent temple—ashes of wood and ashes of bones of animals. There are great mounds of ashes, accumulation of centuries of sacrifices. It has taken all these thousands of years to dis cover what Jeremiah meant when he said, “Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to tho Lord from the tower of Hauaneel to the gate of the cor ner, nnd the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes.” The people of Jerusalem are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy. One handful of that ashes on which they are building is enough to prove the divinity of the Scriptures! Pass by tho place where the corner stone of the ancient temple was laid three thousand years ago by Solomon. Explorers have been digging, and they found that corner stone seventy-five feet be neath the surface. It is fourteen feet long, and three feet eight inches high, and beauti fully cut and shaped, and near it was an earthen jar that was supposed to have con tained tho oil of consecration used at tho ceremony of laying tho corner stone. Yon der, from a depth of forty feet, a signet ring has been brought up inscribed with tho words “Haggai, the Son of Shebnaiah,” showing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai, nnd to that seal ring he refers in his prop- phecy, saying,“I will make thecas a signet.’* I walk further on far under ground, and I find myself in Solomon’s stables, and see tho places worn in tho stone pillars by the hal ters of some of his twelve thousand horsjs. Further on, look at tho pillars on which Mount Moriah was built. You know that tho mountain was too small for the temple, and so they built the mountain out on pil lars, and I saw eight of those pillars, each one strong enough to hold a mountain. Hero we enter tho mosque of Omar, a throne of Mohammedanism, where we are met at tho door by officials who bring slip pers that wo must put on before we take a step further, lest our feet pollute the sacred places. A man attempting to go in without these slippers would bo struck dead on the spot. These awKward sandals adjusted as well as we could, we are led to where we see J a rock with uu opening in it, through which, no doubt, tho blood of sacrifice in the ancient temple rolled down and away. At vast ex pense the mosque has been built, but so som ber is the place I am glad to ^et through it, and take off the cumbrous slippers and step into the clean air. '*onder is a curve of stone which is part of a oridge which once reached from Mount Moriah hV Mount Zion, and over it David walked or rode to prayers in the temple. Here is the waiting place of the Jews, where for centuries, almost perpetually, during the daytime whole generations of tho Jews nave stood putting their head or lips against the wall of what was onc3 Solomon’s temple. It was one of the saddest and most solemn and impressive scones I over witnessed to see- scores of these descendants of Abraham, with tears rolling down their cheeks and lips trem bling with emotion, a book of psalms open before them, bewailing the ruin of the an cient temple and the captivity of their race, and crying to God for the restoration of the temple in all its original splendor. Most affecting scene! And such a prayer as that, century after century, I am sure God will answer, nnd in some way the departed gran deur will return, or something better. I looked over the shoulders of some of them and saw that they were reading from the mournful psalms of David, while I have been told that this is the litany which some chant: Tor the temple that, lies desolate, We >*it in solitude ami mourn; For the palace that is destroyed, We sit lu solitude and mourii; For the walls that are overthrown, We sit in solitude and mourn; For our majesty that is departed, WesT in solitude and mourn; For our great men that lie dead, We sit in solitude and mourn; For priests who have stumbled, We sit In soiitude and mourn. 1 thinu at that prayer Jerusalem will come again to more than its ancient magnificence; it may not be precious stones and architec tural majesty, but in a moral splendor that shall eclipse forever all that David or Solo mon saw. But ! must get back to tho housetop where 1 stood early this morning, and lieforo tho sun sets, that 1 may catch a wider vision of what the city now is and once was. Stand ing hereon the housetop 1 see that the city was built for military safety. Home old warrior, l warrant, selected the spot. It stands on a hill‘Ji>oo feet above tho level of the sea, and deep ravines on three sides do the work of military trenches. Compact as no other city was compact. • >nly three miles journey round, and the t liree ancient towers, Dippious, Flmsaelus, Mariamne, frowning de;o li upon tlio approach of all enemies. s I stood there on the housetop in the mii.stof the city 1 said, “O Lord, reveal to me i’ds metropolis of th * world that l may see it as it once appeared.’’ No one was with me, for there are some things you can see more vividly with no one but God and your self present. Immoiialely the mosmio of Omar, which has stood for ages on Mount Moriah, the site of theanciviit temple, disap peared. and the most honored structure of all tho ages lifted itself in the light, and 1 saw it- the temple, the ancient templet Not Holomou’s temple, but soinelhiug grander than that. Not Zcrtihhabel’s teiunla. but something more gorgeous than that. It. was Herod’s temple, built for the one purpose of eclipsing all its architectural predecessors. There it stood, covering nineteen acres, and ten thousand workmen had been forty- six years in building it . Blaze of magnifi cence! Bewildering range of ,porticos and ten gateways and double arches and Coring thinn capitals chiseled into lilies and acan thus. Masonry beveled and grooved into such delicate forms that it seemed to tremble in the light. Cloisters with two rows of Cor inthian columns, royal aivhes, marble steps pure as though made out of frozen snow, carving that seemed like a panel of the door of heaven let down mi l set in, the facade of the building on shoulders at each end lifting the glory higher and higher, and walls wherein gold put out tin' silver, and the carbuncle put cut the gold, and the jasper put out the carbuncle, until in tho changing light they would all seem to come back again into a chorus of harmonious color. Tiie temple! The temple! Doxology in stone! Anthems soaring in raft ers of Lebanon cedar! From side to side nnd from foundation to gilded pinnacle tho frozen prayer of all ages! From this housetop on tho December after noon we look out in another direction, and I see the king’s palace, covering n hundred and sixty thousand square feet, three row's of windows illumining tho inside brilliance, the hallway wainscoted w ith styles of colored marbles surmounted by arabesque, vermilion ami gold, looking down on mosaics, music of waterfalls in tho garden outside answering the music of the harps thrummed by deft fingers inside; banisters over which princes and priheesses leaned, and talked to kings and queens useending the stairway. O Jeru salem, Jerusalem! Mountain city! City of God! Joy of the whole earth! Stronger than Gibraltar and Sebastopol, surely it never could have been captured! But while standing there on tho housetop that December afternoon 1 hear the crash of the twenty-three mighty sieges which have come against Jerusalem in the ages past. Yonder is the pool of Hezekiah amt Silonin, but again and a^ain wore those waters red dened with human gore. Yonder are the towers, but again mid again they foil. Yon der are the high walls, but again and again they are leveled. To rob the treasures from her temple and palace and dethrone this queen city of the earth kII nations plotted. David taking the throne at Hebron decides that be must have Jerusalem for his capital, and coming up from tho south at tho head of two hundred and eighty thousand troops he captures it. Look, here comes another siege of Jerusalem! The Assyrians under Sennacherib, en slaved nations at his chariot wheel, having taken two hundred thousand captives in his one campaign: Phoenician cities kneeling at his feet, Egypt trembling at tho flash of his sword, comes upon Jerusalem. Look, an other siege! The armies of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come down ami take *t plunder from Jerusalem such as no other city overbad to yield, and ton thousand of her citizens trudge oil’ into Babylonian bond age. Look, another siege! and Nebuchad nezzar and his hosts by night go through a breach of tlu Jerusalem wall, and the morning finds some of them seated tri umphant in the temple, and what they could not take away because too heavy they break up—the brazen sea, ami tho two wreathed pillars, Jachin and Boaz. Another siege of Jerusalem, «nd Pompoy with the battering rams which a hundred men would roll back, and then, at full run forward, would bang against tho wall of the city, and catapults hurling tho rocks upon the people, left twelve thousand dead and the city in the clutch of tho Roman war eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of Je rusalem! Titus with his tenth legion on Mount of Olivos, and ballista arranged ou the principle of the pendulum to swing great bowlders against the walls and towers, and miners digging under the city making gal leries of lieams underground which, set on fire, tumbled grout masses of houses and hu man beings into destruction and death. All is taken now but the temple, and Titu^ the conqueror, wants to save that unharmed, but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a torch into the temple and it is consumed. Many strangers wore in tho city at tho time and ninety-seven thousand captives wore taken, amt Josephus says one million one hundred thousand lay dead. But looking from this house top, the siege that most absorbs us is thatof the Crusaders. England and Franco and nil Christendom wautefi to capture the Holy Sepulchre and Jerusalem, then in possession of the Moham medans, under the command of ono of the loveliest , bravest and mightiest men tliat ever lived; for justice must be done him, though he was u Mohammedan—glorious Halndmi Against him came the armies of Europe, under Richard Coeur do Lion, King of England; Philip Augustus, King of France; Taucred, Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant meu, marching on through fevers and plagues and battle charges and sufferings as intense as the world ever saw. Salad in in Jerusalem, hearing of the sickness of King Richard, his chief enemy, sends him his own physician, and from the walls of Jerusalem, seeing King Pdcbard afoot, sends him a horse. With all tho world looking ou tho armies of Europe come within sight of Jerusalem. At the first glimpse of tho city they fall on their faces in reverence and then lift anthems of praise. Feuds and hatreds among them selves were given up, and Raymond nnd Tancred, the bitterest rivals, embraced while the armies looked on. Then the battering rams rolled, and the catapults swung, and tho swords thrust, and the carnage raged. God frey, of Bouillon, is the first to mount the wall, and the Crusaders, a cross on every shoulder or breast, having taken the city, march bareheaded and barefooted to what they supixjse to bo the Holy Sepulcher, and kiss the tomb. Jerusalem tho possession of Christendom. ButSaladln retook the city, and for tho last four hundred years it has been in possession of cruel and polluted MolmmiuedauiHin! Another crusade is needed to start for Jerusalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth Century greater than all those of the past centuries put together. A crusade in whicli you and I will march. A crusade without weapons of death, but only tho sword of the Spirit. A crusade that will make not a single wound, nor start one tear of distress, nor incendiarizo one home stead. A crusade of Gospel Peace 1 And the Cross again be lifted on Calvary, not as one.) an instrument of pain, but a signal of invitation, urn l the mosque of Omar shall give place to a church of Christ, and Mount Zion become the dwelling place not of David, but of David’s Lord, and Jerusa lem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking back the Christ she once cast out, shall bo made a worthy type of that heaving city which Paul styled “the mother of us all,"and which St. John saw. “the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God.” Through its gates may wo all enter when our work is clone, and in its temple, greater than all the earthly temples piled m one, may we worship. Russian pilgrims lined nil tlnroa Is around the Jerusalem we visited last winter. They had walked hundreds of miles, and their feet bled on the way to Jerusalem. Many of them had spent their la*t farthing to got there, and they had left some of those who started with them dying or dead by tho road side. An aged woman, exhausted with the long way, begged her fellow pilgrims not to lot her die until she bad seen the Hoi v City. As she came to the gate of the city she could not take another step, but she was carried In, an<l then said, “Now hold mv head up till I can look upon Jerusalem,” and her head lifted, she took one look, an 1 said: “Now 1 die con tent; I have been it! I have seen it!” Some of us before we reach the heavenly Jerusalem inav be as tired as that, but angels of mercy will help us in, and one glimpse of the temple of Goduud tho Lamb, and one goo l look at tho “king in his beauty,” will more tliuii compensate for all the toils an 1 tears and heartbreaks of tho pilgrimage. Uallolujulil Amen! SELECT SIFTING3L The primitivo Russians placed n certi ficate of character in tho dead person’s hand to be given to St. Peter at the gates of heaven. By the agency of the London chil dren’s country holidays fund 20,000 chil dren last year enjoyed a short holiday in tho country. An owl shot near Jackson, Ga., meas ured five and a half feet from tip to tip of the wings nnd had a small steel trap ou ono of its feet. There are two obelisks known as Cleo patra’s needle. One stands on tho Thames embankment, Loudon, and the other in Central Park, New York. Berlin has six great play fields for children. All sorts of amusements in these places are free, and teachers of gymnastics direct the exercises. One ostrich farm at Port Augusta, South Australia, contains 7U0 birds worth §100 each, and tho yield of the ft at hers this year is expected to be worth §7000. Clubs have increased rapidly in New York, and it is estimated that they now j have a membership of 100,000. Every club has an ambition to get u building on Fifth avenue. The use of India rubber for erasing pencil marks was first suggested in or just prior to 1752 by an academician named Magellan, a descendant of tho great navigator. Tho Austro-Hungarian convict who is condemned to die stands on tho ground with a rope around his neck, mid at a given signal he is pulled oil his legs to remain struggling in the air until he is strangled. Trade-marks wero known in ancient Babylon; China had them as early ai 1000 B. C.; they were authorized in England in 1300; Gutenberg, tho inven tor of printing, is said to havo had a law suit over his trade-mark. Foolscap is a corruption of the Italian fclio-capo, a folio sized sheet. The error must havo beep very ancient, as the water-mark of this sort of paper from tho thirteenth to the seventeenth century was a fool’s head with cap and bells. Tho mountain homo of Stephen B. l^lkins in West Virginia, is built on a peak from which a view of thirty miles may bo had. Tho house is more like a jarouiul castle than a residence. Tho lurrounding mountains arc full of trout itreams and game forests. Fully thrcc-four;ns of the babies of the world go nuked until they get to bo , live or six years old. Tho Canadian In dians keep their babies naked up to a cer- 1 tain point, and as for the little Corea ns, they never wear nothing but a short akirt until they are as old as our school boys. A wonderful flower has been dis covered in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Its chief peculiarity isitho habit of chang ing its colors during the day. In tho morning,it is white; when tho sun is at its zenitli it is red, and at night it is blue. The red, white and blue flowci grows on a tree about the size of a guava tree, and only at noon does it give out any perfume. Tho famousV‘loop” on tho Southern Pacific is on tho .Sierra Mountains, be tween Majors nnd Culiente. It was a device by which tho'Tehcchupo Pass, by which Fremont first crossed tho mount* | aiu ridge between Northern and South- | ern California, is passed. First the roacl j runs through a tunnel, then it bridges.aO ibyss, and finally crosses over itself* seemingly tieiug a bow-knot with it: own fairie s. 1 Precautions Against Consumption. In a circular on precautions against consumption, died by th* State Board of Health of Pennsylvania, the fol lowing advice is given: “The duster, and especially that potent distributer oi germs, the feather duster, should nevei be used a room habitually occupied by t consumptive. The floor, woodwork auc furniture should be wiped with a danij cloth. The patient’s clothing should hi kept by itself and thoroughly boiled when washed. It need hardly be sait that the room should be ventilated a thoroughly us is consistent with the main teuuucc of a proper temperature.’* Scrofula Humor “My little daughter'** life wa* saved, ; s we be lieve, by Hoo I'h Sarsap irilla. before she was six moat hseM she had sovt n nmnln jserofu la sores. Two plD NicbiUH were called, but they gave uk noh |^«. Quo of them udvbed tho nmpiititioii of on*- of her lingers, to whit li wo refused ji-soRt. On giving her Hood’s t'/innii rlllii n niar .ol improvement was n die d* and by a continued use of it her rec ivory was com plete. An i she is now, belie; seven yours old, stivnK and healthy.”—11. C. Jonkh, Aina, Unco n Co., Me. Hood’s Sarsaparilla f-'dld by all druggist*. $1; six for I 1 !. Prepared only **y C. 1. IK.>01) & CO., Lowell, Muss. IOO Doses One Dollar LINCOLN’S MELANCHOLY. Uls Sympathetic Nature and Ills Early Misfortunes. Those who saw much of Abraham Lincoln during tho later years of his life, woregreatly impressed with tho expression of profound melancholy his face always wore in repose. Mr. Lincoln was of a peculiarly sympathe tic and kindly nature. These strong charac teristics influenced, very happily, as it proved, his entire i>olifcical career. They would not seem, at first glance, to bo efficient aids to political success; but in tho peculiar emer gency which Lincoln, in tho providence of God, was called to meet, no vessel of com mon clay could possibly havo become tho “chosen of the Lord.” Those acquainted with him from boyhood knew that early griefs tingod his whole life with sadness. His partner in tho grocery business at Salem, was “Undo” Billy Green, of Tallula, III., who used at night, when tho customers were few, to hold the grammar while Lincoln recited his lessons. It .vns to h s sympathetic ear Lincoln told the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge; and ho, in return, offered what comfort lie could when i>oor Ann died, and Lincoln’s grout heart nearly broke. “After Ann died,” says “Uncle” Billy, “on stormy nights, when the wind blew tho rain against tho roof, Abe would set thar in the grocery, his elbows on his knees, his face in his hands, and tho tears ‘runnin’ through his fingers. 1 hated to see him feel bad, an’ I’d say, ‘Abe don’t cry;’and he’d look up an’ say, ‘1 can’t help it, Bill, the rain’s a fullin’ on her.’ ^ There aro many who can sympathize with this overpowering grief, as they think of a lost loved one, when “Iho rain’s a failin’on her.” What adds poignancy to tho grief tfometimes is tho thought that tho lost one might havo been saved. _ Fortunate, indeed, is William Johnson, of Corona, L. J., a builder, who writes Juno “8, ISfiO: “Last February, ou returning from church <*no night, my daughter complained i of having a pain in her ankle. The pain gradually extended until her entire limb was I swollen and very painful to the touch. We j called u physician, who after careful exam- ! ination, pronounced it disease of the kidneys of long standing. All we could do did not seem to benefit her until wo tried Warner’s Safe Cure; from tho first she commenced to improve. When she commenced taking it she could not turn over in bed, and could just move her hands a little, but to-day she is as well as she over was. I believe I owe the recovery of my daughter to its use.” How Women Kill Flowers. It is a peculiar fact that some women kill flowers within twenty minutes after they aro adjusted to the corsage. Others will wear them for hours and they will look as fresh us when they wero first pinned on. A florist said: “Women wear flowers sometimes because they aro vain, not because they love them. Flow ers are alive and it chills them to lay near tho heart that 1ms no lovo for them. They droop and mourn themselves to death, because they known there is noth ing in common between them and tho wearer. They are like littlo children; they lovo those who lovo them, and their best, brightest be uty is given to tlio woman who pins the bouquet on through her lovo for the flowers.” A physician said: “Certainly some women can kill flowers within a very few minutes. It is a sure indication that a poisonous vapor is escaping from the body to a great de gree. It may be the result of disease, or it may be that bathing and proper care of tho skin aro neglected. Tiie body that is kept m wholesome cleanliness will give new life to the flowers. A magnetic strength is carried from the wearer to the flower, nnd long after tho woman is weary with an afternoon’s shopping or calling the flowers will smile back at her with her own strength. She gives life to the flowers through the sweetness of her own body. There is such a difference in women about the care of tlio person. Some of our best dressed and wealthiest ladies arc the most negligent. They seem to have no pride. There is nothing more discerni ble than this disregard. They are eithci ignorant or unconscious of this fact, or else they are without tho pride that should go with intelligence. Flowers cannot live in the poisonous vapor and they betray the secret of invisible negleu^ by soon drooping.”—Chiotyo Herald, 1.<m? Wa’s Chino^e Headache Cure. Harm less in effect, quick and positive In action. Kent prepaid on receipt of $1 per l»otlle. Adder Co./j&i Wyaa«ioltebt M KaiiiiaaCilyJMo The earth is tlio greatest distance from the suu ou tho morning of the Gth of July. Experts at otosuirf i«»>&a—w.* e vker* I><» Y'ou Ever Speculum? Any person scmlin.; us thoir natnn and ad dress will receive information that will lead to a fortune. Benj. Lewis & (Jo., Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. Tho poopla of Lnurcuccbarg, Tcau., •re trying to raUo fundi for u monument ta Davy Crockett. Antidote for n Bee’s Stlns*. A correspondent of tho Leeds (Eng,' land) Mercury writes: As beekeepers,; experienced and inexperienced, are now operating on their stocks stings wilffre- qucntly bo received. Ono of tho most; simple nnd effective antidoes I dm ac-i quaiuted with is to poison a piece of washing soda and rub the stung part with it. If this is done nt once it will, re-! move the pain and prevent swelling, Whenever l go to do anything to th« bees, I invariably put u piece of soda in my waUcoat pocket. The value of n pack of bounds Is revealed by tho sale of one recognized as amomrthc It nest in England for $15,000. 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