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REV. DR. TALMAGE. ■k -iPO iMTINB’8 SDNB41 KERMON. Text: “He entered into a ship, and sat in thr sea; -dud the whole multitude was by the sea on the Mark iv M 1. Jt is Monday morning in our Palestine ex periences, and the sky is a blue Galilee above, as in the boat we sail the blue Galilee be neath. It is thirteen miles long and six miles wide, but the atmosphere is so clear it seems as if I could cast a stone from beach to beach. The lake looks as though it had been let down on silver pulleys from the heavens and were a section of the sea of glass that St. John describes as a part of the celestial land scape. Lake Galilee is a depression of six hundred feet in which the river Jordan widens and tarries a little, for the river Jor dan comes in at its north side and departs from its south side, so this lake has its cradle and its grave. its white satin cradle is among the snows of Mount Hermon where the Jordan starts, and its sepulchre is the Dead Sea into which the Jordan empties. Lake Como of Itaty. Lake Geneva or Switzerland, Lake Lomond of Scotland, Lake Winnipesaukeeof America are larger, but Lake Galilee is the greatest diamond that ever dropped from the finger of the clouds, and whether encamped on its banks as we were yesterday and worship ing at its crystal altars or wading into its waves, which make an ordinary bath solemn as a baptism, or now putting out upon its sparkling surface in a boat, it is something to talk about and pray about and sing about until the lips with which we now describe it can neither talk nor pray nor sing. As sometimes a beautiful child in a neigh borhood has a half dozen pet names, and some of the neighbors call her by one name and others by another, so this pet lake of the planet has a profusion of names. Ask the Arab as he jjjoes by what this sheet of water is, and he will call it Tabariyeh. Ask Moses x>l the Old Testament, and lie calls it Sea of Chinnereth. Ask Matthew', and he calls it Sea of Galilee. Ask Luke, and he calls it Sea of Gennesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea of Tiberias. Ask Josephus and Eusebius, and they have other names ready. But to me it appears a child of the sky, a star of the hills, a rhapsody of the mountains, the bap tismal bowl of the world’s temple, the smi.e of the great God. Many kinds of fish are found in these waters, every kind of tree upon its bank, from those that grow in the torrid zone to those in the frigid, from the plain to the cedar. Of the two hundred and thirty Avar ships Josephus manoevred on these waters—for Josephus was a warrior as well as a historian —there remains not one piece of a hulk, or one patch of a canvas, or one splinter of an oar. But to return to America we never will until we have had a sail upon this inland sea. Not from a wharf, but from a beach covered with black and white pebbles, avg go on board a boat of about ten or twelve tons, to be propelled partly by sail and partly by oar. The mast leans so far forw’ard that it seems about to fall, but avo find it was pur posely so built, and the rope through a pulley manages to hoist and let down the sail. It is a rough boat, and as far as possible removed from a Venetian gondola or a sportsman’s yacht. With a common suav and hammer and ax many of you could make a better one. Pour barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting down to their oars, stand, as they always do in roAving. and pull away from shore. 1 in sist on helping, for there is nothing more ex hilarating to me than rowing, but £ soon have enough of the clumsy oars and the awk ward attempt at wielding them Avhile in standing posture. We put our overcoats and shawls on a small deck in the stern of the boat, the very kind of a deck where Christ lay on a fisher man’s coat when of old a tempest pounced upon the fishing smack of the affrighted dis ciples. Ospreys and wild ducks and king fishers fly overhead or dip their Avings into the lake, mistaking it for fragment of fallen sky. Can it bo that those Bible stories about sudden storms on this lake are true? Is it possible that a sea of such seeming placidity of temper could ever rise and rage at the heavens? It does not seem as if this happy family of elements could have over had a falling out, and the water strike at the clouds and the clouds strike at the water. Pull away, oarsmen! On our right bank are the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are scalding, and the w aters must cool off a long while before hand or foot can endure their temperature. \ oloanoes have been boiling these waters for centuries. Four springs roll their resources into two great swimming reservoirs. King Herod her© tried to bathe off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe the spurtings out of these volcanic heats, and Joshua and Moses knew about them, and this moment long lines of pu^nmk fboni-rtlh parts of the earth are waiting for their turn to step into the steaming restoratives. Let the boat, as far as possible and not run aground, hug the western shore of the lake that we may see the city of Tiberias,, once a great capita), of the architecture of which a few mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals, and here and there a broken and shattered frieze remain, mightily suggestive of the time when Herod Antipas had a palace here and reigned with an opulence and pomp and cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the finders of the historian Avhen ho comes to write it and the fingers of the painter when he attempts to transfer it to canvas. I sup pose he was one of tho worst men that ever lived. And what a contrast of character comes at every moment to the thoughtful traveler iu Palestine, whether he walks the leaeb of this lake or saiis as we now do these Side by side are the two great characters of this Jake region, Jesus and Herod An- tipas. And did any age produce any such antipodes, any such antitheses, any such opposites? Kindness and cruelty, holiness and filth, generosity an 1 meanness, self- sacrifice and selfishness, the supernal and the infernal, midnoon and midnight. The father of this Herod Anti pas w’as a genius at assas sination. He could manufacture more rea sons for putting people out of this life than any man in all history. He sends for Hvrcauus to come from Babylon to Jeru salem to be made high priest, and slays him. He has his brother-in-law while in bathing with him drowned by tho king’s attendants. He slays his wife and his wife^s mother and two of his sons and his uncle, and filled a volume of atrocities, the last chapter of which was the massacre of all the babies at Bethlfehem. W ith such a father as Herod the Great you are not surprised that this Herod Antipas, whose palace stood on the banks of this lake we now sail, w as a combination of Avolf, rep tile and hyena, while the Christ who walked yonder banks and sailed these waters Avas so ^ood that almost every rood of this scenery is associated with some Avise word or some kindly deed, and all literature and all art and all earth and all heaven are put to the utmost effort in trying to express how grand and glorious and lovely He was and is and is to be. The Christ!y and Herodic characters as different as the two lakes we visit, and not far apart Galilee and the Dead Sea; the one flower banked and the other bituminous and blasted, the one hovered over by the mercy of Christ, the other blasted by the wrath of God; the one full of finny tribes sporting in the clear depths, the other forever lifeless- the waters of the one sweet and pleasant to the taste, the other bitter and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead Heal Glorious Gennesaret. We will not attempt to cross the eastern side of this lake, as I had thought to do, for those regions are inhabited by a thieving and murderoiiK race, and one must go thorough ly armed, and as I never shot any one and have no ambition to be shot, X said: “Let us stay by the western shore.” But we look over to the hills of Gadara.on the other side, down which t wo thousand swine after being possessed by the devil ran into the lake, and bringing down on Christ for permitting it the wrath of all the stock raisers of that country because of this ruining of the pork business. You see that Satan is a spirit oi bad taste. Why did be not say: “Let me go into those birds, whole flocks of which (It* over Galilee*'” No; that would have been too high. “Why not let me go into the sheen which wander over these hills"’ No; that would have been too gentle. “Rather let me go into these swine. 1 want to be with the denizens of the mire. 1 want to associate with the inhabitanti of tie tilth. Great is modi X prefer bristles to wings. I would rather root than fly. I like snout better than wing.” Infidelity scofl’s at the idea that those swine should have run into the lake. Hut it was quite natural that uuder the heat and burn, ing of that demoniac possession they would rtart for the water to get cooled off. ' Would that all the swine thus possessed had plunged to the same drowning, for this day tho descend.IIts of some of those porcine craaturee retain the demons, and as the devils were cast out of man into them they now afflict the human race with the devils of scrofula, that comes from eating the uu clean meat! The healthiest people on earth era the Israelites, because they follow the bUl of fare which God in the Imok of Leviticus gave to the human race, and our E did French Dr. Pasteur anil our ous German Dr. Koch may go on with good work of killing parasite*! in the human system; but until the world correct Its diet, and goes hack to the divine regula tion at the beginning, the human race will continue to be possessed of the devils of microbe and parasite. Hut 1 did not mean to cross over to the eastern side of Lake GaWat even iu discussion. Pull away, ye Arab oarsmen! And we come along the shore near by which stan l great precipices of brown and red and gray limestone crowned by basalt, iu the sides of which are vast caverns,sometimes the hiding E lace of bandits, and sometimes the home ot onest shepherds, and sometimes the dwell ing place of pigeons and vultures and eagles During one of Herod’s wars his enemies hid in these mountain caverns and the sides were too steep for Herod’s army to descend, and the attempt to climb in the face of armed men would have oaUed down extermination. So Herod had great cages of wood, iron- bound, made and filled them with soldiers and let them down from the top of the precipices until they gave signal that they were level Avith the caverns, and then from these cages they stepped out to the mouth of tho caverns, and having set enough grass and wood on fire to fill the caverns with smoke and stran gulation, the hidden people Avould come forth to die; and if not coming forth volun j tardy Herod's men would pull them out with long iron hooks, and Josephus says that one lather, rather than submit to the attacking army flung his Avife and seven children down the precipice and then leaped after them to I his own ueatb. Now, ye Arab oarsmen, row on with swift er stroke, for we want before noon to land at Capernaum, the three years’ home o Jesus. But before arrival there we are to have a new experience. ' The lake that had been a smooth surface begins to break up in to roughness. The air, Avhicb all the morn ing made our sail almost useless, suddenly takes hold of our boat with a grip astonish ing. and our poor craft begins to roll ami pitch and tumble, and in five minutes we pass from a calm to violence. The contour of thislake among the hills is an invitation to hurricanes. I u«ed to wonder why it Avas that on so limited a sheet of water a be- stormed boat in Christ’s time did not nut i back to shore when a hurricane was coming. 1 wonder no more. On that lake an atmospheric fury gives no warniug, and the change we suav in five minutes made me feel that the boat in which Christ sailed may have been skilfully man aged when the tempest struck it and the wild ; importunate erv Avent up, “Lord save as or Aveperish!” I liai all along that morning been reading from the Ncav Testament tho story of occurrences on and around that lake. But our Bible was closed now, and it was as much as we could do to hold fast and wish for the laud. If the Avind and the waves had continued to increase iu violence the follo*.v ing fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the first five, and we had been still at their mercy, our bones would have been bleaching in the bottom of Lake Gennesaret instead of our being here to tell the story. But the same power that '-escued the fish ermen of old to-day safely lauded our party. What a Christ for rough vcatheri All tho sailor boys ought to fly to Him as did those Galilean mariners. All you in the forecastle and all you who run up and down the slip pery ratlines, take to sea with you Him who with a quiet word seut tho winds back through the mountain gorges. Some of you Jack Tars to whom these words will come need to “tack ship” and change your course if you are going to get across this sea of life safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay there I Ready about 1 Helm's a-lee! Main- sa.il haul < Star ot peace: beam o’er the billow, Bleas the soul that sighs for thee; Bless the sailor’s lonely pillow, Far, far at sea. Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having in their arms carried us ashore to the only place where our Lord ever had a pastorate, and we stepped amid the ruins of the church Avhere He preached again and again and again—the synagogue whose rich sculptur ing lay there, not as when others see it in springtime covered with weeds and loath some with reptiles, but in that December weather completely uncovered to our agi tated and intense gaze? On one stone of that synagogue is the sculpturing of a pot of manna, an artistic commemoration of the time Avhen the Israelites were fed by manna in the wilderness, and to w hich sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed upward while He was preaching that sermon on this very spot in which He said: “Not as our fathersnid eat manna and are dead; he that cateth of this bread shall live forever.” Wonderful Ca pernaum ! Scene of more miracles than any place in all the earth! Blind eyes kindling with the morning. Withered arms made to pulsate. Lepers blooming into health. The dead girl reanimated. These Arab tents which on this December clay 1 find in Palestine disappear, and I see Capernaum as it Avas when Jesus Avas pastor of the church here. Look at that wealthy home, the architecture, the marble front, the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the doorway, it is the residence of a courtier of Herod, probably Chuza by name, his wife Joanna, a Christian disciple. But something is the matter. The slaves are iu great ex citement, and the courtier living there runs down the front steps and takes a horse and puts him at full run across the country. The boy of that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever. All the doctors have failed to give relief. But about five miles up the country, at Cana, there is a divine doctor, Jesus by name, and the agonized father has gone tor Him, and with what earnestness those can understand who have had a dying child in the house. This courtier cries to Christ, “Come down ere my child die!” While the father is absent , and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the people watching the dying; boy see a change in the countenance, and Joanna, the mother, on one side of his couch, says: “Why, this darling is getting well; the fever has broken. Nee theprespira- tion on his forehead. Did any of you give him any new kind of medicine?” “No,” is the answer. The boy turns on his pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for something to eat and says: “Where's father?’ Oh, he has gone up to Cana to get a young doctor of about thirty-one years of age. But no doctor is needed now in this house at Capernaum. The people look at the sun dial to see what time it is, and see it is just past noon and 1 o’clock. Then they .stare out and meet the returning father and as soon as they come within speaking distance they shout at the top of their voices: “Your boy is getting well.” “Is it possible?” says the father, “When did the change for the better take place?” “One o'clock” is the answer. “Why,” says the courtier, “that is just the hour that Jesus said to me ‘i’hy son liveth.’ One o’clock. As they gather at the evening meal Avbat gladness on all the countenances in that home at Capernaum! The mother, Joanna, has not hud sleep iov many nights, and she MOW *ul!e 'Pk.. iMLuex-. vmu/.a, rue rieiuairiu courtier, worn out with anxiety as well as tiy the rapid tourney to and irom Cana, is anon in restful unconsciousness. Joanna was a Christian before, but I warrant she was muro of Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza accept the Christ who had cured his box'! Is there in all the earth a parent so migrate. lul for the convalescence or restoration of au imperiled child as not to go into a room and kneel down and make surrender to tho almight y love that came to the rescue'* The mightiest agency in the universe is prayer, and it turns even the Almighty. It decides the destinies of individuals, families and nations. During our sad civil war a gentleman was a guest at the White House iu Washington, and he gives this incident. He says; “I had been snending three weeks m the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his guest. One night—it was just after the bat tle ot Bull Run —l was restless and could not sleep. 1 was repeating the part which I was to take hi a public performance. The hour was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming neartothedav.ii when I heard Ion* tones proceeding from a private room where the President slept. The door was partly open. I instinctively* walked in, and there I saw a sight which 1 shall never forget. It Wa. the President kneeling before an open Bibl *. “The light was turned low iu I lie room. His back w as turned toward me. For a mo ment 1 was silent as 1 stood looking in amazement and wonder. Then he cried out in tones so pitiful and sorrowful; ‘Uii.Thoti Hod that heard Solomon in the night when he prayed for wisdom, hear me! I cannot lead this people. I cannot guide the affairs of this nation without Thv help. I am poor and weak aud sinful. Oh. God, who didst heag Solomon when he cridd for wislom, hear me and save the nation!’” You seewedon t need to go back to Bible times for evidence that prayer is heard aud answered. But some one may say that Christ at Oa ; ernaum healed that courtier's child, yet would not have done it for one iu humble ife. Why, in that very Capernaum He did the same thing for a dying slave belonging P> the man who had ma le a present to the town of the church of which Jesus was pas tor, the synagogue among whose ruins Ito- ilay leap from fragment to fragment. This was the cure of a Roman soldier’s slave, whose only acknowledged rights were tho wishes of Ills owner. And none are now so enslaved or so humble or so sick or so sinful hut the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to help them, ready to cure them, ready to emancipate them. Hear it I Pardon for all. Mercy for all. Help for all. Comfort for all. Heaven for all. Oh, this lake Galilee) What a refreshment for Christ it must have lieeu after sympathizing with the sick, and raising the dead, ami preaching to the multi- ludes all day long to come (town on these hanks in the night time, and feel the cool air of the sea ou His hot lace, aud look up to the stars, the lighted lamps around the heavenly palaces from which He hud descended I ''* 1 aou ' n,..I nctemiii; iron! IIIB (, Of stars to tbs billeil lake aud mountain ( All heaven and earth were still—thouzi sleep, But breathless, ts we grow when feeling m “Buis" sa.vs some one, “why was it that I hrist, (omiug to save tile world, should spend so much of His time on and around eo solitary a place as Lake Galilee!’ There is only one city of any size ou its beach, and both the western aud eastern shores are a solitude, broken only by the rounds coming from the mud hovels of the degraded. M hy did not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learned, at Cairo the histone, at Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome the triumphant? If Christ was going to save the world, why not go where the world’s people dwell? Would a man wishing to revolutionize for good the American con tinent, pass his time amid the fishing huts on the shores of Newfoundland?' 1 My friend^ Galilee was the hub ot the wheel of civilization and art, and the canter of a population that staggers realization. On the shore' of the lake we sail to-day stood nine great cities—Scythopolis, Taricb, Hippos, Gamala, Cboraziu, Capernaum, Hnthsaida, Magoala, Tiberias—and many villages, the smallest of which had 15,000 in- habitants, according to Josephus, and reach- ing from the beach hack into the country in alldirections. Palaces, temples, coliseunins, gymnasiums, amphitheatres, towers, gardens terraced on the hillsides, fountains bewilder ing with sunlight, baths upon whose mosaic floors kings trod; while this lake, from where the Jordan enters it to where the Jordan leaves it, was beautiful with all styles of shallop or dreadful with all kiudsof war gal ley, Four thousand ships, history says, were at one time upon these waters. Battles were fought there, which shocked all nations with their conse lueiice*. uere mingling w o,i.. witil pure ana sparser,; loan, In her last throes Judwa fought with Homo. I pon those sea lights looked Vespasian an i Titus and Trajan and whole empires. From one of these naval encounters so many the dead floated to the beach they could nut soon enough be entombed, and a playun was threatened. Twelve hundred soldiers (•reaping from these vessels of war were one day massacred in the amphitheatre at Tibe rias. For three hundred years that almost continuous city encircling Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our planet. It was to the very heart of the world that Jesus came to soothe its sorrows, aud pardou its sins, and heal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved an! reanimate its dead. And let the church and the world take the suggestion. While the lolitary places are not to be neglected, wo must strike for the great cities, if this world is ever to be taken for Christ. Evangelize all the earth except the cities and in one year the cities would corrupt the earth. But bring the citie-. an t all the w orld will come. Briug London and England will come. Briug Berlin and Get* many will come. Bring Paris and Francs will come. Briug >St. Petersburg and Russif. will come. Bring Viaunx and Austria will come. Briug Cairo and Egypt will come. Bring the near three million people iu this cluster of cities on the Atlantic coast and i II America will soon see the salvation of Lo.1. Ministers of religion I let us intensify our evangelism. Editors and publishers I purify your printing presses I Asylums of mercy 1 enlarge your plans of endeavor I Aud instead of this absurd and belittling and wicked rivalry among our cities as to which happens to have the most men anil women and children, not realizing that the more useless and bad people a city has the worse it is off, and a city which has ten thou- sand good people is more to be admired than a city with one hundred thousand bad peo ple, let us take a moral census, and see how many good men and good women are lead ing forth, how large a generation of good children who will consecrate themselves an I consecrate the round world to holiness au 1 to God. Ob, thou blessed Christ, who didst come to the mighty cities encircling Lake Galilee! come in mercy to all our great cities of to-day. Thou who didst put Thy hand on the white mane of the foaming billows of Gennesaret and make them tiedown at Thy feet,hush all the raging passions of the worldl Oh, Thou blessed Christ, who ou the night when the disciples were trying to cross this lake and • the wind was contrary,” after nine hours of rowing had made only three miles, didst come stepping on water that at the touch of Thy foot hardened into crystal, meet all our shipping, whether ou placid or stormy seas, and say to all Thy |ieople now, by whatever style of tempest tossed or driven, as Thou didst to the drenched disciples in the cyclone: “Be of good cheer. It is I Be not afraid!” WISE WORDS. To seek the truth Is better than to dig for gold. We cannot own anything that we do not enjoy. Love can only be measured by what it will suffer. If we cannot get what we like, let us like what wc can get. The man who knowingly does wrong is the biggest of ail cowards. Bootless grief hurts a man’s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury. The greatest blockhead is the one whose mistakes teach him nothing. The love that never goes away from home had better die and be buried. An enemy U an enemy, no matter whether he carries a flag or a musket. Little snakes are the most numerous, and little sins are the most dangerous. Humility is a grace itself, aud a spot less vessel to entertain all other graces. Too much to lament a misery, is the next way to draw on a remediless mis chief. A foolish man in wealth and authority t like a weak-timbered house with too ponderous a roof. There are no riches like to the sweet ness of content, and no poverty compar able to the want of patience. To master a man’s self is more than to conquer a world, for he that conquered the world could not master himself. Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapt upon the back of a galled horse. Wisdom is always knocking at the front door and wanting to come in, to hang up pictures and give away treas ures. Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but frieudly admonitions, like a gentle rain, pierce deep, and bring forth reforma tion. SELECT SIFTINGS. Georgia has a dog that can count. A game cock at Ybor City, Fla., has killed 200 chickens in battle. Collections of engraved portraits have always proved favorite hobbies. A Pittsburg hotelkeeper has one of the largest collections of watches in the world. A Brookiyuite got $400 damages for being roughly ejected from a street car. A flock of blackbirds three miles long and half a mile wide passed over Arling ton, Ga. A oue-legged ’cycler has issued a chal lenge to any other one-legged ’cycler for a bicycle race. Among the'Peshawur Pathans, of India, tho mother's prayer is that her child may grow up to be a successful thief. They have been making a great fuss iu San Francisco because a tish dealer was caught selling shark meat for sole. A Kussiau Lieutenant, twenty-two years old, has just completed a trip by bicycle from St. Petersburg to Paris in side of thi'ty days. Atlanta, Ga., is believed to be the only city in the United States which has a house constucted wholly of paper from foundation to turret. Albania is called Shkiperi by the na tives and Aruaoutlik by the Turks, whence the names Arnaout Skipctar, bestowed ou the inhabitants, are derived. A mushroom described by a leading physician of Portland, Oregon, as having sprung up in a single night near his door step, measured twenty-four inches in cir cumference and weighed 1} pounds. Tho greatest distance ever recorded at which the sound of cannon has been heard waa on the 4th of December, 1832, when the cannon of Antwerp were heard in the Erzegebirge Mountains, at a dis tance of 370 miles. A citizen of Amerlous, Ga., owns • dog that “lives on English Sparrows which he catches by slyly creeping upon them.” In many cities of the Ohio Val ley the progeny of that quadruped would be worth .their .weight in gold metals. Glaiior’i Diamonds. The only natural diamonds that are •old not to be cut or pulverized are those known as glazier’s diamonds. They are very small stones, have ,convex faces and bended edges, the apetes of which are distinctly risible. These diamonds will cut glass, but diamonds, the edges of wihcli are rectilinesr, will only scratch it. Glazier's diamonds are sold at from $12 to $10 the karat. Certain diamonds, which in a natural crude state are In o spheroidal form, and which do not pos ses* auy “clivage,” cannot be cut and ore pulverized to make diamond duet. There are also amorphous diamonds that are completely opaque, aud are of steel gcay or slightly reddish black, and these are called carbonic diamonds, carbon ot carbonade. Beside diamond dust, tools arc made out of them with tho aid of which rocks, against which tho finest tempered steel has had the edge taken off, are split and polished. As for black diamonds, worth from $4 to $5 per karat, they aro used with success iu tho me chanical perforation of rocks, the boring of mine pits and galleries, the splitting of coals and stones, repairing and dress ing of mill stones, porcelain cylinders, etc.; the sawing and piercing of marble, porphory, granite, porcelain, and a whole lot of other substances and foi steel engraving.—Chicago Herald. How Timothy Got Its Name. Timothy grass takes its name from Timothy Hanson, a farmer of Maryland, who brought it into general notice as a hay grass after he had cultivated it ex tensively for his own use for years. Timothy camo from Europe, but just when no one knowa. A traveler has discovered that brunettei ace not the rule in Begin, The Dogs of Syria. Mrs. Burton gives some curious facts about dog life in Syria and other East ern countries. Dogs exist there by hun dreds and thousands, without owners or care, and are a kind of community by themselvers. Each one belongs to a particular quarter of the city, and is not allowed to live elsewhere. She treated them kindly and fed them, while tho inhabitants beat and stoned them, and in gratitude they undertook to escort her and defend her from harm. When she went out to walk a dog always met her, as if appointed by tho whole community, accompanied her to the border of bis boundary, and passed her over to one be longing to that quarter, who did the same thing in his turn. Each dog wagged his tail as if bidding good-by when his work was done. She says also she has often in the quiet night heard a dog come barking from the foot of the mountains. Meeting the dogs on tho border of the village, there would bo a quiet for a few minutes, then a general barking in concert; then one dog would start for the middle of the village, with a similar result there; then a single dog again for the further side of the village, followed by a general barking there. “Whatever the canine news is,” she says, “in about twenty minutes it is passed round to all the dogs in Damascus.’’ Among the gallinacete the pheasant may be considered “cock of the roost,” for he will boldly enter the farmyard and settle the military-looking barn door fowl in a trice. Even the game- jock fares but little better, despite his superior agility. Fifty million gallons of ice cream are devoured by New Yorkers every day. Do You Ever Bpecalata V Any person Bending us their name and ad dress will receive Information that will lead to a fortune. BenJ. Lewis A Go, Security Building, Kansas Cny, Mo. William H. Fisbback will eppose J. H. Jones for United States Senator from Arkansas. l*lilUI(.‘d to the Rest. AH are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family Hbould have, at once a bottle of the best family remedy. Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bil ious. For sale In SOc. and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. A Railroad Cat People havo heard of railroad dogs that were travelers, but few ever heard of a railroad cat. Dryden, however, possesses a railroad cat. The cat is hardly a year old, is owned at the Dry den roller mills and is of the male per suasion. He has several times made the trip up to Caseville and back over the Pontiac, Oxford and Northern Road, al ways going with the freight train, but riding in the coach. The train goes up oue day and back the next. Sometimes pussy stops off at Imlay City if the freight hands have much work to do. He is on hand the next day, however, when the train comes along and jumps on and rides home.—New York Tribune. Talking of patent medicines —you know the old prejudice. And the doctors—some of them are between you and us. They would like you to think that what’s cured thousands won’t cure you. You’d be lieve in patent medicines if they didn’t profess to cure everything—and so, between the experiments of doctors, and the experiments of patent medicines that are sold only because there’s money in the “ stuff, ” you lose faith in every thing. And, you can’t always tell the prescription that cures by what you read in the papers. So, perhaps, there’s no better way to sell a remedy, than to tell the truth about it, and take the risk of its doing just what it professes to do. That’s what the World’s Dispensary Medical Associa tion, of Buffalo, N. Y., does with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, Favorite Prescription, Pleasant Pellets, and Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. If they don’t do what their makers say they’ll do — you get your money back. T rinity college. NORTH CAROLINA. The next half year will leave many ambitious S ounK men without any regular employment. In imt time onocan complete one liftli of the couises required for a degree, ienn begins January 1. Ap- C illeantsa imUte.i at any time. Four new buildings his year. Expenses to $100 a term. Tuition. $23 on time If desired. speclaltles-Hlstory, Political Science, Engineering. Natural Sciences, Languagoa Theology. Write for catalogue John Franklin Urowkll, A B,(Yale) DrLltt, Randolph county, I're-ldent 8. N. U. VJ. 9 C A8 ONE POUND A Day a A GAIN OF A POUND A DAY IN THE CASE OF A MAN WHO HAS BECOME “AU. RUN DOWN,” AND HAS BEGUN TO I AKK i * » : i ! : i * $ % : t i THAT REMARKABLE FLLSH PRODl’CEK, SCOTT’S: Fmulsidn I OF PURE COD LIVER OIL WITH < Hypophosphites of Lime r Soda IS NOTHING UNUSUAL, T HIS FEAT < HAS BEEN PERFORMED OVER AND OVER j again. Palatable as milk. En- j horsed by Physicians. Sold by all { Druggists. Avoid substitutions and j IMITATIONS, 3 Queen Victoria'* First Lore. The name of the late Lord Ellen borough was, says the New York Bun, In hu youth associated with that ol Queen, then Princess, Victoria. It was -a matter of common rumor that the two young people were devoted to each other, and that the youthful Queen in sisted that she should choose him as hei consort. But reasons of state prevailed over love, and young Ellenborough was given a commission in tho army, and went to India, where he distinguished himself. His romantic love affair led to the writing of a ballad, which used tabs sung in the drawing rooms of Great Britain, the first verse of which was as follows: I’ll hang my harp on a willow trot, I’ll on to tha wars again; A peaceful homo has no charms for me, The battlefield no pain; Tho lady I lovo will soon be a bride, With a diadem on her brow. O why did she flatter my boyish pride? Sbes going to leave me now. in the Speakership Race. The Hon. Benton McMillin, of ' I'enncR see, who will have the solid backing oi the Cougressiaoal delegation from that State for the Speakership of the House of Representatives, has had a romantic career. He was born and educated in Kentucky, l worked his passage into Tennessee on a log raft, settled in a backwoods town, twenty miles away from a railroad, prac ticed law there, prospered, and now rep resents a horny-handed, hard-fisted aud primitive community of mountaineers, who count him as one of themselves and think him one of the best and ables men in the country. Should he be elected i Speaker, the Nashville Banner says, the | hardy mountaineers would kiudle bonfires ; on the mountain tops and spend a mouth i in rude festivities over the honor accorded to themselves. 4 *2.50 Paper For 91.75. I Tub Youth’s Companion gives bo much for I the small amount that it costs it is no wonder it is taken already in nearly Half a Million | Families. With its fine paper and beautiful | illustrations, its Weekly Illustrated Supple ments, and its Double Holiday Numbers, it ; seems as if the publishers could not do enough to please. By sending $1.75 now you may ob tain It free to January, and for a full year from that date to January, 189& Address. Tub Youth's Comp anion, Boston, Mass. He who depends on another dines ill and ups worse. State op Ohio, City or Toledo, I Lucas County, f Frank J. Ciieney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business m the City of Toledo, ’^unty aud State aforesaid, and that said Lim will pny i he sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catahud that can not be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cube. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this tith day of December, A. D., 1880. t . A. W. Gleason, ■ SEAL [ * '—v—'' Notary Public, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and lets directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. S.nd for testimonials, fine. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches In Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. TvlerA Co., Kansas City, Mo. Ladies arc admitted V) the CetaIt Club, London. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma laria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nerves— creates appetite. Tho best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. Ho fests enough whose wife scolds at din ner time. LeeWa’s Chinese Headache Cure. Harm less in effect, quick and positive in action. Bent prepaid on receipt of $1 per bottle. Adeler A Co.,522 W y andotte sL, Kansas City .Mo The shower of rioo upon bride and groom s a prayer for copious prosperity and fruit fulness. Malaria cured ami eradicated from the S rstem by Brown’s Ifou Bitters, which en- ches the blood, tones the nerves, olds diges tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strength. A lazy appetite bothers the rich man a great deal more than an active one does the poor man. “Woman, her diseases and their treatment.” A valuable illustrated book of seventy-two pages free, on receipt of iu cts. for cost of mail ing. etc. Address. l\ O. Box IMi, I'hila.. Fa. Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any where on receipt of 60 cts.Tylor <& Co^Kansaa City.Mo. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Neryb Rbetoreii. No fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $3 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch 8C, PaLbu, Pa. if afflicted with soro ©yes use Dr. Thom son's Kyo wator. Druggist sell at 25c per bottle GREAT WRITERS OF THE DAT. THE To convince everybody, before subscribing, of the high quality and interest of our Beautifully Illustrated journal in its new form, we will send to any address $ WeeWeeKs SEND TEN CENTS for a trial subscription, and we will send you three numbers, including our CHRISTMAS NUMBER, with an artistic cover; also our Calendar Announcement for 1891, with a painting by J. G. L. Ferris. These three numbers/contaimthe following reading-matter: (1) Mrs. Amelin E. Barr’s new serial, "The Beads of Tasmer.” Mrs. Barr is the y author of that niost successful serial, “Friend Olivia," just completedtin The Century ; but hereafter Mrs. Barr will write exclusively , for The Ledger. ? (2) Hon. Geonge Bancroft’stdescription of “The Battle of Lake Erie,’’ illustrated!: \ y (3) Margaret Iceland’s latest*story, "To What End?" (4) James Rusisell Lowell’s poem, “ My Brook,” written expressly for The LEDQfcR, beautifully illustrated'by Wilson de Meza, and issued as a FOUR-DAGE*SOUVENIR SUPPLEMENT. (5) Mrs. Hr., Julia Holmes Smith starts a series of articles giving very valuable information to«iyoung mothers. (6) Robert 1 Grant’s entertaining-society*novel, "Mrs. Harold Stagg.” (7) Harriet Prescott Spofford, Marion Harlan d, Marquise Lanza, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Maurice Thompson ami George Frpderic Parson# contribute short stories. (3) James Pcurton, M. TF. Htt#elMne *n& Oliver Dyer (author of “Great Serta tor s "), contribute articles ofnhterest. In addition to. the iabove,,aSPARKpING EDITORIALS, Illustrated Poems, IIei i 'i Marshall North’s chatty colujnp,' and a varilety of delightful reading of interest to till members of the household) # The foregoing.is a santpleqf thq matter which.goes to make up the most perfect National Family Journal;ever.offered to the American people. Send Ten Centsl for these three numbers and judge for yourself, or send only Two Dollars for a'year’s'subscriotion to i M . THEhNElV \ YORK,LEDGER. ROT3ERT ‘BONNER’Si ISONS, Publishers.)* V ^dVILLMM ST., N. Y. CITY. Not a Local Disease Because catarrh affects your hoa 1, It H not thorj- fere a local disease. If it did not exist in your blool, it could not inauife-s? ittelf in your uoso. The bto)J now In your brain is before you finish reading thli article, back in your heart a jnlu aud so ju distrib uted to your llvor, stom-uM, kidneys, aul so 0.1. Whatever Impurities the blool does uot carry away, cause what we call diseases. Therefore wheu you have catarrh of the head, asnuil or other inhalauC can at most give only temporary relief. The only way to eifect a euro is touttaoi tho disease in the blood, by taking aconstitutional remedy like Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which eliminates all impurities aud thus permanently cures catarrh. The success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy for euhuxu u vouched for by mauy people it has curel. Hood’s Sarsaparilla -old by all druggists. §1; six for $3. Prepared ouly > C. 1. UOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. lOO Doses One Dollar FOR A ON E-POLIiA R RILL sent ns by mafl we will deliver, free of all charges, to any person ia the Unit’d States, all of the following articles, care fully packed: One two-ounce bottle of Pore Vnecllne, - - 10eta One two-ounce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, - 15“ One Jar of Vaseline cold Cream, 15 “ One Cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice, - - - - 10 “ One Cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented, • • 10“ One Cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely soented,35 u One two-ounce bott.e of White YaaeUne, - - S5" fll’ Or for pottage Uamps any single article at tb, named. On no account be persuaded to aoce.pt from your druggist any Vaseline, or preparation therefrom unless labelled with our name, because you will cor- i ainly receive an imitation which has little or no value ( hewebrough ,11 fo. Co., ‘dl State 3t., If. Y. At the Head of Young People’s Magazines. 1QINTS w * NT c , ?xI?" TH “ 3X0 KY mu —or— Eagle's Nest John tsten Cooke. This thrilling historic ntory, which has been out of print, and ‘for which thero baa been such a great demand ia vow issued as a SUBSCRIPTION BOOK, with many magnifi cent illustra tions: There has never been a _ more popular |>ook throughout, the Southern States than "Sl eby or Eaqlf Ntst " Many years have passed siuca the thrilling cenra herein recounjed of tha deeds ot valoi of tho oomederp.tc Goldier, vet th interest, by those who fought with Ashby, Btnart, Johnston, Beauregard, Jackson and Lee, in the cause for which they so desperately and bravely bailed, will never grow less. This thrilling story pictures notalone joy and sorrow, and a love sweetly told, but is filled with historio incidents of the great contest between the South and the North. Here Is a book for the old Ex- Confederate, to recall to him the vivid acanes of the greatest Civil War ever known, to call back his own campaigns, and tell him of tha mighty Chieftains, dear to the memory ot everyone who wore the Gray, *■ Burry ot Eagle’a Nest ” will find a welcome In every Southern home. That it may be within the reach of every oue, it is published at tho low FRICEOK $2, though a LARGE. HANDSOME VOLUME, MJUCTLFULLI ILLUSTRATED AND ELEGANTLY BOUND. SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. As the demand for this old favorite book which has been out of print so long, will bo largo, and applications for agencies very numerous, all who desire to act as Agents should write for terme and quickly aecure choice of territory. G. W. DILLINGHAM, Publiaier, 1 33 West 23d St. New York. VNEVEPiY MONTH/®' "Abbauti VilLLUST v Utories, Articles, ^'C\ 20 cts A> r 't a r i '• V^ 0 _5 Authors. WeieUil uholetuU factory pricet aud tb ; p goods to be paid for on delivery. Bend stamp for Gata- iocue. 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A L1.ES CO., Sole Agents for United States, 3G8 & 307 Canal Sf., New To vie, who (if your druggist dors not keep them) will mail Beechatn’s Pills on ryccipt o/iMfluire^Zrsf. (Mention this pafter.) PENSIONS cleat PENSION Bill is Passed. , ersan<k Fathers ar* en titled to $12 a mo. 1* • e ci'» »vln :t v on trot v * ir muner. Blanks freo. JOSLPII II. HIM tit. au*. v.uahli^it.n. D. c mil E H&£la”dWfflskeyHabit* ■ H 9 SI fetllji' “t I'txno with- ■ ■ Hr 9 aiii. Hook of par- ■ ■■ -’oni’HM-nt 8 it IE. WAMmmn H.M Wo'Ol.l.KY.M D. Atlanta*.Uu. Olike K‘F/ U Whitehall St A XMAS HEALTH GIFT (Exerciser Complete $5) Is Bust or All. Circular Free. Book?:: For “An Meal Complexion & Complete Physical I h vi it puu-nt," tq Ills soots. “Health «fc Strength i: Physical Culture,” 40 I!!-; -^ cts. Chart 39 Ills for Dumb Bells .V Pulleys, .*<; cts. Ad. JNO. E. DOWD'S Vocal A Phy.ica! Culture school, 116 Monroe St. ChiCfiflO DONT!! DON’T buy a 10-cent Cigar when you can get m good a one for 5 cent*. Our “DON’T” brand l* equal to the majority of 10c. CIG A RS and needs only a trial to convince the trade of its merits. Manufactured only by \V. B. ELLIS & CO., W fasten, N. C. “The Largest Cigar Firm In N. 0.’* $1,000 REWARD! The above reward will be paid for proof ol tlu* existence of a better LINIMENT than MERCHANT’S GARGLING OIL or a better \\ orm Keniedy than MERCHANT’S WORM TABLETS. Sold everywhere. JOHN HODGE, Sec'y, Merchant’s Gargling Oil Co.. OH. SCHUNCtfS §EAWEiO toiiifi Is a Positive Cure for DYSPEPSIA And all Disorders of the Pi- gofitivo Organs. It is likowica a Corroborative or Strength ening Medicine, and nmy bo taken with benefit in all cases of Debility. For Sulo by nil Druggists. Price, $1.00 per bot tle. l»r. Schejick’s New Book on Tilings, Liver and Stomach mailed free. Address, Dr. J.H.Schenck & 8911. Phih. DR. SGHENCK’3 lliMKlPlLLS STANDARD FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY Cure Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Hoart- burn, Flatulency,Colic,and all Diseases of tho Stomach; Cosliveness, Inflammation, Diarrhoea, Piles, and Diseases of the Bowels; Cougostion, Biliousness, Jaundice, Nansen, Headache, Giddinosa, Nervousness, ’Wan dering Pains, Malaria, Liver Complaint, and all Diseases arising from a Gorged and Sluggish Liver. They clean tho mucous coats, reduce gorged or congested condi tions, break up stubborn complications, re store free, healthy action to the organs, and give the system a chance to recover tone and strength. They aro ^ PURELY VEGETABLE, STRICTLY RELIABLE, anoABSOLUTELY SAFE. For Sale by all Druggists. Price 25 cts. P'r box; 3 boxes for 60 cts.; or sent by mail, postage free, on receipt of price. Dr. J.iL flchcnck A Son,Philadelphia, Pa. OR.SCHENCK'S smP Will Cora COUCHS. COLDS, And All Diseasesoftbo THROAT AND LUNGS. It is pleasant t<> tho Burn, and does uot contain a p..rtiob, of opium or anything injuri ous. It is the Biit vough Med icine in tho Vurld. For Sab* by all Druggists. Price if l to porlxdtle. Dr ScheneW’a P k*** on Consumptiun and Us b\»» o, mailed free. Ad«Irv.s.i Dr. J.N.Schenck A So*. P ISO S Bl.Ml.DV FOIC CATAHUH.--Best. Easiest to use. 4in.111. vi. 1'i iit i is MuinnliiUe. A cure is cdi'Liiu. For 1,000 TEA SETS GIVEN AWAY. 1,000 Lovely decorated C>6 piece) Tea Set* given absolutely fie*; to introduce Our Country Home to new fuUv. ribers. La. h set contains GO pieces « *f richly decoran d ware. Each piece Is richly decorated in col- ora, in tasteful h af and flower patterns Tho Fhupcsuiv modem and artistic. Our C'tniii try Hump t-tauds to-day as on* of the I* ail ing and mostiiopularlaint anti home pap. is in America, Every one is deiiehted with it. - 1 - ' ■ PohIIIvplf tbeentirftlot(l,OOo)tobeKiven •war. Weacrtit Our CounlrT lloma ,ia month, to l.CMponom who will «u»«.rUnj»il»,rti»mii.t uiol .. i.a us the addre-s of 14 new-<pn|ior readot ■* from different families, fiend 19S reiita silver or stamps, to help pity cost of advertisiiil’, uml rentemherwemuk! every 4*ltib miner, op for a Hat of 1€ wiiliaerlber*, ti Lovely Ten Hot, just what evciy homo will applet iato. We are bound to distance all competition And make Our Country lloiue known in every quarter of th« globe. If you want a nice Tot* Wet send Uft cents and War country Howe, box 3379, N. L *