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-wnr REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine’s Sand a v Sermon P r f Text: '‘Anil the frogs came up and cov ered the land of Egypt. And the magiciant did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt/ —Ex. viii., B, 7. ! There is almost a universal aversion to frogs, ami yet with the Egyptian they were honored, they wero sacred, and they were objects of worship while alive, and after death they were embalmed, and to-day their remains may be found among the sepulchres of Thebes. These creatures, so attractive once to the Egyptians, at divine behest be came obnoxious and loathsome, and they went croaking and hopping and leaping into the palace of the king, and into the bread trays and the rouehes of the people, and oven the ovens, which now are uplifted above the earth and on the side of chimneys, but then were small holes in tho earth, with sunken pottery, wore filled with frogs when the housekeepers came to look at them. If a man sat down to eat a frog alighted on his plate. If ho attempted to put on n shoe it was pre occupied by a frog. If he attempted to put his head upon a pillow it had been taken pos session of by a frog. Frogs high and low and everywhere; loath some frogs, slimy frogs, besieging frogs, in- inimrrablo frogs, great plague of frogs. What made the matter worse tho magicians said there was no miracle in this, and they could by sleight of band produce the same thing, and t'acy seemed to succeed, for by sleight of hand wonders may bo wrought. After Moses had thrown down his staff and by miracle it became a serpent, and then he took hold of it and by miracle it again be came a staff, tho serpent charmers imitated the same thing, and knowing that there wero serpents in Egypt which by a peculiar pres sure on tho neck would become as rigid as a stick of wood, they seemed to change the ser pent into tho staff, and then, throwing it down, tho staff became the serpent. So likewise these magicians tried to imi tate the plague of frogs, and perhaps by smell of food attracting a great number of them to a certain point, or by shaking them out from a hidden place, the magicians some times seemed to accomplish the same mira cle. While these magicians made the plague worse, none of them tried to make it better. “Frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt, and the magicians did so with their enchantment, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.” Now that plague of frogs has come back upon the earth. It is abroad to-day. It is emitting this nation. It comes in the shape of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into tho store, the shop, the office, the banking house, the factory—into tho home, into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawing room table, on the shelf of the library. While the lad is reading tho bad bool: the teacher’s face is turned tho other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. While the young woman is reading the forbidden novelette after re tiring at) night, reading by gaslight, one of these frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed they have liopped upon the new* stands of tile country and the mails at the postoflice shako out in tho letter trough hundreds of them. Tho plague has taken at different limes possession of this country. It is one of the most loathsome, one of the mast fright ful,one of the most ghastly of tho ten plagues of our modern cities. i There is a vast number of books and news, papers printed and published which ought never to see the light. They are filled with a pestilence that makes tho land swelter with a moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that evef come to this nation is that of an ele vated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to till Insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infec. lion lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest 1ms already shoveled its millions into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks was not long enough nor large enough to carry tho beast liness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers of this land in % tho last twenty years. The literature of a nation decides tho fate of a nation. Good books, good morals. Bad books, bad morals. i I begin with the lowest of all tho litera ture, that which does not even pretend to be respectable—from cover to cover a blotch of leprosy. There are many whose entire business it is to dispose of that kind of lit. erature. They display it before tho school, boy on his way home. They got tho cata logues of schools and colleges, taUb the names and postoffice addresses, and send their advertisements, and their circulars, and their pamphlets, and their books to every one of them. In the possession of these dealers in bad literature were found nine hundred thou sand names and postoffice addresses, to whom it was thought it might be profitable to send these corrupt things. In the year 1873 there were one hundred and sixty-live establishments engaged in publishing cheap, corrupt literature. From one publishing house there went out twenty different styles of corrupt books. Although over thirty ton.- of vile literature have been destroyed |by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, still there is enough of it left in this country to bring down upon us the just auger of an aroused God. In tho year 1868 the evil had become so great in this country that tho Congress of the United States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad literature through the United States mails, but there were large loops in that law through which criminals might crawl out, and the law was a dead failure—that law of 1-86S. But in 1873 another law was passed by the Congress of the United States against the transmission of corrupt literature through tho mail: —a grand law, a potent law, a Christian law— and under that law multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their propert r confiscated and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries, where they belonged. Now, my friends, how are wa to war against this corrupt literature, and how aro the frogs of this Egyptian plague to bo slain? First of all by the prompt and inex orable execution of the law. Let all good postmasters, and United States district at torneys, and detectives, ami reformers con cert in their action to stop this plague. When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life in try ing to secure cheap postage not only for England, but for all the world, and to open the blessing of the postoffice to all honest business, and to all messages of charity, and kindness, and affection, for all health ful intercommunication, he did not mean to make vice easy or to till the mail bags of the United States with the scobs of such a leprosy. It ought not to bo in the power of over/ bad man who can raise a one-cont stamp for a circular or a two-ccut stamp for a letter to blast a man or destroy a home. Tho postal service of this country must be clean, must bo kept dean, and we must all understand that the swift retributions of the United States Government hover over every viola tion of the letter box. There are thousands of men and women in this country, some for personal gain, some through innate depravity, some through a spirit of revenge, who wish to use tins great avenue of convenience and intelligence for purposes revengeful, salacious and diabolic. Wake up the law. Wake up the penalties. Let every court room on this subject be a Sinai thunderous and afiame. L-1 the con victed offenders be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg. lam not talking about what cannot be done. I am talking now about what is being done. A great many of the printing presses that gave themselves entirely to the publica tion of vile literature have been stopped or have gono into business less obnoxious. What has thrown off, what has kept off the rail trains of this country for some time back nearly all the leprous periodicals! Those of iis who have been on the rail trains have noticed a great change in tho last few mouths and the last year or two. Why have nearly all those vile periodicals been kept off the rail trains for some time back? Who ef fected it? These societies for the purification How have to many of the news stands of our great cities been purified? How basso much of this Iniquity been balked? By moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as well go Into the jungle of the East Indies and pat a cobra on the neck, and with profound ar gument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and to sting and to poison anything. The only enswer to your argu ment would be an uplifted head and a hiss and a sharp, reeking tooth struck into your of railroad literature gave warning to tne publishers and warning to railroad compan ies, and warning to conductors, and warn ing to newsboys, to keep the infernal stuff pff the trains Many of the cities have successfully pro hibited the most of that literature even from going on tha news stands. Terror has seised upon the publishers and the dealers in impure literature, from the fact that over a thou sand arrests have been made, and the aggre gate time for which the convicted have been sentenced to the prison is over one hundred and ninety years, and from the fact that about two millions of their circulars have been destroyed, and the business is not as profitable as it used to be. / argun a shotgun, and the only argument for these dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and the bean soup in a peniten tiary. The law I The law! I Invoke to con summate the work so grandly begun! Another way in which we are to drive that all the books and newspapers in our families ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that every song ought to ba sung to the tune of “Old Hundred.” I have no sympathy with the attempt to make the young old. I would rather join in a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood and girl hood must not be abbreviated. But there are good books, good histories, good biogra phies, good works of fiction, good books of oil styles with which we ore to fill the minds of the young, so that there will be no more room for the useless and the vicious than there is room for chaff in a bushel measure which is already filled with Michigan wheat. Why are fifty per cent, of the criminals in the jails and penitentiaries of the United States to-day under twenty-one years of age? Many of them under seventeen, under sixteen, uud' r fifteen, under fourteen, under thirteen. Walk along one o' the corridors of the Tombs prison in New York and look for yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers Ijewitohed them ns soon as they got out of the cradle. Beware of all those stories which end wrong. Beware of all those books which make the road that ends in jierdition seem to end in Faradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call tho desperado brave or the libertine gallant. Teach our young people that if they go down into the swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o’-lontoms dance on the decay and rottenness they will catch the malaria and death. “Oh,” says some one, “1 am a business man, and I have no time to examine what my children rend. T have no time to inspect the books that come into my household.” If your children were threatened with typhoid fever, would you have time to go for the doc tor? Would you have time to watch the progress of tie disease? Would you have time for the funeral? In the presence of my Gcd I warn you of the fact that yonr chil dren are threatened with moral and spirit ual typhoid, and that unless the thing I): stopped it will he to them funeral of Ixvly, funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three funerals in one day. My word is to this vast multitude of young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do not buy a corrupt l>ook or n corrupt picture. A book will decide a man's destiny for good or for evil. The book you read yesterday may have decided you for time and for eter nity, or it may bo a I look that may come into your possessions to-morrow. A good book—who can exaggerate its power? Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cotton Mather’s “Essays to Do Good” m chiMhood gave him holy aspira tions for all the rest of his life. George Law declared that a biography he read in child hood gave him all his subsequent prosperi ties. A clergyman, many years ago, passiup to tho far west, stopped at a hotel. He saw a woman copying something from Dodd ridge’s “Rise and Frogress.” It seemed that- she had borrowed the book, and there were some tilings she wanted especially to re member. The clergyman had in his sachel a copy of Doddridge's “Rise and Progress,” and so he made her a present of it. Thirty years passed on. 'i'he clergyman came that way, and he asked wuere the woman was whom ho had seen so long ago. “She lives yonder in that beautiful house.” He went there and said to her, “Do you remember me?” She said, “No, I do not.” He said, “Do you re member a man gave you Doddridge’s ‘Rise and Progress’ thirty years ago?” “Oh, yes: I remember. That book saved my sou). 1 loaned the book to all my neighbors, ami they read it and they were converted to God, and we had a revival of religion which swept through tho whole community. We built a church and called a pastor. You see that spire yonder, don’t you? That charch was built as tho result of that book you gave me thirty years ago.” Oh, the power of a good book! But, alas! for the influence of a bad book. John Angel James than whom England never had a holier minister, stood in his pul pit at Birmiugiiam and said: "Twenty-five E ears ago a lad loaned to me an infamous ook. He would loan it only fifteen min utes, and then I had to give it back, bytthat book lias haunted me like a specter ever since. I have in agony of soul, on my knees before God, prayed that he would obliterate from my soul the memory of it, but I shall carry the damage of it until the day of my death.” The assassin of Sir William Rus sell declared that he got the inspiration tot his crime by reading what was tnen a new and popular novel, "Jack Sheppard.” Homer’s “Iliad" made Alexander the war rior. Alexander said so. The story of Alexander male Julius Csesar and Charles XII. both men of blood. Have you in yout S ocket, or in your trunk, or in your desk ar usiuess a bad book, a bad picture, a bad pamphlet? In God’s name I warn you to de stroy it. Another way in whicli we shall fight back this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of Egypt is by rolling over them the Christian printing press, which shall give plenty of healthful reading to all adults. All those men and women are reading men and wo men. What are you reading? Abstain from all those books' which, while they had some good things about them, bad also an admix ture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which stack to you? The bad! The heart r of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a fence of burrs to get one blackberry, you will get more burrs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you ore. You say, “The in fluence is insignificant.” I tell you that the scratch of n pin has sometimes produced lock jaw-. Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, you p;y into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to soo whether it would really blow up or not. In a menagerie a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard’s cage. Theanimal’s hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. Ho just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not tho evil even with the faint est stroke! Though it may bo glossy and beautiful, touch it not lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch of tho black leopard. “But,” you say, “how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?” There is always some thing suspicious about e bad book. I never knew an exception—something suspicious in tho index or style of illustration. This ven omous reptile almost always carries a warn ing rattle. The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire. Tho breath is quick and irregular. Occasionally the color dashes to tho cheek, and then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shako the deadly book out of tho grasp. Hot tears fall. I-he laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at Hs own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up from the river of death. The clock strikes four, an 1 the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through tho lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a madhousesho will mistake her ringlets for curling serpeants, and thrust her white hand through the bars of tho prison, and smite her head, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull shrieking: “My brain! my brain!’’ Oh] stand off from that! Why will you g« sounding your way amid the reefs and warn ing buoys, when there Is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sail set? We see so many books we do not under stand wbat a book is. Stand it on end. Measure it—the height 6f it, the depth of it] tlie length of it, the breadth of it You can not dolt. Examine the paper and estimate the progress made from the time of the im pressions on clay, and then on the bark of trees, and from the bark of trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts, and from the hide of wild beasts on down until the miracles of our modern paper man ufactories, and then see the paper, white and pure as an infant's soul, waitingfor God’s in scription. A book! Examine the type of it Examine the printing of it. and see the progress from the time when Solon’s laws were written on oak planks, and Heeiod’s poems were written on tables of lead,and the Sioiatic commands were written on tables of stone, on down to Hoe’s perfecting printing press I A book! It took all the universities of the past, all the martyr fires, all the civilisations, all the battles, all the victories, all the de feats, all the glooms, all the brightness, all the centuries to make It possible. A book! It is tye choausof all ages; it is the drawing room In wbidh kings and queens and orators and poets and historians come out to greet you. • If I worshiped anything on earth I would worship that. If I burned incense to any idol I would build an altar to that. Thank God for good books, healthful books, inspiring books, ChristUn books, books of men, books of women. Book of God. It is with these good books that we are to overcome corrupt literature. Upon the frogs swoop with these eagles. I depend much for the overthrow of iniquitous literature upon the mortality of books. Even good books have a hard struggle to live. Folybius wrote forty books; only five of them left. Thirty books of Tacitus have perished. Twenty books of Pliny hare per ished, Livy wrote one hundred and forty books; only thirty-five of them remain. JEschylus wrote one hundred dramas; only seven remain. Euripides wrote over a hun dred; only nineteen remain. Vatro wrote the biographies of over seven hundred great Romans. All that wealth of biography has perished. If good and valuable books nave such a struggle to live, whafc must be the fate of those that are diseased and corrupt snd blasted at the very start I They will die as the frogs when the Lord turned back the plague. The work of Christianization will go on until there will bo nothing left but good books, and they will take the supremacy of the world. May you and I live to see the Illustrious day! Against every bad pamphlet send a good pamphlet; against every uuolean picture send an innocent picture; against every scur rilous song send a Christian song; against every had book send a good book; ana then it will be as it was in ancient Toledo, where tho Toletum missals wero kept by the saints in six churches, and the sacrilegious Romans demanded that those missals tie destroyed, and that the Co-nan missals be sulistituted; mid the war came on, and I am glad to say that the whole matter having been referred to champions, the champion of the Toletum missals with one blow brought down the champion of the Roman missals. Bo it will be in our day. The good litera ture, the Christian literature, in its cham pionship for Cod, and the truth, will bring down tho evil literature in its championship for the devil. I feel tingling to the tips of my fingers and through all the nerves of my 11sly, and all the depths of my soul, the certainty of our triumph. Cheer up, oh, men and women who arc toiling for the purification of society! Toil with your faces in the sunlight. “If God be for us, who, who can be against us?” liady Hester Stanho)iu was the daughter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and after her nearest friends had died she went to the far east, took possession of a deserted convent, threw up fortresses amid the mountains of Ijcbauon, opened the castle to tho poor, and tho wretched, and the sick who would come in. She made her castle a home for the un fortunate. She was a devout Christian woman. She was waiting for tho coming of the Lord. She expected that the Lord would descend in person, and she thought upon it until it was too much for her reason. In the magnificent stables of her palace she had two horses groomed and bridled and saddled and caparisoned and all ready for the day in which her Lord should descend, and be on one of I hem and she on the other should start for Jerusalem, tho city of the Great King. It was a fanaticism and a delusion; but there was romance, and there was splendor, and there was thrilling expectation in the dream I Ah, my friends, wc need no earthly pal freys groomed and saddled and bridled and caparisoned for our Lord when He shall come. The horse is ready in the equerry of heaven, and tho imperial rider is ready to mount. “And I saw, and behold n white horse, and he that sat on him had a how; and a crown was given unto him; and be went forth conquering and to conquer. And the armies which wero in heaven followed Him on white horses ar.d on His vesture and on His thigh wero written. King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Horse men of Heaven, mount! Cavalry of Go 1, ride on! Charge! charge! until they sliall lie hurled back on their haunches—tho black horse of famine, nud tho red horse of carnage, and the pale horse of death. Jesus forever! WESLEY’S CENTEHABL Ono Hundredth Anniversary of the Founder of Methodism. NEWS AND NOWES FOR WOMEN. A Statue to the Theologian Un veiled in London, England. JOBIt WEPI.KY. TTie centenary of John Wesley’s death was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies by Methodist churches generally throughout Europe and America, and the life and work Of the apostle of Methodism were eulogized by the ministers in their sermons. In London, England, a statue erected in his honor was unveiled, in the presence of ■ large number of people, in front of the City Road Chapel, the headquarters of the Wesleyans. Tho Rev. Frederick William Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster, took e rt in the ceremonies attending the unveil- C °f the statue, and afterward, with Sir Robert N. Fowler, one of the members of Parliament for London City, addressed • meeting in the City Road Chapel, ex tolling the virtues of Wesley. Arch deacon Farrar delivered a long and elo quent eulogy of John Wesley, in the course of which he said that he regretted, as a Churchman, that the Church, 100 years ago, hod not the wisdom to assimilate with the mighty enthusiasm which gave momentum to the Wesleyan movement. It seemed, ■aid the Archdeacon, shocking and dis graceful in Christians, bound by a com mon Christianity, to treat each other with mutual coldness. John Wesley himself, he added, set an example of splendid tolerance. The Archdeaoon, in conclusion,reminded tha congregation of tho words of William Penn, that the humble, meek, merciful and just are all of one religion, and will so recognize one another when in another world, with tha mask off. In New York City a number of clergy, men connected with the Methodist churches assembled at the Methodist Book Concern to celebrate the one hundrodth anni versary in an appropriate manner. Rev. Dr. 8. Parsons presided at tha meeting, which opened with prayer at 11 o’clock, the hour that John Wesley expired. Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, of Jersey City, de livered an address, after which Rev. Dr. George Lansing Taylor read a poem on tha death of Wesley. Rev. Dr. Edwin Wilson, of tho Reformed Episcopal Church, pre sented an autograph letter written by tha reformer in 177U. In Boston, Mass., services in commemora tion of the one hundredth anniversary of tha famous theologian and revivalist' were held in Wesleyan Hall. The exercise* were under the auspices of the Methodist preachers’ meeting. Rev. W. N. Brodbeck, D. D., presiding. After devotional exercises Rev. H. C. Sheldon, D. D., of the Boston University School of Theology, and Dr. Daniel Steele addressed the gathering on Wesley’s life and work. In Philadelphia, Penn., the 100th anniver sary was celebrated by an experience meet ing of the Methodist ministers of the city. There were a large number of ministers and laymen present at tho meeting, and the anniversary of the death of the great founder of their church was marked by most interest ing services. John Wesley’s Career. John Wesley, the founder of the Metho dist Church, was born at Epsworth, in Eng land, June 17, 1703; graduated at Oxford with distinction; became a deacon in ITSO, a Fellow of Lincoln’s College in 1728, and was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1728. He became deeply im pressed with the necessity for changes and reforms in religious limiters, and at Ox ford associated with his brother and others who from their devotion were termed In derision, “Methodists” and the “Godly Club.” John Wesley adopted habits of great austerity, and studie I and fasted to such an extent that he seriously injure! his heait’i. In 1785 he went with liin brother, Charles Wesley, to Georgia as a missionary to the Indians. During the voyage ho became ac quainted with a number of Moravians with whom he subsequently co operated. Returning to Europe, he visited Count Zinzenuorf at Herrnhut in 1788, but, owing to some difference, sepa rated from the Moravians in 1740. Prior to this he bad commenced preaching in ilia r n air, and at Bristol, England, bad laid foundation of the Methodist Church. An Arab water seller who was Id Turkey during the last war with Rossis was wandering about at the rear of the battlefields with two freshly filled jug* of water, calling out “Clear, cool water, two piasters a cupful," when a round shot bounding aloug smashed one jug to atoms, aud-the Arab wandered on with out pausing, and changed his cry to “Clear, cool water, four piasters the cupful."—I’As Jester. Corduroy has come in again. The loose-fronted coat is wolrn. The season is rich in cotton fabrics. Beading is in greater vogue than ever. The chatelaine- bouquet is quite the rage. The reign .of tho' large-hat will con tinue. Sealskin audtAstrakun are Hieing com bined. The strap wrist rtvatehesfare no - longer good style. There are about thiriywomen'iecturera in this country. Black pearl necklaces-draw attention to a pretty neck. There is a library exclusively for wo men in Turin, Italy. Bowling is extremely popular for ladies in some cities. Roman stripe couch covers have been and still aie very effective and pojililar. Jackets still show a tendency to bo very snug iu the bodyund very large of sleeve. One old fashion lias been revived on the skiffs of evening gowns—that is, flounces. It is becoming quite custonary for a widow to retain her husband's name on her calling cards. Two furs are much combined in win ter jackets. Astrakhan and mink is a favorite mixture. Fancy feathers made of lace with * little sizing to hold them upright arc a novelty in millinery. Turquois blue is much worn, and tho jewels, or rather their imitations, still re main favorites with millions. In fashionable marriage notices in some newspapers the name of tho bride precedes that of the bridegroom. Combinations in dress are used, not only for day toilets, but to an even greater extent for evening dresses. Some of the newest party dresses aro made (f cloth, but they are nearly cov ered with gold and silver embroidery. As far ns the fashion iu heads go, blondes arc said to be considerably be hind the procession with brunettes in the lead. Fashion report lias it that next sum mer’s feminiue styles arc to be more mas culine than ever, and even more “rak ish." The tea gown has yielded to what is known as the art gown, which is merely its predecessors over again in a modified form. Black velvet hats can be brightened by adding a few Jacqueminot roses and a full ruebiug of black lace around the brim. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt supports and- maintains a country home for orphans and half orphan girls on Staten Island, N. Y. No girl of the period’s wardrobe would seem to be complete in these days without at least ono “real tailor-made coat." Princess of Wales is credited with the possession of half a dozen different kinds of fur cloaks aud wraps, “all of ‘ fabulous value." Very light-colored felt hats, much trimmed with piuk roses or other pale- tinted blossoms and ostrich tips, are much worn by very “swell” inaidcus. A movement is ou foot to have young women admitted as pupils to the depart ment of tailoring in the New York Trades School for boys and young men. Black ages any woman past thirty by deepening the lines in her face. Certain lines come witli time, and time forms character, but a woman is not obliged to advertise her age. The Empress Frederick, of Germany, has sent two glass tubes with Koch’s lymph to the Lina Hospital in Ifeples, Italy, accompanied by a long letter to the foundress, the Duchess Ravaschieri. A tall, gaunt, angular, awkward woman will appear less so in something light and floating, some soft, clinging material that will follow every move ment, multiply lines and obliterate angles. Mrs. William Morris,wife of the Lon don, England, artist, poet and Socialist, is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She goes out but little, and is rarely seen by the multitude who visit her husband. The scheme to employ good looking women as bill collectors, adopted by some of the business houses of New York City, works almost too well. Several women married within a fortnight and four became engaged. When a widow marries she never wears white, nor would she wear orange- blossoms. She doe’s not have brides maids. It is not usual to remove tho ring of her first marriage; the second ring is put on above it. Two of the best-dressed women in England are literary women—Mrs. Campbell-Praed and Mrs. Stannard. Their gowns aro tailor-made and cut in the simplest style. In evening wear Mrs. Praed affects rich, delicate brocades. An organization in Rome, Italy, which calls itself the Roman Arts and Crafts Society, has been established to enable women to dispose of their needlework. It includes English, American and Italian ladies, who work harmoniously to gether. Velvet calf is exceedingly popular for ladies’ handbags and purses. The former are now being made oblong like the purses. They still have the useful out side pocket, but the handles are of vel vet calf, for the steel rings have gone out of fashion. In Austria women are employed to carry the mortar and brick to the build ers. They work from seven in the morn ing till six at night with one hour at uoon, and receive twenty cents a day. Most of these female hod-carriers are un married and homeless. Mrs. True, an American lady, Presi dent of a Japanese girls’ school, is plan ning to establish a sanitarium for tho poor in Tokio, Japan. Sho intends to build a training school for nurses adjoin ing it, tho pupils of which will look after the inmates. It is becoming the custom for society women in Washington to reserve the late afternoon hours, after 5 o’clock, for intimate friends, and when out making visit* each one arranges her list so that 5 o’clock will find her at the house of an intimate friend. Mrs. Ilarrisonand Mrs. McKee are accessible by invitation in lie late afternoons of Monday and Fri day. Climbed Mont Blanc Easily. Aa the first to ascand Mont Blano without physical exertion. Mr. Janssen, who accomplished a great part of the ascent on sleds, made some interesting remarks on his physiological experiences. His intellectual forces, instead of beiqg depressed, were gently excited ahd more powerful than when on the plains. Be attributes this result to his immunity from physical effort, for each time that he had to exert himself he felt the un easiness, or mal de montagne, which troubles Alpine climbers.—Aits York Jeurnsl. PROMINENT PEOPLE, - General W. T. Sherman left no will. General Beaureoaud is seventy-two years of age. ; Senator Gorman, of Maryland, Is flftyi ono years old. The King of Spain is a very strong boy, ugly, but bright and good tempered. The death of Sir Tharia Topan, of Bom bay and Zanzibar, reduces the number of Indian knights to four. Bell, the telephone man, has given $25,- 000 to a New York association for the teach ing' of speech to the dumb. Judge C. C. Fitch, of Garnetsviih* Ky., died recently at the age ninety-nine. He was the oldest Mason in the South. John Jacob Astor, who recently married Miss Willing, of Philadelphia, will have, when his father dies, an income of $3,000,000 a year. Samuel P. Jones, the Georgia evangelist, declares in a letter to a Texas friend that his health has failed, and he is on the verge of physical collapse. bin Eowitf Arnold*# favorite diversion while in Japan was a weekly kite flying party to which each guest brought bis own kite. Empress Eugenie, of France, has been compelled to sell the Chateau d’Arenenberg in Switzerland in consequence of unlucky stock speculations. Joel Chandler Karris (“Uncle Remus”), the Southern writer, now sixty years of age, is a great pedestrian, and is said to have walked thirty-six miles in one day recently. The new Senator from Kansas used years ago to spell his name Pfeiffer. When he be came an editor lie dropped tho “i” and on his election to the Senate he cut out the first tlf !) Phil Armovk, tho Chicago pork man, is of medium height and heavy, but not tat. His taco is full and round and adorned by a pair of Burnsides. He is quick in space!] and easily approachable. Prokkeksop. Theodore N. Dwight, who has recently retired from the head of the Columbia law school, had been with tho col lege since 1858, and is probably the most noted teacher of law in this country. The Mikado of Japan is to visit Wies- liadeig Germany, next summer, partly for the waters ami isirtly for the spectacle “of innocent merriment.” Six villas have been engaged for tho Emperor and his suite. John D. Archbold, Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company and one of the coun cil of five who directs tho affairs of that corporation, is worth from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Ho began his business career as a common day laborer. The oldest living graduate of West Point is William C. Young, of Chicago, III. Ho was born in 170!) and graduated from tho Academy in 1822. He was commissioned Lieutenant of Artillery and remained in active service until 1826, when he resigned. The late “Diamond Joe” Reynolds, of Hot Springs, Ark., was a very plain man in his dress, and with all his wealth ho never owned a residfence. He lived with his wife in plainly furnished and unpretentious apai t- ments. He left an estate worth about $3.* 000,000. Mrs. Lcwnshury, widow of the default ing cashier of the New York City postofflee, voluntarily turned over the entire estate of her deceased husband for the benefit of his bondsmen tmd creditors. She was an actress before marriage, and, having re sumed tho stage, is starring in the West. The most popular of Germany’s host of professors erf philosophy is Professor Paulson, of Berlin. He is a man of forty-five, tall, rather stout and vigorous. His hair is iron gray, his face smooth shaven, and he has the Webstesian type of countenance. He is noted for his modesty and his lectures are crowded. WISE WORDS. Nature never pretends. Time stands very close to eternity. The sun is always shining somewhere. Ho who does nothing is very near do ing ill Pride can come nearer making a per son a fool than a wise man. Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what wc least can spare. Great hearts alone unarjstaud how much glory there is in being ood. Men show their chnrac in nothing more clearly than by wha they think laughable. Above all things always speak the truth; your word must bo your bond through life. Next to laziness the hardest thing on earth to resist is the impulse to takes sides in a fight. We swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, aud drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter. Whatever else may be wrong, it must be right to bo pure, just and tender, merciful and honest. Let your alms-giving be anonymous. It has the double advantage of suppress ing at the same time ingratitude uud abuse. Unappreciated attachment. A gentlemen of leisure, wishing to leave the country, will trade (though very mucli attached to him) a fine watch dog for a fifty-four calibre revolver or • Gatling gun.—Life. Marvelous Piece of Mechanism. Another marvelous picco of mechan ism has recently been exhibited in Paris. It is an eight-day clock, which chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, play ing three tunes cVjry hour, or at any in terval required, by simply touching a spring. The hands go as follows: One once a minute, one once an hour, one once a week, one once a month and one once a year. It shows Hie moon’s age, rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and low tide, besides showing half ebb and half flood. A curious de vice represents the water, showing ships at high-water tide as it they were in motion; and, as it recedes, leaves them high and dry on the sands. The clock shows the hour of tho day, the day of the week, the day of the month and the month of the year. The mechanism is so arranged as to make its own pro visions for long and short mouths. It also shows the signs of the zodiac and difference betweeu sun and railroad time for every day in the year.—Boston Tran- tsript. Prepare For Spring By Building op Your System So atr to Prevent That Tired Feeling Or Other Illness. Now Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla Let’s reason together. Here’s a firm, one of the largest the country over, the world over; it has grown, step by step, through the years to greatness—and it sells patent medicines!—ugh ! “ That’s enough ! ’’— Wait a little— This firm pays the news papers good money (expen sive work, this advertising !) to tell the people that they have faith in what they sell, so much faith that if they can’t benefit or cure they don’t want your money. Their guarantee is not indefinite and relative, but definite and absolute—if the medicine doesn’t help, your money is “ou call." Suppose every sick man and every feeble woman tried these medicines and found them worthless, who would be the loser, you or they ? The medicines are Doctor Pierce’s "Golden Medical Dis covery,” for blood diseases, and his “ Favorite Prescrip tion,” for woman’s peculiar ills. If they help toward health, they cost $1.00 a bottle each! If they don’t, they cost nothing ! As a Flesh Pi oduccv there cau be ! no question but that SCOTTS I EMULSE Of Pure Cod Liver 01! and Hypopliosphitcs Of Lime and Soda i i* without a rival. Mtauy have gained a pound a clay by the use \ of it. It cures CONSUMPTION, I SCROFULA. BilONCHITI?. TOUfiHS AND I COLDS, AND ALL FORMS 0. : WASTING DIS EASES. AH /’.I/-.I T.lJtl.E .IN .>///.FT. He sure you yet the yen nine (w Uurc arc j | |>oor imitations. trinitv coLLiss i '’ September I, 1891. Fhllosopliy an.) A i t-; A folli-p-o of Com ^ follogtt of the Sciences; A Divinity bi Hof; A School of Technology; |A Daw School; A ikli«*o| of l olltlcnl Science; A Midlcul School. ouia lor catalogue to John F. GHOWELL, A. R. President, _ . Trinity Colleye 1*. O X. V. U ' re ‘" rak ' r,) lu Ka “' ,u, * h ELY’S <;rEAII II \ MI Applied Into Nostrils Is Quickly AbsorlictJ, Cleanses tho Head, Heuls the Sores ami Cures CATARRH. Restores Taste and Smell, quick ly Relieves Cold In Head and Headache. 50c. at Druggists. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. Curative Use of Cbarceal. The Boston Journal of Commerce dis courses thus on the uses of charcoal: Besides being valuable as fuel, it has other uses which make it one of the most serviceable ot articles. When laid flat, while cold, on a burn, it‘causes the pain to abate; by leaving it on for an hour, the burn seems almost healed when the wound is superficial. Tainted meat surrounded with it is sweetened. Strewn over heaps of decomposed pelts or over dead animals, charcoal prevents unpleasant odors. Foul water is purified by it. It is a great disinfectant, and sw-cetens offensive air if placed in shal low trays arouud apartments. It is so very porous that it absorbs aud condenses gases rapidly. One cubic inch of fresh charcoal will absorb nearly ono hundred inches of gaseous ammonia. Charcoal forms au excellent poultice for malignant wounds aud sores. In cases of what is called proud liesh it is invaluable. It gives no disagreeable odor, corrodes no metal, hurts no texture, injures no color, is a simple and safe sweetener and disinfec tant. A leaspooufu! of charcoal in half a glass of water often relieves sick head ache. It absorbs the gases ami relieves the distended stomach, pressing against tho nerves which extend from the stom ach to the head. A Italn of Manna. Tho sudden appearance upon the ground of a considerable supply of an edible substance astonished certain peo ple of Asiatic Turkey one day last August. It came during a heavy fall of rain be tween Merdin and Diarbckir, and covered a circular area some six or eight miles in circumference. Some of it was gathered up aud made into bread, which was of good tasto and very digestible. Speci mens of the substance have since been submitted to botanists, who find that it is in form of small grains, yellow outside and white and mealy inside, and that it is a lichen known to occur in some of the arid regions of Western Asia. It is sup posed that the grains were drawn up in a water spout and transported by the wind at a considerable height in the at mosphere. A French traveler has re ported that a similar fall of this lichen occurred in many parts of Persia in 1828, when it covered the ground to the depth of nearly an inch, aud was eaten by ani mals and collected by tho inhabitants. Many other falls aro said to have been mentioned.—Trenton (N. J.) American. Sunday is the favorite weddiig day n- iil England. Many persons are broken down from over work or household cares. Brown's Iron Bit ters rebuilds tho system, aids digestion, re moves excess of bile, aud cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. To change the name and not the letter i lunge for worse ami not for better. liow’a This t Wu offer Ono Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. ChunkY Ac t o., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for tiio last la years, and believe him perfectly honorable in ail business transac tions, anti financially able to carry out auyob- iigatioiis made by their linn. West & Tiiuax, Wholesale Druggists, Tole do, O. Waldino, Kinnan & .Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. 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