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•'5 A. ' THE LABOB WORLD. Chicago plasterers want $4. Iowa railroaders will federate. Omaha fights convict labor goods. Boston has an Electrical Exchange. A Textile National Union is coming. In Chicago thousands of laborers are idle. New York has an Italian Tailors’ Union. J The International Bricklayers have S4000, A secret society of cocks has been organ ized. New York will hold an eight-hour confer ence. Jersey City Heights, N. J., has a work men’s free school. Carriages!akers and wheelwrights will form a national body. The Greensburg (Penn.) coke strike in ten days cost a half million. New York Government laborers recently struck against nine hours. The Operative Painters' Union, of New York, was Organized in 1842. The Flint Glass Workers’Union hasTCOO members and 190,000 in bank. For the loss of an eye by a shuttle $1051 trer. awarded at Dover,’ N. H. PiTTSBCRG’a builders’ society talks of working with the men’s unions. A bill preventing the employment of per sons under fourteen years passed in Ohio. The Lehigh (Penn.) Iron Company has re duced the wages of its employes ten percent. A bill before the Massachusetts Legisla ture fixes the number of cars for each brake- man. ".he Knights of Labor decided to send 4T5.IKI0 to the 20,000 locked out clothing workers at Rochester. The strikers in the coke region of Penn- -syivania have been defeated, after sacrific ing nearly $1,003,000 in wages. The Lords of the Admiralty have granted nn i :crease of wages to employes in the ■Gccerument dock yards in England. In England, the average annual produc tion of each employe is M90, of which the laborer receives $298 and capital $200. Over 280,000 miners, metal workers, and other organized workmen will strike in Bel gium ou May 1 to gain the eight-hour work day. There are about six hundred woman ty pe- Betters in New York. They are employed chiefly in the publishing houses and on ths afternoon papers. Fieteen conductors on the Michigan Cen tra! Railroad have lost their places by show, ing sympathy for penniless unfortunates, who turned out to be “spotters.” In a suit for wages tried before a Justice at South Bethlehem, Penn., the fact was bi-'-ught out that a carpenter was receiving $S a month and board, and a blacksmith $10 a month and board, and that their hours of labor were from 5 o’clock in the morning un til 8 o'clock at night for the carpenter, and from the same hour in the morning until 7 o'clock in the evening for the blacksmith for every day tn the year. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Queen of Denmark is a fine pianist. Prince Bismarck has bought a news paper. The Sultan of Turky is deeply interested in the World’s Fair. Qceen Lii.iuokai.ani. who succeds Kata- Iraua on the Hawaiian throne, is fifty-two years old. General Mahone is preparing to build a town at the mouth of Cove Creek in Taz» well County, Va. John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, has given nearly $2,090,093 to educational institutions. George Francis Train, of N cw York, is ns agile and muscular as he was twenty years ago, and walks With the same brisk energy Horse and camel raising affords the Kiu» of Italy amusement and profit, and lie has large and choice herds of them on his estate at Pisa. Senator Pepfer’s eldest (laughter has been taught to set type, and hi? three other daughters are skilled in stenographv, type writing and bookkeeping. General Deodora de Fonseca, who has just been elected President of the Brazilian Republic, is fifty-seven years old. All his life since boyhood has been passed in the army. LI illiam H. Macy, the blind poet of Nantucket, Mass., is dead. He was a native of the Island, and spent his early life at sea in the whaling service, relinquishing it to join the Union Army of 1862. ' James R. Randall, the author of “Mary, land, My Maryland,” has been for the last quarter of a century the editor of a Georgia newspaper. He is a writer of great power and originality and a most scholarly mau. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor o' the New York Herald, is a naval veteran. He was a Lieutenant, and commanded his own yacht, which was armed and commis- siouedas a vessel of the United States Navy Lady William Nevill, one of the famous beauties of Irish society, is a handsome Spanish woman, with dark hair, dark eyeo, and a clear olive complexion. Her face is sweet and expressive and she is very clever. Chevalier George D. Epinois, who took part in the battle of Waterloo, and formed a part of the guard of honor which welcomed Leopold I. sixteen years later, is now, at the age of ninety-seven, burgo master in the village of Epinois les Binche. Mrs. E. D. E. N. South worth, the novel ist, is still writing, though over seventy five years of age. As to her full name, which is Emma Dorothy Eliza Neuettte Southworth, she says: “Wlien I was born my people were too poor to give me anything else, so they gave me all those names.” In the hall of the West Virginia House of Delegates Governor Fleming presented to Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, United States Navy, on behalf of the State of West Vir- ginin, a handsome sword as a token of ap preciation of his performance of his duty during the great Samoan hurricane t wo years ago. i frestchagin, the Russian painter, will ma.;e an extended tour among the Sioux and other Indian tribes. His design is to secure data for a great work on the red man as he exi-ts under Government control in the United States. The general impression is that he has an imperial order far the work and that it will be the effort of Us life. “That’s the Way I Shoot.” An officer in attendance at a shooting rompetition noticed two men firing with anything but precision. Approaching them he exclaimed angrily: “You fel lows don’t know howto shoot; lend me the rifle and let me show you.” Bang! and the target was missed. A broad grin overspread the features of the two pri vates, but the officer was equal to the occasion. Turning to the first, with a frown upon his countenance, he re marked: “That’s the way you shoot, air!” A second attempt, and a similar result. Turning to the other he con tinued: “And that’s the way you shoot, sir.” A third shot, and au inner was fluked. With pardonable pride the worthy officer returned the rifle, trium phantly adding: “And that’s the way I shoot.” The men ever since have enter tained a very high opinion of him as a marksman. The test of every system, political or educational^ is the men it forms. REV. DR. TALMAGE Spring Is Here When nearly every body needs medicine to purify the blood and tone up the system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla grows more and more popular every year for it is the best Spring Medicine The Brooklyn D Ivine'i Sunday Sermon. fr*x riff a 9 N. U 13 ^Tkti "Tt shall not surelj/ die.”—GenSib . That was a point blank He. Satan told it “> Eve to induce her to put her semicircle of white, beautiful teeth into a forbidden apricot or plum or peach or apple. He prac tically said to her, f ‘Oh, Eve, just take abite of this and you will be omnipotent and omniscient. You shall be a« gods." Just opposite was the result, It was the first lie that was ever told in our world. It opened tpe gate for all the falsehoods that have over alighted on this planet. It introduced a plague that covers ell nations, the plague of lies. Far worse thau the plagues of Egypt, for they Were on the banks of the Nile, but Oh the banks of the Hudson,on the banks of the East River, on the banks of the Ohio, end the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tiber, and on both sides of all rivers. The Egyptian plagues lasted only a few weeks, bat for six thousand years has raged this plague of lies. Thera are • hundred ways of telling a A man s entire life may be a falsehood, while with his Hps he may not once directly falsify. There are those who state what is positively untrue, but afterward say “may be” softly. These departures from the trutn are called “white lies:” but there is reellv no such thing as a white lie. The whitest lie that was ever told was as black as perdition. No inventory of public crimes will bO sufficient that omits this gi gantic aborhiilation. There are men high in church and state actually useful, self-denyiag and honest in many things, who, upon cer tain subjects and in certain spheres, are not at all to be depended upon for veracity. In deed, there are many men and women who have their notions of truthfulness so thor oughly perverted that they do not know when they are lying. With many it is a cul tivated sin; with some it seems a natural in firmity . I have known people who seemed to have been horn liars. The falsehoods of their lives extended from cradle to grave. Irevarieations, misrepresentation and dis honesty of speech appeared in their first ut terances, and were as natural to them as any of their infantile diseases, and were a sort (if moral croup or spiritual scarlatina. But many have been placed in circumstances where this tendency lias day by day and hour by hour been called to larger develop ment. They have gone from attainment to attainment and from class to class until they have become regularly graduated liars. The air of the city is filled with falsehoods. They hang pendent from the chandeliers of our finest residences; they crowd the shelves of some our merchant princes; they fill tho sidewalk from curbstone to brown stonj facing; the.y cluster around the mechanic's hammer, and blossom from the end of the merchant’s yardstick, and sit in the doors of churches. Some call them “fiction." Some style them "fabrication.” You might say that they were subterfuge, disguised, delu sion, romance, evasion, pretense,fable, decep tion, misrepresentation, but, as I am igno rant of anything to be gained by the hiding of a God defying outrage under a lexico grapher's blanket, I shall call them what my lather taught me to call them—lies. I shall divide them into agricultural, mer cantile, mechanical, ecclesiastical, and social lies. First, then, I will speak of those that are more particularly agricultural. There is something in the perpetual presence of natural objects to make a man pure. The trees never issue “false stock.” Wheat fields are always honest. Rye and oats never more out in the night, not paying for the place they have occupied, dorn shocks never make false assignments. Mountain brooks are always “current.” The gold on the grain is never counterfeit. The sunrise never flaunts in false colors. The dew sports only genuine diamonds. Taking farmers as ii class, I believe they are truthful and fair in dealing and kind hearted. But the regions surrounding our cities do not always send this sort of men to our markets. Day by day there creak through our streets and about tho market houses farm wagons that have hot an honest spoke In their wheels or a truth ful rivet from tongue to tailboard. During the last few years there have been times when domestic economy has foun dered on the farmer’s firkin. Neither high taxes, nor the high price of dry goods, nor the exorbitancy of labor, could excuse much that the city has witnessed in the behavio,- of the yeomanry. By the quiet firesides in Westchester and Orange Counties I hope there may be seasons of deep reflection an i hearty repentance. Rural districts are ac customed to rail at great cities os given up to fraud and every form of unrighteousness, but our cities do not absorb all the abomina tions. Our citizens have learned the import ance of not always trusting to the size an 1 style of apples in the top of a fann'-r’s bar rel as an indication of what may be found farther down. Many of our people are ac customed to watch and see how correctly n bushel of beets is measured, and there arc not rnauy honest milk cans. Deceptions do not all cluster round citv halls. When our cities sit down air weep over their sius, all the surrounding countries ought to come in and weep with them. There is often hostility on the part of producers against traders, as though tl: man who raises the corn was necessarily more honorable thau the grain dealer wh pours it into his mammoth bin. There ouglu to be no such hostility. Yet producers oft« think it no wrong to snatch away fiomt'n trader: and’hex sav to ths bargain maker “You got your money easy." Do they get it easy) Let those who in the quiet field and barn get their living exchange, places with those who stand to-day amid the ex citements of commercial Hf6 and see if they find so is very easy. While the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance thnt his com and barley will be growing all the night, moment by moment adding to his revenue, the merchant tries to go to sleep conscious that that moment his cargo may be broken ou the rocks or dam aged by the wave that sweeps clear across the hurricane deck, or that reckl-ss specu lators may that very hour lie plotting some monetary revolution, or the burglars be prying open his safe, or his debtors fleeing the town, or his landlord raising the rent, or the fireskindliug on the block that contains all his estate. Easy! Is it? God help the merchants! It is hard to have the palms of the hands biistere 1 with outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when througli mercantile anxieties the brain is consumed. In the next place we notice mercantile lies, those before the count-ran<l behind the counter. I will not attempt to specify the different forms of commercial falsehood. There are merchants who excuse themselves for deviation from truthfulness because of what they call commercial custom. In other words, the multiplication and universality of a sin turns it into n virtue. There have been large fortune.: gathered where then wasnot one drop of unrequited toil in the wine; not one spark of had temper flashing from the bronze bracket: not one drop of needlewoman's heart him! in the crimson pluah, while there are otli-r great establish ments in which there Is not one door knob, not one brick, not one trinket, not one thread of lace but has upon it the mark of dishonor. What wonder if, some day, u hand of toil that had been wrung and worn out and blis tered until the skin came off should be placed against tho elegant wall paper, leaving its mark of blood—four fingers and athumb—• or that some day, walking the halls, there should be a voice accostiug the occupant, saying, “Six cents for making a shirt,” and, flying the room, another voice scould say, “Twelve cents for an army blanket,” and the man should try to sleep at night, but ever and anon be arouse), until getting up on one elbow, he should shriek out, “Who’s there?” One Sabbath night, in the vestibule of my church after service, a woman fell in convul sions, The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she began to revive in her delirium, she said, gaspingly: “Eight cents! Eight cents! Eight cents! I wish I could get it done; I am so tired! I wish I could get some sleep, but I must get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!” We found out afterward she was making garments for eight cent* apiece, and that she could make but three of them in a day! Three times eight are twenty-four! Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of the city an the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last peunv, and try to cheat them out of that. The’woman must ueposit a dollar or two before she gets tin. garments to work on. Whenthework isdone it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant flaws picked out, and the wages refused, and sometimes the dollar deposited not given back. The Women’s Protective Union re- portsa case where one of these poor souls, finding a place where she could get more wages, resolved to change employers, and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says, "I hear you are going to leave me.” “Yes,” sbesaid, “and I am corao to pet what you owe me.” He made no inswer. She said, “Are you not going to pay me?" “Yes," hesald, “I will pay you;’’ sod he kicked her down the stairs. There are thousands of fortunes made in commercial spheres that are throughout righteous. God will let His favor rest upon every scroll, every pictured wall, everv traceried window, and the joy that flash^ from the lights, and showers from the inasij and dances in the children’s quick feet, pat tering through the hail, will utter the con gratulation pf men and the approval of God. A merchant can. to the last, item, be thor oughly honest. There is never any need of .'a'aehood. Yet how many will, day by day, roar by hour, utter what they know to oe wrong. You say that you are selling at less chan cost. If so, then it is right to say it. But did that cost you less than what you ask for it? If not, then you have falsified. You •ay that that article cost you twenty-five dollars. Did it? If so, then all right. If it did not, then rou have falsified. Suppose yon are a purchaser. You are "beatindown” the goods. You say that thdt article for which five dollars is charged s not worth more thau four. Is it worth no nore than four dollars? Then all right. If t be worth more, and for the sake of retting A for less than its value, you willfully de preciate it, you have falsified, You may cull it a sharp trade. The recording (tngel writes it down on the ponderous tomes of •temlty, “Mr. So-au.i-so, merchant on Water .treetor in Eighth street or in State street, or Mrs. So-and-s c, keeping house on* Beacon street or on Madison avenue or Rittenhouse Square or Brooklyn Heights or Brooklyn Hill, told one falsehood.” Yon may coiuddei' it insignificant be cense relating to an insignificant purchase. You would dmpise the man who would falsify in regard to #omo great matter in which the city or Whole Coun try was concerned; but this is only a box of buttons, or a row of pins, or a case of needles. Be not deceived. The article pur chased may be so small you can put ft in your vest pocket, but the siu was bigger than the Pyramids, nud the echo of the dis honor wifi reverberate through all the Riouutains of e'ernity. You throw on your counter some specimens of haltdktrehiefs. Your customer asks: “Is that all silk? No cotton in in?" You answer, “It is all silk.” Was it all silk? If io, all right. But was it partly cotton? Then you have falsified. Moreover, you lost by the falsehood. The customer, though no may live at Lynn or Doylestown or i your sign and say: “1 will not try there I That is the place where I got that handkerchief.” So that by that one dishonest bargain you pick your own pocket and insulted the Almighty. Would you dare to make an estimate of how inlny falsehoods in trade were yester day told by hardware men and clothiers and fruit dealers and dry goods establishments and importers and jeweler.- and lumbermen and coal merchants and stationers and tobacconists? Lies about saddles, about buckles, about ribbons, about carpets, about gloves, about coats, about shoos, about hat*, about watches, about carriages, about books—about everything. In the name of the Lord God Almighty, 1 arraign com mercial falsehoods as one of the greatest plagues in city and town. lit the next place I notice mechanical lies. There is no class of men who administer more to tho welfare of the city than artisans. To their hand wo must look for tho building that shelters us, for the garments that clothe us^ for the car tuat carri-s us. They wield a widespread Influence. There U much deris- lonofwhatis called “Muscular Christian ity,” but in the laiter day of the world’s prosperity I think that the Christian will be muscular. We have a right to expect of those stalwart men of toil iho highest possi ble integrity. Mauy of them answer all our expectations, and stand at tho front of relig ious and philanthropic enterprises. But this class, like the otiiers that 1 have named, has in it those who lack in the element of veracity. They cannot ali be trusted. In times when tho demand for labor is great it is impossible to meet the demands of the public, or do work with that promptness nud perfection that would at other times be But there are mechanics whose word can not be trusted at .any tim \ No man has a right to promise more work than ho can do. Thereare mechanics who say that they will come on Monday, but they do not come until Wednesday. You put work in their hands that they tell you shall he co:npl»tedin ten days, but it is thirty. There have been bouses built of which it might bo said that every nail driven, every fo-it of plastering put on, every yard of pipe laid, every shingle ham mered, every brick nurtiivd, could tell of falsehood connected therewith. There are men attempting to do tea or titteen pieces of work who have not the tiui! or strength to do more than five or six pieces, but by prom ises never fulfilled keep nil tho undertakings within their own grasp. This is what they coll “nursing” the job How much wron ; io hi- soul and insult to God a mechanic would-.0 . if he promised toily so much as ho exp ■ i t > he able to do. Society has no right to a >’ of you impossi bilities. You (Mnoo -u.vays calculate cor rectly, and you in:i , foil o *c nco you cannot f it the help that y : a.iiv pate. But now am speaking oi i ■ c.ib ui making of promises that you kuo v yo i cannot keep. Did you say tbutUml. dot should be mended, that coat repaired, those bricks laid, that harness sewed, that door grained, that spout fixed or that window glazed by Saturday, knowing that you would neither lie able to do it youself nor get anyone else to do it? Then, before God and man you nre a liar. You may say that it makes no particular difference, and that if you had told the truth you would have lost tho job, find that people expect to be disappointed, tint the ex cuse will not answer. There is a voice of thunder rolling among the drills an 1 planes and shoe lasts and shears which says, “All liare shall have their part in the lake that burnetii with fire and brimstone.’’ I next notice ecclesiastical lies—that is, falsehoods told for the purpose of advancing Churches and sects, or for the purpose of de pleting them. There is no use in asking many a Colvanist what an Arminian be lieves, for he will be apt to tell you that the Arminian believes that a man can convert himself; or to ask the Arminian what the Calvinist believes, for he will tell you that the Calvinist believes that God made some men just to damn them. There is no need in asking a pffido-Baptist what a Baptist be lieves, for he will lie apt to say that the Baptist believes immersion to be positively necessary to salvation. It is almost im possible for one denomination of Christians, without prejudice or misrepresentation, to state the sentiment of an opjiosing sect. If a man liates Presbyterians, and you ask him what Presbyterians believe, he will tell you that they believe that there are infants in hell a span long. It is strange also how individual churches will sometimes make misstatements alxmt other individual churches. It is especially so in regard to falsehoods told with reference to prosperous enterprises. As long as a church is feeble, nnr. the singing is discord ant, and the minister, through the poverty of the church, must go with a threadbare coat, and here and there a worshiper sits in the end of a pew, having all the seat to himself, religious sympathizers of other churches will say, “What a pity!" But let a great day of prosperity come, and oven ministers of the gospel, who ought to he rejoiced at the large ness and extent of the work, denounce and misrepresent and falsify, starting the suspic ion in regard to themselves that the reason they do not like the corn is because it is not ground in their own mill. How long before weahall learn to be fair in our religious criti cisms! The keenest jealousies on earth are church jealousies. The field of Christian work is so large that there is no need that our hoe handles hit. Next I speak of social lies. This evil makes much of society insincere You know not what to believe. When jieople ask you to come you do not know whether or not they want you to come. When they send their regards you do not know whether it is au ex pression of their heart or an external civil ity Wc have learned to take almost every thing at a discount. Word is sent “Not at home," when they are only too lazy to dresa themselves. They say, “Tho furnace has Just gone out." when in truth they have had no fire in it all winter. They apologize for the unusual barrenuussof their table when they never live any better. They decry their most luxurious (utertaiunients to win a shower of approval! They apologize for their appearance, as though it wore unusual, when always at home they look just so. They would make you believe that some nice sketch on the wall was the work of a master painter. “It was an heirloom, and once hung on the walls of a castle, and a duke gave it to their grandfather." When the tact is that painting was made oy a man “down east,” and baked so os to make it look old, and sold with others for ten dol lars a dozen. People who will lie about nothing else will lie about a picture. On a small incume we must make the world be lieve that we are aflluent, and our life be comes a cheat, c counterfeit and a sham. Few persons arc really natural. When I say this 1 do not mean to slur cultured man ners. It is right that we should have more admiration for the sculptured marble than for the unknown block of the quarry. From many circles in life insincerity has driven out vivacity and entbusiaem. A frozen dig nity instead floats about the room, and ice berg grinds against iceberg. You must not laugh outright; it Is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash rapidly across the room; you must glide. There is a round of bows and grins and flatteries and ohsl and nhs! an I simpering and nambypamby- isin—a world of which is not worth one good, round, henast peal of laughter. From such a hollow round the tortured guest re- I ires at the close of the evening and assure* his host that he has enjoyed himself. What a round of insincerity many people run Inorder to win the favor of the worldl Their life Is a sham and their death an un speakable sadness. Alas for the poor butter flies when the frost strikes them! Compare the life and death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt who was once a blessing to your household. I do not know that she was ever offered the hand in marriage. 8be lived single, that untram- msled she might be everybody’s biasing. Whenever the sick were to be visited, or tb* poor to be provided with bread, she went with a blessing. She could pray, or sing “Rock of Ages’’ for any sich pauper who asked her. As she got older there were day* when she was a little sharp, but for the most port auntie was a sunbeam—just the one for Christmas eve. She knew better than any one else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everybody who had tronble. The brightest things in all the house dropped from her fingers. She bad peculiar notions, but the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. Sb* dressed well—auntie always dressed Well| but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight at God, is of great price. When she died yc all gathered lovingly about her, and as yc carried her out to rest the Suuday-scho , class almost covered the coffin with japoni- cas, and the poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly; and the man of the world said, with Solomon, “Her price was above rubies,” and Jesus, ns unto the maiden in Judea c ommanded, “X say unto thee, arise 1" But to many, through insincerity, this life is a masquerade bal’. As at such en tertainments gentlemen and ladies appear in the dress of kings or queens, mountain bandits or clowns, and at the close of the dance throw off their disguises, so in this dissipated life all unclean passions move in mask. Acror, the floor they trip mer rily. The lights sparkle along the wall of drop from the ceiling—a cohort of Orel The music charms. The diamonds glitter. The feet bouud. Gemmed bands stretched out clasped gemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to dancing feet. Gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with the dance! Flash and rustle and laughter and immeasurable merry making! But the langour of death comes over the limbs and blurs the sight. Lights lower! Floor hollow with sepuh chral echo. Music saddens into a wail. Lights lower 1 The maskers can hardly now be seed. Flowers exchange their fragrance for a sick ening odor, such as comes from garlands thatnave lain in vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower 1 Mists fill the room. Glasses rattle as though shaken by sullen thunder. Sighs eeem caught among the curtains. Scarf fall* from the shoulder of lx>auty—a shrondl Lights lower! Over tlie slippery boards, in danoe of death, gli !e jealousies, disappoint ment^ lust, despair^ Russia's Future Czar. The eldest son of the Emperor of Russia is called during the lifetime of his father the Czarowitz, which means simply “son of tho Czar.” The young man who at present holds the title, the Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovitch— the latter name meaning “son of Alex ander,” is now in his twenty-third year. He has the tall figure and powerful physique which have characterized all the Romanoffs since that family mounted the throne of Russia, but, as yet, little is known of his personal qualities. Like all European Princes, he has received a niE czarowitz. military training, and all his photo graphs wero taken in uniform. That from which the accompanying cut was made was taken two years ago, when the future Czar of all the Russians was more boyish in appearance than at present. On the day of his birth he was gazetted Colonel of the Imperial Guard, and it is said that he shows evidence of military capacity. If this should turn out to be true, it will bo a reversal of the family traditions. The Romanoffs have always shown bravery in the field, but Peter the Great was the last of the family who gave proof of ability to command an army in face of the enemy. The present Czar in the lifetime of his father held a high command in the last Russo-Turkish war and showed no disposition to shirk either danger or privation, but as a general he was a complete failure. The Czarowitz is a nephew of the Princess of Wales and of King George of Greece. His mother, the Czarina, is a daughter of King Christian IX of Den mark and was married in 1866, four years after the Prince of Wales had wedded her sister. Her name up to her marriage was Mary Sophia Frederica Dagmar, but she was always spoken of in public as the Princess Dagmar. Now she Is called Mary Dagmar Feodorovna. The young heir to tho Russian throne has seen some stormy times in his short life. As a child he was almost a wit ness of the terrible dynamite explosion which ended the life of his grandfather end placed his father on the throne, and more than once ho was near when at tempts were made on the life of the pres ent Czar, which, if successful, would have made himself the autocrat, for • time at least, of 80,000,000 of subjects. —Chicago Pott. WISE WOUi 5. Stand behind the truth. -•* No mau lives any higher that he looks. Whenever you find a cross, die on it to self. Contentment is a full brother to hap. pincss. Be a worker 1 A loafer is never happy anywhere. The surest way to a man’s pocket is through his heart. The days are always too short for the man who loves his work. To have a big head and a small heart is a very great misfortune. Pray that you may not thiuk evil, and then you will not speak it. One of the saddest conditions in life is to have nothing good to live for. The man who looks at everything through money can not see very far. It is a great misfortune to be born so that all the laugh has to stay inside of you. There arc. not many poor men who would do a rich man's work for the pay he gets. The time to be pleasant and make it count, is when everybody else is un pleasant. One way to drive the hoys to the bad is to shut up the parlor and live in the kitchen. All that is needed to make a man hate himself is for him to get a good square look at himself. One of the commonest of mistakes is to look at people, through tho wrong end of the telescope. The greatest wrongs people commit against each other are those of which they are not conscious. Every time tho soldier handles his musket in drill it has something to do with the way he will handle it iu battle. There are people who would a good deal rather be the whistle or the bell on a steam engine tlinn to ho one of the driving wheels. When an engineer wants to stop an en gine he doesn’t put a break ou the bal ance wheel, bin. shuts off the power that makes it run. When you want to quit your meanness the work must begin on tho inside.—TndianapoHt (M.) Pam's Horn. Indian Ideas of Future Life. The Iroquois and Huron* believed in n country for the souls of the dead, which they called the “country of ancestors.” This country lies to the west, from which direction their traditions told them they had migrated. Spirits must go thero after death by a very long and painful journey; climb many mountains and cross many rivers; and, just aa the long- sought haven appears in the distance, the spirit must cross a long, narrow bridge and fight with a monster dog which stands guard at the west end. Weak souls are not equal to this task, and many of them are pushed over the narrow edges of the bridge into the.rush ing waters below, to be swept through dark canyons and over immense preci pices for ever. This road, according to the ideas of the two tribes mentioned above, h all on earth; but several of the Indian tribes consider the light band across ths heavens which the astronomers call tho “Milky Way" to be the path of the soul. The main body of the stars in this milky path they suppose to be hu man souls on their journey to heaven; the smaller one to be the souls of dogs and other pet animals which ate accom panying their masters to the land ol bliss. It is curious and interesting to note that the British Columbian tribe of the Shanakons have a soul belief which is an almost exact counterpart of that cher ished by the old Israelites. They be lieve that every being has its double or shadow, a thin, pale figure, seldom or never seen by mortal eyes, which after death descends to an abode beneath the earth and there leads a sad and gloomy existence. The Israelites called this place Sheol; the Shanakons know it as “Eotea.” Some Arizona and old Mexican tribes believe that the spirit is carried to the moon by a coal-black, monkey-faced owl; that upon arriving there it is met by its thousands of ancestors, who come with a long train of white donkeys; that the spirit is then escorted to a large cav ern in the centre of the moon, where joy reigns supreme.—St. touit Pepublic. Queen Yictoria’s Household. It is not generally known, says a corre spondent, that at the end of every year the English Queen’s household expenses are audited and chocked,and that copies of them are printed with a view to future reference. One of these having fallen into my hands, I herewith append • few facts and items which may interest more humble people. The royal tea, which is always bought at a quaint, old- fashioned shop in Pall Mall,and has been during her five predecessors’ reigns, costs $1.35 per pound,and was for a long time known as Earl Gray's mixture, be having recommended the present blend to Her Majesty. When she gives a dinner, fish to the extent of $350 is ordered, but for an ordinary dinner three kinds of fish nre put on the table, whit ing being almost invariably one of them. A sirloin of beef is cooked every night, and is put on the sideboard cold for the next day’s lunch—the Queen seems, in this instance, much like ourselves—and the cheese, of which there are always six or seven kinds, is invariably obtained from one particular firm. The Queen takes, after her dinner, one water biscuit and one piece of cheddar; the Prince of Wales eats a piece of gorgonzola with a crust of household bread. The tea, as well as the chees* and the royal bed,are in variably taken with the Queen wherever she goes. Her Majesty’s wine, which is well known to he incomparable,is always kept in the cellars of St. James Palace, and is sent in basketfuls of three dozen to wherever she may be, though this is more for the guests and the household than herself, as Her Majesty, when alone, drinks very weak whisky and water with her meals by the doctor’s orders. At banquets, however, she takes two glasses of burgundy. The clerk of the kitchen, who always caives, receives $3500 per annum, the chef the same, and the two confectioners, who attend to all the pastry, jellies, fruits, etc., get $1500 and $1350 respectively.—Boiton Tran script. Mighty Small Uut Mighty Expensive. “What do you suppose is the most ex pensive part of those incandescent elec tric lamps which we see burning in that shop window?’’ asked an electrician. “You would naturally suppose it would be the glass bulb, or perhaps tho brass fittings for screwing it into tho socket, but you would be wrong. Those two little pieces of platinum wire,so fine that you can hardly perceive them,which pass through the glass stem up in the base of the lamp, to which the fine car bon filament is attached, enter more greatly into the cost than any other part of these now almost indispensable elec tric lamps.’’ “Why don't they use some other metal than platinum for this wire?” “Because platinum is the only metal in which the expansion and contraction are the same as in glass, and a great fortune awaits the man who can produce a cheap metal or alloy in which this valuable property of platinum can be preserved. “The cost of platinum at the presetit market price in London is $30 per ounce, or about the same as gold, and the amount used for this purpose alone has grown to be enormous. This demand, together with the increased cost of production, has caused the price to ad vance about 160 per cent, in eighteen months. In each sixteen candle-power lamp there are from four to eight grains of platinum. If six grains are taken as an average, one ounce will be used in eighty lamps. Based on the increased use of incandescent lights within the last two years, it is safe to state that the demand for sixteen-candle power lamps, or their equivalent, in the year 1891 will be 10,000,000. This means a demand for 135,000 ounces of platinum, which, at the present price, will amount to con siderably over $3,000,000 for this item alone.”—Washington Pott. Hook* One Never Heard Of. There is no doubt that there are hun dreds of books in circulation to-day of which the general literary public has never heard books which have sold into the hundreds of thousands and brought their authors and publishers mints of money. These books are sold by sub scription and never penetrate into the cities. They are sold to country families, sometimes a hundred in a single small village. Not long ago I came across the list of a subscription publishing house which ] rialed the number of copies sold of the b >oks on their catalogue. Th* figures were amazing. Of twenty-eight books not one had sold less than 50,000 copies, and several had exceeded 300,- 000. Yet I had never heard of one of tho titles to the bonks. I recall the manuscript of a technical book on ma chinery being handed in once into a large publishing house. The firm declined it, and it met the same fate at four other houses. Finally the author sent it to a large subscription house, and they snapped at it. The publishers who had resected the manuscript laughed. But they lived to have the laugh turned on them. I saw the author’s royalty state ments on that hook about a year ago, which showed a total sale of 70,000 copie* of that book in three years!—Ptvs York Commercial Advertiser. President Arthur was buried in Rural Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. Those who believe that Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy will cure them are more liable to get well than those who don’t. If you happen to be one of those who don't believe, there’s a matter of $500 to help your faith. It’s for you if the mak ers of Dr. Sage’s remedy can’t cure you, no matter how bad or of how long standing your catarrh in the head may be. The makers are the World’s Dispensary Medical Associa tion of Buffalo, N.Y. They’re known to every newspaper publisher and every druggist in the land, and you can eas ily ascertain that their word’s as good ti3 their bond. Begin right. The first stage is to purify the system. You don’t want to build on a wrong foundation, when you’re build ing for health. And don't shock the stomach with harsh treatment. Use the milder means. You wind your watch once a day. Your liver and bowels should act as regularly. If they do not, use ez key. The key is —Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. One a dose. SCOTT’S Of Pure God Liver Oil with Hypophospiiites Of Limo and Soda. There nre emulsions and enmlstons, and there is still much skimmed milk which masquerades as cream. Try us they will many manufacturers cannot so flisffttise their cod Urer oil as to make it palatable tn sensitire stomachs. Scott's Emulsion of EVHE KOHWEGf AN COD LIVEH OIL, combined with Hypophos- phites is almost as palatable us milk. For this reason as well as for the fact of the stinmlutiny qualities of the Hyp6~ phosphites, Physicians frequently pro- scribe it in cases of CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, BIIOSCIIMT1S and CHRONIC COUGH or SEVERE COLD. All Druyyists sell it, but be, sure you yet the genuine, us thi re arc poor imitations. Unique Body of Troops. France has in her territorial army a unique body of troops for the protection of her railways in war. Most of them are men living near the eastern boundary —among them 7000 forests and customs officials—able to get in the field at a few hours’ notice. Two weeks ago thia rail way contingent was mobilized, so that its efficiency might he tested. The mo bilization was not very successful. Half of the men could get no overcoats, be cause there was none for them. The Ministry of War is new planning a thor ough overhaulihg of this service.—Bal lon Transcript. dole Survivor of a Famous Embassy. Sir John Francis Davis, who died in England recently in his ninety-fourth year, was the sole stirvivor of Lord Am herst’s famous embassy to Ohiua (during the reign of George IV.) when the am bassador and his colleagues were uncere moniously hundtel out of Pekin because they refused to prostrate themselves be fore the Emperor, who expected them to go tllfough the salute of “kootoo” as a mark of profound respect for his majesty’s person.—Pint York WUntii. Indianapolis, Inff., wmsts or an abun dant supply o! natural ga*. There is more catarrh In this ritfton of the country limn all other tllKeases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to he incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounc ed it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment, Jtfobounced it in curable. Science has proven cataffh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, tnanufactured by F. J. Cheney 6t Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from lodrops to a teaspoorrfitl. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of t.he system. They offer $100 for any case it faiu to cure. iSenu for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney Ac Co., Toledo, O. .Sold br Druggists, 75c. Bridle the appetite with reason and sav the stomach. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach disorders, use Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Beet Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Blood and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton ic for weak and debilitated persona. To change the name and not the letter hnuge for worse and not for better. A Girl Worth Haring. After hearing Mr. Gray’s experience in the plating business, 1 sent to the Lake Electric Co Englewood, III., for a plater, and cleared in a week. Isn’t this pretty g«*od for a girl/ There is tableware and jewelry to plate at every house; then, why should any person be poor or out of employment with sueh an op portunity at hand. A SmisCMBEH. Live leisurely unless you are anxious iio in a hurry. For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala ria, Neuralgia. Indigestion and Biliousness, take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength, making old persons feel young—and young persons strong; pleasant to take. rdjndav is the favorite wedding day h d England. FITS stopped free by DrT Klinb*s Gbbat Nerve Ukstoueh. No Fits after first di use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 22 tl bottle free. Dr. Kline. Arch Jit.. Phi If artbete 1 with sore eyes use Dr. I nom son’s Eye wat' , r. Druggist sell at *35o pertw tl* - JJ, ' ' - 1 .'g-a.-J-a l.Lii!g» „ s’ Friend WRTfl&LflBOh 'lesseemw tending ft \ mm^ 0 Mother^Cb/ld. II c. x ci: - ? -q !«• g g | n £ 3 Z. *4. I B S’!•■*'-J? ® ■y, * p.?. 2 i —* -- WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. If a price can be placed on pain," Mother'* Friend” Is worth Its we.^l.t Ir Bold. My wife suffered more In ten minutes with either of her other tw ' children than she did altogether with her last, having previously used tour bottles of “Mother's Friend.” It I* a blessing to «ny one expecting to be come a mother. Qeo. F. Lockwood, Carml, hi. Write 'llio liiailfield regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars Sent bj express, cliai t'-j paid, on receipt of price, $1.60 per bottle. Sold by druggists. This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 oentA J. F. SMITH A CO., Makers of “ Bile Beans,'' 159 4 257 Gmawieb St.. N. Y. City. OUWE Biliousness, Sick Headache, Malaria. BILE BEANS. pEECHAM'g ^PAINLESS. ILSLa^ EFFECTUAL" PILLS effectual EW* WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.'MS For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS 7 Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc,, ACTING LIKE MAGIC on the vital organs, strengthening .the muscular system, and arousing with the rosebud of health The Whole Physical Energy of the Human Frame. Beeoham’s Pills, taken as directed, will quickly RESTORE FEMALES to complete health. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price, 25 cents per Box. Prepared only by TH0S. BEECHAM, St Helens, Lancashire, England. B. P. ALLEN CO., Sole Agents for United States, 3(Ui A 307 Canal St., Nett York, who (if your druggist does not keep them) tvill mall Beechnut's Fills on receipt ofpriei—but inquire first. Ji**?” 1 **” 1 i! 1 ** PWu 99 “German Syrup We have selected two or Croup, three lines from letters freshly received from pa rents who have given German Syrup to their children in the emergencies of Croup. You will credit these, because they come from good, sub stantial people, happy in finding what so many families lack—a med icine containing no evil drug, which mother can administer with con fidence to the little ones iu theif most critical hours, safe and sure that it will carry them through. Bp. L. Willits, of Mrs. Jas.W. Kirk, Alma, Neb. I give it Daughters' College, to my children when Hatrodsbiirg. Ky. I troubled with Croup have depended upon and never saw any it in attacks of Croup preparation act like with my little daugh- It. It is simply mi- ter, and find it an in- rmculous. valuable remedy. Fully one-half of our customers •re mothers who use Boschee’s Ger man Syrup among their children. A medicine lobe successful with the little folks must be a treatment for the suddeu and terrible foes of child hood, whoopingcougli, croup, diph theria and the dangerous iullamma- tions of delicate throats aud lungs. ® Kl-Y’S CBtfAM BALM Applied Into Nostrils la Quickly I ▲morbed, Cleaunee the Head, 1 Heal* tiie Sores and Cures CATARRH. Restores Taste and Smnll, quick ly Relieves Cold In Head and Headache. 60c. at Druggists. ELY DROa., 66 Warren St., N. T. POIITIYBLY BEMKUIKD . Grcely rant Stretcher Harvard, Amherst, and othe. _. provisional and business men every where. If not for sale In your town send Jl.Vc- to K. J. (JUKELY, 71A Washington fluet l, Huston- WANTED- Local and Traveling Salesmen. Sal- it urv $50 to $.100 per month. Outfit free. Busi ness established :»5years. We give undoubted refer ences. Send stamps for particulars. No postals answered. MttttCBtt & COw Louisville, Ky. Sfl AUCI I 9C Suspensory Bandages are best rLRVCLL u for comfort. S >ld bu Drogitists. Price, SILK Til HEAD -TO Ceuls. Sent Sealed h* mau. upon receipt of price. G. W. I lavei.i. & Bbo., S. y Street. riitladclphl •. Pa. PEBSIOHSSgj titled to $ 10 a mo. 110 w'sen you got your rnonsv , Aftr-WmAImUb. D. t. $t|Ks£ 5s ^ ,• # OiKHS KiSTjOYS Both the method and result* when Byrupof Figsistaken; it ispleswaafc and refreshing to the taste, and act* gently yet promptly on the Kidneys^ Liver and Bowels, cleanses Ibesya- tern effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers nnd cures habitual Constipation. Syrup of Figs is th» only remedy of its kind ever pro- dueed, pleasing to the taste ana ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action n.nd truly beneficial m its elfccts, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances; its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. > Syrup of Figs is lor sale in 608 and it:, bolties by all leadingdrug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it ou hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do net scccpA Bnysubstifiito. i CALIFORNIA f/0 SYRUP COi SA" MANCI5C0, CM, Ufwsmie, ky rf if yobk, n r. TRINITY E0LLS55new building**, September I, 1891. A College of Philosophy and A fU, A College of Cow* merce: A College of the ScWfMtej; A Divinity School; A School of Technology; School; A* School of Political Science; A Aiedicat •‘'vhwoL Send for catalogue to JOHN K GKO WELL, A. B., President, Trinity LoHeije F. V., N. C. Trinity nigh School (Preparatory) iu Kaodolptf •touniy, opcu August 1. IHiDYi ■lot Coughs. Colds and Ccnramptlon. lt$*?ondI- • querllon the greatest ol all modern remedies. ? • II wills'.opa Cough inone night. Itwlllcheek£ • aColdlnadny. It »lll prs»entCroo(r, rollovof {Asthma, and CURE Consumption It (ah*. In- Itire. IF THS LITTLE ONES HAVE f WH0QPIKG COUCH J OR t GROUP ! UsdiPiaapUT.: *_>IT WILL cun: AC, ©WHEN EVERY-* thine ELSE; -iT* J^IioFAILS. S ’ can’t afford to* • l * / be without B.”! ■ A 25c. bottle may save SICO In Doctor’s b[|li2 S—may save theif fives. ASK YOUR ORUG-j -GIST FOR IT. IT TASTES 00004 TURNER'S ANTI-BiUOUS PELLS I ure Biliousm low Ski!', D.v A trial « ul piov, — Til K Tl.UNfclf •;i, Sick IlcadttCbi^* FJiitnleuce, HeorttMUTL Price, "j ecu!?*. •> S- t; Hi., York.- MONEY INCIIICIiKN!*, I or 2be. a lu>-pa a o bt»ok, exptnenoe? ut a yradical poultry rawer durtofc ..ward, it teaches now to detent ; u,l cure diseases; u» 1 oed lot egg» and tor latteuing; witici* K>wUtt> •avefor breed mg, *•■.. Ac. Addre** HUUK PUB. MOLSC, Leonard M., N. Y. City. mm are Coining Money ... February. I.artlra «l« «s well hh men. Royal Kditlonof tlie IVet lesP Alia*of the \N urld, ha« »ara# mapH in colors. Accurate loc«tionof towns,cities,r«tN roads.etc. Census of 181)0. Everrhudy wantslt. bells <?» aight A tfcntHflcar lOOporct* IAST, CROW ELL & KIRIPITRICI. 927 Cheauui W-PkldehtoaH. PROF. LOISF.TTE’3 HEW MEMORY BOOKS. Criticisms on two recent Memory Systems. ItoadT about April IhL Full Table* of Contents forwarded only to tboKF who send stamped directed envelope. Also Prospoctu.* POST FREE of the I/?bettUHD Art of Never Forgetting. Address w Prof. LOIS KITE, 2J7 ,r«fth Are.. New YerlL ROOFlNC EVF.KY MAN IIIS OWN KOOFEK. Two an 1 Three Ply Roofing, suitable for all roofs, il i ory than other material and twice as dur- itblc I-ire. Witi-i ami Water Proof, rattirbio for all climates, and «..u >v> by any one. I Catalogue with ininplcs oi . bifttot a-iw-l n| !( jownn pMm r. I nlnts, sent on r*»|Uesf. 2 p"It w ii i. i‘at no!. - to w uith is. JOHN AlOJITAliE. Kit Yg» Every Farmeriiis own Rosier CHEAPER than Shiiiqtei, Tin or Slate. Reduces Y’dir INSURANCE-, and PcrfeeUy Fire, Water and Wind Proof. -tSTEELRDDrJHGl CORRUGATED 4 // C l SEND FOFf I tUaksfrao. JOStTBJLMUllTBIkJ Our Roofing is ready formed for the Building',, nnd can uo applied by any one. Do not buy anv Hoofing tilt '"h write tons for our Descrip live Catalan" sene’ U. AUFNTM WANTED. -VASELINE- FOK AON K-IXtl.LA tt llll.l.aentu, by m^f we will delivt r, ireo oi all charges, to any person t» the United Stales, all oi iuj (uilovviuj arctutej, oar** fully packo »: One two-ounco bottle of Pure Vaseline, - • Ifi'tJ. One two-ounce bottlo of \ .useline I’oin.ule, • 15** One Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, 15' One coke of Vaseline Camphor ice, • • - 1> One Cake of Vase 1 mo soap, uiiacente l, - - l‘>' OueCakeof Vaseuno Soap, cxquIsiielysceatod/Ak' One two-ounce bottio of \\ idly Vusetiue, - * *bl» Or for rfStaq* sf/vnov r. *$v »«nrfli** at /;o; yri?» named, tht no account >> • ,•».*/-»to aooapt Iro’n your<lrugg\M am/ I'anelincoryreituratijn therefrom unless labelled with our name, beo iuis i/ou loill oea lainly receive an imitation which ha* little or no coins CbeMubi'ouuU .Ulk. Cu.. Ai State St.. N. Y. H ave You a Cough ? Have You a Cold? Or Consumption? Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein WILL CURE YOU! ycur Druggist or Morohsnt for It. Take nothing else.