The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, May 06, 1891, Image 4
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Pari? has a steam phaeton,
y paper bottle factory is to be started
at Ghissboro, N. J.
Electric soldering irons are being used
with success in some of the great-Eastern
tanneries.
Nearly all the winter and summer re
sort hotels of first-class pretensions are
appointed with steam heating appara
tus.
When cast and malleable iron are used
in the same structure a galvanic action is
set up between them and the malleable
iron is corroded.
The English estimate that in establish
ing an arc lighting plant the first fifty
lights cost $250,000, with a very small
fraction added for an increased capacity.
The materials used in the manufacture
of the different substances used on ceil
ings and walls for decorative purposes
consist of the residuum of candle distill
ing, wood, flour and common paraffine
oils.
I Black being a color which absorbs
fceat rays, some tank-steamers are being
painted gray, the idea being to minimize
the risk of explosion on board these ships
through the oil becoming heated by the
sun's rays.
, The best idea of the value of the Bes
semer invention may be formed from the
simple tact that when Bessemer began
experimenting steel sold in England at
from $250 to $300 a gross ton. He soon
made a better steel at $30 a ton.
For stopping the freezing of exhaust
jpipes of engines or pumps a pump-boy
in Miehigau suggested the introduction
of a small jet of cold water to play into
ithe exhaust. The plan was acted upon,
'and it is said to work admirably.
It is proposed to substitute locust for
oak in the manufacture of insular pins.
The first named wood possesses many
superior charaeteristics, not the least ol
which is durability. It will last from
fifteen to twenty-five times longer than
oak.
Many explosions in flouring mills are
said to have been caused by electricity
generated by belts. Even ordinary
belts are found to generate sufficiently
strong currents to perform the commou
experiments for which electric machines
are used.
A new centrifugal machine recently
invented is called the htumatokrit, and it
is employed for determining the volume
of corpuscles present in blood. Its use
fulness lies in the ability which the doc
tors will now have of comparing the blood
of different individuals.
At Sydney, New South Wales, naval
works, comprising naval and victualling
stores, engines and ship-repairing fac
tory, deep water wharf, with shears to
lilt the heaviest guns and extensive
magazines for naval ordnance stores, are
being carried out at the expeuse of thf
Colonial Government.
An ingenious electrical balance was
recently exhibited in Paris. The object
to be weighed was placed in the pan, by
which act an electrical circuit was closed
and a motor put in operation which
moved the weight out on the beam o
the balance. When the equipoise was
established the circuit was broken.
Upon emptying the pan the weight re
turned.
To Lubricate a Watch.
The lubrication of a watch is a nice
point. Some oil a watch to death, sayt
the Eorological Rnieve. According t«
this authority it is always best to put t
little oil in the centre pinion hole before
putting together, and on the barrel arbor i
oil tho mainspring by oiling a tissue
paper and slipping it around the coils.
Do not straighten the spring out in this
process, as it will be more apt to break
’after such a treatment. When properly
loiled it is an improvement. If the oil ii
.poor and too much of it is used it will
'soon gum up and be worse thau no oil.
!ln regard to oiling the train pivots, i
correspondent uses an oiler of his own in-
Ivention, which is as follows:
i Get a good quill; take a sharp knife
land split it like a steel pen and stick its
point into your oil cup, then oil yom
pivots. You can put on as little or as
much as you please by the pressure, with
no danger of cracking or scratching any
thing. Then put on the balance and
bridge, see that everything is screwed
down firmly and that the balance has a
good free swing. Never oil. the lever
pallets or ruby pin they will soon get
gummy and spoil the whole job.
Tattoo Marks Won’t Come Out.
It has often been claimed that tattoo
marks may be removed by pricking over
them goat's milk. This is a mistaken
idea. Chemists and others have for
years experimented with various prepa
rations in the hope of discovering some
agent to wholly remove India ink marks
from the human skin. Nothing, how
ever, has as yet been found that will re
move u portion even of the objectionable
marks, unless, possibly, tho attempt be
made immediately following the tattoo
ing process.—.Boston Bulletin.
Hanging seems fo lie a very profitable
business in China. The Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank made $1,800,000 profit
during the last half year.
SELECT SITTINGS.
Chicago Lis Chinese bakeries,
i Ithaca, Wis., breeds St. Bernard dogs.
Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, Ind., is
thirteen years old, but weighs 216
pounds.
Indian elephants cannot live in Central
Africa, the home of a larger and more
hardy species.
The past has been, it is said, with one
exception, tho foggyist winter for twenty
years in London.
Mrs. Stanley, wife of the explorer, is
a direct descendant—tho seventh in line
—from Oliver Cromwell,
A man at A thens, Ga., owns an antiq
uity in the form of a water bucket,
hewn out of the solid rock.
The Japanese administer the oath by
cutting the witness's finger and taking
blood to seal the swear.
Dr. Elliott Cones, late of the Smith- ,
sonian Institution, estimates that 1000
legitimate words are coined annually.
The most watery county in the United
States is Monroe County, Fla. It is
chiefly composed of small islands, or
keys.
The new war ship of the English navy,
the Royal Sovereign, was constructed in
seventeen months, which is said to be the
best time on record for such work.
The poundmaster of Oakland, Cal.,
sold for $12 at an estray auction an un
claimed horse. The animal was subse
quently identified as a $4000 thorough
bred trotter.
A Missouri man recently went before
the Legislature of that State advocating
the introduction and passage of a bill
compelling the keepers of railroad res
taurants to date their pies.
In certain parts of Africa crickets are
said to constitute an artitle of commerce.
People rear them, feed them in confine
ment and sell them. The natives are
very fond of their music, thinking that
it induces sleep. Superstitions regard
ing the cricket’s chirp are very varied.
,8ome believe that it is omiuous of sorrow
and evil, while others consider it to be
a harbinger of joy.
The fate of Lizzie Bond, of Auderson,
lad., shows that a woman is not safe even
after she has stepped on one side of the
track and permitted a train of cars to
pass her. Miss Bond stepped off the
track, but the sucticn of the train that
thundered past her drew her dress undei
the rear car, which, catching upon an
irou bar, dragged her fifty yards or more,
dashing her brains out upon the cross
ties.
Grotesque Flight of Kangaroos.
Describing a kangaroo hunt in Scril
'ner, Birge Harrison says: The rest of
the herd immediately made off in our di
rection; but instead of scatteriug pell
,mell as other wild animals would have
done under like circumstancs, these queer
denizens of a queer country fell into line
1 jand departed in regular Indian file, tho
big old doe leading the way, and the
smallest diminutive pickaninuies bring
ing up the rear. The doe covered the
I ground with tremendous leisurely hops,
holding her forepaws before her in a
,mincing way that was very comical. The
.smaller animals—each an exact, though
: diminutive, counterpart of the leader—
j followed in gradually diminishing per
spective, every little beggar hopping
: just a little more rapidly than the one be
fore him, until the fast-flying legs of the
last puny fellow at the end of the line
;were blurred like the spokes of a wheel
dn rapid motion. The effect of this ex
traordinary procession was to my unac
customed eyes, so altogether ludicrous
and absurd, that I nearly lost my shot in
an uncontrolable burst of laughter. As
it was, I might just as well have had my
laugh to the end, for although I let the
.old doe have both barrels fall in the
flank as she passed me at twenty yards’
[distance, she never even faltered in her
;course, and had quite disappeared in the
iscrub, with all her numerous progeny at
her heels, before I hafl time to replace
the empty cartridges. The No. 3 shot,
in all probability, had little more effect
upon her tough hide than so many grains
of sand. Nevertheless, it might perhaps
ihave brought her down if I had aimed
at the head, for one pellet penetrating
|the brain through the eye would have
been sufficient. But the motion was so
'eccentric and perplexing that this would
have been a very risky shot, and I pre
ferred the chance of stunning her by a
direct double charge full in the body,
to the almost absolute certainty of miss
ing her altogether by attempting the
more difficult shot.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine’s
Sunday Sermon.
Refined i'uiiishment.
In the valise of an English tourist to
Greenland was a big red apple, and the
Custom House men, having never seen
one before, and being unable to find any
one who had, took it for a bomb and
made the Englishman sit down and cat
it. They were quite put out when he
didn’t explode and shatter things.—Bos
ton Globe.
Tippoo Tib, the great Congo slave
dealer, is on his way to visit his With
' place, Arabia. He is the son of a half-
casle Atab, and his mother was a full-
blooded African slave.
When So Many People
Are taking and praising Hood’s Sarsaparilla a:<
their Spring Medicine, having become convinced
that it is by far the best, the question arises
Why Don’t Yoy Take
It yourself. Possessing just those blood-
purifying, building-up, appetite-giving qualitie.i
which are so important in
A Spring Medicine
It is certainly worthy a trial. A single bottle
taken according to directions will convince you
of the merit in, and make you a warm friend of,
this popular medicine. Be sure to get
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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CURES DIARRHEA.
DYSENTERY,
CRAMPS.
FOR THE
GIVE IT TO
TEETHING CHILDREN,
IT WILL SHE THEIR LIVES.
DON'T !•( veer draggle! or merchant per-
fttiade you that something else will de
us well, for It WON’T.
The Best Thing
BOWELS
Tkxt: “What mean ye by these stones?"
—Joshua iv.. 6.
The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluffs
on the one side aud flats on the other. Here
and there a sycamore shadows it. Here snd
there a willow dips into it. It was only a
'ittle over waist aeep in December as I waded
through it, but in the months of April and
May tue snows on Mount Lebanon thaw and
flow down into tho valley, and then the Jor
dan overflows its banks. Then it is wide,
deep, raging and impetuous. At this season
of the year I hear the tramp of forty thou
sand armed men coming down to cross the
river. You say, why do they not go up
nearer tho rise of the river at the old camel
lord? Ah! my friends, it is because it is not
safe to go around when the Lord tells us to
go ahead. Tho Israelites had been going
around forty years, aud they had enough of
it. I-do not know how it is with you, my
brethren, but I have always got into trouble
when I went around, but always got into
safety when I went ahead.
There spreads out the Jordan, a raging
torrent, much of it snow water just come
down from the mountain top. and I see some,
of the Israelites shivering at the idea of
plunging in, and one soldier says to his com
rade. “Joseph, can you swim?' And another
.ays; “If we get across the stream we will
get there with wet clothes and with damaged
armor, and the Canaanites will slash us to
pieces with their swords before we get up the
other bank.'' But it is no time to halt. The
great host marches on.
The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the
people follow. I hear the tramp of the great
multitude. The priests have now come with
'n a stone's throw of the water. Yet still
there is no abatement of the flood. Now they
have come within four or five feet of ths
stream; but there is no abatement of the
flood Bad prospect! It seems as if these
Israelites that crossed the desert are now go
ing to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But
“Forward ’” is the cry The command rings
all along the line of the host "Forward!"
Now the priests have come within one step
of the river. This time they lift their feet
from the solid ground and put them down
into the raging stream. No sooner are their
feet there than Jordac flies.
On the right hand God piles up a great
mountain of floods, on the left the water
flows off toward the sea. The great river for
hour;, halts and rears. The back waters,
not being able to flow over the passing Is
raelites. pile wave on wave until perhaps a
sea bird would find some difliculty in scaling
the water cliff. Now the priests and all the
people have gone over on dry land. The
water on the left hand side by this time has
• eached the sea, and now that the miracu
lous passage has been made, stand back and
see this stu|>endous pile of waters leap. God
takes His hand from that walls of floods,and
like a hundred cataracts they plunge and
roar in thunderous triumph to tho sea
How are they to celebrate this passage?
Shall it be with music 1 I suppose the trum
pets and cymbals were all worn out. before
this Shall it be with banners waving? Ob.
oo; they are all faded and torn. Joshua
cries om, "I will tell you how to celebrate
this—build a monument here to commemo
rate tho event," aud every priest puts a
jeavy stone on bis shoulder and marches out
and (hops that stone in the divinely ap-
.ointed place I see the pile growing in
oeight, in breadth, in signineance, and, in
ifter years, men went by that spot and saw
‘hi- monument, aud cried out one to another,
in fulfillment of the prophecy of the text.
“What meant ye by these stones?”
Blessed be God, He did not leave our church
in the wilderness! We have been wandering
about for a year and a half worshiping in
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn and the
Academy of Music, New York And some
thought we would never reach the promised
land. Some said we had better take this
route and ot hers that. Some said we had
better go back, and some said there were
ions of Anak in the way that would eat us
up, aud before the smoke bad cleared away
•rom the sky alter our tabernacle had been
consumed, people stool on the very site of
the place and said: This church will never
again be built." We came down tothe bank
■ t Jordan; we looked ofi’ upon the waters
Some of the sympathy that was expressed
turned out to be snow’ water molted from the
lop of Lebanon. Some said “You badbet
ter not go in: you will get your feet wet.’’
But we uadediu, pastor and people, farther
and farther, aud in some way, the Lord only
knows bow. we got through; and to-night 1
go all around about this great bouse, erected
by your prayers and sympathies and sacri
fices, aud cry out in the words of my text:
“What mean ye by these stones?”
It is an outrage to build a house like this,
so vast and so magnificent, unless there be
some tremendous reasons for doing it, and
so, my friends, I pursue you to-night with
the question of my text, and I demand of
these trustees and of these elders and of all
who have contributed in the building of this
structure, “What mean ye by these stones?"
But before I get your answer to my question
you interrupt me aud point to the memorial
wail at the side of this pulpit, aud saj r , “Ex
plain that unusual group of memorials,
What mean you by those stones’’ ’ By per
mission of the people of my beloved charge I
recently visited the Holy Lauds, and having
in mind by day aud night during my ab
sence this rising houseof prayer, I bethought
mystdf, “What can I do to make that place
significant and glorious
On the mormug of December the 3d we
were at the toot ot the most sacred mount
ain of all tbeeartb, Mount Calvary. There
is no more doubt of the locality than of
Mount Washington or Mount Blanc. On the
bluff of this mountain, which is the shape of
the human skull, and s.o called in the Bible,
“The place of the skull.” there is room for
three crosses. There 1 saw a stone so sug
gestive I rolled it down the hill and trans
ported it. It is at the top of this wall, a
white stone, with crimson veins running
through it—the white typical of purity the
crimson suggestive of the blood that paid
the price of our redemption. We place it at
the top of the memorial wall, for above all
in this church for all lime, m sermon end
song and prayer, shall be the saeratlceof
Mount Cavalry. Look at it. That stone was
one of therocks rental the crucifixion. That
heard (he cry, “It is finished.” Was ever
any church on cartli honored with such
• memorial?
Beneath it are two tables of stone which
I had brought from Mount Sinai where the
law was given Three camels were three
weeks crossing the desert to fetch them
When at Cairo. Egypt, 1 proposed to the
Christian Arab that ho bring one stono from
Mount Sinai, he said, “We can easier bring
two rocks than one, for one must balance
them on the back of the camel, " and I dH
not think until the day of their arrival how
much more suggestive would bo the two, be
cause the law was wrilten on two tablets of
stone. Those stones marked with the words
t “Mount fciinoi”felttheearHiquakethat shook
' the mountains when the law was given. The
| lower -tone of the wall is from Mars Hill, the
place where Paul stood when he preached
that famous sermon on the brotherhood of
I the human race, declaring ‘God hath made
i of one blood all nations."
Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary
from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mars
Hill, the Greek Government makes it impos-
! sible to transport to other lands any antiq
i uities, and armed soldiers guard not only
' the Acropolis, but Mars Hill. That stone I
obtained by special iiermissiou from the
Queen of Greece, a most gracious and bril
liant woman, who received us as though we
lad been old acquaintances, aud through
Mr. Tricoupis, the Prime Minister of Greece,
• and Mr Snowden, our American Minister
Plenipotentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our Amer
; ican Consul, that suggestive tablet was
: sawed from the pidpit of rock on whioh
Paul preached Now you understand why
we have marked it “The Gospel." Lung af
ter my lips shall utter in this church their
last message, these lips of stone will tell of
i he Law, and the Sacrifice, and the Gospel
' This day I present them to the church and
‘ to all who shall gaze upon them Thus you
have my answer to the question, "What
mean you by these stones''"
But you cannot divert me from the ques
tion of the text as I first put it; I have in
I terpreted these four memorials on my right
band, but there are hundreds of stones in
these surrounding walls and underneath us,
in the foundations, and rising above us in
t be towers. The quarries of this and trans-
atlautic countries at the call of crowbar and
chisel bavocontributed tow ard this structure.
I “What mean ye by these stones?”
You mean amour other things that they
shall bo an earthly residence for Christ.
; Christ did not have much of a home when
I He was here. Who and where is that child
j crying' It is Jit us, born in an outhouse.
Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus,
! asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back
part of a Ashing smack, with a sailor’s
! lough overcoat thrown over Him? It is
Jesus, the worn out voyager. O, Jesus! is
it not time that Thou hadst a house? We
give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us
Hi st, but we give it back to Thee. It is too
good for us. but not half good enough for
Thee. Ob! come in and take the best see.
here Walk up and down all these aisles.
Speak through these organ pipes Throw
thine arm over us in these arches. In the
flaming of these brackets ot fire speak to us,
saving, “I am the light of the worlfl." O
King! make this thine audience chamber.
Here proclaim righteousness and make
treaties. We clap our bands, we uncover
our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with
multitudinous acclamation until the place
rings and the heavens listen, “O King 1 live
forever!”
Is It not time that He who was born in a
stranger’s house and buried in a stranger’s
grave should have an earthly bouse? Come
in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried Christ,
but a radiant and trumphant Jesus, con
queror of earth and heaven and hell.
He lives, all glory to His name.
He lives, my Jem*, still the same,
oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives—
I know that my Bedeemer lives.
Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Again, if any one aides the question of the
text, “What mean ye by these stones?’ tho
reply Is we mean the communion of saints.
Do you know that there is not a single de
nomination of Christians in Brooklyn that
has not contributed something toward the
building of this house? And if ever, stand
ing in this place, there shall be a man who
shall try by anything he says to stir up bit
terness between different denominations of
Christians, may his tongue falter, and his
cheek blanch, and his heart stop’ My
friends, if there is any church on earth
where there is a mingling of all denomina
tions it is our church. 1 just wish that John
Calvin and Arminius, if they were not too
busy, would come out on the battlements
and see us.
Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have
heard brethren use the phrases of a beautiful
liturgy, and weknow where they come from,
and in the same prayer meetings I have
heard brethren made audible ejaculation.
Amen”’ “Praiseye the Lord! ” and we did
not have to guess twice where they came
from. When a man knocks at our church
door, if he comes from a sect where they
will not give him a certificate, we say;
“Come in by confession of faith." While
Adoniram Judson, the Baptist, and John
Wedey, the Methodist, and John Knox, the
glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shak
ing hands in heaven, all churches on earth
can afford to come into close communica
tion; “One Lord, one faith, one baptism."
Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big
Bethel fights—the Fourteenth New York
regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachu
setts regiment. Now, let all those who are
for Christ and stand on the same side go
shoulder to shoulder,and this church, instead
of having a sprinkling of the divine blessing,
go clear under the wave in one glorious im-
mertion in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Hblv Ghost.
1 saw a little child once, in its dying hour,
i ut one arm around its father's neck and the
• ther arm around its mother's neck ami
<ring them close down to its dying lips and
give a last kiss. Oh, I said, those two per-
ons will stand very near to each other al
ways after such an interlocking. The dying
Ohrist puts one arm around this denomina-
tion of Christians, and the other arm around
i hat denomination of Christians, and He
brings them down to His dying lips while He
gives them this parting kiss; “My peace 1
Icnve with von Mv njace l eive unto von
How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one.
I heard a Baptist minister once say that
be thought in the milleunium it would he
all one great Baptist church, and 1 heard
a Methodist minister say that he thought
in the great millennial day it would be all
one great Methodist church; and I have
known a Presbyterian minister who
'.bought that in the millennial day it would
oe all one great i’resbyterian church. Now
1 think they are all mistaken. I think the
millennial church will he a composite
church; and just as you may take the best
parts of five or six tunes, and under the skil-
lul hands of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven
entwine them intoone grand and overpower-
:ng symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter
.lays of the world, God will take the best
parts of all denominations of Christians,and
weave them into one great ecclesiastical
harmony, broad as the earth and high as the
ueavens, and that will be the church of the
future. Or, as mosaic is made of jasper and
ngate and many precious stones‘cementei
together—mosaic a thousand feet square in
St. Mark’s, or mosaic hoisted in colossal
seraphim in 8t. Sophia’s—sol suppose God
will make, after a while, one great blending
of all creeds, and all faiths, aud all Christian
sentiments, the amythest and the jasper.and
the chalcedony of all different experiences
and belief, cemeted side by side in the great
mosaic of the ages, and while the nations
look upon the columns and architraves of
the stupendous church of the future, and
cry out, “What mean ye by these stones!”
there shall be innumerable voices to re
spond, “We mean the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth.”
Still further, you mean by these stones the
salvation of the people. We did not build
this church for mere worldly reforms, or for
an educational institution, or as a platform
on which to -ead essays and philosophical
disquisitions, but a place for the tremendous
work of soul saving On, I had rather be
the means in this church of having one soul
prepared for a joyful eternity than five
thousand souls prepare! 1 for mere worldly
success. All churches are in two classes, all
communities in two classes, ail the race in
two classes—believers aud unbelievers. To
augment the number ot the one and subtract
from the number of the other we built this
church, and toward that supreme and eter
nal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all our
songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath hand
shakings. We want to throw defection into
the enemy’s rank-. We want to make them
either surrender unconditionally to Christ or
else fly in front, scattering the way with
canteens, blankets an 1 knapsacks. We
want to popularize Christ. We would
like to tell the story of His love here until
men would feel that they had rather die than
live another hour without His sympathy and
love and mercy. We want to rouse up an
enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt
for Nathaniel Lyon when he rode along the
ranks; greater than was exhibited for Well
ington when he came back from Waterloo;
greater than was expressed for Napoleon
whan ha ttanned ashore from Elba. Waraallv
oniTO--s iu '/iii— nlucb Cnrm win r-ntiv, too
same scene* that were enacted by Him when
He landed in the orient, aud there will bo
such an opening of blind eyes and unstop
ping of deaf ears aud casting out of unclean
spirits—such silencing bestormod Oeimesa-
rets as shall make this house memorable five
hundred years after you aud I ere dead and
forgotten. Oh, my friends, we want hut one
revival in this church, tha* beginning now
anil running on to the day when the chisel of
time, that brings down even St. I’aid s and
the Pyramids, snail bring this bouse into the
dust.
Ob, that this day of dedication might be
the day of emancipation of all imprisoned
souls. My friends, do not make Hie blunder
of the ship carpenters in Noah’s time, who
helped to build the ark, but did not get into
it. God forbid that you who liave been so
generous in building this ehurch should not
get under its influences. “Come thou and
all thy house into the ark." Do you think a
man is safe out of Christ? Notone day, not
one hour, not one minute, not one second.
Three or four years ago, you remember, a
rail train broke down a bridge on the way to
Albany, and after the catastrophe they were
looking around among the timbers of the
'rushed bridge and the fallen train andfound
the conductor. He was dying, and had only
strength to say one thing, and that was,
"Hoist the flag for the next train.” So there
come to us to night, from the eternal word,
voices of God, voices of angels, voices of de
parted spirits, crying “Lift the warning
Blow the trumpet Give the alarm. Hoist
the flag for the next train ’’
Oh, that to-night my Lord Jesus would
sweep His arm around the great audience and
take you all to His holy heart You trill
never see no good a time for persona] conse
cration as now. “What mean ye by these
stones?” We mean your redemption from
sin and death and hell by the power of an
omnipotent gospel.
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected
again We came here to-night not to dedi
cate it. That was done this morning. To-
night we dedicate ourselvee. In the Epis
copal and Methodist churches they have a
railing around the altar, and the people come
and kneel down at that railing and gat the
sacramental blessing. Well, my friends, it.
would take more than a night to gather you
in circles sround this altar. Then just bow
where you are for the blessing. Aged men,
tbis is the last church that you will ever
dedicate May the God who comforted
Jacob the Patriarch, and Paul tha aged,
make this house to you the gate of heaven,
and when, in your old days, you put on your
spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture
lesson, may you get preparation for that
land where you shall no more see through
a glass darkly. May the warm sunshina of
heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads!
Men in middle life,do you know that this is
the place where you are going to get your
fatiguea rested and your sorrows appeased
and your souls saved? Do you know that at
this altar your sons and daughters will take
upon themsalvee the vows of the Christian,
aud from this place you will carryout, some
of you, your precious dead? Between this
baptismal font and this communion table yon
will have someof the tenderest of life’s ex
periences. God bless you. old and young and
middle aged. The money you have given to
this church to-day will be, I hope, the best
financial investment you have ever made.
Your worldly Investments may depend upon
the whims of the money market, or the hon
esty of bu linens associates, but the money
you have given to the bouse of the Lord shall
yield you large percentage, and declare eter
nal dividends long after the noonday sun
shall hava gone out like a spark from a
"mi'ten anvil and nil the stars are dead.
CHILEAN NITRATE MINES
GREATEST NATURAL CURIOSITY
ON THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT
Interesting Fuels Concerning This
Very Valuable Comiuoilitity—The
Supply Inexhaustible.
When wc first saw Iquique (pronounced
E-kce-kee), little more than half a year
ago. writes Fannie B. Ward, it was oue
of the most peaceful aud prosperous
cities of Chile—a seaport second only to
Valpraiso in population and commercial
importance, iu wide contrast to tbe
burned and battered ruin the rebels made
of it on their recent raid. It has long
been the great shipping point of the
world for nitrate of soda—a vast busi
ness, practically controlled by English
capital; and therefore in the eyes of
Englishmen Iquique is of more conse
quence than all the rest of Chile put to
gether.
For more than a year past the nitrate
people have been doing little profitable
business, principally on account of the
Government troubles and consequent
sttikes among the laborers, anil also be
cause the English market is overstocked
with the commodity, and therefore its
price is correspondingly low. From this
nitrate industry alone the Chilean Gov
ernment has been collecting a revenue
of about $30,000,000 per annum in ex
port duties.
Perhaps the greatest natural curiosity
oa the Southern Continent is this inex
haustible deposit of nitrate of soda. Beds
of it are strewn along the western coast
for five hundred miles; and throughout
all that distance the physical aspect of
Ithe country is the same—everywhere an
arid range of hills from four to six thou
sand feet high, rising abruptly outof tho
[Pacific, backed by a desert pampa (plain)
from fifty to one hundred miles wide,
which gradually ascends to the foot of
[the snowy Cordillera. Nowhere else in
the worldcxcept in this particular pampa
are nitrates found in quantities worth
'mentioning.
The pampa above Iquiqui derives its
name from the tatnarugal bushes with
which it is sparsely covered. Further
north, above Tarapaca, the bold features
of the Cordillera and some beauty to the
landscape; while inside from Antofo-
gasta, in tbe great desert of Atacama,
there is not even a distant mountain to
be seen—nothing but brown sand as fat
as the eye can reach. There is no cloud
on the burnished sky to temper the rave
of the vertical sun; the hot air distinct
ly vibrates, and blue mirage lakes tan
talize the thirsty traveler. One can
scarcely bear to touch tbe scorching sand,
at 130 degrees, and u light south wind
continually raises whii (winds of dust in
every direction. Neither bird, beast not
plant of the lowest type can live in these
barren wastes; and yet their hidden
wealth has led to the creation of several
villages, whose every necessary of life if
brought from a long distance.
A few years ago water sold on the Ata
cama desert fur $20 the airoba, or about
$2.50 per gallon, and a drink for a mule
cost fifteen shillings, or $3.75. Finally,
at a place in the desert called Carmen
Alto, a sun condenser with 50,000 square
feet of glass was employed to
distil tresh water from that of
the sea. This was afterward
wrecked by a whirlwind, but a smallei
apparatus on the same principle is now
being worked at Sierra Gordo, and re
alizes a handsome profit, though the
water sells for only thirty cents the
arroba. Most of the coast towns and in
land factories are now supplied by mean!
of condensed steam, some of the con
densers producing no less than twenty-
five tons of good water fot every ton ol
coal burned in the boilers. More recent
schemes have been started for supplying
the coast towns with water by means ol
pipes running across the desert iron)
springs at the foot ol the mountains.
Iquiqui, Tattal, Antofogasta and Mol-
lendo are supplied in this manner, and
other similar aqueducts are being con
structed.
The portion of the ptrapa in which
English-speaking people are most inter
ested is that lying between Iquiqui and
Pisagua—the celebrated “Tamaruga'
Pampa,” where lie tbe Tarapaca beds
and where a colony of Northern “Nitrate
Kings” have accumulated their millions.
A high, chillv upland, about twenty
miles across, separates the outer Sierra ot
Huatacondo from the higher range of the
Cordillera; aud then the Andes slope
sharply down to the plateau of Bolivia,
12,000 feet above the sea.
The surface of the desert is not sharp
sand, but dry earth mixed with a certain
proportion of sandy particles, and irri
gation would turn every rod of it into a
fertile plain. Wherever wells hav«
been sunk, alternate layers of gravel,
sand and mud arc disclosed, each seriet
of layers representing the sequence of a
single flood in former ages; hence it fol
lows thut in times long past tbe pampa
must have been subject to periodical in
undations. Water may be found almost
anywhere, at the depth of from fifty to
150 feet; but no place has yet been dis
covered where the conditions necessary
for artesian wells are fulfilled.—Phila
delphia Record.
Glimpses of a Syrian Seaport Town
But it is iu the streets of Syrian citiea
that we are most interested. Boyrout,
where the Turkish jargon gives place to
Arabic, is our first point of approach,
and sailing down tho coast in the after
noon light, the setting of the city ii
truly superb. From the rock; harbor
the graceful beach of St. George’s Bay
sweeps around to the northeast, remind
ing one of the Bay of Naples. Tho
houses, rising on terraces as they recode
from the sea, are of various architecture,
presenting colonnades of slender pillars
cut from Italian marble, tall minarets, or
little equate dwellings with flat roofs.
East of the city rises to a height of more
than eight thousand feet the majestic
range ot Lebanon capped with enow in
winter, aud to tha rugged slopes cling a
score of pretty villages, like swallows’
nests under the rocky caves. We can
be quite resigned to tbe treelessness of
the mountain-sides. What delicately
tinted crags, what alternations of light
and shade us tho deep chasms till with
evening shadows, what gorgeousness on
clouds and peaks us the am plunges
finally into the blue waves of the Medi
terranean! We find Beyrout a city of
nearly a hundred thousand inhabitants,
many of whom are Europeans, and have
brought with them European houses and
streets aud shops and costumes. But
within the old city, inside the dingy
walls that at tho beginning of this century
inclosed all there was of Beyrout, we
can find the same queer, narrow, crooked
streets and miniature shops as in Damas
cus or Hamah.
Landing nt the wooden pier by a small
boat from the steamer, wo meet our
frieuds, the hawkers, iu lull cry. Among
tbe jostling crowd of travelers, soldiers,
porters, and beggars, they sell and thrive.
—Bt. Nicholas.
More light colored clothes will be worn
as the season advances for evening visit
ing.
Copyright, iSSG.
Fashion's favorite
fad, centers in that famous, fascina
ting game—lawn tennis.
But there are women v 'Lo cannot
engage in any pastime. They are
delicate, feeble and (■.wily exhausted.
They are sufferers irotu weaknesses
and disorders peculiar to females,
which are accompanied by sallow
complexions, expressionless eyes and
haggard looks.
For overworked, “ worn - out,”
“ run - down,” debilitated teachers,
milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
“ shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing
mothers, and feeble women gen
erally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription is the greatest earthly
boon, being uneqnaled as an appe
tizing cordial and restorative tonic.
It’s the only medicine for women,
sold by druggists, under a positive
guarantee from the makers, of sat
isfaction in every ease, or money re
funded. This guarantee has been
faithfully carried out for years.
Dirt Makes Italy Charming!
“There is a good deal to be said In
favor of cleanness,” said the artist, “but
there is also something to be said iu favor
of dirt. It is its dirt that makes Italy so
coaming. And if you go into the lower
back streets of the city and watch tbe
swarms of children at play, you will
u-zree that their dirt is a positive charm.
A grimy face with a pair of big eyes and
a laughing mouth, a soiled aud tattered
slip, a pair of stout, brown legs with
streaks of mother earth upon them, have
made up many a picture of hearty enjoy
ment that long and effective application
af the best brand of soap could not begin
to make.’’—Netc York S’an.
“August
T II El
KING
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IT TASTES GOOD.
It is not always easy to start a fruit far
cover. Instead of wrenching your hands
and bringing on blisters, simply invert
the jar and place the top in hot watei
for a minute. Then try it and you will
find it turns quite easily.
Fnettmonia caused a temporary ad
journment of the South Dakota Legisla
ture.
There are now 28,711 university
students iu Germany.
1 otarfli Can't be Cured
With local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh a blood or
• oustitional disease, and in order to cure it you
have to take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken interaally.and acts directly on the
Mood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is no ouack medicine. It was prescribed
by one of the best physicians in this country
for years, and i* a regular prescription. It is
composed of the best tonics krown, combined
with the best blood puriliers, actingdifectly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination
of the two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful result.-' in « uring catarrh. Hend for
testimonials free.
K. J.« <Y < o . Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, ju ice T*»c.
Sunday is the favorite wedding day in
id England.
Brown’k Iron liitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma
laria, Biliousness and General Debuity. Gives
Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nerves—
creates appetite. Tho best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
To change tbe unme and not the letter Is
• bang© for worse and not for bolter.
Commendable.
All claims not consistent with the highchar-
acter of Syrup of Figs are purposely avoided
by the California Fig Syrup Company. It arts
gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels,cleans
ing the system effectually, but it is not a cure-
all and makes no pretensions that every bottla
will not substantiate.
Bridle the appetite with reason and save
t be stomach.
Light Hearts and Plenty Money.
I have completed my first week with my
Plater, and have f24.&> clear money. I am
charmed with the bu^inehs. I bought mv
Plater from tho Lake Electric Co., Fuglewood,
111., lor 53, and feel confident if people knew
how cheap thev could get a Plater, and how
much money they could make, we would see
many more happy homes. It is surprising the
amount of tableware and .jewelry there is to
plate; aud if persons now idle would get a
Plater, they would scon have light hearts and
plenty money.
" I cave been afflict-
Biliousness, “ etl with biliousness
“aud constipation
Constipation,.. f or fifteen years;
“first one and then
Stomach „ anol - uer prepara-
Pai ns ' ‘ tion was suggested
“ tome and tried but
“to no purpose. At last a
“recommended August Flower. Js
“ took it according to directions and
“its effects were wonderful, rehey*
“ ing me of those disagreeable
“stomach pains which I had been
“troubled with so long. Words
“ cannot describe the admiration
“in which I hold your August
" Flower—it has given me a new
“lease of life, which before was a
"burden. Such a medicine is a ben-
“ efaction to humanity, aud its good
“ qu alities and
“wonderful met-Jesse Barker,
“ its should be
‘' made known to '
“everyone suffer- Humboldt, ;
‘ ‘ ing with dyspep-
“siaor biliousness Kaysas. #
G. G. GREEN, Sole ManTr,Woodbury,N.J.
IMIT7 C0LLE52^T?b^ , ^ ,, ‘ *"
I, 18 01.
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Malaria cured and eradicated from tho
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He deserves not the sweet who will not
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Nature should be assisted, when the system is changing
from the full habit of the winter months, to the lighter diet
of the warm season. Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.,) stimu
lates the sluggish blood and rid you of that feeling of
heaviness and languor.
S. S. S., teautlfies the skin and makes the complexion to.<y aud healthy.
S. 8 8., gives elasticity to the step and buoyant spiilts.
S. S X. m;ik s the feeble and delicate strong and robust.
S. S. S., Is a tonic to the whole body and increases vitality.
S. S. S., is a simple \ogetablc mediciu*.
If there is poison iu the blood, it generally shows itself In
the spring, an I this is the season to help nature to drive
it out and be cured. Nothing does this as well as S. S. S.
It is harmless to the most delicate, yet so powerful as to
cleanse the system of all impurities.
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The taste nerves are nearly 2000 times as
■ensitive to quinine us to sugar.
The total population of Louisiana It
1,118,587.
Remember last winter’s siege. Recall how ttying
to health were the frequent changes of the weather.
What was it that helped you win the fight with disease,
warded off pneumonia and possibly consumption ? Did
you give due credit to SCOTT’S EMULSION of
pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of
Lime and Soda ? Did you proclaim the victory t* Have
you recommended ibis wonderful ally ot health to your
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“Mother’s Friend”
Robs Confinement of Its FAIN, IlOBBOR
and RISE, as Thousands Testify.
hAiaowB, N. 0., January, 1S80.
Too much can t bo said In praise of
'Mothers Friend." My wife used only
wo bottles before confinement, and was
n labor only twenty minutes. She Is doing
t jlcndidly. Tbanke to ' Mother's Friend.
JNO. 8 HORTON.
Lems. Mo Jin. IB, 189!.
After using one bottle of “ Mother ■
Friend," before confinement, 1 Buffered but
little pain, and did not experience that
weakness afterward, usual in eucb cases.
My recovery wan rapid.
MRS ANNIE OAGE.
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$<1.00 Shoo lor Lildirn, aud forSliasM
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