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K. THE KING OF GLOEY. Dr. Talmacre Discourses on Fragrance of the GospeL the Christ Arrayed In Fragrant Garment Typ ical of Mercy His Suffering: for Mortals Sin's Marasmus The Ivory Pal aces of Heaven. In a late sermon at Brooklyn. N. Y., on "Tbo Fragrance of the Gospel," Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached from the text: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory pal aces" Psalms xlv. 8. He said: Among tho grand adornments of the city of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame, with its great towers and elaborated rose win dows and sculpturing of the Last Judg ment, with the trumpeting angels and rising dead, its battlements of quatrefoll, its sacristy with ribbed ceiling and statues of saints. But there was nothing in all that building which more vividly appealed to my plain republican tastes than the costly vestments which lay in oaken presses robes that had been embroidered with gold and been worn by Popes and Archbishops on great occasions. There was a robe that had been worn by Pius "VII at the crowning of the first Napoleon. There was also a vestment that had been worn at the baptism of Napoleon II. As our guide opened the oaken presses and brought out these vestments of fabu lous cost and lifted them up the fragrance of t'ae pungent aromatics in which they had been preserved filled the place with a. sweetness that was almost oppressive, Nothing that had been done in stone moi . vividly impressed mo than these thin gs that bad been done in cloth and embroi xl ery and porfume. But to-day I open ta drawer of this text and I look upon Ore kingly robes of Christ, and as I lift thssm, flashing with eternal jewels, the wbe&e house is filled with the aroma of these gar ments, which "smell of myrrh and sAses and cassia out of the ivory palaces."' In my text the King steps fort' a, His robes rustle and blnze as he ad reitces. His pomp and power and glory ove nrntster the spectator. More brilliant is 5e than Queen Vashti, moving amid the IPersfan princes; than Marie Antoinette o Atbe'doy when Louis XVL put upon her tSitnecfc lace of 800 diamonds; vthr i Aunt; Boleyn the day when welcomed her to all beauty and all gotten wlnle we stand his palace; p carp 'for- m one "pres- nce of this imperial glory, F jag of -Z ten, Xing of Earth, King of Heav je, Klngtfar over! His garments are not spocn'Oitt, not dust bedraggled, but radiant end jevroled And redolent. It seems as If 'thcyxtust have been pressed akunure d years ---amid "the flosvers of Heaven. ' flt wariirobes from which they have be en taken must have been sweet witk clust art of 'camphor and frankincense and all mrainer-o? pre cious nvood. Doyoc not i nltale the odors? Aye, aye. They smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivor y palaces. Your first curioscty is to know why the robes of Christ are odo- rou with myrrh. This was abright-Jeafed Abyssinian plant Jt was trifoliated. The f Jretts, 'Egyptians, Romans and Jews boug ht and -eold it at a high price. The first present ihat -was over given to Christ wa s a sprig of myrrh, thrown on His infantil d bed in "Bethlehem, Jmd the last gift that C ,'hrist ever had-was nnyrrh pressed hito th j cup of His cruci fixion. The natives rould itdke a stone and bruise tho tree an d then -it would ex mde a gum that wo nld saturate all the ground beneath. Th'rs gum was "used for "purposes ofimerchan dise. "ire pieceiof it, mo larger than a cl lestnut, would whelm a whole room w'th odors. It was put in closets, in ;hests, in drawers, in xooms,and its perfi ime adhered almost in terminably to any thing that was any where near it. So when in -my tost I read that Christ'sjjjarm snts smell of fmyrrh, I immediotelyooncl ude the exquisite sweet ness of 'Jesus. I lenow thnt-to many He is only liko -any historical -person, another John Howard; another "'philanthropic Oberlin;. another Confucius; a. grand sub ject for a paintiirg; a heroic theme for aJ poem; a beautiful form fox? a statue; but to those -who have hearLHisvoice, and felt His p&riton and receired HisJjenedic tion, He isanustc, and light, and-'warnith, and thril!,i4ud eternal fragrance. 'Sweet as a -friend sticking to you when. all else betray. Ifting you up nhlle others try to push you down. Net so much like morning-fi3ories,thut bloom'only when the sun is-conrkig up, nor liketfour o'clocks," thnt bloom only when the suri is going down, bat like myrrh, perpetually aro ruatic the same morning, snoon andmight yesfcerdxv, to-day, foreofr. It seemsics if we can noJiwearEim out "VVe put on him all our burdens, and afflict j Him with-all our griefs, and sot Him lore most in ullwur battles, and yetHo4sieady i -to lift and o sympathize axil' to help. We . have so imposed upon Him that one-would think in eternal affront He-wouldjutt our soul; aud yet to-day he addresses usv-rv-ith . til e same tenderness, datras upon-ua-jvith the same smile, pities usuvith thtvsame . compassion. There is no same liko . His lor us. i It ts more imperial Jthan Csesar's, more musica.1 than Beethovert's, more-eon-quering than Charlemagne's, more elo quent than Cicero's. It tfcrob3 with all life. It weeps with all pathos. lit greens with all pant. It stoops truth., all conde scension. It breathes wit .all perfume. "VYiho Jike Jesxs to set a brokaiiibexne, to.piry & homeless orphan, to nurse ack man, "to take a prodigal back withot3t.atry.scolding, to illuminate, xx cemetery a.11 plowed .with graves, to mafco a Queen ante God out. ef tholatt woman of the street -to eatchutbe tears of humaa sorrow in & lachrymatory -that stall never be brokeu? Who has such an eye to see our needs, tu eh ;a lip to kiss jway our sorrow, such a bandits snatch -us out -of the lira, such afoot to trample) our enamies, suiii a heart to embrace all" -our necessities? I struggle .with some cmetaphsr- with wkich to express fLiis. He is not ltto the Usrsting forth vof a full .orchestra.; thnt if too loud. He is not tlike the tea when fashed to race by the tempest; that is to boisterous. H&U not ilike the mountain, ifcc brow wreathed with fthe lightnings; that Ss too solitary. .Give jtjs a softer type, atgentler comparison. TTe have seemed to so Him with our eyes, .and to touch Him with our hand. 'Q,!that torday he m'ht appear to some other one -of otr five senses ! Are, the nostril shall discover his presence. jHe comes upon iw like spice gaies from Heaven. Yea,H"w garments smell of pungents, lasting .and sail-pervasive rcyrrh. O, thatyou aU knew Hit sweetness. How eoon ycu wouldCurn fromjrour novels. If the philosopher leaped out-of his bath in a frenzy of joy atd clapped his hands end rushed through tte streets, because he had found ts.e solution of a mathematical problem, iow will you feel leaping fron the fountain of a Saviourc mercy aud pardon, weshed eleen and made white as snow, whet the cjuctiion has been solved; 'How can my 'soul be saved" Naked, Irosv-bitten, storm-Utdied soul, let Jesus j this hour throw around thee the "garments j tnat saiell or iyrrh, aad aloes, and cassia, out of tho ivory palaces." A our second curiosity is to know why ti;erobee of Jests are odorous with aloes. 32iere is some difference oC opinion about jBfeere these aloes fjrow, whxt is the color of the flower, what is the particular ap pearance of the herb. SufBce it for you and me to know that aloes mean bitter ness the world over, and when Christ comes with garments bearing that par ticular odor, they suggest tome the bitter ness of a Saviour's sufferings. Were mere ever such nights as Jesus lived through nights on the mountains, nights Inuie SOa. rJZhts in tha dfi.rt Wl-n. pre. uad uucli a hard -reception as Jesus i had? A hostlery-the first, -an unjust trial in oyer and terminer another, a foul mouthed, yelling mob the - last "Was there a space on His back as wide as your two fingers where He was not whipped Was there a space on his brow an in- square where he was not cut of the bri j TV hen the spike struck at the instep, fa jt not go clear through to the hollow f he foot? O, long, deep, bitter pil'rUaage. Aloes 1 Aloes! John leaned his head on Chri wno did Christ lean on? Five thour An raen fe& by the Saviour; who fed Jes y jtje Sym. pathy of a Saviour's heart 'oing out to the leper and the adulteress; "oat who soothed Christ? Denied both Cjdie nd death bed. He had a fit place neither to be born nor to die,! -pgj- babel A poor lad! A poor youcg saan! Not so much as a taper to. cheer bis dying hours. Even the candle of the son snuffed out O, was it not ajl aloes? All our sins, sor rows, bereavements, losses and all the agonies of e-'xrth and hefl picked up as sm one cluster and squeezed into one cup and that pressed to His. 3tps until the acrid, nauseatirg, bitter draught was swallowed with a distorted countenance andastud der from head to '-toot and a gargling strangulation. Aloes! Aloes! Nothing but a'oes. All this for Himself? Ml this k fi t&e lame it tne world ot nemg a mar.'tyr? All this nn a spirit of stt&born ne k, beoaaso He id not like Caesar? No ! nc3 ATI this beeiuse He waatedUx) pluck y oa an d 3a e from hell. Because He wanted 1 a raise you and me to Heaven. 'Because w were lost end he wanted us found. Btcauss we ware blind and He Wanted us t see. Because were serfs aadQe wanted us misaumitteQ. O, ye in whose cup of Eif e lire saccharine ha3 predominated; O, ye who have had bright and sparkling beverages, h&w do you foe"! toward Him who in your stead, and to purchase your drsenthralltcent, took the aloes, the un savory alows, the bitter akes? 4 our third curiosity is to know why thtse garments of Cbristaro odorous with cassia. iThis was aplanttbat grew in In dra and 'the adjoining inlands. You do 'not careo hear what tlnd of a flower it 'bad orwhat kind of a sSalk. It is enough iforme'&o tell you that sit was used me- 5iicinal)y. In that land -and in that age,1 where fehey knew but littla About pharmacy, ' cassla'Avas used to arrest many forms ot disease So when in my text we find Christ coming with garments that smell cf cassia, it suggests to sne the healing and curative power of the Son of God. " CO," you say, "now .you have a super- 'fiuoas idea. We are not sick. Why do we want cassia? Wo are athletic. Our respiration is perfect. Our limbs are lithe and in these cool days we feel we coufd bound like the roe." II beg to differ,my brother, from you. .'None of you can' be better in physical health than I am and yet I must say we are all sick. I have Ittken the diagnosis'of your case and bave examined all the tost authorities on' the sabjecr, and I haveccome now to tell you that you are full cf wounds and braises and putrefying sores which have not'been bound up nor mollified with ointment The marasmus of sin is on us the pdlsy. tue dropsy, tie leprosy, ine man who is expiring ionight on Fulton street the allopathic anil hoineophathic dectors have given him iro, and his friends now standing aroundtto take his last wcrds is no more certainly dying as to his body than you and I are dying unless we-have taken the medicine from God's apothecary. All the leaves of this Bible are only so many prescriptions from the divine physi cian, written, not in Latin, liko tho-pre-scriptions of earthly physicians, butwrit ten in plain English so that a man, though a fool, need noUerr therein. Thazik God that the Saviourk garments smell of casia. Suppose a man were sick and that there was a phial on the mantelpiece witii med icine ho knew would cure him nnd he re fused to take it. what would you say to him? He is a suicide. Aud what do you say of thnt man who, sick in sin, has the healing medicine of God's him, and refuses to tako it? ;race el'ered If he dies he is a suicide. People talk ao"though God took -a man and led him out'to darkness and death, as though He brought him up to tho cliffs and then pushed him off. O, no. When a man is lost it is not because Godjpushes him off; it is because he jump? off. In olden times a suicide was buried -at the crossroads, and the people were accus tomed to throw'stones upon his grave. So it seems to me there may be in thfe house a man who is .destroying his own soul, and as though-.the angels of Gdfi were here to bury bam at tho point whre the roads of life and death cross each other, throwing upon tha grave the broken law and a great pile of misimproved privileges, so that those going may look at tho fear ful mound and: learn what a suicide it is when an immortal soul, for which -Oesus died, puts itself out of the way. When Christ'trod this planet with foot of flesh, the people rushed after him -peo ple who weresick, and those who, being so sick they could not walk, were brought by their friends. Here I see a mother holding up her little ckild and saying: "Cure this croup. LordJJesus. Cure this scarlet fever " And others saying: "Cure this ophthalmia. Give ease and rest to this spinnl distress. Straighten this club foot" Christ made every house where He stopped a dispensary. I do not believe-that in the nineteen-centuries that have gone by since, His hearf-has got hard. I feel.that we can come now with all our soul and get His benediction. wounds of O Jeeus. Wewant want aife. here we are. Wewant healing, sight We want health. We The whole need .not a physician. but they that are sick. Blessed be God that Jesas Christ comes tfceouch tSiis assemblage now. His "garments smelling of myrrh" that means fragrance "and aloes'? they mean bitter sacrificial memories-.- 'and cassia" that means medicine and cure; and according to my text He comes "out -of the ivory palaces,'"; Youiknow, or it you do net know I willj tell yot now, that 3Cme of the palaces of? olden times were adorned with ivory Ahab and Solomon bad their homes fur nished with it Thctusks of , African and, iisiasic Kjiepnants were twitted into ail mannersDf shapes and tables jof ivory and floors of iivory and pillars ot ivory and windows of ivory and fountains that dropped into basins cf ivory .and rooms that had ceilings of ivory. O, white and j ovarmastertng beautyo Green tree bran che sweeping the white curbsy tapestry trailing the snowy floorc; brackets of light flashing on the lustrous surroundings; silvery music rippling tc the benj of the archer. The mere thought of it nearly stunts my brain, andyoix say: tO. if I could only hare walkediver such .floors! If I coiid have thrown nwself in -cuch a chair! Jf I could have heard the dp and dash of those fountains I" 2"ou shall have some thieg better than that if you only let .Christ introduce you. Fran that fgace H came and to that place He proposer to transport you, for His "garments smell of myrrh and&loes and cassia outof the ivory paiices." O, what a place Heaven mart be! The Tuilteries of the French, the Windsor Castle of the English, the Spanish Alham- j bra, the Russian Kremlin, dungeons com pared with itl Not so many castles on either side th Rhine as on both sides of tho rivei of God the ivory palaces! One for the angels, insufferably bright winged, fire eyed, tempest cbariotsd; one for the martyrs, with blood red robes, from under the altar; onefor the King, the steps of his palace the crowns of the church militant; one for the singers, who lead the one hundred and forty and four thousand; one for you, ransomed from sin; one or me, plucked from the burning. O, the ivory palaces! To-day it seems to me as if tho windows of those palaces were illumined for some ...,.:.. i t ti j i;l:. jae stairs of ivory, and walking on floors of 'r)ry, and looking from the windows ' fvory, some whom we knew and loved ca earth. Yes, I know them. There are lather and mother, not eighty-two years aud seventy-nine years, as when they left us, but blithe and young as when on their marriage day. And there are brothers and sisters, merrier than when we used to romp across the meadows together. Tha cough gone. The cancer cured. The ery sipelas healed. The heart-break over. O, how fair they are in the ivory palaces ! And tho dear little children that went out from you Christ did not let one of them drop as He lifted them. Ha did not wrench one of them frem you. No. They went as from one they loved well to One whom tbey loved better. If I sbould take your little child and press its soft face against my rough cheek, I might keep it a little whiie; but when you, the mother, came along, it would struggle to go with ytm. And so you stood holding your dying child when Jesus passed by In the room, and the little one sprang out to greet Hisi. That is alL Your Christian dead did not go down inta the dust and the gravel and the mud. Though St rained all that funeral day, and the water came up to tie wheel's hub as you drerre out to tho cemetery, it made no difference to them, for they stepped from the henre here to the borne there, right in to the iivory palaces. All is well with them. All is well. It & not a dead weight that you lift when you carry a Christian out Jesus makes the bed up soft with velvet prom ises, and He says: "Put her down here very gently. Put that head, which will nevar ache again, on this pillow of halle lujahs. Send up word that the procession is coming. Ring the bells. Ring! Open your gates, ye uvory palaces !" And so your loved ones are there. They are just as certainly there, having died in Christ, as thatyou are here. There is only one thing more tboy want Indeed, there is one thing in Heaven they bave not got They want it What is it? Your company. iBut, O, my brother, unless you change your tack you can not reach that harbor. You might as well take the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, expecting in that di rection to reach Toronto, as to go on in the way some of you are going and yet expect to reach the ivory pal aces. Yourdoved ones are looking out of the windows of Heaven now, and yet you seem to turn your back upon them. You do not seem to know the sound of their voices as well as you used to, or to be moved hjr the sight of their dear faces. Call louder, ye departed ones. Call louder from the ivory palaces. When I think of that place and think of my -entering it, I feel awkward; I feel as sometimes when I have been exposed to the weather, and my shoes have been bomired, and my coat is soiled, and my hair is disheveled, and I stop in front of some residence where I have an'errand. I feel not fit to go in as I am and sit among polished guests. So some of -us feel about Heaven. We need to be washed we need to be rehabilitated before we go into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, let the surges of Thy par doning) mercy roll over -us. I want not only to wash my hands and feet, but like some skilled diver standing on the pier bead, who leaps into the wave and comes up at-a far distant poir-t from where he went in, so I want to go down and so I want to come up. O Jesus, wash me in tho waves of Thy salvation. And here I ask you to -solve a mystery that has been oppressing me for thirty years. I have asked doctors of divinity who have been studying theology half a century, and they have given mo no satis factory answer. I have turned over all the books in my library, but I got no solu tion to the question, and to-day I como and askyou for an explanation. By what logic was Christ induced to exchange tho ivory palaces of Heaven for the cruci fixion agonies of earth? I shall take the first thousand million years in Heaven to study -out that prob lem. Meanwhile and now, taking it as tho tender est and mightiest of all facts that Christ did oome, that He came with spikes in His feet, came withlhorns in '.His brow, came with spears in His heart, to save you and tosavemo. ''Godsoloved tho world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever ibelieveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." O, Christ, whelm this audience with Thy compassion. Mow them down like summer grain with the harvesting sickle of 'Thy grace. Rido through to-day the conqueror, Tby garments smelling of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, outof the ivory palaces. Q, sinner, fling every thing else away and take Christ 1 Take tHim now, not to morrow. During the aaght .following tthis very day there may be an excitement in your dwelling, and a tremulous pouring out of drops from an unsteady and af frighted hand, and -before to-mocrow morning your chance may he gone. TRIALS OF THE OBESE. Sorrows and Tribulations Too Often -the Lot of the Over-Fed. The pale invalid doss not mark fresh proofs of emaciation morning .after morning with half so keen .a solicitude as that shown by She threatened victim of obesity; for invalids as a rule, are rather careless about person nel, while poople who .are growing stout often disclose sun eager regard for it Their sensitiveness, too, has become proverbial; and I should say that this rose from a solemn feeling that tkey are becoming gradually pressed.,away by their own avoirdupois from alb the romanticttsm and pictur esqueness of life. But especially is this truewhen they araof a softer sex. Flesh haa wrought more dolorous havoa in the feminine than in the masculine bosom. We all find that a fat Romeo -is somewhat crucial to put -up with, but we will not have a fat Juliet at .-any pricey we should prefer one, indeed, beside whom Sarah Bernhardt rtvould be airifle plump. It has been my impression -that tho sorrows of fat women still wait to bo -sympathetically recorded. As a. class, they have been ridiculed abundantly. Their kindlier chronicler has yet to look into hifi heart and write about ihem. He wiii tell you what .agony t2iey itave suffered from the .simple phrase, "You appear to be very well," acd hv they have furtively shadderei when-ac word ihealthy" has left the lips of -eome innocent friend. He will touch upon those &itter qualms of en barrasament which are felt when a member of their portly set shall enter a street ear and finfi that two men rise gallantly instead of ne. He will men l tion, also, their treaailous distrust of fragile-looting chairs. But this will not include the whole substance of his exposition, for he can not, as a con- scientious analyst, ignore those data of dieting whichAnchide a fervid cult of roast beef, fish and lemon juice, coincident with an avoidance of sugar, milk and potatoes. It will all be a sorrowful history when some one shall some day indite it It will be replete with heart yearnings," but it most like wise be sadly pregnant with yearnings of a more prosaic and carnal kind. Edgar Fatccctt, in Once a Week. If a church be on fire, why has the organ, the smallest chance of escape? Because the engine can not-play on it BURIED ALIVE. The Awful Story of a Russian Peasant Woman's Fate. In Russia people are oftener than elsewhere condemned unintentionally, of course to that most gruesome of all deaths, of which E. A. Poe had such unfeigned horror burial alive. But the circumstances accompanying this frightful tortue are seldom so characteristic or so horrible as in the case of the wife of a peasant in the government of Volhynia, onthe borders of Austria, who, according to the local journal, Volhynia, was lately buried in a ooxuatose state. She was expecting soon to become a mother at the time of her supposed death. After the "corpse" had been kept the usual time, the par ish priest, Konstantinoff, recited the prayers of the burial service in the church-yard; the widower cast three handfuls of earth on the coffin, and all departed except the grave-diggers. In filling up the grave the latter shoveled In an unusually large sod of hard earth, which struck tho coffin with a loud noise, and woke up the unfortunate woman from her sleep. The horror of her position at once dawned upon her. She cried out in most piteous tones to tho grave-diggers to rescue her from a horrible death. She solemnly prom ised them all her property if they would take her from the grave and coffin. The more she cried, and en treated, the more strenuous were their endeavors to fill the grave; and on leaving the church-yard, when their work was done, they still heard her cries and moans. Tho grave-diggers then hurried off to her husband who was surrounded with guests, drinking to tho memory of the deceased. Having related what had taken place, the matter was dis cussed by tho guests and the neighbors, who soon came rushing in, and it was finally resolved nem. con. that an evil spirit had taken possession of tho de ceased, and that, in order to prevent her walking at night and disturbing the people, it was absolutely necessary to disinter her and drive an aspen stake through her body. The husband sent a deputation to the priest, asking permission to disinter tho body and perform this superstitious rite deemed necessary in all such cases. The priest, horrified, hurried off to the church yard, and had the body disinterred in the hope of saving a life, but super stition had already got its victim tho woman was dead, but unmistakable signs showed she had struggled hard to escape from the most horrible death the human mind can conceive. Pall Mall Gazette. MIGRATION OF BIRDS. A. Movement Bexet 'With 3Iany Perils and Many DllUcultle. Birds often lose their way; a con trary wind or a spell of dark, cloudy weather appears to disorganize their movements, and, like mariners without a compass, they are at a loss which di rection to take. Many wonderful scenes are witnessed at the light-house3 on some part of tho British coasts dur ing the season of migration. Some times when the moon is suddenly hid den by a bank of clouds thManterns of the light-houses are the poiut to which the stream of migrants hasten, and where in a confused fluttering throng they beat against the glass like moths round a candle and fly to and fro, utter ly bewildered and completely lost. ThejT seem to have no idea of their true course, and fly aimlessly about, many killing themselves against tho glass, others falling into the water be low. The light-men are alert on these occasions, and -capture numbers of the poor lost travelers with hand nets. Many of the birds are too tired or too dazed to move and allow them selves to -be taken by the hand as they sit on the balcony. Let tho reader represent to himself a lighthouse on one of these migration nights- Tho tide of migration is at its height The night is dark and the lanterns are the central -point of attraction for the countless hosts of birds that were crossing the sea when the sky became overcast Birds of many different species are flying together or are at tracted from all points of the compass by the brilliant light Ducks and geese are traveling with gold-crests and swallows. Starlings and finches are flying side by side with gulls and waders. Warblers and herons scatter scientific iclassification to the winds, and fraternize with swans and goat suckers and larks. Falcons and owls appear to lose all propensity for prey ing on their helpless, fellow-voyagers, and fly harmlessly to and fro among their companions in misfortune. As soon as the weather clears, and tho moon shines forth once more, the birds .appear to get on their right track .again, and the feathered hosts are gone as suddenly as they came. These mi gratory movements lend bird life its greatest charm in autumn. Good Words. m m The Bismarck of To-day. Tho Bismarck now before me wa3 very different from tho Bismarck I used to see in Berlin six or seven years ago, before Dr. Schweninger took hira in hand. The Bismarck of to-day is thinmd bony, and the Doctor has, it is well-known, disencumbered him of his unhealthy fat merely by prevent ing hhn drinking with his meals. He is looking remarkably well; his gait is swift ard automatic; but denotes real vigor; his complexion is clear and al most pisk, no doubt the result of the health-laden breezes from the German ocean and the Baltic I remark also that the features are softened down; you scan them in Tain to discover that harshness, not to say ferocity, which are so apparent in -bis photographs. It may, however be duo to the fact of his being in civilian g:irb. His soft felt hat very much the -worse for wear, his long gray coat and heavy stick, give him the aspect of a plain country gen tleman come to the station to meet a friend. When he dons his uniform ho is another man, and looks the surly trooper all over. The country folk have repeatedly noticed this difference. The Chancellor's healthy appearance is not deceptive. All the people in whose midst he lives tell me that his health is better than it has been for years past; and a proof o this is that this year it has not been found neces sary to send him to Kissingen. Paris Figaro. PEOPLE OIL USED AS FUEL. css Troublesome and Much Cheaper Than Coal or Coke. An editorial in a recent issue of a Cincinnati paper urges the manufac turers of Cincinnati to consider the question of using crude petroleum as fuel. Investigation shows that Cin cinnati is behind many other cities in the use of the liquid fuel which is found in such abundance in Ohio and within such easy access of that city. Cleveland manufacturers use the Lima oil extensively as fuel, and are even experimenting with good results in the direction of converting it into a gas for fuel purposes. Chicago is using 10,000 barrels a day of the new fuel. Even the town of Hamilton, Ohio, has made more progress in this direction than Cincinnati. A gentle man just returned from Hamilton says the number of oil cars he saw on the sidings led him to make some investi gations. Ho found a large flour mill which is running three 100-horse power boilers with Lima oil as fuel. These boilers required nine tons of coal for a twenty-four hours' run, at two dollars a ton, making eighteen dollars a day. The same boilers are run with twenty-eight barrels of oil, costing fifty cents a barrel at Hamilton, a total of fourteen dollars. Two stokers and coal shovelers weie dispensed with, making a saving of three dollars a day for labor. The saving in shovels, wheelbarrows, grate bars, etc., for this establishment is estimated by the proprietors at two dollars a day, making the total daily expense of oil fourteen dollars, against twenty-three dollars for coal. The oil is said to furnish one-third more power than the coal, with less wear and tear on the boilers. At other factories in Hamilton, boilers are run with gas made from Lima oil. Nearly every town of any conse quence in Ohio uses more or less Lima oil as fuel. In Harrisburgh, Pa., a firm that has a contract with the Gov ernment for furnishing steel for steel clad ships uses gas from Lima oil for melting steel billets. This firm states that they are able to melt a ton of steel billets from gas made from three gal lons of oil, and regard it as one of the most important discoveries of the age for the manufacture of steel. There are fifty of these gas plants now in operation, and one is being erected at Johnstown, Pa. Business men who are watching the progress of liquid fuel believe that within a year 150,000 bar rels a day will be used for this pur pose. The Lima Oil Company is composed of Ohio oil producers, and is entirely outside of the Standard Oil Company, has 200 cars of its own, and every one of the number is kept busy day and night This company has made con tracts to furnish oil in Hamilton. Ohio, for two years at fifty cents a barrel. The amount of this oil that is being produced in Ohio is much greater than the public generally supposes. The total output of the wells is not under 1,000,000 barrels a month. When the actual guages show a less produc tion it is when the large wells are shut in and not allowed to yield up their full capacity. The Standard Oil Com pany pays the producers fifteen cents a barrel for the oil at the wells, and the fact that they have now 9,000.000 barrels in tanks in the region is evi dence that they believe in its future. The tanks in which the oil is stored are taken down and removed from the Pennsylvania fields where so much tankage is no longer needed. The oil is now being used for fuel purposes in twelve States and Territories and it is not unlikely to ultimately take the place of coal for manufacturing pur poses, except in the vicinity of coal mines. St. Louis Globc-Dtmocral. PRAISE YOUR WIFE. A Woman Tell Huiibaiuls How They Can Make Themselves Agreeable. Praise your wife, man! For pity's sake give her a little encouragement it won't hurt her. She has made your home comfortable, your hearth bright your food agreeable. For pity's sake, tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She doesn't expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have for these last ten years. But it will do her good, for all that and you, too. There are many women to-day thirsting for a word of praise tho language of en couragement Through summers heat and winter's toil they have drudged un complainingly, and so accustomed have their fathers, brothers and husbands bo come to their labors that they look for and upon them as they do to the daily rising of the sun and its daily going down. You know that if tho floor is clean, labor has been performed to make it so. You know that if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt when ever you want it somebody's fingers have toiled. Every thing that pleases the eye and the sense has been pro duced by work, thought, care and ef forts bodily and mentaL Many men appreciate these things, and feel grati tude for the numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and health. Why don't they come out with a hearty "why, how pleasant you make things look, wife," or "lam obliged to you for taking so much pains?" They thank the tailor for a good fit; they thank the man in the horse-car who gives them a seat; they thank the lady who moves along in the concert-room; in short they thank every body and every thing out-of-doors; and come home, tip their chairs back and their heels up, pull out the newspaper, scold if the fire ha3 got down, or, if every thing is just right shut their mouths with a smack of satisfaction, but never say "I thank you." I tell you what men, young and old, if you did but show an ordinary civility toward your wives; if you gave one hundred" and sixteenth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before they were married; if you would stop the badinage about whom you are going to hare when number one is dead (such things wives may laugh at but they sink deep sometimes;) if you would cease to speak of their faults, however banteringly. before others fewer women would seek for other sources of happiness. Praise your wife, then, for all her good qualities and you may rest assured that her deficiencies are no greater than your own. Ladia' Horn Visitor Dr. J. C. Ateb & Co., Lowell, Mass., manufacturers of AVer's Sarsaparilla and other standard remedies, kindly send us a neatly-bound set of their Almanacs for 1SS9, making a convenient and reliable volume of reference, the calculations be ing the work of a practical astronomer, and the historical and other information tabu lated with the greatest caro and sldlL In addition to the almanacs in ten tongues, the book contains specimens of pamphlets is sued by the firm in eleven other languages and dialects a curious andvery interesting feature of the volume. We understand that of the Almanac alone, the firm issue no fewer than fourteen millions annually, being, in all probability, the most widely disseminated work of the kind in existence, as it assuredly is among the most accurate and trustworthy. It can now bo had, in its familiar yellow cover, at all the drug stores. Border State Messenger. A gentleman who was out hunting the other night stumbled over the dead body of a cow in the Little River swamp. The cow had crumpled horns, from one of which was dangling a huge rattlesnake. The indications were that the cow had seen the snake coiled and in the act of springing upon her, and had accordingly hooked the rep tile, the horn penetrating the snake's body so that the rattler was unable to free himself. The cow's horn killed the rattler, but the rattler's fangs killed the cow. And yet tradition says a rattlesnake's bite doesn't harm a cow. Signs Ono Can't Mistake. Among these are yellowness of tho skin and eyeballs, a furred tonguo, nausea, pains in the right side, sick headache and consti pation. They unmistakably indicate livor disorder, for which Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a superlatively fine remedy. Use it promptly and at given intervals. Malarial complaints, dyspepsia, rheumatism, debility and trouble with tho kidneys, are also rem edied by it. Would it be proper to speak of the wick erwork around a demijohn as a spirit wrapper? "Baker's Norwegian Cod Liver Oil" Has done more to relieve and cure Con sumption, weak lungs and general weakness than any known remedy. Jno. C. Baker & Co., Philadelphia. No gentleman will interrupt a clergy man in the midst of his discourse to ask for the text A Cocgu, Cold, or Sore Throat should not be neglected. Brown's Bronchial Troches are a simple remedy, and give prompt relief. 25 cts. a box. "What game do yon scholars play the most?" inquired one of the school trustees. "Hookey !" cried the boys in unison. Hale's Honey of Horehound andTar cures Coughs and bronchitis and consumption. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITY. Dec. 10. CATTLE Shipping steers. ...e 3 50 4 40 Range steers 8 10 2 TO " Native costs S 00 3 25 HOGS Good to choice heavy. 4 93 5 20 WHEAT No.! red 92tf& 93K No.2so(t 97H M CORN No.2 iibi-U 27J5 L A io "t O. m-w y RYE No. 2 44 44H FLOUR Patents, per sack... 2 40 2 50 HAY Baled 5 1)0 6 00 BUTTER Choice creamery. 27 32 CHEESE Full cream 11 13 EGGS Choice 21 21H BACON Ham 12 13 Shoulders 9 9 Sides 10 10H LARD 95i$ 9J,' POTATOES 43 CO ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Shipping steers... 5 00 5 CO Butcuers' steers.... u 30 4 40 HOGS Packing 5 0J 5 25 SHEEP Fairto choice 3 -ii 4 50 FLOUR Choice 3 50 4 73 WHEAT No. a red 1 02 1 02,' CORN No.2 31 3l!5 OATS No.2 i5JJ?j 2G RYE No. i 49 W BUTTER Creamery 3i 30 PORK H 20 14 30 CHICAGO. CATTLE Shipping steers..... 4 50 5 00 HOGS Pacltingand shipping.. 5 10 5 33 SHEEP Fairto choice 3 0J 5 0J FLOUR Winterwheat 5 00 5 75 WHEAT No.2 red 1 03 1 03 CORN No.2 .1 34 31 OATS No. 2 S5 S5X RYE N3.2 50H 51 BUTTER Creamery 32 34 PORK. 13 50 13 75 NEW YORK. CATTLE Common to prime.. 4 80 5 10 HOGS Good to choice 5 43 6 C5 FLOUR Good to choice. 5 15 5 60 WHEAT No. 2 red 1 04J 1 C5 CORN No.2 47 47tf OATS Western mixed SO 32 BUTTE It Creamery 24 35 GURED OF SICK HEADACHE. W. D. Edwards, Palmyra. O., writes : "I bave been a srrcat nnrferer from CoMtlveness and Kick Headache, sad bave tried many medicines, bat Tutf s Pills la the only OHe that gave me relief. I find tbat one pill acts better tban tbree of any otber kind, and docs not weaken or gripe." Elegantly sugar coated. Dose small. Price, SS cents. SOLD EVERYWHERE. Office, 44 Hurray Street. New York. Medicated Electricity; Cures Catarrh. Neuralgia. Desfnesi. Headache. Colds. Etc. Instant Ke ller. Electric Cattery In ererr bottle. &T 500 BOTTLES GIVEN AWAY I to Introduce It. Send 25 cts. In stamps to pay postajte and packing for a bottle that sells for 0 cts. Circulars TU.ZX. ells In every family. Airentsaremak- ImmnFtimnlnnnlh ICtTT WiniD. Addres BKXttgTEKACO., HOLLY, SiUI. 7SAHZ THIS tXTZX. mrj w J inn. 5-TON WAGON SCALES, Irsa Lirr, Sll Brartar. linn Tr Btlm la4 Ba BI, trrt Frio JJ.t rlle Ui vxpr Wi JONES OP RlFlC- HAMTON, BnuiuTuJ,.X. (ruiamiriKaMTUujMiBk mm CATARRH and diseases of head, throat and longs with OZONIZED. AIR. direct and continuous medication or respiratory orsrana producing same effect asafar. orable change of climate CD EC from objectionable rsMTtrurs. 1111.1. ALL You can hare 30 daya'TR I A L a t small cost. Illustrated Ho!e iHVinsrfnl! par ticulars, sent i sax to iti. who srrrut. COMKON SEASE CATARRH CURE. Co State Street. CUraro, HI NORTHERN PACIFIC. IILOW PRK2E RftjLROAD LAMBS 0t FREE Government LANDS. t3HI LLI058 ol ACRES of each in Minnesota. Xorth Dakota. Montana. Idaho. Washington and Orejron. CCHn Cns Publications wltlrllartdescribinicTlUS OCnU rUri BSTA(rriculturaI.Qrazint;andTimber Lands now open to Settlers, SENT FREE. Address CHAS. B. LAMBQRN, pauuSInn8:' y 9SJUL TH3 tirtS. j Omt ' rasa. Ely's Crtam Balm IS WORTH $!000 TOUT Mas. Woman or CM nfferlngtfroEi CATARRH. Apply Balm Into each nostril. ELY EKOS Si Warren at, 5.T. EDCCT Somethikg New! Send Se stamn. nsmn nfcbi and address to 1DKAL. KMBKOIDKKV JIACnrXE CO, -S S. Clinton Street, Chicago, 111. gj-ltr. taa tjutul nui ciiwra, kjggyrtgl k.&m fesgs'u fulfil Sis wzmm JACOBS oj' TRADE mARIC IT CONQUERS PAIN. ITCTJHES KheuaatUm, Neuralgia, Backache, Headache, Toothache, S p r a I n s. Brutes, 4c JUSntjlits ssA Stilus. BXXX.X.XOIS'3 Of Eottles Sold And In Every OfiO. A CURE The Chat. A. VogelerC- 3aUlsuntX4. Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. A Mtmrx auu ro htdiqhtiok ass asx- IternuH TrwM ArUtat ntntw. Tour Vntttist or Gaercl Dealer trfS get Yerv Curafor you if not already tnitoti, r UxnUbs tent Injnaa on rweijtf sf 25 eU. (5 boxes J1.00) i stamp. Sample sent on receipt cf Kent stamp. n CHARLES A.V0GEIER COBaNtasri.KaV Salt Xtti aai jUuuctwin. SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PUEE COD LWER OH, Almost as Palatable as Milk. Tha enly preparation of COD LITER OITj that can be taken readily and tolerated for & I0115 Use. bj delkato stomachs. axi as a hehedy for cossinnTioy SCKOU'LOtS AFFECTlOaS. AME3I1A. OKJf EttAt DLD1UTY. COl'UHS A.ND 1UE0AT AJ t'KCTlOaJS. and alt WASTiMB P1S011DKBS OF CH1LDKK.N it Is marrcHoia In Its resalti. " Prescribed and endorsed by ttia bcal PbysJclaasi In tho countries of tho world. Far fiI by oil Drs-li)i. StSond for Pamphleton Wsslmc Diseases. Ad dreas. SCOTT fc BOWX&Jlw York. Quantitation. . -- - -Z-&, M. W. DUNHAM'S OAKL&WH FARM. 3.000 PERGHESsOH FRENCH COACH HORSES, IMPORTED. ET0CKONHA1.T): 300 STALIiiONSofOTTlav able age; 150 COLTS wlUt choice pedlftrees, superior Indi viduals: 200 IITIIOKTJBl li noon Trr a n; v.s Tro in foal by Brilliant, the most famous livtcc sire). Bent Quality. lrlce BeotonaMcw Terms Easy. Don't JJny Yrithout Inspect ing thl3 Greatest and Most Successful Itreeains: Establishment of Am-rlca Intending portkr, iddreca,f3r220.ptcesUot, M. w. DUNHAM, Wayne, Illinois- 15 all weitllluro oC. Jo S.W. UVKUTurser Jaae. h Cxiav MARVELOUS DISCOVERY, Any book learned In one reading. Blind lyunderlnx cared. Kpcaklns -without note. TThoIly unlike artificial systems. Great Indueementa to enrrrapondrnce ela Prospectus, with opinions of lr. Win. A.lImmJj. the world famed Specialist In Mind Dieaeft. DumlI Ureenleaf Thorapnon, the srreat JNjrehnlogUt. J. X. TturLlry. 1. !., E1. tor of the ChruLzn AdmcaU, Ulefaurd Proetor, the Scientist. Hoaa.Judffe GlbtM. Jutlah I. Itcnjunln. and other, sent post free ty Prof. A. I.OI8ETTJ3, S7 Fifth Ave., jr.Y. S0-3AMX T11I3 PAPIi r tlsajoaniu. Berrlnc-Machlnel E trills ia sll carts, brl I cttit ffstsbllsbl plucJnr onr niacbtvcl rJ wane m (xepls cu mem. ws wmseiux rree toono Krsoa In each locality,)), rry t wlnj-machJnt tuds hs. world.wltb all tbs attactasiranu Wa wiI!alsoMiulireeacmpTtai (Ins of our eosils' and nlosbls ark samples- In return wa ask tbil jv show what w send, to ibos wbs may call at year hem, sad afler 9 montasaJssii Decoma your oww property. This rrand tnacbica la made after taa alueer p tents. WBKfl bats ran oat : txiors paxpnts ran onuisoiaicrfistf s. wun mm sttschmeBts, and now aefls foe 8.-.O. Best.stronrtst.ffwsin-. fal not bins la tbs world. All ia rss. Jo eatiul rcalrrf rlsri. brief lastractioixs siren. 1 boss who writs to us at ones earn so cars free tho b.t sewinc-macblas la tbs world, sad thai finest Una of works of blrb an srer shown torMber la Asrcrwaw TZLUEdzCO., Jiox. 146, Animta, Uala r-XXXXHISrxrUrnerasM jossraa. Pleo's Bercedy for Catarrh la the Best, Eeriest to Use, and Cheapest. I Also pood for Cold In the Head. Headache. Flay Forer, &c SO cents. PENSIONS for SOLDIERS and n!r. I can Increase your jcb alon If anr one can. T make a specialty of Increasing pensions and teldora . faU. It win cort y u nothing to try. Ho fe- unless I succeed. Send stamp for new laws and G. A. It badge. In colors. Address W.T. KITZGEKALD. At torney at Law. 121 1 F Street, Wasulnotux, 1). C O-SIXE Titl TXTlt. mrrUMjM !. fimNnSoSri?! O rah a in Flour & Corn fa tho Vhnanu m.LL"fttS -. in i jf ayaj i y; lOilper rest. mora mtw misqnnrraninT. Ajeo r"0illt miL.Laaaa FARJLFEED .lLTTl!Orcnisr(zultetn3Bnu sat on application. WILSON BKOS.Earton.l-X, s-auir ina papix er7 to. jw niu. CURES WHERE AIL ait rAJLS. SestConghSyrcp. Tastes good. UfS , in tune, botany amggisis. sTsniTaElIAl EM rSTOl - --, iiii m mm - - NEEDLES, SHUTTLES, REPAIRS. fForall SewIngHscblDeau STANDARD UOOD3 OUT. The Trade Mnppjlei. Send for wholesale prle list. BLELOCK M7'G CO 333 Locust sU3LLouU.ato- srxrntH this rAm'cwr j mu. SOLDIERS ALL BET PENSIONS.. If if disabled: dst. etc.: Do- 'serters relieved; Laws free. t.w. accoajuat8oas,nHiisrti. a,AWs.h:sr.RC (BrSaKZ TATS tit U -Wf taM J wrtfc GQIA. LIts at home aad aaaxs men tneaeyworktas for as Rmsb i .t ..Ttlilnr-lu In rba world. Zither sex Co.Ur.nflS IIII. Tsnasrzxz. Address, TXCS CoAacasta,Jtaiaa. SaraaMZ IlUd rarxK ewry saMjsa rauk YflHMRHFMLcanl.Te,e:TTaDh7 ana Railroad '"WISH m.ts Agent's Bnslnen here, and socorw. cood situations. Writo J. D. BICOWN. Sedalla Mo. RfMi'k'lTDIMC Baker Short Met hotI.Un;rfs DUUrknXLTlHO.free by mall: 1LUJU boots In nse. W. C. M. BAKER 1103 Main tk. Kansas City. Mo. UAUgBTCSI. Boor-reeplny. Penmanship, at& ilUMs. noetic, Shorthand, etc., thorocchly tassh 07 mi II. Clrcalsxs free. ZBTaXTS C0LL5SE. BsTHir 1 T. A.X.K. -D. Ho. 1217. 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