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SLAVERY OF SIN. Dr. Talmago Discourses on the Adornments of Christian Faith. EIn the Hardest of All Taskmasters No Happiness In Evil "Ways Living Useful Lives The Better "World Above. In a recent sermon at Brooklyn Dr. Tal mage's subject was: "Lifted From the Brick Kilns," and his text, "Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold." Psalms lxvifi. 13. He said: I suppose you know what the Israelites did down in Egyptian slavery. They made bricks. Amid the utensils of the brick kiln there were also other utensils of cookery the kettles, the pots, the pans, with which they prepared their daily food, and when these poor slaves, tired of the day's work, lay down to rest, they lay down amid the implements of cookery and the implements of hard work. "When they arose in the morning they found their garments covered with the clay and the smoke and the dust, and besmirched and begrimed with the utensils of cookery. But after awhile the Lord broke up that slavery and He took these poor slaves into a land where they had better garb, bright and clean and beautiful apparel. 2fo more bricks for them to make. Let Pharaoh make his own bricks. When David in my text comes to describe the transition of these poor Israelites from their bondage amid the brick k.lns into the glorious emancipation for which God had prepared them, he says: ''Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold." iliss Whalely. the author of a celebrated book, "Life in Egypt," said shesometimes saw people in the East cooking thoir food on the tops of house, and that she had often seen, just before sundown, pigeons (doves) which had, during the heat of the day, been hidinc among the kettles and the pans with which the food was pre pared, picking up the crumbs that they might find just about the hour of sunset would j-pread their wings and fly heaven ward, entirely unsoiled by the region in wuicu iney bail moveu, lor the pigeon is a very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons flow away the setting sun would throw silver on their wings and gold on their breast. So you see it was not a far fetched simile, or an unnatural compari son, when David in my text says to these emancipated Israelites and says to all those who are brought out of any kind of troublo into any kind of spiritual joy: "Though 30 have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold." Sin i? the hardest of all taskmasters. "Worse than Piiaraoh, it keeps us truding, trudging in a most degrading service, but after awhile Christ conies and ho says: "Let my people go," and wo pass out from among the brick-kilns of sin into the glori ous liberty of the gospel; wo put on the clean robes of the Christian profession and when we soar away to the warm nest which God lias provided for us in Heaven, we shall go fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers cov ered with yellow gold. I am going to preach something which some of you do not believe, and that is that the grandest possible adornment is the re ligion of Jesus Christ. There are a great many peoplo who suppose that religion is a verv different thing from what it really is. The reason men condemn the Bible is because they do not understand tho Bible; they have not properly examined it. Dr. Johnson said that Hume told a minister in the bishopric of Durham that he never particularly exarninod the New Testa ment, yet all his life warring against it. Halley, the astronomer, announced his skepticisms to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac Nowton said: "Now, sir. I have examined the subject and you have not and I am ashamed that you, profess ing to be n philosopher, consent to con demn a thing you never have examined." And so men reject the religion of Jesus Christ, because they really have never in vestigated it. They think it something un tangible, something that will not work, something Pocksniflian. something hypo critical, something repulsive, when it is so bright and so beautifulyou might compare it to a robin redbreast, you might compare it to a dove, its wings covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. But how is it if a young man becomes a Chris tian!' All through the club room where he associates, all through the business circles where he is known, there is commisera tion. They sny: "What a pity that a young man who had such bright prospects should so have been despoiled by those Christians, giving up all his worldly pros pects for something which is of no par ticular present w arth !" Hero is a young woman who becomes a Christian her voice, her face, her man ners the charm of the 'Irswingroom. Now all through tho fashionable circles the '.whisper goes: -"What a pity that such a bright li-rfci. should be extinguished, that sucb,giaceful gait should be crippled, that such worldly prospects should be obliterated!" Ah, my friends, it can be hown that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace; that religion, instead of being dark, and doleful, and lachrymose, and re pulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. See, in the first place, what religion will do for a man's heart. I care not how cheerful a man may be before conversion, conversion bring him up to a higher standard of cheerfulness. I do not say he will laugh any louder. I do not say but he may stand back from some forms of hilarity in which he onc9 in dulged; but there oomos into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man, not a Christian, depends upon worldly successes to keep his spirits up. Now he is prospereJ, now he has large salary, now ho has a beautiful wardrobe, now he has pleasant friends, now he has more money than he knows how to spend; every thing goes bright and well with him. But trouble comes there are many young men in the house this morning who can testify out of their own experience that sometimes to young men trouble does come his friends are gone, his salary is gone, his health is gone; goes down, down. He becomes sour, cross, queer, misanthropic blames the world, blames society, blames the church, blames every thing, rushes perhaps to the intoxicating cup to drown his trouble, but instead of drowning his'trouble drowns his body and drowns his souL But here is a Christian young man. Trouble comes to him. Does he give up? No. He throws himself back on the re sources of Heaven. He says: "God is my father. Out of all these disasters I shall pluck advantage for my souL All the promises are mine. Christ is mine. Chris tian companionship is mine, Heaven is mine. "What though my apparel be worn out? Christ gives me a robe of righteous ness. "What though my money be gone? I have a title deed to the whole universe in the promise. 'All are yours.' "What though my worldly friends fall awav? Ministering angels are my body guard. "What though my fare be poor and my bread be scant? Iit at the King's ban quet." O, what a poor, sdallow stream is world ly enjoyment compared with the deep, broad, overflowing iiv.er of God's peace, roiiinjt midway In the Christian heartl Sometimes you havo gone out on the iron bound beach of the sea when there has been a storm on Che ocean, and you have seen the waves dash into white foam at f your feet. They did not do you any harm. While there you thought of the chapter written by the Psalmist, and perhaps yon recited it to yourself while the storm was making commentary upon the passage: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble. Therefore will I not fear though the earth be re moved, and though the mountains be car ried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah!" O, how Inde pendent the religion of Christ makes a man of worldly success and worldly cir cumstance's ! Nelson, the night before bis last battle, said: "To-morrow I shall win either a peerage or a grave in "Westmin ster Abbey." And it does not make much difference to the Christian whether he rises or falls in worldly matters; he has everlasting renown any way. Other plumage may be torn in the blast, but that soul adorned with Christian grace is fairer than the dove, its wings covered with sil ver, and it feathers with yellow gold. you and I have found out that people who pretend to oe happy are not always happy. Look at that young man carica turing the Christian religion, scoffing at every thing good, going into roystering drunkenness, dashing the champagne bot tle to the floor, rolling the glasses from the barroom counter. laughing, shouting, stamping the floorj shrieking. Is be hap py? I will go to his midnight pillow. I will see him turn the gas off. I will ask myself if the pillow on which he sleeps is as soft as the pillow on which hat pure young man sleeps. Ah I no. When ce opens his eyes in the morning will the world be as bright to him as to that Young man who retired at night saying his pray ers, invoking God's blessing upon his own soul and the souls of his comrades, and father and mother, and brother and sister, far away? No, no. His laughter will ring out from the saloon so that you hear it as you pass by, but it is hollow laughter; in it is the snap ping of heart-strings and the rattle of prison gates! Happy! that young man happy? Let him fill high the bowl; he can not drown tho upbraid ing conscience. Let the balls roll through the bowling alley; tho deep rumble and the sharp crack can not overpower the voices of condemnation. Let him whirl in the dance of sin and temptation and death. All the brilliancy of the scene can not make him forget the last look of his mother as he loft home when she said to him: "Now, my son, you will do right, I "am sure you will do right; you will, won't you?" That young man happy? "Why, across every night there flits shadows of eternal darkness; there are adders in every cup; there are vultures of despair striking their iron beaks into his heart; there are skeleton fingers of grief pinching at the throat. I come in amid the clinking of glasses and under the flashing of the chandeliers, and I cry: "Woe! woe! The way of the ungodly shall perish. There is no peace, saith my God, to tho wicked. The way of the transgressor is hard!" O, my friends, there is more joy in one drop of Christian satisfaction than in whole rivers of sinful delight Other wings may bo drenched of the storm and splashed of the tempest, but the dove that comes in through tho window of this heav enly ark has wings like the dovo covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. Again I remark religion is an adorn ment in the style of usefulness into which it induces a man. Here are two young men. Tho one has fine culture, exquisite wardrobe, plenty of friends, great worldly success, but ho lives for himself. His chief care is for his own comfort. Ho lives use lessly. He dies unregretted. Here is an other young man. His apparel may not be so good, his education may not be so thorough. He lives for others. His happi ness is to make others happy. He is as self-denying as that dying soldier, falling in the rauks, when ho said: "Colonel, there is no need or those boys tiring themselves by carrying me to tho hospital; let me die just where I am." So this young man of whom I speak loves God, wants all the world to lore Him, is npt ashamed to cany a bundle of clothes up that dark alley to the poor. "Which of those young men do you admire tha better? The one a sham, the other a prince imperial. O, do you know of any thing, my hearor, that is more beautiful than to see a young man start out for Christ? Hero is some one falling; he lifts him up. Here is a vagabond boy, he introduces him to a mis sion school. Here is a family freezing to death; he carries them a scuttle of coal. There are S00,000,000 perishing in midnight heathen darkness; by all possible means he tries to send to them the GospeL He may bo laughed at and he may be sneered at and he may be caricatured, but he is not ashamed to go everywhere, saying: "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ It is the power of God and tho wisdom of God unto salvation." Such a young man can go through every thing. There is no force on earth or in hell that can resist him. I show you three spectacles. Spectacle the first: Napoleon passes by with the host that went down with him to Egypt and up with him through Russia and crossed ifao continent on the bleeding heart of which he set his iron heel and across the quivering flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his gun carriages in his dying moment asking his attend ants to put on his military boots for him. Spectacle the second: Voltaire, bright and learned and witty and eloquent, with tongue and voice and stratagem infernal, warring against God and poisoning whole kingdoms with his infidelity, yet applaud ed by the clapping hands of thrones and empires and continents his last words in delirium supposing Christ standing by the bedside his last words: "Crush that wretch !" Spectacle the third: Paul Paul, in significant in person, thrust out from all refined association, scourged, spat on, hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and Heaven full; announced resurrection to those who mourned at the barred gates of the dead; speaking consolations which light up the eyes of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release; undaunted before those who could take his life, his cheek flushed with transport and his eyes on Heaven; with one hand shaking defiance at all the foes of. earth and all the princi palities of hell, and with the other hand beckoning messenger angels to come and bear him away, as he says: "I am now ready to be offered, and tho time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good ficht, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid np for me a crown of righteousness; which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me." "Which of the three spectacles do you most admire? "When the wind of death struck tho conqueror and the infidel they were tossed like sea gulls in a tempest, drenched of the wave and torn of the hur ricane, the dismal voices heard through the everlasting storm; but when the wave and the wind of death struck Paul, like on albatross ho made a throne of the tempest, and one day floated away into the calm, clear summer of Heaven, brighter than the dove, it wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. O, aro you not in love with such a relig ion a religion that can do so much for a man while he lives, and so much for a man when he comes to die? I suppose you may have noticed the contrast between the de parture of a Christian and the departure of an infidel. Deodorus dying in chagrin because he could not compose a joke equal to a joke uttered at the other end of the table. Zeuxis, dying in a tit of laughter at the sketch of an aged woman a sketch, made by his own hand. Mazarin, dying playing cards, his friend holding his hands because he was unable to ho!dthem him self. All this on one side compared with the departure of the Scotch minister, who said: "I have no interest as to whether I live or die, if I die I shall be with the Lord, and if I live the Lord shall be with me."' Or the last words of "Washington: "It i3 well." Or the last words of Mcintosh, tho learned and the great: "Happy!" Or the last word of Hannah More, the Christian poetecs: "Joy I" Or those thousands of Christians who have gone, .saying: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." "O death ! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy vic tory?" Behold the contrast Behold the charm of the one, behold the darkness of the other. Now, I know it i3 very popular in this day for young men to think there is something more charming in skepticism than in religion; they are ashamed of the old-fashioned religion of the cross, and they pride themselves on their free think ing on al 1 these subjects. My young friends, I want to tell you what I know from ob servation that while skepticism is a beau tiful land at the start, it is the great Sa hara desert at the last. Years ago a minister's son went off from home to college. At college he formed the acquaintance of a young man whom I shall call Ellison. Ellison was an infidel, Ellison scoffed at religion, and the minis ter's son soon learned from him the infidel ity, and when he went home on his vacation broke his father's heart by his denuncia tions of Christianity. Time passed on and vacation came and the minister's son went off to spend the vacation and was on a journey and came to a hotel The hotel keeper said: "I am sorry that to-night I shall have to put you in a room adjoining one where there Ts a very sick ana dying man. I can give you no other accommo dation." "O," said the young college stu dent and minister's son, ''that will make no difference to me except the matter of sym pathy with anybody that is suffering." The young man retired to his room, but could not sleep, All night long he heard the groaning of the sick man or the step of the watchers and his soul trembled. He thought to himself: Now, there is only a thin wall between me and a departing spirit. How if Ellison should know how I feel? How if Ellison should find out how my heart flutters. "What would Ellison say if he knew my skepticism gave way?" He slept not In the morning, coming down, ho said to tho hotel-keeper: "How is the sick man?" "O," said the hotel-keeper, "he is dead, poor fellow! The doctors told us he could not last through the night" "Well," said the young man, "what was the sick one's name; where is he from?" "Well," said the hotel-keeper, "he is from Providence College!" "What is his name?" "Ellison." "Ellison!" O, how the young man was stunned. It was his old college mate dead without any hope. It was many hours before the young man could leave that hotel. He got on his horse and started homeward, and all the way he heard something saying to him: "Dead! Lost! Dead! Lost!" He came to no satisfaction until he entered the Christian life, until he entered the Christian ministry, until he became one of the most eminent missionaries of the cross, tho greatest Baptist missionary the world has ever seen since the days of Paul no superior to Adoniram Judson. Mighty on earth, mighty in Heaven Adoniram Judson. Which do you like tho best, Jud son's skepticism or Judson's Christian life? O, if religion does so much for a man on earth, what will it do for him in Heaven? That is the thought that comes to me now. If a soldier can afford to shout "Huzza!" when he goes into battle, how much more jubilantly he can afford to shout "Huzza!" when he' has gained the victory! If religion is so good a thing to havo here, how bright a thing it will be in Heaven! I want to see that young man when the glories of Heaven have robed and crowned him. I want to hear him sing when all huskiness of earthly colds is gone, and he rises up with the great dox ology. I want to know what standard he will carry when marching under arches of pearl in the army of banners. I want to know what company he will keep in a land where they are all kings and queens for ever and ever. If I have induced one of you this morning to begin a better life, then I want to know it. I may not in this world clasp hands with you in friendship, I may not hear from your own lips the story of temptation and sorrow, but I will clasp hands with you when the sea is passed and the gates are entered. That I might woo you to a better life, and that I might show you the glories with which God clothes His dear children in Heaven, I wish I could this morning swing back one of the twelve gates that there might dash upon your ear one shout of the triumph, that there might flame upon your eyes one blaze of the splendor. O, when I speak of that good land, yon in voluntarily think of some one there that you loved father, mother, brother, sis ter or dear little child garnered al ready. You want to know what they are doing this morning. I will tell you what they are doing. Singing. You want to know what they wear. I will tell you what they wear. Coronets of triumph. You wonder why oft they look to the gate of the temple, and watch and wait. I will tell you why they watch and wait and look to the gate of the temple. For your coming I shout upward the news to-day, for I am sure some of you will re pent and start for Heaven. O, ye bright ones before the throne, your earthly friends are' coming. Angels, posing mid air, cry up the name. Gate-keeper of Heaven, send forward the tidings. Watch man on the battlements celestial, throw the signal. "O," you say, "religion lam going to have; it is only a question of time." My brother, I am afraid you may lose here in the way Louis Philippe lost his empire. The Parisian mob came around the Tuiler ies. The National guard stood in defense of the palact and the commander said to Louis Philippe: "Shall I fire now? Shall I order the troops to fire? With one volley we can clear the place." "No," said Leu Is Philippe, "not yet" A few minutes passed on, and when Louis Philippe, seeing the case was helpless, said to the General: "Now is the time to fire." "No," said the General, "it is too late now; don't you see that the soldiers are exchanging arms with the citi zens? It is too late." Down went the throne of Louis Philippe. Away from the earth went the house of Orleans; and all because the King said: "Not yet, notyet" May God forbid that any of you should adjourn this great subject of religion, and should postpone assailing your spiritual foes until it is too late too late; you los ing a throne in Heaven the way that Louis rmiippe lost a throne on earth. "When the judge descends In might. Clothed In majesty and light; "When the earth shall quake with fear, "Where, O where, wilt thou appearr , Showing Off at Church. The piety that fjoes to church en wrapped in costly lace, and crowned with a fifty-dollar bonnet, is not of the kind which strikes a bee-line for the better world. When one enters a place of worship where the female devotees are dressed as for the opera, and there is an odor as of a perfumery store, a flutter of plumy, glittering fans, a multitude of heads tricked out in all the bravery of Fashion's Flora, and a general indication of a desire to adore the Creator a la mod it is diffi cult to believe that the child-like sim plicity of soul, which is essential to genuine religion, is a staple article in that congregation. We should like to know upon what principle persons 'who call themselves Christians attend public worship attired as if for a fash ionable fete? . F. Ledger. LIGHT FOR THE BLIND. A Luxury That Gives Great Satisfaction to the Inmates of Asylum. You have probably often seen blind asylums brilliantly lighted at night, and you have probably just as often wondered why the blind required such a luxury. An inquisitive reporter re cently ascertained that the blind aro not deprived of their sight to such an extent as is generally supposed. Super intendents and managers of asylums are aware of this fact and know all the little foibles and petty tricks of their wards. The blind are most mischiev ous at the very time when one would think them to be the least troublesome that is, in the evening. The super intendents in this city understand this and order all the gas jets in the insti tution to be lighted promptly at sun down. Ail the tricky ones are then watched by the janitors as carefully as Tabby .does the mouse. Most of the blind have some powers of eyesight, and light rays, as a rule, can be readily perceived by them. They know that when all the lights are going at full blaze they can not cut up any pranks, and that all the books with heay print, which they can take to bed and read far into the night, are taken away from them. These are the principal reasons why tho passers-by sees all tho lights burning in the rooms of the blind asylum. But there is another and special reason. Guardians of the blind state that the latter derive a great amount of comfort from' the light. Many of them can perceive rays, and that is the only gratification left to their impaired vision. As soon as night comes on they wait patiently for the gas or lamps to be lighted and then muse under the illumination that is sensible to their optics. Superintendents find it hard to di vide the blind into distinct classes, ac cording to the degrees of blindness. There is one continuous graduation from the totally blind to those who can see to read large type. The blind are divided into three classes by those who come in daily contact with them. The first class is composed of those who can not perceive light of the greatest inten sity. They are devoid of the comfort which light gives. The highest test to prove total lack of vision is to placo the blind person in the direction of lightning during a thunder storm, and if the flash is not perceived this proves that the sense of vision is entirely gone. In the second class are those who can perceive and appreciate light and can see only the barest outline of the forms of persons. These are fed with illumination and want it most. Regu larly at sun-down, they seek the chairs nearest to the light, and draw ineffa ble comfort from it The third class can not only dis tinguish light, but can also partially read and discern the features of their friends. This class is by far the most troublesome. They do not especially care for gas light, sometimes because it interferes with their little plans of mischief. The janitors always make it a point to light the gas in thoir rooms and keep their idle brains out of mis chief. Light and music are the blind per son's chief delights. All the lost pow ers of vision are alrsost compensated for by the extraordinary sense of har mony and time. A peculiar musical talent and gift are apportioned to tho blind, and secure for them positions of note. Many piano tuners are blind. In Paris nearly all the head piano tuners are blind persons. The same is true in Boston, where all of the pianos in tho public schools are tuned by the blind. Albany (N. Y.) Argus. in m m ETIQUETTE AT VASSAR. A Glimpse at the College Life of Bright American Girls. Vassar is a college in all that tho name implies; and a thorough educa tion is given in all academical branches; and it has its rules of social etiquette just as rigidly adhered to as in Yale or Harvard. Every girl in the college sallies forth during the early days of the term, card case in hand, to call on the freshmen in her corridor. If the freshmen be out, a card is left; if in, the acquaintance is formed. But in either case tho call -must be returned within a week. After this calls and visits are more informal, and parties given. ' Each girl is expected to give a party in ner room once in tne year, jmese are invariably held after ten o'clock, at which hour lights should be put out; but with closed doors, carefully shroud ed in shawls and waterproof cloaks, the night watchman gets no hint of the dis sipation being indulged in within. When three girls share a sitting room, with a bed-room apiece opening out of it (for most of the rooms are in groups of this kind), they combine in the giving of their entertainments, thus saving no small amount of trouble and expense. Besides the individual parties or "spreads," there are the legitimate class parties. The seniors invito the juniors, the juniors the seniors. The sophomores give the freshmen a party early in the year, and later on invite them to the "trig" ceremonies, an ec centric performance to signalize their joy at having finished their course in trigonometry, to which the freshmen are still looking forward. The character of the entertainment is burlesque. Mathematical signs and terms are personified, and good natured ridicule showered on "classmates," ob jectionable college institutions, and even the "faculty" itself. There are occasional minstrel performances, with peanuts, apples, maple sugar and lem onade for refreshments; also dancing in the college parlors, and sometimes "powder" and costume balls of course confined to inmates of the house. Golden Days. Masons will be interested in the invention by an Eastern man of two kinds of plastering composition. That to be used for the first coat consists of sand, sawdust, plaster of paris, slacked lime, sugar and carbonate of soda, while that for the second coat is made of cream of tartar, pumice stone, sugar, lime, and plaster of parisr each compo sition being compounded and applied in proportions and after a manner de scribed. Both compositions have beea patented. MISCELLANEOUS. A California farmer, believing that cats will exterminate squirrels and gophers, purchased a large number and set them at liberty on his land. Several boys when arrested in New York the other day, were working in dustriously, as they afterwards ex plained in court, to create a haunted house scare. The last society spoken of in Cali fornia is the "Pay-Nothings." It is said to be alarmingly prosperous. The pass-word is, "Lend me a dollar;" the response, "Broke!" "What's the most convincing proof that you know of;" asked the philo sophical tramp, "that a man possesses an inherent right to ,own "property?" "A bulldog in the front yard," prompt ly replied his companion. Chicago Globe. Mistress (to servant) "Look at the dirt on that chair, Bridget. Your work is shockingly neglected this week." "I know it is, mum; but I've been too busy to attend to it, shure. Tm a candidate for the Boord av Iddi cashun, mum, and I have to canvass my ward." Texas Sitings. Uncle Cuffy "Which is the cheap est, de fly-blister or de poor-house plaster?" Druggist "Just the same twenty-five cents apiece." Uncle C. "Well, doctor, you better give me all two; my old 'ooman is berry low wid de remonia;an' Iwantum furhab eb'ry comfort." Detroit Free Press. Crooked and Straight are the names of a pair of clergymen in charge of an English church. Lock & Key were long familiar names over the door of a hardware store in Louisville, Ky. Scarcely less appropriate were the last named parties to their business than were the famous U. Ketchum & L Cheatum firm of lawyers. Enthusiastic Traveler "Ah. En gland is a glorious country indeed. A nation of conquerors, possessions everywhere all over the globe, enor mous financial resources; why, you know they say the sun of Victoria never sets.", Mrs. Porkehoppe (of Chicago) "I want to know, don't he ever get tired of Topics. standing?" Town A contest has been going on in a New York newspaper between a num ber of young wemen for the honor of being the youngest grandmother in the country. It has been shown by the let ters of the contestants that a woman who was a grandmother at the age of thirty-two is by no means an unusual personage in this country. A few days ago Mr. Davis, of St. Augustine, Fla., heard a bell tinkling, and couldn't tell from what quarter it came until he looked in the air and saw a buzzard with a small brass bell around his neck. He shot tho buzzard, and on examination saw an indistinct date, "15G5," on the bell. He thinks it must havo been hung there by old Menendez. An oil expert from Pennsylvania is of the opinion that there is more oil under the soil of California than in Pennsylvania itself. He finds that the ledge of oil-producing rock begins at Peru, crops up at San Diego, then dips and reappears at Santa Barbara, and again appears at San Francisco and further north. , Tho meanest man in Kansas has been found. He lives in Reno County, and in writing to the treasurer of SedgwickCounty in a matter pertain ing to his taxes, he used a postal card that had done duty once before and spent at least three hours in effacing the address, stamp, and first message from off the card. The postal is to bo framed and hung up in the treasurer's office as a memento of man's avarice. Wichita (Kan.) Journal. In a letter from Salt Lake City de scriptive of the Mormon Tabernacle, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe writes: "A glance at the congregation easily cor roborated the statement that Mormon ism largely recruits itself from the most wrotched and ignorant classes of European countries. Some of the head of those present might have been termed well advanced on the way back to the gorilla. Vacant countenances, eyes empty of thought were seen on every side." It was a rather queer remark that a Buffalo (N. Y.) business man made lately. Said ho, "I can get a better bargain in any store in this town if I don't pay as I go than I can for cash, and what is still more to the purpose, can command better treatment and bet ter service while I am making the pur chase. The moment my money goes over the counter the interest in prompt delivery and such accessories mnst all fall back on the character of the house I am dealing with. But if I do not pay at once I am still a customer to be looked after and every thing will be done to retain my good will. A Boston sportsman who has been enjoying the sport at Moluncus Lake, in the northern part of Maine, entered a lumberman's house and was well en tertained during the night. In the par lor of the house was the lumberman's library, which the visitor had the curi osity to examine. The list was as fol lows: "Lives of Eminent Saints," "Mysteries of Paris." "Robinson Crusoe," "Sure Way to a Happy Mar riage," Life of the Popes," "Teachings Df the Catholic Church and Her Divine Founder and Saviour," "Catholic Faith" and "Our Deportment." The lumber man's mind had certainly a serious bent. The cook in a St. Louis family broke six of a lot of eggs in a vain search for a fresh one. She, then, un known to her sisters, boiled all the rest, cooled them, and sent them back to the grocer to be credited back in ex change on a new bill for other articles. One day after that a darky woman came tearing down upon that grocer and asked, in the presence of other customers, why ho sold her "biled eggs." He had hardly got the colored woman off with a new lot of eggs when a white woman came in with the same complaint about the sending to her house of boiled eggs. The grocer thought he must be getting insane, and, after holding his head a moment to assure himself that he was all right, broke several eggs from another tub, found them all right and pacified his customers. Compelled to Pay Duties' The following story is told at the ex pense of Princess Bismarck: Theother day she went to Hamburg to make her customary household purchases, which she never allows anybody else to attend to. Unfortunately, she missed her train to Friedrichsruhe, and as there was no other train for two hours, she told her coachman to drive her through the district of the free port. On re turning into the town, she was stopped by a custom-house official, who im posed a duty on every one of the ar ticles she had purchased, and refused to let her proceed until she had paid in full. N. Y. Post. Smiling Gardens of Plenty Where nature beams her brightest in the extreme south, on our sister continent and in the tronics of the Caribbean Sea are too often the home of malaria, the vertical sun, copious decaying vegetation and bad water, also co-operating to breed virulent disor ders of tho stomach, liver and bowels. It is in such regions that Hcstetter's Stomach Bitters gets in some of its most beneficent work. Uscallt tho inconsistency is of the man who professes much and does little, but there may be an inconsistency on the part of the man who professes nothing' and does much. The profession and the "character should be one. "Mr friends laughed at the idea of a $5.00 bone mill, but since I got one of Wilson's, advertised in this paper, the laugh is all on my side. Every one that sees it has to ac knowledge it is a perfect success. I can crack enough shells for 150 fowls in 3 min utes; and the same amount will go five times farther than if cracked with a ham mer. There is no waste, and a child can crack them. Bones take a little moro strength. It also cracks corn easily and welL" m The man who invented the type-writer did more toward giving women their writes than all the women suffrage asso ciations in tho country. jet Only the Best. "Baker's Norwegian Cod Liver Oil" is pure. Recommended and prescribed by best physicians. Jno.CBaker & Co., Philadelphia. The Chinese does not take his queue from nature. Two-thirds of it is third clas silk. San Francisco Alia. Harsh purgative remedies are fast giving wav to tho gentle action and mild effects of Carter's Little Liver Pills. If you try them, they will certainly pleaso you. When the last one of a quartet of good fellows determines to die, the thing is a four gone conclusion. A. O. Picayune. Fou Throat Diseases and Coughs use Brown's Ukoxciiiai. Troches. Like all real aood things, they are imitated. The aenu'MC are sold only in boxes. A prominent band tho engagement rinfr. Detroit Fret Press. Don't wait until you are sick before trying Carter's Little Liver Pills, but get a vial at onca. You can't take them without benefit. A happt medium a pleasant spiritual s' A Prompt "Way of Easing Asthma. Use Hale's Honey ot norenouna ana lar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. "A regular hich flyer" our American eagle. Men can talk horse without having a bad cold. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITY, Dec 21. CATTLE Shipping steers. ...$ 3 0 4 15 Range steers 2 30 i 00 Native cows 2 00 3 CO HOGS Good to choice hoavy. 4 71 & 5 00 WHEAT No.-J red Ol&ft SO No. 2 sort 90 07 CORN No.2 2GJi. 2CJX OATS No. 2 22 2tf RYE No.2 U 44J5 FLOUR Patonts, per sack... 2 40 2 50 HAY Baled 5 U0 7 03 BUTTER Choice creamery. 25 SO CHEESE Full cream 12 125J EGGS Choice 20 20Ji BACON Ham 12 J3 Shoulders 9 0',; Sides 10 10'A LARD !)!& )U POTATOES 45 50 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Shipping steers... 5 00 5 60 Butchers' steers.... 3 30 4 50 HOGS Packing 5 M 6 15 SHEEP Fairto choice.- 3 25 4 60 FLOUR Choice 3 50 4 75 WHEAT No. 2 red 99 1 00 CORN No.2 Mtf S0J OATS No.2 i'5 S5tf RYE No.2 48 0 49 BUTTER Creamery 31 30 PORK 13 OJ 14 0J CHICAGO. CATTLE Shlpplngsteers..... 4 50 5 5 HOGS Paddngand shipping.. 5 OJ 5 2 SHEEP Fairto choice 3 03 4 03 FLOUR Winter wheat 5 03 5 73 WHEAT No.2 red 1 0UJ 1 01J CORN No.2 34 S4 OATS No. 2 '?i3 15J RYE N3.2 M 50J BUTTER Creamery 32 34 PORK. 13 10 13 15 NEW YORK. CATTLE Common to prime.. 4 75 5 25 HOGS Good to Choice 5 20 5 50 FLOUR Good to choice. 5 15 5 60 WHEAT No. 8red 1 C3 1 C3H CORN No.2 47 48 OATS Western mixed 30 32 BUTTER Creamery 24 3 Rheumatism According to recent investigations Is caused by excess of lactic acid in the blood. This acid attacks tho fibrous tlssuesspartlculsrr In the Joints, and causes the local asnlfesuttons ot the disease, pains and aches in the back and rhoulders, and in the joints at the knees, ankles, hips and -wrists. Thousands ot people ha-ro found in Hood's Earea parilla a positlTe and permanent cure for rheuma tism. This medicine. by It purifying andTltallxlns; action, neutralizes tho acidity of the blood, and also builds up and strengthens the whole body. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold b- all druggiffs. SI; six for SS. Prepared only by d. HOOD A CO, Apothecaries. JxTreIl,.Hass. IOO Doses One Dollar THE NEW YORK LEDGER Is Out inJew Form. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED ! 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SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PUPtE COD LIYEE OIL look Almost as Palatable as Milk. The enly preparation of COD LITER Olli that can be taken readily and tolerated for a lost; tlsu by delicate stoMicfcs. ' AKP AS A RE3EDT FOR COSSpglTIOy, SCKOHLOLS AKKKCTIOS. A.VIEMLU GK5 KK1L DKB1LHT, CULOMS AND THROAT AF. tlXTl6S. and alt WaStlMU DISORDERS OF ClULDREN It is guxrtUoas In IU malti. Prescribed and endorsed by tfca best fbysiclasa In the countries of the world. For Smlo ty alt nraflclata. S"Send for Pamphlet yi Wasting Diseas. Ad dress. SCOTT S fiUWS.A'nr York. cmSlCuCs from ami Cttta ojjue, at oxlacVoiiVvbW 5W ?f VctsFor EvctxotvjT,nosvi BL W. DUNHAM'S OAKLAWN FARM. 3,000 P ERC HERON FRENCH COACH HOBJEJ, STOCK OX HAXDs 300 STAIililONSofserric- able age; ISO COSYTS with choice pedigrees, superior indl- Tidoals; 200 I3IPOBTD TtrtnnTiTTT T?T?a imtn fnal by Brilliant, the meet famous living sire). Beat Quality. Price Seasonable. Terms Easy. Dont Bsy without Inspect- Ins this Greatest and 31 ost Successful Breeding Establishment or America. IatrndlaxpimUier, 3ddnu,frSS0.sfeate!fMl M. W. DUNHAM. WAYNE, ILLINOIS. J5 bBh VMtCUttto caC 5.TT.KVKt.Tuatr iaae. t,E&. For Old andXotiiig. Tntt's 1.1 ver Pills act as kindly on the, child, thodellcato female or Infirm old age as upon ttxo vigorous man. Ton's Pills frivotono to tho weak stomach, bow els, kidneys and bladder. To these organs their strenethenlns; qualities are wonilerfnl, causing- themtopo form their f mictions as in youth. Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray St., New York. vMmwm 5-TON WACOM SCALES, Xraa Imr, CUI Brsriafi, UnM Tar Bm a4 tm Bx, m4 JO J 13 W mt. tW frrtfki frM riiM List swrntlra Ul suar HA4Ve?,w?i.,S: r KJJIX TH3 rtm mmj dm m a g Medicated (-lecthicityI SCures Catarrh, rienralgla. Deafness, Headache. Colds, Etc. Instant Re lief. 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