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Caslnnorc Shawls. vne any wc wont to town to visit a ciaauf iciorv of C;iHi.':iore shawls. After a terribly unattractive approach, we gain clambers ! up soma stairs and emerged into a lare room, full of looms, with about fortv men all hard at work. Ono we especially watched. II o had in front of him nearly a thou pan l shuttles of different shades, and out o thi;s ho would select one and thread it through as many of the fine Ft ran is htrtched tightly before him us hjr; pattf-ra directed, and after o doin h- pulled toward him a heavy bar, which punhud th-? r.ht little crosi thread ju!te tiyht, before, putting in thu livxt. hi old ilavH one man used to read out thi putt- m t all th rest, but nw a"h irt-: his own design on it slip of iap-r in. front of him. It in said that t h i wavy lin?, wi often seen in th'; -h'iwl, wir; originally taken from thi riirvi-s of tlie dhelurr. It took four months, we w;r.- told, for two m;H 'to do M;vi'ii inr'he of thin work, ohm vml wid, working from o in th nirniri'.r till " in th-? evening tvery day, ho it whs l-'tr ily to be wondf-rrd at that two yar -U should coat nearly .?")'). A w- h ft th'.- workroom, -no pdal to xohin;; itn h uteil atmosphere for a rooh-r breath o: air, it was irnpo:-ibIe to t'irc): th oiivioUH thought of the 'ontra'-t mrh lives arr to our own. We mingled .with th: tfayly-dref-sed crowd juth r 1 to n polo tourna-ii-nt, and our thoughts strayed b-tck to that Htilliiiur room, v.ith its V.-iHi lc. monotony and p-rp"t ual rind, wh re mor- iik" njt.'diine, wove hour uft-r liour viirytit.: Jnu-s of rolor into "lit; harmonious hIio'.m. . And v t thy I dl tlmt HIM lb: Would . as-M.-rt Jt- If, Vt; too, UiriiU: m n.Sc, art- i, ir bv hour worki .'o to ia'ii.e of our lives '-: in the tiny Threads that up th ,ittt r.'i and color lh v, holt- (i'.'Mirn, how ever, does not J if. open b !': u;-, but in in reifuliy withh.-M by im all-wiso MusittT hand. TlieCornhill Magazine. IVlrohaiu in a .Vtv. Ko!r, Petroleum; wiii. h is on- of the most useful lipti ts hi eo::;!n reiul uxe, Jim appeared m a new role, it is .said that it affords t'lii- lfft r 1 1 1 - i y yet known for boiler iix-rii'-t.-i.t ion. Th' petrob-uru in either f-ipiirt'-d ' aninst the insida walls of th-. boiler alter th- latter has bem cdeansed, or it is added to tho water of the boiler when full, ho that when the water in hIowIv run off tho petroleum acts trraduallv on the sedi mentary deposit, rendering it so loom ami brittle that it can eusilv le re moved by tools, or even by u powerful stream of water. far no prejudicial Action of the petrobmm on the boiler plates 1 la.s been noticed. It it-, said that the State rail vruya administration in l'ruHsia has adopted petroleum aa im incrustation-removing hkhUuiu throughout the whole of its lines. Chicago Record. The little inUnd of Malt, fms language ,f its own, .leriVe.l from the ; ",llimi1 Arabian tongues. m! nobility-', of Italian. tho itilanJ scak rATi: or Onto, City ok Toledo. Licas Ciii'mv i I'man k J. t-iu.NFr makes oath that heisthe fen.ier jLiitn. i ot tlie lirmof F. J. Chknfv & .. .banc b'Miie-s fit t ho City of Tolode County and Mute uf.ores.aid. and that said firm "ill pavthf sum .,f oi; HL'NincKi, iU)L. IiAK for .-arli an.l , vei y ,,( ' Uanh that r:i n t, -t 1 . cured by t he u.-e of i u ra.'s ( ' A r A n tta 1 Jt' t , . Kkank .1. Ciii.ney. vorn to Ki-fro me and subscribed in mv pres. n. e, tbls i!v ,liiy ,,f )l., .mb,-r. A. D. s,sO. I A. W. UliASUN, ska i. J ' ,fT,'., . ,' ' Xt an) Puh'iic. Hall s( atarrh Cure istakon internally and acts jlirertly en the blood and nuieous surfaces of the vt m. Send for test irnoniaJs, free ItSoM by Pnvcist. T."c I'; I K 'Xpe. rrn ". nt ..' i'0'i.ooti. earrymg on tie v Y'ir.; a t ve.ir itv l will The Fast Guarantees The' "Future The f.l(-' Jh-u H,M1-., v th:f,in,i uf ,,t i ,,. s reason f(H bi-:i-t ! ii,-n : -.i, a; l '.a ii.i Tired - i rrtai ily su;fn lent i' I'd v u:t i-u. Mnphif tiritcciin. When? years old Wgui to K tmuhled with ecremaon the head. .-auHsnc intent iuh:nc and burninp. and atTtvting ht-r ev. s. n, r mother t.-snnes. gave her is !.-n!, of Hood's Sarsaparilla nd she is ent irely well I Lav tjik-n st my wlf for tLit irrt d feeling nd it do r.u grt-.it gwxl." Mkj. Wu mam McKeliun. 4m stcn k holm St.. Bnitimore. Md. t;tt Hood's. Hood 11 1 1 1 cure aH liver 1U, Mis loun dice. iD lig stioa, swk bi 'rt.la.-b-. 1.V.D ICngleside :- IBIetreat. For Dl4-i of Wma. RcienttSe treAtn.eat &ad ore gxiratee. kletc.Mit at-Art-rrnu tor i vile b tar aad durtns e'nflcen-..nt. A41r Th Reol 4nt hytlcUn. 1i-7i I'mr Court, Na&hru.e, Tejim. Do Vet B DelTtd with PmH BoauoU a Palaw wkw. and., iaj v the troa and barr Ie DarN. and Um eoaraW mtZ'SfZl REV. DR. TALMAGE 1IIK IUIOOKLVN DIVIMS SUN DAY EliMOX. ' no raw rpvm- Isr. ," Job xxiv.. 20 : 7, ' O Mirion an. I Its D -f-Mt?" is my snbj to--lay. Thr" is an old monster that swrl-Jr.-yii .o-.vn 'v"rythias'. It crunch in IU vl Jui'.a. f v;;i!i, corr.rnuniti'-. Stat, N.v tioas. ronti!int. hmLphr-is. worll. It 'h"? i mad" up of yir. of nt'irie. of 'a '.-. of ox of rTililr.nhtT.- of -'.'r;. 'I !"tt m.onHt'T in aUod hr Novi Wbf-tr and nU th-oth-r dWlonirt'in-- oblivion. . It is a st"-j. dvvn whifh v-rvthin,' ro!U. It U n drtcr-ition in whiii pvfn-thljic: i? a- It i.4 a. dir- in whi vi all orch-s t av an ! a r.-riod at wh; -h v-rvthincr ytorn. It is th ' n.t,-ry of thj imrnan ri". It i-i t' - domain of forr-tfulns. OMivion ! At ti",f it thrown a 8'iadow ovr all of uh. an 1 I would not nronoua'Vi it to-lay if I did not fo-nr- ar.Te-d in th atrn-tn ( th" Krna! ' r,n vour i.'j'ialf to attack it. tu r-i". it, t 'hy. ju-t io k at tho way rh fanili-? of th- -arth disappear. To'- .".whil.thy are do-r-r!-T. ins-p irahie and to eah Mother indi. M!.ln.,in J thn thfy 'irt, inie by mar-riMi'- troin to .tHh!i-li .thr ho-r.-i. and Fr,"i" i"av X hi.s lif.-. and a eonturv Is donij f.--irh tr. p'ant a family. d-vi.-!on it", prosper it a iei oV.lit-rnte it, So the .r-n-'ratioa van- V.'aii,- np Broadway. N-w VorTc : Sf f street, lio-toii : Chftfttit '-tr.-ot. Phila 1-! )hia ; the Sf ran J, London : Prln' --tret. ndsnhurh ; 'i cnp.j Kivseoa. ivtri : ;Mfr den Lind-u. U-rlin. and yo'.i will m t in thU yfar ls93 not on- p rfon who wai'-:-l it in !7:n. What 'n-nlfmr-nt All tie1 or linarr "Tort at p"r-n-tuation are .jad failures. Walter Scott's ';! .dortality" may round wit'i 1:1 ef;-,s-i to r-unt th' f.ah-1 epitaphs on tomb-FtrK-s, hut Ohl.OMivt.on h;w a quicker ehis d w.th whe-h h" nn r-ut out a thousand -r.i- tap';s vhiJe '-Old Mortality" is-uttin- in on-' p:!aph. Vhol libraries of hioranhies de- V'.un-d of hookwor.-ns or unread of the rHin? AM the slims of the stores and warehoimes' -reat firms !iar. ehan-l. unl --s the en:i Isons think that it. i-? an n lv.mt t re t keej. tha old ftin up. be nm! tne nam? oi th-aneosfor was v.nrf e(imendatorv than th name f the descendant. Tlie eitv nf Ih':e Htaiids to- lav. bur ill ,!n-.rp J,t :e HtaiVis to-lav. but " iiH'l YOU -o:i;e IO .aUOTlier i.O'P.e. b'i. 'ed. and 'o down still farther and yo-i 'i " find a third Jto:?ie. .Tenmalm staruls to day, but dif down d-ep enouh'an l you :vdl fin : a Jerusalem und-rn-arh. and no on and d. i, t down a third Jerusalem. Alexandria h" ton Of an Alexandria nn.l thi. !A,.An,i (t! f he top of thf third. i ttje imeient cities are burie 1 thirty p, or ilfty leep. or 100 feet. What matter? Anv sre,-;al e.-u.-imitv? o fe -' d-W-ls tV Th in !s and waves and s'lnds and" fivin.. lu-r ire all undertakers and irave di'iers aii : w.: an ' do-. at: r.u- if the-world stands lonr enough the nt Brooklyn and New York and London nve on top of them other Brooklyn. '",v Yorke and' London.?, and only atter nand loririg and blasting will the !ogist of far distant centuries come .'. as far as the highest spires and domes urrets of our present American and' an cities. . . ' i the roll of the armies of Baldwin I or o Charles Mart'd, or of Marlborough, or f M Uirldates. or of Prince Frederick, or of Coi l and not one answer will you hoar. Stan 1 thern in line and call the roll of 1.000, OUO r.en in the army of' Thebes. Not one anstvr. .Stand them in line, the 1,700,000 infantry and the 200,000 cavalry of tho As-f-v.-i in army under Ninus, and call the roll. !s'-t one answer. Stand in line tho 1,000.03 men of Sesostrii, the 1,200,000 men of Artax erx -s at Cunaxa, ' the 2.011,000 men under X-rxe at Therrnopyhn, and call the long roll. Not one answer. At the opening of our civil war tho men of the Northern and Southern armies were told that if they fell in battle their names would never be forgotten by their country. Out of the million men who fell in battle or died in military hospitals, you cannot call tho names oT 1000, nor the names of 500. nor tho names of 100. nor the names of llfty. Oblivion! A re-the feet of the dancers who were at the ball of the Duehegs of P.iehmorid at Brussels the night before Waterloo a'l still? All still. Ar- -.ii the ears that heard the guns o Bun ker Hill all deaf? All deaf. Are the eye3 that the- coronation of rorgo III. all closed? Ah -ed. Oblivion! A hundred years fro now there will not be a bein on this earr:. that knew we ever lived. i i -o:ne old family record a descendant fin 'van; up the areestral line may'spell out our name, and from the nearly faded ink. Wi O'l u rv great effort, llnd that some person of t rue. was born somewhere between ism 1 'fO. but they will know no more about ; in we know about the color of a child's im last night in a village in Pata- pe; ..!. Tell me something about your great gr.m 1 father. What were his. features? What did he do? What year was he born? What year did he die? And your great-grand-intii..r. Will viva deserii.e the stvle of tho h.it she wore, an I how did she and vonr grci'-irrau'ltathfr u.'t "ini'aniuuship.- Was en in 'a'-h other's h weather or it Mar june. - Oblivion ! That mountain surge rlls over everything. Kvn the pyramids are dying. Not a day passes but there is ehisebvl 'oijj chip of that granite. The sen is triumphing over the band, ,-md what is going on at Coney Is'aii I is goin n all r.r--u' worl tn I tlXM-ontiii.-uts nr. 'TurnhMng into tti-' waves and wail !n 1 tr.in-piring u th outsid :e t e' wor d th- hot fh.is ! f the eternai iir- r.'-m.iation.of t!e earth is digging un 1 -r t h andcutting its way out fow.iri th surface. It surprises im--- to h ir poipb'say th"y do not think tie- w rid wiii anally f burned up. wli.'n -all s -i'ntists wiii tt-li you th.it it lias for ags b..ji .! iir.. , Wiiv. threis on!v a 4-rut btwe-n us .m t ho furnaces insidV ragin - to g.t out. Oblivion! The world ijself will roll into it as easily as a s hoolly's india rubber ball rolls down a hill, and whn our world go.3 ir is so inferior k.M bvth.- law of irravitation. with other worlds that they will go. too. and j so far from having our memory prpetur-,t',i ; by a monument of AU-rd.eu granite in tius i iiia.- i u j ncn.i lii sigai or our strongest teS'stpc that will boa sure p'ili nent for any slab of foamiemoratioa of tho u wi' vt nve.i t n.i at ail. ur artn is siru'ic wirn i.-atn. The axi'tr' Of "I tn" .-vnstiMiati-ins wki .r..k ni . .t . o-.va i th" popuiatim lunar, sehtr r; of ther worlds. St-Uar, ! rta.itv. Oblivion! I: swallow andwiil :(! ta ow wnolo gal iii-s oi .crocodile takes d-.uvi W'H,' Is as e.usiiv Y't oblivion does not remove or swallow anything that had t-tter not r"n-. n - i or swillowexl. The ol i :r.nter is weleo -v to his nual This worl i would kag ag h ive Ihhu overcrow Usi if it had not tn .'for th-s mer.-iful r-7vival of Nations and gt-a -rations. ' NVhat sf ail th lo ks h.ad live i t ut were ever written in i printed' aa'd ; ;:- t lt-h.l Ihe U! rAr..- w,.ul 1 bv th aensitv hav ofsrr ; -te 1 mt'dlig-n !.3- taJ made ai! rar-rli trr.povtM Th f.iti! epi-b'mic of l-'wks wi-a merciful et i ;" !ii . Many of th Mat. find National Ul-r.ri-j to-Iay are only morgii in which dead 1 ooks are waiting for s -.nie on to -im an 1 rev5gni,' thci.. ' "hat if - all th p.vde that hd been Kirn were still aliv' W. would have been eltowe.I by. our ancestors of ten centuries ago. and reopl who ra-ii to have said their las: word S.VX1 vas .! now. would narl at u-. nn.-i; are va om nerer' Inere weuld hav lv. n ;i - room to turn aroun L Some- of th past neratloa-i of. mankind wer not wV r:;: r tsemtruj. The rlrst useful thine that nnsb: irttuit aa lthoir cravtia boon A :ri h?hr a ;" y-" r I ui-n t-fraa tias t.-vz-r? tu Tty 1 TbLs world washariiy a coafortable ria.Ns "fbt d Wlt c"i3 'v1 ith which we to live in telore the n.iiileo! the Un ea- ctlM !-eild or t'iiur yr j wias taat rolled duwa our dc-k betrel o, Cr riu S c!iii 1 1 Y P on vrhicu s t iau.wr . v wei3u u?r your tttral mua;ph.j tuiy. So many things have eome into th worM tnat-were not Et to stay in, w ont:ht to tr srlad th'-y were puit out- "Tb watersof Lethe, the fountain of fort fulness, ar? .a healthful draft. Th history we have of th world in &f past is alwa.vs one sided and "annot be depended on. ItLtory i3 fl.-tin illustrated by a few stralin facts, in all the Piinthon the weakest toddesj f3 Clio, the goddess of history, and insteid of rnii rprr-centd by sculptors as holding a srall mitrht tetter be represented as limping. cmtches. Faithful history; Is the savin? of a few thincs out of more thinirs lost. The im-,or-tality that eomes from pomp 61 -obsequies, or granite shaft, or building nami after it? founder, or pa?to of recognition in some e-h-cyclopedia . is aa immortality unworthv o' one's ambition, for it will ceaie and is no im mortality at all. Oblivion! A hundred yars. Eat while I re;og:ni2d this universal submergence of thine3 earthly who wmts to be forgotten? Not one of us. Absent for a few weeks or month? fnm home, it cheers us to know that we are membere-ri then;. It ia a phrase we have ail ronounced. "I hope you missed me." Met i n so me friends drom whom we have b-en parte-I many years, we inquire, "Did vou ever see me heforV,J and they say, and call u. by name, and W3 feel a deliht fu! sensation thrilling thron?h their hand into our hand, and running up from pU-w to shouMer, and then partinx. the oau--rect or delight aseen lin to the brow in l the Other jleSeerj iin o t0 fQQ m0vj3 round an round in concentric circles until every nerve an 1 muscle an t capacity of bo lv andrnind and sul is permeated with d '- liht. A few days ao, visiting the place of -t boyhood, I met one whom I had not s-n since we played together at ten years o -and I had peculiar pleasure in pozlih? hirl a little a to who I was. and I can har.iTv ,u scribe the sensation as after awhile he mum bled out: "Let me see. Yes, vou ara Da iu. e an use to no remembered. -sow, l nave to ten vou that this o')lirinr of which I have spoken has its defeats and '' me is no more reason why we should nor ne aistlnctly an 1 vividlv an 1 gloriously rernemb-red five hundred million billion At"" 1 M.u nuuion years irom Z . t I,, u r'Te:nb 1 six r . ! Iarn "?inf' f? tf' 1 thethias .via oe none rq-j will u i uone, ue may build tfus "everlasting rem-m . ' uij " n, into tno super -in i-imtru'w-i ji taos j to wnom wo do kind n esses in this worl 1. You must re ue-n' in.u uns inarm an I tre.a-herous faculty which we now call memory is in the future .-rat to ne comolete and perfect. 'Ever lasting remembrance r Nothing will um ooul njjoi mar ceu?st.iai lacuLtv. Did ou neipa wiuow pay her. rent? Did you place to get honest work? DM v-:, rai- "u'i iui i.Hii iiiiiri r :e.i 5r.-i irom pnson a a child fallen on the curbstone nnDw stick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt I stopped rotating, and the last sun is ex on his scratched knee? Did you assure a I tln"l3hed on the sapphire pathway, and "usaness man. swamnorf hv rhe aHmnn,.,. the money market, that times would after 'awhile be better v Did you lea 1 a Mag lalen of the street tnf a midnight mission, where the Lord said to her : '"Neither do I condemn thee ; go and sin no more?" Did you tell a man. elear .lis- couragoo in his waywardness and hope'esa and plotting suicide, that for hinrwasnear by a laver in which he might wash, and a uiuui ui eiernai oiesse-Jness ho might What are epitaohs in trravevanis o-nf eulogiums In preseneo of those whoso breath is in their nostrils, what are unread bio Ta- uuoe.sm ine alcoves of city library, com oared ix-it'i tl. irn ,,:r.v, i i -. ' - ."- iiuin:ij3ii(iyiu rocorus VOU j mniT in me niuminea memories o thijHo to whom you did such kindnesses' I-orget them? They cannot forget them -yL.viiiistcvnuiiig an tneir mught and snlen lor. there are some tiling rh .riaL iieaven cannot do. and thi l nm, ,t u, I hey cannot fortret an VwrtJ.lv i-j.i. dohe. They have no cutlass to k" cable. They have no strength to hurl into vuiniuu luiu u'iiacnou. nits x .iui iorgotten tne nh.ih tnn. , aialta. who extended the island hospitality I u. m tiii-r wuu mm nad ielt added I to a shipwreck, the drenching rain and the sharp cold? Had the victim of the htehwav- man on the road to Jericho forirottpn th I tool Samaritan with a medicament of oil iuu wine ana a iree nda to the hostelry Have the English soldiers who went up tj rod from the Crimean battlefields forgotten j. Jureui:o iiguringaier --"""H" "i rLt-iuuy win tne .Northern and .....o ivu tzl,j .onnern and .-vutociu women, wno -administered to th dying boys iu blue and gray after the awful lights in Tennessee, and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Georgia, which turno I eyerv house- and barn and shed into a hospital and incarnadined the Susquehanna, and the James, and the Chattahoochee, and tho S i vannah with br.ivo i,ioo.iv i ; ",.. i-.m n-iminesses oo to oiuers win stand as long in the an i-iwuiumoiocneisiis the gats of heaven rfo 3ltlUu, us mo "iiouse of Many Mansions': will stand, as long as the throne of God will" .stand . .. . -othur ,ief6;itof oblivion will bo found in the character of those whom re've uplift or save. Character is eternal. Suol pose hya right influence we aid in trans forming a bad man into a good man, a dol orous man hoio a happy man, a disheartened man into a courageous mm ,vw ' ti ----- -.ii.ji ji I tnat wonc done will be immortalized There u, i, so mucuas one line in a news paper regarding it. or no mortal tongue may ever whisper it into .hum a.r n ' lTJ?nl sha'Koyo.ir work upon it , vrm.-rt5.-er mat soul rises your work Will last your work on it will last Do you suppose there will ever come sUi I h" : "riuC ,iU . W '-story of that soul hoavn ,h, it shllI1 for ; "; ' - j tuiu-si .am round from thewron-wav j to the right way? Xo auch inanity wfllm-er smite a heavenly citizen it i nL ii!??. well on earth known that Christonuer Wn I , ....-. .liiM uuiu cc. i-aui s as it i known in all heaven that you were t ir.'iTi n Aii t.ii. i1. i i will b the in- i - n uuu xiiauiy oi nun-ling a skv. templ for the? Wnteh a Sabbath class, or put a Chris. 1 c,.s i "AT -pre.ica i. .. i liomo aiso a CCOrnniish.vl -h..r. we nad txen character bui dtr,,-. ,. tenal that no frost or earthquake or roC -of tne centuries can damage or bring -iwiT Thero is no sablimer art in the world than archit.vture. With pencil and rule and com. pa tho aremtect sus down aloa- an 1 in i. thedras. o-a Nation-.! . - t ".oi- ?." 1.. cai ves that tiM.- . andth-n he and calls ci- - "ui and unr nl P'-nt.Ts and rr..5s his plans. an it,) i; 1 .... i . . . v "TiS ... ... u.n. and wm-nir u . artiSJins rf -ill :c waiKs around vast stru''tur r, i tne-comi.!ttien of thA rk with high hL "action, and building lth-sror on a ?ton" at some corner of tn arcrut..vt nam- naybe chi-Ul r..s..o their work, and time. rha 'vrrvthin nr-i'! ,"1l- wn ctu Until th.TM Shall nr. wn ' K C ner. h it 'th.-.- is a - V .-..- i...-. . . ,. i. Through C-r .lOl S r, .t. put thre. In- hitt of rt- ! iuur nam" i. SS Written . vu corner o ' its .v.-r-L- - its tarure. ut inwr,-,. -tcrn.s of kC'-'L -Will th. mlmjia in.'. si 'iritual st to - thr is no wunt-r. f rrs 12 that 3a-,' No. Tit.c nn datioa of that isr h into it pi!fa kv tru-nure. o its d- or tne name s.. ?.wl call y.,v M.ow.me llihie G.d u u j.-.il-:,u3 Goi a rs but In one rdao that chi d accomplished ! And Gol nrer wa? jaJouof a Joshna. never ras ja!on "fa i aul, never was jealous of a Frances h'aver sraf. never was ja.'oti. of a man or woman w&o ned toheal irounis and wine awa tears and lift burdens arid $av soul: atid while all b of prace, and Voar seK a. neiratinj? utterance will be, "Xot unto name. yon shall alwav. 'an! t . . r . neavemv sAtfsf iinn in -1 thing you did on earth, and if le.-m"'-i!. ironi aath. should break' vnrougn the gates of heaven and efface one record o' your earthlf fidelity, mcthink cnris. would take on of tha "nlk n Hi even.' own cros and writ omehvp on the tai. or the amethyst, cr theiainth. or th onrysonrasns-, your name aii jurt under it TnfCl?f text- Th rights ""Aw bVe!d ln eating rememhranc-." Oh. this character building ! You and I nre every moment busy in that tremmdou occupation. You are. making me betted c worse, and I am making you betfr or worse. and we shall through all eternitv bear the mark of this benedl-tioSVp blasting. v others have the thrones of heaven those who have more mightily wrought for toi and the truth but it will be heaven enough for you and me If ever and anon we meet some radiant soul on the boulevards of the great city wdso shall say : "You helped me ence You encouraged me whea l was n earthly struggle. I did not know that I would have reached this shining place had It not been for you.' And we will iaush with heavenly glee and say : "Ha ! ha ! Do vou why remember that talk? Do you reavm er that warning? Do you remember that Christian Invitation? What a mmnrv have ! Why, that must have been dw-"here in Brookl yn or New Origan t mmt tun thousand million years ago." An 1 the an swer will be. "Yes. it was n lnno n hut 1 remember It as well aa though it jt-Mtraay. Ob, this character building 1 The structure lasting independent of passing centuries, in dependent of crumbling mausoleums, inde pendent of the whole planetary system. Aye, if the material universe, which ... L J t - bound together like one .piece of maohinery, should some day meet with an aident thli -9houl'1 worlds crashing into eaoh other like telescoped rail wav tSfiS. 2d S fS oped railway trains, and all the whee.s of constellations and galaxies should stop, and down into one chasm of immensity all the suns and moons and stars should tumble like the midnight express at Ashta bula, that would not touch us and" would nor1 hurt' God, for God is a spirit, and character and memory are immortal, and over that grave of a wrecked material universe might truthfully be written, "The righteous shall nt new in everlasting remembrance." O. Time, we defy thee! O. Death xr- I stamp thee in the dust of thin A own unnnL che . O, Eternity, roll on till the last star I lil '-wu nas iiiumme-i the last nfrht I ,m,i, a" Inan' -vmrs have passed as all the " "u' 3-"i" everiooK pen could descrit)e by as many llgures as they could vrite in all the centuries of all time, but thou shalt have no power to efface from any soul in glory tho memory of anything we have done to bring it to Go 1 and heaven ! There is another and a. more complete de font for oblivion, and that is in the heart of God himself. You have seen a sailor roll up his sleeve and show vou his arm tnttoon.i with the figure of a favorite ship perhaps the iMrst ono in which he ever sailed Ynn have been a soldier roll show you his arm tattooed with tho figure of a fortress - which he was irarr-snned or the fa .-c oi a great general under whom he iought. You have seen many a hand tat tooed with the face of a loved one before or I ilitr marriage.-- I This tattooing is almost as old n hwnrM I ir 1S some colored liould nunctured into th I llesh so indelibly that nothin? ran wash it I "t- Tt hve been there fifty years, but I " " L11C vt?s mio ma coinn tnat pic- viuko wnu mm on nanuor arm. Now 8ay? that he llHS tattooed us upon hhi " u no omer meaning In iorty-ninth chapter of Isaiah, where God says' "Beho!h I have graven thee on the paims oLmy hands It was as much as to sav : "T rtrinrt My hand to help, hut I think of vou. T can not spread abroad My hands to bless, but I think of you. Wherever I go up and down the heavens I take these two pictures of vou .wiu ue. ney are so inwrought Into My being that I cannot lose them. As long as My hands last the memorv of von rcill ina Not on the back of My hands, as though to announce you to others, but on the palms of My hands for Myself to look at. anil st nd v and love. Not on the palm of one hand alone, but On thn rmlme r.f l.Atl, ,.l. r w.uie l am looking upon one hand and think ing of you, I must have i he other hand fre" tO protect VOU. free to vlr(L-.. !.l- enemy, free to lid if yem fall. Palms of Mv nands in deliblv t.-itroo . I ' ia,.i, i ... ' " iiivimi j --Old the win-Is in Mv iirst no cvclone shall uproot the inscription of. your name an-l your face, and thou 'h l tioi.i tho n,.., : ... -. . .... -i - - ---- - ... ..i me nouow oi 3ly nan i its billowing shall not wasu. uui me record oi Mv jt noiu. i nave graven th" - on tho r.lm rtf Jl.t. Jl'lll' i.s. T.. 1, I . I " J--o. ) ilill lOIior c.'lti t i(n .t ",vm. .iiauiv iu mat OI Ie:ng rcmtMnr.r..d i.v tl" mightiest and kindt an-l loveliest an I ten dercst and most 3itT.tionrt.. i...ir.-. in , universe Think of it. to hold an ev-rbistim piace in tiic heart oi iu 1. Th h"art of bd r.e most beautiful naia. in the nnivt-rs,. I .. t K.. ., .. . ...-,. grand as that if he cm. f."t hi-n cnimbh- uo 1 l t li . r - 1 ' l--ll.ll"-i i.i : 1 SOU" Til.' :is an "' . stars o. vr-stenr.ght and to-morrow night and put thm tog"tiir as nosaiv-s for s-uch a palace Uoor. L.-t him take all the siin rises and sunsets, of all the days an 1 the auroras of all --the night and hang thern as .upholstery at its : :n 1 w-. .- Let him take all tne riwrs. r.ni ail tlw cans, and toss them intc lakes, and all th-, th" fountains of th s 1' ilaee court. Let him tV, c all the -old rffallth hills and han? it in '.-.j-r.-. anu ail tn pearls of all the s i. ".in an tne diamonds of all the fields. , it.i i .. ;i area tnc -toorwavs ' of that i'v.a-e, th'-n invite into it all' "the trlorie t.n-it Etiier ver saw at a Persian banquet, or i.;ni l vcr walked s:non in KabvIonUn - v. '..-.-j.., i.:i"y j iq i naraon s taronemoru. an-l then yourself enter tiiis ea-s;le of archantreli' 'on.-tetion. and see now poor a pala-e it i eomiT-tr.-! ' with th greater palace that sor-c of vu have aire.i iv found in t.V h-art of a loving .11,1 r.nr.r.n,n wnien an the niui an 1 all - .- , ,m i ; t nt sw-rraooie -oai lr? tions or this -lay ar- trying to introiii4:e vou t&roujrh. th blojd o; t:. uin 1 im-.. ; h. wher is otdivi.-,n n -jw? From th lark and overshadowing word that it sequel wnn I beipin, it hiis fu-fnfVnn" whi-h no man or woman or child who "loV-s the Lord neod ever fear. OUivion defeated. Oblivion leaL Oblivion s-?palerei. But "utit ri-'r t- s,-) hard on that dvourn monster, for into its ffrave co aii our sins wnen the Lord for Christ's , tk has fora - "S J lis. liO W ,1 over thni when n th-;.. down. Nor ,-,n r--s.irr-nion tra"np-.-t oh.ivion has snapped of tne-n rjet. kow ..t.ii. - .or a s-tir ami i k& . ri'l th- r,.kT ione-1 in- iquiti.-s of a Ufetime. di t hem n them nijvejj la -ho deen .t.iv ?revb i;ut to thi a vol-? r.-spon.is. half buuo. half divine, and it mut b part man an 1 part io-t. -av-inz. 4T.irsia5 and thir mf-iuiti will I rV i-eml-T no niore." i C42 f,-i tor this Mesj oMivioa' you s-j I Ud not iav.te y-a d..svn int'.i lir I.;:' t!--,-, . - . . yard to.whih ail mat-r. ili-n is -wlni. but into a carina all &.?. w. w.th rvrLi-: j! rer;.-rxibraii'.-. The fro 4r os t. ruis lifcoi.: th kiss o! t :"t..s-. Giiiiiar.oLi has r,-eoEe cor-.:.-i:i T::; w: At.- iJi i'"is .! oi h. rrnr 'r Don't Forget it is BAKING j POWDER that makes the deli cious biscuit, jrriddle cake and doughnut A florae for the Mastodon. After a checkered career, that would effectually puzzle a Steinitz, the Chi cago Academy of Sciences is to have permanent home, and no longer will the bones of the mastodon and the ribs of the ichthyosaurus be. moved about town ou trucks at disgustingly fre quent intervals. Ground was brolten yesterday for the building which is to adorn Lincoln Park on a site about one hundred feet east of the foot of Centre street,' and the work on tho structure will now be rapidly pushed. Next spring, it is hoped, thecurios of the Academy will settle down for ood on pe .lest a is in Lincoln Park. Mat' thew Latiin's gift of 375,000 and the Lincoln Park Board's addition of $2.- .000 mkesthe fund available for build ing, purposes 3100,000. Moreover. the Lincoln Park Board agrees to keep the building lighted and pay the .salaries of a curator and his assistant, amounting to SoOOO per annum. The new building will be constructed ol Bedford stone in the Corinthian style, with a red roof of Spanish tiie. Mas- : .1 -ii mc coiumn win support ail open porch, to which a brood stairway will lead. in tho basement will be the workroom and laboratory, tho main Hour will be devoted to a large central hall, -while the second floor will be given over to a grand hall and gallftty. New York Telegram. The Shillelagh. The shillelagh, like the poet, is born, "--- iuo, ii is a cnoiee plant, and its growth is slow Among 10,000 blackthorn shoots per- naps not more than one is destined to Become famous, one of the 10,000 appears of singular fitness. As Win as discovered it is marked and dedi- caxeu lor luture service. Everything that might hinder its development ia removed ana any oilshoot of tho main stem is skilfully cut off". With constant care grows thick and strong,. upon bulbouVrbot that can be shaped into a handle. fTernt, in Afghanistan, is the riiv wliK-ii has been most often destroyed. Fifty-six times have its walls been laid in ruins, and tho name number tiiiK-s have thi-j been eru'.ted again. ol t 1) ower Eight doctors treated me for Heart Disease audone for Rheumatism, but did me no pood. I could not speak aloud. Everything that I took into the Stomrch distressed me I could not sleep. I had taken all kinds of medicines. Through a neighbor I got one of your books. I procured a bottle of Green's Aug ust Flower and took it. I am to-day stout, hearty and strong and cniov the best of health. August Flower saved my life and gave me mv health." Mrs. Sarah J Cox, Defiance, O. "riOTHERS FRIEND" Is a pcientilicaily prepared Liniment and harmless; every i::grcdicnt ia of recognized valuo and. in constant uso by tho medical j n frsr-iou. It short ens Labor, Lessons. Pain, Diminishes ganger to life of Mother and Child. lKxk To Mot hers" maild free, con taining valuable infc "voluntary testimonial?. 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