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And when he had taken him and brought him to his maother ho'sat on her knoes till noon and then died." There is at least one happy home in Shunem. To the luxuriance and splendor of a great house had beet given the ad vent of a child, gveh when the angel of life brings a now soul to the poor man's hut a star of joy shines over the manger. Infancy, with Its helplessness and Inno cence, had passed away. Days of boyhood had come, days of laughter and frolic, days of sunshine and promise, days of strange questions and curiosity and quick development. I suppose among all the treasures of that house the brightest was the boy. One day there is the shout of rearers heard afield. A boy's heart always ofunds at the sound. of sickle or scythe. No sooner have the harvesters cut a swath across the field than the lad joins them, and the swarthy reapers feel young again as they look down at that lad, as bright and beautiful as was Ruth in the harvest fields of Bethlehem gleaning after the reap ers. But the sun was too hot for him. Congestion of the brain seized on him. I see the swarthy laborers drop their sic kles, and they rush out to see what is the matter, and they fan him, and they try to cool his brow, but all is of no avail. In the instant of consciousness he puts his hands against his temples and cries out, ".My head, my head!" And the father said, "Carry him to his mother," just as any father would have said, for our hand is too rough, and our voice is too harsh, and our foot is too loud to doctor a sick child if there be in our home a gentler voice, and a gentler hand, and a stiller footstep. But all of no avail. While the reapers of Shunem were busy in the field there came a stronger reaper that way, with keener scythe and for a richer har vest. He reaped only one sheaf, but oh, what a golden sheaf was that! I do not want to know any more about that heart breaking scene than what I see in just this one pathetic sentence, "He sat on her knees till noon and then died." Though hundreds of years have passed away since that boy skipped to the harvest field, and then was brought home and died on his mother's lap, the story still thirlls ua In deed childhood has a charm always and everywhere. I shall now speak to you of childhood-its beauty, its susceptibility to impression, its power over the parental heart, and its blissful transition from earth to heaven. The child's beauty does not depend upon form or feature or complexion or apparel. That destitute one that you saw on the streot, bruised with unkindness and in rags, has a charm about her even under her destitution. You have forgotten a great many persons whom you met, of fnely cut features and with erect posture and with faultless complexion, while you will always remember the poor girl who, on a cold, moonlight night, as you were passing late home, in her thin shawl and barefoot on the pavement, put out her had and said, "Please to give me a pen ny?" Ah, how often we have walked on and said, "Oh, that is nothing but street vagabondism!" but after we got a block or two on we stopped and said, "Ah, that is not right!" and we passed up that same way and dropped a mite into that suffer ing hand as though it were not a matter of second thought, so ashamed were we of our hard heartedness. With what admiration we all look upon a group of children on the playground or in the school, and we clap our hands al most involuntarily and say, "How beau tiful!" All stiffness and dignity are gone, and your shout is heard with theirs, and you trundle their hoop, and fly their kite, and strike their ball, and all your wariness and anxiety are gone as when a child you bounded over the playground yourself. That father who stands rigid and unsym pathetic amid the sportfulness of children ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitariness. The waters leap down the rocks, but they have not the graceful step of childhood. The morning comes out of the gates of the east, throwing its silver on the lake and its gold on the towers and its fire on the cloud, but it is not so bright and beautiful as the morning of life. There is no light like that which is kindled in a child's eye, no color like that which blooms on a child's cheek, no music like the sound of a child's voice. Its face in the poorest picture re deems any imperfection in art. When we are weary with toil, their little hands pull the burdens off our back. Oh, what a dull, stale, mean world this would be with out the sportfulness of children! When I find people that do not like children, I im mediately doubt their moral and Christian character. But when the grace of God comes upon a child how unspeakably at tractiro! When Samuel begins to pray, and Timothy begins to read the Scriptures, and Joseph shows himself invulnerable to temptation, how beautiful the scenel I know that parents sometimes get nervous when their children become pious, because they have the idea that good childrea al ways die. The strange questions about God and eternity and the dead excite ap prehenslon in the parental mind rather than congratulation. Indeed, there are some people that seem marked for heaven. This world is too poor a garden for them to bloom in. The hues of heaven are in the petals. There is something about their fore head that makes you think that the hand of Christ has been on it, saying, "Iet this one come to me, and let it come to me soon." While that one tarried in the house you felt there was an angel in the room, and you thought that every sickness would be the last, and when finally the winds of death did scatter the leaves you were no more surprised than to see a star come out above the cloud on a dark night, for you had often said to your companion, "My dear, we shall neverraise thatchild." But I scout the idea that good children always die. Samuel the pious boy becami Samuel the great prophet. Christian Timothy be came a minister at Ephesus. Young Dan iel, consecrated to God, became prime min ister of all the realm, and there are in hundreds of the schools and faimlie e t this country today children who love God and keep his commandments, and who are to be foremost among the Christinsa and the philanthropists, and the reformers of the next century. The grace of God never kills any one. A child will be more apt to greow up with religion than it will be al t to grow up without It. Length of days is promised to the righteous. The religion of Chiret does not cramp the chest er curve the spine or weaken the nerves. There are no malarias Soating up from the river of life The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of a child a supernal beauty. "Her ways are ways of pleasant sem, and all her paths are pesoe." I pas on to consider the susoeptibility ef childhood. Men pride themselves on ther ashangeability. They will make an eburste t to m pove that they think now just as they did 30 years ago It is charged to frailty or fraud when a man changes his sentiments in polities or in religion, and It is this determination of soul that so often drives back the gospel from a man's heart It is so hard to make avarice charitable, and fraud bonest, and pride humble, and skepticisn Christian. The sword of Gods 'truth seems to glance of from tlhose mailed warriors, and the helmet seems battle Rroof against God's battleaxu. But ohildhood-how susmcepti bleto example and to instractionl You are not surprised at thereoord, "Abraham begat Isaae, and Isaac begat Jacob," for when religion starts in a family it is apt to go dl through. Jesebel a murdess, yaou are notepuqirse4 to sad hew om Jeboran Ii: .. attempting aseassination. Oh, what a sponslbility upon the parent and the teach rm The musician touches the keys, and the response of those keys is away off amid the pipes and the chords, and you wonder at the distance between the key and the chord. And so it is in life-if you touch & child the result will come back from man hood or old age, telling just the tune play ed, whether the dirge of a gseat sorrow ot the anthem of a great joy. The word that the Sabbath school teacher will this after noon whisper in the ear of the class will be echoed back from everlasting ages of light or darkness The home and the school decide the republic or the despotism, the barbarism or the civilization, the up building of an empire or the overthrowing of it. Higher than parliament or congress are the school and the family, and the sound of a child's foot may mean more than the tramp of a host What, then, are you doing for the purposeof bringing your children into the kingdom of God? If they are so susceptible, and if this is the very best time to rct upon their eternal inter ests, what are you doing by way of right impulsioni There were some harvesters In the fields of Scotland one hot day, and Hannah Lc mond was helping them gather the hay. She laid her babe under a tree. While she was busy in the field there was a flutter of wings in the air, and a golden eagle clutched the swaddling band of the babe and flew away with it to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannah Le meond started for the cliffs. It was two miles before they came to the foot of the cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount I the cliff? No human foot had ever trod it. There were sailors there who had gone up the mast in the day of terrible tempest. They did not dare risk it. Hannah Le mond sat there for awhile and looked up and saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then she leaped to her feet, and she started up where no human foot had ever trod, crag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root until she reached the cyrie and caught her babe, the eagle swooping in fierceness all around about her. Fasten ing the child to her back, she started for her friends and for home. Oh, whatadizzy descent, sliding from this crag to that crag, catching by that vine and by that root, coming down farther and farther to the most dangerous pass, where she found a goat and some kids. She said: "Now I'll follow t he goat. The goat will know just which is the safest way down." And she was led by the animal down to the plain. When she got there, all the people cried, "Thank God, thank God!" her strength not giving way until the rescue was effected. And they cried: "Stand back, now. Give her air!" Oh, if awoman will do that for the physical life of her child, what will you do for the eternal life of your boy and your girl? Lot it not be told in the great day of eternity that Han nah Lemond put forth more exertion for the saving of the physical life of her child than you, O parent, have ever put forth for the eternal life of your little one. God help you! 1 pass on to consider the power which a child wields over the parental heart. We often talk about the influence of parents upon children. I never hear anything saidd about the influence of children upon their parents. You go to school to them. You no more educate them than they educate you. With their little hands they have caught hold of your entire nature, and you cannot wrench yourself away from their grasp. You are different men and women from what you were before they gave you the first lesson. They have revolutionized your soul. There are fountains of joy in your heart which never would have been discovered had they not discovered them. Life is to you a nore stupendous thing than it was before those little feet started on the pathway to eternity. Oh, how many hopes, how many joys, how many solid tudes that little one has created in your soul! You go to school every day, a school of self denial, a school of patience, in which you are getting wiser day by day, and that influence of the child over you will increase and increase, and, though your children may die, from the very! throne of God they will reach down an in fluence to your soul, leading you on and leading you up until you mingle with their voices and sit beside their thrones. The grasp whloh the child has over the, parent's heart is seen in what the parent will do for the child. Storm and darkness and heat and cold are nothing to you if they stand between you and your child's, welfare. A great lawyer, when yet un known, one day stood in the courtroom and made an eloquent plea before some men of great legal attainments, and a gen tleman said to him afterward, "How could you be so calm standing in that august presence?" "Oh," said Erskine, "I felt my children pulling at my skirts crying for bread." What stream will you not swim, what. cavern will you not enter, what battle will you not fight, what hunger will you not endure for your chil dren? Your children must have bread though you starve. Your children must be well clothed though you go in ragas. You say, "My children shall be educated,though I never had arv chanoae." What to you are weary limbe and aching head and hands hardened and callous if only the welfare of your children can be wrought out by it? Their sorrow is your sorrow, their joy your joy, their advance ment your victory. And, oh, when the last slohness comes, how you fight back the march of disease, and it is only after a tremendous struggle that you surrender. And then when the spirit has fled the great deep is broken up, and Rachel will not be eomforted because her ehildren are not, and David goes up the palace st-.irs, ery ing, "O Absalom, my son, my son, would to God I haddied for thee; O Absalom, my eon, my son!" There is not a large family, or lhardly a large family, that has not bent over such a treasure and lost it. In the family fold is there no dead lamb? I have seen many such cases of sorrow. There is one pre eminent in my memory as pastor-Scoville Haynes McCollunm. The story of his death has brought l.undreds unto God. He be longed to my parish in the west. A thor ough boy, 9 or 10 years of age. Nothing morbid, nothing dull about him. His voice loudest and his foot swiftest on the play ground. Often he has come into my house and thrown himself down on the floor in an gxhaustlon of boisterous mirth, and yet he was a Christian, consecrated to God, keepin his commandments That is the nda w shtih piety I believe la. Whn the days of sickness came suddenly and he was told that he could not get well, he said: "Jesus alone can save me. Jesus will save me. He has saved me. Don't cry, mamma I shall go right straight up to heaven." And then they gave )im a glas of water to cool his hot lips. and he said: "Mamma, I shall take a draft from the water of life after awhile, of which if one drink he shall never get thirsty again. I lay myself at Jesus' feet, and I want him to do just what he thinks best to do with me." Inthose-days "Rest 'or the Weary" was a new hymn, and he had learned it, andin a perfect ecstasy of soul in hislaast houar he cried out: "In the Ch.-istian's home in glory There re..ains a land of rest. There my Sravior's gone before me To fill/ my soul' request. There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you. "SAg,. oh, sing. ye heirs of glory, bhout ycor triumphs as you gel elos's gate are ope for yoe, You shall Mad an ditraace through. There is rest for the weary. "Them is rest for you, papa; them is rest i for you, mamma." And then putting his hbands oer his heart, be said, "Ye, I them I rest for me." And then, helskedi them to read "The Lord is my Shepherd; I shaBll not want. fHe maketh me to lie down in peel pastures and leadeth sme be side still waters" and he cried out: "O death, whue is thy tin 0 gearv, whe re htr eltker" Only 10 years old. And then Bhe said, "Now I wish you would just turn this bed so I can look once more on the foliage and see the sun set." And they turned the bed. And he said, "I do so wish that Jesus would hurry and come and take me." They said to him, "Why, are you not will ing to await the Lord's time?" "Yes," he said, "I am; but I woutld rather Jesus would come and hurry'and take me." And so, with a peaceo indescrlbable, he passed away. Oh, there is nothilg sad about a child's death save the grief in the parent's heartl You see the little ones go right out from a world of sin and suffering to a world of joy. How many sorrows they escape, how many temptations, how many troubles! Children dead are s:te. Thore that live are in peril. We know not what dark path' they may take. The day unay come in which they will break yctr heart, but children dead are safe-safe forever. Weep ing parents, do not mnourn too bitterly over your child that has gone. There are two kinds of prayers made at a child's sick bed. One prayer the Lord likes; the other prayer he does not like. Whien a soul kneels down at a child's sickbed and says: "0 Lord, spare this little one. Heis very near to my heart. I don't want to part with him, but thy will be done"-that is the kind of a rayer the Lord loves. There is another kind of lprayer which I have heard men make in substance when they say: '"0 Lord, this isn't right. Itis hard to take this child. You have no right to take this child. Spare this child. I can't give him up, and I won't give him up.'" i The Lord answers that kind of a prayer so:netimes. The child lives on and lives on and travels off in paths of wickedness .o perish. At the e:d of every prayer for a child's life say, "Thy will, 0 Lord, be done. " The brightest lights that can be kindled Christ has ki:d!led. Let us, old and young, rejoice that heaven is gathering up so much that is attractive. In that far land we are not strangers. There are those there who sieak our name day by day, and they wonder why so long we tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families in. to the kingdom cf heaven, it would take me all day to mention their names. A great multitude before the throne. You loved them once, you love them now, and ever and anon you think you hear their voices calling you upward. Ah, yes, they have gone out from all these families, and you want no I oouk to to!l you of the dying experience of Christian children. You have heard it. It has been whispered in your ear, 0 father, 0 mother, 0 brother, O sister. 'Toward that gcod land all Christians are bearing. This snapping of heartstrings, this flight of years, this tread of the heart reminds us that we are pass nlug away. Under spring blossoms and through summer harvests and across au turmal leaves and through the wintry snowbanks we are passing on. Oh, rejoice at it, children of God, rejoice at it! How we shall gather them up, the loved and the lost! Before we mount our throne, be fore we drink cf the fountain, before we strike the harp of our eternal celebration, we will cry out, "Where are our loved and lost?" And then how we shall gather them up Oh, how we shall gather them up! In this dark world of sin and pain We only meet to part again, But when we reach the heavenly shore We there shall meet to part no more. The hope that we shall see that day Should chase our present griefs away. When these abort years of pain are past We'll meet before the throne at last. A THNILLIKO STORY BY J. B. OUGoc. A minister of the Gospel told me one of the most thrilling Incideats I ever heard in my life. A member of his congregation came home for the first time in his life in toxicated, and his boy met him upon the doorstep, o!apping his hands, exclaiming: "Papa's come home!" He seized the boy by the shoulder, swung him around, staggered and fell in the hall. The minister said to me: "I could give you his name, If necessary. I spent the night in the house. I went out, bared my brow that the night air might fall upon it and cool it. I walked down the hill. There was his child-dead! There was his wife in strong convulsions, and he asleep!" A man but thirty )ears of age asleep with a dead child in the house, having a b.ue mark upon the temple where the corner of the marble steps had come in contact with the head as he swung him around, and a wife upon the brink of the grave! "Mr. Gough," said my friend. "I cursed the drink. He had told me I must remain till he awoke, and I did. When he awoke he passed his hand over his face, and ex claimed: 'What is the matter? Where am 1? Where is my boy?; " "You cannot see b him." "'Stand out of the way! I will see my boy!' " "To prevent confusion I took him to the child's bed, and as I turned down the sheet and showed him the corpse he uttered a wild shriek: 'Oh, my child! " That minister said further to me: "One year after he was brought from a lunatio asylum to lie side by side with his wife in one grave, and I attended the funeral." The minister of the Gospel who told me that feet is to-day a drunken hostler in a stable in Boston! Now tell me what rum won't dot It will debase, degrade, imbrute and damn every thing that is noble, bright, glorious and God-like in a human being. There is noth ing that drink will not do that is vile, das tardly, cowardly, sneakish or hellish. We are united, comrades, are we not, to fight Ihis monster, rum, till the day of our deathl A ORATIFYIS PACT. It is only a natural deduction from other facts that the drink habit is falling off, says the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Citizen. One of these is the common practice of railroad and other corporations to require not(merely temper ance, but total abstinence on the part of their employes. This atonce withdraws from the saloons the patronage of a large body of men, most of them young men. who are the that patrons of such p!aces when they pat ronize them at all. The Christian Endeavor movement, which has had such wonderful success in gathering young men to its ban ner, is another potent enemy of drink, and withholds from the saloons many thousands yearly. Still another adverse influence is that of society. There is plenty of drinking done in society, and society smiles on it, but, all the same, when a man's character is under dis cassion in society the admission that "he drinks a little now and then" always counts against him. That is really the meaning of the screened doors and frosted windows of the saloons. It is not reputable for a man to be seen drinking, and this consideration has its Influence in restraining the habit. It is tolerably plain, then, that the useof Intoxicating liquor is on the wane. It will be a mlonug tlme before it will cease entirely, if It ever does, but each succeeding genera tion is soberer than the one before it. In time, perhaps in a comparatively few years, drink will become the dissipation of the few instead of, as now, the vice of the many. "HARMLESS CIDERn." A few months ago two boys rodeto a coun try store. One of them bought and drank four glasses of "harmless cider." They then went to a country church, disturbedtbe con gregation, who were holding a social, and starting home, overtook others. The boy, on;y nineteen years old, who had srank the cider, began to quarrel with an. other young man. and before the others I realized what ws taking ip!ace, had killed him; and he was a son of a widow. The boy, only nineteen years old, was sentenced to the penitentiaryfor twcn:y years. So two homes are made desoiate byt four glasses of cider. Not until the anguish ! that widowed mother's heart as she sat litteing for the bounding step or her boy and heard instead the tread of those who tbore the li'e esa form of her boy, enn be ,stimated, ('an we know the ecot of four gl:assecs oZ cidr.-Watch tower. When you get into a tight plae, sad everythling goes against you, till-t seems as if you could not hold on a minute lkoger. never give up then, for that's just the iase and time that the tide'll tura.--HBa:rleg Beecher Stowe. Cattle itr Three Cetarlee. About the close of the sixteenth oen tfury the usual weight, gross, of the average four-year-oldbullook, fattened and ready for slaughter, was less than eight hundred pounds4 The figures given are based on the custom of guess, ing gross weights, which was a neoes' sity of those times. The "critter" in those days simply "growed" as a rule. No intelligence was exercised in seleo* tion of the best of the animals for pro pagation of their species. In the wild state the strongest sites predominated, and the cows were the survivors of the rigors of storms and the ravages of wild beasts. Working for their living left little time or energy for storing up surplus flesh or fat. The cow was as much noted for her fighting quali ties and I • agility and fleetness as for any disposition to provide for the human wants in supplying meat, milk, butter, etc. Only as civilization advances do people give the proper attention to development of the full quota of do mestic traits. It took centuries to teach men that cattle could be im proved by care and food. Just as the horse has degenerated by neglect into the hardy miniature specimen of his kind now surviving as a pony, so, on the other hand, has the mighty bullock of, the nineteenth century been de veloped at the age of four years into a ton's weight, by kindly thought and generous food of the intelligent people who has given the world the best of everything. The time has come among the beef consumers when the mammoth blocks of tallow are considered out of keeping with present needs. The average table prefers a juicy, tender steak or roast taken from the carcass of the young ster when ripened and fattened at fifteen to eighteen months of age. It is found to be economy in feeding to stop the slow manufacture of the after growth of flesh beyond the limit of twelve to fourteen hundred pounds. It costs about $1 per hundrel pounds more to grow the beef on the three year-old, than on the short two-year old. Money can be made by limiting work and feeding to the yearlings where grain is the principal food, pro vided one has pure breeding in the calves. The sire and dam have a part. -Farm, Field and Fireside. Hypnotized the Bears, J. E. Newsome is a Port Arthur Canadian and Alex Anderson comes from Pearl River. An Englishman named Atwell wanted to get a bear, and Anderson tried to gratify his de sire. Atwell was the kind of a man who would like to kill a bear in a trap, so Anderson took two bear traps and a lot of bait up a gully near Oaimet, looking for a sign. The Englishman went looking for bears, and left An derson to set the traps. All of a sudden a big she bear ap peared before Anderson at the foot of a tree between a couple of whose roots one trap was to have been set. Not having any gun Anderson, so Newsome says, determined that hypnotic force had to be used and that suddenly. An derson looked the bear in the eyesand the bear paused; then Anderson made three passes with his hands. The bear leaned its head forward and its eyes bulged out. Having satisfied himself that the bear was properly influenced, Anderson yelled for At well, but Atwell was a good way off, and before he could arrive the bear's two-year-old and yearling cub came out of the tree at the same tfme. A yearling cub alone would be a pretty bad fighter at close quarters, espec ially with a hypnotized mother bear near by liable to come to at any mo men, but a two-year-old cub and a yearling both at once made a mighty serious matter. But Anderson was fully equal to the emergency. He managed to look at the bears' four eyes at once, and soon had them subjugated. Newsome says he would not have believed An derson's tale only Anderson is now crosse-eyed, which he wasn't before, owing to his looking both bears in the eyes at once.--Forest and Stream. A Rats londness for Sparrows. A rat that catches and eats birds is the latest novelty on the west side. Under a sidewalk at Twelfth and Loomis streets lives a rat. From the size of the rodent and his gray hair whiskers it is evidently an old resident in the neighborhood. Unlike some other rat it does not depend on cheese and bread for its living, but prefers a nice, juicy sparrow. On the corner stands a building oc cupled as a saloon, and in front of the saloon is a watering trough, where teamsters allow their horses to 'lake their thirst. The teamaters also find the place a very convenient one to feed their horses while they sample the proprietor's free lunch and lager beer. As a result the pavement is thickly strewn with oats pushed out of the feeding sacks by the hungry horses. An army of sparrows has been at tracted to the place, and each morning the pavement is covered with the little fellows eating their breakfast. The rat, having cultivated a taste for sparrows, now has one for break fast every day. Hangers-on around the place have come to watch the ma neuvers of the rat every morning. Soon after daylight the sparrows make their appearance, and the rat slyly crawls out of its hole. After looking around to see that the coast is clear, the rat selects a plump sparrow, and while the bird is busy filling its crop the rat makes ,a spring and secures its prey. The bird is dragged under the side walk and nothing more is seen of the rat until the following morning, when he comes out for a fresh victim. So expert has the rat become that those who have seen it say it can catch eand kill a bird s cleverly as a oat.-Chl' sago Chroniole. Forms of Animal Life. Humboldt estimates that the nom bar of animals of the mammalia kind S(those that souckle their youn.) is about 500; of birds, 4000; of ineats, 44,000; of reptiles, 700; or in all about 60,000. To Europe belong 80 of the mammalia,. 400 birds and 80 reptiles. In the Southern Hemis phere, more partiocularly in Boath Americd and Afriea, birds are rivo times more numerous that the maim imalia. In all countries it has becn noticed that blrds and reptie-s in erease in nnmbettoward the equator. HOW GUNPOWDER IS WMAo. The Part That Each of the Thirea ingred eants Play Gunpowder then steadily developed as mechanie skill constructed better and better weapons in which to use it, until to-day it has reached a perfection of manufacture for various purposes which allows its effects to be foretold in any weapon, even to the time it takes a grain to burn, and to the dis tance it will drive a shot. Roger Bacon's gunpowder was made of saltpeter, sulphur, and charcoal. Saltpeter is chemically called niter, and is a natural product found bedded in the earth in different parts of the world, chiefly in India and China. Sulphur, too, is found in a natural state in many volcanic countries, like Sicily while, as is well known, char coal is made from wood or woody substances by heating them almost to a burning heat in an airtight vessel, thus driving off everything in them but carbon. Saltpeter, sulphur, and charcoal ar, still the only ingredients of the gun powder in common use, although a new gunpowder made of different ma terials is undergoing sucessful experi ment. A mixture of. saltpeter and charcoal alone would form an explo sive , and sulphur is added chiefly to make it plastic, or capable of being pressed into cakes and shapes. All these ingredients have to be purified by the most careful chemiic.tl skill be fore they are combined. ,'thn an ex act proportion of each has to be meas ured out according to the kin:d of pow der to he made. For the gunpowder generally used you would find in every hundred pounds, if you could separate the in gredients, seventy-five pounds of salt peter, fifteen pounds of charcoal, and ten pounds of sulphur;but it would be almost impossile to separate the in gredients, for they are not merely mixed together as you might mix pep per and salt, but they are ground and rolled and stirred and pressed together by special machines until they are al most sullicient;y united to ftrmu a single new substance. This mixing process is called "tri turation," and the powder is thus mnade into the form of big flat cakes, called press-cake, and then broken up, and screened into grains of special sizes, or ground to the fine powder used for shot guns and revolvers. The large grained powders are still further stir red together until the grains become highly glazed. and these are called can non powders. A lighted match may be held to a grain of cannon powder and it will be found impossible to set it on fire, but once ignited it flashes off very suddenly and violently-St. Nich olas. NEW YORK'S FOOD SUPPLY, Enough Always on Hand to Withstand a Four Months' Siege. "If the city of New York and the neighboring district," writes John Gil l mer Speed in July Ladies' Home Jour nal, "were to be besieged or in some other way entirely cut off from the out side world, and therefore deprived of the food supplies which in normal times come in daily in great quantities, how long would it be before the pinch of bunger would be felt? That is a very hard question to answer, for the reason that there are such inequalities of purchasing capacity in New York society that some go hungry in times of greatest prosperity from lack of means, while the great majority eat more than is good for them. Undoubt edly the number of those who always go hungry would be increased after two or three days of a siege, and then day by day this number would increase un til the public authorities would feel compelled to take possession of the food supplies and distribute them among the people. With the exception of milk and some other things the sup ply of meat, poultry, hardy vegetables and fruits would last for two months at the present rate of consumption. If all the supplies were taken charge of at the beginning of the siege-and this could easily- be done-the food within New York could be made to last for four months at least. The siege of Paris lasted only four months. Before two months had passed, high and low, rich and poor, had learned what hunger was. And, as Is well known, the French are the most thrifty and eco nomical people in the world. In the arrangement and disposition of food the Parislans are specially distin guished. But the food supply in New York could be made to last as long as the Paris siege lasted, and the people would still be comfortable." New Use for Class. By a new process glass is made to appear like wood with a very high polish. It is used in windows, and gives a peculiarly subdued and agree able light. The glass is put through what might be called a yeneerlng pro cess, being coated with a liquid that represents the wood which it is de sired to imitate. The color, after dr ing, is varnished over and slightly heated. Sometimes shadings are ap plied to bring out the tint, then the .glass is again varnished and thor oughly dried, and is fit for use. Montana mines yielded $47,115,000 of minerals last year. (ET THE VERY BIST. UaaL~kmd Xake make Poor GooQe bi .dui buyer.. Dofeote awe ezeIve.Y KERTUKY GONE MILL&Mr'ALBt .LttImproved. No defect. Site`.. EVAPORATORS, aD kinds. k0 Marie. Pries Low. Quaity HNih. Get our U af" before you bay. BRENNAN & CO., LouwitSvU. Ky. ma mra ainwa asra cauzai uaueer. few LS double. cto , rts~l sýms , _ 1 lso. abor.a e dou.le as t ryr 1 saw wobl e alr~~9w9tiwiº aamý, sE9~9 ~ ~ ar wbu. or If peep'- t It · d wo. ini wruar. I bsmoyze ma... a ,' II Ia IS 2 f 01 eopah De arsK I atom mot, m~ nor i1 a boykw iling sirae. glee e odbna aC a i ar u asartspr.a ces on sCtifr. 4IM bedewawptp ge~ ~ esd eoig bDele an Sr. as tow -s they we be se ai a... tri o yesu afad A teli Agedank star. seeds, R balfiiit h aao boA. nq . ' Us 1b mtt*te 91 baamem~ou Ib, P11~ 4O&· be~;ikr c earedO~'t madl U o bb~~yr~ sairsplftgag e- legal s teeIgtilc t this time in Minnesetas The 'rrlm a~ I this time laMlnnesets. The etlms waa leged was forgery, and the iadietmeat charged the defendant with baving fraudulently and feloalionu uttseed and disposed of a forged ioattrteet then knowing the same to b4 forgd. That would appear to the lay mlad te be sufficiently delnfte. But it happs0 that the statute, in defining forgery makes the crime to be the uttering of a forged document "as true." The words "as true"' were omitted from the indictment, and this, in the opialao of the Supreme Court. was a fatal detect The Bicycle in Society. Lady Jeune, wife of a great Londer lawyer, and one of the leaders of fash ion in the British metropolis, has re. cently inaugurated the bicycle dejeuner for ladies. The guests ride to.her mansion on bleycles; store them in charge of the butler, and, after the menu is enjoyed, ride off together, headed by Lady Jeune, to show them selves in Rotten Row, which hd come to be called Routine Row because St these bicycling displays. " A Weaderful PLhesnmeMlt The man who should pas throughilfe with. •nt experiencing a twinge of dl.Adstt might be fitly regarded as a words. pb..e uomenon. e doubt if uch a privileged mortal has ever extLted. Itso, we have sever seen him. But thousands are known to be daily relieved of dyspepsia by Hoatetesr' Rtomach Bitters, the popular remedy fe that ,.ily national complaint, as well an for fever and ague, debiliry, constipat.on, rheumawtPs and kidney troubles. It is said to be possible to draw platinae wires so fine that two of them twisted could e inherted in the hollow of a human hair. ScAtM or Onto, rC or Towoo, O L -, LFaAx J. mse a es . t he senior partner of the firm of F. i" 0o. doing business in thoitýof T s rhO l and State aforesid, snd thatesd firm wUl the sum of ovs amusoon DOLzuaA e t and every case of CArAcas that esnal cured by the use HAMLe CATAnag Qm. Y mK `.nmamr. Sworn to before me and subserlbed eI my presence, this 5th day of Deesebe, Re t, A. D. I16. A. W. oG o_ Hall's Catarrh Care is taken tallad acts directly oun the blood and manonus slsess of the system. Send for teet(monta, fie F. J. Cnawy&Co.. T oio, 0. Sold by Druggtst~ ~Sc. altr's Family 1Ps are the bet. The births exceed the deaths throughout the world by over 1,500,000 a year-an aver age of three a minute. Never Once Failed. "Trrralus cured me of a very annoyega ceae of itching piles in a few days. I have sold s good many boxes for the commona teb, and it has never once failed to cure. It I all that is claimed for it." T. L. BsnsoLas Tallahatta Springs, Aa. It cures all itches. 1 box by mail for SOc. It stamps. J. T. Sav(rasa, Sarannah, OQ The most effective way to capture a whale is to spear it with an electrical harpoon, when it is at once shocked into unconsciousness. "Penny wise and pound foolish" are them who think it economy to use cheap soda sad rosin soaps, instead of the good old Dobbins' Electric Soap; for sale by all grooes slam 1866. Try it once. sare. buy genuine. Several prominent citizens of Charlestown, Mass., have urged that the Bunker Hill Mon ument should be illuminated with electrility. FITSstopped freeand prmnanentlycled. l e fits after first da's use of ,tl. KLil1sU GRaA IsavsRe ronun. Free f trial bottleaud tr-t' e. Send to Dr. Kline, WI Arch St., Phila., Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childra toothing. softensthe gums, reduces infiamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. Sarw eilbeI I eannot speak too highly of PIsols O Consumption.-Mrs. FRAWN Moauns, U W St.. New York. Oct. S1. 186. Ia Gladness Comes W ith a better understanding of the transient nrate of the many phy ical ills which vanish before er -* fort s-ntle effort--pleasa t ort rightly directed. There is comfort Ca the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to ny actual ease, but simply to a eoostivadeeB tion of the system, which te pIenasat family laative, Syrup of lgrs, pompt ly removes. That is why it isthon remedy with millions of mlies, sad everywhere esteemed so highly all who value good health. Its beneaLi effects are due to the fact, that it i the one remedy which promotes internal Icleanliness, without debiliating the organs on which it acsets. Itistherfor alrimportnt, in order to get itsabeane. fielal efectS, to note when youe p chase, that you have the genuinae VtIl which ismanufactured by theCaiferl b Fifg Syrup Co. only, andsld by l re, utable druggists If in the enjoyment of good blte and the system is regular, thentm Itives or other remedies are not od If amicted with any actual dte _om may be commended tothemoat physicians, but if in need of a laxathe then one should have the best, aad wi the well-informedeverywhere, Sy r gs stands highest and i most need and oisr meet generalm ENCINES FOR CINNINO. Ia the marlt foe osb. VAEAE E @ A. S. FARQUKAI 00o, Lt., rearnslvsala Aanieatars Week.Y L gte.Pa