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I s l J CTJKSE OF GAMBLING. Dr. Talmago BeginB a Sorios of Ser mons on Great Evils. Gambling In Every Form Dcnounred aa j Curse to the lVoplo The ltrault Sia-c to lo Moral. .Mental and financial Ituln. Rev. T. DcWitt Talmagc recently commenced a series of sermons at Brooklyn and New York City on "The Ten l'lasjucs of these Three Cities." His text was taken from Exodus, ix.13, 14: "Let my jeople go that they may serve me: for I will at this time send all my plagues." He said: Last winter in the museum at Cairo, ERypt, I saw the mummy or embalmed body of 1'haraoh, the oppressor of the ancient Israelites. Visible are the very teeth that he gnashed against the Ismelitish brickmakers, the sockets of the merciless eyes with which he looked upon the overburdened people of God, the hair that llo:itd in the breeze off the Red sea, the very lips with which he commanded them to make brick without straw. It was to compel this tyrant to let the oppressed go free that the memorable ten plagues were sent. Sailing the Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyptian cities, I saw no re mains of those plagues that smote the water or the air. Itut there arc ten plagues still stinging and befouling and cursing our cities and like angels of wrath smiting not only the first born buj the last born. Brooklyn, New York and .lersey City, though called three, are practically one. The average condition of public morals in this cluster of cities Is as good, if not belter, than in any other part of the world. Pride of city is natural to men in all lime-, if they live or have lived in a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess. ( avsar lniasted of his na tive Home; Lyeurgus of .Sparta; Virgil of Andes; Dcinostlmncs of Athens; Arehimides of Syracuse: and I'aul of Tarsus. I should su-pect a man of base-heartedness vi ho carried altout with him no feeling of complacency in re gard to the place of his residence. I have noticed that mvn never like a place where they have not behaved well. Men who have free rides in prison vans never like the city that fur ishes the vehicle. When I see in his--ory Argos, Khodcs, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and several other cities claim ing Homer. I conclude that Homer be haved well. Let us not war against this pride of city, nor expect to build up ourselves by pulling others down. Let ISoston have its commons Its I'an euil hall and its miignificent scientific and educational institutions. Let Phil adelphia talk ultoul its mint and Iude jtcudenee hnlL and (lirard college and its old families, as virtuous as venera ble. When J find a man living in one of thote places who has nothing to say in favor of them I feel like asking him, "What mean thing did you do that you do not like your native city?" New York is a goodly city, and when I say that I mean the region letwrcii Spuy ten Duyvil creek and .lamaica creek in one direction and Newaric flats in the other direction. That which tends to elevate a part elevates all. That which blasts part blasts all. Sin is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or the Connecticut river and passeses it as easily as we step across a ligure in the carjH-t. The blessingof God is an augel, iyi(l.w'l"'n it stretches out its two wings one of them hovers over that and the other over this. In infancy the great metropolis was lnid down by the b:iuks of the Hudson. ,Jj.s lnlaney wan as lecble as that ol Closes, sleeping in the hullrushcs by the Nile; and, like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched it. The royal spirit of American commerce came down to the water to bathe, and there she found it. She Uok it in her arms, and the child grew and waxed strong; and the ships of foreign lands brought gold and spices to its feet; and stretching itself up into the proportions of n metropolis it has looked up to the mountains and on" uon the sen the mightiest of the energies of American civilization. The character of the founder of a city wdl le seen for many years in its inhabit ants. Uomulus impressed his life upon Koine. The Pilgrims relaxed not their hold upon the cities of New England. William Perm has left Philadelphia an inheritance of integrity and fair deal ing; and on any day in that city you may see in the manners, customs and principles of its people, his tastes his coat, his hat. his wife's bonnet and his plain meeting house. The Hollanders still wield an influence over New York. Grand old New York! What southern thoroughfare was ever smitten by jh's tilcncc, when our physicians did not throw themselves upon the sacrifice? What distant land has cried out in the agony of famine, and our ships have not put out with breadstuff's? What street of Damascus, or Heynuit or Madras that has not heard the step of our mission aries? hat struggle for national life, in which our citizens have not ioured their blmd into the trenches? What gallery of exquisite art. in w hich our painters have not hung their pictures? What department of literature or science to which our scholars have not con tributed? I need not spenk of the institutions for the blind, the lame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incurables, the widow, the orphan and the outc:ist; or of the thousand armed machinery that sends streaming down from the reservoirs the clear, the bright, the. sparkling, God- given water that rushes through our aqueducts aud dashes out of the hydrants. All thus 1 premise in open ing this course of sermons on the ten plagues of these three cities lest some stupid man might say I am deprecating the place of my residence. 1 sjcak to you to-day concerning the plague of gambling. Every man and woman in this house ought to bo interested In this theme. Some years ago, when an association for the suppression of gambling was or ganized, an agent of the association came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the s ciety. He said:'No, 1 can have no interest in such an organiza tion. I am in no wise affected by that evil." At that very time his son. who wa his partner ia business, was one of the heaviest players in llcarnc's famous gaming establishment. Another re fused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his tirst book keeper, though receiving a salary of only 51,000, was losing from $T0 to $100 per night. The president oi a railroad company refused to patronize the insti tution, saying: "That society is good for the defense of merchants but we railroad people are not injured by this evil;" not knowing that at that very time two of his conductors were spend ing three nights of each week at faro tables in New York. Directly or indi rectly this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of winning more than you hazard. The instruments of gaming mar differ, but tlie principle is the same. The shuffling" aud dealing cards, how ever full of temp- tation. is not .gambling unless stakes are put up; while on the other liand gambling inay be carried on without crds or dice or billiards or a tn pin allry. The man who bets on horses, on elections on battles the man who ' deals m "fancy" stocks or conducts a ! husinesA which hazards extra capital cr lr goes into transactions without founda tion, but dependent upon what men call "luck," is a "gambler. Whatever you expect to get from your neighbor with out offering an equivalent in money or time or skill is either the product of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come Into the same cat egory. Fairs of the founding of hos pitals schools and churches, conducted on the raffling system, como under the same denomination. Do not, therefore, associate gambling necessarily with any instrument or game or time or place, or think the principle depends upon whether yon play for a glass of wine or 100 shares of railroad stock. It is estimated that every day in Christendom SSO.000,000 pa.vs from hand to hand through gambling practices, and every year in Christendom 123, 100,000.000 change hands in that way. There are in this cluster of cities about BOO confessed gambling establishments. There arc about 8,500 professional gam blers. Out of the feOO gambling estab lishments, how many of them do you suppose profess to be honest? Ten. These ten professing to be honest be cause they arc merely the ante-chamber to the 710 that are acknowledged fraud ulent. There arc first class gambling estab lishments You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The walls are lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are "Jephthalfs Daughter" and Dore's "Dante's and Virgil's Frozen Region of Hell," a most appropriate selection, this last, for the place. There is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, the most exquisite piece of furniture in the United State. There is the ban queting room where, free of charge to the guests, you may find the plate and viands and w ines aud cigars, sumptuous beyond parallel. Then you come to the second-class gambling establishment To it you are introduced bv a card through some "rojKir in." Having entered you must cither gamble or fight Sanded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of the place watch you as you come in. Does not the panther, squat in the grass know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle not for 3'our rights in that place or your body will be thrown bloody into the street, or dead into the East river. You go along a little further and find the Hliey establishment In that place you let on numbers. Retting on two numbers is called a "saddle," letting on three numbers is called a "gig," let ting on four numbers is called a "horse." and there are thousands of young men leaping into that "saddle," and mounting that "gig," and lehind that "horse," riding to tenlition. A young man, having suddenly heired a large projerty, sits at the hazard table and takes up in a dice box the es tate won by a father's lifetime sweat and shakes it and losses it away. In tcmjerance soon stigmati.es its victim kicking him out, a slavering fool, into the ditch or sending him, with the drunkard's hiccough, staggering up the street where his family lives Rut gambling does not in that way expose its victims. The gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's passion yet you only discover it by the greed in his eyes the harshness of his features the nervous restlessness the threadbare coat and his embarrassed business. Yet he is on the road to hell and no preach er's voice or startling warning or wife's entreaty can make him stay for a mo ment his headlong career. The infernal spell is on him; a giant is aroused w ithin; and though you bind him with cables they would part like thread; and though you fastened him seven times round with chains they would snap like rusted wire; and though you piled up in his path heaven-high lliblcs, tracts and sermons and ou the top should set the cross of the Son of God, over them all the gambler would leap, like a roe over the rocks on his way to perdition. Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scores, or hundreds, or thousands of dollars from tho gaining table will not Ik content w ith slow work. "What is the use of trying to make these fifty dollars in 1113- store when 1 can get five times that in half an hour down at IJillv's?" You never knew aconfinncd gambler who was industrious. The very first idea at gaming is at war with all the industries of society. This crime is getting its lever under many a mercantile house in our great cities and Ivfore long down will come the greaf establishment, crushing repu tation, home, comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement lefore us. The ten gaming houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearlv :KS.O00.O00 francs. Where does all the money come from? The w hole world is robbed! What is most sad, there are no consolations for the loss and suffering entailed by gaming. 1 f men fail in law ful business God pities and society com miserates; but where in the Rible or in society is there any consolation for the gambler? From what tree of the forest oozes there a balm thai can soothe the gamester's heart? In thatbottle w here God keeps the tears of his children, are there any tears of the gambler? Do the w inds that came to kiss the faded cheek of sickness and to cool the heated brow of the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the emaciated victim of the game of hazard? When an honest man is in trouble he has sympathy. "Poor fellow!" they .say. Hut do gamblers come to weep at the agonies of the gambler? Furthermore, this sin is the source of uncounted dishonesties. The game of hazard itself is often a cheat How many tricks and deceptions in the deal ings of the cards'. The opponent's hand is ofttimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be desig nated from the lack. Expert gamesters have their accomplices and one wink may decide the gatne. The dice have been found loaded with platina. so that "doublets' caoc up every time. These dice are introduced by the gamblers unobserved by honest men who have come into the play, and this accounts for the fact that ninety nine out of a hundred who gamble, however wealthy they began, at the end are found poor, miserable, ragged wretches that would not now be allowed to sit on the door step of the house that they once owned. But these dishonesties in the carrying on of the game are nothing when com pared with the frauds that are com mitted in order to get money to go oa with the nefarious work. Gambling with its greedy hand has snatched awav the widow's mite and the portion of tb orphans; has sold the daughter's virtne to get the means to continue the game; has written the counterfeit signature; emptied the banker's money vault, and wielded the assassin's dagger. There is no depth of meanness to which it will not stoop. There is no warning of God That it will not dare. iiundreds of thousands of collars J ing' one of these punbling houses boasted that he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if all the saloons of this land were to speak oat, they might cticx a i i? tn rT i . .- ... - er T T flim- ni l '. 7TTri: irw if."!... l-..... ..... IIWI. I(MM. ... ..1.. ..A I I h...t " -- . - -. w.v.1- more infamoua boast, for they destroyed a thousand nobleman a year. Notice also the effect of this crime upon domestic happiness. It has sent its ruthless plowshare through hundreds of families until the wife sat in rags and the daughters were disgraced and the sons grew up to the same Infamous practices, or took a short cut to destruc tion across the murderer's scaffold. Home has lost all charms for the gamb blcr! How drearily the fire burns on tho domestic hearth! Thcro must be louder laughter, and something to win and something to lose, an excitement to drive the heart faster and fillip the blood and fire the imagination. No home, however bright, can keep back the gamester. The sweet call of love bounds back from his iron soul, and all endearments are consumed in the flame of his pasaion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and if his crown in Heaven were put into hi hand he would cry: "Here goes one more game, bovs? On thus one throw I stake my crown of Heaven." A young man in London oncoming ol age received a fortune of 5120,000, and through gambling in three vears was thrown on his mother for support. Am only son went to a southern city; he tvas rich, intellectual and elegant in manners. His parents gave him on "his departure from home their last blessing. The sharpers got hold of him. They flattered him. They lured him to the gamingtable and let him win almost every ime for a while and patting him on the back said: "First rate player." Hut, fully in their power, they fleeced him; and his 30,000 was lost Iast of all he put up his watch and lost that Then he began to think of his home, and his old father and mother, and wrote thus: feel a mom.-ntary iov at tho r.t-.-ntlon ot this f. !tf-1rta.t 1i..mlM. Vs... will .4.... I. .I... I letter from tho chili! ot your bosom ,, nn whom you have 1-vlihcd all the fav ors of your di'cliniiiK year. Hut shoulJ a froling of Joy lor a moment tpriti uj !n your hearti wIimi you hnvc n-cehel thin from m cher IhIj It not I have fallen deep nt-ver to rle. Thoe cray hnlm that I t-houM have- honored and protected I shall tir.njc dou 11 In orrow to the Brave. I will not cnr! my drctroyrr, hut O' may God avrnj?e the wrongnnnd Impo sitlona practical upon the unwary in a w.iy th.it hliull brht pl'-as- him. J Tnlt., mydrar pa rent", Is the lu(st letter you n ill rver rceelro from me. I humbly jiruy yourforj;Ivcnes. It la my dylnj; prayer. ljn before you have re ceived thht ! tier from me the cold xrave will have closed upon me forever. I.Ifu to hip Is iiiupportablr. I ran not; nny, I will not suffer the hliMine ot bavins; rulmd you. Koret and foriftre Is tho dylny prayer of your untortunntu son. The old f ather came to the post office, got the letter and fell V) the floor; but they brushed back the white hair from his brow and fanned him. He had only fainted. I wish he had be'ii dead; for what is life worth to a father after his son is destroyed? When things go j dueed by the farmer's own animals, wrong at a gaming tabic they shout Horses that have leen fed at the town "Foul! foul!" Over all the gaming stables, and cattle that have been al tables of the world 1 cry out: "Foul! ( lowed to forage on the highways, may foul! Infinitely foul!" 1 each le the means of bringing obnox- Shall 1 sketch the history of the gam- ; i"s weeds onto the farm. For the bier? Lured by bad company he fjnds 1 1"'11 crops clean cultivation is the an his way into a place where honest men ' tidote. Cut the weeds off at the sur-' ought never to go. He sits down to his j face of the ground at a time when they first game, but only for pastime and the j are at their best, that is at the time of desire of being thought sociable. Tho flowering, and before the seed has players deal out the cards. They tin- grown sufficient to germinate. This is consciously play into Satan's hands , t,,c lH-,f,t '-'thod of dealing with seeds who takes all the tricks and loth the ' "here they have become a ie.st in , players' souls for trumps he lieing a meadows and pastures. In the hitter sharper at any game. A slight stake is sheep are very efficient weed destroy- put up just to add interest to the plnv. ' crs, as they will browse closely many j Game after game is played. larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash, until now they who win and thc3' who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws and compressed lips and clenched fists and eyes Iilcc nreballs Uiat seem starting from their sockets, to see the final turn before it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths cast back red hot upon the heart or winning, with Irystcric laugh "Ha! ha! I have it! I have it! A few years have passed and he is only the wreck of a man. Seating him self at the game ere he throws the first card, he stakes the last relic of his wife and the marriage ring which seals the solemn vows between them. The game is lost and staggering back in exhaus- tion he dreams. Tlie bright hours of the past mock his agony and in his dreams fiends with eyes of fire and tongue of flame circle ulxtut him with joined hands to glance and sing their orgies with hellish chorus chanting: I "Hail, brother!" kissing his clammy j foreliend until their loathsome hcks, llowing with scrjents, crawl into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs and suck up his life's blood and coiling, around his heart, pinch it with chills and shudders unutterable. Take warning! Yon are no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice been orerthrown. No young man in our cties can escape being f tempted. lteware of the first legin- , nings! This road Is a down grade, and evcry instant increases the momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. Split hulks strew the beach. EverltvsU ing storms howl up and down, tossing unwarv crafts into tho hcllgate. I speak of what 1 have seen with my ! own eyes. I nave looked ou into the aityss, anti 1 nave seen uie learning ami i the hissing and the whirlwind of the' horrid deep in which tho mangled vic tims writhed, one upon the other, and struggled, strangled, blasphemed and died the death stare of eternal despair upon their countenances as the waters gurgled over them. To a gambler's death bed there comes no hope. He will probably die alone. His former associates come not nigh his dwelling. When the hour comes his miserable soul w ill go out of a miser able life into a miserable eternity. As his poor remains pass the house where he was ruined, old companions may look out a moment and say: "There goes the old carcass dead at last," but they will not get up from the table. Let him down now into his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settlers there is shadow enough. Plant no "forget-me-nots" or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sunshine, for that! would be mockery, but in the dismal night when no stars are out and the spirits of darkness come down horsed on tho wind, then "visit the grave of the gambler! Origin of Oi Term "Dsb." Common as the expression to "dun" a debtor is but few persons are, per haps aware of the origin of the word. It owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff in the town of Lincoln. England, so extremely active and so dexterous in his business that it be came a proverb, when a man refused to pay, "Why do you not Dun him?" that is. why do yon not send Dun to ar-' rest him? 11 err ?t K. , . ' j 5frl f Caa word, and is now as um u me ojts oi "fiaTAllxMi Kk Ta. Tm T. i Hcnpeck Poor Brown's death - -a Ma,ar , . terrible calamitv to me. Mnitn hy, I didn t know he was a near friend or relation of yozrs. I . . . . Henpcci-Xo, he waat; but I aar- rie3 his widow. West Shore. j A scientist sars that if the 'were a baminj lamp of solid coal it , " ! csperiallr when tbi cook fro ovefS ! witer entertains liar "hb ZlZl ... s. kitchg nntil --S, ?- AGRICULTURAL HINTS. RABBIT TRAPPING. Cat Out TtiU Artlrlr and Save It for Your lloja- How many boys long to catch the rabbits whose tracks they see In the light snow as they go to scImxjI or when going across lots to feed at the stack or chop in the woods. All through the winter months these rabbits or more properly, hares make delicious dishes. They increase in number rapidly and should be on the farmer's table or sent to market at least once each veek. A quickly-made trap is the cask pitfall illustrated- A barrel or half barrel will make two if sawn in halves. Each head must oi course be securely Xasteneu in place. Then for the open end make another head and cleat it firmly so it will not split apart. This head must w a quaner ox an men smaner. a around, than the l.arrel. auu musi oe I hung on two neavy wire mm pui . through gimlet holes in im, sun.-' i.-. mm, banvl. It must not balance, but must be centered so it will rest on the third nail at one side. To s-t the trap, sink 1 it to the top in a snow-bank, or in a de- pressiun in the earth, and fill around it u with leaves where rabbits run. A few I rrahls of cor" muttered like the spokes I to a wheel and leadinir to the tub as a 'tenter, will attract the game to their doom. Some plump kernels may be tacked on the cowr on the sideopjotte to where it rests on the extra nail. Hunnie will -tep on the top of the trap for this bait, when it will suddenly up Mt, and in he will go and have to stay until Uiken out by his captor. A little snow or ice frozen on the cover will make the deception more complete. hometim es the trapper will K arree- .rised bv finding a plump par- ablv sunris? tridVe in his nitfall. Hollister Saire. in Countrv Gentleman. TO SUBDUE WEEDS. tlmr tu Krrp tbn 1'artn C'Irar of Obmn Ion l'lant (.rotttli. One important farm clear from these ijenns are point in keeping a weeds is to see that not imported in pur - chased seeds. Weeds are often intro- r.r.. ff..t, nlnu I varieties that cattle will not touch. In some countries it ?.. wmi.1 ti. ..-.. -i.. oiiu ii. a - s-. fields s entirely free from weeds. owin to verv high cultivation and careful se- lection f seeds and manures. Such re-' suits are not to Ik- extccted in thi country, ami we shall continue to have weeds as Iwretofore, but thev can le ' kept in such subjection as to reluce tneir injurious eltects to a minimum. Where they serve no letter use, they at least give evidence of the soil's fertil ity. 1'nless rich ground is closely cov ered w ith useful plants it is quite cer tain to nroduce weeds. Xothinir snr- passes clever for smothering weeds. If sown iiucKiv, ant stocu is itej stock is kept off from it after the mowing, so that some of the seed from the second crop will 1h scattered, it will gain complete jh nession of the field, to the exclusion of the weeds. N. Y. World. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. He prepared to plant onions nt the first opportunity. Ik there is any doubt alnuit the qual- Jty of the seed, test them Kvir.v the smallest seed will gerniin nte better if covered lightly. ItASm:i:ttr plants should Iks put out as early as the soil will admit Ix pruning all large wounds should 1m covered with white lead and oil. 1U" kwiikat is a giHsl crop to grow in the orchard to help build up fertility. A utti.k work now in providing good drainage will help in getting the seed in early. o r. it as possible all the manure ap plied in the garden should le thorough ly rotted and line. O.mons. lettuce, pease, beets, radish and spinach can le sown n-s soon as the ,n can 1e worked. Mix the radish seed, usinr an carlv. medium and late variety, in order to keep up a succession. lty using the garden seed drill seed is distributed more evenly in the row and is covered more evenly. It is imiortant in the garden and orchard to get the work all done in sca ton; planning ahead will aid in this. EXPLAIN THEMSELVES. Two Kxcrllrut Skrtrhr of Thrr-!Iora Vhim-TTrc. A correspondent sends to the Oranrc .Tndd Farmer the two whiffle-tree sketches here illustrated. They are self-explanatory, and can be made bv anv one handv with the few tools re- TiiEEE-noRB xcmrrix-TKzrji. quired in their construction. The iron ing can be dene by the village black smith at small cost. The doable hooks on inside ends of single-trees in Fig. 1 should work freely through hole, or better still, by pulling in cad of the single- tree. IUracbrt! Fruit UpJkraltMol. i Director HIb-rd of the Califorsia . ,:.. .it .i .1. . ,- ..,. Tl " ,w T .. . . -- r ..-.v , ., iJb-f avored fruit to the sickiv-tiated. .V..;..ii... -:.j i- ." . . IS tTvats! TrrtK cO-iV -a: - 4 . . . " a a-l fcD AVj. iOT a I Aort time, tba e-eV are ht, ret i aaui as w proiecs ice xrait Xros: - - cts. aea thorsRtly salphcred iier dryia-r. however, the freit. i f-1 3red in Savor, and, wone stilL ul- I phnrie add 5s formed ia safficiest , amount to be injorions to health, lix 7XZi .1-;. i j - . . . " - .rriin -. n 1 1 i n nr I .... .. ? apne7ts have bees to euatam. --232 per eect. of !- tic lad, or 15 rralas oil of vitrvJ ronnL aad arm -jjl mr- if S?! t8Ja. per sowL) IR co1 of Errope t te T I .. w .".i . .. THE LATEST IN STATIONERY. Tk Tyrmat Vtoaliloaj Ori Xr ltou V.trry Vrr. The tyrant fahion grow more des potic and exacting each year, anil the unfortunate blase young lady finds 9l hard to keep apace with, but the dear little debutante grasps eagerly each new fad. She surely is one of fashion most ardent slave. Much thought is given to the paper on which she send her dainty notes. The young lady who Is partial to violets will welcome one of the latest fads in the Buiuouirrv imc. 11 is 13 me snap) oi a fine quality of bond paper, tinted a faint Tiolrt. with a dark purple mono gram and border of the same sbjulf. It is something new. Violet ink is often useL in th- box w ith this paper comes a smali vit .satin bag filled with ;h , perf nme which the paper so plainly SUwsts q-j,,. mo fashionable tints at pre-1 cnt are nn th(. bluc sapphire, yachting blu nil , delicate Darner of a tumuoise tlnt xvllj, tf,e monogram done in white, are favorites. Mlver crestx. or tlie au - . . uress in stiver, are very eiiccuve sio on this shade. Mazarine blue is a stnk- ing paper. Monograms in gold or silver show to rood advantage on this tint. A sample just out is decorated by a J wreath, within which you find a mono- - cram, i ne ta;er beinir a ueiieaie oiue tint, will have a silver wreath at the top, the monogram inside being done in j dark blue. I Many papers at present have thr plain script initials. For mourning a fine white paper, ,ii.n..i, .- - ..- ;..:.!. .i i with black U.nler. the initials done in black script, makes a stylish paper, the envelopes being marked in the same way J he very last thing In mourning stHtionery is something startlinj;ly unique. The paper itself is of a fine I quality and the bonier being a broad ' 1,an1 of lark Prple. Jnt edged with black, while the monogram or addre just as the fancy may choose, is done in purple also. The rose tints are very popular just now, and a pretty paper is of a tb-llcate rose shade, with the monogram done in black. The initittls in script lok well with this combination of color. Fashion, with its coutinpous longing fr w"nthlng new. yet seetns partial to the times of long ago. We find quaint litll flpirrs dancing the minuet in the .,. .....i ....:...... 1 iv-i. i-i-tri.. ".,.. uu iii j wu. j writing paper. oinetiiues these an- cient little wmc Avith their dimtuutivc I partners are exquisitely colored, but oiien are just ouiitucu in oiuck, goiu or ' silver. Many jieople consider the plain white 1 l'r '"3 In,nri1 inc, ". "' OUIMT wn- rK'-SHVl! is soiiH-wiimr ttorvor VSiaa .( 'isn a asi a;-r4ivit n ,-m itn iiuu .i..iv timmWi :.f.-r xvrit!..L. n i..fi.v epistle upon it one would weleomely receive the Japanese bond which is smooth and much easier to work on. The Kepp paj-r is stylish though rather coars. Th" kid finish is a delightful pajx-r to use. . plain white paper, with its own social marking, can be made verv characteristic of tlie person using it. The economical young womuu need not be deprived of writing letters for economy's sake, as note paper can le lought at Ave cents a quire and the address put on in any color, not using the brones. for nine cents a quire. Kverv business woman has 11 fondness " lor me pau pajer. 1 Ms now come. s in ' most, courcmem itirms. raus can 1 1 "A.!!. J'"- irum ' """" "' 4,,r l "".''- " VWr Clitl ,H Jn the Pd form- but a I Vt?,7 H-' quality of pajn-r. stamid as - i.i 1 ...:i. ii.aa - . :i wisn aim wiw uoio-r aim jiencu :hwL , . ere are many new spies in paper ritiiiii i-ji. i iiu mi inn w atv nun decorated with little figures. Nellie, who has always had a tender spot in her heart for Little Kcd Hiding-Hood, will write in her childish hand on naner each sheet of which has a little figure : u t top illustrating the story of K d iK-ooii. ana so we nni i intierelia ; and many of the old .Mother (loose . rhymes appearing all decked in bright i i ... .1... i i .. .i... .t i ciihm s lit tin: ueiiu m i lie sneru i lie little ijoni launtieroy pajer in j liketl by most of the children. Then the tiny cards having a little Ureenaway figure in one corner, w ith the printed words "Will you come to my party?" make many little people jump up and down with delight N. V World. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. ! How to I'roprrlr .Mnuagr tit Affair or ramllj-. There is nothing which goes so far toward placing young jeople l-yond the reach of poverty, as economy in the management of their domestic affairs. It matters not whether a man furnish little or much for his family, if then is a continual leakage in the kitchen or in thr parlor. It is the husliand's duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty of the wife to see that nothing goes wrongfully out of it not the least arti cle, however unimportant in itself, for it establishes a precedent nor under any pretense, for it opens the door for Ruin to stalk in. tnd he seldom learcs an opportunity unimproved. The hus band's interest should le the wife's care, and her greatest ambition should carry her no farther than his welfare or happiness, together with that of her children. This should le her sole aim, aud the theater of her exploits in the boom of her family, where she may do as much toward making a fortune, as he can in the counting-room or in the workshop. It is not the money earned that makes a man wealthy it i what he saves from his earnings. A rood and prudent tiusband makes a deposit of tbi fruits of his labor with hi best fru-nd. and if that friend be not true to him, what has he to hope? If he dare not place confidence in the companion of his boom. whare .is he to place it? N. Y. Ledger. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KAN3A5 CITT Mareb r DTTuU-chlp;ilTic atrrra I1C Ilutebrr.' atcera Native eo HOG Gonl to choice hcary WUKATStx. J rsj No.1 barrt .. . cons xo. i OATS-No-J etK-.vo.i . . . .. KLOLR iatcnta.pcrack . l"ucy B&rnire. . ...'. BUTTER C&olee creamer CKCE Fan crcata . .. ECGS-CboVe-. KACOS-lUm .. MrusKiers ... SkJea LARD . .. .... . IVTATOKS- IX 1 Zi 7 n if. 1 0 2S4 IS 13 7i 19 zi ix Ol c 1 C9 55 a) J 25 m JO sltj Tt 7i m ::; '.? m a si n n m i : 7, at t ST. IJOUIS. j CATTLE 5a!ppla? lr . Batcbr" rtr . J HOGS-raekJnx SHEr.r-Kalr to cliolce FIXH K Oxk . . wuuT-a 2 reo.. !-l j.l9s.oi .. KTr-v x tt t -it-t-t- j".. ...,- LMlCAQiX. SST.SS'S ... -- - in a a i m 14 a Kta M Ta 3 r (!trrnrirani-. t as a ruoCR M-tetrr et .. n m Tf KAT Na. 2 ved .. ?r ... I . " "- - - .W- X?S. " 1Z srE - 'e. x . .JiS c LTTEKCreassrj a tytniin. w... . m - Kivr e a . XITW TOttK. CaTTIX Ceetxw to prtwa. JIOC? o5 eb-. . ..'. - .. J- -- 22! - Z W I I i I I 1 1 KJ I . r.T Tu. OATS Vcrtea laixei. j:CTTCJ6 Ocatay YMX3L .a. zs i;r sj-f i fl I CT7TmYtJ Tk rnlt a4 raWN mf tho An Are ntraerona, bat of" the latter aoao ! awe rkdlcalou than tie prvaiiaowa and randrei uo ef laxative pill and other drastic cathartic. Taec wrroch. ctm tu1 and wraken both the Utavt and tfwt borr. If HatelUr Stosara'UiUrr bp csi inttead ct the no-rerardic. the m sore is sa "" F "- be hver Cw tW remedy wbrn coatlpa tion raaifct itelf, sod thereby prcrcat tt fro:a bucuatn; caroaic t mmi 1.11 tn ttut nihi 1 ifuituinirn acii , ,., fc7J . A ,.. W fc" ... - ' " " " A ckzmt f ay wood can fco made ra!b able and avKiri.tlcg Tto t Uo kind of J ?" SOfcrc rr ro Las.s crt a J aster, aowrvcr. . Mf tic?. V . s Vit vra fed U brps tip, acd life tianar ws9Cj wgrtSi hvia. WSea Tea tanllv Trd awe V aweau 10 your unj work. When too fed you woahl irtve half ou owe lor a iittlc nwrc trrsgth. iat fir Dr John Bull Srv.prilia a wud and vbat a Utl tt w in r.v rtt. You wil bU- the day ) 02 trW Lr John Bail Sarxap ri'.U. To tub uclnltiaVd It U hard to cnOr. ttkarf bow a ;iae of wbit czZ tx? bocrt i S.1"1 "" T tnca. juafaaauya . .1 ! article that ba outllvrd l xr$ of waj-UUa aaa imiuoavati i mr nd pore raebjrar. riur fcVe ;c Dot- : SffiS""1".-' i k c . . ?-. ... . 1.. ifer. I if Las It, er wilf jrel it - i . ' a ritorrnor buuber U alwa; ablo to . i. i ... a . !. a. . m &. u m iBU(;jiruur-i jii-rVu tareo. klo Tciegrapa. Yor hardly rralUe Umlt nollcln when baking Crtrr' Little U cr 1IU ; t4.trv are very amall; aolaf r(Tm-ti;u!l trubIiroa torpid brer -r rrlercd bj tbelr uc I . ... Tar crocStrry dealer Wncrr better tbaa w HJ b, w T uclt.t,g u,ra ttp UiDRtaiaton UrpuUtcAn. For Couph and throat trouble u9 'okos' Hkomiiiil. Tkochi "-"TJicy top an attack of mv asthaia roch vory promptly.'" C Kalch. Miaaitntie. Ohio. Tnt expense oraa electric company aaj bo mniajrd up tn current expenn-a lw rence American. Ir vou waat to be cored ef s coogh c Hale Honey of Uurehoond and Tr Pike sTovUiache Urepa Care mone minute. Tnt reason mot porta think to no pur poe 1 that thrlr thought aro idyl tbocgata -rbbdelpblal'rcaa. nrT, eaalestbuu andchear-t lo'a Remedy tor Catarrh. Bj druCT.to. c rifivsr sin If m Lits u v n f it f a ivbiarvA ! ' ."-'.---'"" --! , uvtujcjij- ,trw baton & acrco cet beuU. Kearney Enterprise. . - - 1 LctS reason together. I Here's a firm, one of largest the country over, the tl'C worjd Qver . u has prown, MD . 1 t 1 , , , .- dv sicD. inrouuit me vc.ir to greatriCSS and it Sells patent mofi:r:n0c I UPh ' M.UK.1HU . uijii . " That's CnOU'Th 1 " .., . 1I J ' llttls. j Thj3 frm p: VS the UCWS- I j papers good money (expen- siv'C WOrlc, thlS advertising ! ) iQ tcJ tjie people that thcV . - ... .x . ., .t HaVC HUt in Wliat tney SCU, J SO much faith that if they Can't , , unfir or .1ro tt,.. Jnn'f ,,.nnf I . , your money, l neir i Their guarantee ! is not indefinite and relative. definite and absoluteif . J ,. . , . . . "lC medtCinC dOCSn t help, vou- monev is " OK Call. " j j . - - I Suppose eyer' sick man , ancJ evcry feeble WOman tned i. 1 1 f these medicines and found them worthless, who would be , the loser, you or they ? 1 The medicines JlrC Doctor i pjcrCe,; "Golden Medical DlS- j - till" i-ovtiry, lux uiuuu uiDttiCd, and his " Favorite PrCSCriD- . . tion," for woman's peculiar ills If they help toward health, J they cost $1.00 a bottle! each 1 If cost nothing they don't, they t Th boap n - that Cleans 11U0L , Le IS nox. Bermuda Bottled. 7m sat will nc ae reaa le imr uae eiajfjacaefm." Bmu eter. I turn mr Brltlier Um? Una mmr tttt T.' rll. 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I A Miir Or health 1 lArrifVi ted'3a'Cfc? raa i4. coaler, fnttawa tft u-s ef Mr-p at Fics llait la t-nsjr Va tttjrto cSvtaa;lr c'n ?,jt nhi rmtir or bdlou. Vpt aie o W xiA ft i) bottom by lJleUBClrrst. I At mtr fsrdcr rt u t , .. . . . . ----- - .. .- kf'ptfcn wolf Irxua lors. tfce ilcor Trt H,r M..XT r-oplo Ulak Uat tbe wnl Mniu lrr"cante ucj ar m oMmwwawth aa IntoslcaUs; hex:. Tt. ) 8tt tia an t&e Kent rrmslj fr aM tws- of t&bkod. Urrr. kUia'j,rtc.trrek ,a Bluer H purf ly a ntolkioe asd trry artKI n"si n U aaatletr? I mi trjSr ahle orijio of k&onra caraurw qttbU. I It Is better 'or a revo? taaa to &av bt trouper b at the knr lhas ta bare bit brain t g l th rr Ik-lvn TraTciJrr j TnoroBTt.r raoUwr ar Ucy b trltl not sit ntcVlv children lr IUil Worm 1 Iktrojer. Ttwr rrrarro tao werss, aad ; tb okliJ crow trotuc iJxn-A.x'-So Wt.tro!iBt nsarrj for 1 "Tl-ZZ ZZi.IJitT.'x i earrtrO icr ' booty." Era. IM sot parp oor weAea W ootrrt. rw - - t. - J.rrraadbdr. A Irfvt JW. LUiTler , Uu3o Urcr na. hve eorrocwr. tarter J JUio 1 A aoen mt tor beb!l er9a J "& trt ar tb alcer Ourlterua rrm rrea HOW TO GET WELL is a question of vitnV importance. but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; many people completely wreck their health by takinp mercury and potash mixtures. -wr" for pimplcs and blotches, or some other trivial disease. S. S. S. is purely vegetable containing' no mercury or.'poison of any kind. And is at the same time an infallible cure for skin diseases. i TrcUc oa IilvJ anl HXin Lf free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ga. Jlrneiaybehruc whaonre men sy; ITn&unbcu&jtwhea6;mcn siy:,i FUfiUCJIOPtHIOM endorsesSl is & solid cake ol c For many years SAPOLIO has stood aa the finot and bzst article of this kind in the world. It knows no equal, and, although it costs a triile more its durability makes it outlast two cakes of cheap makes. It i:i therefore the cheapest in the end. reasonable price. Any VASELINE. r . . mu & . Aa j Uf ttB WlSCt Mull 01 PW1 flJlPW, ID CU. om m wnc lenii iwta Pwa. 15 - Qrw jir ol VmRn Cord Cm 15 " tAt.ti..... I One j& of VmliM Ctsor ks . 10 !! ' II.H wl ' . V 0f 'tl f.y.t j nfx a u-.c . tr ii n rtitti CHESEBROUCH M'F'C CO., Koch's Discovery and Piso's Cure for CHSMptiM. I'mlir Korb tr.Unl matir Impr"! 8 Xt cu anlr b ua4 la lt r r L af Ouf anratUon. 3 It la d-rwi, od KmliT) fslaX OtUr frw -noin Ilia I r tut h S l'0yrfln onty rit u It nt with yrt ram O. It U aaJd that br Ha um liaa U astbaUtaa Una(rtl to aou3 it OOM MEDAL. PARIS. 107a W. 1IAKKK k C0S Breakfast Cocoa ff..n oMch'La of oil La to omvoU, 41 (a (Kf, Xo Chemicals ar t la prparaUnai tl )aa r ft " tlt ti rtfjk .l (?ti mtt4 Ha ", Ar?rr"rt af ff. r1 tSrrrfwr fr mat - emlar-j !t!4WlVMia.Si?. Ia'f. rOrTtlr4r, att fed 4nrltaM J-oJ tur latWa a.wlla.frc (fvotta n traMa. MU ay Orr fryaat. W. BAILEE k CO., DorcbM Ur, XtM. IKffk II a i s ti -7' FV , ms " .atafSft " LBvw1 Utitt Stylisr sWjV L'Art De La Mode. U. m urrrr ria irm ra rrcrtt n r- a-4t 14 ttr m -ri a-7 U w r aakir. Xk. a ra ! SH-, , Xm tbi rra fllkll 113 -IT SAT 1ST! Iff T Ttf t ELECTRIC BELT Cwr & W.tnowl Uiv. mi i.oos rurwftKAu ttsimf im nn nta rwmv.1 tntta at ia tvfrsiucntcMtT aa aa-i-W a m i rmmmmm Tmtmmm. m ' m aaaaria CMaw MWFLBk. mmWl.1 7xz verm rucrxic Mjz.r a irruim ea. (sfuj a. a.w n. ar. town. ao. I BOJUNO WATOl Or( alllJC EPPS'S COCOA wABCLLCO U7 L. TWtt ONLY. - $500 REWARD TrLTlakffcTaiiiririliTTananrM inn iim 2tftrrTWyrzmitlw1t.M ttiaii . f TOU WMON SCAiX.$eO! Jiaat Mfeat. r y&ntjfmkT, tmtf HE. p-j" I , ituErrMI1 ht r iimir T !jarfjr-aaajaaaaa,far a j. a aw . 9Sk a-a aaiT. Jmmm'1 ' ' a'1 tm" 'a 1 flBaaTaESBr!!! aaaW if . . I 1 1 ann mm Ki gl 11 t &Zl u.SaV - - - m a - BafOOlTafr 1 J f-iaa4eW-tC5j. SSJXnEaUbV Ml rra r traf jTTf iraiit m L 1J A J. JH T l aaat afjina I vSAlliriiav laataaaav Cam ii RcRISraBaTr ?. aaBT Ufhaa,aj. ' ar-r rr- rm i. M, pemnatism "EUMLGf SUaclsOil The Ghastly Record f 4rlK tSl rtt rnm r!rl H ff tft fat TVrv lMdltM Ovtl ImmmTS lit Itaaltavt. It att.rr'w lalr a4 tt rwl trr Bar K tMMr. a4 raMls wKJJf ppItoUal tSlt. Vr dU; Iom llM-tr fmmr, !.. ToU" Uvi Pill a prw ta m wi ktsi it. TtI anIMota r illurJL A wtA tmtt7," a4 n; t IHmm laj t (! .lMMb4c ! -r M. turn (tmttf ttiMld b nllKl iKtiu. TVy w tl I lIW. XxlAf rrovt llk mOU agar catla(. Tutt' Lirer Pill, SURE ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. hold Everywhere. Jft. Sewpolio. v counnssoesp grocer will supply it at For One Dollar - fcj mIL. tll XIf, fro af ail , la af la Ik VaMa4 auu. JI tk fa). llairlMHrMtftH aa4 Is a aaat feast Om uke of VuOm tup, MMMM 10 tk. Om uli of VjhJ; Uf. mnM 21 " Om ts k frRU ef VMt imm M .!, (' n m V ti . 1.4 - , yi.a y Ik l.i . u - vr u 'w,tUi u- .... : 24 State Street, New York. . Mac a Cf fat W II lf ;a ) ! af Cs. i turm ittlo. r It la wifco4t 4af . aoS ttiwH k fa.tI taaar mvmw1H4 a iHliialM iwH(k.L t Mri apaa4 U raanlta trsmi lu . Try FURNITURE Carpttt, Stills, Etc., On Easy Paywtitt! avvaaaaaMaasaaaaaaacapaa LOW PRICES, IMMENSE STOCK, :LI0CRAL TEflMS. H i. c. viittlli t cis 6REAT INSTALLMENT HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Ki4 Calaia f" -i artOatWa f ra. rymm tkta tft arT lfs V a a-TM. PILES! FISTUU! AXBALLVTMU DltEAtCt OF THE RECTUM DRS. THORNTONS i MINOR, M-. w'VTfr V a ii wrttf HMtiiitAt. tl-,m,kr -Tii;..f ia al aT 4 ! sf ( a S4a wVa Saa Wa a4 P7 Wt '. lfc J tt rift aaoa imm w xists JKIaftk 4aC Ikavaha M.S M4 M parr : weeks' Scales 5-TOM S60.00. wtor tua rtki mta, i r. ajnm nu tint MtH riafiinfisj-ii ttrftaAiifK ttmtr d aaafcajB, WOTICC AUTOGRAPH lasjCl or CG?MUINC NAVEY9U BLUES ar 5m? TV a tmc t, WIAVa.HtaaVi Vttna. Ca aavl aVMr. mMif. Ii WailWn, ". r aa Agaa. aa. mW , va IijrKt r r JU ai-5yt J rtmK.m rvx. TVKio. um 'ttkkt. itareiitnii LBSOIS U -"- BUSINESS SI.QQ l rtfT.S? . 'c&Zlt tri iarz ron iPiteats-PnsiiRS-Clains. GENERAL SHERMAN'S UC Maottl mttmj 0t AT MIM. 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