THE CORN-CRIB OF E6YPT
Dr. Talmage Draws Lessons From
His Summer Tour.
P.ople Should Itojolce In Tlielr <Jo«d For
tune. nml Not t'orfft Thrlr Nwtlj
Kolgliliur.~M.ti; I-ta.li. Truths
Fishily Told.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1801.—The
cabled reports of meager harvests in 1
Europe, anil the memory of the vast ,
crops of ripening grain which Dr. Tul
mago saw during his recent tour in the
west, have combined to turn his
thoughts back to that patriarchal time
when all the world sent to Egypt to
buy corn nnd to suggest n tiospel
lesson, llis text is Genesis 43: 3, “Ye
shall not see my face, except yoiir
brother be with you. ”
This summer, having crossed eighteen
of the United States, north, south,
east and west,' I have to report tho
mightiest harvests that this country or
any other country ever reaped. If the
grain gamblers do not somehow wreck
these harvests, we are about to enter
upon the grandest scene of prosperity
that America lias ever witnessed, llut
while this is so in our own country, on
the other side of the Atluntic there are
nations threatened with famine, and
the most dismal cry that Is ever heard
will 1 fear be uttered, the cry for
bread. I pray God that tho contrast
between our prosperity and their want
may not be as sharp as in the lands re
ferred to by my text. There was nothing
to eat. l’lenty of corn in Egypt, but
ghastly famine in Canaan. The
cattle moaning in the stall. Men,
women and children awfully white
with hunger. Not tho failing of
one crop lor one summer, out the
falling of all the crops for seven
years. A nation (lying for U o't of that
which is so common on your table, nncl
so little appreciated: the product of
harvest field, and grist-mill, and oven:
the price of sweat, and anxiety, and
struggle,—bread! Jacob, the father,
has the last report from the Hour-bin,
and ho finds that everything is out;
and he says to his sons: “Hoys, hook
up the wagons and start for Egypt,
and get us something to eat.” The
faet was, there was a great corn-crib
in Egypt. T\io people of Egypt have
been largely taxed in all ages, at the
present time paying between 70 and
80 per eent of their products to the
government. No wonder in that lime
they had a largo corn-crib, and it was
full. To that crib they came from the
regions round about—those who were
famished—some paying for corn in
money; when the money was ex
hausted, paying for the corn in sheep
and cattle, and horses and camels, and
tvhen they were exhausted, then sell
ing their own bodies and their fami
lies into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Ja
cob gets his family up vury early.
But before the elder sons start they
aay something that makes him
tremble with emotiou from heud
to foot, anil burst into tears.
The fact was, that these elder sons
had once before been in Egypt to get
corn, and they had been treated some
what roughly, the lord of the corn crib
Supplying them with corn, but saying
at the close of the interview: "Now,
you need not come back here for any
corn unless you bring something better
than money—even your younger
brother Benjamin.” Ah! Benjamin—
that very name was suggestive of all
tenderness. The mother had died at
the birth of that son—a spirit coming
and another spirit going—and the very
thought of parting with Benjamin
must have been a heart break. The
keeper of this corn crib, nevertheless,
says to these older sons: "There is no
need of you coming hero any more for
corn unless you bring Benjamin, your
father's darling.” Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread; but
what a struggle it would be to give up
this son. The Orientals are very
demonstrative in their grief, and
T h«»ru* tho ont.tvn.Uimr nf ttio
father us these older sons keep reit
"•e rating in his cars the announcement
^ of the Egyptian lord, “Ye shall not see
my face unless your brother be with
you.” “Why did you tell them you
bad a brother?” said the old man. com
plaining and chiding them. “Why,
father,” they said, “ho asked us all
about our family, and we had no idea
he would make any such demand upon
us as he has made.” "No use of asking
me,” said the father; “I can not, I will
not give up Benjamin. ” The fact was
. that the old man had lost children: and
when there lias been bereavement in
a household, and a child taken, it
makes the other children in the house
hold more precious So the departure
was adjourned, and adjourned, and
adjourned. Still the horrors of
the famine increased, and
louder moaned the cattle, and
wider open cracked the earth, and
more pallid became the cheeks, until
Jacob, in despair, cried out to his sons,
“Take Benjamin and be off!” The
older sons tried to cheer up theii
father. They said: “We have strong
arms and a stout heart, and no harm
will come to Benjamin. We'll see that
he gets back again.” “Farewell!”
said the young men to the father, in a
tone of good cheer. “F-a-r-e-w-e-1-1!”
■aid the old man; for that word has
mare quavers in it when pronounced by
the aged than by the young.
Well, my friends, this world is
famine-struck of sin. It does not yield
a single crop of solid satisfaction. It
is dying. It is hunger-bitten. The
fact that it does not, cannot, feed a
man's heart was well illustrated in the
life of the English comedian. All the
world honored him—did everything foi
him that the world could do. lie was
applauded in England and applaudec
in the United States. He roused u{
nations into laughter. He had m
equal. And yet. although many pco
pie supposed him entirely happy, an<
that this world was completely sati
ating his soul, he sits down an<
writes: “I never in my life put on :
new hat, that it did not rain and ruii
it I never went out in a shabby coa
because it was raining and thought al
who had the choice would keep indoors
that the sun did not burst forth in iti
strength and bring out with it all thw
butterllles of fashion whom I knew
and who knew mo. I never consented
to accept a part I hated, out of kind
ness to another, that I did not get
hissed by the public and cut by the
writer. I could not take a drive for a
few minutes with Terry without being
overturned and having my elbow-bone
broken, though my friend got off un
harmed. I could not make a covenant
with Arnold, which 1 thought was to
make my fortune without muking his
instead, than in an incredible space of
time —l think thirteen months—I
earned for him twenty thousand
pounds, and for myself one. 1 am per
suaded that if I were to set up as a
beggar, everyone in my neighborhood
would leave off eating bread.” That
was the lament of the world'scomedian
and joker. All unhappy. Thu world
did everything for Lord Ityron that it
could do, and vet in his last moment
he asks a friend to come and sit down
by him and read, as most appropriate
to his ease, the story of “The bleeding
Heart.” Torrigiano the sculptor, exe
cuted after months of cure and carving,
“Madonna and the Child.” The royal
family came in and admired it. Every
body that looked at it was in ecstacy;
but one day, after all that toil, and all
that admiration, because he did not
get as much compensation for his work
as ho had expected, he took a mallet
and drilled the exquisite sculpture into
atoms. The world is poor compensa
tion, poor satisfaction, poor solace.
Famine, famine in all the earth; not
for seven years, but for six thousand.
Hut, blessed be (iod, there is u great
corn-erib. The Lord built it. It is in
unother land. It is a large place.
I want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will ac
knowledge himself to l>e a sinner.
What are you going to do with your
sins? Have them pardoned, you say.
How? Through the mercy of Uod.
What do you mean by the mercy of
Clod? Is it the letting down of a bar
for the admission of all, without re
spect to cluiructer? lie not deceived.
I see a soul coming up to the gate of
mercy and knocking at tnu corn-crib
within says; “Are you alone?” Thu
sinner replies: “All alone.” The voice
from within says: “You shall not see
my pardoning fare unless your divine
brother, the Lord Jesus, be with you.”
O, that is the point at which so many
are discomforted. There is no mercy
from (iod except through Jesus Christ.
Coming with him we are accepted.
Coming without him, we are rejected,
l’etor put it right in his great sermon
before the high priests, when he thun
dered ftn’th: “Neither is there salva
tion in any other. There is no other
name given under heaven among men
whereby wo may be saved.” O, anx
ious sinner! O, dying sinner! t), lost
sinner! all you have got to do is to have
this Divine Henjamin along with you.
Hide by side, coming to the gate, all
the storehouses of heaven will swing
open before your anxious soul. Am 1
right in calling Jesus Henjamin? O,
yes. Uacliel lived only long enough
to give a name to that child, and
with a dying kiss she called him
lleuoni. Afterward Jucob changed
his name, and he called him
Henjamin. The meaning of the name
she gave was “Son of My I’ain.” The
meaning of the name the father gave
was “Son of My Right Hand.” And
was not Christ the Hon of l’ain? All
the sorrows of Uuchel in that hour,
when she gave her child over into the
hands of strangers was nothing com
pared with the struggle *of God when
lie gave up Ills only Hon.
My text also suggests the reason why
so many people do not get any real
comfort. You meet ten people; nine
of them are in need of some kind of
condolence. There is something in
their health or in their state or in their
domestic condition that demands sym
pathy. And yet the most of the world's
sympathy umouuts to absolutely noth
ing. People go to the wrong crib or
they go in the wrong way. When the
plague w'as in Rome a great many
years ago there were eighty men who
chanted themselves to death with the
litanies of Gregory the Great—literally
chanted themselves to death, and yet
it did not stop the plague. And all
the music of this world cannot halt the
plague of the human heart. 1 come to
some one whose ailments are chronic,
and 1 say, “In heaven you
will never be sick.”. That
does noi give you mucn com tort. What
you want is a soothing1 power for your
present distress, host children, have
you? I come to you and tell you that
in ten years perhaps you will meet
those loved ones before the throne of
God. llut there is but little eondolence
in that. One duy is a year without
them, and ten years is a small eternity
What you want is a sympathy now—
present help. I come to those of you
who have lost dear friends and say:
"Try to forget them. l)o not keep the
departed always in your mind.” How
can you forget them when every fig
ure in the carpet, and every book, and
every picture, and every room, calls
out their name. Suppose 1 come to
you and say by way of condolence:
“(lod is wise." “O!" you say, "that
gives me no help. ” Suppose I come to
you and say: "Hod, from all eternity,
has arranged this trouble.” "Ah'”'
you say: "that does me no good.”
Then 1 say: “With the swift feet ol
prayer go direct to the corn-crib for a
heavenly supply. ” You go. You say:
“Lord, help me; Lord, comfort me'”
But no help yet. No comfort yet. It
is all dark. What is the matter? 1
have found. You ought to go to God
aud say: “Here, O Lord, are tlu
wounds of my soul, and I bring with
me the wounded Jesus. Let his
wounds pay for my wounds, his be
reavements for my bereavements, his
loneliness for my loneliness, his heart
break for my heart-break. O, God! foi
the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ—tht
God, the man, the Benjamin, th<
brother—deliver my agonized soul. O
Jesus of the weary foot, east
my fatigue. O, Jesus o:
the aching head, heal my
aching head. O, Jesus of the Bethanj
sisters, roll away the stone from tht
door of our grave.” That is the kint
of prayer that brings help; and ye
how many of you are getting no h'el]
at all, for the reason that there is ii
1 your soul, perhaps, a secret trouble
You may never have mentioned it to :
single human ear, or you may liavi
mentiouea it to some one who is nov
> gone away, and that great sorrow i
. still in your soul. After Washingtoi
i Irving was dead, they found a littli
: box that contained a braid of hair anc
1 a miniature, and the name of Matildi
Hoffman, and a memorandum of he:
> death, and a remark something liki
this: The world after tftat was a blank
to me. 1 went into the country but
found no peace in solitude. I tried to
go into society, but I found no peace
in society. There has beei. a horror
hanging' over me by night and by day,
and 1 am afraid to l>e alone.'*
1 go further, and find in my subject
a hint as to the way heaven opens to
the departing spirit. We are told that
heaven has twelve gates, and some
people infer from that fact that all the
people will go in without reference to
their past life; but what is the use of
having a gate is not sometimes
to be shut? The swinging of a
gate implies that our entrance
into heaven is conditional. It is not a
monetary condition, if we come to
the door of an exquisite concert, we
are not surprised that we must pay u
fee, for we know that fine earthly mu
sic is expensive; but all the oratorios of
heaven cost nothing. Heaven pays
nothing for its music. It is all free.
There is nothing to be paid at that
door for entrance; but the condition of
getting into heaven is our bringing
t our Divine Benjamin along with us.
! Do you notice how often dying people
call upon Jesus? It is the usual prayer
offered—the prayer offered more than
all tlie other prayers put together—
| "Dord Jesus, receive my spirit.” One
| of our congregation, when asked in
i the closing moments of his life, “Do
! you know us?” said: “Oh, yes, I know
you. (lod bless you. Good-by. Lord
I Jesus, receive my spirit;” and he was
j gone. Oh, yes, in the closing moments
I of our life wo must have a Christ to
' call upon. If Jacob's sons had gone
towards Egypt, and had gone with the
very finest equipage, and had not taken
Benjamin along with them, and to the
question they should have been obliged
to answer: “Sir, we didn't bring him,
us father could not let him go; we
didn't want to be bothered with him.”
a voice from within would have said:
“Go away from us; you shall not have
any of this supnly. You shall not see
my face, because your brother is not
with you.” And if we come up to
ward the door of heaven at last,
though we come from all luxuriance
and brilliancy of surroundings, and
knock for admittance, and it is found
that Christ is not with us. the police of
heaven will beat us back from the
bread house, saying: ‘'Depart, 1 never
knew you.” If Jacob's, sons, coming
toward Kgypt, had lost everything on
the way; if they had expended their
lust shekel; if they had come up utterly
exhausted to the corn cribs of Egypt,
and it had been found that Benjamin
was with them, all the store houses
would have swung open before them.
My friends, you see it is either Christ
or famine. If there were two banquets
spread, and to one of them, only, you
might go. you might stand and think
for a good while as to which invitation
you had better accept; but here it is
feasting or starvation. If it were a
choice between oratorios, you might
say: “I prefer the “Creation,”’ or “1
prefer the ‘Messiah.* ” But here it is a
choice between eternal harmony and
everlasting discord. O, will you live
or die? Will you start for the Egyp
tian corn-crib, or will you perish amid
the empty barns of the Canaanitish
famine? “Ye shall not see my face ex
cept your brother be with you.”
Then and Now.
Hannibal Hamlin's first trip to
Washington was tilled with variety.
From his home lie traveled to Portland
by stage-coaoh. From Portland he went
to liostou by boat then to Norwich by
rail, from the latter place ho crossed
the Sonud to Greeuport, from there lie.
took the Long Island Railroad to New
Fork, from the latter place lie again
took the railway to Philadelphia, from
that point he made tho best of his way
by boat and stage-coach to Baltimore,
und from the Monumental City at last
reached tho capital by rail. Arriving
in Washington after this tedious
journey, he found it to be a straggling,
dilapidated, and overgrown village of
less than 20,000 inhabitants. Tho
streets of magnificent houses which
now accommodate the two Ini mired and
odd thousand residents of the place
were then utilized ns cow pastures.
HUMAN DEVILS.
Fiendish Work of the Apache Indians
When Uncurbed.
The devilish nature of the Apache
can not bo appreciated except by those
who have seen the work of these in
human savages on one of their raids.
Last week two poor fellows were killed
near Tombstone and tho report simply
said they were badly mutilated. This
means very little to the ordinary
reader, but to auy old Apache hunter
it briugs up visions of devilish work
that are seared into one’s brain.
I remember a fearful case, of which
I was an eye-witness i« the spring of
1865. It happened that I was in com
mand of a company of California vol
unteers, stationed near the Old Mexi
can line. One day with several men 1
rode towards the’ ranch of Pedro Se
vadra. live miles from our camp. On
the way we heat'd shots and soon a
Mexican came tearing along on a
horse. Ho said old Chief Cochise hnd
attacked Scvadra’s ranch with a large
force. We spurred on. but arrived too
late. The rancli house was iu flames,
while all about was the worst sight im
agination could conceive, Peggod out
on the ground were tho dead bodies of
four Mexican women stripped naked.
The Apaches had disemboweled them
while they were still living, but had
thrust lauccs through their hearts
when they heard us approaching.
Near by were tho bodies of two little
children whose heads had been smashed
to a jelly against the log by the side of
which thiir bodies were lying. The
ouly living person about the’ ranch was
Sevadra, who had beeu tortured iu the
worst way by the savages. He had
, always been 'good to them, and they
knew he was a brave man. but the
devils shot au arrow through his kid
neys in order that he might die a lin
gering death. He lived in terrible
agony for two days. His wife was the
' only one about the ranch who escaped,
j She concealed herself, and was missed
by the Indians when they ransacked
i tho place.
. These Apaches were never pnnished
■ for this or any oilier of their outrages
i in Arizona for twenty years. The
i squaws did most of the worst work in
i torture and mutilation, and deserved
t no mercy when captured, althoitgh
i their sex served them when surprised
• by the regular troops.—St. Louis Globs
! Democrat.
LATE NEWS OF THE MARKETS
Items of Interest to Dealers and
: Agriculturalists.
Newt From the Great Cattle and Sheep
Rangei and the Markets Whero
These Products Are Hold
Marketable Notes.
About 500,000 bushels of wheat is ex
pected to be harvested from the Dal
rymplc farm near Casselton, N. D.
Ten thousand tons of hay will be put vw?
on the Beckwith & Quinn ranche in Uinta
county, Wyoming. Of this 1,000 tons will
be alfalfa and the balance red top.
About the best hop deal which has come
to light comes from Sloan, la. About a
month ago H. Ilalloway, an extensive hog
dealer of Whiting, run short of old hay,
and in order to fill orders went to Sloan
and contracted with Olson & Evans foi
eighty acres of uncut timothy at $l per
acre. Mr. Halloway put his men in the
meadow immediately and inside of
twenty-four hours had it cut, baled and on
the road to Omaha and ;Council Bluffs,
where he sold it at $20 per ton, clearing
over $1,(300 in the deal.
Philadelphia Record: It is predicted by
a prominent bank president in New York
that earlv in September government 4U
per cent bonds will be selling at 98. il
this should prove true it would be the first
time a bond of the United States had sold
below par since the gloomiest period of the
civil war. Not more than $18,000,000 oi
these bonds have, up to this time, been
presented for extension at 2 per cent., and
it is estimated that not less than $25,000,000
will have to be taken up by the treasury
department.
The live stock men of Kansas City are
considerably exercised over what they
allege is a discrimination against Kansas
City by the railroads in live stock rates,
the rates being made to favor Louis
and Chicago. As an instance the rate
from Skidmore, Mo., to Kansas City on a
carload of stock |s $00; to Chicago, $33,
and to St.. Louis, $22 50. From Skidmore
to St. Louis it is 300 miles; to Kansas City
but 100. and the proportion of mileage to
Chicago is still greater. The attention of
the inter state commission will be called
to the discrimination.
± ne uemanu tor wool at Boston con
tinues and some large sales are reported..
The volume of business is pood. Ohio
fleeces have been selling at 29c for X, and
at 31@32c for XX and XXX and above;
Michigan X at 27c. Combing* and X de
laine fleeces are steady and in demand at
previous prices. Territory, Texas and
California wools are selling* mostly at 00c
for clean and tine; 57((258e for tine raediur;
and 53@55c for medium. Unwashed comb
ing wools are in steady demand at 25@26c
for one-quarter and 27(d'28c for three
eights. Pulled wools are steady at 30@45o
as to quality, for supers, and 22(«/«52c for
extra. Australian iirm.
Many of the white settlers who located
on the Crow Creek and Winnebago reser
vation in 1885, afterwards being driven off,
have been putting in their claims for
losses sustained at that time to a special
agent appointed for that purpose. The
special agent has discovered many in
stances where the claimants have padded
their accounts, and three men, Jacob T.
Haight, L. W. Harvey and James E. Hain
stock, are now under 11,000 bonds each at
Huron to appear before the next United
States grand jury for this offense. The
special agent is determined that the Sioux
mode of putting claims in against the
government shall not be permitted in
this case, where white men are the
claimants.
In Germany the troops are not at all
pleased with tln^prospect of a wheat bread
diet. They are accustomed to the rye and
they like it, and German military men
are already discussing with some appre
hension the probable effect on the health
and strength of the men. At any rate,
while the grain crisis continues, the tone
of the German press is notably less as
sertive and even the gross stories which
French papers have printed about the
Kaizer fail to provoke any serious re
joinder. In the manufacturing districts of
Germany the high prices of food are
chiefly felt, and the demand for the aboli
tion o^the corn duties come hardest from
the people that work for bread.
The stockmen of Texas should appre
ciate the Live Stock Journal which dishes
up good wholesome advice every week,
which if taken would be dollars in their
pockets. This week it delivers itself of
the following wisdom: The farmer who
holds his wheat and the cattleman who
holds his beef will both be well paid for
the delay....The markets can handle one
third more beef after the hot weather is
over. Don't hurry your stuff on the mar
ket when it is not w*anted. Prices will be
better in the fall....Those who are kicking
about hard markets should remember that
we are now passing through one of the
worst money stringencies ever known.
There can be no-boom in anything until
money is easier... .There are not too many
beef cattle; at the same time the market
can not be expected to take all the beef
and a big lot of half-fat cattle at once.
Market only the fat cattle and use some
judgment and system in sending them in
and the market will be all right.
The abundant raind have made all na
ture smile, and the cattle, after the severe
hardships of the past winter, now wear a
peaceful and contented look as they lie
in the shade, converting the succulent
grasses into valuable beef and milk The
calves frolic and pass the happy hours
unmindful of the change which the next
six months may bring in their surround
ings. Will they then be standing humped
up iu the howling blizzard with tightening
hides and staring coats vainly endeavor
ing to digest enough straw anil corn stalks
to keep up the unequal fight for life? I
I think no one deliberately meditates such
folly and cruelty, but they let time and op
portunities pass and such sights are only
too common. Straw and com stalks should
be accompanied with some laxative food:
almost anyone can sow a little rye or tur
nips or both. A straw shed can be erected
at a little cost and'thus summer be con
tinued into winter to the comfort of the
stock and profit of the owner.
A private letter from Mr. A. M. Kitchen
now traveling in Europe says: “This is
the hardest country for news Ieverstruck.
The people don't seem to know whether
they are eating horse, cow or dog meat
and for that matter don't seem to care
much. The range in prices is from 5c to
75c per pound. I asked our landlord in
Paris what he paid for meat and I give
you the prices as he gave them to me.
Prime beef, 70c; No. 1, 60c; No. 2, 45c;
No. 3, 20c. Mutton sells from 25(a?40c per
pound and pork from 18^35c. Horse, mule,
donkey and dog meat is much cheaper and
is sold in the poorer parts of the city. The
country through which we traveled from
Paris down to Naples is a regular garden
spot. Not a piece of land that it is possi
ble to work stands idle and from what I
judge in looking through the car windows
the crops are very fair. I have noticed as
we go south from Paris the cattle seem to
grow whiter until you don't see anything
but white cattle from Rome to Nuples.
They are large with horns that would
measure in the neighborhood of four feet
across and look as though they would
from 1,400 to 1,600
THE OISCRACED BARONET.
1 Fallow-TraTalar Found Cummin* Ona
o( tho Sloit Delightful Man.
In the spring of 1888 the writer, says
i correspondent of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, while returning on
the English steamer Costa Rican.Capt.
Watson, from Mexico to the United
States on an ofiicial leave of absence,
encountered among his fellow-passen
gers Lieut.-Col. Sir William (Jordon
Gumming, who has been the object of
lo much controversy in tho social
world. The passengers consisted of a
pnrty of English gentlemen, among
them a lord or two, au American gen
tleman and his wife, who were return
ing from a bridal tour in the West
Indies, and myself.
Among my commissariat was a young
tiger which I had secured in the Mexi
can mountains and which soon became
an object of interest to the passengers
and of some nuxietv to the crew. Up
on liberating the animal from its cage,
by permission of the captain, a tall,
soldierly lookiug gentleman, with
Bandy hair and a clean-shaven face,
bearing the impress of exposure to
tropical sun, approached me and de
sired to know how, when, and where
the animal was captured.
This led to an'informal acquaint
ance, he introducing himself simply
as Gordon Cumming and gave me his
card, upon which was written “Lieut.
Col. Sir William Gordon Cumming.”
At that time I was not informed of the
significance of this name in the mili
tary and social world.
During the voyage I was consider
ably in this gentleman’s society, and a
more affable and interesting traveling
acquaintance I have rarely met. The
other passengers formed quite a staid
and methodical party, and usually
! retired early, while Cumming insisted
upon my sharing the cabin and his
companionship usually until midnight,
sippiQg huge tumblers of brandy and
soda—au intrinsically English concoc
tion, to the virtues of which I became
gradually inured.
He proved a delightful raconteur
and indulged in graphic descriptions
of incidents relating to Woolseley’s
campaign in the Soudan, and only in
cidentally and with extreme modesty
told his own personal connection there
with, omitting entirely any referdfece
to the dash aud intrepidity displayed
by him in that historic campaign, and
which made him one of the idols of the
English army..
He was present at the conllict in
which the heroic soldier, traveler and
author. Capt. Carnaby, lost his life;
aud it was reserved for the colonel of
a crack English regiment (one of the
passengers) todescribe how Gumming,
with his own sword, cut down one of
Carnaby’s fiercest assailants.
Gordon Gumming is ono of the most
thoroughly traveled of Englishmen,
aud his account of the Russians at the
gates of Herat and his description of
Russian and Afghan methods of war
fare evinced a thorough diplomatic as
well as military knowledge of a strat
egic situation that may again attract
universal attention. As a raconteur
Gumming was facile princeps the leadei
of the company, and his personal anec
dotes of Disraeli, Laboueliere. the rad
ical leader, Parnell aud other notables,
were replete with humor, kindness
and grace of expression.
Among the well-known Americans
abroad he admired the genius of Janies
Gordoii Bennett, but deprecated the
hostility of the latter’s newspaper ta
the aristocratic party of England.
In his inferences to America and
Americans he was singularly free from
that mental obliquity that seems to
characterize the average Englishman
in his estimate of us, aud. to quote his
expression, "The only difference be
tween au English aud an American
gentleman was one of environment.”
In several recent newspaper articles
he is represented as one that excites
hostility by an extreme hauteur and
reserve of manner. This is entirely
foreign to the impression lie made up
on me. It seemed that all insular
prejudices common to Englishmen had
been eliminated by the contact of
travel, and in ail essentials he was a
thorough "1101111116 du inonde.”
There was an ease, dash aud bon
homuiic about him that savored more
of the adveuturous soldier tlmu of the
exclusive and aristocratic Englishman.
He was frank, jovial and manly, and
was evidently an anient admirer of
womeu: and yet in the light of his
present misfortunes it occurs to me
that with all his savoir faire and
knowledge of the world he would have
been an easy victim to any concerted
conspiracy that might havo been form
ed against him, but that this Scottish
baronet—a hero of the Soudan—this
man of almost regal station and the
possessor of abundant wealth—should
have descended to the role of a com
mon cheat is so widely divergent from
the course of human action us to be
almost impossible of belief.
Weight of 141,120 Flies.
A southern grocer, being greatly
annoyed by flies, distributed twenty
one sheets ot sticky flv-paper about his
store. In the evening he gathered
them up. and noticing how much
heavier they were, concluded to weigh
them. He accordingly placed the
twenty-one sheets with their loads of
dead ilies upon the scales; they tipped
the beam at exactly seven pounds.
Then he placed twenty-one fresh sheets
on the scales and fouud that they
weighed but four pounds and four
ounces. Thus the flies were shown to
weigh two pounds and twelve ounces.
He next commenced to figure on the
matter, and found there were twenty
flies to each square inch of the fly
paper; each sheet had 836 square
inches and 6.720 flies; the twentv-oue
sheets containing in all 141,120 flies.
Thus it is plain that one can easily
ascertain the exact weight of a single
fly; for if 141.120 flies weigh two
pounds and twelve ounces it is easy to
calculate what one would weigh.
The son of General Isidro Urtecho,
Commander-in-Cliief of the Nicaraguan
army,is the only foreign cadet at West
Point. Ho is a man of 2'J. tall and ac
tive. with swarthy skiu and flushing
black eyes. He is a nephew of Minister
Guzmnn.the Nicaraguan representative
*4 Washington.
Something New at the dress.
Jinks—Been to the circus, eh?
anything new?
Blinks —Yes. The children „i.
laughed at the clowns were new. Wh°
HALL’S CATARRH CURE is . „
and is taken internally, and act, direct!,
upon the blood and mucus surface. Sv,?
system. Send for testimonials free «,*
by druggists, 7.5c. '
F.J. CHENEY df CO., Proprietor,,
__ Toledo, 0.
—The census reports the number of «
municants of the Roman Catholic .
in this country as 6,250,045, but states
the seating capacity of the churches of
this denomination is but 8.785,7>|i >p,“!
discrepancy is accounted for bvTmotiT
Archbishop Corrigan's statement tl, ^
"the same space Is used overnndov.
again by different worshippers at differ.,,,
hours.” '•us
How a Student Makes Money.
Deab Readers.-I am able to pavm.
board and tuition, wear good clothes a>H
have money in my pocket by spending „
odd hours and vacations plating jcwelrf
and tablewcar and selling platers I w'
made *20 per day, never less than $4 i
paid $5 for my plater to H. K. Delno & Co
Columbus, O. Any one can profit bv mr
experience by writing there for circulars.
A Student.
-The most unhappy period of marring,
according to French divorce statistics
for the period extending from the fifth to
the tenth year. After that the figures dron
rapidly. Only 28 per cent, of couples seek
divorce between the tenth and twentieth
years of union. Only one couple in loo
seeks to cut the knot after the period of
over thirty and under fortv years.
Tho Only One Erer Printed-Can Ton FinU
the Word?
Each week a different three-Inch display
is published in this paper. There are qo
two words alike in either ad., except On®
word. This word will he found in the ad
for Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic, Little Liver
Pills and Wild Cherry Bittera.. Look for
''Crescent” trade-mark. Bead the ad.
carefully, and when you find the word send
it to them and they will return you a book
beautiful lithographs and sample free. *
—The famous - pearl necklace belonging
to the French actress, Leonide Leblanc
has* recently been sold for 280.000 francs!
Leading ladies may well ask for fancy sal
aries when they are prepared to make such
costly jewelry displays.
FITS—All Fits stopped free by Dr. Klixe’s
Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first (lav’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and ®>*.0() trial bot
tle free to fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, U31 Arch St
Philadelphia, Pa.
—A woman living in Portsmouth, 0.,
was recently attacked and severely injured
by an owl. It pouuced upon her while she
was in the chicken yard and clawed her
savagely about the arms and shoulders
before it could be driven away.
The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. *25c.
—Jacob Kahn, a Philadelphian, recently
escaped a horrible death by reason of his
thinness. A switch engine drawing five
treight cars knocked him down and passed
over him, but by hugging the ties closely
he came out of the ordeal without injury.
f
When Eaby was dele, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
—Pirates have put in an appearance on
Long Island sound. They swoop down
upon the wealthy dwelled along tho
shores, and .have secured much booty.
They have rakish sail boats in which they
make good their escape. Here's the
white squadron's real chance.
'enaiurr i»9« '
Taken in time,
oven Consumption yields to the
wonderful effects of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. It
■won’t make new lungs—but it will
make diseased ones healthy when
nothing else will. There’s reason
for it, too. Consumption is Lung
scrofula. For every form of scrof
ula, and all blood-taints, the “Dis
covery ” is a positive cure. It’s
the most potent strength - restorer,
blood - cleanser, and flesh - builder
known to medical science. For
Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, and
all lingering Coughs, it’s an une
qualed remedy. It’s a guaranteed
one. If it doesn’t benefit or cure,
you have your money back. You ve
everything to gain from it—nothing
to lose.
It’s especially potent in curing
Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Erysip
elas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes,
Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged
Glands, Tumors and Swellings.
Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal
under its benign influence.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
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f.f • DAAfilk » vv.
Breakfast Cocoa
from which the excess
hu« been removed
Is absolutely pure
it is soluble.
of oil
and
i No Chemical*
t\ are used in its preparation. 1
has more than three times "**
"Aft strength of Cocoa mixed wr.n
Iful Starch, Arrowroot or Sufrar,
M || and is therefore far more ceo
tl 11 nomical, costing less than on
IjJ centacup. It is delicious, nour
pmm Uhing, strengthening, EAJ,IL
DIGESTED, and aamiraoiy nunpicu. —
as well as for pcraona In health.
Sold by Crocer« everywhere.
W. EATCEB. & CO., Dorche«ter, Mass.
