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MASS [BEST POLISH IN THE WORLD. 1 St°ve Pouslf 00 NOT BE DECEIVED with Pastes, Enamels, and Paints which stain the hand*, injure tlie iron, and burn off. The IMsingSun Smvc Polish Is bril liant, Odorless, Durable, and the con sumer pays for no tin or glass package with every purchase. ■AS AS ASBIAL SALE Of3.000 TOTS. .-ii -u MUST BATTLE WITH GIANTS The Road to the Promised Land Not a Peaceful One. Demon Doubt the Doughtiest Devil the Christian Warrior Must Overthrow liefore lie Is Safe on the Hills of the Hereafter. Brooklyn. N. Y., March 18.—Dr. Tol -nage gave another lllust ation this morn log In his sermon at the Tabernacle of his wonderful power of drawing useful, prac tical lessons from an obscure tjs xt, which, to the ordinary mind, seemed incapable of yielding any sptrltuul edification The text was Deut. 8:11. “Only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bed stead of Iron; is it nut In Habbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it ” The story of giants is mixed with myth. William the Conqueror was said to have been of overtowering alti tude, but, when, in after time, his tomb was opened, his bones indicated that he had been physically of only ordinary size. Roland, the hero, was said to have been of astounding stature, but when his sepulchre was examined, his armor was found only large enough to fit an ordinary man. Alexander the Great had helmets and shields of enor mous size made and left among the people whom he had conquered, so as to give the impression that he was a giant, although he was rather under than over the usual height of man. But that in other days and lands there were real giants is authentic. One of the guards of the duke of Brunswick was eight and a half feet high. In a museum in London is the skeleton of Charles Birne, eight feet, four inches, in stature. The Emperor Maximin was over eight feet. Pliny tells of a giant nine feet high, and two other giants nine and a half feet So I am not Incredulous when I come to my text and find King Og a giant, and the size of his bedstead, turning the cubits of the text into feet,—the bed stead of Og, the king, must have been about thirteen and a l|alf feet long. Judging from that, the giant who oc cupied it was probably about eleven feet in stature, or nearly twice the average human size. There was no need of Rabbinical writers trying to account for the presence of this giant, King Og, as they did, by saying that he camu down from the other side of the flood, being tall enough to wade the waters beside Noah's ark, or that he rode on the top of the ark, the pas sengers inside the ark daily providing him with food, There was nothing supernatural about him. He was sim ply a monster in size. Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of gold, and bardanapalus had ISO bed steads of gold burned up with him. but this bedstead of my text was of iron— everything sacrificed to strength to hold this excessivo avoirdupois, this Alp of bone and flesh. No wonder this pouch was kept as a curiosity at Rab bath and people went from far and near to see it. just as now people go to museums to behold the armor of the ancients. You say what a fighter thi3 giant, King Og, must have been. No doubt of it. I suppose the size of his sword and breastplate corresponded to the size of his bedstead, and his stride across the battlefield and the full stroke of his arm must have been appalling. With an armed host he comes down to drive back the Israel ites, who are marching on from Egypt to Canaan. We have no particu tarn oi me name, out i ininn the Israelites trembled when they saw this monster of a man moving down to crush them. Alas for the Israelites’. Will their troubles never cease? What can men five and a half feet high do against this warrior of eleven feet, and what can short swords do against a sword whose gleam must have been like a flash of lightning? The battle of Edroi opened. Moses and his army met the giant and his army. The Lord of Hosts descended into the fight and the gigantic strides that Og had made when advancing into the battle were more than equaled by the gigantic strides with which he retreated. Huzza for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortified cities surren dered to them. A land of indescriba ble opulence comes into their posses session, and all that is left of the giant king is the iron bedstead. “Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it” Why did not the bible«give ns the size of the giant instead of the size of the bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the man was eleven feet high in stead of telling us that his couch was thirteen and a half feet long? No doubt among other things it was to teach us that you can judge of a man by his surroundings Show me a man's associates, show me a man’s books, show me a man's honte, and I will tell you what he is without your telling me one word about him. You can not only tell a man according to the old adage, “Hy the company he keeps,” but by the books he reads, by the pictures he admires, by the church he attends, by the places he visits Moral giants and moral pigmies. Intellectual giants and intellectual pigmies, like physical giants or. physical pigmies may' be judged by their surroundings That man has been thirty years fkithful in attendance upon churches and prayer meetings and Sunday schools, and put ting himself among intense religious associations He may have his imper fections, but he is a very good man. Oreatis his religious stature That other man has been for thirty years among influences intensely worldly, and he has shut himself out from all other influences, and his religious stature is that of a dwarf. No man ever has been or can be independent of his surroundings social, intellectual, mdtal, religious. The bible indicates the length of the giant by the length of his bedstead Let no man say, “I will be good,” and yet keep evil sur roundings Let no man say, “I will be faithful as a Christian,” and yet con sort chiefly with worldlings You are proposing an everlasting impossibility. When a man departs this life you can tell what has been his influence in a community for good by those who mourn for him and by how sincere and long-continued are th« regrets of his - I taking oft. There may be no pomp or obsequies and no pretense at epttaphe ology, but you can tell bow high he was in consecration, and how high in usefulness by how long is his shadow when he comes to lie down. What is true of individuals is true of cities and nationa Show me the free libraries and schools of a city, and I will tell you the intelligence of its people. Show me its gallery of painting and sculpture and I will tell you the artis tic advancement of its citizena Show me its churches and I will tell you the moral and religious status of the place. From the fact that Og’s bedstead was thirteen and a-half feet long, I conclude the giant himself was about eleven feet high, liut let no one by this thought be Induced to sur render to unfavorable environmants. A man can make his own bedstead. Chantrcy and Hugh Miller were born stone masons, but one became an im mortal sculptor and the other a Chris tian Scientist whose name will never die. Turner, the painter, in whose praise John Ruskin expended the grootest genius of his life, was the son of a barber, who advertised “a penny a shave.” Dr. Prideaux, one of the greatest scholars of all time, earned his way through college by scouring pots and pans. The late judge Brad ley worked his own way up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the supreme court of the United Statea Yes, a man can decide the size of his own bedstead. Notice furthermore that even giants must rest Such enormous physical endowment on the part of King Og might suggest the capacity to stride across all fatigue and omit slumber. No. He required an iron bedstead. Giants must rest Not appreciating that fact, how mahy of the giants yearly break down. Giants in busi ness, giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in usefulness. They ,ive not out more than half their days. They try to escape the consequence of over work by a voyage across the sea or a sail in a summer yacht, or call on physicians for relief from insomnia or restoration of unstrung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is what this giant of my text re sorted to—an iron bedstead. Let no one think because he has great strength of body or mind that he can afford to trifle with his unusual gifta The commercial world, the literary world, the artistic world, the political world, the religious world, are all the time aquake with the crash of falling giants. King Og, no doubt, had a throne but the bible' never mentions his throne. King Og, no doubt, had a crown, but the bible never mentions his crown. King Og, no doubt, had a sceptre, but the bible does not mention his sceptre. Yet, one of the largest verses in the bible is takon up in de scribing his bedstead. So Gad all up and down the bible honors sleep Adam, with his head on a pillow of Edenlc roses, has his slumber blest by a divine gift of beautiful companion ship. Jacob, with his head on a pillow of rock, has his sleep glorified with a ladder filled with descending and as cending angels. Christ, with a pillow made out of the folded up coat of a fisherman, honors slumber in the back part of the storm-tossed boat. The only case of accident to sleep men tioned in the bible was when Eutychus fell from a window during a sermon of Paul, who had preached until midnight, but that was no^ so much a condemnation of sleep as a censure of long ser mons.' More sleep is what the world wants. Economize in everything but | sleep William H. Seward, the re I novvned secretary of state, in the midst of his overmastering toils longed for the capacity to rest, writing in his memorandum book: "I have never found but one invaluable recipe for having a good night's re3t, and that is to have been restless and sleepless the night before.” When President John Quiucy Adams and the distinguished Josiah Quincy went to hear Judge Story lecture on law to his students, and, when invited to sit beside the judge and both fell asleep, the judge appropriately pointed to them, and said to his students: “Behold the evil effects of early rUing.” In bible times, when people arole at the voice of the bird, they retired at the time the bird puts his head under his wing. One of our national sins is robbery of sleep Walter Scott was so urgent about this duty of slumber that, when arriving at a hotel where there was no room to sleep in, except that in which there was a corpse, inquired if the deceased had died of a contagious disease, and, when assured he had not, took the other bed in the room and fell into profoundest slumber. Those of small endurance must certainly require rest if even the giant needs an iron bed stead. .Notice, furthermore, that God's peo ple on the way to Canaan need not be surprised if they confront some sort of a giant. Had not the Israel itish host had trouble enough al ready? No! Red Sea not enough. Water famine not enough. Long marches not enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary status not enough. They must meet Og, the giant of the iron bedstead. “Nine cu bits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.” Why not let these Israelites go smoothly into Canaan without this gigantic opposi tion? Oh, they needed to have their courage and faith further tested and developed! And blessed the man who, in our time, in his march toward the promised land does not meet more than one giant Do not conclude that you are not on the way to Canaan because of this obstacle. As well might the Israelites conclude that they were not on their way to the promised land be cause they met Og, the giant Stand ing in your way is some evil propensity, some social persecution, some business misfortune, some physical distress. Not one of you but meets a giant who would like to hew you in twain. Higher than eleven feet this Og dark lens the sky and the rattle of his buck I ler stuns the ear. Hut. you are going to get the victory, ns did the Israelites In the name of tho God of Moses aad David and Joshua and Paul, charge on him, and you will leave his carcass in the wilderness. You want a battle shout! Take that with which David, the five-footer, assailed Goliath, the nine-footer, when that giant cried, with stinging contempt both in man nor and intonation: "Come to me, and £ will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field,” and David looked up at the monster of braggadocio and defiantly replied: "Thow earnest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield; but I oome to the* In the name of the Lord of hosts, the Ood of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast de fied. This day will the Lord deliver thee unto mine hand; and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is a Ood in Is rael.” Then David, with probably three swirls of the sling about his head got it into sufficient momentum and let fly till the cranium of the giant broke in, and he fell, and David leaped on his carcass, one foot on his chest and the other on his head, and that was the last of thePhilistine. But, be sure that you get the right battle shout, and that you utter it with the right spirit, or Og will roll over you as easily as at night he rolled into his iron bedstead. Brethren, I have made up my mind that we will have to fight all the way up to the promised land. I used to think that after a while I would get into a time where it would be smooth and easy, but the time don’t come, and it will never come in this World. By the time King Og is used up so that he cannot get into his iron bedstead, some other giant of opposition looms up to dispute our way. Let us stop looking for an easy time and make it a thirty years’ war. or a sixty years’ war, or a hundred years’ war. if we live so long. Do you know the name of the big gest giant that you can possibly meet —and you will meet him? He is not eleven feet high but 100 feet high. His bedstead is as long as the continent. His name is Doubt His common food is infidel books and sceptical lectures and ministers who ao not know whether the blble is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Christians who are more infidel than Christian. You will never reach the promised * land unless you slay that giant Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill you. How to overcome this giant? Pray for faith, go with people who have faith, read everything that en courages faith, avoid as you would ship fever and small pox the people who lack faith. In this battle against King Og use not for weapons the crutcb of a limping Christian or the sharp pen of a controversialist, but the sword ol truth, which is the word of God. The word “if” is made up of the same num ber of letters as the word “Og,” and it is just as big a giant If the bible be true. If the soul be immortal. II Christ be God. If our belief and be havior here decide our future destiny. If. If. If. I hate that word “If.” Noah Webster says it is a conjunction; 1 say it is an armed giant Satan breathed upon it a curse when he said to Christ: “If thou be the Son of God.” What a dastardly and infamous “If.” Against that giant “If” hurl Job’s “I know” and Paul's “I know.” “I know that my redeemer liveth. ” “I know in whom I have believed.” Down with the “If” and up with “1 know.” Oh, that giant doubt is such a cruel giant! It attacks many in the last hour. It could not let my mother alone even in her dying moments. After a life of' holiness and consecra tion such as I. have never heard of in anyone else, she said to my father, “Father, what if, after all, our prayers and struggles should, go for nothing. Why could she not, after all the trials and sicknesses and bereavements of a long life and the in firmities of old age, be allowed to tro without such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder I have a grudge against the old monster? If I could I would give him a bigger bounce than Satin got when, hurled out of heaven, the first thing he struck was the bottom of perdition. Another impression from my subjqct. The march of the church cannot be im peded by gigantic opposition. That Is raelitish host led on by Moses was the Church and when Og, the giant, him of the iron bedstead, came out against him with another host—a fresii host against one who seemed worn out— things must have looked bad for Israel. No account is given of the bedstead of Moses except that one in which he first slept, the cradle of aqnative vegeta tion on the Nile, where the wife of Chenephres, the king, found the float ing babe, and, having no child of her own, adopted him. 5loses of ordinary size against Og of extraordinary dimensions Besides that Og was backed up by sixty fortified cities Moses was backed up seemingly by nothing but the desert that had worn him and his army into a group of un discipled and exhausted stragglers. But the Israelites triumphed. If you spell the name of Og backward you turn it into the word “go,” and Og was turned backward and made to go. With Og’s downfall all the sixty cities surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant except his iron bedstead, which was kept in a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and stout he once was So shall the last giant of opposition in the church’s march succumb. Not sixty cities captured, but all the cities Not only on one side of Jordan, but on both sides of all rivers A Wnd-Goeii Cbm Chappie (faintly)—Doctah, my-aw head feela awful! Does gripevoh go to the brain? Doctor—Sometimes Chappie—I have pains rushin* around all ovah, in me arms, and hands, and feet, and everywhere. Doctor—That’s grip. Chappie—What’s it trying to do, doc tah? Doctor—Trying to find your brain, I guess.—N. Y. Weekly. r Ye Modern Grammar. Mother—It’s terribly late. Why in the world don't you go to bed? Little Daughter—I’m studyin’ my grammar lesson. “But you said tho teacher gave you only one rule to-day and you learned that in three minutes.” “Yes’m.” “Then why aro you poring over that grammar at eleven o’clock at night?” “I’m learain’ the ’xceptions.”—Good News. Not So Bad. Mr. Eiscnbaum—Veil, mein sohn, how vos pusiness ven I vos ouwt? Eiscnbaum, Jr.—I solt von pair of von tollar pants. Mr. Eisenbaum—Dot vos poor. Eisenbaum, Jr.—Von pair of von tol lar pants for free tollars an’ akewater. Mr. Eisenbanm—Gooti Goot! You ▼ill make a pusiness man yedt—Puck JEWELS IN POMPEII. DMoMfal If h Mena TVIiona D^romtlom Girin of Our D«y Ml|ht Envy. The handiwork of tlm jewelers ol Pompeii wag celebrated for its artistic finish and elaborate ilesign. gave th< Jewelers' Weekly. This is shown by tbo many specimens recovered from the ruins of the ancient city, and the fact that this day some of the most, ef fective combinations and arrangement! of jewelry for feminine adornment are modeled on essentially similar designs. The frontispiece of 'this issno of the Weekly engraved from a painting by Hern Coomans, represents a maiden ol Pompeii whose ornaments aptly illus trate the fashions of the time and the profnsion with which jewelry wa« worn. In the headdress, necklace and its pendnnt, earrings, bracelet and anklet of this tall and grnceful daught er of Pompeii it mny be seen that the Pompeii jeweler of centuries ngo was called upon to supply no inconsiderable shnre of the personal ornaments of the No linger rings are worn, as such jewels were limited by custom to matrons and to maidens who were be trothed. It is also noticeable that blit a single bracelet is worn, and that is worn on the right wrist. This and , a single anklet on the right-ankle fur ther indicate that the subject of the picture was an unplighted maiden. The necklace and earrings, the same style, are formed entirely of uncut gems, thickly strung together with due regard to symmetry and color. The headpiece is fqrmed'of a thin band of gold sparingly ornamented. In the bracelet and anklet, which were re garded as tho more important jewels, were to be found more elaborate speci mens of workmanship. These jewels were of lienvv gold, rarely set with precious stones and generally, as in the picture, chased or engraved. Re ligious symbolism bad much to da with the designs thus wrought, anil a system in which nature worship was persouiliod furnished a rich variety of forms. The Trade Rats of Arizona. A miner near the Senator recently had a rather singular experience with trade rats, known also ns mountain rats. As the nights were cold the miner took his ore sack to replenish his rather hard bed. Having neglected to come to town for several weeks his supply of beans iiad given ont and he bad come down to a diet of straight bacon. Considerably ont of humor he started in to pull his bed to pieces one morning and in removing the sacks was agreoabiv surprised to find three pounds of beans, with a little coffee mined, which the trade rats had brought from the Seuator and stored in his bud. The rats ore native Americans and very different from their imported Norway cousins. They arc called trade rats because they generally leave some article in exchange for what they take away. The miner states that he never killed a trade rat; that these rodents habitual ly steal from one cabin and carry their plunder into an adjoining one; that on one occasion he spilled a couple ol quarts of corn on the floor of his cabin and the next morning found the rats had stored away every grain of it in a pair of saddle-hags hanging upon the wall. He also states that tho rata have thick camlet appendages about three inches in length, which they keup con stantly throwing up and down.striking the floor with each downward move ment with the regular measured stroke of a musical professor marking time. They carry off plugs of tobacco, tooth brushes, combs uud brushes, in fact, any tiling which they can manage tc move.—Prescott Courier. INDIAN CAVALRYMEN* They Obey Order* Better than Whits Sol Uiero aud Behave Very Well* There is a company of cavalry at Fort Niobrara commanded- by Linut Dravo of which he is very proud, says the Omaha World. "The 21st day of April,” said the officer, "J completed the enlistment of the tifty-tive Indians in my company. An Indian is more easily enlisted into the cavalrv because he is allowed a horse." "His own ponyP” "No, he must be mouutcd up on a horse as the other cavalry soldiers are.” "Do you liud it difficult to discipline the Indians?” "Not at all they obey orders better than white men, and you should see the improve* ment in them. The comparison be tween the Indian soldier and their re latives at the ageucy is most favorable to the soldier. An Indian, while he is not round-shouldered, leans forward and bends his knees, but six months' ■setting-up' drill has changed all this materially. Ten of my men are from the Car lisle school at Pennsylvania, and the junior corporal is a s'on of the famous Two Strikes. We have a school in the garrison, and they are at preseut learning the alphabet It is hard fot them, too, but they are very much in earnest and learn readilv. I promised them when they enlisted that they should be as fully equipped as the! white soldiers, and I have just re turned from a nine days’ trip nround the reservation in which they proved my words good to their relatives and friends.” "How did you induce them to cut their hair?" "It is funny about that. I told them that tliev could have no uniforms until they were clean ami their hair cut. This was Saturday; it they were ready they could don their uniforms Monday morning. Sunday —the whole day—was spent in bathing, six at a time, and Monday morning the entire company reported, clean and with hair cut. I explain to them their orders.. They wish sincerely tc learn the white man’s way, and. as 1 said before, are the most earnest work ers imaginable.” "Do you trust then; with alcoholic drinks?" "They have the privileges of the canteen, as the soldiers have, aud you could couut the disorderlies upon the tiugers of one band.” "What have they done wit! their wives?” "Five of them hav« their wives with them. The-Indiui: marriage is easily dissolved, however, and a number of wives have been left behind." A ■rap«»kt,»u, B Yoxmg Hop«ful—Pap .wful to think how much^SSL*! rire momma. ***■ ' Papa-Sha haan’t complain.4 No, aha a raal patient Rut ah mnda ma to the .tor. for thin~ * the .tore. i. a good way. T t#4 time^ and I know .he get. W»tln’ -when •h*'* ln a*hwrJ? * Not often, I guess. *' Oh, .he's moat always i» - ghe get. everything all ^ bread, and finds at^tbe last** the hasn't any yeast; or sh« m?°** pudding all fixed, and finds^he any nutmeg or something* aV^".* •he’a in an awful stew cause th« .all ready, and maybe comply In, and I can’t run a very lon-du! tance. you know, and 1 feel awfai sorry for poor mamma “Wlul ^ Humpl Well, what can we do abet bic“thinki“’ y°“ m'lght *et * A Endorsement. Mr. Rlchfello (who ha. fallen des perately in lore with Miss Beautl) What a charming girl Miss Reauti 1st ' Rival Belle—Yes, indeed, she's s perfect angel; .he's so self-sacrificing. What do you think she did last spring Really I don t know; something lovely, no doubt * Just heavenly! She melted up al] her old engagement rings and gave thi money to the poor. Items of Interest, Coin, are weighed in the mint to a halr’i weight. Not long since a hair fell inti the weighing machine, and until it xrm discovered a large amount of coins wen rejected. From the Blizzard Bugle: We brought out a double leaded editorial on Colonel 1 uffnut last week. We xegret that we found it necessary to double lead ths colonel shortly afterward. The oldest settler in Chicago, “Jimmy”' Lane, is 98 years young, for he is an ac tive and bustling old fellow, who recently to show his agility, ran up a flight of stairr as quickly as a boy could have done it Mrs. Lucy Evans, of Independence,. Jackson county. Mo., a native of Cook county, Tenn., is 103 years of age, and, with her faculties well preserved, is still able to attend to light household duties. Men are not going to do all the curing and killing in this country. The gentleii sex will divide the respensibility with them. Twenty-five hundred women in ths United States possess medical diplomas. Hundreds of imported song birds were turned loose a few days ago, near Beavei ton, Ore. They seemed delighted to ra gain their freedom aud at once rose high in the air, singing gaily, and then made a. wide circle and settled along a creek which runs through the meadow. A shipper at Cedar, Mo,, writes the Kan* sas City Drovers’ Telegram as follows: “1 see in your issue of February 20 a movd made by the Humane society in overload! ing stock in cars. While they are inveatlt gating or wishing to have stock shipped so as not to injure it, I wish to give them* few pointers. My experience in shipping cattle la that a car filled full, and no) jammed or too crowded, is'better than ii there are less; and the fewer cattle in •< car the more they are bruised, from tht fact that they will crowd in one end any* way and the first jerk the engine makei they are off their feet, only to be repeated at the tirst stopping; whereas, a full loaf would be braced by the car and not hurt It is the jamming of stock, either over loading or not loading enough to take u« all space properly, and stock are injured more while the cars are standing waiting for trains to pass. When moving, oui stock are not carried to market as regulai and speedily as seemingly could be: there are too many delays. Give the stock train* the preference of track and let them'' pul) through. Anything that adds to the con dition of the stock in transit adds to it* value; let the railroads give usT libera) rates and see that the stock trains arc handled steadily.” A PI ala Precaution. Either to adopt a plain precaution, one sanctioned by experience and approved by medical men, or to incur the risk of a malady obdurate and destructive in its various forms of intermittent or bilious remittent fever, or dumb ague, which of the two? For every type, for every phase of malaria, Hostetter’s Stomach Bit ters is a specific. It acts promptly —does its work thoroughly. As a defence against the malarial taint^t is most effeev ive. Emigrants to and denizens of re gions in the west where miasmatic com plaints are periodical visitant*, should be mindful of this and use the Bitters as ■ safeguard. For constipation, biliousness, rheumatism. *‘la grippe,” kidney and blad der troubles the Bitters will be found no less useful than' in cases of malaria, '-gainst the injurious effects of exposure, bodily or mental fatigue, it is also a valu able protection. —It has been s&id that Queen Victoria Is the only person now living who knew Sir Walter Scott personally. 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Of all Dru^lsts. w —A couple of drops of camphor *JJ**®!L led on a toothbrush are said to m . nf the best and mod refrssh:a»^ 0 trashes. —There are ninety licensed bling houses In Caracas, the cap , Venezuela, all doing a prosperous