uwmmwm ymn^ir I rviTur<*UUHi>1UUW Mr, n'm. A. Lehr of Kemlallvilla, (net.i Hood's Hurnapnrllls is Kingof Medicines And His Curo Was Almost a Miracle 1. Hood A Co., Lowell. Mum.: **G«nt:emrn: When I wn 14 yean of age I wm con flnsd to my bod for aevsral months by an attack of rheumatism, and when I had partially recovered X 4td not have the uae of my lega, ao that X had to go •a crutohes. About a year later, Serorialaa« Ul lbs form of White Swellings appeared on verloue parti of my body, and for eleven yean I waa au Invalid .being eeeflhed Co sajr bed eia jrsora. In that time ten or sloven of tares torse appeared end broke, oeuelug me groat pain end Buffering. Several times pl< ceapf bono worfct-d •tit of the eort-a. Physician* did not help me and I Became Discouraged MI went to Chicago to vlelt a Bister, aa It waa thought a chance of air and scene might do mo good, bnt I waa confined to my bed inoat of the lime. I waa 10 Impressed with the aucoeeaof Hood'a ffarasparllia tn oaaea almlisr to mine that 1 decided to trv It. Bo n b -tile wee bought, and to my great gratification the sores soon deot eased, and I beg«n to feel bettor. This strengthened my faith In the Medicine, and In a short time I was Up and Out of Doors To make a long atory abort, I continued to take Hood'a Sarsaparilla for a year, when I ha 1 brooms ■o fully relea e 1 from the chain* of dlaonee that I took s position with the Hint A Walling Mfg. Co., •id alnoe that time have not loit a tingle day on sccount of elckuete. 1 always fuel well, atn In good Spirits and have a good appetite. I endortu Hood’s Sarsaparilla for It ha a been a great b easing to me, aul to my friends my recovery seems almoat miraculous. I think Ilood'a Farsapartlla la the king of all inedV •tiles." William A. Lsns, ho. 9 hortu Italiioad St., Kenda lvblu, fnd. Hood'a • Ilia cure Ulllouenesa. 44 How Old 1 Look, and not yet Thirty." those minor ailments that, if hot checked in time, will rob them of health and beauty. At the first symptom of vital weakness, use Lydia £. /'iniAlim's l tettMt Compound, Many women fade early, simply be cause they do not take proper care of t h e m s e.l v e s. Whirled along in the excitements of a fast-living age, they overlook me roses will return to your cheeks, sallow looks depart, spirits brighten, your step be- | come firm, ami back and headache will be known no more. Your appe tite will gain, and the food nourish you. j0\ LoMiigta, am m-eiittof8l .14,000 in hard cash for religious uses. There has been persistent and hem ispheric lying against this church. \ienavo raison duriug ray pastorate, for church building- and religious pur poses, SU'.'S,000 or practically a million dollars. Not au Irish famine, or a Charleston earthquake, or au Ohio freshet, or a Chicago conflagration, but our church was among the tirst to help. Wo have given free seats in the morning and evening services to 240, 000 strangers a year, and that, in twenty years, would amount to 4,800, 000 auditors. Wo have received into our membership 5,3r>7 members, and that is only a small portion of the number of those who have here been converted to God from all parts of this land and from other lands. Under the blessing of God, and Through the kindness of the printing press, my ser mons now go every week into every neighborhood in Christendom, and are regularly translated into nearly all j tho great languages of Europe and Asia. The syndicates having charge of this sermonio publication informed me a few days ago that my printed sermons every week, in this and other lands, go into tho homes of 25,000,000 people. During tho last year, I am nuthoritntivoly informed, over 2,000 different periodicals were added to the list of those who make this publica tion And yet there are ministers of the Gospel and religious news papers that systematically and in dustriously and continuously charge this church with idleness and selfish ness and parsimony. I call the atten tion of tho whole earth to this outrage that has been heaped upon tho lirook lyn Tabernacle, though a moro conse crated, benevolent and splendid convo cation of men and women were never gathered together outside of heaven. I have never before responded to them injustices, and- probably will never refer to them ngain. but I wish the people of this country and other coun tries to know that what they read con cerning the selfishness and indolence and lack of benevolence and lack of missionary spirit on the part of this church, is, from top to bottom and from stem to stern, falsehood—dast ardly falsehood—diabolical falsehood. - Wlmt is said against myself has no ef- : feet, except like that of a coarse Turk- j ish towel, the rubbing down by which improves the circulation and produces good health. Hut this continuous mis !'«'T f ■« representation of my beloved ohurchi in the name of Almighty God, 1 de" mm nee, while 1 appeal to the fair minded men and women to see that justice is done this people, who,within a few years, haro gone through n struggle that no other church iu any land or any ago has been called to en duro, and I pray God that no other church may ever be called to endure, I viz.: the building of three tabernacles. | i ask the friends of the llrooklyn Tabernacle to cut out this ser mon from the newspapers and put it in their pocketbooks so | that they can intelligently an ! swer our falsifiers, whether clerical or I | lay. And with these you may put that I other statement, which recently went j through the country and which I saw I iu Detroit, which said that the llrook ! lyn Tabernacle had a hard financial | struggle, because it had all along been paying such enormous salaries to its pastor, Dr. Talmage, when the fact is that, after our last disaster, and for two years, I gave all my salary to the church building fund, and I received $0,000 less than nothing; in other words, in addition to serving this church gratuitously for two years, I let it have $0,000 for building pur poses. Why is it that people could not do us justice and say that all our financial struggle as a church came from doing what Peter, in my text, absurdly proposed to do, but which, iu the inscrutable providence of God, we were compelled to do—build three tabernacles. I have preached here twenty-three years, and I expect, if my life and health are continued, to preach here twenty-three years longer, although we will all do well to remember that our breath is in our nostrils, and any hour we may be called to give an ac count of our stewardship. All wo ask for the future is that you do your best, contributing all you can to the support of our institutions. Our best days are yet to come; our greatest revivals of religion, and our mightiest outpourings of the Holy Ghost. We have got through the Red sea and stand today on the other bank clapping the cym bals of victory. Do you wonder that last Sabbath I asked you in the midst of the service to rise and sing with jubilant voice the long metre Doxology: Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise him all creatures here below. Praise him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. t Yes. twenty-three years have passed sinco I came to livo in llrooklyn, and they have been to me eventful years It was a prostrated church to which I came, a church so flat down it could drop no further. Through controver sies which it would be useless to re hearse it was well-nigh extinct, and for a long while it had been without a pastor. Hut nineteen members could ue mustered to sign a call for my com ing. As a committee was putting that call before me in an upper room in ray house in Philadelphia, there were two other committees on similar errands from other churches in other rooms, whom my wifo was entertaining and keeping apart from unhappy collision. The auditorium of the Hrooklyn church to which I came defied all the laws of acoustics; the church had a steeple that was the derision of the town, and a high box pulpit which shut in the preacher as though he were dangerous to be let loose, or it acted as a barri cade that was unnecessary to keep back the people, for they were so few that a minister of ordinary muscle could have kept back all who were there. My first Sabbath in Hrooklyn was a sad day, for I did not realize how far the church was down until then, and on the evening of that day my own brother, through whose pocket I entered the ministry, died, and the tidings of his decease reached me at 0 o’clock in the evening, as I was to preach at half-past 7. Hut from that day the blessing of (Jod was on us, and l in three months we began the enlarge ment of the building. Hefore the close of that year we resolved to con struct the first tabernacle. It was to be a temporary structure, and there fore we called it a tabernacle instead of a tempio. What should bo the style of architecture was the immediate ques tion. 1 had always thought that the am pliitheatrieal shape would be appropri ate for a church. Two distinguished architects were employed, and, after iiiucn novenng over designs, they an nounced to us that such a building1 was impossible for religious purposes, ns it would not be churchly, and would subject themselves and ns to ruinous criticism. In other words, they were not ready for a revolution in church architecture. Utterly disheartened as to my favorite style of architecture, I said to the trustees: “Iluikl anything you please and I must be satisfied.” Hut one morning a young architect ap peared at my house and asked if we had yet selected a pian for our church. I said, “No, and what we want wo cannot get.” "What style of building do you want?" he asked. And taking but a lend pencil and a letter envelope from rny pocket, in less than a minute, by a few curved lines, I indicated in the rough what we wanted. "Hut," I said, “old architects tell us it can't be done, and there is no use in your try ing.” He said, “[ can do it. How long can X have to make out the plans?” I said, “This evening at 8 o'loclt everything is to be decided.” At 8 o'clock of that evening the architect presented his plans, and the bills of builder and mason were pre sented, and in five minutes after the plans were presented they were unani mously adopted. So that I would not bo in the way of the trustees during the work, I went to Europe, and when I got back, the church was well nigh done. Hut here came in a stiggering hindrance. Wo expected to pay for the new church by tiie sale of the old building. The old one had been sold, but just at the time we must have the money, the purchasers backed out and we had two churches nnd no money, liv the help of God and the indomita ble and unparnl'eled energy of our trustees (here and there one'of them! present today, but the most in a better world), we got the building ready for* consecration, nnd on September '25, 1ST0, morning nnd evening dedicatory services were held, and in the after noon the children, with sweet and mul titudinous voices, consecrated the place to God. Twenty thousand dollars were raised that day to pay a floating debt In the morning old Dr. Stephen II. Tyng, the glory of the Episcopal church and the Chrysostom of the American pulpit, preached a sermon, which lingered in its gracious effects as long as the build ing stood. He read enough out of the Episcopal prayer book to keep himself from being1 reprimanded by bis bishop for preaching at a non-Eplscopal ser vice; and we, although belonging to another denomination, responded with heartiness, as though ive were used to liturgy “Good Lord, deliver us!” Dur ing the short time we occupied that building, we had a constant downpiur of religious awakening. Hosannah! Ten million years in heaven will have no power to dim my memory of the glorious times we had in that first tabernacle, which, because of its in vasion of the usual style of church architecture, was called by some “Tal mage’s hippodrome,” by others. “Church of the holy circus,” and by other mirthful nomenclature, llut it was a building perfect for acoustics, and stood long enough to have its imi tation in all the large cities of America and to completely revolutionize church architecture. People saw that it was the common-sense way of seating an audience. Instead of putting in an angular church, where each one chiefly saw the back part of somebody else's head, the audience were arranged in semi-circle, so that they could see each other's faces, and the auditorium was a great family circlo seated around a fireplace, which was the pulpit It was 1 an iron structure, and, we supposed, j fire proof, but the insurance companies looked at it, and, after we had gone ; too far to stop in its construction, they ! declined to insure it, except for a mere j nothing, declaring that, being of iron, j if the inflammable material between 1 the sheets of iron took fire, no engine hose could play upon it. And they were right. During those days we ed ucated and sent out from a lay college under our charge some twelve hundred young men and women, many of them becoming evangelists and many of them becomiug regularly ordained preachers, and I meet them in all parts of the land toiling mightily for God. One Sunday morning, in December, 1872, the thermometer nearly down to zero, I was on my way to church. There was an excitement in the street and much smoke in the air. Eire en gines dashed past. Hut my mind was on the sermou I was about to preach, until someone rushed up and told me that our church was going up in the same kind of chariot that Elijah took from the banks of the Jordan. That Sunday morning tragedy, with its wringing of hands, an i frozen tears on the cheeks of many thousands standing j in the street, and the crash that shook the earth, -is as vivid as though it were yesterday. Hut it was not a perfect loss. All were anxious to do some thing, and, as on such occasions sensi ble peopla are apt to do unusual things, one of the members, at the risk of his life, rushed in among the fallen walls, mounted the pulpit and took a glass of water from the table and brought it in safety to the street. So you see it was not a total loss. Within an hour, from many churches came kind invitations to occupy their building's, and hanging against a lamp post, near the destroyed building, be fore 12 o'clock that morning was a board with the inscription: “The con gregation of Brooklyn tabernacle will worship tonight in Plymouth church'.” Mr. Beecher made the opening prayer, which was full of commiseration for me and my homeless flock, and I preached that night the sermon that I intended to preach that morning in my o w n church, the text concerning the precious alabaster box broken at the feet of Christ, and sure enough we had one very precious broken that day. . We were, as a church, obliterated. “But arise and build,” said many voices Another architect took the amphithcatrical plan of a church, which, in the first instance, was nec- j essarily somewhat rude, and devel oped it into an elaborate plan that was immediately adopted. But how to raise the money for such an expensive undertaking was the question—ex pensive not because of any senseless adornment proposed, but expendvo be cause of the immense size of the build ing needed to hold our congregation. It was at that time when for years our entire country was suffering, not from a financial panic, but from that long continued financial depression which all business men remember, as the cloud hung heavy year after year and commercial establishments without number went down. Through what -*-- WHVJ WS.1LKI, t VICTt-t nnd some brave souls today remember. Many a time would I have gladly ac cepted calls to some other field, but I could not leave the flock in the wilder- : ness. At last, after, in the interreg- j num, having worshiped in our beauti- ' ful academy of music, on the morning of February 22, 1874, the anniversary of the Washington who conquered im possibilities and on the Sabbath that ill ways celebrates the resurrection. Dr. Byron Sunderland, chaplain of the United States senate, thrilled us through nnd through with a dedicatory sermon from Haggai ii, 9, “The glory of this house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the Lord of hosts.” The corner stone of that building had been laid by the illus trious and now enthroned Dr. tremens Prime. On the platform on dedication day, sat, among o' lers, Dr. Dowling, of the baptist church; Mr. Crooic, of the Methodist churoh; Mr. Beecher, of the Congregational church, and Dr. French, of the Presbyterian church. Ilosannah! Another $35,000 was raised on that day. The following Sunday 328 souls were received into our com munion, mostly on confession of faith. At two other communions over 500 joined at each one. At another in gathering 628 souls entered this com munion, and so many of those gathered throngs have already entered heaven i that we expect to feel at home when we get there. My! My! Won't we be glad to see them—the men and women : who stood by us in days that were i dark, and days that were jubilant, i Ilosannah! The work done in that i church on Sehcrmerhoru street can never be undone. What self-sacrifices i on the part of many, who gave almost i till the blood came! What hallelujahs! 1 What victoriesl What wedding j marches played with full organ! What I baptisms! What sacraments! What < obsequies! One of them on a snowy ! ‘ Sabbath afternoon, when all Brooklyn 1 seemed to sympathize, and my eldest 1 son, bearing my own name, lav 1 beneath the pulpit in the last sleep, ’ and Florence Rice Knox sang, and n 1 score of ministers on and around the 1 platform tried to interpret how it was ’ best that one wh > had just come to 1 manhood, and with brightest worldly : prospects, should be taken, and we left 1 with a heart that will not cease to I ache until we meet where tears never 1 SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND EX CLUDED FROM HOSPITALS AS INCURABLE. The Remarkable Experience of Clias. Quant as Investigated by an Albany (N. V.) Journal Reporter—A Story of Sur passing Interest. [Albany, N. Y„ Journal, March 4.] Saratoga, March 4.—For some time past there have been reports hero and elsewhcro in Saratoga County of a most nemarkablc—indeed, so remarkable as to be miraculous—cure of a most severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the use of a popu lar remedy known as “Pink Pills for Palo People,” prepared and put up by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company. Morristown, N.Y., and Prockviltc, OnL The story was to the effect that Mr. Charles A. Quant of Galway, who for the last six or eight years has been a great sufferer from creeping paralysis and its attendant ills and who had be come utterly powerless of all self-help, had, by the use of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Pale People, been so fully restored to health as to be able to walk about tho street without the aid of crutches. The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought it worth his while to go to Galway to call on Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips, and from the observation and testimony of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was a fact or only an unfounded rumor. And so he drove to Galway and spent a day and a night there in visiting Mr. Quant, getting his story, and interview ing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen. It may be proper to say that Galway is a pietty little village of 400 people, de lightfully located near the center of the town of Galway, in Saratoga County, and about seventeen miles from Sara toga Springs. Upon inquiry, the resi dence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was eas ily found, for every one seemed to know him, speak well of him, and to be over flowing with surprise and satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restoration to the aciivities of enterprising citizen ship, for Mr. Quant was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty home on a plbasant street nearly opposite the academy. In response to a knock at the door it was opened by a man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was at home, said: “I am Mr. Quant. Will you come in?” After a little general bii-j preliminary conversation, ana aiier Jie had been apprised of the object for which the Journal reporter had called upon him, he, at request, told the story of himself,and of his sickness and terri ble sufferings, and of the ineffectual treatment he had had, and of his final cure l)*r the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for l'ale People, nn.1 cheerfully gave assent to its use for publication, lie said: ‘-My name is Charles A. Guant. I am 3T years old. I was born in tho village of Galway, and, except ing while traveling on business and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. ISly wife is a native of Ontario. Up to about eight years ago I had never been sick and was then in perfect health. I was fully six feet tall, weighed iso pounds and was very strong. For twelve years I was a trav eling salesman for a piano and organ company and had to do, or at least did do, a great, deal of heavy lifting, got my meals very irregularly and slept in enough‘spare l eds in country houses to freo/.e any ordinary man to death, or at least give him the rheumatism. About eight years ago I began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctors about it. Tiny all said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was treated bv various doctors in different places, and took all the patent medi I could hear of that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia. Iiut 1 continue 1 to grow gradually worse for four years Then I began to have pain in my back and legs and beer.mo conscious that, my legs were getting weak and my step un steady, and then I staggered when I walked. Having received no I enolit Hum iiiu u*u in patent medicines, ana feeling that I was constantly growing worse. I then, upon advise, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the many different kinds of electric appli ances 1 could hear of. and spent hun dreds of dollats for them, but they did mo no good. ’ (Iioro Mr. Cuant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of underwear for which ho paid $121.) •*jn the fall of l'SS the doctors advised a change of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ua., and acted as agent for the Fstey Organ ( ompany. While there I took a thorough electric treatment, but it only seemed to aggravate my disease, and the only relief I could get from the sharp ilid distressing pains was to take mor pi.ine. The pain was so intense at limee Lhat it seemed as though i could not stand it. and I almost longed for death is tho only certain relief. In Septem ber of ltkSS my legs gave out entirely, md my left eye was drawn to one side, ;o that I had double sight and was ii zy. My trouble so affected my whole nervous system that I had to give up aits ness. Then 1 returned to New York ind went to the lioosevelt Hospital, .vhere for four months 1 was treated by specialists and they pronounced my case ocom .tor ataxia and incurable. After l had been under treatment r' l‘rof. starr and Dr. are for four months hey told me they had done all they :ould for me. Then 1 went to the New fork Hospital on Fifteenth Street, ' hero, upon examination, they said I vas incurable and would not take me n. At the Presbyterian Hospital they examined me and told me the same hi11g. In March, 1S‘.)0, I was taken to st. Peter's Hospital in Albany, where ’rof. H. 11. Hun frankly told "my wife ny cssse was hopeless; that he could do lothing forme, and that she had Letter ake me back home and save my money, tut I wanted to make a trial of Prof, iuns famous skill, and I remained un ler his treatment for nine weeks, but ecurod no benefit. A 1 this time I hud seen growing worse. I had become eu Ireiv paralyzed from my waist down, ■nd had partly lost control of my hands, i i lie pain was terrible; my legs felt as i hough they were freezing and my t much would not retain food and my ! reight fe 1 away to let) pounds. In 1 Uo Albany Hospital they put seven een big burns on my back one day with od-hot irons, and after a few days they < nit fourteen more burns on and treated 1 ae with electricity, but I got worse atlier than better; lost control of my 1 oweis anu water, and upon advice of i the doctor, who said there fnr mo T V_. . .™ W*S for me, I was brought homo*8 \° ®°P* was thought that death wou7,i’,^hero I* to relieve me of my sufferings tember, while in this helpless and t«ep’ ing condition, a friend of mine 11 ton, Ont., called my attnn?i In I1&® statement of ono John Marshal? lVhe case had been similar to mvo whose who had been cured by tho 4,14 Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale peni?|f Dr -In this case Mr. Marshall wh'6’, prominent member of the Koyil t! 4 plars of Temperance, had after* m' years of constant treatment by most eminent Canadian physician? h. pronounced incurable, and was nail 81,000 total disability’claimaTCVh: the order in such cases, i^ome after Mr. Marshall began a cour?« h* treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pii|°/ and after taking some fifteen boxes wai fully restored to health. xes wa® “I thou?ht 1 would try them, and \%lfe sent for two boxes of the Dills anJi I took them according to the direction! given on the wrapper in each box. iv the first few days the cold baths worn protty severe, as X was so very weak but I continued to follow instruction as to taking the pills and treatment? and even before I had used up the two boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial effects from them. My pains were not so bad; I felt warmer; my boad felt bet ter; mv food began to relish and agree with me; I could straighten up; the feeling began to come back Into my limbs; I began to be able to get about on crutches; my eye came back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills—at a cost of Si —see!—I can with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard cau saw wood, and on pleasant days i walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; 1 have gained ten pounds; I feel like a new man, and when the spring opens i expect to be able to re new my organ and piano agency. I cannot speak In too high terms of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People’ as I know they saved my life after ail the doctors had given me up as incura ble.” Other citizens of Galway, seeing the wonderful cure of Mr. ouant by the Pink nils for Pale X’eopke, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said he was finding fyeat benefit from their use, and Mr. Schultz, who had suffered from chror.ic dysentery for years, said ho had taken two boxes of tho pills and was diready cured. Mr. Quant had also tried faith cure, with experts of that treatment in Al bany and Greenville, S. C., but with no beneficial results. A number of the more prominent cit izens of Galway, as Rev. C. E. Herbort, of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas. — j/nuvip«i niw aicauumy; John P. anil Harvey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard, merchants, and many others to whom Mr. quant and his so miraculous cure by the use of Hr. Williams’ Fink Pills lor Pale Peo ple aro well known, were pleased to have the opportunity of bearing testi mony to the high character«of Mr. Quant, and of verifying the story of his recovery from the terrible alliiction from which ho had for so long a time been a sufferer. Truly, the duty of the physician is not to save life, but to heal disease. The remarkable result from the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pillp fn the case of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to make further inquiries concerning them aifd lie ascertained that they are not a patent medicine in the sense in which tliat term is generally used, but ahighly scientific preparation, the result of Tears of study and careful experiment. They have no rival as a blood builder and nerve restorer, and have met with unparalleled success, in the treatment of such diseases as paralysis, rheuma tism, sciatica. St. Vitus dance, palpita tion of the heart, that tired feeling which affects so many, and ail diseases depending upon a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves. Ur. Williams’ l ink Pills are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weaknesses. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever na ture. On further innnirv the writnv fniii-it that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Drockville, Cnt., and Morristown, X. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in bulk by the hundred) at 50 cents a box, or >ix boxes foi S2.50, and may bo had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, from other address. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive, is compared with other remedies or nedical treatment.. WEAPONS OF THE PURITANS. rhey Used Guns Which Wouldn't Shoo* When It Kalned. «Tho precise population of New Eng land, either Indian or white, at tho timo if Dhillip’s war, cannot be stated; but, for the purpose of war, it may bo said that the forces on one side ar.d on tho ether were almost oqnal. At that time ;ho Indians we.eas well used to fire iirms as tho whites, but the firelock of ;h ise days was but an inefficient weapon ompared with the musket of latef tiino )r with tho riflo of to day. It 8 eras certain that in Europe flint ocks had been introduced before this lime; but tho l'urltans still relied on tho matchlock The form of this can be •eadily explained to any por.-on who has ioen tho old 'flintlock of the present entury. A hammer—a good deal arger than the hammer which after ward held the flint, but quite like it— rad a screw which tightened or looson id tho hold which two pieces of iron had lpon a match. bach soldier was obligod to carry iome yard, of this match with him, and when the battle began he lighted the uece of this match which was fixed in ,ho hammer of the gun. A pan which raid powder, exactly as the pan of a lintlock afterward did, was in front or .ho hammer, w>th a cover pro.ecting rom which a sort of a horn ran up ncar y vertical, to be opened by the hammer vhen the soldi r pulled tho trigger, rhe fire of the match then communi cated with the powder and tho gun wen >ff. This was a sufficiently complicated way n which men should go Into battle, per laps In a wilderness, where even * irociuing of fire at that time wa« » ended with some difficulty. The a counts of skirmishes of those time’ ull of occasions when a sudden snow >ut a stop to the whole battle. This • tecause the fire of the matches was e InguUhed by the rain.