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A LESSON FROM THE PALM
The Varied Usefulness of'the
Glorious Tree,
For Centuries It linn Horn tho Symbol of
Trliimpli--Ita llrnnclics Mmlo an
Emerald Carpet for ClirUtas
lie Kilter,• cl Jerusalem.
BmoKt.YN, April 11).—Thl* day la recog
nized an Pultn Scuday throughout the
world, and that fact gave direction to Dr.
Talniage’s sermon. Among the hymns
sung was tho hymn
Clad in raiment pure and white!
Victor palms in every hand.
Text: John xli, 1 it, “They took brnnehes
of palm trees and went forth to meet him.'’
How was that possible? How could
palm branches be cast in tho way of
Christ as he approached Jerusalem?
There are scarcely any palm trees in
central Palestine. Even tho one
that was carefully guarded for many
years at Jericho has gone. I went
over the very road by which Christ ap
proached Jerusalem, and there are
plenty of olive trees and fig trees, but
no palm trees that 1 could see. You
must remember that the climate has
changed. The palm tree likes water,
but by the cutting down of tho forests,
which are leafy prayers for rain, the
land has becomo unfriendly to the
palm tree. Jericho onco stood in seven
miles of palm grove. Olivet was
crowned with palms. The Dead sea
lias on its banks the trunks of palin
trees that floated down from some old
time palm grove and are preserved
from decay by the salt which they re
ceived from the Dead sea. Let
woodmen spare the trees of Amer
ica, if they would not ruinously
change the climate and bring
to the soil barrenness, instead
of fertility. Thanks to God and the
legislatures for Arbor Day, which
plants trees, trying to atone for the i
ruthlessncss which lias destroyed them. 1
Yes, my text is in harmony with the
condition of that country on the morn
ing of Palm Sunday. About 3,000,00 )
people have como to Jerusalem to at
tend tho religious festivities. Great
news! Jesus will enter Jerusalem to
iMtu wiv
and tlie people are flocking out to the
foot of Olivet, and up aud on over the
southern shoulder of tho mountain,
and the procession coining out from the
city meets tho procession escorting
Christ, ns he comes toward the city.
There is a turn in the road, where
Jerusalem suddenly hursts upon the
▼ision. Wo lind ridden that day all
tho way from Jericho, and had visited
the ruins of the house of Mary and
Martha and Lazarus, and were some
what weary of sight-seeing, when
there suddenly nroso be Tore our vision
Jerusalem, the religious capital of all
Christian ages. That was the point of
observation where iny text comes in.
Alexander rode Bucephalus, Duke Elie
rode his famous Mareliegay, Sir Henry
Lawrence rode the high-mettled Con
rad, Wellington rode his proud Copen
hagen, hut the conqueror of earth and
heaven rides a colt, one that had been
tied at tho roadside. It was unbroken
and 1 have no doubt fractious at the
vociferation of tho populace. An ex
temporized saddle mado out of the
garments of tho people was put on the
beast. While some people gripped the
bridle of tho colt, others
reverently waited upon Christ
at the mounting. Tho two pro
cessions of people now become one—
those who cumo out of the city and
those who cuine over the hill. The
orientals are more demonstrative than
we of the western world, their voices
louder, their gesticulations more vio
lent and tho symbols by which they
express thoir emotions more signifi
cant. The people who left I’hocea in
the far east, wishing to make impres
sive that they would never return, took
a red hot ball of iron and throw it into
the sea, and said they would never re
turn until that ball rose and floated on
the surface. Ho not surprised, there
fore, at the demonstration in the text
As tho colt with its rider descends the
slope of Olivet, tho palm trees lining
the road are called upon to render
their contribution to the scene of wel
come and rejoicing. The branches of
these trees are high up, and some must
needs climb the trees und tear off the
leuves and throw theui down, and oth
ers make of these leaves an emerald
pavement for the colt to tread on.
Long before that morning tho palm
trees had been typical of triumph.
Herodotus and Strabo had thus de
scribed it. Layard finds the palm leaf
cut in the walls of Nineveh, with the
same significance. In the Greek ath
letic games, the victors curried palms.
I am very glad that our Lord, who five
days after had thorns upon his brow,
iui- u iuuf n unc, at least, naa palms
strewn under his feet. Oh. the glorious
palm! Amarasinga, the Hindoo scholar
culls it “the lting among the grasses. ”
I.inmeus calls it “the prince of vege
tation.” Among all the trees that
ever cast- a shadow or yielded
fruit or lifted their arms toward
heaven, it hns uo equal for multitu
dinous uses. Do you want flowers?
One palm tree will put forth a hang
ing garden of them, one cluster
counted by a scientist containing 207,
000 blooms. Do you want food? It is
the chief diet of whole nations. One
palm in Chili will yield 00 gallons of
honey. In ^Polynesia it is the chief
food of the inhabitants. In India
there aro multitudes of people depend
ent upon it for sustenance. Do you
want cable to hold ships or cords to
hold wild boasts? It is wound into
ropes unbreakable. Do you want ar
ticles of house furniture? It is twisted
into mats and woven into baskets and
shaped into drinking cups and swung
into hammocks. Do you want medi
cine? Its nut is the chief preventive
of disease and the chief cure for vast
Fopulations. Do you want houses?
ts wood furnishes the wall for the
homes, and its leaves thatch them.
Do you need a supply for the pantry?
It yields sugar and starch and oil and
sago and milk nnd salt and wax and
vinegar and candles.
Oh, the palm! It has a variety of
endowments, such as no other growth
that ever rooted the earth or kissed
the heavens To the willow, God
says: “Stand by the water courses
and weep ’. To the cedar, he says:
“Gather the hurricanes into your
bosom.” To the flg tree, he says:
“Rear fruit and put it within reach
of all the people.” Hut, to the palm
tree, ho says: “lie garden and store
house and wardrobe and rope-walk
and chandlery and bread and bunquet
and manufactory, and then, bo typo
of what I meant when I inspired
David, my servant, to say: “The
righteous shall flourish like a
palm tree.Oh, Lord God, give us
more palm trees—men and women
made for nothing but to be usofu);
disposition all abloom; branches of in
fluence laden with fruit; people good
for everything, as the palm tree. If
kind words are wnnted, they are ready
to utter them. If helpful deeds are
needed, they are ready to perform
them. If plans of usefulness are to be
laid out, they aro ready to project
them. If enterprises ure to be for
warded, they are ready to lift them.
People who say, “Yes! Yes!” when they
are asked for assistance by word or
deed, instead of “No! No!” Most of
the mysteries thnt bother others, do
not bother me, because I adjourn them,
but the mystery that really bothers
me Is why God made so many people
who amount to nothing so far as the
world’s betterment is concerned. They
stand in the way. They object. They
discuss liinderances. They suggest
possibilities of failure. Over the road
of life, instead of pulling in the traces,
they are lying back in the breechings.
They are the everlasting no. They
are bramble trees; they are willows,
always mourning, or wild cherry trees,
yielding only the bitter, or crab ap
ple trees, producing only the sour,
whilo God would have us all flourish
like the palm tree. Planted in the
bible that tree always means use
fulness. But, how little any of
us or all of us accomplish in that
direction. Wo take twenty or thirty
yoars to get fully ready for Christian
work, and in the afterpart of life, we
take ten or twenty years for the grad
ual closing of active work, and that
leaves only so little time between
opening and stopping work that all wo
accomplish is so little, an angel of God
needs to exert himself to see it all.
Nearly everything I see around, be
neath and above in the natural world
suggest useful service. If there is
nothing in the bible that inspires you
to usefulness go out and study the
world around you this spring time, and
learn the great lesson of useful nesa
“What art thou doing up there, little
star? Why not shut thine eyo and
sleep, for who cares for thy shining?”
“No,” salth the star, “I will not sleep.
M. (, Utviv uicoimui V'll l<UO auu. X Lliecl
the traveler among the mountains. I
help tip the dew with light. Through
the windows of the poor mail's cabin, I
cast a beam of hope, and the child on
her mother's lap asks in glee, whither
I come and what 1 do and whence 1
go. To gleam and glitter, God set me
here. Away! I have no time to Bleep.”
The snowflake comes straggling down.
“Frail, fickle wanderer, why comest
thou here?” “I am no idle wanderer,”
responds the snowflake. “High up in
the air I was born, the child of the
rain and the cold.and at the divine be
hest I come, and I am no Btraggler, for
God tells me where to put my crystal
heel. To help cover the roots of the
grain and grass, to cleanse the air, to
make sportsmen more happy and the
ingle fire more bright, I come. Though
so light I am that you toss me from
your muffler and crush me under your
foot, I am doing my best to fulfil what
I was made for. Clothed in white
I come on a heavenly mission, and,
when my work is done and God shall
call, in morning vapor 1 shall go back,
drawn by the fiery courses of the sun. ”
“What dost thou, insignificant grass
blade under my feet?” “I am doing a
work,” says the grass blade, “as best I
can. I help to make up the soft beauty
of field and lawn. 1 am satisfied, if,
with millions of others no bigger than
I. we can give pasture to the flocks and
herds. 1 am wonderfully made. He
who feeds the ravens gives me suste
nance from the soil and breath from
the air, nnd he who clothes the lilies of
I the field rewards me with this coat of
; green. ” “For what, lonely cloud,
j goest thou across the heavens?”
Through the bright air a voice drops
from afar, saying: “Up and down this
sapphire floor I pace to teach men that,
like me. they are passing away. I
gather up the waters from lake and
sea, and then, when the thunders roll,
| 1 refresh the earth, making the dry
ground to laugh with harvests of wheat
and fields of corn. I catch the frown
of the storm and the hues of the rain
bow. At eventide on the western
slopes I will pitch my tent, and over
me shall daBh the saffron and the pur
ple and the fire of the sunset. A pillar
of cloud like me led the chosen across
the desert, and surrounded by such as
I the judge of heaven and earth will at
last descend, for ‘Behold he cometh
with clouds!' ” Oh, my friends, if
everything in the inanimate world be
useful, let us immortal men and women
be useful, and, in that respect, be like
the palm tree. Hut I must not be
tempted by what David says of that
green shaft of Palestine, that living
nnci glorious pillar m the eastern gard
ens, as seen in olden times—the palm
tree; I must not be tempted by what
the old testament says of it, to lessen
my emphasis of what John the Evan
gelist says of it in my text
Notice that it was a beautiful and
lawful robbery of tho palm tree that
helped make up Christ's triumph on
the road to Jerusalem that Palm Sun
day. The long, broad, green leaves
that were strewn under the feet of the
colt, and in the way of Christ were
torn off from the trees. What a pity,
someone might say, that those stately
and graceful trees should be despoiled.
The sap oozed out at the places where
the branches broke. The glory of the
palm was appropriately sacrificed for
the Savior's triumphal procession. So it
always was, so it always will be in
this world—no worthy triumph of any
sort without the tearing down of some
thing else. Brooklyn bridge, the
glory of our continent must have two
architects prostrated, the one slain by
his toils, and the other for a life time
j invalided. The greatest pictures of
{ the world had, in their richest color
I ing, the blood of the artists who made
them The mightiest oratorios that
ever rolled through the churches hnd
in their pathos the sighs and groan t of
the composers, who wore their lives
out in writing the harmony. Amen
ican independence was triumphant,
but it moved on over the lifeless forms
of tens of thousands of men who fell at
Bunker Hill and Yorktown and the
battles between, which were the hem
orrhages of the nation. The kingdom
of Uod advances in all the earth, but
It must be over the livesof missionaries
who died of malaria in the jungles or
Christian workers who preach and
pray and toil and die in the service.
The Savior triumphs in all di
rections—but beauty and strength
must be torn down from the
palm trees of Christian heroism
and consecration and thrown in
his pathway. To what better use
could those palm trees on the southern
shoulders of Mount Olivet and clear
down into the valley of Oethscmane
put their branches than to surrender
them for tho making of Christ’s journey
townrd Jerusalem the more pictur
esque, the more memorable and the
more triumphant? And to what better
use could we put our lives than into
the sacrifice for Christ and his cause
and the happiness of our fellow creat
ures? Shall we not be willing to be
torn down that righteousness shall
have triumphant way? Christ was
torn down for us. Can we not afford
to be torn down for him? If Christ
could suffer so much for us, can we not
suffer a little for Christ? If he can
afford on Palm Sunday to travel to
Jerusalem to carry a cross, can wo not
afford a few leaves from our branches
to make emerald his way?
The process is going on every
moment in all directions. Whnt makes
that father have such hard work to
find the hymn today? He puts on his
spectacles and holds the book close up,
and then holds it far off, and is not
quite sure whether the number of the
hymn is 150 or 130, and the fingers
with which he turns tho leaves are
very clumsy, no stoops a good deal,
although once he was straight as an
arrow, and his eyes were keen as a
hawk’s, and the hand he offered to his
bride on the marriage day was of
goodly shape and as God made it. I
will tell yon what is the matter. Forty
years ago he resolved his family should
have no need, and his children should
be well educated, and suffer none of
the disadvantages of lack of schooling
from which ho had suffered for a
life-time, and that the wolf of
hunger should never put his paw on
his door still, and for forty or fifty
years he has been tearing off from tho
palm tree of his physical strength and
manly form of branches to throw in
the pathway of his household. It has
cost him muscle and bruin and health
and eyesight, and there have been
twisted off more years from his life
than any man in tho crowd on the
famous Palm Sunday twisted off
branches.from the palm trees on the
road from lietlipngo to Jerusalem.
What makes that mother look so much
uiuer liiini Biic reiuiy is.' iuu say sue
ought not yet to have ono gray line in
her hair. The truth is the family was
not always at well off as now. The
married pair had a hard struggle from
the start Examine the tips of the
forefinger and thumb of her right
hand, and they will tell you the story
of the needle that was plied day in
and day out Yea, look at both her
hands, and they will tell the story of
the time when she did her own work,
her own mending and scrubbing and
washing. Yea, look into the face and
read the story of scarlet fevers and
croups, and midnight watchings when
none but God and herself in that house
were awake, and then the burials and
the loneliness afterward, which was
more exhausting than the preceding
watching had been, and no one now to
put to bed. How fair she onco was
and as graceful as a palm tree, but all
the branches of her strength and
beauty were long ago torn off and
thrown into the pathway of her house
hold. Alas! that sons and daughters,
thomselves so straight and graceful
and educated, should ever forgot that
they are walking today over the fallen
strength of an industrious and hon
ored parentage. A little ashamed,
are you, at their ungrammatical utter
ance? It was through their sacrifices
that you learned accuracy of speech.
Do you lose patience with them be
cause they are a little querulous
and complaining? I guess you have
forgotten how querulous and complain
ing you were when you were getting
over that whooping cough or that in
termittent fever. A little annoyed,
are you, because her hearing is poor
and you have to tell her something
twice? She was not always hard of
hearing. When you were 2 years old
your first call for a drink at midnight
woke her from a sound sleep as quick
ns any one will waken at the trumpet
call of the resurrection.
Oh, my young lady, what is that
under the soul of your fine shoe? It is
a palm leaf which was torn off the tree
of maternal fidelity. Young merchant,
youug lawyer, young journalist,
young mechanic with good salary and
tine clothes and refined surroundings,
have you forgotten what a time your
father had that winter, after the sum
mer’s crops bad failed through drouths
or floods or locusts, and how he wore
his old coat too long and made his old
hat do, that he might keep you at
school or college? What is that, my
young man, under your fine boot to
day, the boot that fits your foot, such
a boot as your father could never afford
to wear? It must be a leaf from the
panu ui-c ui yuur niiuer b Hcu-sucri
flees. Do not be ashamed of him when
ho comes to town, and, because his
manners arc a little old-fashioned try
to smuggle him in and smuggle him
out, but call in your best friends
and take him to the house of
God, and introduce him to your
pastor, and sny “This is my
father.” If he had kept for himself
the advantages which he gave you, he
would bo as well educated and as
well gotten up as you. When in the
English parliament a member was mak
ing a great speech that was unanswer
able, a lord derisively called out “I re
member you when you blackened my
father’s boots!” "Yes,” replied the
man, “and did I not do it well? ’ Never
bo ashamed of your early surround
ings. Yes, yes, all the green leaves
we walk over were torn off some palm
tree. I have cultivated the habit of
forgetting the unpleasant things of
life, and I chietly remember the
smooth things, and as far as I re
member now my life has for the
most part moved on over a road soft
with green leaves. They were torn
off two palm trees that stood Bt the
start of the road. The prayers the
Christian example, the good advice,
the hard work of my father and
mother. How they toiled! .Their fin
gera were knotted with hard work.
Their foreheads were wrinkled with
I many cares. Their backs stooped
from carrying our burdens.
I feel this morning as did the Israel
ites when on their march to Canaan,
they came not under the shadow of
one palm tree, but of seventy palm
trees, standing in an oasis among a
| dozen gushing fountains, or as the.
book puts it: “Twelve wells of water
and three score and ten palm trees.”
Surely there are more than seventy
such great and glorious souls present
today. Indeed it is a mighty grove of
palm trees, and I feel something
of the raptures which I shall feel when
our last battle fought and our last bur
den carried and our last tear wept, we
shall become one of the multitudes St.
John describes "clothed in white robes
and palms in their hands” Hail thou
bright, thou swift advancing, thou ever
lasting Palm Sunday of the skies! Vic
tors over sin and sorrow and death and
woe, from the hills and valleys of the
heavenly Palestine, they have plucked
the long, broad, green leaves, and all
the ransomed—some in gates of pearl,
and some on battlements of amethyst,
and some on 6tceets of gold, and some
on sens of sapphire, they shall stand
in numbers like the stars, in splendor
like the morn, waving their palms!
A BIG KITCHEN.
now the Veterans Are Fed at the Sol
dier* Home In Dayton, Ohio.
That department of the home of
greatest interest to housekeepers is the
dining hall and kitchen, says a writer
in Harper's Weekly apropos of tlio
Soldiers Home at Dayton. Both are
ontained in one building, the front
portiou of which is occupied on both
the upper aud lower floors by two din
ing-rooms, each 90x130 feet, and to
gether comprising an area exceeding
half an acre. The rear one-story por
tion contains the kitchen, bakery,
bread and pie rooms, cooling vaults,
and all the paraphernalia necessary to
the providing for this vast household.
Each dining-room seats 1.100 men,
making 2.200 at a sitting; and when tho
first set is through eating, so large is
the force of waiters aud so accurate
tho discipline that only twenty miuutes
are required to clear the tables, and'
prepare them for the second 2.000 din
ers. After the first lot of men have
left tlio iiali, a bell is rung, and the
army of waiters dash in close on each
other’s heels, but i*i perfect order, re
move the dishes, sirumbs, and clean
tho tables; after them come files of
men with heaps of clean plates
and bowls which they slap down
on the tables regardless of nicks, and
with a noise, I should think, like
artillery. The meat is brought in on
huge trays, and the collee served from
large tin pots at each end of each
la'Jic* aii Lilia is nccumpiisneu oy O-.J
inon, part of them regularly paid, and
part •■detailed” from the outside ns
help. All the work is done by veter
ans, no women being employed at the
home.
A large archway from the dining
hall leads into the kitchen, a sanctum
presided over by a head cook ami
thirty-one assistants. Here are to be
seen the range, tweuty feet long, the
vast copper caldrons for cooking soup
and vegetables, and seven coffee boil
ers, each holding upwards of a hun
dred gallous, which are filled and
emptied twice a day the year through.
A yueer Lottie Crab.
Another curious Japanese crab is
• the little Dorippe, which comes from
the Inland Sea of Japan, and has a
perfect human face modeled on the
back of his little inch-long shell. The
Dorippe’s eyes, and the uneven edge
of the shell between them, look like
| tufts of hair at the top of a narrow
'forehead. There are lumps resemb
ling eyelids, which slant upward as do
those of the Japanese, aud other parts
of the shell look like full and high
cheek-bones. Below a ridge which
might be called tho nose two cluws
spread out at either side, and may be
likened to the tierce, bristling mus
taches which arc fastened to the
helmet of Japancso armor. This
plainly marked face on the crab's shell
naturally gave rise to many stories and
legends. At one place in" the Inland
Sea, centuries ago, an army of tho
Taira clan was overtaken and driven
into the sea by their enemies. At cer
tain times of the year the Dorippcs
come up on the beach and the rocks
by thousands. Then tho fishermen
and villagers say with fear. "The
•Samurai have come aguiu." They
believe that the souls ~of the dead
warriors, or Samurai, live in the
Uorippes.and that they gather in great
numbers at the scene of their defeat
whenever the same day comes round
in later years.
The face on the Dorippe's back is
like a swollen and mottled one. Tho
eyelids seem closed, as if in a sleep or
stupor, while Its mouth quite carries
out the other common story, that all
the old topers are turned " into these
crabs aud must keep that form as a
punishment for some long time. The
swollen heavy faces may quite as well
be those of bleary old topers as of
warriors who met dcatli by drowning;
so that one who notices the resemblance
w*. uiu Jin.ii iiiL’t}
may think there is good ‘reason for
either story as to why the Dorippe’s
shell is so strangely marked.— Elan li.
Sciilmorc, in tit. Nicholas.
Big Bridge.
The great steel bridge across tho
Columbia river at Vancouver will be
one of the most notable as well as
gigantic constructions of its kind. It
will be double-tracked with roadway
on top for teams, and tho whole erect
ed upon pneumatic piers. The pivotal
pier, or draw-pier, will support a
draw giving an opening of as much ns
200 feet space on either side for vessels
to pass, and the span which is immedi
ately south of the draw span, will bo
375 feet; the whole structure to be of
steel, built 10 feet above tho high water
of 1876 aud forty feet above low water.
Among the engineering difficulties
presented in this undertaking the most
notable has been the sandy foundation,
rendering is necessary to go down
! some eighty feet below low water to
obtain a lirni foundation.
Indian Names of Georgia Rivers.
More than any other state in the
union the state of Georgia has retained
the Indian names of its rivers and
I most of them have a musical sound,
as, for example, the Ocmulgee, the
Oiiopee, the Ogeechec, the Cannou
chee. the Oconee, the Chattahoochee,
the Saltiila, the Altamaha, and others.
Florida is another state that has re
tained many of the Indian names of its
■ rivers.
PleasuresMemory.
How it brings up th^lfasureT^^'
past, and hides its unpleasantness!,!
You recall your childhood days do '
not, and wish they would return?^"
remensber the pleasant association"
while the unpleasant ones are w
gotten. Perhaps to your mind comes
the face of some friend. It was once a
pale, sad face. It showed marks of
pain, lines of care. It seemed to be
looking into the hereafter, the
known future. And then you recalled
how it hi ightened, how it recovered
its rosy hue, how it became a picture
of happiness and joy. Do you remem
ber these things? Many people do
and gladly tell how the health re"
turned, how happiness came back, how
the world seemed bright They tell
how they were once weak, nerveless
perhaps in pain, certainly unhappy!
They tell of sleepless nights, restless
days, untouched food, unstrung nerves
And then they tell how they became
happy, healthy and strong once more.
You have heard it often in the past
have you not ? You have heard people
describe how they were cured and
kept in health? You certainly can
remember what it is that has so
helped people in America. If not, lis
ten to what Mrs. Anna Jenness Miller,
who is known universally as the great
dress reformer, says: ‘ Six years ago,
when suffering from mental care and
overwork, I received the most pro
nounced benefit from the use of that
great medicine, Warner’s Safe Cure."
Ah, now you remember. Now you
recall how many people you have
heard say this same thing. Now you
recollect how much you have heard oi
this great Cure. Now you are ready
to admit that memory is usually pleas
ing, that the highest pleasure comet
from perfect health, and that this
great remedy has done more to pro
duce and prolong health than any
other discovery ever known in the
entire history of the whole world.
I HtbP£CTS THE LAW.
The Tottery Company’* Good Faith.
Washington telegram to Globe-Democrat
> The New Orleans Postmaster. Capt. S.
M. Eaton, is a little sxnooth-faced man,
honest and shrewd. He is a great friend
of Warmoth, but he has backed up the
Postmaster-General’s efforts vigorously in
the fight on the lottery.
. The year before the warfare began Mr.
Eaton says the Lottery Company bought
at the New Orleans office $10a,000 worth oi
stamps and stamped envelope*. For thal
same year the total revenue of the office
was #416,000. So it appears that the Lot*
tery Company contributed within $1000 of
one-fourth of the entire revenue of the
office
By the action of the department in en
forcing the anti-lottery law passed by
Congress this postal revenue from the
lottery company became a dead loss.
Last year’s receipts by the New Orleans
office reached a total of #352,000 The day
before Capt. Eaton started to this confer
ence the lottery company posted in all its
branch offices in New Orleans a notice to
this effect
“The Supreme Court of the
United States having decided the
anti-lottery postal law to be
constituiional, it is hereby ordered and
directed that no one in the employ of thii
company shall mail a letter which in any
way refers directly or indirectly to the
business of the lottery It must be under
stood that this company will aid in the en
forcement of this law.”
“I think that this notice is honest and
sincere,” said Capt. Eaton, “and the com
pany means just what it says ”
The centennial idea has been adopted
In Rome, and it is intended to hold a cen
tennial celebration on May 13, in honor of
the late i ope Pius IX.
The True Laxative Principle
Of the plants used in manufacturing,the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a
permanently beneficial effect on the hu
man system, while the cheap vegetable
extracts and mineral solutions, usually
sold as medicines, are permanently injur
ious. Being well-informed, you will use
the true remedy only. Manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Co.
—The Chinese have many kinds of cere
monial dishes and cakes. Thus, oranges
form an introductory course at ceremon
ial dinners, and preserves of betel nuts
are offered to guests at the New Year.
Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
imce. Go to your Druggist today and get
ft FREE sample bottle. Large bottles
50 cents and $1.00.
Since the recent dynamite scare in Paris
It is not considered good form for an
American in inviting a friend to take a
irink to use the expression, “come along
and I’ll blow you off ”
AIR. AI. A. MURRAY, Wilmington, MJVU,
writes: «I had one of my severe headaches
And was persuaded to try your valuable
(Bradycrotine) medicine. I never had any
thing t.o do me so much good for headache.”
Of ail Druggists. Fifty cent?,
—Old peach trees are now being report
ed from various parts of the country, but
southern papers claim that the oldest free
bearing tree is living in Georgia and is 53
fears old.
Coughs, Hoarseness. Sore Throat,
etc., quickly relieved by Brown’s BroN
;h al Trociies. They surpass all other
preparations in removing hoarseness and
as a couoii it me Y are pre-emiucntly tub
BEST.
— Berlin university is the third largest
In the world. Paris, with 11.315 students,
and Vienna, with 6,320. are larger.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castor!*,
When she was a Child, eho cried for Castons.
When she became Miss, she clung to Casto '*,
When sho had Children, ihe ga»e them Castori*
—By an act just pasaed in So ,
iralia all hotel* are to be altogetbe
>n Sundays.
Thi progreee of science In medmJ
produced nothing better foe jj .
than the celebrated Beecham » *
There are a moat ae many cUl“‘
authorship of “Te-ra-ra-boom de ay
to that of "Beautiful Snow.