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BALEFUL AMUSEMENTS.
Dr. Talmago on tho Fourth Plaijuo
of tho Cities.
Judging AmiMrmrnt According to Their
Mural Klfrctft ItulnotiH I'lraiurm and
Destructive Indulgences Pleat
For tho Home.
In lils fourth sermon at Brooklyn on
the plague of the cities Her. T. Dc
Witt Talmngo took for hLs subject
"JJaleful Amusement." Tlic text was
II. Samuel, ii. 14: "Let the young men
now arise and play licfore us." He
said:
There are two armies encamped by
the pool of Gibcon. The time hangs
heavily on their hanils. One army pro
jmms a game of .sword fencing. Noth
ing could be more healthful and inno-wnt-
The other army accepts the
hallenge. Twelve men against twelve
men, the .sport opens. I!ut bomething
wont adversely. Terhaps one of the
Hwordsmen gut an unlucky- clip, or in
tme way had his ire aroused, and that
which opened in .sport ended in
violence, each one taking his contestant
by the hair, and then with the sword
thrusting him in the side, so that that
which opened in innocent fun ended in
the massacre of all the twenty-four
sportsmen. Was there ever a letter
illustration of what was true then, and
is now, that that which is innocent may
be made destructive?
What of a worldly nature is more im
portant and strengthening and innocent
than amiiM'metiL, ami j-et what has
counted more victims? I have no sym
pathy with a straight-jacket religion.
This is a very bright world to inc., and
I projxise to do all I can to make it
bright for others. I never could step
to a dead march. A IhmIc j'cars ago is
sued says that a Christian man has a
right to some amusements; for instance,
if he comes home at night weary from
his work, and, feeling the need of recre
ation, puts on his slippers and goes into
his garret and walks lively around the
lloor several times there can be no harm
in it,
I believe the church of (od has made
n tremendous mistake in trying to sup
press the sortf illness of youth and
drive out from men their love of amiise
inenL If Coil ever implanted anything
in ns lb- implanted this desire, fiut in
stead of providing for this demand of
our nature the church of (lod has, for
the main part, ignored it. As in a riot,
the mayor plants a battery at the end
if the street and has it fired oil, so that
everything is cat don n that hapjM'us to
stand in the range, tne good as well as
the bad, so there are men in the church
who plant their batteries of condemna
tion, and tire away indiscriminately.
Kvcrvlhiiig is condemned. ISut my
Itible commends those who use the
world without abusing it, and in the
natural world God has done everything
to please and amuse us.
And I am glad to know that in all our
cities then' are plenty of places where
we may lind elevated moral entertain
ment. Hut all honest men and good
women will agree with me in the state
ment that one of the worst plagues of
these cities is eiirrnpt. niiiiiM-mcnt.s.
i1 altitudes have gone down under the
blasting iiiflucnre never to rise. If wo
may judge of what is going on in many
of the places of amusement by the
Sodomic pictures on board fences, and
in many of the show windows, there is
not a much lower depth of profligacy to
reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep such
pictures locked up from indiscriminate
inspection. Those pictures were ex
humed from Pompeii and are not lit for
public ga.e. If the effrontery of bad
places of amusement in hanging out
improper advertisement of what they
are doing night by night grows worse in
the same proportion, in fifty years New
York and l.rooklyn will beat not only
l'oinpoii, but Sodom.
I remark, in the first place, that you
can judge of the moral character of
any amusement by its healthful result
or by its hateful reaction. There are
people who seem made up of hard
fact.s. They are a combination of mul
tiplication tables and statistics. If you
show them an excellent picture they
will begin to discuss the pigments in
volved in the coloring. If you show
them a beautiful rose they will submit
it to a botanical analysis, which is only
the post mortem examination of a
flower. They have no rebound in their
nature. They never do anything more
than smile. There are no great tides of
feeling surging up from the depths of
their soul, in billow after billow of re
verberating laughter. They seem as
if nature had built them by contract,
and made a bungling job out of it. I'.ut
blessed Ik; God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces and whose
life is a song, an anthem, a pan of vic
tory. Now it is these e.hilarant and sym
pathetic and warmhearted H,ople that
are most tempted to pernicious amuse
Ylients, In proportion as a ship is swift
it wants a strong helmsman: in propor
tion as a hore is gay, it wants a strong
timer: and these people of exuberant
nature will tio wen to loou at tne reac
tion of all their amusements. If an
amusement sends you home at night
nervous so that you can not sleep, and
yon rise up in the morning, not because
you are slept out, but Kvause your
duty drags you from your slumlers,
you have been w here you ought not to
have Iven.
There, an amusements which send a
man next day to his work bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated; and they
n re wrong kinds of amusement. They
are entertainments that give a man dis
gust with the drudgery of this life with
tools localise, they an not swords, with
working aprons K-cause they are not
roK's, with cattle because they are not
infuriated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling ad
venture, love that takes ioison and
jdiools itself, mmmlight adventures and
hair breadth escapes, you may depend
upon it that yon are the sacrificed vic
tim of unsanctified pleasure. Our re
creations are intended to build us up:
and if they pull us down as to our moral
or as to our physical strength, you may
come to the conclusion that they are
obnoxious.
There is nothing more depraving than
attendance upon amusements that are
full of innuendo and low suggestion.
The young man enters. At first he
Mts far back, with his hat on and his
coat collar up. fearful that some one
may know him. Several nights pass
on. lie takes off his hat earlier, and
puts his coat collar down. The blush
that first came into his cheek when
anything indecent was enacted, comes
no"more to his check. Farewell, young
man! You havo probably started on
the long road that ends in consummate
destruction.
Young men who have just come from
country residence to city residence will
do well to lo on guard and let no one
induce you to places of improper amuse
ment. It is mightily alluring when a
ycuug man, long a citizen, oilers to
show a new comer all around.
Still further: Those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
bevond your means. Monev spent in of
recreation is not thrown away. It is
all folly for us to come from a place of
amusement feeling that we have wasted
oxir money and time- Yon may by it
have made an invotmeut worth more
than the transaction that yielded you
hundreds of thousands of doUats II ut
how many properties have been riddled
by costly amuscmeuts.
The first time I ever naw the city it
was the eity of Philadelphia I was a
mere lad. I stopped, at a hotel and I
remember in the eventide one of these
men plied tne with his infernal art Ho
saw I was green. He wanted to show
me the sights of the town. He painted
the path of sin until itlooked like emer
ald, but I was afraid of him. I shoved
back from the basilisk I made up my
mind he was a basilisk. I remember
how he wheeled his chair round in front
of me and, with a concentered and dia
lolical effort, attempted to destroy my
noiil, but there were good angels in the
air that night. It was no "good resolu
tion on my part, but it was the all en
compassing grace of a good God that
delivered me. Howard beware! O,
young man. "There is a way that
seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof is death." The table has Irccn
roblwd to pay the club. The champagne
has cheated the children's wardrobe.
The carousing party has burned up the
boy's primer. The table cloth of the
corner saloon Is in debt to the wife's
faded dress. Kxcursions that in a day
make a tour around a whole month's
wages; ladies whose lifetime business
is to "goshopping;" largo bets on horses,
have their counterparts in uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appal the church,
and that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet of the
mansion, and dashing into the mirror,
and drowning out the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated .sons
come home to break their old mother's
heart.
When mun go into amusements that
they can not afford they first liorrow
what they can not earn and then they
steal what they can not borrow. First
they go into embarrassment and then
into lying and then into theft, and
when a man gets as far on as that he
does not stop short of the penitentiary.
Merchants of Ilrooklyu or New York,
Is there a disarrangement in your ac
counts? Is there a leakage in your
money drawer? Did not the cash ac
counts come out right last night? I
will tell you. There is a young man in
3'our store wandering off into bail
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful exionditures, but not
the sinful indulgences in which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How bright the path of unrcstaincd
amusement opens. The young man
says: "Now I am off for a good time.
Never mind economy. I'll get money
somehow. What a fine road! What a
beautiful day for a ride! Track tho
whip, and over tho turnpike! Tome,
lxiys, fill high your glasses. Drink!
Ixmg life, health, plenty of rides just
like this!" Hard working men hear the
clatter of the hoofs and look up and
say: "Why, I wonder where those fel
lows get their money from! We have
to toil and drudge. They do nothing."
To these gay men life is a thrill and an
excitement They stare at other jieople,
ami in turn are stared at. The watch
chain jingles. The cup foams. The
cheeks flush. The eyes Hash. The
midnight hears their guffaw. They
swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take the name of
God in vain. Thev parody the hymn
they learned at their mother's knee,
and to all pictures of coming disaster
they cry out, "Who cares!" and to the
counsel of some Christian friend, "Who
are yon?" Passing along the street some
night you hear a shriek :n a grog shop,
tin' rattle of the watchman's club, the
rush of the police. What is the matter
now? O, this reckless young man has
been killed in a grog shop light Carry
him home to his mother's house. Par
ents will come down and wash his
wounds and close his eyes in death.
They forgive him all he ever did, al
though he cannot in his silence ask it.
The prodigal has got home at last
I go further, and say those are un
christian amusements which liecome
the chief business of a man's life. Life
is an earnest thing. Whether we were
lorn in a palace or a hovel; whether we
are afllueiit or pinched, we have to
work. If yon do not sweat with toil,
you will sweat with disease. You have
a soul that is to be transfigured amidst
the pomp of a judgment day; and after
the sea has sung its last chant, and tho
mountain shall have conic down in an
avalanche of nck, you will live and
think and act, high on a throne where
seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon
howl. In a world where there is so
much to do for yourself and so much to
do for others, God pity that man who
has nothing to do.
Your sports are merely means to an
end. They are alleviations ami helps.
The arm of toil is the only arm strong
enough to bring up the bucket from the
deep well of pleasure. Amusement is
only the Imwer where business and phil
anthropy rest while on their way to
stirring achievements. Amusements
are merely the vines that grow alout
the anvil of toil and the blossoming of
the hammers. Alas for the man who
sjHMids his life in laboriously doing
nothing, his days In hunting up loung
ing places and loungers, his nights in
seeking out some gas-lighted foolery!
The man who always has on his sport
ing jacket, ready to hunt for game in
the mountain or fish in tho brook, with
no time to pray, or work, or read, is not
so well tiff as the greyhound that runs
by his side, or the fly bait with which
he whips the stream.
A man who does not work does not
know how to play. If God had intend
ed us to do nothing but laugh. He would
not have given us shoulders w ith which
to lift, and hands with which to work,
and brains with which to think. The
amusements of life are merely the
orchestra playing while the great trag
edy of life plunges through its five acts
- infancy, childhood, manhood, old age
and death. Then exit tho last earthlv
opportunity. Knter the overwhelming
realities of an eternal world!
I po further, and say that all thoe
amusements are wrong which lead into
luid company. If you go to any place
w hen you have to associate with tho
intemperate, with the unclean, with the
abandoned, however well they may be
dressed, in the name of God quit it
They will despoil your nature. They
will undermine your mor.il character.
They will drop you when you are de
stroyed. I had a friend at the west a rare
friend. He was one of the first to wel
come me to my new home. To tine
personal appearance he added a gener
osity, frankness and anlor of nature
that made me love him like a brother,
lint I saw evil people gathering around
him. They came up from the saloons.
from the gambling hells. They plied
him with a thousand arts. They seized
upon his social nature and he could not
stand the ehann. They drove him on
the rocks like a ship full winged, shiver
ing on the breakers. I used to admon
ish him. I would say: "Now, I wish
you would quit these bad habits, and
become a Christian." 0. he would
reply, I would like: I would like to;
but I have gone so far I don't think
there is any way back." In his mo
ments of repentance ho would go
home and take his- little srirl
ei?lit
years
and
a brace
her convulsively, and cover her with
adornments, and strew around her
pictures and. toys, and everything tltat
could make her liappy; and then, as
though hounded by an evil spirit, he
would go out to the enriaming cup and
tho house of iliaaic like a fool to the j
correction of the stocks. I wan sum
moned to his death bed. I hastened. I
entered the room. I found him, to my
surprise, lying in full every day drcM
on the top of the couch, I pnt out my
hand. He grasped it excitedly, and
said: "Sit down, Mr. Talmage, right
there." I sat down. He said: "Last
night I saw my mother, who has bees
dead twenty years, and she sat where
yon sit now. It wa no dream. I wa
wide awake. Thcro was no delu
sion in the matter. I saw her
jost as plainly as I sec you.
Wife, I wish you would take these
strings off of me. There arc strings
strung all around my body. I wish you
would take them off of me." I saw it
was delirium. "0," replied his wife,
"there is nothing there, there Is nothing
there." He went on and said: "Just
where you sit Mr. Talmage, my mother
sat She said to me, 'Henry, Ido wish
you would do belter. I got out of bed,
put my anus around her and said:
'Mother, I want to do bettor. I havo
been trying to do better. Won't you
help me tod better? You used to help
me.' No mistake about it no delusion.
I saw her, tho cap and tho npron and
the sjK'ctielcs, just as she used to look
twenty years ago, but I do wish you
would take these strings away. They
annoy me so. I can hardly talk. Won't
you take them away?"
I knelt down anil prayed, conscious of
tho fact that ho did not realize what I
was saying. I got up. I said: "G.kmI
by, I hoie yon will be better soon."
He said: "Good-by. gixxl-by." That
night his soul went to tho God who
gave it Arrangements were made for
the oWquies. Some said: "Don't
lirin'r liiiri in tin. f1.i,-j.1 II.. ....u '
dissolute." "0," I said, "bring him in; j
he was a good friend of mine while ho
was alive, and I snail stand by him
now that he is dead Hring him to tho
church."
As I sat in the pulpit and saw his
body coming up through tho aisle I felt
as if I could weep tears of blood. I told
the people that day: "This man had his
virtues and a good many of them. Hut
if there is any man in this audience
who is without sin, let him cast the first
stone at this coflln lid." On one side of
the pulpit sat tho little child, rosy,
sweet faced, as beautiful as any little
child that sat at your table this morn
ing, I warrant you. She looked up
wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows
of an orphan child. On the other side
of tho pulpit were tho men who had
destroyed him. Did they weep? No.
Did they sigh repontingly? No. Did
they say: "What a pity that such a
brave man should bo slain?' No, no;
not one bloated hand was lifted
to wipe a tear from a bloated check.
They sat and looked at the coflln like
vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb
whose heart they hail ripped out! I
cried in their ears as plainly as I could:
"There is a God and a judgment day!"
Did they tremble? 0 no, no. They
went back from the house of God, and
that night, though their victim lay in
Oak wood cemetery, I am told that they
blasphemed and they drank and they
gambled, and there was not ono less
customer in all the houses of iniquity.
This destroyed man was a Samson in
physical strength, but Delilah sheared
him, and the Philistines of evil com
panionship dug his eyes out and threw
him into the prison of evil habits. Hut
in tho hour of his death he rose up and
took hold of the two pillared curses of
God against drunkenness and unelean-
liuess, and throw himself farward until
down upon him and his companions
there came the thunders of an eternal
catastrophe.
Again : Any amusement that gives
j'ou a distaste for domestic life is bnd.
How many bright domestic circles have
been broken up by sinful amusements!
The father went off, the mother went
off, the chihl went off. There are to
day the fragments before me of blasted
households. 0, if you have wandered
away, 1 would like to charm you back
by the sound of that ono word "home."
I saw a wayward husband standing
at the death bed of his Christian wife,
and I saw her ioint to a ring on her
linger, and heard her say to her hus
band, "Do you see that ring?" Here
plied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she,
"do yon remember who put it there?"
"Yes," said he, "I put it there," and all
the past seemed to rush upon him. lly
the memory of that day when, in the
presence of men and angels, you prom
ised to be faithful in joy and sorrow,
and in sickness and in health; by tho
memory of those pleasant hours when
you sat together in 3oiir neiv home talk
ing of a bright future; by the cradle and
the joyful hour when ono life was
spared and another given; by that sick
bed, when the little onu lifted up the
hands and called for help, and
you knew ho must die, anil ho put
ono arm n round each of your necks and
brought you very near together in that
dying kiss; by the little grave in Green
wood that you never think of without a
rush of Tears: by the family Hible,
where, amidst stores of heavenly tore,
is the brief but expressive record of
births and deaths; by the neglects of
the past and the agonies of the future:
by a judgment day, when husbands and
wives, parents and children, in immor
tal groups, will stand to lie caught up
in shining array or to shrink down into
darkness; by all that I beg you to give
to home your liest affections.
Ah my friends, there is an hour com
ing when our past life will probably
pass licfore us in review. It will be our
last hour. If from our death pillow we
have to look back and sec a life spent
in sinful amusement there will be a
dart that will strike through our soul
sharper than the dagger with which
Virginias slew hLs child. The memory
of the past will make us quake like
Macleth. The iniquities and rioting
through which we have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as
Meg Mcrrilies. Death, the old Shylock,,
will demand, and take, the remaining
pound of flesh, and the remaining drop
of blood; and upon our last opportunity
for repentance, and our last chance for
Heaven, the curtain will foevcr drop.
Hrr r of Scripture
At one of the teachers institutes held
a few years ao in Maine a rule was in
force that whoever entered the room
ing session late should pause at the
door and recite a passacc of Scripture,
a quotation from some poet or other
expression of an idea for the edification
of those present at the session. There
was present at the session a plain little
old maid ("unappropriated hlcssinps'
1 believe, they call them now) who was
continually sayinjr and doinsr inappro
priate things. It seemed to come natu
ral to her. She was late one morning,
was this "unappropriated blessing,"
and pausing on the threshold she
electrified thoe within by remarking
suavely: "I loTe those that love me,
and those that seek me early shall find
me. Lewiston Journal.
Mrs, de Kscop! "Yes, Marie is
very religions, though quite a society
girL Winkle Ah, yes; what one
might term churdgoing belle.
Y. HerahL
Class ia Metaphysics. Preceptor
"You have used the phrase, "as ooen
secre
secrc
eU' Give an csamplo of aa orxsai .T7' - mwr aa focnd.cn
ct. Iipil "A ratra. Xobodr ! Tnf ti:cJ' to contain fnxn two
vs tvhat it rallv is." " t UllnIs to thrce-fmtxtS ot the crraai.
knows
Dc Mascus 4l5 it trno that Jaflr Is
oil on a "blovr-ontr St. AffrOore
lartlj trse, yes. He's deaO. "Hcvf
U!cr oct the gas." St. Joseph Xtus.
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
HURDLE FOR SWINE.
Aa Ksrellrnt 1'lan for the !a taring of
Mtrrp and I'l.
I beg to smrgest a plan which I have
used for pasturing lioth sheep and ptffa
If the pigs have lecn used to control,
or are well ringed, as they should be
when pastured, a hurdle light enough
lor sheep will answer equally well lor
them. The hurdle may be made of '2 by
4 chestnut upright and 1 by 0 bars.
They may Ihj 10 feet long ami made in
tliis shape:
The three lower boards are b inches
apart and a barlnsl wire is stretched
between the low est tw o. No pig over
a month old will get through this fence.
Tlie hurdle is solid and durable and will
last many years. A lot of them may be
carried on a low-wheeled wagon or a
sled, and set up and fixed in the ground
very quickly. I have set up with the
help of one man U00 of them in a short
day, which will give a double lino acros
a 'JO-ncre field.
I say a double line, ticcaiis this is
necessary for the economical feeding
off of a crop of clover. The field Ink
ing laid out in this way, in narrow
strips, with two lines of hurdles lot 1
is first foil off, and then lot "J; the line 1
j is then moved so as to inclose lot 3,
and so oil to the end. This is necessary
to let lot 1 grow up again. The ten loti
will give two acres or more in each,
which should feed a god many hogs
lor a week, more
or less as t he
pasture is heavy
or light, giving
ample time for
the herbage t o
lie renewed lie
fore the end is
reached, and the
feeding is lieguii again on lot 1; or the
field may lie divided up ami down in
the center by one fence, and smaller
lots laid off by double lines as In-fore;
th n, when one-half the Held is fed off,
the other half is fed. beginning next to
, the last one -thus returning to the head
' of the field and beginning again. I
have found that by tins mellio! tiuee
times as much feeding may lie had from
a field as by pasturing tho whole at
at once, as the waste is scarcely ob
servable, while if 'JO hogs were turned
into a UO-acre field ut once, in a week
the whole field would be t nun pled over
and half the herbage spoiled.
Hy painting the hurdles with tar mid
using them carefully, they will last
twenty years.
To set them, I have used a square
M)intcd bar, with which holes are made
in the ground in the right spots, as the
hurdle is held half-upright by an as
sistant The holes are made small, and
when the hurdle is set up, the points
enter and are driven down by a few
blows of a maul on the ends of the
posts, but not on the lioanis. Tho
ends of the hurdles are wired together
in two places, and to a stout stake
driven in the ground, by which they are
supported, (juiet sheep will not at
tempt to jump over a fence of this kind,
which will 1m- fifty or fifty-two inches
high, and it will restrain any sized pigs
over thirty days old. -II. Mewart, in
Country Gentleman.
RIDDLING
THE SOIL.
An l-i-y .lull When Von limm
.!ut How
to Do It.
The method referred to i.s tin
shown in our engraving. It consist
having a handharrow or other rece
ele to receive the prepared soil,
this a sieve that is an inch or so w
than the barrow should bo placed
slide uimui it. After the sieve is al
two-thirds filled with unsifted soi
is worked quickly back and forth 1
person at one end 01 tne narrow, ti.
its contents are properly riddled.
The task is a quick and easy one.
two persons engage in it, one to vih
the sieve, the other to shovel in
fcr??
8IMTI.K DKVICK roll KIIUiUNO SOlI
compost from the heap and to a.ssist in
emptyino; the barrow when full on the
lott"me; Iieneli or elsewhere, it takes:
hut a short time ti riddle a larjje
amount of soil, provided it is in a .suita
ble condition for the operation. To
sift well, oil should lie moderately dry:
the presence of some sand in it will
help much. Popular (nnlcniii";.
AMONG THE POULTRY.
Onion tops cut tine make a good green
food for pmltry at this time.
Sirr the hens now as soon as they are
ready, providing them a warm place.
Ir feed for the young ixmltry must !
purchased millet seed can Iks used to a
good advantage.
As A general rule it will not le found
Wst to attempt to keep more than fifty
hens in one house.
A iikn that is scared off her nest every
time anyone approaches should not be
used for hatching.
Hens are often obliged to leave their
nests on account of lice: it is important
to keep a lookout for them.
Limkwatkk will not only often cure
indigestion, but also often cure the hens
of laying soft-shelled eggs.
Old plaster kept where the hens can
help themselves will furnish the mate
rials to manufacture shells.
At this season hot ashes from the
coal stove will aid to maintain health
if sprinkled under the roosts.
Kc.c.s. whether used for hatching or
cnt to market, should always be clean.
The shells are porous and readily ab
sorb filth.
The mangers can often be cleaned
out with the refuse thrown where the
poultry can pick it over; they will find
many seeds.
Milk for Calrr n4 tike Om.
A Canadian exchange tells how one
of its readers manages u get feed for
calves and at the same time milk rich
for the churn, as follows: At xailking
time two large vessels ate put outside
the barn door, one marked "dairr and
the other "calves. One-half ol the
milk given by each cow, that drawn
first, is put into the vessel marked
"calves, and the other half, that last
drawn. Is put into the vessel marked I
The caKes hare th adrnntae of behj
ft TTltK ?ni?V -rl-m fnw. ). ".
the xuse thne ther ant rrared at a raod-
".. w... . tJ7. m.i.
erate cost, as thea- allowance of miUs
does not contain ranch crrasj.
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LUCRETIA BORGIA.
That LVtrbrltjr wa i'mltahlj a rj :l
Mriiiiwnnnn.
The distinguished art critic and his-
tortan of renaissance. M. Charles
Yriarte. has attempted in the Figaro
what may be called the rehabilitation
of Lucreiia llorjria- Thanks to Victor
Hugo and Donizetti, the public in
general nas not a very iii;jn opinion oi i
t . . .
J the daughter of Pope Alexander VI. I
he sister of ttesar Hrgia. Hut all
tgb so-called history runs a Mroug
nt of legend, which N apt to sweep
awny me tacts ami leave a suiiraium f
of fancy "Was Lucrvtia Itorgia really
a Mcsahna and a Julia? asks M.
narte. "holding the cup of pnm I m w ,, t rrawxly for all liivrsv of
wntb ono hand and the poniard with I the Wood, l.vcr, kidncj,cU-.tPri-klj Au
the other?" If wc study tho annalists , Hitur. It t purely a tnoiictno ami every
,i . i . ,..-.. i articlfl iimsJ in tl manufacture I of Tct
of the .nod-Uregormious. for in- ' aWcortfIfc vf knolva oorallTcqua.iUos.
stance -we find no trace of oisou or
pomarti. no more than ol improper lore
at most ! vi ii lote letters, written to
Uorgia I.-! and cardinal, which Kn
glisli misses may read without the u
of a fan. in the glavs case of the Am
hrosiaua of .Milan, where also is pre
served piously the lock of hair l.forv
which Hyron went into ecstasies Lu
cretia Horgia was married at 13 to a
nephew of the Sforza. Giovanni, lord of
Pesaro. w ho was '..V. On hi" to the ir
ruptiou of the French into Italy, soon
after their union m I JU3. t;ie course o(
sihlics c.itis:d an annulment of the
marriage, to wlneh the Vatican lent
it.setf ith Hie cynical molality of the
eHH-h.
To revenge himself the outraged bus
band lau?i bed againt Lucretia'sfathei
a frightful accusation, which may Ik-
egarded as the foundation of subse
quent lej'etids The young ln--ulty lc
came henceforth the shuttlecock of
jxditie.s IJeilig in need of the alliance
of Aragon, who was leigiiing at Naples,
the l"-'pc made a union lntvecii his
daughter ami a natural vin of Alphoiise
I IL. king of Naples. He was reputed to
bo the handsomest prinre of Ins day in
Italy, 1-1 ng at that time 17 and his wife
bo-an, of age Owing to the jealousy
of Luen-tia s brother f.i-s.ir Horgia. the
handsome Alphoiise was strangled in
the apartments of his father-in law,
Alexander VI In IfiiH) Lueretia w wld rd
for the third time another Alphoiise,
son of Hercules, duke of l-'eimia At
that tune she was -, ami iMnaincil to
her death, seventeen yeais later, the
"pea 1 1 of spomes," Apait from the
Meeting breath of scandal, which at
Irihuted to the princess two lovers at
the comt of Ferrara, the chioi.iclcrs
find nothing whereof to accuse the
gohlc n-haiicd lieanly So (says M
Yriaite) that wo are foieed to tho con
clusion that all her manifold wicked
ness must have lu'en committed lielwccn
tin ages of i:; aud?i. a supposition not
easily credible even in that piucoclous
ejMich. t hicago Times
A I'lto-iit 'iiiiw rulliii:llt.
Mr Mm ray Hill. -Ii - lfnt father,
this young lady 3011 want mo to marry
stutters ibe.idfiilly
Mr Mm 1.0 Hill. Sr.-That makes no
dilTcieneo Mic is rich, and after you
are married a lit'le you will find that
she x' ill talk f:.st cuoii'-h to suit you
Texas Sift tugs
Kditor--"Mr. Scribbler. I w i.,h you
would get up a littlcdcpartment headed
I'hildien's Sayings.' anil fill tt full of
the biighte I little mots you can pick
up" Mr Seribblei -"Veiy sorry, sir.
but my children arc all away on 't visit
and " Kditor 'Then collect the
blight things you hear said by other
M-opleschildicu Mr Scribbler- "I
I never hear oMiei oplo's children say
anything woitb piinting." Iv-'ciiiiig
iseotisiu
KiTrur. attention is rilled to l!ii silver
liseiueiilof the Klkhnrt I'arnae and liar
ic.ss.Mfg Co., Klkhart, Indiana Tlicj are
well ami favorably known all over thecoiin-ti-.,iiiid
purchases s csin eoiiliilentlv rely
upon fair dealing in all tln-Ir trans'iclloii-.
'I hoy sell to coiistiiuci at wholesale prices,
and ship anywhere for ouiiiinuliuii ln-foic
ight
Fay.
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KlAiLIt I'iitentH. per uncle . J 3.1 U J ,V)
Kancy 2 10 tt 2 IS
IIAV ll.deil 'Ut si 10 in
IIL'TTKK-Cholco creamery . VT. it 27
C'llKKsK 1'ull cream ti 10
KiaL-s-Chulce. Jiijrf 11
ItACU.V llioni 10 11
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Iliiteliiri' nwri .. so w I o
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HIIKKl' Knlr tuHiolcu ' tt 6 50
Klit'l-C'lioice aM y
WIIKAT No. 2 mf. 1 inv 1 0li
C1IKN Nu.2 WU '7
OATS No. 2 tl tt 5itj
nK-No. 2 16 t5l
HITTKI Creamery Si tt 31
fOltK 11 2J tt II J7 Ml
CHICAGO.
CATTI.K Plilpplnxtccr.... 3 M e 5 15
lions rnrkltisaml xliljiin 151 0 4 IS
RIIKKI'Kair to choice 4 (rt tt 5 M
FLOWK Winter wheat. 4 U 5 Ol
WHEAT No. 2 nil 101 t 102
CO KX No. 2 CHjrf Mi
OATS No. J .! H
KYVV-No. 2 H. tt i
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rOUK 11 JO tt 11 50
NEW VOKK.
CATTLE Cnuitnon to prln.o. M i 0
nm;s;04i to choice sw zv,
FllUIt fiiHMl to choice ...... 4 10 tt IM
WIIKAT So. J red 1 I55.tt J I?
COKS No.? 71 tt 6
OATS Western rnUnl V, tt Ci
P.CTTEK Crenuicrj- 21 O 1
fOUK 11 10 C 12 O
If You Have
1fMptt.t. IWIctlM. ristalesee.
Nlrh Hrarfarhr. -mil rmm 4wa, !
tar nk, ja mUl ttm
Tutt's Pills
laraiaxa at4. TVr iaea
tffe mmmU atna-a aa4 aall4 ap lb
flan lac carrclt. mtfrn Iwmtm
Maial r y alral auinfc alll fla4
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trrtcat ft.
lX Hata B4!. OCT. I
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BEECHAM'S PILLS
NiWEUSTOIUI.
25 Cents a Box.
or AU UCCMTS.
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I Trip I'n trrtakr tar Health' -k.
I Wld I rendcrc! mora beneficial, and tho
; faUp-, of travel rinintrnwtt!. f the
i TovnCcf will tat aleiic wits him Ho-Ot
ur SuB.K-h Hitter, and uthat protect
lvi and rnahlimr toma. nenre inrurriraat
and ai'jvtucr rrjruUrljr Impolitic in air
and water ncctnUUcd bjr ll. ami it l a
matcblc IrainjuiHjer and mralator tf H-Unauw-h,
bverand bowel. It counteract
malaria. r!r!inaUtn. awl a tcmlcacr U
kidney a ad Wilder alimcul.
Fun BnVer-"Whal ha Nvomo of that
I tn-w-errr lr of jourf Ho vt krarr
than dtxuh ecoml ilroker -"Yes tf
, fcli trwbW- ll -k .'--
MfcST pcoplo think ibal x rronl Blw
-LeiV eun s untl ooljr In O'OMVtu.u with
- t..i... ...!.. Iafc... TS Ik .i fr?l
Tn opera tiijr who r3rhe- tho high
nouvt must hare u invar threat PltUburtfit
Dispatch.
A Jtr.w l.V for practical irtv planter Is
thus tfuilnrvrtl ljr Oramw Jm.I.I.
The entire tx.lc Uabb. written. and i;e
lruty information for all who khiw Iruii
j orunv wrt or kin.L Suric liro . uurerj
men, luilana, Mo . will ml u free U all
micro led -OrauKC Juuil rarn.tr
ItrniJ ought Ut N? a nool place for
tiper, for It I a city ahaj on U.o hiprr,
llotin tiiupttr.
It wtm.'itrani'-cthat anvonenitl continue
to suffer from the many lib arising Iumi a
slate of fchl tmpuriiv when lr J..I01
Hull's Saraurill-i will restore flcvt
health anil slreocih It is a wtotderful
viver ll makes the old J eel joaD(c,ua
ttejoUb feoi buo)aul
It rouM lr it ml unnMor.ab!t woman
who 11 ho u Id itiMiiaud of her 4ttv!uan kver
that be rdiouh! plve up his club lkUin
Trait script
"I nvr rices- trrurrcnwith in ifffs'tlon
of ttio Throat from childhood, taused hj
diphtheria, and hao used aruj remisJies
hut have never found an) thing op..l Ui
Hhous.s Hhomiiiu. Tit.H-iits - Itcv ti
M K Uaui'iluii, Pikutnu Ky Sold ouij in
Ik'XCs
AC oitruso to the doctrine nt the nrTlval
of tho ntb"t. tho lat nuin will undoubtedly
bo a tailor.- HivhoMer 1 ulWmaa
-
Witrs' Isihbmv Kleetru Sr.tp tv.i flrt
mado In lsiVt it eut "Jl ttnl i ir ll U rt
cttru the same ingicdiciit and ipial t n.or
nu, il'-ss't't rl ti f Ituv it of Mini criKt'i
aud preserve 1 our clothes. If Uc hain't it,
Im will ett it
A axon plutift are probubly tho tt on
which to aervo hot cannon balU. Uolou
Herald.
Ir vmi are toed tak.U the large.old f.ish
iniieil 1,' 1 1 pi ut; pilU ti y Carter's Little l.Uer
Pills and take some comfort A inauinu't
luiidctcr.)lhtiig. Unopill adoso. Tr ilu-tu
- -
Plows nro not ahvays exchacpsl whoa
vou itriho un acquaintance. 1 MtlnburKh
liUpatell.
Hoi isor c,cd little children. wnrii nro
making (hem miserable Mothers eel them
iih.il of lb Hull Worm iK'stlOcia Chll
drui like them
Tim world never situ down twice on a man
who hu-s any point ubuut blm Milwaukee
HentliioL
l)o soi put go nor weaken the bowcln. but
nctsMVi.illvuii ihohvorandhilc. A tiorfisrl
liver con i.s. tor Carter' Little Liver Pill
Tur locomotive fireman, no matter how
hh;h ho rises, ulwaa has tender rccollec
lioni. Pittsburgh Post,
Tine Public Awards the Palm to llidc'
Honey of I Ion hound and Tnr for rotichs
Pike's Toothache Uropi Curciiioiiumtuulo
-
To lie a aiicrmi a !sla water fountain
must le n first class tlwk ljluliojnlou
Heptibllcuu.
- -
Tur. hosti-oui'li mtslielne l PImi's Cure
for OiiisumpUou Sold everj where !iV
Copyright. !.
JTt xcho cai(
for an in.ictivo liver to do its work,
exposes himself to all tho dwasrs
that come from tainteil Mood.
Don't wait! Languor and Iom of
ajipetito warn yon that graver ills
are closo ln?hind. You can keep
them from coming; you ran cure
them if they've como with Dr.
Pierce' Golden Medical Discovery.
It'fl tho only blood and liver mcrfi
eine that's guaranteed, in every a
to benefit or cure Your money
back if it doesn't. Thus, you only
pay for tho good you get. Can you
aslc more? It cleanse tho hVBtcm
and cures pimples blotches, erup
tions and all skin and ncalp dis- j
cases. ScrofuIotH affections, an
fever - pores, hip - joint di-aw,
swellings and tumors yield to
ita ftuiierior alterative propcrtie.
ritnat itnu ii am oitiui ! i
DR. OWElf'B
ELECTRIC BELT
Cur Oia Wltnout Mmclcin.
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CSTAO.
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on which is wound
Yh Braid that is known
tho world around.
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INFLAMMATIONS
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HURTS AMD ILLS
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SELL MUSIC -"''
z'ir ?::: Ktoui i musical moitmly.
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a snv which has
1?
stealthily otnc inside
the lines, ot health
and is (here to dis
cover .some vulncr-
ahlc point in tho fot ideation of the constitution which U
ii.itilit your well-being That point discovered the spy
icpoits it to the enemy on the outside. The tnemy is the
changeable winter climate H the cold gets in. look out
lor an attack at ',c weak point lo avoid this, shoot tlu:
spy. kill the cold, using SCOTT'S EMULSION
of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and I IvjMiphoNphue;
ol Lime and Soda as the weapon. It is an expert cold
slayer, and foi titles the svstein agatn-t LH3,umptwn
Scrofula, General Debility, and all Aturmit and Wasting
Diseases specially tit Children). INpoially helplul lor
children to prevent then taking cold. Palatable as
Milk.
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COLLAR IN THE MARKET.
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