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- c CHURCH STRIFE. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Bat tle of Creeds. The Cemtrormnim BatTUan-'Workaf Beqatalta Thaa Strifea-The KUgiea of Chrtet Bettr Thma Crm4 DU- P ate-Worklr Together. In a sermon at Brooklyn lately the subject chosen by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage was "The Battle of Creeds. Hia text was from PrOTerbs xxvi. 17: "He that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that takcthadog by the ears." The preacher said: Solomon here deplores the habit of rushing ia between tf tanta, of taking- part ia the aatgoniaa.af others, of joining in fights which they ought to shan. They do bo good to others and get damage to themselves. lie com pares it to the experiment of taking a dog by the earn Nothing so irritates the canines as to be clutched bytbs lugs. Take them by the back of the neck and lift them and it does not seem to hurt or offend, but you take the dog by the ear and he will take yoa with his teeth. In all the history of kennels no intelligent or spirited dog will stand that "Now," says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or controversies that arc not yours and you will get lacerated and torn and bitten. 'He that passeth by and meddleth with fetrife belonging not to him is like one that takclh a dog by the ears.'" This is a time of resounding ecclesi astical quarrel. Ncrer within your memory or mine has the air been so full of missiles. The Presbyterian church has on hand a controversy so great that it finds it prudent to post pone its settlement for at least one moro year, hoping that something will turn up. Somebody may die or a new general assembly may have grace to handle these exciting questions. The Episcopal church has cast out some re calcitrants, and its digestive organs arc taxed to the utmost in trying to assim ilate others. "Shall women preach?" "Or be sent as delegates to conference?" are questions that have put many of our Methodist brethren on the "anxious Mat." And the waters in some of the great baptistries are troubled waters. Kecause of the controversies through out Christendom the air is now like an August afternoon about fi o'clock, when it bus leen steaming hot all diiy, and clouds an, gathering, and there aro lions of thunder with grumbling voices and flashing eyes coming forth from their cloudy lairs, and people arc waiting for the full burst of the tempest I am not much o a weather prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly like wind clouds. It may Iks a big blow, but I hope it will soon be over. In re gard to the battle of the creeds I am every day askedwhat I think about it, I want to make -It so plain this morning what I think that no one will ever ask again. The most damaging thing on earth is religious controversy. No one ever comes out of it as good a man as I.f goes in. Some of the ministers, in all denominations, who, before the present acerbity were good and kind and useful, now seem almost swearing mad. These brethren I notice always open their violent meet ings with prayer Iniforc devour ing each other, thus saying grace lefore meat They have a moral hydrophobia that makes us think they have taken a dog by the ears. They never read the imprecatory psalms of lavid with such zest as since the Ilriggs and Newton aiidMacQucary and Itridgman and Brooks questions got in to full swing. May the rams of the sheepfold soon have their horns sawed off. Hcfore the controversies are settled, a good many ministers will, through what they call liberalism, lc lauded in to praotic.il infidelity, and others through what they call conservatism, will shrink up into bigots tight and hard as the mummies of Egypt which got through their controversies II.OOO years ago. This trouble throughout Christen dom, was directly inspired of Satan. He saw that too much good was being done. Kecrutts w ere lcing gathered by hundreds of thousands to the gospel standard. The victories for Uod and the truth were too near together. Too many churches were Iwing dedicated. Too manv ministers ncre being or dained. Too manv philinthropics were leing fostered. Too many souls were lcing saved. What amazes me most Ls that all peo ple do not sec that the entire movement at this time all over Christendom is hatanic Many of the infernal attacks arc sly and hidden and strategic and no ingenious that they arc not easily discovered. But here Ls a bold and un covered attempt of the powerof dark ness to split up the churches, to get ministers to take each other by the throat, to make religion a laughing stock of earth and holt, to leave the Bible with no more respect or authen ticity than an old almanac of 1822, which told what would Ik the change of weather six months ahead and in what quarter of the moon it is best to plant turnips. In a word, the effort is to stop the evangelization of the world. It seems to me very much like this: There has been a railroad accident and many are woanded and dying. There are several drug stores near the scene of casualty. All the doctors and drug gists are needed and needed right away. Bandages, stimulants, annvsthctics, medicines of all sorts. What are the doctors and druggists doing? Discus sing the contents of some old bottles on the top shelf, bottles of medicine which some doctors and druggists mixed two hundred or three hun dred years ago. "Come, doctors!" "Come druggists!" cry the people, "and help these wounded and dying that are being brought from beneath the tim bers of the crushed rail train. In a lit tle while it will be too late. Come, for God's sake! Come right sway!" "No," says a doctor, "not until we have set tled whether the medicine on that top shelf was rightly mixed. I say there were too many drops of laudanum in it and this other man says there are too many drops of camphire, and we must get this question settled before we can attend to the railroad accident" And pne doctor takes another doctor by the collar and pushes him rack against ihe cuinter, and one of the druggists says: If you will not admit that I am right about that one bottle, I will smash every bottle in your apothecary store," and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly marked and within easy reach, are ajl the medicines -eded for the helping of the sufferers oy the accident, and in that drawer, easily opened, are bandages and splints, for the lack of which fifty people are dying outside the drug store. Before I apply this thought everyone sees its application. Here is this world and it is off track. Sin and sorrow have collided with it The groan of agony is fourteen hundred million voiced. God has opened far relief sad cure a great sanitarium, a great honse of mercy and all its shelves are filled with balsams, with catholicons, with help, glorious help, tremendoas help, so easily administered that yon need not get upon any step-ladder to reach it. You can reach it on your knees and then hand it to all the suffering and the sinning and the dying. Comfort for ail the troubled! Pardoaforall the fuilty! Peace for all the dying! Bnt while the world is needing the relief and perishing for lack of it, what of the church? Why, it k fnll of fighting doc tors. On the top shelf are some old bottles which several hundred years ago Calvin or Arminias, or the mem bers of the synod of Dort, or the frara ers of the Nicene creed filled with holy mixtures, and nntil we get a revision of these old bottles and find out whether we mast take a teaspooafal or tablespoonfal, and whether before or after meals, let the nations suffer and groan and die. Save the bottles by all means, if you cannot save anything else! Now, what part shall you and I take in this controversy which fills all Christendom with clangor? My advice is: Take no part In time of riot all mayors of cities advise good citizens to stay at home or ia their places of busi ness aad ia this time of religions riot I advise yoa to fo about your regular work for God. Leave the bottles on the higher shelves for others to fight aboat and take the two bottles on the shelf 'within easy reach, the two bottles which all this dying world needs; the law Hied with a portion which is for the cleaning of all sin, the other filled with a portion which is for the soothing of all saJFering. The gospel bottles! Christ mixed them oat of his own tears and blood. In them is no human ad mixture. Spend no time on the myste ries! Tom, a man only five or six feet high, osght not try to wade an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own experience has been vivid. I derated the most of my time for years in trying to understand God's eternal decrees and I was determined to find out why the Lord let sin come into the world, and I set out to explore the doc trine of the Trinity, and with a yard stick to measure the throne of the In finite. As with all my predecessors, the attempt was a dead failure. For the last thirty years I have not spent two minutes in studying the contro verted points of theology, and if I live thirty years longer I will not spend the thousandth part of a second in such ex ploration. Creeds have their uses, but just now the church is creeded to death. The young men entering the ministry, arc going to be launched in the thickest fog that ever settled on the coasts. As I am told that in all our services students of Princeton and Union and Drew and other theological seminaries are pres ent and an these words will come to thousands of young men who are soon to enter the ministry, let me say to such and through them to their associ ates, keep out of the bewildering bclit tling, destroying and angry controver sies abroad. The questions our doctors of divinity are trying to settle will not be settled until the day after the day of judgment It is such a poor ocono my of time to spend years and years in trying to fathom the unfathomable, when in five minutes in Heaven we will know all we want to know. Wait till we get our throne. Wait until the light of eternity flashes upon our newly as cended spirits. You see, God knew as much when He made the Bible as He knows now. He has not learned a thing in six thousand years He knew at the start that the human race would go wrong and what would lc the best means of its restora tion and redemption. And the law which was thundered on Mount Sinai is the perfect law. And the gospel which Christ announced while dying on that mount and which Paul preached is the gosjcl that is going to save the world. Young man, put on that gos pel armor! No other shield will protect like that No other helmet will glance off the battle axes like that Our theo logical seminaries are doing glorious work, but if ever such theological seminaries shall cease to prepare young men for this plain gospel advocacy and shall become mere philosophical schools for guessing about God, and guessing about the Bible, and guessing about the soul they will cease their useful ness, and young men as in olden time, when they would study for the gospel ministry, will put themselves under the care of some intelligent and warm hearted pastor and kneel with him in family prayer at the pastorate and go with him into the room of the sick and the dying and see what victories the grace of God can gain when the couch of the dying saint is the Marathon. Now, what is the simple fact that you in the pew and Sabbath school class and reformatory association and we in the pulpits have to deal with? It is this: That God has somewhere, and it matters not where, but some where, provided a great Heaven, great for quietness for those who want quiet great for vast assemblage for those who like multitudes great for archi tecture for those who like architecture, great for beautiful landscape for those who like beautiful landscape, great for music for those who like music, great for processions for those who like armies on white horses and great for anything that one especially desires in such a rapturous dominion; and through the doings of One who was born about five miles south of Jerusalem and died about ten minutes' walk from its east ern gate, all may enter that great Heaven for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is that all? That is all? What then is your work and mine? Our work is to persuade people to face that way and start thitherward and finally go in. A peculiar patchwork quilt was, dur ing the civil war, made by a lady and sent to the hospitals at the front She had a boy in the army, and was nat urally interested in the welfare of sol diers. But what a patchwork quilt she sent! On every block of the quilt was a passage of Scripture or a verse of a hymn. The months and years of the war went by. On that quilt many a wounded man had lain and suffered and died. But one morning the hospi tal enrse saw a patient under the blan ket kissing the figure of a leaf in the quilt and the nurse supposed he was only wandering in his mind. But no, he was the son of the mother who had made the qmllt and he recognized that figure of a leaf as part of a gown his mother used to wear, and it reminded him of home. "Do you know where this quilt came from?" he asked. The nurse answered: "I can find out for there was a card pinned to it and I will find that" Sure enough, it confirmed what he thought. Then the nurse pointed to a passage of Scripture in the block of the quilt the passage which says; "When he was a great way off his father saw him and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." "Yes." said the dying soldier, "I was a great way off, bnt God has met me and had com passion on me." "Shall I write to your mother and tell her the lost one is found and the dead is alive again?" He answered: "I wish you would if it would not be too much throuble." Do you suppose that woman who made that quilt and filled it with Scripture pas sages had any trouble about who Mel chizedek was or how the doctrine of God's sovereignty can be harmonised with man's free agency, or who wrote the Pentateuch, or the inconsistencies of the Nicene creed? Good enough intention, my brother, no doubt; bnt the Lord is not anxious to have you help Him. He will keep His throne without your assistance. Boat be afraid that the Bible will fall apart from inconsistencies. It hung together many centuries before yoa were bora, aad your funeral sermon will be preached from a text taken from its undisturbed aathenttetty. De yon know that I thiak if all ministers ia all denominations would stop this aoa sense of ecclesiastical strife aad take hold of the Word of God, the only qaetv tkm with each of as being how many souls we can bring to Christ and ia how short a time, the Lord would soon ap pear for the salvation of all nations? When the young queen of England visited Scotland maay years ago, great preparations were made for her recep tion. The vessel ia which she sailed was far out at sea. bnt every hill ia Scotland was illumined with bonfires and torches. The night was set on Ire with artificial illumination. Theqneem, standing on ship's deck, knew from that that Scotland was fnll of heartiest welcome and the thunder of the great guns at Glasgow aad Edinburgh castle woke np all the echoes. Boom! they sounded out over the sea. Boom! they sounded np among the hills. Do yoa know that I think oar King would land if we were only ready to receive him? Why not call to Him from all our churches, from all our hospitals from all our homes? Why not all at once light all the torches of gospel invitatian? Why aOt ring all the "bells of welcome? Why not light up the world's sin and suffering with bonfires of victory? Why not no limber all the gospel batteries and let them boom across the earth and boom into the parting Heavens? The King is ready to land if we are ready to re ceive him. Why can not we who are now living see his descent? Must it all be postponed to later ages? Has not our poor world groaned long enough in mortal agonies? Have there not been martyrs enough, and have not the lakes of tears and rivers of blood been deep enough? Why can not the final glory roll in now? Why can not this dying century feel the incoming tides of the oceans of Heavenly mercy? M ust our ej'cs close in death and our ears take on the deafness of the tomb, and these hearts beat their last throb leforc the day comes in? O, Christ! Why tarriest Thou? Wilt Thou not lief ore we go the way of all the earth, let us see Thy scarred feet under some noonday cloud coming this way? Be fore we die let us behold Thy hands were spiked, spread out in benediction for a lost race And why not let us with our mortal ears hear that voice which spoke peace as thou didst go up, speak pardon and .emancipation and love and holiness and joy to all nations as Thou comest down? But the skies do not part I hear no rumbling of chariot wheels coming down over the sapphire. There is no swoop of wings. I see no flash of angelic ap pearances. All isstilL I hear nothing but the tramp of my own heart as I pause, letwcen these utterances The king docs not land because the world is not ready, and the church s not ready. To clear the way for the Lord's com ing let us devote all our energies of body, mind and souL A Russian general, riding over the battlefield, his horse treading among the dying and dead, a wounded soldier asked him for water, but the officer did not understand his language and knew not what the poor fellow wanted. Then the soldier cried out: "Christos," and that word meant sympathy and help, and the Russian officer dismount ed and put to the lips of the sufferer a cooling draught Be that the charmed word with which we go forth to do our whole duty. In many languages it has only a little difference of ter mination. Christos! It stands for sympathy. It stands for help. It stands for pardon. It stands for hope. It stands for Heaven. Christos! In that name we were baptized. In that name we took our first sacrament That will lie the battle shout that will win the whole world for God. Christos! Put it on our banners when we march! Put it on our lips when we die! Put it in the funeral psalm at our obsequies! Put it on the plain slab over our grave! Christos! Blessed be His glorious name forever! Amen! PENNEY'S SINKIN FEELIN'. Somr of the ChmracterUtlr nf m Colored Cook Arrnrateljr I'lirlraj-tMl. "Where is the custard that was in this bowl, Penney?" I asked, as look ing into the stove, I missed half that I had prepared for dinner. "Miss Kate," she said, eyeing me firmly, "do you think I would slip your custard?" "I do not say so, Fcnney; I only ask what has become of it since I gave it to yon to cook?" "Do you know. Miss Kate, dat right don't wrong nobody, an you know I has dis sinkin' feellh' here," she an swered, placing her hand over her belt, "an' I has to cat somethin right away. My ole man dun tole me I must always do it an' I knowed you didn't have no use for more than half that custard, so I cooked a little of it In dis here very pan" she lifted the pan and shook it at mc "to eat fer dat sinkin,' an' it dun cured mc" No symptoms of remorse or guilt dis turbed the serenity of her countenance as she spoke, and it was really with some embarrassment that I said: "Well, Penney, I do not wish you to divide my food before you send it to the table. You must never do it again without asking mc," I rather lamely concluded. I had found my first leaf-embowered guinea nest the week before. Persons who have never had this pleasure have no idea how exquisite it is. The clean eggs were piled in tiers in the dainty cavern, that must not be touched under penalty of the hen abandoning her nest The next day Penney, again op pressed with the sinking feeling, had gone, with my permission, into the or chard for fruit to make her a pic. I thought of ray treasure trove as she re turned, and, throwing on my hat I hur ried to the nest only to find it entirely empty. "Penney," I wrathfully exclaimed, as I reached the kitchen door, "did you take those eggs that were under the apple tree?" An inscrutable, fortified expression spread over her face. "Miss Katie, I rather die than tell you a lie; dat's de way my ma raised me. I felt like I couldn't wait to cook no pies fer dis sinkin', an I thought de aigs would do jast as welL I didn't know it was your nest 'cause yon don't make no practice cr findin' nests, an' I put der last one er dem aigs right ia dat ar pot er greens to bile, aa'if yon don't bleve me you can look in dar an see fer yosclf. Bnt please, Mir Kate, don't think 1 was tryia' to slip. My ole man say be would rather fur me to quit than fer yon to think I would slip. He ant so overly settled ia his mind 'bout stay in' here nohow." Her calmness and mystery of the sit uation completed my discomfiture, aad after arebnke that was tame indeed in proportion to the offense, I left her ia possession of the field aad my ejrgs. Her sinking feelings wonld have be come monotonous if they had not alter nated with a "hard feelin';" especiaUy after gorging herself on "drap dump lings." In sack aa eveat she insisted that she heeded "strong medicine," aad remained ia bed all day. This occurred so often that my father, whose experi ence ia sack eases was liautlaaa, sag gested a remedy which ha called halm tea. He prepared H of a powerful emetic, disguised as sajrar and pepper mint Peaaey rraanlsisni bitterly that after taking it she "could mot keep aothia on her stnmmick," but it al wayassf acted a care, Mapahis AaytaJ Avalanche, AGRICULTURAL HINTS FOR WEIGHING SWINE. Bat PtI Cat mFi A neighbor who has largely combined stack raising with farming, frequently haying stock aad feeding for market employs a cheap aad convenient sac th aa of weighing small animals. At one corner of a small yard or pea into which the animals may be driven sa inclined plaae is constructed for the purpose of loading them into wagons. This inclined plane is not immediately eoaaected with the yard, a passage 4 feet wide snd 7 or 8 feet long leading np to it as shown in the engraving. In this level part of the passage k placed the framed box or "cage." showa st Fig. L Five feet long. SH feet wide aad 4 feet high is found to be a very satisfactory size for this cage, ae it will admit the largest hog or several smaller animals. The construction of this cage is well shown in the engrav lag. The frame is made of oak or ether good timber not less thaa 2 Inches square. Three cross pieces be low support a solid loor. Only two are necessary above. These cross pieces above aad below, are mortised into the side frame H iach from the end, so that a board ashed serosa the end leaves an opening a little more thaa aa Inch wide, ia which the sliding gate may freely move ap and down. Snch a gate is made at each end of the cage. The upright bars of the gate are laid in position aad the cross bars fastened to them afterward, making it impossi Flo. 1. CAGE FOK WEIGHING fiWlXa. ble to remove the gate. The ends of tho upright bars extend an inch or more below the lower cross bar and enter the narrow opening at the bot tom of the frame, thus holding the gate firmly in place A stout latch on the upper part of the frame and a heavy staple in each cross bar of the gate furnish means of locking the gate down or holding it up. An iron rod, terminating in a hook at the top, is placed near each corner of the cage. These extend down through the lower frame, that they may carry the entire weight when the cage is nuspended. At the side of the narrow passage in which this cage rests is a large post 10 feet high, notched at the top to receive the lever. The short end of this lever extending over the passage is necessa rily 3 or 4 feet long, while the longer end should be about four times this length, making the entire lever 16 or 20 feet long. A piece of good timber, 8 inches by 4, placed edge upward, will be strong enough for this purpose. To make it lighter without weakening, the lower side cf the longer arm of the lever is tapered off to the end, where it need not be more than A inches square. Here it bears against another post to which it is confined by a guard of iron, allowing vertical motion only. In the short arm of the lever, directly alnvc the center of the cage, a large ring-bolt is inserted. Attached to this is a large steelyard, weighing up to 1.000 or 1,200 pounds. The cage is hung to the steel yard by four chains of equal length, joined together above by a large ring and connecting below with the iron rods of the cage. It is intended that the two sides of the lever, when the cage is attached, should be nearly bal- FIO. 2. DEVICK KOB WEIGHING SWINE. nnced, the short arm being a little the heavier. If it is not so, a bos of stone placed on top of that part of the lever will make it right Now for the method of operation. The gate of tho cage next to the pen is raised, and it being several feet with in a narrow passage and in a corner of the pen. there is no great difficulty in driving an animal into it. The gate is now cloned and the cage with the animal in it is lifted from the ground by pulling down on the outer end of the lever. For this purpose a chain is attached, and when drawn down is hung on a stout iron pin driven into the post The lever is thus held in position while the weighing is done. A plank laid scross the fence shove the cage serves as a platform for the weigher. If it is desired to put the animals into wagons after weighing, the gate next the inclined plane is raised and they sre easily driven up. The Inclined plane is not a necessary attachment to the scales as each may be used independently of tho other, but it will be fonnd most convenient to have them connected as described. The advantage claimed for this de vice is not that of general service as scales for it can never take the place of good platform scales. But because of their great cost few farmers can af ford these, yet there is scarcely one who has not occasion to use something of the kind just described. Its low cost places it within the reach of alt and once in possession, it will be used much more frequently than might be sup posed. S. P. Shall, in Rural New Yorker. Practice vs. Sjtaa4a. Aa ounce of successful practice is worth n ton of hypothesis. If you sre making gilt-edged butter in old-fash-ioaed ways, do not be in n hurry to change, because some so-called suthor itv criticises your methods says the Jersey Bulletin. The best method is that which gets the best hatter with the least expense of time and labor. But the best method may possibly call for a larger outlay for appliances than the size of your dairy will warrant you in making. So long as this is the case, it Is the part of wisdom to do the best yoa can with the ann at your TW ict Wmnm The writer ia a tarf journal gives the following rule to estimate the height n colt will grow to: Take a colt at any time between six weeks old aad cam year, stand him em a level jrface ae that he will stand naturally, then mssinit the distance from the hah-of the hoof to his knee joint, ami for inch or fracuoa thereof he he win hehaadshhrh matured. If he measures fifteen es he wOl grow to be fifteen high; if fifteen aad one-half inches, he will he fifteen aad erne-half hands high. aadseoa. LrinrinrLJ SALMON AND SEA TROUT. Bmmm ltrUc Facta Crrnlc Ttir !.! aiMl ftaMta. Jfe authority oa fishes has keen able te say where the sea treat aad the salmon go m winter; but lwfon? the brooks aad rivers begin te freeze in the late fall they gather in large bodies, pass rapidly down the stream aad swim away for deep waters. Nothing Is ovn of them again till tnward the 1st of June, when they congregate about the mouths of tidal rivers and brookv A salme born in the Ictigoacle will not, when it has become a grille, re turn to the Miramichi or any other river, bat will swim swiftly and alertly up and down the eoast, sometimes far several days, till it finds its own tircr Sometimes the salmon, after it two and a half years absence since it baby hood, aad returning as a grilse to the shore, esters the wrong stream, but he fore it has sk am far upward it discover its mistake, tnrns acain down stream. leaving its companions and makes great hastr to the shore, w ben it skirts along till it finds its native river. I have often watched grilse for hours after I knew they had lost their way; they swim from side to side of the river, examining the bottom, the rocks, and the shallow, and when they arc sure that they have never seen the place !efure, they turn aad speedily go seaward. What makes this most remarkable is that the salmon, which Ls hatched out in the gravel or sand beds in the river in the beginning of summer, remains ia its native waters only about fivemoaths, when it makes its way down with the current, being then known as the parr, a beautiful, lithe, and graceful little fish from four to six inches long. Its return is made when it is three years old, when it is known as a grilse; but its recollections from the time of its babyhood are clear and unfailing. How often have I lain quietly in a birch-bark canoe at the foot of some, fall on the Miramichi and Restigouche. and watched the advancing march of this licautiful fish'. As they reach the boiling water at the bvttora of the fall, they pause for a while, with their heads up stream and very near to the surface; then they swim acrov from right to left looking upward to determine the lowest part of the barrier in front of them. Then they recoil for a short dis tance, suddenly curve themselves in the form nearly of the letter C, and spring upward, making considerable commo tion in the water from the push made by the taiL The old salmon are the best jumpers and often get to the top of a fall at the first leap: hut 1 have fre quently seen grilse and large salmon, which I supjMse were very old, make a Ldozen attempts lefore getting up. They would reach nearly to tne otigo oi a fall, fail, and tumble back with a gre.at splash. After resting a minute or so, they curved, and made the attempt again. Hut I have known and heard of no case where any grilse or fnirlj' young salmon did not at last succeed in getting over the barrier. The sea trout cuts through the water like an arrow, and springs Hix and eight feet upward to get over rocks and little falls. The object of the visit to the streams every year is that these fishes may deposit their eggs in the shallow IkmIs of gravel and sanil that lie. everywhere along the upper reaches of the streams. When the female salmon in the earlj- autumn is ready to lay her eggs she poises herself alve some shallow, with her head up stream, and burrows into the sand, up and down stream, till she has made a cavity large enough; then she dcjosits her erg in this opening. The constant motion of the water in one direction soon covers the ova with sand, and there they re main buried till the next spring, when thej grow as large as pease, and the little fish come forth. It was lwlieved up to little while ago that the salmon fed while in fresh water in sumraer.and this was held to explain why it nsc and took the fisherman's fly so easily. It is now known that the salmon does not taste food during all the months that it spends in the river; no food has ever leen found in its stomach in summer, and the stomach itself, on dissection, is found to t ciosed during that season. It is asked, why, then, does the salmon rise to the fly. if not to eat it? My opinion is. and it is sustained by fisher men and ichthyologists, that the sal mon takes the gaudy bait trailed about it sometimes in play and often in angor. This much is sure, the fish never makes an attempt to swallow the fly, for it is invariably found hooked in the lip. Edmund Collins, in Harper's Young I'eoplc. ANCIENT AMERICAN CLOTHES. Iteaatifnl Fhtir Worm from thr IIlr or Animal. The Mexicans spun and wove cotton, and the Peruvians both cotton and wool, into fabrics which the hpanianls found in every way equal to anything they had known at home. The Peruvians in particular, were adepts in the art. When Pizarro made the conquest of their country in 1333. he found in the empire of the Incas four species of animals little different from each other, which he called the sheep of the coun try, because of their general revrmb lance to the Spanish sheep, and the similar utilization of its fiber. Two of the species the llama and alpaca, had been in a tat of domestication from time immemorial, the remaining varieties the vienna and the gnanaca, living in a wild state in the fastnesses of the Andev From a variety of sources we are able to obtain minute details of the importance which the government attached to these animals and the large part which they played in the domestic economy of the conntry The Peruvian woolen fibrics were of three kinds a coarse wooltn cloth, which they called avasca, which foravd the raiment of the common people; a finer variety, called compi, worn by the captains and officials; and still another, also called compi. but of much finer quality, reserved for the use of pervro of royal blood. Sp 'imens of thi cloth, still preserved, reveal a fineness of tx tnre and aa exquisite finish which mod ern ingenuity rarely equals. Both sides of these cloths were woven alike. The delicacy of the textare gave it tb latter of sDk. while th- brilliancy of the dyes employed excited the envy and admira tion of tlie European artisan. The Peruvians made also shawls robes, car pets; coverlets and hangings ia great varieties of patterns. They knew how to produce an article of great strenrth aad durability, by mixing the hair of naimals with the fleece of their llamas. S.N. IX North, in Popular Science Monthly. Jewrtt te tW Gtst, The largest amount of jewelry known to be in a single grave said to hare been buried several years ago in Green wood cemetery, in Brooklyn, N. Y The undertaker who had charge of the funeral protested against H, bet was se verely snubbed for his interference. The family had its war, aad ia that grave are fallv five thousand dollars werth of diamonds with which the bady was decked when prepared for burial. Sometimes fsmQies who Whary their dead in the dothmf ialife mevw Tanlstinnr frrrlhr jewelry weva in life, partly frees metrres ef thrift aad partly from a suneistltion. fear that any thing taken off a body when it k ready foe the tomb will hrinr IX lack te fatare nwafatwejjr Weekly wrtn in smtj. 'Jim gotfaoo from a soap concern fee sa advertising scheme." What wa itT Tacy employ ahundred dirty tramps to go about the country tolling prop that their condition Is due to their aat having used IUank'ss-'ap.' Jury. Trt SHfm. We H th public attf-ntina, ej rUJJr caol aj-ertatendeBt aad teach er, to the f et that oo skceoaat of tV " tioasl K4artloal AociMoa mrvUog to b- b14 t Torvato. Jnlr Hth to tta, tb Jartsctsvili JsVwth-asW U sad Santa Iifstr sil mass1 trip tirkU from ft LonW aad all point on. lu lla at ONE FAKE. pls it nsembhlp fe. Ticket ill W old Jalr 'h to 13th. aad the limit will b arroaxvd u that th hu viik can task a vUlt or tk td trip to point ia Caaad aad thr Kt at reduerd rate. Osr rest t via Chicago sad bj direct ltae from Cfalcmge. Peat fall to call oa or write to a railroad agvat fr particular of the "Ked ixerses" route IT run the finet chair aad compart mtul NWplnj tar In la world. D. W. RtncK. HupX Jckouvlll, I1L H. A .Scttix. Gu'l Axot !'a'r JpL, 13 Ctie.taot Street. bU toniv W. W Kxvr, Ora'l Pa'r Acnt. Jack. aonvillr. llL Tbkxk ! alwsra one war for an aaM tfou actrr- to Lecomo a kutlug bhJy, sad that U to bur a big do. SomervtUe Journal. w - m in. A Trfinndou tltunpua Is kicked up In the lotnach aad bowels by drastic punnaUve. Far wirr l it to relax the latter with Uiteiter ahtnmacli HlUera. which never produce puln. act ReaUy but effectually, and toe uw of wrbicU ia sever feUotved bv a weakening eSrcl upes the heurris lllltoun, tlrp-"iA. malarial aad kMsey trouble, rbeumaUsi and eeeilitx yield to it. rosirriuea ll't the hardest kind of work to grl tbe strapping big fellow to tmcklo down to worn. Pttuburft-U I'owt. War are you sick! iWue ymi hate SiHlWctrd nature' lun Sho ronUnual!r tries a correct the trouble but ctnncit do it witheatsssintancR. 1'rvUIy Ah HitW l thesssistsat needed, and with the help of till wicdiriB - jmtr health will 1 tut- re stored- Give It a trial and watch the rrultv It Is time for tho cranberry crop to fall vraea the peach crop tail to full. N. U Mcarua. Hollow eyed little children, worm are making them mlerablr Mother crt them a Ikx of I)r Hull' Worm Deilrojern. Children like them The murderer's version of It good nooe. Hoston Courier. -no nooe It Tb wbe wUh to practice economy should buy Carter' UtUe Liver Pill. Forty pills la a vial, only one pill a doc A Oaixowh t probably nut tocethcr w Ith hanimsila Ulngliatnton Kcoublicwn. THE GENERAL MARKETS. IA Clll, JilHrli C'ATTI.K MilppliiK Meem I IJi HutoherV l ith I 7J Native eo IO IIM. i.cnxl KkIiiiIit hry ShS W1IKAT No. 2. ml .... " No. 2 li-inl . m. COUN Vo 2 t74 OATtw.Nu 2 . .. ': RYK No.2 . "0 FLOl It I'utcnt. per wrk .. 21 w Krtiiey . 2 l HAY llaln! lllTI l.lt l'holct ereauirry . II t CHKt.M; Kull crram Wj KGl.S-Cholce . II - UACON Uniii 9 w )hiull-r .... " 8iii ... ... .. . W,J L.KI ... . " IVTAIUi:- - ... I) hT. I-Ml'ls. CATTI.K Milpplng ili-rn 4 5o w Itntfhen' trwm. tii w IKK; parking '. tIIKi:r Knlr torholew . JK KUJL'U-Cholcr oi AUIKAT No 2. nil . . .. 1 n COItS No. 2 &: OATtXo. 2 .... - W'l KVU No.2 . . : mTTKIt-Crcamrry ... ISJKK . . 10 60 & 4 7. 2 7i 13 W s U 41 71 5K 2 IS 12 Ol 14 10 12 10 fW 7j 12w 11C 4l 4l bO) tl It, 7i ! 10 7S CMIOAt.o. CATTLK-Milpplns: eer IV f.ru IKKJS-PncVliiKnl shipping 5:1 GJ SIIKKP Pnlrtoeholer W w &' Kliflt Winter wheal , .. no S21 WIIKAT No.2reU ... w W COKN-No.2 , &. & OATh No.2 ... .... 3M KYK No.2 71 Tfr IHTTKn Creamery ... We 21 1-OltK 10 30 e 10 J5 NKW Til I UK. rATTi.K Common lo prima.. "n v HOi. "Jonl to cholrf ... 4 75 t2J flAril ;ol lo rliolcc . . 4 10 & WIIKAT No. 2. rril .. . ItisUw 1 fj CUKN No 2 71 72 OATS Western mlil . 3 44 lUTTKK Creamery . 21 27 IV UK lom WW On the move Liver, Stomach, and Bowels, after Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have done their work. It's a healthy movement, too a natural one. The organs are not forced into activity one day, to sink back into a worse state the next They're cleansed and regulated mild ly and quietly, without wrench ing or griping. One tiny, sugar-coated Pellet is all that's needed as a gentle laxative; three to four act as a cathar tic They're the smallest, cheapest, the easiest to take. Sick Headache, Bilious Head ache, Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all de rangements of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels are promptly relieved and cured. URIFY YOUR BL Mill Priddf AsfclWtct! um. tr m gwmnSfJ BTTTaTaU-ATL -nacaaBjBBf,BjBjBBjB totoffMtfriMtTaarMMfatlairit. faWfaa-iaf t-atlll I J I ! ' MMTTBI. afaW I iMllaW-L fKCUT MM BTTIlt et-y CVHrm.-t. The faToraWfl lssprvto prodac' Us Rrt appcauTkaeo of th acreat lild frail remedy Htrsp of Fc a few rar ba beu mre tbn eocfirsHi fey t r. aat est-rfreoc of X who h oMit, j4 tfw occc of tho prpri"Ukr aa4 nua. taturer tho C1fral Tit. Hjrsp Cob jay j Av rrfcanoftr Uwt mttfet&s eul over with rcUo nifca Urm Uu l u-wrt y tat twean tf U etUo r U- asfta jaald. lUa't Hera. i .i J!-T -IlTf-fT-1 " rw from a Uo of Ml inimrtty nbm lw jta BBr. jurajimbKirfia. ftfwi aaJ Urarta. It l a mMwWfiit n vlvrr H Biak Ihe old fed twias. aad t&e youcc fed buojaat. YoC caa't earn arty n-ct wttbrst ivorkt&jr fer It,' ay ao exrbaarc, trta. balyev avay frcevrcUy wvtk U-r fifty eccta TrilaoatffVftiMC H- IV-lon Cocrkrn Wtixtofeeatl a etcetteot rt-mir tar aide fceftiarbe. Carver LitUo Um 1UU TVaajt ef letter f rota peep wto fear aaed tkew prove thi ld Try Ttra orlftftal whak tra on a aw carrier, Dst Jcmaa proutwy Brt teprrtini Spe bub Ike seru oi a tree ueilrery aja- arm. Ho ton Cwurier Rnrri.Tte ratal are rcUy rdievnl fcgr Oleaa's Sulphur Svr , UiU'a Hair a4 Whkcx lj. W ceaV A Ctxvr.tJtt boy, wbro bct gttt Ui ttro er tfarr o.Jer tvralottal baaus. eaJSa berhi "JUry-t-rvotMl CfetaBfeva !ai. lltT calet to ue and ckeapcat. lUo a Kcwe4y tor Caurrla Hy UruccUl. 3a Draiae bat daj a U drttickta artit to uly fauboreU at this efikxv MiBC&tc lu tntMk-aa Don't onkey" a with your Blood. IVI3 at Am' r" to - ta dtai'aai 4 ik ra4. l bib. larral4 4mit S.S.S. w a tax. tl cual4Vws I41 nl arrufmU. Ml ', aJi twM rwrt lai.T nf Mr -l Ccrr ll U a r"""''fl " tnr eal rra. jrt brtom aad Urt4 tof lajuru ta tDuMaam ijnim. A tfraita n TU.J a4 Utl ZHiwttwa taaUrd raaa oa attV ration. BnaffUu fall It BWIFT SPECIFIC C0.f avrmavrr All The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. Ala?a7rl C4t f for all W ln 4 '!!. I "Tin II ait. ! ttt SHUTTLES, ' aa.a,aa. a a ak. dv ' ltaff 1 Twmr pB4ta4. tor htaa a rr REPAIRS. III HLr.L." a M fa . n Uniit at. MliJaU .Kxa nu r ai 7 a. "Thrift is a. resus toi cleanliness Xl A- J) Iris a solid C4ke:"oscourin soaji Tiy ihinyourncxhhou5eclcvninj bxxdbehvppy. CHEAP COMFORT Crm be secured by the small investment in one cake of SA POLIO when yotL have, a house ar kit eh en to clean. From- the paint ta the pots and tans, and including Um windows and floors, it is the very lcst Uilxr sating' soap for scouring and cleaning. All Grocers .sell U, -y at! s. tm rtoT TW il)lllta l..ia m ItTM AND BROADWAY. WLAA eTT. - - -. lBaPPaiiiiaaaw TLi " "" aaWaaBVaUaV Ti1 - ataaaaaaMSaBa) TVPWli '" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavaaai aaaaav-t - laaPaP''aaai 1 1 .1. . "rfi l. li TMC aOST ILl.UL AHO CltTinC MAN(M .. . I rtar4 ... rwf iaift'.aalil irfiwiiai faai -j'j ' J, " paareaaM a uprvi 'n-W W i -t in m v a i - ! r in n n-a . r.nmiiwiii iwiwa..i ir"W. Mf rkill .UrtO'! 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J-T V hq pjjagJt tfcai.JLI ocmxlxm from - t f m tor MJMf am a r jcr-r. -JMbTS AC mammaamagijmm I WXJT A PJIMX wiiOMoa aOTKaf fjr aWaVMBaaVIPalt M aa Mcaaa-HAM. kli -T-! aaaaaaaaBBaaaaTBaaaBV af aBaaBaafAaABaTAABa rliMiS. rIKIMS mAitr fw.aafcrf-.tia a m ja "rr- far tar rCJkMJi 'ja aaaa aai .a a-aaak 3-C. "August Flower' Tht t the qtjerr per pctwillr on ypur little boy's ht. Ami be ia What la It For? , It For? no wwx liwn the Uz- ) fTT,0lC?. WWclCT UCJU- rr.oWc?. balder lic-iti- pi bojx Ltfc t an interrogate pots; wtutt w it tor" we con Utmally err frow the cratlk to the gravr So mih tk HttJc introduo lory .cnnan vrr turn am! ak " Wiut is AtHuT Fujwkx x " A ci!y answered a askc4 It b fcc Dr pepstA. It w a KOal rcSBcdr for Ibc Stoma, h aad Liver JCodusic jaorr than th . trot tin bnatfaj Wc beheve A HE, Flower cure I Uyfvtma C Know it WtiJ, S C " Vt !..... ... Im.. f- " .1 f... 1 .. l.aM .. ream ago u started la a xx country j town TV-day it ha an boaorrd j place ta cvrrv city and country Urc, noMcvtcn otic of the laricrnt mann j tacturujs plant tn the country and j elU'evcrywhcTc Why U this . Tbe i reason w a .-unipJe as a ehtUT ' thought. It t honest, doc one thing, and doc it right along tt cure Dv.pcjiia j C a GREE V V!c Maa'fr,WwrT.N J. DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxbuiy, Mass., sis Kenneth s Mrdu.il Discovery cures Horntl OMSorrs, Peep Seated I'lcrrs of 4Q years standing. Inward Tumor, and every c!iscnc of the skin, ex cept Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root. Price, f 1.50, Dmgii:.t in Sold by ever) tiie U. S. and J Canada. READ THIS LETTER. i "NriMtnUaitkni .itutMlalliVU t!rllM.. "e -J tll- I I Irl All lk I 4. m4 , tot all la . .' rallara ! a a. Is It. aaa ' tla t lrwt4 r inal Jf l.w-4,. !" ... tkaa I 4i tta Maa "Tlai a.a aaf a aa aai.ar..a .I .rTnll IMIU I iaat4 I- Ift taaaa. 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