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GOSPEL WITNESSES.
Dr. Talmage Talks to a Largo Audi
ence In Kentucky.
Skeptics Answered By Kodera Woad
LtTinr WitneMM to the Trath or the
Bible-Value of Faith-Power of
Rellfftoa.
jPv. T. DcWltt Talmage preached to
a --tr&e concourse of people recently at
the historic camp ground at High
Bridge, Ky. Ills text -was from Acts
Hi. 15: "We are witnesses." The
preacher said:
Standing amid the hills and groves of
Kentucky, and before this great multi
tude that no man can number, most of
whom I never saw before and never
will see again in this world. I choose a
very practical theme. In the days of
George Stephenson, the perfector of
the locomotive cngino, the scientists
proved conclusively that a railroad
train could never be driven success
fully without peril; but the rushing ex
press trains from Liverpool to Edin
burgh and from Edinburgh to London
have made all the nation witnesses of
the splendid achievement. Machinists
and navigators proved conclusively that
a steamer could never cross the Atlantic
ocean; but no sooner had they success
fully proved the impossibility of such
tin undertaking than the work was
done and the passengers on tho Cu
nard and the Inman and the National
and the White Star lines are witnesses.
There went up a guffaw of wise laugh
ter at Prof. Morse's proposition to make
the lightning of heaven his errant boy,
and it was proved conclusively that the
thing could never be done; but now all
the news of the wide world put in your
hands every morning and nisrht has
made all nations witnesses. So in the
time of Christ it was proved conclu
sively that it was i in possible for him to
rise from the dead. It was shown logic
ally that when a man was dead he was
dead, and the heart and tho liver and
the lungs having ceased to perform
their offices the limbs would be rigid
beyond all powcrof friction or arousal.
They showed it to be an absolute ab
surdity that the dead Christ should ever
get up alive; but no sooner had they
proved this than the dead Christ arose,
and the disciples beheld him, henrd his
voice, and talked with him, and thc3
took the witness stand to prove that to
be true which the wiseacres of the day
had proved to be impossible; the record
of the experiment and of the testimony
is in the text: "Him hath God raised
from the dead, whereof we are wit
nesses." Now, let me play the skeptic for a
moment. "There is no God," says the
skeptic, "for I have never seen him
with my physical eyesight. Your Bible
is a pack of contradictions. There
never was a miracle. Lazarus was not
raised from tho dead, and the water
was never turned into wine. Your re
ligion is an imposition on the credulity
of the ages." There is an aged man
moving in that pew as though he would
like to respond. Here are hundreds of
people with faces a little flushed at
these announcements, and all through
this throng there is a suppressed feel
ing which would like to speak out in
behalf of the truth of our glorious
Christianity, as in tho days of the text,
crying out: "We arc witnesses!"
The fact is that if this world is ever
brought to God it will never be through
argument, but through testimony. You
aiight cover the earth with apologies
r Christianity and learned treatises m
ense of religion you would not con-
. 'ta soul. Lectures on the harmony
between science and religion arc beau
tiful mental discipline, but have never
saved a soul and never will savo a soul,
l'ut a man of tho world and a man of
the church against each other and the
man of tho world will, in all probabil-itj-,
get the triumph. There are a
thousand things in our religion that
seem illogical to the world and always
will seem illogical. Our weapon in this
conflict is faith, not logic; faith, not
metaphysics; faith, not profundity;
faith, not scholastic exploration. Hut
(hen in order to have faith we must
have testimony and if MM) men. or 1,000
men, or B00.000 men, or 5,000,000 men
get up and tell me they have felt the
religion of Jesus Christ a joy, a com
fort, a help, an inspiration, I am bound
us a fair minded man to accept their
testimony.
I want just now to put before you
three propositions, the truth of which I
think this audience will attest with
overwhelming unanimity. Tho first
proposition is: We arc witnesses that
the religion of Christ is able to convert
a soul. The Gospel may have had a
hard time to conquer us, we may have
fought it back, but we were vanquished.
You say conversion is only nn im
aginary thing. We know better. "We
are witnesses." There never was so
great a change in our heart and life on
any other subject as on this. People
laughed at the missionaries in Madagas
car because they preached ten years
without one convert; but there arc
many thousands of converts in Mada
gascar to-day. People laughed at Dr.
Judson, the Baptist missionary, because
he kept on preaching in Burraah five
years without a single convert; but
there are many thousands of Baptists
in Burniah to-day. People laughed at
Dr. Morrison in China for preaching
there seven years without a single con
version; but there are many thousands
of Christians in China to-day. People
laughed at the missionaries for preach
ing at Tahiti for fifteen years without
a single conversion, and at the mission
aries for preaching in Bengal seventeen
3'cars without a single conversion; yet
in all those lands there are multitudes
of Christians to-day.
But why go so far to find evidences
of the Gospel's power to save a soul?
"We are witnesses." We were so
proud that no man could have humbled
us; we were so hard that no earthly
power could have melted us; angels of
God were all around about us; they
could not overcome us; but one day,
perhaps at a Methodist anxious scat, or
at a Presby terian catechetical lecture,
or at a burial, or on horseback, a power
seized us and made us get down and
made us tremble and made us kneel
and made us cry for mercy, and we
tried to wrench ourselves awajr from
the grasp, but we could not It flung
us flat and when we aroso we were as
much changed as Gourgis, the heathen,
who went into a prayer meeting with a
dagger and a gun to disturb the meet
ing and destroy it but the next day
was found crying: ' )i my great sros:
O! mv great Saviour," and for eleven
itjcnrs he preached the Gospel of Christ
to his fellow mountaineers, the last
;crds on his dying lips being "Free
grace!" O! it was free grace!
There is a man who was for ten years
a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite
had sent down its roots around the pal
ate and the tongue, and on down until
they were interlinked with the vitals
of body, mind and soul; but he has not
taken any stimulants for two years.
What did that? Not temperance socie
ties. Not prohibition laws. Not moral
suasion. Conversion did it "Why,"
said one upon whom the great change
had come, "sir, I feel just as though I
were somebody else." There are thou
sands of people here to-day who are no
more what they once were than a water
lily is a night-shade, or a morning lark
is a vulture or day is night
Now, if I should demand that all
&om pcopl kert pmtit wfco brt felt
the converting power of religion akoala
rise, so far from being aahaoHsd they
would spring to their feet with more
r.lacrlty than they ever sprang to the
dance, the tears mingling with their ex
hilaration as they cried: "We are wit
nesses!" And if they tried to sing the
old Gospel hyma they would break
down with emotion by the time they
got to the second line:
Ar-hamed or Jemis, that dear friend
On whom my hopes of Heaven depend?
No! When I blush, be thl my shame:
That I no more revere tilt name.
Agaip, I remark that "we are wit
nesses" of the Gospel's power to com
fort When a man has trouble tie
world comes in and says: "Now get
your mind off this; go out and breathe
the fresh air; plunge deeper into busi
ness." What poor advice! Get your
mind off it! when everything is up
turned with the bereavement and every
thing reminds yon of what you have
lost Get your mind off it! They might
as well advise you to stop thinking,
and you can not stop thinking in that
direction. Take a walk in the fresh
air! Why, along that very street or
that very road she once accompanied
you. Out of that grass plot she plucked
flowets or into that show window she
looked fascinated, saying "Come see
the pictures."
Go deeper into business! Why, she
was associated with all your business
ambition, and since she has gone you
have no ambition left O, this is a
clumsy world when it tries to comfort
a broken heart! I can build a Corliss
engine, and can paint a Raphael's "Ma
donna," I can play a Beethoven's
"Symphony" as easily as this world can
comfort a broken heart And yet yon
have been comforted. How was it
done? Did Christ come to you and say:
"Get your mind off this, go out and
breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper
into business?" No; there was a minute
when He came to you perhaps in the
watches of the night, perhaps in your
place of business, perhaps along the
street -and Ho breathed something
into your soul that gave peace, rest, in
finite quiet so that you could take out
the photograph of the departed one and
look into the eyes and face of the dear
one and say: "It's all right; she is bet
ter off, I would not call her back; Lord,
I thank Thee that Thou hast comforted
my poor heart"
There are Christian parents here who
are willing to testify to the power of
this Gospel to comfort Your son had
just graduated from' school or college
and visas going into business, and the
Iiord tpok him. Or your daughter had
just graduated from tho young ladies'
seminary, and you thought she was
going to be a useful woman and of long
.life, but the Lord took her and you
were tempted to say: "All this culture
of twenty years for nothing!" Or the
little child came home from school with
the hot fever that stopped not for the
agonized prayer or for the skillful phy
sician, and the little child was taken.
Or the babe was lifted out of your
arms by some quick epidemic, and you
stood wondering why God ever gave
you that child at all, if so soon he was
to tako it away. And yet you are not
repining, you urc not fretful, you are
not fighting against God. What en
abled yon to stand all the trial? "Oh,"
you rr', "I took the medicine God
gave my sick soul. In my distress I
threw myself at the feet of a sympa
thizing God; and when I was too weak
to prav, or to look up, ho breathed into
me a peace that I think must be the
Foretaste of that Heaven where there
is neither a tear nor a farewell nor a
grave."
Come, all ye who have been out to
the grave to weep there come, all ye
comforted souls, get up off your knees.
Is there no power in the Gospel to
sooth the heart? Is there no power in
this religion to quiet the worst par-'
oxj'sm of grief? There comes up an
answer from the comforted widowhood
and orphanage, and childlessness, say
ing: "A3', ay, we arc witnesses!"
Again, I remark that we are witnesses
of the fact that, religion has power to
give composure in the last moment I
never shall forget the first time I con
fronted death. We went across the
cornfields in the country. I was led by
mv father's hand, and we came to the
farm house where tho bereavement had
come and we saw the crowd of wagons
and carriages but there was one car
riage that especially attracted my boy
ish attention, and it had black plumes.
I said: "What's that? what's that? Why
those black tassels at the top?" And
after it was explained to me I was
lifted up to look upon tho bright face
of an aged Christian woman, who three
days before had departed in triumph.
The whole sceno made an impression I
never forgot
In our sermons and in our lay exhort
ations we are very apt, when we want
to bring illustrations of dying triumpli,
to go back to some distinguished per
sonage to a .Tohn Knox or a Harriet
Newell. But I want you for witnesses.
I want to know if you have ever seen
anything to make you believe that the
religion of Christ can givo composing
in the final hour. Now. in the courts,
attorney, judgo and jury will never
admit mere hearsay. They demand
that the witness must have seen with
his own eyes, or heard with his own
cars, and so I am critical in my exam
ination of 3011 now; and I wanttoknow
whether you have seen or heard any
thing that makes you believe that the
religion of Christ gives composure in
the final hour. "O, yes," you say. "I
saw my father and mother depart
There was a groat difference in their
death beds. Standing by the one we
felt more veneration. By the other,
there was more tenderness."
Before the one you bowed perhaps in
awe. In the other case you felt as if
you would like to go. along with her.
How did they feel in that last hour?
How did they seem to "act? Were they
very much frightened? Did they take
hold of this world with both hands as
though they did not want to give it up?
"O, na," you say; "no; I remember as
though it were yesterdav; 'she had. a
kind word for us alL and there were a
few mementoes distributed among the
children, and then she told us how kind
we must be to our father in his loneli
ness, and then she kissed us good-by
and went to sleep as a child in a cra
dle." What made her so composed?
Natural courage? "No," yon say;
"mother was very nervous; when the
carriage inclined to the side of the road
she would cry out; she was always rath
er weakly." What gave her compos
ure? Was it because she did not care
much for you, and the pang of parting
was not great? "O," you say, he
showered upon us a wealth of affection;
aud no mother ever loved her children
more than mother loved us; she showed
it by the way she nursed us when
we were sick and she toiled for us un
til her strength gave out" What, then,
was it that gave her composure in the
last hour? Do not hide it Be frank
and let me know? "0,"you say, "it
was because she was so good; she made
the Lord her portion and she had faith
that she would go straight to glory,
and that we should all meet her at last
at the foot of the tkroave."
Here are people who say: "I saw a
Christian brother die, and he tri
umphed." And some one else: "I saw
a Christian daughter die, and she tri
umphed." Come, aU ye who have seen
the last moments of a Christian, and
give testimony in this cause on trial
Uncover vour head, natvour hand om
old familr Bible, from which they
Kdtoradthwrozaiti.aa?roaiB
is u prMtMt Qt Ufa tart tsttjos j
will tell the trath, the whole trata
nothing but the truth. With what joa
have seen with your own eyes aaa from
what yon have heard with joarowa
earn, is there power la this Gospel to
give calmness and triamph in the last
exigency? The response comes from
all sides, from young and old aad amid
die aged: "We are witnessealP
You see, my friends, I have not wat
before you an abstraction or a ehimera
or anything like guess work. I present
you affidavits of the best men aad
women living and dead. Two witnesses
ia court will establish a fact Here are
not two witnesses, but millions of wit
nesses on earth and in Heaven testify
ing that there Is power in this religion
to convert the soul, to give comfort ia
trouble and to afford composure in the
last hour.
If ten men shoald come to yoa whea
you are sick with appalling sickness
and say they had the same sickness aad
took a certain medicine and it cared
them yon would probably take it. Now,
suppose ten other men should come up
and say: "We don't believe that there
is anything in that medicine." "Well,"
I say, "have you tried it?" "No, I
have never tried it, but I don't believe
there is anything in it" Of course yoa
discredit their testimony. Th? skeptie
may come and say: "There Is no povrer
in your religion." "Have you ever
tried it?" "No. no." "Then avaunt!"
Let me take the testimony of the mil
lions of souls that have been converted
to God, aud comforted in trial, and
solaced in the last hour. Wo wilVtake
their testimony as they cry: "We are
witnesses!" ,
Prof. Henry, of Washington, " dis
covered a new star, and the tidings
sped by submarine telegraph, and all
the oliscrvattries of Europe were
watching for that new star. O, bearer,
looking out through the darkness of
thy soul, canst thou see a bright light
beeming on thee? "Where?" you say,
"where? How can I find it?" Look
along the line of the cross of the Son
of God. Do you not see it trembling
with all tenderness and beaming with
all hope? It is the star of Bethlehem.
Icep horror then my vital froz-
Death struck I ceased tho tide to stem,
Whrn suddenly a star arose
It was the star of llethlehem.
O. hearers, get your eye on it It is
easier for you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
Heaven. When Madame Sontag began
her musical career she was hissed off
the stage at Vienna by the friends of
her rival, Amelia Stcininger, who had
already begun to decline through her
dissipation. Years passed on and one
day Madame Sontag, in her glory, was
riding through the streets of Berlin
when she saw a little child lead
ing a blind woman and She said:
"Come here, my little child, come
here. Who is that you are lead
ing by the hand?" And the little
child replied: "That's my mother; that's
Amelia Stcininger. She usedtto be a
great singer, but she lost .JUYTO.ice.and
she cried so much about it that 8he lost
her eyesight" "Give ray'lovc to her,"
said Madame Sontag, "and 'fell her an
old acquaintance will call on her this
afternoon." The next week in Berlin
a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit
for that poor old woman and it was
said that Sontag sang that night as she
had never sung before. And she took a
skilled oculist, who in vain tried
to give eyesight to tho poor blind
woman. Until the day of Amelia
Steiningcr's death, Madam Son
tag took care of her and her
daughter after her. That was what
the queen of song did for her enemy.
But O, hear a more thrilling story stllL
Blind, immortal, poor aud lost, thou
who, when the world and Christ were
rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord
away Christ comes now to give thee
1 sight, to give thee a home, to give thee
Heaven. With more than a Sontag s
g.enerosit3 he comes now to meet your
need With more than a Sontag 's mu
sic, he comes to plead for thy deliver
ance. CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS.
Home Strange Observanee Concerning- the
Living- and lead.
While still unable to walk a Chinese
child has placed before him on a table
sundry objects, including a sword, a
bow, a pen, some pearl powder, ronge,
hair-pins and other miscellaneous
articles. He is then allowed to crawl
towards them, and by the kind of ob
ject grasped is judged the character of
his future career. Should he show pre
dilection for the sword or the bow he
will become a great warrior. If for
the pen, his fame as a. scholar will
seme day be in every mouth. But
should partiality be unfortunately dis
played for the rouge or the hair-pins,
he will grow up a willful, wayward
boy, only to develop into a licentious
and unprincipled man, destined at
length to meet with a disgraceful end
at the hands of the executioner. How
often has China been deprived of the
services o( a great statesmen or author,
put to an early death in order to avert
the dread consequences of an ill
omened existence! With xegard to the
dead, as miglit be expected, supersti
tious observances arc particularly con
spicuous. It is not easy, however, 'tb
describe the national faith in this re
spect, as the ideas and ceremonies con
nected with decease and burial vary in
different parts of the country. The in
habitants of the Fuhkicn place a piece
of silver in the mouth of. a dying per
son ..to enable him to pay his
passage to Hades, and at the
same time cover the nose and ears to
prevent the spirit leaving without
it No sooner has he breathed his
last than a hole is made in the roof to
facilitate the exit of the spirits, each
person being supposed to possess three,
one of which enters Elysium bi receive
judgment, another abides with the
tablet, and a third takes up its dwell
ing in the tomb. In some provinces,
when a man is on the point of death,
he is arrayed ia his best garments, that
he may be able to put in a respectable
appearance on reaching" the other
world. Transmigration is largely be
lieved in, but the details of the changes
undergone for good. or evil by the spir
its, before being finally absorbed ia
Buddha, vary greatly, and depend, al
most entirely upon the fancy of the
worshiper. When the corpse has been
laid out upon the floor .of the principal
room the priests who have been sum
moned recite prayers to deliver the
soul from pargatory and hell, occasion
ally calling on all present to weep and
lament Papers with figures on them
and paper money are then burned, and
the soul bavin? by the help of the
priests crossed the bridge leading oat
of hell, is furnished with a letter of
recommendation from them to be ad
mitted into the western heavens.
Though interment of th corpse Is ob
viously the next step to be taken, mach
doubt often prevails as to whea that
ceremony should be performedand
where the grave shoald be dug. name,
Joan Calaaaaaa FM.
Mongolian fiddles are of nee aliar con
struction and emit soands which'from
a musical point of view are as iaharmo
nius as the instrument is ancoath ia ap
pearance. Divested of its string a Chi
nese fiddle has'the same appearance as
a mallet, with the handle long aad fat
tened to aboat an inch ia withad aa
eighth of an inch la thkkaeas. In, the,
lower part of the handle are inssrtea
two keys, one above the other. -To
each of the keys ara attached -ft)
striata of horse-hair or catfftt; tkt
oUmt adi an imly'ws4 abo tU
aUf t hcadSt Trmtkn
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
PRODUCING PORK.
Irate Xaaajr la Uve-fttoek Grawtaf U
L'saally FaaaS la Mag.
Spring pigs during the first three or
four months of their existence may be
grown and developed ia frame by con
stant pasturage, and feeding w ice
daily on slops made of braa and shorts,
mixed with a small amoaat of rye,
corn or barley and oats. In place of
rye and barley, peas may be substi
tuted. Constant access to wood ashes
aad salt is desirable. The best plan is
to provide a V-shaped hopper about 5
feet deep. 4 by 6 feet on top and 6 by 1
foot at bottom, opening into a trough
or shallow box at the bottom, the lat
ter about 7 by 2 feet, and with edges of
trough 2 inches higher than bottom of
hopper, thus guarding the mixture of
ashes and salt from waste. When the
pigs reach 150 days' age, and new corn
can be had, it may be the priacipal
food, with only an occasional meal of
the other grain for variety. But pas
ture should be continued for sixty days
longer. If the hogs by this time do not
weigh on an average at least 20 pounds,
they may be pastured and fed a month
or more longer to reach that weight
They should, as a rule, be sold at 7
months or 8 months of age, especially
if corn is worth more than 40 cents per
bushel. With cheap corn, moderate
weather and a "glutted market," one
may feed such hogs through December
and January, possibly through Febru
ary, for a better market But it seldom
pays to feed fat hogs after 9 months of
age and the attainment '-of over 280
pounds, especially in winter. Of course
after the ground is frown, and in the
absence of blue grass for grazing, en
silage once a day is a good ration; or in
the absence of the ensilage, clover hay
(which has been put up green from the
swath) may be given as a variety meal.
It is bestr usually to steam it though
the hogs eat it well dry. But remem
ber the ashes all along, as well as the
salt It is needed in building strong
bone to maintain the heavy pork car
cass. Following this policy one should
have thoroughbred pigs (not necessa
rily from a show hog, but from choice
parentage). The parents need not be
registered and numbered, but should be
eligible. Forcach pig to be grown into
pork, from one-eighth to one-third acre
of pasturage is required, usually about
one-fourth acre; :00 pounds bran and
shorts, 200 pounds oats, 200 pounds rye,
barley or pea meal, and 8 to 13 bushels
of shelled corn. With all conditions
favorable, the above provisions ought
to grow at least 200 to 220 pounds of
pork in addition to weight of pig at one
month's age. In many cases the excel
lence of the pasture will render all the
above unnecessary; in other cases, de
ficient graziug may require more than
the above to bring jhe hog to a profit
able pork product Cor. Orange Jiuld
Farmer. , . ,
MANGER-EATING HORSES.
flow to Keep Them from Destroying
the!
Woodwork la Mtatiiea.
Nearly all horses get the habit of bit-
Inn the post rail, fence or tree to whiehl
they are tied, and such habits are so iri-l
dustnously practiced in the stable thatl
the manger and woodwork are soonei
or later demolished. Mr. J. A.
ill..f. I
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FIG. 1. HOI.PINO I A STALL.
Philadelphia, desires to learn how
prevent the effects of this habit AJ
less or more feed. less or more wort
will not do it, iron mangers, raekd
fastcniues aud fenders will at Ieasl
savo the marring nnd damage to thj
' stables. We irive herewith an illud
tration of a fasmnimr (Fiir. 1) that will
prevent horse
from doing da
age any whe re
Two nngs wit
ropes and sna
at lower en
fastened so ft
apart as to hoi
the horse's hea
from reach i n
anything to bite
is a good rem
2. l-OHTFOBHOMI-??. V "?;
no.
. mgn posis wuii
a long cross-bar
having the above fastenings, as seen in
Fig. 2, will save the destruction of
young shade trees, posts, fences and
valuable frnit trees. Unless trees are
boxed eight or ten feet high, unre
strained horses will injure them. The
habit originates in the practice of un
necessarily confining or imprisoning
the best and most faithful friend of
man, the horse. Box stalls with iron
rack and manger will doubtless modify
the habit of the hoise in eating the
woodwork of the stable. A variety of
feed will also often ameliorate this
harmful disposition. In summer, every
stabled horse should get frequent bites
of grass. American. Agriculturist
NEW MILKING STOOL.
It Is Light.
Datable, CoarrealeRt
an
Easily Mad.
Here is a milking stool invented by
me, which is light and durable and
very convenient as it holds the pail
securely in its place. It is easily made
and when finished has a neat appear-
ance. For the top of the stool take a I
good oak board about an inch
thick and S or 10 inches wide by 12
long, tapering slightly to the front.
Nest take two pieces of oak or other
hard wood about 2 by 3 inches and 12
inches long, for lers. The front ones
can be made smaller. A is a board
half an inch thick and IS inches lonir.
fastened at R by sawing notches aboat
a quarter of an inch deep in the leg and
securely fastened to it by a couple of 1
small nails. C is a piece of metallic
hoop which I have to admit the bucket
easily. D is a piece of stouter iron,
fastened to X and Y by rivets. G. F
Bastian, in X. E. Homestead.
A Cl Tatay ta flare.
This is a handy block for resting a
team on the hills. His made from a
piece of. scant
ling 4 by 4 inch
es: S "by 5 will
answer better if
the hills are veiy
stee-p. aad 13
iaenea loag. X
Taole was. bored
thronga it near
theeasi.rnwhkk
a' handle was secured loaf ea-omfk to
place the block beaiad the wagon wTaea
ataadiag by the treat, of the, teaaa.
This allows the driver to ylaee and re
aaove the Wockwit one kaad. while
Boldiag the liaes wita the ether. .The
handle can be stten ia the socket of
tae brakn krer watfl tot kt .!.-
Tama-MsBM-M.
W3
taa
"perilous calling.
Tho
"Stf-Jara" aa Ills Jtelao of
Praark
In the great cities of Eagland aad in
several of those of America a small
number of men follow the trade of
climbing steeples, great chimneys,
monuments aad other lofty structarra.
to make repairs, pjt up lightning rods,
apply psiat aad do other things which
sre needed. The men who follow this
periHous occupation are frequently I
called 'Tsteepie-jacits, anu iney are. a
arulcproad of their occupation, and
.. r ,. , . ,. . , .. , ,.
not insensible to the fact that they are
at certain momenta the most conspicu-
ous aad closely observed men In their
city. There are two or three ways of
making an ascent to the top of a steeple
or a chimney which has no means of
ascent on the
blc school story. Tokcbcrry Juice
and Mullein," by Kate Upson Clark, is
a little tale that reveals home of the
funny toilet secrets of country tfirls a
generation ago. "Mr. Rrown's Play
fellow," by J. Loxley Rhces. "Shells of
Sea and Land," by Will M. Clemens,
"The Poppy Rce," by Mrs. Hall, and
"How to Dry Starfishes." by Louisa
Lyndon, are good short articles for the
lovers of natural history. '"How the
Cossacks Play Polo" is a terrible and
dramatic story of a Russian field-sport
indulged ia by officers of the Imperial
Guard; it is by M adame de Meis&ner of
the Russian legation. "What Seven
Indian Boys Did" is a true account of
some knowledge-loving Alaska boys,
by Francis C. Sparhawk. Margaret
Sidney's "Peppers" serial in this num
ber has all the interest of a good novel.
"Miss Matilda Archambcau Van Dorn,"
the serial by Miss Cumings, is fnll of
amusing developments. "Marietta's
Good Times" are really good times.
Men and Things" pages abound with
original anecdotes. The poems arc by
Kate Putnam Osgood, Maria Johns
Hammond, F.li Shepperd. Jane Ellis
Joy and Richard Burton. Especially
good things for veranda reading are the
Margaret-Patty letter, by Mrs. Wil
liam Claflin, and the fine ballad by Mrs.
Harriet Prescott Spofford. "Pope's
Mother at Twickenham."
xtfij A t... ! , Aft vr nfliwnU u
a number. A specimen (back number)
will be sent on receipt or a cents, u.
Lothron Company, publishers, Boston. !
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
KANSAS CITT. July ISt
CATTLE Shipping Steem . 1 2B t Jt-
Butebcrs' ter... ST3 m tli
N'atlT cows 2) m IV)
nOG8Goxl to choice bcarj J Si a sr
WHEAT -No. i red T-??w T7
No.? hard.... .... "i n
CORN No.... 51 Mta
OATS No. 2. .................. M S
Rl fc No 2...... ....... ! W
FLOUR-ralcaU. per aack.... 21 - 2ZS
r-BCf.. . 214 0 2U
HAJ-Ilaled 3 T
BtJTTKR Choice creamery.. II JJ
CHKE9K rail cream -
RGG8 Choice 9H II
BACON-lUa 9 -
SboalUers..
LARD 7 f Tij
POTATOES - - Sfl TJ
CT-LOCIS.
CATTLE 9hlpplaic ateen )
Ratckera Merra.... (R tti
OGS-I-ackiiit. ! SJl
HIXT Fair to cboJc-- 2o S
FLOUR Cbolee 9 S3
WHEAT No r red. &H
CORN No. 2 JM Sa
OATS No. 2. K M
RTR No.1. .. ... 2 .M
RtTTTER Oea-oery 14
FOJUL II 23 IIJTH
CHICAGO.
CATTLE frstpplag Mrera. ..
HOG-rckta aad rtlpplax 0 M
flHEEr-Fairta choice ..
FLOOR Whiter wheat . . IN SM
WHEAT Na-lml.. M M
CORN No. 2..-.........-..... b a
PATS No.- !Vt
RTE No.2. !-
BtTTER Creamery...... H
AHjFBK--iaa------ IViB w 31 9
NEW TORS.
CATTLE-Ciffaai ta yrtf - C3
HOG8 6 fcCole. .. T5 "
FLOCR 6eo tocawla-e. .. I t III
WHEAT NavX red M tf-t
CORN 5. .. .-.-..-- Tl 72
OATS y.-Ha-m miX94.... 41 T
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, A Ttajr Vnsos.
My dear girl, make up your mind that
in the summer time you are not going
to say one word that you cannot repeat
to your mother; that you are not going
to do one thing that when you are
talking to your fweetheart you cannot
tell him about You are going to have
golden days: then, won't yoa remem
ber you must not only be pure in
thought and deed, but you want to
keep your name and fame clean and
sweet? LadieV Home Journal
t. as BM S fl ....
, ,.v-
That dr? It, slow lenjrth along, conrale-
0,7r pro,',,.. diav. crrn, oa.
u3tcu It with the grnial brrrdrr of health
nml ln-nrth HirttrUcr'n SUKlch Hitler
Every function ! rnrulatcd aud remiervd
acuvo br tho preat enablis: medicine IH
ration, btltout rcrrtlon tbe aciUm of tlx
bowrl and khlnci s, nuritjr sod richar of
blood, immunity irota raaJanai aiucs
i arc InsutoJ by It
Pooa Jibvt He has lot his MiDd."
'I'm not surprised to tKNir lt 1 knfw
long ; that ht head was crackL" In
liaaao;ts Journal.
Its KscrlUnt UvAUt1"1
amend to public approval tb California
ui I fruit rvmcdv yrun of Kiev III
liu
lciinr to the ec, and to the tate and by
tsnilv tu-tiuc on the kidney. liver anl
xmrl, it cleanse the system effectually,
hereby promoting the health aad comfort
I all u bo use It.
Ir Is all wry well to offer your smjMth
o a tnau who ha followed your adrice and
ailed, but It I bard aotnetiair to Rt him
o accept it Somervtiie Journal
Io tou want to enjoy the exutxrrance of
iM-feel health I im you want jour obeca
i bo roy, aud vour wboli !yl'in thr-in-!
run rien. pure iMxm conning mmuginn
eins! Then use lr John Hull' Sarala
Kin'ivi
1X.TMJH.
It is strange, but it I while a woman 1
tlll young that she I uiut truly In her tle
clinliiK years. X. Y Herald.
Mast so called ' Hitlers" are. not medl-
cinesv but slumlv liouurs so dis-uled a to
evade trie law lu prohibition seetiuns. This
not the case wltn llio ccleuraieu l'ticiciv
Ash Hitters. Ills purely a medicine, acting
on the liver and blood, and by reason of I la
cathartic effects cannot be usod as a bever
age. It should be in every household.
The fellow who live on his wits must
frequently put up with oor "wlttlca."
lUinguaintou Jtcpuuiicau.
IUve noeaunl as a prompt and toltlvo
I euro for sick headache, blllousnc, consti
pation, pain in tho side, und idl liver trou-
Ibltra. Carter's l,UUo Uivcr I'Hla. I ry tucm.
'Mis Pkim never go-" Into the water "
"No; she i too modest to surrender hersell
to tho embrace of tho ocean." N. Y. World
A SALUnv skin ncuuirva a healthy clear
ness by the ue of menu's Sulphur Soup.
11 ill's Hair ami w tusker iiye, wi ecu la.
It I tho unloaded guns that alway io I'H
at uue-jpeeW-d moment and wreck thinir
It is different with men N. Y. Hceordor
Oivr. your children Dr Hull's Worm Ie
stroycrs. Theo nice candle will never do
them harm and may do them much wL
M Al.r. flirts nro to Im dealt with at water
Ing pluces this summer. Ia1 no Jllty man
escajte N O ricayuiiu.
-
A.NTonocari tako Carter's Utile Liver
I'ills, they are so very small. otrouhloio
swallow. No pain or griping alter taking.
Tur. penny lnlheet machine is a gie.il
Incentive to the chowipi; gum Industry
Hest, easiest to use and cheapest. 1'iso's
Remedy for Catarrh. Hy druggist 2V
ULCERS,
CANCERS,
SCROFULA,
SALT RHEUM,
RHEUMATISM,
BLOOD POISON.
these and every klrxlml dLrao arising,
from Impure Mood sucrrMfully treated b
that nwcr-faUinff and best of all tonics ami
medicines.
PEcmi
Hooks oa Blood and Kkin
a ami Hkln ,
nlais sent oa wt
rrs- XN
ciflc Co., V
. CA.
DisrAM-ff f rce.
Printed tcntlxnonlals
application. Address
1 Swift SfHCifrC
ATLANTA
"August
Flower
99
The Hon. J. W. Fenmtnore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del., anil lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap
ital of the SUitc. The sheriff is a
gentleman fifty-nine years of age,
and this is what he says : "I have
" used your August Flower for sev
" eral years in my family and for my
" own use, and found it docs me
' ' more good than any; other remedy.
" I have been troubled with what I
" call Sick Headache. A pain comes
" in the back part of my head first,
" and then soon a general headache
"until I become sick and vomit.
" At times, too, I have a fullness
" after eating, a pressure after eating
" at the pit of the stomach, and
' ' sourness, when food seemed to rise
" up in my throat and mouth. When
" I feel this coming on if I take a !
" little August Flower it relieves j
" me, and is the best remedy I have j
ever taken for iL ror this reason
"I take it and recommend U to
f others as a great remedy for Dys-
peosia. ace
v
G. G. GREEN, Sok Manufhctarcr,
Woodbary, Xcw Jersey, U. S. A.
WWTMArfS
NCWFATCNT
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REBOUND
P9ETNI
JUr.Mcaraat
sSkE
r maaC i-rm rcao.
WmttMAX J&nilT(XlVli Mm.
a,
Swm Spying SSS
I Try It Now ! 1
Goto your Druggist, hand j
V him one dollar, tdl him you H
11 -ant a bottk of ... . T
J PRICKLY ASHl
6 BITTERS SI
A The Best Mewone known H
O for the CURE o B
Y PUR1RS THE BLOOD, A
PI CLEANSES THE SYSTEM,
U Ittltm rstlitt IttJUk H
a.iiiiiiiiiiiiiHil!..Bl.iiiteftftTlatf
S0I
womanhood, even vomit ciri nevds
the wiet ratv. Troubles ljinnmi; '
then tnav make her whole life tin
erabk. Hut the troubles that are to bo
fearrl have a positive remedy. lr
Pierce's Favorite Prescription hut hi
up anl strengthens the sytem, ami
regulate ami promotes every prut-cr
function. It's a generous Mit-port-tng
tonic, ami a quieting, soothing
nervine a legitimate mrttictnr, not
a beverage, freo from alcohol anI
injuriou.. drug. It corrects anl
curvjv safely ami surely, all the
lelicalo derangements, weaknesses
and disease. jHViiIiar to the ei.
A reined v that oW cure I one
that can be ijuarttriUfiL Thal'
what the proprietors of " Faorte
Prescription " think. If it de.n't
give satisfaction, in every cae for
:..i.-..i. :... li .i mi .
which iv . rcvT'iiiiiiciiucw, iiieji ti ir
the money. No other uu.hoine
s ior women i soiu on !cn term.
Decide for vouirelf whether some-
thini;
ele K)Id hv tho dealer, is
likely to bo " juit a- good ' for
,-ou to buv.
Use
As lontr
wash-boa nl
work and
what irocs
fin
x5; Pearline J si
v VrV s you i,,'c '" o,t irnr"""!.
taken from it. That's what it w.i.h
made for. It's tin nib. rub. rub. on it thai ruins
the clothes. It's the wash-Uiartl thai wear-, you
out. Yon don t neeii it.
Away with wash-tla ! You don't need that, rithrr. You
don't set apart a day for washing the di-thes. Wash the clothta
in the same way. with no more work, a few at a time.
But you'll have to use Pear lint to do it. V7only can
rid yon of wash-board and hard work ; with it you can do
your washing when you like. And you can io it safely, too.
Directions on every package.
,WUV 'hf -Mlc i'l 'Mc ici.
J or umr at " lVaillHr ITS
IVaihuc
with i: no C,lUa"
r-
UHCH says
Vi.
ughr ro
rm The house oughhto be cleaned-
.3.viFh Sop olio.Txy & cake inyoutc
next- house-cleaning and be convinced.
IGNORANCE
no excuse for a dirty house or greasy kitchen. Bettor
clean them in the old way than not at all ; but the modern
and sensible way is to use SAP0LI0 on paint, on floors, on
windows, on pots and pans, and ovon on statuary. To be
ignorant of the uses of SAPOLIO is to be behind the age.
,s71a2
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run 4 , n-r- "'-"" ' . .rr
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hmlti up th " oiich. a1 t
them II tk-oi-S, 114? Hj-rr?r
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Breakfast Cocoa
ku ! f.at.
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W.11XZ1 aC0.Dcir.
THIS IS
THE ONLY SCALE
5 TON. & ftO
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RaiABLE , ACCUWTE, DURASCE.
Bttl90X6RASSAHRyEVS.
AOORESS.JdrtES.rf
TtCFHEIGHTFOR TERHS.
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The Soap
that
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k SERIOUS MISTAKE.
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Tutt's Liver Pills
NEVER DISAPPOINT.
Price. 25c 0Rc 39 . 41 r. PUm. a. T
Patents ! Pensions
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Away with the wash-board
Y-O IIKTCI1 DC n.irti
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be done ?
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man." and hrnoranco is
THE KANSAS CITY
$ SURGICAL SANITARIUM
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Kennedy's Medical DtMovcry
cures Horrid Old Sores. Deep
Smtcd Ulcers of 40 yea
standing. Inward Tumor, and
every disease of the skin. cx
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! Cancer that has taken rKlt.
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