Bloomington Progress, Volume 21, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 November 1887 — Page 4

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Some Pleasant Trufhsfor the

Christian's Sabbath Reflection.

TRAMPLE NOT ON ANY ONE.

The Sxeentric Blacksmith's Prayer, and

Htm Be Succeeded in Building m Church.

DMgriM JTa On.

The Jews -would not willingly tread

upon the smallest piece of paper in their iry, but took it up; "for, possi

bly, " said they, "the name of God may

be upon it" Trample not on any; there

may be some work of grace there thou

knowest not of. The name of God may

be written on that soul thou treadest

on; it may be a aonl that Christ thought so much of as to give his precious blood for it; therefore despise it

not, Leighton.

In proportion as the heart becomes sanctified, there it a diminished tendency to enthusiasm. And this is undoubtedly one of the leading tests of

sanctincatton. One of the marks of an enthusiastic and fanatical state of mind

is a fiery and unrestrained impetuosity of feeling; a rushing on, sometimes

Tory blindly, as if the world were in danger, or as if the great Creator were

not at the helm. It is not only feeling

without a good degree of judgment, but, what is the corrupting and fatal trait, it

is feeling without a due degree of confi

dence in God. True holiness reflects the image of God in this respect as well as

in others, that it is calm, thoughtful,

deliberate, immutable. And how can

it be otherwise, since, rejecting its own

wisdom and strength, it incorporates

into itself the wisdom and strength of

the Almighty.

Sammy Hicks, the good, eccentric

F.ngiiah blacksmith, was in the habit

of praying for persons by name, with what some would regard as undue

familiarity. The late "Billy Dawson,"

who knew him personally, mentioned in my hearing, for example, that stop

ping on se at the house of , in Lanoaabire, Sammy prayed thus at family warship for the cook, who was exceed

ingly ugly: "O my Lord, convert

Betty ; shell look five pound better!" and thus for the brother-in-

law of his host: "My Lord, bless

bless thou knowest I forget his name the big fat man that lives at the top

o" the hill!" Sergeant B , an En

glish Methodist, when in Ireland, related the following. I give it as it was

told to me. Sammy and some brethren

visited i certain village for the purpose of establishing a prayer meeting. They seemed a room, but it proved too small for the purpose. One day it was proposed that Sammy should go to a nobleman in the neighborhood to

Sonera am cowara tne erection of a

ehapel. Consenting to the proposal of bis brethren, on condition that they would go to their knees and continue in prayer until his return, the simpleminded, zealous man went to seek an interview with the nobleman. With' great difficulty Sammy got ushered into his presence, when this scene oc-

Sanany My lord, the people in are very wioked; and if they dont get a ehapel they'll go to hell and be damned Now, I am to ask your lordship to give us a subscription to build .ehapel. " Nobleman, eyeing his strange visitor T-Oh,yoa may go about your bnsineast I have no money for yon. Sammy But, my lord, you have plenty of money, if yon would like to give it And you know, my lord, they are praying for my success yonder. Nobleman Pll give you no money. Sammy WeB, my lord, you won't hinder me from -praying with you? Nobleman I dont want your pray era. Sammy O, my lord, it wouldn't do to part without prayer. So saying, he fell on his knees, his lordship stOl at his chair, not a little amused by this time. Sammy O, Lord, thou knowest the people in are very wicked, and if we dont get a chapel they'll all go to hell and be damned. Thou knowest that his lordship here has plenty of money if he likes to give it. Now, Lord, give his heart a touch, and let him give us a subscription to build a

Nobleman Did I ever hear ancb a

prayer! Well, there is a pound for you. Now go about your business. Sammy Oh, Lord, he has got a touch. Now give him another touch ; for thou knowest that he oould as easily give ten pounds as one pound. Nobleman Well, there are five pounds for you. Will that do? Sammy Bless the Lord, his heart is growing soft! Now, Lord, touch him again, and let him increase the subscription. Nobleman There are ten pounds for you. Now are you satisfied? Sammy Glory to God! ten pounds will go a great ways to build the waJb, but, Lord, what will we do for the roof? Thou knowest bis lordship here has plenty of timber on the estate, growing and dry. Now touch him again, and let him give us the timber for thoroof. This petition was also granted, and Sammy "went on his way rejoicing." The Lamp of Life. MXBnXdUtB TKH1VM.KB, Every vehicle in Scotland, espe ciallyin the highlands, is provided with a brake. No pony chase or villag9 cart is without one, and to go down the smallest declivity without using the brake is regarded as the bight of recklessness as to the driver and cruelty as to the horses. Its use on a four-horf coach is plain enough, Lot why 00 pony chafe should hare it if not o

plain. The horses are trotted up the hill and walked down, and the American fashion of walking them up the hill and trotting them down is esteemed heterodox in the highest degree. The Scotch horses and ponies are strong and wiry, but, like the English horses, they lack got up and go. They never seeji to be in a hurry to get off, and, indeed, carry so much more flesh than American horses that it is no wonder

they lack spirit. The oats On which the horses in Scotland are so abundantly fed makes them tough. A Scotch pony is probably the toughest thing there is upon the face of the earth. A pony does not necessarily mean a miniature horse, for ponies are of all

sizes, and some ore really imposing,

they are so talL Mules there are none and donkeys are rare. Correspond

ence New York Mall and Express. tub wohjjjps am uys.

The progress of thirty years in constructing heavy guns has, says a correspondent of a New York paper, boon extraordinary. The largest piece found on war vessels in 1860 threw a ball weighing sixty-eight pounds, with an initial velocity of 1,570 feet per sec

ond, and an energv of 1,100 foot tons.

Now initial velocities in high-power

guns have been increased to 2,100 feet;

projectiles at the maximum weight as much as 2,300 pounds, and in some cases are propelled by charges of nearly

half a ton of powder, while the 110-ton

guns of the "Benbow" reach an energy

of about 60,000 foot tons.

Passing over the triumphs obtained

by intermediate calibers, which were re

markable in their day, we find that the largest French steel guns, such as are

used for the armament of the "Terri

ble," completed at Brest, the"Requin,

built at Bordeaux, the "Indomitable,"

built at L'Orient, and the "Caiman,"

finished at Toulon, weigh each about

seventy-six tons. They deliver a projectile weighing 1,716 pounds with a

muzzle velocity of 1,739 feet per sec

ond, and a muzzle energy of 30,000 foot tons. The guns are rifled breech

loaders. The French have other powerful guns, those constructed on the

Bange system being well known.

The Armstrong guns now mounted for service in the Italian armor clads

"Dnfllo," "Dandolo," "Italia," and "Le-

panto," weigh 100 tons each, and throw

a projectile of 2,000 pounds. These

have long been familiar, but the later

breech-loading guns are improvements over the early muzzle-loaders. The

most powerful of them take a powder

charge of about 773 pounds, and have initial velocity of 1.835 feet per second, and a muzzle energy of 51,000 foot tons. Guns of 105 tons have also been made at Els wick for the "Francesco Lauria," the "Andrea Dona," and the "Morosmi" In these the weight of the charge is 900 pounds, the weight of the

projectile 2,000 pounds, the muzzle velocity 2,019 feet per second, the muzzle

energy 56,547 foot tons. These will undoubtedly prove most formidable weapons. The largest Krupp gun weighs nearly 119 tons. It is over 46 feet long, has a

caliber of 15f inches, and fires a shot weighing 2,314 pounds, with a muzzle velocity of 1,800. The maximum elevation gives it a range of nearly 1 miles. Its power of penetration into

wrought iron is estimated at about 41

inches at the muzzle, 31 inches at the

distance of 1,100 yards, and 30 inches

at 3,000 yards. At the distance of three miles its striking average is still about 28,000 foot tons. The Italians have two of these guns mounted in a shore battery, for which purpose they are intended.

The English 110 ton gun, manufact

ured at Elswick, is about 44 feet long, audits actual weight 249,795 pounds.

The screw block, removed in loading.

weighs 2i tons. The projectile is a bolt weighing 1,800 pounds, and 16 inches in diameter. With 850 pounds oi powder the actual muzzle velocity at tamed was 2,087 feet, and the muzzle energy 34,000 foot tons; so that with 950 pounds, which the gun is constructed to use, an energy on the projectile of 62.700 foot tons is expected.

The recoil of the gun is very small.

WILD VMS or IN MA. The wild dogs of India hunt in packs,

and so successfully that no tract oi country could support them in large

numbers. After they have hunt

ed one district for a couple oi

days they abandon it for another, and do not return to the first hunting ground until months have elapsed. These dogs, which are between a wolf and a jackal in size, hunt by sight and scent.

So great is their perseverance and en

durance that they seldom fail to kill any game on whose track they start

One morning an English officer saw

the wild dogs chase a spotted deer past his tent One of the animals sprang at the deer with lightning speed, and mado two snatches on the deer's abdomen. The deer ran a few yards and fell, her entrials protruding. The same officer says he has seen more than one tiger flee from a pack of dogs. Once a mangy dog held onto a tiger's tail, while the bounding beast was trying to escape. They hunt during the day,

never attack in front, never expose

themselves to the horns or hoofs of powerful deer, nor the teeth or claws of tigers. They bite the hind quarters or sides of their prey and so lacerate them that death speedily follows. Youth's

Companion.

COLOBKH ISiruBBXCK. Gua de Smith is given to what is

commonly known as putting on airs, and he recently was taken down a peg by

an impudent little darkey.

He rode his horse up to the sidewalk

in front of a saloon, dismounted, and

snapping his fingers to a little negro,

said:

'Here, boy! Hold this horse for me

a minute, while I get a drink."

'Am dat hosssosperited dat he needs

two menter hold him?"

"Of course not " "Den ef one man can hold him, what

do you want me fer? Why dont yer hold him yerse'f Texas Sittings.

The son of Emir had red hair, of

which he was ashamed, and wished to

dye it But his father said : "Nay, my son, rather behave in such a manner

that all fathers shall wish their sons had red hair." C. D. Warner.

A woman is never knovn to adver

tise for the return of stolen property

"and no questions asked" She would

ask questions or die. Texm Siflings.

Total product of silver in Nevada,

$352,000,000.

EX-REBELS FALSIFYING HISTORY. Jaekson, Cleveland's late minister to Mexico, in attempting to defend his recent rebel speech in glorification of Jeff Davis and aecessionism deliberately falsities history as follows: "It ban been my conviction all my life that the model government would be reached on

this earth through local sovereignty as opposed to the centralization Of power. It is toy conviction, therefore, as it has always been, that When tbe solution of the problem of human government is found it will be

round in a lodgment of local sovereignties in lttcal commonwealths, it was the tri

umph of this principle of which I spoke in my address. It was for this principle that

i Mi, uavis rougnt and against tms principle

mat Mr. liincoin rougnt. Mr. Davis repre-

' seated tilnla sovereignly. Mr. Lincoln

stood for a centralized nation. When my prediction comes truo, if it should come

trne, that tne true principle of successful

government is local rights lodged in local sovereignties, in tht triumph Mr. Davis

would take precedence bv virtue of the tri

umph of the principle of government for

which He longnt. A creator amount of falsehood than

contained in the above could hardly be

crammed into the same number of words

The platform on which Lincoln ran in 1860

expressly disclaimed nuv intent to inter

fere with the States, and emphatically

Pleased tne ltepuoucan party to "tne main

tenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially tbe right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment

exclusively." What could Do more e

plicit? Accepting without reserve or qual

ification the Constitution as it then stood

the Republican parry disclaimed any right or intent to interfere with slavery in tbe

Mates, and m language which it is impossible to misconstrue affirmed that the socalled State sovereignty about which Jack

son prates should remain inviolate." un

all occasions Mr. Lincoln reiterated these

pledges, and no man was ever firmer bound than he to respect the rights of the

States. In claiming to the contrary JackBon simply displays monumental ignorance

or a wmiui attempt to faulty tne plain,

indisputable roots of tmtorv.

Deploring the existence of slavery inside

tne states, tne Kepubiicms, in lorn re

garded the evil as one for wbioh they were not responsible, and which, under the

Constitution, they could noc cure. Plods-

ins themselves without reserve to maintain

the constitutional rights of the States, they proposed only to resist the extension of

slavery into tbe Territories and over the

national domain in opposition to the will

of a majority of the people of the nation

Assured immunity from interference inside tbe States, and with slavery and State sovereignty as well established in the South as constitutional guarantees could moke

mem, tne iett jjbvis secessionists nroDosed.

in defiance of the will of the majority, to extend African bondage over territory be

longing to the nation, and it waB here that

tne .Republicans met them, Bavins thus

far, and no farther." But the Republican

party was no minor pieagea tome doctrine

ox ireeaom in the Terr tones and the preservation of the Union than it was to "the

maintenance inviolate of the rights of the

states, ana specially tne right of each, to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively. "

Facing threats of secession. Mr. Lincoln.

during the period between bis election and inauguration, made the one request that no attempt to dismember the Union should be made until "some act violative of the rights

oi ine aiaies snouta oe aone oy tne incom

ing administration,'' well knowing that no

such act would be perpetrated. The Duff-

Green letter recently published shows how

shrewdly Mr. tiincoln avoided the tran set

for him by Buchanan ahd at the same time how emphatically he reiterated after his

election the Republican please to maintain

the rights of the States and the Republican

denunciation oi armed invasion of a state.

The Southern States Lad nothing to fear

from outside interference with their domestic concerns, and the assertion that thev

rebelled to resist suoh interference and to protect their constitutional rights is an abominable falsehood. They rebelled because opposition was made to tbe extension of slavery over national doman and the rule of the country contrary to the will of the majority. What is the meaning of the recent attempt in the South to distort the plainest facts of Uiatoric record and indoctrinate the rising generation with monstrous political falsehoods? The rebellion of 18C0 was without a shadow .of justification and was inaugurated withoulthe semblance of a decent pretext. Yet political liars and falsi

fiers like Jackson are proclaiming that Jeff

uaxis, not JLitncoin, was tne rightful President, and that the slave-breeding Confederate States seceded only because their

constitutional rights were assailed by the Republican Administration. Chicago

Tribune.

Gnawing a File. Senator Insalls felicitously describes the

present political employment of the Democratic party as that of a gnawing tile, said file being the Cleveland alternative. He rightly defines the situation when he declares that that party has no man available to put against Cleveland iu convenliou, and runs little risk of turning out a false

prophet when he says the Democratic Con

vention will nominate Cleveland by acclamation as its candidate in 1888. The

recent Presidential tour, if conducted for the purpose of brightening the prospects of the Democracy, has hardly resulted in revolutionizing popular sentiment. It enabled the people to see for themselves that, while a bluff, rotund, good-natured man, President Cleveland does not offer personal refutation of Ingalls' rather scathing charge tbnt he is the low-water mark of the Presidential commonplace.

J nose wno came immediately into con

tact with him were willing enough to ad

mit that the President "is a very fair sort of

everyday man, but no one was impressed

by his mental tforoe or breadth, or by any

uuviuun mucreui ur ncijuireu qualities mat seemed to fit him for the exalted office to which luck raised him. No great amount

of discernment is necessary to discover in public sentiment an uneasy discontent with the existing order of things, and a general eagerness to re-establish the dignity of high official trust. No part of the people is so thoroughly dissatisfied as the Democratic party. The leaders of that political body have been disgruntled for three j years, and have chafed under the hard conditions to which they rather blindly subjected themselves. They view with disgust the mistakes and errors of an ad- j ministration that in the very nature of

things was incapable of conducting government satisfactorily npon the popularly

approved oasis established oy the reopie s i party. The Democracy is in the situation of foreign mercenaries hired to put downs revolution of the people; they will fight with a sort of bull-doc pugnacity, but without heart or enthusiasm, for the retention in office of tirover Cleveland. But, as Senator Ingalls says and others perceive, if the Republicans are beaten it will be their own fault. They will not be beaten if the con

vention acts wisely.

Tne battle will be fought in convention

this time, and if the will of the people can there outweigh the schemes of selfish politicians, the Republican party will achieve a victory at the polls as great and as significant as that of I860 by which it came gloriously into power. After that event

senator Inaails may extend his simile by

applying to the Democratic party the full

lorce or tne old hnrd-shen isaptiBt text: "And they shall gnaw a file and flee into

the mountains of Hepsidam, where the

lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its first born." Chicago Inter

Ocean.

Monumental Gall. With brazen assurance, the Boston Globe

says:

The .Democratic party is the most thor

oughly national political organization that has ever existed in this country. It flour

ishes in every State, and in no State is the

percentage of majority against it a large

one. Un the other band, in many States

the Republican party is practically extinct. In a whole section of the ITnion it consists in the main of a mass of voters whom, if white-skinned und living in Massachusetts, men like Senator Hoar would certainly insist upon disfranchising. Yet, even with this body of easily led voters, traditionally at

tached to it, the Republican party in the

BontD can scarcely be said to exist.

What determines tbo nationality or sec

tionalism of a party? Does the question turn on the doctrines and practices of the

organization, or on its success in nullifying

the constitution, violating the laws, and usurping power by violence and fraud? Plainly, the Boston Globe holds to the latter opinion. Hence its claim that the State sovereignty organization which still clings to the dogmas of Calhoun and- Jeff Davis is a national party because it has succeeded

in usurping power through organized political crime and now governs the nation in the interest of a minority section. If nationality is embodied in the idea of stamping out equal rights and miking the vote of an ex-Confederate equal in political power to the votes of two or three Northern men, and so giving the ru'e of the nation into the hands of a sectional minority, then the Democratic party may have some claim to a "national" title. That organization is national only in its appetite for national spoils. Its supreme ambition is to usurp control of the Southom States and, with the aid of the vote of New Yoik

t ity, corner the Presidency and pemioii State sovereignly bigots and ex-rebels on the National Treasury, in pursuance o usurped minority rule. Chicago Tribune. Flowers for the Winter. Tnosn who have enjoyed a profusion of flowers through the spring, summer, and early autumn, will be sure to have made some provisions for the Into autumn and winter. The wisest course is to havo been prepaiiuc, Utile by little; then, with little extra thought, plants are all ready to be brought indoors, without a suspicion of a chill to their sensitive natures. But, for those Who are not thus prepared, much can yet be done to insure a few flowers for the winter and early spring. Various methods are tried by different people, with results as unlike as tbe methods. Some people, who fancy themselves very fond of plants, and flowers, manage in his way: We will suppose they have had a pooily kopt flower garden for the summer, which, in spite of much neglect, has afforded them quite a little pleasure, which they are unwilling to lose. With tbe first indications of a frost, towels, aprons, newspapers, or any handy articles are spread over the best and most valuable part of the flower garden, which, if the wind should come up in the night, will be scattered all about their neighbors' gardens, as well as their own; but just as well, as wind and frost do not oft;n go "hand in hand," and the flowers escaped

this lime. The next cold night sav be

tween sundown and dark they will begin

tne wore oi taxing up and cottine the larir

est geraniums, heliotropes and petunias.

using large pots but little water, and less

common sense. After this careful treat

ment, they will be put on a wheelbarrow

and trundled into a shed or under a sheltering tree, and there left to the mercy of snn,

wind or rain, perfectly untfaought of until there is danger of a real freezing night, and then they are hustled into the house

and left in the coldest and dreariest corner

of a long, dreary dining-room, there to re

mam in solitude and shame until wintei fairly sets In. By this time they are in such hopeless wretchedness that they are

carried down cellar to await well, nobody

mows what, mis method is a common

one and its results are sure. Good Housekeeping, What Mr. Cleveland Meant.

A reader wants to know what President Cleveland meant in the following portion

of his speech at Montgomery, Ala., last

wees.: "We know that you still have the prob

lems to solve enveloping considerations

concerning you alone, questions beyond

reach of Federal law or interference, and with which no one but you should deal."

it is very plain what the Democratic

President meant. He meant that he indorses the Southern or Confederate method of disfranchising the blocks, of killing

them when tbey attempt to vote, of im

prisoning them upon trumped-up pretexts and selling their labor to the highest bid

ders, of using violence and fraud to disfran

chise the majority, and of carrying everything in their own State without regard to

law, humanity, or decency. He meant that he wished them to understand that they

conld so ahead in this way without anv in

terference from him as President, and with him protecting them as President from any sort of outside interference. This is what the Democratic President meant, and it

was very shameless in him to say it, and yet as he gained the Presidency by reason of such violence and fraud he could say nothing less. The only wonder is that he did not have the prudence to say it privately instead of in the public manner that he did. For him thus publicly to indorse

the Southern methods of violenoe and fraud, and to select the former seat of the

Confederacy as the place to do so, are very

significant facts. It was fair notice to the Democrats of the South that Vie Democrats of the North will standby them whatever they may do. Des Moines Register.

Jackson's Infamous Utterances. The Albany Journal calls attention to

the fact that not a single Democratic paper in this country has disapproved the infamous utterances of Cleveland's ex-Min-ister to Mexico that the day of final triumph for the secession cause will come, and that "in that triumphant procession

Abraham Lincoln shall not move as tbe

rightful President! but Jefferson Davis, the so-called traitor leader of the so-called lost cause:" or the equally infamous decla

ration at the dedication of Lee's monu

ment, that the name of Lee should ride

down the years side by side with that of

Washington as the twin rebels of tbe South." More disloyal words than, these

have not been spoken since the close of the war, and yet not a Democratic paper can be found loyal enough to denounce them. Even a Democratic President but yesterday, was talking platitudes to the men who

applauded these infamous utterances about the beauties of sectional harmony. So long as suoh things can happen there can be no harmony between patriotic men and tbose who are engaged in them. Union men can never let the sectional issue rest

when they are taunted and insulted in this manner.

The Apotheosis of Treason. Why should not the old rebel, battle-

flags, symbols of insurrection, be brought forth, when, with the approval of President Cleveland, it has been proposed to return the captured rebel flags to rebels? Wo ask President Cleveland himself to explain what means the cry, "Long live our President," that greeted Jefferson Davis at Macon, Ga.V Are there then two Presi

dents in this country, and is the allegiance of our people divided? Let no Democratic paper again speak of the "bloody shirt," when secession is paraded openly throughout the South. Albany Journal.

Let Dakota Come In. Apart from all considerations of party,

it is desirable that Dakota should be admitted either as one State or two; and the

Democrats may as well reflect that their

chance of carrying one of the proposed States in the coming Presidential election

is better than of carrying the whole State, if it should come in without division. The

question cannot fail to be brought before Congress early, and should be decided on

its' general merits, without exclusive regard to pol.tics. Springfield Republican. The Cardinal Sin of the Democracy.

The damnable sins of bribery and fraud

in elections are high crimes against our

system of government. The men who

conspire against tne xranomse oy urioery and fraud are guilty of treason, and should bo punished accordingly. Public opinion should be fanned to white heat against men occupying positions of respectability and influence who resort to such methods to defeat the will of the people. Washington Republican.

The Grand Army Has the Floor. With Rebel yells still ringing in the air,

with the frenzied-kisses of Rebel devotion still fresh on the hem of Jeff Davis' garments, with the Rebel bloody shirt flying at full mast, perhaps it would be just as

well to near iobs about me loyai oiooay

shirt in the North for a season. In short, the veterans of the . Grand Army of the

Republio should have the floor. btoux

Ctty Journal.

Gorman's Grip on Cleveland. "It was." says tbe Boston Traveller, "in

the last days of tbe campaign of 1881 that

uorman, zor tne ucmocrauc .national committee, raised, according to hearsay, f 150.-

000 to effect a change in New York against

Blaine. And it was tuns that uorman got a grip on Cleveland, which the latter has not been able to relax. A'ew York Mail. The Voice of the Whole South. The East Mississippi Times voices the sentiments of the people of the whole South when it says that, "notwithstanding tbe wail of the fanatic who would deny him the right to express his opinion, the name of Jeff Davis is as dear to the Southern people to-day as it ever was, and time will only add to its luster." Memphis Appeal. How to teach chiokens to eat sunflower seed hull a few seeds and throw them down with the unbulled seed, and some of tbe chickens will learn to eat them iu a few minutes, and this will teaoh the balance.

"WITH BUBBLING GROAN." A Fatal Sense of Security Awfully Ilvallzcd at Sea. 'A. wet hoot attd a flowing sea, a breeze that follows fast," From his look-out the faithful old captain of Sender merchantman casts an uneasy glance t the distant horizon. Seel yonder a small tpeck of cloud "no larger than a man's hand." He watches it with his piercing eyo for a few tooments, then reaches for his long eyeglass To his experienced view, this harmless little eloud betokens danger. Across his bronzed face there comes a look of determination, and with quick orders to the seamen, the craft is put about and all sail made for the nearest harbor, where in apparent safety and anchor is dropped, and hardy mariners watch the approaching storm with defiance! The storm bursts! The deoks havo been cleared, tlio sails elose furled, and all ordinary preparations made for an emergency. Tbe storm increases but all seems safe. But see! the vessel gives a sudden lurch, turns quickly about, and away she goes! The anchor chain has broken! This mighty ship might havo ridden safely but for one weak link in that anohor chain!

The st rength of the chain is no greater than the strength of its woakest link.

On the sea of life, how many men are

wrecked because of tbe unsuspected weakness

of a unit in tne onain or neaitn one wens vital orean in the body.

The mystery of death is even greater than the mystery of life. We think tbe links of our chain are strong, but wo too seldom critically examine them for ourselves, and never really know that tbey will bear the strain that wo put upon them. "I have a friend," said Dr. Dio Lewis, "who

can lilt wu nounas. ana vet is an nanitmu sur.

ferer from kidney and liver trouble and low

spirits." xuo aoctorwno was one or tne wisest

and safest public teachers of the laws of health, wrote:

"The very marked testimonats from college professors, respectable physicians, and other gentlemen of intelligence and character, to the value of Warner's safe cure, have greatly surprised me. Many of the gentlemen I know, and, reading their testimony, I was impelled to

purenase some oomes oi ivarner s saie cure and analyze it Besides I took some, swallow-

ins three times the nrescribed auantitv. I am

satisfied that the medicine is not injurious, and will frankly add that if I found myself the victim of a serious kidney trouble I should use this preparation." One year ago the Senla, while in a great

no wonder it was rutted throuqhl The key to human health is the condition of the kidneys, and tbey may long be diseased and we be ignorant of the fact, because they give forth little or no pain. They in reality cause the majority of all the deaths, by polluting the blood and sending disease all through the sys

tem. Carious Buttons. The manufacture of buttons seems to

have made great progress during the reigns that followed that of William ILL, for buttons came to be used to an extravagant extent. It was the fashion for gentlemen at the end of the last century to wear exceedingly long tail coats having very large buttons, tight buckskin breeches buttoned at the

knee, and tied with bunches of ribbons, and when garters were worn they

buttoned all the way down. This

fashion, occasionally modified, continued until about fifty years ago, and may be called the golden age of button making. All duties on buttons were done away by Sir Robert FeeL A curious button was made about a swntury ago and worn by the English dandies of the period. It consisted of polished brass, and was ruled with lines fine as to be almost microscopic. The roughness of the surface thus obtained broke the reflection of the light falling on it and gave it prismatic colors. The beauty of mother-of-pearl and its iridescent brilliancy are believed to be produced by three plates overlapping each other unevenly, and thus they disperse the light as they reflect it. The brass buttons appeared iridescent from the same cause, and as they cost one guinea each they were highly fashionable at the time. It might be interesting to track the gradual change from the long blue or snuff-brown coat with gilt buttons, and breeches be-buttoned at the pockets and knees, with leggings buttoned all down, to the present almost buttoniess style of garments. Coyered buttons were introduced by M. Sander. He lost his fortune in Denmark when Lord Nelson bombarded Copenhagen, and came over to England to try and earn a little money, not dreaming that he would more than recoup himself for what he had lost. He introduced first a covered button consisting of cloth or lasting, with an iron shank. His son improved this into what is called the flexible shank hutton, wWoh, when made of silk, however, soon wore out. Another advance was the corded edge button. Next it became the fashion to have buttons to match the color of tha clothes. Ivory was too expensive and difficult to dye. Recourse was had to the corozo nut, which is soft, easily cut and takes- any hue required. The changes and caprices of fashion, which at one time covers our clothes with 'buttons very large, and at another time extremely small, effect, of course, the button trade and the persons engaged therein. It seems prepostrous that the well being or misery of a large portion of our laborious population should depend upon apparently so trivial a matter, yet it is so. London Housewife. Not a Treeless Desert. A great many people imagine that Arizona is a treeless region, but in this they are mistaken, for probably there is no better timbered country in the West than in this Territory. It boasts of one forest,mostly in Yavapai County, equal in extent to New Jersey and Delaware, It is 200 miles in length and its average width is fifty miles, or about 6,400,000 acres. It has been truthfully asserted that outside of the pineries of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Washington Territory there are few

parts of the United States that can boast of suoh an extensive body of timber. The timber of this Territory

makes excellent lumber, and a great

deal of it is shipped out of its borders

to the states, and, now that snipping facilities are being increased, the demand for our products of the forest will undoubtedly greatly increase. Tombstone Epitaph. The Experience of Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Peters had ills, Mrs. Peters hod chills, Mrs. Peters was sure she was going to die; They dosed her with pills, With powders and squills. With remedies wet and with remedies dry. Many medicines lured her. But none of them cared her, Their names and their number nobody oould toll; And she soon might havo died, But some "Pellets" were tried, That acted like inagio, and then she got well, Uho magic "Pellets" were Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets (the original Littlo Liver Pills). They cured sirs. Peters, and now sho wouldn't be without them. Some day when Ignatius Donnelly hasn't anything to done might sit down and figure it out that the forbidden fruit was a banana, and Adam's fall was caused by the skin. James Russell Lowell is writing a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thus does he get even with the family of the man who interviewed him. Baltimore Amerioaii. Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art. Addison. A Square Statement by a Carpenter. "For years I have toad a chat trouble amounting to nothing short of consumption I ou how others in like condition had been cared by the use or Dr. Pioree's Golden Medical Discovery, and resolved to test its merits in my own cat. The results are so plane as

naroiy to require a omiocit or any auger-mem in favor of mis grain remedy. It does awl it claims I It buildt up the system, supportt and strengthens where others rail" He ad;: "My recovery, which is now on a sure foundation, Mnga entirely on the compast of this wonderful HestorativeT having tried other remedies without a bit of relief." AN exohange says that raoing men do not oars much for reading. Then why are (hay hookataktrs? aMM Sifting,

At Peace. A stomaob In levolt is an obdurate robe. Corrected with Rcntetter'i Stomach Bitters, its dissensions with the food Introduce 1 into it in unwary moments of appetite oeasos. Then It is at poaoo. Then dyspepsia abandons its grip. 'JT en such fractious manifestations as heartburn, a Sinking sensation in the pit of the abdomen between meals and unnatural fullness aftward, flatulence, acid gniplugs, biliousness, cto . cease to millet martyrdom. After a course of the national tonic and alterative, the liver and bowels, always more or less disordered during a prolonged attack of indigestion, resume thoir functions an I bocomo regular. Thus not only dyspepsia but its concomitants, constipation and biliousness, are aonquored by tbe medicine, which remedies their fruitful oause, weakness of tho organs of digestion. The epigastric norvo, collular tissuo, in short, ovary organ that boars a part iu the digestive liroonsaes, acquire vigor and regularity from tho bonign invigorant. Paterfamilias Took Him at His Word. Some years ago a German gentle

man, with more money than brains,

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A Family Jewel. DocToa David Kennedy, tho famous surgeon and physician, of Bondout, N. V., has scut us a copy of his new Medical treatise, a work of great intrinsic merit, apart from many elegant lite illustrations or rare beauty. We nndon examination that it is a work of exceeding merit, one which should be kopt and reap in every home. In addition to tbe studied and valuable medical lessons inculcated by the Doctor, there are two articles from the widely-known author, Cot E. Z. O. Judson tNod Buntline). which add to the interest of the work. The printed price of this book is only 35 cents, but any one enclosing this notice with the name of the paper from whence it is taken, with four 2-oent postage stamps, will receive the book free by mail. THE SPECIAL OFFER Of Thb Youth's Companion, which we have published, includes the admirable Double Holiday Numbers for Thanksgiving and Christmas, with colored covers and full-page pictures, twenty pages each. These, with the other weekly issues to January 1, 1888, will be, sent free to all new subscribers who send 1.75 for a year's subscription to January, 1889. The Companion has boon greatly enlarged, is finely illustrated, and no other weekly literary paper gives so much for so low a pric Tho I'opular Thoroughfare. The Wisconsin Central Line, although a comparatively new factor in the railroad systems of the Northwest, has acquired and enviable popularity. Through careful attention to details, its service is as near nerfection as

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Ifagf-ntlemanby the name of Day volunteers to throw the light of his experience into the darkened places of misery, so that others may go and do as he has done and enjoy life, may

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