Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1891 — Page 2

©he democrat decatur?ind. St BLACKBURN, • Pui'LIBHXR. Indian elephants caqnot live in Central Africa, the homeof a larger and More hardy species. A Maine man has a theory that the nerth pole can be reached by a land Journey, and is about to attempt the •x journey on foot. 3 When cast and malleable iron are used in the same structure a galvanic nation is set up between them, and the malleable iron is corroded. A Missouri man has gone before the Legislature of that State advocating the the introduction and passage of i bill compelling the keepers of railroad restaurants to date their pies. An Oregon man claims to have a hen that'J iaa established a nest in the center M his flower garden, in the most conspicuous part of his front yard and deposits an egg regularly every day except Sunday. A colored man at Coushatta, La., charged with disturbing the peace, went into court, pleaded not guilty, declined to employ counsel, asked for trial by jury, conducted his own case and was acquitted. The report of the Ontario Bureau of Industries gives the number of sheep in khat province at about 1,340,000, being 4 ? 500 less than for 1889, while the yield of wool is 4,575,000 "pounds, against 4,589,000. - - In European countries before the reformation it was the custom to drink to the health of the Pope—“Au bou ser to the good father. ” The French Jkpression has been corrupted, into bumper. . s ’ Ceylon tea is being actively pushed to Egypt. A firm, which was the first agency for the island tea, has representatives in Alexandria, Cairo, and Port Said. It is doing a good business in the sale of small packets. The man who observed that the large rivers generally happened to run close to the large cities has now discovered that the firms that do the largest amount of business generally happen to have the largest advertisements in the papers. A man who is worth a mint of money -told a Brooklyn reporter that he was far happier when he didn’t have a dollar to his name and worked hard from morning until night. Why not distribute his cash among deserving men and return to day’s wages ? • - The number of sheep in the colony of New South Wales continues to increase, aud it is now estimated at 51,000,009, being an increase of 6,000,000 on last year. The clip of wool exceeds 260,000,000 pounds, or an increase of 80,000,000 for the year. Germany is the only European Government likely to adopt smokeless powder, and it will place her at a disadvantage figured to be 13 per cent. If her soldiers stand gut while others are partly concealed by the smoke clouds they must certainly offer better targets to shoot at. 1 The grip, which: came in 1889, didn’t (jgpp-ck up and travel with the advent of spring, but hung around to get a little more fun out of the performance, and during this last winter pulled down its thousands. Ben Butler declares that he has had it seven distinct times, and Eli Perkins beats that record by one. The word "crank” has come to be one of the handiest words in the vocabulory, as it can be applied to any person who differs from another in politics, religion, art, science, or anything else, and who doesn’t keep just as many striped cats as his neighbor. It means much, and yet means nothing. Tobacco-growers In the Tumut district of New South Wales are alarmed at the discovery of a new disease among their crops. The plants are affected with a blight closely allied to the notorious potato blight, and it is doubtless one of the most serious diseases of the tobacco plant ■ —CJ . The Mexicans laugh at the propensity of American visitors for buying the chegp native pottery as souvenirs M their visits to the land of the Montezumas.' The northerners collect scores of red earthen jars and drinking mugs, which the natives regard as of no . value Ijeyond their practical use. ■'* Seth Greene used to hold, and there are plenty of others of the same opinion, that a man’s luck in fishing depends more upon a certain undefined magnetism than upon skill or bait The chap who owns up that he hasn’t got it, and goes off huckleberrying instead, will live longer and be happier. An Illinois sheriff, who has made a good thing out of*selling tickets to see ’ the scaffold upon which he hangs his prisoners, on being warned ot the indecency of so edoing, said he thought the indecency came in in refusing him the right to sell tickets to see the machine when it was being officially , operated. | The Sugar Beet notes as one of the I guarantees for the success of the sugar at Grand Island, Neb., that special arrangements have been made ft with the three railroad lines passing g through that point to deliver beets | from the surrounding country at a B nominal cost of a few cents per ton per 100 miles. Beds are still strange pieces of furli nitn'"e in Russia, and many well-to-do houses are still improvided with them. ’Peasants sleep on top of their ovens y middle class people and servants roll rfhOmsolTts up in sheepskins and lie » town near stoves; soldiers rest upon

wooden oots without bedding, audit te only within the last few years that students in state schools have been allowed beds. ' . A bullet has just been patented, the base of which , as well as the body, is covered by an alloy, non-fusible at any temperature which it is possible to generate in a gun barrel. The necessity for such a bullet has been caused by the introduction of nitrated or smokeless powder, which generates such intense heat that the base or head of the bullet is melted and consequently much ragged. Accuracy of aim is thus much impaired. It may surprise many to learn that the purely American commerce that passes through the "Soo” Oat al between Lakes Superior and Huron is much larger than all the world’s commerce that annually finds its way through the Suez Canal, both in the number of vessels and their tonnage, yet figures prove it. During 1889 9,579 vessels of 7,221,935 tonnage passed through the “Soo,” against 3,425 vessels of 6,783,187 tonnage through the Suez. And the American canal is only open a part of the year. No saying is more common among physicians than the declaration that a strong physical constitution and good health are necessary to success in life; yet there have been many instances in which this rule does not seem to have been true. Darwin, the greatest naturalist of his time, was always an invalid, and Sir Andrew Clark, one of the most eminent men of the present day, tells us that he was so sickly that his life was not deemed worth a year’s purchase when he began the active work of his singularly successful career. The crumpled and crushed form of the human ear is accounted for by Prof. H. D. Garrison as a result of the habit of lying on the side of the head, which habit has been induced by the increasing weight of the brain. The question, says the author, in his paper on the subject read at the American association, had originally been whether the animals through which it had been developed would profit most by large brains or by perfect and symmetrical hearing apparatus, and had been promptly decided by natural selection in favor of large brains. It is considered to be only a matter of time when the Chinese export tea trade will become practically extinct. Owing to the Chinese internal revenue of about twenty-nine per cent, on the value of tea for export the teas of that country are already losing ground in competition with Indian teas, upon which there are no taxes whatever. Labor for the tea gardens in India is as cheap as it is in China, and the Chinese Government will be compelled to do something soon to alleviate their teagrowers, or lose their foreign markets which last year alone bought $5,000,000 worth of Chinese tea. From the last aunual report of the Danish Agricultural Department ik appears that since the mechanical cream separators were introduced into Danish dairies, the effect in increasing production has been enormous. From 1883 to 1885 the export of butter rose from 19,000 to 26,000,000 pounds, and then, ascending by “leaps and bounds,” it attained its present figure of not much under 60,000,000 pounds annually. The adoption of the separator has much to do with the result, for not only can 10 per cent, more butter be extracted from a given quantity of milk than was possible under the old system, but greater quantities of milk can now be dealt with and worked up at once into an article of export. The number of associated dairies continue to increase, while many of the old ones are being enlarged and improved. The divorce secured by the unfortunate American wife of that worthless foreign individual known to fame and the criminal courts as “Count di Montercole” lets down the curtain in another sad and shocking drama, in which the folly of 3 title-hunting heiress has been rewarded by unspeakable misery and shame. This noble “Count” will be remembered as the person who created a sensation in Philadelphia some time ago by distributing on the streets scandalous circulars about his wife. For this offense he was arrested and finally sent to the House of Correction for a brief time. The young woman who was so weak as to marry him is now free from the bonds that linked her to this mortally hideous adventurer. But her whole life has been marred to an irretrievable degree, and she is only one of a host of fair young American girls who have sacrificed all that makes life worth living to the cheap and silly desire for tawdry foreign titles. Bottles by Machinery. During the last six weeks the American Bottle Company, whose works are located at Woodbury, N. J., have succeeded in making bottles by machinery, being the first successful attempt to do so in this country, says the New York Sun. The machinery used is an English .invention, which has been used in that country for two years. The glass is gathered in the usual way and allowed to run from the rod into an iron cup, which measures the quantity needed for making the bottle. From below a hollow iron plunger is pushed up through the bottom of the cup and through the mass, and the cup is reversed, leaving the glass suspended from the hollow plunger. The cup, which is hinged, is then removed, and ' the movement of a lever admits a small quantity of air through the plunger, after which the bulb is flattened at the bottom and dropped into the mold, which is then closed and the air applied. This completes the bottle, which is taken while hot to the annealing oven. By the old process the ring at the top of the bottle’s neck was made by a second operation. By the machine the bottle comes from the mold complete. Men totally inexperienced in the handling of glass are able, it is said, after six week’s practice, to turn out as much as an experienced blower with a blowpipe. '

DANGEROUS CLASSES. - TALMAGE FINDS THEM AMONG THE RICH AND. THE POOR. The Man of Wealth and Leisure Who ••Kills Tims” la Doing Nothing—at the Other Extreme Are the Criminal Poor, the Desperate, the Despairing. * Dr. Talmage, in continuance of the course of sermons bn “The Ten Plagues of the Cities,” took for his text Exodus vii, 20, “All the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.” Among all the Egyptian plagues none could have been worse than this. The Nile is the wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food, its waters the irrigation of garden and fields. Its condition decides the prosperity in the doom of the empire. What happens to the Nile happens to all Egypt. And now in the text that great river is incarnadined. It is a red gash across an empire. In poetic license wi> speak of wars which turn the rivers into blood. But my text is not a poetic license. It was a fact,a great crimson, appalling condition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you imagine a more awful plague? The modern plague which nearest corresponds with that is the plague of crime in all our cities. It halts not for bloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises’and cuts and strikes down and destroys. It revels in the blood of body and soul, this plague of crime rampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now. /* The annual police reports of these cities as I examine them are to me more suggestive than Dante’s Inferno, and all Christian people as well as reformers need to awaken to a present and tremendous duty. If you want this “Plague of Crime” to stop there are several J"Ands of persons you need to consider. First, the public criminals. You ought not to be surprised that these people make up a large portion in many communities. The vast majority of the criminals who take ship from Europe come into our own port. In 1869, of the forty-nine thousand people who were incarcerated in the prisons of the country thirty-two thousand were of foreign birth. Many of them were the very desperation of society, oozing into the slums of our city, waiting for an opportunity to riot and steal and debauch, joining the large gang of American thugs and cut-throats. There are in this cluster of cities—New York, Jersey City, and Brooklyn—four thousand people whose entire business in life is to commit crime. That is as much their business as jusisprudence or medicine or merchandise is your, business. To it they bring all their energies of body, mind and soul, and they look upon the intervals which they spend in prison as so much unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an attack of influenza and rheumatism which fastens you in the house for a few days. It istheir lifetime business to pick pockets and blow up safes and shoplift and ply the pane) game, and they have as much pride of skill in their business as you have in Scours when- you upset the argument of an opposing counsel, or cure a gunshot fracture which other surgeons have given foresee a turn in the market as (buy goods just before they go up 20 percent. It is their business to commit crime, and I do not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality strikes them. Added to these-professional criminals, American and foreign, there are a large class of men whfrure njore or less industrious in crime. In one year the police in this cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people for theft, and ten thousand for assault and battery, and fifty thousand for intoxication. Drunkenness is responsible for much of the theft, since it confuses a man’s ideas of property,and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Bum is responsible for much of the assault and battery, inspiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate though it be the face of the next gentleman. Ten million dollars’ worth of property stolen in this cluster of cities in onetopar! You cannot, as good citizens, be independent of that fact. It will touch your pocket, since I have to give you the fact that these three cities pay about eight million dollars’ worth of taxes a year to arraign, try and support the criminal population. You help to pay the board of every criminal, from the sneak thelf tnat snatches a spool of cotton up to some man who swamps a bank. More than that, it touches your heart in the moral depression of the community. You might as well think to stand in a closely confined room where there are fifty pco-. pie and yet not breathe the vitiated air, as to stand tn a community where there" is such a great multitudoof the depraved without somewhat being contaminated. What is the fire that burns your store down compared with the conflagation which consumes your morals? What is the theft of the gold and silver from your money safe compared with the theft of your children's virtue? We are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at the top of our voice, thief!” and when the police get on the track, we come out, hatless and in our slippers, and assist in , the arrest. We come around the bawling ruffian and hustle him off to justice, and when he gets in prison what do we do for him? With great gusto we put on the handcuffs and the hopples; but what preparation are we making for the day when the handcuffs aud the hopples come off? Society seems to say to these criminals, “Villian, go in there and rot,” when it ought to say, “You are an offender against the law, but we mean 3to give you an opportunity to repent; we mean to help yyu. Here are Bibles and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look, and live.” . "'i Vast improvements have been made by introducing industries into the prison; but we want something more than hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these people. Aye, we want more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Society must impress these men with the fact that it is attempting to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals suppose that society has a grudge against them, and they in turn have a grudge against society. .. They are harder in heart and more infuriate when they come out of jail than when they went in. Many of the people who go to prison go again and again and again. Some years ago, of fifteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred had been there before. In a house of ’correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time the to had been five thousand people, more than three thousand had been there before. So, in one.case the prison, and in the other the house of correction left them just as bad as they were before. secretary of one of the benevolent societies of New York says a lad 15 years of age had spent three years of his life in prison, and he said to the lad, “What have they done for you to make you better?” “Well,” replied the lad, “the first time I was brought up before the judge he said, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ And then I committed a crime again, and I was brought up before the same Judge, and he said, •You rascal!’ And after a while I committed some other crime, and I was brought before the same judge, and he said, ‘You ought to be hanged.*” That was all they had done for him in the wav of reformation and salvation. “Oh,” vou say, “these people are incorrigible.” ■"MV / . : S 1 S

I rappose there are hundreds of persons this day lying in the prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation if society would only allow them a wav into decency and respectability. “Oh,” you say, *T have no patience with these rogues.” I ask you in reply, how much toetter would you have been under the same circumstances? Suppose your mother had bgen a blasphemer and your father a sot, and you had started life with a body stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spent much of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at ten years of age you had been compelled to go out and steal, battered and banged at night if you came in without any spoils, and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and filth, and decent society had turned its back upon yon, and left you to consort with vagabonds and wharf rats — how much better would you have been? I have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would let crime run loose, or which would sit in the gallery of a court room weeping because some hard hearted wretch is brought to justice; bnt I do say that the safety and life of the community demand more potential influences in behalf of public offenders. In some of the city prisons the air is like that of the Black Hole of Calcutta. I have visited prisons where, as the air swept through the wicket, it almost knocked me down. No sunlight. Young men who had committed their first crime crowded in among old offenders. I saw in one prison a woman, with a Child almost blind, who had been’ arrested for the crime ot poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the where she rightfully belonged, out she was thrust i in there with her child amid the most I abandoned wretches of the town. Many of the offenders in that prison slept on the floor, with nothing but a vermin covered blanket over them. Those people crowded and wan and wasted and half suffocated and infuriated. Lsaid to the men, “How do you stand it here?” “God knows,” said one man, “we have to stand it.” Oh, they will pay you when they get out. Where they burned down one house they will burn three. They will strike deeper the assassin’s knife. They are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Some of the city jails are the best places I know of to manufacture foot- j pads, vagabonds and cutthroats. Yale college is not so well calculated to I make scholars, nor Harvard so well ■ calculated to make scientists, nor i Princeton so well calculated to make I theologians, as many of our jails are calculated to make criminals. All that those men do not know of crime after they have been in that dungeon for some time, Satanic machination cannot teach them. In the insufferable stench and sickening surroundings of such places there is nothing but disease for the body, idiocy for the mind, and death for the soul. Stifled air and darkness and vermin never turned intoj an honest man. We want men like John Howard and Sir William Blackstone, and women like Elizabeth Fry to do for the prisons of the United States what those people did in other days'for the prisons of England. I thank God for what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris and scores of others have done in the way of prison reform, but we want something more radical before will come the blessings of Him who said, “I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Again, in your .effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider untrustworthy officials. “Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thv princes drink in the morning,” It is a great calamity to a city when bad men get into publfc authority. Why was it -that in New York there was such unparalleled crime between 1866 and 1871? It was because the judges of police in that city at that time for the most part were as corrupt as the vagabonds that came before them for trial. These were the days of high carnival for election frauds, assassination and forgery. We had all kinds of rings. There was one man during those years that got one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars in one year for serving the public. In a few years it was estimated that there were fifty millions of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had cnly to wink at the judge, or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was decided for the defendant. Os the eight thousand people arrested in that city in one year only three thousand were punished. These little matters were “fixed up,” while the inter- . ests of society were “fixed down.” You know as well as I do that one villain who escapes only opens the doOr for other criminalities. When the two pickpockets snatched the diamond pin from the Brooklyn gentleman in a Broadway stage, and the villains were arrested and the trial set down for the general sessions, and then the trial never came, and never anything more was heard of the the public officials were only bidding higher - for more crime. Again, in your effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider the idle population. Os course Ido not refer to the people who are getting old, or to the sick or to those who cannot get work, but I tell you to look out for ' those athletic men and women who will not work. When the French nobleman was asked why he kept busy when he had so large a property be said, “I keep on engraving so I may not hang myself.” I do not care who the man is, you canndt afford to be idle. It is from the idle classes that the criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if it stands still too long. Who can wonder that in this world, where there is so much to do, And all the hosts of earth and Heaven and hell arc plunging into the conflict and angels are flying and God is at work and the universe is a-quake with the marching and countermarching, that God lets His indignation fall upon a man who chooses idleness? I have watched these do-nothings who spend their time stroking their beard and retouching their toilet and criticising industrious people, and pass their days and nights in barrooms and club houses, lounging and smoking and chewing'and card playing. They are not only useless, but they are dangerous. How hard it is for them to while away the I hours! Alas, for them! If they do not know how to while away an hour, what will they do when they have all eternity on their hands? These men for a while smoke the best cigars and, wear the best clothes and move in the highest spheres, but I have noticed that very soqn they come down to the prison, the almshouse, or stop at the gallows. The police stations of this cluster of cities furnish annually between two and three hundred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two and three hundred thousand lodgings are furnished to able-bodied men and women—people as able to work as you and I are. When they are received no longer at the police station because they are “repeaters” they go to some other station, and so they Keep moving • around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what • they can lay their hands on in the front | basement while the servant is spreading | the bread in the back basement They j will not.work. Time and again, in the. the country districts, they have wanted hundreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go. They do not want to work. J have tried them. 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lar to see whether they wanted to work. I offered to pay them well for it I have heard the saw going for about three minute, and then I went down, and 10l the wood, but no saw! They are the pest of society, and they stand in the way of the Lord’s poof who ought to be helped, and must be helped, and will be helped. While there are thousands of industrious men who cannot get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea. lam in favor of the restoration of the old-fashion whipping post for just this one class of men who will not work—sleeping at night at public expense in the station house; during the day getting their food at your doorstep. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Blackwell’s Island or Sing Sing would be a comfortable home for them. They would have no objection to the almshouse, for they like thin soup, if they cannot get mock turtle. I propose this for them: On one side of them put some healthy work; on the other side put a rawhide, and let them take their choice. I like for that class of people the scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian loafers, “If any man work not, neither should he eat.” By what law of God or man is it right that you and I should toil day in and day out, until our hands are blistered and our arms ache and our brain gets numb, and then be called upon to support what in the United States are about two million loafers. They are a very dangerous class. Let the public authorities keep their eyes on them. In tlfts cluster of cities whose cry of want I interpret there are said to be, as far as I can figure it up from the reports, about three hundred thousand honest poor who are dependent upon individual, city and State charities.. If all their voices could come up at once it would be a groan that wWld shake the foundations of the city and bring all earth aud heaven to the rescue. But for the most part it suffers unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashing its teeth and sucking the.bioq<l.of its own arteries, waiting for the judgement day. Oh, I should not wonder if on that day it would bo found out that some of us bad some things that belonged to them, some extra garment which might havb made them comfortable in cold days; some bread thrust into the ash barrel that might have appeased their hungensfor just a little while; some wasted candle or gas jet that might have kindled up their darkness; some fresco on the ceiling that would have given them a roof; some jewel which,brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being crowded off the precipices of an unclean life; some New Testament that would have told them of Him who “came to seek and .save that which was lost.” Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger and nakedness that dashes against our front door step! If the roofs of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down into them just as God looks, whose nerves would be strung enough to stand it? And yet there they are. The fifty thousand sewing women in these three cities, some of them in hunger and cold, working night after night, until sometimes the blood spurts from nostril and lips. How well their grief was voiced by that despairing woman who stood by her invalid husband and invalid child, and said to the city missionary: “I am downhearted. Everything’s against us; and then there are other things.” “What other things?” said the city missionary. “Ob,” slie replied, “my sin.” “What do you mean by that?” “Well,” she said, “I never hear or see anything good. It’s work from Monday morning till Saturday night! and then when Sunday comes I can’t go out, and I walk* the floor, and it makes me tremble to think that I have got to meet God. Oh. sir, it's so hard for us. We have to work so, and then we have so much trouble, and then we are getting along so poorly; and see this wee little thing growing weaker and weaker; and then to think we are not getting nearer to God, but floating away from Him. Oh, sir, I do wish I was ready to die.” I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons: Because I want you to know who are the uprooting classes of society. Because I want you to be more discriminating in your charities. Because I want your heart open with generosity, and your hands open with charity. Because I want you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelization, and all newsboys’ lodging houses, and all children’s aid societies, and Dorcas societies, under the skillful manipulation of wives and mothers and sister.s and daughters; let the spare garments of your wardrobes be fitted to the limbs of the wan and shivering. I should not wonder if that hat that you gave should come back a jeweled coronet, or if that garment that you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be 'whitened, and somehow wrought into the Saviour’s own robe, sb in the last day He would run His hand over it and say. “I was naked and ye clothed me.” That would be putting your garments to glorious uses. But more than that, I have preached the sermon because I thought In the contrast you would see how very kindly God had dealt with you, and I thought that thousands of you would goto your comfortable homes and sit at your well filled tables and at the warm registers and look at the round faces of your children, and that then you would burst into tears at the review of God’s goodness to you, and that you would go to your room and lock - the door.and kneel down and say: “O Lord, I have been an ingrate; make mo thy child. O Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unsheltered to-day. I thank thee that all my life thou hast taken such good care of me. O Lord, there are so many sick and crippled children to-day. I thank thee mine are well—some of them on earth, some of them in Heaven. Thy goodness, O Lord, breaks me down. Take me once and foreever. Sprinkled as I was many years ago at the altar, while my mother held me, now I consecrate my soul to thee in a holier baptism of repenting tears. Benjnmln Franklin's Fapurs. The collection of papers relating to Benjamin Franklin which Henry Stevens has been making for many years in London, and which has been purchased by the United States, is said to be invaluable. Some .of the manuscripts were found in a tailor’s shop, where they had remained seventeen years. One was cut into ts pattern for a sleeve, and another was crossed with the figures of a customer’s measurements. The papers have been carefully mounted, and bound in sixty volumes. The most curious and valuable is the original of the petition of the Continental Congress to the King, indorsed by’its presiding officer, Henry Middleton, and marked as having passed through Franklin’s hands on Oct. 26, 1774. Another gem is the earliest autograph of Franklin, the manuscript of his “Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion," lin to ‘Cadwallader Coldcn, earnestly advising him to marry, and giving l many reasons why a man is likely to become worthless and unhappy imless he is * husband. Moral and other considerations are mingled in the most amusing way. An argument is even made in favor of marrying old women—"they are so grateful."—Jfew Fork <9um> / ■

Phenomena of Death. A physician of this city has made the phenomena of death a special study; by careful observation and lengthy consultation with his brother doctors, he has acquired a fund of interesting facts and suppositions regarding the fatal moment which all humanity sooner or later have to experience. “One of the things of which I am convinced,” said the doctor “is that death is painless. I mean that the moment of dissolution approaches as unconsciously as sleep—the soul leaves the world as painlessly as it enters it. Whatever be the cause of death, whether by lingering malady or sudden violence, dissolution comes either through syncope or asphyxia. In the latter case, when resulting from disease, Hie, struggle is long, protracted and accompanied by all the visible marks of agony which the imagination associates with the closing scene of life—the pinched and pallid features, the cold, clammy skin, the upturned eye and the heavy, laborious, rattling respiration. Death does not strike all the organs of the body at the same time; some may be said to survive others, and the lungs are the last to give up the performance of their function. As death approaches the latter become gradually more and more oppressed ; the air cells are loaded with an increased quantity of the fluid which naturally lubricates the surfaces; the atmosphere can then no longer come in contact with the minute blood vessels spread over the air cells without first permeating this viscous fluid—hence the rattle. Nor is the contact sufficiently perfect to change the black venous into the red arterial blood; an unprepared fluid consequently issues from the lungs into the heart, and is thence transmitted to every other organ of the body. The brain receives it and its energies appear to be lulled thereby into sleep—generally tranquil sleep—filled with dreams which impel the dying to murmur out the names of friends and the occupations and recollections of past life. — Philadelphia Press. A crisis Isiejortcd in China. There will always be a cry-sis when she loses her chewing gum.—Peoria Beaton.A young lady cal’s her beau “honeysuckle,” because he is always hanging ovex the front railings

When So Many People Are taking and praising Hood’s Sarsaparilla as their Spring Medicine, having become convinced that it is by far the best, the question arises Why Don’t You Take It yourself. Possessing just those blood-purify-ing,. building-up, appetite-giving qualities which are so important in A Spring Medicine It is certainly worthy trial. A single bottle taken according to direttions will convince you of the merit in, and make you a warm friend of, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Fold by all druggists. $1; six for $1 Prepared only | Fold by all druggists. »l:sixfor«s. Preparedoniy by C. L HOOD & CO- Lowell, Mass. bj C. I,HOOD & CO. Lowell. Mass. ' 100 Doses One Dollar I IOG Doses One Dollar A cough or cold is a spy which has gi H/ stealthily come inside !| K 1 J W the lines of health P*— J and is there to dis- JL C/ cover some vulner- ; . able point in the fortification of the constitution which is guarding your well-being. That point discovered the spy reports it to the enemy on the outside. The enemy is the changeable winter climate. If the cold gets in, out for an attack at the weak point. To avoid this, shoot the spy, kill the cold, using SCOTT’S EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda as the weapon. It is an expert cold slayer, and fortifies the system against Scrofula,, General Debility, and all A ncemic and Wasting Diseases (specially in Children). Especially helpful for children to prevent their taking cold. Palatable as Milk. • SPECIAL.—Scott’s Emulsion is non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Pro session all over tho world, because its ingredients are scientifically combined in such a manner as to greatly increase their remedial value. , CAUTlON.—Scott’s Emulsion is put up in salmon-colored wrappers. Be sure and get the genuine. Prepared only'byScott&Bowne.ManufacturingChemists.New York. Sold by all Druggists. _ PILLS > W WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.-« ? For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS ( Such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, < ( Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, ( < Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed C ( Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, Ac. / 2 THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. ? ) BEECHAM'S PIUS TAKEN AS DIRECTED RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH. ) < For Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired J S Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., $ S Vkev ACT LIKE MAQiC. the muschlar System, restoring lony-loet Co*- J ( iiX bringing baZk theAeen edge of appetite, andaroueing with the ROSEBUD OF < 1 S •«—W* AF. ALLEN CO.. 3SS .nA SET St, Nw 1 BSfew >n s i ■ RELIEVES

Chained to the Boek. Prometheua was chained to the rook while vultures gnawed his entrails. So are many people chained to the rock of prejudice while all manner of violent medicines inflict injury upon lining ot the stomach and intestines. They are apparently immovable in the belief that to experience benefit they must keep dosing with drastic medicines. Unless the notion of these is powerful and excessive, they are not satisfied. They would distrust a remedy of gehtje action, however effective. It is not by such purblind extremists as these that the acknowledged merits of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters are recognized. Ttrtst benign regulator of the stomach, the bowels and the kidneys appeals to the rational—not only appeals but is awarded a just valuation. Constipation, liver complaint, dyspepsia and kidney troubles yield to its action. So also do malaria and rheumatism. _______________ Hart Been There. A boy discovered a horse-shoe lying on Woodward avenue near Elizabeth the other day, and after standing over it for awhile he went into a store and got a pail of water and took it out and poured it over the shoe and then picked it up. Several people noticed his action and laughed over It, and one pedestrian queried: “Did you think there was a fire under it, my boy?” ° “You can’t tell about these things, you know,” was the reply. “I’ve picked three of them up in blacksmith shops and let go of ’em again as hard as I could, and I don’t propose to take any more chances.!’— Five Press. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY * CO., Props., Toledo. O. ' We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Che. ney for tho last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially abla to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drucgists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. „ Looking Ahead. A Leavenworth domestic has deposited B*2oo for her funeral expenses, has her last robes already made, has purchased a site for her grave, and planned what kind of a coffin she will have. “Ne’er seek a wife till you ha’eahouse and a fire burning.” and even then be sure that she uses SAPOLIO if you want a clean, cosy home. A bar-tender can sir alt-treat a man as often as he pleases, without objections being raised.