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A FARMER'S ARGUMENT. What He Has to Say About the Iniquities B SR - of the High Tariff, ) : Farmer Smalley, of Caledonia, Minn, writes in a recent letter to the New: York Evening Post as follows:: Sir: Betsey an’ I hev been to town ‘to-day, Mister Editor, t’ get a load of bindin' twine for my harvest and sugar for her presarvin’, an’, as Susan —that's our oldest girl that's to hum —is goin’ to be married this fall after huskin’, the old lady insists on the .house bein’ painted ag'in, ,an’ so I -bought a lot o' paint; the gracious “knows, I don’t see how we can’ afford it. While in town, our editor—he’s a tariff reformer, an’ has got me to be a sight more ot one than 1 was when I quit the fact’'ry down in Connecticut an’ came West to farmin’—he give me a copy of your paper, an’ I have been . readin’ since 1 got hum those letters from farmers. from everywhere.. It’s pow’ful refreshin’, as passon says, to see how many other farmers all over this big land o’ ourn is gettin’ the fact " into their heads that down under all these things that troubleXs farmers so, as the cause of them all, lies that dodrotted (scuse the cussin’ but I'm get-~ tin’ mad) pertected tariff. 'We've been allowin’ that the reason why we had so little money in our pockets when every thin’ was paid for was because the railroads robbed us, an’ because the Government didn’t print money enougl, an’ because the elevator men beat us on grades and weight, an’ because some one:they call “‘Big Four” down to Shecawgo sent meat ready dressed to our cities, an’ all that. An’ we’'ve been runnin’ the Legislatures, an’ passin’ all sorts of laws that some feller that wanted to go to the Legislature said would just fix the thing all right.. An’so fur from gettin’ better, ’s fer as I can see, it's getting worse, You see, us farmers don’t spend much time cipherid’ on such matters. The war, with it§ big prices, sent us along a 4 boomin’, an’ since the bottom: dropped out we’'ve had just all we could do to keep our heads out of water, an’ while we felt that somethin’ was out o' kilter. we couldn’t spend time to study it out for ourselves. It isas clear ag day to me, an’ I jedge from the letters that it is getting a heap clearer to lots of others, that we won't get any help that will do us any lastin’ good until we can buy just egsactly as we sell, under a compertition as wide as the world. +But I didn’t start in fur to tell you what you know a sight better than I can tell it, but to tell you about our shoppin’ to-day, an’ what a dose of this pertective - I got. I . 's'pose you’ve hearn tell of the twine trust, hevn’t you, Mr. Editor? Well, the difference ’twixt you an’ me is that I've hear“f&of; iv and felt it—felt if in my pocket, sir—an’ that’s bein’ teched that way so often nowadays that it is gettin’ ‘mighty sensitive. .Two years ago I paid fourteen cents a pound for the best manila twine. That was before the farmers had said that they didn’t want free -twine, and before these pesky trusts had got to be such private affairs that what they did wasn't any concern of yours or mine or the President’s, you know. To-day I paid eighteen cents a pound for just the same kind of twine. I saw a letter from the secretary of this trust 'in “which he said that the raw material had riz. Wages isn’t raw material, is they? \Vell,,rag‘ to-day’s deal that little rise of the(twine trust jest lifted $6 out o' my pocket slick an’ clean. Then, only last year, when Betsy wanted to put up her presarves, we got fourteen pounds of sugar for $l. This year the sugar trust have run it up—or down—so we get nine pounds for $l. That made jest twenty-five pounds less sugar for a five-dollar _bill, you see, and at last year’s prices “that - 'is $1.78 more than I have ‘trusted,’”’ © Then, on the paint an’ oil, as near as I can 'ﬁgger it out, the white-lead trust and the linseed-oil trust borrowed a couple dollars more to be paid back to me in -a home market, posserbly. Itall makes $9.78 taken jest for nothin’. ; Now, let’s see what that means from my point. My cows average me a pound of butter a day, an’ I'm gettin’ & shilling a pound for it. It will takeone cow seventy-eight days to earn what these - trusts took out of me, to say mothin’ of the feed and work; or they’ve come and taken a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound pig out of my pen, or they’ve took an acre of good corn, or they’ve taken all the profit there is in an acre of my winter wheat, leavin’ me the cost about paid. Now, when this sort of thing is goin’ on all round the ring, is it any wonder that all farmers feel that somethin’ is hurtin’ them mighty bad, and that some of us, who can see what it is, get so all-fired mad? Ther was a feller onct down in your eity who imperdently asked folks: ‘‘What are you goin’ to do about it?”’ when they hinted that he was a-stealin’ too much, an’ the trusts are stickin’ their thumbs in their arm-holes and cockin’ their eyes at us an’ askin’ us the same question. Well, Tweed found his answer, - and ihey’ll find . theirs. Meantime we can only growl and save a little harder. - : : L

TANNER’S ESTIMATES. . Extravagance That Would Compel a : Grievous Increase of Taxation,Tanner, the Pension Commissioner, ‘has a fatal facility in the use of his ~ tongue. He eannot bridle that unruly .member. It attacks both friend and ‘foe. Now he is in a quarrel with a Democratic editor, who reterts . that . he must himself follow the advice he has given his staff, and never flirt with a fool nor fight with a cripple. Acain he is engaged in controversy wilk A Republican Congressman, and seems to think himself rhetorieally picturesque in saying that his‘impreéssion of him' is that if his brains were blown . through a erdne’s bill. into a mos- ~ quito’s eye the mosquito would never h%ﬁé;# of the meﬁﬂnw% the Commissioner is free to go up and down the Un %f%néechwf in R B e Ao f‘ ] “ﬁ'g ‘-y .-'{i.j il!; g ‘ wgﬁﬁ&: & %;,w AR N A it 50l pdgtessr bt ] LI SN TPR L %m,»,ugﬁsww’wﬁ%

Interior is nobody. The President is important only as he adopts the Tanner idea of pensions. “But, say,” he exclaimed to a reporter at Elmira, “wait till you see my estimate for next year. I am debating whether my report shall ask for $110,000,000 or $115,000,000. Won’t there be damning all along the line when those fellows see an increase of $30,000;000 asked for?” : e - What the needs of the meritorious veterans demand the generosity of the Nation will accord. But there will be, ag there ought to be, decided impa~ tience with demands urged in the insolent fashion which Tanner flippantly adopts. The war closed in 1865. It might reasonably be supposed that every really meritorious claim for pension was adjudicated within four years thereafter. In 1869 the total number of pensioners was 198,686, and the annual disbursement in their be--half was some $28,000,000. In 1888, notwithstanding the . casualties ac-~ curring during twenty years, deaths, remarriages, the attainment of majority by minor -children, etc., the number .of pensioners increased from 200,000, in round numbers, to 450,000, and the disbursements from $28,000,000 to $80,000,000. The arrears act of 1879, with its monstrous invitations to perjury, is responsible for this colossal increase.. Mr. Tanner, the great surplus destroyer, now proposes to ask for $30,000,000 more; that is, more than as much again as was paid in 1869, There is a screw loose somewhere. Theunion of the claiin agent, the demagogue and the mercenary is too much for the integrity of the Treasury. ; : Mr. Tanner fancies he has at his back the entire Grand Army, but if this were so it would furnish no excuse for a wholesale raid upon the National resources. = Open the door as Tanner would open it and no limit whatever can be put on claim-agent rapacity, Instead of $30,000,000 the demand before the close of the Harrison - Administration | would be {for twice that sum, and this, coupled with the other free expenditure contemplated, would .compel a grievous increase of taxation.—Chicago Times.

" CURRENT COMMENTS. ——Under the,Bussey decision come one should propose a revolutionary pension for the heirs of Benedict Arnold, if there are any.—Albany Arpus. - ) ' ——Observing people are remarking that President Harrison has yet to take the first step in the direction of extending the reforin of the civil service. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——The race between Tanner and Bussey as to which shall outdo the other in wasting public money is one of the most disgraceful spectacles ever witnessed *in our Government.---N. Y. Stap 0

——We learn from our estéemed Philadelphia contemporary, the Philadelphia Times, that Cheap John Wanamaker ‘‘4is much improved by his trip.” There is nobody that stands in greater need of improvement.—N. Y. Sun. . ] .

——The Republican party has done many things which call|{for, comment. In matters of policy we have had frequent occasion to oppose it. It was, however, honest in its belief,” as we have been hondst in ours. But to place the name of a dishonorably discharged soldier next to that of a veteran who did his whole duty, and to support him for life in si)ite of his crime—that is anp anct on which a difference of opinion would seem to be impossible.—N. Y. Herald. : - ——Having, by means of his puppet convention, nominated himself for Governor, Mahone now proposes to elect himself by appealing to the prejudices of the negroes, and by using the Government patronage. This is Mahoneism and the *‘Old Dominion’” is threatened now with a domination such as it has never before known. It has been chastised with whips, but should. Mahone prevail it will be chastised with scorpions. The white people of the State will see to it that no such disaster falls upon them.— Chicago Herald. f

Race War in Mississippi.

Mississippi negroes are forming “alliances’’ under the leadership of a black scoundrel named Olivers Cromwell. Race wars are feared, and Governor Lowry has sent troops to the scene of the disturbance caused by the massing of five hundred armed blacks. - The ¢‘Southern outrages,” so frequently howled about in the North, are frequently caused by the negroes themse¥ves,. and the people who are removed from the dangers attendant upon 'an insurrection of ignorant, criminalled blacks should inform themselves upon the true status of affairs before damning the Southern people, who rarely resort to extreme measures unless the occasion vitally demands it. Oliver Cromwell should be severely dealt with and his mob dispersed, though the process be a severe one. Fanaticism rules the Southern negro when excited by such desperadoes as this modern Cromwell, and fanaticism and ignorance 2 7 v are dangerous in the extreme.-—-Chi-cago Mail. . | i S et s

Protection Ethically Considered.

Of course, the effect of protect'on -upon the morals of the protected must in theend be, very bad. It has a Aendency to make them cowardly, treacherous and grasping. The fear of meeting outsiders in friendly competition; the temptation to make poor goods when poor goods can be sold for an unjustly high price; the business of seizing as legitimate prey the labor of others and turning that labor to ‘one’s own uses—must, sooner or later, have a bad effect on the individual and the community at large. A man can not thrive at.the expense of other ‘men, whether those men are his near neighbors or are living at the antip‘odes, without being hardened in his sensibilities and becoming to a certain m‘ﬁ“‘mm offect. of pro"ﬂ%g; "" miaterial welfars 18 eveniually ruln Somsgsleertiron baly Widinlios i Miihnest ‘Selenice Monthly,, o

JEWELERS’ SIGNS. Why the Hands A_;;:;‘l Indicate Seven= 3 teen Minutes Past Eight. Did you ever notice the position of the hands on the clock and watch signs in front of the jewelers’ stores? They will be found almost uniformly to point to seventeen minutes pasteighto’clock. Probably you have never thought of it, and perhaps you never before noticed the fact. But it is a fact, nevertheless, and having become satisfied of it you will of course want to know why it is so. i Well, one reason assigned and decidedly the most interesting is, that the’ clock-hands in this position permanently chronicle the moment of Abraham Lincoln’s death as the resultof the shot fired by the assassin, John Wilkes Booth-2or at least the time when the clocks in the White House were stopped immediately after the great emancipator expired on April 15, 1865. .

1t is said that the large clock in the main hall of the Executive Mausion at Washington was stopped at exactly 8:17 on that fateful morning by one of the officials whe ,was at the bedside of the President in his last moments, and that it was not again put in motion®until after the funeral and the removal of the evidences of mourning. ‘ During all this time the clock attracted the attention of visitors at the White House, and the position of the hands on the dial became impressed upon the minds of hundreds of prominent citizens of the nation. It is added that the jewelers of the country, the ‘wateh-makers and clock-makers, by common consent adopted’ the time for their signs as a mark of their regard for the martyred President. That was a quarter of a century ago. Clock and watch signs of to-day nearly all have the handsin the same position, but comparatively few jewelers of the present time pretend to give thereason for'it. When asked why the pointers are. so ' placed they generally reply: “Don’t know,” or ‘‘Hadn’t noticed it.” It is only as tradition, therefore, that the expldanation is made by one who has implicit faith in its truth. There is but slight variation in the location of the hands, whether the dial has Arabic characters or Roman figures. And this has given currency to another theory, which makes the practice of painting ciock signs in this way of much more ancient origin than 1865. This tradition is to the effect that the c€stom¢ was adopted upon the occasion of the Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, which destroyed the city and in which 60,000 souls perished. The clocks of the city were stopped by the upheaval, and such as were not totally demolishéd gave silent but indisputable evidence of the hour at which the calamity occurred.—Chicago News .

SHORT FASHION NOTES. Styles That Seems to Be in High Favor Among Fashion Leaders. ‘ Dresses made entirely of crape are worn only by widows. The newest wrinkle in' Paris is a colored gown with black sleeves. 4 ' Henrietta cloth is the material used for the first-mourning dress. White flannel gowns look cool; their wearers do not uniless the day is frigid. Never any’ fashion in dress died so hard as the bustle, but: it is almost gone. : : Every well-regulated costume bears a fan attachment at the present ‘time. Blazers are ciosed with one button at the throat, or three buttons placed lower down. There are fans and fans, but the good old-fashiened palm-leaf fan takes the prize. : e The straight skirts which are now sc ‘fashionable measure four and 'a half yards around. =, Woolen dresses of different weights are the most appropriate fabrics of seaside costumes: : : * Accordion-plaited skirts are in high favor in Paris, so their lease of life is likely to be extentled here. : Crepe de chine is the prettiest fabric in use that can be worn on dress occasions during the period of mourning. The French style of mourning is more generally adopted in this country than the English, because it is less heavy. : Minton China is in high favor for dinner services, Worcester for table decorations, and crown Derby for vases. : , i L The prettiest white dresses of the season are made of China silk and silk mull, the mull being used for the sleeves. = T ' e To cover a parasol twenty inches deep it requires two and one-quarter yards of material that is twenty inches Mikde,: U oRa L e : el Trade for shoemakers will look up if dresses which show the ankles find favor. They are the newest importations from abroad. =~ fimia White silk and lace parasols have an air that is not truly rural, but which is becoming to light and jaunty costumes nevertheless. e g : ~ Angel sleeves, or, as the Parisians ~call them, ‘*‘mauchera la Juive,” are worn with sleeveless jackets over skirts the same color as the sleeves. “La Surprise de la Course” is the name given to a dress which was in. high favor at the English races. At rﬁtmiw&?&Pngqfx:a@mwh&t like & plain redingote, but when thrown open in front displaivswemcoatwdwﬁ-ﬁ coat of great richress. —N. Y. Press. ' . 00 e o o e R e - —Alsdy, who, though in the autumn of life, has not lost all dreams ‘of itB spring, said to Jerrold, “Lcan not. et eST R A R S g g e “WWJ‘ e ﬁ”" “ﬁw’fn‘ Y si L il es T e gl e w‘ﬁﬁ%iﬂ%k*ﬁ‘%%‘wﬁ%&*fﬁg PR TAR AR W""?’ﬁ‘@"%ﬁ; e T Vs SR lIROD omestic affairs. *My wife and I get

FARM AND FIRESIDE. : ——Leb’the'hox‘éemnin the pasture & little while.when they come in from a hard day’s work. They will enjay it better than a full meia;l. — A quart of milk in a large pitcher, with a lump of ice to stand in it, is a refreshing article on a hot day. But it is best to keep in mind that the more one drinks the moreuncomfortable one will feel, as it causes perspiration to flow copiously. fod ¢ ' —A cow may look well, and even be a good milker, yet |be ‘breachy, and have a confirmed habit of swinging her right hind foot in an uncomfortable, awkward manner around at the milker and the milk pail. You shonld lsok out for such kind in purchasing. —Bananas kept on ice a few hours, then peeled and sliced into a glass dish, with a cold yellow custard poured over them, and frosted over the top, make an easy amnd welcome dessert. Four bananas to a quart of custard is sufficient for a’ medium-sized family.—N. Y. Independent. —The man who is thoroughly in earnest and alive to the importance of killing weeds will be constantly on the look-out for times when he canrid himself of these pests; but few farmers realize what a tax it becomes on their energies and capital to allow weeds to ripen their seéds. —Do not expect too many eggs. Occasionally a hen may be found that will lay an extraordinary number of eggs, but this will prove the exception rather ‘than the rule. Ten dozen eggs in a year is a good average, and more than a large number of them will do, and this number will return a handsome profit on the cost of keeping: ; —lf the season ig of the rainy sort, the growth of clover on the grain field is only a fortunate ‘mat for hay. or for plowing under as manure, and willgive a further dividend the next season as an underground deposit. If notneeded for pasture, ¢lover can always be used to advantage in some other way.— Orange Judd Farmer. 3

—OQOat meal, vegetables, fresh fruits and plain, good bread should form by far the greater part of our fare during the hot weather. Use iced drinks sparingly. Much taken at one draught is apt to do serions harm. Ice cream can be indulged in frequently, provided it is eaten very slowly. 'Then it will prove healthful and nourishing. It is the sudden chilling of -the stomach that does harm. —During the long hot days of haying and harvesting those who work out in the fields feel the need of some drink more, refreshing than water. All alcoholic stimulants are hurtful, not only to the system but provoke an unhealthy thirst. Let these entirely alone and try the following, which is recommended on good authority as refreshing and invigorating: One and a quarter ounces of tartaric acid, one pound of fine sugar and a few drops of essence of lemon. ' A heaped tablespoonful in a gill of water is about right. i

SALT FOR BUTTER. Facts Which Are Not Understood by Many Farm Dairymen. ". Salt does not.preserve butter. Butter preserves itself, and the salt gives it a flavor. Salt has a tendency to ar rest the fermentation or decay of the buttermilk, but not the butter. It ig not necessary that you should work this salt through your butter, or work the butter until you grind it to death to get the salt through it. If the buttermilk is out of the butter that is all

' you want, and you then distribute the salt through evenly so that one portion will not be more salty than another. There are many things which affect the character of butter, and skillful manipulation is necessary to have it ‘ perfect. In the first place by not skimming the cream from the milk at the ! proper time,or it is not properly ripened and mixed, and hence we do not get all the butter out of it. If allowed to stand too long there is a good deal of the butter eaten by the acidity of the cream. Another reason is the over-working of the butter, which grinds the grain out of it. Another reason is, the tubs for packing are often improperly prepared for the keeping and preservation of the butter, and to exclude the air absolutely from it. It is very important that the tub should be thoroughly soaked and scalded with hot brine, a cloth ' should be put at the bottom, and then 'a thin layer of «alt, then the- butter i pressed down firmly. so there can be 'no opportunity for the air to get in. { Cover the butter with a clg{;ch, put some 'salt or brine on top, and’ cover air- ‘ tight. Then set the tub in a place where the temperature is cool and dry, 'and where it can not get musty or ‘moldy or absorb taints. You can keep butter an almost indefinite length of ‘time if treated in this way. We should do our utmost to have all our butter RO to market in the very, best possible condition.—Orange Judd Farmer. ————— g — PERNICIOUS WEEDS. _ Most of Them Have Been Imported Into ; the United States. . : It seems a curious fact thatevery one of all the more pernicious weeds known in the United States is a naturalized foreigner. Of the less bbjectionable class, which may be styled troublesome weeds, at least two-thirds are likewise of foreign ancestry. The few American plants that may be arranged ‘under the general term of weeds are for the most part annuals, and therefore easily eradicated. Take, for ' in--stance, the common ragweed, or as it s sometimes known. Dbitterweed; the: long-leg daisies '(Erigeron); fireweed, ‘beggar-ticks. otc.; one cutting before the seeds ripen is generally sufficient ‘0 destroy them, as well as provent a -, mmed‘!uaewnwmmmmm ‘part of the owner will often prosure ‘for him o fine supply of sumach and egl o, Jentokee by i underground stems, but all such are casily eradicated. The vile class of eins oil 15 ARG Tt ko Droc e aERIERR AR b e »v"i,m’,;;i;%f’@hg@}”%w “4' R i RS q;;p,fr‘ et e

- DAVID SPARING SAUL. International Sunday-School Lesson for . sSeptember 15, 1889. . _[Specially arranged from 8. S. Quarterly.] LessoN Texr—l Sam. 24:4-17. ' GOLDEN TexT—Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—Rom. 12:21. CeNTRAL TrUTH -The only way to overcome evilis with good. ‘ ~ Tmve—B. C. 1060, two or three years after the last lesson. : : PrAacE—Wilderness of Engedi, ‘“fountain of the kid,”” on the cliffs fifteen hundred or two thousand feet high on the west side of the Dead sea. It is very difficult of access, but a charming spot when reached.. Many caves are in the vicinity. ‘ SamueL—Died about this time at Ramah, aged eighty-six. Davip—About twenty-five years old, an exile. 2 SEVEN YEARS oF Exie—From B.'C. 10623 to 1055. (1) To Nob, close to Jerusalem, only a few hours (chs. 21, 22; Ps. 52). ' (2) To Gath, a brief stay (21:10-15; Ps. 34). (3) In the‘cave of Adullam, five or six miles southwest of Bethlehem (ch. 22; Ps. 57 and 142). (4) The wilderness of Judah, including Ziph, Maon, Adullam (22:5; 23:1-39; Ps. 84). (5) Experience at Engedi (ch. 4, today’s lesson). (6) Experience at Carmelin the south of Judah, with Nabal (ch. 25).: (V) At Hachilah, mm the wilderness of Judah. David spares Saul a second ‘time, unless this is another version of to-day’s lesson (ch. 26). (8) At Gath, sixteen miles among the Philistines (ch. 27; Ps. 56). : Davip’s BAND—Assembled at Adullam; four hundred at first (22:2), afterward six hundred (27:2). Among them were the prophet Gad; Abiathar, the son of the high priest; .Abishai, David’s nephew, afterwards a great general; thirty-four valiant men of war, “whose faces were as lions, and were as swift as roes upon the mountains” (I Chron. 12:1-14). The others were discontented men, many of them fleeing from the oppressions of Saul. : VALUE oF DAvip’s EXILE Expnm&vgc—(l) It kept him from the dangers of sudden prosperity. (2) It taught him to put trust in God. (8) It made him acquainted with the needs of the people, (4) It gave him practice indealing with men. (5.) It prepared a large number of persons to hail him as King. (6) It gave him skill in war. (%) It gave strength to his character. . . Herps oviEr Harp PrLAcEs—Saul, with three thousand chosen men, was pursuing after David. He came into the entrance of the cave of Engedi, where David was hidden with his men; while he was asleep, David, refusing to kill him, merely cut off a part of his royalrobe. 4. Shirt :the hem, perhaps the “golden fringe. 5. David’sheartsmotehim: for treating with indignity his King. - 7.- Stayed his servants: who wished to kill Saul: This opportunity was a great temptation to David. By Killing Saul he would save:his own life, escape persecution, become King. He had to resist not only his own feelings, but the persuasions of :his companions. 8. Bowed himself: in reverence to his King. 10. Thine eyes have gseen: David sparing Saul refuted the slanders spoken against him by such as Doeg (22:9-11), and Cush. (See title to Ps. 7.) 18.! Wickedness proceedeth jfrom the wicked: as bad fruit from a bad tree. From David came good to Saul; therefore Saul could see that he was not wicked. INTRODUCTORY—CaII the attention of the class to-the fact that we have had concrete illustrations of opposite principles working out their legitimate fruitage in two different men. In Saul we had envy, culminating 1n practical murder. In Jonathan we. _had love, ending in self-sacrifice. To-day we have another virtue exemplified in' actual life. In order rightly to understand it, we need to remember that for two or three years David had been g hunted exile. Saul had driven him from post to pillar, leaving his soul no rest. (As a mirror of his feelings at this time, read Psalm 57.) ln his wanderings David had gathered around ‘him a band of discontented and somewhat lawless men, 600 1n number. Saul, who for some time had been busy with the Philistines, now gathered 3,000 men, and put all his energies into hunting down his enemy. With David his falling into Saul's hands was sure death. Under these circumstances the events of the lesson took place. , 3

ComMENTS—The golden text this week is well chosen. Here we have its practical exemplification in the life of David. In order fully to ‘understand the grandeur of David’s conduct, let us look at it carefully. It is said that to return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good-is human; but to return good for evil is divine.. If so, David’s conducc showed that he was guided by the Divine Spirit. For Saul was seeking. his life without any cause. Nay, David had been Saul’s benefactor, and yet he -had to flee from before his face. It was rank inJjustice and wanton bloodthirstiness that led Saul to act as he was doing. Yet David was ready to forgive him, and bore: him no malice. But notice that it was not for lack of opportunity that David did his foe no harm. Never had man a better chance, for‘both at this time and subsequently with Abishai he had free scope to act as he pleased. Saul was absolutely in David’s power. Note again that it was not because others. ' dissuaded . him that he spared Saul. On both occasions the attendants urged David to take vengeance on his foe. On both occasions David had to. stem the tide of publi¢ opinion and stdnd alone on the right side. (Compare this with Saul’s conduct as given in 1 Sam. 15:24.) Observe finally that it was not because he could offer no plausible excuse that David spared Saul. He might easily have argued that Samuel had anointed him as well as Saul, and that by his disobedience Saul had forfeited the Divine favor and had beén rejected by God, and that under the circumstances it was only acting in self-defense for him to beavenged of his adversary. Many poorer arguments than this have sufficed to lead God’s children into paths of sin. All the above considerations may well exalt the character of David’s actions in our eyes. 1t was a most magnificent piece of largehearted forgiveness on David’s part. If Jonathan, in our ‘last week’s lesson, shone as an evening star, David, in this lesson, arises upon our vision as an equally brilliant: morning star.—Rev. A. F. Schauffler. = |

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. g 1. Our early life is a school to train us for, life’s work. ' ; 2. Our wholelife is a school to prepare us for the Heavenly Kingdom, ‘ 8. God’s love shines through our trials as stars shine in the night. ' ; 4. Every one of us has great temptations. to overcome. 5. The opportunity for wrong doing is no’ excuse for domng it. B SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ‘ Groree FREEMAN and wife,. of Lathrop, Mo, have been married thirty years and: are the parents of twenty-five children. . A FARMER in Belmont County, 0., states tHhat a woodghuck and a black snake inhabit the same hole in his clover lot and are ap‘parently on the best of terms. =~ = SpeoiveNs of “flexible stone have been: guarried at Chattanooga, Tenn. It resem‘bles fine sandstone, and when cut into fine strips it will sustain a curvature of sixty ‘degrees without breaking or' damage to the finer grains on the surface. = e A soy of Lansing, Mich., some time ago | received a severe shock from lighgping, and ‘ever since that, during every electric storm, ‘the boy becomes unconscious and goes. through nearly the .same. experience as.on tho ooogsion of his first shook. .. Ar Sylvanus, Ga., recently' Frani Momﬁnwnmon ‘which & found it a diffiowlt matter 1o undeceive &,‘ s porgiiert ‘did not know it un: | (ERRERL S AP f e nate RR R

Pullman’s Latest Trinmph! = The Monon Route has ar;rantged with the Puilman . Comtfan,y to equip their Chicago and Cincinnati line with new sleepers hayin%lall‘ the modern improvements, including Pullman’s Perfected Safety Vestibule. These sleepers are the finest and most luxurious in their appointments of any ever g‘re,sented for use of the traveling public. liey are finished in ‘mahoPny and the uj holstering is of pale blue plush. They wSi be known as the velvet vestibule train of the Monon Route. The sleepers will be illuminated by electricity from storage batteries. . P . The Monon has also contracted with the Puliman Com%)any to build four solid trains congistin%o Baggage, Express, Mails, Coaches, Dining Cars and Drawing Room Sleegers——.ail to'be of beautiful design and finish. These trains will be run on their Chicago & Cincinnati line commencing October 1. They will be‘eqmpged throughout with Pullman’s Perfected Bafety Vestibule. Electricity and gas will be used for lighting and steam for heating—thereby obviating the possibility of a conflagration. Commencing. September 1 the Monon Route gives the following low rates from Chicago: To Louisville or New Albany, single fare, $4.00; round trip, $7.00. Commencing September 2 the rate to Cincinnati will be $4.00; round trizg, §7.00. Get tickets at No. 73 Clark street; Palmer House, Grand Pacific or Depot, Dearborn station, Chicago. . B —— A MoxroE CountY (0.) man drove to town the other day for the first time since fall and heard that Harrison was elected President. He doesn’t take a paper.and it was news to him, : ; e e sttt A Her Face Was Her Fortune. She was as pretty as a picture and so ani‘mated and lively that it did one good-to look at her. She was all this but she is not now. Poor soul, the roses linger no more in her cheeks, the former luster of her eyes is gone. She is a woe-begone looking piece of humanity now. She has one 01P those troubles so gommon to women and needs Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It recupcrates the ‘wasted strength, puts the whole system right, r%stores the roses and:; the luster and makes thé woman what she once was, bright, well and happy. “Favorite Prescription’ is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle wrapper, and faithfully carried out for many years.

For all derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels, take Dr. Pierce’'s Pellets. One a dose. : et ) . - “Tgg railroads of India,” says a writer on the orient, ‘‘have almost done away with caste.” Never mind, wait until they get to iutroducing American sleeping-car porters and the system will at once be re-estab-lished. S Improvements in Passenger Cars. The Wagner Palace Car Company is revolumo_nizin%l the equipment of its cars and’ making them superior to anything of the kindin the world. One of the. ﬁreat_est improvements is the lighting of the cars with ﬁa_,s.' The New York Central & Hudson A iver Railroad Company is also e%ujpping its passenger coaches with gas. Aboutone hundred of them running out of New York City h been so equipped. The gas is compressed in a cylinder under each car, and one filling of a ecylinder will last the round trip between New York and Chicago. The gas is ' made from petroleum, and furnishes a 60-candle powerlightas againsta 16-candle Pawer light under the old method. Coaches ighted with gas are aslightas a parlor, and Passengers.can read as well in the night‘as n the daytime.—Roma (N. Y.) Sentinel. e ey B . : AN Austrian betanist, Prof. Peyritsch, has discovered that double flowers may be artificially produced by mites, and believes that each flower has its Eeculiar mite-para- . site which gives rise to the doubling, Do We Need Big Muscles? By no means. Persons of herculean build frequently possess a minimum of %fnuine vigor, and exhibit less endurance than very small people. Real vigor means the ability to digest and sleep well, and to perform ‘a reasonable amount of daily physical and mental labor without unnatural fatigue. Itis because a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters enables the enfeebled dyspeptic to consume the allotted activity of every day life, as well as to participate without discomfort in its enjoyments, that it is sech a pre-eminently useful medicine. v : S . TuE bed linen should be changed at least once in three days; the blankets once a week, those that have been removed being hung in the open air for a f®w hours, then thoroughly aired in a warm room. : : f Go Look at the South, - =oOn .August, 6 and 20, September 10 and 24, October 8, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company will run excursions to points in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida. Tickets will be sold at one fare the round trip, good 30 days, bg connecting railroad lines in the North and West. For further information write C. P. Atmore, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky., or Geo. L. Cross, N. %V Pass. Agent, 232 Clark street, Chicago, 111. - : o

CALIFORNIA holds: the cake on snake stories for the season of 18389, with Georgia and North Carolina crowding each other for second place. Elii g Do vou wish to know how to have no steam, and not half thejusual work on wash-day? Ask your grocer for a bar of Dobbins’ Electric Soap, and the directions will tell you how. Be sure to getno imitation. i < e e BEEswaAX may be used for polishing handles, etc., in the lathe. It may be tempered to any degree of softness l&v heating with: turpentine. This must be done with great care to avoid a conflagration. HarsH purgative remedies are, fast giving way to the gentle action and mikd effects oi Carter’s Little Liver Pills. If you try tlrem, they will certainly please you. ; Eoon b e A GOOSEBERRY bush, growing out of the side of a maple tree, twenty-two feet from, the ground, was seen in Johnsbury, Vt., when a tree was felled in the court-house yard the other day. ' | .I y » EvERY trace of salt rheum is obliterated by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. v Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. CALIFORNIA fruit growers, who used to throw away their peach pits, are now get ting six dollars a ton for them. They are worth this for fuel. They make a hot and aromatic fire. : : You can’thelpliking them,they are sovery smalland their action is so perfect. One pill a dose. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Try them. ef e —— . § It is said that a ?art, of %geen Victoria's. savin§s has been invested in real estate in New York City and that each yedr she: draws a handsome income from the rentals.' i 5 ——— e . # ~No Opium in Pisg’s Cure for Consumption,, Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. A GEoRGIA hen gad in her gizzard twen-ty-seven horse-pistol cartridge shells, six buttons and a pieceof lead, ... .. . - ' 'We récommend *Tansill’s Punch” Cigar.

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