Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 September 1884 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - * INDIANA. DB LOR OB 'PEBSATION. An’ so you's worff a hundred toucan’ dollar! Well, Bimlech Jones, dat's ter'ble rich, 1 But stS, you know, IKvsi'l alters foller Ob all de gool tings, money is de bes’. I eatkerlate dat Nature's rudder fair An' don’ rib all she has to any man: Bar objec' is to let each hab bis share. An’ so to a ben up tings much's she can. She takes a notion for to build a hill; But slide dirt dat's needed comes from wh&r? She digs a hole, an’ keeps a diggin’, till She digs enough out here to put down dar. Jess so In life you'li fin’ it. I'll be boun’; Whenebor fortune towers,to de sky. It’s logic for to eas’ your eyes aronn’ An’ spec’ to fin’ • spondin bole clus by. Well, you has money an’—de rumatte; he money is de hill dat towers high. Bose orUe pains: 1 tell you wat dey is. W’y, can you see? Dey is de hole, elusby. Bow. I is heslfy: dat’s my Mil, I spose. So I is pore, an’ dat’s my hole, you see; But, bless you! w en we reckons smiles an’ woes, Ise jess as good as you, an’ you as me. You has for dinner, ’possum ebbery day, W’ile plain corn cake fe all 1 can afford; An’ yet, I manage in some curus way, . To ben’ my hed, an’ t ank de givin’ Lord. Be Lord has fixed tings putty nearly squar: _ 1 ou kin 6et down on dat tac', sartin' shore; J!r° *s happiest: Oh 1 you’s gofme tliar. ^ We il know wen Deff comes knockin' at de door. —Stv. Plato Johnson, in m T. Independent.

COrSTEBFtIT SOXEY. Interesting Facts lettuei in a Visit to the Secret Service Bureau—Anted and Skillfat Engravers Engaged in the Business— •The Rogues* Gallery—Some of the Difficulties Experienced by the Photographer in Taking a PictureOn the third floor of the Treasury ■Building is room 35. It is the headquarters of the Secret Service- A person with an eye for the curious will see much there that will interest and entertain him. It is presided over by a very bald and very benign old gentleman who knows everything the inquirer wants to know, and will tell the most of it. Occasionally yon may ask a question which may cause him to shake his head and remark in a sly way that certain things connected with the office must not' be told. When you come to understand it you readily'see that this is correct. The business of the Secret Service is to trace and arrest the makers and “shovers” of counterfeit money and revenue stamps. ■ It takes a “smart” man to be a successful counterfeiter. Offenders of this ejass are very different from the ordinary run of law-breakers, such as thieves and burglars. It usually takes thrqe or four to plan and manage a lirst-class scheme of counterfeiting, and they are keen, cunning, shrewd, intelligent men, who if their talents were exercised in lawful channels would make' their mark in the world. 1 hey do as it is, for that matter, but they make it on the wrong side of the slate. They fnily realize their danger and the punishment that awaits them if caught. Every avenue of detection is most carefully guarded. In nearly every case the utmost skill, diligence and patience are requisite on the part of the officers of the law. Of necessity, the Secret Service detectives are the most expert that can be found. None others need apply. Not infrequently months and even years are spent upon a single case before the rogues are secured. The amount of

COINTEKEEIT PAPER MONEY now in circulation is’sald to be less than at any time in the last twenty years. The most noted and skillful engravers engaged in the business have been «aught and put where they can not do any mischief for a long period. Very few new counterfeits Lave appeared daring the last two or three years, and nearly all of them are so poorly executed as to be easily detected. The dangerous counterfeits are those which, even to the minutest detail, are so nearly an exact reproduction of the genuine as to deceive the most expert handlers of money. Such have been produced, circulated for years, and passing through the hands of a thousand bank tellers They have even successfully run the gauntlet of the sharp eyes at the Treasury Department wheu presented for redemption, and been promptly honored. An iron ease in room 35 now contains $1,300,000 of captured counterfeit bills of all denominations, from $1 to $1,-001!. Once every few years this accumulation of “money” is destroyed by burning. The last cremation was in 1877, when 81,000,OX) was permanently retired from circulation. The amount now on hand has been gathered up since that time. It will be destroyed within a month. Counterfeiters generally give the preference to bills of the smaller denominations. The care with which a bill is scanned is ini some degree proportionate to the number of dollars it represents. In nine cases out of ten a counterfeit $1, $2, $5, or $10 will pass unquestioned, while a $100, $500, or $1,000 bill equally well • executed, or perhaps better, will be carefnlly scrutinized and quite possibly detected. None but the most skilled engravers attempt the large bills, and the number of them in circulation is small. Any bill less than $20 rarely attracts, in the ordinary course of business, more than a passing glance. With a little care and adroit^ ness a good counterfeit may without difficulty be put in circulation in large quantities. All business men handle daily more or less counterfeit money and are none the wiser. THE AMOUNT OF BASE COIN in circulation has, notwithstanding the utmost diligence, increased, while the country opened up an inviting Meld for the coin counterfeiters, and they are not tardy in occupying it. Their ingenuity has produced a combination of base metals, the ‘Ting” of which deceives the most practical ear. With dies or molds coins are made which, when heavily wast ed with silver, almost defy detection by the usual superficial tests.

buyer coins of all denominations are successfully counterfeited. Even the fiye-cent nickel does not escape a base imitation. To make a fair article of spurious coin requires far less skill than paper money. Often an engraver spends from one to two years on a single set of Slates tor a bank note, white but a few ays at most are required to produce the apparatus for making coin. TUB HOGUES* GALLERY of the Secret Service embraces a most elaborate collection oi portraits. There are over 3,000 photographs of counterfeit makers and “sbovers.” These persons are of all ages, from the child of fourteen to the gray-headed sinner of seventy. They represent every nationality, even to the African and heathen Chinee. The latter, indeed, are much more numerous than might be expected. Those thrifty pagans are perhaps the most expert imitators in the world, and they stand at the head of the class in the production of base coin. They dc not aipire to the higher walks of art-i ' engraving of plates for bank notes. T fair sex has a large number of delega! maidens and matrons, many of wh are certainly old enough to know betl Ehrewd women are often more si than men in getting rid of counterfi money, and there are few “gangs” th do not have one or more among their number*. Hundreds of these porti aits adorn tiie Wails of the room, and the remainder lilLa dozen large albums. They afford a rare opportunity to one who may wish to study character as it || retained in the human face divine

They ran from the highest types of dopraved intelligence through all the Intermediate grades down to the lowest phase of coarseness and brutality. ' The majority of them are not actual makers of spurious currency, but aie largely oi the class known as “shovers.” Their part of the business is Ho get the stuft into circulation after it is made. A great deal of caution is necessary K> do this successfully. It would be extremely hazardous for cne or 'two persons to undertake the starting of large quantities upon its travels. Detection would be almost certain. The “queer” is distributed among a considerable number of persons, and if the counterfeit be a good cne they are able to work off the issue without much difficulty or danger. To facilitate this it is common to employ various methods to give the bills the appearance of age and much handling. Sometimes they are dipped in weak coffee to give them a brownish tint; oil is used to produce the effect of finger marks; this also, softens the fiber of the paper, so that the bills may be crumpled, which adds to the appearance of-age. These processes greatly assist in the concealment of defects which always exist in the engraving or printing. A bill thus “doctored/may generally be passed upon unsuspecting persons in the ordinary course of business without the ^lightest trouble, when the same bill, if new and crisp, especially if the person should be seen to Lave a number of them in his; possession, might excite suspicion. In the case of coin, it is customary to remove by simple methods the bright luster which is au infallible sign that it hasn't passed through many hands. Yeairs ago there were wretched attempts to makes bogus coin. They rarely deceived any intelligent pet son, and now thev are

not olten soon, scientific improvement in this branch of industry has kept pace with our progress in other fields ol labor. A well-known scheme for the diffusion of counterfeit money is the sending of “ confidential” letters to persons who it is thought might “bite” in all parts of the country, offering tq sell current money at prices varying from twenty-five to fifty cents on the dollar. Most of the staff advertised in this way is of the poorest quality, and the foolish buyer whose eupiili'ty has not been appealed to in vain, fintis himself in the possession of something absolutely worthless, even as a counterfeit. If ho attempts to pass it the chances are that he will plump himself into the penitentiary, bo avaricious and gullible is the average man, and so eager to grasp at anything which gives promise of making money easily, that very large amounts of this miserable stuff are in this way woirked off by the makers. One can not repress a feeling akin to admiration for the skill that produced a really first-class counterfeit, while for the awkward bungler he feels only exeeraton and contempt. The mail advertising system has its weak points. Even with the utmost care and secrecy there is great danger of detection. Every possible subterfuge is resorted to in the mailing and receiving 0f letters. It is impossible to avoid sending the seductive proposals to many who are “not that kind of men,” and who often place them in the hands of Government officers. A lartra number of detectives, aided by the P06V office authorities, are constant*y at work upon this class of cases. Sooner or later they almost always succeed in breaking np the scheme. The addresses to which “orders’-' are to be sent are always a myth. Great ingenuity is necessary to elude the vigilance of those who endeavor to exclude all such illicit correspondence from the mails. Addresses are frequently changed, but in spite of all these efforts the officers generally continue to “run them down.” A large number of the pictures in the gallery are contributed by this class of offenders. This branch of the business has within the last few years been almost entirely broken up. It has become fraught with danger of detection that few "are willing to take the risk of engaging in it. THEY IVON’T LIKE IT.

.ftlneh difficulty is sometimes experienced in securing a satisfactory interview between the rogue and the photographer. The consent of the subject to be photographed is quite essential as a factor in the case. When, like the proverbial woman, he savs he “won’t and that’s the end of it,” there is likely to be trouble. In one of the albums there is a unique picture of a tonghlooking citizen, who was held prostrate upon the floor by four athletes while the artist was endeavoring to do his duty. Three men partly concealed by a screen kept his body and legs qniet. while the fourth had his knees planted upon the offender’s head, which he held with the face turned toward the camera. Next to this spirited picture is one whii was the result of the first effort wi him. He takes his seat in the chair ai patently qniet and submissive, but the instant the operator removed t cap he turned his head quickly aroun the effect being an excellent photogra of his back hair. Then the attendanj proceed to force, but under a suspej sion of the rules, with the result as ready given. Trietion of this kind not unusual. _ Sometimes the phe rapher is completely baffled by facial contortions of the unwilling s ject. By this means he “gets bulge ” on them in a way that no or exercise of physical force can p; vent, but there is a strategic way to even around this obduracy which subdued by a dose of ehlorotorm, or picture is taken while asleep, as tween him and the United States Cavern ment the odds are too great, audio some way he is compelled to yield. A CURIOSITY SHOP. The nrbane old gentleman in charge shows the visitor a large and interesting collection of plates, dies, presses, molds and implements of various kinds, together with a villainous lot of knives and other weapons, all of whieh have been captuied in the raids upon the counterfeiters. Some of the plates are of exquisite workmanship, fully equal in this respect to those made by the skillful engravers employed by the Government. There are al ways some minor points of difference by which, the impressions from these plates may be detected, although their general appeaaace is such as to give them every appearance of genuineness to any but the most practiced eye. It may lire the turn of a line, the shading of a, letter oi some irregularity iu the delicate tracery of the border that can only be discovered with the aid of a glass. These, when captured, are so mutilated by channels plowed across their face so as to make it impossible for them to b« esed again. As they accumulate they are destroyed from t'me to time, but enough of them are retained to satisfy the demands of curiosity. Theie is a p css somewhat rude in construction, but which, in its operation, is not inferior to those at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. There are many contrivances for making bogus coin from the silver dollar down to the nickel. Some of those are hardened steel d ies, by which the coin are pressed, the process being similar to that employed at the United S'ates mints. Others are molds of iron, copper or plaster,

-— -' —Winnipeg has welcomed an addition of eighty Icelandic immigrants to the prosperous little “eongregration” of tire hundred already in the c ity. The newcomers are hoping to he;nn life as Manitoba farmers.

Domestic Chemistry—B*U!b*. All articles of food are derived from the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and the ultimate elmente of all of them may be reduced to four—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrojren. The reason of the infinite variety in vegetable and animal substances is found in the fact that the above elements, two or more, combine in different proportions, or are arranged among themselves in different ways. These substances are comprised in four classes, tbe first substance composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the two latter being m the proportion to form water. These are called hydrates of carbon, gum, starch, and woody filters being examples. Second, substances composed of the same elements as last mentioned, but in which hydrogen is in excess, fata, oils, resins, and other combustible bodies being examples. Third, substances in which oxygen is in excess, such as the greatest number of vegetable acids. Substances cornami nitrogen. This class includes many animal and vegetable substances. The proximate principles of animal flesh which* is presented to ra in form of food may be reduced to three, fat, gelatine and albumen. The various processes of cooking extract Hhe principles of the substances in widely different mariner. Flesh is nothing more than the meat or muscle of an animal. So when we eat a beef-steak we eat a portion of the muscle of a steer. It is generally of a red color, but if washed repeatedly in cold and afterwards in hot water, it becomes nearly white, in which state it is called fibrine, and the nutriment is gone. If the water in which the meat has been washed were boiled for sometime, strained, and boiled again, it will be found on cooling to be in the state of jelly,, or in fact in form of gelatine, which is one of ths proximate elements of hone. The object of the straining is to separate the albumen, which sets or solidifies by boiling. Albumen is a substance like the white of an egg, and it exists largely in the blood of all animals. The savoring principle of animal food is ozmazome. It is the source of its odor and taste, and is very nutritions. In a separate state it is a thick liquid, something like strap, but does not coagulate as do gelatine and albumen. From all that lias been said, it will be seen hpvv unwise it is wash meat before cooking, which, I am sorry to

a> gicai iua.uv uuudVKCVpvn do. . The fat of animal substance is remarkable as containing no nitrogen, and it is similar to all animal and vegetable oils. When we boil meat, as in the process of making broth, the fat is dissolved and separated, and floats on the surface of the water, from which it may be skimmed off, or if allowed to remain or to cool, becomes solid. When meat is boiled properly, it becomes firm and digestible, and acquires a savory taste and smell; but if boiling is too long continued the meat becomes indigestible, and loses much of its taste and nutritive qualities. If the boiling be violent the mnsenlar portions of the meat lose their gelatine and become tough and fibrinous, while the inside will be scarcely affected, as much of the nutritive juiees of the meat escapes into the water in the act of boiling. The meat should not be cut into small pieces except for the purpose of makking broth, that is, if the nutriment is wanted to be kept in the meat. A large joint is preferable to a small joint ana is cheaper in the end, but if the water is to keep the nutriment, small joints or pieces are preferable. By the above is demonstrated the important service boiling water renders us in the preparation of animal flesh for food. It proves, too, that the most expensive joists of meat are not more nutritions than the cheaper joints when properly cooked.—Cleveland Leader.

Winter Rye. Winter rye if sowed early is; less apt to winter kill; it will require Hess seed, the growth will be stouter, and the production greater, other things being equal, than if the sowing war deferred till late in autumn. It is sown early to great advantage, in order to yield green food for cattle and sheep, particularly the latter. Rye is capable of being cultivated on most kinds of land, but the light, sandy soils, where wheat will not thrive, jre the sorts of soil on which it wiH, generally speaking, be found most profitable to raise this crop. When rye is sown upon light land it ripens much earlier than on a cold, stilt ground. Some sow their winter rye at the last hoeing of Indian corn, and hoe it in. This is a good pra. tice, when it is sown on flat land, or on a rich and heavy soil, where grain is apt to suffer by tfre

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uimmj wan wnen iae crop is mesne lor harvesting. Winter rye affords the earliest spring food; it will be ready for feeding by April, and while young, affords a wholesome but rather laxative food. It should be consumed before it shoots into ear, and dry food is recommended to be fed with it. Rye is much infested by a very poisonous fungus called ergot. The poisonous influence of this fungus extends not only to human beings, but insects settling on it are killed, and swine, poultry and other animals eating it in their food die miserably in strong convulsions, and with mortifying ulcers. Ergot of rye is, however, in the hands of a skillful 'physician, useful as a remedial agent. It iis chietly found where rye grows in damp, adhesive soils. From experiments made to ascertain the proper .depth of planting, it was found that from one-half inch to two inches is the best depth for the seed to germinate. At the depth of one-half inch they appear above the ground in eleven days, at one inch in depth in tweitve days, and at twp inches deep in eighteen days. The root stalk forms itself always next below the surface of the ground, and if the grain is placet! deep it must first put out its sprouts to the surface and form its side branches in a nearer connection with the air. W& never find that the sucker roots are arranged from below to above., but the contrary.—A. H. Ward, in Boston Globe. —A plai n baked Indian-pudd ing. w oat; fruit, is surprisingly- improved serving it with a rich sauce, and ‘ seem to be anything but a eemi dish. Beat itwo ounces of sugar one ounce of butter together till are like cream; then heat one egg, thoroughly mix with the butter „ sugar; flavor with extract of vanill t ox with grated nutmeg.—Boston Budgt f. —Potato balls are very nice far breakfast Boil them, and while still w; mash them until there are no li

leu; men mix onuer, pepper, as] little chopped parsley and one or n raw eggs; beat these together U ooghly, then mold in balls, dip beat*n eggs and then in Soar, and m ItuUer—i£**Vnwe,

USEFUL Wro_SUGGESTnE. ' —An increase of one-fourth in the milk producing qualities of a cow is doubling the net profits. —Ton ean not make a better use ot your stads than to pour it around young trees, grape-vines and rose-bushes, ft is a first-class fertilizer for all_Exchange. —It is very wisely advised that poultry breeders should not lose sight of the double object of raising poultry—the production of eg>s and the production of the supply of carcass. —Prunes bear the same relation to plums that raisins do to grapes, and are probably the most digestible of all dried fruits, while they are as wholesome as any.—Cincinnati Time). —Nature Is very much like a shiftless child, who, the more he is helped the more he looks fcr it. The more mediT cine a man takes, the more he will have to take, whether it be anodyne, tonic or alterative.—Ball's Journal of Health. —Enough corn and potatoes are every year destroyed by the cultivator, because the hills are a few inches out of the way, to pay extra wages for good workmen who will plant as corn and potatoes should be planted.—Troy Times. - -Chipped Beef: Heat together one and a half pints each of milk and water and thicken with a beaten egg and a little flour; when it has boiled five minutes add a quantity of chipped beef; stir in well and remove at once from the fire. —The Household. —To protect the iron'ng-board from dust, take two paper flour-sacks, cut the bottom off from one, and paste this one to the top of the other, to make the required length; when done, slip this over the board. The outer covering of the board need not be taken off after using, if this care is taken, and much time is saved. —An exchange says that it would be a great advantage to farmers if the managers of fairs would offer a premium for the best collection of dangerous and troublesome weeds in pots, and the best mode of getting rid of them. There is nothing that would be of more benefit or interest to the farming community. The total loss to farmers from weeds is immense. There is hardly a farm crop whose yield is not diminished by them. Some of the worst weeds in the country are plants originally sent forth as flowers.

Objectionable Harness. Custom is a perverse enemy to all advancement, and possesses no greater stronghold than it does among owners of horses. Harness should be made as light as possible compatible with s .rength and durability, so as not oniy to lessen the burden of the horse, but to allow greater comfort. Tnere are many of the parts appertaining to a complete set of harness calling for reform, but as we intend only to call attention to such portions where improvement suggests itself, our remarks will be confined to winkers, collars and bearing-reins. Beginning with the smaller evil, we ask what benefit winkers confer on a horse other than enabling him to catch the dust in his eyes, and preventing him from seeing what he is doing. Custom will reply that if a horse is worked without winkers he will be affrighted when he hears the noise of and sees the vehicle behind him. We can not realize why a distinction is drawn between saddle and harness horses—why the latter should and the former should not wear them. Admitting that we have more command over a horse when in the saddle, which is asserted to be the reason for the non-necessity of winkers in saddlehorses, surety this should not subject a horse taken from riding and put todriving purposes to the evil of being semiblindfolded. From the absence of winkers the horse can see what is behind him, and knows that it is an inanimate body which will do him no hurt, having examined it in his mind’s eye before being hitched to it; whereas had he winkers he would be ignorant of the true cause of the clatter and more likely to be frightened. It would not be wise, except with docile horses, to discard winkers where they have always been used; but we should break-in horses without them, thus giving the young horse confidence by allowing him to see what he is doing and in some measure to use his own judgment. For some years past there has been considerable agitation against the use of bearing-reins, which has not caused a corresponding decrease in their use, and which perhaps may be accounted for on the same principle as that clergyman understood, who exhorted bis hearers to do as Jie said and not as he aid.

Tight and continued reining causes poll-evil, strains the deep-seated ligaments and muscles. It assists me causes productive of megr’ms, and induces viee, such as jibbing and rearing. This should be sufficient to discourage their use against anything that can be advanced in favor of their retention. We are told that it gives contour to the neck; but where breed is lacking no bearihg-rein can remedy the defect by putting an arched crest upon a ewenecked animat. Well, it keeps him up. Nonsense. The driver keeps his eye upon the animal he is driving, and at the slightest trip reminds his charge by a slight check, which has the effect, not of keeping him up, but of making him keep himself up. * The reins, beiogheid easily, though not carelessly, can he tightened or elongated to the easement of the horse when going down or ascending a hill, or to allow for the play of the head caused by the motion of the body. But the. bearing-rent permits none of these. Do not think when you see a noble horse standing in a carriage, tossing his head and clamping his bit. that it is his pride. No; he is endeavoring to obtain a moment’s cessation to tho pain inflicted by his head being constrained by the short rein. If none of these arguments suffice for light harness, at any rate they should prevail for one class of horses. Any one who has noticed a heavy drafthorse begin moving an exceptionally weighty load—to exert greater power the animal lowers his head and almost crawls along the ground; and yet sueh horses are universally provided with this rein. As in the case of winkers, we do not advise a general and immediate discontinuance of bearing-reins, as there are some sluggards who hang and depend on the bit; but if. all young horses were taught to work independent of them, there would be but few subjects— and those from some natural defect— that would be benefited by their use. But there is still another important part of horses’ harness requiring amendment, and that is the collar, and which, from being constantly pressed against the neck, interferes with the free return of blood from the head. Further, it impedes respiration,, produces fistulous withers, poll-evil, and other ills. Sore shoulders are of frequent occurrence, causing great inconvenience to their owners by throwing animals out of work. The substitution of a breast-harness would remedy most of the inconvenience of the collar. It affords a greater surface for pressure, being thus less likely to produce galls, besides having its bearings upon parts less affecting the breathing and superficial circulation. The disuse of winkers and bearingreins we are satisfied would be no loss. Of the abandonment of collars for

Religious Department. WEEN WILL IT BE? ENo man knoweth thp coming of the Son of Mao.) When will it be? Just at the nightfall, when all work is done. And rest comes, following the vanished sun. Bringing its peace to those who weary grew With labor lasting all the loag day through? Will it be then? Or will it be at midnight’s solemn hour. When earth seems sleeping like a folded Sower? Then will there come a knocking at the door And the soul start at sounds unheard before. And listen fora vol.e in tenor dumb, The dreaded voice of Death, that says: “I Art ready Tor the journey thou must take Before the cock crows and thy friends awake?” ' Or will it be at morning, when the sun Rises on golden tasks anew Begun? Will I be standing at the plow when he Whose faee we dread so much shall come to me And say: “Give o’er thy labor. Say good-bye To these thy comrades?” Wii 1 shrink and cry: “Oh! spare mo yet a little while, I prayI am not ready. Wait till close of day?” Ah, soul! not ready? Wilt the plea avail Uttered by lips tnat terror has made pale? No! He will say: “Thou knewest, soon or late. My feet would tarry at thy soul’s closed gate. Wast thou not bidden to be ready? Lot I come and find thee unprepared to go. Thou askest time. Was time not given thee? Too late regret, and all in vain thy plea!" Rise, soul, and set thy house in order, lest At any moment Death should be thy guest. Be ready for the journey thou must go At morn or midnight, if ho finds thee so. Brave with a faith in things thou canst not see. What does it matter when he comes to thee? —Abea A. Hejrfonl, in Adouuce. Sunday-School Lessons. THIRD QUARTER. Sept. H—Waiting for the Lord_Psa. #0: MI Sept. 21—A Song of Praise.Psa. IDS: 1-23 Sept. 38—Review: or Missionary. Temperance, or other Lesson selected by the school. FOURTH QUARTER. Oct. 5—Solomon succeeding Da- „ vfd .....I Kings 1:2231 Oct IS—David’s Charge to Solomon .1 Chron.22:8-19 Oct 19—Solomon’s Choice.1 Kings 3:5-13 Oct. 38—The Temple Built.1 Kings 8: 1-14 Nov. 2—TheTempteDedicated.l Kings 8:23-38 Nov. f—The Wisdom of Solo- _ “on.-.1 Kings 19:1-13 Nov. 18—Solomon’s Sir?..1 Kings 11:4-13 Nov. S3—Proverbs of Solomon. Prov. i: 1-18 Nov. 30—True Wisdom.Prov. 8: 1-1T Dec. "—Drunkenness.Prov. 23: 23-38 Dec. 14—V anity of Worldly Pleasure. Eccles. 2:1-13 Dee. 21—The Creator Remem- _ bored.Eeclcs. 12:1-14 Dec. 28—Review: or Missionary, Temperance, or other Lesson selected by the school.

THEREWITH TO BE COSTEST. It was a wonderful lesson Paul had learned. He knew how to be abased, and how to abound; he had learned to be full and to be hungry; to abound and to sutler want, and in all things to be content. Very few have that lesson. Very few are equally strong on either side. They who boast of their strength in one direction are often weakness itself in another. Tijn tree which braces itself firmly against the west wind maybe uprooted by the eastern gale. Some flowers that endure the cold of winter wilt under the heat of summer. There are men who bear adversity well. They grow strong and compact under its pressure. They grow pure, refined and gentle under its fires. As their calamities rise thehr manhood rises. Always equal to the occasion, they are strengthened by what threatens to overwhelm them. These same men, so unconquerable in calamity are often wholly unmanned by a touch of prosperity. The moment the pressure eeases they relax and weaken. They are like Samson with his locks shorn, taken captive and set grinding at the mills of sin. Other men seem to grow and ripen in prosperity. All their better nattjre expends and grows rich in the balmy air of success. It sometimes happens that these same characters, which are mellowed in the sunshine, grow gnarly and sour in the shade. The juices which sweetened in the daytime sour in the n ght. People who a e roost genial when prosperous sometime become morose when circumstances change. It is a common complaint that a man’s good fortune and his friends forsake him together. But it is not always entirely their fault. A changed demeanor in the man himself, often accounts for it. He is no longer an agreeable companion, and they who would still be bis friends must bear with his complaints and ili-hnmor.

Faith should so lift a man above his fortune that he may not be disturbed by its changes. He should feel those changes as the good ship feels the storm, and reels but to right itself again and hies on. He will feel prosperity and enjoy it, but will not be elated or throwu from his balance. He will feel adversity and suffer from it, bnt not be depressed or harmed. It is not of course a stoical indifference which does not care. Men, it is true, have made themselves indifferent to fortune. They have even fled from the world to convents, because sick of the world’s hollowness or afraid of its power. They have refused fortune because, they feared her, and defied her by keeping out of her reach. -- .Three brothers had opportunity equally presented to them. One refused to seize it lest he might not be able to bear good fortune. The other two became wealthy and grew in grace as thpy grew in riches. They bore their good fortune as well as j»e did his povertyPanl was not indifferent. He pre-. ferred plenty, but could endure want. He preferred liberty, bnt could endure the dungeon. He sang songs in it at midnight, but took pains to get out in the morning. He felt reverses, but they could not turn him from his pnrposk He had known the variations of fortune, and could appreciate them all. While he could enjoy prosperity as well as any one it was 'not essential to him. •- He did not prefer want, bnt he could accept it without any sense of humiliation. He could bear either condition and be content.

mere never was » time when this grand equanimity was so needed as now. There never was a time when the fluctuations of fortune were so frequent and great. We read in nursery tales of a Cinderella advanced to a throne by fairy charms. But Cinderetla is a tame story beside many a roman c in real life in the present generation. By a magic more wonderful than that of the glass slipper, the boy of yesterday is the millionaire of to-day. and the millionaire of to-day the pauper of to-mor-row. The flatboatman becomes a President, and the sons of money-kings go begging. In this country every man is. bom to all the possibilities of the land. There is no place or fortune from which liis eondition excludes him. There may be in every man a laudable ambition for great things. Bnt this often becomes an insatiable greed, which clutches and supplants. Success comes to be the goddess men worship. Young men come to feel that life without her favor is not worth living. Naturally enough thev sometimes sacrifice their all to her. and half fancy she "can forgive sins also.” There must, of course, be many disappointments. For every hill there is a valley. Amidst sudden elevations there must he sudden falls. Men need as pever before that self-poise which steadied the heart of Panl. No people on earth need it as do we. Liberty requires more manhood than slavery. The opportunities of freedom require greater balance of character than the limitations of despotism. We need that exalted manhood which can "abound or be in want,” and yet be content; content not because its aspirations are low, bnt because they are so high as to lift us above the fluctuations of fortune. —Chicago Advance. —When a man has no desire but to speak plain truth he may say a great •leal iq a very narrow spa«e.—Sleek. %

A Common Mistake about the Golden Bale* There is & very common mistake* about the meaning of the precept. It is sometimes taken as though it required ns to rule our conduct towards other men by their wishes; to do this would often be a folly and a sin. It really requires us to rule our conduct toward othqrs by what our wishes would be if we were in their place; aud this is a very different matter. In other words, we’are to make what we see are their real interests our own. I have' heard of a foolish father who. when one of his girls was fourteen or fifteen years old, gave her the choice of a pony or remaining another year or two at schoot. The child naturally elected to have the pony, and most children at herbage would do the same. The father’s conduct was ruled by the child’s wishes, and he indicted on her a grave injustice. * * * A man appears to ine for a testimonial, and I may have reasons to believe that if 1 give it to him he will have a good chance of securing an excellent appointment. He is in urgent need of it, for he has had. a great deal of trouble. There is no harm in him and I should be glad to help him. But I am doubtful, and more than doubtful, whether he would discharge the duties of the position satisfactorily. He says that if I were in his position and he in mine I should plead hard for his recommendation. But 1 have to think not only of the man himself, but of the people to whom he wishes me to recommend him. If I had to make the appointment myself should I like them to recommend me a man about whose fitness they were uncertain? Should I like them to tell me of his merits and not even to hint at his disqualification? Is it just even to the applicant himsetf to give him the support he asks for? If 1 were in his position should, I—if I were a wise and honest man—wish to be recommended to a post the duties of which I was unable to discharge? Apart altogether from the obligations of veracity, this “golden rule” may require me to refuse to support" his application. This Christian law would diminish the immorality of testimonials. —If, W. Date, in Goal H'onls. Practices What He Preaches. Much of Mr. Moody's success is at, tribnted to his perfect faith. When he became convinced that he was an effective worker for the Church (before the burning of Chicago), he abandoned his business, and followed the example^ of Jesus Christ and His diciples, trust, ing to Providence for his own support. Of late it has been a common report that Moody was rich, worth half a million etc. now, if Moody were rich, it would be anabanclonment of his early1* prineiples,andit would be inconsistent with his great faith. Inquiry shows that, some years ago, enough money—some ten thousand dollars—was reserved from the proceeds of a sale of the Moody and Sankey publications to pay for a "farm at Northtield, Mass., and that this farm was presented to Mrs. Moody by the publishers, who are friends of ’ the family. This farm is now utilized as a home aud place of schooling for poor boys. Those scholars who can afford it, pay one hundred dollars a year, but most of them are supported "and educated for nothing, and this good work, it is understood, exhausts the entire ineome of the family. It is stated to the Current on the best of authority, that Mr. Moody owed four hundred dollars to a gentleman in Chicago, and paid interest on it for several years—. and that recently—before he found it convenient to pay off the principal. Mr. Moody, it may thus fairly be stated, is a “square man,” and practices precisely what he preaches. Had the possesion of wealth been his ultimate aim, he might, probably, be worth vast sums of money to day.— Chicago Current.

Wise Sayings, —A talent may be perfected in soli-* tade; a character, only in the world.— Goethe. —We write our blessings on the water, bift our afflictions on the rock.— Dr. Guthrie. —When the family pews begin to be fillet! there will be evidence that homes have become more Christian and more home-like. God speed the time!—Free* man's Journal. —We have often wondered whether that religion that cost nothing in this world would pay anything in the world to come—whether any piety could grow up in a heart crisped up with pure stinginess.—Christian Mutex. —Infidelity reproves nothing that is bad. It only ridicules and denounces all that is good. It tears down—it never constructs; it destroys—it neves imparts life; it .attacks religion, but. otters no adequate substitute.—J. It. Paxton. * —The men who would ignore Christianity and create in its stead what they call a scientific religion have to borrow their ideal of character front Christian morals. On all that is really worth knowing and believing in religion their light leaves men in darkness—Exchange. —Like Hakes of snow that fall nepereeived on the earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed one. another. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed. No -.single Hake that is added to the pile produces a sensible change; no single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man’s character.—Jeremy 'Taylor. —It is often made an excuse for not attending public worship that business cares or household duties press too! heavily. But let such persons try for few times the experiment of laying aside their cares to join humbly ana fervently in the worship of Almighty God—of bringing their anxieties anti perplexities to the foot of the Cross—of casting their care npon Him who careth for them. Then might they go back to ■ their tasks, strengthened ami refreshed, to find their “way appear steps unto Heaven,” and, by prayer and faithfulness, to mold their daily lives intojthe likeness of the everlasting life beyond. —Golde n Rule,

Aspia wall's Malle; Population. Aspinwall rs a place with about 12,000 inhabitants, throe-fourths of whom are canal laborers. The inhabitants are from all parts of the world. It is supposed to be an American colony, yet the number of Americans does not compare with almost any other nation. One meets here everything in the form or man. In passing along its crowded streets one is run into by a native, with “Carramba! donde vas tul” (Look out where you are going)—jostled by a Turk, pushed one side by an Arab, or run into by some horrid dirty fellow you would give much to avoid, and finally fetch up in the middle of some small merchant’s place of business, for the walks are eovered with these petty traders, who have their goods spread out upon mats. Each proprietor is to be found squatting down beside his or her ptace of business, and one may expect sudden war in the Unifed-^jates dT Colombia, should he by chance ttisturt a merchant of this description, especially if the manager be a woman.— t’or. dockland Courier. - .J —The school savings banks ol France have been wonderfully success, ful. In 1879, five years after theij foundation, there were 10,440 schools Provided with such banks, and 224,200 epositors. The numbers have now risen to 21,484 schools and 442,021 depositors.

Cel iimbi* River Cuwfji, Mr. Seorge Horae, one of thelargest cancers o.’fish, on Colonsbia RiTer, Oregon, says t»t he suffered with rbeamatiso| for seven rears, having spent six months at Arkan sss Hot Springs, and at Paso Robles Springs, CaL, four months in every year, withcnt benefit. Finally he tried St. Jacobs Oil, the great paio-cnre, and in a short time ail stiffness and soreness of the foists disappeared. Beware of green fruit. The fruit can not help being green, but vou can.—Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. So ■'fOMast can live without some share of physical suffering; but many accept as inevit ihie a great amount of pain which can b« avoided. Lydia E. Pinkham’st Vegetable Compound was invented by one who under stood its need, and had the rare skill to pro ride a simple, yet admirably effective rejoedy. The violin craze which has recently attackei t some women was probably caused by a i csire to possess a beau. J. IV. Graham, W holesale Druggist, of Austin, Tex., writes: “I have been handling >r. Wm. Hals’s Balsam for the Luxe; ,and have found ttoue of the most salable n .edicines l have «gJL-r had for Coughs, Colds and Consumption.”

It r takes a milk-man’s wife blush to ash her if her silk dress is watered.—Chicago Tribune. 83" It is a Well Known Fact I In the Diami >nd Dyes more coloring is given than in anj known Dyes, and they give faster anti n ore brilliant colors. lOe. at all druggists. They are a great success. Wells, Bicha fdsoa & Co., Burlington, VL t’Hi most verdant young man of the perioc. was the one who attempted to cut grass with a bicycle.—Boston Budget. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Pnrifi is the skin. Use instead of unwholesome -osmetics. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, iOc. Dui i- mules con verse by means of signs, becauto actions sneak loader than words. —Boston Transcript. Thi short, hacking cough, which leads to Const lupciou, is cured by Fisa's Cure. Nawk* combs the rooster’s head, but man has to comb his own.—y. 11 Times. lr t ffiicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thom pson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell It. «--o

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20 Years! A SANGER FOR TWENTY YEARS. For twenty rears I suffered from a Cancer ©a my tteck. Patent Potash attd Mercury Mixtures* fed lastead of curing the Cancer. I lost the use of mv arms and the ipper z**rt of tuy body. My general health was broken t ;own. sad my life was despaired of. & &. &. cured n .• sound aud well. This new lease of life it gave to me can not be measured by any monetary t owe my lily* and th** support of my family to SwifPa Specific?5, W* K. ROBISON. D*vi»boro~Ga. HOPES TO BE CURED. ^Mr. Brooks, near Albany. was hopelessly afflicted with Career. I£ had e»teu through his nose into his mouth a id throat. The time of his death was oc.^ a ile prayed for death. j>. has ha«l question of a very short time. his suffr leg was so great. S. S.. S. has had a wonder^ fttlefteei on him. His improvement is so great, that we all fe -l sure of his being perfectly cured iu time. W. fi. GILBERT. Albany. Ga. Our Tr jatise on Blood and Skin Diseased mailed free to applic cats. SW1F'!’ SPECIFIC CO.. Drawers. Atlanta. Ga. „ N. Y. « >ffice. 159 W. 2bd St.; Philadelphia Office. 12C5 Ciicstnui &t.

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