Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 January 1897 — Page 6

TAIMAGE’S SERMON. the Ali-PowerfUl Song of the Drunkards. tlM Tilt Amy of Cbolrl*t»w Who Slsx ThU So ns-A Corse Which Hu 1U Hand Upon the Throat of the Nation. Bev. T. DeWitt Ta linage delivered a recent sermon in the form of an a* one* •iug call to reformation from habits of •tissipation. The text was: I was the song of the drunkards.—Psalm j txix., 12. Who said that? Was it David or was ! it .Christ? It was both. {These Mesmianic Psalms are like a telescope. Pull | the instrument to a certain range, and j it shows you an object near by. Pull it to another range, and it will show j jrou objects far away. David and •Christ were both, each in his own time, the song of the drunkards. Holi- j .mess of doctrine and life always did ex* j cite wicked merriment. Although David had fully refored and written a psalmody iu which all subsequent ages have sobbed out their peuitence, his j enemies preferred to fetch np his old 'career, and put into metric measures j sins long before forgiveu. Christ, who | -committed no sin, was still more the subject of unholy soug. because the j better one is the more iniquity - hates him. Of the beat Being whose voice j -ever moved the air or whose foot ever touched the earth it niightbe said: The byword of the passim; throng < The ruler * scoff, the drunkard's song. The earth tilted up for the human j race, in congratulation the tnoruing! •tars sang a soug. The Israelltish \ army safe on the bauk of the Bed sea i mud the Egyptians clear uuder the re* j ed water, Ilduses snug a soug. Oue

of unMttoat important parts of this .great old Book is Solomon's song. At toe birth of our Lord the Virgin Mary mud old Simeon and angelic primadounas in hovering clouds sang a soug. IVhat enrichment lias been given to itbe world’s literature and enjoyment ibj the ballads, the canticles, the dis--eaut*. the ditties, the roundelays, the epics, the lyrics, the dithyrambs. But tuy teat calls attention to a style of -aong that 1 think has never been discoursed upon. You sometimes hear this style of music when passing a saloon, or a residence in which dissipation is ascendant, or after you have retired at night you hear it couiiug out of the street from those who, having tarried loug at their cups, are on their way home—the ballad of the iuebri--ate, the serenade of the alcoholized, or what my text calls the soug of the •drunkards. For practical, and saving, aud warning, and Christian purposes, 1 will announce to you the characteristics of that well-known cadence uiculioued in \ my text. First, I remark that the i-Song of the Drunkards is an old soug. Much of the music of the world aud of the church is old music. First came the music of percussion, the clapping cymbal,which was suggested by a hammer on au anvil, aud then the sighing of the wind across the reeds suggested the flute, aud llieu the strained sinews of the turtle across its shell suggested, the harp. Mut far back of that, aud nearly -back as far as the moral collapse of •our first parentage, is the “Soug of the Drunkards. That tune was sung

at least 4,-43 years ago, when, the deluge past, Noah came out of tue ark ami as if disgusted with too much prevalence of water, tie took to strong driuk and staggered forth, for all ages the tirst known drunkard.^le souuded 4he first note of the old mp.sic of inebriaey. An Arab autlion of A. D. 1310 wrote: ‘‘Noah, being out of the ark, ordered each of his sons to build a. house. Afterward they were occupied in sowiug and in planting trees, the pippins and fruits of which they had found in the ark. The viue alone | eras wanting, and they could uot dis- j cover it Gabriel then informed them that the devil had desired it, and in* < deed had some right to it. Hereupon JN'oah summoned liim to appear in the ffeld, and said to him: Hi, accursed! Why hast thou carried away the vine from me?’ ‘Because,’ replied the ■ -devil, ‘it belonged to me.’ ‘Shall 1 part it for you? su;d Gabriel. T con* eeut,’ said .Nosh, ‘and will leave him a fourth.’ ‘That is uot sufiicieut for j kuu,’ said Gabriel. ‘Well, 1 will take | half,' replied Muah, *and he shall take j the other.’ ‘That is uot sutlicieut yet,' responded Gabrieli ' ‘He must have two-thirds and tbou one, aud wtieu thy wine shall have boiled on the tire until two-thirds are gone, the remainder shall be assigned for thy use.' ” A i fable that illustrates how the vine has -been misappropr.ated. -Again, this song of the drunkards is '*u expensive soug. The boutsgs and j the Fare pa Kosas aud Niiisous and the other renderers of elevated and divine nolo* received their thousands of dollars per night in coliseums and acad- j 4ffii«* of music. Some of the people -of small means almost pauperized themselves that they might sit a few evenings under the enchantment uf tboae angels of sweet sounds. 1 paid osvan dollars to hear Jenny Lind sing when it was not very easy to afford the seven dollars. Very expensive is ouch music, but the costliest song on earth is the drunkard's song. It costs gain of body. It casts ruin of mind, it costs rain of soul. Go right down among the residential streets of any *city and you can find once beautiful -and luxurious homesteads that were -expended in this destructive music. JChe lights have gone out in the draw- i lag room, the pianos have ceased the pulsation of their keys, the wardrobe has lost its last article of appropriate attire. The Belahaxsarean feast has left nothing but the broken pieces of the crushed chalices. There it stands, the ghastliest thing on earth, the remnant of a drunkard’s home. The costliest thing on earth is sin. The moat expensive of all music la the song of the drunkards. It is the highest tariff of nations—not a protective tariff, bet a tariff of doom, a tariff of woe, a tariff of death. This evil whets the Jniem of the aasasalna, onto the

most of tbs wounds of the hospital, makes necessa ry most of the almshouses, causes the most of the ravings of the insane asylum, and puts up most of the iron bars of the penitentiaries. It has its hand to-day on th^ throat of the American republic. It is thd^taskmatter of nations, and the human Wee crouches under its ^anathema. Thex'song of the drunkards has for its accompaniment the clank oh chains, the chattering teeth of poverty, the rattle of the executioner’s scaffold, the breaking door of the deserted home, t he crash of shipwrecks, and the groan of empires The $2,020,000,000 which rum costs this country in a year, in the destruction of grain and sugar and the supporting of the paupers and i nvalids and the criminals which strong drink causes, is only a small part of what is paid for this expensive soug of the drunkards. f ▲gain, this song of the drunkards is a multitudinous song—not a solo, not a duet, not a quartet, not a sextet; but millions on trillions are this hour singing it. Do mot think that alcoholism has this field all to itself. It has powerful rivals im the intoxicants of other nations; hasheesh, and arrack, and pulque, and opium, and quavo, and mastic, and wedro. Every nation, barbaric as well as civilized, has its pet intoxicant. The song of the drunkards is rendered in Chinese, Hindoo, Arabian, Assyrian, Persian Mexican—ye, all the languages. All zones join in it. No continent would be large enough for the choir gallery if all .Ulosc who have tills libretto in their bauds should stand side by side to chant the international chorus. Other throngs are just learning the eight notes of this deathfui music, which is already mastered by the orchestras iu full Toiee under the batous iu full swing. All the musicians assembled at Dussel

dorr, or Kerim, or Boston Peace jubilee, rendering- symphonies, requiems or grand inarches of Mendelssohn, or Wagner, or Chopin, or Handel, were insignificant in numbers as compared with the innumerable throngs; host beside host, gallery above gallery, who are now pouring forth the song of the drunkard. Again, the song of the drunkards is a suggestive itoug. You hear a nursery refrain, aud right away you think of your childhoood home, and brothers and sisters with whom you played, and mother, long siuce gohe to rest. You hear a national air, and yon think of the encampment of and the still night on the river bank, and the campfires that shook lueir reflections up aud down the faces of the regiment. You hear and old chujrcli tune, and you are reminded of the revival sceues amid which you were brought to 'Hod. Nothing so brings up associations as >a song suug or played upon instrument, and th&drunkard's song is full *>f suggestion. As you hear it on the street quite late some night, you begin to say to yourself, **1 wonder if he has a mother? In his wife waiting for him? Will liis chiidreu be frigliteued when he enters the front door and staggers, w hooping up the stairs? What chance is there for a young man started so early on the down grade? In what business will he succeed? How long before that man will run through his property? I wonder how he got so far astray? Can any influence be wielded to fetch him back? lie must have got into bad company who led him off.” So you soliio like aud guess about this man whose voice vou hear on the

street uuder the starlight. Again, the song of the drunkards is easily learned. Through what long and difficult drill oue must go to succeed as au elevated and inspiring singer. Emma Abbott, among the most eminent cautat rices that ever enchanted academies of music, told me on an ocean ship's deck, iu answer to my question: “Whither are you bound?" “1 am going to Berlin and Paris to study music.” “What!” I said, “after all your world-renowned sue,cesses in music, going to study?” Then she told me through what hardships, through what self-denials, through what almost killing fatigues she had goue in order to - be a singer, and that when, in her earlier days, a great teifeher of music had told her there were certain notes she could never reach, she said: “I will reach them,” and through doing nothing else but practice for live years she did rtaeh them. Oh, how rnauy heroes and heroines of musical achievement! There are songs which are easy to hear, but most difficult to render. When Uaudei. with a new oratorio, entered a room where a group of musicians had assembled and said: “Gentlemen, you all read music?” They said: “Yes. we play in church.” “Very well,” said the great composer, “play this.” But the performance was no poorly done Handel stopped his ears and said: “You play iu church! Very will; for we read the Lord ii long suffering, of great kinduesa, and forgiving of iniquity, transgression and sin. But you shall not play for me.” Pure music, whether lingered from instrument or trilled from human lips, is most difficult. But one of the easiest songs to learn is the song of the drunkards. Anybody cau learn it In a little while you can touch the highest note of conviviality or the lowest uote of besottedness. Begin moderately, a sip here and a sip there. Begiu with claret, go ou with ale and wind up with Cognac. First take the stimulant at a wedding, then take it at meals, then take it between meals, thea ad the lime keep your pulse under its stealthy touch, la six months the dullest scholar in this appollyonic music may become, an expert. First it will be sounded in a j hiccough. After awhile it will be j heard in a silly ha! ha! Further ou it will become a wild whoop. Then it; will enable you to run up and down I the five linos of the musical scale in- i feraaL Then you will have mastered ! it—the song of the drunkards. The most skillful way is to adopt the modem theory aad give the intoxicant to your children, saying to yonrself: “They will in after life meet the in toxicants every w'here, and they must get used to seeing, them and tasting them and coutroilin^their ftp*

petites.” That la the beat way of teaching them the song of the drunkarda. Keep up that mode of education, and if you hare four boys, at leaat three of them will learn the drunkard’s song and lie down in a drunkard’s grave, and if 1 ever laid a wager 1 would lay a wager that the fourth will lie down with the other three. Or, if the education of the children in this music should be neglected, it is not too late to begin at 21 years of age. The young man will find plenty of young men who drink. They are in every circle to be found. Surely, ray boy, you are not a coward, aud afraid of it? Sorely you are not going to be hindered by sumptuary laws or the prejudices of your old father and mother? They are behind the times. Take something. Take it oaten. Some of the greatest poets aud orators have been notorious imbibers. If you are to enter a parlor, it makes you more vivacious and Chestertieldian. If you are to transact business, your customer is apt to buy more if you have taken with him a sherry cobbler. If you are ,o make a speech it will give you a glibber tongue. Gluck could compose his best music by having his piano taken into the midst of a meadow, and a bottle of champagne placed on each side of him. The earlier you begin to learn the ! song of the drunkards, the easier it is; but noue of you are too old to j learn. You can begin at &0 or 60, under prescription of a doctor for aids to digestion or breaking up of infirmities, aud close life by rendering the song of | the drunkards so well that all Pande- | monium will encore the perforinauee and want it again and again.

You see this sermon is uot so much for pure as for prevention. Stop before yoQ Start, if vou will forgive the solecism. The clock of St. Paul's cathedral struck 13 one midnight. ah<£ so saved the life of a sentinel. The soldier was arrested and tried for falling asleep at his post one midnight; but he declared that he was awake at midnight, and in proof that he was awake he said that he had heard the unusual occurreuce of the clock striking 13 instead of 12. He was laughed to SrSrti and sentenced t<£death, but three or four perkms, hearing of the cas<\ came up in time to swear that they, too, heard the clock strike 13 that j same midnight, aud so the man's life was spared. My hearer, if you go o& aud thoroughly learu the drunkards'" song, perhaps in the deep midnight of your soul there may souud something that will yet effect your moral and eternal rescue. Hut it is a risky “perhaps.” It is exceptional. Go ahead oh that wroug road aad-the clock will more probably strike the 12 that closes your day of opportuuity, than it will strike 13, the souud c f your deliverance. _ A few Sabbaths ago, on the steps of this church, a man whom 1 had known in other years confronted me. At the the first glance I saw that he was in the fifth aud last act of the tragedy of rutemperauce. Splendid even in his ruio. The same brilliant eye, and the same courtly manners, and the remains of the same intellectual endowments; but a wreck. I had seen that craft when it plowed the waters, all sails set and running by true compass; wife and children, and frieuds on board, himself commanding in a voyage that he expected would be glorious, putting into prosperous harbors of earth, and at last

| putting into the harbor of Heaven. I But now a wreck, towed along by low appetites, that ever and anou run him into the breakers—a wreck of body, a wreck of mind, a wreck of soul. “Where is your wife?” “I do not know.” “Where are your children?” “I do not know.” “Where is your God?” “I do not know.” That man is coming to the last verse of that long cantata, that protracted threnody.that territic song of the dr unkards. But if these words should came—for you know the largest audience 1 reach I never see at all—I say if these words should Come, though at the euds of the earth, to auv fallen tnan, let me say to him: Be the exception to the general rule, and turn and live, whiled recall to you a scene in England* where some one said to an inebriate as he was going out of ehurch where there was a great awakening. “Why don't you sign the pledge?*' lie answered: “1 have signed it SO times, and will never sign it again.” “Why, then.” said the gentle-* man talking to him, “don't yon go up and kneel at that altar, amid those other patients?” lie took the advice and went and kfielt. After awhile a little girl, in rags and soaked with the rain, looked in the church door and some oue said, “What are you doing henp, little girl?” She said. “Please, sir, 1 li/ard as thy father is here. Why, that is my father up there, kneeling now.” She went up aud put her arms around her father's neck and said, j “Father, what are you doing here?” | and he said, “1 am a&king God j to forgive me.” Said she. “if He forgives you will we be happy; again?” “Yes, my dear.” “Will we j have enough to eat again?” “Yes. my i dCar.” “And will you ueTer strike os ; again?” “No, my child.” “Wait here,” ■ she said, “till 1 go and call mother.”! Aud aoon the child came with the : mother, and the mother, kneeling be- j side her husband, sa|d: “Save me, too! Save me. tool” And the Lord j heard the prayers at that altar, j and one of the happiest homes j in England W the home over which that fatnfer and mother now i lovingly preside. So, if in this sermon ! I have warned others against a dissi- | paled life, with the fact that so few re- I torn after they have once gone us tray, for the eueouragement of those who would like to return, 1 tell yon God wants yon to come back, every one of you, and to come back now, and more ‘tenderly and lovingly t ban acy mother ever lifted a sick child out of a cradle and folded it in her arms, and crooned over it a lollnby. and rocked it to and fro, the Lord will take yoa up and fold you in' the arms of His pardoning love. There's a wideness la G*xl’s mercy, / LU« the wideness of the ass. Therein kindness in Bis jus ties.

* TRUSTS AND PROTECTION. Hw Star Feature of the Propoeed Republican Tariff Law. The Buffalo Courier quotes Senator Sherman as saying, once upon a time, to ihe body of which he is a distinguished member: “The primary object of a protective tariff is to invite the fullest competition by individuals and corporations in domestic production. If such individuals or corporations combine to advance the pric**' of the domestic product and to prevent the free result of open and fair competition, 1 would, without a moment’s hesitation, reduce the duties on foreign goods competing with them, in order to break down the combination. Whenever free competition is evaded or avoided by combinations of individuals or corporations the duty should be reduced3 and foreign competition should promptly be invited.” The Courier says that “opportunity for putting this principle to a practical test will soon be presented to Senator Sherman and the republican leaders,” and it asks: “What will’they i do about it?”

The public was treated not long ago to an exploitation of the theory that there is nothing in the protective policy to make it helpful to the trusts, and that thp republican party could, therefore, provide no tariff that would invite condemnation on the ground that it catered to monopolistic combinations. Senator Sherman appears to hold a very different opinion on this subject, however,, and the senator is a man whose opinions are regarded by republicans as amounting to somothing. Mr. Shenr.an understands how easy it is for the trusts to use the protective system to their exclusive advantage, and he has let il^be known that when t%ey so use it he would put a spoHfe in their wheel by reducing the protection Under which they operate, lie explsHned^bat this reduction would have the effect of letting in foreign competition, against which the trusts are practically helpless. A great deal was said during the late campaign about Maj, McKinley’s silence on the subject of trusts, but all the talk that was. indulged in did not have the effect of inducing the major to break that silence. Chairman Dingley nov^pys that protection will be the star feature of the proposed tariff law, in relation to which hearings have begun to be given to interested parties. In view of one thing and another it is probably reasonable to expect that the trusts will be competently represented at those hearings, and that they will make a powerful plea for the kind of protectloll they can use to advantage in their business. And still returning prosperity lags.—Dinghainton (X. Y.) Leader. MR. BRYAN’S RETIREMENT. Motives of Motirstr and Manliness Prompted the Move. ^ According to a dispatch from Omaha Mr. Ervan had good and sufficient cause to cancel his contract and withdraw from the lecture course which had been announced. It appears that Mr. Bryan wanted his tour to be conducted with the greatest modesty, the advertising in the newspapers and by bill posters to be of the most unostentatious description. Indeed this had been stipulated in the contract, but wheif Mr. Bryan arrived in Atlanta he was horrified to find that his ideas of simplicity and dignity were far re

j moved from those of the syndicate j which had charge of his tour. It is to be inferred from the Omaha | dispatch that the posters announcing ; the lecture were of the same retiringmodesty which characterized f the mammoth sheets of many colors with which the Hanna syndicate afJhouneed the “Advance Agent of Prosperity” on the walls of all the towns of the country last suritmer—a kind of flaming circus-poster style. When Mr. Bryan saw himself thus pictured in ail the colors of the rainbow standing in a group with Washington and Lincoln, ornamented with flaming eagles and **E Pluribus Unum” in gaudy colored letters, he realized that he had been misused, and that the syndicate intended to force him into a vulgar notoriety. and keep him there as longas it paid. And although he was received by the people with immense enthusiasm, and greeted by an audience limited only by the capacity of the hall, he deckled he could hot in justice to his sense of propriety acquiesce in the style of advertising adopted. It is to Mr. Bryan’s credit that be at once dissolved his relations with his managers, returned to them the sum of $10,000 which he had been paid in advance for ten lectures and retired from the compact with his managers with his dignity and j self-respect in bis own keeping, and not | at the mercy of a syndicate which was speculating on his reputation.—Illinois State Register. ——To the horde of tariff robbers now besieging the ways and means committee the shoe manufacturers of Massa<chusetts present a startling contrast. By means of better workmanship American shoes lead the world. The ugly, clumsy, ill-made footgear of foreigners stands no khow against the trim elegance combined with durability which distinguishes the American product. The export trade is large and steady, and the manufacturers, instead of petitkxnii^r for higher tariffs, ask th*t sole leather be placed upon the free list, that American-made shoes may be produced at .a still lower cost for American wearers and the export trade be still further increased.—Chicago Chronicle. -The may go but those favored in see Mr. Washington ~ means committee its tariff hearings. expect to be law will do well to soon as possibk M _!

FACTS AGAINST PROTECTION. RApuhllraaa to Favor of o L|Mnse to Bot the Consumer. * Secretary Carlisle in- his annual report states the proposition that “a large and continuous export of a particular class of articles proven an ability to manufacture as cheaply as any foreign competing nation.” a There is no denying the truth of this proposition. Manufacturers of cotton goods, for instance, may export at a loss for one year, or may be two years, in order to prevent a breakdown in home high tariff prices. But they will not go on exporting at a loss any great length of time. Bather than make a sacrifice continuously they will curtail production. Therefore the fact of continued and increasing exportations conclusively proves the ability of our manufacturers to hold the home market without the help of congress. The fact is proof conclusive that tariff protection upon an article which is largely, continuously and increasingly exported is merely a device which enables an American manufacturer tb

extort more from his own countrymen than he is perfectly willing to accept from the people of other countries. The fact of continuous exportation in open competition againstmanuf acturera the world over is proof conclusive of extortion and an abominable wrong of which deluded and too compliant Americans are the victims. Here is a case in point: The pro* dccexs of pig iron in AlaV3K.fr al? Siilj? ping large quan titles to Liverpool. They do hot prefend that they are shipping ct a loss. The fact that they are doing this business proves that they are able to compete against the world. It proves that the duty'on pig iron enables them to get from their own countrymen more than they are glad to take from Englishmen. There can be no excuse for the protection of an industry which demonstrates its abundant ability to take care of itself by selling its product in the world's market, where it has no protection.' Mr. Dinghy’s committee can find no reasonable excuse for increasing the duty on pig iron or iron ore or iron in any of its more advanced forms. Ahd what is true of iron is true of other things. There can be found no reasonable excuse for compelling consumers cf woolen goods or crockery or glass or lumber to pay higher prices for these things. The producers can compete against all the world, not in spite of the high wages they pay, but because they get more product for every ddllar of wages they pay than any other producers of like articles in the world. Those who clamor for more protection clamor for nothing but license to rob —Chicago Chronicle. PROTECTING FAVORITES. Republican Methods of Taking Caro of ( ■ Capitalists. It is not at all surprising todearn that most of the men who appearlefore the ways and means committee to make recommendations respecting the tariff are asking higher rates of protection for their own individual interests. This is what various manufacturers and producers have been doing ever since congress began to grope with the tariff question. The spectacle is no whit more tolerable than it was years ago, however, and gives an extremely unpleasant suggestion as to why some men have so assiduously worked for a congress easily disposed to a general high plane of tariff duties. Some of the articles for which protection is asked are so free from foreign competition that the requests ,are bald impudence. Yet they are heard, and, to some extent, at least,

heeded. If the leaders in the house and the j members of the ways and means com- i mittee are sincerely devoted to their party—to say nothing: of the claims of j their country—they will accord scant j satisfaction to the demands of selfish- I ness. The elections of the last eight years have shown how quick the Amer- i lean people can be in rebuking unpatriotic legislation. Un justifiable “protective” schedules will -be quickly de- i tected and their authors held to severe account. The republican leaders j in the house should take fair warn* I ing that if the forthcoming tariff mens- j ures savor of favoritism to special interest* the new tariff will merely provoke another ^period of agitation and I prove a stumbling block to the republicans who may want to get back to office later on.—Chicago Record (Ind.). POINTS AND OPINIONS. -The republicans are determined to take the currency out of the hands of the people.—Kansas City Times. -March 4 next will be a very important occasion. Mark Hanna will be inducted into office on that date.— Chicago Record (Ind.). —r-If Maj. McKinley were subject to the usual ^pnditions which affect advance agents he would have to count the ties to Washington.—St. Louis Republic. -If you want your Uncle Sam to j protect you from competition and give j you a lot of money which does not be- 1 long to you and which you never earned, i go to Washington and demand a “hear- j mg'* of the ways and means oemmittee. That is what the committee is for—so it } seems.—Sioux City Tribune. can stand for protection and still win victories we shalWmve such spectacles | as that now disgracihg the republic nt Washington. There is no cure for the robbery and scandal short of republican defeat, for protection has come to be synonytne for republicanism.—X. Y. Journal. -Revision of the tariff is a very solemn business. Xobody can guess where tariff tin Leering is going to lead to when the business is taken apt Already them am indications that the gentle men who have been invited to make themselves beard before toe committee on ways end means have more thought of higher prices for tbeir goods than of revenue necessities and genets! business Tsd* ■Cincinn

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COOKING AND EATING. Not Every Man Knows How to Do Klthor Properly. At one time, some 2o0 or 300 year* ago, Italy held tbe palm for cookery, and the French mocked at what Montaigne termed le science de guelle. Then came other days, when mssters of the art, such as Bechameil, maitre d’hote! of Louis and Magnificent, and < Vatel, the famous steward of the*4 prince de Conde. jroled over the. aesthetics of tbe dinner table, and when great ladies, even princesses of the royal blood and maitresses en tirre, thought it no indignity to direct the course of a dish or to themselves prepare it. Priucess SOub.ise invented the puree d’oignons that is even now called after her. The princess of Conte gave her name to a particular pode of serving a breast of mutton; the cfipchess pf ^luwlv, >ying bfi* t* & speeidt Wa7 T* aT^ of (he same viand. The gentle Louise de la Valliere was a great adept in all culinary lore, and Mine, de Main tenon, tern me savante as she was. Would herself prepare les coleiettes of paptlloid for the defection of her royal master. In fact, |*> alarmed was she when Lo«is XIV. showed a predilection for' carre du toouton & la Conte that she called in Pere Lachaise, who, in his , turn, ^invoiced the aid of another priest, with the triumphant result that Cauard an Pere DOuulet is known historically of having been the dish that weaned the too-susceptible monarch from the pitfalls of the princess* j and fixe\l4i!m ih ^ie paths of virtue by , the Side of the Wiuow Searron. » With all due respect to Mgr. Savarin, It is not every man of sense who knows j how to eat. Witness the first Napoleon and the great Carlyle, men wh> | swallowed their food in great galjv?, ' ruining alike their health and, what is syuoi ymous with health, their tempers also. Every one is not like Mr. liiatlstoue, who lays it down as an axiom, and adts upon it. too, that food should : be turned over in the mouth at least 25 or 30 times before it is finally swalj lowed, so do cot deceive jourselye^ i The most important hour that a uay ! hasiu store for your, the axle on which [ all else turns—-liealth, business, wealth, hdpplness—is that hour which is ushered in by what what Byron calls "the toesin of the soul,’* that is, tiie dinner bell. It is a time for which to prepare ourselves with a solemnity befitting such a grave occasion and is not to- be rushed iuto lightly, as if it were of little or no moment. Otherwise, how has it arisen that the'‘ favored ones of the earth habitually cast off the garments of toil, the coat lot varied hues and unmentionable garments of nhvaried form, and attire themselves de rigueur whenever it is a question of dinner?”—London Chat. ^ * Victory. Refinement and barbarism, science, and ignoranee, heathenism and Jodar ism. tbe sophistry of Athens, the power^ of Rome—all are leagued against Christianity, yet all were conquered. How? Not by the genius of its defenders, nor by their social influence, but by tbe spirit of the Lord of Hosts.—Rev. I>. E. Rurriss, Methodist. Philadelphia, Pa. ‘fsu me a story, grandma.” ‘“What kind of a story do yru want, Tommy?’’ “Tell me a story with plenty of raisins and candy in it auda dog.”—Texas Sifter.

Out into the Darkness. What mother would torn her TOttas

caugater out alone, unprotected into the stormy night? Yet many loving mothers allow their daughters, who are just cotsing into the time of womanhood, to proceed witlaout proper care and advice all unprotected and alone into the perils of this critical period. Yeung women at this titne^ften suffer from irregularity and weakness which may afterwards develop into dangerous disease and fill their whole lives with wretchedness. It i* a mothers

duty not to pass over soon matters m silence, bat to promote her daughter's womanly health and regularity by every reasonable means. / These delicate ailments are easily overcome in their early stages by judicious sellv treatment feithoul any need of the obnoxious examinations which doctors uniformly insist upon Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a positive specific for all diseases of the feminine organism. It restores perfect health and regularity to the special functions, and vital vigor to , riie nerve-centres. It is the only medicine of its kind devised for this one purpose by an educated, experienced physician. Daring nearly jp years as chief consulting physician of the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, K. Y,, Dr. Pierce has acquired an enviable re potation. His medkines are everywhere recognised as standard remedies. His "Golden Medical Discovery" alternated with the "Fa* vorite Prescription ” constitutes a thorough and scientific course of treatment for weak and impoverished conditions of the blood. A headache is a symptom of constipation. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets core constipation, promptly and permanently, They fit not gripe. Druggists sell them.