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REV. DR. TALIVIAGE DISCUSSES
THE WORLD'S LAST E3ATTLE.
The IlegitnentS TliatWi1i be Engaged in
In the Conflict—The Commanders Oil Both
Hides—The .liattle Itself and the Tre-
mendous Issues.
Washington, Oak 18.—In his sermon
to -day Rev. Dr. Talmage discussed the
great confliot prophoey foteshadows as
the climax of the world's etruggles—
Armageddon. His text was Revelation
xvi, 16, "And be gathered them together
in a place called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon,"
Megiddo is the nanae of a mountain
that looks down upon Esdraelom the
greatest, battlefield thee the world has
ever seen. There Barak' fought the Can-
aanites: them Gideon fought the Micliara
ites; there Josiah fought the invading
Egyptians. The whole region stands for
battle, and the Armageddon of my teat
borrows its name from it and is here
used not geogeaphieraly, bub lignratively,
while setting forth the idea that there is
to be a world's closing battle, the great-
est of all battles, compared with which
the conflicts of this century and all other
centuries were insignificant, because of
the greater umber of combatants en-
gaged, the greater vtatory and the great-
er defeat,
The exact date of that battle we do
not know, and the exaot locality is un-
certain. It may be in Asia, Europe,
Africa or Amerlea, but the face that
such a battle will take plaoo is as cer-
tain as God's eternal truth. When I use
the superlative degree in raved to the
coming conflict, I do not forget that
there have been wars all along on stu-
pendous scale. As when at Marathon,
1VIlltiades broleght an his mon, not in
ordinary naneoh, but in full rem, upon
the horsemen of Persia and 6be black
archers of Ethiopia and scattered them
and crying: "Bring Are! Bring fire!"
set into flame the ships of the invaders,
As when Philip IL triumphed over
Portugal. As when the Huns 'net Goths,
As whea 300 Spartans sacrificed them-
selves at Thermopylae. As when the
Carthaginians took Agrigentum. As
rhea Alexander handed the Macedonian
phalanx. As when Hannibal invaded
Italy. Battle of Hastings! Battle of
Valmy! Battle of Pultowal Battle of
Arbelal Battle of Tours! Battle of Boro•
dine! Battle of Luoknow! Battle of
Solferinol Battle of Fainter/0y, where
100,000 were slain! Battle of Chalons,
where 800,000 were massacred! Battle of
Herat, vehere Genghis Khan destroyed
1,600,000 lives! Battle of Neither, wine°
1,747,000 went down to death! Ons
million eight hundred and sixteen
thousand slain at Troy! An.I American
battles, too near us now to allow us to
appreciate their awful grandeur and
significance, except you Who were there,
facing the north or teeing the south!
But all the battles I have named put to.
gather will not equal in numbers en-
listed or fierceness or grandeur or tri -
e umpli or rout the coming Armageddon
e contest. Whether it shall be foughb with
printer's type or keen steel, whether by
brain or muscle, whether by pen or
carbine, whether by booming cannon or
thunders of Christian eloquence, I do not
know, and you may take what I say as
figurative or literal, but take as certain
what St. John, in his vision on the
rooks of the Grecian archleplago, is
pleased to call Armageddon.
My sermon will first mention the
regiments that will be engaged in the
conflict, then will. say something of tee
commanders on both sides, and then
speak of the battle itself and the tre-
mendous lames. Begiuning with those
who will fight on the wrong side, I first
mention the regiments dinbollo. In this
very chapter from which my text is taken
we are told that the spirits of devils will
be there. How many millions of them
no one can tell, for the statistics of the
satanic dominions have never been re-
ported, and the roll of that host has
never on earth been called, but from the
direful and continental and planetary
work they have already done and the
'fact that every man and woman and
child on earth bas a temper there must
ebe at least 1,600,000,000 of evil spirite
familiar with our world. Perhaps as
many more are engaged on especial en-
terprises of abomination among the
nations and empires of the earth.
Besides that there must be an inconceiv-
able number of inhabitants in realms
pandeixioniac, staying there to keep thn
great capitals of sin going from age to
age. Many of them once lived in 'leaven;
but, engaging in conspiracy to put saten
on the throue, they were hurled out and
down, and they are now among the
worst thugs of the universe. Having
been in three worlds—epavee, earth and
hell they have all the advantages of great
experience. Their power, their speed,
their cunning, their hostility, wonderful
beyond all statement. In the Armaged-
don they will, I doubt not, be present in
full array. They will have no reserve
corps, but all' will be at tho front. There
will not only he soldiers in that battle
who can be seen and aimed at, but
troops intangible and without oorporeity,
and weapons may strike clear through
them without giving them Imre. With
what Omit of defianee will they climb
up the ladders of Bre and leap from the
battlements of asbestos into the last
campaign of hell! Pant, the bravest of
men, was impressed with their might for
evil when he said, "We wrestle net
against flesh and blood, but against
prinoipalities and against powers and
against the rulers of the darkness in
this world, against spiritual wickedness
In high places." Oh, What an agitating
moment, when the ranks diabolic move
up and take their planes for conflict in
the Armageddon!
Other regiments who will march into
the Agile will he the regiments alcoholic.
They will be made up of the brewers
companies, distillery owners and liquor
dealers' associations and, the hundreds of
millions of their patrons. They will
reeve into the ranks with what the Bible
calls the "sung of the drunkard." And
what a bloated and soaked and bleared
and blasted and hiccoughing and
nauseating host! If now, aocording to
a scientist in England there are 50,000
deaths annually from strong drink, and
In the United States, according to an-
other estimate, 98,000 deaths a nnually
from strong drink, what an army of living
drualords that implies, waning up
from the whoa) earth to take their places
in the last battle, especially as the evil
increasee and the millions now staggem..
ing on their way may be joined by other
inillions of re -enforcements, brigade after
brigade, with clrmakardsbones drum-
ming on the heads of beer barrels the
dead march of souls! These Mallions of
victims of alcohol, joined by the mil-
lions of the victims of arraok,the spiritu-
gee liquor of China and .India and Ara-
bia and Egypt and Ceylon and Siam.
Other regimen/ea who will marati ipto
the fight on the wrong eide will be the
regiments infidel. God gave but one
reeel'ation to 'the human race, and these
men have been trying to destroy it.
Many of fihe books, magazines and
newepapers, through perpetual scoff at
Chrietianity, and some of the universit-
ies have beeome reorniting agencies for
those regiments. The oreatest brigadier
of all those regimentl, Voltaire, who
closed his life of assault upon Christian-
ity by writing, "Happiness is a dream,
and only pain is real. I have thonght so
for 8 years, and I know no better plan
than to resign myself to the inevitable
and to reflect that flies are = born to be
devoured by spiders and man to be oon-
sunaed by care, I wish I had never been
born." Oh, the God forsaken regiments
of infidels, who, after having spent their
life in antagonizing the only influence
that could make the earth better, gather
with their low wit, and their vile
sneer, and their learned idiocy, and their
horrible blasphemy, to take part against
God and righteousness in the great
.Armageddon!
Other regiments who will marob in on
the wrong side in the battle will be the
regiments Mohammedan. At the present
time there aro about 175,000,000 Mos-
lems. Their plain mission is te kill
Christians, demean womanhood and
take poesession of the earth in the in-
terest of ignorance, superstibian ard
moral tith. The massacre of 50,000
Armenians in the last two or three
years is only one chapter in their effort
to devastate the earth of everythiug but
themselves, So determined are they in
their bad work that all the nations of
the earth put together dare not say to
them, "Stop, or weveill make you stop!"
My hope is that lang before that last
battle of which I speak the Turkish Gov-
ernment, and with it Mohammedanism,
may be wiped out of existence, The
Turkish power fur the last 400 years has
been the mightiest hindrance/ on earth
to religious liberty and moral improve-
ment. Her extermination is prophesied
th the book of Revelatinn in the figure
of the drying up of tho river Euphrates,
and she is going rapidly, thank God! In
1823 the Turkoman army of 30,000 was
destroyed and the cause of liberty ad -
veined. In 1827 England, France and
'Russia,not so cautious as they have
since been, at Navarino humiliated the
Turkish fleets, and Graeae was free.
Weaker and weaker the Turkish power
has beaten°, and it has lost Algiers and
Wallachhaand, tnore than all, during the
past decade, througb her cruelty, has
lost the sympathy of every gone man
and woman in all the earth, and if Wil-
liam E. Gladstone were Prime Minister
of England the Turkish Government
would very soon either quit her out -
or go down under the bombardment
of the men-of-war from many nations
now hovering near the Bosporus. But if
the Bible prophecy coneerniag the drying
up of the Euphrates is nut fulfilled be-
fore the battle mentioned in my text
Mohaulearinism will march in with
sword and poison and torch to take her
part in the great Arnageddon.
Yea, to show the magnitude uf the
forces on the wrong side, I have to tell
you that wheels left of heathenism at
that time will numb into tbe °Gotha,
There are 150,000,000 fetish idolaters,
220,000,000 Brahmins, 4011,000,000 Bud-
dhists. Through the eublimestmovement
of this oentury, the missionary move-
ment, all the time gathering in momen-
tum. I believe all or nearly all of that
770,000,000 of heathendom will be core
vetted to Go& But that which is not
converted will oomo into the Armaged-
don on the vero.ng side.
Other regiments nn that wrong side
will be made up of offenders bf all sorts
—the defrauders, the libertines, the
clynamiters, the anarchists, the oppres-
sors and the foes of •society, the crimin-
als of all nations, by whetever name they
are now °alba or shall than be vaned.
They may not before that have openly
taken sides, but then. they will be com-
pelled to take sides. With what vemon,
with what violence, with what despera-
tion they will fall into line at the greet
Armageddon! Is it not appalling, these
uncounted regiments of the earth, to be
joined by the uncounted regiments from
perdition? Can any power cope with
them? Especially when I tell you who
their commander is, for so much in all
wars depends upon the chieftain. Their
leader will not be a political nochlent ne
a military "happen so.''- 13y talent anti
adroitness and courage and unrensing
industries he has come to the bad emin-
ence. Ile disputed the throne of heaven
with the Almighty, but no one has ever
disputed the throne of eternal night with
this monarch, who will in the last bat-
tle take the field in person. Milton calls
him Lucifer, Goethe cane him lelephis-
tapholes, the Hebrew calls him Abechlon,
the Greek calls him Apoliyon He is the
impeisonation of all nielevolence, of all
oppression, of all cruelty, the se/inning
up of all falsehood. In his make up
nothing bad was left nut and nothing
good was put in, and he is to be the
general, the commander in chief of all
the forces on the wrong side in the.greae
Armageddon. ale has been in more bat-
tles than you have over read about, and
he has gained more -victoriesthan have
ever been celebrated in this world. But 1
guees this old warrior of pandemoninea
will no have an undisputed field, 1
guess there will be an army to dispete
with his forces. I have mentioned the
supremacy of this world, I guess our
crones will not have to run when on the
day mentioned in my text all the infer-
nal batteries shall be unlimbered. We
haete been reviewing the troops diahOlie.
WA have been measuring the calibers of
their guns. We have been examining
their ammunition wagons. Now let us
look at the forces to be marshaled in the
Armageddon on the right side.
First of all, I mention the regiments
engello. Alas, that the subject of demon-
ology seem) better unaerstood than the:
subjectof angeiology. But tbe glorious
spirits anemia the tlarone and all the
bright inannrtals that fill the galleries
and levels of the, universe are to take
part in that last great fight, anti the
regiments wagon° are the only regitnents
.oapable of meeting the regiments pluton-
ic. To show you soinething of an abgel's
power' I ask you to consider that just
f
one othem slew 185,900 of Sermatherib's
hosts in a night, and it is not tatough
arithmetical question to solve, if one
angel can slay 185,000 troops in a night,
'how many cnia 500,00,0,000 of them
elay? Tho old book says that "they
excel in strength." It is not a celestial
mon but a disciplined "host, and they
rtcw their rank. Cherubim, serephiro,
itrones, prineipalities and powers! And
o 'oedema those regiments is Michael
on Archangel. 'David saw just one
'alto nf angels sweep past, and they
te 20.000 oharioted. Pan), who in the
col loge had his faculties so
Luny developed, confesses his in
-
capacity to count them by saying, ''Ye
are mine t� Mount Zion and an innumer-
able company of angels." If each soul
on earth has a guardian angel, then
there must be 1,600,000,000 angels on
earth bo day Besides that, heaven must
be full of towels, those who stay there.
Not only the 12 angels who, we are told,
gnard the 12 geese, but those Angels who
help in the worship and go on mission
from mansion to mansion and help to
build tlae hosannas and enthrone tbe
halleluiahs and roll the doxologies of the
serviee that never ends. But they all, if
required, will be in the last Agile be-
tween boliness and sin.
But the present statistics of Churches
will be utterey swamped when, after all
the great denominations have done
A INE OF MARTYRDOM
ENDURED BY THOSE WILO SUFFER.
FROM CONSTANT HEADACHE.
One Who Suffered Thus for Over Twenty
Tears Relates Tier Experience, 'Which
yfill Prove Valuable to Others.
From the Tribune, Mattawa, Ont.
Among the residents in the vielnity of
Mattawa there is none better known or
more highly esteexned than /an and Mrs.
B. Ransom, who bane been resideats of
this wanton for the past fifteen years.
Mrs. Ranson has been a great sneferer
their best work, the slowest of all the !for years, her affliction talting the form
soots will have more numbers than the of dizziness fled violent headaches, and
present enrollment of all denominations the attacks would come upon her so sud-
throughout Cbrisbendom. You see, by Idenly that she could scarcely reach her
that tirne an atheist or an infidel will bed unaided, and would be forced to re-
bel a curiosity, and he will be looked at imain for three or four days, unable to
as we look at a man with long hair
reaching below his shoulders' and long
finger nails that are never out and a
take any nourishment and suffering more
than tongue can express. She was but
'seventeen years of age when these attacks
stare in the eyes indicating incipient first mune upon her, and che doctor who
lunacy—not to be argued with, but to .then attended her, said that in biseopin-
be pitied; while it will not be any Un-
usual thing to see men as much
devoted to their religion as Francis
Xavier was devoted to his religion, when
he event tbrough the etreets asking all
to oome to hear his faith expounded, in
ten years planting the gaspel in 50
aationi .and baptizing over 1,000,000
souls. And the great hosts of believere
will fill the earth making the 2,817,000
combatant:4, that Xerxes reviewed a or-
poral's alive in comparison. I see them,
the regiments eociesiastio, moving into
that last battle. The Lutherans headed by
some great Martin Luther yet to be
botn. The Methodists headed by some
George Whitfield yet to come. The Pres-
byterians headed by someJohn Knox yet
to arise. The Episcopalians beaded by
some Bishop Channel; yet to be enrobed.
The Baptists headed by some Missionary
Carey yet to bless the world. The Con-
gregational church beaded by some Dr.
Kirk of pontoon/seal power yet to take
tongue of fire. I see them moving into
the ranks, carrying a standard striped
and sneered; striped as suggesting him
by whose stripes we Fir0 healed, and star-
red as with the promise that those who
turn many to righteousness shall shine
as the stars, forever and ever. Into that
battle on our side will roll them mighty
engines of power the printing presses of
Christendom. Into that battle will also
move the mightiest telescoped, that shall
bring the stars in their courses to fight
for our God.
Again, the regiments elemental will
come into that battle on the right side.
The winds! God showed what he could
do with them when the splintered tim-
bers of the ships of the Spanish armada
were strewn on the rooks of Scotland,
Norway, and the Hebrides. The waters
He showed what he could do with thorn
when he put the whole earth under
theneleaving it stibacineons 50 days. The
earthquakes! He showed what he could
do with them when he let Caracas drop
into the open mouth of horror and the
islands of the sea went into entembmeat.
The lightningsl lie showed what be
could do with them when he wrapped
Mount Sinai in flame, arid we have all
seen thele flashing lanterns moving with
the chariots of the mid -night hurricane.
Ali the regiments elemental will mine in
on our side in the great Arinageddon.
Come and let us mount and ride along
the line and review the troops of Em-
manuel and find that the regiments ter-
restrial and celestial that come into,that
battle on the right side are as compared
With those on the wrong side twoth one,
a hundred to one, a thousend to one.
But who is the commander in thief on
this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined,cangbt in traps, flung over preci-
pices and annihilated through the incom-
petence or treachery of their general.
Who commands on our gide? Jehovah-
Jirele so called in one place. "Captain
of Salvation," so called in ariotber place,
King of kings. Lord of lords. Conqueror
of oonquerors. His eye omniseient. His
arm omnipotent. Be will take the lend.
He will draw the sword. He will give
the command. And when he plants his
foot for the combat, the foundations nf
the earth will quake and when he shall
give the battle shoutatil the gates of hell
will tremble.
But do not let us shout until after we
have seen the two armies clash in the
last struggle. Oh, my soul! The battle
of all time and eternity open's. "For-
ward!" "Forward!" is the cnnunand on
Both sides given. The long lines of both
armies waver and swing to and fro.
Swords of meth neatest engines infernal.
Bleek horse oavarry of perdition against
white horse cavalry of heaven. The re-
demption of this world and the honor of
the throne of end to vindicate—how
tremendous is the battle! The army of
righteousness seems giving way, but no!
It is only a part of the maneuver of the
infinite fight, It is a deploy of the host
celestial. What a. meeting in this field of
splendor and wratb,of the angelic and of
alio diabolic', of hosanna and blasphemy,
of song and curse, of the divine and
the satanic! The thunderbolts of the
Almighty burst and blaze upon the foe.
Boom, boom! By thetorches of lightning
that illumine the scene I see that the
oriels of the Armageddon has some, It is
the turning point of this last battle.
The next moment will decide all. Aye,
the forces of Apollyon are breaking
ranks. See, Reel They fly. Some ou foot,
som4) on wing, they fly. Back over the
battleineuts of perdition they go down
with infinite crash, all the regiments
diabolic! Bacle to the mountains and
eaves the armed hosts of earth, crying
as they retreat to the rocks and mount-
ains, "Fall on us and hide us frcnn the
•face of hien that sitteth upon the throne
and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the
great day of his wrath has come, and
who shall be able to stand?"
The prophesied Artuageddon of the
text has been fought, and Christ anti his
followers have NV011 the day. The king-
doms of this world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.
All the Christian workers of orm time,
you my hearers, and you,lay readers anti
all the Christian workers of all ages
have helped on the 'magnificent result,
andthe victory is ours as much as theirs.
Tine moment inviting all outsiders,
theoughthe ransomed blood of the ever-
lasting covenant, to get into the ranks
of the conquerors and under the banner
of our leader, I shall not close the ser-
vice with prayer, as we usually do, but
immediately give out the Moravian
hymn, by :lames Montgomery, appropri-
ate when written. in 1810, hut more
appropriate in 1896, and ask you with
Cull voices, as well as with grateful
he:irts, to chant it:— '
See Jehovah's banner furl'el,
Sheablied his sword lie speaks; 'tie
done, • ,
And the kingdoms of thie world
.Are the kingdoms of his on
ion her life would not extend over a few
yeare at most. But more than a score of
;years have since passed during the great-
er part of which, it is true, Mrs. Ran-
son Wean great sufferer. But that is
'happily now past, and she is enjoying
better health tbau ever she did. To a re -
Tarter of The Tribune Mrs, Ranson told
her story, adding earnestly that she hoped
her experience might prove of beach to
some other sufferer. She said: "Tlae
spells of dizziness and intense headathes
would attaele mo every three or four
weeks, and would last from two to four
days at each attack, and. with each
attaok my suffering appeared to grow
more intense. I had good medical advice)
and tried many remedies, but with no
beneficial results. In the spring of 1896
mY appetite began to fail, my haiacis and
feet woulti swell, and my heart palpitate
violently. I was utterly discouraged and
felt that I would not live much longer.
Ons day my daughter urged ins to give
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial, but I
had taken so much medicine with no
benefit that I refused. Howevenshe went
to team and got four boxes, and to please
her more than for,any hope of benefit I
agreed to take them. I did not find the
first box do me any good, but by the
time 1 had taken the seoond my appetite
began to improve and I could sleep bet-
ter. I then began to have faith in them
and as I continued their use found ray -
self constantly getting better. When I
had finished the fourth box both myself
and friends were surprised to find that I
had not bad a bead:nem for illOre than
six weeks, the action of my heart had
become regular, and I mild sleep sound-
ly all night. I was still weak, however,
and decided to continue the use of the
pills, whith I did until three more boxes
were used. Since then I have been
stronger than at any time for years be-
fore and have not had an ache or pain.
I can do my work, have a new interest
in life and feel ten years younger. I feel
that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will do
for others what they have done for me,
and believing this I am glad to make
nay story public in the hope that it will
be of value to some sufferer."
Mrs. Ranson's husband and mother
were both present and say that they look
upon her recovery as miraculous. They
further said that many a night they had
sat up keeping hot cloths on her bead,
that being the only treatment that had
helped her, before she began the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
This great remedy enriches and purifies
the blood, strengthens the nerves, and
in this way goes to the root of disease,
driving it from the system, and curing
when other ran:males fail.
Every box of the genuine Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills has the trade xnaele on the
wrapper round the box, and the pur-
chaser oan protect himself from imposi-
tion by refasiag all others. Sold by all
dealers at 50 cents a box or six boxes for
12.5f/
ABOUT THE DOG.
The taste of the dog is exceedingly dull
and perverted. Even the most luxurious-
ly fed pees often resort to a diet of offal or
carrion.
The most famous St. Bernard dog was
named "Barry." He saved forty lives,
and his stuffed skip. is now preserved in
a Berne museum.
Everywhere in the Bible the dog is men-
tioned in terms of contempt, the reason
being probably found in the character of
the oriental dog.
Zollus, the famous Greek gininmariart,
was surnamed "The Dog" on account of
his snarliag oriticiems of Homer and other
Greek poets.
The Sullote of Germany, also called the
boarhouad, le one of the largest dogs
known. Many specimens are I feet high
at the sboulders.
Many varieties nf wild dogs eta,ve.been
crossed with wolves, jackals and foxen
and thus have produced great aurubers
of hybrid varieties.
The lower canine teeth of the clog close
in front of the upper, which gives that
animal the tightness of grip so remark-
able in the species.
The Alpine, or St. Bernard, is believed
by sem naturalists to be a variety of
spaniel, while others considerit a descend-
ant of the Newfoundland.
The bulldog has less brain in propor-
tion to his weight than any other variety
of dog, a =fact which renders his trebling
almost impossible.
In the bulldog the condyles of the lower
jaw are Above the line of the upper grind-
ing teeth; causing the hold of this animal
to be very severe.
The native wild dog of South America
is called the "Aguara," and in setae parts
at Brazil is as dangerous to eravelers as
the wolves of Siberia.
Petticoats.
Silk petticoats are a delusion and a
snare to any woman who cannot afford
a new one every month. Few articles of
apparel appear more ontioing when they
are displayed in the shops, and their
lightness and delicate coloring make
one feel that one's wardrobe is incom-
plete without a specimen of these ridded
and furbelowed garments. But alas for
the woman of moderate cireumstances
Who buys a silk petticoat, especially if it
be of taffeta, with the idea that: she will
wear it and "get the good of it," as the
saying goes. The friction of walking cuts
every fold of the ruffles, the slightest
dampness shrinks the cord in the border
of the flounces, so that the latter am all
puckered at the edge, wbile the foot of
the petticoat comes to rags very shortly.
For occasional wearmder a thin even-
ing dress the silk pettiouat will do very
well. Mohair, sateen and inoreen are far
better investments, They are cheaper in
the first place, much more durable and
keep their freshness longer. White petti
coats of muslin, cambric or lawn are ex-
ceedingly pretty and very fashionable at
present. Trimmed with lace and ruffles,
they are as dainty as heart could desire,
and possess the merit of looking as
well as new every time they are laun-
dered. The petticoat requires to be very
wide and to have a number of full
flounces in order to keep its b.ouffinacy,
but muslin and lawn are so light that
this abundant teimmina is no burden,
save to the person veho''does the ironing.
Worth 'Knowing.
Thin glass is less likely to be broken
by boiling water than glass winch is
thicker, since it allows the heat to pass
through it mere quickly. A teaspoon put
into a turubler before pouring in boiling
water will often, prevent the glass from
cracking, especially if you pour the
water in very slowly. Soap shoeld be
cut wth a wire or twine, and kept out
of the air for two or three weeks, for if
it dries quickly it rill oracle and will
soon break rhea wet. Soda, by softee-
ing the rater, saves a great deal of
soap. It is said that the oftener carpets
are shaken the longer they wear; the dirt
that is under them grinds out tbe
threads. Scald your wooden utensils
often, and keep your tinware dry. When
washing Ceara, damp a cloth, dip it in
oommon soda, rub the ware briskly, and
wipe dry 'before setting aside. If copper
utensils are eased, be careful not to let
the tin be rubbed off, and to have them
repaired when the least defect appears.
Again, never put by arty Soup, gravy,
etc, in them, or indeed. in any metal
vessel; stone and earthenware utensils
should be provided for these purposes.
'lin vessels, if kept damp, soon rust,
and this causes holes. Suet and lard
keep better in tin than in earthenware.
en A. D. 100, Dioscoricies mentions a
substance, which he calls saccharon' as a
great dainty among the people ofthe
East.
FLORAL SYMBOLISM.
The morning glory has long been re-
garded as an emblena of coquetry. One
floral dictionary declares that this symbol-
ism is derived from the extremely transi-
ent nature of the flowers. They bloom
about sunrise, and in two or three hours
have perished.
In England the ivy is considered an em-
blem of acidity. In all parts of Great
Britain the ivy grows with a luxuriance
tinknown in most other quarters of the
world, and tbe tenaciousness with which
its tendrils cling to rocks and walls is
supposed to have originated the idea of
the symbol. .
The trailing arbutus is mentioned by
two or three Latin wrIters of the time of
Virgil as symbolle of welcome. At Roman
feasts, pareicularly in country houses, the
arbutus was sometimes nung above the
door, to indicate a welcome to the guests.
The hawthorn blossom is emblematic of
hope. According to a tradition of the
Eastern Church, the crown of thorns was
made of a breach of the hawthorn, and it
is also said that after Christ was buried
a hawthorn miraculously sprang up above
the grave.
The passion flower is emblematic of
death. In the various parts of this re-
markable blossom there may be fouled
fanciful resemblances to the articles men-
tionecl in the accouat of the crucifixion.
The cross, the hammer, the inlets, the
crown of thorns, the spear and the drope
of blood, are all detected by the -eye of
superstition.
The geranium eipressee preference.
The idea has; not so far v.s known any
foundation in history or legend. It is
said that Henry VIIL first showed marked
preference for Anne Boleyn by giving
net- a bunch of red flowers. Some per-
sons have supposed these flowers to be
geraniums, but the plant was little if at
all known in England at this time.
INVENTIONS.
ONCE A YEA.ii,
ONLY JUST MIT'
The Dodd's Kidney 1111 Calendar for
the Year 1897.
SUPPORTED THE WORLD
On XUS ligroin Shoulders—Mist Rave Bad
Ilealthy Kidneys.
As the first to be laid on our table for
the year 1897, we 'welcome the timely
,appearance of the Dodd's Kidney P111
calendar, pableshed by The Dodd's Medi-
cine Company, Limited, Toronto.
Preposessing beyond anything of its
,olass hitherto published in Arnerioa,
;though its purpose is at once obvious, ie
has been made exceedingly pleasing by
the fortunate *beim of a design for the
cover, which bas been charmingly done
, by the artist in red and blue lithograph,
;the °lassie, subject being, Atlas support -
'Ing the world.
It seems that these clever and persist-
ent adverelsers, not °outwit with decor-
ating the grassy hilislopes and rugged
mountain sides with their eaamenoth
letterings, seek also adroitly to seize
upon the imagination and assist it to
accemat for the superhuman strength of
the heroic Atlas, suggesting the secree of
his power by representing him as beitig
hlinself supported and relying upon a box
of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
On the bactle of cover, in a few pithy
words those previously convinced of the
Urgent need of kidney treatment are
warned against substitutes, imitations
and counterfeits of the genuine Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
Thus ninth of the cover; of the book
itself, we bays this to say: lam argue
Intuits tai seem unanswerable, the proofs
ample and undeniable, the whole unique,
admirable and useful, not only for the
corning year, but for alvnws.
We are assured by the publishers that
sufficient are being printed to go around,
that in due time every family in Canada
will get one to their present and life-
long advantage, And, as usual, adding:
"Dodd's Kidney Pille Always Clue."
Since the invention of the first harvester
this implement has been constantly im-
proved, there being no less than 10,155
patents upon it or its parts.
Mississippi stands next to South Caro-
liva in the scarcity ot inventions, there
being in the former State only me in-
ventor to every 21,857 of its population.
Window shades have received extensive
atteution at the hands of the inventor,
there being 2,435 patents upoa them and
ths devices to keep them in place. •
A movable potting bench is it great con-
venience for holding the pots and soil
and drainage material, alai to prevent
toe necessity of stooping.
The American farmer will probably be
surprised to learn that there are 10,122
'different modele of plows in the Patent
Chace, on all of which patents have been
ensued.
The maims of Canada do not scruple to
take ode pateuts in Washington; 253 have
becu grained by our Patent °Mee to our
cousitis on the other side of the Si. Lew-
in:an.
The greatest number of patents issued
in any one line has been for devices em-
plue,na in carriages, Nilt,,011S and other
vuoieles. The total number of patents in
Lais line is 20,096.
The ordinary reader will probably be
surprised to learn that 1,137 patents have
wee taken out either on different kinds
of alcohol or on differeat devices for its
ukalitlaiUttlre.
The language of Greece to -day, allowing
for the changes which would naturally be
!nought, about during the centuries, is
euostentially the same as the language
tend by Demosthenes and Pericles.
SLAVES AND SLAVERY.
During the "bundeed days," Napoleon,
in elle midst ot his preparations for war
with all the rest. of Europe, issued an
etliet abolishing the slave trade.
The slave trade up to a recent date con-
tinued between Africa and Arabia, the
tlaaes being sent through the latter coun-
try to Persia and Turkey.
The Egyptian peasants have been slaves
!or ages. They sold themselves to the
Kling of Egypt in the time of joseph and
have never been free since theta
In the Dutch West Indies the slaves
were eniamipated in 1863. It is stated
that 46,000 were freed their owners being
compensated at the rate of a32 for each
slave.
Abont 50,000 Jews returned from the
Babylonian captivity in a C. 536, and
1,iiiong other belongings they brought
with them from Babylon were 7,307 slaves.
Daring the sixteenth, seventeenth tIntl
eighteenth centuries no less than 3,000.001
slaves were carried by English, Ennio'
and Dutch ships from Africa, to Americe
Le the Roman slave marts, slaves free
beyond the sea, that is, from Africa, 11.
their feet chalked' and their ears boral
indicate the place whence they came.
Unman liair in warships.
A fact that bas recently come to light
shows a new use to which human hair
has bean put. Dulling the last year or
two tons of hair have been packed be-
tween the plates of a certain part of war
vessels. Hair is very elastic, and thus
affords a most effective backing to
metal. Again, it is being used very sat-
isfactorily to form a kind of fender,
which is thrown over the side of a vesael
to prevent her scraping against the
dock—to take the place, in fact, of more
ooxnmonly used roue coils.
A 'freckle Cure.
Farewell to freckles on faces, an/attend,
legs if the experience of a South Amer-
ican lady is verified. She says that some
time ago, in the absence of water, of
which there was a great dearth at the
time, she wasbed her face with some a
the juice) of a watermelon. The result
was so soothing that the repeatedly
washed her face in this manner, and her
astonishment was greana few days later,
an seeing that there was not a frookle
left on her previously beireckled face.
40 GEMS, 10 CENTS.
Dr. Agnew's Liver Pills Cure
All Troubles.
Arising From Torpor of the Liver.
Easy and Quick—Banish Sick Ilesulanhe—
Purify the Blood and Eradicate All
Impurities from the SYstenl-
The demand is big. The pills are
little, easy to take, pleasant results, no
pain. 40 in a vial, and 10 cents at all
druggists.
Australian oranges in London.
The orange groves of New South
Wales are famous throughout Australia,
and the Brinell public will seethe be
afforded au opporrermity of testing the
quality of the fruit. The knowledge that
the Tasmanian growers have established
it flourishing export trade in fruit with
London, sending as many as 250,000
oases in a seaeon, bas induced the .New
South Wales Government to forward
an experimental shipment of oranges to
England this autumn. The fruit has
just been dispatched on the steamship
Ophir-1700 cases in all—and shnuld be
nn sale early in October. The Govern-
ment is prepared to spend n1,000 cm the
experiment, but is confident that the
consignment will more than cover the
oast. The fruit will come in the cold
storage chamber.
NOT A QUARTER
But just 10 cents, and 40 doses in a vial
of Dr. Agnew's Liver Pills.
No pain, no bad after effects, pleasure in
every dose—little, but awfully
good.
Cure sick headache, constipation,lalli-
ousness, nausea, sallowness. They are
purely vegetable. In big demand and
all druggists sell them. Try them.
Survival of the Fittest.
During the existence of the British
Parliament it has passed about 20,000:
statutes,of which about 15,000 are still in
fome. Of these 8,800 were passed in
Queen Victoria's reign, 151 date from
Henry III, the first three Edwards and
Richard II., 23 excite the house of Lan-
caster, only 8 from that of York, 170
came ftelne the Tudors, 69 from the
Stuarts, 92 from William IIL and .Anne,
and 1,132 from the four Georges Baal
William IV.
BEAUTY'S PHILOSOPHY.
A Clear Complekion and a kietatay akin
atecessary to Ooole Loon -s.
There are but two classes of women:
those who have good complexions and
those who Wish to have them. Peach
bloom skin food and perfect health -pills
are the latest and best means for pre-
serving a good complexion or creating
one. Ladies are not averse to using them
because they are tonic and natural in
their action and their use assures the
beauty of porfeot health. These prepara-
tions may be had from any druggist or
vvillibe sent prepaid on receipt og fifty
cents for either or one dollar for the two
by addressing Crown Medicine Company,
Toronto. • •