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OR. TALMAGE SAYS CHRISTIANITY IS
RaVOLUTIONARY.
wee a named eueemoity, 'Wit A Robust
Force for Bettering the World—Rell,
kiou is blot react.. but That Will he the_
1 Sinai Result.
Copyright ante lay American Frau Aesecia-
done>
Wasbiegton, May 1,---eT1is disoeurse of
Dr. Tahnego is revolattionery for gotta in
families end cleurches and nations and
especially appropriate for them times;
text, Aots xvii, 6, "These that have
turned the world upside down are come
lather also."
There a; a wild, bellowing mole around
the bouse of Jason in Thesealonim. What
• bas the man done so greatly to offend the
people He bas been entertaining Paul
and bis comrades. The naoh sturouud the
, bause and eq: "Brieg out those eerie:is
„but preacherel They are interfering wItie
our business! They are =Ming our me
ligioul They am aotually turning the
;; Wrist upside clotvo!"
9.'he eharge was true Sor there is neat.
Ing that so interferes with sin, there le
, Pealing so ruinous to every forra of
. establisbed ielquity, there is nothing thee
bas envie temiency to tom ehe world Op -
aline down as oter glorione Ohriselanity,
4' he Met is that the Werld new is Wrong
side up. and it needs te be tartatid Wade
: delve* in Order that It May be right side
I Up. The time 'Wee Whell Men wrote book**
I entitling them "Apologies For Cbristiau-
I ids."' 1 bopo time day bas pasted. We
I Want uo more apologies for Christianity.
I Let the apologies be 9n the pert of those
1 who do net believe lei our religion. We
}do not mean to ntike any compromise tu
the nuieter. We do pot wish to hide the
fact that Cbristianity is revolutionary
and that its tendem7 is to turn the resist
Upside down.
Our religiou has often been 3Lu1srepre.
t muted as a principle a tears anti sulkiness
land fatidlounees, afadd of crossing peo.
tple's prejudicee, afraid or uuSaing tionis•
pbotly mate with silken gloves lifting the
Ipeople up from the churcla pew iota
(glory, AS though they Were aleberniass
(gams, at very delicate that with one touch
▪ le ntay be demolished toren% Men speak
ot religion tut though It were a refitted
imbecilityars though it were a p:ritual
ehlorotorm that the people were to take
until the sharp cutting of life wore over.
1Th e Bible, m Zr from this, represents
the religion of Chan as robust and
hraway—reneaoking and upsetting 10,000
things thee now seem to be sunned on
arm foundations. I bear some man in
I;be house my, "X thought religion was
Deem." Title is tbe linal result. A man's
arm is out of pleee. tlwo men come, and
with great effort put it back to the
I eooket, It genie back with great plain.
ITben it wee well. Our world la horribly
t diaorderoti and out of joint, It must come
under au omnipotent surgery, beneath
which there will bo pain end epaulet)
before there can come perfeet health and
I quiet. I proclaim, therefore, in the earns
,of ray Lord Jesus Christ—vevoletion I
The Religion of the
The religion of the Bible will make a
;revolution in the family. nose things
IthatarG wroug in the felony circle will
be overthrown by it, while justice and
Ilaarmony will take the place. The butt -
!band will be the head of the housebold
Minty when Ile Is fit to be. I know a num
;who spends all the money ho makes in
Ldriuk, as well as all the money that his
!wife snakes, and sometimesells the chil-
%siren's clothes for rum. Do you toll me
that he is to be the head of that house-
:
boldt tho wife have more nobility,
:more courage, more consistency, more of
that is right, the shall boa the
; supremacy. Zou my that the Bible Says
n that tbe wife is to be the subjeat of the
:busband. I know It, eue that is A hum-
; band, not a masculine caricature. There
, Se no buinan or divine law that makes a
I woman sueordinate to a man unwortby
of her. When Christianity comes into
dotnestic circle, it will give the dominance
to that ono who is the most worthy of it
f As religion comae ilL at the front door,
'mirth and lane:ter will not go out of the
• back door. It will not bopple the chit-
dren's feet. John will laugh just es loud,
and George will jump higher than he
ever did before. It will steal from the
little One neither ball nor bat nor hoop
nor kite. It will establish a family altar.
; Angels will never over it. Laddere of
, light will reach down to it. The glory of
heaven will stream upon it. The books
, of remembrance will record it, and tides
ef everlasting blessedness will pour from
' it. Not suoh a family altar as you may
• Isa-e seen where the prayer is long and
a long ehapter is road, with tedious ex-
planation, and the exercise keeps on until
MO children's knees are sore, and their
backs ache, and their patience is lost,
!and for the seventh time they have count -
kid all the rungs in the chair, but I
Imean a family altar such as may have
teen seen in your father's house. You
; num have wandered far off in the paths
of sin and darkness, but you have never
forgotten Mat family altar where father
and mother knelt importuning God for
your soul. That is a memory that a man
never gets over. There will be a hearty,
joyful family altar in every domestio
dirole. You will not have to go far to
•and .dareatth rearing her Samuel for the
;Semple or a graudmother Lois instruct -
Ing her young Timothy in the knowledge
of Christ, or a Mary and Martha and
!Lazarus gathered in fraternal and sisterly
, affection, or a table at which Jesus SOL
; as at that of Zacoheus, or a liome in
i 'which Jesus dwells, as In the house of
(Simon the tanner. The religion of Jesus
I Christ, coining into the domestic circle,
I will overtheow all jealousies, all jangl-
ings, and peace and order and holiness
I Will take possession of the home. •
"Xs Re Renest ?"
I Again, Christianity will produce a
•revention in commercial circles. Find
me 60 merchants, and you find that they
bave 60 standards of what t right and
! Wrong. You say to soma one about• a
Merchant, "Is he honestf" "Oh, yes,"
She man says, "ho is honest, bat he
grinds the faces of his clerks! He is bon
I
est, lust he exaggerates the value of hie
goods. • He is heuest, but he loans money
e lee bond and niortgEtge with the under -
I Standing that the mortgage een lie quiet
Lor ten years, but as soon as he gets the
!mortgage heat:cords it and begins a fore.
I ilosure suit, and the sheriff's writ comes
down, and the day of sale arrives, and
Way goes the homestead, and the tweeds
ter buys it in at half price." Honest?
;When he loaned the money, he knew that
be would get the homestead at half price.
Honest? But he goes to the insurance
! office to get a polioy on his life and tells
, the doctor that he is roll when he lumen
eliat for ten years he as awe but one
dung. Horeinitt Moues he sells property
by the map, forgetting to tell the pur-
thaser that the ground is all under water,
• but it is generous in him to do that, for
he throws the water into the bargain.
Ab, my friends, there is but one stand-
ard of tbe everlasting right and of the
everlasting wrong, and that is the Bible,
and when that principle shall get its pry
under our coromereial lionse 1 believe
that onenalf of them will, go over! The
ruin will begin at one cad, of the etreet,
and it will be crash! cassia crasht all
the way down to the docks. "name is tbe
matter? Has there been a fall in •golde"
"Oh, na" "Has there been a new tar -
eat" "No." "Has there been a Milian in
crops?" "No." ."Has there been AU lin*
aceountable panic?" "Non' This is elle
• secret; The Lord God has see up inie
throne of judgment 1 the mintage. He
bas summoned the righteous and this
eficlred to come before biro. Wbat was
1e37t A day of judgment!, What was
1857? A day of judgmenel What was the
extreme 4epression of two years ago? A
day of judgmeuel Do you think that God
Is going to wait until he bas burned the
world up before he rights these wrongs?
I tell you, nay! Every day is a day of
judgment,
whe wraiutuleut exam
The fraiMulthe man plies up leis gains,
1:10101 411ove bona, United States secunto
• abeve Vented Stater security, emolument
above emolument, unell hie property has
become a groat pyramid, aud as be
stands Molting at it be thinks le cert
tamer be destroyed, bet the Lord God,
comes and with hits Wale flow MIAMI
It all over,
You build a netiee, and yeu put Irate ik
A rotten leale. A eneehanic standing by
says: "It eviii never do to put time balm
in. It twill ruin your whole building,"
But you put it in. The house is cora-
pletea. Seth it begins to rock. 740li vaU
in the ineehenie and ask: "What is the
wetter with this Mem? Willit is tile meet
ter with thie welir etverythinft ROMS te
be giving ono" Seim the wiethatele, Veil
put a rotten beam into that structure,
und the \thole thing bat got to come
down." Hero le an ettate that melee to
be all rigbt now. It has been building a
great reanyvvora But 15 Teem ago there
'Was 4 disiletleSt trailiacti00 in Mae own.,
euercial house. That one disbonctie tains-
lion will keep on woreing ruin In the
viol° structure until down the *Mote
Wilt COMO in 'meet; and ruin oinout the
possesetwes ears—on* dielieliese deeller In
the estate demalisbiug ail bis possessions,
I Isave seen it amain and again, and an
have you.
Here is your moray safe. The =mina -
lecturer ono yourself easier nucat how is
am be opened. You have the ,key, r011,
touch the look, end the potiderons door
swings beck. But let roo 5011 TOU that,
however lirmly barrel and bolted your
money safe may be, you cannot keep God
out. Ile tvill With. c'01119 day into your
counting room, anti ho will demand.
oWitere dld that Dote ef hand corne from?
How do you account for this security?
Where did. you get that mortgage from?
'Wlnat does this nottetit" If it Is all right,
God will say; "Weil .ono, good and Mitt.
ful servant. Be pre.; 'red In Chia world.
Bo happy in the world to come." If it is
all wrong, be will say: "Depart, ee
cursed. Be miserable fur your iniquities
In this life, and then ten down and spend
your eternity with ?lame mad borse
jockeys and plolipoeitets."
You have an old photograph ot the
signs on your street. Why b:stre those
signs nearly all cheesed within the last
20 years? Douai the wining away of a
generation account for a? Oh, no. Does
the fact that there aro hunareds of hon-
est men wbo go down every year account
for it? Oh, tie. This le the secret: no
Lord God has beeu wanzing through tbe
'commercial streets ce our great cities,
aud ho has been adjusting things accord-
ing to the principle of eternal. rectitude.
The time will come when, through the
revolutionary power ef this gOVel,
falsehood, Instead of bang called exag-
geration, equivocation tir evasion, will be
branded a lie, and etealings that now
xernetiums go under the head of percent-
ages and commissions and bonuses will
be put into tho cateloeue of state prison
offenses! Society will be turned inside
out and upside down and ransacked of
God's truth until business dishonesties
sball come to an end, and all double deal-
ing, and God will overturn and overturn
and overturn, and commercial sneer in all
Man will throw up their hands, crying
out, "These that bare turned the *world
upside down aro come bither."
The Tteligion of Jesus Christ.
The religion of Jesus Christ will pro-
duce a revolution in our churches. The
tion -committal, do-nothing polior of the
church of Goa will give way to a spirit
of bravest conquest. Piety in this day
seems to me to be salted down just so ea
to keep. It seems as If the church were
chiefly anxious to take care of itself, and
if we hoar of want and squalor and hea-
thenism outside we say, "What a pity!"
and NVO put our hands In our pockets,
and wo feel around for a 2 -cent piece,
and with great flourish we put it upon
• She plate and are amazed that the world
Is not converted in six weeks. Suppose
there were a great war, and there were
300,000 soldiers, but all of those 800.000
soldiers, excepting ten men were in their
Unto or scouring their moans or cook.
ing rations. You would say, "Of course
defeat mint come in that case." It is
worse than that in the church. Mllhion
of the professed soldiers of Jesus Christ
an cooking rations or asleep in their
tents, while only one man here and there
goes out to do battle for the Lord.
"But," says some one, "we are estab-
lishing a great many missions, and I
think they will save the masses." No;
they will not. Five hundred thousand of
ehem will not do it. They are doing a
magnificent work, but every minion
chapel is a confession of the disease and
weakness of the church. It is snakieg a
dividing line between the °lasses. It is
;saying to the rich and to the well condi-
tioned, "If you can pay your pew rents,
come to the main audience room." It is
saying to the poor man: "Your coat is
too bad, • and your shoes are not good
enough. If you want to get to heaven,
you will have to go by the way of the
minion chapel." The mission chapel bas
Income the kitthen where the churela
does it sloppy work. There are hundreds
and thousands of churches in this coon.
try—gorgeously built and supported—
that °teen on bright and sunshiny days
are not half full of worshipers, and yet
they are building iniSisiOn chapels, be-
muse by 60/310 expreesed or implied regu-
lation the great masses of the people are
kept out of the main Meditate° room.
Gates of the Church to be Broken Down.
• Now, I say that any place of worsen')
which is appropriate for ono class is ap-
• propriate for all °lessee. Let the rich and
the poor sneet together, tile Lord the
Maker of them all. Mind you that I say
. that mission chapels are a necessity, the
vow chtwohes are now conducted, but
may God speed the time when they sim11
cease to he is necessity. God will rise up
and break down the gates of the churoh
that bove kept back the masses, and wee
Ito tothose who Stand in the was!! They
Will be tramped under foot by the vase
populations melting a_ stampede for bea-
yen.
I saw in some paper an account of a
ohurch in Boston in which, it is mid,
there were a great maim plain, people, ;
Mae nese reale the trustees of that 'Oilmen
came oue in the paper and said it was:
not so net all; "they were elegant nennle
end highly conditioned pnople that emelt ,
there," Then I laughed outright, andn
valets I laugh I teugh very totally.,
"Those people," X said, "are efrald of tbe
slekla sentintentality of the oburthee."
Now, my Ambition Is not to preach to
T011 SP 124110h, 15 seems to me that you
must be faring sumptuously every day, ;
and the marks of comfo re all ohm*
you. You do not need tne Wised half as "
much as do some wbo never come here.
Rather thau be priding myself en a
church In front of winch there shall bale
60 splendid equipages on the Sabbath
day I would have a church up to Whose
gates there should corn° a long procession '
of the sueriug, and tbe StriCken and
the dying, begging for admittance, Yea
do not need the grovel so remelt as they.
VOA have good things in this life. What-
ever num be your future destiny, yea
/save had a Omura time bore. Bus those
dying populatious of which I speak. by "
reason of their want awl suffering, whae .
ver may be their future destiny. am in
perdition now, and it there Ise any sensate*
in Vimisent gavel fee Ocene lake give 141
'to them!
Tine Wade ar tee Church,
Revolution! The pride at the entwine
Must come down. Tile exclusiveness gf
the church muse vome down! The do-
aociel boasting of the church 3211115t C01110
down! If moneetry euceess were the chief
idea. In the thumb. then I say tha; the
present mode of contilleting lintMee9
_ _ 111 II) dollara
you On gain, then the preeent anode is
50* t. BuS 12 12 10t e saving et sou s•
from sin and deeth and bringing the
Mighty populations of our cities to the
knowledge or God, then I cry rem:111100111•
15 is coming last. I feel it in the air. I
hear the rumbling of an eartionesize that
shall thane down in one 'terrine crash the
arrogenee Of our metes:to Chastimeity.
The sea le milted with wreeks, and
rattitittitiee are droweing. We muse one
with the ehureh And the peoeMn
beght to eau:ober In, and we shout:
"Stop! etopi You must think It costa•
nothing to keep a lifeltrat. Thom seats at•
the prow are Si apiere, eitne in the mid-
ellei0 couSe and theea eeats In the stern.
shillings. Please to pay up or else
under on A1l5i longer till tbe mission
boat whom were: it ie to save you pausal -
s wreathes shall come along and Melt
you up. We Save Outiy lint clan sinners
in thie boat."
The tales is whether Protestant churches
r Boman Catholle itintrebes aro coming
In named. X tell yon, Protestants, this
ath pleinly—that 111.1til your cburches
are as free nit are the Roman Catholic
atitedrals they will 1,eat you. In their
cathedrals the male:It:tire and the beggar
kneel elcio by side. And until that tines
comes in our (alumina; we cannot expeat
the favor of Goa or permanent spiritual
proeperity.
Ilevolutten! lt may he that before the
church loons its duly to the masses God
will scourge it and (tome with the witip
01 omnipotout indietestitm and drive out
the money changer'-. lt In a be that
them is to be a gr. it, tem et upsetting
before that tins° Meal eotne. If it must
cense, 0 Lord Goa. Mt it come now!
In that future tem of the romustructed
°Immix of Christ the eburch building
will be tho mo Moo:ell of all buileings.
Insteaa or the light et the sun sauteeci
through painteti glee* until an intallieent
Auditory Maks gram :mil blue and ;yellow
enel copper mental, we will have no such
things. The pure atmosphere of betwen
will sweep out the fetid utenospbere that
leis been kept in Inany of our thurches
bona up from Smeilly to Sunday.
A. Day of Great uevivais.
The clay of which I speak will be a day
of great revivals, There will be swea a
time as there was in tbo parish of Shotte,
valor() 500 souls were born to God in ono
day—such tines as were sem in this
country wben Edwards gave the alarm,
when Tonnent preaehed, and Whitefield
thundered. and Edward Payson prayed; ,
such times as some of you remember in
1857, when the voice of prayer and praise
was heard in theater and warehouse and
blackshop and factory and engine house,
and the auctioneer's 017 of "a bait, and
a half, and a half," was drowned out by
the adjoining prayer meeting, in which
the people cried out, "Men and brethren,
what shall WO OOP"
In those days of winch I am speaking
She services of the churth of God will be
more spirited. The ministers of Christ,
instead of being anxious about whether
they are going to lose their place in their
notes, will get on fire with tbe theme
and pour the living truth of God upon
an aroused auditory. crying out to the
righteous, "It shall be well with you,"
and to the wicked: "Woe! It shall be 111
with you." In those days the singing
will be very different from what it is
now. The music will weep and wail and
chant and triumph. People then will not
be afraid to open their mouths when
they sing. The man with a cracked voice
will risk it on "Windham" and "Orton -
vide" and "Old Hundred." Grandfather
will find the place for his grandoend in
the hymnbook, or the little child will be
spectacles for the grandfather. Hosanna
will meet hosanna and together go olirob-
ing to tbe throne and the angels will
hear, and God will listen, and the gates
of heaven will hoist, and it will be as
risen two seas meet—the wave of earth-
ly song mingling with the surging
anthems of the free.
Oli, xny God, let ine live to see that
day! Let there be no power in disease or
apoident or wave of the sea to disappoint
my expectations. Let all other sight fail
my eyes rather than that I should miss
that vision. Let all other sounds fail my
ears rather than that I should fail to hear
that sound. I want to stand on the
mountain top to catch the first ray of the
dawn and with flying feet bring the
eerie And, oh, when lee hear the clat-
tering hoofs that bring on the laing's
olaariot may we all be ready, with arches
sprung and with hand on the rope of the
hell that is to sound the victory, and
with wreaths all twisted for the way,
and when Jesus dismounts let it be amid
the huzza! huzza! of a world redeemed!
• Where and when will that revolution
begin? Here and now. In your heart and
mine. Sin most go down, our pride must
go down, our worldliness must go dosvn,
that Christ may come up. Revolution!
"Except a man be born again, he can-
not see the kingdom of God." Why not
now let the revolution begin? Not next
Sabbath, but now. Not to -morrow, when
you go out into commeroial drain, btst
now.
SPEED CREATED ADHESIVE FORCE.
I Train made such Roadway That the Wind
Ueld a Hobo Against a Car.
lit:. Giet,
rifiletsof the Burliegtoo has a
history whtoh h re
iates with mesidereble feeling. The Burl-
ington veinstated the swift, World's Fair
flyer No. 1 a few days ago, after a long
snpisecoedosthine uwattcruel4 abeedatbillee tgonmesattinotuattiof web::
uppermost in the minds of the railroad
people. By the sthedule No. 1 had to be
nem of motion, leaving Chicago at 10
Mabel; in the =or/alum reaclang Otnaba
at 11.00 that night and running, into
Denver At 1,30 the eftermeou of the next
day.
A man who was aware of the keen in -
terser Mr. Grillitts had taken in' the
initial trip met the railroad persountem a
few days after the resumption. "Well,"
be said, in greeting, "did she go fest?
ieep up 50 h ' t"
"Keep up" Witheringly. "1should say
- Wby, say,what's vhs use of
! mentioning figures? Comparisons are
what count OircUmStanCeS, yen knew*
Incidents. nose give you the best idea.
I'll tun mention one thing Mom aappened
10 connection with the run. You know
theaes a stretch of about twenty miles
11.41/1 Portsmouth Into Omaha after we
cross the bridge into Nebraska? Well—
and understand this is an official report;
freM the yardmaster at °maim—there
wee e !tramp welting at the end of the
!team on tile Neareska side being to
ride front there into Onsaba on the ple4
form of ehe beggage ogre. But ba made
suleatiegietion. There aro tie platforms
on thote imegage -avs. They come out
guilt like o Lox car. In the darkness the
tramp didn't notice, this. ale wen on
Mare. the tank of the locomotive, welted
isle way over tbe coel to the rear, and
junneed clown, ozpecting to light; on the
p1 tftr whieh wesint there. It hod
mieen him te few nninutee cautiously to
reeeln the eilge of the rank, and by the
time Le heti got to the jumping-off place
the wenn was going at its weeder gait
or a sbade faster.
"The engineer, realizing tbae this was
the grse von of the triin and desiring to
melee a graceful neab and a good record,
Mei mantel ber out juse a little. be goe
r, going and going meal, She was doing
her nicest odd sweatiest When the tromp
• junmed.
"Now. ',Oat do eon think halMetted?
That the beano VMS stsixea for live lance
aleng the amaltege No, air. Net a bit
Wesel% hurt as You've seen an ama-
teur magician put, nt teener coin on the
lLsz ealtu of bis bevel and 1110V0 elne open
heed eti swiftly through the air t-44,7 Itbel
• Cola \nate% drop old, letven'e you, and
the magicien pletendea that it wasn't
• them emit IIIMUISA it didn't drop? Well,
tigat WaS wh.rt. leippeued to thee
' Emma He was iii;tk the *'Pin ageinst -the
fiat palm. Lie reetai against thwblank
t fame tea of that beggegs am Ulm a fly
„ on A window mine. There wasn't any-
• thing below for bins to hang to, Ile Was
just held there, as 1 Fan by tliAt force
WZ11eh camo from that fast forward motion
of the train. lielew him there was space
t and air wheels. It was a pretty tlealish
position. I want to tell you, Zeal wonder.
the follow roarea anti einoutua and said
as many pities thine.. as be knew bole,
uutl said them very loud. Of oeurse he
unaeretood tbat ween the train began to
elsw up for the einielta yard that force
Would diminish and he would drop down
be macerated.
•"Well, he emen a Inithy tramp. Just as
they were passing Bellevue., four tulles
out ot Osnaba, the Montan heard ban
• and Inwried bait ;4 nal raw blin. lie was
a qui:a:witted fireman and yelled to the
engineer not to 'hut off just yet, and
re:minim one of hie long, pokers over, he
canglit it into tho :Mobile of the hobo
and tried to pull him oft and into the
safety of the Milk. liut he cotadn'e budge
hint. Then be got to reasoning, and he
saw they'd have to nhut off and ease
down before the eeltesive force of the
speed would let the man ho pried off.
The engineer fileiteed on the air and
throw her over, and after two tulles of
easing them got her to a pace that ad-
mitted of loosenine tho fellow.
"It was very interesting. Wo baps a
full report of it in the office, written by
the head of the nwellanical department
at Omaha, Ile explains it technically.
Of course I can only give you the bald
facts."—Chicago Mood.
Good Zxample for Hector and Patient.
A good true story is told of a San
Francisco woman and a doctor with a
conscience. The doctor performed a suo.
oessful operation for a rich woman, and
when asked for his bill, presented one for
$50. The lady smiled and mid; "Do you
consider that a reatonable oharge, consid-
ering my circumstances?" The doctor re-
plied: "That is my charge for that oper-
ation; your circumstances have nothing
to do with it." The lady drew a cheek
for $500 and presented it to him. Be
handed it back saying: "I cannot accept
this. My charge for that operation is
$50." "Very well," the lady replied,
"Keep the check, and put the balance to
my credit." Some months after she re-
ceived a long itemized hill, upon which
was entered charges for treatment of var-
ious kinds, rendered to all sorts of odds
and ends of humanity, male and female,
black and white, who had been mended
at her expense. She was so delighted at
15 tiaat she immediately placed another
check for $600 to his credit on the same
terms, and it Ls now being earned in the
same way.
Wire Mats by the Foot.
Among the curious things to be nth
in the hardware stores nowadays are
woven wire door mats for sale by the
yard, foot or inch. It is only a few years
since the manufacture ef the woven wire
mat was begun, but these seats have
proved so effeceive as dirt catchers and so
light and easily cleaned that their use
has spread very rapidly. During the
earlier years of thole manufaoture each
mat was woven and finished separately.
Now some of the manufacturers are weav-
ing there in lengths of 60 feet, and in
such a way that they will not ravel when
they are °tat. Tlae mats are woven in
different widths and done up in rolls like
carpet.
Vegetables in Olden. Times.
Many of the vegetables in daily use on
our dineer, tables Were known in very
remote times. It is known, for instance,
tiaat asparagus was grown 200 years B.
C., while lettuce was cultivated so far
ltaeletes_650 B.O.
Spider 'Needed Delp,
Donald seemed greatly interested in
retelling a spieler al work on its web.
After a fow inomen is the little fellow
called to his mother: "Manatza, here's a
poor, tiny epider all tangled up .in its
kola "—Judge.
THE teeCAY OF sToNg.
Even the Most leenemy compacted SM.
tempi Books Succumb to Time.
Whoever expects to fled a stone that win
stand from century to century, deriding
aillte the frigid rains and scorching Solar
rays, without need a reparation will in-
deed scarab for "the philmember's stone."
There is scarcely a sill/Mance avbich, after
having been exposed to the action of the
atmosphere for a considerable time, don
not exhibit proofs of "weathering." It
nom even be observed on the most densely
compacted siliceous rooks. Tbe fullest ex-
tene of this immixy can may be to elute
-
date relative duration end compared's°
labor of appropriation to useful or erne -
mental Purposes.
By examining the various productions
of nature we finit evident preefs of her ins
dustry in an ages. Cbanges bare been
going on front the remotest antiquity to
tbe presene time on every substance that
coxues within our observatioe. All ale
actual combinations of matter have had a
former existence an emee other mete.
'Nothing exists in nature but what is bee-
fy to mange its condition and manner of
being. No material is so durable as always
to retain its present appearance. for the
Most maid and compeer bedies have not
eucle a degree of impenetrability and so
close a union of the parts which compose
them as to be exempted from ultinnateais-
sol ut ion.
Even in tbe great globe width we iro
noble nothing Is more evident to geologists
anan a perpetual series of alterations:.
There can be dlr.:covered Do vestige of a be-
ginning, no prene et of 411 end. In wane
budies these Mamas are nut 50 frequent
and remarkable as in otbere, though equal-
ly certain at a awns dietant period. Tile
eeperalle remains of le:Malan splendor,
many vf them etteeuted in the bardest
granite between leiete and 4010 years
sime, exhibit lerge portions of exfonetion
anti gradual deray, thereby following the
primitive, immutable end universal order
ot canes rand efie ets--netealy. thou all olo
eeets poseess the underiale of which they
are composed ouly for a lionited Ville, Mir
bng whiell some eowerfel agent effecte
tbeir dtcommeitime and sets tbe (emote
ary particles at Illareyegain to form entail
equellet i erfect combinutimee Thus la
di \ nod rimming hove order is restored
Main appanmt conamion. eercbiteet.
A GLINT OF COLOR.
AM1 the Ouly nue. Seers Ou a Trip by Rau
Through a Winter Fog.
12, was a damp day. Tlee earth WU sat
'prated with 'Water from the melting snowy,
and the eir wos tbiet; with fog arising
from lo Outside of elle Mae% 'with their
paved etreete, the roade were Wet and
muddy, the trees dripped moisture, the
Men wore rullete bouta the homes ruble.'
Mantels. There was douninees mare
ethere, and eserything was made of a dull
and uniform color imam enehrouding fog,
Tho train tore along through this mai
venal dampuntss on awe, Wolf dripping,
and it pas.pvngers looking out upon the
gray laralteape througb the nlm covered
'Mellows. Seen elm at hand, souse things
were reolved out of the general gray inte
eolore of their own, the railroad stations
and the things seen about them. Dut these
things were all blacks and elates and grays,
and wben a few mat kale had been seen it
was ecialeed that they 'were all alike in
their way, all piteleel in a low brown tone,
all, like the sue". -ding miles of country,
OVere01101 by the geneve dampness.
Ana. so a glint of color thet at one spot
appeared was all the snore Making. It
WWI seen at one of the etutions at wbielt
the train ettoi cd. The building and v.
malting about it, the men and the bag -
ad the platform and the road te-
emed were dull and Stillawr, but through
all tble mune a Chleanam wearing it Mach.
Sleeved coat oi brilliant eurple,
lie cane: down a plativan past tbe end
ot the emit:ft toward the platform nt the
front, with hipl bands in bis pocaets and
the Miles ve his purple boaled coat caught
up over them. Walking slowly, binisell
as much apart from all bis surrounding...
as bis coat wns different in bee, like n
slow moving meteor iu a cloudy sky, the
ono touch of eolor seen in all the trip.—
New York Sun.
James Partorea Prediction.
In 1562 Munes Parton the celebrated
biographical writer, made the followinp
I:mediation in regard Abraham Lincoln.
History will say of Mr. Lincoln that nt
man of a more genial temperament, a
more kindly nature, ever tenanted the
Naito House; Shatho gave all his time, bits
thoughts, his energies, to the discharge of
duties of unprecedented magnitude and
urgency; that, bating no man, he stead-
fastly endeavored to win the confidence
and love of all the loyal and patriotic, and
that in spite of four checkered years of
such responsibility and anxiety as has sel-
dom fallen to the lot of man he bore away
from the capitol the sunny tenaper and
blithe frankness of his boybood, returning
to mingle with Ms old neiglabors as one
with them in beart and in manner, in re-
tirement as in power a happy specimen of
the men whom liberty and democraci
train in the log cabin and by the rudem
hearth to guide the counsels of tbe re-
public and ielluence the destinies of the
people.
Appearance and Merit.
Girard, the famous French painter,
when very young, was the bearer of a let-
ter (V introduction to Lanjuinais, then of
She council of Napoleon. The young paint-
er was shabbily attired, and bisoeception
was extremely -cold, but Lanjuinais dis-
covered in bim sueb striking proofs of tal-
ent, good sense and amiability that, on
Girard's rising to take leave, be rose, too,
and accompanied his visitor to the ante
cbanaber. The change was so striking that
Girard could not avoid an expression of
surprise. "My swung friend," said Lan-
juinais, anticipating the inquiry, "we re-
ceive an unknown person according to bis
dress—we take leave of him according to
hiss merit. "
The Secrets Told In Delirium.
Every one tears that if be sbould become
delixions he would give away his secrets
and trot out every skeleton in his private
closet. Cahn yourself. People who axe
delirious toll nothing they know. An
Atthison num wbo was recently so near
death that he bearcl Moses shag laved con-
stantly about his bead Mpg a Missouri
Paoific freightbouse.--,Atchison Globe.
X
"Scribbler's pleattsuraarleLT*all so iroprobas
"Yes; he belongs to the realistic school,
you know."—lehiladelpitia North Amerl-
ean.
A correspondent of The Westminster Ga-
zette calls atteption to the CLITIOUS juxta-
position of two finger poste attached to a
bouse neer Bridgend. One reads
e To the Asylum," the other "To the Come
tern."
Walked
the Floor
Night after Night
in Agony.
INTENSE THYSIC&SUFFEI •
IRS FRE NEURALGIA.
IN HEAD...AND FACE. .
DisoppoistoR So Lug lu Dootors
apillodicilick Its. John
Thosglit Thom Wu No
HOP for lit
A KIND NEIGHBOR RECOMMENDS
PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND
THE MATCHLESS SPRING
MEDICINE,
mmt
as Commenced With a
Small Degree a Faith,
"ow There is Joy, Tbankfulnesa
and Gratltude for a liar
velIous Cure.
wriza &RICTUS/1111,SW CO.,
Sliast-1 suffered ietensely
ea,
50 my head awl fate, and was iu men
a condition that I could 00; rest day oe
night for ewo and a hall years. X was
treated by different atators and used their
medicine awl rioraet notes got a tittle relief,
but the pain would c ime back as bad eit
eves. I walked the Mom night after night
and thousseit, 1 wouid go crazy. A. neigh.
bete knowingmy coalition of suffering,
asked rue if I had tresti Paine's Celery
Compound. I said I have no faith
in anything now, tei I eave tried so many
mediciues and they lave not done me limy
good." However. I dwelled to try one
bottle of Paine's Celery Compound, and it
gave such gooti reslillS I contiuued until X
had used six bettlee otel was cared. 1 mit
never cease to express my gratxtude for
the great good I derived. from Paine's Cel-
ery Compound.
Your truly,
Mete. Time. Jenne's,
5e ea Ono ST., Toronto..
This Men Was Thoughtful.
A lany who lived for some time when
she was first marreel ton a. Missistippi cot-
ton plantation eays that among their
poultry was a hen wirt deeeloped a fond.
mess for a more Main:sett way ef living.
Sho pr fer ed the honot to the henyard,
and never lost an tnr-watt' of mount-
ing the steps and entering. She was al-
ways nehooed" eta. 'hut this did not cause
her ardor to tieereese. Finally she con-
ceived the idea of in;ihing an offering to
the inmates of the heuse in return for ea.
commodatious, so nearly every day 'she
would enter and lay an egg in the sheet
trunk, which stood open at that time of
day in the hall. , he family were so
amused at this performance that they
allowed her to go m and out without
suolestaton.
There Is more catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the lost few years was supposed to bo
incurable. For a great many years doctor
pronounced it a local disease. and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly fading to
cure with local treatment. pronounced It Incur-
able. Science has proven -catarrh to be a con.
stitutional disease, and therefore requires con-
stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufaeturedby F. a Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is she only constitutional oure on the
market. 12 50 taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It ems directly on the
blood and MUCOUs suriaves ot the system.
They offer one hundred &mars for any ease is
fails to cure. Send for circulars and teal -
menials. Address,
F. a CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
sarScad by Druggists, 750.
Downright Mean.
"I have a surprise in store for you," said
the pretty young wife as she approached
her husband with whom the pleasures of
the honeymoon were giving way to the
dread realities of matrimonial existence.
"A surprise in store, hey? I suppose
so," as he recalled that it was the Easter-
tide. "Whose store anti. bow much is it?"
Skepticism.—This is unhappily an age
of skepticism, but there is one point upon
which persons acquainted with the sub-
ject agree, namely, that Dr. Thomas'
Eclecatio 011 is a medicine which can be
relied upon to cure a cough, remove pain,
heal sores of various kinds, and benefit
any infiamed portion of the body to which
it is applied,
Another Disappointment.
Rich Bachelor—"What a wonderfully
preserved woman you are, Miss Elderly.'
Miss Elderly—How dear of you. Pardon
the blushes, but 1 was—"
Rich Bachelor—I was—er—speculating
*0 50 whether you might have a younger
aster."
• Holloway's Corn Care destroys all kinds
of corns and warts, root and bratioh.
Watt tlaen would euaure theta with such
a cheap and effeetaal remedy within
reach I'
Attractive Subjects.
There is a terrible fascination to time
people about things that are none of their
busioess.—Puck,
•"Quickeure" cures cuts of all abide
or lacerated wounds : applied early it
prevents blood poieoning.
Fortunes of Love.
She—Are you lucky in 'love
lie—Should say I was, nfave been wee
fused ave tirnesen three years.