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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-9-28, Page 7Olir TO LIVE LONG. THE REV. DR-, T. • IDE WITT TAla MAGE'S PRESCRIPTIONS FOR LONGEVITY, Hie Teat Wee, owito reato etre win IgatitfY Illut"-.111e1P rratitieni iteligiett —a oretest agemet Paeleetioes—De- etrosers or ear., Washington, Sept, 24.—,,To this dis- course Dr. Talmage gives preecrip- tions for the prolongation a life and Preaches the gosiml of physical health. The teat is Psalms xci, "With loog life will 1eatiofy him." Throogh the mistake a its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odor- ous with eldorinh and carbolic acid. There are people who canuot pro. noeuee the word "religion" without *firing in it the clipping chisel of o tombstone cutter. It is high time that this thing were changed and that eeligion, instead of being represented as a hearse to early on the deed, amid borepreseoted as a chariot in which the liviug are to triumph, Religion, so far from sabtreating from oue's vitality, is a gloriOns ad - anion. It is Sanative, curative, hy- gienic,. It is good for the eyes, good eater the ears, good for the epleele, good lifer the digestiou, good for the nerree, good, for the inueeles. Whelk David in another an of the peaim prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it s z uiild sickness or an emaeiation or an attack of ' xatoral aud spiritual. cramp. Ile speaks of it as "the saving health of all o Vous," while God in tho teat prom- ises lougoritY to the PlOuSt sayingt loug life will 1 satisfy him," The fact is that mei and velum die too soon. It is high time that religiou joirted the band of medical Winne° in attempting to improve human long- evity. liusoired Tears014, it is mid in Isaiah, "The child hall die a hundred years old." Now, it accordih*g. to seriptare, the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the BIM ancl womeu reach to NO and 400? The fact is that SVC aro raere dwarfs mul skeletons compared with some or the gen('rations. that are to come. Take the African. race. They have been tinder bondage for con- turies. Give them a chance, and they *develop a Frederick Douglass mor a, Toussaint Vane -eater°, And, if the white race shall be brought from un- der the serfdom of Sin, what shall be the body, what shall be the soul? Re- ) ligion has only just touched our wericl. Give it full power for a, few centuries, and who cau tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of women and the longevity of all? Care tor Tour Ph 3 steal Po max. An intelligent Ohristirm intm would consiner it an absurdity to kneel . clown at night and pray nnd ask God's protection while at the StIni0 tilne he kept the window of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. Ile would just SS S0011 think of goieg out on the bridge between New York and Brook- lyn, leaping off and .then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt. just as long as you refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality or to the pastry cook or to the butcher or to the baker or to the apothecary or to the cloth- ier you are not acting like a Chris- tian. Take care of all your physical foioes — nervous, muscular, bone, . brain, celtalar tissue—for all you must be brought to judgment. Smok- ing your nervous system. into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stom- ach with wine logevooded and strych- nined, walking with thin shoes to • make your feet look delicate, pinched - at the waist until you are nigh mit in two and neither part worth anything, groaning about sick • headache and paCatth came from God, when they ion of the heart, which you. came from your own folly! A body so divinely honored and so divinely constructed, let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a Christian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency to - 'ward longevity? If I toss my watch about recklessly- and drop it on the pavement and wind it up any time of , day. or night I happeu to think of it ! and often. let it run down, while you are careful with your watch and ver abuse it and wind it np just at the same hour every night and put air it in a place where it will not suffer from the violent changes of atmos- phere, which watch will last the longer? COMmOn sense answers. Now, the human body is God'aewatch. You see the hands of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Be careful and do not let it run down. neneloo ui Friend of Longevity. Again, I remark that practical, re- ligion is a friend of longevity, in the fact that it is a peotest against dissi- pations, which injure and destroy that alighted on the bust above his door was delirium tremens— Older this aud =thing more, Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond uUdUfe, then died at St. lielena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was indoced by exces- sive snuffing. The hero of Auaterlitz, the man who by one step of his foot in the centre of Europe shook the earth, killed by a snuff boat Plow may people we have loaowa who have pot lived out half their days be- cause of their dissipatious and indulg- ences! Now, practieal religion is a protest agebast dessipatiops of any kind, "But," you say, "professors of re- ligion hove fallen professors of re- ligion have got 'druedc, professors of religion have misappropriated trust fuuds, professors of religion have ab. scouded." Yes, but they threw away taeir religion before they did their morality. If a man on a 'White Star line steamer, booed for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Star lineas capacity to take the man aeross the wean? Aud if a liaan jumps over the- gauwale of his re- ligion aud goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing, that religion has no eaptteity to take the num elear through? In the one Ortse, if be had Rept to the steamer, Lis body would have been Saved; in the other ease, if lie bad kept to his religion, his morals woold have been it eaved. Takee Oat tue Worry. Again, religion is a friend a long - lay in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalitioa 11 is t work that kills men; it is worry. 'When n man becomes a gen- nine Christian„ be makes over to God not ouly bis affections, but his fam- ily, his busiuess, his reputation, his hoes, his Ivied, his soul, everything. Industrious he will be, but never worryiuge because God is managing his affairs, flow can be worry about business when in answer to his prayers od tells hint when to buy and when to elle and if be gain, that is best, if he lose, that iseliest. Suppose you bad a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: "Sir, I Want you to call on me in every ex- igen**. I am your first friend, I -could fall back on 0,000,O00 1 van torso a panie ten years, 1 hold the controlling stook in 80 of the best monetary institutions of NOW York. -Whenever your are in trouble call on ano, and I will help you. Yon eau have zny money, aud yon can havemy influence. Here f my hand. in pledge for it." How much would yon worry: about business? Why, you would say, "I'll do the best I ma, and then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest." lerno, more than that is promised to every Christian business man, God says to him: "I own 'Now York and, London and ',St Petersburg and Pe- kin, arid Australia and California are intim. I can forsee a panic a lounlred years. I have all the resources of the =Were°, and I am your fast friend. When you get in business trouble or any other trouble, call on me, and I will help. Bore is my hand in pledge of mnripotent de- liverance." How mach should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to pnt his paw ott that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an. eternal vacation in this? "Oh," you say, 'here is a, man who asked. God for a blessing in a cer- tain enterprise, and he lost $5,000 in it. Explain that." I will. Yonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north, and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally, and the other plays -vertically. I go to the manufacturer, and I say: "0 Mann- faoturev, your machinery is a contra- diction! Why do you not make all the wheels go one way?" "Well," he says, "I made them to go in opposite directions on purpose, and they pro- duce the right result. You go 'down stairs and examine the carpets we are turning out in this establishment, and you will see." I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that though the wheels in that factory go in op- posite directions, they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am stand- ing there looking at the exquisite fab- ric an old Scripture passage comes in- to my mind, "All things work togeth- er for good to them that love God." Is there not a tonic in that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a raan is all the time wor- ried about his reputation? One man says he lies, another says he is stu- pid, another says he is dishonest, and half a dozen printing esta,blisments attack him, and he is in a great state of excitement and worry and fume and caunot sleep, but religion comes • to him and says: "Man, God is on your side. He will take case of your reputation. If God be for you, who can be against you? How much should that man worry about his reputation? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after he had lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out—if, instead a to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ehip, you. want to know into what harbor 21 28 going to run. Med if you should tell nie you have no interest in, what is going to be your future destiny I would, in as polite a way as ]now how, tell you I did not believe you. Before X bad this matter settled with reference to lay future exiatence the question almost worried am ietoruin- ed health, The - anxieties ram haye upon this subject put together would make a martyrdom. This is a state of awful =Ilealthieess. There are pee- ple who fret themselves to death, for fear of dying. I want: to take the strain off your nerves and the ()owes- sion off your soul, and I make two or tiree experiments. Experiment first When you go ant of this world, it does not make any difference whether you have been. good or bad, whether you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. "Impossible," you say. "My common sense a„s welL as sny religion tertebes that the had and the good cannot live together the animal and hY the amennt and forever. You give me no comfort in kind of wort he is required to do. The that exieeriment." Experiment the horse bas a small stomach in proper, - tion to his size; hence frequeut feediog second: Wien you leave this world, when under bard work is aecessary. you will ge. into an intermediate no human stomach eau bear hunger state, where you can get eonverted, 54 • • • • • • • 4,••44••••••••••••••• .+40-•••••••••••• • FEEDING HORSS. Oirettinstancest Whielt SitotaId Ooverst the quantity and Vaelety atottotte, a Farmers :generally do not give the feediug of their tomes the ateentical a deserves, writes Colonel D, elcOrae: in The Breeder's Gazette, Balanced rations and feed mixtures for the dairy vow and the feecliog steer ' are carefully examinee and discussed, but the reeding of the horses is usually all the bay they can eat and varying quantities of oats, according to the work being clonal Soteethoes even the latter part is neglected, If a horse is required to do extra bard work,. he should be liberally aud frequently fed. Tim amount of rope. given should :het regulateti by the size and breed of and prepared fOr heaVen, "Impose afar ibetter than that of the horse, Ir sibles" ymt Say. "As the tree fere ru=ft.o=ljtnai leth, so must it lie. and I CallUQI: post' it before you did and Is needing bis pone to an intermediate state xefore teed more than you oce elation -which ought to have beim Opinions differ it god deal as to the effected in this siato." arPoriratelt 'teetering of horses. Seine prefer to the third' VIM is no future world. have water before the horses in the When a moo dies, that is the last of stall at all times, Mora prefer water- line. Eo not worry about whot you. Ing only as the horses come in fano are to do in another state of heiria. work or before feeding. Roma shotild You will not do anything. "Impose not be watered after male, as the Able." you say. "There is seine- stomach, being small, Is liable to be thing that tells me that death is ooe partially emptied of the uudigested the appeudix, but the palace, to lire. rood, causing trouble in the bowels and ewe. anweee partial loss of the food. Well, YOB defeat leo in lay them ex- Oats and bay are the Ideal horse pertratilts, g 110170 014 ono two to foodS for oar coUntry, bat beeallse Snake, and •if you defeat me •in. that I they are the best le no reason why they should be eaelusivety used, Via am exhausted. A, mighty no on •ety is often =tele relished the hxiafl back Jemnettlem dan the horse. and with this variety eheapness shies filled with farlted lightnings and economy may be introduced. Good and the earth dlled With valeania timothy hay, early cut and well cured, disturbuncee, turned his Pale nisi is the best bay for horses. Timothy agonized. face toward the heavens and hay Is heavier thap. that of other said: "X take the sins and sorrows of grasses and contains a largo quantity the ages into my own heart, am of nutritive matter In a small bulk. If the expirition. Witness, earth and. left till it be overripe, It. becomes hard hen,ven and hen, I am the as. -pi- and woody. It is more digestible wben ation,," And the haMmer Struck eut rather on the green side and makes him, and the spears punetared him, better horse food. Many farmers feed and heaven thundered: "The wages far too ranch bay to their horses. They of sin is death!" "The soul thot might very well talce a few lessons In sinueth, it shall. diet" "I •will hy no rids matter h firm the liverymen, who zzieans elear the guilty!" nen there ._iieep tematititneerronhearssemstaloaltewttaenrceanol was silence for half an hour, and. the 4'• lightniegs were drawn back. into the hay. Race horses in large stables ore fed on G to 8 pounds of bay and seribbera of the sky, and the earth from Pr to 20 puede of the best oats ceased to quiver, and all the -color of per day, and, if needed, a bran mash the slcy began to shift into a rainbow once a weele—one-third of the bay aft - woven out of the fallen tears of J'estie, er exereise In the morninge the balauce and there was red as of the bloodshed- at algbt and the oats fed at four feeds. ding, and there was blue as of the For hunters mare bay Is given up to 10 bruising, and them was green as of pounds per day, G pounds loose and 4 the heavenly foliage, and there \WU pounds cut and mixed with his oats,16 orange as of the day dawn, and along to 18 pounds per day. Any farmer can the line of the blue I saw the words, see bow numb this differs from bis yet these horses are re - "I was bruised. for their iniquisies,11 feeding, and and alone. the line of the red. I -saw quired to do bard work and sudden ex - the words, "The blood of Jesus Christ ertions, taxing all their powers. In eleanseth from all •sin," and along horses a favoritte winter ood wkbeln the line of the green saw the words, ci)1;sgtasr11:11'lell a moderate v" s "The leaves of the Tree of Life for When "lames are in the stable much the healing of the nations," and of the time, the feeding needs to be along the line of the orange I saw the carefully managed. In mane- Parts of words, "The day spring from on high Canada roots are a favorite winter hath visited us," and then I saw the feed. Swede turnips (ruta bagas) are storm was over, and the rainbow rose relished by horses and seem better higher and higher until it seemed re- food for them than the carrot. They treating to another heaven, and, do well on roots when idle or at pleating one column a its colors on moderate work. Cooking food for one side of the eternal hill, and plant- horses has not been found generally ing the other corm= of its colors on Profitable. Elaborate and careful ex - the other side of the eternal hill, it periments made years ago showed that rose upward and upward, "and, be horses did better on raw food. Crushed hold, there was a rainbow about the or ground oats are much used. Some throne." Accept that sacrifice and horses have a tendency to bolt their quit worrying. Take the tonic, the feed half chewed, and some of the inspiration, the longevity, of this grain is voided whole in these cases. truth. Religion. is sunshine; that is Grinding belps any .such tendency. In health. Religion is fresh ' and pure England some of the large companies water; they are healthy. Re _ mixed fw000ld. s adgreat many horses give use considerable quan- is warmth.; that is healthy. Ask all titles of American corn. The North the doctors, and they will tell you Metropolitan company (London) allows that a quiet, conscience and pleasant for each horse per day about the fol. anticipations are hygienic. I offer lowing rations: Corn, 18 pounds; oats, you perfect peace now and hereafter. 3 pounds; peas, 1 pound; beans, 1 What do you want in the future pound; hay, 7 pounds; cut straw, 3 world? Tell me, and you shall ha,ye pounds; total, 28 pounds. Tbe South it. Orchards? There are the trees London Tramway company gives eorn, with twelve manner of fruits, yield- 7 pounds; oats, 7 pounds; beans, 1 ing fruit every month. Water seen- pound; hay, 11 pounds; straw, 3 ery? There is the river of Life from pounds; total, 29 pounds. under the throne of God, clear as What needs special attention by our crystal, and the sea of glass mingled feeders is the quantity of hay and the with fire. Do you want music? desirability of using a small quantity These is the oratorio of the Creation of straw in the ration. British cavalry led on by Adam, and the oratorio of horses are allowed 10 pounds of oats the Red sea led on by Moses and the and 12 pounds of hay on ordinary oratorio of the Messiah led on by St feed. If out on active service, the oats are increased to 15 pounds. In private Paul, while the aachangel with single stables and on the farm it is better baton controls the 144,000 who make to give greater variety to the food, and up the orchestra. Do you want re- the wise feeder will be guided by the union? There are your children season and the price of foods in keep waiting to kiss you, waiting to em- ing his animals in the best of health brace you, waiting to twist garlands at the least expense in your hair. You have been accus- tomed to open the door on this side the sepulcher. I open the door On the other side the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet ' grass on the top of the grave. I show you the under side of the grave. The bottona has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pallbearers let down your dead let them clear through into heaven• . Glory be to God for this robust, the health'. Bad men and women hlthy It will live a very short life. Their sins kill taking out of his pocket a pistol, he eareligion! dency to make you live lonhave a ten - them . I know hundreds of good old had taken out a well read New Testa world, and in the world to come you men, but I do 110t know half a dozen ment, there would have been one less will have eternal life. "With long • bad old men. • Why? They do not get suicide. •life will I satisfy him." old. Lord Byron died at Missolonglii Again, practical religion is a friend The CallSe of Alan's greed. at 36 years of age, himself his own of longevity in the fact that it re- Sunday School Teacher--Noev, Tom- Mazeppa, his imbridled passions the moves all corroding care about a futmy, cap you tell me what it is that horse that dashed hum into the des- ure existence. Every man wants to makes men hunt for pearle and die,- ert Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore know what is to become of him. If you raon.ds? t 88 ears of age. The black raven get on board a rail traiu you wegi Tommy—I guess it's girls. y _ Prom Cattle to Sheep. Wyoming is fast becoming the sheep - men's country, and it is only a ques- tion' of a few years when they will possess the state. Only five firms in the western portion still range cattle there. All the country south of Bow- line has been given up to the sheep men, and firms that formerly ranged cattle have been forced to change tbeir holdings into sheep. One cattleman says he is surrounded by sheep, but, having purchased a large tract of coun- try from the 'Union Pacific, he has suc- ceeded In•holding his range The bus] ness is being overdone in that section, and there is a disposition on the part of some of the sheeptnen to sell and get out, and it is probable that a large number of sheep will be thrown upon the market this season.—National Stockman. • LAST MAN ON EARTH. WHE etAT IS TleStgAte FATg THAT AWAITS THIS MORTAL? Stour Theories,' as to tue Banner ot Lite /Anti Death Thll at WiBe the Portion oft the Last Relic et autuitY ii lt Now Exiats. Astronomers tell as that the day must come when the earth will, like the moon, wheel through. the bealtells g dead and barren »all of matter—air- less, waterless, lifeless. But Wag, long before time time mau will be extinct-, wW bave disappeared se utterly that not so much as the bleaclaed skeleton of a human being will be visible on all the millions of square miles or the surface of this planet. Unless by some huge and uulversal cataclysm the whole race is swept af once into eternity it is but reasonable to suppose that man, like any other mce of animals, will disappear slowly and that eveatually there will be but AL single human being left—some old, old man, grey headed and bearded, and left to wander alone in a solitude that may be imagined, but not described, Tim will he die, tie's Met relic of Nee tensing millions that once trees - armed the face of the globe and ruled endisputed masters of every other live rag thin? There are many fates that may bean Mui. i1e may go road With the horror of loneliness and }Oneself end his own raiserable existence. Re may be eaten by the vast reptiles or Mut insects wbich will then probably hufest the solitudes. But his tate may be far weirder and more dreadful, Scientists say that, as we burn the coal awl timber we are etill so ricbly supplied with, we let loose into tlae atmosphere an ever in- ereesiug volume of carbonic aeld gas. tfueli of this is taken up' be' pleats, hut not all, It must Increase and eventually POIS011 the breathable air, filliug the valleys and mountbig slowly to the hill tops, where ehe last remains of animal life are striving for exist- ence. The last roaet will climb higher and Waller, but eventually the suffocat- ing luvisible good will reach and 4irrg:1011,nlit him, said that the earth as it gets elder is eracking like dry mud, Tease cracks will increase until at last they will let the waters of tbe oceans • aud rivers sink. into the fiery center of the globe. Then will occur an eap10- 310n so terrible as may startle the In- habitants of neiglibmeng worlds. The last man in this case will probably be some arctic explorer or Eskimo whore the vast plains of ice around will save In from 'tent death and leave to grill a few moments till the lee continents are swallowed by redteet gases and steam. Suppose these earth cracks develop more slowly, they may suck away the water without devastating explosions. Then the last man's fate will be the worst describable. Re will die of thirst. The scene of his death will probably be the great valley in the bed of the Atlantic ocean, off the Brazilian coast, half way between Rio Janeiro a.ne the cape, wbere now six miles of green water lie between the steamer's keel and the abysmal slime beneath, There, hopelessly digging in the ever drying mud, be must perisb and leave hlasuebtones to parch on a waterless o The antaretie polar lee cap has been growing thicker and heavier for un- counted ages. The distance from the south pole to the edge of this ice cap is 1,400 miles. The ice rises steadily from the edge to tbe center. At that center It caenot be less than 12 miles In thick- ness—twice as thick as Mount Everest Is high. Suppose it splits. Imagine the gi- gantic mass of water and ice that will come sweeping up north overthe oceans and continents of the eartb! Wbere, then, will the last man breathe his final gasp? Higb up in the snows of some great range he will perish miser- ably of cold and starvation, looking down on a huge shallow sea, beneath whose tossing waters will lie the whole of the races of the world, Or last, and perhaps dreariest fate of all, the human race may outlive other mammals and last until the sun, as some day it must, grows dull and cold and vegetation dies from the chilled earth. Tbe miserable remnant of earth's people must then slowly die out after ages of an existence to which that of the Eskimo of today is a para- dise. Doing Without the Dot. The small letter "I" was formerly written without the dot. The dot was introduced in the fourteenth century to distinguish "I" from "e" in hasty and indistinct writing. The letter "I" was originally used where the letter "j" is now employed. The distinction between "1" and "J" was Introduced by the Dutch printere at a compara- tively recent date, and the "j" was dot- ted beeause the "i," from which it was derived, was written with a dot Hint For Writers. Don't moisten your new pen between your lips before you begin to write. Take your theap steal pen, dip it in the , ink. then bold it in the dame of a match for a few seconds, wipe it care- fully. dip it into the iuk again, aod you bare a pen that will niake glad, the heart within you, Try it NetiV00 Rustier. Before and Atter. "My dear." said eirs. flunewell au alie poured the coffee at breakfast the other morning. "do you believe In tin eternal fitness of things?" '9 used to," replied finnewell, "but that was before you began to make my shirts,"—Claicago News. THE CHINESE EAR CLEANER. One ot the Strange Sights to Ito Seen tit Manila streets. Ln this city of strange and uunsual sights there is probably walling that appears so strange at nrst sigbt to tbe American as the Cbinese ear clean- er pursulug his -calling ou the street corners. ',Me Chinaman so engaged is provided with a stool and a email bamboo ease, in whicla are inclosed his lustrumenta The Filipino is just as sure of bar. ing bis ears cleaned on Suuday as an American is of having, a shave, and in the by streets and :thee -trees they iiite up for all the world like a barber shop on Sunday moruing, the only difference being tbe Chinaman can't say "next." First of all the Chino takes a razor. wilicti looks more like a propeller blade than anything else, And. wiping the victim's face with a. wet rag, pro- ceeds to mop the dirt therefrom. Whits watching this part of the proceedings I was surprised at the flexibility of the native uose as demonstrated by the skillful lingers of the operator. To eviudward, to leeward, on its stero, beam and bow tbe native's nose is rapidly twisted to avoid the aforesaid razor. /laving removed the real es- tate feora the native's face, the China- man turns to the more (=cult task of ear -cleaning. Tim smallest spot of dirt and the tiniest tlesh worm is re- moved before tbe operation is com- plete, aud from the "heavenly expres- sion" one would imagine that the oper- ation was anything but pleasant—Ma- nila Freedom, "Two Politicians." One of the first tbings done by a stranger visiting Albany, says the Philadelphia Call, is to pay 25 cents and put himself at the mercy of capitol guide. Tbe guide makes a profound and obsequious bow, like a prestidigitator *bout to clump an auffieece, and pro- eeeds to lift taie veil which hides the mysteries of the great building. On a recent Occasion the guide led a stranger regretfully past "eleGintra" empty frame and proceeded to identi- fy the beads of notables that decorate the stairway. He did fairly well until the stranger pointed out Shakespeare and Horner and asked erho they were. "Thera," replied the guide, undaunt- ed, "are the beads of two politicians whose names 1 disremember!' Newspaper Obituaries. By this time, one would think, near- ly everybody has eeased to wonder at the way in wlilch newspapers cart come out with column after column of biography the very morning after some eminent person has passed away, and it Is an open secret that a care- fully written "life" has been pigeon- holed in the &Gee for months—nay, years—before. Biographies, interviews, personal paragraphs. all yield their quota to the compiling of an obituary, but in some' cases the subject has the grewsome experience of being waited upon while yet living to furnish materials for the notice.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Largest Natural Bridge. Down on Pine creek, near Camp Verde, A. T., is a natural bridge that Is probably greater than any other in the world. It is nearly five times the size of the natural bridge of Virginia and has a spam of more than 500 feet across Pine creek, which is dry 800 days in the year. The height of the bridge is about 80 feet, and it is about 600 feet wide.—Chicago Record. Victorian Era Explained. "Why is it," asked Miss Bookwisee "that literature always flourishes when a queen comes to the throne?" "Because, I suppose," answered Mr. Knowlines, "if one wants to be poet laureate he has to write to the queen's taste."—New lark Commercial Adm." timer. Holidays. No man can be thoroughly depraved SO long as he takes a holiday. It is something the thief cannot steal, the tax collector cannot appraise, the port- ly ustrer cannot shave and the avari- cious landlord cannot pluck. Like vir- tue, it is its own reward. It shows the beneficent side of that law by which time once lost can never be restored, for a holiday once enjoyed can never bts entirely lost.—Toronto Globe.