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Rev. Dr. Talmage Says it Is the
Friend of Longevity.
'A aospatoll from Waehington eays:
--Rev. P. Talmage preaehed /rola
the following text :--"With long life
wU1 I satiSty him."—Paahrie xol. 10.
My design thid morning is to show
to you that praetioal religion Le the
friend of longevity; and I prove it,
firet, frorol the fact that it xnakea
the oars of our physical health a
positive Chriatiau duty. Whether
we ahall keep early or late laours, whe-
ther we shall take food digeetnele on
indigeetible, whether there shall be
thorough dr tnoomplete mastioation,
are questionreey oft deferred to the
xealm a whimsicality; but the Chrle,-
tian man line thie whole problem of
health into the accountable and the
divine. lie gage: "God has given me
this body, and he had called it the tem-
ple of the Holy Ghost, and. to deface It
altars, or to mar jt a walls, or crum-
ple its pillard, is a Gocl-defying sac-
rilege." He seee; God's caligraphy 1.0
every page—anatoraioal and physio-
logical. He say: "Clod has given ine
a wonderful body for noble purpose."
That arra with thirty-six curioue
benes, wielded by forty-six curious
muscled, and all under the brain's
telegraphy—three hundred and flay
pounds a blood ruehing through the
heart every hour—the heart in twen-
ty-four houre boating one hundred
thouaand timee—during the twenty-
four hours overcoming reaistanoes
araou.nting to 225,000,000 pounds
weight—during the memo time the
lungs taking infifty-aeven hogsheads
of air, and all this mechanieun not
more mighty than delicate, and easily
unhooked and demolished. The Chrid-
tian man eayd to himself, "If I hurt
nay nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I
hurt any a my physical facultiod,
insult God and I call for dire retri-
bution." The care of all your phy-
sical foreee—nervous, muscular, bone,
brain, cellular tissues—or all this
you must be brought inio requielion
when tho world is on fire. Smoking
your eaervoue system into fidgets,
burning out the coating of your
stomech Afirn -wino logwooded and
etrichnined, walking through snow-
banks with thin ahoes to make your
feet look delicate, pistolled at the waist
until you are nigh cut in two, and
neither part worth anything, groan-
ing about sick headache and palpita-
tionof the heart, which you think
come from God when they come from
bhe devil! You are no Christian.
What right. has any xnan or any wo-
man to deface the temple of the Holy
"Ghost What ia the tar? Why, 10 10
the whispering gallery of the human
soul. What M the eye? It is the
observatory God conetruoted, its tele-
scope aweepiug the heaven. So won-
derful ie the body that God named his
ow.n *tributes after different parts
of it. His omniscience—it is God's
eye. tils omnipresence—it is God's
ear. Hisomipotence—it ie God's arm,
The upholstery of the midnight heav-
ens—it le the work of God's fingers.
His life-giving power—it is the breath
of the Almighty. His dominion—the
government sluili be upon hi shoul-
der. A body so divinely honoured aud
so divinely conatructed, let us be
careful not to abuse it. When it be-
comes a Chriatian duty to take mire
of our health, Le not the whole ten-
dency toward longevity?
Again, I remark, that praolical re-
ligion is a friend of longevity, in the
tact that it is a protest against all
the disalpe.tione which injure and de-
stroy the halal 13ad men and wo-
men live a very ,short life. Their en
kill a them. 1 know hundrede of good
old mu, but I do not know a half
dozen bad old men. Why V They
do not got old, Ohl how many peo-
ple we have known who have not
lived out half their days because of
their diesipations and indulgences,
Now, practical religion is a proteet
agaiiiet all dissipaiion of any kind.
"But," you say, "all profegeors of re-
ligion have fallen, professors of re-
ligion have got drunk, proleseors of
religion have misappropriated trust
funds, profeesers of religion have ab-
sconded." Yese yes, but they threw
away their religion before they did
their moreaty. There are aged peo-
ple in this houee to -day who would
have been dead twenty-five years ago
but for the defences and the °qui-
re/Leo of religion. Oh1 if tide religion
Ls a proteat against all forms of die-
alpation, then it id au illustrious
friend of longevity. illy text right
again: "With long life will I satisfy
thee,"
Again: religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it takes the
worry out of oUr temporalities. It is
not work that kills men; it is worry.
When a man beccenes a genuine
ChrMtion he makeover to God not
any affections, but hi family, his bus -
'n3, Ins reputation, his body, his
mind, his soul--evorything. In-
dustrions he Will be, but never wor-
rying, becalm° Cod ie managing his
affair, Hotv can he worry about
• busineed when, in (mower to his pray -
ere, God tell him when to buy and
'when it, eell, and if he gain that is
beat, nod if be lose that is best. Sup -
P000 you had a supernatural neigh-
bour who cane in and maid: "Sir, I
want you to loan On me in every ex-
igency ; I am your fast friend;
•could fall back on 02(000,000 1 can
foresee a panic ton part; I hold the
eoetrolling etook in thirty of the best
monetary inetilettione a New York;
wheeever you aro in any trouble call
on me, and I will help you; yoe can
have my money, and you can have
niy influence, bore is my hand in
Pledge for IV- Ilow Much would wou
worry about busineet 0 Why, you
would say: "Pit' elo the Vest 1 oan,
and then I'll depend upon my eriend'e
generosity for the rot." Nova m000
than that, ite promieee to oved Ohrie-
tian business man. God says to laine:
"I oWn New York, and London and St.
Peteeeleurg, and ekin, and Australia
and California are mine; 1 can fon-
Pee a MOW a million gears; I have
all the resources of the universe, and
I am your fast friend; when you get
in imainees trouble, or any other
trouble, call on me, and I will bear,
and I Will help; here is my hand in
Pledge ef omnipotent deliverenee."
How much Is that man, going to wor-
ry? Not much." Oh 1 nervoua and
feverish people of the world try this
almighty eedative ; you will live
twenty-five years longer under its
soothing power. It is not -chloral that
you want, or morphine that you want;
it is the gospel of longevity. "With
long life will I satisfy thee.'
Again: Practical religion is a friend
of longevity, M the fact that it re-
moves all corroding care about future
existence. Every man wants to know
what ie to become of him. If you
get on board a rail train, you want
to know at what depot it la going. to
stop; if you get on board a ship you
want to know into what barbour it
la going to run, and if you should tell
me you have no haterest in what is
to bo your future deethey, I would, in
as polite a way as I know how, tell
you 1 did not believe you. Before I
had this matter settled with reference
to my future existence'the question
almost worried me into invalidism.
Tbc anxieties you would have had up-
on this subject, put together would
make a martyrdom. This is a istate
of awful unbealtb. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear
of dying. I want, this morning to
take the strain off your nerves and
the depression off your soul, and I
make two or three experiments. Ex-
periment the first: When you go out
of this world, it does not make any
difference whether in this world you
have been good or bad, or whether
you believed right er wrong, you will
go straight to glory. "Impossible,"
you say, "my common sense as well
as my religion teaches that the bad
and the good Cannot live together
forever; you give nie no comfort in
that experiment," "Experiment the
second: When you 'leave this world,
you will go into an intermediate state
where you can get fixed up and pre-
pared for heaven. "Impossible. " you
say, "aa the tree falleth, so itmust
lie, and I cannot postpone to an in-
termediate state that reformation
which ought to have been effeoted in
this state." Experiment the third:
There is no future world, when a man
dies, that is the last of him. Do not
worry about wbat yo0 are to do in
another state of being; you will not
do anything. "Impossible," !yea say,
"there is something that tells me that
death is not the appendix, but the
preface; thee la something that tells
me that on this side of the grave I
only got started, and I will go on for-
ever—my power to think says ' For-
ever e my affections say • Forever e
my capacity to enjoy or suffer, 'For-
ever.'" Well, you defeat me in nay
three experiments. I have only one
more to make, and if you defeat me
in that I am exhausied. A mighty
One, on a knoll back of Jerusalem,
one day, the Melee filled with forked
lightnings and the earth shaking with
voloanio disturbances, turned bis pale
and agonized face towards the heavens
and said: "I take the sins and the sor-
rows of the ages into my own heart.
I am the expiation. Witnese eartleand
heaven, and hell, I am the expiation."
Accept that sacrifice and quit wor-
rying. Take the tonic, the inspira-
tion, the longevity of this thought.
Religion ie sunshine; that is healthy.
Religion is fresh air and puro wa-
ter; they are healthy. Religion is
warmth; tbat is healthy. Ask all the
doctors, and they will tell you that
a quiet conscience and pleasant antic,-
ipations are hygenie. I offer you per-
fect peace. now, everything heeeafter
which oan fillip the blow o.nd irradiate
the disposition. You have been acous-
tamed to open the door on this side
the sepulchre. Thie morning I open
the door on the other aide the aepul-
chre. You have been accustomed to
walking in the wet grass on tin top
of the grave. I Show you the under
side of the grave; the bottom has fall-
en out, and the long ropes with
which the pall -bearers let down your
dead let them clear through into
heaven.. Gloa7 be to God for this ro-
bust, rubicund religion 1 It will have
a tendency to make you. live long in
this world, and in the world to ROMA,
you will have eternal longevity. "With
long life will I satisfy* thee.'*
I LOVE'S SACRIFICE.
The following, which we are sure,
ia an exeeplional case is narrated of
a pertain Mr. and Mra. Cabife, of No-
where -in -Particular.
dirs. Cabiffee education itt the art
of cookery had been somewhat neg-
lected, but she did iter best, and her
husband struggled manfully and un-
complainingly with the tough eteaks
and sour bread she eet before him day
atter day.
One morning, about tbree yeate
ter their wedding t3he aaid to him:
Oliver, you don't love your wife as
you did once I
Why do you vay that 9 he tisked, in
Surprista
Because you don't eat the things
cook city Mote.
PhIllida, rejoined Oliver, with all the
earnestness he could command, 1 love
ewe as fondly as ever, but my dive -
lion is rulued 1
RICHES.
Riches do not bring happineeS, Hold
• Cuilirox,
• That's very true anSevered the ear-
nest Man. Bet the unresi and an-
noyances of thld World Can he very
Considerably aggravated by poverty.
✓ on ennat admit that, ,
NEW LIGHT RAYS.
leeee
The New Moment May Rival in lingol4
;iiree ttio Atomism UN's.
A. discevery hae Just been Made
which may oreato its great a dense+
time In the aoieritiflo world ad the
Roentgen ray. Bloguerel, a French
chemiet, discovered be 1895 a l'ay
erhich poseessed properties similar to
the Roentgen ray, The diseaved of
the latter, however, eclipsed the form-
er and Becquerel ray's, ae they are
called, Were employed only in a minoy
Way in physioal taboret:4'10e. At
that time 1D� Mariners the French eel"'
etitiSt, aeserted that the rays Wore
emitted trout a new element, but hie
at:atm:lent made no impreasion, Re-
cent experiments by the Berlin High
Sobool ot Technology, haye proved this
to be oo, and tho intereating fact has
been (Averred that theae rays render
almest every tranaparent substance
luannoms in the dark. Thee() rays
Make it poesible to tell genuine dia.
monde frem artificial ouel in the
dark. This will proves of great prim -
Heal importance in testing. The ex-
periments have also resulted in ob-
taining, for the Drat time, larger
quantities oe the new element, which
bee deraonatrated that rays emanat-
ing from a large quantity make the
air eueh a conductor of electrioity
that it is hoped thia Property oan be
utilized in wirelese telegraphy. • The
greatest aeorecy is maintained con-
cerning these experiments. They
are considered to be of so mueh im-
portance that the remelt will be laid
before the Emperor.
Venn of the Dead.
Near of the timid Is instinctive In
man. There Is no doubt about that.
I do not profess to be able to enter Into
tbeexnet reasons for that fear; whetb.
er it be that man instinctively recoils
from contemplation of the fallen tera-
ple alone or what not, it Is euniclent
tbat the fear exists.
Neither Is this instinctive fear of the
dead confined to man. I owned a borse
once that could never be driven past a
dead horse. The animal exhibited all
the signs of time fear.
Fear coupled with shock can produce
Insaeity. I do not tbiuic that the rea-
son of a normal man would be unseat-
ed if he were locked -up alone with a
corpse for many bours, though a per-
aon with weak nerves cot -Minty might
be so affected. If a man discovered
that his sweetheart had died suddenly
while aloue with him, the shocbr. might
render him insane.
Even to those most familiar with
cleath and dead bellies there Is some-
thing awe Inspiring about a corpse, and
no man's nerves are proof against a
fright. I remember ouce, when I was
alone in the dissecting room at night,
the hand of the subject upon which I
was engaged became loosened. I did
not notice what bad happened. Sud-
denly the arm of the subject swims
arbund, and the hand streck the side
of iny face. Yearof training in im-
munity from superstition vanished in
the jump that I gave.—Dr. John D.
Quackenbos iu New York World.
Watchee That They Lead.
"They are all alike." remarked a man
coming out of a Woodward avenue
watchmaker's, accompanied by a lady.
"Wbo?" Inquired his wife.
"Watchmakers."
"I thought other cities maybe weren't
quite like our small town In tbe wild
and wicked west, but they are and
more so. I take my watch, which, as
you know, is a tine gold one, full jewel-
ed, costing $300, in to have a few no.
pairs, much or little, as may be, an4
the boss timekeeper gives me an old
battered tin watch to carry in its place
that makes me ashamed to look itto
tbe face of a reputable watch for
weeks. In acldlLion it egeltes suspicion
In the minds of my nearest friends
when they see me take it out, and if I
should die with tbat watch on my per -
eon in a strange country tho newspa-
pers would say, 'Judging from the
watch fottild on the deceased, he must
have come from New jersey.' Now,
what 1 want to know Is why don't
jewelers have 'substitute watches' to
matc13 their customers'? That Is to say,
let the customer's watch left for re-
pairs determine the kind of watch he is
to carry until he oats his own again."
But his wife cotildn't ten him to save
her life.
WHERE WAS THE SWINDLE ?
Ethel, sold Lionel Bertram. Joned,
as ho dropped hid slice of bread in the
plate with a noise that dot the can-
ary in the gilt cage overhead chime-
ing raerrily. Ethel, I have some-
thing to flay to you.
They had been married only four
weeks, and the time had not arrived
When she did all tho saying; Do you
remember the day on whieh I pro-
posed to you;
Yes, aim replied, I will never for-
got 11.
Do you remember, he went on, as
be abstractedly drilled a hole In the
loaf With the point of a one:ring-knife,
how, when 1 ring the ben, youcame
to the door with your fingers sticky
with dough, and said you thoughl it
was your little brother who wanted
to get bet
Oh, Ethel! How oould you? How
could you'?
How could I what? ahs redponded,
as a guilty look crept into bee' 005.
How could you make me the victim
of ouch a els/indict
I CURED.
No, said. the man in the mackin-
Mali, my wife amyl glee away any
of my old clothes or dell them to tho
ragman any more. I eUred that hab-
it etfeetually once, ,
Plow, was that f they asked hira.
When 1 found she had (Repotted of
a coat I badn't worn for (leveret weeks
I told her there was a letter in it
she had given me to finail the Mat time
bad it on. And It Was no lie,
110 added, with deep, satistdotion,
THE S. S. LESSON.
iNTERNATioNAL LESSON, APRIL 7,
"rlie amereellou °Edemas." Luke ee, Pte.
'11:01don Text X 1300 10 22,
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 1, The Mat day of the week,
Sunday, April 9, though, of course,
neltheathe Jews nor the disciples used
our nanleS for dayS 01' racillthS. esue
had lain in tho tomb from Paley af-
ternoon to Sunday morning, a term
Which would be called three day e by
the Jews, who, like other ancient orie
tabs, reckoned each part of a year
or day as a full year or day. Very ear-
ly in tbe morning. This was their
Drat opportunity for the embalm-
ment" Armee the 'eerie'. They came.
Women who had come with Jeetre from
Galilee, Luke 23. 05. Unto the sepul-
cher, which we suppose to have been
a little distanoe north of the middle
of the northern wall of the city. The
spicea which they had prepared. See
our introductory note, The addition
of certain others to the Galilean wo-
men Makes conjeoture em to the num-
ber of the party vain.
2. They found the etorie rolled away
from the sepulolier. "Rolled beolc," as
Matthew tells, "by an angel of the
Lord who had descended from heav-
en," Mark is impressed by the great -
nese of the stone, and records the wo-
men's wonder as to how it could be
rolled away, and their dismay when
they found that it was gone—an as-
tonishment teat is mimed in john'a
story. Allow: common was this oustom
of closing a tomb by a circular stone
M a groove we have no means of
knowing. An ancient specimen of
such a doorway near to jeruealem ap-
peons in recent photographs and en-
gravinge.
9, 4. They entered in, and
found not the hody of the
Lord Jesus; and very naturally
they were muele perplexed thereabout,
La deep trouble. Suddenly two men
men atood by them in shining gar-
ments. Tbe Greek word IS often are
plied to the flashing of the sun's rays
and to lightning. All visiond ol the
supernatural world have glory and
brightness as their predominant
traits. Mary remained with the oth-
er woraeia until it was diet:levered that
our Lord's body wad not in the tomb;
apparently she left before the angell
revealed thetreselvere See note on
verse 10.
5. They *ere afraid. And no won-
der; they were surrounded by disaster
and woe. During hours of agony
they had apprehended their Master'et
murder; now that he was dead their
suspense had sunk into despair. They
feared the chief prieste, for who
could measure the cruelty of the men
ivto had put the blaster to death?
They feared the Roman soldiers, and
perhaps had hall expected one to
spring from. behind ahnoat every bush
on their way to the tomb. They tear -
ed lest some indignity had been done
to the body of him they loved! so well.
But beyond all comparison they were
afraid, panic-stricken, in thie super-
natural presence, and their terror
mast have reached 115 olimax when
.to the vision was added the voice.
Brewed down their faces to the earth.
Dazed by fright and light. Why seek
ye the living among the deadt "Why
seek ye him that liveth among those
that are dead—he who is alive for
evermore ?" The words are a gentle
reproof, followed in the next verse by
a reference to our Lord's own decla-
ration that he abould ride again,
which the Women remembered.
6. When hewas yet in Galilee. Thia
reference to the "old home days" made
to Galilean women by the angel was
deeply pathetio, for Galileans in Judea
always felt theneeelves to be half for-
eigners.
7. Delivered into the hands of gin-
ful men. Aceording to our common
use of the wordd this raight mean not
mere than "surrendered, by God, pos-
sibly, into the power of the wtcked,"
but the implioation of the original is
"paseed over to the punitive power
of the Roman government"—the
greatest disgrace a jaw could suffer.
Be crucified. The utmost disgrace the
Romana could inflict.
8. They remembered hie wordd.
Not, perhaps, tbat they had ever quite
forgotten them, but that ,Tesua had
been constrained to give do large a
share of hie teciehings by means 02
parables and figuree of speech that
his followerd hesiteted to take liter-
ally so aatounding a statement as
this.
9. Returned from the sepulcher,
'With fear and great joy." Told all
things unto the eleven, end to all .the
rest.. Already there eleleted a vigor-
ous germ of the Chriatinn Church,
How many "the real" were we cannot
certainly say, but doon after this they
numbered one bendred and twenty.
10. An explanatory rem. Mary
Magdalene. Familiar to modern
Ohrietendomad is the conception of
Mary of Mageala, a town on western
Shore of the Sea of Galilee, very few
facts concerning her life before this
episode are known. With otherd she
"ministered to arid of her sub-
stance." Out of hereour Lord ltd
oast seven demons. Sees had stood
near to the arose. Joanna. The
wife of °haze, the steward of Herod
Antipas, tetrarch, 00 Galilee.
Mary the mother of Jamee.
A comparison of Matt. 27 50
with Mark 15, 40 leads to the con-
clusion that this person was the same
RS Mary the wife of Cleopas, John 19,
25 and as " that other eaary," alba.
II: 61 and Mark 15. 47, and that she
was the aister of our Lord's mother,
Told theme things unto the apostles.
IA we had no other account than this
eve would underatand that the wo-
Men came all together to the apos-
tles, evhon the apoatles were all to-
tegetber, and told of the words of the
men in shining garmeete and that
aa a direct consequenoe of thie in-
credible story Peter, verso 12, ran to
• tho tenth. But it 10 better 10 tnke
verses 0, 10, and 11, as in very genet,
al statement of the feet that the wo-
men were the earliest diets:WM*0re of
the resurrection and the informantd
ut the aliPetieif rather that to 509-
9030 Mit the iiIIOUp al Meil and the
group a women mime together in any
Gene Phope., In the light ot the other
three etorme we Are lo euppoee that
eaoh woman told all elle keiew to emb
apostle as ole Met him, This under-
(atonal:1g reakee plain how Marr, Ac-
cording to jobn's story to be studied
next Sunday, was in deeper, and
without any thought of the reeler -
section, even aftee Peter and John
had visieee the tomb. ,Sbe had hat
the tomb before the angelo appeared
to the other women and had hasten..
ed to Peter, had followed Peter and
,Tolal to the tomb, and, when they
left, 0411 stood outside.
colulidTthheeyy believed them not. 110W
12. The u arose Peter, 'Snob a roan
ae Peter could not linger in doubt;
he must inveatigate. His visit to the
sepulcher IS more fully related by
John, who accompanied him. Depart-
ed, wondering in himself at that which
was come to paas'. This ie the only
emergency in all of Peter's record-
ed life where be mad nothing. He was(
dunabfounded ; nothing was left for
him but eilence—a result whieh of it-
self pallet have added to the confu-
sion of hid Mende. ,
ELECTRIC PRINTING.
I
Leaden invention BOO Ali ny Willi lase o
Mau io Printing.
It has been didcovered that by in-
troducing certain chemicals in the
procese 00 roneufacture, paper may be
printed without employing inks or any
other senaitizing matter. The pre-
pared paper is einple, and colorless,
and remains unaffected by any other
agent than an electric current. It
te ad oheap as common paper, and
yields inetantly a dense, bleak, per-
manent print, erbieh requires no sub-
sequent treatment, for there ie noth-
ing like ink or smirching to require
drying, The machine for this elec-
trical printing is Simply an ordinary
pread divested of its inking mechan-
ism, and having the paper -bearing
surface covered with a suitable con-
ducting metal. The form is con-
nected with one pole of the current -
supply, which may be an incandescent
light: wire, and the paper -bearing sur-
face to the other. The paper thus be-
comes an inert conducting medium,
and the chemicals, which are combined
in it, become electrolyzed at the points
of contact, thus forming the print, In
appearance the electric printing is
said greatly to resemble liehograpeic
work.
THE FAD OF ORDERING DRUGS.
A Freak of Women That Mahan n
Morgue Neeeosary In a Drug. Store.
Whea the woman in black handed two
preseeiptions to the drug clerk, she said:
"rn call for the medicine some time this
evening. Give me a check, please."
Before handing her the identification
check the clerk figured for a moment.
"One dollar and a quarter," he said. "It
is customary to get a deposit on a call
order that amounts to more than 50
cents."
The woman flushed indignantly. "Well,"
she said, "to be frank with you, I don't
feel like paying it. I've been buying
medicine and things at drug stores for a
good many years, and this is the first
time I have been asked to put up a de-
posit.. It is.such an absurd request. You
don't suppose for a minute that I'm go-
ing around getting prescriptions filled
just for the Inc of the thing, do you?"
The clerk sighed meekly. "Well," be
said, "maybe yotere not, but there are
plenty of women who do. I hate to ask
for a deposit. Id almost as lief be
cheated out of the money. I told the
proprietor so. 'It looks small,' said L
Can't help it,' said he. 'We can't af-
ford to mix three or four bottles of ex-
pensive medicines every day for women
who make a fad of ordering drugs com-
pounded that they never intend to call
for.' Aird that's just what a lot of you
women folks do," added the clerk, with a
defiant attempt at self vindication. "Suet
look at this." Here he °petted the door
of a large cupboard at the rear of the
stote cold pointed to the many rows of
labeled battles therein. "This is what
we call the morgue," he said. "Every
drug store has one. It is filled with the
aftermath of the medicine fad. There
niust be upward of 300 bottles in that
cupboard which are Worth on an average
50 cents each. Every one of tbeat has
been ordered by women, the majority of
whom probably never had any intention
of calling for the concoction. Some of
this medicine has been here for months.
It probably never will be called for, but
we shall keep it for 50 indefinite period
anyway. Drugs once mixed are a dead
loss to us, and we mialit as well hold
them and thus take chances on final 15 -
as to throw them away."
"But whet makes people order medi-
cine -that they never intend to use?" ask-
ed the woman.
The elerk sighed. "The Lord knows,"
he said. "What makes people rule to any
senseless fail? This is all of a piece, I
suppose, with the mania that induces
people to consult a doctor whon there is
nothing the matter with them, only it is
less expensive, Doctors' hills generally
leave to be paid, whereas medicine can
be compounded free of charge uniees
eeposit Is demanded from all except regu-
lar patrons. Not all these bottles you
see here were tilled from new, prescrip-
tions by any means. Ninny of them were
made op Iron copies of old prescriptions
that were filled origin:Illy at other stores
in good faith, and 1 doubt not that many
of the compounds hela in storage heee
could be duplicated in the mdrgue of .
many another drug store that Iles not yet
adopted the deposit system."
The wornan in Week laid down her
$1.25 meekly. "I compose I can't blame
you for being cautioue," she said. -
dot e Cheerful Onilook.
The Applionnt—Awn ;they did th' lasht
cook !env° ye0 door, sor?
Tho Suberbenite—Sbe dide't Wein my
door.
The Applicant—How wits thee sor?
The Suburbanite—She loft my mot.
Lit tho gasoline stove and then soared.
—Chicago News.
Compennatitni.
"Don't you get tired," said the talka-
tive custotnee, "standing, ;bete hone by
hour ironing one stiff bosomed shirt :steer
the other?"
"No," nnswered the Chinese leendry.
men. "It rest, 019 to think 1 don't bave
to wear thene"e-Washington Stat', Paint
IfEROES OF TIM RATIMAD
SPLENDID REEDIEN DISPLAYED BY
SODIE OF TREAT.
vow(
nogitieer tem rireman Secrineoll Their
Lives io Savo P1ssenaer4-5latteilintns400
Performed A dineley Aet—Stepped the
lexoresi net /LIM Its lefe—TetegreOli
Operator Saved Three ilandred mos,
Not long ago Walter Peart and
Henry Dean, the driver and firemnie
of a Great Weatern train/rem Wind-
eor to Paddington, Sacrificed theie
lives to Save the passengerge sole Lone
don Tit -Bits. Jut as the train wan
approaching Acton station It waS
suddenly enveloped in a oloud of
steam an doindere, The connecting -
red of the engine had brolcen, and at
each revolution one of the pieces vrea
being driven throtgh the °Ming of
the boiler,
In the exploeion that followed a
mese of piping, fire, eindere, end
steers: were blown from th,e fire -box
right into the faces of the driver and
and fireman. Terribly injured as
they wore, they etuck manfully to
their poatre until they had abut off
beam and brought the train to a
steeedetin without raiehap. Not till
then did they atagger elf the engine,
to be conveyed to St. Marra HOPI.-
tal, Paddington, where they died of
their injuriea next morning.
From the oorth of Scotland a rare
aot ot railway heroism wad reported
twelve menthe ago. One Tueeday
morning a gang of men were at work
on a broken rail on the Highland line
just South of Altnabrea station, when
a distant whieLle announced the ap-
proach of the Morning mail train
from. Wick to Inverneas. The men
had a bogie with them, which threat-
ened to cause a terrible disaster, 65
it completely blocked the line, and
there was no meane of stopping the
train, which at this point alwaya ran
at full apeed,
While his coraraded became panic -
*Woken, John Monition, a young
married man with two children,
strove 'with auperhuman strength to
3e3000e the bogie from the rails. He
succeeded in doing thie, but ouly at
the
SACRIFICE OF 1113 OWN LIFE.
The driver of the Gemming train saw
hint struggling with the obetrucition,
but could not stop in tirae. Morri-
oon had just got the bogie off the
metals when the engine cauglet him
and out the brave fencer to pieces.
Not long since a number ot plate-
layers were engaged in the four -
foot way near Nunhead station. Just
as an express from Viotoria 10 Lhe
Crystal Palace was due it was noticed
that a wedge -bolt of the Inc over
which the train had to pose was loose.
Despite the warninge of his comrades,
one of the men ran forward and be-
gan hammering at the bolt to insure
the safety of the train. Hie efforts
were quite successful, but before he
could get off the line he was atruok
by the engine and killed.
Mr. John Coates, the stationmaster
at Upper Bank atation, on tho Mid-
land railway, near Swansea, perform-
ed an extremely plucky aot a few
years ago. On a Sunday night, while
pasaengers were crossing the level in
large numbers he noticed an engine
rushing towardd the station at fun
speed. He at once jumped on the
line and pushed the passengers elide,
thus allying several from
CERTAIN DESTRUCTION.
Ile was however, caught by tho en-
gine hiniself, and &shed to the ground
receiving serioud injuries to his head,
which laid him up for a considerable
time.
It appears that during a heavy fog
a man fell prostraLo across the met-
als in front of an approaolting train.
Having sustained two broken ribs he
lay there helplesd until the inspector
went to his assistanoe. Having
jumped down on the line, Dakin pull-
ed the man to the side and held him
between the platform and the train
until the latter had pasaed. He thus
reaeued him from certain death.
Great courage was displayed by the
driver et an Edinburgh exprese, which
met with a diameter 1.0 Ootober, ISO&
After the collision, eearch was made
for him under and around the wrecked
engine, but he could not be found.
This was subsequently explained by.
che facet that, though severely bruised,
and with ono arm hanging, he had
managed to reach the signal -box wane
distance away to telegraph nowe of
the accident, and to stop the second
portion of the expreae from coming
on. On the arrival of dootors hid
crushed arra was immediately ampu-
tated, but the operation
FAILIM TO SAVE LEIS LIFE.
Ete was certainly not the leaet of the
heroes et the Northallerton accident.
Our American °cosine/ OR11 boast of
some brave railway mon, A awitele.
man on the Pennsylvania lino in Jer-
sey City was one of them. Early
one morning he saw a boy amusing
himself on the metals, in blissful ig-
norance of the train that was rapidly
approaching, as shouted, but hie
voloo failed to reaoh the youngster,
who continued his play. Then the
switchman jumped in front of the lo-
comotive, and with one hand pushed
the boy off the lino. With 'his oth-
er he endeavoured to swing himself
on to the pilot, but miseed his grip,
fell, and was cradled to death be-
neath elm Wheels of the engine. The
boy wee not at all injured.
A superle aot of herolem was per,.
formed just Mx years ago by a youeg
railway telegraph operator. It hap-
pened 10 the course of a forest and
pearls fire in Minnesota, width dee
restated the country for maziy mace,
The telegraphist, whose namo was
Themae Dann, wee being feet sur-
rounded by the themes, bet befeee
quitting hie office he determined to
dispatch a meats:Igo eor a train to be
sent tie a therietened dieriot fee the
resettle of 600 porous. lia suceeeded
In getting his ausesage through, bit
by the time he bad done this the fire
had out off all chance of escape, and
Ile perished in the Ramon liut the
peeple for whom he sacrificed hie life
were all saved, So he did not die in
,
The Vonduater's itentlY Aniniver.
The tietropolitau Street leallWay,
company has in its employ 0. indloee.
pller In the pereoei Of a Broadway eon-
dneter. It woo late in the evening,
tbirm,elaetsila74.
ductor, without So much as an upward
glance, The woman Peek beets Wale al
eigh of satIsfaction.
traveling bag rusbee In almost out of
leg, le, Liesv etnb,apt labouoinidilenagn?;
and his ear oxo 115 119 town trip had
retiehed the vicinity Of the city hall.
AS it PiteSed One Of the taller 09100
buildlitge a stein woman, elutching
him by the erni, eXelaiMetll
Wiest then a small man With a large
"Oh, conductor, how many storlea
conductor," he gasped, "what
replied the con.
I get to the Grand Central
depot?"
"Leven'," wee the quiet reply.
"That's good," eon:muted the small
Male evidently relieved,
At this junctute another man climb-
ed aboard that wanted to lthow about
what time the car would reach the
Ceilsey House.
"'Leven," again replied the con-
ductor, with a weary look.
When questioned as to the uniform!.
tY Of his answers, he replied:
"Yes. You 800, 10 you hesitate about
answering 'em, they sit worried, but
if you have an answer ready they're
satisfied. Now, about tins time of
night, I always say "Leven.' It's a
good, bandy number, easy to say. Oth-
er times I use other numbers. I allus
have a lot of stock anewers on hand.
It saves time and trouble.
The Queen and Jenny Lind.
There is a pretty story told of Queen
Victoria and Jame, Lind which shows
how the modesty of two el'OMele, the
queen of England and Um queen 'of
song, caused a momentary awkware-
ness which the geutle to.ct of the singer
overcame.
It was on a night when :fenny Lind
Was to sing at Her Majesty's Opera
House that the queen made her first
public appearance after the memorable
Chartist clay.
For the great artist, too, this was a •
first appearance, for it was tbe begin-
ning of ber season at a place where the
year before she bad won unparalleled
fame. It happened that the queen en-
tered the royal box at the satne
mb-
nioDt that the prima donna stepped up-
on the stage. Instautly a tumult of ac-
clamation burst forth.
Jenny Lind modestly retired to the
back of the stage, waiting till the dem-
onstration of loyalty to the sovereign
should subside. The queee, refusing to
appropriate to herself tbat which sbe
imagined to be intended for the artist,
made no acknowledgment.
At length, when the situation became
embarrassing, Jenny Lind, with ready
tact, ran forward to the footlights and
sang "God Save the Queen," which
was caught up at the and of the solo by
the orchestra, chorus and audience.
The queen then came to tbe front of
bee bow and bowed, and the opera was
resumed.
Why Roads Are Crooked In Chinn.
Tee Chinese road is private property,
a strip taken from somebody's land.
This is done much against the will of
the owner, since be not ouly loses the
use of it, but also still has to pay taxes
on it,
One cousequence ie tbat It is wide
enough for only one vebicle, and carts
can pass one auoteer only by trespass -
lug ou the cultivated land To preveet
this the farmers dig deep ditches by
the roadside. As the surface wears
away and the dust blows off it gradu-
ally grows lecrar, and after awhile it
becomes a drain for Geo surroundieg
fields. A current forms in the rainy
season, which still further hollows It
out, and thus has :arisen the proverb
that a road a tbousand years old be-
comes a river, •
Those whose lands are used for roads
naturally prefer to have tbe roads run
along the edge of their fdrins instead
of crating across them, and this ac-
counts for the fact that Chinese roads
are often so crooked tbat one may
have to go a considerable distance to
reach a place that is lu reality but a
few miles away. Tins always luterests
the stranger,
Slow the Car Got There.
The other day at Twenteasixth street
an inspector 'Mopped" on the front
platform eV a Madison avenue electric
car bound down town. He said to the
motorman;
"e'Vbere the dickens is this car goln 7"
"Why, to the Brooklyn bridge, of,
course."
"Geb off and look at yer signs."
The tnotorrartn did so and discovered'
that the sign on tbe front hood of the
car read, "One Hundred thud Thirty-
fifth street," tbe sign on the right side
or the toot' read, "Second ;Monte," and
the sign on the rear hood, "Astor
place." Tbe coucluetor and motorman
between tbetn having adjusted the
signs, the Inspector permitted tbe cae
to proceed.
Shovels of a Lifetime.
Beard eppears to grow at the WILMS
rate tend to follow the same rules of
personal conduct es the hair or the
bead. So If 11(0110 began shavIng when
be Was 16 and lives to be 70 yeate old
he will have cut mote than a little bit
ol the top, 10 he could keep In posi-
tion all be has thrown away, a head of
heir 85 feet long end a board 27 feet
long, all in one bunch, would enable
hen to trevel with a circus slimmers
and sit in a store wiedow to advertiee
a hair reatorer in the Witter.
APtiNi ie.
Sue,Yeal said 5011 wen geitg to
Marry an artist, and now you ere en-
geged to Marry a dentistb
leio—well, isn't lio ae artlet/ Ole
leawe from reel lifle,-..Philadelphie