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DISEASED LUNGS
CURED BY TAXING
Cor,.
I �,7 Pectoral.
"1 contracted a severe cold, which settled
en my Lungs, and I did what Is often done
In such eases, neglected it. I then consulted
a doctor, who found on exam1u1ng me that
the upper art of the left lung was badly
affected. 1 he medicines he gave me did not
seem to do any good, and I determined to
try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After taking a
few doses my trouble was reUeved, and be-
lige
L F�iAi ,[watchmaker, Orange ecured."
le Ont.
.Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Highest Awards at World's Fair.
Ager'a Villa Cure indigestion.
The Huron News-Recora
1 25 a Year --$1.00 in Advance.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10th, 1805.
The most affecting scene ever wit-
nessed within the precincts of Elgin
county jail took place on Friday week
when the aged mother of the elder
condemned man, John A. Hendershott,
called to see him. The poor old lady
is 76 years of age and resides near
Walsingham Centre. The scene short-
ly after the meeting of mother and son
was heartrending and her sobs were
quite audible all over the building.
Another affecting scene took place
Saturday, when Welter's father and
mother were admitted to his presence.
As previously announced, both prison-
ers are weakening, now that there is no
chance of their sentence being com-
muted, and a confession of the criine is
looked for.
PARENTS MUST HAVE REST.
A President of one of our Colle"'es
says : "We spent many sleepless nights
in consequence of our children suffer-
ing from colds, but this never occurs
now : We use Scott's Emulsion and it
quickly relieves pulmonary troubles."
Mr. Nicholas Wilson, ofdthe Collegi-
ate Institute, London, if he lives till
1896 (which all hope he [nay), will have
taught 50 years continuously in that
city. This record is unprecedented in
Canada.
FARMERS wanting Hardy, Native
Stock to plant this corning Fall or
Spring may pay for it in work. We
want men with or without experience
on full or part time. Salary and ex-
penses or commission. Write at once
for further information.—BROWN
BROTHERS COMPANY, Continental
Nurseries, Toronto, Ont.-8723rn.
In Londdn township the little adopt-
ed son of Win. Reid was accidently
drowned in a, pail of water.
EVERYWHERE WE GO
We find some one who has been cured
by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and people on
all hands are praising this great medi-
cine for what it'has done for them and
their friends. Taken in time Hood's
Sarsaparilla prevents serious illness by
keeping the blood pure and all the
organs to a healthy condition. It is the
great blood purifier.
HOOD'S PILLS become the favorite
cathartic with every one who tries
then[. 25c. per box.
A Cincinnati boy, who is 14 years old
sent
s [loo
has
been the heir to 7
And $ ,
to the House of Refuge because he had
engaged himself to marry a 20 -year-old
girt and refused to be dissuaded.
This is the first time yet known of a
modern corrective institution being
used as a house of refuge froui matri-
mony.
KELM.' IN 81x Eevas.—Dlsttessing Kidney and
Bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the" NEW
GREAT $QUTU AIIEn1OA•N KIDNEY OeaE." This new
remedy is n great surprise and delight to physicians
on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving
pain in the biat'der, kidneys, back and every part of
the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves
retention of water and pain in paaeing it almost im-
mediately. If you want quick relief and cure this if
our remedy. Sold by watts & Co. Druggiete.
"One of the most singular things
about the baggage business," remarked
Mt. Maguire, of the G. T. R., London,
who is well known in Clinton, "is that
the seasons control the size and number
of trunks. In winter time, when folks
are supposed to have heavy clothes on,
one would suppose that trunks ought
to be pig and heavy. Well, they are
not. The boys actuallyrow fat in
the winter months, with the little
trunks and lightweight packages.
There is a different tale to be told of
the summer. The light and airy
summer girls evidently have lead lin-
ings to all those pretty gowns, for
their trunks are heavyweights. Then
they vie with one another in seeing
who can have the most luggage. It is
not a question of the dresses, but of
who can control the greatest number
of Saratogas."
Some people are constantly troubled
withpimples and boils, especrallyabout
the face and neck. The hest remedy
is a thorough course of Ayer's Sarsapa-
r" Irina, which expels all humors through
"ibe proper channels, and so makes the
skin become soft, healthy, and fair.
'The frost, it is said, has not materi-
ally injnted the winter apple crop.
Stems of Spy, Baldwin, Rings and
'raimon Sweet cut, from trees in this
/vicinity aro loaded with well formed
fruit. Similar samples it is said, niay
he found in every orchard in the
county.
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REGI?NIaTRUPtiQN,
He Shows Row Rutile ,+► e' the ,Aissttblta
Natio Upon thio Scriptures—Tice lanzle its
Compared to Other Douksrlts Pivitee
Protection,
New York, June 9,.-^.Tn his sermon for
to -day Rev. Dr, Taln age deals with a
subject that is agitating the entire
Christian church at the present moment
—viz, "Expurgation of the Scriptures."
The text chosen was, "Let God be true,
but every man a liar" (Romana 111,4),
The Bible needs reconstruction, ac-
cording to some inside an outside the
pulpit, It Is no surprise that the world
bombards the Scriptures, but it to amaz-
ing to find Christian minieters picking
at this in the Bible and denying that,
Until many good people are left in the
fog about what parts of the Bible they
ought to believe and what parts reject.
The heinousness of finding fault with
the Bible at this time es most evident.
In our day the Bible is arsalled by
seurr111ty, by misrepresentation, by in-
fidel scientists, all the vice of earth and
all the venom of perdition, and at this
particular time even preachers of the
gospel fall into line of critic:stn of the
word of God. Why, it makes me think
of a ship in a September equinox, the
waves dashing to the top of the smoke-
stack, and the hatches fastened down,
and many prophesying the foundering
of the eteamer, and at that time come
cf the crew with axes and saws go down
Into the hold of the ship and they try
to saw off some of the planks and pry
out some of the timbers, because the
timber did not come from the right
forest. It does not seem to me a com-
mendable business for the crew to be
helping the winds and storms outside
with their axes and saws inside, Now,
this old gospel ship, what with the
roaring of earth and hell around the
stem and stern and mutiny on deck, is
having a very rough voyage, but I have
noticed that not one of the timbers
has started, and the captain says he
will see it through. And I have noticed
that keelson and counter timber knee
ure built out of Lebanon cedar, and she
Is going to weather the gale, but no
credlt to those who make mutiny on
deck.
When I see professed Christians in
this particular day finding fault with
the Scriptures, it makes me think of a
fortress terrifically bombarded, and the
men on the ramparts, instead of swab-
bing out and loading the guns and help-
ing fetch up the ammunition from th
magazine, are trying with crowbars to
pry out from the wall certain blocks of
stone because they did not come from
the right quarry. Oh, men on the ram-
parts, better fight back and fight down
the common enemy Instead of trying to
make breaches in the wall !
While I oppose this expurgation of the
Scriptures I shall give ou my reasons
for such opposition. "What," say some
of the theological evolutionists, whose
brains have been addled by too long
brooding over them by Darwin and
Spencer, "you don't now really believe
all the story of 'the Garden of Eden, do
you ?" Yes, as much as I believe there
were roses In my garden last summer.
"But," say they, "you don't really be-
lieve that the sun and moon stood still?"
Yes, and if I had, strength enough to
create a sun and moon I could mike
them stand still, dr cause the refraction
of the sun's rays so it would appear to
stand still. "But," they say, "you don't
really believe that the whale swallowed
Jonah ?" Yes, and if I were strong
enough to make a whale, I could have
made very easy ingress for the refrac-
tory prophet, leaving to evolution to
eject him if he were an unworthy ten-
ant. "But," say they, "you don't really
believe that the water Was turned
into wine ?" Yes, just as easily as
water now is often turned into wine
with an admixture of strychnine and
logwood. "But," say they, "you don't
really believe that Samson slew a thou-
sand with the jawbone of an ass ?" Yes,
and I think that the man who in this
day assaults 'the Bible 1s wield:me the
same weapon.
There is nothing in the Bible that
staggers me. There are many things
I do not understand, I do not pretend
to understand, never shall in this world
understand. But that would be a very
poor God who could be fully understood
by the human. That would be a very
email Infinite that can be measured by
the finite. You must not 'expect to
weigh the thunderbolts of Omnipotence
In an apothecar's balance. Starting
with the idea that God can do anything
and that he was present at the begin-
ning and that he Is present now, there
is nothing in the holy Scriptures to
arouse skepticism in my heart. Here
I stand, a fossil of the ages, dug up
from the tertiary formation, fallen off
the shelf of the antiquarian, a man in
the latter part of the glorious nine-
teenth century, believing in a whole
Bible from ltd to lid.
I am opposed to the expurgation of
the Scriptures 'in the first place because
the Bible In Its present shape has been
so miraculously preserved. F.fteen
hundreed years after Herodotus wrote
iia history there was only one manu-
script copy of It. Twelve hundred years
after Plato wrote his book there was
only one manuscript copy of It. God
was so careful to have us have the Bible
in just the right shape that we have 60
manuscript copies of the New Testa-
ment 1,000 years old and some of them
1,100 years old. This book handed down
Dom the time of Christ or just after the
time of Christ by the hand of sur h men
as Orlgen in the second century and
Tertullian in the third century and by
men of different ages who died for their
principles. The three best copies of the
New Testament in manusci let in the
possession of the three great churches—
the Protestant church of England, the
Greek Church of St. Petersburg and the
Romtsh.chureh of Italy.
It Is a plain- matter of history that
Tischendorf went to a convent in the
peninsula of Sinai and was by ropes
lifted over the wall into the convent,
that being the only mode of admission,
and that he saw there in the waste
basket for kindling for the fires, a man-
uscript of the holy Scriptures. That
night he copied many of the passages
of that Bible, but it was not until 16
years had passed of earnest entreaty
and prayer, and coaxing and purchase
on his part that that copy of the holy
Scriptures was put into the hand of the
Emperor of Russia—that one copy so
r.rareelously protected.
Do you not know that the catalogue
of the books of the Old and New Testa-
ments as we have it is the same cata-
logue that has been coming on down
thfgdjgli" tliv;iigsll'f " #itr.ty trine hnOUVE
pt' the Qui' 94.tonept; l i}outianciY ot Yearp
ago. `JChh,ty.nli,#e nQW TWerlty ll?'tett
bucks et tl#e' e'4v 'neat elet},t 1,094 'ldare
a,B'Qe ` urenty+ee'i'eli 0,900 of the New
q,'eat#lmet}t l4arc;qn, fi wiciscd*
tarot[, was. tW?p d QUt Qf the chtirah Ili
ilia set OW century and in,hia aasaltlt.i?n
the Tilbie anti Chriattanity he inai4ent-
t+l1x gtyfs a cittololtue of the books. of
the B1bie--that taata,logue corresponding
egactly with oura--testimony. given by
the, en'•n?y xlf'tlia BOW atld the enemy of
Christianity, The catalogue; now, just
Mlle the catalogue then. Assaulted and
spit en and;torn to pieces and burned,
yet adhering„ The book to d.ty� to 30)
languages, confronting four-fifths of
the human race in their own tonqu-.
Four hundred millipns copies of it in
existence. Does not that look as if
this book had been divinely prote.ted
as if God had guarded it all through
the centuries ?
Is it not an argument plain enough
to every honest man ani every hcnsat
woman that a book divinely p.oleo el
and In this shape Is in the very share
that God wants it ? It Pleases God and
ought to please us. The epidemics
which have swept thousands o' other
books into the sepulcher of Torg tfut-
ness have only brightened the fame
of this. There Is not one book out of
a thousand that lives five years. Asy
publisher will tell you that. There wit:
not be more than one book cut of 20.0
that will live a century. Yet tee is a
book much of it 1,600 year.; old, ani
much of it 4,000 year.; old, and wi.h
more rebound and res lit nee and
strength in it that when the book was
first put upon Parchment or papyrus.
This book saw the cradle of all other
books, and it wi11 see their graves.
Would you not think that an aid b cite
like this, some of it 40 c ntu. lee ell,
would come along hobbling wlih rg
and on crutches ? Instead of that,
more potent than any other book of the
time. More copies of it printed in the
last ten years than of any eth'r I ook,
Walter Scott's Waverly nove s, Mac-
auley's "History of England," Disraeli's
"Endymon," the works of Tennys n
and Longfellow and all the pocuiar
books of our time having no such sale
in the last ten years as this old, worn-
out book. Do you know what a strug-
gle a book has in order to g -t thtoug
one century or two centuries ? S_me
old books during a fire in a se: agile of
Constantinople were thrown into the
street. A man without any cducet on
picked up one of these boor s, r ad it
and did not see the value of R. A schol-
ar looked over his shoulder and saw it
was the first and second d.cades cf
Livy, and he offered the man a large
reward if he would bring the books
to his study, but In tha excitement of
the fire the two parted, and the first
and second decades of Livy were for-
ever lost. Pliny wrote 20 books of his-
tory. All lost. The most of Menander's
writings lost. Of 110 come: i s of
Plautus, all gone but 20. Euripides
wrote 100 dramas, All gene but 19.
AEschylus wrote 109 dramas. Ali gone
but seven. Varro wrote the laborious
biographies of 700 Romans. Not a frag-
ment left. Quintilian wrote his favor-
ite book on the corruption of eloquence.
Ali lost. Thirty bcoks of Taci;us 1 st.
Dion Cassius wrote 80 books, Only 2)
remain. Berosius' history all lost.
Nearly all the ofd books are mummi-
fied and are lying In the tombs of old
libraries, and rerhars once in 20 years
some man comes along and picks up one
of them and blows the dust and op'ns
it and finds 1t the book he doesn't want.
But this old book, much of It 40 cen-
turies old, stands to -day more discussed
than any other book, and it challenges
the admiration of all the good, and the
spite, and the venom, and the animosity
and the hypercriticism of earth and hell.
I appeal to your common sense if a
book so divinely guarded and protected
in its present shape must not be in
just the way that God wants it to come
to• us, and if it pleases God, ought it
not to pleaee us ?
Not only have all the attempts to de-
tract from the book failed, Lut all nth?
attempts to add to It. Many attempts
were made to add the apochryphal
books to the Old Testament. The coun-
cil of Trent, the synod of Jerusalem,
the bishops of Hippo, all decided that
the apochryphal books must be added
to the Old Testament. "They mu: t
stay in," said those learned men, but
they staid out. There is not an intelli-
gent Christian man to -day that will
put the book of Maccabees or the book
of Judith beside the book of Isaiah or
Romans. Then a great many said,
"We must have books added to the
New Testament," and there were epis-
tles and gospels and apo alypses writ-
ten and added to the New Testament,
but they have all fallen out. You can-
not add anything. You cannot subtract
anything. Divinely protected book in
the present shape. Let no man dare to
lay his hands on it with the intention
of detracting from the book or casting
out any of these holy pages.
Besides that, I am opposed to this ex-
purgation of the Scriptures b"cau'e 1f
the attempt were successful it would be
the annihilation -of the Bible. Infidel
geologists wdbld say, "Out with the
book .01 Genesis," Infidel astronomers
would say, "Out with the book of Jos-
hua." People who do not believe in the
atoning sacrifice would say, "Out with
the book of Leviticus." People who do
not believe in the miracles would say,
"Out with ail those wonderful stprles
In the Old and New Testaments," an l
some would say, "Out with the book of
Revelation," and others would say,
"Out with the entire Pentoteuch," and
the work would go on until there would
not be enough of the Bible left to he
worth as much as Last year's almana^.
The expurgation of the Scriptur •s
means their annihilation.
I am also opposed to this proposed ex-
purgation of the Scriptures for the fact
that in proportion as people b'c••m°
self sacrificing and good and holy and
consecrated they like the book as it M.
1 have yet to find a man or a woman
distinguished for self sacrifice, for con-
secration to God, for holiness of 1 fe,
who wants the Bible changed. Many of
us have Inherited family Bibles. Those
Bibles were in use 20, 40, 60, perhaps 100
years in the generations. To -day take
down those family Bibles, and find out
if there are any chapters which have
been erased by lead pencil or pen, and
if In any margins you can find the
words, "This chapter not fit to read."
There has been plenty of opportur Sty
during the last half century privet ly
to expurgate'the Bible. Do you, know
any case of such expurgation ? D d
not your grandfather give it to your
father, and did not your father give it
to you ?
Besides that, I am opposed to the ex-
purgation of the Scriptures because the
so called indelicacies and cruelties of
the Bible have demonstrated no evil
repuOt, A cruel bode grill prodpoe eructs
Of -AA Unclean b..oA1t will praduoe tin-
alehnng>ts, lE'etph Me a victim, got of all
Chiutertdoni and out of all ages fetch
rue i§ victittl, whQge heart Oita been har-
dened to, cruelty or whose life has been
tnate'ilnpure by this [took. Show me one.
one of the beet families I ever knew,
for •
cq} 30 gr' 40 yearn morning and even-
ing ba61': U the tnernbera gathered to-
gettter, and the servants of the house-
held,ancl.the strangers that happened
to be within the gates. Twice a day
without' leaving out a chapter or a
verse the read this holy book, morn-
ing by morning, night by night. Not
only the older children, but the little
child who could just spell her way
through the verse while her mother
helped her, the father beginning and
reading one verse, and then all the
members of the family in turn reading
a verse. The father maintained his
integrity, the mother maintained her in.
tegrity, the sons grew up and entered
professions and commercial life, adorn.
ing every sphere in the life in which
they lived, and the daughters went
into families where Christ was honored,
and all that was good and pure and
righteoue, reigned perpetually. Fur 30
years thtit family endured the Scrip-
tures. Not one of them ruined by them.
Now, if you will tell me of a family
where the Bible has been read twice a
day for 30 years, and the children have
been brought, up in that habit, and the
father went. to ruin and- the mother
went to ruin, and the sons and dau;&l
ters were destroyed, by it—if you wi.1
tell me of one such incident, I will
throw away my Bible, or I will doubt
your verac ity. I tell you if a man is
shocked with what he calls the bid -U-
caoies of the word of God he is pruri-
ent in his taste and imiglnation. If a
man cannot read Solomon's Song with-
out Impure suggestion, he is either in
his heart or In his life a libertine,
The Old Testament description of
wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts is
purposely and righteously a disgusting
account instead of the Byronic and the
Parisian vernacular which makes Fin
attractive instead of appalling. When
those old prophets point you to a laz-
aretto, you understand It is a lazaretto,
When a man having begun W do right
falls back into wickedness and gives up
his integrity, the Bible d les not say
he was overcome by the fascinations of
the festive board, or that he e nrreuder-
ed to convivialities, or that he became a
little fast in his habits. I will tell you
what the Bible says, "The t1 g is turn-
ed to his own vomit agate and the sow
that was washed to her wallowing to
the mire." No gilding or iniquity. No
garlands on a death's hear'.. No pound-
ing away with a sliver mallet at ini-
quity when it needs an iron sledge ham-
mer,
I can easily undzrsland how p.ople.
brooding over the description of un-
cleanness In the Bible, may get morbid
In mind until they are as full of it as
the wings, and the beak and the nos-
tril, and the claw of a buzzard are full
of the odors of a carcass, but what is
wanted is not that the Bible be disin-
fected, but that you, the critic, have
your mind and heart washed with car-
bolic acid.
I tell you at this point in my discourse
that a man who does not I.ke this
book, and who is critical as to Its con-
tents, and who is shocked and outraged
with its descriptions, has never been
soundly converted. The laying on of
the hands of presbytery or episcopacy
does not always change a man's heart,
and men sometimes get into the pulpit
as well as into the pew, never having
been changed radically% by the sovereign
grace of God. Get your heart right, and
the Bible will be right. The trouble is
men's natures are not brought into har-
mony with the word of God. Ah, my
friends, expurgation of the heart is
what is wanted.
You cannot make me believe that
the Scriptures, which this moment Ile
on the table of the purest and best
men and women of the age, and which
were the dying solace of your kindred
passed into the skies, have in them a
taint which the strongest microscope
of honest criticism could make visible.
If men are uncontrollable In their in-
dignation when the integrity of wife or
child Is assailed, and judges and jurors
as far as possible excuse violence under
such provocation, what ought to be
the overwhelming and long resounding
thunders of condemnation for any man
who will stand in a Christian pulpit
and assail the more than virgin purity
of Inspiration, the well -beloved daugh-
ter of God.
Expurgate the Bible ! You might as
well go to the old picture galleries In
Dresden and in Venice and in Rome,
and expurgate the old paintings. Per-
haps you could find a foot of Michael
Angelo's "Last Judgment" that might
be Improved. Perhaps you could throw
more expression Into Raphel's "Madon-
na." Perhaps you could put more
pathos into Rubens' "Descent From the
Cross." Perhaps you could change the
crests of the waves in Turner's "Slave
Ship." Perhaps you might go Into the
old galleries of sculpture and change
the forms and the posture of the
statues of Phldlas and Praxiteles, Such
an iconoclast would very soon find him-
self in the penitentiary, But It is worse
vandalism when a man proposes to re-
fashion these masterplces of inspira-
tion and to remodel the moral giants
of this gallery of God.
Now, let us divide off, Let those
people who do not believe the Bible,
and who are critical of this and that
part of it, go clear over to the other
side. Let them stand behind the devii'3
guns. There can be no compromis'
between Infidelity and Christianity.
Give us the out and out opposition of
infidelity rather than the work of these
hybrid theologians, these mongrel eccle-
siastics, these half evoluted people, who
believe the Bible and do not believe 1t,
who accept the miracles and do not
accept them, who believe in the inspira-
tion of the Scriptures and do not 'be-
lieve In the inspiration of the Scrip-
tures—trimming their belief on one side
to suit the skepticism of the world, trim-
ming their belief on the other side to
suit the pride of their own heart and
feeling that In order to demonstrate
their courage they must make the Bible
a target and shoot at God.
There Is one thing that encourages
me very much, and that is that the
Lord make out to manage the universe
before they were born and will prob-
ably be able to make out to manage the
universe a little while after they are
dead. While I demand that the antag-
onists of the Bible and the critics of
the Bible go clear over where they be-
long, on the devil's side, I ask that all
the friends of this good book come out
openly and above board in behaif of it..'
That book, which was the beat inhere.
tante you ever received from reale' an-
cestry, and which will be the best loge
•
acy you will; lease til your cht'dl'ep
when yeti bid them good by a`1TOO
ciraaa the ferry to the golden city,
Tenn' Ma 1, de not be 44144104 of
your 13tbie.. There le not a virtue hitt
It commends, there is net a. sorrow but
it comforts, there is not a • good taw
en the statute book of any cquntry
but it is founded on these Ten Com-,
tnandments. There are no braver,
grander people in all the earth than the
heroes and the heroines which it b:og-
raphlzes,
Of all the works of Dore, the great
artist, ;here was nothing so impressive
as his Illustrated Bible. What scene of
Abrahamic faltb, or Edenic beauty, of
dominion Davidic or Solomonlc, of Mir-
acle or parable, of nativity or of cru-
cifixion, or of last judgment but the
thought leaped from the great brain to
the skillful pencil, and teem the skillful
pencil to canvas immortal. The Louvre
the Luxembourg, the National Gallery
of London compressed within two vol-
umes of Dore's illustrated Bible. But
the Bible will come to better illustra-
tion than that, my friends, when all the
deserts have become gardens, and all
the armories have become a adcmias,
and all the lakes have become Gern s-
arets with Christ walking them, and all
the cities have become Jerusalems,
with hovering Sheklnah, and the two
hemispheres shall be clapping cymbals
of divine praise, and the round earth
a footlight to Emanuel's throne—that
to all lands, and all ages, and all cen-
turies, and all cycles, will be the best
specimen of Bible illustrated,
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT.
One of the Feats That Nicola Testa Hopes
to Accomplish.
Tesla had two big undertakings on
hand when his laboratory caught fire -
and was destroyed in New York, The
more important of these, from his point
of view, was the production of light by
the vibration of the atmosphere. Ac-
cording to the inventor the light of the
sun is the result of vibrations in 94,000,-
000 miles of ether which separate us
frum the centre of the Polar system of
which we are a part. Tesla's idea is
to produce here on earth vibrations
similar to those whish cause sunlight,
and thus give us light as intense as
that of the sun, with no danger of ob-
struction from the clouds. The in-
ventor had already done something to-
ward accomplishing his end when the
fire occurred. It Is understood that he
has again taken the subject up in a
way. To illustrate his principle it is
only necessary to take a long bar of
glass and note the brilliancy of the
light it produces through vibration
alone. It is a prismatic experiment, in
general terms applied to electricity.
Tesla can compute vibrations as readily
as most people count the wealth they
would like to have. He can tell you
the number of vibrations produced by
a fly In action, and draw interesting
comparisons therefrom. For example,
this young man from Smiljan will tell
you that a certain kind of fly peculiar
tc the swamps of Central America,
moves his wings about 25,000 times to
the second. You may doubt the accu-
racy of this statement in your own
mind, but if you hunger for details,
Tesla will sit down and convince you
with figures adduced from a scientific
contemplation of the problem.
"All I have to do," he said, discuss-
ing this topic with an interviewer, "is
to duplicate the number of vibrations
required to light up the sun, and the
practicability of my theory will have
been demonstrated. It is difficult for me
to give you an idea that you will read-
ily grasp about this question of vibra-
tion. In ordinary life our minds do not
deal with the figures that come up in
such investigations. I have come to
the conclusion that the sunlight 1s pro-
duced by five hundred trillion vibra-
tions of the atmosphere per second. In
order to manufacture the, same kind of
Light it will be necessary to produce an
equal number of vibrations by machin-
ery. I have succeeded up to a certain
point, but am still at work on telt' task."
—St. Louis Republic.
The Wheel in All Languages.
When a new thing is introduced into
commerce and ordinary use, a new
word has to be found for it, or an old
one borrowed. The resources of most
modern languages are equal to the
demand, though some of the very con-
servative languages, which are jealous
of innovations, have a hard time In
meeting It.
Until recently the word "bicycle was
lit contained r. cont n d in any English dictionary,
and whether it was rightly pronounced
"bi-sickle" or "bi-sigh-kle" no one could
be sure. The word is now well estab-
llehed and authorized by the lexico-
graphers.
In the French language the word far
the same thing has a hard time In be-
coming established. It was called a
"celerlfere," a "velocifere," a "bicycle"
and a "blcyclette"—the last word being
commonly applied to the machine which
we call a safety bicycle.
But the word "veto," a contraction of
one of the others, has come into very
common use, and threatens to supplant
the others. It Is used much. English-
spealcing bicyclers use the word
"wheel." The French also have a word
or en', flown , t n ology, "becane," which
they apply to the bicycle.
The Germans, when the bicycle came
Into use, set about making a name for
it which should be purely German.
They called It a "Fahrrad," or traveling
wheel; and this word they have since
abbreviated Into "Rad," or simply
"wheel."
The Italians and Spaniards followed
much the same path that the French
did, and divide their loyalty between
^velocfero" and "bfcicletta," or "bicl-
cleta."
Even the Chinese must have a name
for the wheel. They employ their usual
figurative style of speech, and call it a
"gaugma" or "foreign horse," or "fol
chat," flying machine.
The Flemings cr Belgian people of
Teutonic speech, who at`e zealously
purifying their language of foreign
terms, have had the utmost difficulty in
settling upon a word for this machine.
Some called it ,- "sneiwiel," some a
"voetwtel," some a "trapwiel"; but the
reel scholars among them insisted that
it should be called by a word of pure
Flemish origin, which really described
It. The word is as follows :—
"Gew ielsnelrijroettra.ppeudneusbre ier-
estel."
In spite of their loyalty to their na-
tive speech, it is noticed that even the
most conservative Flemish wheelmen
never use this word when riding over a
rough road.—Youth's Companion.
DUiM4 UNIFORM,
salter§ Total to ' That .1Callillttele
sirjIs si's P lrliameali.
11 o inatitutign aan ,tang tlnlese
Is Idealized, uniesg it is tnirrQred . i
the bistroie imagination, unless 011
analytio judgments about It are taken
as George Eliot Maysl. in a "atrong'..s
Iution of feeling," No one, therefor
wilt critize too closely the tender sen
timent of reverence tor the hilltrei
House entertained by Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Peel. Where we should be in,
cltned to criticize Mr. Peel's farewel lite
terances is, in his laying exclusive stress
upon the maintenance of the historle.
dignity and traditions of the mouse,
It would, indeed, be unfortunate if the
lack of traditional dignity, whicp char+
aeterizes the ,American House a Re-
presentatives, were to pervade the
House of Commons. But we do not
think it probable, for unquestionably
the manners of the House have improv-
ed, The House rather tends to be com-
moriplace, to the colorless monotony of
an assembly of respectable city men.
In this, too, it reveals its representative
character, for that is the note of an
English public assembly to -day.
\Ve have no sleepy, ignorant country
squires, stupefied by strong ale ; but
then we have no Pitt, no Grattan,
no Burke. Things is therefore likely,
on the whole, to maintain its dignity,
which has certainly never been lowerele
bIt a single labor member. The re's. )
question is whether It will manila!
efficiency. Old traditions are 1
enough, but we need them wed ed to
new mothods in order that the new
tasks of to -day may be performed. The
methods which did well enough for a
narrow-minded, middle-class electorate
and a less complex social life,are scarce-
ly equal to the far more difficult and
onerous dutiesof to -day. The machine
Is clogged, and the nation's work is in
serious arrears, If Parliament is to
overtake its work, if the national de-
mands are to be satisfied, a great
scheme of legislative reform is inevi-
table. Until that is undertaken we fear
that there will be little else than
"ploughing the sand."—London Chron-
icle. .J
BRAIN WORK / ND VITALITY.
Rental Exercise Is Said to be Condselve
to Longevity.
As a factor in longevity the London
Speaker calls attention to the fact that
those people who have been acustomed
to the continued disciplinary use of
their brains daily and who have placed
their nerve power under a highly -de-
veloped constitutional training are en-
abled by these very means to escape
the so-called early decay and to avoid
those alarming accidents to health
from which so many apparently healthy
men succumb. People who use their
brains and observe ordinary hygienic •
care of their bodies resist diseases in
the first place ; and when they are
actually ill they prolong their lives or
recuperate sooner than do ose who
nave lived less intellectual s. Thus
there is given a new force o the as-
sertion that you may kill a man with
anxiety very quickly, but It is difficult
to kill him with work.
Whether the brain can actually give
power to the muscles is not certain,
though the enormous strength some-
times developed in a last rally Looks
very much like it. That 1t can meter -
tally affect vitality Is quite certain, and
has been acknowledged by the expere
ienced in all ages. -, .,
Victims of the "Mush" Habit.
That much of the "rush" that Is so
characteristic of American life is the
result of habit rather than necessity is
ritown by the fact that It quickly yields
to curiosity. Instances of this are af-
forded daily in the busiest thorough-
fares. The familiar spectacle of a man
or woman frying gridle cakes to the
front wtndow of a restaurant is one
that never fails to attract a knot of
observers, even in the most crowded
part of Broadway, at an hour when
business is most brisk. The tide of
travel always has to turn aside when
a big safe is being hoisted to the seventh
or eighth story of some tall office build-
ing because of the crowd of clerks,
salesmen, and men of business who
have stopped for a few minutes to look
cn, and most of whom will soon be
tearing through the streets at a rate
which would seem to indicate that life
or death depended on the speed they,
made.
It is at the elevated railroad stations
that there is the greatest display of
haste. Men rush upstairs and gush and
elbow one another about on the p dorm
as though to miss a partite
would involve a delay of seve
and no end of inconvenience cure
[ ve ience t each and
all of them. And yet, only a few days
ago I saw two score men and a half a
dozen women let three trains pass them
while they watched a sign painter at
work on a patent medicine advertise-
ment on a blank wall. And before he
attracted their attention they had all
been struggling like mad to catch the
first train that came along.
Some daY as a nation we may awake
to the discovery that we can waste time
now and then when we feel like it.—New
York Sun.
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A Snake the Negro Fears.
Mr. Powe, In speaking of the other
kinds of snakes, said that the "coach -
whip snake " was the terror of the
negroes. There was an old superstition
among them that the coach -whip would
whip a man to death,, and then put the
tip of its tail into the nostrils of the
victim to see if he was dead. An old
negro man went out to catch the horses
of the party, which were turned into
pasture, while they were out fishing and
hunting, and on the way began to think
about snakes. The old man had a bridle
on his arm, and by some means one of
the long leather reins had got loose, and
was dragging behind him. His Imagina-
tion had worked him up so that the
rweat was standing out on his black
skin. He chanced to look back and
catch a glimpse of the rein. He let a
blood -curdling yell and ran. He looked
back and on came the rein which he
took for a coach -whip snake after him
to beat him to death. The negro actu-
ally ran till he fell •exhausted, and then
fearing the superstitious act of having
the tip of the snake's tail run up his
nose he clapped his hands over his face
and prepared for the whlping.--St.
Louis Post -Dispatch.
Realism.
Ile (resuming his seat after a brief
visit outside)—What an atmosphere of
realism there is about this play
She—Yes. Smells like cloves.—Ceicagte
Tribune. oe