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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-1, Page 7'RACE COURSE EVILS DR, TALMAGE GIRCVSsEs THE SUBJECT OF TURF GAMBLING. The Christian and Common Sense View of 'Trials of speed by the Inerse—Stn Be- etles With Betting—The Way to Drive a Morse, New York, Oct. 20.—In his. sermon for to -day, Rev. Dr Talmage discueses a 401)10 Which for months past has been a laminar one in the daily press; viz., '4 The Dissipations of the Race Course." His tent Was Joh xxxix, /9,21,25; "Haat' thou given the horse strength? Haat thou clothed his neck with thunder? lie Taveeth in the valley and rejoicetim he goeth on to meet the armed men. Be firkith among the trumpets, ha. hal and he snaelloth the batt e afar off, the thunder of the oeptains, and the. shouting." We have recently had long columns of entelligence from the race course and 'multitudes lionized to the watering places to witness equine competition, and there Is lively discussion in all households about the right and Wroug of such ex- hibitions of mettle and speed, and when "there is a heresy abroad that the cultiva- tion of a horse's fleetness is an iniquity IR instead of a commendable virtue—at such .a time a sermon is demanded of every minister who would like to defend public Morels on the one hand and who is not 'willing to see an unrighteous abridge- ment of innocent amusement on the ether. In this discussion I shall follow no sermonic precedent, but will give in- dependently what I consider the Chris- tian and common sense view of this po- tent, ail -absorbing and agitating question 4of the turf. There needs to be a re -distribution of toronets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts, I knock off its coronet and put the ,orown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or saga- mity or intelligence or affection or useful- ness He is semi -human, and knows how to reason on a sznall scale. The cen- taur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a Ibeast. Job in my text sets forth his ;strength, his beauty, his majesty, the spanting of his nostril, the pawing of his 'lima and his enthusiasm for the battle. 'What .1nosit Bonheur did for the cattle and what Landseer did for the dog, Job with xnightier p noll does for the horse. Eighty times does the Bible speak of him. He c omes into every kingly processi In and into every great occasion and into every triumph. It is very evident that Job and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jere Titian and John were fond of the horse. :Ho mimes into much of their imagery. A Ted. horse—that meant war. A black horse—that meant fain ne. A pale horse —that meant death. A white horse—that mneant viotory. Good Mordecai mounts "him while Haman holds the bit. The church's advance in the Bible is compar- ed to a company of horses of Phaveah's chariot. Jeremiah cries out, "How canst thou contend with horses?" Isaiah says, "Tho horse's hoofs shall be counted as LIellint " Miriam caps her cymbals and w sings, "The horse and the rider bath he thrown into the sea." St John. describ- ing Christ as corning forth from .conquest to conquest, represents him as seated on a white horse. In the parade of heaven the Bible makes us hear the clicking of 'hoofs on the golden pavement as it says. "The armies which were in heaven fol- lowed him on white horses " I should not wonder if the horse, so banged and bruis- ed and beaten and . outraged on earth, should bave some other place where his wrongs shall be • rightedIdo not assert it, but I say I should not lie surprised if, after all, St. John's descriptions of the horses in heaven turned out not alto- ' gather to be figurative, but somewhat literal. . As the Bible makes a favorite of the lone, the patriarch, and the prophet, and the evangelist, and the apostle stroking his sleek nide and patting his rounded .meole and tenderly lifting his exquisitely formed hoof and listening with a thrill bo the champ of his bit, so all great natures in all ages bave spoken of him in encurni- astie terms Virgil in his Georgics al- most seems to plagiarize from this de- scription in the text, so much are the de- scriptions alike --the description of Virgil and the description of Job. The Duke of VelSington would not allow anyone irre- verently to touch his old war horse Copen- hagen, on whom he bed ridden fifteen hours without dismounting at Waterloo, and when old Copenhagen died,his master sordered a, military salute fired over his grave. John Howard showed that he did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying •the human race, for when sick he writes home, "Has my old chaise horse become .sick or spoiled?" There is hardly any spaseage of French literature more pathet- lo than the lamentation over the death sof the war charger, Marchegay. Walter Scott has so much admiration for this alivinely honored oreature of God that in ."51. Ronan's Well," he orders the girth • :slackened and the blanket thrown over the sinoking flanks. Edmund Burke, walking in the park at Beaconsfield, mus- ing over the past, throws his arms around •the worn out horse of his dead son Rich- ard, and Weeps upon tne horse's neck, the horse seeming to sympathize in the, memories. Rowland BMA() great Eng- lish preacher, was caricatured because in .Ms family prayers he supplicated for the Tecomery of a sick horse, but when the bode got well, contrary to all the prophe- cies of the farriers, the prayer did not s em quite so much of an absurdity But what shall I say of the maltreat- ment of this beautiful and wonderful ,creasure of God? lf Themes Chalmers in his day felt called upon to preach a sermon against enmity to animals, how much more in this day is there a need of reprehensive discourse? All honor te the SP memory of Professor Betels, the chief apostle for the brute oreation, for the mercy he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts A man who owned 4,000 horses, and :Some say 40,000, wrote in the e Bible, "A righteous Inon regardeth the llte of his beast" Sir Henry Laverenee's care of the horse Was beautifully Ohris. tian Ile gays: "I expect we shall lose Conrad, though I have taken so much care of Min that he may come in cool, I always walk him the last four or five miles, and as I walk myself the flint hour, it is only in the middle of the jetty, pey We get Over the ground," The Ettrick Shepherd in his matchless "Am- breelal Nights, '.' speaks of the maltreat - sent of the lump as a practical blas- pheme. . X do not believe in the tratemis gration of flettlef bat 1 cannot very severe- ly denoiniee the idea, for when I see men who cut and btuiee and Wheck and welt and strike and maul and outrage and In - Ault tbe• horse, that beautiftil floteant Of the littlean race, who °Atrial oar burdens and milk our plows and turns our throth. earri and our mills and rains for our doetete —when I (see men thus beating and abus- lng,and outreging thet creature, it rieeine ; to me that it would be only fair that the doctrine ot tranemigration of souls should Prove true, end that for their punishment they should pass over into some poor mis- erable brute and be beaten and whacked and cruelly treated, and frozen and heated and over-driven—into an (everlasting Stage horse, an eterhal traveller on a. tow- path, or tied to an eternal post, in an eternal winter, smitten with °tome' epi- zootios I Oh, is it not a ehante that the brute oreation, which hed the first possession of our world, should be so maltreated by the race that came In last—the fowl and the fish created on the fifth any, the horse and the cattle created on the morning of the sixth day, and the human race not created until the evening of the sixth day? It ought to be that if any man over -drives a horse, or feeds him when he is hot, or reeklessly drives a nail into the guide- of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shoes him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts his collar on traw neck, or unnecessarily clutches his tongue with a twisted bit, outs off his hair until he has no detence against the chid, or unmerci- fully abbreviates the natural defence against insectile annoyance—that such a men as that himself ought to be made to pull and let his horse ride! But not only clo our humanity and our Christian principles and the dictates of God dernand that we kindly treat the brute oreation and especially the horse, but 1 go farther and say that vvbatever o in be done for the devolopernent of his fleetness and his strength and his majesty ought to be done, We need to study his anatomy and his adaptations. I am glad that large books have been written to show how he can be best managed and how his ailments can be aured and what his usefulness is and what his capacities are It woold be a shame if in this age of the world, when the florist has turned the thtn flower of the wood into the gor- geous rose anti the pomologist has chang- ed the acrid and gnarled fruit of the an- dante into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape and apple, and the snarling our of the orient has become the great mastiff, and the miserable creature of the olden times barnyard has become the Devonshire and the Alderney, and the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage from our science or our civilization or our Christianity. Groom- ed to the last point of soft brilliance, his flowing mane a billow of beauty, his arohed nook in utmost rhythm of curve, let hint be barnsseed in graceful trappings' and then driven to the farthest goal of ex- cdllenoe and then fed at luxuriant oat bine and blanketed in comfortable stalls. The long tried and faithful servant of the human race deserves all kindness, all care, all reward, all succulent forage and soft litter and paradisaical pasture flelds Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the north, where the horse is I trained to perfection in fleetness and in beauty and in majesty, are well set apart. There is no more virtue in driving slow than in driving fast, any more than a freight train going ten miles the hour is better than an exprees train going fifty. There is a delusion abroad in the world that a thing must be necessarily good and Christian if it is slow and dull and plodding. There are very few good peo- ple who seem to imagine it is, humbly pious to drive a spavined, galled, glander- ed, spring halted, blind staggered jade. There is not so much virtue la a Rosin - ante as in a Bucephalus. We want swifter horses and swifter men and swift- er enterprises, and the church of God needs to gat off its jog trot. Quick tem- pests, quick ligli.things, qu ok streams; why not quick horses? In the time of wars the oavalry service does the most ex- ecution, and as the battles of the world are probably not all past, our Caristian patriotism demands that we be interested in equinal velocity. We might as well have poorer guns in onr arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy yards than other nations, as to have under our cav- alry saddles and before our parks of artil- lery slower horses. From the battle of Granicus, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian infantry into the river, clear down to the horses on which Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray, this arm of the military service has been reeognized. Hamiloar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Noy, wore cavalrymen. In this torn of the service, Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion The Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only 700 men, overthrew the Roman army with the loss of 70,000. In the saina way the Spanish cavalry drove back the Moorish hordes. The best, way to keep peace in this country and in all countrres is to be prepared for war, and there is no sueuess in such a contest unless there be plenty of light footed chargers. OUT Christian patrintsm and our instruction from the Word of God demand that first of all we kindly treat the horse, and then after that, that we develop his fleetness, and his grandeur, and Ms majesty and his Strength, But what shall I say of the effort being inaile in this day on a large scale to naake this splendid creature of God this divine- ly honored being, an instrument of atro- cious evil? I make no indiscriminate assault against the turf. • I believe in the turf if it oan be conducted on right prin ciples and with no betting. There is no more harm in offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is barna at an aerioultural fair in offering a prize to the farmer who has the best wheat, or to the fruit grower who has the largest pear, or to the machinist who presen.s the best oorn thresher, or in a school offering a, prize of a (ivy of Shakespeare to the best reader, or in a household giving a Mine of sugar to the best behaved youngster. Prizes by all means, rewards by all means. That is the way God develops the race, Rewards for all kinds of well doing. Heaven itself is called a prize, "The prize of the high milling of God in Christ Jostle." So what is tight in one direction is right in another direction, .And without the prizes the horse's fleet - nos and beauty and strength will never bo fnlly doveloped. oosb $1, 000 o $5,000 or $10,000, and the result be achieved, it is cheap. But the sinbegins Whore the betting begins, for that is gambling, or the effort to get that for wh oh you give no equivalent, and geenb• ling, whether on a large scale or a small scale, ought to be denounced of mon as it . will be accursed of God. If you have won 50 cents or $5,000 as a wager, ,you had better get rid of it. Got rid of it richt away. Give 11 10 some one who lost in a bet, or give it to some great reformatory inetitution, or if yon do not like that, go , down to the river and pitch It off the I docks. You cannot affotd to keep it. 'it will burn a hole in your paten it will barn a hole in yeur estate and you w,11.1 lose all than perhaps 10,000 times more— perhaps you will lese eels Gain illig ; blasts a man or It blasts his ehildsen. • Generally both and all, What a speotaelb 'When at Saratoga or at Long Branch, or at Brighton Benet), or at Sheepshead Bay, the horses stain and in a Bosh $50,000 or $100,000 (Mange hands! Multitudes ruined by losing the bet, others worse thined by gabning tila ben for if a loan lose in a bet rit a homes race he May be discouraged and quit, but if he wins the bet be is very apt to ge straight on to hell! An intimate friend, a journalist, who in the line of his profession investigated this evil, tells ine that there are three different kinds of betting at horse races, and they are about equally leprous, by "auction pools," by "French mutuals," by what is Palled " booltmaking"---all gambling, all bad, all rotten with 'nig- nesse There is one word that needs to be written on the brow of every pool -seller as he site deducting his 8 or 5 per cent and slyly "ringing up" more tickets than Were sold on the winning horse—a word to be written also on the brow of every bookkeeper who at extra inducement scratches a horse off the race, and on the brow of every jockey who slackens pace that, according to agreement, an. other may win, and written over every judge's stand and written on every board of the surrounding fences. That word is "swindle!" Yet thousands bet. Law- yers bet, Judges of the courts bet. Members of the legislature bet. Members of congress bet. Professors of religion bet. Teachers and suparintendents of Sunday schools, I am told, bet. Ladies bet, not directly, but through agents. Yesterday, and every day they bet, they gain, they lose'and this summer, while the parasols swing and the hands clap and the huzzas deafen, there will be multitude of people cajoled and deceived and cheated, who will at the races go? neok and neck, neck and neck to perdition. Cultivate the horse. by all means. drive him tie fast as you desire, previdod you do not injure him or endanger yourself or others, but be careful and do not har- ness the horse to the chariot of sin. Do not throw your jewels of morality, under the flying hoof. Do not under the pre- text of improving the horse, destroy the man. Do not have your name put down In the ever-increasing catalogue of those who are ruined for both worlds by the dissipation of the American race -course. They say that an honest race-eourse is a "straight" track, and that a dishonest race -course is a "crooked" traok—that is, the parlance abroad—but I tell you that every race track surrounded by betting men and betting women and betting cus- toms, is a straight track—I ' mean, straight down! Christ asked in one of hie gospels, "Is not a man better than a sheep?" I say, yes,and he is better than all the steeds that lathered flanks ever shot around the ring at a race-aoursa That is a very poor job by which a man in order to get a horse to cornout a full length ahead of some other racer so lames hN own morals that he comes out a whole length behind in the race bet k)efore i Do you not realize the fact that there is a migbty- effort on all sides to -day to get money without earning it? That is the curse of all the cities; it is the curse of America—the effort to get money without earnmg it—and as other forms of stealing are not respectable, they go into these gambling practises. I preach this sermon on square, old-fashineed honesty. I have said nothing against the horse, I have said nothing against the turf, I have said everything against their prostitution. Young men, you go into straightforward industries,and you will have a better live- lihood, and you will have larger perman- ent success than you can ever get by a wager, but you get in with some of the whisky, rum -blotched crew which I see going down on the boulevards, though I never bet, I will risk this wager, $5,000,- 000 to nothing, pm will be debauched and damned. Cultivate the horse, own him if you can afford to own him, test all the speed he has, if he have any speed in him, but be carefulwhich way you drive. You cannot always tell wbat direction a man is driving in by the way his horses Bead. In my boyhood, we rode three miles every Sabbath merning to the country cbureh. We were drawn by two fine horses. My father drove. Ile knew them and they knew him. They ' were friends. Some- times they loved to go rapidly, and he did not interfere with their happiness. He had all of us In the wagon with Min. He drove to the country church. The fact is, that for 82 years he drove in the same direction. The roan span that I speak of was long ago unhitched, and the driver put up his whip in the wagon house never again to take it down, but in those good old times I learned something that I never forgot, that a man may admire a horse and love a horse and be proud of a horse and not always be willing to take the dust of the preceding vehicle, and yet be a Christian, an earnest Christian, a humble Christian, a consecrated Chris- tian, useful until the last, so that at his death the church of God cries out as Blithe exclaimed when Elijah went up with galloping horses of fire, "My father, roy father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof " Moth erb odd. One morning fair, my baby Climbed up lute my bed. And dawn upon m v shoulder She laid her little head. She had her precious dolly Clasped in a close embrace ; She told me how she loved it, ' She kissed Its battered face. asked'her If she ceuldn't • wor only one short day, Give me her precious dolly To take with me away. She slipped her arm around me, And tears came to her eye, She battled with them bravely And sweetly said," MI try " Butmamma, while my dolly Is gone away from me, Is there some other dolly Whose mamma 1 can be ?" I wondered if as bravely My sorraw 1 could bear If asked to give my darling Back to my Father's care. , New Bee for Cottonseed OIL An expert says that there le a fine field in the South for the establishment of plants for making what be °elle "dress- ing yolk." This is the technical natne for the dtess- lug placed on cakes, pies, biscuits, eta., to give illen1 an attractive finish. After a careful trial be is convinced that the p10 - partition which can be made froin cotton - geed oil is fat superior 10 11181 derived from eggs alone. The yolk made from the oil will probably take the plane of the ordin- ary preparation, for, besides being im better lubstance for the putposee of pastry cooks, it can be put into the market at a greatly Wined prica, 'Alphonse V. ot tenni atid Castile WAN The Wave, on accountof bis knightly darieg. The sf1,111-(1 title was given to alphonse V. of Patten/if, Edtvaiel VI, of England was The Plena, oii ecootret, of his j ors nal chatader. ' &Ise Heirs LZ of SWellenf Etnest in Of I 'Gotha and Robert of hnance. AN ICONOCLAST. The Man of Science Disposes of Two BOP - num Notions. The man of science lives, tail and straight, with a bald spot on the crown of his head, and old grey eyes peering through gold -rhymed speotacles. Having been letroduced awl left alone with him, I had to say something, so I re- marked : "Indian rannuier is pretty nearly clue now, isti't it?" Now, Indian summer was not pretty nearly clue. Bet it was the only soientific thing that popped into my heed. I thought, of course, that he woutd prefer to talk on scientific topics. "Indian summer?" he asked, quizzioally. "I don't - know what you mean, sir." "Oh I" saict I. a little confused by his maneer. "Indian summer, you. know. , The warm spell we always have after the first frost. You know, Indian summer, Regular thing, don't you knoWr , "No, I don't know," said the rnan of I science, coldly. "I see that you are a be- liever in the long -exploded myth. I used to hear of this alleged Indian snrainer when I was a boy. They still talk about it in 1110-10 the countrt, districts, I be- lieve. There is np smell thing as Ind:an summer,'' "Oh, but yes," I persisted, quite crush- ed, but not convinced, "you know we always have a warm—" I "Yes, ss,'' interrupted the man ot science, with a wave of his band, "It is true that sometimes the weather warms after it first gets cold. That's perfectly natural. The weather isn't governed by rules. Why shouldn't a warm -wave fol. low a cold one in October or November, I as well as in any other month. Don't we have cold waves in late May or June? Why, then, don't you speak of Indian winter at those times? The phrase, sir, is a relic of former ignorance." IAfter a few moments' silents() I made , another attempt. "The equinootial will soon be upon us," I remarked. "The what?" asked the man of science. "Why, the equinoctial storm, you I know," I explained. I "Nonsense," he responded, with a dis- gusted shrug of the shoulders. "Equinoc- tial rot! There is no such thing as equi- noctial storm. I have heard ignorant per- sons use the phrase before, but it always vexes ine. It is another relic of bygone I ages." I "But." I began, beginning to be vexed, and feeling that here, at least, I stood on solid ground. "I know what you are going to say," be put in. "Yes, we usually have a heavy storm about the period of the equi- noxes. But what of it? We usually have heavy storms before those periods and after them, too, don't we? The equinoxes have nothing to do with the storms, ; which arise from 'wholly different causes, I and limy ornay not occur at the seine time. Equinoctial grandfathers, sir !" I thon gave it up. Queen Victoria's Highland Home. After a day's successful deer shooting one of the sights of the season at Bal- moral or Abergenclie Castle, but chiefly at the 'adonis a deer -dance, wherein the deur do not dance, but lie impassive and dead enough, head and tail, in numbers of two, three or more, at the chief entrance. After the royal dinner—and the darker the night the better—long heavy torches, call- ed "sownaoks," made of splints of dry bog fir bound tigether with green birchen switches, are lighted and held aloft by a number of stalwart kilted Highlanders, a piper or two, splendidly radiant in tartan and silver, strike up a march, and the royal sportsmen accompanied by all the princesses, ladies, and gentlemen of their suit, come forth into the lurid circle to view the trophies of the day. After in- speetion and remarks,a toroh is handed to each of the princes, invariably dressed in full Highland costume, four or more of whom take their places at the head of a long line of jagers, .keepers, foresters, and gillies, each with a flaming torch,to dance a reel. The piper manipulates a strathspey and reel from his drones and chanter, and all foot the light fantastic' 'Highland Fling," with whoops and yells and wild hurrahs. To the quick pulsations of "Moneymusk" and "Hulaehan," tartan kilts and plaids, brawny lim bsand jewel- led belts and dirks, fleet and whirl in wild yet measured confusion beneath the lines of scintillating flame. But the powers of muscle and lung soon flag on the dull gravelly surface that serves for dancing - floor, A bonfire is made of the "sownack" stumps, amid a chorus of cheers that re sound far through the dark welkin. Jing- ling glasses are cluireed with the "strong wine" of the country, and emptied to toasts, by the dancers; then royalty seeks its bedchamber, the great clock overhead chhnes forth some hour near midnight, and the grand spectacular display is over —for a night. All the royal family are fond of clan. cing,and among the "events" of their so- journ in the Highlands. balls, to which tenantty and Servants are all invited, have held a prominent place. As might be ex- pected, life is gayer at Abergeldie than at Balmoral. At these balls all social dis- tinctions are disregarded. be one flat is "dance," which the Highlanders are not slow to do. Their dauoing is characterized by much vieorousleaping, kicking,swing- ing,reeling, thunib-craeking, and interjec- tional "wombs." Another occasion of merrymaking that comes with birthday like regularity is the great Scottish festal night of Halloween, celebrated on the 8Ist Octobei of each year. The mystic rites of that evening, so graphically portrayed by Burns, are soinewhat in abeyance at Balmoral, but instead the Highland custom of robbing witch -spells of their terrors through the cleansing agency of fire may here be wit- nessed in all Its pristine glory. Blazing "sovenaoks" carried under the castle liter- ally in hundreds after sunset, constitute the purifying media, and form, espeoially at 0 distance, a sight that must be seen to be fully appreciated. All these amusements tire varied by the attendance of fIrsnehtss concert and dramatics companies. Them is no monot- ony. The tone of everything said and done, grave ae well as gay, is decidedly healthy. Life gees "merry as a mavriage bell," whose chitries bring to recollection the fact that Balmoral has evet afforded idyllic facilities for courtship. Besides the Imperial Prinee of Germany, here the Geand-Duke Of Hesse and the lelargleis of Lorne Wooed and won their brides. In each case there was far more Wooing and fewer "2e880118 a state" than sentimental outsiders are in the habit of believing. Royalty in its free, neaseuming, and joyous Intercourse. wIth the Highlaed than - actor of proverbial independence ineete With no noarseness ef feeling or aotioh, 00 nawning formalities, no dissimulatioe, end no mistruet. The soolcil gap between the monarch and the peaerult is bete bridged With a facility as graceful as COr dial, thet might Welt be imitated by the hale and Commoner eigewhere. - a 4111111"1114112522411314alliglirjaliaaSESIRM SeeV• \ • '• '4 for infants and Children. OTH E RS, Do You Know that Pc”egarie" Baternan's Drops, Oodfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, ate most remedies for children are col:apt:1mi of opium or morphine ? Do Ten Knew that opium and znorphiee are stupefying nareotio poisons? DoTon liKriow that in most a:marries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics, eitheut labeling them poisons? 7So You XEnow that you should not permit any medicine to be given your child Tniess you or your physician know of what it is composed ? Do :Yon now that Castoria is a purely vegetalue preparation, and that a list of ita ingredients is published wit/a every bottle? 00 Ton Know that Castor's, is the prescription of rImons Tr. Samuel Pitcher That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that inure Ca.storia is now sold that. • at all other remedies for children combined? Do 'Yen now thet the Patent Oface Department of the United states, and Other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word Castoria " and its formula, and that to imitate them is a stets prison offense 1 ' You Know that one of tho reasons for granting this government protectionwaa .saeause Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do You Know that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 3.6 meats, or one cent a dose? Do You Know that when possessed of Ibis perfect preparation, your children Dar' be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest 2 WelIs these things are worth knowing. They are facts. -LW The fae.simile oimature of 1A4z is on every wrapper. Children Cry for Pitcher's Ca. storia. nee esstese e The Key of Desttk. SOME SUPERLATIVES. At the arsenal at Venice is kept on ex- hibition an instrument resembling a large key, which is a complicated and artful invention for purposes cif assassin- ation, and is known as the key of death. There is a romance and several tragedies connected with its history, it being tbe invention of a revengeful and jealous nature, that of a stranger named. Tibaldo, who established himself as a merchant in Venice in the year 1.000. There he met the daughter of a distinguished Venetian family, and at once fell desperately in , love with her. But the young lady was I already betrothed; her heart was given where her hand was promised., and she I rejeoted her ardent suitor's proposal , that she should leave her lover and fly with him. Then' the demon of jealousy took pos- session of Tlbaido. He began to plan a method of revenge that should be as I subtle as it was deadly. Be invented a key which was not used in any lock but to turn a spring concealed in its mechan- ism by winch a needle of exquisite fine- I nese was shot into any object against which it was directed, 'This needle was poisoned. When the beautiful girl who was the cause of Tibaldo's unholy pas- , sion came forth from the' church with her bridegroom, she met her disappoint- ed suitor, and saw her husband fall dead at his feet. There was nothing to connect Tibaldo with the crime, but when the parents of the young widow both died in the same sudden and mysterious way, she fled appalled to a convent for protec- tion. There Tibaldo sought her, and being refased audience with the object of his pursuit, stabbed her through the gate of the convent with the fatal needle. A skilful surgeon saved her life by her own direction, extracting the needle be- fore the poison had time to work. Tibal- do was executed tor his crimes, and the key of death is exhibited in the museum at Venice. The Importance of Dress. "1 have one little bit of advice to give to every young man I take enough in- terest in to talk to at all about such mat - tem," said one of Washington's most fashionable tailors to a reporter, in the conese of a casual conversation, "and that is to dress as well as his means will. pernsit. Dress may not make the man, but dress lends 50 per cent. of value to a man that is a man. The world is full of youths who could dress far better than they do if they had a just appreciation of their value. Their idea is to save money on clothes, but they follow tbe poorest system of economy that I know of. A fashionable suit imparts a finished ap- pearance to a man, and such is the weak- ness or vanity of the world that of half a dozen men ' equally talented it will in- variably pin its faith in the one that is best dressed. Nut that a young man's responsibility ends with his tailor. The fact is there are three other points in a gentleman's make-up that. tell his taste and character even num° than a fashion- able suit. The first is his hat, the next his slime and between the two, leis oramit. Even a shabby suit of clothes Is thrown Into the shade If the man wears a good hat, shoes carefully polished and a niece of neckwear absolutely dean and carefully tied. If coupled with all this he wears a dean collar and dean cuffs, he may pass for a gentlemen on prima facie evidence vvberever he obooses to go in the busitiess world. All combined form the pasport to good sodety. The rest ls with • himself. PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. I?fre blindes' intile can see de corn in d ttte Hongry folks don't quarrel about de plate or spoon. De trioky hose evon'b balk 11-1ml/in' at de aodcler in do rack, Dem weeds don't need de gwanner smell to Coax 'OM in de patch. De high hat Ain't allus a sign ob do gentlonan. Pine breeches an' brains don't allus go togadden Ef you Wants yo' dinnet tog'lat, nott mustn't sass de Wake Some gals ain't aline honey, Yon 's got to squeeze de apple afore yo, gibs de bee' cider outeh it. Mercury is the heaviest liquid. The longest river is the Nile, 4,100 miles. The oldest German college is Heidel- berg, 1856. The longest wall is in China.—over 1,200 miles. The strongest fortress in the world Is Gibraltar. The oldest known horse slightly ex- ceeded 52 years. The Croton aqueduct of New York is 88 miles long. The largest ocean is the Pacific, 70,000,- 000 square miles. The longest tubular bridge is the Brit- annia, 964 feet. The most lengthy canal in the world is the Erie, 365% miles. The longest suspension bridge is the Brooklyn, 5,989 feet. The oldest United States college is Harvard, founded in 1636. The City of Washington has the highest monumeet in the world. The greatest collection of books is the National Library of Paris. The deepest spouting well is at Speren- berg, in Prussia 1,194 feet. Rubber, spun glass, steel and ivory are the most elastic substances. The most extensive fortress in the world is Fortress Monroe, in Virginia. The nearest approach to the south pole was by Ross in 1842, 78 degrees. The longest pier bridge is said to be that of Victoria,at Montreal, 9,144 feet. The longest macadamized road in this country is the National, 650 miles. The longest trestle bridge is over Lake Ponchartrain, New Orleans, 22 miles. The smallest man was Chemah, Chinese dwarf, a little less than e5 inches high. The oldest known artesian well was sunk at Lillers, Fiance, in the twelfth century. The most intense cold yet produced artificially exceeded 100 degrees below zero. The highest bridge is at Garabil, in Franco, which passes over a gorge 413 feet deep.. The greatest amount of specific heat is contained by water. The least by bis - math. 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