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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-3-18, Page 7III el 4 HEALTH IN MARCH, APRIL, MAY I Use the Only Spring Remedy in the World That Has stooc Every Test of Time. *PAINE'S CELERY CO In 14iarch, April and May use Paine's Celery Compound. And only_ Paine's Celery Compound! For it is nature's remedy. It is the only spring medicine that the best physicians recommend. Clergymen of all denominations speak of the wonderful medicine with euthtt-' flame Patnee's Celery Compound has a recoad of lift'•saving work brut bas never lean **quelled, Paine's Celery Compound cures disease, It makes people well, It has saved the lives of thousands of sufferers. It makes the weak strong. It. parities the blood and enriches theI nerves. Every condition of winter life has been detrimental to health. There has been a i,itady deSlillain nerzausvigar, N'ow that spring t•nu►ta the laxly is ready to east of 'unhealthy tissues i1 n is only given ti chance. This opportunity comes when the eaeretory organs, kidneys, slain and bowels ate made to work actively and the POUND MAKES ONE WELL. nerves are able to turnith euf6cient energy to the digestive organs. No remedy in the world accomplishes these results like Paine's Celery Com- pound, It nourishes, regulates and in- vigorates the entire nervous system from the brain to the minutest nerve filament. It causes an increased appetite and tones up the Stomach to deal with the increased food, Its nourishing, Action is immediate- ly manifest in a clearing up of the muddy, unhealthy skin, an increase in weight and more refreshing sleep. First discovered aftet`laborionns scientific reseaareh by the ablest physician America has produced, Prof, Edward E. Phelps, I,L,1)., of Ilartmouth College, it is preseribed and publicly endorsed by the best practitioners in every city of Ameriea- It has been so cnthusiustirully recon-- mended by grateful linen and women in every walk of life that it is io-ilay iii every sense* the most popular remedy thworld ever knew. It has proven itself thegetatest of all spring medicines. sit llotert41, Toronto, Ilemitton, Lon- don, (Seabee, Halifax, St. John, Winnipeg and other cities, the leading druggists have found that the demand for Pains Celery Compound surpasses that of alt other remedies together! Paine's Celery ampound, taken during the early spring days, has even more than its listed Seniarkahle efficacy in malting people well, it makes short work of dlie ease. It drives out neer:debt, sleepless - nese, dyspepsia and rheutuatisui front the systetu. .Lt removes that lassitude, or "tired feeling," which betokens weakened nerves laud poor blood. Women working in close offices; sales- ' women tired out and nervous from long hours' standing on clu*ir feet and waiting on impatient, Irritating enstoiner's; aver- w:'e:xt, worried and disheartened risen and women 0verywhere will he astonishetl to find how much Impelota life heruute•i when their nerves have leen strengthened and their Mood purified by means of this grail remedy, No other taxiway has the hearty approval of a like body of esteemed turn and %rumen and professional sten, nor lin there ever been a remedy that was welcomed in so R cretery organs whenever taken, whth eer many intelligent, prudent homes where a in summer or in winter; but as the greats care is taken to get only the best in so vital est of sprint remedies it has extra - a, matter. In such families ail over the t ordinary opportunitles for inducing the country Paine's Celery Compound is the! body to throw off morbid humors that first, last and only reinedy used. , poison it andeeuse rheumatism, neuralgia, Prof. Phelps had studied the nerves in ,� heart trouble and a general low state of health ;and disease. 'when well nourished ! the health, as in spring the system is nacre and when under -nourished, in men amid !pliable, and chronic diseases. su Rennie women and children years before helooked lodged in the system that the; are Scion for the remedy, Paine's Celery Compound diflieulty uusted, become more tractable. is the outcome of his entire professional u Thousands of turn and women have life. It is the one remedy that the world d found from personal experience that • comes not lose to -day at any price. " I'aine's Celt.ey i.otnpound makes people Paine's Celery Compound. induces the well. and keeps all from sickness who take hotly to tial-' on solid flesh, it in the spring. Physical its reeognlze Paine's Celery Conn- ! Many a father and another have noticed pound as the one scientific spring remedy, ! the unnnisteltahle itraprovement in the and it is innfversttlly piesei•1i,etl by thou, ; health of their children, from takitigli .line a whercvei'there is great need of a vigorous ! Celery Conn Hound in the spring. It a. the anal prompt reetoring of health and'. one seientiIheall= aecttrdu reiteely fitted strength to the worn-out systonl. by its composition to thoroughly purify Puintt s Celery Compound is the beet the blood and dispel that exhausted foebug spring remedy because it is more than a ` end ger rid of skin diseases, beadaehes a lid ' nu ie sprint; bine i t it bring'. about a fits of th preesaon with which children witb healthy appetite, complete digestion, rcgn- weak nervous systems, as well as grown ler notion of the bowels and the other ea- q people, are afflicted. STORY OF A 31ARTYR. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES 014 THE STONING OF STEPHEN. five iPleturee Dlsplaeed-..Stepbea Gxzlnts Zito ammo, Stephen looking at Christ, atepheia Stoned, Stephen is itis Dylmp Prayer ,and Stephen .Asleep. Copyright Itelf, by American Press Agtoela• tion,! Washington, March 13, --'he discourse of Dr. Talmage whicb we send out is a Vivid story of martyrdom and a raptur- eua view of the world to come; text, Adis vii, 66-G0, "Behold Iseethe heavens opened," etc. Stephen llad boon preaohing a rousing pennon, and the people could not stand it, They resolved to do nsrnon sometimes would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of right- eousness --kill. Itim, Tho only way to silence this man was to knock the breath out alike. So they rushed Stephen out of the gates of the city, and with nurse and 'whoop and bellow they brought him to the cliff, as was the custom when they wanted to take away life by stoning, Having brought him to the edge ot the cliff, they pushed him off. After ho had fallen they oaene and looked down, and, seeing that he was not yet dead, they bo- - gan to drop st ones upon him, stone after stone. Amid t hie borrible rain of missiles Stephen clambers up on his knees and e folds his hands, while the blood drips from hie temples to his cheeks, from his cheeks to his garments, from his gar- ments to the ground, and then, looking up, he makes two .prayers—ono for bim• self and ono for his murderers. "Lord. ilesus,receive my spirits" That was for ,himself. "Lord, lay not this sin to their ohargel" That was for his assailants. Then, from pain and loss of blood, he swooned away and fell asleep. I want to show you to -day five pictures —Stephen gazing into heaven. Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Ste- pben in his dying prayer and Stephen *sleep. Stephen's Glimpse of Heaven. First look at Stephen gazing into heaven. Before you take a leap you want to know where you aro going to land. Before you climb a ladder you want to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it was right that Stephen, within a few moments of heaven, should be gazing into it. We would all do well to be found in the same posture. There is enough in Leaven to keep us gazing. A man of large wealth may have statuary in the hall, and paintings in the sitting room, and works of art in all parts of the house, but be bas the chief pictures in the art gallery, and there hour after hour you, walk with catalogue and glass and ever Increasing admiration. Well, heaven is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe is bis palace. In this lower room where we stop there are many adorn- , ments—tessellated floor of amethyst, and en the winding cloud stairs are stretched t: out canvasses on which commingle azure and purple and saffron and gold. But eaven is the gallery in which the chief ss glories are gathered. There are the bright- est robes. There are the richest crowns. There arethe highest exhilarations. John says of it, "The kings of the earth Shall bring their honor and glory into it." • And I see the .procession forming, and in the line come all empires, and the stars spring up into an arch for the . hosts to march under. The hosts keep step to the sound of earthquake and the pitch of avalanche from the mountains, and the Sag they bear is the flame of a oonsum• bag world, and all heaven turns out with harps and trumpets and . myriad voiced acolamation of angelic dominion to wel-• e come them in, and so thekings of ,the earth bring their honor and glory into it. Do you wonder ` that good people often Stand, like Stephen, looking into,heaven? We have many friends there. There is not man in this house to- ot so isolated in life but there is some •uo in heaven with whom he once shook ands. As a man gets older the number of his celestial acquaintances very rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse. efthem eines the night we kissed them good -by, and they went away, but still ' en stand gazing at • heaven. As when some'of our friends go across the sea we stand on the dook or on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhile the f Wig of the vessel disappears,• and then there is only a' patchof sail on the sky, and soon that, is gone, and they are all tat of sight, and yet we stand looking in the same direction, so when our friends go away from us into the future world we keep looking down through the Nar- rows and gazing and gazing as though we expected that they would come out and standon sone cloud and give us one glimpse of their blissful and trans- figured faces. While you long to fain their commis - kinship, and the years and the days go with oath tedium that they break your hearty and the 'viper of pain and sorrow and bereavement keeps gnawing at your vitals, you stand still, like Stephen, gaz- ing into heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you saw them last. You wonder if they would recognize your face now, so ebanged has it been with trouble. You wonder if mild the myriad delights they have they eare as numb for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and telt their shoulder under your burdens. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes in the evening tido, when the house is all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their first name if they would not answer, and perhaps sometimes you do make the exporinicnt, and when no one but God and yourself are there you distinctly csall their names and listen and sit gazing into heaven. Stephen Looks !Upon Christ. Pass on now and see Stephen looking upon Christ. lily text says he saw the Son of Man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in this world, just how he looks in heaven, we oannot say. A writer in the time of Christ says, describing the Saviour's personal appear - awe, that be had blue oyes and light complexion and a vory graceful etructuro, but I suppose it was all guesswork. The painters of the different ages have tried to imagine the features of Christ and put them upon canvas, but we will have to wait until with our own eyes we see him and with our own ears we can hear him. And yet there is a way of seeing and hearing him now. I have to tell you that unless you see and hear Christ on earth you will never see and beer him in heaven. Look! There he is. Behold the Lamb of God. Can you not see him? Then pray to God to take the scales off your eyes. Look that way—try to look that way. His voice comes down to you this day—comes down to the blindest, to the deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else." Proclamation of universal emanci- pation for all slaves! Proclamation of universal amnesty for all rebels! Bel- shazzar gathered the Babylonish nobles to bis table, George I. entertained the lords of England at a banquet, Napoleon III. welcomed the Czar of Russia and the Sultan of Turkey:to his feast, the Em- peror of Germany was glad to have our minister, George Bancroft, sit down with him at his table, but tell me, ye who know most of the world's history, what other king ever asked the abandoned and the forlorn and the wretched tend the out- cast to come and sit beside him? 'Oh, wonderful invitation! You can take it to -day and stand at the bead of the darkest alley in any city and say: "Come! Clothes for your rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your eteinal reigning." A Christ that talks like that and ants like that and pardons like that —do you wonder that Stephen stood look- ing at him? I hope to spend eternity do- ing the same thing. I inust see him; I itnast look upon ,that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocked off my shackles. I want to bear that voice which pronounced my deliver- ance. Behold him, little children, for if you live to three score years and ten you will see none so fair. Behold him, ye aged ones, for he only can shine through the dimness of your failing eyesight. Be- hold him, earth. Behold him, heaven. What a moment when all the nations of the saved shall gather around Christ! All faces that way. All thrones that way gazing on Jesus. His worth if all .the nations knew Sure the whole earth would love him too. Stephen's Martyrdom. I pass on' now and look at Stephen stoned. The world has always wanted to get rid of good men. Their very Weis an assault upon wiokedness. Out with Ste- phen through;the gates of the pity. Down with him over the precipices. Let 'every man toms up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselves. Every stone rebounded upon them. While these' murderers were traneflxed by the worn' of all good -nen Stephen lives in the admiration of all Christendom. Ste- phen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good comm must be pelted, All who will live godly in Christ Jesus, n;tiat settler persecution.. It is no eulogy of a matt to say that everybody Bites him. Show iia auy ane who is doing all his duy to state or church, and I will show you then. who utterly abhor him. If all risen speak well of you, it is be- cause you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a :steamer makes rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will bear the carbines click. When I eats a man with voice and tnouey and influence all ou the right side and some caricature him and some sneer at him and some denounce him and men who pretend to be actuated by right motives conspire to cripple him, to east him out, to destroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned!" When I seo a man in some great moral or religious reform battling against grog - shops, exposing wickedness in high places, by active means trying to parity the church and better the world's estate, and I find that some of the newspapers an- athematize him and anon --oven good men —oppose him and denounce him because, though he does good, he does not do it in their way, I say, "Stephen stoned!" The world, with intlnite spite, tookafter,ohn Frcderlok Oberlin and Paul and Stephen of the text, but you notice, niy friends, that while they assaulted hien they did not succeed really in killing him. You may assault a good man, but you cannot kill him. On the day of his death Stephen spoke before a few people in the sauhedrin. Now he addresses all Christendom. Paul the apostle stood on liars hill addressing a handful of philosophers who know not so much about science as a modern school- girl. To -day he talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of justification and the glories of resurrec- tion. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whom he preached, and they threw brinks at hini, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon him, and yet to -day, in all lands, he is admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the presidential chair, but from that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the box of Ford's theater there sprang up the new life of a nation. Stephen stoned, but Ste- phen alive. Stephen'‘ Dying Prayer. Pass on now and see Stephen in his dying prayer. His first thought was not how the stones hurt his head, nor what would become of his body. His first thought was about his spirit. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" The murderer standing on the trapdoor, the black cap being .drawn over his head before the exe- cution, may grimace about the future, but you and I have no shame in confess- ing some anxiety about where we aro go- ing to come out. You are not all body. There is within you a soul. I see it gleam from your eyes and I see it irradiating your countenance. Sometimes I am abashed before an audience not because I come under their physical eyesight, but because I realize the truth. that I stand before so many immortal spirits. The probability is that your body will at last find a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries that surround your town or city. There is no doubt but that your obsequies will be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow your head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or the cypress, or the blossoming fir, but this spirit about whicb Stephen prayed—what direction will that take? What guide will escort it? What gate will open to receive it? What cloud will be cleft for its pathway? After it has got beyond the light of our sun, will there be torches lighted for it the rest of the way? Will the soul have to travel through long deserts before it reaches the good land? If we should lose our pathway, will there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city? Oh, this mysterious spirit within us! It has two wings, but it is in a cage now. It is looked fast to keep it, but let the door of this cage open the least, and the soul is off. Eagle's wing could not catch it. The lightnings are not swift enough to take up with it. When the soul leaves the body, it takes 50 worlds at a bound. And have I no anxiety about it? Have yon no anxiety about it? I do not dare what - you do with my body when my soul is gone or whether you believe in orematiois or inhumation. I shall sleep just as well in' a wrapping of saokoloth as in satin lined with eagle's down. .But my soul—before this day passes I will find out -where it will land. Thank God for the intimation of my teat„ that when we die Jenne takes us. That answer. all questions for me. What though there were massive bars between here and the pity of light, Jesus could re - Move them. What though there were great 4aharas of darkness, Jesus could ruumo. tbean. What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift tate on his om- nipotent shoulder. What though there , were chasms to truss, his hand could transport me, Then let Stephen's prayer be Pay dying litany, "Lord Jesus, receive ray spirit," It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. It .may be in that hour we will not be , able to say the "Lent's Prayer," for it ' has seven petitions. Perhaps Iva may be too feeble even to say the infant prayer our mothers taught no, which John Quincy Adams, 70 years of age, said every night when he put his head upon his pillow: Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray tho Lord my soul to keep. We may be too feeble to employ either of those familiar fortis, but this prayer of Stephen is so short, is so concise, is so earnest, Is so comprehensive, we surely will be able to any that, "Lord Jesus, receive :ray spirit," Oh, if that prayer Is answered, how sweet it will be to die! This world is clever enough for us. Per- haps it has treated us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated, but if on the dying pillow there should break the light ot that better world we shall have no more regret about leaving a small, dark, damp house for ono large, beauti- ful and capacious, That. crying minister in Philadelphia some years ago beauti- fully depicted it when in the last mo- ment he threw up his hands and cried out, "1 move into the light!" Stephen Asleep. Pass on now, and I will show you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and sisnplicity peculiar to the Scriptures the text says of Stephen, "He 1011 asleep." "Oh," you say, ''what a place that was to sleepl A hard rook under him, stones falling down upon him, the blood streaming, the mob howl- ing. What a place it was to sleep!" And yet my text takes that symbol of slumber to describe his departure, so sweet was it, so contented was it, so peaceful was it. Stephen had lived a very laborious life. His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves of bread he die• tributed, how many bare feet he had sandaled, how many cots of sickness and distress he blessed with ministries of kindness and love I do not know, but from the way he lived and the way he died I know he was a laborious Christian. But that is all over now. He has pressed the cup to the last fainting lip. He has taken the last insult from his enemies. The last stone to whose crushing weight ho is susceptible has been hurled. Stephen is dead! The disciples come. They take him up. They wash away the blood from the wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look .upon the calm countenance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep!' I have seen the sea driven with the hurricane until the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and wave rising above wave seemed as if about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen the tem - post drop and the waves crouch and eyery- thing become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a man whose life bas been tossed and driven coming down at last to an infinite calm, in which there was the hush of heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep! I saw sucha one. Ho fought all his days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled at the doorknob while he was dying with duns for debts he could not pay, yet the peace of God brooded over his pillow, and while the world faded heaven dawned, and the deepening twilight of •earth's night was only the opening twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh; not a tear; not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep I have not the faculty to tell the wen - Mica. I can, never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not. I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will be fair weather or foul on the morrow, but I can prophesy, and I will prophesy, what weather it will be when you, the Christian, come to die. Yon may have it very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance, the next another annoyance. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereavement: Before this year has passed you may have to beg for bread or ask for a scuttle of coal or a pair of shoes, but at the last Christ will come in, and dark- ness will go out, and, though there may be no hand to close your eyes and no breast on which to rest your dying head and no candle to lift the night, the odors of God's hanging garden will regale your soul, and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the King. No more rents to pay, no more agony because #lour hal gone up, no ware struggle with "the world, the .flesh and the devil," but peace —long, deep, everlasting peace. Stephen asleep! Asleep In Jesus! Blessed sloop, Front which none ever waketo weep! A calm and undisturbed repose. Uninjured by the last of foes. Asleep in Jeans 1 Far from the. Thy kindred and theirgravesmay be, But there le still a blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep. You buys seen enough for one morn- ing. No ono can successfully examine more than Ave pictures in a day. There- fore we stop baying seen Cala cluster of divine Raphaels--Stephen gazing into healon, Stephen looking at Christ, Ste- phen stoned, Stephen in Wedging prayer, Stephen asleep. The Standard Chanced. "Do you mean to toll me that the noncombustible post -office roof is con- structed on the same principle as was employed in the late lamented power- house?" inquired the stranger. "Certainly," replied the bland architect. "But that 'slow burning' building went like tinderi" "My dear sir, I am afraid you ars a back number. We are living in an age of steam, electricity and bicycles. What might have been regarded as a quick burning building years ago would furnish a positively tedious conflagration now- adays, "- Washineton Star. A School for Disinfection. The Prussian Minister of Education has ordered the establishment of a special high school for the teaching of disinfec- tion in all Its branches. The school le to be connected with the Hygienic Institute o! the University of Breslau and will be under the direction of Professor Fluegge of that university. — Popular Science News. The Wrong Way Around. In the extreme south of France, where earthquakes are not unfamiliar, the people are of a sort who do not permit any impu- tation on their personal bravery. "1 should think," said a Parisian,"that you would be terribly frightened when the earthquakes opine." "Sir," said the southerner, "you forget that it is the earth that quakes, not wel" —Youth's Companion. Already Supplied. "I desire to briug your attention to a new invention," suid the door to door inercha n t. "It's a snow shovel that doesn't make any noise." "We have one," answered the woman who had opened the door. "I regret to Say that owing to the extreme indolence of the men in this family our snow shovel hasn't made a sound this winter."—Wash. ington Star. IT'S EASY TO DYE. Home Dyeing With Diamond Dyes Is Easy and Profitable, Beautiful and Brilliant Colors That Will Not Fade—Diamond Dyes Have Special Colors for Cotton and Mixed Goods— How Wise Women Economize in Hard Times—A Ten -Cent Package of Diamond Dyes Often Saves Ten Dollars. In these days of enforced economy it should be a pleasure to any woman to learn how she can save the cost of a new gown for herself and suit for the little one, or can make her husband's faded clothing look like new. Diamond Dyes, which are prepared especially for home use, will do all this. They nee so simple and easy to use that even a child can get bright and beautiful colors by following the direc- tions on each package. There is no need of soiling the. hands with Diamond Dyes; just lift and stir the goods with two stinks while in the dye bath, and one will not get any stains or spots. In coloring dresses, coats, and all large articles, to get a full and satisfactory color it is absolutely necessary to have a special dye for cotton goods and a different dye for woollen goods. This is done in Dia- mond Dyes, and before buying dyes one should know whether the article to be colored Is cotton or wool, and get the proper dye. Do not buy dyes that claim to color everything, for their use will result in failure. Harting the Bneiaen. Manager of Dime Museum—Say, Tom, I wish you'd go up'and worry the livid skeleton. I think he's Lakin on flesh.-. New York Truth. THE bARTN IS A PYGMY. Liestoet In. �redible Dimensboni ui;Le Iles as Compared With This Sphere. A dime held at amt's length trots the eye wilt. much more than cover the entire disk of the sun. 11 3t were placed aat the. exact point of coincidence and ita diameter and distance front the eye accurately measured, it might be used as a means of determining the sun's diameter, his dist- ance being known. The foremost philoso- phers of long ago would have been ap- palled at the true stateiuent of both tba sun's distance and its size, The sun's diameter is about I366,000 miles. Perhaps a faint conception of the enormous bulk indicated by these figures may be bad from the reflection that the umbra of a single huge sunspot, observed, M January, 1897, was extensive enough to entertain 16 earths groupsel in a solid square. It is bewildering to be assured that it would take 1,300.000 earths to equal the sun in volume. If the interior of that truly gigantic globe were hollow, and the earthwere placed at its center with the moon revolving about it at its usual mean distance of nearly 240,000 miles, there would still exist a vacuity between the rnaon and the incloeing shell of the sunt? ot nearly 500,000 grilles. This is perhaps the most graphic and impres- sive illustration possible of the stial'a colossal bulk. We must note, however, that the density of the sun is only about one•quarter that of the earth, so that it would "weigh" only as much as 590,000 earths, In very "round" nuratbera the sun's weight play be stated at two octil. lions of tons, whfch, if expressed ill Ag- ores, would require almost as many amlpbere,odate, moms a newspaper lino can ,a. very comprehensive Illustration of the pyygtnean dimensions of the earth 8a compared with the sun is to represent the let1feet t or by a globetwo .,.in diis uleterand the earth by a dainty pea. And yet the little pea weighs more thansizquintillion tons. As to the solar surface, it is some 12,000 times that of our planet. Yet the sun, when compared. with its true peers, the stars, is only of extraordinary size, but in all probability is only toberauked among the medium self luminous bodies which sparkle in "heaven's( Shen vault." And because of its spottedness it has a piece (although it humble ono)arnong the "variable" stars, The "shining shell," as Miss Clerke terms it, seen through it Diem of well smoked glass, is termed the "photo- sphere." We thus perceive its actual diameter, although it seemsmuohsmalile, than our conception of it, beculase tit. fierce glare has bean negatived by the shade glass. It we concede that the :nista is gaseous, the photosphere may be re- garded as a sort of skin or crust of incan- descent clouds, through which are eon - stoutly breaking the geyser -like uprushee of metallic vapors, which expend their energies as far above the sun sometimes as the moon is distant from the earth. Environing the photosphere, as the atmos- phere surrounds the earth, but vastly deeper, is the "chromosphere," Seen in the spectroscope it resembles a delicate but brilliant rim about the solar globe, and the same Instrument reveals the "prominences," whose varied forts ars so iasoinating.--Phlladelphia Ledger, Don't Try to lie Something Else. One reason why so many girisandboys, men and women, too, are uninteresting is because nearly everybody tries so hard to be like somebody else rather than to be content to remain himself or herself In life. In nature you don't see an or.k tree - posing as a willow, or a blaok duck as a yellow leg, or a horse as a cow, or a lily as a rose, or a lilao as a peony, or a dog as a oat. Be natural, and you'll be all. right, Many a girl without the slightest tal- ent for musio is ruining a piano whe should be making bonnets or bread; many a boy is studying for a learned profession whose proper sphere is the machine shop or the mill; many a man is splitting up churches who ought to be doing good service in some institution of learning, teaching or working on some farm, and many a woman is trying to be vain a leader of society when she could be a model housewife in her own home.-- Pearson's Weekly. Bananas in Typhoid. After a long experience with typhoid patients Dr. Ussery of St. Louis main- tains that the best food for them is the banana. He explains by stating that in this disease the lining membrane of the small intestines become intensely inflamed and engorged, eventually beginning to slough away in spots, leaving well defined ulcers, at which places the intestinal walls become dangerously thin. Now, a solid food, if taken into the stomach, is likely to produce perforation of the intes- tines, dire results naturally following, and this being the case solid foods or those containing a Large amount of in - nutritious substances are to be avoided as dangerous. But the banana, though it may be classed as a solid food, contain- ing as it does some 95 per cent. nutrition, does not possess sufficient waste to irri- tate the sore spots. Nearly the whole amount taken into the stomach is ab- sorbed, giving the patient more strength than can be obtained from other food.— Scientific American. The Probable Yukon Gold Output of 1898. The predictions for the receipts from the Upper Yukon in 1898 are guesswork, although the latest returned miners -make it appear that it will be over 00,000,000. But if it is $12,000,000, the most con- servative estimate now offered, it will be wonderful, and will mean that with all the willing hands now there and the hundred thousand or more who go in 1898 the yield for 1899 will approximate 550,000,000. After that it depends on transportation facilities to get people and machinery into the country to multiply the placer yields, and a 'few years more will probably see on the Yukon ranges the steady crunching of ore by stamp mills to add to the world's gold supply. -From "The Rush to the Klondike," by Sam Stone ' Bush, in American Monthly Review of Reviews. Copper Mining. One of the most healthy of all Intel - nooses to -day is probably that of popper production. The United States . produces 60 per cent of all thecopper of the world. All the American mines were operated uninterruptedly last year. Employes worked every day at fair wages, and the mines paid satisfactory dividends. The consumption of copper increases much more rapidly than the production, and an actual' scarcity of the metal is a not very remote: possibility. The AmericAncoutput for 1897 is estimated at 214,000, Soni — American Machinist.