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Bear us witness, We poets and actors,
ye painters and sculptors, We singers and
players upon instruments, that your arts
have not saved the most of you from
becoming petty, selfish men and women.
You are jealous of one another. You
are greedy of praise and of the gold it
brings. You know that there Is nothing
in your art that enlarges and liberalizes
you, that restraints you from drunken.
ness and vices that shall not be named,
that gives you sobriety and solidity of
character, that enlarges your social sym
pathies, that naturally leads you into
organizations for helping others outside
of your own circle. Bear us witness,
that you are not the men and women
who are relied on for performing the
duties of society. If all were like you
if all shirked the duties of social and civil
life ike you'll all were as much untitled
by their ideas and their employments as
you are for carrying the great burdens of
society, what do you suppose would be-
come of the country and what would be
Gene of the world?
Now, if there is anything in art that
can take the place of religion, we should
like to see it. If there is anything in
culture that can take the place of re-
ligion, it has not yet revealed itself.
/ Culture is conferred in self Self is the
god and self is the model of all culture.
Why should it not ultimate in selfish.
ness Culture assumes that what is
present in a man needs only to be de-
yeloped and harmonized to lift charac-
ter to its highest point, and life to its
highest issues. 1t carries no idea of self
surrender, which is the first fact in
practical religion of any valuable sort,
and the first fact in all good develop
ment Greece and Rome had plenty of
culture, and are still our teachers in art,
but the beauty that looked upon them
from every hill and gate and temple
could not save them from their vices.
By and by culture will learn how power
less it is to make man that shall be
worth the making, and what poor in
struments science and art are for up
roofing the selishness that rules the
world. 1t is slowly learning this, and
men who have bowed low to her have
been touched with that divine discon-
tent which nothing but religion can al
lay DR.. J. G. Holland.
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SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP.

FRoF. w. K. PARKER, in a foot-note
to an interesting paper of hison the strue-
ture and development of the snake,
mades this dry remark: 81 am fre>
quently asked whether ] believe in design,
and am always at a loss how to answer
the question, it seems to me 80 perfectly
gratuitous. If the questioner would but
give me time, l would promise to write
him book upon the fitness to be seen in
frog, or even in flea, that should be
as large as family Bible"
A GLIMPSE has been obtained of Ka-
rategin, the Httle-known territory which
once belonged to Khohan, but which now
forms part of Bokhara. It borders on
the Pamir steppe, and only in summer
is communication with the neighboring
districts practicable. TIE people are in
an exceedingly primitive condition.
They are said to have no idea of length
or weight. They possess no markets,
caravanseries, or institutions of public
life. But there are no thieves among
them. Aspecies of communism prevails.
If a family is in want of anything, assist
ance is obtained from the neighbors as a
matter of cour.<zre is not
pursued to any great extent. The chief
industry is cattle-raising.
THE Bulgarians are receiving at pre-
sent good deal of attention from scien-
lists, as well as from diplomatists. Mr..
J. Evans, of the Archaeological Insti
tute, London, has been examining 8
number of skulls brought from Bull
garia, and he has found only few Of
them approaching the true Slavic type
Almost all of them were cylindrical in
form, with great parietoSoccipital de-
velopment and low, narrow sleeping
frontal region. 1t is difficult to assign
them to any distinct race. The great
projection of the lower jaw, the deep
nasal notch, and the horizontal nasal
bones reminded Virchow of the Austria
lasians. The moral and mental condi-
ton OF the Bulgarians is equally puzzl-
ing. They differ essentially from the
Serbs They possess no heroic type.
Their ballads manifest mere ferocity
without chivalry. Their religion is little
more than fetiehism. They have no
manliness, generosity or respect for wo-
men, But they are ambitious, indus.
trious, acquisitive, and eager to learn,
and the probability is that in favorable
circumstances they viii soon rise in the
scale of civilization.
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AWord bu the W.

several years since two merchants had
taken their seats in the morning train
for certain city. They were neighbors,
dwelling in a contiguos suburb, and
dong business in large and popuIous
town. Although their residences were
near together, and they saw each other
daily, they were not intimate. They had
few sympathies in common. One had
been Tor many years professed disciple
OF christ, loving Gods house, and alive
to all that pertained to the spread of the
gospel The other was respectable and
successful merchant, absorbed in business.
and to all appearance Indifferent to all
beyond this life. On the morning in
question these two neighbors happenedto
occupy the same seat in the railway car
mage. They soon became earnestly
engaged in conversation on business, its
prospects, their own plans and successes.
The worldly merchant, the elder of the
two, said they had been very successful
for the year past, and could now say he
had a competence. 81 do not care" said
be, s'to be worth any more"
"Well," said his friend, ''this life is all
provided for. That is ali right, But
how about the life beyond?
"Oh," was the reply, 81 de not worry
myself about that.
"But ought you not to trouble your
self about it?'
mo, 1 think not. 1 have no doubt |
that it will be right"
"But would not thus trust without |
looking into the matter. The interests |
involved are momentus."
The train had reached the station, and |
the two merchants separated, each taxi
ing his way to his own place of business.
A few months afterward the Christian
missed his neighbor from the
train. On inquiry he learned
hat he was sick. Days and weeks pass
ID, and he knew only that his neighbor
vas unable to be out. at length as he
vas in his Office in the city one day, he
eceiyed telegram that his neighbor was
lying and was DESTROYS to see him. He
Ost no time in fastening to his bedside.
There, surprised and delighted, he heard
rom the lips of the dying man this an
ouncement:
81 could not diewithout thanking you,
II, for what you said to me some months
nee in the railway train. 1t made an
npression on me at the time, and since 8
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sure.t TrnnquIIIzer of the Nerves

The surest tranquilizer OF the nerves is a
medicine which remedies their supersensi-
tiveness by invigorating them. Oyer-tension
OF the nerves always weakens them. What
thew need, then is a tonic, not a sedative.
The latter is only useful when there is in
tense mental excitement and an immediate
necessity exists for producing quietude Of
the brain. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters re-
store tranquility of the nerves by endowiDg
them with the vigor requisite TO bear, with
out being Jared or disturbed 1nhealthfully,
the ordinary impressions produced through
the media Of sight, hearing and reflection.
Nay, it does more than this-it enables them
TO sustain 4 degree of tension from mental
application which they would be totally un-
able to endure without its assistance. Such
at least is the irresistible conclusion to be
drawn from the testimony of business and
professional men, literateurs, cleigymen
and others who have tested the terrifying
and reparative influence of this celebrated
tonic and nervine.
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RELIGIOUS READING.


-. hleod-stained, who are these that are throng-
.,, faces are ashen with anguish, their garments
eoiled from the SOD H.. 4. .
vide and waste as sunless ocean, the mui'ituue
With silent lips, and piteOua eyes, and with pray
ing hands.
ia none that speaks, and none that stirs In
,hs stiII white clouds in starless heavens an
"a, ~ ne battle some, with the curses of war in
Gao in wantoness slaughtered; some stricken of
hunger or drouth
uhs will stand for them. who VIII plead for them,
there at the throne
40 they not all Gods children, whom christ mas
s,nsts~5ut all are sinners. and who tell their
i, tbsrs be room in hell yet in heaven is there not
Toom2
r,ke the notes of dust from sunbeam, when
A sudden wind has blown,
riSa the stars from tho presence OF God when n
universe is o'erthrown,
r0ev are gone from our gaze, they gathered and
,-,,osa and warrior, Turk and Christian, slayer
and slain,
Isthere sign, then is there no wonder, is there
a,s the dead as wind that passes, they gone as
the waves go Df
listen is there no sound of sobbing that shakes
the air,
Ard tns wali of an unseen multitude, walked from
mute despair
M We dream. or ara dead men weeping, as they
vept in the world below.
Far the seeds Of un trodden, and the bitter
harvest OF woe,
And fhe guililess herds that marched like the
BEASTS 70 sacrifice,
rrhst can save not them their rulers, from the
bell Of fslsehoOd and vice
audtbey weep that they see no end, and they cry
that the end should bel
All God send down Thy angel, that the rest die
not as vel
As Thoa didst send Thy son TO die that ain might
cease,
seni6orn one lowest of angels, only to breathe of
usesee
= a.athe Thy peace in the counsels, where the
80 rulers, uucoucerned,
stake for perilous glory the honor that Peace ha'
earned:
And the happy homes Of nation they stake for
statesman's pride:
m send Thy Peace oh, save them, for whose
sakes the ayior died
The Spectator.
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Agricultural Notes.

twenty-five per cent. gain in stock is
derived from giving them good shelter.
Apples and pears will keep and color
better and bring higher price if picked
few days before they are quite ripe.
Manure from fsttening COW is supe-
rior to that of milk COW. There is q
deficiency of phosphates in the milk
cows droppings.
1t is asserted that tomatoes SIS food for
COWS improves both the quantity and the
quality of the milk, and give the cream
and butter rich golden color.
To Preserve Eggs.-With twenty
five pals of water mix one busheI of
lime and ten quarts of salt. In this
brine eggs will keep good, it is said, for
a long time.
DR.. Allan Thomson writes that the
bantam cock is said to cause the COM
mon hen to lay small egg and the COM
mon cock causes the bantam hen to Law a
larger egg than usual.
Top dressing moving fields as soon as
possible alter the hay is removed is at
tendei with excellent results. The
stubble and roots are protected from ex-
cessive drying by the hot sun, and the
grass is stimulated to vigorous growth.
Game fowl chickens usually fight when
six weeks old, as we are credibly in
formed by fancier, when one becomes
recognized master, and no more fighting
occurs. But when the cocks have their
combs cut of, trimmed" they have
their fight over again and again.
For some sorts of vegetables, as let |
tuce, cress, rsdishes and others, the
Chinese system of keeping the soil con-
tinuously wet is the best that can be
adopted. 1t preducess crispiness in
the vegetables that is obtained only
when there has been no check in the
growth.
Farmers should be advised not to trv
70 economics by moving too close. An
old iarnaersof our acquaintance used to ,
say that he Thought I. it was better TO
leave the lower joint for the old brindle
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Popular Errors.

To think that the more a man eats
the fatter and stronger he will become
To believe that the more hours children
study. the faster they will learn. To
conclude that, if exercise is good. the
more violent it is the more good is done
To imagine that every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gained. To act ON the
presumption that the smallest room in
the house is large enough to sleep in
To argue that whatever remedy causes
one to feel Immediately better is GOOD
for the system, without regard to more
effects. To eat without an
appetite, or to continue to eat after #
has been satisfied, merely to CRAFTY the
taste- To eat hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief
lime it is passing down he throat. at the
Expense of whole night of undisturbed
leep and weary waking in the morn,
ng.
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Imaginary Horses.

Gen. Sherman, in a recent interview
which has been rather extensively
printed, endeaYored to raise a sensation
over what he calls the Inconsistencies of
the new army bill. He makes a point
that it does not provide horses for officers
who are in command of artillery and
cavalry, and that {" the officers will have
to go on foot, whilo the privates are on
horseback. This is all the sheerest kind
of nonsense, and no one knows it better
than Sherman himself. The new army
bill provides horses for every army
ofieekin actual service who should have
one, or who ever did have one. 1t does
not, however, allow army officers who
are detailed in this and other cities, on
staff and other special duty, to draw
iced for horses they do not have, and
this is what Sherman is kicking about.
Under the law he is entitled to about
fifteen horses, and feed for the same.
He never kept any horses while he
resided in this city, and as he is travel
ing about in railroad cars over the coun-
try about all of the time, he does not
keep horse in any other city. Con,
sequently, he will not hereafter be
allowed to draw pay for those fifteen
horses which he only owned in magma.
ton. His receipts from this source were
about $3.50 day Hartford Times.
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WE know of no way that we can ben
eft our readers more than by calling atten.
ton IN Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. II is
the oldest and most valuable patent medi-
cine in the world. Everybody should keep
it in the house 1t will check diarrbea and
dysentery in one hour.
If the fountain is pure the-streams will be
pure also. So with the blood. II that be
pure the health is establishes Parsons
Purgative Pills make new rich blood, and
taken one a night will change the blood in
the entire system in three months.
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have been shut up here it has come up to
me again. am dying, but L trust all
beyond. My hope is in Christi"
Was not that a rich reward for enc act
of Christian fidelity? What opportuni-
ties for thus speaking ''word by the
way" are constantly occurring, and how
glorious would be the results were they
imnrnved
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DR.. WILHOFT AMI PERIODIC OR
FEVER AND AGUE Tonic Wilhoft's Tome
has established itself as the real infallible
Chill cure. IL is universally admitted to be
the only reliable and harmless Chill medi~
cine now in use. It's efficacy is confirmed by
thousands of certificates of the very best
people from all parts OF the country. 1t
cures malarious diseases of every type, from
the shaking agues Of the lakes and valleys,
70 the raging fevers OF the torrid zone; Try
ii 1t has never been known to fail. Whee-
lock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans
For sale by all Druggists.
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a Pure Heart.

What is a pure heart? 1t is heart
which finds its whole and only satisiac-
ton in God, which relishes and desires
nothing but God, whose thoughts and
lntents are ever occupied with God, to
which all that is not of God is strange
and jarring, which keeps itself as far as
possible apart from all unworthy images
and joys and grieis, and all outward
csres and anxieties, and makes all these
work together for good for to the pure
all things are pure, and to the gentle is
nothing bitter DR. John Tauler
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The greatest discovery or the age
IA Dr. Tobias celebrated Venetian Linimentl !
80 years before the public, and warranted 10 cure
Disrrhea, Dysentsry, Colc, aud spasms taken in
ternally; and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore
Tbroats Cuts Bruises, Old Sores ahd Pains in the
Limbs Back and Chest, externally. 1t has never
failed No family will ever be without 1t after once
VENETIAN HORSE EMINENT, in Pint Bottles,
at one Dollar is warranted superior TO any other
or 80 PAY for the cure Of Collie, Cuts, Bruises,
Old Sores etc Sold by ali Druggists. :. Depot--lO
Park Place New fOFb
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Ten years ago Messrs. Geo. p. Rowell Co. es-
tablished their advertising agency in New Ycrk
CITY. Five years ago they absorbed the bushes.
conducted by Mr.. John Hoorer, who the hrst
TO 60 into this KIND of enterprise. Now they have
the satisfaction of controlling the most xtensye
ana complete advertising connection which 11s
ever been secured. and one which would be hardly
possible in any other country but this They have
succeeded IN working down com pick business into
Sc thoroughly systematic method that no change
IN the newspaper system of America can escape no.
t1ce while the widest informa alton all topics
interesting 70 advertisers is placed readily at the
disposal of the public.
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WE have a list of q Thousand con

WE have a list of thousand country
weeklies, IN which we can insert a one-inch
advertisement one year for two dollars and a
quarterf. paper,or for the same price we can
insert fifty-two reading notices "a new one
every week., averaging seven lines each. For
list Of papers and other particulars. address
BKALs & FOSTER, 10 Spruce St, New York.
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For upwards of thirty years Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup has been used for children
with never-failing success. 1t cOrrects acidity
of the stomach relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and wellstried remedy. 25c. bottle.
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WORTHY PLACE IN EVERY FAMILY.
-Grace's Salve is now firmly established as
the best remedy in use for the immediate
relief of Cuts, Burns, Sprains, Wounds,
Felons, Ulcers, &c. 1t should be kept in
every house.
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Young Honsekeepers

Should not forget that the way to reach a
husbands heart is through his stomach.
Use Dooley's Yeast Powder in making bis
cults, bread, cakes, rolls, mullins, etc, and
they will be nice, Light, digestible and whole
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HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE,
Prince Edward 90 Wa.

OURRicUL UN embraces fuil Instruction in Glass
! icai, Scientific and Moral studes. Next ses-
sion DO ms Sept 5th; ends Jane 9Th. Total eNpen-
see. excl sive Of ard, sl2j. Good board AZ teN'-
ards Hall q $40 per tn. Ia piSate families &C
go 10 slipper month. For luil inform ton address
j. M. T.. ANDERsOA, Prest.
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THE CONFIDENCE OF OUR PATR0NS
MATTER OF PRIME Ia.
pORTARCE

1t is a matter of prime Importance TO us, for tbe
purpose Of maintaining influence with pubIisb.
ers, that il sh al be understood among fle
that our statements about The advertising to be-
done. not to be done to be relied upon and
TO this end dealing with advertiser TX - sseis
must be upon a basis ofmutual confidence andgodd
faith
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There Is nothing like looking a long

There IS nothing ike LOOKING long
ways ahead to be prepared for rush.
A West Hill church, with an eye to the
festival season next winter, has already
contracted for eleven oysters, to be deliy-
cred in December Hawkeye.
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to seethat the appears wher and iuthe
manner that il ought to; checking each IN bseq
issue of the advertisements IN each paper in book
kept for that purpose at all times subject to the in
spection OF the adyertlser and marking plainly in
whenthe ADVERT comesf or sends 0rthe prrposeot
Aaving the files examine the MAJ light prompt
" upon his announcement. without the labor Of
search ng the whole . Nper or page.
+! errors or omissions occur. il Il our duty to
notify publishers. at our own eNpeuse for labor,
pos3sge or messenger, and 10 toftthat the pub
Usher Of the paper actually render the service
for which the advertiser contracted
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OUR CUSTOMERS ENTITLED To OUR
BEST SERVICES
Whenever are doing the advertising fol any
individual, or firm, consider them entitled tour
best services. If they suggest using pa per which
we knowtO be not the best for the purpose wisay
so and give the reasons. We often ex peud a rood
deal of time for very small advertisers. much nore
than the profits on their patronage would warrinti
but we are content, they entrust TO what hef
have to disburse, and influence in our directienthe
patronage of their friends and acqusintanees.
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THE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO RE Ex.


Persons who have had little experience as a DYER
tisers often hase pretty clear understandiny Of
what they would like o do, but are entirely ignor-
ant of the probable cost.
We have inside ont for such a person "A plan Of AID
vertisiug calling for an Investment of s5O0 and on
submitting il for approval, found our customer ds-
mayed at the magn tude Of the expense he mot
having contemplated an expenditure exceedino Sso
or 5000 In such case labor would have been s,ed
if at the commencement Of the negotiation the9ues.
tion had been asked: - How much money are von
prepared to devote to this advertising % -"
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80" Have you got the lessen to day -
asked a Sunday school teacher of a
pupil, whose head was bandaged up in a
couple of inches OF @@svli-.sssS..
ma'am." replied the pupil. fave you
got your catechism with you ?'' asked the
teacher. No, ms'am." F" Have you
got anything ?" asked again the teacher
getting little impatient. "Yeth ma'am'
was the timid reply. What is it p
- The mumpth, nla'am."
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Our Promise.

We promise those advertiser who entrust their
advertising patronage to our management that
will not allow them 70 be charged ny instance,
any more than the puhli hers SCHEDULE rates: that
we viii procure for them the acceptance Of any ad-
vantngeous offer definitely made &c them by any
newspaper publisher, advertising agent or can
vasser OF responsibility. We are unwilling TO do
work without profit. and never offer to do So yet
in conformity. with the promise made above, we
sometimes ind IL advisable.
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TIE SUTRO TUNNEL.

Boring "a Hole 2O-IzO Feet Long. I.3OO
The news came from San Francisco
that connection was made between the
Sutro tunnel and the 500 foot level of
the Savage mine, when "a strong draft
of air at once poured into the mine"
and "Gen. Sutro entering the Savage
works from the tunnel, general jolli~
fication ensued'
The object of this remarkable engi-
neering work is to facilitate mining OPP
eratiOns on the Comstock lode, when the
miners have reached a depth of from
1000 to 1900 feet.