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abundance of these elements is equaled by
their quietude and unprelentious useful
ness. The sunshine comes to nature and
human nature and says: "Here am, ready
and eagersto vitalize you" The air comes
and says: Gust open your mouth and
throw back your shoulders-so. Now swal-
lowP The water comes and says: Art
thou athirst? art thou travel-stained L
bring thee refreshment and cleansing.
Beautiful types of the intellectual and
spiritual worldl Suggestive symbols Of the
abundance and usefulness of thousands OF
quiet and unpretentious iVesl "Old Izaak
Walton" exclaims a charming master of
English, with his fishing rod and his quaint
conceits, is read to-day, while hundreds OF
clustering orators, who made great STIR In
the world while Izaak was quietly fishing,
are as unknown as the buried grandees OF
Nlneveh. Charles Lamb and Cowper and
Coleridge and Hawthorne and Washington
Irving are exerting an influence to-day
upon every school boys mind, while their
contemporaries in Parliament and Congress
and on the stump, who could
stamp and rave and tear passion to
tatters, must be sought for with magnify
ing glass. What a quiet, unpretentious
meal that was in the upper room, and yet no
royal feast ever exerted such an influence
or will be commemorated so long! The call
which Peter and John heard and obeyed,
: Follow Me" was very quietly uttered and
quietly needed, but the destinies of the
world apparently hung upon that call and
that acceptance. Robert Raikes was
humble, common place man, but his Sun
day school has done more to transform and
strengthen the church than all the eloquent
sermons of the last century. Thank God
for these quiet influences which are at the
same time so potent!
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GIRLS WITH HEAVY BURDENS.
AstonishingIy Heavy Weight of the Attire
Worn by Ladies.

AstonishingIy Heavy Weight of the Attire
Worn by Ladies.
New York Graphic.i
Some girls I know have been weighing
their clothes and the result is startling.
Nobody would suppose to look at the deli
cate little flowers that they could trot
around under such a burden. A fur
trimmed cloak came to pounds, recep-
ton dress, trimmed in jet, mounted to 81
pounds, and little snip Of dolman that
did not keep its owner warm anywhere
weighed 81 pounds and cost $40. 1t was
very pretty, and its jeweled passementerie
was the source of its beauty and its weight.
OF course the moral thing would be to
lie, and say the weight of these garments
made them ugly, but then every woman
would know better. and as long as she ad-
mires Jet effects she will torture herself as 6
decent master would not oppress slave
carrying it. There are cloaks, charming
ones, gotten up for wintryest weather, that
weigh very little; some French houses have
made specially OF them, but they are
pretty generally left to the appreciation Of
old ladies and invalids.
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DOCTORING IN THE DARK.

No sensible surgeon will attempt the per-
formance Of an operation involving human
hfein room secluded from the proper amount
Of light. A practitioner will not attempt the
diagnosis of complicated disease unless he
can see the sufferer and make an examination
upon which to base his opinion relative to the
treatment necessary to bring about restoration
of health.
Notwithstanding the impropriety Of such
action there seems to be great deal Of doctor
ing done in the dark.
1t needs no illustrations to demonstrate that
gross ignorance has caused many fatal mis-
takes in the treatment Of diseases by those
who profess to be learned in the art Of healing.
In many diseases several organs are more or
less implicated and what seems primary all
ment may be one quite remote. For Instance,
a severe headache may have its origin IN dis
turbed stomach On the other hand sickness
at the stomach may be caused by blow on the
head. The seat of typhoid fever is in the up
per part of the bowels, but most Of its worst
symptoms are often in the brain.
Symptoms of disease, as well as diseases
thems elves, are oftenrimes followers OF con-
comitants of some unsupported organic disease
and this is peculiarly true Of lung, liver, brain
and heart diseases in general, for it is now
known that they are the result Of kidney dis
ease, which shows its presence in some such IN
direct manner.
Several years ago a gentleman became con-
vinced of the truth of this and through his
efforts the world has been warned of kidney
disease and as a result OF continued effort
specific known as Warmers Safe Cure
was discovered, the general use of which has
shown it to be of inestimable benefit in all
cases where kidney treatment is desirable or
necessary.
When consumption is threatened see to it
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Question. for Philosophers.

Skeptics are fond of asking questions.
Well, it is easier to ask them than to answer
them. But why should not Christians play
Yankee, too?
See here, you philosophers. tell us now, if
the Bible is the work of impostors, how
were huddle of ignorant fishermen able to
extemporize the character of Jesus Christ,
and to formulate religion which surpasses
all others? If the New Testament can be
found in Eschylus and Epictetus and Con-
fucius and Buddha, how is it that they did
not produce the New Testament, and so save
us the necessity of reproducing it? Where
does Christianity get its transforming power?
How does the faith of Jesus make Paul the
Apostle out of Saul the prosecutor, and
saint out of a Magdalen. and Christian
out of John Newton, the slave trader and
a hero OF benevolence out of Jerry McAuley,
the converted river thief?
Oh, playing Yankee is rare sportl When
the philosophers have answered these ques-
tions, we will ask some more.
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Ideas Must be on Time.

A distinguished writer, in an article on
"Success in Life" maintains that success is
largely an affair of right emphasis. At
tend: Some people find fault because few
have so much influence in politics, in bust
ness, in society, and even in church. They
seem to forget that it is inevitable, and ap-
plies even in childhood and youth. In
every school and on every playground a
few dictate the policy, and lead in fun and
hard work, in thought and action, because
of the emphasis they place upon what they
say and do. 1t is skill in emphasis that
usually determines success. If it is known
how anyone emphasizes life, it is easy to
estimate the probabilities of success.
Emphasis in lite is much like emphasis
in reading. The first principle in each case
is to emphasize ideas, not words. There is
radical difference between the two.
Superintendent George Rowland, of Chi
cago, read ''Evangeline" to one of the gram
mar schools of that city one Friday after
noon year ago and 1 chanced to be present
when the pupils read their compositions on
the reading. A bright little foreign boy
wrote: 81 thought so great man would
read very loud, but he didn't. 1 thought
he would emphasize it lots, but he never
emphasized word; but oh, my, didn't he
picture the story, thought I shall see it as
long as live" This is vivid illustration
of emphasis upon ideas rather than words.
This principle holds in life. Success de-
pends upon magnifying essentials. Some
people tire us in their talk because they
dwell upon minor details about which we
care nothing, while others fascinate us by
giving the pith of story SO that we do not
wish word omitted.
This is a land and age Of progress. A
morning paper is of little value in the even
ing No one reads the paper to see what
termed chestnut" and the world has no
use for it. The world pays premium for
ideas, but they must be 'fon time" A
mans life must show on the face of it that
every word and act tells, and that he has
not done the best he will ever do.
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SUNDAY THOUGHTS
on
MORALS 4NR MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.
lwn1rrrn FOE TIE DISPATCH. ]

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
Georges Ohnet, perhaps the most popular
of French novelists, has just published a
powerful story which invades the realm of
religion and deals with materialism from
the standpoint of fiction. DR.. Rameau, the
hero, is an atheist, who is at last brought to
be Christian by the recoil of his own ma
terialistic ideas-by their disastrous work.
ing out in his own family.
The Doctor falls in love with>a charming
girl who is Roman Catholic. They are
married. The years pass. He robs her OF
her faith; and she retorts by robbing him of
his honor. Her frailty is known by an old
physician intimate alike with husband and
wife, who reproaches her for her departure
from virtue.
''It is he," cries she, "who is responsible
for my shame. How can he call it crime
for me to yield to the forces of the senses
he who believes only in matter? For him
human beings are guided only by their in
stincts. He put them on q. level with
brute. By what should I be held back?
By the sentiment of duty? But this senti-
ment is conscience, and conscience is the
in it. NV ears ring now with his sneers at
my poor mind full of superstition, as he
calls it, when have attempted to defend
my faith. He has broken down all the bar
riers that would have restrained me. The
commandments of my God prescribed hdel-
ity and respect; he has declared that no God
exists and the heavens are. empty. My
mother instructed me from infancy that one
must be pure and good in this life in order
to be recompensed in eternity; he has
proven to me that nothing remains after
death"
"Ah, madam" interjects the physician,
remember how your husband idolizes
you."
She meets this thrust with another out
burst:
"What does he love in me? He enjoys
possession of me because am young. He
is materialist, and his passion is only for
matter; nothing could be more abject, more
vulgar and outrageous, than this desire.
He would none of my dreams; he repulsed
all my ideals. He wanted a wife as he
wanted dinner-no more nor less-and he
took me. He has disguised me, and there
fore I repeat, not by hazard but deliber-
ately, not to defend myself but to accuse
him, that he is the cause of all.
Thus does fiction assail materialism. Are
not its blows well directed? If there be no
God, if the soul is myth, if Immortality is
a fable, if conscience is a rhetorical -four
ish, why, then, was not that weeping cul-
prit right? If we are as the beasts that per-
ish, why curb our animal instincts and de-
sires? The maxim of the epicurean school,
Dunn vivlmus vivamus Cet us live while
we live) is the soundest, the only philoso-
ply. Virtue is an empty name. The only
tie between man and man and between man
and woman is the tie of inclination. Relax
this and everything falls to pieces. just as
soon as DR.. Rameau saw this, and felt it in
his own experience, he drew out of his athe-
ism as one might draw out of a quicksand,
and made haste to regain the solid ground
of faith, hope and charity. IT'S suggestive
lesson.
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LUCKLESS All LOVE,
A Chinaman Commits Hari. Kari and Girls
Make Fun of His skull.

A Chinamnn Commits Hari-Kari and Girls
Make Fun of His skull
Chicago Times.l
All Love was the first Chinaman to break
the United States hari-kari law, and he
committed the offense In Chicago in the
summer of 1873. Unrequitted love led to the
rash act. All loved white girl to whom he
was engaged, but shortly before the nuptials
! were to take place she experienced sudden
change of heart and returned All Loves
letters and presents. Among the latter was
a bottle of perfumery, a set of chop-sticks, a
Chinese fiddle and box of dried lizards i'm
ported at great expense from China, and
numerous other trinkets.
The body was spirited away to Rush Med
ical College, where the students car efulIy
studied his system and drew lots for choice
cuts from his remains, the head falling to
the share of student who is now an NJ. D.
with an Office in the Chicago Opera House
block. On small black, wooden pedestal
in this office stands CHASTITY, grinning
skull, all that's left of poor All Love. The
skull is much given to grinning.
Not long ago the doctor loaned his treas
ure to a female college and the girls proved
themselves capable of the most shocking
vandalism imaginable. They scribbled
poetry, cruel filings at All Loves unfor-
tunate love affair, on his skull, and did
other mean things. For instance, across the
chin bone is written: "These are the lips
that Sullivan kissed"
At the back of the head near the base is
written:
"Woman's love is a bitter fruit
And however he bite it or sips,
There's many man who has lived to curse
The taste of the fruit on his lips"
Directly under this verse is the ironical
exclamation "Poor man,
Just over the left ear is stanza taken
from Moore's "Last Rose of Summer
when true hearts wither
And fond ones are flown,
Oh, who would inhabit
This bleak would alone?''
The girls were evidently well acquainted
with Abs experience on the stage for the
skull was plentifully sprinkled with "Alas!
Poor Yorlck," and II knew him we'll, Hor-
atio." But the cruelest stab of all was the
last, jerkv little verse of six lines:
"Ah Love, you ought
Not to have shot
That slug into your shell;
Your immortal soul
Slid through the hole
And went-well, none can TELL"
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ORIGINAL Suggestions.

PREACHERS sometimes confuse those whom
they should confirm. Be simple, be direct, be
short to-day. Initiate that wise chaplain who,
during the civil war, used to preach to the regi-
ment with his watch in his hand, lest he should
forget time in the contemplation of eternity.
ARE you doing anything to make the world
Sea, Secsel, o5 wiSSr, ~ nspPISI II n.y. % WY no' the
most successful recruiting sergeant in the
world. The workers are always crying out for
recruits-too often without response. Among
and be counted.
The devil tempts most men. but idle men
tempt the devil.
WHAT is eccentric in one country is not &C.
centric in another. Eccentricity is matter of
latitude and longitude. To be quite correct
one would need to take his bearings and carry
with him book of costumes and customs, grad
uated according to the distance from the first
meridian.
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Selected Thourbt..

WHEN I can just remember. each night
before my mother put me to bed, 1 re-
peated on my knees before her the Lords
Prayer and the Apostles Creed rach morning
kneeling in bed put up my little hands in
prayer. These lessons am now conscious have
been Of more value than all l have ever learned
from my preceptors and Compensation Ran
dolph.
WHAT is self-denial? Is it sackcloth on the
loins? Is 1t wooden block for pillow? Is it
lentil pottage for the daily meal? Is it a crypt
or kennel for ones lodging? All, no; in all this
hesh-p1nching there is often a selfpleasing.
But when the temper is up, to rule the spirit,
and over a manly revenge" to let Christian
magnanimity triumph-this is self-denial.-
James Hamilton.
THE restless merchant he that loves to
steep
His brain in wealth, and lays his soul to sleep
On bags Of bullion, sees the immortal crown,
Ana fain would mount, but ingots keep him
down.
LORD ROCHESTER, short time before his
death, gave 1t in charge to me to tell an ac-
Quaintance for whose welfare he was much
concerned, that 'even if no state of existence
were to succeed the present, yet all the pleas
been dearly bought with half the tortures that
he felt in the recollection of them."--Bishop
Bur7let.
WHAT would not give to call back to
earth my mother but for one day, on my knees
to ask her pardon for all those little asperities
of temper. which from time to time have given
her gentle spirit pain. Oh my friend cultivate
filial feelings-Chdries Lamb.
A NAMELEss man amidst crowd that thronged
the daily mart,
Let fall a word of hope and love unstudied from
the heart;
A whisper on the tumult thrown-a transitory
breath,
1t raised a brother from the dust, it saved
soul from death.
o germi o fountl o word of lovel thought at
random cast!
Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at
the last.
-ChdrLes Mdckdu
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THE GOLDEN ISLAND,
ERNEST II. HEINRIcHs.

what you want, and hope you will enjoy
it."
After he had spoken he made another sign
to the three in red, and again they took
hold of him and carried him away. None
of them ever spoke to him. They continued
their walk quietly, but at a good pace. At
last they arrived at a broad river, where
they found boat moored. The three men
carried Robert into the boat, then they
pushed off and in few moments were GID
ing over the waters.
"Where are you taking me TOP" inquired
the young men OF the three mysterious look
ing boatmen, but they did not take the
slightest notice of his question. They con-
tinued rowing as if they had not heard any
thing.
''If you do not tell me where we are going
will jump into the water and drown my
selfi'' shouted Robert, and he got up to get
ready for leap into the river, but before
he could accomplish anything one of the
oarsmen caught him by the neck, threw
him into the bottom of the boat and tied
him to one of the seats. He realized now
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
56e-rHE ROYAL pRIsoNERs.

An old king, beautiful princess and page
were imprisoned in high tower to which there
was but one opening, window $50 feet from
the ground. The only means of escape was af-
forded by rope which passed over pulley
fixed to the outside of the tower and on each
end of which hung basket. Whenever one
basket was at the window the other was on the
ground below the tower. The rope itself was
tnclosed in such way that person in one of
the baskets could neither help himsef by means
of it nor receive help from the other prisoners.
In short, the only way the baskets could be
used was by placing the heavier weight in the
one than in the other.
Now. the old king weighed 1876 pounds the
princess los pounds. the page 80 pounds. and
they found in the tower an iron chain weigh
ing 70 pounds. The weight in the descending
basket could not exceed that in the ascending
basket by more than Is pounds without causing
descent so rapid as to be dangerous to hu-
man being. although such a speed would of
course not injure the chain. Furthermore,
only two persons, or one person and the chain,
could be placed in the same basket at the same
time.
How did the party manage to escape, and
take the chain with them? j. II. FEZANDIE.
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THE FIRESIDE SPHINX
A Collection Of EnignahGal Nuts for
Home Cracking.

Address communications for this department
70 E. r. CHADBoURN. LetOiston. Mdine.
567-AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
Pm a curious little curled-up imp,
My back is; like bow;
And. tho I've neither legs nor feet,
Pm always on the go.
In wagon and in carriage
Pm always to be found;
Inever walk upon the earth,
p But burrow in the ground.
haven't an ounce of sense,
Of wit I've not pound,
But with knowledge and intelligence
/ always do abound.
In everything have place,
At beginning and at ending;
And, tho am little elf,
There's much on me depending.
Without my help none would be gay,
Brave knights would be less knightly,
And every little winsome sprite
Be sure to be less sprightly.
Without my help the grave would rave,
And ghosts in hosts appear,
Bald-headed gents, sedate and grave,
Wigless, be filled with fear
To lose their wigs and goggles too;
But, much more to be dreaded,
The gay, the grave, the girls and gents
Would surely be beheaded.
I've told you all dare to tell
Without to you confessing
My name in full, which, you will find,
Is only got by guessing.
PITT.
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The World Moving.

Galileo was right; the world does move.
A railroad is to be built from Jerusalem to
Jaffa, on the Mediterranean, 81 miles dis
tance, the ancient port of the Jewish Capt.
tai, and the landing place of the cedars
with which the temple was constructed.
A Jerusalem Jew, Joseph Nabon by
name, who is an Ottoman subject, has OBJ
tained from the Sultan charter for this
purpose. The charter holds good for II
years. The estimated cost of construction
is $3.50, 600. So then hereafter civilizatio on
is to be domesticated in Palestine. The
nineteenth century will arrive in those parts
when the irst locomotive puffs into Jeru-
salem.
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Bountitul Nature.

1t is noteworthy and blessed fact that
all the elemental and essential forces in ma
ture are bountifpl. Whoever had occasion
to complain of a scant supply of sunshine
Or of its poor quality-unless he strained it
through the atmosphere of city where
bituminous coal is burned ? Where are the
lungs which are deprived of their just quota
of pure air-unless selfdeprived by ignor-
ance and stupidity? Whose are the lips
that have never known the taste Of water,
and an abundance OF it? "God giveth to
all literally, and upraideth not. And the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

more. The waves ran over each other and
rolled up mountain high. 1t was too m uch
for Robert; he could not hold himself any
longer, for an immense wave came with ter
rife force against the side of the boat. 1t
turned over, and the young man fell into
the lake. Soon the waters swallowed him
up, and they closed in over him like lid
on aSoox.
Inconsistencies overcame him imme-
diately after he fell into the water but he
awoke again and to his utter astonishment
found himself on dry land. 1t was pecu-
liar place, the young man thought. The
ground was hard and rocky, but still there
were lots of trees growing everywhere. A
beautiful Light shone over all the land, but
where iteane from Robert could not imag-
inc. The sky above was as blue as the
azure heavens that expanded over the beau
tiful fields around his native village. But
he could not see sun or a moon, or even a
star, above him. The young man was be-
wildered. He stood and looked at his sur
roundlngs as if he were enchanted or dream
ing.
Suddenly he was awakened from his rev.
erie BY the approach of three men all
dressed in red clothes, with black turbans
on their heads Neither of them spoke a
word. They walked straight up to Robert,
and while one of them took hold of him by
the neck the others caught him by the legs.
Then they carried him away, and all the re-
sistanee and expostulation on the young
prisoners part vas in vain. The three men
held him as tightly as if his limbs were
screwed in a wise, and did not stop until
they came to large building. This struct-
ure was Of wood, but in front stood very
comfortable chair. in which Robert noticed
the boatnan with whom he had been rowing
on the lake not long ago. He lifted his
hand to the three men andthey stood still
Now put the stranger DOWN. he COM
manaeo OF the three in red, and when Rob
ert stood on the ground the man in the chair
Deckoneo him to come forward.
aoung man" he said, "vou have told
me that you do not like work, but you are
iono Of lots OF money. You shall have just
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TEMPERANCE EDUCATION.
Twelve Million Children Being Taught the
Evil Results of Drink.

Twelve Million Children Being Tnught the
Evil Results of Drink.
st. Louis Globe-Democrar.I
Twelve millions of children are reported
to be under instruction in public schools on
the influence of alcohol and other stimu-
lants as well as narcotics. Total abstinence
is favored in all cases by this instruction,
andfthere is no doubt but the next genera
tioh will come forward with. prejudice
against drinking habits. All the New
England States, with New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Delaware, as we'll as ten South
ern and three or four Western States,
have laws compelling temperance educa-
ton.
The Territories, also, are controlled by
United States law to the same effect. This
work is slower.tha prohibition, but it is
surer and safer.