"6ROTHBR3,
Bplcler, ,
.t my window spinning.
Weaving circles wider, wtaei
From the deft beginning.
Running
Rinffs and spokes until you
Build your rilken death-trap CUta-Jbgf,
ghall I catch you, kill you?
Sprawling,
.finiH?, shrewd as Circe,
j Path's your only aim and calling,
Wbv Miould you have mercy?
Strike thee?
f, Tt for rapine willful,
jf.in himself is too much like thee,
(July ir t so skillful.
Hjfc in
Thfft lives our( Creator.
Ttou'rt'a sliapo to hold a life in,
I am nothing greater.
ijt;i Jforton,in Chicago Herald.
HI MOK OP THE DAY.
jjcke-1 for two cents A postage stamp.
Fancy work Building castles ia tha
sir-
Where there is no liquor In. prisoa
Lar--
jf was n great boy. lie was in for
tTt.rvthii -"' 'lie's in for live years,
Yoiic ui generally get a point on insect
i,f,. i,viii -tkin yourself familiar with tlio
..JLTi-ri tiftings 5 .
Then; ;ve a good many things that go
without living, but woman ia not one of
'tijm. St. Jvseph JYewi. ...
WJiilc we liave so many lakes in this
fountry, there is only one that is really
uj ':iior. Texas Sifting.
In f r'y days the - schoolmaster
i i,0;r l 1 around" himself, but he shin-
f'lcl til'
boys. Texas Sif lings.
"M iMiui i, let me hold the baby, will
voif' "Ni dear; mother is afraid you
uL'Iit 1. 1 him fall on Fido." Life.
It is ofu.n impossible to distinguish si
,.,,; .. fi -wisdom, because they are fre
quently t
v; .arue tiling. uaiuis j.ewa.
wonp. for animalculoa
I), .n't
With. n :il moisture squirm;
D-u't Mjih, lecause- your breathing may
CoiiHauui'jate a germ.
Toronto Empire.
It is ;in awful strain on a woman's pa
tifuce t- have a husband who thinks h
knows hnw-to cook. f Terre Haute Ez
'Nothing delights a small man so much
to liave a chance to call a great man
in jitihli'; by hid lirst name. SonurviUs
Wu n ui may be a trusting creature,
nnl all that, but she isn't apt to be de
(yivj i int giving too much credit to
uiioth'.-r wuinaii. 'Jlmira Gazette.
The in niwlio knows everything labora
under a misapprehension, lie seems to'
think that everybody wants to hear every
thing. He is wrong. Dallas News.
The shortest day is generally believed
to be December 21; yet there are many
who say that the day before pay day is
tho-slinrtest day. Jewelers' Circular.
Your faults to others you should never men-
tii.n;
Your fri oi Is will give that duty due atten
tion.' . Philadelphia Times. .
She (nervously) "What do you think
of my fiHcuits, dear?" lie "H'm! I
don't cire exactly to give an off
hand opinion on weighty subjects."
L'tiC'ir.
Mrs. TMerby "Don't you tMuk it is
very remarkable that a swan should sing
before dying?" Judge Petcrby 4 'Not
to much so as I would if they sang after
dying." lexas Sif tings.
'I don't believe in allowing domestics
to get tho upper hand. I make my ser
vant keep her placet" "You are lucky.
Oars inner does for moro than three
weeks." American Grocer.
benevolent Person "I hope you treat
your horses well and give them plenty of
iitiy." Driver "Well, I can't afford to
buy 'em much of it, but I says 'hey I' to
them as often a3 I can." Light.
"Leave the house," said the irato debt
o "1 couldn't hope to take the house
with me, with so heavy a mortgage on
it," retorted the creditor but ho did
take it later on. Munseis Weekly.
"!od intentions are often thwarted
ia the n;os t mysterious ways," as the
young man remarked when his best girl
biiee. .I just as ho was on the point ol
kiting her. Burlington Free Press.
"But, sir, to kiss
A miss
Is wrong, you see."
"I do not kiss
Amiss
AY hen I kiss thee "
Washington Post.
"Do you share the common idea that
i yel ow clarionet is unlucky?" asked an
n n tteur theatrical performer of a Mr.
hlyk'ms. "I do emphatically unless they
sound. very differently from the other
kind." Washington Post.
' Dear me, I hope it ain't serious!"
said old Mrs. Bunker. "What's the
mutter?" "Ethel savs in her letter thai
s-'ie and her husband had a row on
lake Saturday afternoon.'
a. n't r-o-w row. . It's
i Primitive .Russialis placd V-certf
Bcate of character ia .the deicHper
of heaven' m ?' Petcr mI
By the agency of the London chiV
dren b country holidays fund 20,000 chiW
drcn last year enjoyed a short hdliday W
the country. - I j j
Anowl shot near Jackson, Gal meas
ured five and a half- feet from tip to tip"
of the wings and had a small steel two
on one of its feet. i s
There are two obelisks known as Cleo
patra s needle. One stands on the Thames'
embankment, London, and the other ia
Central Park, New York.'
Berlin has six great, play fluids for
children. All sorts of amusements in
these places are free, and teachers of
gymnastics direct the exercises, j
One ostrich farm at Port Augusts,
South Australia, contains 700 bir Is worth
6100 each, and the yield of the feathers'
this year is expected to be wortL $7000.
Clubs have increased rapidly a New
York, and it i3 estimated that t ley now
have a membership of 100,000. j Every'
club has an ambition to get a bui ding oa
Fifth avenue. j j -
The use of india rubber for erasing
pencil marks was first suggestel in or
just prior -to 1752 by an acat emiciaa
named Magellan, a descendant of the
great navigator. j j
The Austro-IIungarian convict who is
condemned to die stands! on the ground
mth a rope around his neck, and at a
given signal he is pulled off hi; legs to
remain struggling in the air un il he is
strangled. j ' j
Trade-marks were known in ancient
Babylon; China had them as early as
1000 B. C; they were authoi ized ia
England in 1300 ; Gutenberg, th inven-'
tor of printing, is said to have h; id a law
mit over his trade-mark J j
Foolscap is a corruption of thu Italian
fclio-capo, a folio sized sheet. The error
as the
rom the
century
REV. DR. TALMAGE
aaust have been very ancient
fcrater-mark of this sort of paper ;
thirteenth to the' seventeenth
tva3 a fool's head with cap aSd tlells
The mountain home ! of Steohen
Elkins in West Virginia, is bv ilt on a
peak from which a view of thir y miles
aiay be had. The house i3 moi e like? a
baronial castle than a residenc e. The
Surrounding mountains are full of trout
itreams and game forests.' j
Fully three-four;n3 of j the biibies of
the world go naked until they g t to be
five or six years old. The Canadian In
dians keep their babies naked, up to a cer
tain point, and as for the little Koreans,
they never wear nothing but a short
skirt until they are as old 03 ou : school
boys, i j
A wonderful flower has b( en dis
covered in the Isthmus of Teht antepec.
ts cji'cf peculiarity is the habit ( f chang
ing its, ': colors during the day. jln the
morning it is white ; when the i ua is at
its zenith' , it 13 red, and at night it is
blue. The . ftd, white and blr e flowd
grows, on a tree about the size 6 ' a guava
tree, and only at noon does it jive out
any perfume. j j
The famous "loop" on the Southern
Pacific a on the Sierra Mount, tins, be
tween Majora ana , uatiento. It was , a
device by which the TchechapePas3, by
which Fremont first crossed the mount
ain ridge between Northern ami South
ern OaliCornia, is passed-! First the road
runs through a tunnel, then it bridges, an
ibyss, and finally crosses over itself,
geemincrlv tieini; a bow-knot Iwith it.
own BtlB3.
- An Electric Man.
In the way of novel electrical inven
lions there Will hardly be anything more
intersstinEf than the achievements of
George It, Moore, a seventy-year-old re
tired miller of Lowell, Mass. The
Lowell Citizen, describing his latest
This is an electric man that walks and
does a number of thincrs as perfectly as
though it were a human being.l j He be-
ffan work upon his electric man some
thing like a year ago, adopting to some
extent the principles of a n echanical
horse, upn which ho ha been at work
off and on for a dozen years. I e regards
his electric man as his chef d'eehvre, and
well he may, for it has what is rarely
seen in mechanical devices, ap almost
perfect imitation of the motions of the
human body. .air. Mcore has other me
chanical wonders besides - tha electric
man to show. In the I horse, I a3 in the
man, he has reached an almost perfect
imitation of the natural movements of
the feet and legs, every joint bting fash
ioned in close imitation ot tho model
which he has followed, i The mechanical
horse is about as largt) las a I forty-five
pound dog, aud can strike a giit that is
at the same time stylish and last. He
either trots or paces at tho will of his
master, and is alwavs in fine condition
for a spin on tho mile ground.
the
"Pooh I that
r-o-w row."
"Do you believe in healing by touch?"
ked Miss De Price. "Indeed I do,"
replied Do Blakcs. "I met Tom Tight
pmeh to-day limping along and complain
ia:,' of the gout. I touched him for a
five and he skipped off as though ho hed
iievt r been ill a day in his life." ChisagQ
Tower of the Sea.
From experiments at Bell Rock and(
keny volo lighthouse, on the coast of
.Uand, it is found that while the force'
1 the breakers on tho side of tha
Senium Oceau may be taken at about a
tn aud a half to every square foot of ex-
p 'e I surlace, the Atlantic side throws
bieal-ers with double that force, or three
tci:s to the square foot; thus a surface of
"!y tv. o square yards sustains a blow;
from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to
Jiity-four tons. In March of this year a
'1Cuvy gale blew for three days and nights
fct Skerry vole, washing out blocks of
limestone and granite ol three and five
,0"S weight as easily as if they had
been empty egg shells. One block of
hmcstone, estimated to be of fifteen tons'
weij:ht, was moved over one hundred,
and fifty feet from a place in tho surf
where it had been firmly grounded sincq
lc97, it having first been rolled in 6ight
bv the awful gale of tho "windy Christy
. of that year. This is quite a high
tea record for 1890, showing that tho
Kale of March 3d was the worst known,
CIS US U AH! ""V w '-.j -
Lsh-shaped coutrivacce is delie itemachin
ry which reeulates the' screw's revolu
A Turnip Seed's Ineriase.
Th seed of a irlobe turnip is exceed-
Inirlv minute, not lartjer, perbaps, th3n
the twentieth pact ofjan inch in diame
ter, and vet. in tho course of a few
months, this seed will be elaborated by
the soil and the atmosphere infco twenty- j
seven millions of times its original bulk.
and tnis is in auuiuua .j iiiuiunau.u
hnnph of leaves. Dr. IesjUruuers has
made some exiierimcnts proving that, in
pin average condition, a turnip seed may
increase its own weight fifteen, times in
a minute. By an actual experiment made
n iat ground, turnips have been found
n. inn9A h tTTnwth 15.000 times the
on the Bccottish coast for 193 years. ! weight o" their seeds each day as they
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Text r r , .
, J ''i' " s Jerusalem
, mm w m m m - il.. am
Measnrinsr the Flow of thf Tides.
i 1 1
An instrument for measuring the flow
of the tides has been invented by a young
scientist at present engaged ftu experi
ments on Loner Island Sound! on board
tho TTmtfMl States steamer Fash Hawk
It is modeled something likq a fish out
of sheet copper and is about fpur feet in
lensrth. In operation it is hun Irom the
end of. a twenty-foot spar attaqhed to the
steamer's side, and at right jugles with j
HCr, SO lllat IUllt;ilIUC upi iauua iuaj
not be inllueuced by currents caused by
the steamer. The instrument s head is a
revolving screw or wheel, something like
. stoanrer's iiropeller. "NVhon in the
water the head of the instrumbht is kept
turned to the current by the tail, which
net as a rudder. In the bidy of the
fis
crv
tions. aud their rapidity is transmitted U
the steamer's laboratory by ad! ingenioui
electrical jinnaratus. and thus the cur
rent's swiftness is recorded
Paralysis of his best hand, the withering a
its muscles and nerves, is hereinroked if th
author allows to pass out of mind th-j trrarv
deurs of the Holy City where once he dwelt
i11 eeated by the Euphrates
wrote this psalm, and not David. Afraid J
ain of anything that approaches imprecation,
and yet I can understand how any one wh
b ever been at Jerusalem should in enthu
asni of soul cry out, whether he be fcittina
y the Euphrates, or the Hudson, or thi
Thames, "if I forget thee, O Jerusalem, lei
my right hand forget her cunning r Yot
see it is a city unlike all others if or topog
raphy, for history, for significance, forstyU
of population, for water works, for ruins,
lor towers, for domes, for ramparts, for lit
- erature. for tragedies, for memorable birth
places, for sepulchers, for conflagrations and
lammw, for victories and defeats.
1 am here at last in this verv Jerusalem,
and on a housetop, just after "the dawn of
the morning of December 3, with an old in
habitant to point out the salient features of
the seenepr. Now," I said, r'where is Mount
r,V?n I Her,e at yur right." f 'Where isMounl
Oliyetr' "In front of where you stand?
here is the Garden of Gethsemane?" "In
yonder valley." "Where is Mount Calvary?"
Before he answered I saw it. No unpreju
diced mind can have a moment's doubt as
to where it is. Yonder 1 see a hill in the
shape of a human skull, and the Bible says
that Calvary was the "place of a skull."
IiOt only is it skull shaped, but just be
neath the forehtad of the: hill is a cavern
that looks like eyeless sockets. Within
the grotto under it is the Shape of the in
side of a skull. Then the Bible says that
Christ was crucified outside! the gate, and
this is cutside the gate, while the site form
erly selected was inside the gate. Besides
that, this skull hill was for ages the place
where malefactors were put to death, and
Christ was slain as a malefactor.
The Saviour's assassination took place be
side a thoroughfare along which people went
"wagging their heads," and there is the an
cient thoroughfare. I saw at Cairo, Egypt,
a clay mould of that skull hill, made by the
late General Gordon, the arbiter of nations.
While Empress Helena, eighty years of age,
and imposed upon by having three crosses
exhumed before her dim eyes, as though
they were the three crosses of Bible story,
selected another site as Calvary, all recent
travelers agree that the one I point out to
you was without doubt the scene of the most
terrific and overwhelming- tragedy this
planet ever witnessed.
There were a thousand things we wanted
to see that third day of December, and our
dragoman proposed this and, that and the
other journey but I said: "First of all show
us Calvary. Something might happen if we
went elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder our seeing the) sacred mount.
If we see nothing else we must see that, and
eee it this morning." Some oil us in carriage
and some on mule back, we w ;re soon on the
way to the most sacred spot that the world
has ever seen or ever will se. Coming to
the base of the hill we first went inside the
sk ull of rockB. 1 1 is called Jeremiah's grotto,
for there the prophet wrote his book of
Lamentations. The grotto is thirty -five feet
high, and its toD and side are malachite,
green, brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured subter
raneous passages we begin to climb the steep
sides of Calvary. As we goi up we see cracks
and crevices in the rocks, which 1 think were
made by the convulsions of nature when
J esus died. On the hill lay a limestone rock,
white, but tinged with crimson, the white so
suggestive of purity and the crimson of sac
rifice that I said, "That stone would be beau
tifully appropriate for a memorial wall in
my church, now building in America; and
the stone now being brought on camel's back
from Sinai across the desert, when put under
it, how significant of the law and the gospel I
And these lips of stone will continue to speak
of justice and mercy long after all our living
lips have uttered their last messase."
So 1 rolled it down the hill and trans
ported it. When that day comes for which
many of you have- prayed the dedication
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third im
mense structnre we have reared in this
city, and that makes it somewhat difficult,
being the third structure,; a work such as
no other church was ever! called on to un
dertake we invite you jin the main en
trance of that building to look upon a me
morial wall containing the most suggest
ive and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together this, rent with the
earthquake at the giving of the law at
Sir a the other reLt at the crucifixion oa
-Ca.vary. J
It is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions were as we gathered a group
of men and women, all saved by the blood
of the Lamb, on a bluff I of . Cavalry, just
wide enough to contain three crosses. I
said to my family and friends: "I think
here is where stood the cross of the impeni
tent burglar, and there the cross of the
miscreant, and here between, I think, stood
the cross on which all our hopes depend."
As I opened the nineteenth chapter of John
to read a chill blast struck the hill and a
cloud hovered, the natural solemnity im
pressing the spiritual solemnity. I read a
little, but broke down, j I defy any emo
tional Christian man sitting upon Gol
gotha to read aloud and with unbroken voice,
or with any voice at all, the whole of that
account in Luke and John, of which these
sentences are a fragment: "They took Jesus
and led Him away,and He, bearing His cross,
went forth into a place called the place of a
skull, where they crucified Him and two oth
ers with Him, on either side one, and Jesus
in the midst;" "Behold) thy mother I" "I
thirst:" "This day1 shalt hou be with Me in
Paradise;" Father, forgive them, they know
not what they do;" "If it! be possible, let this
cup pass from MeJ" What sighs, whal sobs,
what tears, what 'tempests of sorrow, what
surging oceans of (agony in those utterances!
While we sat there the whole scene came
before us. All around the too and the sides
and the foot of the hill a mob raged. They
gnash their teeth and shake their clinched
fists at Him. Here the cavalry horses champ
their bits and paw the earth and snort at the
smell of the carnage. Yonder a group of
gamblers are pitching up as to who shall have
tlie coat of the dying Saviour. There are
women almost dead with grief among the
crowd His mother and His aunt, and some
whose sorrows He had pardoned. Here a
man dips a sponge into sour wine, and by a
6tick lifts it to tho hot and cracked hps.
The h.emorrhageof the five wounds has done
its work. ! I - j
The atmospheric conditions are such as the
the world saw never before or since. It was
not a solar eclipse, such as astronomers
record or we ourselves have seen. It was a
bereavement of the heavens I Darker! until
the tow ers of the temple (were no longer visi
ble. Darker! until the surrounding hills dis
appeared. Darker! until the inscription
above the middle cross becomes illegible.
Darker! until the chin of the dying Lord falls
upon the breast, and He siehed with this last
sigh the words, "it is finished f
As we sat there a silence took possession of
us, and we thought, this is the centre from
which continents have been touched, and all
the world shall yet be moved. Toward this
hill the prophets pointed f orward. Toward
this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed
backward . To this all heaven pointed down
ward. To this with foaming execrations
perdition pointed upward. Round it circles
all history, all time, al eternity, and with
this scene "painters "have covered the might
iest canvas, and sculptors cut tho richest
marble, and orchestras rolled their grandest
oratorios and churches lifted their greatest
doxologies and heaven built its highest
thrones. 1
Unable longer to endure the pressure of
this scene we moved on and into a garden of
lives, a garden which in the right season is
full of flowers, and hero is the reputed tomb
of Christ. You know the Book says. "In the
midst of the garden was a sepulchre." I
think this was the ganlen and this the
-sepulchre. It is shattered, of course. About
four steps down we went into this, which
seemed a f aniily tonab. j Thert is room in it
for about live bodies. We measured it and
found it about eight feet high and nine feet
wide and fourteen fet long. The crypt
where I think our Lord slept was seven feet
lorn?. I think that there once lay the King
wrapped in His last slumber. Ou some of
these rocks the Roman government set its
seal. At the gate of this mausoleum on the
on the first Ester morfting the angel rolled
the stone thundering down the bill. Up these
steps walked the lacerated feet of the Con
queror, and from these heights He looked off
upon the city that bad cast Him oat and
upon the world He had come to redeem and
at the heavens through which He would toon
ascend. ! j
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the y all which Solomon
had lifted. Stop here and tee a startling
proof of the truth of the prophecy. In
Jeremiah, thirty-first chaper and fortieth
verse, it is said that Jerusalem shall be ball 6
through the ashes. What ashes, people have
been asking. Were those ashes pat into the
prophecy to fill up? j Nol The meaning has
been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
.being built out in a certain direction where
the ground has been1 submitted to chemical
analysis, and it has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the anciaut
temple ashes of wood and ashes of bones of
animals. There are great mounds of ashes,
accumulation of centuries of sacrifices. It
has taken all these thousands of years to dis
cover what Jeremiah meant when he said,
"Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord,
that the city shall be built to the Lord from
the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the cor
ner, and the whole valley of the dead bodies
and of the ashes." The people of Jerusalem
are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful of that ashes on which they are
building is enough to prove the divinity of
the Scriptures! Pass by the place where tha
corner stone of the ancient tomple was laid
three thousand years ago by Solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they
found that corner stone seventy-five feet be
neath the surface. It is fourteen feet long,
and three feet eight inches high, and beauti
fully cut and shaped, and near it was an
earthen jar, that was supposed to have con
tained the oil of consecration used at the
ceremony of laying the corner stone. Yon
der, from a depth of forty feet, a signet ring
has been brought up inscribed with tha
words "Haggai, the Son of Bhebnaiah,"
showing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai,
and to that seal ring he refers in his prop
phecy, saying, "I will make thee as a signet."
I walk further on far under ground, and I
find myself in Solomon's stables, and see the
places worn in the stone pillars by the hal
ters of soma of his twelve thousand horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Moriah was built. You know that
the mountain was too small for the temple,
and so they built the mountain out on pil
lars, and I saw eight of those pillars, each
one strong enough to hold a mountain.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar, a
throne of Mohammedanism, where we are
met at the door by officials who bring slip
pers that we must put on before we take a
step further, lest our feet pollute the sacred
places. A man attempting to go in without
these slippers would bo struck dead on tha
Epot. Tnese awkward sandals adjusted as
well as we could, we are led to where we seo
a rock with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the ancient
temple rolled down and away. At vast ex
pense the mosque has been built, but so som
ber is the place I am glad to get through it,
: and take off the cumbrous slippers and step
into the clean air. -
Tf onder is a curve of stone which is part of
; a bridge which once reached from Mount
: Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David
I walked or rode to prayers in the temple.
' Here is the waiting place of the Jews, where
for centuries, almost perpetually, during tha
: daytime whole generations of the Jews have
stood putting their head or lips against the
! wall of what was onca Solomon's temple.
! It was one of the saddest and most solemn
! and impressive scenes I ever witnessed to see
scores of these descendants of Abraham, with
tears rolling down their cheeks and lips trem
bling with emotion, a book of psalms open
! before them, bewailing the ruin of the an-
cient temple atd the captivity of their race,
! and crying to God for the restoration of tha
temple in all its original splendor. Most
affecting scene ! And such a prayer as that,
century after century, I am sure God will
answer, and in some way the departed gran
deur will return, or something better.1 I
looked over the shoulders of some of them
and saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms of David, while I have been
told that this is the litany which some chant:
For the temple tnat Hea desolate,
We sit in solitude sad mourn;
For the palace that is destroyed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that are overthrown,
We sit in solitude and moarn;
For our majesty that is departed,
Wes't.in solitude and mourn:
For onr great men that lie dead,
We sit In solitude and mourn;
For priests who have stumbled,
We eit in wammAz and mourn.
, I thins: at that pra3Ter Jerusalem will come
again to more than its ancient magnificence;
it may uot be precious stones and architec
tural majesty, but in a moral splendor tnac
shall eclipse forever all that) David or Solo
mon saw.
But I must get back to the housetop where
I stood early this morning, and before the
sun sets, that I may catch a wider vision of
what the city now is and once was. Stand
ing here on the housetop I see that fthe city
was built for military safety. Some old
warrior, I warrant, selected the spot, s It
stands on a hill 2600 feet above the level of
the sea, and deep ravines on three sides do
the work of military trenches. Compact as
no other city was compact. Only three miles
journey round, and the t hree ancient towers,
Hip;icus, Phasaelus. Mariamne, frowning
dcntii upon the approach of all enemies.
.-s I stood there on the housetop in the
m-'-t of the city I said, "O Lord, reveal to
me this metropolis of the world that I may
see it as it once appeared." No one was with
me, for there are some things you can see
more vividly with no one but God and your
self present. Immedialely the mosque of
Omar, which has stood for ages on Mount
Morinh, the site of the ancient temple, disap
peared, and tho most honored structure of
all the ages lifted itself in the light and I
saw it the temple, the ancient temple! Not
Solomon's temple, but something grander
than that. Not Zerubbabel's teinula. but
something more gorgeous than tnat. I
Herod's temple, built for the one purpose of
eclipsing all its architectural predecessors.
ThereTit stood, covering nineteen acres,
and ten thousand workmen bad been forty
six years in building it. Blaze of magnifi
cence! Bewildering range oi porticos and
ten gateways and double arches and Corin
thian capitals chiseled into lilies and acan
thus. Masonry beveled and grooved into
such delicate forms that it seemed to tremble
in the light. Cloisters with two rows of Cor
inthian columns, royal arches, marble steps
pure as though made out of frozen snow,
carving that seemed like a panel of the door
of heaven let down and set in, the facade of
the building on i shoulders at each end
lifting the glory "higher and higher,
and walls wherein gold put out
the silver, and the carbuncle put out the
gold, aud the jasper put out the carbuncle,
until in the changing light they would all
seem to come back again into a chorus of
harmonious color. The temple! The temple!
Doxolov in stone ! Anthems soaring in raft
ers of Lebanon cedar! From side to side
and from foundation to gilded pinnacle the
frozen prayer of all ages !
From this housetop on the December after
noon we look out in another direction, and I
see the king's palace, covering a hundred and
sixty thousand square feet, three rows of
windows illumining the inside brilliance,
the hallway wainscoted with styles of colored
marbles surmounted by arabesque, vermilion
and gold, looking down on mosaics, mu-sic of
waterfalls in the garden outside answering
the music of the harps thrummed by deft
fingers inside; banisters over which princes
ani princesses leaned, and talked to kings
and queens aseendmg the stairway . O J eru
salem, Jerusalem! Mountain city! City of
God! Jot of the whole earth! Stronger
than Gibraltar and Sebastopol, surely it
never could have been captured!
But while standing there on the housetop
that December afternoon I hear the crash oi
the twenty-three mighty sieges which have
come against Jerusalem in the ages past.
Yonder is the pool of Hezekiah and Siloam,
but again and acain were those waters red
dened witli human gore. Yonder are the
rowers, but again and again they fell. Yon
der are the high walls, but again and again
they are leveled. To rob the treasures from
her temple and palace and dethrone this
queen city of the earth all nations plotted.
David taking the throne at Hebron decides
that be must have Jerusalem for his capital,
and coming up from the south at the head of
two hundred and eighty thousand troops he
captures it. Look, here comes another siege
of Jerusalem !
The Assyrians under Sennacherib, en
slaved nations at his chariot whseL having
taken two hundred thousand captives in his
one camniijn: Phoenician cities kneeling at
- his fec-t, "Egypt trembling at thi Cash of his
1 sword, comes upon Jerusalem. Look, an
other siege! The armies of Babylon under
Nebuchadnezzar corae down and take a
plunder from Jerusalem such as no other city
ever had to yield, and ten thousand of her
citizens trudge off into Babylonian bond
age. Look, another siege I and Nebuchad
neszar and his bona by night go through
a breach of tha : Jerusalem wall, ant tne
morning finds soma of them seated tri
umphant in the temple, and what they could
not take away because too heavy they break
up the brass saa, and da two wreathed
pillars, Jachin and Boas.
Another siege of Jerusalem, and Fompey
with the battering rami which a hundred
men would roll back, and. then, at full run
forward, would bang against the wall of the
city, and catapults burling tha rocks
upon the people, left twelve thonamnd dead
and the city in the clutch of the Roman war
eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of Je
rusalem! Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount of Olives, and balBsta arranged oa
the principle of the pendulum to swing great
bowlders against the walls and towers, and
miners digging under tha city making gal
1 cries of beams underground which, set on
fire, tumbled great mnistw af house and hu
man beings into destruction and death. All
is taken now but the tomple, and Tltua, the
conqueror, wants to save that unharmed,
but a soldier, contrary orders, hurls a
torch into the temple and it is consumed.
Many strangers were in the city at the time
and ninety-seven thousand Captives were
taken, and Josephus says one million on
hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this house top, the clegs
that most absorbs us is that of the Crusaders.
England and Francs and all Christendom
wanted to capture the Holy Sepulchre and
Jerusalem, then in possession of the Moham
medans, under the command of one of the
loveliest, bravest and mightiest men that ever
lived; for justice must be done him, though
he was a Mohammedan -glorious Salad ml
Against him came the armies of Europe, under
Richard Cceur de Lln, King of England;
Philip Augustus, King of France; Tancred,
Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant men,
marching on through fevers and plagues and
battle charges and Bufferings as intense as
the world ever saw. Saladin in Jerusalem,
hearing of the sickness of King Richard, his
chief enemy, sends him his own physician,
and from tne walls of Jerusalem, seeing King
P.ichard afoot, sends him a horse. With all
the world looking on the armies of Europe
-come within sight of Jerusalem.
At the first glimpse of the city they fall on
their faces in reverence and then lift anthems
of praise. Feuds and hatreds among them
selves were given up, and Raymond and
Tancred. the bitterest rivals, embraced while
the armies looked on . Then the battering
rams rolled, and the catapults swung, and the
swords thrust, and the carnage raged. God
frey, of Bouillon, is the first to mount the
wall, and the Crusaders, a cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the city,
march bareheaded and barefooted to what
they suppose to be the Holy Sepulcher, and
kiss the tomb. Jerusalem the possession of
Christendom. But Saladin retook the city,
and for the last four hundred years it has
been in possession of cruel and polluted
Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start for
J eruaalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth
Century greater than all -those of the past
centuries put together. A crusade in
which you and I will march. A crusade
without weapons of death, but only the
sword of the Spirit. A crusade that will
make not a single wound, nor start one
tear of distress, nor incendiariza one home
stead. A crusade of Gospel Peace! And
tho Cross again be lifted on Calvary, not
as ouce an instrument of pain, but a signal
of invitation, and the .mosque of Omar
shall give place to a church of Christ, and
Mount Ziou becoina the dwelling place not
of David, but of David's Lord, and Jerusa
lem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking
back the Christ she once cast out, shall be
made a worthy type of that heaving city
which Paul styled "the mother of us all, "and
which St. Johu saw, "the holy Jerusalem
descending out of heaven from God."
Through its gates may we all enter when our
work is done, and in its temple, greater than
all the earthly temples piled In one, may we
worship. '
Russian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem we visited last winter. They
had walked hundreds of miles, and their feet
bled on the way to Jerusalem. Many of
them had spent their last farthing to get
there, and they had left some of those who
started with them dying or dead by the road
side. An aged woman, exhausted with the
long way, begged her fellow pilgrims not to
let her die until she bad seen the Holy City.
As she came to the gate of the city she could
not take another step, but she was carried In,
and then said, "Now hold my bead up till I can
look upon Jerusalem," and her head lifted,
she took one look, an 1 said : "Now I die con
tent; I have been it! I have seen it!" Some
of us before we reach the heavenly Jerusalem
may be as tired as that, but angels of mercy
will help us in, and one glimpse of the temple
of God and the Lamb, nni one goo 1 look at
the "king in his beauty," will more than
compensate for all the tolls an I tears and
heartbreaks of the pilgrimuge. Hallelujah!
AfflGUl
How Women Kill Flowers.
It is a peculiar fact that, some women
kill flowers within twenty' minutes after
they are adjusted to the 'corsage. Others
will wear them for hours and they will
look as fresh as when they were first
pinned on. A florist, said: "."Women
wear flowers sometimes ' because they are
Vain, not because they love them. Flow
ers are alive and it chills them to lay
near tho heart that has noilove for them.
They droop and mourn themselves to
death, because they known there is noth
ing in "common between them and.. the
wearer. They are like 'little children";
they lovo thosowho love them, and their
best, brightest ibeuty is given to the
woman who pins the bouquet on through
her love for tbeflowers." A physician;
said: ' Certainly some women can kill
flowers within ,a' very few minutes. It is
a sure indication. that a poisonous vapor
is escaping from tho ;body to a great de
gree. It may ibe the result of disease, or
it may be that bathing and proper care
of the skin aro neglected. The body
that is kept in wholesome cleanliness
will give new life to the flowers. A
magnetic strength is carried from .the
wearer to the flower, and lou after the
woman is weary with an afternoon's
shopping or calling the flowers will smile
back at her with her own strength. She
give3 life to the flowers through the
sweetness of her own body. There is
such a difference in women about the
care of the person. Some of our best
dressed and wealthiest ladies are the
most negligent. They, seem to have nc
pride. There is nothing more discerni
ble than this disregard. They are eithei
ignorant or unconscious of this fact, oi
else they are without tho pride that
should go with intelligence. Flowen
cannot live in the poisonous vapor and
they betray the secret of invisible negled
by soon drooping." Chicago Herald.
Precautions Against Consumption.
In a circular on precautions agaicsl
consumption, published by the State
Board of Health ofTennsjlvania, the fol
lowing advice i3 gAveu: "The duster.
nd especially that potent distributer oi
germs, the feather 'duster, should nevei
be used a room habjtnally occupied by i
consumptive. The floor, woodwork anc
furniture should be wiped with a damj
cloth. The patient's clothing should I
kept by itself and thoroughly boiled
when washed. It meed hardly be sait
that the room should be ventilated, a
thoroughly as is consistent with the main
tenaaco of a proper temperature."
Scrofula Humor
"My Utile daoghters Ufa was saved, u e b
Iteve, by Booi's fcraprilla. Before she was six
month oil sfcehad eTenrnanlaiacrof alaaore. Two
ph? K-in were ealiod, bol they a no be po. One
of them ad-vfeed tb amptxtatJott of oa of her fingera,
to whlck we reftued accent. On gtvliis her Hood'a
funparUU a marvel txaprovemeat was n'jtie-d
ami by acoauaoM ns of tt her laoorefy was com
plete. Aal aha Is now, beta area years old,atronf
aad balUijr.- tt C Joxaa, Alaa, Uaoo a Co., Me.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by an dr&egMa, flsatxforS. Prepared only
by CI. HOOD a CO, LoweO,
l OQJDQS03 PKa-Ppllai
LUfCOLJrs SELAKCnOLT.
Ills Srataathetle Rata re aa4 II ta Karty
Bliafartaae.
Those who saw much of Abraham Lincoln
during the later years of his life, were greatly
impressod with the expression of profound
melancholy his face alorays wore in repose.
Mr. Lincoln was of a peculiarly sympathe
tic and kindly nature. These strong charac
teristics influenced, very happily, as it proved,
his entire political career. TbVy would not
seem, at first glance, to be efficient aids to
political success; but in the peculiar emer
gency which Lincoln, in the providence of
God, was called to meet, no vessel of com
mon clay could possibly have become the
chosen of the Lord." i .
Those acquainted with him from boyhood
knew that early griefs tinged his whole life
with sadness. His partner in the gi-owry
business at Salem, was "Uncle" Billy Green,
of Tallula, 111., who used at night, when the;
customers were few, to hold the grammar
while Lincoln recited bis lessons.
It was to hs sympathetic ear Lincoln told
the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutiidge;
and he, in return, offered what comfort he
could when poor Ann died, Lincoln's
great heart nearly broke.
"After Ann died, says "Uncle" BiUy, "on
stormy nights, when the wind blew the rain
against the roof, Abe would set thar in the
grocery, his elbows on his knees, his face in
his hands, and the tears Vunnin' through his
fingers. I hated to see him feel bad, an' I'd
say, 'Abe don't cry and he'd look up an
fallin'
say, -i can t neip it, Bin, the rain's a
on ner."
There are many who can sympathise with
this overpowering grief, as they think ol a
lost loved one, when 'the rain's a fallin on
her." What adds poignancy to the grief
sometimes is the thought that the lost one
might have been saved.
Fortunate, indeed, is William Johnson, of
Corona, L. L, a bulkier, who writes June S3,
1S90: "Last February, on returning from
church one night, my daughter complained
of having a pain in her ankle. The pain
gradually extended until her entire limb was
swollen. and very painful to the touch. We
called a physician, who after careful exam
ination, pronounced it disease of the kidneys
of long standing. All we could do did not
seem to benefit her until we tried Warner's
Safe Cure; from the first she commenced to
improve. When she commenced taking it
she could not turn over in bed, and could
just move her hands a little, but to-day she
is as well as she ever was, I believe I ows
the recovery of my daughter to Its use.
roTerty of tlio Mexicans.
The poverty of tho poor of Mexico is
extreme, and the conditions of the lQwer
class of laborers must be dreadful, ays a
correspondent of the Denver Times. One
can seo them doing work done only by
horses elsewhere, and loads carried on
burros which, ia other countries, are car
ried on wheels. Blocks of a peculiar
building stone are brought into the city
on the backs of those patient creatures,
so that even the poor burro is not exempt
from sharing the condition of his oner.
No wonder buildings go up slowlylierc;
You see the men i carrying lumber,
heavy boxes, poles, and nearly always
on the trot. Even the dead are borne to
their burial by carriers. Yesterday I
witnessed on the plaza a relay of carriers
while tho burden was being shifted to
fresh shoulders. Two or three women
aud some children stood around while the
exchange wa3 being made.
The coffin, it is presumed, represented
tha hearse. Tlrajchave (here on their
street railroads a fdneral car capable of
accommodating the coffin and a number
of mourners, which is, I think, au idea
well worthy of imitation.
The earth is the greatest distance from
the sun on tho morning of tho 6th oi
July.
Kxpert
at pikin kieks-r"' makers
Do Yea Ever Saecalsvte
Any person sending us thou name and ad
dress will receive information that will lead
to a fortune. BenJ. Lewis & Oo Becurity
Building, Kansas City, Mo.
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ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Bjrup of Figs is taken; it ia pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly oa the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is tha
only remedy of Ita kind erer pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
ita action and truly beneficial in ita
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy aud agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o
tnd $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not hare it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute,
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP COL
84 M F&AMC1&CO. CAL,
iBvrsmii, Kt. fnr rosM. m.t.
The value of a pack hounds U
re vealed by the sale of one recognized ai
amonelhe l&gst in Esslind for S15.000J
tonlo. or children wt-o
want buudiaa or should take Brown's
Lions needing
iroa.
Bitters. It fa pfaewaat to tafce, enrea Ualarla,
Ind igestion-H Alon an rtm and Liver ComplajnU.
makes tha Kiood rtah and yora.
The toper's motto is "Lire tor to-day,
hat he empkrvs two d's
Oklahoma Guide Book and
on reoetpt of 60ct.Tjrler
sent anr wfcre
-w - .
The most monotonous city in its build
lacs is Paris.
W will fire K0 rerard fcr ar.vreof
catarrh that cannot be currd with Hall's
Catarrh ("nn. Taken ictraally .
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Troprs. , Toledo, O
The Czar of Russia has issued an orCsr
forbidding applause in the theatres.
For disordered liTtr try Beccharu's Tills.
Woman, her diseases and tfcerr treatment.
T2paA, tlluatratrd; prioefiOo. rat upon r
eofpt of 10o, owt of mailin.etOL Ad1ris iTof.
R. H. Kuxm, M.TX. KU Arch SL. Phtla.. Pa.
American sea captains are complaining
if the absurdity and the. inconvenience
&f a recent edict of the Russian Govern
ment whereby no ballast j ean be dis
charged in Russian ports, jj
A church census taken this year shows
that there are 21,757,171 church mem.
bers in this country, and: that th &Ia
In tha last year was 1,039,853. i
Mast persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Brown's Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the eystem, aids ditrestion, re
moves excess of bile, and cures trial aria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
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Tie people of Laurenceburg, Tenn,
are trying to raise funds for a monument
a Davx. Crockett.
i -
Lee WVb Chinese Headache Cora. Barm.
less to effect, quick and positive in action,
fcent prepaid on receipt of fi per botUa
Adeler & CoJE2 Wyandotte st .KinsasCity Jlo
lIC4 NEW LAW CLAI2I&
Atisneft, 141 K .. U ahli(tM. V. V.
FEiiSlQHS
lTOl)Y8.
Blr C Is tbeackiiu AtA
leadmc remedy lor all tttm
crula ear for tb 4MU-
l4Ui( wiagmaa peculiar
o wbmra.
The man who Is rU.-tit Is FeUt-yn Irfi.
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches
In Miesourt, Kanaa, Texas and Axkana,
bootfbt and sold. Tyler A Co K tnmi City. Ma,
An American tobocaa 6liJe is a great
feature at the Cvstal Palace., London.
FITS Atortped fre by Dr. Klxxs's Qrsvt
NkrVk Rsstorcb. No flu after first day's u.
Marvelous cures. Treatise ao l S3 trUl bottle
free. Dr. Kline, KU Arch SL, I'bila i'a.
Illinois has more miles of railway than
Iowa.
There are some patent med
icines that are more marvel
lous than a dozen doctors'
prescriptions, but they're not
those that profess to cure
everything.
Everybody, now and then
feels " run down," " played
out." They've the will, but
no power to generate vitality.
They're not sick enough to
call a doctor, but just too
sick to be well. That's
where the right kind of a
patent medicine comes in,
and does for a dollar what
the doctor wouldn't do for
less than five or ten.
We put in our claim for
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discover'.
We claim it to be an un
equaled remedy to purify
the blood and invigorate the
liver. We claim it to be
lasting in its effects, creating
an appetite, purifying the
blood, and preventing Bilious,
Typhoid and Malarial fevers
if takcii in tin:e The time
to take it is when you first
feel the signs of wcarittess and
weakness. The time to take
it, on general principles, is
NOW.
rpRINITY COLLEGE,
X NORTH KmmS CAROLINA.
It takm no It- time anl no lfu money to Ki-.vluMt
at a first clan collfi than It ctoca at one t a tmmJ
or third rate. Tcriu bexln Hr-pu 1 ami Jan. i.
Well preiarel nml hard workinv Ktudi'iita can
coiuplf teratiirm lor tlrurvv In than 4 year.
Pour new building thM year. The Niit luatructlno
glren E ih-hk-o. tlVi to i a yenr.
Send for eMnWtie, HulMin. Iwnree IWK.k. ef.
JOHN F. CROWELL, A. B. lYale Dr. Litt.
I'renl.lcnt.
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UmC FenmaoBOtp, Arltamfftto, pnori-nand, eta,
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u.ll.uh.n.11 1l..n...J.r.r.il
ab-r all other fal led. AodreMi HAf.J.
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It to p!aaat to tha laet aaa
do aut eun'ala a jrar'k i. of
frfam oranythmr lejorvw. It
laths BtCca UUrnmtn ta
W.-rlJ. rrftlbyaJi Vrurru.
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lit. i. IL Scbanck A Hon. FiOladal&ia.
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tfaraatlity ad aeearaey. U ?t O enj t
caep aaaileaala raat-4 raa irtllaileaa Lki
ara ofta aofcl fur Um geaoite artitia aad ar, uvt
only warellabla. bat aaneroua. 1 la bJlliii a.
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wilt flm'l mna. addxaaa ami data of ' bu
and aragaaraate-aa' parfaat la ovary detail, ia
atat ntroo aartojf tha aooalao article, aad 11 roar
doaJer oan&oc aopply yoa aa or4er aent to trlrr
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