North Carolina Newspapers

"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. r 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. . j , j 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. Trinity t'Ucge, I'.anilolph countr. X. C. s T. - AUGUSTINE'S - SCHOOL. It A LEI (J II H.C. Normal awo Coi.i.hjhtr SurrmTt for ('olarerf yoann men nnl women. ULrh kt'1" and lw rata. Under the Ktloopal Church. - It month caa for board and tuition. Hend for catalogue to Kar. K. B. Svrroa. L. 1 , V rtadpal . ,Pllr HTIiUV. Uooa-aaapinsr. tiuinai Korwa, UmC FenmaoBOtp, Arltamfftto, pnori-nand, eta, kithomugnly taiuot by Mall Circular tr BryuBt'a JHe. 457 ilaln hU. t-unalo, M. If. 8. N U. 42 opiun HABIT, ftaly Certain un Kaay OIMCK In tha World. Mr. J. L. HTKVHKSf, Lebanou. u. FITS JVHK.lt. Trial Iiottle and Yr atl.e u.ll.uh.n.11 1l..n...J.r.r.il ab-r all other fal led. AodreMi HAf.J. Clf KMK'AT. CX 3U0 Kalrmount, Am., llilla., I'a. If Iww tit i B M W 'Atlanta. Hi WUskerEabita I at noma wuti tin. 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