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WUihinton Irving said, he supposed a certain hill was called'
Rattlesnake HH1" because it abounded in butterflies. The
, rule of contrary " governs other names. " Some bottles are, sup
rx? ally, labeled Sarsaparilla w because they are full of . . .well,
we don't know what they are full of, but we know it's not sarsapa
tY.Ii; except, perhaps, enough for a flavor. There's only one
i.i.KC of sarsaparilla that can be relied c a to-be all it claims. It's
' A)crs. It has no -secret to keep. Its formula is open to all
physicians. This formula was examined by the Medical Com
rair.ee at the World's Fair with the result that while every other
mak: of sarsaparilla was excluded from the Fair, Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla was admitted and honored by awards. It was admitted be
caiic it was the best sarsaparilla. It! received the medal as the
best. No other sarsaparilla has been so tested or so honored.
Good motto for the family as well as the Fair: Admit the best,
HOW THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS WILL
BE REWARDED ABOVE.
Tillage and reach tho seaport In time to
gain the ship that sails on the morrow,
but a mother prayer will be on tho
deck to meet him, and in the hammock
Dr. Talmaxe Xreachc Sermon Foil of
XIop For Discouraged Toilers la tho
Lord's Vloerard ChrUtlan Coaitella
tlona That Will Beam on Forever.
rxcluds the rest.
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City Ofifer$. Mayor C . A. Banks,
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Comml?jionors Palemon John, Thoa.
A. Commamler. John A Kramer B;
Frank Hponco and Wm. W. Origs.
Clerk Chax. A. Bank?; Treasurer
Geo. W. Cobb; Constable and Chief
of Police Win C. Brooks; Street Cora-ini-sioner
Iteulen W. Berry; Firn
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Collector of Cmtom Jas. C. Hrools.
Postmaster K. F. Iainb.
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3rd Wednesdays of each month at the
corner of Koad and Church Streets
Churclitt Methodist, ReV. J. II. Hall
Pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and 7 in. Baptist,. Rev. Calvin
H. Blackwell, pastor; services every
Snnday at 11 a. in. and 7 p. m. Pres
byterian, IteveF. II. Johnston, pastor;
service. every Sunday at II a. in. and
7:13 i. in. Episcopal. IlevL. L. Wil
liams, rector; services every Sunday at
11 n 'in. and 4 p. m.
IsodS Masonic: Eureka Lodge No,
317. U. W. Brothers, W. M.; J. .
(Irik't, S. W.; A. L. Pendleton J. W.;
B. V. Sienc , Tresurer; I). B. Bradford,
Sec'ty.; T. B. Wilson, S. 1.; C. W.
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O. McMullau, Vice President, Geo. M.
Scott, Sec and Treas., D. B. Bradford,
Supt H. F.Smith. Directors: Dr. O.
McMuIlan. G. M. Scott,. E. F. Ajdlett,
J. Sharber, Jas. H. Blades, C. II.
Robinson, Thos. G. Skinner, C. E.
Ksamer.J. B. Flora, II. F. Smith and
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tenant commanding; J. B. Ferebee,
Lieutenant Junior Grade; L. A. Win
der, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues
day night. Arms: 40 Magazine Rifles;
13 Navy Revolvers; is uut lasses; v vz
Pound Howitzers.
Southern Expres Compayy.Jd. H.
Snowden, Agent. ,
Kadnxid and SieamboaUll&d train
going North, leaves 8 a. in. and
:4.V n. m.. rolng Soutli. 11:40 ana
5 : 50 p. m. .
Steamers for-ewberne leave at o
rv m. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza
beth City for Cresswell on Mondays
unit Turadavs at 9 : 30 a. m. Re-!
turning will leave Elizabeth ( ity follow
lnf ii.tv at 2. 30. n. m.. Steamer Har
binger, will leave Elzabeth City for
Hertford Wednesd-ys and Saturdays
t- o .so ml: Elizabeth City for Nor-
lolk Thursdays and Mondays 3 P..ni.
Washington, Sept. 10. This dis
course flashes a bright light into the life
of Christian workers and offers a sub
lime hope for all "those who are discour
aged hi their attempts to do good. Dr.
Talmage's text is Daniel xii, 3, "They
that turn many to righteousness shall
shine as tho stars forever and ever.
Every man has a thousand roots and
a thousand branches. Ills roots reach
down through all the earth. His branch
es spread through all . the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand,
with foot. His silence often is loud as
thunder and his life is a dirge or a dox
ology. . There is no such thing as nega
tive influence. We are all positive in
tho place we occupy, making the world
better or making it worse, on the Lord's
side or on the devil's, making np rea
sons for our blessedness or banishment,
and we have already done work in peo
pling heaven or helL I hear people tell
of what they are going to da A man
who has burned down a city might as
well talk of some evil that he expects to
do, or a man who has saved an empire
might as well talk of some good that he
expects to do. By the force of your evil,
influence yon have already consumed
infinite values, or yon have by the pow
er of a right influence won whole king
doms for God: .'
It would bo absurd for. mo, "by elabo
rate argument,- to prove that ' the world
is off the track. You might. as well
stand at tho foot of an embankment,
amid the wreck of a capsized rail train,
proving by elaborate argument that
something is out of order. Adam turn-,
bled over the embankment 60 centuries
ago, and the.Vhole race, in one long
train, has gone on tumbling in the same
direction, . Crash I Crash I The only ques
tion now is, By what leverage can tho
crushed thing.bq. lifted? By what ham
mer may the fragments be reconstruct
ed? I want- to show yon how we may
turn many to righteousness and what
will bo our future pay for so doing.
Charm of m Right' Example.
First, wo may turn them by the
charm of a right example. - A child com
ing from a filthy homo was taught at
school to wash its face. It went home
so much improved in appearance" that
its mother washed her face, and when
the father of tho household came home
and saw tho improvement in domestic
appearance he washed his face The
neighbors, happening in, saw the change
"and tried the same experiment, until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the whole
city felt the result of one schoolboy
washing his face. That is a fable by
which we set forth that the best way to
get tho world washed of its sins and
pollution is to have our own heart and
life cleansed and purified. A man with
grace in his heart and Christian cheer
fulness in his face and holy consistency
in his behavior is a perpetual sermon,
and the sermon differs from others in
that it has but one head and the longer
it runs the better.
Thare are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth of iniqui
ty chatter. Thero are happy men who
go into a sickroom and by a look help
the broken bono to knit and the excited
nerves drop to a calm beating. . There
are pure men whoso presence silences
the tonguo of nncleanness. The might
iest agent of good on earth is a consist
ent Christian. I like the Bible folded
between lids of cloth or calfskin or
morocco, but I like it better when, in
the shape of a man, it goes out into the
world a Biblo illustrated. Courage is
beautiful . to read about, but rather
would I seo a man with all the world
. against him confident as though all the
world were for him. Patience is beau
tiful to read about, but rather would I
see a buffeted soul calmly waiting for
the time of deliverance. Faith is beau
tiful to read about, but rather would I
find a man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw every
thing.. Oh, how many souls have been
turned to God by the charm of a bright
example I
When, in the Mexican war, the
troops were wavering, a general rose in
his stirrups and dashed into the enemy's
lines, shouting, "Men, foUow mel"
They, seeing his courage and disposi
tion, dashed on after him and gained
tho victory. What men want totally
them for God is an example to lead
them. All your commands to others to
advance amount to nothing as long as
yon stay behind. To affect them aright
you need to start for ; heaven yourself,
looking back only to give the stirring
cry of "Men. follow I"
The Tower of Prayer.
Again, . we may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can hide
away from it. It puts its hand on the
shoulder of a man 10,000 miles off. It
alights. on a ship midatlantia The
little child cannot understand the law
of electricity or how the telegraph oper
ator, by touching the instrument here,
may dart a message under the sea to
another continent, nor can we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch of a Christian's prayer shall in
stantly strike a soul on the other side
of the earth. You take ship and go to
some other country and get there at 11
o'clock in the morning. Yon telegraph
to America end the message gets here
at 0 o'clock the same morning. In other
words, it seems to arrive here five hours
before it started. Like: that is prayer.
God says, " Before they call I will
ear. " To overtake a loved one on the
road you may spur up a lathered x steed
until he . shall outraoe the one that
brought tho news to Ghent, but a pray
er shall catch it at one gallop. A boy
running away from home may take
the- midnight train from the . country
and
lie
and
The
before he swings into it, and at the cap
stan beioro he winds tho rope around,
and on the sea, against tho sky, as the
re&sel plows on toward it There is a
mightiness in prayer. George Muller
prayed a company of poor; boys to
gether, and then he prayed np an asy
lam in which they might be sheltered.
He turned his face toward Edinburgh
and prayed and there came 1,000. lie
turned his face toward London
prayed and thero came 1,000.
turned his - face toward Dublin
prayed and there came 1,000.
breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the
clouds off the sky, and it was dry
weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and it. was
wet weather. Prayer, in Daniel's time,
walked the cave as a lion tamer. It
reached up and took the sun by its gold
en bit and stopped it and the moon by
its silver bit and stopped it
We have all yet to try the full power
of prayer. The time will come when
the American church will pray with its
face toward the west, and aU the prai
ties and inland cities will surrender to
God and will pray with face toward the
sea, and all the islands and ships will
become Christian. Parents who have
wayward sons will get .down on their
knees and say; "Lord, send my boy
home, " and the boy in Canton will get
right np from the gaming table .and go
down to find out which ship starts first
for America.
None Knows How to Pray.
Not one of us yet knows how to pray.
All we have done as yet has only been
'pottering. . A boy gets hold of his fa
ther's saw and hammer and tries to
make something, but it is a poor affair
that he makes. The father comes and
takes the same saw and hammer and
builds the house or the ship. In the
childhood of our Christian faith we
make but poor work with these weapons
of prayer, but when wo come to the
stature of men in Christ Jesus then, un
der these implements, the temple of
God will rise and the world's redemp
tion will be launched. God cares not
for the length of our prayers,' or the
number of our prayers, or the beauty of
our prayers, or the place of our prayers,
but it is tho faith in them that tells.
Believing prayer soars higher than the
lark ever sang, plunges deeper than div
ing bell ever sank, darts quicker than
lightning ever flashed. Though we have
used only the back of this weapon in
stead of the "edge, what marvels have
been wrought 1 ' If saved, we are all the
captives of some earnest prayer. Would
God that, in desire for the rescue of
souls, we might in prayer lay hold of
the resources of the Lord Omnipotent! .
may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admonition. Do not wait
until you can make a formal
Address the one, next to you. You wall
not go home alone today. Between this
and your place of stopping you may de
cide the eternal destiny of an immortal
spirit Just one sentence may do the
work, just one question, just one look.
The formal talk that begins with a sigh
and ends with a canting snuffle is not
what is wanted, but the heart throb of
a man in dead earnest There is not a
soul on earth that yon may not bring to
God if yon rightly go at it. They said
Gibraltar, could not be taken. It is a
rock 1,600 feet high and 3 miles long,
but the English and Dutch did take it
Artillery and sappers and miners and
fleets pouring out "volleys of death and
thousands of men reckless of danger can
do anything. The stoutest heart of sin,
though it be rock and surrounded by an
ocean of transgression, under Christian'
bombardment may hoist the flag of re
demption. .
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My
text promises to all the faithful eternal
luster. ' ' They that turn many to right
eousness shall shine as the stars forever. ' '
As stars the redeemed have a borrowed
light- What makes Mars and Venus
and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun
throws dovpa his torch in the heavens,
the stars pick np the scattered brands
and hold them in procession as the
queen of the night advances. So all j
Christian workers, standing around the
throne, will shine in the light borrowed
from the Sun of Righteousness Jesus
in their faces, Jesus in their songs, Je
sus in their triumph.
To Shine on Forerer.
Christ left heaven once for a tour of
redemption on earth, yet the glorified
ones knew he would come back again.
But let him abdicate his throne and go
away to stay forever, the music would
stop, the congregation would disperse,
the temples of God be darkened, the
rivers of life stagnate,, and ever chariot
would become a' hearse, and every bell
would toll, and there would not be
room on the hillsides to bury the dead
of the great metropolis, for there would
be pestilence in heaven. But Jesus lives,
and so all the redeemed live with him.
He shall recognize them as his comrades
in earthly toil and remember what they
did for the honor of his name and for
the spread of his kingdom. All their
prayers and tears and work will rise be
fore him 'as he looks into their faces,
and he will divide his kingdom with
them his peace, their peace; his holi
ness, their holiness; his joy, their joy.
The glory of the central throne reflected
from the surrounding thrones, the last
spot of sin struck' from the Christian
orb, d the entire nature a-tremble
and arflash with light, they shall shine
as the stars forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall be
like the stars in the fact that they have
a light independent of each other. Look
up at the night and see each world
show its distinct glory. It is not like
the conflagration, in which yon cannot
tell where one flame stops and another
begins. Neptune, Herschel and Mercury
are as distinct as if each one of them
were the only star. So our individual
ism will not be lost in heaven. A great
multitude yet each one as observable,
as distinctly recognized, as greatly cele
brated, as if in all the space, from, gate,
to gate and from hill to hill, he wore
the only inhabitant oo mixing up, no
mob, n- discriminate rush, each
Christian worker standing out illustri
ous, all the story of earthly achieve
ment adhering to each one, his self de
nials' and pains and services and vic
tories published. ;
Before men went out to the last war
the orators told them that they would
all be remembered by their country and
their names be commemorated in poetry
and in song. But go to the graveyard in
Richmond, and you will find there
6,000 graves, over each of which is th
inscription, "Unknown." The world
fdoes not remember its heroes, but there
will be no unrecognized Christian
jvorker in heaven. Each one known by
all grandly known, known by accla
mation, all . the past story of work for
God gleaming in cheek and brow an
foot and palm. They shall shine with
distinct light as the stars forever and
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN!
Surely it the word REGULATOR isnot on a package
it is not
Mi
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rarjions y ra? ftEGuu tor.
Nothing else is the same. It cannot be and never has
been put up My any one except
J. M. 2E01L.DMa CO- "
And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark
i THE RED 2.
ever.
Family Circles of Star.
Again, Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters, they take; hold of
each other's hands and dance in groupa
Orion in a group. The Pleiades in a
group. The solar system is only a com
pany of children, with bright faces,
gathered around one great jiireplaoe.
The worlds do not straggle off- They
go in squadrons and fleets! sailing
through immensity. So Christian work
ers in heaven will dwell in, neighbor
hoods and clusters. j
I am sure that some people I will
like in heaven a great deal better than
others. Yonder is i a constellation of
stately Christians. They lived on earth
by rigid rule. .They never j laughed.
They walked every hour, anxious lest
they should lose their dignity. But they
loved God, and yonder they shine in
brilliant constellation. Yet I shall not
long to get into that particular group.
Yonder is a constellation of sm&ll heart-'
ed Christians asteroids in the eternal
astronomy; While some souls go up
from Christian battle and blaze like
Mors these asteroids dart a feeble ray
like Vesta. Yonder is a constellation of
martyrs, Of apostles, of parnarchs. Our
souls as they go up to heaven will seek
out the most congenial society.)
xonaer. is a constellation almost
merry with the play of light jOn earth
they were full of sympathies and songs
and tears and raptures and congratula
tions. When they prayed, thir words
took fire; when they sang, ithe tune
could not hold them; when they wept
over a world's woes, they sobbed as if
heartbroken; ' when they worked for
Christ, they flamed with enthusiasm.
Yonder they are circle of light, con
stellation, of joy, galaxy of fire. Oh,
that you and I, by that grace which can
transform the worst into the bejst, might
at last sail in the wake of that 'fleet and
wheel in that gldribus group as. the
stars forever and ever! 1 , i
Again, Christian "workers will - shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion.
The worlds do not stop to shind. There
are no fixed 6tars, save as tcj 'relative
position. The star apparently inpst thor
oughly fixed flies thousands of j miles a
minute. The astronomer, using his tele
scope for an alpenstock, leaps from
World crag to world j crag and; finds no
star standing still. The chamois hunter
has to fly to catch his prey, Ut not so ai.
entist tries to shoot through the tower
of observatory. Like petrels midatlan
tic, that seem to come from no shore,
and be bound to n6 landing place, fly
ing, flying, so ' these great flocks of
worlds rest not. as they go, wing and
wing, age! after age, forever aiid ever.
The eagle hastes to its prey, jbut we
shall in speed beat the eagles. Ypu have
noticed the velocity of the swift horse
under whose feet the miles slip like a
smooth ribbon, and as he passes the
four hoofs strike the earth in such quick
peat your pulses take the same vibra
tion, but all these things are not swift
in comparison with the motion of which
I speak. The moon moves' 54, 0Q0 miles
in a day. Yonder Neptune flashes on
11, 000 miles in an hour. Yonder Mer
cury goes 109,000 miles in an hour. So
like the stars the Christian shall shine
in swiftness of motionj
Herschel is 26.000 miles in diameter.
Saturn 79,000 miles .in diameter and
Jupiter 89.000 miles in diameter and
that the smallest pearl on the beach of
heaven is immense beyond all imagina
tion.' So all they who have, toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a mag
nitude of privilege, and a magnitude of
strength, and a magnitude of holiness,
and a magnitude of joy, and the weak
est saint in glory become greater than
an tnac we can imagine ox an arcnangei.
Brethren, "It doth not yet appear
m - a. wt r - a a
wnat we snail do." vvisaorn tnat snail
know everything, wealth that shall pos
sess everything, strength thit shall do
everything, glory that shill circum
scribe everything 1 We shall jnot be like
a taper set in a sick man's window, or
a bundle of sticks kindled on tho beach
to warm a shivering crew, but you must
take the diameter and tho circumfer
ence of a world if you would get any
idea of the greatness of our estate when
we shall shine as the stars forever and
ever ' ; .i.
. The Relfrn Without End.
Lastly and coming to this point my
mind almost . breaks, down under tho
contemplation-r-like the stars, all Chris
tian workers shall shino in duration.
The same stars that look down upon us
looked down upon the Chaldean shep
herds. The meteor that I saw flashing
across the sky the other night I won
der if it was not the same oho that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the
manger, and if, having pointed out his
birthplace, it has ever since been wan
dering through the heavens, watching
to see how the world would treat him!
When, Adam awoke in, the garden in
the cool of .the day, he saw coming out
through the dusk of the evening the
same worlds that greeted us last night
In Independence hall is an old cracked
bell that;sounded the signature of tho
Declaration of Independence. You can
not ring it now, but this great chime of
silver bells that strike in the dome of
night ring out as sweet atone as when
God swung them at the creation. Look
up at night and know that the white
lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants
not hlooming once in 100 years, but
through aB the centuriea The star at
which the mariner looks tonight was
the light by which the ships of Tarshish
were guided across the Mediterranean
and the Venetian flotilla found its way
into Lie pan to. Their armor; is as bright
tonight as when; in ancient battle, the
stars in their courses fought against
LONG LIFE IN NORWAY;
Another
Maea Dte.
With the Speed : of a Star.
You" hear how of father of mother or
child sick; 1,000 miles away, f and it
takes you two days to get to them. Yon
hear of some case of suffering that de
mands your immediate attention, but it
takes you an hour to get there. jOh, the
joy when you shall, in fulfillment of
the text, take starry speed and be equal
to 100, 000 miles an hour 1 Having on
earth got. used to Christian work, you
will not quit when death strikes yon.
You will only take on more yelocity.
There is a dying child in London, and
its spirit must be taken up to God. You
are there, in an instant 1 to do it There
is a young .man in New York to be ar
rested from going into that gate of sin.
You are there in an Instant to arrest
him. Whether with spring of foot, or
stroke of wing, or by the force of some
new law that shall hurl you tot the spot
where you would go, I know; not but
my text suggests velocity. AU space
open before yon, with nothing to hin
der yon in mission of light land love
and joy; ypu shaU shine in swiftness of
motion as the stars forever and! ever.
Again, Christian workers, 'like the
stars, shine in magnitude. Thej most il
literate man knows that these things in
the sky, -looking like gilt buttons, are
great masses ; of matter. To weigh
them one would think that it would re
quire scales witn a pillar nun areas oi
thousands of miles high and chains hun-.
dreds of thousands of miles long, and
at the bottom of the chains basins on
either side : hundreds of thousands of
miles wide, and that then Omnipotence
alone could put the mountains into the
scales and the hills into! the balance,
but puny man has been equal to the un
dertaking and has seta little; balance
on" his geometry andi weighed world
against world. Yea,- ho has pulled out
his measuring line and announced that
. To the ancients the stars were sym
bols of eternity But here the figure of
my text breaks down not In defeat,
but in the majesties of the judgment
The stars shall not shine forever. The
Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leavea -As when tho connecting factory
band slips at nightfall from the main
wheel all the smaller wheels slacken
their speed and with slower and slower
motion they turn until they come to a
full stop, so this great machinery of the
universe, wheel within wheel, making
revolution of appalling speed, shall, by
the touch of God's hand, slip the band
of present law and slacken and stop.
That is what will ,, bo the matter with
the mountains. The chariots in which
they ride shall halt so suddenly that
the kings shall be thrown out Star
after star shall be carried out to' burial
amid funeral torches of burning worlds.
Constellations shall throw ashes on
their heads, and all up and down the
highways of space there shallbe mourn
ing, mourning, mourning, because , the
worlds are dead. iBut the. Christian
workers shall never quit their thrones
they shall reign forever and ever.
Xocomotlre Balldlng-.
It is a popular belief that certain
shops can build a locomotive in 24
working hours. According to Loco
motive Engineering, however, while
it is possible to r.ssemble the parts
4)f a locomotive in less time than
this, to build uu engine from specifi
cations requii tv much longer. The
record in this matter ia probably
held by the Buhl win works, which
on their first , tiicat Russian order
turned out ermines within four
weeks after the order, was given,
when European builders, according
to this journal, wanted twice as
many months. '
It takes four pattern makers from
6 to 8 weeks to make the complete
set of patterns for a "mogul engine.
Two men will be 10 of 12 . days- mak
ing the pattern- for a cylinder and
half saddle and ail core boxes, eo
that locomotive builders are very
expeditious wher, they have an en
gine' ready six weeks after, the speci
fications have been received, espe
cially with the diverse forms and
special patterns now in vogua : ,
' r The negro race can be traced "back
to 2300 B. C., when the Egyptians
became, acquainted with. them
through the conquests of their
x tilers. ' The origin of tho race and
their history previous to that time
are unknown. s ; ; J
View of a Qoeatloa
pated Nowadays.
Some figures have appeared re
cently based upon the returns to
American insurance com panics fiom
their branches in Europe' which
show that in Norway the average
length of life is greater than in any
othei country in tho world, and this
fact is ascribed to the coolness and
uniformity of the temperature in
that country. It has long been con
cedod that the proportionate numr
ber of old men is rather greater in
Norway than in other countries of
which detailed records are kypt.
In a table which appeared a few
years ago it was ehownthat of 1,000
persons born the number who lived
beyond the age of 80 was as follows
in the countries nained: 'Hungary,
44; Italy, 65; IS pa in and Switerland,
6Qj Germany, 70; England, 96; Bel'
gium, 101 Sweden, 139; Norway,
161. Accepting as corroct'this table,
it would appear that tho dura?!
tion.Of human lifo in the two Scan
dinavian countries, Norway and
Sweden, Is certainly greater than
it is elsewhere, and a denial, of tho
truth of tho contention set up in the
insurance figuies would bo difficult,
but an examination into some of tho
facts of the case discloses some con
ditions which impair tho accuracy
of theso figures. . There is, in tho
first place, very little immigration
into either Norway or Sweden, and
a iVery considerable emigration
from these two countries. The class
of older inhabitants and indeed
all those who have , passed tho ago
of 60 Sloes not furnish many emir '
grants, and on this account 'tho
number of octogenarians is unduly
large' in these countries. Again,
Norway is conspicuously , pastoral
as regards the pursuits of its inhab
itants, and lifo on the farm is cer
iainly conducive to longevity, do
cidedly more so than life in largo
cities.
Norway is peculiar among tho
countries of ; Europe In having few
cities, either large or small. Chris
tiania claims a population of 150,000
and Bergen a population of 50,000,
but in a country the total population
of which is nearly 2,000,000 urban
population is certainly inconsidera- .
ble. Moreover, the longevity of a
people is not to be tnken arbitrarily
from tho number of persons living
beyond a given number of years,
but rather from the general dura
tion of life, which is not longer in
Norway than in other countiies of
Europe and is yery littleif any,
longer than the duration of lifo in
New England outside of tho big
cities and manufacturing towns.
According to tho established per
centages of tho lifo insurance com
panics, of 1,400 persons in good
health at the ago of 21, 1,300 live to
be 30, and it is computed that a per
son of 70 in good health has 3
chances in 8 to bo 80, and a person
of 80 in good health has 1 chance in
17 to bo 90. ' What chance a person
of 90 has to reach 100 tho insurance ,
tables do not state. New York Bun.
ttet,Xefore Meala,
If dyspeptics would take tbe pre
caution of resting before moals, it
would materially aid their digestive.
powers, uaiiy naps aro goou xor
persons who . aro troubled by the,
American disease, dyspepsia. Sleep
isiood for the nerves.' Early hours
should be observed, and the whole
system invigorated if recovery is
wished.
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