w REV. DR. TALMAGE." THE BROOKLYN DiTINE'S SUNDAY SERE ON. Text: "The' shepherds said one to an other: Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thinj which is come to pass." Luke xxii, 15.; One thousand years of the world's exist ence rolled parnfully and wearily along, and no Christ. Two tnousnhJ jears, and no Christ. Three thousand years, and no Christ. Four thousand years, and no Christ. ' Give lis a Christ," had cried Assyrian nnd Persian, and Chaldean and Egyptian civilization, but the lips of the earth and tha hps of the sky made no answer. The world had already been affluent of genius. Among poets had appeared Homer and Thespis and Aristoph anes and Sophocles and; Euripides and Alexit JEschvlus. vet no Christ to be the most poetic figures or. tne centuries. Among ui&iux-iaua j i(.0pard and lien siiaH vet n? so uom-jsucaieu had appeared Herodotus and Xenophon and tjiat a uttf (Anh shall lend them. A child Thucvdides. but no Christ from whom all ,wir?fvl "Waterloo, showing the army of mortal " It Is only a masterpiece ot Jehovah. It is only a being that shall outlive sun and moon and star and ages quadrillenniah God has infinite resources and he can give pres ents of great value, but when he wants to give the richest possible gift to a household he looks around all the worlds and all the universe, and then gives a child. The great est present that God gave our world he cave about IS 87 years aso. and he gave it on a Christmas night, and it was ot sucto valuo that heaven adjourned for a recess, and came down and broke through the clouds to look ; at it. Yea, in all ages God has honored childhood. lie makes almost every picture a failurctunless there b3 a child cither playing on thenoor, or looking thrciuh tha window, or seated on the lap gazing into the face of its mother. It was a child in Naanian'3 kitchen that told the great Syrian war lior' where- he might go and get cured of thd leprosy, which at his seventh p!unga in tie Jor.ian, was left at thi 'bottom of the r.ver. It was to the cradle of leives in wh'eh a chill was laid, ro-ked bv tlv? Ml, t' at Cod-cilel the at tention of hi.-tory. It was asik chili that cvo'ced Christ 'scu -ative sympathies. Itwas a child that Christ fat in the midt of tho sinabbiing disciples to tcac'i the If sson of humility, we are mioriiieu uhi nu.i auu joolho pain, and was there any one who could so fill up a room with peace. - and purity, and light? And what a sad day that was when we came home and she could greet us not. for her lips were forever still. Come back, mother, this Christmas day, and take your old place, and as ten, or twenty, or fifty years ago, come and open the old Bible you used th read and kneel in the same place where you used to pray, and look upon us as of old when you wished us a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year. But no? That would not be fair to call you back. You had troubles enough, and aches enough, and bereavements enough while you are here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join you there, your prayers all answered, and in the eternal homestead of our God we shall again keep Christmas jubilee together. But speak from vour thrones, all you glorified mothers, and Bay to all these, your sons and daughters, words of love, words of warning, word- of cheer. They ne?d your voice, for they have traveled far and with many a heartbreak since vou left them, and you do well to call from the heights of heaven to the valleys of earth. Hail, enthroned ancestry! we are com ing. Keep a place for us -eight beside you at the banquet. - Slow footed years! MoreswIfUy run Into the gold of that unsettiag boo. Homesick we are for thee, Calm land beyond the sea. THE BEUISER KING. Blucher how they through the field-, v.-hen, had been followed, tho eral would hive come co'dd tal-re a short cut if the old road Prussian gen ur too lale history was to date Kick ward and forward B. C. and A. D. Among the conquerors Camillus end Manlius and Regulus and Xantippus ah I Hannibal and tScipio and Pompey and Csesar, yet no Christ who was to be conqueror of cai th and heaven. But the s'.ow century and the slow year and the slow mouth and the slow hour at last arrived. Tho world had had matins or concerts in the morning and vespers and con certs iiv the evening, h ut now it is to have a . Cui tin, the Federal foives started to meet i . . ... nil 1 1 1 1 - 1 - . j T concert at mmnignr.. me mac iuuuw j lliail, shutters of a Pec-ember mgnr, were tnrown open, and some of the best singers of a world where thev all sing stood there, and putting back the drapery of cloud, chanted a peace anthem, until all the echoes of hill and val ley applauded and encored the Hallelujah chorus. At last the world has a Christ and just tli3 Christ it needs. Come, let us go into that Christmas scene as though wo had never lie fore worshipik'd at the manger. Hero is a Madonna worth looking at. I wonder not that the most frequent name in all lands ami in all Christian countries is Mary. And tin re are Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins, and though Uerrain and French and Italian and Spanish and English pronounce it differ ently, they are all namesakes of tho one whom we find on a ted oi straw with her p!e face against the soft cheek of Christ in the night, of the Nativity. All tha great painters have tried -on canvas to present Mary and her child and Iho incidents of that "most famous n:gLt of tho world's historv. Raphael in three different masterpieces ceieura.eu iiieru. xmmieu an J Guirlan jo -surpassed themselves in the 'Adoration of the Magi." Corregio n?eded to do nothing mo; e than his "Madonna" to become immortal. Th3 "Madonna of; the Lily,"' by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindle the admiration cf all ages. Murillo never won greater triumph bv bis pencil than in his presentation of the '"Holy Family." But all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when 1 think of the small room of that gallery con taining the " iSistino Madonna." Yet all of them were copies of hjt. Matthew's " Ma donna" and Luke's " Madonna," the inspire! Madonna of the Old Book which we had put into our hands when we were infants and that we hore to have under our heads when wo de. , Behold, in the first place, that on the first night of Christ's life God honored tho I ruto creation. "You cannot get into that Bethle hem burn without going past tho camels, the mules, tho dgs, tho oxen. Tne brutes of that stable heard the first cry of the infant Lord. Sonn of the old painters represent the oxen and camels kne-, ling that night be fore the i ew horn babe. And well might they kneel. Have yon ever thought that Christ canio, among other things, to allevi te the t.uir"trins of the brute creation? Was it not a;'pi i ! i to that ho should during tho first tew davs and nights of His life on earth be surrounded by the dumb beasts whoso moan an! plaint-- and bellowing havj for ages bo-n a prayer "to Go! for the arresting of their" tortures and the righting oi ' their wrongs' It did not merely "nappen fo'1 that the unintelli gent creatures ot God should havj been that night in ciosj neighborhood. Not a kennel in all tho centuries, not a bu d s.nest, not a worn out lioiso.oii towpath, not a herd irees ing in the poo: 1 built c w pen, not a freight car. in summer time winging uia iJe market without water through a thousand miles of agony, net a surgeon's room witness ing the stiug-rhs of foi or rabbit or pigeon or dog iii the horrors-of vivisection but has an interest in th fact that 'Christ was born in astal b surrounded by brutes. He remem bers that night, and the prayer He heard in their pitiful moan He will answer in the pun ishment of tho e who maltreat the dumb brutes. They surely have as much right in this world as we have. In tli3 first chapter of Genesis 3-011 may se3 that they were placvd on the earth before man' was the fis'.i and fowl created the fifth day, and the iudri!pe I the. morning of tho isixtu d:iv, an l man rot, until tne aitcrnoon I of that day. Tie v. hale, the eagle, tne lion, land all the lesser creatures of their kind were fpredee ssoi-s "f the- human family. They I have the world by right of possession. They Shave ahopaid rent for the plu es tney o.vn- pied. V. hut .u armv I ueieuee an over mw land are the faithful watch clogs. And who can tell what the world owes to hore, and camel, and ox lor transporta tion? And robin, and lurk have, by the cantatas with whh-h they have ruled orcnaru to save the destinies of Lurop?, It was a child that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard two Confe-.lerate Gen erals in a conversation, in which they de cided to march for Gettysburg instead of tTfivrishm-or. an l thisVeTwrtM to Governor onnonents at Gettysburg. And th9 ihild of to-day is to dejido all the gr-at bat-tk-.-r make all the laws, fettle all the desti nies anrl usher in ihe world's salvation or destruetion. Men.women, nations, all eartt and all heaver., behold the child! Is there ;mv vflvef. s. soft as a child's cheek? Is there any sky fo blue as a child's eye? Is there any musio so sweet as a child's voice ? Is there nhmia so wavy as a cm d s hair f Kotiee also that in this Bible night scene God honored s uenco. W ho are trie turee wis;5 men kneeling before the divine infant? :t.t boors, not igcor.imusis, but Caspar, Bel thasar and Me'chlor. men who knew all that was to be known. They were tho lssac New tons an 1 Her.scliols anl Furadays cf their tima. Their alchemy w as the forerunner of our sublime chemistry, their astrology the mother of our magnificent astronomy. They had studied starr, studied metals, stuaiea wnen l any and forest, more tlrui paid for the tew grains they have picked up lor their sustenance. "When vou abuse anv creature of Go! you fctrike irs creator, and you insult the Christ who, though he -might have been welcomed into life bv princes, and taken his first in fantile; slumber amid Tyrian plush and canonic 1 cquches an I ripp ing waters from roval aoueducts .hipping into basins of ivorv and jvarl, cho.se to be born on the level with a cow's horn, or a camel's hoof, or a log's nostril, that he. might be tho allevia tion of brutal suffering as well as the re deemer ot man. . Stnn-Jing then as I imagine now I do, in that Hethieh.un niht with an infant Christ on tl-.e one sid an I the sn-ec'uless creatures Of (rod on the other, I crv: Look out how yoa strike the rowel into that horse's silo. Take off that curb d bit from that bkeding mouth. Remove that saddle irem that raw DacK. Shoot not lor fun that, bird that is too small for fo d. Forget not to put water into 'the o.n-e nf that canarv. Throw out some crumb3 to the e b rls caught too far north in the winter's incUunoncv. Arrest, that man who is making that one" horse draw a load heavy j enough for three. Hush in upon that scenj where bovs are torturing a cat or transfixing butterfly" and gra-s'iopjer. Drive-not oiE that' old" robin.- tor her nest is a mother's cradle, and. under her wing there may be three or four prima donnas of the sky in train-lug. And in your families and in your I schools tcacn the coming generation more mercy than tho present generation na ever show n in this marvelous Bible picture of the Nativity, while you po'nt out tot'n iu tho angel, show- them also the camel, and while thev hear vhe celestial ci ant let them also hear the cow 's' moan. INo more did Christ s-h t interest in the I otani -al world when he' sa"'d: "Consi 'er tho lilies,'' than he showed, sympathy- - tVr the oinitliological when he said: "Behold tho fowls of the air.', ; and the duadrupodal wosid when he alio cved himself to be calkd in one place a lion and in another place a Iamb. Meanwhile, may the Christ of the B; thlehf m cattle pen have nv-rcv cn the suffering stock yards th-t rre preparing ills aspj and fevered meat for our Anscric-an l.onsehol-is. r.fho'.i S) ;i in this rible scene now on Ihiit Christ ma lm;hh Chr.st nu-'-.t have made i visit to our v r',d m a cloud. In what a chariot f illumined r.j or ho might have roi e.l down the sky os.orto-.l by mounted cavalry with lightning of drawn sword. V.li'uh'had-a cr.rriace of f re to take him up, w hy not Jetiis a carriage of tir.- to fetch Him clown' Or overt be arched bridge of a rain l.w the Lord mipht ha-e deeeivled. Or Curist might have had his mortality .buiy; up on earth out of tha dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full manhood at the start without the inti odtn torv feebleness of in- Cfancv. Oh. no! Childhood was tore iieri- cred by that a-iveirt. He must have a r 1 child's light limb', and a child's dimpled liard, and a child's learning eye, ana a chil l's fin ven hair, and babyhood was to be honored for all time to come, and a cradle was to mean more than a grave. Mighty God! May tlie reflection of that one child's face be sen in all infantile faces. Enough h:" ad thoso fathers and mothers on hair4. pf they have a chil i in the house. A throne, Be careful how you strike him across the head, jarring the brain. "What you say to him will be centennial and millenial, and a hundred years and a thousand years will not Btop the echo and re-echo. Do not say: "It is only a child," Rather say; "It is onljf an im- .vci.iin st.n 1 e.l everything. And w hen J see thfses ic-ntists Low ing btdo.vthe beautiful babe, 1 see the proplie .-y of the time when all theteles.-opjs and microscopes, and all the Leyden jurs, and all ihe electric batteries, and all tho ob--ervat- ris, and all the univei-sitic'S shall bow to Jesus. It is much that way already. Where is the college tht docs not have morning rrayers, thus bowing at the manger? Who have been the greaesu physicians; Omitting the names of the liv ing Irs, wo should lxs invidious, have wo not had among them Christian men like our o wn I Joseph C. Hutchinson, ami Bush, and alen- ! tine Mott, and Atercrombie, ana Auerneuj t Who have been our greatest s uentists Jo seph Henry, who lived and the! hrthe faith of tho Gospel, and Agas,iz. who, standing with his students among the lulls, .took olf his hat and said: '"Young gentlemen, betore we stu ly these rocks let us pray for wisdom to the "God who made the rocks." lo day the greatest doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and Mew York, and ot all this land, and of all lands, revere the Chris tian religion, and are' not ashamed to say so 'before juries and legislatures and senates. AH geoiogy will yet bov before the Bock oi A cr. s. All botany will yet worship the Rosa o f Aharon. A 1 1 astronomy will yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem. And physiology and anatomy will ioin hands and say: we must by the help of God get the human race up t! the perfect nerve, and perfect muscle, and perfect brain, and perfect form of that perj tect child Ijcforo whom nigh twenty hundred years ago Casoar, and iitnasar, anu oi- ch'or bent their t.red knee? in worship. Behold also in that first Christmas mgal that God honored tho fields. Come in, shep herd boys, to Bethlehem and see the child. "No" they sav; "ne are not ciresscu gooi cnoughtto come in."' "Yes, you are, conn ii " tfuro enough, the storms and the nigut dew acd tho brambles have ma le rough worj Avith their apparel, but none have a bettei ri-rht to come in. - They were the first to heal t lie music of that Chriscraa.s nijiht. 1 he hrsj announcement of a Saviour's birth was mada to thosa min in the fields. There Avere wise acres that night in Bethiemem and Jerusalem snoriug in de.p sleep, and there were sal aried officers of government who, hearing of ' it afterward, may have thought that they ought to have .had the first news ol uch a -reat event, F-ome one dismounting irom a swift camel at their door an 1 knoek inor till at some sntinefs question: " V bt coms there:" the gn at ones of the palaci mi-lit have lon to d of the celest.al arrival; Mo" the shenhcrps heard th? first two bars ol the'muio, ihi iirsb in the maior key and tho ltustiii the subdued minor: "Glory to Go! in tho highest, an I on earlli pjae, good will to men." A'nve-: t li-3 ii -l is were honored. Tee old shcihefds with p'ai I and crook have for the most p.irt VMi's'ueil.but we have graz i.,i o.ir i In: ted States nasture fields an! :i-:piont, fortv-five mi'dlo.1 sheen and all L-tvvs on 'lit to follow tlie shcphe: di of my text, sntl al f those who toil in the Melds all wine drears. - all orchard. ists, r 11 bus lin.ir.i-ji. Not onlv that Christmas night but ad up and down the 'wo Id s history Go! has been honoring tlie fields. Nearly all the meivlw nf viiiorm. and literature, and elo- "pieuce and law, and heii3Vo!ence, havo come from th? fields. Wash.iiigton from toe . ids, JeH'er-so l from the field. The pres: C.ii '-ld o:vl Lincoln. tron i the fiel-K iu nry c-iav irum n.u -"v- Dan'el AVtb:;t-r trcm tlie i:e;us iioi -u LLutlnrfroni the fiel-is. au-.i oe.oe ui wo'ld is riaht the ovcriiawuig pojiuwuuus w. our cro.vde 1 cities wiil have to take to the fiei -Is. Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell thau one ap'le Ava want at lf.ast eigne of them to go out and raise apples, t.te.i,! of ten nu rd acts desiring to sell that The Watchman's Keport. There was a sei ious accident to one of ' the largest and mostly costly bridges on the line of the Dakota & Great Midland Route, a Dakota railroad managed by a local company. The following is an ex tract from the bridge Avatchman's re port to the President of the company : "I was approaching the cast end of the bridge from my house," writes the watch man, "when suddenly I saw the jack rabbit coming down the line towards the bridge right between the rails and run ningvery rapidiy. Realizing the disas irous effects his "crossing would have on the bridge I ran as fast as possible to i'.ther stop him or in some way induce' him', to cross on a walk, but I was too late, and the frightened animal rushed past me and onto the bridge, taking jumps almost as long as the rail3. The structure trembled, swayed violently, and just as the rabbit reached the mid dle, the bridge, together with the abut ments and the rabbit himself, crashed into the abyss1 below I barely escaped with my own life, but retained presence of m'nd enough to direct my wife to take the piece of red flannel off the baby's sore throat and go back up the track and signal the 7:40 limited Pullman express. I now have both hired men at work re pairing the - wreck, but it will be several days before travel can be resumed. I would recommend that strong gates be placed at the ends of the other bridges on our road to keep the rabbits off, as they seem to be jumping remarkably hi"h this season, and unless something isdone half of our. "best bridges are liable to be kicked down before spring. r-C'thzgo Tribune. The Whole World Pay Homage to Salll van, Our ttulliTan. John 1L. Sullivan, whose success has been greater than that of any visitor to England except Buffalo Bill," is a typical American in that all of bis successes have been won by 'hard knocks." : 1 Boston may hug herself with pssitive unc tion in the knowledge that three representa tives of her peculiar culture hai)e won un usual social recognition in England Lowell, IIolme3 and Sullivan. According to the English idea, the "greatest " of thess is Sullivan. The phlegmatic English populace i seldom "enthused "to theipoinl of unhitching the horses from the carriages of a popidar idol, while excited men wrangle for the honor o a chance at the rope , - which is to drag it through the streets.! rv 1 It well illustrates the? power of mind over matter! i ! ' , - Sullivan, dined and wined by the nobility, followed and cheered by surging masses of 41 we, the peopip," drawing crowded houses at hisexhiDitions, must be sated, if one of his stamp can be, -with adulation and ap plause. ' Itwonld be a sad "blow' to him if he should be " knocked out" in his coming contest with tie English champion. The best of Athletes reach, sometimes early, a point at which their powers begin to wane. Over training often produces serious effects. John C. Heenan died in the prime of life, wasted away with j what is called consump tion. A post mortem examination in many of these cases has revealed that it is the pri mary organs, the kidneys, liver and heart, that are most affected by athletic over train- ing. 11 tney are taKen care oi, tuere is ntu.e danger. ; ' . Harry "Wyatt, the celebrated English trainer and athlete, says: "1 consider Warner's safe cure invaluable to all who are training for out-door sportsj I have given it to many whom I have trained for the athletic world with great benefit." Sullivan is beyond question the present "Athletic King," and if he follows Wyatt's advice, he will no doubt long remain at the head of the "profession.1' The Sweetest Girl IitSchool. "She's the sweetest girl in school"L enthu- other, as they passed down the street tcgetn er. "Edith is eo kind, aDd ReBtle, and-unselfish, every one likes her. And the has lovely golden hair and pretty eyes, isn't it a pity her complexion is so bad; it spoils her looks. And then she has such dreadful head aches"! The girls skipped along, but it hap pened Edith's mother had heard what they said. It fet her thinking. What could be done for those headaches and the rough mud dy complexion, that was such a trial to her gentle daughter. She recalled what she had lead of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery, and on the spur of the moment she slip ped into a drug store and bought a supply Edith took it faithfully, with the result ttat it cleared her disordered blood, relieved the headaches, made her skia soft, fair and ros v, and now she is not only the "sweetest girl in school," but the most beautiful. Three bald eag'.es of grc.it size, which for five years past have p eyed upon th herds and flocks of Blount County, Ala and caused the farmers great loss and annoyance, were recenty caught in trap by two young men named 31c 'oy. The largest of the eagles measured twelve . M Iff fl O n T1 UU8TWIQ I bi Ifiia B EJ W ku LIHIMEUT aine's VST Ceet from tip to tip of the wing3. J. C-h-o-o ! C-h-o-o;! I C h o o ! ! ! Don't sneeze, Pneeze lawk, hawk, spit, blow, and disgust everybody with ycuroffen sive breatb. If you hive acrid, watery dis charge fr m the nose and eyes, throat disease cau-ing clicking sensations, tough, l ins ing noises iu head, splitting neaaacne ana otner symptons oi nasal catarrh, remember that the m mufacturers of Dr , Sage's Catanh Kmedy lrer, in good faith, $ 00 reward for a case of catarrh -w hich they cannot cure. 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JO IL.0 i i i.,V thoni when lie woke up fields! tlie nd He shepherds bv th midnight anthem, and lie wiil, --while the world ints. continue to honor tlie lieios. nen i;u; f-uquirm a , f that famous nisht stood against the wall ot the IVf.Johem kahn, it was a prophecy o. tlie t me u hen tha thresher's llai", and farmers plow, and woodman's ax, an! ox's yoke, and -heal' hinder" s rake shall surrender to the Loi wfio made the country a3 nun made tho t0Dehold also that on that Christmas night flo! h.onored motherhood. Two angels on th-ir wings might havo brought an infant Saviour t'6 Bethlehem without Mary's being thre at :dl. When the villagers, on the morning of Dc. 2i, awoke, by a divine ar ran eineut and in some unexplained way, the "child Jes-is mi-ht have been found in some comfortable cra.be of the village. But no no' Motherhood for all time was to be cons-crated, and c no of the tcuderest rela tions was to be the maternal' relation, and o'ie of the sweetest words -mother" In all u-es tlol has honored good motherhood. Jonn Wesley harl a good mother, St. Bernard had a good mother, Samuel Budgett a good mother, Doddridge a good mother, W alter Scott a good mother, Benjamin West a good mother. In a. great aulieiice, most of whom were Christians, I asked that all those wu bad been blessed of Christian mother? arise, and almost the entire assembly stood u- , Don't vou see how important it is that nil riw.iwi-'h'ood ho consecrated? Why did ni-ht Co l honored chiut- i i itian, tne lianan ai i-i, t y i t- l nvo iin !. H .s tirss i llie Jiauonna. mr.Ke iu uu xif.tmn iiiv-c- signal for approaching stations, railroad rror-siiv's and iunctions. One short blast of the whistle is to apply the brakes stop. Two lnng blasts of the whistle are a signal to throw off the brakes. Two short blasts of the whistle are an answer to the conductor's signal to stop at the next station. Three lonsr blasts of the wh stle are a si"ual that the train has parted. Three short blasts of the whistle when the train is f-tanding are a signal that me train will back. Three short blasts of tho when the train is running are a signal to be given bv passenger trams, when dis playing signals for a following train, to call the attention of trains they meet oi pass to the signals. Four long blasts of the whistle are a signal to call ia the fagman. Four short blasts of the whistle are the engineer's call for signals from the switchman, watchmen and trainmen. Two long, followed by two short, blasts of the whistle are a signal for approach ing road crossings at grade. Five short blasts of the Avhistle are a signal to the fiagman to go back and protect the rear si'the train. A succession of short bhis of the whistle is an a'arm for per sons or cattle on th- track, and calls, tho Qttention of trainnvn to ijnr er ahead. A Silver Hand. Daniel Goodwin, of Weymouth, has a German silver hand, and, notwithstand ing the fact that there are no fingers on it,e is atle to keep paceat his trade that of carpentering with those blessed wi. tho rnstnmarv number of digits. An injury to Mr. Goodwin's own hand necessitated its amputation. It was not unt lhe had invented a substitute, which he hoped would enable him to sup port himself and family, that he would consent to having it amputated. ; Ilia scheme consists of a socket, reaching halfway to the elbow, into which soket the stump is placed, and at the other end of wfcieh a bole is drilled and a thread cut. The contrivance is a great success. Mr." Goodwin has a surprisingly large number of useful tools that fit into thi3 tanped hole, and he can drive nails all day with a hammer that is held in place, by a check nut screwed against the end of the socket. As soon as he sits down to dinner he pulls a table knife out of one of his Dockets with his left hand, screws it into theso-ket. and proceeds to business. L'cston He, aid. The Cause of the Glacial Period. The ocean equalizes the earth's tem perature. How delicately balanced the forces of nature are as to glaciers may be seen in the fact that there have been five period of advance and retreat in Switzerland since 1800. Were the Saharaxiesert to'le inundated, it might disastrously change the climate of cen tral Europe. ' The orbit of the earth is an ellipse; its longer diameter being 3,000,000 miles more than its shorter. The sun is in one foci of this ellipse; the earth's summer solstice is fully seven days longer than the winter. The present is favorable to glaciation in the southern hemisphere. There should be an increase of glaciers each 21,000 years, due to the earth's changing relations to the sun. Special epochs ha ve.been 200,000, 750,000 anB 850,000 years ago, and similar epochs are expected 500,000, 800,000 and 900,000 years to come. Croll's theory rests on hypotheses and assumptions. He takes the winds and ocean currents for stable nnantities. But the Gulf. Stream fifty miles wide, 1,000 feet deep, and which moves four miles; an hour and the trade winds need be to accounted for. The southeast trade winds predominate. Wrhy ? Because the southern hemisphere is cooler, But why is it cooler? fThe ex tent and depth of southern oceans add power to the winds fn that hemisphere. While the trade winds are steady but not strong, they are sometimes interrup ted by terrible monsoons. Not all cold seas are favorable to glaciation ; those in the far North lack moisture. The weak point in Mr. Croll's theory is his failure to satisfactorily account for the absorption, retention and distribu tion of heat received from the sun. Why do clouds prevent frost? Why doe3 heat pass into glass easily (as into a green house) and not so easily escape? The equator is not so hot, nor the arc tic region so cold as they ought to be according to the heat received from the sun. The dif ference between the equator and the coldest point on parallel 07 (where the tnpan tfimnpralure in January is 5G de gress below zero), which ousrht to be 172 degree, is but about 75 degrees. We do not know what caused the glacier, but glacia'ists are mo:e concerned with the facts of glaciation. Prof. Wright of ILtrtar.i, ' Old Southern JIf siies. A great many of the plantations in different Parts of the South, which were once well known for their size, the mag nificence of the residences upon them, the hospitality of their owners or on ac count, of the prominence of the families which possessed them, are now falling into ruins. The reason of this is, per bans. that the land has been worked so long without being fertilized that it has , become poor, or it may De mat tnose in to whose possess'on it has passed lack the energy and skill which are required to make it pay under the present system of labor. One of these famous old places, in Liberty County, in this State, was lately sold to a colored man for $2,500, only a part of the purchase price being required at once. It is known as Laurel View, and is withiu two miles ;of the historic town of Sunbury. It was the home of the gifted John Elliott, and a very beautiful home it was. John Elliott represented Georgia in the United Statee Senate from 1820 to 1826. The plantation contains 2,800 acre3. It was purchased during the war of secession by Linton Stephens, a brother of Alexander II. Stephens, and was sold to the present owner by his heirs. The district in which the plantation is situated Avas noted, from the first settle ment of the State until the emancipation of the slaves, for the intelligence and wealth of its citizens. It is now, how- ever, almost wnouy auanuonuu. i- mo Prohibition sentiment ia very strong in Colorado. Peublo, the second city in the State, has an anti-saloon government, and many smaller towns have local option in full force. ' "Taylors Hospital Cure for Catarrh" cen now ba had on ten daj's trial without .charge from the City Hall Pharmacy, s.64 Broadway New York. All who suffer from this di-. i an should write thereout once- Free pamph let, i DP S3 EiK! Cold Waves Are predicted with reliable accuracy, and people liable to tha pains and aches of rheumatism dread every cliaaga to damp or stormy weather. Although we do not claim Hood's Barsaparilla to be a positive epeelfic for rheumatism, tho remarkable cures it has effected show that it may bo taken for rheumatis n with reasonable certainty of benefit. Its action in neutralizing tho acidity of the blood, w hich ii the cause of rheumatism, constitutes the secret of the success of IIood'3 Sarsaparilla in curing Ink com plaint. If you suffer from rheumatism, give Hood s Sarsaparilla. a fair trial ; we believe It wlU do you good. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared on'.y by C. I. nOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maai IOO Doses One Dollar. s. N. U.- 3 ELY'S CATARR CREAM BAM DISCOVERY. Wkollr uallk artificial ayatwrna. Amy book loaned In ono reading. itooolMtianded by Mark Twaw, KicHAto Pkoctor. awSclehtUt, Hon. W. W. Astob, Juda.h P. Bwi kw Dr. Minor, fta Class of 100 Columbia Lawr stu dent ; kX) at Meriden ; 250 at Norwich ; at Oberlin OoUoge S two classes of 300 each at Yale ; 400 at Uul Tereity of Penn, PhUa. : 400 at Welleley College, anO tUre large classes at Chatauqua University, & Prospectus post freb from HPBOF. LOISKTTE. 237 Elfth Ava.. New Tor. S4LESMAX WANTED! Position porma nsnt after SO davs successful trial. Th Eureka Key i.ole Guard, Greatest invention of the ne. Everybody- uses them. $5 to $10 daily, easily made at home. Outfit mailed wsth instructions on re.THpt os &J cts. Empire Co.. 12 Chambers St., New York, Inu IarVTkU, eor. MUi H?J". inoitriUKi book yrooA. fM osdooa IMJIiJailfilsIililgHliaiiiffiKl nr 1 miT nn ion ERjga ' QnjAItlTY SH a dif. SaraDles worth I SO. FBU Lines not under th5 horse's feet. Writ Brewster Safety Keiu Polder Vo., H!lly, Mlefc JT worth $1,0)0. but Is sold eS 35. a box by dealers. PHIIADELHlte-SENo stamp for Catalogue. fjiIJ- DHA Great Engirt uowauf Blair S rESlSi Rheumatlo Rl Uval Uox.U lt roand, 14 FlUo. s Latst Burry and Caniatr IIEUBRANO CO., Frernoi? O. 10LDIERS KERBDAKD FIFTH WHEEL. t.. ...... . iun .j-m all eret Pensions, if Mllsa bled; Oflioers' travel pay, bounty collected: Deserters T-oiiotrd ft. vonre' nraotipp. Success or no tee. Lftws seut free. A. W. McCormick & Sen, Hhlgiii, D.Ui 49 AO A A MONTH. AarnUWanteA. 90 beet yell JA. 1 1"K articles In the world. 1 sample Frt. WfisilyAddress JA Y BROKSOS. Detroit. Mich. 8TriY. Book-keeping, Penmanahlp.Anthmette, ortnann. w.,.tnorfugniy taufrni dt muu KJir HKVA.VT'S COLl.tCE, 467 Mi 84., BaBklo. I. T. iinecr? nUfflC Shorthand. Ar. eularsfree. suffered from ca tarrh twelve years. Tin droppings into th( throat were mauseat- ing. My nose bled al ihi tr i MS 1 e J most daily, i Sinee first days use of Ely'i Cream Balm have haa no bleeding, the sore ness is entirely gone D. a. Davidson, vcitl. tlie Boston Budget. A particle is applied Into each noetfil and Is ajrreeable Price 50 cents at dniKS?ists;by mail.rcjs'istf red 6) cents ELY rmOTllERS, 2 3 Greenwich St.. New ork. HAY-iFEVER ni SP" Mr retarn so all. Vail Booortattaa IT laSl&i C.Vuic. X009T a 0, CiasUaati. When 1 say cure I do nut mean merely to stop them foratimeandthon have them return again. I mean a radical core. I have made the disf!.--ae of llSs riir EPSY or FALLINCJ SICKNEaS a hfo-long study. I warrant my remedy to care the wors caws. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a enre. Bend at once for a t rcatisa aod a Free Jjottle of my Infallible remedy llTO.KOOT.iU.lJ Infallible remedy. Give hx press and foet wmoo, IH.i i'euri cti. new iui- PC H C f! II C 10 Soldiers and Heirs. Send far eu CndlUri eulars. . No fee ualess successful E. II. jELgTOjJJO.tWashlngton. D. C ALMS Bojlaoaa ViimntnBim fa. Uonu furnished. Ufa Scholarship. 940. Vrlta. W. I. DOUGIiASS-l SIIOE, the original and only liand-sewed welt S4 shoe In the world, equals enstom made band-sewed ehucs that cost from $6 to $9. W. L. OOUCLAS $3 SHOE. Tho only 3 SK AML.ESS I blioo in the world, with out tacks or nans. Finest Calf, perfect ill and warranted. CoDgress, Button and Lace, all c styles toe. A3 3tyisn . and durable as those costing $5or $6.1io all wear the W. S3 Shoo. TV. T.. DOUGLA9 82.50 SHOE Is nnex. eelled for heavy wear. It not sold by your dealer writ YT. L. DOUGLAS, lirockton. laaa. Sr V 'tfmi z1l '1 - . WELLS' JXAXK BALSAM restores flrar llalr toortei nalooloc Aa eleeaDtdre Ing. softens and beautifies NoKreawoDor oil. A Tonto Restoratrra. lreventa hair coming out; strengthen a, cleanses and bools scalp. 60c.Drtig-jtotS LS. WILIS, Jmi Chy, 1.1. rss jt& U GrcrtEMENf i rt 1 J pysi-i ail rv n . m ROUeHoNCATARBHcp .nr.t nhi-unlc cases. Uneanaled ror uaiarrnai uiroaa n, pm sflfM-tions, tfenl breath. enslve odors, sore thsoaa. dlphihcrisi cold tn the head. Ask for" Row on CAiARan.'! 60e. Drug. K. B. VTnxs, Jersey City, W.J. LOOK YOUNG as long ssyoa can, pra- rem tenaency vu " ii klrs or ageing ot tha Ipktnby niing cAUntLLc. Ull. LI Wrinkles, Removes and prevents ano rcMigo nem of Fleh or fHiii preeerves a yoatnrui. plump, f iwb conditlno of the fosturcai re mo Tee ptmplos, clear the oomplexlon, tha only sunrtAnee mown that will arrwt a fr. Ttt.oiiye wrl.Vtas fl. lrugirlstBOr Erp. R. S. WKI.I.S, OhfailM, ttnrj CUy, . I. - - - 1 B THE Only .rrr. J jflg& :m f COFYEIGHT, 1867. J , t - . i.., ji u i j nA n nAsitivA ininmiitc. from ths manufacturers. The only medicine for woman's peculiar aumenw , soiu vy u, "" VrvnuiTVPRKfirRiwiON. Thi miarantee has that it wiU give satisfaction in every case, or money wui De reiunaea, is uti. riw o been printed on the bottle-wrappers, and faithfully carried out for many years. THE OUTGROWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE. rr,0 trtaonf nf manv thoupan.ls of cases of those chronic wealtnesscs anq oiBircsauw uu Invalids' Hotel I and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., has afforded a vast experienoe in nicciy aoaptin u i! .r ai r n.nw,n,,di .r.. . i 1 i -i r TnnlndioflJ f 1 frri A Boon To Women. ; Chinese ranislniiftnt. Tho Chinese )?nal Code provides that when au unskillful physician, in adminis tering medicines or using the acupunc ture ueedlc, proceeds contrary to the established forms and thereby causes the , colored people. Its great plantations swan j di 1 Rubens, tho German artist, in his Madon na, ma ce it a fierman fac3? Why chM jJoshua Reynolds, Uv English artist, in hi Madonna, make it an En-jllsh fa?el Whv.did Murillo, ti e Spanish ai tist, in his Madonna, make ic a-Spanish face? I never heard, but 1 think they took their own mothers as the typ3 of Marv, the mother of Christ When you hear some ono in sermon or oration sp.im u t5:e abstract of a cool, faithful, honest mother, vour eves fill up with tears, whilo ton isay "to yourself: That was my mo'.her. Vhe 'first word a child utters is apt to be "Mother." and the old mm ! ia his dying .1 ...,11c. "lnthnr lii.-.ilil I'll!.:? -'fJi" - ills "Mother! mother!' ic maxcers not. wbptir sh i was bro-is-ht tp in tha sur- roatidinsrs of a citj' and in atrluent home, AfAth nf .a natient. the may.istrate call in other physicians to examincytne medicine or the wound. If it appear that the iuiury done was unintentional, the practitioner shall then be treated ac cording to the statute for accidental homicide', and shall not be allowed any longer to practice medicine. But if he hae designedly departed from the estab lished forms, and has practiced deceit in his attempts to' cure the malady in or der to gtin property, then according to its amount, he shall" be .treated as a thief; and if death ensues from his malpractice, then for h iving thus used medicine with intent to kid, ho shall be beheaded. There appears to be nothing in the "ce lestial" code answering to the laws of "barbarian" nations concerning civil damages recoverable by parties made to suffer?by 'unintentional" malpractice. The Value of a Whale. Tie owners of the br.rk Stamboul have brought" suit in the United States Dis trictCourt against the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, owner of the bark Wanderer, to recover $7,000 for the lass of a whale. Plaintiffs .claim that they had harpooned the whale, which there- n swam under a Leici oi ice ana came have been divided into small farms, and the superb mansions, once the homes of men. noted for wealth and culture, and of women famous for beauty and refine ment, are falling into decay, and are be ing replaced by cabins and huts, whose chimneys of sticks and mud tell more plainly than words of the marvelous change for the worse which has taken place in the once rich and prosperous district. Savannah, Neus. Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands nf testimonials, received from patients and from physicians who havo tasted it in the more aggravated and obstinate cases which had balHed their skill, irrove it to be the most wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief add cure of sut fering women. It is not recommended as a "cure-all," but as a most perfect Specihc for woman's peculiar diseases. ... AS a powenui) in vigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system, and to the uterus, or womb and its appendages, in particu lar. Vnr overworked. " worn - out," " run - down," debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, scam stresses, "shop-girls," housekeepers, nurs ing mothers, and feeble women generally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unegualed as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. it promotes tugesiiuu auu usum.uuu Soothing Kejivihe. A Powerful Tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nervine, "Favorite Prescription " is une qualed and ia Invaluable in allaying" and subdu insr nervous excitabil ity, irritability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de spondency. . Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrlp--tion is a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to womm's delicate organization. It Is purely vegetable in its composition, and perfectly harmless in its effects in any condition of tho system. In pregnancy, -Favorite Prescription" is a mother's cordial," relieving nausea, weak ness of stomach and other distressing- symp toms common to that. condition. If its use Is kept up in tne A Mother's Cordial r- l r,r-i rtf nmanh 5MKwiSofS: J latter months of gestation, it bo prepares the 6vste lessen, and away with ordeal. Cures the Worst Cases. for fipHTerr as to irreatly many times almost entirely do the sufferings of that trying "Favorite Pre scription" Is m positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of leucorrhea. or " whites." excessive - flowing ai monthly periods, painful men struation, ! unnatural suppression, prolap pub or failing of the womb, wer v back, "female weakness," anteversion, retrover sion, bearing -down sensations, cbronis congestion, inflammation, and ulceration of the womb, inflammation, pain ana tenderness in ovaries, accompanied witn " internal- heat." . " - t urnirnritc Prescrip tion," when taken In con nection with the ue of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery, and email laxstivs doses of Dr. Pierce s Pur irn Tiut4 iLittte Liver Pillsl, cures Liver, Kidney and Bla "er dis eases. Their combined use also removes blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and scrofulous humors from the system. For the I Kidneys. cud was dressed appropriately with refer- upon swam unuer n iu ui uuu. ... snrforo o milft ftwav. and that the Er.e t:j tne aemairis ui jujacu mr, i ..w .. , - - whether she wore the old-time cap and f Crew of the Wanderer then captured preat" ronn l spectacles and apron or ner the same animal, and, in order to give a own mase, ana uniii your mm uw uu nroiros seated bv the broad f.replace, with , .lm.e!f losr ablaze on a -winter. Di"ht. It matters not how many wrinkles rroVsVl and recrosseJ her facej or how much her shoulders stoopei with the burdens of Ion" life, if you painted a Madonna hers v.-ou'd be the face. What a gentla hand she - ad when we were sick, and what a voice to Oft obscure the road that leads to health, Unmarked bv board or sign ; Wisdom avail not, powerless is wealth To soothe those ach-s of thine. But do not despair, with life there's hope, The cloud conceals the sun ; With Pierce's Favorite Prescription at band Your life's full ours may run. More tru'h than poetry in these lines, .as thousands of ladies all over the land now blooming with health, testify to the great curative powers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription, adatted by much research and careful study to the happy relief of all those weaknesses and ailments peculiar to females. All druggists, j Queen Christina has signed a decree regulat ing the manufacture and importation of alcohols into Spain, and prohibiting the manufacture and sale of impure alcohols for arinking purposes. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor: Please inform your readers . .. . j Lin .nntii frnn heart disease. Many times women call on their family physicians, offering, as "J in this war another fYom liver A kidney disee,anot deases. for whici .. - . . . . . . i. AA,,as, rw , wimiii lltO uiuu. rj are made. The suffering y to- j i ii nil tr m rriMmHHi v ni n I i.liiz ki. u w ' hi nilland i prions, assuming them. to bo such, when, , In reality, ey are ai . on 3 Physician: Failed. shadow of claim, substituted their own J that I have a p;sitive remedy for the above harnoon for that oi aerenaanc. ix is -claimed that for forty years it had been the recognized custom that when a crew harnoonca a wnaie it was had once entitled to the full ownership of animal. San Francisco Examiner. the named disease, j By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permaneniriy cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy fres to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their Express and P. O. address. Respectfully. T. A. SLUCUM, M. D., 181 Pearl L, N. Y. Mrs. E. F. Morgan, of Ao. 71 Lexington St., East Boston. Mass., says: "Five years ago-1 was a dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles. Having exhausted tne skiu oi tnree pnyBi cians, I was completely discouraged, and so nMMilr T coil Id with difficulty cross the room ... .-v T n TO. a.ms Trmrrtrt rsn on1 nlnn( I beeran taking ur. riKicu a cavuuw n-n(uuu usina- the local treatment recommended in his 'Common Sense Medical Adviser.' I commenced to improve at once. In three months I was perfectly cured, and have had no trouble since. I wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning how my health had been restored, and offering to send the full particulars to any one writing me for them, and enelosina a Mamped-envelope forreplu. I have received over four hundred letters. In reply, I have described my case and tho "treatment used, and have ear nestly advised them to do likewise. From a great many I have received second letters of thanks, stating that they had com menced the use of Favorite Prescription," had sent the $1.50 required for the 'Medical Adviser, and had applied the local treatment so fully and plainly laid down therein, and were much better already." Kctroverted Womb. Mrs. Eva Kohmtr, of Crah Orchard, Neb., writes : "Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has dono me a great deal of good. I suffered from retroversion of the uterus, for which I took two bottles of the Favorite Prescription, and I am now feeling like a different woman." - - Doctors FalledV-Mrs. F. Corwin, of Post Creek, X. F. writes: "I doctored with three tor four of the best doctors m these parts, and I grew worse until I wrote to yoirand began using your 'Favorite Prescription. I used three bottles of It and two of the 'Golden Medical Discovery,' also one and a half bottles of the Purgative Pellets,' I can do my work and sew and walk all I care to, and am in better health than T ever expected to be in this world again. I owe it all to your wonderful medicines, Sa tta TdiifrSSii VmPtoins, and instituting comfort iMteaa ot prolongs misery. r . . M r -1 .1 -JM SVTf TT- I Mrs. ED. M. wnwiiv-- Awn PC . fomia. writes: "i a u u u lUlUb life with hvetericHl attacks and From Caufobkia. f 1 been using jour Jayorlto PnpUon I , . thfup i also iiaa womu cuuiuuiiv vr have had none of Without the most severe pain, but t LruldTDhnWteken ToFiwriVrPrescripti.n'itwo montbfc I before I had taken ijour without inconvenience. All my could walk bU over the c h Unign Influence of- troubles seem toi fJf i ernaxter than for yars before. My your medicine and .ft be 'cured, and therefore you , physicians told Xlrmvt. thanks for what you havsdons will please : accept my """jf, Jour good works." . w for me. and may God bless j ou in , yuur B took your ra- Later J?1 . t bav b had no return f ths fsmalfl vorite Piscriptlon,t and x mv of CMr r Tvar-ns. , rVhflt 1 am as wi ss i "I wish to took four bottJes. lLVSZ SSStS of our Discovery ' 'Vp,: etl All of the bad disappeared. J do all nJfTu. ri v Mr friends tell roe I never lookea so t 4 w f ti-rkiihiA I had then. Well a. I ETerTTMSu Falls, Wis., writes: OTroonraa fnr -whlfn I TIianK jui u..--- . r of the 'Favorite Prescription 'and one - - ptorot hsrs and four bottles or tne itib f-.v"" " ibi t-be on my icei soi - '. tm th fforld STTawri Prescription is Boia oy j-vm , , Overt Zarge Pottles $1.00, Six for $3-00. t-8end ten cents !n h'lt Treatise (160 pages, paper covers) on Diseases oi u Address. WOfW-VWnW T7y No. 663 Main Street, BrrrAM), N. X. J V