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MICHIGAN'S BENEFACTOR. AN OPT REPEATED HTORV OP TRUE IMIII.ANTIIKOPY. What ( hM. II. Ilnrkley Ila Pone for Writrrn .Mlrhlgaa. (from ;mnt Rapilit, Mich., Ertninj rrrt.) 7h mot beautiful spot la all this city Is tnsT:irab1y a?so-intel with the namo ol llackl'-y. Chrid. II. Hickley has b-e?a fn tha tender Lusinjs9 hero continuously since iota, t.n-l in that tirao has amosse-l a fortune whl'.-h fives him a rating nmong lhj wealthy n;i-n of tho natlou. But with walth there dll not coTin that tightening of t ho purse trintrs whleh it p-nrally a marked chnrao teriMkof wealthy men. It if no wonder then that the name of CharU-s H. Haf kl''y i" known at home and rthroa 1. Hi" munificence to Muskegon tilone rprTits an outlay of nenrly ht'f a nHlion. For the p.-Lst tw-nty years he ha" .-.-n a con.slnnt PufT'-r'-r from neuralgia an 1 rh'-um-itlHrn, n'o miTifnea? of the lowr lirr.l. "o mu"h so th it it Iim HTiously Inte-r-fi-r'-l with Lis pleasure in lite. Forborne p ft hi fri'-n Is hive noth-el that he ,a ... -n;d to tcrow young atMln and to fc(,v-r'-oovcred the I e.tlth which he had in youth. To a 't porter for th" N-ws Mr. ITackley t-Yplniri'-l thef-'-rM rf ths trati'-formation. "f have puff-red for ovr 20y-ars," he sal J. "with pains In rny lowr lirnhs so heverely rhnt th" ' nly r-ll-f I could g-t nt night was , putting coPl wat-r flfimprP9 on my llml". 1 hothered riior nt niht than In th: 'lav ti-iic. The neuralgic and rhca-maM-- pains in my limt, whi'-h had ln prow in;: in Int'-nMty for years, finally 1-r.-irn- 'hr"ii"r. I made thne trips 1o the Hot Sprint's with only partial relief, and th-n f -1 1 t-a'-k to rny original state. I rouldn't sit s''M, and rny Miff-rinis began to mak- my lif- look viy Mu Two) ears apo h-t K' t'Tiil ' r I noti--d an account of Dr. Williams' I'irik Pills for Pale pt-ople an 1 what t hv had done for oth-r. aud come ,..,. , v,j iK-nrly resembled niin that I wm lritT)'tJ. so I wrote to one who hud given ii ..-vtirnoni.il. an eminent prof.-ssor of rnusle In ( ana i-i The reply I r-lvel was -vn Mrotu,'er tuan the pruned tentirnonial, and it j.'iv fin; faith in the rni'ii'-in. 'I I -jnn taking Ihe pills and found them t be all that tin- professor had told me they w ill 1 I ". It was two or three months Ix- r- I x,'r!',ii'-; 1 any p -re -pi ible Ix'tter iii' iit 'f my ffindition. MydHeise was of hii-Ii long" standing that I did not expet f-pM-y n-i-overy an 1 was thankful even to t.- r'-li'-v'-d . I progressed rapidly, however, towards r--ovry mid for the last six months have felt mydf it prf.'tly well man. I liave r'",iii!n ri'id the pills to many peoph) nudum "nly too K'ad to asi--t ol hrrs to h-althtliroiij:h the in'- Hum of this woudi-r-ful mi-di'-iiie. I cannot say too much for what it lias dori' for rn" I r. Williams' Pink Pills contain nil the h'Tii' iits ncccss iry to ive new life an i rich ,s t the Mood anl restore s'tatterid ii- rvs. They are for sale hy all druijids, ir ma v I " had hy mail from Ir. Willi ims' Medieine lompany, Sehincta ly, N. V., (or 11 fly cents per kox.orsix l.ox's !or t'2. 0. - I'D del.ate on the Legion of Honor appro prlall'ins thi French Ci'iiiiet narrowly 6 capi'd defeat bva vote of 2:19 to 23L Tin- Mo-1 I'li ii-iiiit Way f'f (ii st ntiiu; the grippe, cnlfls, hejtdnr hr and f(.i i- t u-e the liquid 'axative remedy, Snip(.f fits heneviT thessteiu needs , llitl.-, ,t etrii t i lejinr-in. Til he l.enefiU t' "" '"'I'-' net fl 1 : ; true i eineii y man u fa t u red l tie- i ;lHo niii l-'it; Syrup '. only. For sale : -Ii ni-l in .Vi.-. i ml 1 M,tiles. ricclricity in grtuluftlly takiug the 1'lucc of oil fur locomotive hefvllijdiU. Had Hip Disease lie w.-,s treats I at the Children's Hospital, P-eston, an I when he cmo home had SKV- John Hofflc KN lU'N'MMi SOHKSnn his lep. Couhl rit step. We hare lw-n giving him Hood 8 SimpirilUa yr, and heem wilk.run, mi l play as lively as any ly. He h is no s..res and is the IMC T 1' K K OF IIKAII II. John C. l'.vi.e. Ware, Mas. Hood's5a;Cures Hood's Pills do ;it imrc, pain or prip. I hedrcatcst riedical Discovery of the Arc KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., H is ilif-onereil in otio of our com mon juisturo woods n remedy that euros every kind of Humor, from the worst Sorofuln down 1o a com mon Pimple. Sfnh fok Hook. IhnJun tro), Ohio, 2Vt L'f, 1S04. 7'oim.' A(iix'''v, I. ist 7ri7 In flrip rml Rronrhifii f in. Hie for w.iks I in' id .' lhouy iiKio iio (!' Ihf inic .t fritud ''! mi of iour .V. iln'iii Iisror, ry, ftme .' ol- ,.'. o frit itj o f hrra' ntvi I i', !..,',! I iroti'.l try it. I bars ? u tiro oot:',s of 'ii-or n dud thrre hottlrn 1'rinrii H-i'ltiril I fiu't fjin to ttll yon ,. r i. mi 'i tf,r I f,,. h,n I ttfjnn to r.iW 'our iii.iii'Mi. I ooulil not sit n mtifh i f oin,: tioir I .Kit tip nil iiP rti i-imi-( r'o hoiisf, tmt I iii .;(' hoarse, - t f course you arc that's the Humor iihot.t three more hot tics discovery will the last i f that out of your system. Ci l ir.m' i.oi-r ii.i-ii 0 n'lout that. J .'.'I'i'i.V von irilli km irhoh'htiirL Yours Irid'. XAOMI OLIVER. WALTER BAKER & GO. The Largest Manufacturers ot PURE, HICH GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES On thit Centime!, k rcctivd HIGHEST AWARDS from th gntt ndustrial and Food EXPOSITIONS In Europe and America. Vnlikt the Pulch lrotn.o Atk Urt Vt othr ChmlcUor 1J t . i. I ik.;. nrrnaration. PktAKKAsT COCOA f blBtely od cotf Iim cAun n cent a op. ICLO BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. r.nhf-s; wmm in fs& tins. Bet lXuib byrup. Tttc4rs Uood. Cae iroa hold by draeiriMs. Ml Thuf d'..r.n. ruit acit CaeM REV. DR TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON Tixt : 'From India even unta Ethiopia." EHthiri.. 1. In nil the Bible thU is the only boolc in which the word India occurs, lut it fctnnds for a realm of vast interest in the time of Esther, as in oar time. It yielded then, as now, spices and silks and cotton iind rice and indigo and ores of all richness anl preclotn fctom-s of all sparkle an I had a civilization of its own as marked as Egyp tian or Grecian or Itoi.tn civlllzitiou.' It holds the costliest tomb ever lullt and the n:ost unique aud wonderful idohitrous tem ple ever opened. For practical it-ssons In thh, my sUth discourse in round the world series, I show you that tomb an I temnle of Indln. In a journey around the world it miy r ot Le eny to tell the exact po'nt which divides the pilrlmaire into' halves. Jut there was one structure toward which we were all the time traveling, and having se n that we fe't thnt if we faw notbln? more our expedition would be a success. That one ol-Ject whs the Taj Mahal of Iniii. It is the crown of the whole earth. The spirits of architecture met to enthrone kin, and the spirit of the Parthenon of Athens whs there, and thesplrit of Kt. Hophla of Constantinople wasth're, and the spirit of Ht. Izaak of Hr. Tetersburjc was there, an I the nptrit of the Biptlsterr of Pis-i wasthere. and thesplrltsof the pyramid and of Luxor obelisk, and of the Porcelain tower of Nankin, and of St. Mark's of Venice, and the sp rils ofallthenreattowerH, Kreat cathedral?, Krat mausoleums, Kfent sarcophagi, great capito's for the living anl of gr. at necropolises for t he dead were there. And the presiding genius of the throng with gave) of Parian marble smot- the table of Itaislnn malachite, and called the throhg of t-pirits to order, and called for a vote as to which spirit should wear the chief crown, and mount the chief throne, and wave tho chief scepter, and by un'in -rnous acclaim 1 he cry was: ''Loug live the spirit of Taj, kiug of all the spirits of archi tecture ! Thine is the Taj Mahal of India !" The building Is about six mil' s from Agra, n Ins we rode out in the early duwn we heard nothing but the hoofs and wheels that pulled nnd turned us alongthe road, at every yard oT which our expectations rosr until we had somo thought that we might be dis appointed at the first gllmpsp, ns some say they were disappointed. 13ut how can any one be disappointed wilhtheTaj isalmost as great a wonder to me ns the Taj itself. There are some people always diHappo'nted, and who knows but that having entered heaven they may critic's? the architecture of the temple and the cut of the white robes, and say that the Itlver of Life in not quite up to their expectation", and thnt the white horses on which the conquerors rido seem a little spring halt or spavined? My soii said, "Then it is!" I said, 'Where?"' For that which he saw to be the building seemed to me to be more like the n:orniug cloud b'ushlng underthe stare of the rising sun. It seamed not so much built up from earth as let down from heaven. Fortunately you stop nt an elaborato l gate way of red sandstone one-eighth of n mile from the Taj. an entrance so high, so arched, so graceful, so four domed, bo painted and chiseled and Bcrolld that you come very gradually upon the Tni, which structure is enough to Intoxicate the eye and ttnu the Imagination and entrance the sou'. We go up the winding stairs of this majestic en trance of the gateway, and buy a few pic tures, ami examine a few curios, and from it look off upon the Taj, and descend to the pavement or thegardeu that raoturos every thingbet ween the gateway and tho ecstacy of nvirblo and precious stones. You pass nlongadeep stream of wnter in which all manner of brilliant fins swirl and float. There are eighty-four fountains that spout and benl and arch themselves to fall in showers of pearl in basins of snowy white ness. I5-idfof all imaginable flora greet the nostril before they do the eye and seem to roll In waves of color as you advance toward the vision jou are soon to have of what hu man genius did when It did its best ; moon flowers, lilacs, marigolds, tulips nnd almost ev ery where the lotus ; thickets of bewilder ing bloom; on either aldo trees from many lands bend their nrborescenca over your head or seem with convoluted branches to reach out their arms toward youtn welcome. On nnd on you go amid tamarind and cy pres and poplar and oleander nnd yew and rjrenmoro ana banyan and palm nnd troes of such novel branch and leaf and girth you cease to ask their name or nativity. As you approach the door of the Taj one fsperlcnces a strange sensation of nwe and tenderness and humility and worship. The building is only a grave, but what a grave ! Built for a queen, who, according to some, was very goo I, nnd according to others very bad. I choose to think she was very good. At nnv rate, it makes me feel better to think that this commemorative pile was set up for the iumortalir.'itlon of virtue rather than vice. The Taj Is n mountain of white marble, but never such walls facod each other with exqulsiteness ; never such a tomb was cut from block of alabaster ; never such a com'rogation of precious stones brightened nnd gloomed nnd blazed aud chastened an l glorifW n building since sculptor's chisel cut its first curve, or painters pencil traced its first figure, or mason's plumb line measured its first wall, or architect s com pass swept its first circle. The Taj has sixteen great nrohed win dows, four nt each corner ; also nt eaoh of the four corners of the Taj stands n minaret 137 feet high ; also at each side of this build ing is a splendid mosque ot red sandstone. Two hundred and fltty years has the Taj stood, and yet not a wall is cracked, nor a mosaic loosened, nor an aroh sagged, nor a panel dulled. The storms ot 250 winters Dave not marred nor the heats of 250 sum mers disintegrated a marble. There Is no story of age written by mosBes on its white surface. Montaz, the queen, waj beautiful, and Hhah Jeban, the king, here proposed to let all the centuries or time know it. Bfce was married at twenty years of hge and died at twentv-nlne. Her life ended ns an- ether life began. As the rose bloomed the f osebush perished. To adorn this dormitory ol the dead, nt the command ot the king, Bagdad sent to this building itt cornelian nnd Ceylon its lapis lazuli, and Punjab its jasper, and Persia Its amethyst, and Thibet Us turquoise, nnd Lanka Its sapphire, nnd Yemen its agate, ant Tunnd its diamondsnd bloodstones, and sardonyx and chalcedony and moss agates are as common ns though they were pebbles. You find one spray of vine beset with eighty and another with 100 stones. Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it, and although the labor was slave labor, and not paid for, the building cost what would le about 160,000,000 of our A'u.ticnn money. Some of the Jewels hava l-een picked out of the wall ly Iconoclasts or conquerors, and eubstitutes of less value have taken their plrtce. but the vines, th-s traceries, the ar.ietques, the spandrels, the entablatures are so wondrous that you feel like dating the rest ot your Ula from the day you first saw them. In letters of black marble the Who'e of the Koran Is p?lle 1 out in and on thiaugust pile. The king sleeps In the tomb beside the queen, aitnougn tie intern ed to build a palace as black ns this was white on the opposite side of the river for himself to fleep in. Indeed the foundation ot suoh a necropolis ot black marble is still ther. and from the white to the black tem ple of the dead a bridge was to cros, but the son dethroned him and imprisoned him, and it is wonderful that the king had any plaoe at all la which to be buried. Instead of windows to let in the light upon the two tombs, there is a trellis work ot marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the sun shines through it as easily- as through glass. Look the world over and find so much trans luency, canopies, traceries, lace work, em broideries of stone. We had heard ot the wonderful resonance of this Taj, and so I tried it. I suppose there are more'sleeping echoes in that bull 1 Ing waiting to be wakened by the humm voice than In anybuildlng every constructed. I uttered one word, and there seemed de scending invisible choirs In full chant, and there was a reverbration that kept on long after one would have expected it to ceas?. When a line of a hymn was sung, there were replying, rolling, rising, falling, interweav ing sounds that seemed mo lulated by be ings seraphic There were aerial sopranos an4 bassos, soft, high, deep, tremulous, emotional, oommingling. It was like an an tlphonal of heaven. But there are four or five Taj Mahals. It has one appearance at sunrise, another at noon, another at sunset and another by moonlight. Indeed the silver trowel ot the moon, ana tne goiaen SWwel ot the sunlight, and the le:tden trowel ot the storm bnUd and rebuild the glory, so that it never seema twice alike. It has all mools, all complexions, all gran deurs. From the top of the Taj, which is 250 feet high, springs a spire thirty feet higher, and that u enameled gold. Wb.t an anthem in eternal rhythm ! Lyrics anl elegies n marble. B?u!pturd hoanni. Masonry as of supernitural bands. Mighty doxology in stone. I shall see nothing to equal it till I see the great white throne, and cn it Him from whose face the earth and heavens flee away. The Taj is the pfi-le of India, and especi ally of Mohammedanism. An English offi cer at the fortress tol 1 m that whn during the general mutiny in 1857 the Mohamaie dans proposed insurrection at Agra the Eng lish Government aimed the guns of the fort at the TmJ and said, ''You make insurrection, and that same day we will blow your Taj to atoms, and that threat ended the disposition for mutiny at Agra. But I thought while looting at that pi lace for the dead all this constructed to cover a handful of dust, tut ev-n that handful has probably gone from the mausoleum. How much better it would havj been to expend 50,000,000, which the Taj Mahal cost, for the living. What asylums it might have built for the sick, what housj for the homeless! What Improvement our century has mvde upon other centuries in lifting in honor ot the departed memorial churches, memorial hospitals, memorial reading room?, me morial observatories. By all possible means let ns keep the memory of departed loved ones fresh In mind, jnd let there be an ap propriate headstone or monument in the cemetery, but there Is a dividing line be tween reasonabl-j commemoration anl wicked extrav igance. The Taj M ihal has its uses as an architectural achievement, eclipsing all other architecture, but as a me morial of a departed wife and mother it ex presses no more than the plainest slab in many a country graveyard. The best monu ment we can any of us have built for us when we are gone Is in the memory of those whose sorrows we have alleviated, in the wounds we have healed, in the kindnesses we have done, in the Ignorance we have en lightened, in he recreant we have reclaimed, In the souls we have saved. Such a monu ment is built out of m iterlal more lasting than marble or bronze nnd will stand amid the eternal splendors long after the Taj Ma hal of India shall have gone down in the ruins of a World of which it was the costliest adornment. But I promised to show you not only a tomb of India, but a unique heathen temple, and it is a temple under ground. With miner's candle we bad seen some thing of t he underside of Australia, as at Glm ple, as with guide's torch we had seen at different times something of the underside of America, as In Mammoth care, but we are now to enter one of the sacred oellars of India, commonly called the Elephnnta caves. We had it all to ourselves, the steam yacht that was to take us about fifteen miles dver the harbor of Bombay and between enchant ed islands, and along shores whos curves and gulches and pictured rocks gradually prepared the mind for appreciation of the most unique spectacle in India. The morn ing had been full of thunder nnd lightning and deluge, but the atmospheric agitations had ceased, and the cloudy ruins ot the storm were piled up in the heavens., huge enough and darkly purple enough to make the skies ns grundly picturesque as the earthly scenery amid which we moved. After an hour's cutting through the water we came to tho long pier reaching from the island called Elephantn. It is an island small of girth, but 600 feet high. It declines Into the marshes of mangrove. But the whole island is one tangle of foliage and verdure i convolvulus creeping the ground ; mosses climbing the rocks ; vines sleeving the long arms of the trees ; red flowers here and there in the woods, like incendiary's torch trying to set the groves on fire cactus and acacia vying as to which can most charm the be holder i tropical bird meeting particolored butterfly in jungles planted the same sum mer the world was born. We stepped out ot the boat amid enough natives to afford all the help we needed for landing and guid ance. You can be carried by coolies in an easy chair, or you can walk, if you are blessed with two etout limbs, which the Esalmlst evidently lacked, or he would not ave eo depreciated them when be said I "The Lord taketh no pleasuoe in the legs, of a man." We passed up some stone steps, and between the walls we saw awaiting lis a cobra, one of those snakes which greet the traveler ofttimes in India, Two of the guides left the cobra dead by the wayside. They must have been Mohammedans, for Hindoos never kill that sacred reptile. And now we come near the famous temple hewn from one rock of porphyry at least 800 years ago. On cither side of the chief tem plo is a obapel, these cut out of the same stone. So vast was the undertaking and to the Hindoo was so great thehuman impossi bility that they Bay the. gods scooped out this structure from the rock and carved the pillars and hewed its shape into gigantla idols and dedicated it to all the grandeurs. We climb many stone steps before we get to the gateways. The entrance to this temple has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on sculptured devils. How strange I But I have seen doorkeepers of churches and audi toriums who seemed to be leaning on the demons of had ventilation anl asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought to be loaning on the angels of health and comfort and life. All thesextons and janitors ot the earth whe hav 'spoiled sermons and lectures and pois oned the lungs ot audiences by inefficiency ought to visit this cave of Elephanta and be ware of what these doorkeepers are doing, when instead of leaning on the angelic they lean on the demoniac. In these Elephanta caves everything is on a Samsonlan and Titanian scale. With chis els that were dropped from nerveless bands at least eight cen'.uries ago, the forms of the gods Brahma ar-' Vishnu and 8Iva were cut Into the everlasting rock. Siva Is here rep resented by a figure sixteen feet nine inohes high, one-half man and one-half woman. Hun a line from the center of the forehead straight to' the floDr of the rock, and you di vide this idol into masculine and feminine. Admired as this idol is by many, it was to me about the worst thicg that was ever cut into porphyry, perhaps because there Is hardly anything on earth so objectionabja as a be ing half man and half woman. Do be one or other, my hearer. Man 13 admirnble and wo man is admirable but either tn Ilesn or trap- rock a compromise of the two is hideous. Have us from effeminate men nnd masculine women : Yonder is tho Kiug Bavana worshiping. Yonder is the scultured representation of the marriage of Siva and Farhatl. Yonder is Daksha, the son ot Brahma, born from the thumb of his right hand. He had sixty daughters. Seventeen ot those daughters were married to Kasyapa and became tho mothers of the human race. lon-ler is a god with three heads. The center Ood has a crown wound with necklaces of Bkulls. The right hand god is in a paroxysm of rage with forehead of snakes, and in its hand is a cobra . The left band god ha9 pleasure in all its features, and the hand has a flower. But tfierear gods and goddesses in all dlrec tlon. The chief temple of this rock is 130 teet snuare and has twenty-six pillars rising to the roof. After the conquerors of other lands and the tourists from all lands have defaced andchlppel and blast ed and carried away curios and mementos for museums and homes. there are enough enhancements left to detain one unless he is cautious until he is down with some of the malarias which encampass this island or get bitten with some of Its snakes. Yes, I felt the chilly dampness of the place and left this congress of gods; this pinde monium of demons, this panth-on of indif ferent deities, and came to the steps and looked off upon the waters which rolled and flashed around the steam yacht that was waiting to return with u to Bombay. As we stepped aboard, our minds filled with the idols of tho Elephanta caves, I was im pressed ns never before with the thought that man must have a religion ot some kmd even if he has to contrive one himself, and he must have a go 1 even thougu he make it with his own hand. I rejoice to know tho day will come when the one Goi of the uni verse will be acknowledged throughout India. That evening of our return to Bjm'wy I visited the Young Men's Christian Associa tion with the same appointments that you find la the Young M m'a Christian Associa tions of Europe nn 1 Amerlc , an 1 the night after that Iallressed a throng of native children who are In the schools of the Chris tian missions. Christian universities gather tinier their wing of benediction a host of the young mn ot this country. Bombay anl Calcutta, the two great commercial cities of India, feel the elevating power of au aggressive Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy, and Trestiyterian Westminster cate chism, nnl Methoiist anxious seat, anl Bap tist waters of consecration now staa 1 wher once basest idolatries had undisputed sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey inaugu rated at Serampore, In lia. translating the Bible Into forty different dialects, and leav ing his wornout boly amid the natives whom be had come to save, anl going up in to the heavens from which he can better watch all the field that work will be com pleted in theMlratloa of the million of In lin. and beside him gaz ng from the same high plaees stand Bishop Heber and Alexan der Duff and John Scuider and Miekay, who fell at Delhi, an 1 Moncrieff. who fell at Cawnpur, and Polehampton. who fell at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at Fctti garb, anl all heroes and heroine who for Christ's sak lived an t died for the Christi nJzatlon ot India, and their heaven will not be complet until tee Gtnges that washes the ghats of heathen temples shall roll be tween churches of the living GoJ. anl the trampled womanhood of II in loo ism shall have all the rights purchased by him who amid the cuts and stas of his own assassi nation cried out, "B-hold thy mother T' and from Bengal Bay to ArabUn Oiean. nnl from the Himalayas to the coast of Corom nndel there be lifted hosannas to Him who died to redeem all nations. In that day Elephanta cave will be one of the plaees where idols are "cast to the moles anl bats." If any clergyman asks me, as an unbe'Ie ing minister of religion once asked the Duke of Wellington, "Do you not think that the work of converting the Hindoos is all a practical farce?" I answer him as Welling ton answered the unbelievel minister, "LooS to your marching orders, sir!" Or If any one having joined In the gospel at tack feels like retreating I say to him, as General Havelock sail to a retreating regie ment, "The enemy ars in front, not In tna rear," and leading them again into the fight, though two horses had been shot un der bim. Indeed the taking of this world for Christ will be no holiday celebration, but as tre mendous ns when In India during the mutiny of 1857 a fortress manned by sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of Britain. The sepoys hurled upon the attacking columns burning mis siles and grenades, and fired ontbem shot and shell, and poured on them from the ramparts burning oil until a writer who wit nessed it says, "It was a picture of pande monium." Then Sir Colin addressed his troops, saying, "Remember the women anl children must be res?ued !" and his men re plied : "Aye, aye, Sir Colin ! We stood by you at Balaklava, and we stand by you here. And then came the triumphant assnult of the battlements. So in this gospel cam paign, which proposes capturing the very last citadel ot idolatry and sin and hoisting over it the banner of the cross we may have hurled upon us mighty opposition anl scorn and obloquy, and many may fall before the work is done, yet at every call for new onset let the cry ot the church be : "Aye, aye, great captain of our salvation ! We stood by thee In other conflicts, and we will stand by thee to the last." And then, it not in this world, then from the battlements ol the next, as the last Appolyonic fortification shall crash into ruin, we will join in the shout, "Thanks bo unto God, who giveth ns the victory !" "Halleluiah, for the Lord Goi omnipotent reigneth !" BILL ARP'S LETTER. THE PHILOSOPHER RETURNS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Thoughts Suggested by Christmas. Legend of the Mistletoe. Toor dog good dog how my heart went out to him as I ratted his head in love and pity. Jmt where we left him I found him tad and faithful living at the front door In tho leaves that the wind had banked. When he saw me he elid not iunip up to meet me as he nsod to do, I ut rained bis head and gave a mournful bowl as much as to nay. "What made you all leave me?" Then be came out with a glad bound and rut his paws upon my breait poor dog good dog. 1 patted and caressed mm tin he was sati ned. Lvldie is netting old. and. like old folks, he 1 ves his Lome aud his people all the more. I know that he thinks about us and loncS for us and wouders if we will ever oms again. Lvery morning he goes down to Aunt Ann s, at tbe foot of the hill, and gets his breakfast and then ?:oes back again to lie on the veranda or in the eaves near by. What love is purer or more constant than that of a faithful, well-bred doe? L'-uldie never cot mad with anv member of the family. Never resented a reproof, never stole a Done-, never complained when tne cni'dren wal lowed over mm or trcd upon his cliaggy tan. He loved folks more Ibau he loved dogs. In fact, he waited war upon his kind and drove them away. It was too baa to leave bun alone. But ho will be happy again when my wife comes back, and ho can lie at hor feet, for he know who is his best fiiend. He knows wht it means when he hears her ssy, 'Humphrey, did you feed Laddie? And there was a lone peafowl sitting on the v.raucla railing, and a cat peeped at me noui around the corner and ran away. The house looked ead and lonesome. The clock upon the mantel was silent. Spiders had male webs up in the corners near the ceiling, lue echoes of my ehoes upon the naked floor seemed loud louder than 1 had ever heard them, and the doors creaked npon their hinges. The place seemed haunted. "Over all there hung a shadow and a fearj The ipirit daunted And as plain as whispered in the ear: Tho place is haunted!'' I shall not go back there alo'ie auy more. A liou e without a tenant a woman, a feminine voice somebody to be glad when I come and give me welcome, is a fit place for spirits evil spirits, ghosts, haunts and witches- 1 am stay ing wi h the married children now, and their children are fixing up for Christmas. The older ones hide iu their room and lock tbe door, and their mother fends them to town on errands eo that she may fix something fur them while they are gone some glad surprise. It docua't mat ter much whettier we havj the light day or not for Christmas. One day is as good as anothtf to commemorate the h storic event when the Savior was born. Of course, grownup people, reflective people, thenM have holemn, .rateful thoughts while mn.ling with the children in their hap;y spirts and fro'ics, but man was not created to be an acetic or a recluse or a hermit or to wear a solemn countenance every day in the year. ' For 'tis eai 1 that sinners and faints maj emile Once or twice or thrice in awhile. And even her nieriy without guile." The oNy rving of Chri.dmas is a kind of com pound that has come down to us thiongh ages, an l has got mixed with the customs of niaay rations. In fact, almo-t ercrthing that we have ii limited frc-iu bygone centnries is a mixt nr . 0:ir religion, e-ur pol tio, our names of men and of things and of the days of the week and the mouths e f the year hsvo come down to ns from different source. The Li tun gave us our bo' anv and materU medics; tbe Greeks our astionomy; the rhoenie-ans our figures; the It iluns our pam ing and music; a eiozm nitions gave ns our c-'wnpwite langnaje, and tbe Scandinavians the b at of our mjtho'ogy. All mixed np from difler nt nations we have Santa Clans anl St. Nicholas and Kris Knngb and the hollv and tho ivy and mistletoe and the Ciinctinas carols that date away back to the third cimury. I was rnminat ng about th" ii fluer.ee thit Scandina vian mythology has rx'reise-d over the civd iz d world. Here are the names cf the days of the wtek that aie upon our bps all our live: The dy of tbe mn, tli-elay of the moon, the day of 'l"wiieg, tl.e god of wa-; the day cf Woden, the good god of the eaith; the day e f Tbor.tbe god of the I cave n; the day of Friga, his wife.and the day of 8a' urn, the go i of agri culture. Ail these "hav come elown to us from thoewbo, Ike the Epluians, wershiped tbe unknown god. They have e mc changed a little anglicrd but the r origin i all an imagina tive myth. I'. rhai s the children sboql be told that Scandinnvia once included N-Twar, Sweden, L'pland and Finland. That cold, bleak c-. nut ry was settled away back in tbe ages l y a hardy, indnrriou. iniagirative peo ple. Tbey we're I rave, lnt not aggreadve. They weic good fathers, gocel mo'lwr, good children, g'vxl subjects, and b fore the Intro duction of Ctr Unity they bad god and gol es of their own c eaaon, and wor-biped them with a frith anl m-t that t-bonld put minr of nr Chrii-ti ns to eLame. Bat those are CLristian nations now, though the more ig norant of the people still cling to tbe U-rsti-lions of tlie.r anc ators. I raw some mistletoe today go:ng to dtcvAtt- a pit lor Kr "hr.Uuaa and it n called the tacreJ vmeiatiou that Swede an 1 Norwegio i till have fir tbia cun ttis parasite. Tbey fay iLat Tber and bis wife, Friga, bad a U-an'iful en. tbe ba!dcnvt aud mo- god-like vonng man in allthenni- ver e. Flip a loved tbi boy with all her moth- ?r"s sou', nd was so pprebennivs that otne- hing would happen to htm that the rot her husband, Th-r. who was t h inoM powerful nd niaiearc of ail tbe gods, to call upon tvry thing tbt wm in tbe heaven b)T or that grew in tbe earth te ow or that m in the wa ter under the earth to come before bim anl wear that thy would not barm Da'der. which was tbe name of lxr son- And they all took the solemn oath. Now th t was an evil spirit named Loki, who lived id He!i or hell md that is where that La 1 mm; came from), an l Loki w& envious of Tbor and bis ife, but be did not dare to lay his hands npon Balder. So he went a I ovir the earth Lnn'ing for some body or something that had Lot btcnswoiu- At lajjt be found the nitlelO'. wlrcb bad not. because it did not grow cut of the tarth and had been ov.-rlooWel. o Loki got a large s'rong branch of it and threw it with tbe ul at Balder, and it pierce I h heart and fcr.ltd hiro, Lnt the mistletoe d:du't mean to do it, nor knew what Loki wanted. Poor rng was de tracted wi b grief. Ba'dci't soul we it down to Ilela. but Woden, tbe good god, for whein Wediiedv was nanif d, told bi mother that bis soul would tome tack t her if she could get ever body and everything in thuiiiverteto weep a tear of eorro for luad fate. Theie- upon old Thor flKK k the tituverre nl made tbe earth to quake, and c- mmanded all naure to weep- And the sun and moon and star beard Lira and wept, and i be luavrus rent down great floods of tears and the mountains and tree ad moaned and wept and all the cat tle and birdi and will animals wep'. but Loki would not stieit a t ar. and sotnetMulef t alU- r has to wit in Hela until tbcfnd of the world. The poor mistletoe was eo ov, i whelmed with grief that it wept tears that turn d into little berries of p?arl, aud it is still weeping, aud the Jittl pearls keep coming, and that is whr the mistletoe is held sacred in Norway and Sweden lo this diy. and that is why the beautiful white flower that comes in the tailv tpring on the mountains and in the va'levs is called "Balder's brow," and i tlie national fl wer of those two conntrit-s. But this i enough of tha very prett7 legend. I read it wln-n I wi young, aud I never see the mistletoe but what I re pec t it, aud can almost imagine that its pearly ber ths once were tears. Knperi'tiiioiis may be foolish, but it is lnuuan to Lave tin m even the Indians ecc God in ck'tids ami heur Him in the wind. I would rather lime a i-o -tical im aginative m nd than lo be a odd. cal u'Rtini. exact m u without dies ni r reveries cr feuti- roeut. - .. - WISE WORDS. A man's heart has many entrances. Generosity thrives best in poor soil. Money ia a slim diet for a hungry heart. Nature christens the flowers with drops of dew. Molasses may catch flies, but it won't catch spiders. A fool is a great man who can raise a tempest ia a teapot. No night was ever yet so dark that morning did not come. Everything a man likes to do a woman can prove is wicked. The crank's methods are naturally more or less revolutionary. While one is studying he should not forget to do some thinking. Envy is one of the most expensive exercises one can indulge in. A good man finds something pain ful even in the downfall of his rival. It seems that the good points of some people have all been broken off. There is one thing colder than the tomb a room warmed by a grate fire. The better men and women know each other the les3 they say about ideals. Nothing seems very terrible to a woman if it is committed in tho name of love. The messenger boy goes slow be- caudo he is determined not to run out of a job. Honesty has a disposition to swag downin the middlo if too much gold is loaded on it. The longest pole won't knock the persimmons unless the right kind of a man has hold of it. The only time a man of experience takes his wife into his confidence is to tell her he is not making money. There was a time when a man who was hard up tried to hide it, but there is no such thing as hiding it now. The women do not rob birds' nests of egg, but they use tho birds after they are hatched to ornament their hatj. Rig Hive Full ot Honey. Mrs. John Welsh, of the town of Suamico, Wis., has obtained between 400 and 500 pounds of honey in a sin gular manner. Her boy, Thilip, while in the woods, observed the mark of claws npon a dead tree, and, think ing to find a wildcat, cut it down. It proved to be a bee tree, and fifteen or sixteen feet of its length was filled with honey. The tree was about three feet in diameter, and the 6nell was onlr about three inches thick. The comb was not broken, but was in five eections, each tho length of fif teen or sixteen feet. The good lady procured a washtub fall of chilled bees and several tubs of honey. The boy is still after the animal with clawa that was feeding upon the honey. Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal. In a recent article on Coffee and Cocoa, the eminent German Chemist, Professor Stutzer, speaking of the Dutch process of preparing Cocoa by the addition of potash, ant of th process common in Germany in which ammo nia is added, says: "The only result of tbee processes is to make the liquid appear turbid to the eye of the consumer, without effecting a real solution of the Cocoa substance. This artificial manipulation for the purpee of so called solubility K therefore, more or less in spired bv dece-ption. and always takes plate at the cwtof purity, pleasant taf-te. useful net ion and aromatic flavor. The treatment of C ocoa bv such chemical means is entirely objection able . . . Cocoa treated with potash or ammonia would be entirely unsalable but for the supplementary addition of artificial flavfrs by which a poor substitute for the aroma driven out into the air is offered to the con eumer " The delie ious Breakfast Coma made by Walter Baker & Co., of lKrchej.ter. Maas., is absolutely pure and soluble. So bemicaLs, or dye, or artificial flavors are usd in it- Cheat Barfun la credited with being will ing and even anxious that the United States build the Xlcarairaan Canal. DeaYaeM Caaaa Cr4 bv local annlicaiiono. as theveannot reavh the diseased port ion of t he ear. There is oni y one way to cure DeaXnoss. and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness ia caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in flamed yoa have a rumbling Bound or imper fect bearinc. and when it is entirely cleed Deafness la the result, ana nnieas tne in nam mationcan be taken cot and this tube re stored to ita normal condition, beaupe will be destroved forever: nine cases on ten are caused by catarrh, which ia nothinjc but an in- named condition or tne mucous surracia. We will rive One Hundred Dollar for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not re curd by Hall a Calarrn Cure, beaa lor circulars, ire. P. J. Crarrr A Co- Toledo, O. tySold by Druggist. Tie , Thi year 1931 has been better In the cop per Industry than any since 1931, 1583 being etui, nowever, the banner year. The BfM Me a Catalan to Ibe Frail. Splendid bu-iiit- ep.t t unit i- are etffered ine-u ana womt-n er the iiitfht ana im-m eitar acter to rpr-ut B. V. Johnon Co.. of Kichmoiid. Va. No e-apital ne-eleel. Even Iare time- may lie u.--d to gixfcJ advantage. It will te worth your wtuie to write to metn. 'T'HE U. S. Government Chemists have reported, after uiait.ii.iii uiuuus, nidi ine KUlrtL LKIK- ing Powder is absolutely pure, greatest in strength, and superior to all others. fV POYAL CAKtNS PONDER CCVFAM , , 1" WALL ST. NEW-YOPK. Ohio's ladian Saaif. Ohio has more counties bearing In dian names than almost any of the older Western States. Even Delaware County is said to derive its name from an Indian word now corrnpted beyond recognition. Coshocton comes from the Indian name ftoechoenquenk. Geauga is from the Indian wordsheau ga, meauing raccoon. Hocking is from Hock-hocking, Indian for bottle river, the name bestowed npon the Hocking because of some peculiarity of its falls. Mahoning is a corrupted ludian word, meaning "the lick." Miami is the Ottawa word for mother, and it closely resembles in sound the word "mamma." Muskingum means "tho glare of the elk's eye, and seems to perpetuate an interesting fact as to Ihe fauna of Ohio. Ottawa mean "trader," and Sandusky "cool water. " Chicago Herald. The Sample Was AU Right. As Burton, the comedian, wai trav eling on a steamboat down the Hud son, he seated himself at the table and calletl for some beefsteak. The waiter furnished him with a small strip of the article, such as travelers are usually put off with. Taking it up on bin fork and turning it over and ex amining it with one of his peculiar, ser ious looks, tho comedian coolly re marked: "Yes, that's it; bring me some." Detroit Free Tress. Dr. PIERCE'S Golden Medical . DISCOVERY Cures Ninety-eight per cent, ot all cases of Consumption, In alt It Earlier Stages. Although by many believed to be incura ble, there is the evidence of hundreds of living witnesses to the fact that, in all ita earlier stages, consumption is a curable disease. Not every case, but a large per tenlage of fates, and we believe, fully gS per cent, are cured by Dr. Pierce's Colden Medical Discovery, eveu after the disease has progressed so far as to induce repeated bleeelinfrs from the lungs, severe lingering coujrh with copious expectoration (includ ing" tubercular matter), great loss of flesh and extreme emaciation and weakness. Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases reported to us as cured by " Golden Med ical Discovery " were genuine cases of that dread and fatal disease ? You need not take our word for it. They have, in nearly every instance, beet, so pronounced by the best and most experienced home physicians, who have no interest whatever in mis representing them, and who were often strongly nrejueliced and advised against a trial of "Golden Medical Discovery," but who have been forced to confess that it surpasses, in curative power over this fatal malady, all other medicines with which they are acquainted. Nasty cod liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" and mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these cases and bad either utterly failed to bene fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey, and various preparations of the hypophot phites had also been faithfully tried m vain. 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