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REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine's Sun day Sermon. Axt : "Now when He came nlffta to the pate of the city, behold there was a dead man earrled out, the only son of hi mother, nd Bhe was a widow, and much people of the cilv was with her. And when the Lord saw her He had compassion on her and said unto her. Weep not, and He came and touched the Mer. and they that bore him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say nnto thee ariso ! And he that was dead sat lip and began to speak, and He delivered him to his mother." Luke vii., 12-15. The text calls us to stand at the Rate of the city of Nain. The street are a-rush with business nnd jfayety, and the earls deafened with the hammers of mechanism and the wheels of traffic. Work, with Its thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet, fi lis all the street, when suddenly the crowd parts, and a funeral passes. Between the wheels of work and pleasure there comes a lonjr procession of mourning people. Who Is It? A trifler says i "Oh. it's nothing hut a funeral. It may have come up from the hospital ot the city, or the almshouse, or some low place of the town," but not so, says the serious observer. There are so m-iny evidences of dire be reavement that we know at the first srlance some one has been taken away greatly be loved, and to our inquiry, "Who Is this that Is carried out with so many offices of kind ness and affection?" the reply comes, "The only son of his mother, and she a widow." Stand back and let the procession pass out ! Hush all the voices of mirth and pleasure ! Let every head be uncovered ! Woep with this passing procession and let It be told through all the market places and bazaars t Nain that In Galilee to-day the sepuloher hath gathered to Itself "the only son of his mother, and she a widow." There are two or three things that, in my mind, give especial pathos to this scene. The first Is, he was a young man that was being carried out. To" the aged death be comes beautiful. The old man halts and pants nlong the road, where once he bound ed like the roe. From the midst of immedi cable ailments and sorrows he cries out. "How long, Lord, how long!" Footsore and hardly bestead on the hot journey, he wants to get home. He sits in the church nnd sings, with a tremulous voice, some tune he sang forty years ago and longs to join the better assemplage of the one hundred and forty and tour thousand who have passed the flood. How sweetly he sleeps the last Bleep ! Tush back the white locks from the wrinkled temples. They will never acho again. Fold the hands over the still heart. They will never toil again. Close gently the eyes. They will never weep again. But this man that I am speaking of was a young man. He was just putting on the armor of life, and ho was exulting to think how his sturdy blows would ring out above the clangor of the buttle. I suppose he had a young man's hopes, a young man's ambi tions and a young man's courage. He said : "If I live many years, I will teed the hungiy and clothe the naked. In this city of Nain, where there are so many ha I young men, I will be sober and honest and pure and mag nanimous, and my mother shall never be ashamed of me." But all these prospects are blasted in one hour. There he p:iS3e3 lifeless in the procession. Behold all that is left on earth of the high hearted young man Of the city ol Nain. There is another thing that adds very much to this scene, and that is he was an only son. However large the family flock may be, we never could think of sparing one of the lambs. Though they may all have their faults, they all have their excellencies that commend them to the parental heart, and if it were peremptorily demanded of you to-day that you should yield up one of your children out of a very largo family you would be confounded and you could not make a selection. But this was an only son. around whom gathered all the p-i rental ex pectations. How mujh care in hi3 educa tion ! How much caution fn watching tin habits ! He would carry down the name to other times. He would have entire control of the family property long after the parents had gone to their last rowarl. He" would Stand in society a thinker, a worker, a phil anthropist, a Christian. No, no. It is all ended. Behold him there. Breath is gou. Life is extinct. The on'y son of his mother. There was one thing that added to irn pathos of this scene, and that was his mother was a widow. The main hope of that boni" had been broken, and now he was come up to be the staff. The chief light of the house hold has been extinguished, anl this was the only light loft. I suppose she often said, looking at him, "There are only two of us." Ob, it is a grand thing to s,je a young man step out in life and say to his mother; "Don't be down hearted. I will, as far as rDSBible. take father's place, and as long as live you shall never want anything." It is not always that way. Sometimes the young people get tired of the old people. They Bay they are queer ; that they have so many ailments, and they sometimes wish themouc of the way. A young man nnd his wife sat at the table, their little son on the floor play ing beneath the table. The old father was ery old, nnd his hand shook, so they saiil, "You shall no more sit with us at thetable." And so they gave him a place in the corner, Where, day by day, he ate out of an earthen bowl everything put into that bowt. One day his hand trembled so mush he dropped It, and it broke, and the son, seated at ihu elegant table in midfloor, said to his wife. "Now we'll get father a wooden bowl, and imi bb can c nreiiK. so a woolen bowl was obtained, and every day old gran 1 father ate out of th it, sitting in the corner. One day, while the elegant young man and his wife were seated at their table, with chased silver and all the luxuries, and their little son sat upon the floor, they saw tha lad whittling, and they said : "My son, what ore you doing there with that knife?" "Oh," said he, "I I'm making a trough for my lather and mother to eat out of when they get old I" But this young man of the text was not of that character. He did not belong to that school. I can tell it from the way they mourned over him. He was to be the com panion of his mother. He was to be his mother's protector. He would return now Borne of the kindness he had received in the days of childhood and boyhood. Aye, he would with his strong hand uphold that form already enfeebled with age. Will he do it? No. In one hour that promise of help and companionship is gone. There is a world of anguish in that one short phrase, "The only son or his mother, and she a Widow." Now, my friends, it was upon this scene that Christ broke. He came in without any Introduction. He stopped the procession. He had only two utterances to make the one to the mourning mother, the other to the dead. He cried out to the mourning one, "Weep not," and then, touching the bier on which the son lay. He cried out, "Young man, I say unto thee arise !' And he that was dead sat up. I learn two or three i hings from this sub ject, and first that Ciirst was a man. You ee bow that sorrow niayed upon all the chords of His heart. I think that we forget this too often. Christ was a man more cer tainly than you are, for He was a perfect man. No sailor ever slept in ship's ham mock more soundly than Christ slept in that .boat on Gennesaret. In every nerve and muscle and bone nnd fiber of His lody, m every emotion and affection of His heart, in every action and decision of His mind He Was a man. He looked off upon the sea just as vou look off upon the waters. He went into Martha's bouse just as you go into a cottagp. Ho breathed hard when He was tired, ju3t as you do when you are exhauste J. He felt after sleeping out a night in the storm just like you do when you have ben expose I to tempest. It was just us humiliating for Him to beg bread as it would bo for you to become a pauper. Ha felt just as much in -suited by being sold for thirty pieoes of sil vet as you would if yon were sold for the price of a dog . From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot He was a man. When the thorns were twisted for His brow, thev curt Him just as much as they hurt your brow if they were twisted for it. He took not on Htm the nature of angels. He too', on Him the seed of Abraham. "Ecc Homo !" behold tho man ! But I must also draw from this subject itanSVI" a?L1 ?UPP9 tbat man t ternphto breal1 u funeral obse MJ?9.woa d be izx bv the ho I KbVwmpr,30ne1' lf he actually siain bythemo'j befor the offi.-.-rs could ta?Ubl'?w l Chri9t,h'i a mere mor tal, would Uq have a right to come ia Bp0a such n procession? Would He have sue reeled In His interruption? He was more than a man. tor when He cried out, 'I say unto thee, arise !" he tliat was dead sat up. What excitement there must have been there about ! The boiy had lain prostrate. It ha 1 been mourned over with agonizing tears, and yet now it begins to move in the shroud and to be flushed with life, nnd at the com mand of Christ he rises up and looks intc the faces of the astonlshe 1 spectators. "Oh, this was the work of a OoJ. I hear it in His voice ; I see it in the flash of His eye, I behold It in the snapping of death's shackles , I see it in the face of the rising slumberer ; I hear it in the out cry of all those who Were spectators of the scene. If, when I see my Lord Jesus Christ mourning with theboreaved, I put my hands on His shoulders and say, "My brother," now that I hear Him proclaim supernatural deliverances, I look up into H s face ard say with Thomas, "My Lord anl my Go'." Do you not think He was a God? A great many people do not believe that, anlthey compromise the matter, or they think they compromise it. They say He was a v.-ry goo 1 man, but He was not a Go 1. That is impossible. He was either a Goi or a wretch, and I will prove it. If a man pro fesses to be that which he is not, what is he? He is a liar, an impostor, a 113-pocrite. That is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ professed to be a Got. He said over an I over again He was a Go , took the attributes of a God and assumed the works and offices of a God. Bare you now say He was not? He was a God, or He w:is a wretch. Choo3e ye. Do you think I cannot prove by this Bible that He was a Golf If you do not believe this Bible, of course there is no nel of my talking to you. There Is no common data from which to start. Supposa j-ou do be lieve it. Then lean demonstrate that He was divine. I can prove He was Creator, John i., 3, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made " He was eternal, Revelation xxii., 13, "1 am Alpha an I Omega, tho be ginning and the end, the first and the last." I can prove that He was omnipotent Hebrews 1.. 10, "The heavens are the work of Thine hands." I can prove He was omniscient, John ii., 25, "He knew what wa3 in man." Oh, yes, He is a God. He cleft the sea. He upheaved the crystalline walls along which, the Israelites marched. He planted the mountains. He raises up governments and casts down thrones nnd marches across nations anl across worlds and across the universe, eternal, omnipo tent, unhindered and unabashed. That nan I that was nailed to the cross holds the stars in a leash of love. That head that droppe 1 on the bosom in fainting an I death shall make the world quake at its nod. That voice that groaned in the last pang shall swear be fore the trembling world tnat time shall be no longer. Ob, do not insult the common s-c-nseot the raco Dy telling us tnat tnis per son was only a man in whose presence tho paralytic arm wa3 thrust out well, and the devils crouched, and the lepers droppal their scales, nnd the tempests folded their wings, and the boy's satchel of a few loaves made a banquet for 5000, and the sad proces sion of my text broke uo in congratulation and hosanna ! Again, I learn from this subject that Christ was a sympathizer. Mark you, this was a city funeral. In the country, when the bell tolls, they know all about it for flva miles around, and they know what was the matter with the -man, how old he was and what were his last experiences. They know with what temporal prospects he has left his fam ily. There is no haste, there is no indecency in the obsequies. There is nothing done as a mere matter of business. Even the chil dren come out as the procession passes and look sympathetic, and the tree shadows seem to deepen, and the brooks weep in sympathy as the procession goes by. But, mnrk you, this that I am speaking of was n city funeral . In great cities the cart jostles the hearse, and there is mirth and gladness and indifference as the weeping procession goes by. In this city of Nain it was a com mon thing to have trouble and bereavement and death. Christ saw it every day there. Perhaps that very hour there were others be ing carried out, but this frequency of trouble did not harden Christ's heart at all. He 6teppe i right out, and He saw this mourner, and He had compassion on her, and Ho said "Weep not ! ' Now I have to tell you. O bruised souls, nnd there are many everywhere have you ever looked over any great audience and no ticed how many shadows of sorrow there are? I come to all such and say, "Christ meets you, and He has compassion on you, and He says, 'Weep not."' Perhaps with some it is financial trouble. "Oh," yousay, "it is such a silly thing for a man to cry over lost money ! Is it? Suppose you had a large fortune. and all luxuries brought to your table, and your wardrobe was lull, and your home was beau tiful by music and sculpture and painting and thronged by the elegant and educated, nnd then some round misfortune should strike you in the face and trample your treas ures and taunt your children for their faded dress and send you into commercial circles an underling where once you waved a scepter of gold, do you think you would cry then? I think you would. But Christ comes and meets all such to-day. He sees all the straits in which you have been thrust. He observes the sneer of that man who onoe was proud to walk in your shadow and glad to get your help. He sees the protested note, the un canceled judgment, the foreclosed mortgage, the heartbreaking exasperation, and Hesay3 "Weep not. I own the cattle on a thousand hills. I will never let you starve. From My hand the fowls of heaven peck all their food. And will I let you starve? Never : no. Mi child , never!" Perhaps it may be a living homo trouble that you cannot speak about to your best friend. It may bo soaio domestic unhap piness. It may bo an ovil suspicion. It may be the disgrace following in the footsteps of a son that is wa3ward, or a companion who is cruel, or a father that will not do right, and for years there may have been a vulture striking its beak into the vitals or youi-sou', and you sit there to-day feeling it is worse than death. It is. It is worse than death. And yet there is relief. Though the night may be the blackest, though the voices of hell may tell you to curse Gol and die, look up and hear the voice that accosted the woman of the text as it says, "Weep not." Earth hath no sorrow Tbat heaven cannot cure. I learn, again, from all this that Christ is the master of the grave. Just outside the gate of the city Death and Christ measured lances, and when the young man rose Death dropped. Now we are sure of our resurrec tion. Ob, what a scene it was when that young man came back ! . The mother never expected to hear him speak again. She never thought that he would kiss her again. How the tears started nnd bow her heart throbbed as she said, "Ob. my son, my son, my son !" And that scene is going to be re peated. It is going to be repeated 10,000 times. These broken family circles have got to come together. These extinguished household lights have got to be rekindled. There will be a stir in the family lot in the cemetery, and there will be a rush into life at the command. "Young man, I say unto thee arise !" As the child shakes off the dust of the tomb ami conies forth fresh and fair and beautiful, and you throw your arms around it and press it to your he rt. angel to angel will repeat the story of Nain, "Ke delivered him to his mother." Did you no tice that passage in the text as I read it? "He delivered him to his mother." Oh, ye troubled souls! Ob. ye who have lived to see every prospect blasted, peeled, scattered, consumed, wait a little ! The seedtime of tears will become the wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry blast, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest an l amid re deemed one3 that weep not, that part not. that die not, friend will come to friend, and kindred will join kindred, and the long pro cession that marches the avenues of gold will lift up their palms as again and again it i3 announced tbat the same one who came to the relief of this woman of the text oame to t he relief of many a maternal heart and re peated tho wonders of resurrection and de livered him to his mother." Oh, that will be the harvest of the world. Tnat will ba the coronation of princea. vtU be the Sabbath of eternit.v. Not Approved. ration "Deacon Smith, kiri.TIy wnkeii Brother Hawkins. While it it trtio that tho sleep of tho jtisfc h3 often bcou commended, I do not thick the snoro of tho just has ever received the stamp of approval." Harper' liazar. Meersohaata is a Dtch word and loaag tos,m of the eea. BILL ARP'S LETTER. WILLIAM IS DOWN ON SECRET POLITICAL ORDERS. Diligent Work Beats Alliance Grips and Passwords. Oar farmers are going to be in a bad fix next winter. They wont have any nubbins to feed the steers on. I never saw such big fine corn cor so much cf it. I never saw such fine cot ton in Bartow county nor so much of it. Our farmers made a fine crop of wheat and oats, and they will make a big crop of sweet pota toes. The gardens are fine, the cattle are fat, and the chickens are juicy. A kind providence and ddigent notk beats the alliance and all its fdgns and grips and passwords and resolutions. I see that some farmers in South Carolina have recently passed a resolution that they will not sell their cotton seed for less than 20 cents a bushel. If they mean by that to put them back in the land, it is good, but if they m-an to force the market price, it is as foolish as our state alliance at Maoon, that a few years ago resolved that they would hold their cotton un til it brought 13 1-2 cents a pound. But far mers generally have quit such foolishness anl have fallen back on hard work. They had some fun, and a few of their leaders got into office, but the masses never got their hands in the sub-treasury not- their cotton and grain in gov ernment warehouses. I never knew any good to come of these secret-class associations, ex cept whfre they are formed for charity. Those formed for political purposes are a menace to good government, and an insult to outsiders. I remember when the know-nothing party came into being and for few months hover d over the country like a dark and threatening cloud. Those who did not belong to it felt subdued and alarmed for they did not know who they were nor whom to talk to in confidence, home mornings we would find the sidewalk spotted with red paper triangles that meant a secret meeting somewhere that night. If a municipal election came off the know nothings never said a word, but when the bal lots were counted men were elected who were not candidates. Outsiders stood aghast. Many would have Joined but were not wanted nor in vited. "Put none but Americans on guard to night" was the patriotic shibboleth, and no foreign-born citizen need apply. Protestant preachers were all in, but no priests nor Roman Catholics. But soon the power of money began to be felt and some of the worst men were nom inated for office. About that time Aleck Stephens had waked up to the situation. He stumped the state against the new party, and so keen was his invective, so masterly his argu ments, that good men everywhere dropped out of it, and their candidates were defeated. It was withering and tragic to see the little giant flash his dark eyes and he ir him scream: "How now ye secret, dark and midnight hags! What is it ye do? A deed without a name." Yes, a party without a name, a party that dark enoth counsel without knowledge, a star cham ber that would politically guillotine LaFayette and Baron de Steuban, if they were here; a parly that designating hypocrites and disap pointed demagogues originated for their own atigrandiz-mient. Well, he killed it in Georgia. Of course lie bad help and co-operation, but he was the chief executioner. Li t me see. That was about forty years ago, and now that same old party has come to life again under a new name the A. P. A.'s and its vilification of Roman Catholics is just like it was then. The papers sent me from Dtiluth and Rock Inland teem wiih slander and lies. They declare the Roman Catholic priests to be libertines and the convents bagnios and the ed itor of the Duluth paper boldly charges that tho cells in the basement of the convent ia Du luth were built to imprison the nuns who re fused to submit themselves to the priests. The Duluth paper says that tho assertions that the bhermaus were Roman Catholics is an infamous, slanderous lie, and that if Rose crans, Mc Clellan and McDowell and McClennard were Roman Catholics they were utter failures as commanders; that out of the 144,000 Cath olic Irishmen in the union army, over 100,UUO of them deserted, and thut it was Roman Cath olic influence that caused the assassination of Lincoln and Garfield. They are awful mad with Mr. Cleveland for attending high mass on the death of Carnot, and denounce the pope for sending old Jeff Davis his apostolic bless ing. The anathemas in these papers are fenr ful, and I don't see how they can keep up tha lick. When I was young I read a book called "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk." Maria was an escaped nun from a Roman Catholic convent in Monfreal.and her pitiful story was as startling a is that of IdaWells on the southern people. She sold 250,000 copies 'in a little time, and was a great heroine in the best so ciety of New York and Boston. But by and by the whole story was disproved by a committee of Protestant clergymen in Montreal, and Maria, bad to retire as a fraud and an impos'or. But she made a snug little fortune to retire on, and that is what Ida is trying to do. The fools are not all dead yet, and she knows it. But no party can ride into power on the waves of persecution, especially religious perse cution. The A. P. A-'s will only make the Ro man Catholics stronger and more zealous. They are strong now. They can stand alone even in a sectarian war. The pope and the cardinal and archbishops have recently made a declara tion against the liquor traffic that will have a widespread influence for good government in this country. I wonder what Duluth will say about that. But persecution. boycotting. xil- ing, disqualifying for offiee and general os' ra cism for opinion's sake has never been a lasting success. Haman thought he had the dead wood on Mordecai and the Jews, but Haman was hung and 75,000 of Irs confederates were lain with the oword. But, what excuse can the people of the s juth have for this persecution of the Roman Catho lics? I gather from these organs of the A. P. A's. that one grevious complaint 'against the Irish is that they vote the democratic ticket nd hurrah for Grover Cleve'and. and are against a protective tariff and are friendly to louthern traitors. This is about the sum of their offen 'ing. and for this they are "not to hold office nor to be employed in anycapaci.y if a Pro'estant can ba obtained to do the work required." These two things constitute the treed of the A- P. A's. Thin, how can any self respecting Fouthern man join them or give them aid and comfort in any wa ?" Jefferson laid that eiror ceases to be dangeron when reason is left free to cmbat it and tliere sever was a time when reason was as free and is intelligent as it is now in the United States The whole thing is a republican scheme, but it will not work in the south. Our people are getting hard to fool with bait that does not hide the hrok- Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. The Columbia River Salmon. "On a recent visit to the Pacific coast," said Walter Stedman, a New York drummer, at the Lindell, last night, "I paid a visit to one of tho largo canning factories in Oregon, where the Columbia River salmon are packed and shipped all over the coun try. It was a novel sight to me, and one in which I took a good deal of in terest. The fish are caught in nets and carried in boats to the factory, whero they are thrown upon a stage and lie in heaps, a thousand or so in a pile. You can sea huge lish among them that weigh from thirty to sixty pounds". One Chinaman will seize a salmon, and, with a dexterous blow of a big knife, sever it i hen I with one stroke ; another workman then grabs it and slashes o-i tho tins and disembowels it. It is then thrown into a vat, where the blood soaks out,- aud, I tell you, they bleed like a stuck pig. After repeated washings the fish is cut into chunks, plunged into brine and stuffed into c-ans, the bones first being removed. The tops of the cans, which havo a small holo in them, are then soldered on, and 500 or 600 of them at a time are plunged iuto boiling water, whero they remain until the heat has expelled all the air. Then the little air hole in the top of the lid is eoldered up and tho salmon ia ready for market." St. T-iouip Gloe-Timocrat. HELTING OLD JEWELRY; In 153") the flrt carriage brougt to England fro.it I.-.tnsj. X880 there were 4.63.000 in us Ii. TTKTBLOOM3 IN THE liOAN SB'S CKUCIBIB. BEOK- "TV The Silver and Gold Turned Into Coin at tho Government's BI3 Mints Pawnshop Secrets. OOKS funnv. doesn't it? All the same there are J dozen of those machines , going at least oao in this citv that the rmblio never heard about before. When you un- rlprntftTirl it von will be able to tell your friends what becomes of the gold and silver thev leave with their 'uncle' and never redeem. 'On the dead, now ; don't give me away and I'll tell you some of the secrets 01 tne pawn The remark was made in a little dark Toom in. the rear of one of the biV loan offices of Chicago to a re- 'porter for the Tribune of that city, iThe proprietor went on to say the re- Iports show that ten to fifteen per cent, 'of all articles nlaced in "hock ia never called for. Then often gold and silver is purchased outright by the pennyweight or ounce, and in one way ar another a large amount ot iuo precious metals is accumulated. To turn old-style goods into ready casn 13 the nroblem that confronts the loan broker. Bankrupt stocks of new de- 'Kiflrns and fresh eoods fill the cases in Ithe counters and show windows, and the old material goes into new golden eagles with Uncle Sam's stamps upon ithem. On the floor of the back room reached after setting half a dozen lelectrio alarms going and the pressing 'of numerous buttons, was a peculiar 'contrivance looking like a six-inch tile 'stood on end with a brass barrel cov ered with pipes by its side. A copper pan. some iron tools and some bowls that looked like common flower pots lay on the floor. J "This copper barrel," said tha pro prietor, "is filled with naphtha ; these pipes lead to this tile or furnace ; this handle here is for the forcing of air behind the naptha so it will make a strong blast ; these pots are crucible?, jlnto the furnace we place the crucible, into the crucible goes the gold. Hot, isn't it? So hot that we are compelled to wear colored glasses to see what's going on. But that's nothing to tho way the thing is done in Uncle Sam's furnaces. Now here goes to fill tho crucible." j Into the stone jar went gold witca cases and chains with family histories, crests, and initials, souvenir bjoou? and breastpins of forgotten dates, rings that could have spoken of wed ding bells and birthdays in the long ago, golden charms, scarf pins with the jewels removed, and odds and endj collected in a week's trade. The esti mated value of the hatful of stock was $1000 in pure gold. Into the melting collection went a handful of borax. That was to make the gold flow when sufficiently melted. There was no smoke, nothing but a sickly smell of naphtha, tho noise of the blast, and the glittering whiteness of the crucible. To get a closer look at the melting gold a pair of green glasses was fur nished. As the broker stirred the con tents of the crucible with an iron poker, black bubbles would come to the top, pieces of coarser metal would ba seen struggle to the surface, only to sink back into the yellow gold, now turned to fluid. The broker lifted the cruci ble out of the furnace and poured its white hot contents into an iron mold. The mold rested in a pan of water. All the gold settled into the mold and the borax, turning black as it hit the water, stayed on top. In a few min utes the borax was knocked oSf and out fell a bar of gold weighing several pounds, eight inches loug and proba bly three-fourths of an inch square. After cleaning, the bar was laid aside for shipment to the Treasury. "We do this once a week, said the proprietor, as he shut off the valve to ; the naphtha barrel. "From here the bars go to Washington by express Before its value is returned we will pay out nearly $1 on $1000. At Undo Sara's works the bar will be remelted by a fiercer heat. Then tha malted mass will ba poured into water, whera it will form into shots or pellets of gold and silver aud copper. These pellets are then placed in acid and the different metals separated. No, you can't fool the Government for a min ute. Science does the work in good shape. After this process the Treas ury ships gold eagles for the gold end silver coin for the silver metal contained in the bar. So you see the old battered watch case, tha broken chain, or out of date ornament come3 back in new coin of the realm. Over $200,000 worth of gold bar3 is an nually sent from Chicago brokers in just this way, and not one person in 10,000 ever sees how the melting is done. Of course many gold coins are made into jewelry, and in course of time are sent back through our cruci bles once more. This is on account of change of style in gold ornaments of all kinds which is constantly going on. Any prot? Oh, yes, we figure all such things. An article pawnel means to us only its weight in the cru cible with a profit deducted. This profit may be six or it may be twelve per crnt. A chain weighing $10 worth of gold we buy for $3.50 or some less. The $1.50 is for profit, handling and the risk. Yes, it's quite a busi ness, and many a family history has been told in the golden heirlooms that have fallen into a loan broker's crucible." SCIENTIFIC A5D INDUSTRIAL. bicyclists in the (German Army. The sum of $25,000 is included in the German Army estimates for the present year for the supply of bicycles to the infantry. Two bicycles are as signed to each battalion. An instruc tion has been issued dealing with the bicycle service. Bicycles aro to be used for communications between columns on tho march and for com munications between advanced guards. When troops are in quarters bicyclists are to fulfil the functions of orderlies, especially where mounted orderlies are wanting. They wiil also relieve the cavalry from relay . and intelli gence duties. In great fortresses tha whole of the duties now devolving up on cavalry as message bearers will be trans ferre-1 tt bicycliste Chigago Herald The newest scienco is seismology, the study of earthquakes. The bed of the ocean is supposed to be of mountainous formation. Tho application of electricity to the smelting of iron is being experimented with in Sweden. It is asserted that in ninety-nine out of 100 the left side of the face is the more perfect in outline. The number of telephonic stations in Germany, which wa3 1531 in 18S1, had increased at the beginning of tha present year to 63,558. A bullet from one of the new rifles in use in the Italian army will pene trate five inches of solid ash at a dis tance of three-quarters of a mile. The German Government has decid ed to paint their topedo boats bluish gray, this color being, they consider, th.9 least Visible under the electric light. Annealed glass has not yet come in any practical form, but an advance has been made recently in making sheets of glass with fine wire threaded through them, so that in case of break age the parts will hang together. In Germany they have been analyz ing and experimenting with dust swept from the floors, seats and walls of the railway coaches. One hundred and seventeen animals were inoculated with this dust ; many died of various contagious diseases, three of marked tuberculosis. The average weight of the brain of an adult male is three pounds eight ounces ; of a female, two pounds four dunces. The nerves are all connected with it directly or by the spinal mar row. These nerves with their blanches and minute ramifications probably exceed 10,000,000 in number. Dr. Bembo, of St. Petersburg, Bus- sia, advocates cutting tne large Diooa- vessels of the neck as the most hu mane mode of slaughtering animals. When this is done unconsciousness sets in m a few seconds, and the move ments observed are due to cerebral anaemia. Moreover, tur nesn of ani mals which have been blei to death keeps best. Pasteur, the French scientist, has shown that all fruits and vegetables when undergoing even partial decay contain bacteria, which, if taken into the stomach, may cause disease. Fruit grown near to the ground may contain the bacteria of typhoid fever, tetanus, diphtheria or cholera, which may have found their way into the material used for fertilizing, or may have be- como incorporated witn tua dried dust. Hence one should never neglect to cleanse fruit. Especial care shonll be taken with imported or shipped fruit more particularly that from districts where there are infectious diseases. Puff Balls as Tootl. It will surprise many to know that the plebeian puff ball of our pastures is good for something besides old fash ioned styptic, smoke, and the kick of the small boy. There are a number of species of the puff ball, varyiug in shape and size from the small white globular variety of an inch in diameter, and the pear- shaped, to the giant pasture speaios which may attain tha dimensions of a football. All are edible, if gathere I at the white stage, those of yellow n darker fracturo beiug excluded. Of tha esculent qualities of the larger species, Jjycoperdon giganteum, we may judge from the statement of a connoisseur. "bliced and seasoned in butter and salt, and fried in the pan, 10 French omelet is half as good in richness and delicacy of flavor." M. Cooke, the British authority, siys of it, "In its young and alpy condition it is excellent eating, and indeed has but few competitors for the place of honor at tho table." Harper's Maga zine. The Telegraph in China. A Chinese engineer, educated in New Haven, Conn., has nearly completed a telegraph line, 3000 miles long, across the Gobi desert, from Pekin to Kash gar, Chinese Turkestan. It has been three years under construction, and poles in places were hauled 600 miles. French lines connect it with the Bus sian system. Literary Digest. The earliest snow ever known Englana vas on October 7, 132J in $100 Reward. 9100. The readers of this paper will be nleased' to learn tbat there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its -tages, and that is catarrh. Hail's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to our. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Boston will have an elevated railroad. The citizens voted in favor ot the Meigs sys tem. Pure antl Wholesome Qnallitr Commends to public approval the California liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. It 1 pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the sys tem effectually, it promotes the health and comfort of all who use it, and with, milliona it is the best and only remedr. Statistics of the rcent strike show that the railroads lost $355,912 in ears burned by the rioters. Weak and Weary Overcome by the heat or extraordinary exer tion, the physical system, like a machine, needs to be renovated and repaired. The blood needs to ba puriQei anl invigorate j Sarsa- ana the nerves and muscles strengthened by Hood's Sarsap.iril- 1.1, wnien craates an appetite, remov.-s that tired feeling and gives sweet, sound, refreshing sleep. Hood's Ji it ures Hood's Pills cure all liver Ids. 25a i THERE are any house keepers not using ROYAL RAKING POWDER, its frreat qualities warrant them in making a trial of it. The ROYAL BAKING POWDER takes the place of soda and cream of tartar, is more convenient, more eco nomical, and makes the biscuit, cake, pudding and dumpling lighter, sweeter, more delicious and wholesome. Those who take pride in making the finest food say that it is qu'itc indispen sable therefor. A? ROYAL BAKING. POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NtWOnK. A Wicked Tarrot. Baldheadod people are continually being made the butt of other peo ple's jokes. It is not often, though, that you hear of a parrot taking ad vantage of our misfortune and setting us up as an objeot of ridicule. Such a thing happened to ma a few weeks ago, and I will tell you how it was. An old college chum of mine received a parrot as one of his wedding pres ents, and both he and his wife are greatly attached to the bird. He is in the habit of getting out ot his cage and roaming over tho house at his own sweet will. One day the cook caught Polly in the act of pulling some pickled onions from a jar that stood on the kitchen table ; she was so angry that she threw a dipper of hot water she had in he? hand at him, some of which landed on top of his head, and the result was that a turf of feathers came off and he was a bald-headed parrot forever more. Months after this occurrence I called at the homo of my friend to spend the evening. The parrot's cage hung up in the hall in such a position that he could command a view of the front door. As I stepped inside the door and removed ray hat, displaying my extensive bald pate, Polly at once cried out in the plainest tones "Ho, ha, so yoxi have been at the pickled onion, too, hava you?" Ji-t-Louis Globe-Deniocrat. nmmnl fiermrin report kTwA 7 tna the number of deaths caused bylhl ninghave been increased by abotrtt 00 percent, from tho eeason of 1870' ft 1882. The author attributes this toi the gradual disappearance of fw?estsii and to tho greater use of metals' im ' building construction. LightniUtf: protectors havo yielded excellent re suits in most cases, and it i.s deemed essential that all high buildings should be provided with them. Only 10.23 per cent, of tho voting strength of this nation in colored. A Beautiful Sliln is one of the chief requisites of nn at tractive appearance. Hough, dry, scaly patches little blis'ery eruptions, red and unsightly ringworms them? would spoil the beauty of a veritable Venus. They are compMely ami! quickly cured by Tetterine. fr cent a box at drug stores or postpAW by J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. 1 Kctixie in tho army havo kept th courts of Lima busy for some time. New in the Way of Enterlainmemt. A Western resort hotel has intro duced something new in the way of entertainment for the guests. A channel runs back of the hotel, and, as it is known to abound in carp and cat fish, some genius of the institution hit upon the plan of setting the guests to fishing, that they might while away the lagging hours of the afternoons. Sometimes the catch is large, and since the new pastime was inaugurated some two hundred pounds of fish bave been landed on the bank by the piscatorial prowess of the guests of the hotel. Generally there are several small boys about, who are rewarded by being given the catch, and sometimes the man who lands a nice bite wants a nice bite himself and has the chef of the institution to put it on the pan for him. Chicago Herald. GUAR ANTEES A OB MONEY IS REFUNDED. Disease fellows a run-down system with the liver inactive and the blood disordered. Pimping, Boils, Bores, Carbuncles, Ulcers, and like manifestations of impure blood, should be driven out of the system with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Mn. Kuhsc. of 618 E. 16th Street, New Yirrk City, writes aa follows: " It pleases mo to state that 1 had a run ning' sore upou my Bet-k, and had it oper ated upon three times, and still it was not cured. I was also run down very much. There was a decided change after using ' Dr. Pifrcc's Golden Medical Discovery.' I took a tew bottles and was soon cured. Later my if., w-tt-ki nuaoanu naa a mmp aiks. iiuHN. behind his ear: ho tried your medioine, and one bottlo cured him. I shall always recomme&d your medicines. The l)r SI en Wanted. "Yes, we want the Htrontfext. arid lie.st men (1 iwnr the readers of your paper to represent u.'i in their respective localities, either !i'volin a 1 or any part of their timo to our business. Men mid women who stand well are olfereij exceptional opportunities for proli table, work." That is what H. V. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., say in reference to their advertisement. Detboit, Mich, will spond 1330,000 on the 6treets to provide work. 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