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Suicide in Olden Time Was Considered Honorable and a Sign of Courage—Mod- ern Apologists for This Crime—Genuine Science and Revelation in Accord. BEOOKLTN, Oct. 14—At the Tabernacle this morning, the Rev. T. De Witt Tannage, D.D., took for his text Acts xvi, 3S and 29: \He drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm.\ The sermon was as follows: Here is a would be suicide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and ac- cording to the Roman law, a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner; and if the prisoner breaking jail v/as sentenced to be endungeoned for throe or four years, then the sheriff must be endun- geoned for three or four years; and if the prisoner breaking jail -was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp look- out for Paul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and super- natura'. Sure enough, by miraculous power, they »re free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's axe on the morrow and suf- fer public disgrace, resolves to precipitate his own decease. But before tho sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the unloosened prisoners ar- rests the blade by the command: \Do thyself no harm.\ In olden time and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suicide was consid- ered honorable and a sign of courage. De- mosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's ambassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to Philip of Slacedou. Cato, rather than submit to Julius Csesar, took his own lifo, and after three times his wounds has been uressed toro them open and perished, iiithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompeytho conqueror. Hanibal destroyed his life by poison 'from his ring, considering life unbear- able. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After tho disaster of Moscow, Napoleon al- ways carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put something ina glass and drink it, and soon after the groans aroused ail the attendants, and it was only through utmost medical skill he was resuscitated from tho stapcr of the opiate. Titaes have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up on the sub- ject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce ti e passage out of life by one's own behest? faulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men losing large for- tunes go out of the world because they cunnot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affec- tion, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impa- tience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, desti- tution, nusantrophy are considered suflicient causes lor absconding from this life bj Paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. Jlore cases of felo de so in the last two years than any two j-ears of tho world's existence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months. The evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this life when it b&- comes disagreeable, and there are found in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul in the test arrested. 1 shall show you before I get through that sui- cide is tho worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in tho early, part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than 1 have of the Christian who dies in his bod in the delirium of typhoid fever. ^Vhilo the shock of the catastrophe is very great, I charge all those who have had Christian friend3 under cerebral aberra' tion step off the boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane, you may know from tho kind way he treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which he hushed tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual giants, had none grander then Hugh Miller. Great for science and great for God. [He came of the best Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and JIurehison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held uni- versities.-spellbound while he told them, the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until lie brought geology and theology accordant in divine -worship. His two books, entitled \Footprints of the Creator\ and the \Testi- mony of the Rocks\ proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this latter book he toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God, until he could not deep, and his brain gave way, and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets— one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's inquest was examining it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller, after his Hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of- heaven. No one doubted thejpiety of William Cow* per, theautherbf those three great hymns, \Oh for a closer walk with Gcsd,\ \What various hindrances we meet,\ \There is a fountain filled with blood.\ William Cow- per, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hyinn- oiogy. In hypochondria he resolved to take his own life and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he expected to spring, and rode back to his home and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then ho hanged himself to tiie ceiling, but the rope parted. Ko wonder tbat when G-od mercifully aelivcred him from gut awful dementia he sat down and wrote that other hymn just as memorable: God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; Ho plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Blind nn\>elier is sure to err Arid scan his-worfc in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that that man who in the use of his reason, by his own act, snaps the bond between his body and bissoul goes straight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelations xxi* 8, \Mur^ derers shall have their part in tlio lake which burueth with firo and brimstone\ Revcla- tionsxxii. 15, \Without are dogs, and sorcer- ers, and whoremongers, aiid murderers.' You do not believe the New Testament? Then, perhaps, you believe the Ten Com- mandments: \Thou shalt not kill.\ Do you say ell these passages refer to tho taking of the life of others? Then 1 ask you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the ,.,,-,, „ ,-, , - . , , , i case of irresponsibility they say: \While life of others? God gave you a special trust this man was demented he took his lif..-;\in this country that it does not make any di: fercuco how you go out of the world, yo will land safely, tho Hudson and tho Eas rivers would be so full of corpses the ferrj boats would be impeded in tteir progress and the crack of a suicide's pistol would b\ no more alarming than the rumble of astreei car, *• I have sometimes heard it discussed whethe: the great dramatist was a Christian or not. do not know, bnt I know that he considera appreciation of a future existence the might- iest hindf anco to self destruction. For who could bear the whips and scorns o time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud roan's con- tumely, The paugs of dospis'd lore, the lair's delay. The Uisoleuco ol office, aud the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, V/hen he himself might liis quietus ir.aice With a baro bodkin ? Who would fardels bear. To gruiit aad sweat under a \veary life, But that the dread of something after deatli-r- tho undiscevored country, from whose bourne No traveler recum—puzzles the will? Would God the coroners would bo bravi in rendering the right verdict, and when in a case of irresponsibility they say: W thi :o. ns made you tho • custodian of j your life as he made you the custodian of no other lifo. Ee gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arms to strike back assailants, two eyes to wateii for invasion, and a natural love of lifo which ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination of others is a mild crime compared with tho assassina- tion of yourself, because in tho latter caso it is treachery to an especial trust, it; is tho sur- render of a castle you were, especially ap- pointed to keep, it is treason to a natural law and it is treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime, 1 point you to the rogues' picture gallery hi some parts of tho | Bible, tho picti*-es of the people who have j committed this nunatural crime, llera is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Eero is the man who chased littlo David—ton- feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man v.-ho consulted a clairvoy- ant, Witch of Endor. Sere is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has dono, asks his servant to slay him.; arid when tho servant declines, then the giant plants tho hilt of tho sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and ho throws his body on it -and expires, the coward, the sui- cido. Here is Ahithopuel, the MachiavclH of olden times, betraying his best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom, and joining teat fol- low in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, ho takes a short cut out of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, tho ingrate! Hero is Abimelccii, practically a suicide. He is with an army, bombarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grind- stone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what lifo ho lias left in his cracked skull he commands his armor bearer: Draw thy sword aud slay nio, lose men-say a women slew mo.\ There is his post inertem photograph in tho book of Samuel, But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donna says he was a martyr, and wo havo in our day apologists for him. And what v.oi- books aud attended iniidel lectures, whie. obliterated from this man's mind all appreci- ation of anything liko future retribution, hi committed self slaughter!\ Oh, Infidelity, stand up and tako thy sen- tence! In tho presence of God, aud angels. and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption .of the ages! Stand up, Satyr,\ filthy goat, buzzard of the nation, leper of tho centuries Stoad UP, thou.monsterlijfidelity! Part man, part panther, part reptile, port dragon, stauci up and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou hast washed thy feefr. crimson with the human gore through which thqti hast waded, sta*d up and Jtaka thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit and sup oil the sobs and groans of fami- lies thou hast blasted, and roll on tho bed o. knives which thou hasfc sharpened for others, and let thy niusio be the e verlasting inisereii of those whom thoii hast damned 1 I branc the forehead of Infidelity with ail the crimes of self immolation for the last century on the part of those who haJ their reason. My -friend, if ever_yotir life through its abrasions and its molestations should seem tc bo unbearable, and you are tempted to qiii it by your own behest, do not consider your- self as worse than others. Christ himself wa3 tempted to cast- himself from tho roof o: the temple; but as he resisted, so resist ye. Christ eamejto medicino all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who havo had -it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on tbe way. Remember that God keeps tho chronology oi your life with as much precision as he keeps tho chronology of nations, your death a: well as your cradle. T7hy was it that at midnight, just at mid- nig'at, the destrojunj angel struck the blow that sot the Israelites freo from bonda^ Tho f cm' hundred and thiry years-were Uf at twelve o'clock that night. Tho four hun- dred and thirty years were not up at eleven, and ono o'clock would havo been tardy aiid top late. The four hundred aud thirty years were up at- twelve o'clock, and tho destroy- angel slruck the blow, and Israel was this day when there are betrayals of Ciirisc on tho part oz* somoof his pretend-d apostles —a betrayal so black it 'makes the infamy of but tho best of them. If you must tako the pills, do not chsw them. Your everlasting rewards will accord with your earthly per- , . , - . , . , „ , . , -, . turbatkms, just as Caius gave to iXgrippa a Judas Iscariot white! Yet.tms man by his cha in of gold as heavy as has been a chain oi own hand hungup roi-tho execration oi ail ffon _ p,^ th e asKin^and I do not know to tho ages, Judas Iscariot. I - All tlio good men and women of tho Biblo ' left to God the decision of their earthly ter^ miuus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to eommiu suicide if any man , ever had-=-what with his destroyed property, \ Jeons,\ dated'his letter from the \delectable and his body all aflame with insufferable car- j orcu ard of the Leonine prison. buueles, and everything gone from his home Ad b h h b _ know to whom I speak in this august assemblage, but tho word may bo especially appropriato—for- your asking you may have the sanio grace that was given to the Italian niariyr Al- geuius, who, down in the darkest of dun- Aud remember that this brief lifo of ours y e ca buueles, and everything gone from his home escepfc tho chief curse of it, a pestiferous wife, i s surrO unded by a rim, a very thin but very and four garrulous people pelting him with important rim, and ciosoupto that rim is a comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ; great eteniiB y ^d you h'ad better keep out h k ht i d y y pp g wait till my change come.\ get rid o j a swsrnl of summer insects, leap notwithstanding the Bible is against this no t into a jungie of Bengal tigers. • evil and tho aversion which it creates by the There is a sof rowless world, and it is so loathsome aud ghastly spectacle of those who . radiant that tho noonday sun is only the low- have hurled themselves out of life, and not-! est doorstep, and the aiirora that lights up withstanding Christianity is against it, and ; our northern heavens, confounding astron- the arguments and the iisefui lives and the , omers* as to what it can bo, is the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it-is a fact waving of the banners 'of the i alarmingly patent that suicide is on tho in- •; cession come to take the conquerors crease. j home from church militant to church'tri- Whatisthe cause? I charge upon infidel- umphant, and you and I have ten thousand ,-t,r n .^ OO™«K~C™ +;.,-o ,..i-i- «-• if pgasojjs for wanting to go there, but w will ity and agnosticism this whole thing, thero be no hereafter, or if that hereafter ba blissful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the neit? And when our existence hero becomes trouble- some, why not pass right over into ISlysium? Put this down among your most solemn re? flections, \and consider ib atteryou go to your homes: there has never been a case of suicide where tho operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an hiiidct I challenge all the ages, and 1 challenge the : wholo universe. There never has been a case j of self destruction while in full appreciation j of his immortality and of the \fact that- that ' immortality would be glorious. or wretched according as he accepted Jesiis Christ or re- • jected him. j You say it is a business trouble, or you say • xt is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear bock, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is therabdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity which practically : says: \If you don't like this life get out of • it, and you wili lafid either in annihilation, ] where there are no notes to pay,.iio pefsecu- ; tions-te suffer, no gout to torment, or you will , laud where there will be everything glorious j and nothing to pay for it.\ Infidelity always has been apologetic for self immolation. After Tom Poine's \Age of Keasoh\ was published and widely read there was a marked increase . of self slaughter. j A man in London heard Mr. Owen deliver . his infidel lecture on socialism and went. home, sat down and wrote these words: \Je^ sus Christ is one of the weakest characters in • history, and the Bible is the greatest possible deception,\ and then shot himself. David never get there either by self immolation or iinpenitency. All bur sins siain by tho Christ who came to do that thing, wo want to go in at just tho time divinely arranged, and from a church d.vinely spread, and then the clang of the.sepulc!ifal.gates behind us will be over- powered by the clang of tho opening of the solid pearl before us. O God, whatever others may choose, give ma a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's biirial, a Christian's iinrnortality! Er'ioiiafcioa Craze at Vienna* The other day the remains of a number of citizens of Vienna shot during the revolution of March, 1848, were eihumed from the Schmeizer cemetery to bo reinterred in the Sew- cemetery at Simmering. It is believed that fofty^sis persons wore interred in the common pit, but the number cannot bo as- certained accurately. The corpses were Orig- inally laid in hospital shells, and when a first exhumation took place, in 1864, with a View of providing the obscure champions of popular liberties with decent graves, it was found that all tho cofinis had rotted away and many of tho skeletons were broken up. A cemented pit, with two chambers, was prepared at the Schmelzer cemetery, and in these tho remains were deposited with all the remnants of clothing found upon them. When tho pit was opened all the boues were\! seen mixed iu a heap. Workmen brought them up in sieves, and ghastly it was to see skulls, fingers, teeth And bunches of hair mingled w ith inouidy shoes and fragments of brown cloth. Fifteen entire skulls were re- covered, one containing the brain in a com- plete state of desiccation. Several ex tho Hume wrote these words: \I t would bo no '• skulls showed bullet holes, aiid one of tho crime for ma to divert the Nile or the Dan- ! skulls was a woman's. It is thought that ube from its natural bed. Where, then, can ' f <\\\ women killed during the street fighting •be the crinie in iny diverting a few drops of ' wel ' e buried with the men.. The modest obo- blood from their ordinary chanuel?\ And\! lisk which stood in the Schmelzer ground having written the essay he loaned it to a.{ ' ras removed a few days ago to the central friend, the friend road it, wrote a letter of ! cemetery to be placed over the new grave.— thanks and admiratioiii and shot himself, [ Vienna Cor. London Times. Appendix to the same book. Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, New Style cf ISairdfossins under certain circumstances, were apologetic i- Says a close observer of details: \A style for self immolation. Infidelity puts tip no • of hairdressing greatly in vogue among the bar to people's rushing out- from this world , most\ fasbiohable women in Newport and into the next. They teach us it does not inake ! Saratoga this summer was a Sat coil of small any difference how you live here or go out i braids -wound pancake fashion against the of this world, you will land either in an oblivious nowhere vr a glorious some- where. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for th6 snicide and aims the pistol with which a roan blows his brains out, and mixes tha sSrychnme • for the last swallow. If infidelity eottid carry the day gold, sUvcr and copper this year to tile.Satue. •nd. persuade the \niaj^ityrDf the ..people iii of \|4C) '\\'.' ; back of tlie head. Mrs. Prescott Lawrence specially affects thisstvle, and it is exceed- ingly becoming to her \beautifully shaped j head. \-?-lSe* York Herald. j ' It is predicted -that Montana, v/iil produce ITEMS OF ALL SORTS. Ostriches sell for $1,000 per pair in Califor- oia, Tho revival of the talip mania is threat- ened iu Holland. For the first six montbs.of 18S8 the English railways killed 105 people and injured 957. Various Japanese towns are building water works, the Tokio works having proved so successful. The attempt to introduce chessjamong the working classes continues to be more and more successful. The old Libby prison, in Richmond, has been sold for §11,000. Tho idea of -tho new purchasers seems to be to let the Libby builds ing remain whore it is now and throw it open as a public museum. Two artesian wells recently sunk in Sonoma valley, CaL, are considered to be worth not less than §10,000 each. Ono of them flows 90,000 gallons of water per day aud the other 100,000. The king cruiser of all will bo the last or- dered by the British admiralty, to bo named tbo Blonheim. She will be of 9,000 tons, with twin screws, engines of 20,000 horse power, and a speed of 23 knots. A Missouri horso fell over a cliff thirty- fivs feet high and escaped with only a scratch an his leg. Next day he got a piece of corn- cob in his throat and cholsed to death. A Wyoming paper has made the discovery ^bat there is a fertile valley in Utah county, forty miles in length, that is peopled by a colony of 700 Mpiinons, who harvest large crops and are in every way prosperous. A railway from Visp to Sermatt, Switzer-\ land, hitherto considered impracticable, is about-to bo commenced. Its longth will be twenty-eight miles and its grado 8,160 feet. It -will be narrow gauge, without any cogs. Rattlesnakes havo been unusually numer- ous in Georgia this year, and their increase is attributed by the newspapers of the state to the enforcement of the stock law, which prohibits the hog, tuo rattler's greatest en- emy, ft oin roaming at large. A monument to the memory of Dr. Elisha Mitchell has recently been erected on tho summitjof Mitchells peak, inKbrth Carolina. The monument is of bronze, and is probably the highest memorial shaft in the world, the mountain h*ving a greater altitude than uny east; of the B.ockie3. The arrival of the grape season suggests the fashionable grapo cure in Meran. Physi- cians direct the grapes to be eaten so slowly that tho obedient patient can dispose of only one a minute. As'spmo trained eaters work toward a maximum of m'no pounds a day, it would seem that many spent all then- time eating grapes. At Marseilles, France, a man who fancied his wife would look woll in ostrich feathers entered a railroad truck wherein wero several birds just arrived from Algeria en route to Paris. The poor fellow selected a fino speci- men feather, and was about to pull it out ivhentho ost-rich kicked and killed him on the soot. B A !3eofgia man is traveling through tlia «tate with his family in a curious vehicle Tho body, which is something like a street car and which will hold thirty persons, is set on a lon^ wagon, which is drawn by four largo o±on. There is a door at the rear and steps for entering it, and within are a cook stove, di'mig table, sleeping berths, and all necessary arrangements for comfortable jour- neyingi „_ _ _ Prsyinjr on the Big Bridge. \Do you see that old woman there?\ said a bridge policeman who is stationed at thu NOT/ York end of the big aerial thoroughfare to Brooklyn, tho other day. \Just watch her and see what.she does.\ She was a tidily dressol old wpman, with a pale, sad face, and shet'as making her way slowly through the tangle of trucks, carriages and pedestrians in Park row, onposite the bridge entrance. She reached the curb at last 'and slowly mounted the step3 to the bridge entrance. Instead of following the crowd to the cars or footway, she went over to the north wall of the entrance, where she stood a moment as though meditating. Then sho suddenly knelt down and with her eyes closed and her head bowed, began moving bar lips as if in prayer. She was on her knees but a moment, when she got nimbly to her feet and moved toward the promenade en- trance, where sho paid her cent aud started on foot toward Brooklyn. \Every day at about this hour that same wonian comes here and goes through pre- cisely that same programme. I asked her one day when she started away what was the matter, and she said, \I was only 'praying, 1 and that, is all I ever got out of her. Whether she is afraid tbo bridge will fall when she gets on it, and so prays beforo setting out oa tho dangerous journey, or whether sho is hi tlie habit of praying at about that time of day and finds tho bridge entrance a nice re- tired spot for religious exercises, I never could make out. Ail I know is that she comes every day &ud prays every day, and seems a perfectly rational, repectablo old body. The fact is that we here on the bridge do see some queer specimens of humanity among the tens of thousands who go by us every day. 1 —Kew York Sun. Amusing blunders in Speeon. A \bull\ may be said to be a gross contra- diction, cr blunder in speech. I t was de- rived from one O'oadiah Bull, a lawyer ia the timo of Henry VIII, who was celebrated, rather than famous, for tho blunders which fell from his lips when he pleaded before the judges. A witty Irishman, upon being asked for the definition of a bull, said: \If you see two cows lying down alone in the meadow, the one standing up is invariably a bull.\ Miss Edgeworth, in her essay on \Irish Bulls,\ give3 tho following: \When I .first saw you, I thought it was j-ou, and now I see it is your brother.\ \I met you this morn- ing and you did not come; Pllmeet you to- morrow morning, whether you\come or not.* \Oh if I had stayed in that climate untiJ now Pd have been dead two years.\ During the Irish rebellion, an Irish paper published this item: \A man named Mc- Carthy was run over by a passenger trail} and killed on Wednesday. Ho was injured in a similar .way two years ago.\ In 1784 tho Irish house of commons issued an order to this eflect: \Any member unable to write may get another member to franl: his letter for him, but only on condition that ho certifies with his own handwriting hi3 in- ability on the back of it.\ A well known English epitaph, commences as follows: \Eeader if thou canst read.\ Thi3 is somewhat akin to the hand board which read: \The ford is dangerous when this board is covered bj*- the water.\—SVank N. Sfcauffer in The Epoch. Joo Jefferson's Louisiana Eomo. Jefferson's island, tho sometiai3 winter homo of the genial old actor oj \Rip Van Winkle,\ is a superb hill, crowned with great forest trees, lying on a trembling prairie or semi-marsh, and with a fine lake, called Lake Peynier, for its outer niargiu. On this island, which contains 3,000 acres of land, was formerly an orchard of fabulously lino oranges. Here Mr. Jefferson plays at raising fine cattle. He has something over two thousand head and a few blooded horses, and it is hoped his interest in this lovely green islo is not dying out. Between tho public road and tho foot of tho hill is a stretch of prairie two miles wide. It is dotted with herds of cattle, and on its shallows of waters are white aiid purple and golden lilies. Wild pink convolvuli stand along the uhtended paths and the golden rod lamps are aflame. A tender haze like that of Indian summer hung over tho Mil island. A3 -we calne nearer tho great trees resolved into definite shape, and from out their green depths there arose tho fair outlines of the Jefferson home, a beautiful white building, with broad galleries—wings with bows to them and baleonies^a latticed tower, all ilti- white and glistening in tho sun like a white dove on its nest. Its airy columns and graceful outlines were surrounded by an al- most inaccessible jungle of trees, and it seemed almost like a castle for tbo Fairy Thistledown,- that might vanish if wo ap^ preached too closely. Everywhere were signs of neglect and deeay^brokeu bridges, | roj*ing fences, ruined walls. The hot sun j slipped under a cloud, a great stillness seamed to press down on tho earth^the repose and quietude of desolation and ruin. It seemed truly enough as if wojwere approaching the homo of old Rip Van Winkle and none oilier. ^Jfew Orleans Picayune. An Interesting Pictorial Collection. Tho most extensive pictorial collection re- lating to the\ war to be found in the country is owned by the Massachusetts commandei-y of the military order of the Loyal legion, and is the result of the persistent endeavors of CoL Arnold A. Rand, the recorder. I risited their headquarters this summer and was astonished to fiad about eighty VolumP3 of war pictures, embracing the photographs of every commissioned officer of every Mas- sachusotts regiment iii the service during tho war; also, the photographs of every general officer commissioned by President Lincoln, excepting oiie. There were clso photographs of battlefields, before and after engagements, camp scenes and all the buildings mads fa- mous by tho campaigns of the Army of tlio Potomac. Thero are more than 10,000 piefc ures in tie collection, and during one year The Century Magazine paid the commandery $500 for tho privilege of reproducing photo- graphs to illustrate its series of war articles. Tho best private military library in the «oun- try is that of Col. John P. Nicholson, of Philadelphia, recorder-in-chief of the -Loyfil \egion. CoL Kicholson has the data which enable him to trace up the register of ser- vice of every commissioned officer in tho army or navy who served during the civil war.—Caps. J. C. Parker in Globe-Democrat. Double Girdles for Slender Girls. A nsw device suitable for the costumes oi slender women is the double girdle. The waist of tho dress for this purpose is made unusually long and laosaj'and then a metallic belt of sonio sort is worn just above tho hips, while another encircles tho body three oi four inches higher up. The effect is to im- part an appearance of suppleness and grace. Tho suggestion for tbo duplicate gii-die was probably found in the. ballets of the eastern nauteh girls. I t is certainly novel and seductive. I saw at .Lenox ssvei - al elegant morning dresses made for these double belts in India cashmero and faille iu. contrasting colors. Some of the tea gowns similarly en- | circled wero wonders in richness. Tho pic- \ turesquo and fanciful costumes of Oriental countries had all been laid under tribute to furnish ideas for these luxurious garments.— Kew York Cor. Pioneer Press. jfr EagJisli Will Not Havo It. In nothing is tho contrast; between English and American temperaments batter illus- trated than iii the readiness which our peo- ple show for radical chancres in the v,-ey oi improved travel. A i;eiv invention to expe- dite the bundling of freight or baggage is ai onco caught up here, but in England they will not even change from the old method oi checking and rechecldng baggage. One large English road sent across a commission tc look over our railroad system and report available improvements. The report favored our American\ plan of checking, but the En- glish people will have none of it. They pre- fer to see to the delivery of their baggage to tho cars and from them. But their special abhorrence is our open cars and PullmaD system; To an American this looks like in- excusable old fogyism.—Globe-Democrat. There are thousandsof people who de- vour the con MUUKII stories ia the maga- zines who iuvambly dooline coreals for breakfast. BUCKI,T5N'S AUNrCA. SA.X.VS, The Bwst Salve in tho world for Cu's, Bruises, Sores, \Dicers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Cb.apped Hauds, Chil- blains, Corns and all Skill Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required Price 25 oents per box at Davenport & Frederick's. Farming is onts of the best of ocoupa. tions for a young man. ~S^en cabbage culture will enable a struggling jeutb. to get a h?ad. TO MOTHERS.—ire yoa dis- turbed afc niefht and broken of your rest by a sick child eufferinsr and crying witli pain of Gutting Teeth? If so send at onco and got a bottle of \Mrs. Winslow's jboothujg Syrup\ for children teething. Its value is incalnuiblis. It will reliev- the poor little suffarer immediately. De- pend upon it mothers; there is no mistake about ii. It cures Dysentery and Piar- rhcea, regulates the stomach ana bowels, cures wind coHc, soften the gums, reducea iuflam tioD and gives tone aud eneryg to the whole system. \jjfrs Winsiow'g Soothiua Syrup\ for children teething is pleasan't to the taste and is the prescrip- tion of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States, and is for saie by all druggists throughout the woria. Price t.wenty-8ve cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for \Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,\ and take DO ottier kind. FARM FOR SALE A valuable farm containing about 170 aores situated iu the town of Guiiderland eight miles from Albany and one mile south of Sloan's, kuowu as the Peter J. Giant farm, is offered for sale on reason- able terms. Said farm is in a good state of cultiva- tion, well watered, and adapted to the raising of hay and grain. It has a large ».nd commodious house aud barn build- ings, in good repair, and an apple orchard of 140 bearing trees. For further particulars enquire on the premises of * S. D. GBANT. — GALL ON- Altamoat IT. Y, -FOR- COBLESK1LL HAND MADE BOOTS. Warranted the very best boot ia 'the market. Don't buy a worthless boot when you can get the very best for a ittle money. Cobleskill Boots ara the Best. 9 The POLICE GAZETTE willbs mailed, securely wrapped, to any addregg 'n the United States for three months nn receipt of ONE DOLLAR. Liberal dis- count allowed to postmasters, agents and ~lubs. Sample copies mailed free. Address all orders to RICHARD K. FOX, Franklin Square. NL T. Preserving the Poor Elopliant. It is gratifying to notice that tha poor Afri- can elephant, vrbich anybody has hcen at lib- erty to shoot, if only for the fun of seeing him tumble, figures for preservative pur- poses in section SI of tho charter cf the new British East African company. The com- pany is thereby authorized to regulate the hunting of elephants in its vast domain, and to take any steps necessary to perpetuate this noble pachyderm in his native wilds. These intelligent beasts doubtless regard the whits man as tho mortal enemy cf their kind, for they havo had no peace wherever the Cau- casian has appeared in Africa. I t is high time that something wero done to preserve them from thoughtless and indiscriminate slaughter.—Kew York Sun. \Sonio Gtiior Maa.\ The B-ev. A. B. Ducaway, speaking of a certain preacher, said: \If he would spend as much timo in earnest, wise eSorfc to devel- op his own field as he spends in belittling his brother preachers who do succeed ha would do a great work in. the •world.\ Many, a man of that Kind will read this and think of somebody else whom he fancies brother Dun- away had in mind, but no ono will say: \He meant me. :l —Richmond Religious Herald. JUSTIOk OF TEE PEAGS. L \S?. 0SB0RN JUSTICE OF THE PEACE- Office at residence, Kaowersville. N, Y It is an unfortunate fact that the heir of respectability too ua frequently inhe> its the respectability of his parents'. IJSJ It Ii thit impurity in the blood, which, 10- eumul&ting in the glands of the neck, pro- dncti unsightly lumps or iwellings; irhieh causes painful running sores on tha xims, leg*, or leet; •which developes ulcers In thf eyeg, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimplag s can- cerous growths, or the many other msaif esta- tlons usually ascribed to \humors;\ •which, iMtenine upon tho lungs, ciuse* consumption and death. Being- the most ancient, it Is the laoct general of all diseases or affections, for rery f«w persons are entirely free from It. How Can It Be Sy taking Hood's Sarssparffla, -which, by th* ramarkaWa cures it has accomplished, often when other medicines havo failod, has prsTen itself to bo a potent and peculiar medicine for this disease. Some of these curca sre really TrMiderful. If yon suff«rfironi fcrofula, ha sura to try Hood's 8ar8apixllla- \Ivarj spring iny wife and children ha?a b«ea troubled with scrofula, sorea breaking out on them in rarioug placos. My little boy, Cirsayoars old, lias been a terrible sufferer. Last Bpiinghe was one mass of sores from he&d tof»sL Iwasadvisad to usaHood's Saraxpa- rilla, and wo hive all taken it. Tho result la that all have boon cured cf the scrofula, lay little boy boing entirely free from sores, and all four of my children look bright ecd Si«s2iay.» W. B. AnrEBTOX, Passalc City, K. J. l y Sarsapferslla £>el)t to Unused IriU. How seldom do readers consider theirdebt ;o the unused ink; the debt.of the written to ;he unwritten; of the said to the unsaid; cf :he speech to its silence! Many a boy has been commended for his resolution in saying 'no\ to his boon companion; not so maiiy authors have been commended for their re- solution in saying \no\ to their companion-—• tlie .pen. _ The author* or the speaker who know§ what to eselude, and when to stop, has found ail art that makes his speech golden, \because he lias learned how to niake sileneo itself speak.T^J'hiiadehphia Sunday School Times. Old Portrait of Burns. Many years ago, among the household effects of a Scetch farmer who died in Can- ada, was an old portrait of Burns, which sold for little and found its ray to a pawn shop in Toronto. Some ono bought it the other day for £2, had i t carefully cleaned, and was rewarded by finding it to be an oil painting by Raeburn, dated 17S7. Ho values it At £2,000, and will send it to Scotland, where it will ba e£hibited.-^New York Sun. BJgs £g5. Prop*re4only by C. I. HOOD a CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Sloaa. IOO Do©es One Dollar orothers.who wish tooxcmlDA this pepor, or obtain £*l£m*l«a tdysnislnc ppsco when in Chicago, will find it on $i!es$ . to 4-J Randolph St., n tfilgrft § \jfBSff|BB H ft a Advertising Agency of iLyiiSS Si g aeHitflliw* There was a grand reunion of tho Billings family at Springfield, Mass., recently. Sev- eral hundred members were present, all de- scendants of three Billings brothers who. came to this country in WHO. Many family heirlooms were exhibited consisting of por- | traits, table liner, and brio-a-brac, it was j voted to publish l history of the Billings family -which Ch| ;les Billings had prepared, \^Harger's Bazar, * ----- Yttln:i!jlo Improvements for 18SS> £S Per Qeni. Cheaper than «ny sthor^ sH things considered.
