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KEY. DE. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN THVINE'S SUN- : BAY SEP.MOS. Subject: \Ihe Evils of Liquor Drink- TEXT: \Noahplanted a vineyard, andlu drank of the wine and was diimken.\— Genesis ix., 20, 21. This Noah did the best ami the Tvorst thing for the Tvorld. He builb an ark against the deluge of water, but intro- duced a deluge against which the human race has ever since bean trying to build an j ark—the deluge of drunkenness. In my text { •we hear his staggering stops. iShein and I Japhet tried to corer up the disgrace, but I there he is, drunk on wine a t a time in the ' history of the world when, to say the least, there was no lack of wacar. Inebriation, having entered the world, has not recreated. . Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who saved J theflocks of Kabul, her husband, from con- fiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah came to sea David, and David got him i drunk and paved the way for the despolia- tion of a household. Even the church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stagger- ing and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, when he comes to describe the final dislocation oE the worlds, says, \The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.\ Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. But the intoxicants of the olden tame were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda- water as compared with the liquids of mod- ern inebriation, into wnich a madness, and a fury, and a gioom, and afire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we must confess that some of the ancient arts have been lost, the Christian era is superior to all others in the bad eminence of \whisky and rum and gin. The modern drunk is a hundredfold worse than t!ic ancient; drunk. IToah in his intoxication became imbecile, but the vic- tims of modern alcoholism have to struggle v/ith whole menageries of wild beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and perditions of of blaspheming demons. An arch fiend arrived in our world, and he builc an invisible caldron of temptation. He built that caldron strong and stout for all ages and nations. First he squeezed into the caldron the juieas of the forbidden fruit of Paradise. Then he gathered for it a dis- tillation from the harvest fields and the orchards of the hemispheres. Then he poured into this caldron capsicum and copperas and logn-ood and deadly nightshade and assault and battery and vitriol and opium and rum and murder and sulphuric acidand theft and potash and cochineal and red carrots and poverty and death and hops. But it was a dry compound and it must be moistened, and it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend poured into that caldron the tears of centu- ries o\ orphanage and widowhood, and. he pourediu the blood of twenty thousand as- sassinations. And then the arch fiend took a shovel that he nad brought up from the furnaces be- neath, and he put tuat shovel into this great caldron and began to stir, and the caldron began to heave and rock and boil and sput- ter and hiss and smoke, and the nations gath- ered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried: \Aha! champion fiend am I! Who has done more than I have for coffins and graveyards and prisons and insane asylums, and the populat- ing of the lost world? And when this caldron is emptied I'll fill it again and I'll stir it again, and it will sm^'ce again, and that smoke will join another smoke, the smoke of a torment that ascendeth for ever and ever. I drove fifty ships on the rocks of New- foundland, and the Skerries, and the Good- wins. I have ruined more senators than gather this winter in the na- tional councils. I have ruined more lords than are now gathered in the house of peers. The cup out of which I ordinarily drink is a bleached human skull, and the •upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson, because it is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic of my floors is made up of the bone3 of children dashed to death by drunken parents, and my favorite music—sweeter than. Te Deum or triumphal march-^-my favorite music is the cry of daughters turned out at midnight on the street because father has come home from the carousal, and the seven hundred voiced shriek of the sinking steamer, because the captain was not him- self when he put the ship on the wrong course. Champion fiend am Ii I have kindled more fires, I have wrung out more agonies, I have stretched out more mid- night shadows, I have opened more Gol- gothas, I have rolled more Juggernauts, I have damned more souls than any other emissary of diabolism. Champion fiend ami!\ Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this nation, and it takes no logical process to pi-ove to this audience that a drunken nation cannot long be a free nation. I call your at- tention to the fact chat drunkenness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not at a stand- still, but that it is on an onward march, and it is a double quick. There is more rum swallowed in this country, and of a worse kind than was ever swallowed since the first distillery began its work of death. Where there was one drunken home there are ten drunken homes. Where there was one drunkard's grave there are twenty drunk- ard's graves. It is on the increase. Talk about crooked whisky—by which men mean the whisky that does not pay the tax to gov- ernment—I tell you all strong drink is crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine, crooked whisky—because it makes a man's path crooked, and his life crooked, and his death crooked and his eternity crooked. If I could gather all the armies of the dead drunkards and have them come to resurrec- tion, and then add to that host all the armies of living drunkards, five and ten abreast, and then if I could have you mount a horse and ride along that line for review, you would ride that horse till he dropped from, exhaustion, and you would mount another horse and ride until he fell from exhaustion, and you would take another and another, and you would ride along hour after hour and day after day. Great host, in regiments, in brigades. Great armies of them. And then if you had voice stentorian enough to inako fcliem all hear, and you could give the command, \Forward march!\ their first tramp would make the earth tremble. I do not care which way you look in the commun- ity to-day the evil is increasing. I call attentini to the fact that there are thousands of pt^ _ a bora with a thirst for strong drink—a fact too often ignored. Along some ancestral lines there runs the river of temptation. There are children whose swaddling clothes are torn ofit the -. shroud of death. Many a father has made a will of this sort: \In the name of God, amen. I bequeath to my children my houses and lands and estates; share and share shall they alike. Hereto I affix my hand and seal in the presence of witnesses.\ And yet per* haps that very man has made another will that the people have never read, and that has not been proved in the courts. That will put in writing would read something like this: \In the name of disease and appetite and death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cup shall be theirs, my deitroyed reputation shall be theirs. Share and share alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto I af- fix my hand and seal in the presence of all the applauding harpies of hell.\ SVotn the multitude of those who have; the evil habit born with them this army is be- ing augmented. And I am sorry to say that a great many of the drug stores are abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold under the name of bitters. It is bitters for this and bitters for that and bitters for some other thing;, 5 and good men deceived, not knowing there is any thralldom of alcoholism coming from that source, are going down, and some daj a man sits with the bottle .of black bitters on his table, and the cork flies out, and after it flies a fiend and clutches the man by his throat and-says: \Aha! I have heenaftei you for ten years. I have got you now. Down with you, down with you?\ Bitters! Ah! yes. They make a man's family bitter and his home bitter and iis disposition tiitter and his death bitter and his hell bitter. Bit. ters. A vast army all the time increas- ing. It seems to me.it is about time for the 17, - 000,000 professors of religion in America to take sides. It is going to be an out and out battle, with drunkenness and sobriety, be- tvyeen heaven agd hell, between God and th| devil. Take sides before there is any furthet national decadence, take sides before your sons are sacrificed and the home of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an imbruted husband. T»ke sides while your voice, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have any influence in arresting the despoliation of this nation. If the 17,000,000 professors of religion should take sides on this subject it would not be very long before the destiny of this nation would be decided in the right direction. . Is drunkenness a state or national evil? Does it belong to the North, or does it belong to the South? Does it belong to the East, or does it belong to the West? Ah, there is not an American river into which its tears have not fallen and into which its suicides have not plunged. What ruined that Southern plantation?—every field a fortune, the pro- prietor and his family once the most affluent supporters of summer watering places. What threw that New England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of the Green Mountains into the pallor of despair? What has smitten every street of every village, town and city of this continent with, a moral pestilence? Strong drink. To prove that this.is a national evil I call up two States in opposite directions—Maine and Georgia. Let them testify in regard to this. State of Maine says: \it is so great an evil up here we have anathematized it as a State.\ State of Georgia says: \It is so great an evil down here that ninety counties of this State have made the sale of intoxica- ting drink a criminality.\ So the word comes up from all parts of the land. Either drunk- enness will be destroyed in this country or the American Government will be destroyed. Drunkenness ana free institutions are com- ing into a death grapple. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every work- ingman a house, and lay out for him a gar- den, and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span \of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of life insur- ance so that the present home may be well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boy- cotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soui of American labor. It an- nually swindles industry out of a large per- centage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon spell and on his way home at even- tide. On Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it 13 carefully estimated that thsy would reach from New York to Chicago. This evil is pouring its vitriolic and dam- nable liquors down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous, both to em- ployers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which strike, i£ kept up, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will-re- fuse all intoxicating beverages and be sav- ing, may not become a capitalist on a small Bcale. Oh, how many are waiting to see if some- thing cannot be* done for the stopping of in- temperance! Thousands of drunkards wait- ing who cannot go ten minutes in any direc- tion without having the temptation glaring before their eyes or appealing to their nos- trils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering, conquering; again and sur- rendering again, and crying, * \How- long, O Lord! how long before these infamous solicitations shall be gone!\ \ And how many mothers are waiting to see if this national curse cannot lift? Oh, is that the boy who had the honest breath who comes home with breath, vitiated or dis- guised? What a change! How quickly those habits of early coaling home have bean ex- changed for the rattling of the night key in the door long after the last watchman has gone by and tried to see that everything was closed up for the night. Oh! what a change for that young man, who we had hoped would d° something in merchandise or in artisanship or in a profes- sion that would do honor to the family name, long after mother's wrinkled hands are folded from the last toil! All that exchanged for startled look when the' door bell rings, lest something has happened; and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty yeara ago had been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the bosom of his Saviour. But alas! poor old. soul, she lias lived to experieixea what Solomon said, \A foolish son is a heaviness to his mother.\ Oh! what a funeral it will be when that boy is brought home dead! And how moth- er will sit there and say: \Is this my boy that I used to fondle, and that I walked the floor with in the night when he was sick? is this the boy that I held to the baptismal font for baptism? Is this the boy for whom I toiled until the blood burst from the tips of my fingers, that he might have a good start and a good home? Lord, why hast Thou let ine live to see this? Can it be that these swollen hands are the ones that used to wan- der over iny face when rocking him to sleep? Can it be that this swollen brow is that I onca so rapturously lossed? Poor boy! how tired he does look. 1 wonder who struck him that blow across the temple? I wonder • if he uttered a dying prayer? Wake up, my son; don't you hear me? wake up! Oh! h8 can't hear me! Dead! dead! dead! 'Oh, Absalom, my son, iny son, would God that I had died for ths3, oh, Absalom, my son, son!'\ I am nofe much of a mathematician and j cannot estimate it, but is there any bnelere quick enough at figures to estimate .how many mothers there are waiting for some- thing to be done? Ay, there are many wives waiting for domestic rescue. He promised something different from that when, after the long acquaintance and the careful scrutiny of character, the hand and the heart were offered and accepted. What i a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a : drunken husband! O death, how lovely thou art to her, and how soft and warm thy skeleton hand! The sepuleher at mid- night in. winter is a long's drawing-room compared with that woman's home. It is not ; so much the blow on the head that hurts as the blow on the heart! Tne rum fiend came to the door of that beautiful home, and opened the door and stood there and said: \I curse this dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I curse that father into a maniac, I curse that mother into a pauper. I curse those sons into vaga- bonds. I curse those daughters into proflig- acy. Cursed be bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, and family Bible with record of marriages and births and deaths. Curse upon curse.\ Oh, how many wives are there waiting; to see if something cannot be done to shake th6se frosts of the second death oft the orange blossoms! Yea, God is waiting, the &od who works through human instrumentalities, waiting to see •whether this nation is going to overthrow this evil, and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation as He did Phoenicia, as He did Borne, as He did Thebes, as He did Babylon. Ay, He is waiting to see what the church of God will do. If the church does not do its work, then He will wipe it out as He did the church of Ephesus, church of Thyatira, church of Sardis. The Protestant and Ro- man Catholic churches to-day stand ~ide by side, with an impotent look, gazing on this evil, which costs this country more than a billion dollars a year to take care of the 300,- 000 paupers, and the 315,000 criminals, and the 30,000 idiots, and to bury the 75,000 drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of the sixty years of his life forty years he had spent in ruining youth; but this evil may make the more infamous boast that- all its life it has been ruining the bodies, minds and souls of the human race. Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the two 1< xd- ing political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomina- tion. Resolutions-^oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack thator- eanized nastiness two thousand miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions against political corruption, but not one word about drunkenness, which would rot this nation from scalp to heel. Resolutions about pro- tecfion against competition with foreign in- dustries, but not one word about protection , of family and church and nation against the i scalding, blasting:, all consuming, damning I tariff of strong drink put upon every finan- cial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest. I look in another direction. The Church of God is the grandest and most glorious institu- tion on earth. What has it in solid phalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunken- ! ness? Have ifei forces ever been marshaled? No, not In this direction. Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled in New York, and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolu- tions by threatening speeches. They could not \bear to give up their own lusts, I tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to-day—not in the millennium, but to-day—the church holds the balance of power in America; and if Christian people—the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be the sworn ene- mies of all uncleanness and debauchery aisrl sin—if all such would march side by side and shoulder to shoulder this evil would soon ba overthrown. Think of three hundred thou- sand churches and Sunday-schools in Chris- tendom inarching shoulder to shoulder! How very short a time it would take them to put down this evil, if all the churches of Cfod, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed oil this subject? Young men of America, pass over into the army of teetotalism. Whisky, good to preserve corpses, ought never to turn you into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged out of repeatability and out of purity, and out of good char- acter, and into darkness by this infernal stuff called strong drink. Do not touch it! Do not touch it! In the front door o£ our church in Brook- lyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred: Sabbath morning a young man was entering for divine worship. A friend passing along the street said, \Joe. come along with me; I am going down to Coney Island and we'll have a gay Sunday.\ \1(6 replied Joe; \I have started to go here to church, and I am going to attend service here.\ \Oh Joe,\ his Friend said, \you can go to church any time! The day is bright, and we'll go to Coney Island, and we'll have a splendid time.\ The temptation was too strong, and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkenness and riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe, in his intoxication, when the train was in Cull speed, tried to pass around from one seat to another and fell and was crushed. Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his life away on the grass, he said to his com- rade: \John that was a bad business, your taking me away from church; it was a very- bad business. . You ought hot to have dona that, John. I want you to tell the boys ten- morrow when you see them that rum and Sabbath breaking did this for me. And John, while you are telling them I will be i^ hsll, and it will be your fault.\ Is it not time for me to pull out front the great organ of God's word, with many- banks of keys, the tremolo stop? \Look nofc upon the wine when it is red, when it moyethi itself aright in the cup, for at last it bitetk UEe a serpent and stingeth likep.n adder.\ But this evil will be arrested. Blucher came up just before night and saved the day afc Waterloo. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English. Generals Ponsonby and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken, Bags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of the German brigade.. The English army falling back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands together and said: \Aha! aha! we'll teach that little Englishman a lesson. Ninety chances out of a hundred are in our favor. Magnificent! magnificent!\ He even sent messages to Paris to say he had won tlia day. But before sundown Blucher came rap, and he who had been the conqueror of Ausferlitz became the victim of Waterloo. The name which had shaken all Europe and filled eves America with apprehension, that name went Sown, and Napoleon, muddy and hatless,sod srazed with his disasters, was found feeling: for the stirrup of a horse, that he migtb mount and resume the conflict. Well, my friends, alcoholism is imparial,. and it is a conqueror, and there are good people who say the night of national over- throw is coming, and that it is almost night. But before sundown the Conqueror of earth, andheavenwillridein on tiio white horse, and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlite of triumph, shall have its Waterloo of de- feat. Alcoholism having lost Rs crown, tne grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts, crazed with the disaster, will be found feel- ing in vain for the stirrup in which to re- mount its foaming charger. \So O Lord, let Thins enemies perish!\ k Forme ebange of Benson now so near, wicn Impuri- ties In the blood are liaMe to manifest themselves In mostimexpeeted •way\ reduce your general health, cr bring- on tbait tiled ifoeliHg? Hood's Sarsaparllla will do yon an. enormocs amoirat of good Just now bypittKjinJryoiU-Tjlood/nnd building tip your sys- tem so tli.nt yon will \tide over\ the depressing Effects of :mBder wcatjiar. Try lu Hood's Sarsaj Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only bj-C. I. HOOD & CO.. .Apothecaries, Lowellj Mali tOO Dos<3s One Dollar. Should Have 1£ In The Honqe. Dropped on Sugar, Children Xove to take JoHK:ioK's ASODYNII UNTSBSNT for Croup, Colds, Sore TJiroat, tTonailxtis, Colic, Crainps $nd Pains. Re- llovea Summer Complaints, Cute; liruisbs like magic T&INJC OF IT. In use over 40 V.EARS In.one family. Dr. 1.3. Jo HHSON & Co-—It is sixty year? slnco I drat learned of yitur JOHNSON'S ANonrxjs LINIMESTI for more I5apiKb\chSr.chV g From Rheumatism, Sci- y atica. Neuralgia, W TOUB HeadadiR, DlphtherJa.Coughs, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Choi. H» Jforbus, Diarrhcea, \Lameness Soreness in Body or Xyribs, Stiff J»ipte or Strains, will find, in this old Ano( fene relief and speedy euro. Paiiiph'let f Sl d v try h E 35 t b mi l 8 bttl ld Ano( fene re and speedy euro. Paiiiphlet free. Sold ev try where. Erace 35 cts., by mail. 8 bottles, Express oaid, 82- I. S. JOHNSON & CO.. BOSTON, MASS. this o free. E Big Crop From Two Kernels of Corn. A Kansas paper says the entire supply of Jerusalem cora in that State came from two kernels. These produced the , _ _. seed from -ivhich five bushels were raised '• A*? 161 \ 104 ' are the following season, and the next crop • the ste P s o f amounted to 500 bushels. The plant grows to the height of about three feet, and resembles broom corn or sorghum. The grain is white and answers every purpose which is served by Indian corn. It makes sweeter and better bread, and is delicious when boiled, after the manner of oatmeal, la wet weather it runs to stalks and grows six feet high, without any grain to speak of. It produces best when the season is dry, and after the plant gets a start it is said to be absolutely impervious to the influence of drought and hot winds. The farmers of Western Kansas are preparing to engage in its culture next season to a large extent. —New York Daily Conti- nent. of Long Life* The recctnt death of George Bancroft m his sevi?nty?first year, and the con- tinued pron lihence and activity of Von Moltke in G«rmany at the age of ninety, and Gladstone in Great Britain at the age of eightry-qne, recalls other examples of long life. Lophocles was ninety years old when he was summoned before the boai'd having control of the dramatic performances at Athens on the charge that his intellectual faculties had de- cayed. His triumphant answer was the reading there and then hisi just completed and greatest-tragedy, \CBdipus at Colo- nus.\ An esteemed contemporary gives the following list of nonogenarians and cen- tenarians: Iseexates, the \old man elo* quent,\ was ninety-six when he wrote his celebrated \Panegyric\ oration, and he lived to be over 100. Gofgias, the famous sophist, died at 108. Hiefony- mus, the historian lived to be 104, with- out any loss of mental energy. Zenoph- anes wrote his memorable elegy at ninety- two. Theophrastus composed Ms \Char- acters\' at ninety-nine. Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, kept a firm grasp on on that city until he died at the age of ninety-five. Passing to the Homans, we find that Juvenal died at 100; that, according to Pliny, Lucia, the comic actress, acted on the stage when a centenarian, and that M. Valerian Oorvuswas in full possession of his faculties when he died in. his one- hundredth year. ''Coming to relatively modern times, We note that the pencil fell from the hand of the immortial Titian only when he was smitten by the plague at the age of nearly 100; and that no diminution of Michael Angelo's im- aginative capacity was observable at the age of ninety-five. We might add that similar instances Are on record in ancient and modern French and English history; while \Whittier and Oliver \Wendell Holmes, in already walking close in eorge Baflereft.^^SS. Louis Mepublie. A Netr System of Lighting. A new system of lighting by means of petroleum lamps has beea introduced in, one of the large railroad stations in Lon- don. The system consists in the use of a large tank containing the oil, from which pipes run to .the various lamps, carrying the oil by gravitation, as needed. Bach lamp has a small reservoir for hold- ing sufficient oil to saturate the wick, the flow of oil being regulated by an auto- matic valve. The joints in the pipes are sealed by a material not affected by oil. The wiek is lowered or raised by a wire outside of the lamp, and when the wick is lowered a flash light continues to burn, so thai the entire wick can be lighted •when required,— Boston, Tmmrtyt. Coalrt Jiot Whip the Stato. One of the best known netrspapei correspondents in Washington is O'Brien Moore, of the St. Louis Re- public. He is an Irishman, a Texan and a Missbnrian, bnt he takes most pride in being a Texan. He is the man whom Congressman Crane of Texas was sometime ago look- ing for with a pistol. It was expected there would be a fight between these two men of undoubted courage, bul there wasn't. Friends smoothed ths difficulty over. Moore has lived nearly all Ms life on the frontier and has a reputation as a fighter, providing the quarrels are forced on him. \I never quarrel when I can help it,\ he said to a party of friends one 'lay; \but if you do get into quarrels, boys, let me give yon some advice. Never quarrel with a Kentuckian. The Kentnckians are the most clannish men on earth. Every Kentuckian stands bj every other Kenfcuckian. Soine -years ago I was editing a paper in the town of Cleveland, Tex. X printed some- thing one day which a citizen didn't like, and he tackled me about it on the •treet. \He was so offensive that there was nothing left for me to do but to lay tc and give him a good thrashing, which 1 at once proceeded to do. I remained in that town two years, and was nevei without a black eye or a skinned nose in I all that time. Yon see, the man 1 licked was a Kentuckian. and everj Kentuckian in the town took tip his fight. At the end of the two years s colony of Kentiickians—three or foui carloads—come there to settle, and 3 concluded it wasn't worth while trying [. to whip the whole State of Kentucky, and consegueatly ljtpxitfos Gl^t\ y alv^ston\\ A Leper Village in ColcmMa. A strange community is that of Agua di fiios, the leper village of Colombia, as described by our Consul at Bogota. Situated at about fourteen hundred feet above the sea level, with a dry, sandy soil and a temperature of eighty-two de- grees to eighty-five degress Fahrenheit, this spot has been chosen for the lazai-etto by the Govefnnient on account of its ancient reputation, for the cure of leprosy. Some five hundred and twenty sufferers from this terrible visitation dwell here, and form about one-third of the popula- tion; but the most remarkable fact re- garding the settlement is that lepers and healthy persons are described as living on terms of perfect intimacy, there being no specific leper quarter, though every house in the village stands apart in. a garden. Mr. Wheeler states that there is no case on record of the disease having been contracted here by contagion. Even where the lepers have married healthy persons, the husband of wife has never been known to take it from the other* On the other hand, the mournful fact is admitted that children born of such unions are generally afflicted. <•» Railroading in the Himalayas. \The magnificent scenery in the Grand Canon in Colorado is nothing when com- pared with the view from a railroad coach when passing over the Himalaya Mountains,\ said Colonel Tanner, of Cal- cutta, to a Chicago Tribune reporter, the other day. \The Bolon railway runs over the Himalaya Mountains 7000 feet above the sea level, winds in and olit of gorges and passes over bridges spanning streams flowing 4000 feet below. The sight is enough to turn a man's hair gray. But accidents there are not frequent. The road-bed is the best in the world, and the engineering work is a marvel.\ If Botrtiteg'B Klectrlo Seap iatrhat so many insist that it Is, you cannot afford -to go with^ out it. Yonr grocer has it, or can get it, and you can decide for yourself very soon. Don't lee another Monday pass withoat trying it. AMERICAN coal ia to ba introduced into Brazl. _^ Beware o! Ointments for Cntairh That Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the renso oi smell and completely derange the whole sysj tein when entering it thruugn the mucous surf faces. Such articles s&ould never he used ej£ copt on prescriptions Irom reputable physi- cians, as ilie • amage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Care, manufactured by B\ J. 1 'heney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer- cury, and is taken internally, ann acts direct- y upon tlie ulood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be rare to get the genuine. Jt is taken internal- ly, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney &Co. ^?~ Sold by Druggists, price T5e. per bottle. A GRAIN of musk wil. scent a room for twenty years. Progress. It ia very Important in this ago of vast ma- terial progress that a remedy bo pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, accept- able to the stomach and healthy inits nature and e/fects. Possessing these qualities. Syrup of Figs is the one uerfect laxative and most gentle diuretic known. Children Tease For It. Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure is a boon to children who are attacked with croup or acute cbneestive cold*. Sold by druggists or mailed on recoip of 53 cts. Ad.lress A. P. Hoxsie, Bnffalo.1T. Y. Money invested in cnoioe one Hundred tioU !ar building lots in suburbs of Kansas Oity vriil pay from five hundred to one thooaan I per cent, the nost few years under our plan. $3.i cash and S3 por month without interact coa- trolsade3lrableLot. t?cirticulardoaa,pplio&tiou. J. H. Bauerlein & Co., Kansas City, ivlo. ' The Convenience of Solid Trains. The Erie is the only railway running solia trains over its own tracks between New York and Chicago. No change of cars for any class of passengers. Rates lower than Via. anj other firstclass line. . Guaranteed live year ei^UC par cant. Firjt Mortgages on Kansas City property, interact payable a very sit months; principal and inter- esteoUected when duo and remitted without expense to lender. If or sale by J. H. Bauerleia &Uo., Kansas City, Mo. Write Cor l>J.rtiealu,ri Do Yoa Evsr Speculate' Ahjper3Oii seadinj us tlisir naii8 an-T ad-: dresswtll receive information that will lead to a fortune. Uenj. Lie'.vU & Co., Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. FITS stopped free by Sit. KtisE's GREAT NERVE BE3TOBB«i No ilts after Uwt day's use. Marvelouscui-63. Treatise aaJ. S3 trial buttle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St.. PiiUa.. I'm LeeWa's Oaidesa Headache Oars. Harm. ]ees in eifept, quick and positive in action. Sent prepaid on receipt of SI per bbtfcla. Adeler & 0o,-.5^_Wya.nd otte St.. Kansas City, Mo Timber, JVfineral, iSafm bands and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas^ Texas and Arkaosa.3, bought and sold. Tyler _& On- KansaaUity, Ma OklahomaGruide Book and ilap sent aay wiisr > onreneiptof 5Ucts.Tyier & Co.-, llansas City, .VIo. THE GREAT OONQUEHOi OF PAIN For Sprains, Bruises, Backache, I'ainiu 3lie Cheat or Sides, fcleadacue, Toothacha, or any other external pain, a few applicn. cions rubbed ou by lianil, act litee iiiatfic* causing [no paiii to instantly stop. i?or Cocffestious, Colds, tfronchitis, L'neu. monia, liiUammatioiis, Rheumatism, Neu. ralicia, liumbaso, sciatica, more tuortfUsii autf repeated applications are uecessary. All liltoinal I'uins, Didri-Uoea, Colic, Spasuis, ^jaiiae;ai lTa.iiiciua_Spells, Nervous, ness, Sleeplessness arc relieved instantly, ana quickly cured by taking inwardly ail to (ib iSroys hi half a tumbler oi wutcr, btle. All O There's a good deal of guarantee business in the store keeping of to-day. It's too excessive. Or too reluctant. Half the time it means noth- ing. Words— only words. This offer to refund the money, or to pay a reward, is made under the hope that you won't want your money back, and that you won't claim the reward. Of course. So, whoever is honest in making it, and works---not on his own reputation alone, but through the local dealer whom you know, must have some- thing he has faith in back of the guarantee. The business wouldn't stand a year with- out it. What is lacking is confi- dence. Back of that, what is lacking is that clear honesty which is above the \average practice.\ Dr. Pierce's medicines are guaranteed to accomplish what they are intended to do, and their makers give the money back if the result isn't ap- parent. Doesn't it strike you that a medicine which the makers have so much confidence in, is the medicine for you ? GRATEFUI^-COMFORTING. yp G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells ell medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families, and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the. failures and successes, and can therefore judge: \I know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such ef- fective work in my Coughs, family as Boschee's Sore Throat, German Syrup. Last winter a lady called Hoarseness, at my store, who was suffering from a very- severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give re- lief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the results were not satisfactory I would make no charge for it. A few days after she called and paid for it, saying that she would never be without it in future as . a few doses had given her relief.'' <D n excellent and mild Cathartic. Purely ^\setable. The Safest and Best Medicine ii! tiie world for tue Cure ul all Disorders ol the LIVER, STOMACH OR BOWELS. Taken according to directions they will , estnie health and renew vitality. firioe 35 ets. s, Bos. __ Soldjby all BriiggUU > Bermuda Bottled. I \You must go to Bermuda. If ] you do not I will not be resnonsl- i pie for the consequences.\ \ But, I doctor, X can afford neither the 1 time nor the money.\ \ Well, it\ ) that is Impossible, try SCOTT'S! BREAKFAST. \Bif a thorbngh knowledge of the natural Jawu which govern the operations of digestion and nntrl- Son, and by a careful application of the fine proper- ties of well-selected Cocoa, Sir. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bev- erage which may save us many hea ry doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of cliet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun- dreds of subtle maladies are floating around us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may-escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our- selves well fortified with pure blood and aproperly nourished frame.\— Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half-pound tins by Qroeers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS & CO.. Homoeopathic Chemists, LOSDON-, EKGLASD. Best Truss Ever Used. ^&3g^^B9B&Bmm^- Will hold the worst case Ever Used. Will hold the worst case with comfort. Worn night and day. Positively cures rupture. Sent by n;ail everywhere. Send for descriptive catalogue and testimonials to G.V. House Mfe. Co. 744 Broadway, Mew York City, The universal lavor ac- corded TnxrasHAST'8 POOET SOUKTJ Cabbasre Seeds leads me to offer a ? , S . GROWN Onion,tlicflnest Tellow Olobe in existence. To introduce It 'and show its capabilities I iwill pay $100 for the best (yield obtained from 1 ounce of seed which I will mail for 30 cts. Catalogue free. Isaac F. Tilliiiarliast, La I'lmne, Fa. M OTHERS are your children fretful and uneasy at night? Do they startln their sleep as if fright- ened 'I Are they troubled with an intense itching at the lower end of the bowels 1 Then they are being tormented with Pinucorms. KONEENB will cure them. Try It and be convinced. KOKEESE is a purely vegeta- ble compound, absolutely safe and a sure cure. Get It of your drugglstyor send 50c. by registered letter or P. O. inoney order aad receive a box by malL Address KOKEENE REMEDY CO., South Bend, Ind,, TJ. s. A. PROF/ LOISETTE'S NEW MEMORY BOOKS. Criticisms on two recent Memory Systems. Heady about April 1st. Full Tables of Contents forwarded only to those who send stamped directed envelope. Also Prospectus POST FREE of the Loisettian Art 6t Never forgetting. Address Prof. LOISETTE, 237 Fifth Ave., New York. -VASELINE- FORA ONE.DOi.JL.All HIM, sent us by null we will delirer, free of all charges, to any person la the United States, all of Uie following arclclsi, oars- luliy packeai One two-ouuoo bottle of Pore Vaseline. . . 10 etc One two-ounce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, • 15 a One jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, - - - « - 13 \ One Oake of Vaseline Camphor Ice, • • - • 10 \ O»e Cftke of Vaseline Soap, unscented, - - 10 * One Cafce of Vaseline Soap, exqulsltelysoented,35 \ One two-ounce bottle of Wnite Vaseline -• - i3 a SU9 Orforpostaat stamps any stryjle artlal* at the prlet named. On no account be persuaded to aotsep t from yourdruggitt any VaaeVne-orpreparation there frvw vrilcts labelled with our name, bcoause you will oer* taintyreaeive an imitation which has little or no valiM CUe«ebroug!i Mfsr. Co.. ik State St.. N* V*. DIPPV L/MCCO POSITIVELY RKMEDrED. DnuUl IMlCCO Greely 1'ant Stretcher. Adopted by students at Harr&rd, Amherat. and other College!, also, by professional and business men every. Where. If not for.sale In your town send S9e. to B. J. QBEELY. 716 Waihiiigton Street, Borton. if flUC STUDY, Book-keeping, Business Fornu, HllnlC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, oti, -I I thoroughly trught by WATT. Circulars free. . Bryant'• College, 43r Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. ! Oar Improved Novelty R112 . Machine. •& Needles by mail, 1 '•S1.1O. Send for Price XAsl. ' E. ltOSS & CO., Toledo, Ohio. I inipn AMI V I I ^nl send any Lady a Valua- LAUIC-3 UiILT • ble Secret that cost me 95, and a Rubber Shield for 30c. Confidential. Address MES.•W.L.LAWSOK&CO., 68 State St., Chicago, 111. DR. SCKENGK'S SEAWEED 0 TONIC XB a Positive Core for DYSPEPSIA And all Disorders ofthe Digtit- ire Organs. It is likewise s corroborative, or strengthen- ing ]&edicine, and may b8 taken with great benefit in all esses of Debility. Jfor Sale bf illDruggists. Price, SLOOperbottle. Dr.Schenck'J NswBook on Lungs.LiTsrand Stomach mailcdfroo. *ddress. Pr.i.H.SCHENCK&SOH, Philadelphia. \By using theK-WEENRemedlei I have cured all the colds in my family.and Inthevicinltyformlleg around, including babies threat- ened with croup.\—E. Q. BOBEI.;!* Vergennes, Vt. K.WREN Cough Balsam anl Troches cure hoarseness in a few minutes, bad coughs and colds over night. Balsam, 50c.; Troches, 10 and 25c. By mail or druggists. 1LB. KEEP & CO.,63E.13thSt., H.Y. TIPnUi SlOOor »10000«reMlj ImeaU^hcra I (IftO I AUURIJl bring ANNUALLY from TWENTY la 111117 Ted M. ULCIimX lSTJSSTJEEXT CO.. HCCKA. -W1BB. R EAD \A Little Chat With Farmers.\ line book; bound; paper, 50c.; cloth, 75c. Geo. A. Williams, 1023 Chamber of Commerce, Clilcagc, 111. BO asst d oeauttful Silk & Satin . pcs. enough to covei SCO sq.ina ;.; best,25e. LEMAHIE'SSILK Hni, Little Ferry N.J. TTIGEEST Cash Price paid for Raw Furs, Hides, _D_Skins, Tallow, by Geo. M. Emmans.Newton, N. J. CDA7CDAXLE BEST IN TH E WOJ&i,» -^. ty-Get tne Genuine. rioMJiverywnera. BEA7TY A BANDON TRUSSES. Kuptnre radically cured. Drs. Htmling & Plxley, 62 W. 22d St, N.Y. PATENTS P . A . IJKHHIANN, Wassiinfftan, I>. G. Scn> FOB CmcouB. \GREEN mmmm\ GBAPE. None »o varly; none more delicious. Vine a healthy strong grower and an early and profuse bearer. For a circular glvia? further information, address Stephen XToYt'a Sons, New Canaan, Ct, I°Your ntaD^flCKE I JlfvousP : BROMO'SELTZEH GUARANTEED CURE Size I ULi A „ i or sent by mail »t nil | EHERSOH j; 2Dl EALHHoaE, Mo. OF PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL. I sometliues call It Bermuda Bot- tled, and many cases of CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Cough or Severe Cold I I have CURED with it; and the advantage Is that the most sensi- tive stoniacli caii take It. Another thing which commends It Is the stimulating properties of the Hy- popliosphites ivhich it contains. You will find it for sale at your Druggist's but see you get tbe original SCOTT'S ESI! Wney be brae whai-some men say, ssy\ How Is Your Appetite. Gained 44 Founds. If it is not good you need a tonic. Hunger is a sauce that gives your food a flesh-making and strengthening pow- er. S. S. S« is fa- mous for its health giving and building up qualities. It is the best of all tonics. s. s. s. aids digestion makes you enjoy what you eat and cures you of Mr. James J. McCalley, of Jto&et, Mo., says he had dyspepsia for eight years, which made him a wreck, sielt and suffering during the whole time. After try- ing all the remedies, includ- ing all the doctors in reach, he discarded everything and took Swift's Specific. He increased from 114 to 158 pounds and was soon a sound and healthy man. TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES MAILED FREE. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. is a. solid cewKie: of^couirin^ soe^p— oPCOrVJM »HT * • - * For many years SAPOLIO has stood as the finest anl best article of this kind in the world. It knows no equal, and, although it costs a trifle more its durability makes it outlast two cakes of cheap makes. It is therefore the cheapest in the end. Any grocer will supply it at a\ 'easonable price. P ISO'S CURE FOR Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. CONSUMPTION CHICHESTER'S ENQLIO-.I, RED CROSS Y I*41<», art DniKilt fcr CMcftuMr'i JHgiUK XHammi l>oxeiK*lsd*UhblMlU>lMii. Take so *ther kind. An ptlli in piitelWttdlwxM, pink wrappers, are aMM <ui.pi for parttoourl, teiUinottUI.. in! \ « TrattafraUli Kamt Pacer CWU 10,800 TatimonUli. Kami Paper. Sold b j all L<xud UnssUU. and In Hia ami cy metilllo Jlcfuii SuUtUutiotu and Imitation!. JM connterfefU. AtDrQggiits.orscQdi or l^adlen,\ in letter, bj return Vat] MONET I>T For 2cJc. In stamps we send a 100* PA&E BOOK giving the experience of a practical Poultry Kaiser—not an -amateur, but a man working for dollars and cents—during 35 iyears. It teacneH now* to Detect |and Cure Diseases; Feed 'forEggs, also for Fattening) which Fowls to Save for Breeding; everything re- quisite for profitable Poultry rals- ins. BOOK. fUBl^IsalNU 4Stet, New Vfrfe. X prescribe and folly- en* dorse Bis Gi ss the only specific for the certain cure of (his disease. G. BLINGBAHAM.M. D^, Amsterdam, if. y; We liavo sola Big Grloi many yean, and i t ha« given the but of a»ti»- faction. D.JS. DYOHH&OO., Chicaco, nig
