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WARNING TO PARENTS. Rev. Dr. Talmage Protests Against Parental Heedlessness. Finds a Timely Lesson in the Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter Thousands of Children Educated Into Imbecility-- Body and Brain Weakened. Washington, Aurll in. In bis sermon to-day Dr. Talmage lodfrm a protest against the (nreiiMl hdl'"n(-i- mid worldly ambition which ore threatening the sacrifice of many American children; tAit, Judges xl, BO, "My father, If thou bast opened thy month unto the Lord, do to me according to that which bath proceeded out of thy mouth." Jephthah was a freebooter. Early urnvd out from a home where he ought to have been oared for, he nonsorted with rough men and went forth to earn hU living as bast he oould. In those times k was considered right for a man to go out on lndnpndnt military expedition!. Jephthnh was a good man according to the light of his dark ago, but through a waodnrlng and pmlatory life he bncame reckless and procipluttc- The grace of God changes a man's heart, but never lettssus his natural temperament. The Israelites) wanted the Ammonites driven ut of their country, so thoy sent a dele- gation to Jephthah, asking him to be r*m commander In chief of all the faroaa. lie "night have said, "You drove as out when you had no us* for me and, DOW you ars In trouble, yon want me back," but ho did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends mnaaongers te the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country and, getting no favorable re- sponse, marshals bis troops for battle. Before going out to tho war Jephthah makes a very solemn row that If the 1/ord will give him th victory, then, on his return home, whaUonver first comes out of his doorway be will offer in sacri- fice as a burnt offering The battls pans. It was no skirmishing on the dgns of danger, no unllmbcrlng of bat- tsries two milos away, but the hurling of men on the points of sword* and spears until the ground oould no more drink tlio blood, and the horses reared to leap over the pile of bodlm of the slain. In thowi old tlriins opposing forces would fight until tliflir sword were broken, and thun each on>* would throttle bin man until they both full, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stunt to dmth stam, until the plain was one tumbled mast of eorpsw from which the lust trace of man- booil had boen dashod out. Jephthah win* the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the vic- tory all through the mountains of Ullead. Lie* th* trtimiwteni (nil up the survivors. Homeward to your wives and children. Homeward with your glittering treasures. Homeward to have thn applanno of an admlrlug nation. liulld triumphal arches, >.wlng out flogs all over Mlzpah, open all four doors to ruontve tho captur- ed treasure*, through every hall soMsul tbs bauqunt, jille up the viands, (111 high th* tankards. Tim nation is redeemed, tb* Invader i are routed and th* national honor Is vludutatnd Huzza for Jrphthah, th* oonqnnrorl Jephthah, aeatod on a prancing suwd, ndvanoaa amid thn acclaiming innltl tilde*, but his rye Is not on tho oxclted |K>pulane. Honiemljcrlng that he had mad* a solemn vow that, returning from victorious battle, whatsoever fljst cam* out of the diKirwry of hli bomn, that sboitlii be saorideivl as a burnt offering, lie has his anil HM look upon the door. I win lor what spntlnas lamb, what brace of dove* will be thrown upon thu fires of tli* burnt offering. Oh, horrors! Paleness of death tilannhos hu h.-.-k Despair nelxos his Ills daughter, hU only child, I out Ibu doorway to throw herself m """ In Itui 'aider's arms and shower upon him more kisses than there wore wound* on his breast or dnnts on his shield. All the triumphal spl.-mlur vanishes. Hold- ing back this child from his 1 heaving breast and pushing tho lonks Imck from the fair hniw and looking Into tho eye* of Inftitlngulslmliln atT,<-ilnii with choked iiM.-,,iM, i. ho says "Would Ond I lay lark on thu bio >dy plain. My daughter, my only child, joy of my home, life of my life, thou art the mcrlOne!" TbS win il matter win explained to her This wa no whining, hollow heart- ed girl Into whose irrn* thn father looked. All the glory of sword and shield vanish- ed In t.hii proavne.i of thn valor of that girl Thuru may have bin a tremor of thu lip. as a mseleaf trembles in the niigh of the south wind; there may have hnia tho starting of a tear like a rain drop shaken from the ant.hor of a water Illy lint with a self sacrifice that man may not reach and only woman's heart oan noin|*ms she urre.nilers herwlf to llrs and to death She orlin out In th* wortli of my text, "My father, If thou hast opeiiisl thy mouth unto i ho l.onl do unto in.- whntauovnr hath pnmwdod from thy niinith." remember that in olden limn* when vows were made men thought they mimt exe- rtit<- them, porform thi*in. whether they were wicked or good. There wore two wrong things about Jephthah's vow. First, ho ought never to have made It. Next, having mado It, It were bettor broken than kept. Bat do not take on pretentious airs and sny, "I could not havu done a* Jepbthah did." If In form- er ilnys you had ixvn standing on the banks of th Gangt<4 and you had been born In India, you might have thrown your children to tho rmcodllea. It Is not Dooau-te we are natnmlly any hotter, but bftcaum we havo more gospel light. Now I make very practical use of this question when I tell yon that ths aori- floo of Jephthah's daughter was a type of tho phyidcnl, mental and spiritual sacri- fice of 10,000 children In this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bnar upon tholr chlldn-n a class of Influ- ences which will as rartalnry ruin them a* knife and torch destroyed Jephthah's daughter. While I speak the whole nation, without emotion and without shame, looks upon the stupendous sacrl- rlhe bows to the knlfn, and the Mood, 'which so oftnn at tint father's voice had nnh-il to tliii crimson chock, smokes In 'the Urns of the burnt offering. No onu 'oaa tell u* bur name. Thnre U no need that we know h*r nainn The garlands that lllapah twisUtil for Jephtluih, tbs .warrior, havo gone Into the dust, bat all ages ar* twisting this girl's ohaplet. It 1s well Unit bar name came not to us. for no one oao wear It They may take ths .name of Dnboroh or Abigail or Miriam, but uo one In all thn agns shall have ths tills of this daughter of m-rlfloa. Of Bourse tbl* offering was not planning to the l/ord, especially as a provUlon was made In the law for such a conting- ency, and Jephtbab might have redeemed hi* teoghtar by ths payment of 10 shuksls of silver, but before you hurl year fanunc.latlons at Jephlhah's aruolty In the first plam, I n'niark that mnch of the system of education In our day Is a ytem of sacrlflne. When children spnnd six or seven hours In school and th.-n must spend tiro or thrne hour* In preparation for school the next day, will you tell in* how much time they will ii.ive for sunshine and fn<*h air and th* obtaining of that exiiburauoe whloh Is necessary for the dalles of coming life? No 'in.- can feel raoru thankful than I do for the advancement of common school education. The printing of books appro- priate for schools, the multiplication of philosophical apparatus the establish- ment of normal schools, whloh provide for oar children teachers of largest caliber, ar* themes on which every philanthropist ought to b* congratulated, j Hut this hording of grout multitude* of children in 111 ventilated schoolrooms and poorly equipped halls of Instruction Is making many of th* place* of knowl- edge in this country a hug* holocaust. I'n.ilici In many of thn cities gets into pdiicntlonul affairs, and while the two political parties are scrabbling for th* honors Jephthah's daughter peris'.iM. It 1 so much no that there nre many schools in tho country to-dny which are pn>|nr- Ing tens of thousands of Invalid men and women for tha future; so that, in many places, by th* time the child's education Is finished the child Is flnUhod! In many places. In many cities of the country, there are largo appropriations for every- thing else, and chncrful appropriations, but as soon as the appropriation It to b* mode for the educational or moral Interest* of th* city w* are struck through with an economy that 1* well nigh tho dnath of us. In connection with this I mention what I might call the dramming system of tbe common nohooU and many of th* aoadvmles; ehildnm of delicate brain compelled to tasks that might appall a mature Intellect; children going down to school with a str.it> of books half as high a* themselves. Tho fact Is In some of the cities parent* do not allow their children to graduate for tbe simple reason, they sny. "We cannot afford to allow our childnm's limit h to be destroyed In order that ih.v may gather tho honors of an Institution." I'PIIS of thousands of child- ren indicated Into Imbecility, so that con- nected with many auch literary establish- ments there ought to be arylums for tbe wns-kod. It Is push and crowd and cram and stuff and jam until tho child's Intel Inot Is bewildered, and tho memory Is ruined, and the hnnlth Is gone. There ar* children who once were full of romping ! and laughter and had checks crimson , with in-alHi who am now turned out In tho afternoon pule faced, Irritated, n-ithiuatlo, old before their time. It Is one of the taddost sights on mirth, an old mannish boy or an old womanish girl. t>li Is 10 years of ago studying algebra! lloys la yearn of age racking their brain over i.rig.im inci.ry I Children uniux]iialnt- ixl wiU. their mother tongue crying ovor their l.-itin. French and Gorman lessons! All the vivacity of their nature beaten out of them by th* heavy beetle of a Orook lexicon I And you doctor them for this, and you give them a little raedlcln* for that, and you wonder what Is the mat .IT of them. I will tell you what 1* tho matter of them. Th*y ar* finishing tholr oduoatlon I lloitjr itii4 Itrata Waakam.*!. In my parish In Philadelphia a llttl* child was no pushed at school that sh* was thrown Into a fever, and In her dying delirium all night long sh* was trying to reciio tho multiplication table. In my boyhood I nmiember that In our class at school them was on* lad who knew moro than all of us put together. If w* were fast In our arlthmottu, h* ax- tricntud in. When w* stood up for tho spelling class, h* wan almost always th* head of the class. Visitors cam* to his father's house, and h* was always brought In as a prodigy. At It years of age he was an Idiot H* lived ten years an Idiot and died an Idiot, not knowing his right hand from bli left or day from night. Th* parent* and th* teachers made him an Idiot. You may flatter your pride by forcing your ohlld to know more than any other children, but you are making a saorlllo* of that child If by the additions to It* Intelligence you are making a subtrac- tion from Its fntunv Th* ohild will go away from suoh maltreatment with no saubantnos K> fight th* battl* of Ufa, Such ohlMren may get along very well while you take care of them, but when yon are old or dead alas for them If, I through the wrong system of education which you adopted, thny have no swarth- , Ineiis or force of character to take care of themselves. Bo careful how you make the child's bead ach* or Its heart flatter. I hear a great deal about black man's rights, and Chinaman's right*, and Indian's right*, and woman's right*. The Carthaginians uned to sonrlQoe their children by putting them Into the arms of an Idol which thrust forth Its hand. The child was put Into the arms of the Idol and no sooner touched the arms than It dropped into the (Ire. But It was tba art of the mother* to keep the children smiling and laughing nntU the moment thoy died. There may be a fascination and a hilarity about the stylm of educa- tion of whloh I am speaking, but It Is only laughter at the moment of saorifioo. Would Ood there were only on* Jephthah's daughter I In.. l|.llii> ( th. Tn-ln- Agaln, there are many parents who art sacrificing their children with wrong system of discipline too great rigor or too great leniency. There are children la families who role the household. Th* high chair in whloh th* Infant sit* U the throne, and the rattle If the scepter, and the other chlldnm make np th* parliament where father and mother have no Total Suoh children oome up to ba miscreant*. There Is no chance in this world for a ohlld that has never learned to mind. Such people become the botheration of th* church of Ood and the pest of th* wot Id. Children that do not ' learn to obey human authority are tin- ' willing to Inarn to obey divinn authority. Children will not respect parent* who** ! authority they do not respect. Who ar* those young men that swagger through the street with their thumbs In their vest talking about their father as "th* old man," "the governor," "th* squire," II the old chap," or their mother as "th* old woman?" T.hey ar* those who In youth, in childhood, never learned to respect authority. Kit, having beard that his sons had died In their wickedness, fell over backward and broke his neck and died. Well he mlglr What Is life to a father whom sons are debauched? The dust of the ralley Is pleasant to his taste, and the driving rains that drip through J th* roof of the sepiilcher are Tweet or than th* wines of Belbon. Thar* must be harmony between th* father's govemmnnt and the mother's | government. The father will be tempted to too great rigor. The mother will be j tempted to too great leniency. Her tenderness will overcome her. Her role* | Is a little softer, her hand seams bettor fitted to pull out a thorn and soothe a pang. Children wanting anything from the mother, cry for It. They hop* to dis- solve her with tears. But thn mother mast not interfere, must not coax off, must not beg for the child when the hoar oomes for th* assertion of parental supremacy and thn subjugation of a child's temper. There comes in the his- tory of every child an hour when It I* toned whether thn parents shall rule or the child shall nil* That Is the crucial hour. If the child triumphs in that hour, then he will some day make yea crouch. It Is a horrible soene. I have witnessed It. A mother corns to old age. shivering with terror In the prownoe of a son who ourxod her gray hair* and irocked her wrinkled face and bngrudgod her the ' orust th* munchsd with her toothless i gums! How sharper than a serpent's tooth It U To have a thankless child I I:.,, u. i* Avoid. Bnt, on thu other hand, too great rigor must bo avoided. It I* a sad thing when domemlo government heron. n* cold mili- tary denpotlsm. Trappers on the prairie fight (Ire with fire, but you cannot suc- omisfully fight your child's bod temper with your own bad temper. We mint not be too minute In our Inspection. We cannot expect our children to be perfect, \ We must not a*e everything. Since, w* have two or three faults of oar own, w* > ought not to be too rough when w* dl- cover that our children have as many. If tradition bo true, when we were child- ren wo were not all lido Samuels and our parents were not fearful lest they i ronld not ralwt n* becaun of oar pro- ! mature goodness. You oannot scold or pound your children Into nobility of character. Tho bloom of a child's heart can never be seen under a cold drlxxle, , Above all, avoid fretting and scolding In the household. Hotter than ton year* of fretting nt your children Is ono good, j round, old faxhlonml application of th* I slipper! That minister of th* gospel of j whom w* read in the newspapers that he ' whipped his child to death bec.iusv he would not sny his prayers will never come to canonization. The arithmetics cannot calculate bow many thousands of children have boon ruined forever either through too great rigor or too great leni- ency. The heavens and th* earth ar* flllod with th* groan of th* sacrificed. In this Important matter nsk dirin* direction, O father, O mother. Some on* asked the mother of Lord ChUf Jnstlo* Mansfield If ah* was not proud to hav* three such eminent sons and all of them good. "No." she wild. "It is nothing to ba prond of. but some- thing for whloh to be very grateful." Again, there aro many who are sacri- ficing tbnlr children to u spirit of world- llneM. Some one itskotl a mothnr who** children had turned out very well what was th* secret by whioh she prepaivd them for usefulness and for th* Chii.itlan life, and sh* suld: "This was the Hwret. Whin in the morning I washed my child- ren, 1 prayed that tlwy might bs washed In th* fountain of a Saviour's ineroy. When I put on their garment*. I prayed , that they might be arrayed In the rob* of a Saviour's righteousness. When I gave them food, I prayed that they might b* fetl with manna from heaven. When I started them on the rood to school, I pravod that thnlr path might b* a* th* shining light, brighter and brighter to th* perfect day. When I pnt th*m to sloep, I prayed that they might be In- fouled In th* Saviour's amis." "Oh," fon say, "that *va* very old fashioned." t was qnlte old fashioned. But do you suppose that a child under s*a Burtur* M that sver turueU out UwU In onr day mint boy* start cat with no Idea higher than the all cncompa<wlng dollar. They start In an age which baa-it* U ran aerate h tb* Ix>nl's Prayer on a 10 cent piece and the Ten Command- ments on a 10-cont piece Children ar* taught to reduce moral* and roliirion, time and eternity, to vulgar tractions. If. moms to be their chief attainment that 10 cent.* make a dime and ten dime* make a dollar How to iret money Is only equaled by thu other iirt, how to keep It. Tell mn, y* who know, what chance there Is fur tnoxo who mart out in llfn with riiich ]*-rvri-i4-<l nentiinents. The money market rcxound/i again and again with ths downfall of such people. If I had a drop of blood on thi tip of a pen, I would tell you by wh.it awful tragedy many of tho youth of this coun- try are ruined. Kj.li, .,!.'. HollMWH/-** Farther on thotimnds and tens of thousand* of thu daughter* of America are sacrificed to world line**. Thoy are taught to be In yiu|iatb.v with all the artificial ties of society. They am induct**! Into all the hollowne*s of what Is collet! fashionable life. They are taught to be- lieve that history is (try, but that f>0 cent stories of adventurous love ars delirious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis- trim or made the father's house glad with filial and nUterly demeanor their life U a waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity a demolition. In th* slepn of Charleston, daring oat civil war, a lieutenant of the army stood on the floor beside tho daughter of the nx -governor of the State of Sooth Caro- lina. They were taking the vows of mar- riage A bombshell (truck the roof, drop- ped Into the group, and nine wer* wonnded and tlaln. among the wounded to death the bride While the bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying to stanch the wound* the hrlila demanded that th* ceremony be completed that sh* might take th* TOWS before her departure, and when tho minister ald, "Wilt thou be faithful onto death*" with her dying lips she said. "I will!" and In two houn she hod departed. That was the slaughter and the sacrifice of the body, but at thousands of marriage altars there are daughter* slain for time and slain for lemur. It is not a marriage. It is a lllissai in Afflanood to soms one who 1* only waiting until his father dies so he can get tho property; then a little while they swing around In th* circles, bril- iL-int circle*; then the property U gone, and. having no power to earn a liveli- hood, the twain slink Into some corner of society the hn*band an Idler and a sot. the wife a drudge, a slave ami a sacrifice. Ah! Spare your denunciations from Jephthah's bead and expend them all on this wholenale modern martyrdom ! A Mi_-l,' Ii>f1um. I lift up my voice against the sacrifice of children I look out of my window on a Silibith, and I * a group of children nnwoiiheil, uncomlxul. un- Christian u.-d Who onrts for them? Who prays for thorn f Who utter* to them one kind word? When the city missionary, pauing along the |vtrk in New York, saw a ragged lad mid hmrd him swearing, he mild to him: "My son, stop swearing! You ought to go to the house of God to- day. You .HiL'l.t to b good. You ought to be a Christ inn " The lad looked in M* face ami mill: "Ah. it Li easy for you to talk, well clothed as you are and well feil. Hut we chap* hain't got no rhance!" Who lifts them to tb* altar for baptism? Who goe* forth to snatch them np from crime and death and woe? Who to day will go forth and bring them Into school* anil churches? No; heap them up. groat piles of rags and wretchedness and filth. Put underneath them the tire* f sacrifice, stir up th* blaxo, pat on more fagots, and while we sit In the churchoN with folded arms and Indiffer- ence crime and disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. During thn curly Krcnch revolution at nourges there mm a company of boy* who used to train every day as young soldiers, and they carried a Hug and they hod on th* 'flag this Inscription, 'Tremble, Tyrants, Tremble; We Are Growing Up." Mlgntlly suggestive! This generation Is parsing off, and a mightier generation Is coming on. Will they be the foe* of tyrannv, th* foe* of sin and tho foot of death, or will they bo th* foes of Ood? They are coming up! I con- gratulate all parent.* who aro doing their bent to keep thoir children away from the altar of sacrifice Your prayer* are going to be answered. Tour children may wander away from God, but thoy will oome back again. A voice oomes from the tbron* to-dny, encouraging you, "I will bo a God to thou and to thy MK! after thee. " And though when you lay your head in death there may be some wanderer of tbs family far away from Ood. and yon may he 30 years In heaven before salvation shall como to his heart, ho will be brought into the kingdom, and before the throne of Ood you will rejolo* that you were faithful. Coma at last, though so long postponed bis coming. Come at last! I congratulate all those who ar* tolling for tr.e outcast and the wandering. Your work will soon b* over, but the Influence yon are setting In motion will never stop. Long after yon have bean garnered for the skies your prayers, your te -chin** and your Christ iin Influence will go on and help to people heaven with bright Inhabitants. Which would you rather see, whioh soens would you rather mingle In in th* last great day, being able to say, "I added house to house and land to land and manufactory to manufactory ; I owned half the city; whatever my eye saw I had. whatever I wanted I got," or on th.it day to hav* Christ look you full In th* face and say, "I was hungry, and y* fed me; I was nak-d, and y* clothed mn. I wa* sick and in prison, and ye visited me; Inasmuch a* y* did It to th* least of the** my brethren, y* did It to M?" alarm**!. A scientist says. If the earth wer* flat- tened out, tho sea would b* two mile* deep all over tho world. " If any man is taught flattening oot the earth, ahoot Mm on tb* *pol A grvw* any of u* oau't > i m -Tit lilt*. THE ANNUAL HOTBED. h the Mod Important Item of Es- I..-M.. ulrrrllM* for Maklas: It. Pew people who bare a gnrden make any attempt to secure vegetable* earlier tb:m may be done by sowing seed oat- side after spring ia far enough advanced to avoid frost. Occasionally some early tomato or cabbage plant* are Krown in sunny kitchen window, bat the range ot HfHxon and variety of garden prod- uct* that < MII be bad by the skillful nae of botb*>d* or cold frames end sash eem little appreciated. Yet their UM is advisable a* means of prc tit. a healthful addition to table resource* and a suarceof great interest and pleas- ure to any on who undertake* thi* specie* of KvdeoinK Tim deterring item ia tunully the aaith. which is ex pensive While the aaab can be bought ready glazed at any saab or door factory they can be homemade after the fol- lowing plan, originally given by the K ->-- * jurim.-ut stdti< in in one of the bulletins of it* horticultural depart- ment Tbe nnual size of tracb sash is by S feet, holding thre* row* of 10 by IS inch glawt. six light* to the row Doa- ble strength gUu* of "A" grade will b* fonnd the most profitable to nae in the long ran. a* it doe* not break a* readily s tbe lighter and cheaper glade*. The beat grade of sash U made from first claw aonthern cypress Inmber. though redwood or good white pine will answer good purpose. Stuck 1 f inched thick when dressed gives tbe beat weight Make the stile* 4 inches wide and th* rails 4 inches. No crosa mountings are aaed. bat two ban 1 ]*J Inches wide run thn length of the sash These with tb* stiles and top rail ar* rabbeted one- , quarter cf an inch wide and one-half of an inch deep to receive the) glaaa The glaaa laps like vhinglea, and the lowest light projects over the lower rail, which U only an inch thick. In pinning tb* sath tbe holes should be bored from the underside nut qnite through. *o aa not to allow tb* leaking of water from . above. Through tb* middle of the stilea and bars a five-sixteenths of an inch Htay rod ia rnn jnst beneath the glass, for the double purpose of preventing; spreading and the ^n^giDjc of the bar*. If the lower portion* of the stiles and bar* are chamfered away as much a* strength will allow, leas light will b* obstructed by them The lights of glass should be firmly set with large points and a short brad at each lower corner to keep them frorr. slipping down, and then well puttied. Tba cash should receive two good coats of paint and be repainted as often. ts needed One of these sash complete weigh* 48 pound*, and it i* believed that it will last enough longer than a cheaply mads on* to well repay the extra cost Prrparlnu tlotbr.l To make a stationary hotbed dig a pit about 94 feet deep, board up tb* sides and emla to about one foot abova ground at tbe back and three inches above in front Th* width and length vary according to tbe number or size of tbe sashed to be used, slide* being placed across, aa in tbe cane of the cold frame, that the sashes timy be moved to give air. Into this pit place leaves or coarse litter to the depth of one foot und fer- menting stable manure to the depth of l ' feet, this being trodden down quit* lirmly and then covered with froiu tbrea to six inches of soil B sure that the manure is trodden in firmly at the sides and corners or it will sick nnnvenly. The mannr* is usually too coarse and it gives too rank a heat when it tirtt comes from tha stables. It should bs thrown in a pile and worked over sev- eral times before using. The bed should stand two or three days after making, before planting, to allow the strong heat to snbhiil- Tho K ual New York- er, authority for the foregoing, also de- scribes another style, generally c tiled a movable hotbed, mad* by excavating IH feet deep and two feet larger, in length and width, than the size of sasbea One foot of leaven or litter and on* foot of heating manure are placed in this pit, the manure being preaaed lightly down, but not tramped bard Plank fratn n are placed on thla on* foot from either end and one foot from back and front. Three inch** of soil should be pnt over tbe mauurs and th* tashea pat on. Th* (idea and nds ar* then banked with coarse manure Tb* object in making th* pit larger than to* frame i* that it may all sink evenly Belect a sheltered, worm position for tbe hotbud and on* that la naturally wall drained l .,.. ,! i ,T, . i "Doctor, I didn't think It would be necessary for you to come agnin. but my thmnt this morning U o hot and dry " "Has your wife, Kir, btn show lug y*o my billy" She ITavo you Tintic.il that Mr. Short- high is pn' i UK u good deal of attention to Miss CleverUi i Ho~-Yc*, and It's the first Mm* I knew him t* pay anything. PONTON'S NEXT TRIAL Has Been Set Down for May in tne City of Toronto. A WIFE'S FATAL HEROISM. oharg Registered against him. Don CnuMKil. a 17-year old Til-uuburg girl, charge that Devlin seduced bar under pp>mi- <if marriage urer u year ago. Satunlay morning another charg* was laid befiim Magistrate Kield against Devlin, in (bat he malnced the girl wbil bo Wat unilur 10 year* at age. A Bay Killed by a M.lr.p.lltaa Trallaj la Taronta- AIIK<1 tll'Uiliud UMU- ajr of a alata iiu.n. T Iky lh klail.lr<l Oil <_U1|>.| \*l*a- lau Tlr|il.. ..i . .. A MaN.lr London, April 17. According to spee- lal despatches from ParU a monster pll- grltr.agu to lx>urdi>4 will leave various point* In (Trance, to-day. About 60,000 pilgrim* will embark on 53 trains, and will arrive at Lourues on Tuesday. W t I- I-.- 1 it K..rl 7 I ... It Is a tank to get into th poulcryhoum at night, tako each hen off the roost and dust the body with mine su balance I obnoxious to lice, yet there are time* when It should be dune, erpeclully dur ' Ing the worm season. A mixture for that purpos, and which is cheap, IH made by using one pound of sulphur, four ounce* of Scotch inuiT. two ouncuu of Uitlii.atluj) Insect powder and half a pound of cur bolote (not curbunuu-.i of lime. It moat be thoroughly mixil and kept in a closed vHMul. Hold tlu- fowl's head down, and with a pepper tiox dust well in among the feathers. Kami and (OB .* Kocaaaa. t. wlc dollar*, worth 40 aunt*, re plentiful In Toronto. The barber ahop of W. A. Power* at Pembroke wan burned dow_i on Sunday. Thre Infanu have boen abandoned In Toronto within a week. One of them was dead when found. WilliAin Marshall wiw burned to death on Saturday in u New York (table In which h.- was sleeping. Two hornw were also burned. Fifty-seven frc'./ht handler* at the Orund Trunk sheds in Toronto have trurk for an advance In \7ugtia. Their plao-s have alresuly I- -en Ailed. The body of Kichord Sprung, who fell Into the electric Hume at Trenton lost February, was wa-Lnl In by tba ware* on Saturday, two nulo* east of tbt> town. The Crown has concluded and the de- fence ban begun to put ev dcm in at the trial of youug IJickson (or the murdur of youmi man named i'epin at Tanguay, Que. Prof. Bourne, Berlin'* famous high diver, was killed on Saturday at a circuit performance In \i itch be eamyed to dive from 00 feet above the water into a tank 19 feet deep. It U mid that the Cataract Power Company now own* UO per cent, of the Mock of the Hamilton street Hallway, and that it will make radi<-;U changus in the management. Although Marconi ba* sent measage* amis* the Knglian Channel from Kr -HV without the uu of wire*, the suce.cs-.fiU mile t-st on Saturday at Washington U the subject of much jubilation. The action brought by Mrs. Trant of Hamilton against William Payne of To- ronto for 15.000 damages for the alleged eduction of her daughter, Mi-- ramiie ttcuves, has been auucably nettled. A Metropolitan street car run down on Batunlny at Ton>nto th ;t year-old son of Edward M. Higgms cruiihlng hi* skull and lullictlng very serious Injuricn to bU riibt side. lie diud at midnight an Sat- urday. It now transpire-. that the reason Samp-ton'! squadron will not visit British ports in re*ponsH to the recent Invitation U that Uncle Nitu i* afraid Kurope will think her too friendly with the mother country. The Ponton trial In to be held at To- ronto at the criminal nwUet beginning May 11. Justice Kubertmin'* decision provide-* for the ]uivui--nt, by the Crown of Ponton's extra e.x;>nsu duo to the transfer of the trial *At Rochester on ^iifurday by the fall- ing of an elevator used on a building cnffold on thu Knhy Block flve tnn were seriously injured The cables of the elevator broke and thu men fell to the ground, a dislamv of -til feil. Lou i Montgomery Forbes, a young man vrho was making rrody to go to America, has diul at London of blood poisoning. after having been OtCtuotxl by Alfred Smith, proffwlonal tatoo artist, at tbo Ru.val A(|unrtiiin, Westminster. Attorney-lien.-! Monrwt of Cleveland, O., on Sat unlay P.l-xi in&rmanion with the Supremo Conrs that. tin- Standard Oil Company had attempta-d to bribe him to prevent caw in which they were InterenteJ In coming to trial 'ihe amount of the bribe* varied from $76,000 to $300,000. At Highland, 111., tbe gasoline stove in I*na>- Becker - house exploded, shocking the man Into uuconxc.lousneoa, Mrs. Becker, who wan outside, ran In and drugged her unconscious husband, whose clothes were on Hn-, out of the house, her own clothes catching fir* during her effort*. Both died shortly afterwards from their stvere burns, leaving three mall children to continue the buttle of life alone. GREAT FIRE IN CLEVELAND. A Bad HI... la \\lilcli sow. |-upi War* Hadlr Hurnad Sam* ar II..... Mar Ula. Cleveland. <)., April 17. The Immense wholesale millinery establishment of Hurt Ot Comiuiiiy. occupying an entire bluck, was burned ilown on >atunlr. About a dozen men were cut off from soap* In the Hart building, and ran to tho roof and began crying for assistance. The crowd below In Icod on, begging th* unfortunates to wail for the ladders. Th* tlremen eventually succeeded in getting all safely to the ground. The Injured to far as known an-: Mary Mvlet, burned about face and head, condition critical; I F. J. Kockart, badly burned: Three un- I known men badly burned. Several of th* 1 firemen were slightly scorched. Rorkert I jumped from a window and U severely Injured. The flame* spread to the Franklin , blck. occupied by Hiwd llros. & Com- pany, wholumlu millinery, and P. Black j Se Company, ninnuf.u-turvr of ladles' clonks. The firemen succeeded in saving this building, but the loss on stock from smoke and water will ba heavy. After two and a half hours the tin- was brought under control. Tho total loss Is estimated at from oUO.OOO to |7UO,UOU, partially covered by insurance. Bryault*.' Hollar Du.a.r. New York. April 17. The "dollnr dinner" given by the members of the Democratic party who favor the candi- dacy of W. J. Hryaii for President, at the Grand Central Palaes on Saturday night, in point of number* was une of the big- gent affairs ever held in this city. Nearly &.IMHJ men and women sal down at long tables In the various rooms. William Jennings Mr/ an did not arrive until shortly ofur 7 o'clock. Crowds on the outside signalized bis appearance by tremendous cheering. Tbe band played "Hall to the Chief" a* Bryan WHS hur- ried down one of the main aUlen. Th* demonstration lasted for live minutes. Mr. Bryan's add re*, which wns a lengthy ono, WOK duvoted to upholding his well-known views on the monetary question, and predictions of saccoss for the Irt to I I Vinoorats in tbe uozt Presi- dential election. Traca .f tha Kingston, Jamaica, April IS. Consid- erable apprehension hits been occasioned ' here by the announcement that th* { American Government has notified th* Ooveruor, Sir Augustus Hemming, that, as the proposed tarilT threatens u operate against American trade. In the event of Ids passage retaliatory provisions will b* adopted against Jamaica. The newspapers of tb* island regard this notification as a threat to Involve the colony In financial and commercial ruin in view of th* Cuban and Porto Kiuan industrial compe- tition. s.vara*! HU J .._..(.. v..... Norwich. On*.. April IT. Ira Leo, a Ighly -respected rvaKliio* of this place, ti' '.mined sulcklu oo Friday afternoon li <-v>-iiiig his jugular vein ami bleeding to duath. Th* buJy wa* found on the Mulroml travk a short distance, west of the station. A note was found on tho body, containing the*e words: "This Is no case for inquiry. 1 do not wish to live any longer. ' ' Deceased was an Insurance and nursery agent ami was about OS years ot sge. H I* r*lutlve>i in Hamilton kav* been communicated with. Baby Kl.d ml Huntsvllle, Out.., April 17. On Thnr*- day morning a baby, 3 months old, daughter of J. T. 1). Cotiltnrd, barber, | of thi* place, wan found dead In It* cot. Information was laid before Coroner Reece, who held an Inquest. Evidence was given by the parents and others, showing very serious neglect of the baby on th* part of the parent*. The verdict was that the duath of thu child was caused by want of attention and willful neglect on tho part of the parents. The Crown Attorney ha* furtbor at-tiun nadar cuu- aidarattoa. Jafat A(lnt Chartokwla. Qnebeo, April 17. Judge Caron, la tbe oase of tha Union Unnk v. Churlebols, gave judgment against Charlebois for 1150.000. the amount of three pmmlssory notes given by defeu.lant, with from 13J of June, lain, and cost*. S.rl.nt Cttarr* J.ha D.vll*. Woodstock. April IT. Jhn Devlin of Uaouburg he* in tb* >OI bsw* with a TUaouburg DI.4 af Pi.aamaala. Ottawa, April 17. L B. Taylor, aajlstant clerk of votes and proceedings in the House of Commons, died on Sat urday morning of pi)uutonla after four days' Illness, aged 'ill. At on* time air. Taylor published Tha Ottawa CitUen. TIMES GOGO IN BRITAIN. Two t*r,,miMui Muulraalar* Hava B,a- tnrnad With an k.aeMlras;lu( > Tata - Mr. Hajr. aad Kugll.h Hallway*. Montreal, April 17. Two leading Montreal**!-*, Miw-u-t K. S. i lonston and Charles M. Hays, arrived home yester- day. The general manager of the Bank of Montreal says people abroad now call Canada's hopes of a fast Atlantic line the "Phantom Fast Line." He adds that In the present congmitnd state of the ship- yards it would be quite impossible to have the ships bulU. The cost also would be exoxaslve. He. In fact, does not expect to tee the fast line become a real icy bu'or* two years, but then the general manager thinks U will be an accomplished fact. He a<tds that tbe general prosperity now prevailing in Kngland will probably greatly lessen the volume of emigration toward* Canada for the next year or two. Speaking of money In London, he suite* that there is a tendency to firmness, and he docs not expect any serious relaxation of rates for som.i time, several colonial issue*, chiefly Australian, have gone off satisfactorily. The general manager of the Grand Trunk, who hod not been across the At- lai.-ie before, said that one has to go abroad to realize the fort that the gnat civilizing rao* of the world to-day U tb* Anglo-Saxon. The man. he says, who goes to Knglund, and. after passing over some of their leaning railways, will com* buck and proclaim that they are not in it as comparmi with what we have on this vide of the water, slt-iply doe* not know What he U talking about. Being asked If there was anything a railway man from this side oould learn in the Old 1 -a ml. he replied: "A great deal. I have ret.urn.-t. in fact, thinking that I know wry liuie," Mr. Hays status r.ha: his reception at the meeting of the Oriud Trunk share- holders w:w eordi.il in the extreme. Sir Charles Klvi-r-. Wilson will come to Can- ada in a short tun.-, and he oi'tlnin th* report that all thu ditTlcultiei U-in-.i-n th* C. PR and Grand Trunk have been set- tled satisfactorily to both companies. M. VI . -N.II ; Smith Smart U a pn>cty ullek Individ ual. but I managed to get abuiui of him to-day. Bix>m How did you do It? Mnith By getting to ths barber shop first CoatvBt. "It's all right. " sa.-J the optimistic oltl sen "1 used tii be a little blue over ths base ball outlook, but since I've thought It over I huvt* taken heart. " "I guess we'll manage to make up* good club wb*m Uie urnuigenwnta are com plelifl " "I can b* happy whether w* do or not Wu've wild so many players In all part* of tbe country that no matter which side Is wlnniug 1 can throw up uiy but and, boUsr for old f riouds. ' Apt Reply. "What!" exclaimed the surprised trav- eler in Florida. "You want me to pay K for riding half a mile in your old car- riagef" "Certainly," replied tbe oatlv*, with eye* wide open 'Yon don't think I'm like you other Jays down bar* tat my hn*lth do you?' IHIIII Gendron MTg- Co., Limited TOROXTO, ONT. Established 1824. OF ENGLAND. pott**!. The female detect w smiled craftily the llHtcnud to thu description of the crimes "It must bav* either been Sally Scott or May Uubbs." lio mused "Both of them wear such hideous bonnet* that 1 bulievu they'd be guilty of anything." New York Journal THF A MM CAR F lliij UlilijlLlUnll 1 OF XEW YORK. Established 1857. SPRING MEDICINE. II I. li.ilulrlr >rr^aarr ta GIT* Saata Altoi.tiu.i la tha It .>...! at Mil. aaaa. In tbe springtime th blood need* atten- tion. The change of th* year produces la veryonc. whether conscious of it or not, oine little heating of tbe blood. .-M line people Lave pimples, a little ees*> ma. or irritation of th* skin; other* f**l aaiiy tired and depressed and have a poor appetite. A tonic t* needed, and th* best tonic the Lust spring medicin* for man, won.un or child s Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for I'ale People. These pills do not purge and weaken like other medicines. 1 hey make rich, red blood, build np tbs! nerves, and mak we.ik. dcvroHssd and ' eiuily tlnil people feel cheerful, uctiv* and trontr. No other medicine in tho world bos offered such undoubted proof of merit and what Dr. Williams' Pink .Pills bav* ' done for others they will do for you if given a fair trial. Uis* Ellu M Kelly. North West Harbor, N > . says: "I can cheerfully recouimcnii Dr Williams s 1'iak Tills to any person suffering from any fortn of weakness, as I have proved their worth In my own cos*." Kvmembcr that pink eo.orrd pilln la glass jum or in any liiosu form or in Loxe* , that do not bear the full nam* "Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pill* fur Pale People" ar* not l)r \Villuims. ' No one was *ver cured by a substit ute. bold by all dealer* or direct ; f.uui the Dr. William.' Uedicin* Co., BrockviUt, Out., at We. a box or aU hasjsj, Combined Assets, $15,000,000. ^ Head Offce for Canada: TORONTO. Jas. Boomer, Manager. J. J.Vipond & Co., FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Correspondence Solicited. AdTancea M<tde on Consignments. MONTREAL. . EPUBLIC MINING STOCKS. R; 1 iiivii* HIM in I*- . :n ,.nrrh.i,.r - .rlt f..r c<Hir or tar r.<-rm p.ibli. 1.1 loti. nrnl..l Tbi* ! . if l- sTfiri <f m i u* tlllnar wll h n of lh* rn-li' c-lil pr*f t )( r*>i In lh* w.*r 111 I mn a.'*-iit |.m*i ; T Wl I t Mr.inmsMl 1*1 pr.tsj.e-a,, si f n t*) alt H* paibllr. nrt 1 n pol KM J * n qii1r*>r i4ii*l *! la maf i n t*ii Inc pu ; liar. At pr *,. I an ronmaiji*AJ L*n<* Ptn*-, Mint* ltd H<i*ion t I'rtnov** ]*ti%ii<l. K*tii''*>**rnt| Jnru >, K < A K I I Y I' \ I K K. It. M isilnfj llr*|tr 14 4illtill *M. K.. Toront*. Conldii't It- U.tarn.4. Six-year-old Tommy was sent by bis eldest ni-ter to tbe corner grocery t* buy a pound of lump Hugar. IU played allies on the way to the storu, and by th* linis he arrived then: ho bad forgotten what kind of sugar he was sent for. So hs took home some of thu gntnulatod article. Ills eldest sisu-r snt him buck to tb* star* to get lump sugar. After the proprietor of the grocery shop hud mud* th* change for the little Ud, ho eugagwl loiuiny iu oon- viTviiu ' n : "Tommy," said he. "I understand then is a new member f vour family." "Yes, sir," raplicti tho kad, "1*T* got a Uttle brotner." "Well, how do you Ilk* that, hsyr" la- quin-d i be grocerymuu. "Don't Ilk* it at all,' said Tommy; "rather hav* a little sinier." "Thon why don t you change him, Tom my f" "We would if we could, but I don't sup- pose w t aa. You MM wo bav* ussui alia four duy now I" Free and my exiicciiirntion Immed- iately rvlievrs Hiid : ri-i-s lh throat aud lungs from viscid phlecin. and n mniiciu* thai | i-.iinoi.o-, tlii- is the i.eit inctliuin* to U* for cnugliH, c.iltU. lutlainmuLiou uf 111* lungs anil nil iiuVci i.-n- ol tba tiiroat and clirit. Tins ia |ir.-< i^ely what bickle'n Aiiti-Coiisuni|itive syrup IH a s|M>oillc lor, aud wlirrvvvr Used it li.it K.VM uiiuuunii- ed nutislaci ion. Cli'lUrvn likv It ueuiu>s it is plf.tMini. ailiiks like a bcoauas it rs- lisvcs uini cuix-s iut! About a uion th ago women had the right, for th* first time, of voting In Paris. They seem to have been for tbe most part little desirous of exercising the privilege, rb* Oceanian of which wu the election f a n imber of n*w magistrate*. In tbe second arrondis*em*nt only three voted iml a similar number In tbe eighth, sumo was tb* result In every arrun- mcnt, whil* in the guartu-r Latin, which might be thought the vury sanctum sanc- torum of women's rights, not a singl* member of ths fair ssx took tha trouble to voto. C. CL Rim ARM h Co. I)K*R Siss. For SOSM yaars I bavs h^d only parllul us* of my arm. ciiusad b/ i iDddfta stniu. I hsve us*<l cvwy remedy w t' out ef- fiM-t. until I icot aumila I * tls at MINAUD'S L1MUB.NT. Th.-lsi.-rtt 1 i*clvsii from II cauncd BM tu contiu in: ill osi*. a .<] DOIT X am happy tu My my arm is vuoiiilstal / r.-torwL Qiamis, Out. E. W larllflkla rr <l t n .u ..., A law recently passed In Norway make* girls ineligible fir mutt linony unlussthey can show certificate* of skill in cooking, knitting and spinning. No worm metllciiiL. ;u-ts so nicely a* Mil- lar's Worm 1'owdecv mi nhrsli; requlrud. i ...... n Wheat has lo-vn irruwn -.ixi mils* fur- lurlb than Siii.i. Alaska. They wer* on tlu-ir w.ty hoina from s vtalt to rvlatires when thu hmiUtnd was taken 111, and they U*M! to Uv* Uui tra)n and go to u hotul. "1 think 1 shall die," gaspud th* hus- band, u* h* lay groaning in Ixil, bat alt wife was not exactly lympulhcua. "Of all tho cxtruv.urant, itblfileBS men!" aba said angrily. "Why can't you wait till you gei bom* to die- Dun t you know It will coat a good ten poiiuds uxLra if you die hero? 1) m t you let uie cutoh you a-dumg it. That 's all 1 " And a* didn't. , 81 Vitus Uanc* rapidly cured by Sillier'* Compound Iron PIU. Cases Ojf year*' standing now enjoying ib* bwl af a* a nsuJt of taking vheui. Canadian Patnta*. Toronto, April 13. !* The followlnc CnnKilUn*, a* wportsil by Clmrlrs It Kii lirs. 1'iitrnt Aitoriu-y, of Ihe Cnnnd.i I. if* B'ld'g. Toronto, bav* this wetk ob utl.icil patents; I. K. Dancy, boot and shoe clrnner ; K. *>rmrmw, lie* box : A O. Smith, m"!iclnnl coni|mi>ltioii ; H. K. Kor- rest, 'elrphone desk nnd regUter; H. Ayl- mer. drill ; O. BenoKk. bicycle wboel run: A. A Uiekson. inannineiuring psat into blocks of f ii*l ; J. Duncan, gas regulator ; J. A Hopcwell, *pike-pull*r; J. K. Lav I- gn*ur. comblu*<l door ttop aud oatcb ; W. Maedonald, dnpllcnts-deiilgn dUpWrer ; J. H. McCollam, air valvs ; \kcCunksr, snow eleartDg luachlas i A. B. llourU. (Welt}. Aaal UrlavaMoa. "Tb* way I wrote it. ' said ths young, man who was leaning over th* railing, rod srith mortirlcation and outraged fassV ing. "was thatthe young HMD of tb* lii*>kv opandnp Club would hold a bowling oa*> tost at their o4ul> room this evening." \V*U>" said tb*ciiy editor. " Ib* way it was prlnteU in your paper this morning, sir. wan that the young tua of th* Uigbupandup Club would baM a 'howling oumet, sir!" liUTa'! Liniaeoi Cures Di-teaper Caaaa lr l'a.i. Bill-Old Squeani took gas aad had a tenth oat. Jilt Ud h* Indeedr BUI Yen, and be said It hart more with tbe gas than 1: would have without 11 JillHow's that, 1 womiurf Bill Why. don t you understand f Ba had to pay for the gas. Mental ml pliyoieal vigor folio* tha usual Miller's Compound Iron PUls, i h. !.!-> \..ii.ifc >i .. . Vlrtaaa. A model young man s cbaract*ristVi* ar* bonvsty of pencil, respectability ot oarriag*. industry at m.tid. and ooAi jsnrar tlun for other*. With the** a young maa i* as "model" as It is given an earthly be- ing to br. Bdworu Uok la th* LsHUas* Journal. Hurt's Liniment Cures Garget !D Cowv ttr(ta. "I thought you told me you s*ver draah anything stronger than wutei." said ML*. UOOCC'K Dew aoiuamtanou. "Wat (hie) water." said Mr Booxw, with. painful dignity. "sb**n known to blow as> Rich. re. blood is pro*lu.-l by Milter's Cumfwuud Iron Pills. They puss us th* grvat vitalising prim .[il? upon which ss> pcad ktwltA aiul strenirtb.. LiaiHal t anfualaa. "Jolla. I can say 'How d'y* Geod-by' In French. ' "Ah, th.it'* good, a* far a* It "Te*; bat 1 san't remember which." Lady 1 think you ar* th* tramp I rvr saw. I'mmp- - Ma am, It's only la th* | at aaeammon bsaaty 1 . b*