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GOD’S JUST MEASURE.
IT WILL BE THE MEASURE YOU APPLY
TO OTHERS.
The Rrv. Dr. Talmage’s Rermou </n the
Hln of Unfairness—“ With What Mew
nre You Mete It Shall Be Measured to
You Again" Is His Text.
{Copyright, 18&8, by American Press Aaao
claXion.)
WASHINGTON, March 27.— 1 f the spirit of
this sermon of Dr. Talmage were carried
out, the world would be a better place to
live Id, and the fallen would find it cosier
to recover themselves; text, Matthew vii,
2, “With what measure you mete it shall
be measured to you again.”
In the greatest sermon over preached—
a sermon about 15 minutes long according
to the ordinary rate of speech—a sermon
on the Mount of Olives, the preacher sit
ting while he spoke, according to the an
cient mode of oratory, the people were giv
en to understand that the same yardstick
that they emplpyed upon others would be
employed upon themselves. Measure oth
ers by a harsh rule, and you will be meas
ured by a harsh rule. Measure others by
a charitable rule, and you will be meaa
wed by a charitable rule. Give no mercy
to others, and no mercy will be given to
you. “With what measure ye mete it shall
be measured to you again.”
There is a great deal of unfairness in
criticism in human conduct It was to
smite that unfairness that Christ uttered
the words of the text, and my sermon will
be a re-echo of the divine sentiment In
estimating the misbehavior of others we
xuust take into consideration the pressure
of circumstances It is never right to do
wrong, but there are degrees of culpability.
When men misbehave or commit some
atrocious wickedness, wo arc disposed in
discriminately to tumble them all over
the bank of condemnation. Suffer they
ought, and suffer they must, but in a dif
ference of degree.
The Hereditary Tendency.
In the first place, in estimating the mis
doing of others wo must take into calcula
tion the heiedltary tendency. There is
such a thing as good blood, and there is
such a thing as bad blood. There are fam
ilies that have had a moral twist iu them
for a hundred years back. They have not
been careful to keep the family record in
that regard. There have been escapades
and maraudings and scoundrelisms and
moral deficits all the way back, whether
you call it kleptomania or pyromania or
dipsomania or whether it be in a milder
form and amount to no mania at all. The
strong probability is that the present crim
inal started life with nerve, muscle and
bone contaminated. As some start life
with a natural tendency to nobility and
generosity and kindness and truthfulness,
there aro others who Start life with just
the opposite tendency, and they are born
liars or born malcontents or born outlaws
or born swindlers.
There is in England a school that is
called the Princess Mary school. All the
children in that school are the children of
convicts. The school is under high patron
age. I had the pleasure of being present
at one of their anniversaries, presided over
by the Earl of Kin tore. By a wise law in
England after parents have committed a
certain number of crimes and thereby
shown themselves incompetent rightly to
bring up their children the little ones are
taken from under pernicious influences
and put in reformatory schools, where ail
gracious and kindly influences shall be
brought upon them. Os course the experi
ment is young, and it has got to be dem
onstrated how large a percentage of the
children of convicts may be brought up to
respectability and usefulness. But we all
know that it is more difficult for children
of bad parentage to do right than for chil
dren of good parentage.
All Born Equal.
In this country we are taught by the
Declaration of American Independence
that all people aro born equal. There never
was a greater misrepresentation put in
one sentence than in that sentence which
implies that we are all born equal. You
as may as well say that flowers are born
equal or trees are born equal or animals
aro born equal. Why does one horse cost
SIOO and another horse cost 85,000? Why
does one sheep cost 810 and another sheep
cost $500? Difference in blood. We are
wise enough to recognize it in horses, in
cattle, in sheep, but wo are not wise enough
to mako allowance for the difference in
the human blood. Now, I demand by the
law of eternal fairness that you be more
lenient in your criticism of those w’ho
were born wrong, in whose ancestral line
there was a hangman’s knot, or who came
from a tree the fruit of which for centuries
has been gnarled and worm eaten.
Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave some mar
velous statistics in his story of a woman
ho called “Margaret, the mother of crim
inals.” Ninety years ago she lived in a
village in upper New York state. She was
not only poor, but she was vicious. She
■was not well provided for. There were no
almshouses there. The public, however,
somewhat looked after her, but chiefly
scoffed at her and derided her and pushed
her further down in her crime. That was
©0 years ago. There have been 628 persons
in that ancestral line, 200 of them crim
inals. In one branch of that family there
were 30, and nine of them have been in
state prison, and nearly all of the others
have turned out badly. It is estimated
that that family cost the county and state
SIOO,OOO, to say nothing of the property
they destroyed. Are you not willing, as
sensible, fair people, to acknowledge that
it is a fearful disaster to be born in suoh
an ancestral line? Does it not make a great
difference whether one descends from Mar
garet, the mother of criminals, or from
some mother in Israel; whether you are
the son of Ahab or the son of Joshua?
Against the Current,
♦lt is a very different thing to swim with
the current from what it is to swim
against the current, as some of you have
no doubt found in your summer recrea
tion. If a man find himself in an ancestral
current where there is good blood flowing
smoothly from generation to generation,
it is not a very great credit to him if be
turn out good and honest and pure and
noble. He could hardly help it. But sup
pose he is born in an ancestral line, in a
hereditary line, where the influences have
been bad and there has been a coming
{own over a moral declivity, if the man
surrender to the influences he will go
down under the overmastering gravitation
unless some supernatural aid be afforded
him. Now, such a person deserves not
your excoriation, but your pity. Do not
sit with the lip curled in scorn and with
an assumed air of angelic innocence look
ing down upon such moral precipitation.
You had better get down on your knees
and first pray Almighty God for their res
cue, and next thank the Lord that you
have not been thrown under the wheels of
4bat Juggernaut.
In Great Britain and in the United
States in every generation there are tens
of thousands of persons who are fully de-
velopod criminals and incarcerated. T say
in every generation. Then I suppose there
arc tens of thousands of persons not found
out in their criminality. In addition to
these there are tens of thousands of persons
who not positively becoming criminals
nevertheless have a criminal tendency.
Any one of all those thousands, by the
grace of God, may become Christian and
resist the ancestral Influence and open a
new chapter of behavior, but the vast ma
jority of them will not, and it becomes all
men, professional, unprofessional, minis
ters of religion, judges of courts, philan
thropists and Christian workers, to recog
nize the fact that there are these Atlantic
and Pacific surges of hereditary evil roll
ing on through the centuries. I say, of
course, a man can resist this tendency,
just as in the ancestral line mentioned in
the first chapter of Matthew. You see in
the same line in which there was a wicked
Rehoboam and a desperate Manasses there
afterward came a pious Josiah and a glo
rious Christ But, my friends, you must
recognize the fact that these influences go
on from generation to generation. lam
glad to know, however, that a river which
has produced nothing but miasma for a
hundred miles may after awhile turn the
wheels of factories and help support in
dustrious and virtuous populations, and
there are family lines which were poisoned
that are a benediction now. At the last
day it will be found out that there are men
who have gone clear over into all forms of
iniquity and plunged into utter abandon
ment who before they yielded to the first
temptation resisted more evil than many
i man who has been moral and upright
all his life.
The Best Man Before God.
But supposing now that in this ago,
when there are so many good people, that
I come down into this audience and select
the very best man in it. I do not moan
the man who would style himself the best,
for probably he is a hypocrite, but I mean
the man who before God is really the best.
I will take you out from all your Chris
tian surroundings. I will take you back
to boyhood. I will put you in a depraved
home. I will put you in a cradle of in
iquity. Who is bending over that cradle?
An intoxicated mother. Who Is that swear
ing in the next room? Your father. The
neighbors come in to talk, and their jokes
are unclean. There is not in the house a
Bible or a moral treatise, but only a few
scraps of an old pictorial.
After awhile you aro old enough to get
out of the cradle, and you are struck
across the head for naughtiness, but never
in any kindly manner reprimanded. Aft
er awhile you are old enough to go abroad,
and you are sent out with a basket to steal.
If you come homo without any spoil, you
are whipped until the blood comes. At 15
years of age you go out to fight your own
battles in this world, which seems to care
no more for you than the dog that has
died of a fit under the fence. You are
kicked and cuffed and buffeted. Some
day, rallying your courage, you resent
some wrong. A man says: “W’ho are you?
I know who you are. Your father had free
lodgings at Sing Sing. Your mother, she
was up for drunkenness at the criminal
court. Got out of my way, you low lived
wretch!” My brother, suppose that had
been the history of your advent and the
history of your earlier surroundings.
Would you have been the Christian man
you are today, seated in this Christian as
sembly? I tell you nay. You would have
been a vagabond, an outlaw, a murderer
on the scaffold atoning for your crime.
All these considerations ought to mako us
merciful in our dealings with the wander
ing and the lost.
Swayed by Circumstances.
Again, I have to remark that in our es
timation the misdoing of people who have
fallen from high respectability and useful
ness we must take into consideration the
conjunction of circumstances. In nine
cases out of ten a man who goes astray
does not intend any positive wrong. Ho
has trust funds. He risks a part of these
funds in investment. He says: “Now, if
I should lose that investment I have of my
own property five times as much,and if this
investment should go wrong I could easily
make it up. I could five times make it
up.” With that wrong reasoning he goes
on and makes the investment, and it does
not turn out quite as well as he expected,
and he makes another investment, ami
strange to say at the same time all his oth
er affairs get entangled, and all his other
resources fail, and his hands are tied.
Now he wants to extricate himself. He
goes a little further on in the wrong in
vestment. He takes a plunge further ahead,
for he wants to save his wife and children,
be wants to save his home, he wants to
save bis membership in the church. Ho
takes one more piunge, and all is lost.
Some morning at 10 o’clock the bank
door is not opened, and there is a card on
the door signed by an officer of the bank,
indicating there is trouble, and the name
of the defaulter or the defrauder heads the
newspaper column, and hundreds of men
say, “Good for him!” Hundreds of other
men say, “I’m glad he’s found out at
last.” Hundreds of other men say, “Just
as I told you.” Hundreds of other men
say, “We couldn’t possibly have been
tempted to do that—no conjunction of cir
cumstances could ever have overthrown
me.” And there is a superabundance of
indignation, but no pity. The heavens
full of lightning, but not one drop of dew.
If God treated us as society treats that
man, we would all have been in hell long
ago.
Temper Wrath With Mercy.
Wait for the alleviating circumstances.
Perhaps be may have been the dupe of
others. Before you let all the hounds out
from their kennel to maul and tear that
man find out if he has not been brought
up in a commercial establishment where
there was a wrong system of ethics taught;
find out whether that man has not an ex
travagant wife who is not satisfied with
his honest earnings and in the temptation
to please her he has gone into that ruin
into which enough men have fallen, and
by the same temptation, to make a proces
sion of many miles. Perhaps some sud
den sickness may have touched his brain,
and his judgment may be unbalanced. He
is wrong, he is awfully wrong, and he
must be condemned, but there may be
mitigating circumstances. Perhaps under
the same temptation you might have fall
en. The reason some men do not steal
$200,000 is because they do not get a
chance. Have righteous indignation you
must about that man’s conduct, but tem
per it with mercy.
But, you say, “I am sorry that the in
nocent should suffer.” Yes, I am, too —
sorry for the widows and orphans who lost
their all by that defalcation. I am sorry
also for the business men, the honest busi
ness men, who have had their affairs all
crippled by that defalcation. I am sorry
for the venerable bank president, to whom
the credit of that bank was a matter of
pride. Yes, lam sorry also for that man
who brought all the distress—sorry that
he sacrificed body, mind, soul, reputation,
heaven, and went into the blackness of
darkness forever.
You defiantly say, “I could not be
tempted in that way.” Perhaps you may
be tested after awhile. God has a very
good memory, and be sometimes seems_to
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28 1898.
eay: “This man Dels so strong in Tils In
nate power and goodness be shall be test
ed- He La so full of bitter invective against
that unfortunate it .-»hall be shown now
whether be has the power to stand.” Fif
teen years go by. The wheel of fortune
turns several times, and you are in a crisis
that you never oould have anticipated.
Now all the powers of darkness come
around, and they chuckle and they chatter
and they say: “Aba, here is the old fellow
who was so proud of his integrity and who
bragged be couldn’t be overthrown by
temptation and was so uproarious in his
demonstrations of indignation at the de
falcation 15 years ago! Let us see!”
A Gteooe Backward.
God lets the man go. God, who bad
kept that man under bis protecting care,
lets the man go and try for himself the
majesty of his integrity. God letting the
man go, the powers of darkness pounce
upon him. I sec you some day in your
office in great excitement. One of two
things you can do—be honest and be pau
perized and have your children brought
home from school, your family dethroned
in social influence; the other thing is you
can step a little aside from that which is
right, you can only just go half an inch
out of the proper path, you can only take
a little risk, and then you have all your
finances fair and right. You will have a
large property. You can leave a fortune
for your children and endow a college and
build a public library in your native town.
You halt and wait and halt and wait un
til your lips get white. You decide to risk
it. Only a few strokes of the pen now.
But, oh, bow your hand trembles, how
dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast
By the strangest and most awful conjunc
tion of circumstances any one could have
imagined you are prostrated. Bankruptcy,
commercial annihilation, exposure, crime.
Good mon mourn and devils hold carnival,
and you see your own name at the head of
the newspaper column in a whole congress
of exclamation points, and while you are
reading the anathema in tbe reportorial
and editorial paragraph it occurs to you
how much this story is like that of the de
falcation 15 years ago, and a clap of thun
der shakes the window sill, saying, “With
what measure ye mete it shall be measured
to you again. ”
You look in another direction. There
is nothing like ebullitions of temper to put
a man to disadvantage. You, a man with
calm pulses and a fine digestion and per
fect health, cannot understand how any
body should be capsized in temper by an
infinitesimal annoyance. You say, “I
couldn’t be unbalanced in that way.”
Perhaps you smile at a provocation that
makes another man swear. You pride
yourself on your imperturbability. You
say with your manner, though you have
too much good taste to say it with your
words: “I have a great deal more sense
than that man has. I have a great deal
more equipoise of temper than that man
has. I never could make such a puerile
exhibition of myself as that man has
made. ”
Paid at Last.
Let me see. Did you not say that you
could not be tempted to an ebullition of
temper? Some September you come home
from your summer watering place, and you
have inside away back in your liver or
spleen what we call in our day malaria,
but what the old folks called chills and
fever. You take quinine until your ears
are first buzzing beehives and then roaring
Niagaras. You take roots and herbs; you
take everything. You get well. Buttbe
next day you feel uncomfortable, and you
yawn, and you stretch, and you shiver,
and you consume, and you suffer. Vexed
more than you can tell, you cannot sleep,
you cannot eat, you cannot bear to see any
thing that looks happy. You go out to kick
the cat that is asleep in the sun. Your
children’s mirth was once music to you.
Now it is deafening. You say, “Boys,
stop that racket!” You turn back from
June to March. In the family and in the
neighborhood your popularity is 95 per
cent off. The world says: “What is the
matter with that disagreeable man? What
a woebegone countenance! I can’t bear
the sight of him.” You have got your
pay at last—got your pay. You feel just
as the man felt, that man for whom you
had no mercy, and my text comes in
with marvelous appositeness, “With what
measure ye mete it shall be measured to
you again. ”
In tbe study of society I have come to
this cdnclusion—that the most of the peo
ple want to be good, but they do not ex
actly know how to make it out. They
make enough good resolutions to lift them
into angelhood. The vast majority of peo
ple who fall are the victims of circum
stances. They are captured by ambuscade.
If their temptations should come out in e
regiment and fight them in a fair field,
they would go out in the strength and tbe
triumph of David against Goliath. But
they do not see the giants, and they do not
see the regiment. Temptation comes and
says, “Take these bitters, take this nerv
ine, take this aid to digestion, take this
nightcap.” Tbe vast majority of mor and
women who are destroyed by opium and
by rum first take them as medicines. In
making up your dish of criticism in re
gard to them take from the caster and tbe
cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet of cay
enne pepper.
Remember tbe Process.
Do you know how that physician, that
lawyer, that journalist became the victim
of dissipation? Why, the physician was
kept up night by night on professional
duty. Life and death hovered in tue bal
ance. His nervous system was exhausted.
There came a time of epidemic, and whole
families were prostrated, and his nervous
strength was gone. He was all wjrn out
in the service of the public. Now he must
brace himself up. Now he stimulates. The
life of this mother, the life of this child,
the life of this father, the life of this whole
family must be saved and of all these fam
ilies must be saved, and he stimulates, and
he does it again and again. You may crit
icise his judgment, but remember the
process. It was not a selfish process by
which he went down. It was magnificent
generosity through which he fell.
That attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in a poorly ventilated court
room. listening to the testimony and con
testing in tbe dry technicalities of the law,
and now the time has come for him to
wind up, and he must plead for the life of
his client and his nervous system is all
gone. If he fails in that speech, bis client
perishes. If he have eloquence enough in
that hour, his client is saved. He stimu
lates.
That journalist has had exhausting mid
night work. He has had to report speeches
and orations that kept him up till a very
late hour. He has gone with much expo
sure working up some case of crime in com
pany with a detective. He sits down at
midnight to write out his notes from a
memorandum scrawled on a pad under
unfavorable circumstances. His strength
is gone. Fidelity to the public intelli
gence, fidelity to his own livelihood, de
mand that he keep up. He must keep up.
He stimulates. Again and again he does
that, and be goes down. You may criti
cise his judgment in the matter, but have
mercy. Remember the process. Do not
be hard.
Scold Less and Pray More.
My friend?, this text will come to fulfill
ment in some cases in this world. The
huntsman in Farujsteen was shot by some
unknown person. Twenty years after the
sun of the huntsman wa= in the same for
tat, and he accidentally shot a man, and
tbe man in dying eaid: “Gcd is just. I
shot your father just here 20 years ago.”
A bishop said to Louis XI of France,
“Make an iron cage for all those who do
not think as we do—an iron cage in which
the captive can neither lie down not stand
straight up.” It was fashioned —the aw
ful instrument of punishment. After
awhile the bishop offended Louis XI, and
for 14 years be was in that same cage and
could neither lie down nor stand up. It
is a poor rule that will not work both
ways. ‘‘With what measure ye mete it
shall be measured to you again.”
Oh, my friends, let us be resolved to
scold less and pray more!
What headway will we make in the
judgment if in this world we have been
hard on those who have gone astray? What
headway will you and I make in the last
great judgment, when we must have
mercy or perish? The Bible says, ‘‘They
shall have judgment without mercy that
showed no mercy.”
I see the scribes of heaven looking up
into the face of such a man, saying:
“What! You plead for mercy, you whom
in all your life never had any mercy on
your fellows! Don’t you remember how
hard you were in your opinions of those
who were astray? Don’t you remember
when you ought to have given a helping
hand you employed a hard heel? Mercy!
You must misspeak yourself when you
plead for mercy here. Mercy for others,
but no mercy for you. ‘‘Look,” say the
scribes of heaven, ‘‘look at that inscrip
tion over the throne of judgment, the
throne of God’s judgment.” See it com
ing out letter by letter, word by word,
sentence by sentence, until your startled
vision reads it and your remorseful spirit
appropriates it: ‘‘Wit what measure ye
mete it shall be measured to you again.
Depart, ye cursed 1”
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In STYLE QUALITY AND PRICE
When in Need of
Fine Harness, Saddles, Robes, Blankets, Whips, etc., call and see us.
Riding and Huntng Leggings in all styles.D
TRUNK REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
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HR TALK IS CHEAP!
| DON’T PAY SIOO FOR A
TALKING MACHINE
S when you can buy one which for amusement will
make the children happy and cause the old folks to
r x ' war smile. Complicated machines get out of order
THE UNITED STATESTALKING MACHINE
y—:is simple, durable ; no parts to break or get
out or^er - Any child can operate it.
C. It is neatly encased in a hard-wood box,
K ■■ ■ ~ we n finished, size inches,
•.La with brass hinges and catch ; has hearing tubes for two persons, one (Ber
liner s uramopnone) record and twenty-five needle points. Price complete with one Record,
(express charges prepaid) $3.50, weight 4 lbs. Remit by Bank Draft, Express, or Post-
Ornce money order. Agents wanted. For terms and particulars address a
UNITED STATES TALKING HACHINE CO., (DEPT. I ) 57 E. 9th ST., NEW YORK CITK
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President McKinley
Must get a great deal of satis
faction and comfort when seated tn ithat
famous chair known as the presidential
chair! That is the only species we can fur
nish you with. Anything else in the way
of furniture in new and handsome designs
in parlor, library, dining room or cham
ber sets or odd and fancy pieces, we will
furnish you at a reasonable price.
ThesWood=Peavy
Furniture Co.