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KKV. DR. TALMAtiK.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Sublci-t: “The Sunrise."
Tkxt; "The Uuy (s nt h'ind. <> —-Ronvonl
sttt., 1J
Hack from the mountains and tbo wifi*
mill the sprtiiK*. un<l tlio farmliouw, vmii
chock bron—il and your Mpiril* lighted. I
you banMKtti) with the word# of Utihiui tc
the HhuiiftiuiniU*: "U it wUI with their i
it weil with thv buabftnd? i* it we.l with tlw
child r <hi mate t*cm 1 m* U mark of re
rent grief. but all along the track of tear# 1
mv the fctory of rwiurrcction mui reunion
w hen all tear# arc done; the deep plowing of
tho keel, followed by the flaah *f the phot*
phornMnce • .
Now that 1 have imked you in ragvd U
your welfare, you naturally ask how I sin.
Varv well, thank you. Whether it wan the
fencing air of the Colorado mountain#, Pi,*
(KX) ftn*t above the level of the **ft, or the
tonic atmosphere *f the Pacific coast, or
lmth iu the surf of Long Inland beach, or
whether it i# the joy of Htanriing in thia great
group of warm hearted friends, or w hether
it. is a new’ appreciation of the goodness of
God, I cannot tell. 1 simply know I am
grandly and gloriously and inexpres
sibly ’happy. It was said that John
MoffatU the great M**t>Hxii*t preacher,
occasionally got fast in his sei mon, and te
extricate himself would cry “Hallelujah I
am iu no such predicament to-day, but 1 am
full of the name i haj*->dic ejaculation. Start
ing out this morning on anew ecclesiastical
year, I want to give you the key note of my
next twelve mouths' ministry. 1 want to net
it to the tune of Antioch, Ariel end Corona
tion. Some time ago we had a re w stop put
iu this organ—a new trumpet stop—and l
want to put anew trumpet stop into my ser
mons. . .
In all our Christian work you and I want
more of the element of gladness. That man
has no right to si* v that Christ uever laughed.
Do you suppose that He w a* glum at the w ed
ding in Cana of Galilee? l* you suppose
Christ was unresponsive when the children
clambered over His knee and shoulder at His
own invitation? Do you suppoee that the
evangelist meant nothing when he said of
Christ: "He rejoiced in spirit?" Do you
believe that the Divine Christ who pour*
all the water over the rocks at Vernal
Falls, Yosemite, does not believe iu the
sparkle and gallop and tumultuous joy
and rushing raptures of human lift*? I
believe not only that the morning laughaand
that the mountains laugh, and that the seas
laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but tlut
Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh and
n tear into an alembic,and assay them, and te*t
them, and analyze them, ami you will often
find a* much of the pure gold of religion in a
laugh as in a tear. I >eep spiritual joy always
shows itself m facial illumination. John
* Wesley said he was sure of a good religious
impression being produced lieaum* of what
he calls the great laughter he saw among the
people. G<idles# merriment is blasphemy
anywhere, but expression of Christian joy id
appropriate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook of the world ought
to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recently
disturbed many people by telling them that
there is danger of stellar collision. We have
been told through the papers by these as
tronomers that there are worlds coming very
near together, and that wo shall have
plagues and wars and tumults and perhaps
the world’s destruction. Do not be scared.
If you have ever stood at a railroad center,
where ten or twenty or thirty rail
tracks cross each other, and seen
that by the movement of tlie switch one ox
two inches the train shoots this way and that,
without colliding, then you may understand
how fifty worlds may come w ithin an inch
of disaster,aud that inch lie as good as a mill
ion miles. If a human switchtender can
;%*>t the trains this way ami that without
harm, caimot the Hand that for thousands
of years hasupneld the universe keep our lit
tle world out of harm’s way? Christian geo
logists tell us that this world was million of
years in building. Well, now, I do
not think God would take millions ' .ears
to build a house which to last ix
thousand years. There l. nothing m the
world or outside the world, torrential or
astronomical, to excite dismay. I wish that
some stout Gospel breeze might scatter all
the malaria of human foreboding. The sun
rose this morning at about half-past 5, and
I think that is just about the hour in tho
world’s history. "The day is at hand.”
The first ray of the dawn 1 see in the
gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for
humau butchery. Within the last twenty
five years there have U-u international
differences which would have brought a
shook of arms in any other day, but which'
were peacefully adjusted,the pen taking the
place of the sword.
That Alabama question iu any other
age of the world would have caused
war between the United States and
England. How was it settled? By
men of-war otf the Narrows, or off the
Mersey? By the Gulf Stream of the ocean
crossed by a gulf stream of human blood?
Hv the pathway of nations incarnadined? No.
A few wise men go into a quiet room at Gen
eva, talk the matter over, and telegraph to
Washington and to London: "All settled.”
Peace” Peace. England pays to the United
States the amount awarded—pays reallv
more than she ought to have paid. Bi t still,
all that Alabama broil is settled—settled for
ever. Arbitration instead of battle.
So, the quarrel eight or nine years ago
about the Canadian fisheries in any other age
would have caused war between the United
States and England. England said: “Pay
me for the invasion of mr (Canadian tifthtc
ies” The United States said: "I will not pay
anything.” Well, the two nations say .“1
guess we had better leave tho whole matter
to a commission.” The commission is ap
pointed, and the commission examines the
affair, and the commission reports, and pay
we ought, jiuy we must, pay wo do. Not a
pouim of powder burned, not a cartridge bit
ten off, no one hurt s * much as by the
scratch of u pin. Arbitration instead of
battle.
8o the Somoan controversy in any other
age would have brought Germany and the
United States in bloody collision. But all is
settled. Arbitration instead of battle.
Franco will never again, I think, through
peccadillo of ambassador, bring on a battle
with other nations. She sues that God, in
punishment of Sedan, blotted out the French
Empire, and the only aspirant of that throne
who had any right of expectation dies in a
war that has not even the dignity of being
respectable. What is that olush on the
cfaeek of England to-day -’ What is the leaf
t hat England would like jo tear out of her
history? The Zulu war. Down with the
sword and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better have set
tled our sectional difficulties by arbitration
than by the thrust of the sword. Philan
thropy said to the North: ‘Pay down a cer
tain amount of money forth© purchase* of the
slaves, and let all those born after a certain
time be born free.” Philanthropy at the same
time said to the South: “You sell the claves,
and get rid of this great national contest and
trouble.” The North replied: *1 won't pay
a cent.” The South replied: “1 won't sell.”
War! War! A million dead men, and a na
tional debt which might have ground this na
tion to powder.
Why did we not let AY illiam H. Seward, ol
New York, and Alexander H. Stevens, of
Georgia, go out and spend u few days under
the trees on the banks of the Potomac and
talk the matter over, and settle it. as settle
it they could, rather than the North pay in
tost of war, four billion seven hundred mil
lion dollars, and the South pay four billion
seven hundred and fifty million dollars, the
destroying angel leaving the first born dead
in so many houses all the way from the Pen
obscot to the Alabama. Ye aged men,
whose sons fell in the strife do you not think
that would have been better? Oh, yes! we
have come to believe, I think, in this coun
try, that arbitration is better than battle.
I may le mistaken, but I hope that the
last war between Christian nations is ended.
Barbarians may mix their war paint,
end Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows,
but I think Christian nations have
gradually learned that war is disaster
to victor as well as vanquished, and that
almost anything bought by blood is
lnought at too dear a price. I wish to
God this nation might boa model of
willingness for arbitration. No need of
killing another Indian. No need of
sacrificing any more brave General Custers.
Stop exasperating the red man.and there will
be no more arrows shot out from the reserva
tion. a General of the United States army,
in high repute throughout this land, and
who, perhaps, has been in more Indian wars
than any other officer, and who has been
wounded again and again in IxdiaJf of our
Government in battle against the Indians,
told me that all the wars that had ever oc
curred between Indians and white men had
been provoked by white men, and that there
wan no exception to the rule. While we are
arbitrating with Christian nations, let us to
ward barbarians carry ourselves in a manner
uiiorovocative of contest.
I inherit a large estate, and the waters are
rich with fish, and the woods are songful with
birds, and m v cornfields are silken and golden.
Here is my sister's grave. Out yonder, un
der that large tree, mv father died. An in
vader comes, and proposes to drive me off
and take possession of my property. He
crowds me back, he crowds me on, and
crowds me into a closer corner, and still
closer corner, until after a while I say:
“Svand back, don't crowd me any more, or
I’ll il/rike. \Y hat right have you to come
her< and drive me off my premises? I got this
farm from my father, and he got it from
his father. What right have you to como
I r r*d molest YOU llndlV V 5
I kl, I.v MI.MV II);. I you ll" I *!""* •’
ii hinl.orrivlliiuitloti I' I *'* mv hair shorter
than vou .!<> I •-mill put tbi- gnmad to •
wat tival U'tP'i' use Hutu >'•** <• '**'
i,,,.., , r..wiling in* back and crowding m
.•n inf** a clt*er comer aud rlewr cimer, un
til it*, v I l.H.k around ill*-a nfferiug fan.-
II *.... IHr Ibv their hardship* l hew vou
|,i twain Forthwith all tho world com**
t*> v..ur funeral to pronouwv il<ycmm,
.virtue to mv execution b* auathema
ti MIC. You arc the ham. I am
culprit. BehoM the llult.l Slot.-, (lovorii
,n„,,t un.t tic* North American Indian. The
rc! tiuu. tin* sto.sl more wrong* than l
woul.l, or vou We would liave struck
wanier. fleete r. That which is right to dc
f.'PHc of a Brooklyn homo or a New York
home i right it. defense *if a home on tot.of
thoßockv Mountain* Before tht* dwindling
IV.I nice die* IVin.pl itoly out, I Wi*h that thU
generation might. hf Common fustic**. nU.iie
for tlie inhumanity of It* pi>vl.H,weom. In
tin* dav of God's judgment. I would rather
there Is- a blood-smeared Modoc than
a swindling United Rtatcs officer on an In- j
dlan reservation! One man was a lmrtsarmii
and n savage, and never pretended to be j
anything luit a barbarian and a stvage. The .
other man pretended to lx* representative |
of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all ;
this, the general disgust with war ami tho
substitution of diplomatic skill for the glit
tering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistaka
ble that "the dav is at hand.”
I find another ray of the dawn In the com
pression of the world’s distance*. What a
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been tho world’s rectification
with fourteen hundred millions of population
nod no facile means of communication; but
now through telegraphy for tho eve and
telephonic intimacy for the ear. and through
steam boating and railroading, the twenty
and all the.- agencies of invention, l do not
know that th* redemption of the world will
be more than the work of half a day. Do
we not read tho Queen’s spaech at the
proroguing of Parliament the day before in
London* If that be so, is it anything mar
velous to believe that in twenty-four hours u
divine communication can reach the whole
earth* Kupjs.so Christ should descend on the
nations —many expect that Christ will come
among the nations personally—suppose that
to-morrow morning the Bon of Goa from a
hovering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Would not that fact be known nil
tho world over in twenty-four hours?
Suppose He should present His Gospel
in i. few words wiving: "I ani the Son
of God: I cane* to pardon all your sins and to
heal all your sorrow; t * prove that I am
a supernatural being, I have just descended
from the clouds; do you believe Me. and do
vou believe Me now?” Why, all the tele
graph stations of the earth would lx* crowded
a- none .f them were ever crowded just af
ter a shipwreck. 1 tell you all these thing*
to show you it is not among the impossibili
ties or even the improbabilities that Christ
will conquer the whole earth, ami do it in
stanter, when the time cornea. There are
foretokening* in the air. Something
great is going to happen. I do not
think that Jupiter is going to run us down
or that, the axle of the world is going to
break; but I mean something great for the
world’s blessing and not for the world’s
damage is going to happen. 1 think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough, the Lon
don plague*. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
Enough, the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks.
Enough, the conflagrations. 1 think our
world could stand right well a procession of
prosperities axid triumphs. Better be on
the lookout. Better nave your observa
tories open toward the heavens, and
tin* lenses* of your most powerful teiesconcs
well polished. Better have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation of mighty
influence. Better have new fonts of type in
your printing offices to set up some astound
ing good news. Better have some new ban
ner that has never been carried, ready for
live thousand miles of the world's circumfer
ence are shriveling up into insig
nPi cant brevity. Hong Kong is near
or to New York than a few years ago New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Mel
bourne within speaking distance. Purchase
a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see
the telegraphs of the land, and by the red
lines the cable* under the ocean. You see
what opportunity this is going to give for tho
final movements of Christianity. A fortress
may le months or years in building, but after
it is constructed it may do all its
work in twenty minutes. Christianity has
been planting its batteries for nineteen cen
turies, and may go on in tho work through
other centuries; but when those lotteries are
thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully
built, they may all do their work in twenty
four hours. Tin* world sometimes derides the
church for slowness of movement. Is science
any quicker? Did it not take science five
thousand six hundred and fifty-two years to
find out so simple a thing as the
■irculation of the human blood?
With the earth and the sky full of electricity,
science took five thousand eight hundred
years before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might lx* made of this
subtle and mighty element. When good men
take possession of all these scientific forces,
sudden processions. Better have the bells in
your church towers well hung,and rope with
in reach, that you may ring out the mar
riage of the King’s Son. Cleanse all your
court houses, for the Judge of all the earth
may appear. Let nil your legislative hall*
be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may be
about to come. Drive off the thrones of
despotism all the occupants, for the King of
heaven and earth may be about to
The darkness of the night is blooming
and whitening into the lilies of morning
cloud, and the lilies reddeding into the roses
of stronger day—fit garlands, whether white
or red, For Hun on whose head are many
crowns. “The day is at hand!”
One more ray of the dawn I see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come
now, do not let us do another stroke of
work until we have settled one matter.
What is going to bo the filial issue of this
great contest lietween sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this
world going to be all garden or all desert?
Now let us have that matter settled. if
we Ixdievo Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hoses,
aud Micah ami Malaehi, and John and
Deter, and i’aul and Christ, we believe that
it is going to be all garden. But let us have
it settled. Let us kuow whether we are
working on toward a success or toward a
dead failure If there is a child in your
house sick, and you are sure he is going to
g,-t well, you sympathize with present pains,
but all tin* foreboding is gone. If you are
in a cyclone off the Florida coast, and the
Captain assures you the vessel is staunen
and the winds are changing for a better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patient
ly submit te present distress with tho
thought of safe arrival. Now I want to
know whether we are coming on toward dis
may, darkness and defeat, or on toward light
and blessedness. You and I believe the lat
ter, and if so. every year we spend is ono
year subtracted from the world’s woe, and
every event that i>rssos, whether bright
or /lark, brings us one event nearer a
happy consummation, and by all that
is inexorable in chronology and mathematics
I commend you to good cheer and courage.
If there is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three, then by
every rolling sun we are coming on toward
a magnificent terminus. Then every winter
passed is one severity less for our poor world.
Then every summer gone bv brings us nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your algebra
down on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at o’clock than it
is at 2, if it is nearer morning at 4 o'clock
than it is at 3, then we are nearer tho dawn of
the world’s deliverance. Clod’s clock • rms
to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings
and tho hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and the moon stood still once;
they will never stand still again until they
stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as
well as your Bible, you must believe we arc
nearer the dawn. “The day is at* hand.”
There is a 1 'lass of phenomena which makes
me think that the spiritual and the heavenly
world may, after a while, make a demonstra
tion in this world which will bring all moral
and spiritual tilings to a climax. Now, T aiu
no spiritualist; hut every intelligent man has
noticed that there are strange and mvs*
terious things which indicate to him that
perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off
as sometimes we conjecture, and that after a
while, from the spiritual nnd heavenly world
there may be a demonstration upon ou r world
for its bet terment. AVe call it magnetism,
or we eail it mesmerism, or we call it electric
ity, because we want some term to cover up
our ignorance. Ido not know what, that is.
I never heard an audible voice from the other
world. I am pursuaded of this, however:
that the veil between this world and the
next is getting thinner and thinner, and that,
perhaps after a while, at the call of God—
not at, the call of the Davenport brothers,
or Andrew Jackson Davis—some of the old
scriptural warriors, some of the spirits of
other days mighty for God—a Joshua, or a
Caleb, or a David, or a Paul—may come
down and help us in this battle against, un
righteousness. Oh, how I would like to have
them here —him of the Red Sea. him of the
valley of Ajalon, him of Mars Hill. History
says that Robert Clayton, of the English cav
alry, at the close of a war bought up all
tlioold cavalry horses lest they be turned out
to drudgery and hard work, and bought
a piece of ground at Naversmire
heath and turned these old war
horses into the thickest and richest
pasture to spend the rest of their days for
what they had done in other days. One day
a thunder storm came up, and these war
horses mistook the thunder of the skies for
the thunder of buttle, and they wheeled into
line no riders on their backs—they wheeled
into line ready for the fray. And I doubt
me whether, when the last thunder of this
battle for God and truth goes booming
through the heavens, the old scriptural war
nor* can k\p thmr pla<v on tli ar throne*
Bethink* they vtill miring Into the fight and
exchange crown for hel u.q, and palm branch
for weajMiii, and come down out of the King’*
jmllorte* into th. arena, crying: “Make
rxiin! I must fight in this great Armaged
My beloved (teoplo, I ir<*nch this sermon
because I want you to toil with the sunlivlit
in vottr face*, i want you old meiito under
*tar>d before you die that nil the work you
did for God whii* yet your ear wie alert and
your foot fleet it* going to lx* counted up in
the thin! victori'w. 1 waul nil these younger
(•entile to understand that when they toil for
Gxl they always win the dnv. that nil
prayers arc nuswerixl and all C'tirisUan work
i# in some way effectual, and that the tide is
setting in the right direction, mid that all
heaven is on our side—neintly, cherubic,
seraphic, archangeltc, omnipotent, chariot
ami throne, doxology and procession, priori
politics and dominion. He who hath the
under Hi* feet, and all the armies of heaven
on white horses
Brother! brother! all 1 am afraid of
k not that Christ will lo#e tie* liattle,
but that yon and I will not get into it
quick enough to do something worthy
of our blood Ixmglit immorlalitv. Oh.
i'hriat! how shall I meet Thee. Thou of
the scarred brow, and the scarred back,
and the Min rod liand. and the scarred foot,
and the scarred breast, if I have no
wars or wounds gotten iu Thy serv
ice? It shall not be so. I step out to-day in
front of the battle. Come on, you f<*** of
God. I dare you to the m:nhir. Come on,
w ith pens dipped in malignancy ('nme on,
with tongues forked and viperine and adder
ou*. Come on. with types snaked in the scum
of the eternal pit. I defy you! Come on! I
boro my brow, I uncover my heart strike!
I cannot sec my Lord until I have been
hurt for Christ If we do not suffer with
Him on earth wo cannot glorify with Him in
heaven. Take good heart. On! <>n! On!
See! the skies have brightened! See! tho
hour is about to <*ouie! Pick out all tho
ch- eriest of the anthems. I/'t the orchestra
string their beat instruments. “The night is
far spent, the day is at hand.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL
/VT/11 VI / IONA L I. ESSO V FO It
SEPTI Mlt Lit ‘J'J
I.CMMUM Text: ••.)> Ith Of Shu and His
Hon*,** I Sum xi\l., 1-13 -(.olileu Trxti
I’s. ulv t oillllic.illl M .
"When David again had Saul in his power,
after the time recorded in the last lesson,and
Abi; f ai wanted to slay him, David refused
to touch the Lord’s anointed, and said;
"The Lord shall smite him, or his day shall
come to die, or he shall descend into battle
and perish.” The last of these predictions is
fulfilled in the lesson of to-day. The events
between the last lesson and this are: The
death of Samuel; the death of Nabal, upon
whom David was restrained from taking ven
geance; David marries Abigail and Ahinoam;
he spares Saul a second time; he goes to the
Philistines and lives at Ziklag; Saul again
disobevs G<xl by consulting the witch of En
dor; David’s town of Ziklag is smitten dur
ing his absence with his six hundred, and
women, children aud flocks all carried cap
tive, but David pursues and recovers all.
1. "Now the Philistines fought against
Israel and the men of Israel fled from liefore
the Philistines.” This was the battle to
w’hich David and his men had started, when
they were sent back by the Lords of the
Philistines only to find Ziklag desolate and
burned with fire; God again hindered David
from having anything to do with the death
of Saul. It is a sad sight to see the people of
God fall before the defiers of God, when the
promise was that one should chase a thousand
and two put ten thousand to flight (I>eut.
xxxii., 30); but the best of men are nothing
if God is not with them, and Israel, through
Saul, had forsaken God. and the dearly be
loved of His soul is given again into the
hands of her enemies because of her sins
(Jer. xii., 7) that she may by c hastening learn
to know God.
2. “The Philistines slew Jonathan, and
Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sorts.” It
makes one’s heart ache to read this,especially
concerning Jonathan, the loving, the brave,
the noble. How David lamented for him is
recorded in the next chapter, and we do not
wonder at the depth of his lamentations over
one whose soul was knit with his own, but we
do wonder when we read that it was a
lamentation over Saul as well as Jonathan.
(II Sam. i., 17.) The secret of it is that David
saw not the man Saul, his enemy, but he
saw the King Saul, the anointed of the Lord.
If we could only see the children of God as
dear to Him, and as they will be when per
fected, we would have more pity for their
failings and sorrow for their sins.
3. “The battle went sore against Saul, and
the archers hit him.” He was not any
longer in merciful hands, but in the hands of
those who knew no mercy. Ixmg suffering
and mercy had followed him many years; he
had been sjiared many a time and warned
often; but “he that being often reproved,
hardeneth his neck, shaJl suddenly be de
stroyed, and that without remedy;” and now
mercy is past for him and judgment has
reached him.
4. “Therefore Saul took a sword and fell
upon it.” being sore wounded asked his
armor bearer to slay him; hut notice the
reason: “Lest these uncircumcised come and
thrust me through aud abuse me.” What a
fear he has of being dishonored by those un
circumcised, what a keen sense of honor, but
it is the old story as when he pleaded with
Samuel: “Honor me now before the elders of
my people and before Israel” (chap, xv., 30).
It was nis honor, and not the honor of God,
that he was careful about. In Saul’s case it
was Saul and his glory that was uppermost;
hut in David’s case, David was nothing and
the Lord and His glory was everything.
5. “His armor bearer * * * fell like
wise upon his sword and died with him.”
This looks heroic and like a spirit of devotion
to his master, but bad he been devoted to
God instead of to Saul, or more devoted to
God than to Saul, he would not have
done so. No man who fears God will take
his own life, and anyone who believes God
concerning the awful future of the ungodly
as revealed in Scripture could not think of
rushing madly into it. Simple unbelief is the
cause of all such conduct.
G. “So Saul died, and his three sous, and
his armor bearer, and all his men, that same
day together.” What then? The words of
the Lord Jesus, in Luke xvi., and other
w ords of the Spirit plainly recorded in Scrip
ture, teach us that if we believe God and are
redeemed by the precious blood of His dear
Son, “to die is gam,” “to depart and be with
Christ is far better,” and when the spirit
leaves the body, our conscious personal life
continues, and the angels guide or carry us
to perfect bliss in His presence. But if we
die in our sins and disobedient it is equally
plain that the portion of such, while also per
sonally conscious, is darkness, torment,
gnashing of teeth and fearful looking for of
judgment.
7. “Israel * * * forsook the cities and
tied, and the Philistines came and dwelt in
them.” Here is not only the defeat and
slaughter of the Lord’s people Israel, but
their possessions, which they ought to have
kept and eujoved, are possessed by their ene
mies. This is’sad, indeed, and the only rea
son is that the people of God had turned
their hacks upon Him.
8. “The Philistines came to strip the slain.”
The detiers of God cannot do enough to show
their hatred of Him and His professed fol
lowers. It is the devil who possesses them and
who is called truly a devourer and destroyer.
9. “They cut off his head and stripped off
his armor, and sent * * to publish ii
* * * among the people.” Thus what Saul
feared came upon him, and those uncircum
cised Philistines abused his body. But w orst
of all it was published abroad among these
idolatrous donors of the Living and True
God. When one who bears the name of
Jesus is in any way overcome by the world,
the flesh, or the devil, that Holy Name is
blasphemed and thus dishonored by the sins
thus committed, ami not only aresuch Chris
tians (if they are Christians) laughed at and
despised by the world, but the precious name
they bear, instead of being exalted, is de
spised also on their account.
10. “They put his armor in the house of
Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the
w all of Bethshau.” What a victory for the
idolaters, but it will not continue. Blessed bo
God that all the victories of His enemies are
only for a little time, hut the victory of Ilis
dear Son is for eternity.
11. “The inhabitants of Jabesli Giliad
heard.” Thank God for the faithful in all
ages who will not tolerate an insult to His
name or His people if he can prevent it. Ho
has always had them, has them to-day. and
will have them, a little flock until His body
is completed and then shall the whole earth
begin to be fileld with them.
12. “All the valiant men arose and went
all night.” We are not told how many were
valiant men, but it it was with them as with
the men of Gideon, there were but few, and
yet God can do more with 300 like Gideon’s
bund than with 3000, or 30,000. or 300,000
who are half hearted or fearful or afraid.
Jesus our Captain, knowing all things that
were to befall Him went steadily forward to
the consummation of His agony and our sal
vation, never stopping or turning aside.
13. ‘ ‘They took tneir bones and buried t liem
under a tree at Jabesli, and fasted seven
days.” It was only their bodies they rescued
after all. Wo are after souls, and our Cat>-
tain will rescue the bodies, too, in due time,
not to lx* buried, but to be raised incorrupti
ble. immortal, just like His own glorified
body. This is the end of the story of Haul,
raised by the God of Israel to be King over
His people; if he had only obeyed God what
a blessing he might have beau and what a
different record he might have left. Are you
walking in God’s way or in your own w ay,
uud what record will you leave?— Lesson
Helper,
MODOC MASSACRE.
Till; liI.OODY TKAGRDY OF THIS
OKKGO.N LAVA HKDS.
Mundrr of tli Unlteil Htiiti'* Pm
t')iniinliwl.mi*r* Kxorut!..■> ofi'ai**
Inin Jack, Htnck .Hill. liCNtnn
Charlie .ml Krhonclilii.
The Shd Francisco ChrmUU hus uniu
tr rest log article recalling the murder of
Geuural Cun by tiy ('.,|Uui)) .lack, the
Modoc chief. The Modoc* had gone on
the .varpath, and intrenched themselves
in Ihe lava bed* of Oregon. Tile liov
ernment appointed a I’eaco Commission,
headed by General Canhy, to treat with
them, ami a conference was appointed to
be held on Aorii 11, 187d, each side to
go to the meeting place unarmed. Tlie
Chrunisle'i uccount continues a* follows:
When tho commission party reached
the place of conference they found Cap
tain Jack already there, accompanied by
rix of his warriors—-Bchonchin, Boston
Charley, Black Jim, Hhncknusty Jim,
Ellen's Man George and Hooka Jim—al
though it hud been agreed that each
[ >arty was to consist of live. After some
little maneuvering for position, the In
dian* making numerous changes so ns to
get the commissioners all grouped to
gether, tlie party Anally dismounted, nud
General Cun by, advancing toward Cap
tain Jack, n.ndo a short speech, and then
asked Dr. Thomas to talk. The doctor
made his last speech coolly and calmly,
with the slow, distinct manner, that was
so peculiar to him. He said:
“ltiildlc, .tell these peoplo for me
that I think the Great Spirit put it in the
heart of the President of the United
States to send me here. 1 know all these
men. I have known General Canby for
thirteen years, Meacham for eighteen
years, Dyar for four years; I know their
hearts are all good. Wo want no more
blood.”
When the doctor had finished Captain
Jack rose to his feet and stepped toward
Dyar, to the right of General Canby,
while Schonchin moved to the left of the
General. Captain Jack made a short
speech, and while Kiddle Wits interpret
ing it, two Indians, Barncho aud Sloluck,
were seen creeping out of the bushes with
three rifles each in their arms. The com
mission party instantly jumped to tiieir
feet, with the exception of Toby, who
threw herself flat on the ground. As the
party sprang up, Meacham called out to
Captain Jack:
“What does this mean?"
For answer the Indian drew a pistol
from his side and pointed it at General
Canby, who was but four feet away, and
shot him in tjie face. The General
staggered back, and then ran for a dis
tance of about forty yards, when a rifle
bullet, fired by Ellen's Man George, went
crashing through his brain and he fell on
the rocks. Captain Jack then ran up
and stabbed the fallen man in the neck,
and Black Jim proceeded to strip him of
his clothing.
By this time the rifles were all distri
buted. aud Boston Charlie, seizing one,
shot Dr. Thomas in the chest. The In
dians then taunted him with the remark
that next time he had better believe a
squaw, called him a Sunday doctor, and
then Bogus Charley put an end to ids
sufferings by shooting him through the
head with a rifle, killing him with a
prayer on his lips.
Dyar, who had been on tlie alert, was
running when the first shot was fired.
Black Jim was to have dispatched Dyar,
but he was otherwise engaged and Cap
tain Jack ordered Hooka Jim to shoot
him. Hooka followed Dyar for several
hundred yards, but did not overtake
him, and so returned to the scene of car
nage.
Riddle was also on the alert and he
too bounded away toward the camp.
One of tlie Indians bounded after him,
but he was brought to bay by Soar-faced
Charley’s rifle. This Indian had de
clared when the massacre was agreed
upon that Riddle should not die, aud he
hvd posted himself in the rocks, soiae
distance off, rifle in hand, prepared to
ehoot the man who shot Kiddle. Thus
Riddle escaped.
Sloluck clubbed Toby and stole her
pony, but Captain Jack interfered in be-
half of the squaw and her pony was* re
stored and her life saved. .
Schonchin was to have been Meacham’s
executioner and he approached the com
missioner with a revolver and knife. His
first shot only grazed Meacham’s left
shoulder, a small derringer which he had
drawn probably spoiling his aim.
“In return,” says Meacham in his
statement of the massacre, “I aimed at
Schonchin’s heart, but the derringer
failed to fire. The sight of the knife
had placed me in a terrible position, that
being the worst thing to face, and there
were three other Indians who had joined
Schonchin and fired at me from a dis
tance of twenty or thirty feet. Why
they missed me I cannot tell. I only
know that I had made up my mind that
the end had come, that I could not pos
sibly escape, and I had the curious hope
that some bullet would strike mo in the
heart and kill me instantaneously, thus
saving me from torture and mutilation.
The direction I took was over a small
ridge of rocks, over which I jumped,
with no hope of ever getting up again.
I raised my head, to discover Schonchin
at the same distance from me. I felt
the sting of a bullet in my face. Then
he fired his pistol, and the sting of an
other bullet was felt in my right arm.
Another struck mo on the temple; one
shattered my ear, .and I caught another in
my left hand. Some of these shots
stunned mo and I became unconscious.
The rest I learned from the Indians.
While they were stripping me, Shack
iisty-Jim came up* and was preparing to
shoot again, when his gun was pushed
aside with the remark: 41c is dead; he
is dead.’ Boston •then began to take my
scalp with a blunt knife, but Toby in
terposed with devices*to delay the opera
tion, when at length lie had raised five
or six inches of scalp*on the left side of
my head, Toby, woman-like, accom
plished by strategy'what could not be
done otherwise. She shouted: ‘Sol
diers! soldiers!’ and Boston left his work
uulinished. Ret urn in c-to consciousness
some time after, I heard the word of com
mand given to the advancing soldiers,
nnd knew that I wasssaved.”
It is impossiblcto describe the intense
excitement caused by this massacre, A
univeisal cry of vengeance arose, aud no
where did the desire.burn more fiercely
than in the hearts of Canby’s gallant
companions in arms. General Gillen,
then in command, IIIUI Its; limit'd i lit (''prepa
ration for a determined attack on the
lava beds, and was stimulated in his
efforts by a dispatch .from Sherman tell
ing him tliatilie would beijustified in the
extermination of the tribe. On April 15
the attack on the lava beds began and
continued fiercely all dny.thcv Indians dis
puting every inch of the way, until at the
close of the day the troops Inal suffered a
loss of four killed nnd nine wounded.
The combat*was renewed next day and
the result was .five men killed and thir
teen wounded, the Indians lighting des
perately to escape from the beds. On
the third day the! savages-were believed
to have been dislodged from their strong
holds and to luave retrisited southward,
upon which thwtaoops immediately pre
pared for pursuit. Thou on April 26
eccurred the secoi tl shocking massacre of
the war. Captain Thomas and hi* com
mand were reconnoitring the bed* with
sixty-fivo men to find out whether tney
were really deserted, when he was *ur
nriied By the Modoc* und forty-"'’®
hi* command placed hor* de combat.
Soon after thia General Gillen wa re
lieved of tho command and General Davis
appointed. An iiwtantaineou* change in
f tfea 10
Indians were pushed in all direction*,
harassed, shot and hunted down, the
troops being gallantly assisted in the work
by the Warm Spring Indians, until at
hist. May 22, seventy of the Modoc* sur
rendered unconditionally at l airehild *
ranch. Captain Jack and some twenty
warriors alone remained in the field. To
assist in their capture Bogus ('barley.
Hooka Jim, Curley-headed Jack and
Shacknosty Jim, on the promise of
emption, volunteered a* tracker*. ith
them ami n small detachment of tr<><>|>*
General Davi* started in pursuit, which
was kept up until May 2‘J, when Captain
Jack aud all the remaining Modoc* sur
rendered at Willow Creek and the erucl
war was ended.
A court-martial was held at Fort
Klamath, Oregon, July 1, which resulted
in the conviction of Captain Jack,
Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley,
Barncho and Sloluck for murder. Ihe j
four other leaders mentioned show
were liberated in pursuance of the
agreement with General Davis “for
services rendered Ellen s Man
George had been killed iu the fighting,
while Barncho and Sloluck were respited
at the very lost moment, with a commu
tation of sentence to imprisonment for
life on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco
bay. The execution day was set for
Friday, October IS, and early on the
morning of that day the four condemned
Indian* were driven out in a wagon from
the guard-house of the fort to the four
fold gibbet which had been erected in an
open field some OUO yards distant. Pre
vious to their being brought out there
had been a “big talk," in which Captain
Jack showed a strong love of life and
proposed that the authorities should let
him go and hang Sear-faced Charley in
stead. Boston Charley, a young Indiau,
said lie did not fear dentil, acknowledged
ins guiltiness, gloried in the deed and
hurled scornful words at his fellow-pris
oners. Old Schonchin made an eloquent
and manly address that lasted for over an
hour. He said that he had no confession
to make, no criticism to pass. “You say
I must die,” he said. “You are the law
giving parties. lam satisfied if the law
is correct.” Black Jim had nothing to
say.
When the wagon with its load of con
demned men halted in front of the gal
lows the military closed in on three
sides, but let the fourth open so that all
the Indian prisoners might see the ful
fillment of the law. The morning was
beautiful and clear, but rather cold, and
the Indians all kept their blankets
pulled up to their noses. To the sound
of muffled drums the Indians were then
taken out of the wagon and led to the
scaffold. Boston Charley and Black Jim
ascended the steps first. Boston Charley
took a quid of tobacco ns he got out of
the wagon and another as he mounted
the stairway, looking round at the sol
diers as he diil so and spitting vigorous
ly. Captain Jack was very weak and
had to he helped out and into his posi
tion on the drop. The other two mani
fested a supreme indifference to all that
was going on. The men having
been pinioned tlie orders of Presi
dent Grant for their execu
tion were read, and then, at 10:15
o’clock, tlie chaplain stepped forward
and began to read the service for the
dead, a gentle breeze sweeping across
the fields aud rustling the leaves of the
prayer book. The nooses were tlier,
adjusted and the black caps, made of
condemned haversacks, were drawn ovei
the Indians’ heads. A white handker
chief fluttered in the hand of the Colonel,
fell, and as it did so a corporal swung an
ax and severed tlie death line. Tlie long
drop fell with a loud report and the foui
murderers were in the air. Captain Jack
never moved a muscle, Schonchin and
Boston Charley died hard, but Black
Jim, like Captain Jack, died without a
struggle. The bodies were soon cut down
and buried and the tragedy of retribution
was over.
The Japanese Jinrikisha.
One of the most popular features at the
Paris Exposition-is the Japanese Jinriki
sha, which is a two-wheeled gig with
| very little wheels and made very light,
| that is drawn by a Japanese man. It is
| generally supposed that the jinrikisha has
| been in use for hundreds of years in
Japan, but this is not; the case. Profes
sor W. K. Burton, of Tokio University,
has been doing some several hundred
miles of j-iding by jinrikisha. In an ar
ticle which he contributes to the Brit ink
Journal of Photography , and the Photo
graphic. Neut, Professor Burton says that
this mode of travel is only about thirty
years old. Thirty years ago the Japan
ese had two ways of traveling. One was
by bull carts and the other was by chairs
or baskets suspended between two poles
and carried on the shoulders of two men,
and this method is still in use where the
roads are very steep. The jinrikisha was
practically introduced by the first English
settlers, who brought out two-wheeled
carriages with them, and the jinrikisha is
simply n copy of these on a smaller scale.
.Professor Burton says that on good roads
a jinrikisha will keep up a rate of seven
or eight miles an hour for several hours.
When the roads are had it is customary
to have two men, one of whom pulls with
a cord in front. The charge for one man
is ten fen an hour, which is about eight
cents. If a person wishes to keep his
carriage in Japan he can do so very
cheaply, the rate for a jinrikisha and a
loan by the week being only about two
dollars. In the country the rate is gen
erally charged according to the distance
and costs about a cent a mile. Professor
Burton, while on his recent travels, did
from forty to ninety miles a day, accord
ing to the distance and condition of the
'roads, and he changed jinrikisha at the
end of every ten miles or so.
Prodigious Moths.
The largest known moth iu existence
is the Atlas. Its average size is ten
inches of spread of wings, nnd its closest
competitor is the Erebus Strix, a large
gray moth of South America. The Owl
moth, also of South America, is another
prodigious fellow, aud spreads about
eight inches. Hut its size is not its only
feature. It is so peculiarly marked be
neath that any child readily recognizes
tlie owl-like appearance of the outlines.
The two hind wings from the owl's head,
being eyed, and the fore part of the bodj
represents the beak. In close juxtaposi
tiou to the owl i? pinned the Death’!
Head, a moth which derives its name
from a mark on tiie back resembling t
human skull. It is English, but it is
claimed that in 1887 a specimen wai
caught flying in New London. This is
easily accounted for, as it feeds on potatc
vines, and many were imported that year.
It is thought that the pupa luav hnvs
been in the earth that came with thi
potatoes and the moth, hatching out
escaped aud was captured.— New Tori
Tribune.
There are in the entire United King
dom only 380 banks with aggregate de
posits of $-1,500,000,000.
pol l I XI fCtilKW*
• ... a drnnsit of mineral *"|'
An Immense u< l** 11 * , ,
has IM-en found near Nin Jhepo, ■ •
has only 557 iu hi* whole body.
Two mines of mercury, . (l ; (
acres, aud one i,I untimonv, covering
acres, have been registered in l übt.
It is officially stated that the Span
ish Government will adopt submarine
torpedo vessels for the navy, experiment*
with the system having been successful.
In Denmark a dairyman who beep* 25U
cows requires the milkers to wash their
bunas after milking two cows, and the
result i* that he gets u quarter of u cent
a pound more for the butter than others
Assuming the mean distance of the sun
from the earth to be mile*,
and the velocity of light to be lha,- '•
miles a second, it take* 8 minutes, 1.1.7
seconds for a ray of sunlight to reach the
earth.
The automatic sprinkler is a great in
vention in New England mills and factor
ies. A year's record shows that the avei
age loss by fire when the sprinkler is mil
used is SOSOO per tire, and when It H
used, it is only §G5b per fire.
In photographing cloud* great difficulty
is experienced m obtaining photograph!
of cirrous clouds, the reason being tlmt
the blue light of the sky acts with nearly
the 88me active energy as the white liirhl
of the clouds on the sensitive silver salts
of the plate.
A Louisiana farmer recommends tar
smoke for diphtheria cure. His treat
ment is to put a few drops of tar, like
that used in shipyard*, on a warm stove
lid, and to require the patient to inlmle
aud swallow the smoke ten times a day
for five minutes each time. He has been
invariably successful in bis experiments.
The spread of cancer in a small com
..mune of Normandy (Bt. Sylvestre de
Courcelles) attracted the attention of Dr.
Arnaudet, as the disease has attained to
fifteen per cent, of the total moitality.
The cases were principally males, and as
a rule the cancer was located in the stom
ach; lienee Dr. Arnaudet thinks that
cancer is contagious, and is propagated
by water.
A floating workshop, to be known us
the steel torpedo-depot ship Vulcan, was
launched at Portsmouth, England, re
cently. It is intended to accompany a
fleet and carry a large equipment of tor
pedo boats. 81ie will he supplied with
hydraulic cranes on which torpedo boats
can be twisted in and out of the water.
The Vulcan is of 6520 tons burden und
12,000 horse power.
Dr. Worms, of Riga, proposes for the
cure of phthisis a remedy precisely con
trary to that by hot air recently some
what discussed. He believes in cold air.
He holds that as the bacillus of tuber
culosis needs at least thirty-seven degrees
for its development, any lower tempera
ture will be fatal to it, and he treats his
patients with low temperature. As cold,
dry climates have hitherto been found
favorable, this theory is in conformity
with well established experience.
In a lecture upon fast trains, Professor
Iladlcy said: “The speed of railroad
trains is restricted within three theoreti
cal limits: First, a physical limit of
eighty miles per hour, beyond which it is
found impossible for a train to hold the
track; second, an operating limit of sixty
miles an hour, which practical experience
has found trains cannot run without dan
ger to life; third, a commercial limit of
of thirty miles per hour, at which, all
things considered, it is found most
economical to run a train.”
Sculptors’ Marble.
“The marble used by sculptors for the
better class of work is xvhat is called Car
rara, and costs in New York sl4 per
square foot. But this is so beautifully
fine in its fibre that it will not stand ex
posure in the open air, especially if near
the sea. In a private residence or hall it
is safe, and preserves its contour as well
as the harder and coarser grained stone,
which is quarried from the same place,
hut which lias a bluish tint and is veined,
and which costs only $8 per square foot.
The difference in the working of the two is
great, the cheaper article is more brittle
and altogether unsuited to the minute and
delicate tracery which is so frequently
called for in draped figures. But for
pedestals or greatly enlarged figures it is
perhaps more appropriate than the other.
I knew a sculptor in London who had
worked for two years on a female statue,
which turned out to be a most speaking
likeness of tlie original. He was a fas
tidiously careful aud conscientious artist,
and after the work xvns finished and fully
approved by those for whom it xvas done,
he begged that it might be allowed to re
main in ills studio for a few days longer,
for he said he wanted to retouch it. His
wisli xvas complied with, and cue day,
thinking he had discovered a slight in
accuracy in one of tlie outstretched fin
gers, he commenced to repair the fault.
Coming across a flaw in the stone xvliicli
had hitherto remained hidden, the fated
finger fell at his feet, and two years’ labor
was lost. Such accidents are liable to
occur xvith any sculptor who gets hold of
an inferior or unsuitable piece of marble.
—Brooklyn Citizen.
Telegraphing To anti From Trains.
A company is about being formed in
Baltimore to place in operation the sys
tem of telegraphing to and from moving
railway trains invented by Baylus Cade,
of Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Cade places a
wire along the railroad near the track,
mid tlie communication is made with the
moving train by a drag descending from
the car. Recent experiments at Raleigh
demonstrated the success of the system.
It is proposed to equip one of the rail
roads between Baltimore aud Washing
ton with the Cade system. It is asserted
that, with tlie new system in operation,
collisions between trains equipped with
the instruments will be practically im
possible, as the instrument on one train
will automatically give notice of the ap
proach of another train on tlie same
track. It will also enable all railroad
business to be transacted directly with
the traiu, and do away with the neces
sity for the block system of telegraphic
signals. —New York Tribune.
A Railroad Census,
A gentleman friend took his life in his
hand one recent afternoon and polled u
transcontinental train on the Northern
Pacific before it pulled out for its 1900-
mile journey toward the Occident. He
sought information as to nationalities,
and found representatives from Asia .Mi
nor, Russia, Turkey iu Europe, Switzer
land, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Spain,
France, Prussia, Belgium, the three di
visions of Great Britain, Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark (of course) and one
Algerian on board. With these were
representatives from twenty-one States
and Territories in the United States and
five of the South American divisions. As
nearly as this amateur statistician could
gather, seventy per cent, of the passen
gers were going West to stay, twenty per
cent, were tourists and ten per cent, had
temporary business along the line of the
j-uilway.— tst, Paul Globe.
COWS SERENADED THEM.
How an Ohio Couple Worn Greeted on
Their Marriage Eve.
There was great fun out in Delaware
township tlmother n glit. Merle Hour*,
sixty tlui veers old, married a girl of
übnut seventeen summers, and tint boys
in the noighbo.hood determined t* giva
them none thing out of tile ordinary in
tlie wav of a charivari. The mis duel
makers come to this city me! purchased
two imiltuls of bio mi, Irssli from a
sluuitliter house, and carried it out where
the newlv married eouple were to h|>oiiil
the night. As soon a* December and
Muv had retired these boys slipped Into
the yard surround.ng tlie house and
poured a str.mn entirely around the
premises. Having accomplished this
without detection they drove half a doz
en cows into the yard and then concent
cl themselves to avvuit developments.
Tho fun began at once. The cows no
sooner sniffed the blood than tliov com-
I allowing frantically aud e mid
cci ybo heard a mile away. Other
cows “caught on” and soon there came
a procession of b.vine* from neatly
every farm in tlie township, nil bellow
i„g in tlie most vehement manner.
They fought and stamped and pawed
tlie ground nu i bellowo 1 in chorus un
til the bridal couple fairly went wild
from the annoyance. \\ lien the tumult
was nt its height the bride groom, envoi
ope din are i flannel garment, was seen to
emerge from the door with a huge club in
his hand, but his appearance in such a
co-tume only added fuel to the flninc,
and what follows cannot be truthfully
deserdied. The maddened cattle charged
at the red figure, and tho old man made
on© run around tho house, which would
have beaten the war'd s sprinting rec
ord, and tust managed to get back
within tlie door hr the horns of the fore
most animal in tho peecession t- re a
generous pieco out of his red lliuinel
ga 1 incut, the bride in tlie meantime
scr.'liming nt the t->p of her voice. Again
mid again during the night did Decern
her attempt to dispose of his tiniquo
dims mi party, hut without avail, ar
often would they return to their bloody
trail. All tin's time the cows were
augmenting in number uutil not loss
than 2tK) cattle surrounded the house,
while from every direction came tho
answering bellow of new recruits, Lis
tening to the bridal demonstration which
was so freely bong bestowed upon old
man Sours and his youthful wife. Not a
wink of sleep canto to tlie couple that
night, but bv early morning tlie catt e
hail so effaced all trace of the bio >d by
thoir pawing anl tamping that it no
longer acted as an attraction, and one
by one tliev left the old man and his
bride in their glory. It was the strang
est and most successful charivari on
record.
Belgium’s Hatless Monarch,
Leopold, king of the Belgians, is a
sworn foe of tob iceo and on anient sup
porter of the Belg'an Anl|-Tobacco
League. He is, as wel 1 , a man of “ sim
ple and sex-ore way if life.” He ri-e:
ear’.v, breakfasts sparingly, and—a rare
thing on tlie continent--takes liiam ru
ing tub with all an Euglis’iHiau’a fervor.
His wide sympathies embrace vegetar
ianism in their sco; e, and his most Ho -
stile j assion, peril a k, is forgoing ah >ut
without a hat, Whenever the weather
is sutab’e King Loop ill goes abroad in
his garden as hatless as Adam, exulting
in his free lom from the conventionality
of a headpiece. He lias some strange
craze about tlie wind's action on the
brain, and lie ] uts his craze in practice
whenever possible. In faot, eccentric
itv of the intelligent kind murke I him
for her own. He is a linguist of rare
acquisitions and is a’ways deep in tlie
study of some lie v language or other,
Music is one of his aversions, but tho
sister art of painting finds in him an
appreciative and en lmuastio amateur,
His face is strong and intelligent, with
out being handsome, and a beard of ap
propriately regal lengtlt sweeps bis
ches 1 .
Benzine Motors.
Carriages propelled by benzine motor*
are now made in Germany. The liquid
fuel is placed in a closed copper vessel
under the seat of the carriage, and passes
diop by drop to a gas generator, which
works a gas motor aud drives the car
riage. The mixture of gas and air is
exploded by means of an electric spark
in tl ut gas motor. A quart of benzine is
sufficient for an hour’s trip; but a supply
for a seventy-five-mile journey can be
readily carried iu the vessel. The par
ringe can run at a speed of tea miles au
hour.
Hep Face Wm Her Fortune.
She iva* as pretty us a picture, and so ani
mated and lively that it did one good to look
at her. She was ail thi~; but slie is not now.
Poor soul, the roses linger no more in her
cheeks, the former luster of her eyes is gone.
She is a wot-begone looking piece of humanity
now. She has one of those troubles so com
mon to women, and needs Dr. Pierce’s Favor
ite Preset iptlon. It recuperates the wasted
strength, puts t ho whole system right, restores
the roses and tho luster and makes tho wo
man what she once was, bright, well and
happy. "Favorite Prescription” is the only
medicine for women, sold by druggists, under
a positive Guarantee from the manufacturers,
that it will give satisfaction in every case, or
money will bo refunded. This guarantee has
been printed on ttie bottle-wrapper, and faith
fully carried out for many years.
For ajr derangements of the livor, stomach
and bowels, take Dr. Pierce's Pellets. Ono a
dose.
“Another divorce case | And yet they say
marriages are made in heaven.” “Perhaps
that’s why tfcey wear so badly on earth.”
If afflicted with sprp eyps use pr.lsaac Tbomp
soids Kyft-water. Druggists sell at 2&c per bottle.
Out of Sorts
13 a feellQg peculiar to persons of dyspeptic ten
dency, or It may be caused by change of climate,
season or life. The stomach is out of order, the ht*ad
aches or does not feel right, appetite is capri
cious, tho nerves seem overworked, tho mind is
confused aud irritable. This condition finds an ex
cellent corrective In Hood's Sursaparilla, which, by
Its regulutlng aud toning powers, soon restores har
mony to the system, and gives that strength of mind,
nerves, and t>ody, which makes one feel perfectly
well.
N. B.—lf you decide to take ITood’s Sarsaparilla
do not be Induced to buy any other.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
*8,4 by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by hi. f. PAOD a CO., Apotheoarles, Lowell, Mass.
IOQ Doses One Dollar
LADIES
Amenagogue Pills
For Irregularities. Saft* and certain. Should not be
Uken if enclente. Prioo per box of 100 pills, 81-00
w * ( • ASHER, 21 *4 Marietta St , Atlanta, Ga.
OPIUM HABIT.
,T.‘G'omiis Trcatlne <NI> liir
full information of an Easy and Speedy cure free to
the afflicted. Dr. J. C. Huffman,Jefforson,Wisconsin.
PEERLESS DYES Sold by DBtHiouFrt,
P ISO’S REMEDY FOR CATARRH.—Best,
to use. Cheapest. Belief is immediate. A c lll6 w
certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal. _
CATARRH
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