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WEEKLY
ESTABLISHED IN 1854
; W. HANCOCK. I
VOL. 31.
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE 8CIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS
AMEBICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1884.
me Sumter Republican.
T90
i .v -:i-ijentscniinaUDH from public
v ..a* hanred for to accordance with
•. j-s,-<! by tbe late General Assembly
:ix-:r,cents per bandied Wordstar
„f t!,.' first four Insertions, and S3 cents
■ \ -uliswjuent Insertion. Fractional
,: line hundred are considered one
i words,each figure and Initial, sritb
r t -ignatore, to counted as a word.
, . ir.a-t accompany the copy of each
Mii-nt, unles-i different arrange-
x.tvortislng Kates
• me first Insertion, - - - -Ji.co
- .1)sequent Insertion, - - - - 5s
* 4 kn Links of lllnlon typo solid, con-
.. .verriaemanta not contracted for will
.rip-d above rates,
i r.-.s. meats not specifying the length
ey i
ntll
ir accordingly.
.critsementstooeea , ....
si ged 25 per cent, above regular rate*
ices in local c** *
)t-T line each ii
Louisiana state Lottery "o
•• Wr da hen by certify that « twptrvu* t\,
•rrangemenu /or all Ik* Monthly ami Smi-An
nual Drawing* of The Louisiana State Utlery
and centre! ike
B. P. HOLLIS.
Utorneu at Mauv,
inal Bank
dec20tf
eTg? SIMMONS.
viuornev at JLuuj 9
AMEIUCUS GA.,
Oilii < in llawklns* building, south side of
l An ar M.e.-t, in the old oCioe of Fort 4
Mmiwo l janCtf
Dr. J. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon.
>T. his professional services lo the
i iiii.-i.f An,r.,-,..us and vicinity. Office at
)r. l.Mridge's Drug Store. At night can
!«• found at residence at tho Taylor house,
H. p HOLLOWAY.
f>r-:nTisT,
Incorporated In 1R68 for 23 years by tin
*Ki*Uture for Educational and Cliarltabli
Of 51,000,000—ti
puiposes— with a
franchise wa* *nadi
nine popular vc
a part of the jv
tdopted December 2d,
tnke place msmhly,
* HPl.liNIIID UPPORTDSin
wn a rOBTVHVE.ELF.VENTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLAES IN THE ACAD
EMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS,
TUESDAY, Sarcnlirr tl. ISM-I7ld
Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100.000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
- - Georgia
itn^t^*^°* iMrovad I PH* 8 * Money Oorders,
artificial"''
r*i ■
marllt
K. K. Brown. Fillmobc Brown.
Edgerton House,
Opposite 1’avenger Depot,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Z. 3. Brawn C: San, Proprietors.
Halts f2.00 Per Day.
INSURE WITH THE
1 FI IISDBAICE
SOCIETY. OF ENOLAND.
Assets $1,125,072.
A; L, REES, Agent.
Express (all sums of 1
our expense) addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
<r M. A. DAUPHIN,
BOV Nereatt* **.. Washington. I».C
Make P. O. Money Orders payable An!
address Registered letter* to
NEW OKI.EANft NATION*!. HANK.
THE FIELDS ARE WHITE
WITH COTTON.
HARD TIMES NEARLY OVER-
i prevail. Thousands c
• been wanting Plants an<
Organs for many long years will BUY THIS
Y EAR. Anticipating the demand, we have
PATENTS
>tided ti
;KSMoi)ER
ITVEtif ^
ike NO
A ROE UNLESS PATENT IS SKCUR-
... id vice and si>ecial ref-
ppllration.
s. IV
I.T. STALLINGS,
FANCY G ROC ElIIES,
FISH AND OYSTERS,
n Avenue, Next Door to Grange
SI R ED. STA LIANGS will have charge of
he store, and will be happy to fill^your
Co-Partnership Notice.
I have this day associated with me, L.
■ I licit* mitl CoinmiNMion
lius.ln«*M«, Mr C. A BELL
tyold "*—•*
tort Avenue, under the firm name of F. SI
" •HEX A- C<». Respectfully.
S. SI. ( OriKX.
riiauklng the public for the lil* rul pa
rmtage ana confidence Mu me while cm
ducting tills buxines*. l bespeak for Hi
Ik-ii alone' will attend to the purcha-e of any
and liberal treatment to merit y *ur patron
age. Respectfully.
cp2Mm h. M.COIIK: & CO.
Notice of Dissolution.
-IOlH>Ax' aHs?ALLlNGS^l.^thli™day
Uvn dissolved by mutual consent **
retiilng. The business wi
tinued by J T. Stallings, who a
the debts of the firm, and wit!
p.-rsons indebted to the firm wi
.1. T. STAL1
J. S. JORDA
ami laid in an immense stoc
INSTRUMENTS FROM TI
MAKERS, which we shall
y Installment Tern
modatu those who wish to
til later.
During the months of Septem
ber and October, 1884, ire rdll
sett Pianos and Organs at our
Jjowest Rock Bottom Oath
Prices, requiring only
$23 CASH BOWS OH A PIAH0.
S10 CASH 90WH OH A OHO AH.
IimZ allowing three
nthe balance. Wit
r advance of pric
Those who buy under tills plan, and flni
. temselves unable to complete payment
at ter the three months, will be given f urthri
time, by agreeing to pay our regular Install
ment prices, and complying with our In
-*-** it Terms of pa>ment. Should thej
half the amount due at thee months,
a large cash p«ym<-nt, an equltab'
prW for the instrument will arranged. A
will be treated fairly, and charged prices:
e with tl
e required I
AH jmrehasera under this Special of-
icir rcs^'insibUt^. lustrum
•ferences are given.
i will I
A CARD.
ing tlm^ustnmer* of the old firm
patronage. I respectfully ask^for a
i Cotton Avenue, ready
groceries and provisions
J. T. STALLINGS.
e old stand.
pniv yon wll
* e 't price*.
DR. CARLISE'S.
L. «Sc 33-
Will cure Rheumatism, Cramp Colic.
' h<>l<ra Morbus, Neuralgia, Inflamatlon of
'he Kidney s.Whitlow or Fclon.Sore 'Throat,
’* *'■ “ Headache, Toothache. Gravel.
“ *~- Contrasted
I
!
rlption, Catarrh. Hay Fever,
••r Stings of Insects, reptiles or . _._
Carlisle has used this remedy in his prac
tice tor fifteen years with great tueeeaa In
• very case. And have many certificate* from
the best people in Upson an«f ——*
ties, who have been cured by
wonderful remedy, if you „
with any of the diseases namad above, buy
a bottle and be relelved. It cannot be ex-
"Hod for Suppressed Menct. nation.
I'utupby JOHN J. OLIPHANT. Thom-
“nit d * *° wbom 11,1 orders should be art-
BTOrders Solicited.
M. It. CARLISLE.
CITY taxes!
LUDDEN & BATES
SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
DO YOU KNOW
THAT
LORILLARD’S CLIMAX
PLUG TOBACCO.
With Red Tin Tag, is the best ? Is tho pur
est; Is never adulterated with glucose, bar
ytes, tublssses, or any deleterious Ingre
dients, a* is the ease with many other
.t>rrlllar«!*s Itoso Leaf Fine Cut
Tobacco
also made of the finest stock, and for a
matic chewing quality Is second to non
Lorrillitra** Navy Clipplti;;*
take first tank as a solid durable smoking
tobacco wlwrever introduced.
Lorrillard’H Fmuouii Snuffs
have been used for over 124 years, and a
10,000 School and Miscellaneous,
sold at about half price. Stationery and
School supplies.
7.. T. STINE, 100 Centre St. Augusta, Ga
iWItnTISERM
A DWKUTISERM f send for our Select
List of Local newspapers. George P.
Rowell St Co, 10 Spruce St, X. Y.
W- 3. rHTLLira.
Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
b the JHefnxof aUackedwltfa a
w!S« untirSil,'whw I ert
S*VS
ami would probably die. I>r. HuDowaylaaUy
told mo to try Brea r’s Imug Restorer. They
isijsffltecasy ■'lisas
g^YT^ra'jaaiag’i'taaj.s
h-alth. /am r.mMrot that the Lang Restorer
saved mj Me, tay^ nekU.irs ars ol^tho
Statement of Mr.Benj.F.Hearndon:
Early In Novcraber. 1S5t, while sewing on the
fotluwed by]
drlli-ate noarisluncut ou her atni—ch I them
agreed wUh Ur. Haiffrao, my fau^phyaletaa.
mad* a final examinatioa of thv ratteuL^wS
prunonnred the rare hopeless. Dr. Holloway
then "usri-'tei] tho Brower's Lung Restorer a.
a die ’?7tuwdtlit aiwVuid retain iton be?
itoamch. aad after ahiwt ths third doss I beona
to nntkw msm improve meal In her enwdltioa.
1 r«.ntfnae«l tb* medkrtn* regnlarty. and try th*
rime tho had taken twobottlea she was Mats
health*thnn aha hna *njay*d far^nrenJ ynsrs.
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
MACON, GA.
HOSTETTER’j
Sirffps
:ver and other diseases of a malarial type
cists as IIostetter's Stomach Bitters. It
Sieves ronstipaiion^lirer dborders, then-
ratifying as it l* complete, soon takes place
i the appearance, as well as the sensation,
1 the wan and haggard invalid who uses
ils standard promoter of health and
length.
For sala by all Druggists and Dealers
111 f. hake.
Staples Fancy Groceries
Fine Wines and Liquors,
Cotton Avenue. Amfriccs, Ga.
lias on hand allkinds of
CANNED GOODS.
HACKERS,
COFFEE,
SUGAR,
LARD.
TOBACCO,
CIGARS. ETC.
There to a lonely grave In Virginia
And a nameless sleeper there.
That fell when the tide of battle
Rolled over the mod so fair.
No costly marble marks the spot
Where be tell 'mid war's stern lout.
But a tough-hewn cross and tho simple
'‘▲soldier mastered out."
_ graves in the "Ohl Dominion,"
Where her heroes are at rest.
And piles of hroore and marble
Stand above each sleeper’s breast;
But none are there among them all
That flocks her Mils about.
With a tomb so grandly simple
A* that soldier’s “mustered out."
It stands in its solemn beauty
By the ever moaning sea,
Anatbe pwlngschooncr proudly float*
TTywhito eapped billows bow their beads.
And all the waters shout.
And fling their foam wreaths 'round the
grave
Where he sleeps "mustered out. : ’
These waters on that dreadful day
Had seen him fighting tall.
And mingling with thebuttle smoke,
Had made the soldier’s nail.
Noaram reversed, no muffled drum,
B“**^»*. aM shoot—-
These were the sounds that filled the air,
When be was "mastered oat.”
No music of soil requiems.
No church bells tolling low,
But clash of arms and cannon's boom,
When be was called to go.
Hisahroud, a blood-stained, tattered flag,
All heroes stoop not 'neath tall shafts,
Nor -*
of stone:
or many are amrkvd, alas
With the om word, "unknown;"
bey sleep who fought as btavc
For whom the millions shout,
Till the Lord of battle
They sleep who foutfit as btave as those
« *-—“--—ions she-*
Je gravi
And those was “mustered out ”
But He who marks the sparrow’s fall,
Knows where each hero lies,
And humble blood for justice shed.
By Him is no; despised.
And when lu tho last reveille,
The dead ranks throng about.
Foremost among the Just shall stand.
Those soldier's "mustered out.”
• BAR fixed i
good order for the benefit of those wbo^ove
a pure article of Liquor. I will keep the
best. My friends, and public generally are
spc-tfully invited to give
Frightful Catarrh.
1‘IECEM OF BONE.
For four years I have been afillctcd with
a vrry troublesome catarrh of the bead. So
terrible baa Its nature beea that when 1
blew my nose small pieces of bone would
frequently come out of my month and nose.
The discharge was copious, and at times
exceedingly offensive. My blood became
that my general health
Impaired, with poor appetite and
Numerous medicines were used without
lief, until I betran the use of U. B. B., and
iree bottles acted almost like magic.—
_ nee their use not a symptom has return* *
and I feel in every way quite restored
old citizen of/
*» almost any one living on Butler
and more particularly to Dr. L. V
' W Mrs. ELIZABETH KNOTT.
A LITTLE GOLD.
.. Z. A. Clark, Atlanta Ga., in spoal
tng of $480 00 in gold, desires to say to th
readers of this paper, that the whole of the
ah ve amount was spent in a frulUM* effort
in finding relief from a terrible Blood I*oU-
i affecting his body, limbs and nose—pla
nting ugly running ulcers. He to now
und anti well, haring been cured by the
dore* I toow
Wept, Sungr and Danced.
A gentleman, who was a ilrst-class
perforraerof Scotch music on the violin,
Rpcnt a winter at Exeter,and, of course,
soon became acquainted with tho mu
sical delittanti of the place. Dining
one day with a professor, tho conversa
tion turned upon Scottish music, and a
strong argument arose as to its bearing
competition with foreign music—the
Scotchman, whom we shall for the pre
designate the Fiddler, iusisting
that, when properly played, nothing
could excel it; the professor, on the
other hand insisting that it was only
fit for the barnyard.
"I’ll tell yon what,” says the fiddler,
'I’ll lay you a bet of five pounds that
if a party of Scotchmen can be got to
gether, I’ll make them shed tears one
minnte, sing the next and dance the
third.”
ane,” says the professor; "and if
your music is capable of that, 1 will
not only pay the five pounds with pleas
ure, but will be convinced that it is the
moat enliving, pathetic and best music
the world.”
The difficulty arose as to getting an
opportunity for a trial; but being in
formed that a number of young Scotch-
rere to dine at a certain hotel on
miversary of Burn’s birthday, it
was agreed to pay them a visit. It'was
considered a capital opportunity by the
fiddler, for these young men,being prin
cipally raw-boned, overgrown Scotch
lads, who had recently left their own
country to carry tea in the neighbor
hood, were the very ones upon whom
i was sure to make a hit.
All being now arranged, an l the nt-
ost secrecy being agTecd upon, the
eventful day was anxiously looked for.
At length it came, and the fiddler and
the professor, by an introduction to one
of the party, got an invitation to the
dinner. There were twelve together
sat down, and a right merry party they
soon bocame, for the whisky toddy wah
not spared when the memory of any of
Scotia's bards was proposed. The fid-
ras not long in perceiving that he
had got among a right musical set .and
he waited patiently till they were ir
that happy state when they were fit foi
that his friend should favor them with
Scotch tune on the violin.
"Capital, capital! ’ cried the wholi
P»rty.
The violin was brought, and all wen
breathless anxiety. Tho fiddlerchos^
for his first tune. “Here’s a health t<
them that’s awa,” and played it iu tb
most solemn and pathetic manner.
“That’s a wofu’ tune," said a great,
big, raw-boned youth to his next neigh-
"It is that. Sandy. Tharo’s tnickh
that tune, man. It reminds me o'
ane that gane,” Jamie at the sametimi
deep sigh and drawing hii
r his long gannt face to hide
which were trickling down his
iderful remedy
ay interested party
Purifier will learn
thro- bottka of B. B- B. ro
lled Lis appetite, healed all ulcers, reliev-
Ills kidneys, and added twe *
unds to his weight in thirty days.
Two Druggists.
We have been handling B. B. B. only a
few months, and takes pleasure in saying
It Is superceding all other Blood Remedies.
It eells well, gives oar customers entti
Isfactlon, and we cheerfully nornw— „
in preference to any other Blood Purifier.
ASUIRAMOORE, Druggists,
Atlanta, Ga.
A 32 page Book of wonderful B. B. B. tes
timony mailed to any address
BLOOD BALM CO , Atlanta, Ga.
"k
BAKERY
FRESH BREAD.
DUCK, which we sell low down toe CASH.
W. J. PHILLIPS & CO.
jolyaum Cotton Avenue.
Form roimu will *itb liTnunne
Sold CTtrjwhsr*.
DAVID r. TOOT”.Traprittsr.
Dr. EMridge»a Drug Stow.
The fiddler with his keen eyo
perceived that before he got through
the second part of tlio tune he would
them all in the same mood,
therefore, threw his whole soul ir
instrument, played the tnne as he had
never done before; and aa the last foi .
bars of the tnne died away like tho dis
tant echo, there was not a dry cheek
mg the company.
! thought the fiddler; and without
•topping a moment he struck up, in i
bold, vigorous style, "Willie brew’d i
Heck o’ Maut." In went the handker
chiefs. away went the tears.
’Chorusi” cried the fiddler, and it
an instant all struck up—
For we’re nae fou, we’re nan that fou,
But just a drapple in oar e’e;
The coek stay craw, the day may daw’
A NOBLE HEART.
Qne night the pain at my heart grew
o great, and 1 went out among the
purple heather ou the moor, and there
knelt down under the stars and piajrod
,A be taken from the world.
“For how can I live without Evan?”
I spoke the words aloud, and then
started np in affright, for there at my
side was a little selfish figure, and I
heard a cry that at first I hardly
thought earthly. Yet it was but 8cotch
Jenny, who had followed me.
“Why do you call for your true love,
w?” she said. “Yon sent him fra
ye for the aake o’ tho yonng’ Squire.”
"What do you mean?” said I.
• "I'll speak gin I lose my plaoe,”
said Jennie. "I rode with the mistress
to yonng Dr. Locke’s place past the
moor, and there she ’lighted and gave
him p ring, which turned him the tint
o’ death, and said he: ‘There’e nae a
drop o' true hluid in a woman, gin she
false,’ and he turned to the wall an’
covered his eyes, an’ yo-r granov rode
home. There ’tie all I ken.”
And then I fell down at her feet like
stoue. I knew nothing more for an
hod.- or more, but then when I was bel
aud they left me with Jenny, I
bade her fetch my hood and cloak, and
her own and come with me, and away
I went across the inoor in the star
light tc where the hall windows were
-blaze with light, and asked the house
keeper V; let mo»-ee the ’Squire.
She started at me (or my boldness—
i wonder—but called him. So, in a
moment, he stood before me in his eve
ning dress, with liis cheeks flushed and
his eyes bright, and led me into a little,
:n and seated me.
'Agatha, my love, I hopo no mis
chance brings you here,” he began.
■’Not your love, ’Squire Turner,” 1
1. "I thank yon for thinking so
well of me, but even after all that has
passed—I”
I could say no more. He took my
hand.
'Have I offended you, Agatha?” he
"Not yon. The offense—the guilts
Oh, I have been sorely cheated! And
all I could do was to sob and think he
thought me mad.
At lait strength came to me. I went
back to the first and told him all.
"And though I would never see
van Locke again,” said I, "still lean
iver be another man’s true love, for I
n his until I die.”
Then, as 1 looked, all of the rich
color faded out of the Squirt’s face,and
I say the sight we seldom see more than
ce in a lifetime—a strong man in
At last he rose and came to me:
"My little Agatha never loved me,”
he said. "Ah, me! the news is bad;
thought she did. This comes of vani
ty”
And then, kind and gentle,as though
~ grieved him, be gave me his
irm ana saw mo across the moor, and
it the gate paused and whispered:
"Be at rest, Agatha. The Canadian
‘hip, Golden George, has not ‘sailed
yet.
•‘Eh, but he was fit to be a king—the
grandest, kindest, best of living men
who rode-away with the break of the
rrow, and found Evan Locke iust
dy to set foot upon the Golden
George, and told him a tale that made
‘ s heart light and sent him baek to me.
eaven bless him!
And who was jlthat sent grandfather
o deed of gift that made the cottage
s own, and spoke a kind word to the
gentry for young Dr. Lock# that helped
him into practice? Still no one bnt
'Squire Turner, whom we taught onr
children to pray for every night!
TABERNACLE SERU0K8.
n RET. T. Dtll lTT T1UMCK.
SENSITIVENESS OF CHRIST.
“Who touched me?"—St Mark v, Sf
A great crowd of «xcitod people el
bowing each other this way anti that,
and Christ in the midst of the commo
tion. They were on the way to eee
Him restore to complete health a djiug
person. Some thought He oould effect
the cure, others he could not. At any
““ '* would bo an interesting experi-
A very sick woman of twelve
years’ invalidism is in the crowd.
Some say her name was Martha, others
say her name wae Veronica. 1 do uot
know what her name was, bnt this was
certain; she had tried all styles of core.
Every shelf of her hnmblc home had
medicine on it; she had employed many
of the doctors of that time when medi
cal science wee more rude ami rough
and ignorant than we can imagine in
this time when the word physieisu or
surgeon stands for potent aad educated
•kill. Prof. Lightfoct gives a lUt of
what he supposes may have been the
remedies she had applied. I suppose
■he had been blistered from hsad to
foot, and had tried the oompress, and
had used all styles of as triagent herbs,
and she had been mauled and hacked
and cut and lascerated, until life to her
was a plague. Besides that, the Bible
indicate* her doctor’s bills had inn np
frightfnlly, and she had paid money
for medicines and for surgical attend
ance and for hygenic apparatus, until
her puree was as exhausod as her body.
What, poor woman, are yon doing in
that jostling crowd? Better go home
and go to bed and nurse yonr disorders.
No! Wan and wasted and faint she
stands there, her face distorted with
suffering, and ever and anon biting her
lip with some acute pain, and sobbing
until her tears tall from the hollow eye*
upon the faded dress; only able to stand
I had t
it Induced a Yonng Circuit
Rider to Quit the Cloth.
Arlcansaw Traveler.
“No more preaching for mo!” aaid
young circuit rider, who had started
it with bright prospects, and two
pairs of home knit socks. "I did not
iind persuading people to lead better
ves, but the fact is the walls were too
thin where I boarded. I could lie in
tn and hear everything that was
the adjoining room. I didn’t
like this; no, 1 din’t like this, I don’t
to be an caves-dropper. The oth-
ight I was lying in my rooi
. ag to listen, but I coal Jn'
bat distinctly bear:
That’s a fine preacher,” said the
man. "Got a mouth liko a stove
door; got a devlish sight more appetite
than be has religion. Did yon see him
make a pass at the shoat? Wonder
the hog* don’t sqneel when he comes
around.”
a ouglitenter talk about him that
way,” said the old lady, "far he’s do
in’ tho best he kin* 1 didn’t like it
though the way he drove into that but
ter. Now he ought to know how scarce
butter is. I do believe he could eat
two pounds at one sitting.
to-night when he got down* to
pray—had hi
aigs all the t:
the kind of preacher they
i’d as well open the smoke-
that basket of
My stars, if that'
going to
house and be done with it. That fel
ler’s hungry all the time, and besides
that ho can’t preach. Talks like his
mouth’s full of mush. Ha’ll never be
a success in callin’ mourners. Make
better hand at calling hoge.”
"Every night I was compelled to
hear such remarks, until I decided that
my apatite was a trifle too strong for
one following a meek and lowly tmH’“
Perfect Uurmony.
From Texas Siftings.]
A fashionably dressed lady, accom
panied by a distinguished looking
gentleman, called at the office of a
prominent Austin lawyer, who
"What can I do for you?”
"I want to obtains divorce fi
husband here,” said the lady.
"And I want to obtain a divorce
from her, jnst as badly aa she does
from me,” said the hnsband.
"When snch perfect harmony of
sentiment exists between hna band
and wife, the law provides, no adequate
remedy. Yon had better go back and
live together until yon disagree with
each other more than yon do at
eot, and then perhaps I can do
thing for yon.”
Concerning Red Hair.
Many people admire red hair, but if
yon do not. Parker’s Hair Balsam will
impart to it a darker hue. It will also
thicken thin hair, eradicate dandruff,
and impart softnesst glossiness and life
to hair which has become dry and harsh.
Not a dye, doee not soil the linen.
Gives a deliciona perfume. An elegant
But aye we'*Il taste the b£riey*bi
The aong ended, up struck the fid
dler in his best stye the reel of "Jenny’
dang the Weaver.”
Scotland forever! cried Jamre, ami
« instant tables, chairs and glassri
were scattered in all directions, thi
whole party dancing and jumping Ilk*
madmen.
Out ran the affrighted professor—foi
be did not know what might come next
—np came the landlady with her terri
fied train of inmates. But none dnret
enter the room, the hurrahs and thumps
ipon the floor being boisterous; and it
ras only upon the entry of a Scotch
traveler, who had just arrived and who
cried to the fiddle for nay sake to stop,
that order was restored.
It Is needles* to any that the profea-
■or paid his bet cheerfully, and was
fully convinced of the effect of Scotch ,
music when properly played, and that;
tho landlady took cat* that tb. Uddlor Fine .smrtnontorBnMhOi,Combo.
because the crowd it
pushing her this way and that. Stand
u*®h. Why do yon crowd that poor
body? Have you no consideration for
a dying woman? But just at time the
crowd parts, and this invalid comes al
most np to. Christ, bnt she is behind
His human eye does not takr
her in. She has heard ao much about
His kindness to the sick, and she duet-
wretched, she thinks if she can
only just touch Him on the sacred
head, for that might be irreverent. Sh*
will not touch Him on the head, for
that might seem too familiar. She
■ay*. "I will, I think, too<* Him on
His coat, not on the top of it, or on the
bottom of the main fabric, bnt oa the
border—the blue border, the long
threads of the fringe of that blue bor
der; there can be no barm in that. I
don’t think He will hurt me. I have
heard so mnch about Him. Beside*
that, I can stand this no longer.
Twelve years of suffering have worn
me out. This is my last hope, this i*
jny Ust cbanco.” And she pressed
through the crowd still fuitber, and
maches for Christ, but cannot quite
tooeh Him. 8he pashes still farther
through the crowd and kneels and pats
her finger to the edge of the blue fringe
of the border. She just touchea it.
Quick as an electric shock there thrill
ed haek into her shattered nerves, and
shrunken veins, and exhausted arteries,
and panting lungs, and withered mus
cles, health, beantifnl health, rubicund
health,God-giving and complete health.
The twelve years* march of pain and
pang and suffering over suspension
bridge of nerve and through tunnel of
bone instantly halted. Christ recog
nises somehow that magnetic and
healthful influence through the medium
of the bine fringe of His garment had
shot out of him. • He tnrnr and looks
upon the excited crowd and startles
them with the interrogation of my text;
"Who tonched me?” The insolent
crowd in sab»tance replied: "How do
we know ? Yon get in a crowd like
this and yon mast expect to be jostled.
You ask us a question yon know we
cannot answer.” Bnt the roseate and
rejuvenated woman came np and knelt
in front of Christ and told of the touch
and told of the restoration, and Jesns
•aid: "Daughter, thy faith hath made
thee whole. Go In peace.”
8o Mark gives ns a dramatization
of the Gospel. O, what a doctor Christ
is! In every one of our households
m *y He be the family physician. No-
tie* that there ia no addition of help tt
others without subtraction of powei
from ourselves. The context says that
— "»n as this woman was healed Je-
felt that virtue or strength had
gone ont cf him. No addition of help
to others withont substruction of
strength from ourselves. Did you
get tired for others ? nave you
risked your health for others ? Have
you never preached a sermon, or deliv
ered an exoritation, or offered n burn-
lag prayer, and then felt afterward that
strength had gone ont of yon? Then
yoa have not imitated Christ. Are
yon curious to know how that garment
of Christ should have wrought such a
cure for thia suppliant invalid? I sup
pose that Christ was surcharged with
vitality. You know that diseases may
be conveyed from city to city by gar-
menta as in case of epidemic, and so 1
suppose that garments may be sur
charged with health. I suppose that
Christ had snch magnetism that it per
meated all hie robe down to the last
thread on the bolder of the bine fringe.
Bnt in addition to that there was •
divine thrill
potency tbei
rape a tics «
years’ inval
•tantly rest*
cannot help
that strength may have gone out
throngh the sock yon knit for the bare
foot destitute: that strength may go
through the mantle hung np i
»closet after you are dead. So
cripple little child sat every morning
on her father’s front step, so that when
the kind of Christian teacher passed
by to school she might take hold of her
dress and let the dress slide throngh
her pale fingers. She said it helped
her pain so much and made her so hap
py all the day. Aye, have we not in
all our dwellings garments of tho de
parted, a touch of which thrills ns
through and through, the life of AhuFc
who are gone thrilling through the life
of those who stay? But mark yon tho
principle ! evolve from this subject.
No addition of health to others unless
there be a subtraction of strength from
selves. He felt the strength had
ie out of Him.
Notice also in this subject a Christ
si live to human touch. We talk
about God on a vast scale so much we
hardly appreciate Hia accessibility—
God in magnitude rather than God in
miuntia, God in the infinite rather than
* in tho infiuctesimal—but bore in
. xt we have a God arrested by a
suffering touch. When in the tdtsra
trial of Christ they struck Him on the
cheek, we can realize how that cheek
tingled with pain. When under the
scourging, the rod strnck the shoulder
and back of Christ, wo can realize how
ast have writhed under the larce-
rations. Bnt here there is a sick and
eless finger that just toucheaths
long threads of the bluo fringe of Hia
oat and He looks around and anye,
‘Who touched mo?” We talk about
sensitive j>eople. hut Christ was the
impersonation of all sensitiveness. The
slightest stroke of tho smallest finger of
human disability makes all the nerves
of Hia head and heart and hands and
feet vibrate. It ia not a stolid Christ,
phlegmatic Christ, not a preoc
cupied Christ, not a hard Christ, uot an
:ased Chriat, but an exquisite
ive Christ that my text unveils.
All things that touch ns touch Him, if
by the hand of prayer we make the
connecting line between Him and our
selves complete. Mark you, thia inva-
rellef would
jchnd Him
>? y 001
about her stiff*
eotnc if she had not
When in your prayei
hand on Christ you tunc
pathies of an ardent and glob ing and
tponsivo nature. Yon know that in
telegraphy there are two currents of
electricity. So when you put out yonr
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which I am now e{ieakiog, they aay:
"O! that’s nothing: she’a a little ner
vous, that’s all,” putting a slight npoa
tho most agonising of suffering. Now,
I have a new. prescription to give yon.
Ido not ask you to discard human
medicament. 1 believe in it. When
the slightest thing occurs in the way of
sickness in my household, we afways
mn for th*» doctor. I do not want to
despite medicine. If yon cannot sleep
at nights,do not despise bromide of pot
assium. If yon have nervous proatra-
ion, do not despite morphia. If yon
•ant to strengthen np your systtro, do
ot despise quinine aa a tonic. Use all
ight and proper medicines. Bnt I
rant you to bring your insomnia, and
bring yonr irritability, and bring all
yonr weaknesses, and with them tooch
Christ. Touch Him not only on the
hem of His garments, bnt toneh Him on
the shoulder where He carries onr bur
den; touch Him on the head where He
remembers all cur sorrows; touch Him
oa tho heart, the centre of all His sym
pathies. -O! yea, Paul was right when
lie nid, "We have not a high priest
who cannot be touched.” Tbo fact is
ChriFt Himself was nervous. All those
ight* ont of doors in malarial district*
hero an Englishman or an American
dies if he goes at oertain seasons. Sleep
ing ^ ont of doors so many nights a*
Christ did, and so hungry, and his feet
wet with tho wash of tho sea, and tl •
wdtlcraesa tramp, and the persecution;
and the outrage, must havo broken
down lus nervous system—a fact prov
ed by tho statement that He lived so
short a time on the cross, That is a
lingering death ordinarily, and many
iglit ha
walked
•-I all day, and cried
hand of prayer t
currents—a cum
from your lie:
Christ thei
it of M
•oiling up
rent of commiseration rolling from the
heart of Christ to you. Two currents.
O ! why do you go unhelped? Why
you go wondering about ibis and
wondering about that? Why do
t touch Him? Are you sick? I
think yon are any worso off than
thb invalid of the text. Have yon had
long struggle? I do not think it has
been more than twelve yearR. Is your
hopeless? So was this of which
my text is the diagnosis and prognosis.
you say, "there are eo many
things between me and God.” There
hole mob betweon this invalid
and Christ. She pressed through and
I guess you can press through. Is your
trouble a home trouble? Christ shows
Himself especially sympathetic with
qne8tio2* of domesticity, as when at
the wedding in Cana He alleviated a
housekeeper's predicament, ax when
tears rushed forth at the broken borne
of Mary and Martha and Lazarus.
Men are sometimes ashamed to ween.
There are men who, if the tears start,
will conceal them. They think it is
imanly to cry. They do not seem to
tderstand it is mamlineMs and evi
nce of a true heart. Tbo Christ of my
it was not ashamed to cry over hn-
tn misfortune. Look at that deep
lake of tears opened by the two words
of the evangelist: "Je.-ns wept!” Be
hold Christ on tho only day of His
rthly triumph marching on Jerusa
lem, tho glittering domes obliterated bv
the blinding rain of tears in His eyes
His cheek; for when Ho beheld
tho city He wept on it. O! man of the
many trials. O! woman of the lies
break,why do you not touch Him?’’C
"Christ don’t care for t
Christ is looking the other way. Chi
has the vast affair* of Hi* kingdom
a He doesn’
of trouble than n
about me. and Hi:
the other way.” So IIis hick was
d to this invalid of the text. He
in His way to effect u cnrc-which
d popular and wide-re-
If He
fatnoni
wling. But the'
turned Him about.”
to tho north Ho turn
Ho was facing to tbo east Ho turned t
the west. What turned Him about
The Bible says lie is withont shadn<
ing. He ride*
iu Ili* cha
offerer dying on tho. cross has writh-
pain twenty-four hours,forty-eight
hours. Christ lived only s
He was exhausted before He mounted
the bloody tree. Of it is a worn ont
Christ, sympathetic with all people
worn ont. A Christian woman wont
o the Tract House in New York, and
asked for tracts for distribution. Tbo
first day she was out oa her Christian
erraud she saw a policeman taking an
intoxicated woman to tho station home.
After the woman was discharged from
custody this Christian tract distributor
hsw her coming away all unkempt and
unlovely. The tract distributor went
np, threw her arms around her neck
and kissed her. Tho woman said: "O!
d, why do yon kiss me?” Well,
•plied the other, "I think Jesns Christ
•Id me to.” "O! no,” tho woman
ud, "don’t yon kiss me; it breaks my
heart; nobody has kissed me since my
mother died.” But that sisterly kiss
brought her to Christ, and started hej
•n tho road to heaven. The world
sympathy; it is dying for sym-
* '* sym-
. i tho
glad that when we
Tbo
joints
pathy, largo-hearted, Chrietii
pathy. There i* omnipotence
touch. Iam so glad that
touch Chriat. Christ touches
knuckles and the limbB and t..«. j
ill falling apart with that living death
called the leprosy, a man is bronghf t
Christ. A hundred doctors canid not
i him. Tho wisest surgery would
id appalled before that loathcsome
patent. What did Christ do? lie did
not amputate; He did not poultice; He
did not scarify. He touched him and
11. Tho mother-in-law of
the Apostle l’eter was in a raging fe
ver, o.- what, I do not know. Christ
was the physician. Ho offered no fe
brifuge. He prescribed no drops. He
id not put her on severe diet. He
inched her and she was well. Two
blind men come stumbling into a room
is. They are entirely
sightless. Christ did not lift the eyelid
to see whether it was catraet or opli-
1 balmy. lie did not put the men into
room for three or four weeks.
:bed them and they saw every
thing. A man came
f whoi
he had a
Christ tho drum
had ceased to vibrate, and
uttering -tongue. Christ
ho heard, tonched
inched the
ii* tongue and be articulated! There
* a funeral coming ont of that gate, a
ndow following her onlv boy to the
:»»ve. Christ cannot stand it and He
>nts Ilis hand on tho hearse and the
isnirection daj.
glad when we
H my brother, 1 a
:ouch Christ with oui
ouches us. When out of your grief
ind. vexation you put your hand on
Christ, it waken* all Ilis human retain-
icense. Are wo tempted? He was
•inpted. Are we sick? lie was sick,
ire we persecuted? He was persccn-
bereft? Ho was bereft.
uorning went
world with
who gives U
til he feels
pation or pr
may edneat
on Sunday
Christ, and
of him. A
ifSit i
domestio mi
oonrege her
against dis
hard savin)
good count
years devoti
unions
mt the-
twelve
reenin-
potance
pletion,
lew the
A man
ect un-
all hie
' active
school.
radio, a
under
aay sa
te after
rer and
dmaay
year* aevotea to rearing ber family of
God and usefulness and heaven, has
nothing to show for it bnt prematura
gray hairs and a profusion of deep
wrinkles, is like Christ, aad strength
baa gone out of bar. That strength or
; virtue may have gone out through a
Drag Store, garment the has mad* for the home;
riot through the eternities. I Ie march
es on crushing sccptrerf as though Ihej
were the cracking alder* of a hrook’i
bank, and tossing thrones on either
side of Him without stopping to look
which way they fell. From everlasting
to everlasting, St. Mark v, 30: “He
turned Him about.” ne whom all the
allied armies of hell cannot stop a
minute or divert an inch, by tjie wan.
sick, nervelss finger of human suffering
turned clear about. O! what comfort
-here U in this subject for people who
are called nervous. Of course it is a
misapplied word in that case, but 1
use it in the ordinary pariance.
After twelve years of suffering. O !
what nervoos depression she most have
had. Yon all know that a good deal
of medicine taken if it does not care
leaves the system exhausted, and in tho
Bible in so many word* she “had suf
fered many things of many physicDn*.
and was nothing bettered, bnt rather
grew worse.” She was nervoos as ner
vous oould be. She knew all aboni
insomnia and about the awful appre
hension of something going to happen,
and irritability about little things that
in health would not have perturbed her.
I warrant yon it waa not a straight
■troke ahe gavo to the garment of
Christ, bat a trembling forearm, nml an
uncertain motion of the hand, * ->-i a
quivering finger with which she u>:-sed
the mark toward which she aimed. She
did not touch the garment just where
the expected to toncli it. VYiien I see
thia aervona woqjpu coming to the Lord
Jesua Christ, I aay she ia tnaki->g the
way for all nervoae people. Nervou
people do not get mneh sympathy. If u
man breaks his arm everybody i* sorry
and they talk about it all np and down
the street. If a woman has sn eye pot
out by aceident they say, "That
dreadful thing.” Everybody i* asking
about her oonvalcieeace. But when a
person is sufferiag under the ailment of
St. Yoo of K<
doorstep. The beggar had been all
night in the cold. T?c next night St.
«o compelled this beggar to coiuo np
!" , t ,e I. 1 ? 08 ? in Hie saint’s
bod, while St. ^ n i passed the night on
tl»o doorstep in i\* cold. Somebody
asked him why that eccentricity? He
i.’plied, “It isn’t an eccentricity: I
wnut to know how the j*oor suffer, 1
wapt to know their- agonies .that 1 tnav
sympathize with them, and therefore I
•p last night.”
«h, way Ohr
Me slept
cold doorstep of an inhospitable world
that would not let him in. Heia avra-
pathetic now with ail the suffering and
11 the tried and all the j>crplered. U,
iu ail the pcrpleri
why do you not go and touch Him?
\»ti utter your voice iu a mountain
pas* and there come back leu echoes,
twenty ccboe«, thirty echoes, weird and
rhythmic. Every voice of prayer, ev
ery ascription of praise, every groan of
distress has divine response and celes
tial reverberation, and all the galleries
of heaven are filled with sympathetic
echoes, and thtoces of ministering an-
gol* echo, and the temples of the re
deemed echo, and the hearts ol God the
Father, God the Son. and God the lfo-
ly Ghost echo and re-echo. I preach a
Ghrist so near yon can touch i im—
ti uch Him with your guilt and get par-
d-u»—tooch llim with sourtroubloand
get comfort—touch Him with yonr
bondage and get manumission. You
have seen a man take hold t f an elec-
trio ebam. A man can with one hand
take one end of the chain, and with the
Other hand he taay take hold of the oth-
f the chain. Then a hundred
persons taking hold of that chain will
all together feel the electric power.
You havo teen that experiment. Well,
Christ with one wonnded hand takes
bold of one end cf the electric chain of
love and with the other wonnded hand
takes hold of the other eudiof the elec-
ttic chain of love, and all earthly and
»4-g«Uc beings may lay hold that chain,
and round nod round in -ublime and
everlasting-circuit tons the thrill of
terrestrial and celetii»\ and brotherly,
and saintly, and cheigoo-.acd *-eraphic,
and archangelio, and ditii-e sympathy.
8o that if this morning Christ should
■weep II : * hand over this audience and
say.- "Whotonched me?”ther* would
be hundreds and thousands cf voices
responding: “I! I! I!”