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A LEADVILLE SERMON.
HOW A BAIO-FIATniRD OLD MINER
PREACHED.
fltw a Mlilati*r T*M th Htmry ml ih
ff llitl Im.
Monoarc D. Oonwsy, in a letter from
the West, telle tliia story :
At one of oar evening eutertainmente
Mr. 3. L. Dow, M. P. (Victoria), a
Scotchman of excellent humor, who is
returning tram a tour in America, read
ua a sermon which he had taken down
aa he heard it in Leadvilte. The service
was in a variety theater ; some whisky
barrels made the pulpit After the
singing of “A day’s march nearer home,"
a hard-featured miner rose to address
the hard-featured congregation :
Friends, the regular preacher has
gona down among the boys who are
working the new carbonate mines at
Gnnaiacn, and I have been appointed to
take hia hand and heave it for all it’s
worth. To many of yon present it won’t
be neoessary to tell you that I’m kinder
new to this business, but I don't believe
there’s a rooster in the camp mean
enough to take advantage of my ignor
ance and oold-deck me on the first deal.
I hava been reading in this yere boo’-
that yarn about the Prodigal Bon and 1
will try to tell you the story. The book
don't give no datee, but I guess it hap
pened a considerable spell back in his
tory. It aeems tho Prod's fsther was
pretty flush with the stamps, and a real
good sort into the bargain, as lie always
shelled out freely wheu the kid struck
him for a stake, and never bucked at the
size of the pile neither, so long ns the
boy heaved in hearty on the rancho and
generally behaved hisself handsum. But
by and by tho kid began to git restless
snd wanted to mstle out the travel; so
ho got the ole mau to ante up in ad
vance of the death rocket and let him go.
He nosooner got bis divvy in liis pocket
than he ahook the rnuchu and spread
himself ont to take in some of the far-off
cam pa. Wal, according to the book, he
had a way-up time at first and slung his
coin around aa if he owned the best pay
ing lead within a thousand miles of
Denver. But, my friends, this game
didn't last forever. Hard lnok struck
him at last, and the Prod is found in
one of his sober intervals remarking in
a confidential way to ono of hia ohuma :
“ I aay, old pard, I'm busted dean to
the bed-rock, and them's the cold
blooded Faota.” Tho liook don't aay
what tho Prod, wont broke on, but
probTily he steered up against some
brace game. Be that salt may, however,
he was so beautifully cleaned out that
bo hadn’t a two-bit piece left to go and
cat on. In this condition he struck a
ranebe belonging to an old granger,
who, taking pity on the poor, busted
Prod, gave him a job of herdiug bogs.
The granger wasn’t a bad old sample in
u general way, but he was inclined to be
kinder mean on tbe feed, and so it came
that often Prod got so frightfully sharp
set for a meal he had to go whacks in
the hog-trough. Ton bet the kid who
in his flush times had been boosing
round among the best of everything like
a silver king or s big railway monopolist,
had now plenty of time on hia bands for
doing a tall lot of thinking, and one day
be said to himself : "I’ll just ding this
business. Why, even the meaneet help
in any old governor’s hired service are
living on square grub, and plenty of it,
while I'm worrying along on a shook
lunch. I know what I’ll do—l’ll just
skip book home to the old man and ask
him for anew deal.” Bo away he went,
but he had a hard time reaohing the old
ranche, and don’t yon forget it. When
you have plenty of coin, my friends,
everybody's pleasant, but whon you're
on the borrow yon dou't find it so good.
Finally he did strike the familiar trail
leading down to the old home ami while
crossing some open lots the old man, aa
the book pnte in, saw him a-ooming afar
off. Ye*, that ole man’s eyes wero very
dim, bnt he did not fail to epot his boy
afar off.
Ami what d’ye suppose that Prod’s
father did? Did he whistle the dogs to
chase him off the ranehe ? You bet he
didn't. Did he go and take down hte
shot-gun and wait till he got a good drop
on him ? You bet he didn’t. No, but
I’ll tell you what ho did. Ho jußt
waltzed right out of the gate to meet
him, and froze to that poor scarecrow
right on the spot, and fell to kissing of
him and weeping orer him aud calling
him his poor, loijg-lost boy until the
Prod got broke all up and like a sluioe
dam when the snow comes down off
Pike’s Peak under a July sun. The old
man then took him right away to a cloth
ing store and rigged him out in the
noblest suit to Vie had for ooin and put
an elegant ring on his finger, ordered
the fattest steer on the rauche to be
slaughtered, Invited all the neighbors in,
and had the biggest blow-out the camp
had ever seen.
Now it appears that the Prod’s elder
brother was out at work with the teams,
aud when he oame in he asked some of
the help what was the meaning of the
picnic they were having inside, aud when
he was told the reason he just got real
mad. The old man hearing of this
went out to him and said; "Come in,
lad; your brother's come back and we’re
having a regular old-fashioned jubilee;
now yon come right along, like a good
fellow, and take a share in the break
down. " But the brother wouldn’t budge,
and said: "Look here, dad, I have
stuck to the ranohe and have never trans
grossed your orders, bnt it never struck
you to have s picnic of this kind until
yon give it in honor of s loafer who has
disgraced onr name." Bnt, my friends,
yon make your bets on it that, old man
had a level head and wasn’t to be easily
bluffed. He ssys; “My son, you say
you have never transgressed my orders,
bnt are you quite sure that’s so. I tell
you that you have grievously trans
gressed my commandments now by
year unbrotherly and uncharitable be
havior. Learn, then, that I am not
pleased by service of mere form, if
the heart ia not In aooord. You may
count that your service is according to
the letter of the law, but I tell yon it
don't fill the bushel worth s cent so far
as the spirit is concerned. The spirit
you ere showing, my led, is the ono that
leads to narrow-mindedness, to bigotry,
to intolerance end to fooling round end
burning folks because they don’t, fix up
their formal observances just exactly as
you have arranged and an you assert
must be right.’’ And now, friends, it
is to tlio credit of the brother that he
took hia old father's square talk in good
part, and you bet that old man was a
real thoroughbred— and don't yon for
get it.
Feeding end Itrrsslng Fowls.
Mrs. Fsnny Field, an authority on
poultry matters, reports through The
Prairie Farmer thst she has had liest
suoeesa in fattening by ns of ns much as
the hena or turkeya oan oat dean of a
mixture morning and noon of lsiiled
potatoes, boots and carrots, thickened
with oom and Irnrley meal, and whole
corn at night, and milk kept by them
constantly in abundant supply :
“Ten days or two weeks of such feed
ing will put fowls in prime condition foi
market, i. e., if they arc in decent order
to begin with; but if they have been
half starved all summer, no amount of
extra feeding will ever mako them as
good for table use as the fowls that have
iiecn well kept all their lives. The liest
market turkeys I ever saw were well fed
from tho time they were twenty hours
old. For the last month they were fed
three times dally—oooked vegetables and
meal at morning and noon, and oom at
night. They had all they would eat up
dean each time, but no food was left in
their feeding places. They had free
range, bnt I don't think they went ten
rods from the buildings. When killed
they were between six and seven months
of ago, atid the dressed weight of tho
eighty was 1.2W1 pounds."
Itcasouablu objection is made to oon
flning in close, dark pens; give light and
comfortable room for exercise, even if
this humane treatment renders neoessary
the use of e handful more of food :
“Twice we tried fattening turkeys in
pens in a bam cellar where it was only
light enough to enable the fowls to see
to eat; the collar was dry and warm,
food and drink were kept in the pens all
the time, but those turkeys would only
eat just enough to keep from starvation,
and they actually weighed less after
three weeks of confinement than they
did when we shut them up. I happen
to know half a dozen other people who
tried the seme thing with the same ro
sult.”
Mr. D. W. Lewis takes up the sub
ject from tho commercial point of view,
and in a recent circular reminds farmers
of the requisites for seeming highest
prioes in tho New York market:
"Fowls should not be fed for twenty
four hours before killing, us food in the
crop is liable to sour and injure its sale.
Blooding in the mouth is tho liest mode
of killing. Heads and feet should be
loft on. In dressing, the water should
be as near the boiling point ns possible,
without actually boiling. Dip the bird
into the water three times, holding it by
tho legs. The feathers must lie then
quickly and thoroughly removed, with
out breaking the skin. Then dip into
boiling water two seconds, and imme
diately afterward into oold water tho
same length of time. Wet dressed poul
try Is generally preferred up to Thanks
giving, after which timo dry pinked has
the preference. Small fat turkeys sell
host the season through, except at
Thanksgiving anil Christmas, wheu
large, dry pioked birds only are wanted,
(locseell liest at Christmas.”
Why he Iteforned.
“Yon mnat exetuo me, gentlemen, for
I cannot drink anything," nid n man
who wae known to the entire town aa a
drunkard.
‘‘This in tho first time yon over re
fused a drink," said an acquaintance.
‘‘The other day yon were hustling
around after a cooktoil, and in fact yon
even asked mo te set ’em np.”
“That’s very true, bnt I am a very
different man now.”
‘Trenchers bod a hold of yon ?”
“No sir, no ono him said anything to
me. ”
“Well, what lias caused the reforma
tion ?”
“I’ll tell you. After leaving yon tho
other day, I kept on huntling for a oook
tail, as yon term it, nntil I met a party
of friends. When I left them I was
about half drunk. I would not have
stopped at thin, bnt my friends had to
hnrrv away to catch a train. To a man
of my temperament, a holt-drunk is a
miserable condition, for the desire for
more is bo strong that ho forgets his
self respect in hia efforts to get more to
drink. Failing at the saloons, I re
membered that there was a half pint of
whisky at home, which had been pur
chased for medicinal purposes. Jnst
before reaching the gate I heard voices
in the garden, and looking over the
fence I saw my tittle son and danghter
playing ‘No, you be ma,’ said the boy,
‘and I’ll be pa. Now you sit here an’
I’ll come in drank. Wait now till I fill
my bottle.’ He took a Ixvttle which he
ran away and filled with water. Pretty
Boon he returner! and entering the play
house, nodded idiotically at his little
girl, and sat down withont saying any
thing. Then the girl looked np from
her work and said :
“ ‘James, why will yon do this way ?’
“ ‘Whizzer way ?’ he replied.
“ ‘Oettin’ drank.’
“ ‘Who’s drunk ?’
11 ‘You are, an’ you promised when
the baby died thst you wouldu’t drink
any more. The children are almost
ragged an’ we haven’t anything to eat
hardly, but you still throw yonr money
awsy. Don’t you know you are break
in’ my heart ?’
“ I hurried away. The acting wxs too
life-like. I could think of nothing
during the day but those tittle children
playing in the garden, and I vowed that
I would never take another drink, and I
will not, so help me God,”— Arkansaui
Traveler,
JIM FISK’S PALACE CAB.
Filled Up RffMrdlrM ml Rxpcnafi and Now
Horrlni aa a Wreck In* Car*
On a siding near the repair shops of
tho New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad is an old oar, bearing on its
side the legend “Tool Oar.” It la used
to carry the wrecking gang’of the Sus
quehanna division and their tools. I
wan looking at the oar recently, says a
Sun correspondent, and one of the em
ployees said;
“I suppose yon would be surprised
you knew to wh om this car used to bo
long. ’’
“Whose was it?” I asked.
“This car,” he replied, "has rather a
remarkable history. When Jim Fink
was President of the old Erie he had a
ear built for hia own private use, and it
wae named after Josie Mansfield. The
ear was built down in Delaware some
where, I think, and it cost a mint of
money. Wheu Fisk ordered it be only
gave instructions to build him a oar in
which he conld travel anil enjoy himself.
When it was finished and delivered to
Fisk he was ao pleased with tho work
manship that he immediately sent a
cheek for SI,OOO to tho man who had de
signed the car and had charge of tbe
work. The actnal cost of the car was
not far from 875,000, which in those
days was an enormous atim for one car.
It was fitted up throughout in the most
luxurious style. It was finished inside
with oiled walnut and cherry, and the
panels were adorned with oil paintings
which alone cost a large sum. All the
appointments of the car were correspond
ingly expensive. At one end were sleep
ing apartments, and dressing ami toilet
rooms. The remainder of tho ear waa a
traveling drawing-room. In those days
tho idea of taking meals on board a train
was unheard of, but Fisk used to have
wine and delicacies for lunch, and hired
a butler, whose special duty was to take
charge of the car, wherever it went.
“In those days he used to do some
pretty tall traveling. He had an engine
at his command, and when he wanted to
go over the Erie he went flying along at
lit rapid rate, regardless of all other
rains, which had to get ont of the way.
It was Fisk who ran the fast train over
tho Erie carrying relief for the Bufforers
by tho Chicago fire. When he made up
his mind to send out the relief train, he
sent for Engineer Bam Walker, of Port
Jervis, to come to his private office.
“ ’Bam,’ lie says, ‘I want you to run
that train through to Port Jervis ns
quick ns God will let you. If you are
killed I'll look ont for tho wife and tittle
ones.’
“Walker took tho trnin through in the
unparalleled timo of two hours and ten
minutes. Nat Tall, I think, took it over
tho Delaware division. At any rate, it
was a tremendous run, and the Erie beat
them all into Chicago.
"Fisk was a great favorite with tho
railroad men. He always lmd a good
word for us whenever he was around.
When Fisk died the car was nai-d by Ids
successor for a while, and afterward did
some duty on the eastern part of the
road. It afterward found its way here
for repairs. When they camo to look it
over, they decided that it would lie use
less expense to repair it, and so, after
lying ou the switch for n year or two, it
was turned into a wrecking oar, as you
now see it.”
Lest She Should Fall llend.
Philip Guycr of Paterson, N. J., loet
a large sum of monoy by theft recently.
He auspeoted an old woman in the
neighborhood, but did not lnivo unfli
cient evidence to warrant liis making a
complaint against her. What made it
the more suspicions waa that the woman
oalled every morning to ask Mr. Guyer
if ho lind got any trace of the thief. The
following atory is told by a Patersou
police olficittl : Mr. Guyer ascertained
that bUo was very superetitous, and the
noxt morning when she called and naked
os usual, if there was any news of tho
thief, he replied :
“ No; but I expect to know who it
was to-night.”
“ How V” asked the woman.
“Do you see those three nails?” said
Mr. Guyer, showing the woman three
very old and maty nails. “Well, they
came from a coffin that hns been buried
for a hundred years."
"Tho Virgin save us,” said the
woman.
“ And do you see that paper?"
“I do."
“ Well, that is a prayer, which I just
got from tho priest.”
“ Aud what are you going to do with
those things ?’’
“ Well,” answered Mr. Guyer, slowly
aud impressively looking the woman in
the face, “ to-night at 12 o’clock I am to
go into a certain yard where there is a
pear tree. I am to nail that prayer to
tho tree with these three nails. Every
timeT drive a nail I am to repeat that
prayer aloud. When l drive the last
nail and repeat the prayer for the last
lime, the persou who stole the money
will drop dead."
The woman turned pale, and departed
without saying a word. That evening,
about 8 o’clock, there was a rap at hie
front door. He went to the door and
there was no one in sight, bnt on the sill
he found a small package containing
the money that had been stolen.
An Old SißK'i-stltion,
A curious 6tory comes from Brent,
ford, England. A servant of Dr. Terry
was sent ont to carry a message. Blie
was short-sighted, and, failing to return,
it was feared she had fallen into the
canal. It was dragged, but withont
success. Several days later an old barge
woman suggested that a loaf of bread in
which some quicksilver had been placed
should be floated on the water. This
was doue and the loaf became stationary
at a certain point The dragging was
resumed at this point and tho body
found. The superstition is said to be
centuries old, but r.e one had seen it
tried there for many a year.
THE OLD LADY BEAT JOHN.
THE JUDGB’A story about tub
WILL THAT WASN'T FININIIBO.
After* Fmrfal Drive ef Tot* Mllfi on *
Mforiny Nl*ht I* Minister to n Dying
Woman Nbo Doc Idee to I .Ire te Hplte
John.
The judge and I had been driving ont
some miles in the afternoon, and coming
home in tbe twilight, passed a substan
tial-looking, though very old farm house,
with comfortable liarns and out-build
ings, indicating a well-to-do householder.
The rich bottom lands which stretched
away a half mile from the rivor to the
hill slopes, covered with abundant birch
and maple wore luxuriant with grain
and corn.
That evening, when wo wore sitting in
the library, after dinner, smoking and
chattiDg, I asked the judge:
"To whom does that farm we passed
on the level lieloug ?”
When I asked him the question, the
judge laughed outright, and after a mo
ment’s pause, said: “I will tell you a
story.
“One stormy, winter night, after iniq
niglit I waa sitting here reading, the rest
of the family having gone to sleep long
before, when old L>r. Strong thundered
at tho door knocker, and mode noise
enough to waku the Seven Sleepers. It
is a way he has, and neither my wife
nor the girls, who wero roused out of
alumlier, nor I myself, had any question
who was at the door. I let him in myself,
and a tempest of wind and snow with
him. The blast that drove him into my
arms also put ont the hall lights, whirled
into tho library, and flared the reading
lamp so that it broke the chimney, and
blazed up to a colored tissue-paper
afluir which Susie bail put over the
shade, set it on fire, and for a moment
threatened a general conflagration of
papers and books on the table.
“ ‘Shut tho door yourself,’ I shouted,
and rushed back hero to put out the
lire. That done, I went back and found
tho old doctor ont of breath, in the
dark, trying to shut the door against
the wind. It took the strength of l>oth
of ua to do it. Then I told him to find
his way to tho library, for he knew it,
and I wont off in searoh another
lamp.
“When I came back, he was just re
covering his wind, and after a gasp or
two, told me hie errand. ‘Old Mrs.
Norton is dying. She can’t live til)
morniug. She’s aliveuow only oil stiuiu
lants. She wants to make a will, and I
have come for you.’
“•“A nice night,’ I said, ‘for a two
mile drive to mako a will for a woman
who hasn’t a ceut in the world to leave.
Why didn’t yon toll her bo, and have
done with it?’
“ ‘Now, look here,’ said the doctor,
‘this is a case of an old woman, and an
old neighbor and a friend, and she
wants you to do something for her, and
you’ll do it, it it is only to comfort her
last hours. Get your things and come
with me. We shall not find her alive it
you don't hurry, and yen'll be sorry if
that happens.'
“The upshot of it wav that I went.
We had a fearful drive out to tho farm
house ou the fist, wliich you are askiug
about Mrs. Norton was the widow of
John Norton, who died forty odd years
before this. John Norton, when he
married her, was a widower with ae
son, John. He was a man of considera
ble property, and when he died left a
widow, that son John by his first wife,
and two sons by his seoond wife. The
older son, John, bail never been on very
warm terms with his stepmother, and
for some years hail had no intercourse
w ith the family.
“I found the old lady lying in tho big
room, ou a great bedstead on one side
of the room, opposite to tlie broad chim
ney, in which was a roaring fire, the
only light in the room. After the doc
tor had spoken to her and administered
something, a stimulant, I suppose, he
came over to me and said in a whisper,
‘Hurry up, she’s very weak.’
“I had iironght paper and pen and
ink with me, I found a stand and a
candle, placed them at the head of the
lied, and after saying • few
words to her, told her 1 was ready to
prepare the will, if alio would now go on
and tell mo what she wanted me to do.
I wrote the introductory pliraee rapidly,
and leaning over toward her said:
‘Now go on, Mrs. Norton.’ Her voice
was quite faint, and she seamed to speak
with an effort. She said: 'First of all
I want to give the farm to my aous,
Harry and James; just put that down.’
‘But,’ said I, ‘yon can’t do that, Mrs.
Norton; the farm isn’t yours to give
away.’
“ ‘The farm isn't mine ! ’ she Raid ill
a voice decidedly stronger than before.
“ ‘ No, the farm isn’t yours. You
have only a life interest in it.'
“ ‘ This farm that I’ve run forgoin’ on
forty-three year- next spring isn't mine
to do what I please with it ! Wliv not,
jndge? I’d like te know what you
menu ? ’
“ ‘Why, Mr. Norton, your hnslxmd,
gave you a life estate in all his property,
and on yonr death the property gee* to
his son John, and yonr children get the
village houses.’
“ ‘And when I die John Norton is to
have this house and farm whether I will
or no.’
“ ‘Just so. It will be his.’
“ ‘Then I ain’t going to die.’ said the
old woman in a clear and decidedly
ringing, healthy voice. And so saying
she threw her feet over the front of the
lied, sat up, gathered a blauket and
ooverlid about her, straightened up her
gaunt form, walked across the room and
sat down in a great chair before the fire.
The doctor and I came home. That
was fifteen years ago. The old lady is
alive to-day. And she accomplished her
intent.
“She beat John after all. He died
four years ago in Boston, and I don’t
know what will Vie left. But whoever
cornea into the farm-house when she
goes out, it will not be John. And since
John's death the farm has been better
kept, and everything about it is in vastly
better condition for strangers than it
would have been for John,”
A TERRIBLE PROPHECY.
Tbs Hed SnnMVa, Crclpncs and KsrlS
(inakrn ForrtHMn* (■Mull'S liltm*.
Ipr-How to Meet It.
The recent mysterious appearances follow
ing sunset and preceding sunrise have at
tracted wide uttention from student* of the
skied and th3 people genera’ly During the
days of recent weeks the sun seem* to have
been otecurtxl by u thin veil of a dull leaden
hue which, as tbe tun redded toward the
horizon, became more luminous then yellow.
tli*-n orange, then red; and, as night nettled
down ujjoii tho earth, a dull purple. At first
It was thought these appearances were or
dinary sunset refections of light, but it is
now pretty certain that they are either the
misty KulMtanco of the tail of rotue un eu
comet, in which theeur;h is enveloj el, or a
surrounding stratum of world dust or very
i mall meteors. Professor Brooks, of
the Bed House < berrvabrry, Phelps,
New York, iia< turn and his tele
wo e upon those objects and discovered
what he thinks are myriads of tetosoopic
meteors. If it is vnoiyaui/ed world dust, or
decomposed vurw.r*, ns tho I Pernor rat and
( hronu'fr, of Roche-ter, Na V., remarks:
“ How Is this matter to be di.-p 1 oft Will
it settle and form a deposit noon the earth,
or reau|u a parti and opaqno Knell abou> tbe
earth to cut oil a p rtion of the buds light
upon it P
Whatever tbe mystery is, there is no deny
ing that tome very strange fore arc a*-
wrk in the upjjer air* The b mb.’e torna
does an l cyclones wh cb have oWttpt onr ow n
country, ami the fearful vo'cimoe* and earth
quakes which hare destroyed no many cities
and thousands of people—the tidal waves
whch mysteriously rise and fail <-n coasts
hi'herto unvoted by them—the tremendous
activity win h la evident in the sun by the
constant revelation of enormous sj-o!s upon
it-* surface a'l in licate unusual enesry m
the heavenly bodies.
These circumstances recall I rofesaor Grim*
mor’s prophecies, that from 1 hsl to Ish? tbe
l as *;<‘ vi the live gieat pi mots- Mars. Nep
tune, Jupiter, I ran us and Saturn around
the sun would pro ho* strange and w >nder
ful phenomena. He says; ‘‘The wafers of
tiie **arth will become more or .0 spot onou>.
The air will b • foul with noisome odors.
Ancient races will dixaptear from tLe earth.”
He attempts to prove nis prophecy by the
fact that in 17**0, when Mars and Saturn
nuide their pasa.e around the sun
Ooinc.dentally, great destmtioii and mor
tality visited' all j arts of the glols* He also
found tbe same result** in previous | ereh dion
passages of the planet', and argue that thc#w #
oir urnstnnees always produc epidemics and*
destructive dun use-, which will l*a't!e tin* skill
of tbe mo-t eminent j’hysi' ians; that the poor
will die bv thou?anils, the weak ar.d intem
perate falling first, tli se whose blood has
u en irnioverLsh<*d by ex • s.f work or diasi
j ation next, an I only those who nre in com
parative vigor shall es &pe to en oy the era
of renewed activit/ and piospe.'ity whl b
will follow tho j ere l ot desti uct on.
Inasmuch as the entire world seems subject
to the sway of the heavenly bodies no part of
the earth, lie Hunks, cmt+c.'ipe sc forging.
Hu even predict** that America will lose ov* r
ton mill! ns of people; that the farmers Will
be str.cken with fear and cease to till the soil;
that famine will make human misery more
wracbed. That hundreds will flee to
overcrowed cities for aid In vain.
That ku Iden changes in < C“ii cur
rents, temp'iature and surroundings
will entirely transform the face of nature
and climate of counties; that the nir will \ e
so foul with malaria and < thern ix oil- ga* .
that tho v who survive w 11 lx? trouble*! with
disorders of the digestive orj any. 1 hat u any
who escape other ills will bloat with dropsy
and Hiidd nly jasH away, while others will
grow- thin ami drag out a miner'ableexistence
Fn inde cribablo agony for week*. Noura'gic
pain* in didermt parts of the
tx*ly will torment them. They will
easily tire and Income de>i* indent,
A faint, hot feeling will be succeeded
by chilly sensations while nallu inatious arxl
dread of impending ill willnuruluse all effort.
“Tlie birds fn the air. the I* ads of the field
and even the fish of the- sea will be > um* dis
eased, poisoning tbe air nud p.ii.toning she
waters of the globe ’ We are told on tit >
other hand that thou*? who xuali passthrough
this i*i u*l of trial will have enjoy
ment of life anl health. The earth will
yield more abundantly than ever tiefore.
l*ho animal kingdom will be more
prolific anti life prolonged vet % ma
tonally. Thin prolongation of life
will be • wing to the healthy electric and
magnetic influence* that w,ll j erva-!♦• theaf
uioi) here. It would | erhaps see ii thaMbe
present ivdrefn of the sun, Mid the j re n e
of a belt or veil of to m e matter, .j*: t tied,
in a measure, the \ redi<*thm of
Professor Grimmer, but disturbing a> his
prediction may be wo are told for our com
fort that the stmeg and pure bit sided need
have little to fear in the e calamities, thn
tho-e who are deli ate or ind>|x red .-h- ult
adoj t menus to keep the system w 11 suj>-
portad an f the Moot! pure, and that the most
philosophical and effective method of accom
plishing this is to keep tht kidneys an i liver
in good condition hrom ihu testimorSnls of
such men as Dr. No lewis and Professor H.
A. Gunn, M. !>., Ih ah of the Unit- and .states
Medical College, New York, aid thousand.-,
of influential non-professional jvopie, itt-eem*
almost c rtain that for this purpose there i*
no pre|>aration known to scitu.co equal to
Warner’s Safe Cure, biter known rs
Warners afo Kidney and l iver Cure. This
me iic ne lias acquired the finest rej hi tat ion of
any preparation that was < ver put upon the
n arket. It is a rad cil b! od funfi r, whi h
fiootheu and heals all inflamed organs,
strengthens the nervous system, wa-J.es out
nil etideuceH of decay, regu n es digestion,
prevents malnssimilanoii of iood in a phil
osophical and rational manner, for ii ! es the
lysteiu asrai st climatic changes an 1 ina’arial
Influences and the destructive agencies w hich
teem to b.so abundant in those * evil days. ’
It is not our puri* se to dispute thecorrect
nes, of Profew-or Grimmer'.-, propho ies. As
we have said, the marked disturbances of
the past few years wou’d *eem to give a
semblance of verification of his theory. It
Ib certain, as above tated. that we are pass
ing through what may l>o regarded as a
crucial period and it is the part of the wise
men nt to ignore, but to learn to fortify
themselves against the jv'shbility of
being overcome by th sc evils. it is a
duty which each man owes to him-
and ids fellows, to mitigate as nn eb as
(toKsible the suffering of humanity and in no
wav better can he accomplish this purpose
than to see to it that he. niuve'f, is rort’fied
by the host known pro anti >n in the strong
est possible manner and that he exert the in
fluence of his own example upon his fellows
to the end that they, too, may share with him
immunity from tie destructive influences
which seek his ruin.
A Capture.
A Chicago constable went into the
suburbs to serve a judgment for SB6 on a
poor widow. The woman had not the
means to satisfy tho judgment, and tho
constable looked around to see if there
wasn’t something he could levy upon.
But tlio nidow had nothing in the house
save a rickety bedstead, three or four
common chairs, a pine table and a few
other things of no value. The consta
ble was al*mt to return disgusted, when
he noticed a flock of geese in a pool of
water near the house. “Are these beau
tiful geese yours?’’ asked the countable
of the old lady. “Tis, sir,” was the in
nocent reply, “them is mine, an’ they
are all the comfort I have.” “Well,”
said the constable, “I guess I’ll take
cm,” and stripping off his coat, he pro
ceeded to capture and tie the geese, a
performance which took him several
hours. He then made a proud entry
into the city,
A Nf.w York man who had been out
of employment for several months, ob
tained a job, and the next day killed
himself in a fit of temporary insanity,
if you want to drive a New York man
crazy, set him to work.
C. Farley, city mashal, 24S Broadway, N. Y.,
myb: “I had 'rheumatic gout twenty yearn;
tried everything: now take Dr. Elmore's R. G.
I r has cured my crippled feet, and beats all
other medi ines and treatments in the world.”
With good humor and kindness, a man is
more agreeable in the world than with a su
perior intellect devoid of gayety and goodness
LjlPix* A children'! Boot* A Shut* caile
ron over if Itfon'e Patent Haul Stiffanuarc used.
Twen'y-four Ifoitrn to Llvf.
From John Kuhn, Lafayocte, Ind., who
announce* that ho is now in “perfect health,’’
we have the f> 1 lowing: One year ag > I was,
to all appearance, in the last stages of con
sumption. Our best, physi an* gave ray <a*
up. 1 finally got t* > low that our doctor .vud
I c, u'd only live twonty-foar h *ur-. My
friend* then punhaiod a bottle of Dr. IVm.
Ha l's Balsam for the Lungs, which con
siderably benefit* I me. I continued until I
took nine bottles, and I am now n p rfe.-t
health.
A man’s ruling passion is the key to hia
character.
Venn* Ladle*,
If yon want your 1 air to have that peculiar
glossy appearance that always adorns the head
of Ix-auty, use Darboline, the natural hair re
storer and drawing.
In advnraity be spirited and firm, and with
equal prudence lessen yonr sail whan filled witn
a Ux> fortunate gale of prosperity.
For nausea, dizziness and sick headache, Dr
Hanford's Liver Invigorator has no equal.
A man’a ruling passion is the key to hia
character.
What ail* you? If it is a cough, take Pish*
Core. Bold by druggists. 25 centa.
Man b* an animal that cannot long be left in
safety without occupation ; the growth of hia
fallow nature iw apt to run to weeds.
Menseman’a Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutri
tious properties. It contains blood-making,
foree-generating and life-sustaining properties;
uttvalua ie for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether th*
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration or
arut# disease?, ja:ti ulariy if iamiting from |
fulmonsry complaints, Caswell, Hazard A Go, ;
roprietors, New York, bold by druggists.
Truth becomes effective by frequent oontern- j
plat ion ; and the hal itnal recurrence of its pre- '
eepts induces practice.
Pimples, pustules, and all skin disorders ar<
cured by using Samaritan AVrrmc.
A man who is able to employ himself inno
centlv is never nrserable. It is tbe idle vyh f >
are w etched. If I wanted to inflict the gnu test
punishment on a fellow creature, I would s mt
him alone in a dark room without employ
incut. - Johnson.
Ernest Ik e* *f FTauuiUl, Mo.,*sy*:*‘&rma
itan Nervine cur and me of sick headache.”
He who lives to no purpose lives to a bail
purpose
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Hellenic nud Fce’ile Lndiei.
Tli.rc languid, lire-o-no ensA*iorß,ejin;irt
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tint constant drain tl.at 8 taking from your
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it rain m on your vital forces, rrsvlrritig yoti
irrit title anti iretfu 1 , taiiadly be renKjycd
b tbe use or that marvel u- re t lv, Hop
idtt. l's liTrgulariU.s tuid obstri.cttons of
year sytrtrm are relieved at on<te, white the
B|ccia cau- e of perio.l.c.il y>aiii are l*trm i
nently removed. None receive much ben
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show su h an interest in recommending Hop
Bitters as women
reel, tom K iffitiii.
•‘ My tnotlier mas ndlictt-1 a long ime wit’.
Neqi algia and a dull, h-avr, inactive lon.li
tionof the whole systo n: h.-a-lach", nervotu
proetratiun, and was almost Lei j dess. No
physicians or n'.edicince did her aiiy K-* 1 ■
Three mouth- ago Hr- began to use ILp Ut
ters with such good ciToft that she ;eem- and
feel- voting .an. a tli util over 10 leiri
oh', ii eHi nk there i no oilier medicine tit
to esc in the family.’'—A 1 dv, in Provi
d"ll...
i KADtoßii r>., Mays, ISIS,
it ha< cure 1 me of Reveral .li eao--, such .is
nervousness, sicicne - at the -tomaeh, raoath-
Jv trouble-, etc. 1 liivve not seen a sick day
in a year fine* 1 took Hop Bitters. Ail my
neighbor.? use them. Mrs, Fann ei.iu.kn.
IS,ii i Lr.—“A tour of Kurope that ost
me Id.OOO, done me less good than one bottle
of Hop Bitter.; they also ' ured my wife of
fifteen years' nervous weakness. *lee;ilanesi
and dy-pepda.” K- M., Auburn, N Y.
lii.li \. tUai Icy.
Hop Bitters Is no , n any - use ji s’.'.
hoik- beve a;e or Ii |Uor, a id • oul I uot bv
sold for n-e except t ■ is- s nvs < enrolls of ob
lining a me Ii -iniii liitt -rs
li, i t'' it. i’At'ii, 1". s. Com. Inter 1 Hev.
Bo BLVoMiv n.i E, 0.. May 1, ’ii).
bins I have It en suffering ten yeirsnnd
I tried your Hop llitters audit duneinu morn
gikh! than ail tile do tis
f Mib . H a. Rooxe.
Hub' ss'rlt.
We are so than .fu! to sa - that o ir nn-sin
bal). w a perinuu-nti. cure lof a danger
no- and I rot rack) 1 constipation au i irregu
lard' o r t!ru i>>'■■■!* bv t’.o use of Hjo Hit
ie -hv iwii.titbe". which at the ame t. o
iest< 1C I her I • |>erfeot health ad streugtu.
The 1 or utv ho Iffttor, N. Y.
Hod. Alexander H. Slejtes
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