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RET. DR. TALMAGE.
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* THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject t “People who haTO Lost Their
Way.”
Text: "And God opened her eves, and
she saw a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink .”—Genesis xxi, 18.
Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. There
is an early stir in the house of old Abraham.
There has been trouble among the domestics.
Hagar, an assistant in the household, have and become her
eon, a bride lad of sixteen years,
impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the mis¬
tress of hard, the and household, that puts they her will foot have down to
very premises. says They packing
leave the are up
now. Abraham, knowing and her that the journey wiU be
before his servant son
very long and across desolate places,
in the kindness of his heart sots about put¬
ting up some bread and a bottle with water
in it. It is a very plain lunch that
would Abraham have provides, been enough but I of warrant it had you they there not
lost their way. “God be with you 1” said old
Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar, and
a conduct good many the" journey. charges as Ishmael, to how the she boy, should 1
suppose, bounded away in the morning light.
Boys always like a change. Poor Ishmael I
He has no idea of the disasters that are ahead
of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look
on the familiar place where she had spent so
many happy days, each scene associated with
the pride and joy of her heart—young Ish
mael.
The scorching noon comes on. The air is
stifling and moves across the desert with in¬
sufferable suffocation. and lies Ishmael, the but boy, Hagar be¬
gins to him complain, saying nothing down, about her
rouses up, own
weariness or the sweltering heat; for mothers
can endure anything. Trudge, trudge, trudge.
Crossing wearily the slowly dead level the miles of the slip. desert, A how
and tama¬
rind that seemed hours ago to stand only just
a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come
under its shadow, now is as far oft as ever, or
seemingly travelers so. Night drops upon the desert,
and tho are piilowless. Ishmael,
very woary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep.
Hagar, as the shadows of the night be¬
gin to lap over each other—Hagar
hugs her weary boy to her bosom and thinks
of the fact that it is her fault that they are
in the desert. A star looks out, hud every
falling tear it kisses with a sparkle. A
wing and of lifts wind comes locks over tho hot earth
tho from the fevered
brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully,
and in her dreams travels over tho weary
day, and half awakes her son by crying out
in her sleep: “Ishmael! Ishmael!” And
night, no they go on, they day have after lost day and night after
tor their way. No
path burning iu tho sky. shifting The sands, sack no sign in the
flour, tho from empty the of the
water gone bottle.
What shall sho do? As she puts
her fainting the Ishmael under a stunted
shrub of arid plain, she sees tho
bloodshot eye. and feels the hot hand,
and watches tho blood bursting from the
cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in the
desert of Beer-sheba: "Wo shall die! we
shall die?’ Now. no mother was ovar mode
strong drink. enough Heretofore to hear she her had son cry in vain for
a cheered her boy
by promising a speedy him end of the jouraoy,
even smiled upon when ho felt desper¬
ately place enough. under Now there shrub is nothing to do
but him a and let him die.
Bhehad thought that she would sitthero and
watch until the spirit of her boy would go
away forever, ana then sho would breathe
out her own life on liis silent heart; butas tbo
boy thirst, began to claw his in tongue in agony
of and struggle distortion, and bog
his mother to slay him, sho cannot enduro
the spectacle. Bhe puts him under a shrub
and goes off n bow shot, and begins to weep
until nil the desert seems sobbing, and her
try strikes clear through the heavens; and an
angel of God comes out on a cloud aud looks
down upon the appalling grief and cries:
ntid “Hagar, she what the aileth angel [winting thee?” Sho looks up of
sees to a well
water, where sho tills the bottle for the lad.
Thank God! Thank God!
I learn from this Oriental scene, in the first
place, know what their n sad place, thing and it is when people do
not get too proud for
their business. Hagar was an assistant in
t hat household, but she wanted to rule there.
She ridiculed and jeered until her son, Ish
nuieL got the same tricks. She dashed out
her own fr»t; happiness aud if she and had threw Sarah much into a
great. household she would stayed have longer
in that upset caim
Abraham’s trouble equilibrium. in My frionds, one
half of the the world to-day comes
from the fact that people do not know their
place; When or, finding their place, tho will not stay in
it. vre coma into world, there is
always Abraham. a place A place ready for Sarah. us. A A place place for
for for
Hagar. mid A place for Ishmael. Our A place for
you find a sphere; place for me. second first is duty keep is it. to
our our to
We may be born in a sphere far
off from tho one for which God
finally intends us. Sextus V was born on tho
low ground, and was a swineherd, God called
him up to waive a scepter. Ferguson spout
Ills early days in lookiug after the sheep ; God " ’
colled him up to look after stars, and bo a
shepherd hillsides watching the Hogarth flocks of light on the
of heaven. began by en¬
graving In thoenchanted pewter pots; God raised him to stand
realm of a painter. Theshoe
makor’s bench held Bloomfield for a little
while: philosopher hut God called him to sit in the chair
of a and Christian scholar. The
aoan boiler of London could not keep his son
iu that business, for God hod decided that
Hawley was to be one ot tho greatest astrono¬
mers bo of England. in sphero On tho other hand, we
may born a a little higher than
that for which God intends us, We may be
torn in a castle, and play in a costly con¬
servatory, and feed high bred pointers, and
angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be
familiar with princes; yet God may have
fitted us for a carpenter's shop, or dentist’s
forceps, smith’s or a weavers The shuttle, or a black¬
the sphere forge. for which great God thing is to find just
intended us, and
then to occupy that sphere and occupy it for¬
ever. Here is a man God fashioned to make
a plow. Thero is a man God fashioned
to make a constitution, Tho man
who makes the plow is just as hon¬
orable as tho man who makes the constitu¬
tion, provided he makes the plow as well as
tho other man makes the constitution. There
is a woman who was made to fashion a robe,
anil yonder is ono intended to be a queen and
wear it. It seems to me that in the one case
as in the other, God appoints the sphere- and
tho noodle is just as respectable is His sight as
the scepter. long I do not know but that the world
would ago have been saved if some of
tho men out of the ministry were in it, and
uoine of those who are in it were out of it.
I really think that one-half of the world may
be divided into two-quarters—thoso who
have not found their sphere, and those
who having found it, are not willing to stay
there. How many are struggling for a posi¬
tion a little higher than that for which God
intended them. Tho bondswoman wants to
be mistress. wheel Hagar of watch; keeps crowding which Sarah.
The small a beautiful¬
ly went treading balance its wheel, golden and pathway, the wants
to be the sparrow,
with it chagrin, like drops the eagle, into the brook, circle becausa under
cannot, cut a
tho sun. In the Lord’s army wo all want to
be brigadier generals, The sloop says:
“More mast; more tonnage j more canvas.
Oh, that I were a topsail schooner, or And a full
rigged brig, or a Cunard steamer.” sq
the world is filled with cries of discontent,
because wo arc not willing to stay in the
place where God put us and intended us to be.
My friends, be not too proud to do anything
God tells you to do. For tho lack of a right
disposition to this respect tho world is strewn
with wandering Hagars and Izhmaols. God
has given each ono of ns a work to do,
You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark al¬
loy. You distribute that Christian tract.
You give ton thousand dollars to the mission¬
ary cause. You. for fifteen years, sit with
«ana»*itt.“S3
calls you to, whether it win hissing or huzza;
whether to walk trader triumphal arch or
lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to
preach on a Pentecost, of the or tell some wanderer
of the street mercy of the Christ of
Mary Magdalene; garland for whether laughing it child be to
weave a a on a
spring morning and call her a May queen, or
to comb out the tangled locks of a waif of the
street and cut up one of your old dresses to
fit her out for the sanctuary—do it, and do it
right away. Whether ft be a crown or a
yoke, who do not fldgit. their work Everlasting and do honors their whole upon
those do
work, and are contented in the sphere In
which God has put exile, them; and while desolation, there is only
wandering, ana mid
wilderness for discontented Hagar ana Ish
mael.
Again, I find In this Oriental scene a lesson
of forth sympathy trudging with in the woman desert. when What she great goes
a
change tent and it all was the for surroundings this Hagar. of There Abraham’s was the
house, beautiful and luxurious no doubt.
Now she is going out into the hot sands of
the desert. O, what a change it was! And in
our d ay we often see the wheel of fortune turn.
Here is some one who lived in the very bright
home of her father. She had everything pos¬
sible to administer to her happiness. Plenty
at Welcome the table. at the Music door. in She the is drawing led forth room. into
life by some one who cannot appreciate her.
A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in
the desert. Iniquities blot out all
the Harsh lights of that home circle.
words wear out her spirits. The high
while hope that the shone out over the marriage alto
ring was being set and the vows
given and the benediction pronounced, have
all faded with the orange blossoms, and there
she is to-day, broken-hearted, think mg of past
Joy and present desolation and coming an¬
guish. Here Hagar is beautiful in the wilderness home. You i cannot
a
think of anything that can be added to it.
For yoars there has not been the suggestion
of a single the trouble. Bright laughter and happy and chil¬
dren fill house with song.
Books to read. Pictures to look at.
Lounges full to and rest running on. Cup of domestic Dark
night joy drops. Pillow hot. Pulses over. flutter.
Eyes close. And the foot whose well known
steps on the door sill brought the whole
household out at eventide, crying: the “Father’s
coming,” again, A will long, never deep sound grief on plowed door through sill
all that lightness of domestic life. Paradise
lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness!
How often it is we see the weak arm of
woman rough world. conscripted Who for is she, this going battle down with the the
street in the early light of the morning, pale
with with the exhausting slumbers work, of last not night, half tragedies slept out of
suffering written all over her face, her luster¬
less eyes looking far ahead as though for the
coming of some other trouble? Her parents
called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes on the
day when they held her up to the font,
and tho Christian minister sprinkled on
the infant’s face the washings of a holy
baptism. Her name is changed now. I hear
it in the shuffle of the worn out shoes. I see
it in the figure of the faded calico. I find it
to the lineaments of tho woo begone
countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor
Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May
God have mercy upon woman in her toils,
her and struggles, tho her heart hardships, Divine her desolation,
inclose may forever great of sympathy
her
that Again: I find mother in this Oriental scene the fact
every leads forth tremendous
destinies. You say; “That isn’t an unusual
scone, a mother loading her child by the
hand.” Who is it that she is loading?
Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great
nation is to be foundod; a nation so strong
that it is to stand for thousands of years
against all the armies of the world. Egypt
and Assyria thunder against it, but in
vain. Gaulus brings up his army,
and his army is smitten. Alex¬
ander decides upon a campaign, brings up his
hosts and dies. For a long while that nation
the monopolizes nation the learning of the world. It is
of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ish¬
mael, the She lad that Hagar led into the wilder¬
ness. had no idea sho was leading forth
such destinies. Neither does any mothor.
You pass along tho street, and see pass hoys
and with girls their who influence. will yefc make the earth quake
Who is that boy at
Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England,
barefooted, wading down into the
slush and slime, until his bare foot
conies upon a pieeo of glass and he lifts it,
bleeding and uain-struok? That wound to
the foot decides that ho be sodontary in his
life, decides that he be a student. That
wound by the glass in tho foot decides that
the no shall best religious be John encyclopedia Kftto, who shall provide
the world has
ever had provided, and with his other writ¬
ings as well, throwing a light upon tho
Word of God such as has come from no other
man in this ceDtury. O mother, mother,
that little hand that wanders over your
face may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts
of war, or drop benedictions, That little
voice may blaspheme Gkid to the grog shop,
or cry: “Forward I" to tho Lord’s hosts, as
they go out for their last victory. My mind
merchant to-day leaps prince thirty of yoars New York. ahead, and I see a
One stroke
of his stroke pen brings his a ship out brings of Canton. An¬
other of pen the a ship into
Madras. Ha is mighty }n all money mar¬
kets of the world, Who is he? He sits to
day beside you to the Tabernoole. My mind
leaps and thirty I find yoarB myself forward to from this
time, sociation. A great multitude a relief as¬
of Chris¬
tian women have mot together for a genorous
purpose. There is one woman in that crowd
who seems to have the confidence of all tho
others, and they all look up to her for her
counsel and for her prayers. Who is she ?
To-day you will find her to the Sabbath-school,
while the teacher tells her of that Christ who
clothed tho naked and fed tho hungry and
healed the siok. from My mind loaps forward
thirt & years now, and I find
myseir ifi an African jungle; and
there dressing is the a missionary natives, and of the their cross ad¬
countenances irradiated with the dusky
tidings of great are joy and salvation. Who glad
is
he? Did you not bear his voice to-day in the
first re^fet^TeMVar^: song of the service? My mind leaps for.
I soe a face scarred with every crime. His
chin on his open palm, his elbow on his knee
—a picture of despair. As I opened tho wick
now three times. First for thoft, then
for arson, now for murder. He
steps upon tho trap door, the rope is fastened
^Whtk^wh^ra/Wg to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings
kite on the city commons. Mother, you are
to-day hoisting kindling a throne or digging forging a chain—
you A are good a star or Christian a dungeon.
many years ago a mother
and sat teaching ho drank lessons in those of religion lessons. to She her child;
never
knew that LatoPhier would come forth and
establish the Fulton street prayer meeting,
and by one meeting whole revolutionize the de
votions of the earth, and thrill the
eternities with his Christian influence.
6r * to* h S° tb6 Ch7kt
brought him J aS
Sho never had an idea that sho was leading
forth such destinies. But O, when I see a
mother reckless of her influence, rattling on
toward destruction, garlanded for the sacri
but Hagar say! and "-'T^r^tlimr’pl'there^they’gu!? Ishmael!” I tell there
wilder deserts than Beersheba inrnany you are
domestic of the
circles of this day. Dissi
dran, children. Prayorless parents leading prayeriesi
every dark They alley, go Into through every oellar, street, along up
every
0f th9de,tb WUld ~ Ha ^
I learn one more lesson from this
Oriental scene, and that is, that every
wilderness has a well to it Hagar and
Mimad gave up to dto. Hagars heart
darling, there is 'waterl^‘AV’*eiy no water. 'This is desert.” < ^y
a 1
•What aileth “S? 18aid fr0m 1118 cim"p
and him thee, Hagar?” And she looked
wWe up saw pointing to a well of water,!
be God she that filled there the Is bottle in for the lad. Blessed
well, if only know how every wilderness a
s'“to you to find It—fount¬
ttiat last day, 18 to-day. “On
Jesus on that great day of the feast,
stood and cried: “If any men thirst,
l8 All t him these come other to fountains Me and drink?
are mirages you find
mere of the des
ert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in
trying which if to token, find out the elixir of life—a liquid
would keep one perpetually
young in this world, and would change the
aged disappointed; back again to youth. Of course, elixir. he
was he found not the
But here I tell you to-day of the elixir ot
everlasting of Ages.” and life that bursting from the “Rock
you shall never get drinking old, and that water
be sick, you will
never and you will never die. “Ho
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters.” Ah, there is a man who says
“I have been looking for that fountain a
great while, else but can’t find it.” And here is
some one who says: “I believe all you
say, but I have been trudging along in the
wilderness and can’t find the fountain.” Do
you know the reason? I will tell you. You
never looked in the right direction. “0”you
say, “I have looked everywhere. I live
looked north, south, east and west, and I
haven’t found the fountain. ” Why, you are not
lookinzin the right direction at all. Look up
where Hagar looked. She never would have
found the fountain at all, but when she
to that well to-day, and I begin to draw
water from that well. If you have lived in
the country, you have sometimes taken hold
of the rope of the old well sweep, and you
know how the bucket came up dripping with
bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the
rope of God’s mercy to-day, and I begin
to draw on that gospel well sweep,
and I see the buckets coming
up. Thirsty soul! here is one bucket
hoard the voice of the angel she looked up,
and she saw the finger pointing to the supply.
And O, soul, if to-day, with one earnest, in¬
tense prayer you would only look up to
ply Christ, He would point yoq down to the sup¬
in the wilderness. “Look unto Me all ye
ends of the earth, and bo ye saved; for I am
Hagar God, and there is none else.” Look! look I as
looked.
Yes, there is a well for every desert of be¬
reavement. Looking over the audience to¬
day, found I consolation notice signs of mourning. Have you
? O man bereft, O woman
after bereft, have you found consolation ? Hearse
hearse. We step from one grave hillock
to ourselves another grave hillock. We follow corpses,
soon bo like them. The world
is in mourning for its dead, Every
heart has booo me the sepulcher
of * some . buried . . joy. But - sing ye to God,
every wilderness has a well in it; and I come
of life! come and drink of (t: "Whosoever
will, life freely.” let him come I and take of the water of
andanother
ise: “ Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy the cometh again, in the morning.” I pull I lay hold of
rope and away with all mv
strength, and beautiful and and the cool. bucket Here comes up bright,
is the promise:
“ Come unto Me, all ye who otq weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
The old astrologers used to cheat tho
people with the idea that they could
tell from the position of the stars what
would ooour in the future, and if a cluster
of stars stood in one relation, that would be
a stood prophecy in another of evil; relati if a cluster of stars
on. that would be a
prophecy But here of is good. What superstition I
I put all my a faith, new astrology By looking to is which to
the Star of Jacob, the morning star up of
the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy In
regard to those who put their trust In Cfod:
“All things work together for good to those
who love God.” 1 read it out on the
sky. it I to read nil it out in tho Bible. I read
out things: “AU things work
together God.” Do for good to those who o love
you love Him? Have you
flower, seen the but Nyetanthes? it It is a beautiful
nntil after gives very Then little fragrance
sunset. it pours its
richness on the air. And this grace of the
Gospel while that I commend to you this day,
it may bo very sweet during the day
of prosperity, it pours forth its richest
aroma after sun down, and it will be sun
down with you and mo after a whUe. When
you come to go out of this world, will it be a
desert march or wiU it be a foun tain for your
A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his
heathen comrades came around bun and tried
to comfort him by reading some of the pages
of their theology, but he waved his hand as
much ns to say: “I don’t want to hear it.”
Then they called iu a heathen priest, and ho
said: “If you will only recite the Numtra it
will deliver you.” He waved his hand aamuch
as to say: “1 don’t want to hear that.”
Then Ho shook they said: “Call on Juggernaut.”
his head as much as
to say: “I ©an’t do that.”
Then they thought perhaps he was too weary
to speak, and they said: “Now, if you can’t
tay shook ‘Juggernaut, his head think of that God.” He
‘No, no.” They again, then as much down as to say: his
pillow, no, bent to
and they said: “In what will you
trust?” His face lighted up with the very
glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out,
rallying O all his dying energies: “Jesus.”
come for sin to-day and to the fountain—the fountain
open the whole uncleanness. I will tell you
Pardon for story all to two or three sentences.
sin. Comfort for all trouble.
Light for all darkness. And every wilder¬
ness has a well to it
A Novel Leak-Stopping Device.
Platt IL Viele, of Rochester, N. Y.,
has been granted a patent for a leak¬
stopping device for use on vessels which
P® ________ 88 ® 8 ® some novel , features. . . It consists
of a iramo work of untempered steel bars,
one-eighth three of an inch in thickness; eith
er or four inches 2ft? wide and either
short ft* distances holes about
oue-half inch in diameter are bored,
These bars, by means of bolts through
•»* •>—*- j
uver n,.„, thl't 10 trame thus constructed , the
inventor . , has
heavier felting prepared to have 8—0 or
8trons and ducking wm This cloth is
Sn wi.L stand olmosfc any
’' * lec „ a _____,, vessel lias . been stove . in or has
B prung a , leak the dimension and loca
tion of the hole is to be ascertained, and
then a frame out of these bars made to
madl co over it When ? J I been
m it to K 0 coiered with canvass
au “ toon let down , the side of the vessel
over the hole.
The pressure of the water will suck the
in the aperture, and the bars will
tj 0 ?? s ° Ibis r *J 8 . fco will c ?. l J form completely to 1 tho shape stop of tho the
teak, close the inventor claims, and the
ssr m conformity to the ship's
™ *»««>* »??*»’»■»
Vha, steel Imre and their flexibility
, form the chief feature of the invention,
hole Ry their aid the inventor believes that a
in any portion of the hull can lie
stla ?P bow ail Kte. curve around the keel,
tions or “t snugly the , against the straighter por
of hull.
£cLngwtoch bars the"^”carrie a s m TZ
°au be kept in sections and the
cloth can be roiled up; tho whole affair
thus taking no great amount of space,
—Hew York Journal.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Oklahoma means ‘ beautiful land.”
The first bankers were goldsmiths.
The French language was introduced
into England by William L in 1066.
A magnified lemon-squeezer is now
being introduced for mashing potatoes.
A spark of fire, falling upon some
chemicals, led to the invention of gun¬
powder.
Young Mr. George Vanderbilt owns
the table on which Napoleon wrote at
St. Helena.
The Mahometans introduced masonry
into Spain from N orth Africa about tho
ninth century.
A gnat choked Pope Adrian, and his
death occasioned very important changes
in Europe and America.
A Jewess, said to be 106 years old,
who resides in Spitafields, London, reg¬
ularly attends synagogue.
Pekin, the capital of China, was
built by Kachilai-Khau, grandson of
Genghis-Khan, about 1267.
In ancient Romo, a naval crown was
a crown given to him who first boarded
an enemy’s ship; it was a circle of gold
representing tho beaks of ships.
Dr. P. G. More of Wabash, Ind.,
owns an American flag that was carried
by General Anthony Wayne in his expe¬
dition against the Northwestern Indians
in 1792.
The salo of amber beads for medicinal
purposes is as old as Europe. Amber
put upon a baby’s neck has always been
considered a sure preventive of bronchial
troubles.
In Japan no man lends money to a
friend without taking his I. O. U. for it,
and thus he never loses a friend and
makes an enemy over a verbal financial
transaction.
A deed 214 years old—made on March
10, 1675, by the Cassque Indians to the
lord proprietors of Carolina—was
dusted, eyed and photographed recently
at the South Carolina State Capitol.
It has been stated that if the sun
were a hollow sphero over 1,000,000
globes tho sizo of our earth would
hardly fill it. This is, of course, an
approximate guess at tho size of tho sun.
The Seven Years War closed with tho
treaty signod at Hubertsburg, Saxony, by
the Empress of Austria, tho King of Prus¬
sia and the Elector of Bravaria, February
15, 1763. By this treaty Prussia secured
Silesia.
A manuscript in Latin, dated October
29, 1542, is alleged to have been found
in a cove near Gainesville, Texas. It
purports to give an account of the
wanderings of a party of Spaniards in
search of Hernando De Soto, tho dis¬
coverer of the Mississippi river.
Elephants on the War Path.
An elephant stampede, which was
nearly taking tho same disastrous turn
as the ono which occurred recently a(
Munich, is reported from Riga. Eighi
trained elephants have lately been ex¬
hibited at tho Salamonski Circus. A few
evenings ago, one of tho animals, in¬
stead of going quietly through the per¬
formance, raised his trunk suddenly and
began to trumpet. His comrades at
once became unruly and made for the
door. One of the grooms closed it, but
the first of tho elephants burst it open
without troublo. A lady who attempted
to run across his path was seized gently
round tho waist by the animal’s trunk
and safely deposited on one side. Tho
huge quadrupeds burst through another
door into the passago and found their
way to the box office. This seemed to
excite their curiosity, and they examined
it minutely. They then entered a small
court-yard and began a Tegular war
dance, uttering piercing cries a8 they
pranced about in their wild antics.
Eventually they were mastered and
walked off to their quarters. Two of
them, however, again got away, and,
curiously enough, trotted back towards
the circus. They missed their way, and
rushed into the yard of a neighboring
house, to the terror of the inmates, who
were roused from their slumbers by the
elephantine assault. It took several
hours to recapture the fugitives.
European Dost Offices.
In mere numbers Germany heads the
European countries in the number ol
post offices with 18,688, the United
Kingdom coming second with 17,587.
England has, however, in addition to
the above number of post offices, 19,163
other receptacles in which letters can be
posted, consisting of wall and pillar
boxes, etc., which make its postal fa¬
cilities, on the whole, superior to those
in Germany. If tho number of post
offices is considered in proportion to the
population, then Norway and Sweden
come first, with 480 to every million of
inhabitants. It Norway be considered
separately from Sweden, it stands still
more to the front, having 1217 post
offices, or 680 to every million inhabi¬
tants. Russia comes last, with only
fty-fiva to evory|iaiUioa of population.
Veteran*’ Reunion,
TH* BUBVIVOR8 OP THE 4TH GEORGIA
REGIMENT TO HATE A REUNION AT
AMERICtJS.
The 5th annual reunion of the sur¬
vivors of the 4th Georgia Regiment will
be held at Americus, Ga., on the second
Wednesday have in August, made (14th.) by which Arrange¬
ments been mem¬
bers wiil get a rate of 2 cents per mile to
and from Americus. Blank certificates,
with instructions, will be issued upon
application to W. W. Huibert, at At¬
lanta, or to R. B. Hall, at Macon. They
invito all their old comrades to come.
Americus is making grand preparations, W.
and a pleasant reunion is assured.
W. Hnlbert, President; K. B. Hall, Cor¬
responding Secretary.
Born in a Day.
Oklahoma was literally born in a day.
At noon on the 22d of April tho region
was a wilderness, without a single legal
settler. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon it
had a population nearly one-third as nu¬
merous as that of the State of Nevada,
and in two embryo cities elections were
in progress for city officers. In a week
the first hardships were had overcome, become pro¬
visions and good water rea
sonably plenty, and troops of disap¬
pointed or di-gusted their boomers The were settlers wear¬
ily wending enough way out. claims
who were early to secure
were so busily engaged in breaking there up
and seeding their land that was no
need for the soldiers who had been sent
to preserve order.
The Women’s Exchange of Kansas
City, Mo., is going to build a home for
working women. It thousand has purchased dollars,
ground for fourteen
and as soon as this is paid for, it will
commence the building. The home will
Cost thirty thousand dollars.
__ __ _—
remtoS'fiKand^&Tta A condition of weakness of body and mind
Browns
Iron Bitters. As it enriches and strengthens
the blood so the stomach, liver and kidneys re
coive powers to perform their diseased duties, anddis- and the
depressing influences from a
turbed condition of these organs are removed,
-- —
An earthly treasure—A rich husband, whom
his widow has Just buried.
A Piece of Her Mind.
A “I lady want correspondent give piooe has of this mind to say:
to a my to a cer¬
tain class them who anything—this objeot to advertising, won’t when them it
costs living cost a
oent. I suffered a death for nearly two
years with headaches, backache, literally in painstand
lngor walking, was misery being increased dragged drugging. out
of Atlas existence,my t,ln despair,I commuted the by of trying
sin
Prescription, an adve- Used and medicine, it restored Dr. Pierce’s the Favorite blessed¬
me to
ness of sound health. I honor the physician
who. when he knows he can cure, has the
moral courage to advertise the tact." The
medicine mentioned is guaranteed to cure those
dolica'e printed diseases peculiar bottle-wrapper. to females. Bead
guarautee on
For ail derangemeu's of the liver, stomach
and bowels, take Dr. Pierce s Pellets. One a
dose.
Man ly a girl powders her face in the hope of
pulve rising some yeung man’s heart.
“For seven long years I struggled away
farming, running amtll, &c., nntil I was for¬
tunately introduced to B. F. Johnson & Co.,
Richmond, Va., by my brother, and I went to
work at once, and In seven months I had made
more clear money thnn I had made in the
seven years before. They took me right by the
hand from the start and seemed to be very
glad of the chance to show me how to do it.”
This Is about wlmt a young man said a year or
so ago of tho above-mentioned firm. Since
that time he has been steadily at work for
them, and is now one of the happiest men in
America. If you need employment, it would
be a good thing for you to follow this young
man 's example.
What do you chew?
“LUCY HINTON 1”
Because Why? it is the best I find.
can
Who makes it ?
T. C. Williams it ? Co., Richmond, Va.
Who sells
AU dealers.
The How can I Jjucy recognize it ? is plug.
name Hinton on every
Delicate Women.
Children and delicate women should not be
forced to take the viie compounds which are
usually given for constipation, like piles, preserved indiges¬
tion, etc. Hamburg best Figs laxative are known. 25
fruit, and are tho Drug Co., N. Y.
cents. Dose one Fig. Mack
Oregon, the Paradise of Partners.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit grain, crass and stock
countryin the world. Full Information free.
Address Oreg. Im’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
The Mother’s Friend, used a few weeks be¬
fore confinement, lessens the pain and makes
labor quclk and comparatively easy. Sold by
all Druggists.
A Pocket Cigar Case and five of “Tansill's
Punch,” ail for 25c.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Druggists -ell at 25o.per bottle
Make No Mistake
If you have made up your mind to buy Hood's
Sarsaparilla do not bo lndnoed to take any other.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Is a peculiar medicine, pos¬
sessing, by virtue of Its peculiar combination, pro¬
portion and preparation, curative powers superior
to any other article of the kind before the people.
Be sure to get Hood's.
“In one store the clerk tried to Induce me to buy
their own Instead of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Bat he
could not prevail on me to change. I told him I
knew what Hood's Sarsaparilla was, I had taken It,
was perfectly satisfied with It, and did not want
any other,"—Has. Btu A. dorr, «1 Terraco Street,
Boston, Hass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla js.
Sold by all druggists. $1: six for Prepared only
by O. I. HOOD A CO., Apotheoarles, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
r*SSS«KKLSSBliM&S Guaranteed to Rheumatism, Gout, Neu¬
N V. cure
ralgia and accompanying troubles. One bottle ren¬
ders the blood non-rheumatic. Price refunded if not
satisfactory. 12.00. Cheaper to doctor*. Send cash,
stamps or money order.
Orators say Piso’e Cure for Con
sumption for Keeping is THE BEST
tlie voice
clea% 26 cento.
PEERLE8S DYES Bonn Are by the Dnuoums. BEST.
-.V PRICE * %
Cough for
£°g- 9 ALS BY ALL DRUGSISTS.
Imagination v». Fact. )
There is no doubt many well people imagine
themselves sick, being led to believe that nat¬
ural incidents of life are symptoms of terrible
diseases and forerunners of death. Alas I that
such persons should be so easily deceived by
the lying advertisements of unprincipled
aginative. quacks. A blood It disease, however, is not im¬
is a filed fact, and its symptoms
are unmistakable. When one is troubled with
pimples the and eruptions When on is the troubled body, bad blood
is ing bones cause. one with ach¬
ana joints, bad blood is the cause.
When one is troubled with periods of weakness,
and the functions of the body become congested
and irregular, without warning and seemingly
without reason, the cause may be ascribed
to which,affecting an activity of the blood poison linings m the of the system deli¬
mucous
cate organs their of life, In impairs their force and dis¬
ables action. all phases of ill health,
brought B. B. (Botanic on by an Blood impure Balm) state has of the blood, B.
eign remedy. It is the pet prescription proven of a sover¬
a suc¬
cessful physician, and sufferers wiil be wise who
give ft atrial. Further information will be
given gratuitously to those who address Blood
Balm Go., Atlanta, Ga.
In grief youth without one has tears without grief; in old
age, tears.
% “MOTHERS
t
sSSg&K* Child ^H o 0 ib n o s ^ 1
^kH^chilp BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. AflANTAni'
SUU> BY ALL OR
pyouwgHA fESSi
REVOLVER <
purchase one of the cele¬ i
brated SMITH & WESSON if’iWV i
irm«. manufactured The finest email arms jj
ever and the
Ity manshlp wrought and atcrek, steel, they carefully inspected for work
are unrivaled for Salih,
Sfc?ten unreliable, sold for but the g^uine iffiil? lnd\re ml
only WESSON, Revolvers oaaKerous. all The SMITH A
WESSON Revolvers are are all stamped stamped upon up the bar
role with firm's name, address ana dates of patents
end are^ guaranteed navingr tho genuine perfect article, in every and detail. if In*
< your
dealer caimot will nnot supply supply you you an an order oi sent to adareM _____
below catalogue receive prompt and careful attention*
jDeecrptive SMITH and prices P &TVESSoW furnished upon 1 sp* **"
fw- ^tto nthUpspew"' Hjzrinzoeld," M*m.
JONES
X J 13
Iron Lovers. Steel Bearings, Brass
Taro Beam and Beam Box for,
> Every 860.
size Seale. For free price list
l mention this paper and nodress
JONES Of BINGHAMTON,
BINGHAMTON, N.
Dr. Lobb After ALL other*
fall, consult
329 H. 15th St.
9 PHILA., PA.
Twenty years* continuous practice In the treat¬
ment and cure of the awful effects of early
■vice, destroying both mind and body. Medicine
and treatment for one month. Pive Dollars, sent
securely sealed from observation to any address.
Book on Special Diseases free*
Plantation Engines
With Self-Contained
■ RETURN FLUE BOILERS.
■ FOR DRIVING
BC0TT0N GINS and MILLS.
illustrated Tam pblct Free. Address
M AMES LEFFEL & CO.
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO,
or 110 Liberty St., Now Terk.
,
Patronize INDUSTRY! HOME 1
BUY SOUTHERN-MADE
PRINTING INKS
-FROM—
FRANK J* COHEN, General Agent
23 East Alabama St., ATLANTA. «A.
DUTCHER'S
FLY KILLER
Mokes a clean sweep. Every
sheet wiU kill a quart of flies.
Stops diving busting tlokllng around ears,
at eyes, your
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J cents
P. DUTCH KK, St Albans, Vt.
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Female C q 11 e S e -
Located in the heart of the beautiful Blue Grass
region instruction. of Kentucky, The Health unexoelled. Superior
best school for your daughter m the
South. Art, Music, Literary. Scientific and Phono¬
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terms. early to
Rev. C. POPE, Millersburq, Ky.
WASHINGTON INFORHATION BUREAU,
COLE db BEEBLE, Proprietors,
932 1 Street N. \V., Washington, D. O,
General information furnished.
OurreuDondenoe solicited.
PRACTICAL
COLLEGE, Richmond,
■ IfUSIC—ART-ELOCUTION ■General Cultitre. Desirable Positions and
■VI open tu progressive ^students. All interested
IJIwmreCTriecvjduaWe Boston,
S 25 SSMAiyH MEDICAL CO,. lUchmond. y#*
who have used Pise’s
Sold afc&fistsa every where. .
25 o>
I prescribe and fully en¬
Wr 0 X dorse Big U as the only
am DATS.! In specific for the certain cure
fl TO 6 of this disease.
EtauwatMd not to G.H. INGRAHAM,M. D..
—a — fltrtot art. Amsterdam, N. Y.
Itfd only by the We have sold Btg G lot
CbsmicilOo. raany years, beat and It haa
■ faction. given the pt satis
Ohio. D.R.DYCHEAOO..
Tad* SI.00. A Bold Chicago, lit.
by Druggists.
A.N.U Twenty-six, ’89
2 1
£
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