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KEY. DR.
IHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Our House on the Hills.’’
(Preached at the Hamptons,
Long Island.)
Text: “Go forth unto the mount atul
fetch olive branches, and pine branches, branches,and and
myrtle branches, and palm
branches of thick trees, to make booths.
Kehemiah viii., 15.
It teems as if Mount Olivet were un¬
moored. The people have gone into the
mountain, and have cut off tree branches,
and pat on their shoulders, and they of
come forth now into the streets
Jerusalem, and on the bouse tops, and
they twist these tree branches into
arbors forth or from booths. their Then comfortable the people homes, come
and dwell for seven days in those lxioths
or arbors. Why do they time. do that? Weil,
it is a great festal It is the
going feast of to celebrate tabernacles; the desert and these travel people of their aro
fathers and their deliverance from their
troubles, the experience of their fathers
when traveling in the desert, they lived in
booths on their way to the land of Canaan.
And so these booths also become highly necessarily sug¬
gestive—I typical, but will highly not say suggestive—of they arc march
our
toward heaven, and of tho fact that we aro
only booths living arbors, temporarily here, as tho it wore, Canaan in
or on our way to
of eternal rest.
And what was said to tho Jews literally
dience. may to-day Go be forth said figuratively into tho mountain, to all this and au¬
fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and
myrtle branches branches, and palm branches, booths. Yes, and
of t hick trees to make
we aro only here in a temporary residence.
We are marching on. The merchant princes
who used to live in Bowling Green, Now
York, have passed away, and their residences
are now the fields of cheap merchants.
Whore aro tho mon who fifty years ago owned
New York? Passed on.
There is no uso in our driving our stakes
too doop into the earth; wo are on tho
inarch. The generations that have precedod
us have gone so far on that we cannot oven
hear tho sound of their footsteps. They have
gone over the hills, and we are to follow
thorn. But, blessod be God, we aro not in
this world loft out of doors and unsheltered.
There aro gospel booths, or gospel arliors, in
which our souls aro to be comforted. Go
forth unto the mountain, and fetch olivo
branches, branches, and pine branches, and myrtlo
and palm branches, and branches
of thick trees, and build booths.
gospel Well, arbor, now wo are to-day to construct a
construct it? or gospel Well, booth; and get liow all slmll tho
we wo must
tree branches and build. According to my
text we must go up into tho mount and bring
olive branches. What does that moan?
The olive tree grows in warm climates, and
it reaches tho height of twenty or twenty-two
feot,a that straight stem, anil then nil offshoot from
stem. And then people come, and they
strip off these branches sometimes, and wheii
in time of war tho General of onoarmy takes
one of these olivo branches and goes out to
the Goncral of another army, what does that
mean? chargers. Why, it means unsaddle tho war
It means hang up the war knap¬
sacks. It is but a beautiful way of saying
Peace!
building Now, if we aro to-day going to succeed in
this gospel arbor, we must go into
the Mount of Goa’s blessing, and fetch the
olive brandies and whatever else we must
have. Wo must have at least two olive
branches—peace When I with God and peace with
man. say ix>aco with God, I do not
mean to represent God as a bloody chieftain,
having a grudge against us, but I ilo mean to
affirm thoro is no more antagonism between a
hound and a horo. between a hawk and a pul¬
let, 'a hostility between botwoon elopiiant holiness and swine, and than tl) ore
sin. And if
3<xi is all holiness, and wo aro all sin, there
oust be a readjustment, tliore must bo a re
tonstruction, there must be a treaty, thoro
must be a stretching forth of olivo branches.
There is a great lawsuit going on now, ami
it Is a lawsuit which man is bringing against
his Maker; that lawsuit is now on the cal¬
endar. It is the human versus tho divine;
it is iniquity versus tho immaculate- it is
weakness versus omnipotence. Man bogati
It; God did not begin the lawsuit. We be¬
gan it; we assaulted our Maker, and tho
sooner wo end this part of tiie strugglo in
which tiie finite attempts to overthrow the
infinite aud omnipotent, tho soonor wo end it
the better.
Travelers toll ns there is no such place as
Mount Calvary, that it is only a hill, only
an It tho insignificant hill; but I persist in calling
mount of God's divine mercy and lovo,
far grander than any other place on earth,
grander than the Alps or Himalayas, and
there are no other hills as compared with it;
and I have noticed in every sect where the
cross of Christ is set forth, it is planted with
olive brunches. And nil wo have to do is
to got rid of this war between God and
otirsolves, of which wo are all tired.
We want to hack out of the war, WO
want to got rid of this hostility. All we
have to do is just to get up on the mount of
God’s blessing, and pluck these olive
branches and wave them before the throne.
Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ.’
Oh, world it don’t make much difference what
the thinks of you—what this King,
that Queen, that Senator thinksof you. But
come into the warm, intimate, glowing and
everlasting round relationship with the God of tho
hallelujah universe; that is the joy that makes a
have seem through stupid. Ah, why do wo want,
to peace our Lord Jesus Christ?
Why, if wo had gono God, on in ten thousand
years captured of war much against sword we could nofchavo
twisted so off as a of tho or whoels cavalry stir¬
rup, or one of the
chariot of his omnipotence. But the moment
we bring this olivo branch God and all heaven
come on our side. Peaeo tli’ iugh our Lord
Jesus Christ; and no other kind of peace is
worth anything.
But then we must have that other olive
branch, peace with man. Now it is very
easy to get up a quarrel. There are gun
match powdery of Christians all around us, and ono
is enough provocation will set them off. It
brother, easy don’t to get think up a quarrel. But, my
you you had better have
SPtir horns sawed off? Had jxm not better
jiiaue mit to an a little oology? humiliation? liad you not better sub
until that a takes Ob, you say,
man the first stop I will never
be at pence with him; nothing will bo
dona until ho is roady to take tho
first step. You are a pretty Christiau.
When would this world lij saved if Christ
had not taken the first step? We were in
the wrong, Christ was in the righte-all right
and forovor right. And yet He took the first
stop. And instead of going and getting a
knotty scourgo with which to whip your an¬
tagonist, radiant your enemy, you liad better got up
on the mount where Christ suffered
for His enemies,and just take an olivo branch,
not stripping off the soft, cool, fragrant
leaves, them but leaving them all on, aud then try
on that gospel switch. It won’t hurt
them, and it will save you. Peace with God;
peace with man. If you cannot take those
two doctrines you are no Christian.
Blest be the tie that bShds
Our heart* In ChrlsUan lovo;
The teBowshtp of kindred mind*
Is like to that above.
From sorrow, toll aud pain,
Aud sin we shall be free;
And perfect love and friendship rcljra
Through all eternity.
But my text goes further. It says: Go
tip into the mountain and fetch olive branches
and pine brandies. Now what is suggested
healthy; by the pino it branches? The pino tree is
is aromatic; it is evergreen. How
often the physician says to his invalid
patients: “Go and have a breath of the
pines I That will invigorate you." Why do
such thousands of poople go South every year?
It is not merely to get to a warmer climate,
but to get to the Influence of the pino. There
is health in It, and this pine branch of the
text suggests the hoalthfulnoss of our holy
religion; health for It the is full of health, health for alL
mind, health for the soul.
I know an agoJ man, who had no capita]
of'phyigcal health. Hu had had all the di»
ca «m you could imagine; he did not eat
enough to keep a child alive; ho lived on a
hevorage of hosannas. Ho lived high, for
ho dined alivo every simply day with the the force King. of Ho was
religion. kept It by healthy religion; our holy
is u healthy
for the eye, healthy healthy for for the the hand, healthy
for the feet, heart, healthy
for for the the whole liver, healthy It for gives the spleen, such healthy
man. a man peace,
such quietness, such independence of cir¬
cumstances, such holy equipoise. Oh that
we I all" possessed that it is it, that healthy we possessed if it now.
enough mean of it. Now, there a man people gets
are some
who enough get just religion enough religion make to bother them,
just if man take a full, deep, to round them inhalation sick; but
a
of these pine branches of the gospel arbor,
ho will find It buoyant, exuberant, undying,
immortal health.
But this pine branch of my text also sug¬
gests the simple this fact that branch it is an evergreen.
Wliat docs pine care for the
snow on its brow? It is only a crown of
glory. The winter cannot freeze it out.
This evergreen tree branch is as beautiful in
winter as it is in the summer. And that is
tho characteristic of our holy religion; in the
sharpest, coldest winter of misfortune and
disaster, it is as sunshine. good a religion as it is in the
bright summer I Well, should now that is
a practical truth. For if go up and
down those aisles, I would not find in
this ble. house But thorn fifty people who of had liad no trou¬ have
are some you who
especial trouble. God only knows what you
go through with. Oh, how many bereave¬
ments, how many poverties, how many per¬
secutions! How many misrojiroseutations! have tried
And now, my brother, you every¬
thing else, why don’t you try this evergreen
religion? It is just as good for you now it as it is
was in the days of Perhaps your prosperity; of feel
better for you. some you
almost like Mucklc Baekie, tho fisher¬
man, who was chidod one day be¬
cause ho kept buried ou working, child. They although
that very day he his came
to him and said; “It is indecent for you to
be mending that boat when this afternoon
you buried your child.” And the fisherman
looked up and said: “Sir, it is very easy for
you gentlefolks to stay in tho house with your
handkerchiefs to your eyes in grief; but, sir,
ought I to let the other five oTiildron starve
because ono of them is drowned? No, sir, we
maun work, wo thisliauiinor.” maun work, though our
hearts beat like
You may have luui accumulation of sorrow
and misfortune. herds They come soul; in and flocks, have they
eomo in upon your yet I
to toll you that this religion can console you,
that it can help you, that it can deliver you
if nothing els® will. Do you tell me that the
riches and tiie gain with of this the world can console had
you? How was it man who
such a fondness for money that when he was
sick he ordered a basin of gold jjioces to be
brought to him, and he put his gouty hands
down among the gold and pieces, cooling
his hands off in them, pieces tho rattle his ana
rolling of these gold were amuse¬
ment and entertainment. the emoluments Ah, the gold of and this
silver, the honors,
world are n poor solace for bettor a perturbed than spirit. this
You svaut something
world can give. A young Prince, when tho
children came around He said: to ploy I will with play him, only re¬
fused to play.
with Kings. And it might all other be supposod before that
you would throw away solace
this regal satisfation, this imperial joy. Ye
who aro sons and daughters of the Lord Al¬
mighty ought to play only with Kings.
The bill of Zion yield!
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk tho golden streets.
But my text takes a further stop and it
says: “Go into tho mountain, and fetch olivo
branches, and pino branches, and pahn
branches.” honored Now, by the the palm tree was very
much ancients. It had three
hundred and sixty different uses. Tho fruit
was conserved; ground the sap was for a beverage; camels; tho
stems wore up food for
tho base of the leaves was turned into hats,
and carried mats, and victorious baskots; and tho loaves wero
in processions; and from
tho root to the top of the highest loaf there
was usefulness. The tree grow eighty-five
feet leaves in height and sometimes, five and it spread broad
four yards long; it meant
usefulness, what and produced, it meant victory; usefulness
for it victory because it was
brought how much into cclobratious of triumph. And
oh, churches of we Jesus want tho palm branches in
tho Christ at this time!
A great many Christians don’t amount to
auy thing. You have to shove them out of
the way when the Lord’s chariots comoalong.
We don’t want any more of that kind of
Christians in the church.
The old maxim says: “Do not put all your
eggs into one baskot;” but I have to tell you
in this matter of religion you had better givo
your all to God, and then get in yourself.
“Oh,” says some ono, Well, “my business is to sell
silks and cloths.” thou, my brothor,
sell silks and cloths to tho glory of God. Anil
some and carrots.” one says; Thou, “My business brother, isto raisecom
my raise corn
and carrots to tho glory of God. And some
one horse says: nails.” “My business is to manufacture
shoe Then manufacture horse
shoauails to the glory of God. Thoreisnoth
for ing tho for you to of do God. that you ought to do but
Usefulness glory is typified Ah,
don’t want in the church by the palm tree.
we any more poo¬
ple that aro water, merely standing weeping pillows, sighing
into tho and admiring their
long lashes in the glassy spring. No palm wild
cherry, holding dropping something bitter fruit. for Wo want something
for trees, God, tired
and angels, sick of something this flat, for man. insipid, I am slip¬
tamo, satin
pered, It is worth namby-pamby, nothing higUtv-tighty this "world, and religion it Is 1
for
destruction for eternity. hundred
Give me five men and women
fully city consecrated to Christ, and we will take
any for God in throo years. Give me
ten thousand men and women fully up to the
Christian standard; in ten years ton thousand
of them would take the whole earth for God.
But when are we going to begin?
before Ledyard, the Geographical the great traveler, Society was brought Brit¬
of Great
ain, and they wanted him to mako some ex¬
plorations in Africa, and they showed liimall
tho perils, and all the hard work, and all
the exposure, and after they had told him
what they wanted him to dom Africa, they
said to him: “Now, Ledyard, when are you
ready morning.” to start?” He said: “To-morrow
The learned men were aston
ished; thoy thought he would takowooksor
months to get ready. Well, now, you tell
mo you want to be earnest for Christ; you
want to bo useful in Christian service.
When aro you going to begin? Oh, that you
have the decision to say: “To-day, now!”
Go now into tho mount and gathor the
>alm branches. But the palm
branch also meant a victory. In
nil ages, in all lands, tho palm branch means
victory. We aro by nature the servants of
Satan. lie stole u s, he has his eye on us, he
wants to keep us. The word comes from our
Father that if we will try to break loose from
this doing ot wrong, our Father will help us;
and black some tyrant day in we tho rouse face, up, and and we fly look at him, the
we
and we wrestle him down, and we put our
heel on his neck, and we grind him in the
dust, and Lord we say, Victory, victory, through
our Josus Christ! Oh what a
grand foot thing and it is to have sin under
a wasted fife behind
our backs. “Blessed is ho whose trans¬
gression is forgiven, ami whose sta Is
covcrod.” sick and “But," says the roan. “I feel
so worn out with the ailments of
fife.” You aro going to be more than
conqueror. tempted, “But,” I says the man, “I
am so am so pursued in
life." You aro going to bo more than
conqueror. and heartaches, “I, who have so many ailments
conqueror?" Yes, going unless to bo more than
coited you are so solf-con
that you want to manage all the
affairs of vour life yourself, iustead of
lottiug God manage them. Do you want
to drive and have God take a back scat?
Well, Oh, no, you say; I want God to be my leader.
Your then, sickness you will be more than conqueror.
last will come, and the physi¬
cians in the next room will bo talking about
what vficy will do for you. What difference
will It make what they do for you? You are
coin* to be well everlasing\y well. And
when the spirit has Sod the body your friends
will be talking as to where they shall bury
you. What difference does it-make to you
where they bury you? The angel of
the resurrection can pick you out
of .
the dust anywhere, and
all the cemeteries of the earth are in God’s
care. Oh you are going to be more than
conqueror. Don’t you think we bad better
In begin now to celebrate the coming victory?
the old meeting-house at Summerville,
mv father used to lead the singing, and he
had the old-fashioned tuning-fork, and he
would strike it upon his knee, and then put
the tuning-fork to his ear to catch the
right friend, pitch don’t and start think the hymn. But,
you we had better
lasting be catching the pitch of the ever¬
song, shall the song of vic¬
tory Had when we better be more than conquerors?
we not begin the rehearsal on
earth? thirst “They shall netted hunger no more, ^un neither
any more ; shall the light
is on in them, nor any heat. For the lamb which
the midst of the throne shall feed them,
and shall load them to liviDg fountains of
from water; .and God shall wipe away all tears
their eyes.”
From City of Eternity, to thy bridal halls
this prison would I Hoe:
Ah, glory! that’s for you and me.
My text forth brings up one step further. It
says, go Into the mount and fetch olive
branches, and pine branches, y ynd myrtle
branches, thick and Now, palm branches, and branches of
trees. you know very well that
a booth or arbor made of slight branches
would not stand. The first blast of the torn
pest would prostrate it. So then the booth
building of the arbor for this world
Andscfitisln
<M u». w. h...
not one easily upset.
come upon us, and we want strong doctrine;
Son°by y A-arnmg' te £ S’- >Ut It^s 8 amightyGospoMth
branXr ar i°
her what Mr. Finney said in a
school house m this State. The wli
was so had it was called Sodom, and it
said to have only one good man in all the vil
lage, and he was called Lot; and Mr. Finney,
preaching, Sodom, and the described the destruction ol
would rain destruction preacher declared that God
upon His hearers un¬
less they, too, repented. And tho people it
tho school-houso sat and ground their teeth in
anger, and clinched their fiste in indignation;
but before he was through with his sermon
they got while down on their knees and cried for
mercy mercy could be found. Oh, it is a
mighty warning; Gospel; not only an invitation, but a
branches of an thick omnipotent Well, truth, stout
trees. my friends,
what I have shown you hero is the olive
branch of peace, hero is the pine branch of
evergreen branch gospel consolation, here tho palm
tree of usefulness and victory, and
hero are the stout branches of thick trees
The gospel arbor is done. The air Is aromatic
of heaven. The leaves rustle with the glad¬
ness of God. Como into the arbor. I
went out at different times with a
fowler to the mountains to catch
pigeons; that booth, and we and made watchod our booth, for the and pigeons we sat
in
to come, and we found flocks in the sky, and
after a while they dropped into the net and
we wero successful. So I come now to the
door of this gospel booth and Ilook out. I see
flocks of souls flying hither and flying thither.
doves Oh, that the they might come Come like into clouds the and as
to window. booth.
Come in to the booth.
Thieves at the Paris Exhibition.
M. Goron, the head of the detective
department, says that specially bands of pick¬
pockets have been organized
for the Ify-is exhibition both in London
and New York. These poople give the
French detectives no eni d of trouble ow¬
ing to audacity the consummate with which skill, coolness
and they work.
Even when a detective thinks tlmt he is
sure of his man and arrests him, he finds
nothing plunder in the fellow’s possession, for
the has been adroitly “passed”
to a confederate. Then the gentleman¬
ly, or, as the case may detective bo, ladylike pick¬
pocket, reports the at head¬
quarters, and endeavors to set diplomat¬
ic or consular machinery in motion, as
was notoriously the case about twelve
months ago, when a great fuss was made
over an American woman who had been
arrested for pocket-picking. M. Goron,
however, has organized his little plans
ns well us the cosmcpolitan sharpers.
He has had from the Loudon and New
York police photographs and full per¬
sonal descriptions and biographies of all
the principal These British and French American police pick¬
pockets. lias bound the which offi¬
cer tiously {in a book, ho fac
calls his “breviary,” and over
which he pours diurnally, just as a
priest pline does over his matins, lauds, com¬
and vespers.
Furthermore, the nstute M. Goron
has formed a special brigade dc» pickpock¬
ets, which is composed of his best pu¬
pils, aid whom ho has instructed, with tho
of his “breviary.” Finally, tho chef
de la Hurst of his e pupils iias qualified tho himself task and
some for before
them by learning English, so that An¬
glo-Saxon sharpers will have to be ex¬
order tremely active and “wide-awake” in
to carry on their operations in a
successful manner during the exhibition.
M. Goron and his men may be foiled
frequently, but, on the whole, they have
given proofs of remarkable ability dorm
to the present, and, with their newly
acquired attainments, they ought to
prove a match for the most formidable
of tho modern cut-purses who aro at
present within tho walls of Pans.—
t London Telegraph.
Touched a Bagged Urchin’s Heart.
Ho was so small and frail the chilly
wind seemed to blow him about like a
blue wisp of paper. His pinched face was
with oold where the dirt allowed
the skin to be seen, and his hands were
pushed far down into two holes, which
he doubtless called pockets, in his
trousers. Little streamers of rags blew
out from his tattered clothes, giving
him a fringed appearance, and as he
drifted uncertainly along he occasional¬
ly raised a shrill, babyish voice in an
attempt held to sell a soiled paper which he
under his arm.
motherly Presently he met a sweet-faced,
woman, and, holding out his
crumpled stock, he laid sturdily:
The “Buy old a paper, ma’am ?”
in the pathetic lady looked little at him. that She saw
called of figure which
up memories a time long ago,
when babies filled her home with life
and childish prattle. She thought of
their lmppy freedom from care and com¬
pared wretchedness their comforts and ease with the
of the waif before her.
She did not want the miserable, dirty
paper, but her heart softened.
“Yes, dear,” she said.
The unheard-of tone and words of the
reply that astonished his tiie child for an instant,
so mouth dropped open and he
stood as though dazed. Then, with a
broad grin of delight breaking the crust
on impulsively his face held into ridges liis and furrows, he
out entiro stock in
trade and said eagerly:
“Here ’tis, ma’am. I don’t want no
pay.”—(Indianapolis News. ?
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The nasturtium came originally from
Peru.
The Mohammedans bury without a
coffin of any kind.
An Iowa man lias invented a machine
which bores a square hole.
A Philadelphia postoffice employe,
Lewis Wonder, has been in the service
forty years.
Asixty-year-old men of Lima, Ohio,
is reading “Robinson Crusoe” for the
thirty-fourth time.
An Indiana man became rich by sell
inn skunks at $10 a pair to showmen
and zoological gardens.
One of the London magistrates takes
the view, that a duke has the right to
assault l4 sod . choke , , reporter, .
. a
O'Brien, the Irish giant, whose skela
ton is preserved in a museum at London
a f . eet . 4 . inches . , . v height. .
was ® ut
*
! Devonshire, England, in imitation of
p ° ne ° f aai[uilw t-iid on the RhiDtk
! Fmk Qriffin, Ol Bristol Poo... r„.
' cently shot wild goose near the town
a
that measured 5 feet 10 inches from tip
j «P o f it8 doctors "tog*
i Lots of are making mote
! in . New York , city . , by fattening _ . .
I money
thin women and reducing fat onea than
in any other way.
An advertisement in the London
Times offers to cure nervousness and
timidity in bashful young men “who
design making proposals of marriage.”
Between 1860 and 1870 over 1,000,
000 paper collars were sold daily. To¬
day it is safe to offer large premium!
for finding five men a day who wear
them.
Some ingenious arithmetician ha? cal¬
culated that tho 30,000,000 stamps is¬
sued by the English postoffice from 1840
to 1884, if placed end to end, would
reach 4,0 the moon and back.
Long Island, N. Y., has some very
(Tell beggars. Around Bcllmore the
beggars go around with horses and wag¬
ons and it is not an unusual thing to get
as much as a horse can draw in ono day’s
travel.
The museum curios whoa ct as “human
pin cushions,” and suffer visitors to
stick pins, needles, <fce., into them, use
various drugs to produce an insensibility
to pain. The best of them is a cocaine
fiend.
The largest ferry-boat in the world is
the Solano, used in carrying trains
across tho Strait? of Carquinez, between
Benicia and Porta Costa. It is 460 feet
long, and has a capacity of 48 freight
cars and two locomotives.
There aro so many wild animals in
Western Texas that tho County Court of
El Paso county has offered 50 cents for
the scalp of a coyote, prairie wolf or
wild cat, $1 for a timber wolf, and $3
for a panther, leopard or mountain lion.
One of the simplest forms of shoes is
hat worn in Singapore and India. It is
merely a wooden sole with raised heel
and toe and a peg or post in front. The
shoe is adjusted with this peg between
the big toe and its neighbor and tho
shoo is held on by a muscular effort of
the toes.
Monks in Thibet are as accomplished
dancers as the Turkish dervishes.
When the maharajah of Cashmere re¬
cently entertained the British comman¬
der in chief at a banquet at Srinagar,
tho feature of tho evening was tho
dancing of a monkish party from Ladak,
including a specially holy man from
Lhassa.
A team of four cows appeared in
Bellevue, Idaho, not long ago, haviDg
been driven from Nebraska, a distance of
1,000 miles. They had acted a? motive
power for a prairie schooner, and had
also furnished milk and butter for tho
family on route. They were in good
condition, with the exception of their
feet, which needed shoes badly.
Silk Threads in Bank Nates.
The paper on which bank notes are
printed is called “distinctive paper,”
being used exclusively by the Govern¬
ment for the printing of bonds and cur¬
rent notes. The mills where it is manu¬
factured are at G'en Falls, Chester
County, Pa. An agent of the Treasury
Department receives the. paper direct
from the hands of the manufacturer,
and every precaution is observed in
order to prevent any loss. Short scraps
of red silk are mixed with the liquid
pulp in an engine. Tho finished ma¬
terial is conducted to a wire cloth with,
out passing through any screens, which
might retain the silken threads. An
arrangement above the wire cloth
scatters a shower of fine scraps of blue
Bilk thread, which fall upon the paper
while it is being formed. The side on
which the bluo silk is deposited is used
for the back of the notes, and the
threads are so deeply imbedded as to
remain permanently fixed. Each sheet
is registered as soon os it is mado.
A CHALLENGE TO THE WOULD.
good positions—good balabibs—fbac
TICAL BOOK-KEEPING—LIGHTNING CAL¬
CULATIONS—FAST HONEY COUNTING.
Tennessee, Jennings’ though Business College, Nashville,
its register yet than in its infancy, has
on more six hundred
students from seventeen ttates and terri¬
tories, 90 per cent, of these have secured
good positions in localities scattered
from New York to Mexico, and from
Washington of these Territory to Florida. Many
from $900 young $1,500 men are receiving salaries
to per annum.
The students of this school are taught
not mercial only practical book-keeping and com¬
usage, but are also taught to cal¬
culate interest by the shortest rule ever
discovered, them and by this rule many of
have been able to get the interest
at 6 per cent, per annum inside of five
minutes on one hundred examples of $1,
000 each, the time to run in eaoh case
was years, months and days, and no two
periods of time alike; this is at the rate
of three seconds to the example.
The principal of this school having
had experience as a bank teller, teaches
his students the art of rapid money count¬
ing. The rule is to take a package
nine amounting bills to $500, composed of bills thiriy
as follows: Twenty in
6’s, ten bills in 10’s, five bills in 20’s and
four bills of 50’s, then secretly remove
one of the bills, either a five, a ten, a
twenty, or a fifty, and require the stu¬
dent to count the package twice correctly
in succession, taking the slowest time of
the two counts for a record. Many of
the students have accomplished this in
10 seconds, and one of them in 9} sec¬
onds. Now, therefore, believing this
time of 9| seconds to be extraordinary, I
challenge the students of (or any other it) busi¬
ness equal college this time, in America and I challenge out of bank to
any
teller in America (or out of it) to beat
the time one second; I also challenge the
students of any other business college, or
any person who has not attended this
school, to equal the time in interest cal¬
culations above mentioned. A copy of
this has been mailed to the business col¬
leges and bank tellers throughout the
country. R. W. JENNINGS,
Principal Jennings’ Business Nashville, College, Tenn.
A Long-Lived Turk.
Those who are anxious to remain in
the flesh beyond the ordinary duration of
this mortal life will be interested in the
habits of the old Turk, who recently
died at Haddatha, aged ISO yeais. Old
Hadji Soliman died Saba had seven wives, all
of whom before him, he was the
father of sixty sons and nine daughters,
who have also gone the way of all flesh,
and the year before his death he was
thinking obtain of marrying sgain, but could
not the necessary funds to buy a
bride. Saba was a farmer unto his life’s
end; hia diet consisted mainly of barley
bread, beans and water, and only twice a
year in high festivals, did he eat meat.
His clothes were even more simple than
his diet, consisting of a shirt only, and
when he traveled, apairof trousers. His
bod was a mattress and straw mat, and it
had never been a “bed of sickness” till
thiee days before his death.
Value of Silk-Worms.
The value of silk-worm cocoons grown
in the world annually is enormous. The
last great estimate of the world’s silk
product the it was calculated that it reached
grand total of 67,000,000 lbs., which,
at an average value of about 16s. per
pound, realized over fifty-three and a
naif millions sterling. China contributed
28,000,000 lbs., value over eighteen and
a half millions; Japan to the value of
£8,400,000; India, £7,000,000; Italy,
£12,000,000, and France, £6,200,000.
Oar GlrT*.
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Lutie Is oute and small;
Irene Is a queen,
Annette is a pot,
Nell is the belle of the ball;
Dlantha is wealthy,
Bertha is healthy.
And health is the best of all.
beautiful Perfeot health keeps her rosy and radiant,
It is secured and by blooming, wholesome sensible and sseet.
Pierce’s Favorite habits and the use
of Dr. Prescription. Bertha
takes it, and she also “takes the cake.” The
only guaranteed peculiar oure for those distressing ail¬
ments to women. Satisfaction or
your money returned.
For Constipation or Slok Headache, uso Dr.
Plerce’sPoUets; Purely Vogetable. One a dose.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on
which himself, he and has thinks least studied, certainly he knows that
and of which lie
is most profoundly ignorant.
“Stick to your business, ’ is very good advice,
but still there are a groat many people In the
world who have no regular and profitable busi¬
ness to stick to; and there aro others who aro
ly following unsuited a to line them. of business Now, when which Is manifest¬
write such is the
case, you had bettor to B. F. Johnson &
Co., give Richmond. Va.. They and see if they cannot
you a pointer. and have helped a groat
many tune, and men stand womon ready along to assist the way to for¬
now you. too.
What do you chew?
“LUCY HINTON!”
Because Why? it is the
best I can find.
Who makes it?
T. C. Williams Co., Richmond, Va.
Who sells it ?
All dealers.
How can I recognize it ?
Tho name Lucy Hinton is on every plug.
If afflteted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
sill’s A pocket Punch" mirror free to smokers of “Tan-
5c. Cigar.
Vigor and Vitality
Are quickly given to every pert ot tho bodf bv
Hood’a Sarsaparilla. That tired feeling 1 . entirely
vitalised, and I b6 carrlea WOOd health te paTWal Instead ' CQ of riched
every The disease to
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are roused and Invigorated. The brain is refreshed,
the nerves strengthened. Tho whole system is built
up by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
"I was nil run down and unfit for business I
was Induced to take a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and it built me right up so that l was soon able to
resume work. I recommend It to all."—I). w
Barn, 4 Martin Street, Albany, N. V.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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BRYANT & STRATTON Business College
LOmSTOLLE. KY.
Brown's Iron Bitters Is a specific In all cases
of swamp fever.intermittent fever.and malaria
of any name. Low marshy ground, stagnant
pools changes of water, decaying vegetable matter,
of climate while suffering from sen*.
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nine. It creates cures all forms. Don’t use head¬ qui¬
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will neuralgia; them. Brown’s Iron Bitters never does. It
cure
In all evils which admit of a remedy, impa¬
tience should he avoided, because it wastes
the time we might use in removing the cause.
Indigestion.
A recent attack of indigestion or const! pa¬
tio 11 j®, easily cured if the right remedy is ap¬
plied, but every medicine except Hamburg
Figs is so disgusting to taste or smell that E
person prefers above to let the disease take its course
If the Dose laxative cannot be obtained. 2?
cents. one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. V.
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