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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1889)
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*. KBtty Nettie Is Is witty, pretty, 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. 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