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FAITH OF ABRAHAM.
DK. TALHAGK ON THE ANGELIC
ItESCLE.
In the Last Pinch God Comes to tbe
Relief.
Text “Behold the fire and tho wood,
but where is tho lamb! O-anesis xxii„ 7.
Here are Abraham arul Isaac, the one a
kind, old. gracious, affectionate father, the
other a brave, obedient, religions son. From
jft„ th.s b son / 0aZ has h-, d «f‘P been earanc muca ? you in the can fields, tell that and
from his shaggy dress you know that he
has b**»o wat-.-hiag the herds. The mount-
aiu air ha - painted his cheek rubicund. He
ic twenty oi twenty-five or, as some sup-
pose, less thirty-three boy, years oi age. neverthe-
a considering the length of life to
wmen people lived in those times and the
! * to a lather. son I never remember is anything but a boy
; u=ed to come into the bouse that when my the father
, chil-
^ on some festal occasion
f- n Pay, Where ar- the boys.- although
_ were twen v-five and thirty and
; th.rtj-S\e jcar» Oi age. So this Isaac is
wLlVA*, ‘ ‘ 5 tf 0 3 Abr ^ ^ R 1 ' ^ l 83 . an 2 * ccra this father’s I^aao
' :,
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19 “J es.mty , arounitha
miner £ lour, isa.ve must enjoy it. It is
Isaacs walk, and Isaac s apparel, and
taanners. and Isaac s prospects, and Isaac's
airain^nnfil Jii’SL Th ° f3tb « r ' s , h ^strings ,^ rappe are :i
JlAe ls l m lD *y J f aac -•tentos /, Cfiu just Ou the imagine old maas how .
*
. . looted
..hi, only
deal Well, the dear old man ha ! borne a great
of trouble, and it bad left its mark
Upon him. In hieroglyphics of wrinkle the
story But was written from forehead to chin.
now his trouble seems all gone, and wo
are glad that he is very soon to rest forever.
If the old man shall get decrepit, Isaac is
strong enough to wait on him. If the father
get dim of eyesight. Isaac will lead him by
the baud. If the father become destitute
Isaac will earn him bread. How glad we
are that the ship that has been in such a
stormy Are sea is coming at last into the harbor
you not rejoiced that glorious old 4bra-
ham is through with his troubles? No no’
A thunderbolt! From that clear eastern
sky there drops into that father s tent a
voice with an announcement enough to turn
black hair white and to stun the patriarch into
ffistant annihilation. God said “Abraham'”
The old man answered, “Here I am.” God
. c ai(l to him: “Take thy sop * thy only son
Isaac, tbe whom thou lovest, and get thee into
land of Moriah and offer him there as a
burnt offering.” In other words, slay him;
cut his body into fragments; put the frag¬
ments on wood; set fire to the wood and let
Isaac's body be consumed to ashes,
“Cannibalism' M urder! ’ says some one.
“Not so, said Abraham. I hear him solilo¬
quize “Hera is the boy on whom I have de¬
pended! Oh, how I . loved him! Ha was
given in answer to prayer, and now must I
surrender him? O Isaac, my son' Isaac, how
shall T part with you? Cut then it is always
safer to do as God asks me to. I have been
in dark places before, aud God got me out.
1 will implicitly do as God has told me,
although it is very dark. I can't seo my
way, but I know God makes no mistakes,
and to Him I commit myself and mv darling
son.
Abraham's Early in the morning there is a stir around
teht. A beast of burden is foi
and saddled. Abraham makes no disclosure
of the awful secret. At the break of day ho
sav- “Come, come. Isaac, get up! We are
going off on a two or three days’ journev.”
I hear the ax hewing and splitting amid the
wood until the sticks a>-o made the right
length and tho right thickness, and then
they are fnsiened on tho beast of burden.
They pass on. There are four of them—
Abraham, tho father; tsaa>, the son, and
two servants. Going along the road I see
Isaac looking up into his father’s face and
saying: “Father, what is the matter? Are
vou not well? Has anything happened? Are
you tired? Lean on my arm.” Then, turn¬
ing around to the servants, the son says,
’Ah. father is getting old. and ho has had
trouble enough in other days to kill him!”
The third morning lias come, aud it is the
day left of the tragedy. The two servants arc
with the beast of burden, while Abra¬
ham and his son Isaac, as was the custom of
good people iu those times, went up on the
bill to sacrifice to the Lord, The wood is
taken off the beast's back and put on Isaac's
hack. Abraham has in one hand a pan of
coals or a lamp and in tho other a sharp,
keen knife. Here are all the appliances for
sacrifice, you say. No, there is one thing
wanting. There is no victim—no pigeon or
heifeV cr lamb. Isaac, not knowing that he
is to be the victim, looks up into his father’s
face and asks a question which must have cut
• he old mau to the bone, “My father!” The
father said, “My son, Isaac, here 1 am.” The
son said. “Behold the fire and the wood, but
where is the lamb?” The father’s lip quiv¬
ered, knocked aud his heart fainted, and bis knees
together, aud his entire body, mind
and soul shiver in sickening anguish as he
struggles to gain equipoise, for he does not
want to break down. And then he looks
into his son’s face with a thousand rushing
tendernesses and says, “My son. God will
provide Himself a lamb.”
The twain are now at the foot of the hill,
the place which is to be famous for a most
transcendent occurrence. They gather some
stones out of the field and build an altar of
throe or four feet high. Then they take this
wood off Isaac's back and sprinkle it over
the stones, so as to help and invite the flame.
Tho altar is doue—it is all done. Isaac has
helped to build it. With his father he has
discussed whether the top of the tablo is
even and whether the wood is properly pre¬
pared. I lian there i.- a pause. The son
looks around to see it there is not some liv¬
ing animal that can be caught and butchered
for the offering. Abraham tries to choke
down his fatherly feelings and suppress his
grief in order that ha may is’to break to his son
the terrific news that he be the victim.
Ah, Isaac never looked more beautiful
than on that day to his father. As the old
man ran his emaciate 1 fingers through his
son’s hair he said to himself: “How shall I
give him up? What will his mother say
when 1 come back without my boy? J
thought ho would have been the comfort of
my declining days. I thought he would
have been the hope of ages to come. Beau¬
tiful and loving, and yet to die under my
own hand. O God, is there not some other
sacrifice that will do? Take my life and
spare his' Pour out mv blood and save
Isaac this for his mother and' the world!” But
was an inward struggle. The father
controls his feelings and looks into his son’s
face and says, “Isaac, must I tell you all?”
His son said: “Yes, father; I thought you
had something on vour mind. Tell it.” The
father said. “Mv son. Isaac, thou art the
lamb!” “Ob.” you say, “why didn’t that
young man, if he was twenty or thirty years
of age, smite into the dust his infirm father?
He could have done it.” Ah. Isaac knew by
this time that the scene was typical of a
Messiah who was to come, and so he made
no struggle. Thev fell on each other’s necks
and wailed out the parting. Awful and
matchless scene of the wilderness! The
rocks echo back the breaking of their hearts.
The cry. “My son. my eon!'’ The answer,
“Mv father, my father!”
Do not compare tins, as some people have,
to Agamemnon willing 1:» offer up his
daughter, _Chere Iphigenia. to please the gods.
is nothing comparable to this wonder¬
ful obedience to the true God. You know
'hat victims for sacrifice were always bound,
sq that they might not struggle away. Raw-
bugs, the martyr, when he was dying for
Christ's sake, said to tho blacksmith who
held the manacles, “Fasten those chains
tight now, for my flesh may struggle might-
ily.” So Isaac's arms were fastened, his
eet are tie 1. The old mau, rallying a'l his
strength, libs him on to a pile of wood.
Fastening a thong on one side of the altar.
he makes it span the body of Isaac, and fas-
tens the thoagat theother side of the altar,
and another thong, and another thong,
There is the lamp flickering in the wind
altar. ready to be put under tbe brushwood of the
There is the knife, sharp and keeD.
ings Abraham—struggling with his mortal feel-
on the one side aud the commands of
God on the other-takes that knife rubs
the flat of it on the palm of his hand, cries
to God for help, comes up to the side of
the altar, puts a parting kiss on the brow of
his boy. takes a message from him for
mother and home, aui then lifting the giit-
tering weapon f r the plunge of the deatn
tShlnd -stroke—his b-S£^descen” musc’.oe Srr'*‘ir«»'fnr °T xr-.*’- ^
t
h w;n?ami’ J'the sStSk^ makin^the
Go L
ISIS him 5 ' -iuv hanl^S^d' '
UO’-do harm’' ’
What is t his soilud back iu the woods? It
is a crackling as of tree branches, a bleating
and a struggle. Go, Abraham, and see what
it O.i. i- was a ram '-iia*. roln~ thro
lhe wood*, he' its f c :a.! ho-u* ias!• - »o•«
•m.I vriiaasflad in th* brushwood and « iM
cot net loose, and ,V)"a‘iam $ it triad I y
au*l onicitv tinioo-v^. !••.«.: •
I vats ty ram on n a •
der .i the brnsawoo l oT tat®
dens - smoke ol the saV n; to r'st
the bloo t rolls down th i th - a'.ta¬
rad drone htssinc iu!o th il 1
the words. “BeVd 1 the L* God who
takes a wav the sin tae vr u
Well, what is%n are voa gc*iu? to aet out of
this? There a»ed minister of the sros-
P e! - He says: “I should get ou; :>f tea
when God tells you to do a thinx, whether it
*° 7 °“ °‘ A\‘,mnh w*
I '? 1 V‘ n^' h h lD u>yd-i t hay.
been mistaken. Go.l.adn , tsp^soindtetiac--
b* that it was not certain whether he called
Sarah or Abimelech or somebody else, but
with divine articulation, divine intonation,
divine emphasis, he said,‘Abraham!’ Abra-
ham rushed blindly .-.head to do his duty,
knowing that thiucs would come out right.
Likewise do so yourselves. There is a mvs-
tery of your life. There is some burden you
have to carry. You den t know why God
has put it on you. There is some perseeu-
tion. some trial, and you dent know why
God allows it. Thei-e is a work for you to
do. and you have not enough grace, you
think, and to do it. Do as Abraham did. Ad-
vunce do your whole duty. Be willing
to have give up Isaac, and perhaps you will not
to give up anything. ‘Jehovah-jireh’
—the Lord will provide.” A capital lesson
this old minister gives us.
Out yonder in ibis house is an aged
w .° man > tbe of heaven in her face. She
) vS half waythrougn the door. She has her
hand on the pearl of the gate. Mother, what
woulJyouKet ou , „ lhis subj6ct; ,. ob -
P’ itne’h'that ncbrha t Ooieornffita HoT comes to the’reflif the relief. ’Von You lee see
1 and^S’ lff^d f n ®?
w
bl011 ® m an a ^ st< ?PP-J i
h fn'o . “ y h ? o!
wh«n VhnlfmVr nil 1 *r J'ra , U ^i
f•; tn no . ou ^ 0 il L l<i ° . C f ot ,^ ri 4 n f ??
of bread cam*. The Lord will , provide. My
son was yery sick, _ and I said-. Dear Lord*
you dou t mean to take him away from
P 1 .®’ do you J ,oase * Lord - <Ion t take
!ll “ away ' Why there are neighbors
*»><> Have , tnree and four sons. Inis.is my
only son. This is my Isaac. Lord, you
Sf 0 ?* trtk ® Hun away from me. will You?
^ut I saw he was getting worse ana worse
the time, and 1 tiumed round and prayed
untl1 after a ^Hile i felt submissive* and I
coutd say, ’Thy will, O Lord, be done!’ Tho
doctors gave him up, and we all gave him
up. . And. as was the custom in those timesi
We had made tho grave clothes, and we were
whispering about the last exercises, when I
looked and I saw some perspiration on his
brow, showing that the "fever had broken*
and he spoke to us so naturally that I knew
he was going to get well. He did get well,
and my son Isaac, whom I thought was go¬
ing to be slain and consumed of disease, was
loosened from that altar. And, bless your
souls, that’s been so for seventy years, and
if my voice were not so weak, and if I could
see better, I could preach to you younger
people a sermon, for though Ican’tsee inueli
I can see this—whenever you get into a
tougli place and your heart is breaking, if
you will look a little farther into the woods,
you will see, caught iu the branches, a sub¬
stitute and a deliverance. ‘My son. G-od will
provide Himself a lamb.’ ”
Thank you. mother, for that short sermon.
I could preach back to you for a minute or
two aud say. never do you fear! I wish I had
half as good a hope of heaven as you have.
Do not fear, mother. Whatever happens, no
harm long will flight ever happen of to and you. I 1 was going
up a stairs saw an aged
woman, very decrepit and with a cane,
creeping on up. She made but very little
progress, and I felt very exuberant, and I
said to her, “Why, mother, that is no way to
go upstairs,” and I threw my arms around
her and I carried her up and put her down
on the landing at the top of the stairs. She
said; “Thank you, thank you, I am very
thankful.” 0 mother, when you get through
this life’s work and you want to go upstairs
and rest in the good place that God hits pro¬
vided for you, you will not have to climb up,
you will not have to crawl up painfully, The
two arms that were stretched on the cross
will be flung around you, and you will be
hoisted with a glorious lift beyond all weari¬
ness and all struggle. May the God of Abra¬
ham and Isaac be with you until you see the
Lamb Now, on that the aged hilltops.
minister has made a sug¬
gestion, and this aged woman has made a
suggestion. I will make a suggestion: Isaac
going up the hill makes me think of the
great sacrifice. Isaac, the only sou of Abra¬
ham, “onlys” Jesus, I the only son of God. On those
two build a tearful emphasis. O
Isaac! O Jesus! But this last sacrifice was
a more tremendous one. When the knife
was lifted cried over “Stop!” Calvary there was no voice
that and no hand arrested if.
Sharp, keen and tremendous it cut down
through nerve and artery until the blood
sprayed the faces of the executioners, and
the midday sun dropped a veil of cloud over
its face because it could uot endure the
spectacle. Mount O Isaac Calvary! of Mount Moriah! God O
Jesus of Better could
have thrown away into annihilation a thou¬
sand worlds than to have sacrifled His only
Son. It was not one of the ten sons; it was
His only Son. If He had not given up Him,
you and I world would have perished. “God so
loved the that He gave His only—” I
stop there, not because I have forgotten the
quotation, but because I want to think.
“God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotton Son that whosoever believetb
in Him should not perish, but have everlast¬
ing life.” Great God, break my heart at the
thought of that sacrifice. Isaac the only,
typical of Jesus the only.
You seo Isaac going up the hill and carry¬
ing tbe wood. O Abraham, why not take
the load off the bov? If he is going to die so
soon, Abraham why not make his last hours easy?
knew that in carrying that wood
up Mount Moran. Isaac was to be a symbol
of Christ carrying his own cross up Calvary,
I do not know’ how heavy that cross was—
whether it was made of oak or acacia c-r Le¬
banon cedar, i. suppose it may have weighed
100 or 200 or 300 pounds. That was the light¬
est part of the burden. All the sins and sor¬
rows of tho world wen* wound around that
cross. The haft of one, tho heft of two
worlds—earth and hell were on His shoul-
'* ers - ° Isaac, carrying the wood of sacrifice
U P Mount Moriah! O Jesus, carrying the
wood of sacrifice up Mount Calvary, the
agonies of earth and hell wrapped around
that cross! I shall never sea the heavy load
on Isaac’s back that I shall not think of the
crushing load on Christ s back. For whom
load? lor you. In you. tor me.
Tor me. Would that all the tears that we
have ever wept over our sorrows had been
saved until this morning, and that we might
now pour them out on the lacerated back
an '^ T’et and hear; of the Bon of G o l.
You say: “II this young mau wa- twenty
or thirty years of age. why did not he resist?
Why was it not Isaac binding Abraham, in-
stead of Abraham binding Isaac? Ihe nnis-
cle iu Isaac s ardt was stronger than the
muscle in Abraham's withered arm No
submit young man twenty-five years of age Would
to have his father fasten him to a
pile of wood with intention o* burning.”
Isaac was a willing sacrifice, and so a type
of Christ who willingly came to save ih°
world. If a’l the armies of heaven had re¬
solved to force Christ out from the gate.
they could not have done it Christ was
equal with God. If all the battalions of
glory had armed themselves and resolved to
put Christ forth and make Him come out
and save this world, they could not have
succeeded in it. With one stroke He would
have topple I over angelic and arehaagelic
dominion.
I have been told that the cathedral of St.
Mark stands in a quarter in the center of the
city ot Venice, and that when the clock
strikes 12 at noon all the birds fx-om the city
and the regions round about the city fly to
the square and settle down. It came in this
wise: A large hearted woman, passing -me
noonday , aero^ the square saw some birds
the cold, and she scattered some
c ™mbs of bread among them. Thenextday,
the same hour, sue scattered more crumb»
hpead a “°^“ 8ai * an ' 1 ,°» from > a:
to year until the day of her death In her
a ceriam amount of
“ow at the first stroke ^ of th * pram bell ice. at noon anl
t“e birds begin to come tnere, and when the
clock has struct 12 the square >- covered
with them. How beautifully suggestive!
^
doves 11 S c%!!
a « to the window! All the air is filled
the Uquid chine: Come ’ 0ome!
come ’
S LETTER.
III3 EXPERIENCE AT THE AT-
LANT.V exposition.
The Convicts of the State Attract
William’s Attention.
Thc 8il0w hjw b ,„ un . Tbe Rran i op , nSnK
PW»n‘ »s ov. r. I took the little g-rl by the hand
RU( j followed otir partv tl.ron.li ihe tlious-
a uds who tluouee l the‘sidewalks. Sometimes
we were lost Lu’ so-n f*ot founl and after
stiuggling pitablovor&nda over a hot half-mile wo found a Uos-
aw,tv ’ no 1 o:i l’caclitrec aril
ramped upon it
But we were ahea 1 of the mus : c a:i 1 here for
ah hour wo waited the coming of the graud
procession. Even this far out there wa«
diminution of the cr wds that packed the sid -
walks, Wr had tried to flank them, but gave
it up in dt-sj air. 'i lie world is getting awful
full of p os !e. AsCabrsava they arc getting
mere thick r, more denser. I wiped the per-
spiration from m bald b°ad aid furrowed
brow and bt my tired l gs hang dorm over the
edge <>f the Vtrmula fljor and gsz d and rumi-
uuted upon t'\e living kaleidoscope before m
By and by we in ur 1 hr strains of muds in the
air. The little girl roused up fr m her weari-
ue a and said ‘ Grande i I h~tr it-tho bat cl is
coming.” By an I by wa brad the echo of
shouts uni cheer- away down the line, an 1 by
and by the m imtj*! vanguard appeared. Tuen
followed the bin \ a.i l the ar was sw«oieucd
oWj,„,■I t !,,u..,y3, of
ing-tl.e Tramp, boys IrflUlp, ln.ini>, tlic b *ys cams ir.arc’i
rrom t o barracks-the recnUm
of Uncle Sam’s at my. II -w clean they looked
with tlicir white hits and white pan's and bln a
eakioats. How straight their ones. h-v.v uni-
forni their step, how s >1,1 c Ivtliov c n rio 1 th -m-
selves and their arnw. This was a gr :-.t frol o
for th «», »'■ episode i:i th ir monotonous life,
A professional so’d < r does not live much life
m time of pane*. II * bce-w-s a machine, an ■
c . vcry ; ,, , c !o
Tticm cann the Washing'on Artii'cry baud
dth its handsome dm o m i r keiping time
ph his b ton, am! ■ du n ar ifitly "i h
guns and ci-iss-m-m 7 w'o cl to cv TV
p.uivdmi;i , vag „ n . Many a i < > wc. -i.iw that f.im an co n-
the w r !! 1 r vc in- (1 them,
J ,'ou’t lnm v why i w;, 1 m It ey we e c m;c1-
,
ered the ranking command m tmt arm of the
hivcc. id cv w- rc 1 he -id r. oiiTv.illb in n
j:i time of bat lie. t wo c v m i ny of the
old heroes are it f . lfii ir confederate vet-
erana would ro liked ake tl.c-oj by the
hand an 1 wi mo stene 1 eyes s > ‘ Oomrale,
I v. as with \ n <fii V i in a.” Then came
more mfautiy a d more nnu c an I more artil-
;ery andsom ; “no.-s cav irv,” a- Cabe c Is
them, an 1 iluy l-a g; on coming, titi 1 af cr a
while the lines ol'carriagea wi h all di ■ t ot ihlcs
in thesta e b g.an \ ipi s an we all cheerc ! !',o
worn li, bitli mw . :i ! oj.i, and ih y p; id ns
back in smilc“, ami iiiui vv.-ih hi nigh. By tl.ia
time I n- s td-.-d a:id on ■ • 1 my feet fell asi -cp.
and the l.itlo gill wa- tired, we afi to>'- a car
for th • fair ground We i s oned to the long
speeches for awhile, fin it wa* awlnl hot. up in
the gall, ry, and so we walke I a' out si t ingg die
sights and wait in ; fo Mr. Cl< ve and t > touch
tl at button and pit’ t'e wheels in motion.
That is a most wonderful thing to m . It is
awful- by which I ra- a > it s f II of awe. The
idea of a mau a th usund uni s aw y totic'iing
a little but ou aud in an instant the great iron
wheel b -gins to move n 1 lmn In els of - m ll?r
ones spin rotr.d like tops an 1 ol' Grov <• never
stoppetl talfii'ig iv r took tho cigar out of his
mouth. I can’t tomprehond it. As Divi ! said,
I cannot at aiu unto t. Tt m y ieaso able
and natural way for < Id Gn.v r lo stert rhat
big wheal was to corns out h-ro and tdco.his
oiat r ffanl get dt.vu e .in I if and give a
grunt and a h nvo and say: “H inab, boy-,
let her go-” lit u d un let sand tin*, 'film’s
Ihe way that big, strong Ike Dunkel, of die
Borne Liglit Guard, used to lift our army wa¬
gons out of tho mire when ihe team got stalled.
By and by tlie speaking was over and Ihe
button was pressed aud the big cannon rocke's
were fire 1 to the h< awns an 1 chcr rs went up
from ton thousand throa's and the little girl
clung close to me and t etnbled. I w s t o
much for her six year old sou'. Tw light soon
came an t then the electric lights and the grand
ilium nation, it was bewildering, enchanting,
inspiring I felt 1 ke the old woman, who for
the first time went to the circus, and when the
grmd procession of beau ifill hors s and s’ar
spangled riders came in ,lnr old man said;
“Silly, H lly, what do you think o” i ? ’ She
struggled foru tcrance an.l whispered: ‘J dm,
it’s more like the kingdom of heaven tlian any¬
thing I ever exp. c'ed to s;e in this world.”
Bat time and tide wai e h for no m in,neither
do the cars, and I had pr noised mv wif • to
come home at 10 o’clock and I did. S > I kis-ed
the little girl goorlby and boarded the train for
home. It had been a 1 mg but happy day.
Thousands were happy and I n v r raw a
drunken man nor heard a baby cry.
I had lighted my c gar and settled down in
the smoker to ruminate on peace and good will
when suddenly I heard the tramp of men and
the clanking of chains. Looking backwirdl
saw a row of colored convicts with their hard
iron bracelets on an l the long chain that
1 ound them all together and the man iu
charge. There w r ero nine of them, all stout
and strong, and all black but one—ho was a
good first looking, copper colored negro. I thought
at that they were a gang of rio 1 era who
had been convicted in a bunch, but Mr. Pear¬
son. the fine, solid-looking man in charge, said:
“No. I p oked th m up separably. They re
for d fferent crimes, but only ouc for ru m-
slaughter. The others are for larceny or bur¬
glary and all are for long terms- d ha large
negro over there is a preacher and goi s up for
inquiries burglary in the nighttime.” In answer to my
Mr. Fear-on toll me that crime
i ong the negroes wa; on the increase and fie
was i'-’R kept on the go most of the time in gather-
the conviet-i and taking them to the camps,
i here arc now 2,703 besides those in the county
ohainganzs. And betook flvo last week and
two of them were boys under fourteen y. ars of
age. this ‘ Oh, my country,” thought I; “where is
thing to stop and when and how? Is there
no remedy?”
Mr. rear-on is a thoughtful, humane gentle¬
man. and has opinions. “The state must have
a heaven reformatory,’ he said. “It is a sin aga'nst
to pen up these boys with theso bard
and o'd offenders.”
“What about tho lease system?” I inquired.
“When it runs out,” said he, “the state
h uld buy a few thousand acr s of land some
where and build penitentiary walls in ths
middie of it and work half or more of them
at different trades and the rest on the farm
so as to raise :heir own provisions. If Jim
Smith can make money off their farm work
the state can at least make them earn a sup-
port. If their trade work in the walls does
come in competition with free labor, let it
come—we can't help it. It is a hard prob-
ism, but there must be some change in the
lease system. The state should change it if
it costs a million dollars. There is no reform
in it.
Well, it i.- awful and gets more so every
year. There are uot less thau 3.000 now
working out their sentences. The average of
their terms is five years and this runs up 15,-
CQOvearsof labor. Just think of it. What
does make these negroes do so? Will they
uever learn that crime is followed by pun-
ishment and the loss of that freedom that
the race boasts of ? Can’t their own preach-
ers do something to stop it? If the eonvic-
tions go on at the present rate there will be
ten thousand in twenty years. What then?
My opinion is that half the negroes in the
ehaingangs would have been reformed at the
whipping post and we will have to come to
that yet.— Bill Aep in Atlanta Constitution,
No More Train Trousers.
Ihe fashion of ironing . a crease flown
the front and back of trouser legs is
at Us very height Just no* on the Cun-
tiuent. 2so self-respecting young mau,
even if he is only half a dandy, ar;-
pears anywhere without the car* ti!
crease. But, alas! the officers, who
first introduced and insisted ou this
crease, are absolutely forbidden to
wear it any more. Nor is the abun-
claDt . , . lengtu , trousers, , whicu . ,
„ o
curre
spomled, in its own particular wav, to
the train of ladv’s *
«««; a dress, to be of/th. mi’ -
!««•“* trousers must reach “ft. the middle hem oi the
instep in front and the top of the heel
at the back,” says the edict, et voii*.
*
I o»nte i boots and , .. spats . are a.so ,
forbidden, together with brown shoes
and iace boots Alfo'jpthpr r » the rs-m. 1
iations °
are such that one can well im¬
agine the utter dismay of tho army
swell.—New York Journal.
WISE WORDS.
A small tree may bear good frait.
What science sat 3 is man’s ‘best
guess.
History is what character has writ-
ten.
If we knew more we coal l forgive
more.
Thera is still a lion’s lea for every
Daniel.
Do ti>day what voa would do on
your last Jay.
Weede grow fast when a lazy man
hoe? the corn,
Au hour spent m bad company cau
never be blotted out.
Kill off the fools, and you will throw
the lawyers out ol work.
A chorus m which many love Id
3 . 01U . '- , irv Idi-m , t I T tell , vo.t So - o>
Self-assertive * men often do a kr 3 m
business , on a small ,, capita . .
The man who would go to heavea
alone if he could, isn’t fit to go.
So many people are not at hom9
when a golden opportunity knock*.
A civil tongue is a better protection
thau steel armor an inch thick.
Pray for your enemy, no matter
whether he is trying t.i kill you with
his tongue or a gun.
The mau who can pay his debts and
won’t do it, would stea 1 , if he could do
it without being locked up.
Some people show that they are not
on the way to heaven by what they
toll others they must do to get there.
—Ham’s Horn.
Ilitle With Tour Ilea! to 1 lie Engine,
“In riding on a Pullman car.” eaid
a colored porter more than usn illy ob¬
servant, “sleep with your head to the
engine. There arc not so many hea l-
on collisions on the railroads, ex¬
perience has shown, aud besides tho
danger is less from a rear-end col¬
lision. The reason for this is that
every passenger train has its own right
of way and runs regularly, and is
looked for by the trains running ahead
of it. The greatest danger is from a
train behind which doesn’t know when
we have stopped or broken something
and been forced to stop. This is the
chief reason for sleeping this way, but
there are others.
“You get the draft in tho right
place,” the porter continued, “with
your head toward the cugiue. Your
head feels cool without being exposed
to the flood of air you would get if
you w r ere pointing the other way. But
the mo3t important reason for travel¬
ing this way is the matter of the cir¬
culation of your blood. The motion
of the train is so strong and steady
that it sends all tho blood toward the
end that is furthest from the engine.
Put your feet to the engine and all
your blood rushes to Amur head aud
gives you a restless night. Put your
head to the engine and tho blood goes
away from your head, leaving it cool
and easy, so you can rest like a child.
When you have got yourself fixed this
way, and, moreover, have got in tho
middle of tho car, because it is tho
safest, then you are ready for a good
night’s sleep.”—Chicago Tribune.
Slitnuialin^ Horses With Whiifcr.
“It has been the custom among cav¬
alry troops to stimulate the horses
with whisky,” said Colonel -V. D.
Cate, “and I have always thought
that it was a goo l thing to do. la
fact, I have done it a great deal my¬
self and with seemingly good result®,
but 1 have bee a rea liu ; so ne rep n’ii
of experiments nude iu Germany,
where the custom ha< been follow j 1
for a long time, aud they seeme l to
prove that horses so stimulated are
much more apt to die fro n over ex¬
ertion than those tint are not treated
m auv way. It is a fact that i have
noticed myself that horses frequently
become drunkards, the appetite grow¬
ing until it becomes uncontrollable.”
—Boston Cultivator.
A flEW LEASE OF LIFE,
IN GOOD HEALTH AT SEVENTY*
THREE YE Alt, or AGE.
Miss Cornwall’s Wonderful Recovery ot
Ileal! li—Became Well in Two
Months Alter an Illness of
Six Years.
From the Register, New Haven, Conn.
Iu this rapid age of our3 when so many
men and women are old at fifty, one who
has lived three-quarters of a century, and
then, after debility and suffering, regains
health an l vigor, must be regarded with a
feeling akin to wonder. A New England
lady has been found who has bad this re¬
markable experience.
In the family of Clarence Williams, a Che-
shire farmer on the Meriden road. Cheshire,
CL. lives Miss Cornelia Cornwall, a lady
seventy-three years of age. For several
years Miss'Cornwall's health has been de-
clining verj rapidly, caused by a general de¬
biiity. Her friends feared that the respec-to l
lady had not long to live; but a kind Provi-
deuce directed the aged lady, and in ' a news-
paper advertisement Miss Cornwall read
about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills—a few boxes
of which she procured at once, and with the
result that is best told in her own words,
“About six years ago. ’ Miss Cornwall be-
gan, “myhealth commenced to fail. Isuf
fered from loss of appetite and pains in <lit-
ferent parts of my body. My condition
gradually grew worse until mv limbs were
apparently unable to bear my w ight, an l I
could no longer go up stairs without the ac¬
sistanee of some one.
“I consulted physicians who prescribe I
medicines for my blood. These I continued
to take for several months, but without any
effect. The sense of feeling in my lower
limbs seemed to be leaving me. and I began
to fear that it was hopeless to look for a cure.
I was still suffering terribly from the pains
through my body, when I chanced to read
the story of a cure that had been effected
with the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pa'e People. I discovered that the town
druggist here had none on sale, so I sent
the'pills.
“Last Decern r I commenced using the
pills regularly, and a month after I had been
taking them, I felt greatly benefited by their
use. The feeling in my limbs came back
again, and In two months I was able to go
about the house as I had been accustomed to
a yea before * Nowas you eaasee.I am
• good health. The pallor
enjoying in my
face was removed by the pi its. A number of
my friends in the neighborhood were com-
plaining of symptoms somewhat similar to
they tell me that they have been very much
benefited by their use. I stin continue to
ts *® th f P/»H«iough there is not so much
necessity , for them at present. As r. nnufler
of tho blood, 1 consider the L>r.
Pink Tills «a wonderful me ticinei.”
Pink Pills are sold bv all dealers, or wilt be
sent post paid on receipt of price, : 50 cents a
box or six boxes for 4-2.50—they arc never
sold in bulk, or by the 100} by addressing Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Highest of all in Leavening Powex.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Pigeon Flight From Eiffel Tower.
Lately a great pigeon flight was or*
ganizecl in Frauce, the Eiffel Tower
being selected as the point of de¬
parture. The pigeons were drawn not
only from distant parts of France, but
also from Belgium. The time of flight
aud the time of arrival av homo were
duly noted, with certain interesting
results regarding tho rate of progres¬
sion. Thus, one pigeon dew ten miles
at the rate of forty-seven miles per
hour. This was a high rate, and may
bo classified with a flight of 261 miles
at forty-three miles an hour. These
tates are low when compared with the
records of previous flights. Thus, a
distance of 600 miles his bean cov¬
ered by a pigeon in twelvo hours.
From Blois to Dijon is a distance of
2C0 miles, aud this has been accom¬
plished by a pigeon iu four hours aud
forty-six minutes. Higher rates than
eveu sixty miles an hour have been
r hronicled.
Nevada tins au asaessou v.i. ; it > • >
§29/291,4541.
The Greatest Hedlcal Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY’S
Medical Discovery,
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS,
Has discovered in one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula
down to a common pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor). Ho has now in
his possession over two hundred certifi¬
cates of its value, all within twenty miles
of Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit is always experienced from tho
first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted
when tho right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are affected it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them ; the same with the Liver
or Bowels. This is caused by tho duets
being stopped, and always disappears in a
week after taking it. Bead the label.
If tho stomach is foul or bilious it will
cause squeamish feelings at first
No change of diet evor necessary. Eat
the best you can get, aud enough of it.
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bod-
tirno. Sold by all Druggists.
Timely Warning.
The great success of the chocolate preparations of
the house of Walter Baker & Co 0 (established
in 1780) has led to the placing on the market
^ many misleading and unscrupulous imitations
of their name, labels, and wrappers. Walter
Baker & Co. are the oldest and largest manu-
!a !'|) \\ facturers of pure and high-grade Cocoas and
i fc fii i\ Chocolates on this continent. No chemicals are
li 5 ■ ! pipr V used in their manufactures.
! v
11 Consumers should ask for, and be sure that
they get, the genuine Waiter Baker & Co.’s goods.
WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited,
DORCHESTER. MASS.
The One Crop System
of farming gradually exhausts the land, unless ?. Ferdlizer containing a
high percentage of Potash. ed. Better crops, a better soil, and a
larger bank account can c: 1 i be expected.
Write for our “Farmers’ < idc,” a 142 -page illustrated book. It
is brim full of useful information for farmers. It will be rent free, and
will make and save you money. Address,
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The Catalogue is sent by
mail on receipt of io cents
in stamps or money.
Seasonable Bargains
sounds
like overcoats or household goods, but this time
’tis Guns, Pistols, Revolvers, Bicycles, &c.
Johnny gets his gun about this time of year,
and to know just what to get and WHERE TO
GET IT, is why the Lovell Arms Go. put out
their New Mammoth Catalogue. It will tell you
lots of things you knew before—lots that you
didn’t know. It’s a sure money saver for a
bargain hunter. It says nothing about a few
Second-hand Bicycles, but they are bargains
too and should be applied for at once.
JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS CO., BOSTON, .MASS.
Sole U. S. Agent for “STAR ” AUTOMATIC PAPER FASTENER nnd
WILLIAMS TYPE WRITER.
Agents wanted in every city and town for the Lovell Diamond
and Excel line of bicycles.
germ-life
The doctors tell us, now-a-days, that disease germs
are everywhere; in the air, in the water, in our food,
clothes, money; that they get into our bodies, live
there, thrive and grow, if they find anything to thrive on.
Consumption is the destruction of lung-tissue by
germs where the lung is too weak to conquer them.
The remedy is strength—vital force.
Scott's Emulsion, with hypophosphites, means the
adjustment of lung strength to overcome germ-life.
It is fighting the germ with the odds in our favor.
These tiny little drops of fat-food make their way
into the system and re-fresh and re-invigorate it.
Whether you succeed with it or not depends on how
good a start the germs had, and how carefully you can
live. The shortest way to health is the patient one.
The gain is often slow.
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Bnru.n ; Co d.
Intense cold, as is well known;
burn if we may use tho terra—like-
lu at. If a “drop” of air at a tem-
pi rai lire of 16 ) degrees below zero-
ivi re j d upon the hand, it would
have t ame of ;t as would the same
xautit i of molten steel or lead.
Every one wl has the care <?l horses
onglit to know the pain iniliOfal by
placing ft fro; ed bi in a j\»rse *
mouth. It burns like hot iron.
A Cos fly Autograph.
When V leliu'i Patti favors auyone
nowaday., with her autograun, she
writes it at th ■ extreme top of a sheet
of paper. Her reason for this is that
once when she signed it in the middle
of the shoe., it was subsequently
coupled, by the recipient with the &ig-
nifi.-unt sentence, “I promise to paY
at sight t a3 sum £ 1003,” and pro-
sen ted ti h.r haule r's.—New York
Her add.
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