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Tv’.xt: “The Lord shut him in.”—Genesis
vil., 16.
chanter Cosmogony has no more interesting
than the one which speaks ot that
catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of
our world in time of Noah, the first ship
carpenter. Many of the nations who never
saw a Bible have a flood story—Egyptian
flood story, Grecian flood story, of which
Ducalioa was the Noah: Hawaiian flood
story, flood New Zealand flood story. Chinese
all story, Amerioan Indian.flood 9tory—
of which account* agree In the limner-
sion of the continent.* under universal
rains, and that there was a ship floating,
wlth a select few of the human family and
with specimens of zoological and ornitho-
logical and reptilian worlds, although I
could have wished that these last had been
»h« 0 Ut of the 3rk uffmmL
shf, -SMr th^s Sit HughUtller^la'bis^'Test* a»° flnL!w e «™Ed D on «
raony of the Locks” thinks that all these
mSSe^HSoHSr^dTbSiie^i rial frosh'et 01
worst thing about that g was
abovef am d° beneath 9 Thfseas* broket
chain of shells and crvrial hSven? androlledove
the land and the onened the!
°Jt th V°.° f °j the
Them nnrft a tha** SllI a »!Y* P’ \ but 0I \. J ^? b y9 f r< ‘
wen-three ^orinu^ tn 6 Ti° r, pih? part *°l
P‘ioli of thrpfi r.Rrt^nf ^h^Hnnr 0 ’} 11
S avs nothincr about £
lonuins no^know to two whfoh^r of N^h*? V t
SSErSs m£S’ on n hu
Sd W , -fheWd?ta 1 t < w , ‘ i"'” r ?‘
som» surrounded by deluges of mlsfor-
SKKJSSKt recstfve SJWbSf PSK
hope messages, do good and thkaepoipn. otheriU Whiohl
pecially may tQ nioM os-
fntandnd f«y them. To-day I ad.
dress the shut in. ‘‘The Lord stmt him In/
Tho world has no statistios os to ttu
number of invalids. The physicians knon
something and about it. and tha apothecarlei
the pastors, bat who can tell us th«
number of blind ayes, and deaf ears, and
diseased lungs, and congested livers and
jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, and
rheumatic feet, or how many took no food
this morniuj? because they had no appetite
to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, oi
have lungs so delicate they cannot gc
forth when the wind Is in the east, or tber«
is a dampness on the ground or pavemenl
because of the frost coming hut? It would
be easy to count the people who every day
go through a street, or the number oi
passengers in carried by a railroad companj
a year, or tbe number of those who cross
the ocean In ships, but who can give us tbe
statistics of the great multitudes who ar*
shut in? I call tbe attention of all such tc
their superior opportunities of doing good,
Those of us who are well and can se«
clearly, and hear distinctly, and partake
of food of all sorts, and questions of diges-
tion never occur to us, and we can wad«
the snowbanks and take an equinox in oui
faces, and endure the thermometer at zero.
und every breath of air is a tonic and a
stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within
five minutes after our head touches the pil-
low, do not make so much of an impression
when wo talk about the consolations of reli<
gion. Tbe world says right away:‘‘I guesj
that man mistakes buoyancy of natural
spirits for religion. What does he know
about it? He has never been tried.” Bu|
when one goes out and reports to the world
that that morning on his way to business
ho called to seo you and found you, aftei
being kept in your room for two months, no!
cheerful and hopeful, and that you had
one word of complaint, aud asked all aboul
everybody, of and rejoiced in the success
your business friends, although youi
own still business had almost come to a stand-
office through your absence from store oi
or shop, and that you sent your lovs
to all your old friends, and told them that
if you did not meet them again in thia
world you hoped to meet them in dominiona
seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from
you to the man who carried the message
about the Importance of his not neglecting
his own soul, but through Christ seeking
something better than this world could
give him—why, all the business men in tha
oounting room say: ‘‘Good! Now, that is
religion!” Aud the clerks get hold of the
etoryand talk it over, so that the weigher
and cooper and liaokman standing on the
that doorstep what say: “That religibn!” is splendidl Now,
is I oall
No doubt while on that voyage Noah
and his three sons and all the four ladiee
of the antediluvian world often thought oi
the bright hillsides and the green fields
where they had walked and of the homes
where they had.lived. They had had many
years of experiences. Noah was 600 years
old at the time of this convulsion of nature,
He had seen 600 springtimes, 600 summers,
600 ahtumns, 600 winters. We are not
told how old his wife was at this wreck
of earth and sky. Tbe Bible tells the age
of a great maa.y men, kdt only once gives a
womnn's age. A'2 bnellmelt gives Adam’s
age as 130 years and Jared’s age as 163
years and Enoch’s age as 365 years, and all
up ami dojvn the Bible it gives the age oi
men, bu' aoes not give the age of woman,
Why? Because, I suppose, a woman’s aga
is none of our business. But all the men
and women that tossed in that oriental
craft had lived long enough to remem-
her a great many of the mercies and
kindnesses of God, and they could not
blot out, and I think they had no disposl*
tion to blot out, tho memory of those bright-
nesses, Neither though now they were shut in.
should the shut in of our time for-
get the blessings of the past. Have yog
been blind for ten years? Thank God for
the time when you saw as clearly as any of
us can see and let the pageant of all tha
radiant landscapes and illumined skiea
which you ever looked upon kindle your
rapturous gratitude. I do not see Raphael’s
“Madonna di San Sisco” in the picture gal-
lery From of Dresden, nor .Rubens’ “Descent
the Cross” at Antwerp, nor Michael
Angelo’s “Last Judgment” on the celling ol
tbe Vatican nor St. Sophia at
tinople, nor the Parthenon on ttui
Acropolis, nor the Taj Mahal of
but shall I not thank God that I have
seen them? Is It possible that such
midnight darkness shall ever blast
vision tnat I cannot call them ap again?
Again, notice that during that forty
days of storm which rooked that ship on
that universal ocean of Noah’s time the
door which shut the captain of the ship in¬
side the craft kept him from many out¬
side perils. How those wrathful seas
would like to have got their wet hands on
Noah and nulled him out and sunk him J
And do all of yon of the great army of~the
shut in realize that, though you have
special temptations where you are now,
how much of the outside style of tempta¬
tion incarcerated you escape? in the Do you,'the merchant
sick room, realize that
every hour of the day you spend looking
out of tbe window, or gazing at the par¬
ticular figure on the wall, or listening to
the clock’s ticks men are being wrecked
by the allurements and uncertainties of
business life? How many forgeries are
committed, how many trust funds are
how many public moneys are be¬
misappropriated, how many bankrupt¬
suffered! It may be, it is,very uueom-
for Noah inside the ark, for tbe
is crowded and the air is vitiated
the breathing of so much human and
animat life, but it is not half as bad for him
as though he were outside the ark. There
not an inside ex. or a camel, or badly an antelope, or
sheep the ark as off as the
king outside. Whiie you are on
pillow or lounge will you will make no bad
you rush into no rash in-
you will avoid the mistakes
thousands of men as good as you ar8
day also ^making.
Notice that there was a limit to the
in experience of those aneient marin¬
I suppose the forty days of the de¬
and uprising floods* and the 150
days before the passengers could go
ashore must have seemed to those eight
in the big boat like a small eternity.
“Rain, it rain, rain!” said the wife of Noah.
“Will never stop?” For forty mornings
looked ort aud saw not one Batch of
blue sky. Floating around amid the
peaks of mountains Shorn and Ham and
Japhet had to hush the fears oi their wives
lest they should dash against the project¬
ing rocks. But arter awhile it cleared off.
Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The as-
cending clouds, mists were folded - - - up into
which instead of darken-
ihff the sky only ornamented it.
^ tbe X looked Out Of the windows these
rejoiced V7< ? r ? P**8engers that the clapped "storm their hands and
think U God eould wag over, and I
that He stop smA A storm 36
coukl stop any storm in your life-
time experience. If He can control a vul-
that ^ flies midsky, in at your He can window. stop a At summer the right bat
He will put the rainbow on the cloud
an * * be deluge of vour misfortunes will
dry up. I preaoh the doctrine of limita*
tion, relief and disenthrallment. At jU 3 t
the right time the pain will cease the
bondage will drop, the Imprisoned will be
liberated, the fire* will go free.’ out ths body
and mind and soul will be Patteaee!
Notioe also that on the eessarion of th*
dotage the shut ins came cultured'their out and they
built their houses and jrar-
dens and started a new world on the ruins
of the old world' that had been drowned
out. this Though Noah lived 350 years after
worldwide accident and no cowries doubt his
follow „««. survived I
>"rrant they never got over touring about
entrance into the ark, two aud two of the
i Intothat^fn’ worlS-anUdiltTviAn^'world fT’ ^ reation
( ^
1 T*'
ar \°. f thelr eoming out^ X et tneir em-
?, ar kat J? , n T as more important than
, ,
ness the steamer Portland, a few days
ago, with 100 souls on board, going do vn
with atl lt3 crew and passengers. Witness
tb0 line of su uken ships, reaching like a
submarine cable of anguish across the
ocean depths from America to Europe. If
any shi P mlffht complete wreckage,
sssr rw-si’ssi ■ss^ks
o°X art lo tSlt ArmeSaS
had 5 the lfS one the inVaHdi
£&& r °° k tha ° tb 0°t- h9 t- «j2kitruents of tAs
•“> op«n*fl. and sunk a daeU ei bird
o**®r flihMf tha mlt as When the entlaa
OI, ° heeCra of robin redbreast, and morniag-
L h0O8e ark > aQd e ,b a fflaoh, took and Wing mooking into ft* bird, Uight and
eby > whU ® the cattle ****** *o low and tha
* aaB P to bl0at »*»<1 horses to a^ak for
the pasture, which from tha awful sub-
“ e J , 8 0 d<5e had now begun to grow green
and aromatic. I tell you plainly nothing
* nt0re8ts me more ln that tragedy from thd
, act than the “exit” and the
11 1 ‘®x®unt,’ i s became than the “got the fact outs.” that And the ‘‘shut- I
1 wlth now
ca0er th i a stor 7 al1 tbe inmates of the
sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons
w here men and women are unjustly endun-
bobQded K e ° n< ^iu ° au< n J», tbe a North i t and ^ 1 ^ u South S an ?K and w ^i 0 East ^ aro
and West by floods, tw deluges of misfor-
bune an A disaster. The ark of your trou-
b .* ^ ^ and on 9ome 0ai ’ tb i y
height of vindication and rescue, will land
°n the heights celestial,
? strange providence, for which I
. * b0
81 ^ a tb which r ? I V Jl think r - grateful, you are circumstanoos all familiar, I
bav0 admission through the newspaper
b re s®'veek by week to tens of thousands of
3 dea ^. ob d ?F ea wb P, cannot enter
°huroh , on the babbath . . and hear their ex-
cebent pastors because of tue age of the
sufferers, °* or or tbe their ‘ r incapacity illness, or to the stay lameness in
one
P os ?, n an b ? u F aQ d a half, or their
poverties, will or their troubles of some sort
not let them go oat of doors, and to
them as much a3 to those wao hear me I
preach this sermon, as I preach many
°? my 9er m°ns, ! than the the invisible visible audience
Pk !iPPP\APPPPi° ay ^. va3 er n w | ider sea9 than some those of
that tossed the eight . members of Noah s
and f ana i|y> five and xnontps instead of being of forty shut days in, of as storm they
wer0 > ^been with these invalids five
7 1D ear30 or J ( W01 sbat ^ y in, or ten years 3 hut of “shut Oh,
’ in.
conuorting . Godl Help> to comfort them!
me
Oive me two hands fu.l of salve for their
wounds. When we were 300 miles out at
? ea v a hurricane struck us, and the life-
da fhed from the davits and all
the lights in themabin were put out by the
rolling of the ship and the water which
through the broken skylights had poured
In.
And as I now find many in hurricanes of
trouble, though I cannot qnfet the storm,
I can strike a match to light up the dark-
ness, and I strike a match. “Whom tha
Lord loveth He chasteneth.” I strike an-
other night, match. but joy ‘‘Weeping may endure for a
cometh in the morning.” I
strike another match. ‘‘We have a High
Priest who can be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, and He was in all points
tempted One breath like as we are.” Are you old?
of heaven will make you evor-
lastingly young again. Haye you aches
and pains? They insure Christ’s presence
ands sympathy through the darkest De-
cember nights, which are the longest
nights of the year. Are you bereft?
Here is a resurrected Christ whose
voice is full of resurreetionary power,
But do not think that heaven is made up
of any indiscriminate population. Some of
my friends are so generous in their theol-
°sy tbat tb ®y would let everybody in with-
out reference to condition or character,
not think that libertines or blasphem-
ers and rejecters of God and His gospel
have “letters of credit” that will draw any-
thing from the bank of heaven. Pirate
crafts will not be permitted to go up that
harbor. If there are those wbo as to heaven
are to be “shut ins,” there are those who
will belong to the “shut outs.” Heaven
has twelve gates, and while those twelve
gates who imply wide open entrance for those
are properly that prepared to enter them
they lmpl> there are at a least twelve
possibilities that many will be shat out,
because a gate is of no use unless it
can sometimes be closed. Heaven is not
aa unwashed mob. Show your tiokets or
you will not get in—tickets that you may
get ets with without money and ana without price, tick-
Let the a cross a crown upon them,
unrepentant and the vile and the
offscourings of earth enter heaven as they
now are, and they would depreciate and
demoralize it so that no one of us would
want to enter, and those who are there
would want to move out. The Bible speaks
of the “withouts” as well as the “withins.”
Revelation xxii., 15, “Without are dogs
and sorcerers and whoremongers and
murderers and idolaters and whosoever
loveth and maketh a lie.” Through the
converting, pardoning, sanctifying grace
of God may we at last be found among the
shut in9 and not among the shut out'll
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Crusade Against Cradles.
“The hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that rules the world” was a
very pretty sentiment in its day.
Even now orators who are not quite
up-to-date on the ethics of “child cul¬
ture” do a little soaring along this
line. They don't know that well-regu¬
lated mothers have started a crusade
against cradle rocking, and that there
is a stigma on the hand which per¬
sists in jogging the baby. Apparently
the electricians did not know' this,
either, for they have invented a cradle
which can be rocked by electricity.
AH the fond mother has to do is to
* . .. Plus- , . lbe svriteliboaid, __...... - and .
P u „ ,n _
Hie cradle will rock until the baby
grows up and pulls the plug out him-
self, if some one doesn’t do it before
that. Consequently, „ , the prospects are
that if the cradles of the world do go
on swinging, the hand that rocks
them will be that of the electrician. In
that case, may be the hand that rocks
the cradle will continue to be tbe one
that rules the world, but there will
scarcely be so much sentiment about
it—New York Sun.
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The first theatre in the United
States was built at )Yilliai0g§Ki§»^ Vll»»
in the year 1752. -
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT*!
*
FOR DECEMBER 25.
Christmas Lesson-Text: Hebrews J, l- 0
_
by the Rev. Hebrews "i^i-gilcommc^ry
». m. Stearns.
Instead of a quarterly review we are
given the'ehoiceiof a Christmas lesson, ’
which probably many will prefer.
■c*rU s, J nd / y times and la ^-
fathers vers manners by spake in times past unto the
lessons been prophets.” NYehave in previous
prophets entreated considering bow God by the
the people to turn again
to Him that He might bless them, and since
the time when in the garden of Eden He
sought Adam with the question "Where
art thou?” He has been ever seeking to
wltt man back to Himself. He does this in
different ways, as it is written in Hob. xii.,
10, “I have also spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions and U3cd
similitudes by the ministry of the propb-
ets previousVart ” Job xxxiii ^9 30 in the Iteht nfthe
iTSaSy of the chanter ’ tells creZ how
H. does thte. The whatever
thing to be remembered 1, that
ZSXEZ2S& dafs 5'noken
2 ”Hath in these last unto
us by His son, whom He bath appointed
thte^inMsS.S.f^S’K’SSbiJ to *»‘“1^ Son H “ °f°
of the vineyard, He speaks of the Father as
last of all sending to them His son, saying,
stead of reverencing Him they took Him
and slew Him. He came umo His own,
and His own received Him not. His own
people would uot-have Him and His own
possessions found no room for Him, just as
at His b.rth there was no room for Him iu
tbe inn, and when they crucified Him He
was numbered with transgressors, and
they made His grave with the wicked.
3. “Who, being the brightness of His
glory and the express image of His person,
and upholding all things by the word of
His power, when He had by Himself purged
ouraio3 Majesty f sat dQWb 9A thflright Uaad of tho
on high.” God was in Christ. He
was God manifest in the flesh (II Cor. v.,
19; I Tim. ill., 16), but the glory that was In
Him was generally concealed. It was veiled
by His mortal body (K?b, x., 20), yet on the
9* TransfiguraSfcon It shone |forth
ABd fraa witnessed by the .favored tbre»
fll '"express Pet. L, 17; John i., 14). The phrase
image* is just the word “charac¬
ter” in the Greek and is, I think, used no¬
where else. In Jesus Christ we see the
obarAoter of God, and there is no character
in us that amounts to a.lything apart from
Christ In U9. He, by the sacrifice of Him¬
self, put Him. away forever the sins of all who
xeoejve He has made provision for
the salvation of all, but those only who
Come receive the benefit, How can they
come 4. “Being unless made they hear? so much better than the
angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent Iname than they.” Tho
angels are ministering the heirs spirits sent forth to
minister unto of salvation, hut to
any of Land them Go<\ I never said, “Sit on 3Iy
right until make thine enemies thy
footstool” (verses IS, 14). He made Him¬
self for a llttlejwblle inferior to the angels,
taking due upon Him our nature that He might
in time lift us up to His position
(chapter 5. “For ii., unto 5-18). which
of the angels said He
at any time. Thou art my Son, this day
have I begotten Thee?” And, again, “I
will be to Him a Father and He shall be to
Mo a Son.” The first quotation here re¬
fers to His resurrection from the dead (Fs.
ii., 7; Acts the xiii., 33); tbe second to His being
heir to throne of David (II Sam-, v^f.,
14). No angel can ever sit on David’s
throne, nor can an angel ever possess a
mortal body made immortal. The word
“better” is one of the key words of this
epistle, and in chapters i. and ii. the
central thought seems to be “better than
angels,” while in the following chapters it
is better than Moses or Aaron ortho taber¬
nacle, and we are to run with patience the
race that is set before us,” “looking unto
Jesus” and waiting for Him to come back
from heaven. Ho was with power declared
to be the Son of God by the resurrection
from the dead, and we shall he fully mani¬
fest as sons of God in the resurrection.
6. “And again when He bringeth in the
first begotten into the world He saith, And
let all the angels of God worship Him.”
The margin says, “When He bringeth
again,” and evidently refers to His second
coming in power ana glory, and this is the
sense of Ps. xlvii., from which the quota¬
tion is made, for it speaks of His reign and
His judgment of His enemies and His
kingdom. It is written in Dan. vii., 10, in
connection with the judgment, that thou¬
sand ministered unto Him and ten thou¬
sand times ten thousand stood before Him.
T. “And of the angels He saith, Who
maketh His angels spirits and His minis¬
ters a flame of fire.” This is from Ps. civ.,
4, which is full of God’s care of His crea¬
tures and ends with the first halleluiah iD
Scripture. In Ps. ciii.. 20, we read, “Bless
the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in
strength, that do HiS commandments,
hearken unto the voice of His word,” and
in the last verse of our lesson chapter we
learn that they all minister unto the heirs
of salvation. They mirftstered unto our
Lord, who for a little while made Himself
lower than they. They minister unto us,
who are for the present inferior to them,
but when He shall appear we shall be like
Him, in immortal resurrection bodies.
8. “But unto the Son He saith, Thy
throne, O God, is forever and ever; a
scepter of righteousness is the scepter of
Thy kingdom.” the This verse and the next
are from forty-fifth psalm, which tells
of the King and His marriage, and is also
told in Math. xxv. and Rev. xix. as preced¬
ing the kingdom. Notice that the Son is
called God, confirming what we have al¬
ready said in this lesson. He is now on
the Father’s throne at His right hand, btat
He will come to His own threne in dos
time, and then it shall be seen that God
has given Him a name above every n%me
(Rev. ill., 21; Math, xxv., 31; PhiL, hi fl., 9).
The whom despised and rejected Son God, ol
the world takes no wgnizanoe and
who seems to be very litlie known even by
those who bear His name, yet in whose
hand is the breath of every living thing,
shall yet be acknowledged as King of Kings
amd Lord of Lords.—Lesson Helper.
NO CONSOLATION.
“There’s no use in being diseour
aged, Victor,” said his young wife.
“Remember that when William Cul¬
len Bryant began to write he got only
$2 apiece for his poems.”
“Only $2 !” exclaimed the strug¬
gling young literary genius,with bittel
emphasis on vhe “only.” “If I could
get $2 apiece for my poems, Arabella,
I could make 8J0 a dav!”
SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINER.
“There is one thing in the compli¬
cated philosophy of our existence that
I have solved and confirmed by long
observation. People who are quick
to anger are just as quick to get over
it.
How do you account for it, pro-
'^ssor ?”
‘I have concluded that they get so
AOt that their wraih melts suddenly
away in fe rvid.heat.”
UNNECESSARY QUESTION.
“Have you been getting your hair
cut?’’ asked the observant boarder,
as he rubbed his hand over the cross¬
eyed boarder’s head in that peculiarly
exasperating way some men have.
“No,” replied the cross-eyed board¬
er, savagely. “I’ve been having my
shoes blacked.”
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La Creole Will Restore those Gray Hairs
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A “Health Shake."
A California man has Invented a
“health shake,” or Invigorating rai
which is warranted t
provide in ten minutes all the exercis
a man needs in a day. The candidat
for a general shake-up stands on a
°*clllat!ug platform, and, when all i,
ready, the current Is turned on from
a d T namo - The intenmty of the me-
t5 °R Js under control, and varies from
a gentle thrill to dancing a jig. Un-
der a strong current, every muscle is
employed , . in . piostrving .he perpeudi<‘-
ular. The legs are rapidly developed,
, and the effect on the liver is said to be
' ettet than that of , horseback _____ . . , riding, ...
Whether the machine ever throws the
patient or gets into a bucking humor is
a p^jnt no t covered in the descrip
Don. .
Spider In Her Ear.
An . elderly , m.n Philadelphia e i i * woman. Sa-
I»«- roeently went to St. V.nry's
Hospital anil asked to be relieved of
»"<*« ^ Aperts
who were £ hen char se of the case
; found a living spider that had made a
ne8t ° f hor ear ' This was successfully
wsmo as well J.f i as aUCl ever, I he ° Id laUy D0W hearB
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYSUP OF FlfiS
is due not only to the orig-inality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing - the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Fig-s is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par¬
ties. The high standing of the Cali¬
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi¬
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken¬
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company —
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.
LOUISVILLE. Ry. NEW YORK, N.Y.
It is a singular fact that there are
no colored operatives in any of the
North Carolina mills and very few in
the mills of South Carolina and Geor¬
gia. which is attributed by the man¬
agers to their unwilling aess to con¬
form to the regulations and the ex¬
actions as to hours of labor, punctual¬
ity and regularity of attendance and
care of machinery.
_
Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour Life Away,
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag¬
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or fl. Cure guaran¬
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New Yorfc
In New Orleans molasses is being put up in
3-pound cans similarly to those used for
syrups.__
lean recommend Piso’9 Cure for Consump¬
tion to sufferers from Asthma.—E. D. Town¬
send, Ft. Howard, Wis.. > arch 4, 1694.
In the United Kingdom in 1870 there were
8,859,177 telegrams dispatched. Last year
there were 89,029,9)9.
Xdncat* Tour Bowels With CMcante,
aoc, Candy 25c. If Cathartic, C. CJ. cure oonstipation forever,
C. fail, druggists refund money.
In the bank of England 60 folio volumns
or keeping ledgers the are filled daily in writing with
accounts.
No-To-Bsc for Fifty Cento.
Ga**anteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
■bob strong, blood pure. We, SL All drugglst&
The trusts now in existence in America
have an aggregate capitalization of $2,788,-
773,900,
To Cure Constipation Vonvqt
Tahe Caseorets Candy Cathartic. Me <* 35*.
** Q* v# v. fan to ctro, dlugglsto roftid 1 SKMM 9 L
A hosiery knitting mill may be built at
Merry Hill, N.C., by J. H. White.
' Mrs. WinBlow’e Soothing Syrup for children
teeting, softens the gums, reducing inflama-
tion, allays pain.cures wind colic 25o a bottle.
Fits permanently cured. No fits ornervous-
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd,. 901 A rch St. Phila. Pa,
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased ot
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis¬
ease that science hu been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Ca¬
tarrh Cure is the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease requires a constitu¬
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tak¬
en interna \ acting directly on th# blood
and mucous -urfaces of the system, the reb
destroying tae foundation of the disease, an
giving the patient strength by building up
the constitut on and assisting nature in do¬
ing its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it
falls to cere. Send for liet of testimonials.
Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75o.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
ANNUAL BANQUET AT PINEY WOODS INN
Manager St- John Arranging for the Joyous
Occasion.
Piney Woods Inn, at Southern Pines, N. C.,
has opened for annual the winter banquet season and an¬
nounces the in honor of the
Commercial Travelers, to be held at the ho¬
tel, Monday evening, January 9th.
During the past two years these banquets
have been a pronounced success, and it is the
aim of the commercial traveler to so arrange |
his route that he may be present on that oc- j
easion. traveler Manager the giad hand St. John of welcome, always gives and the tbe j j
spread which he prepares for the boys is a i
most bounteous one, and we doubt not but j
that the annual reunion this year, like those
of former occasions, will be one of pleasure
lrrngto be remembered.—Exchange.
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million dollars
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Six-year-old Paul Harper is the
youngest historian yet heard from on
the war with Spain. He expresses him-
self in the Evanston Index: Tills war
is prty eirius, and this is why it is; at
first the Spanish used bad words about
Mr. Rinerly; and the next sirius thing
was the Main, and I wisht I culd a seen
that explotion. And then tho st-arve-
ing Cubins are prty sirius to. And now
we have begun the war and many oom-
rads will be dead. Prhaps ther wont
be a man left in town, and many a
aiuther will morn for her husband.
They will lay dead on tho batlfield, and
there stand ther mothers weplng for
their hunbans. They take the wended
to the hospitls and the dead to ther
graves, and many Spanish ship* wiU
sink and few American ships will sink
and wa will fite on land and on sea and
our flag waves over the Filupeen*
ilends this day.
Notre Dame’s Towers Uneven.
Most of the thousands of visitors
who annually throng Paris-ward
would be incredulous were they told
that the towers of Notre Dame were
unequaled. But the statement is true.
nevertheless, and a series of learned
papers upon the subject have just been
served, for the first time, to bring the
circumstance before even the French
public.
To that obnoxious person, “the cas
ual observer,” the towers, of course,
appear exactly equal iu size. The “cas¬
ual observer” seems to have been
made for no other purpose than to
play the scapegoat for the five senses
of humanity. In spite of him, how¬
ever, there is a difference in the size
of the bays, and tlie reason for this
is that originally the cathedral of a
suffragan was not entitled, by canoni-
eal law, to two towers of equal size.
For centuries Paris was suffragan to
the Archbishop of Sens.
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intended, these poisonous ►
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this oble work, it will be gratefully received
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