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feu ARY 12, 1S89.
OUR OWN GITERATION.
SERMON PREACHED BY REV. T.
WITT TALMAGE FEB. 10.
Vest. Act* xtll. SG: "navld. After He Had
: Served His Own Generation by the Will
j of God, Pell on Sleep." 1 ' * ■*"
Brooklyn, Feb. 10.—Before an
audieuce gathered from all parts of
the earth the Rev. T. De Witt Tai-
mage, D. D., expounded passages of
Scripture descriptive of stirring
scenes in David's life. Led by or
gan and cornet the multitudes joined
in singing:
Time, liko an ever rolling stream,
: Bears all its sons away;
> They tty forgotten, as a dream
j Dies at tlie opening day.
1 The subject of Dr. Talmage’s ser- 1
inon was ‘’Our Own Generation,” and
| one of those five courses between soup suit. A good pair of shoes for every
j and almond nuts and feel they were in living mortal. A good coat, a good
I heaven. The lack of the right kind of hat or a good bonnet and a good shawl,
QE food is the cause of much of the drunk- j and a complete masculine or feminine
| enness. After drinking what many i outfit of apparel. A wardrobe for all
i of our grocers call cotfee, sweetened nations adapted to all climes, and not
I with what many call sugar, and eat- j a string or a button or a pin or a hook
ing what many of our butchers call or an eye wanting. But, alas! where
meat, and chewing what many of our j are the good clothes for three-fourths
bakers call bread, many of the labor-! of the human race? The other one-
ing-classes feel so miserable they are fourth have appropriated them. The
tempted-to put into their nasty pipes fact is, there n
what the tobacconist calls tobacco, or ; a redistribution.
to be and will be
Not b 5
others? By testimony. . Tell it to
your family. Tell it to your business
; associates. “ Tell it everywhere. " c
1 will successfully preach no more re
ligion and will successfully talk no
more religion than wo ourselves have,
j BEHAVE WELL YOURSELVES.
1 The most of that which you do to
benefit the souls of this generation,
! vou will effect through your owu be
havior. Go wrong, and that will in
duce others to go wrong. Go right,
.. -r- ~*y- ; “• v~""“ J Y anarchistic , an( j that will induceothers togo right.
go into the drinking saloons for what! violence. If outlawry had its way, When the great centennial exhibition
the rum sellers calfoeer. Good coffee j it would rend and tear and diminish ! was being neld in Philadelphia, the
would do much in driving out bad until instead of three-fourths of the ques tion came up among the directors
rum. Adulteration pf food has got to ; world not properly attired, four- ^ to whether they could keep the ex
bean evil against which alltlie health ; fourths would be in rags. I let you j position open on Sundays, when a
officers and all the doctors and all the j know how the redistribution will take , Erector who was a man of the world,
ministers and all the reformers and all place. By generosity on the part of from Nevada, arose and said, his voice
the Christians need to set themselves those who have a surplus and in-j trembling with emotion and tears run-
in battle array. How can we serve creased industry on the part of those; n i„o- down his cheeks: ’ * ’
our generation with enough to eat?. By . suffering from deficit Not all, but the 1
sitting down in embroidered slippers large majority of. cases of poverty in
and lounging back in an arm chair, j this country are a result of idleness or
his text, Acts xiii; 36: “David, after } our mouth puckered up around a Ha- J drunkenness, either on the part of the
he had served his own generation by j vanaof the'best brand and through present sufferers or their ancestors. In
the will of God, fell on sleep.”
That is a text which has. for a Ion
time been runtiine«through my min ,
hut not until now has it been fully re
clouds of luxuriant smoke reading , most cases the rum
about pol itical economy and the philos- r strom that has swa
is the mael-
owed down the
&
itf) ] ophy of strikes? No! No! By finding livelihood of those who are in rags.
vealed tome. Sermons have a time
to be born ns well as a time to die, a
cradle as well as a grave. David,
cowboy and stone slinger and fighter
and czar and dramatist and blank
verse writer and prophet, did his best r hungry ;
for the people of his time and then multiplyi
went and laid down on the southern
hill of Jerusalem in that sound slum
ber which nothing but an archangelic
blast can startle. “David, after he
had served bis own generation by the
will of Godfjcll on sleep.”
It was his own generation that he
had served; that is, the people living
at the time he lived. And nave you
out who in Brooklyn has been living on j But things will change, and by gener-
gristle and sending them a tenderloin ! osity on the part of the crowded ward-
beefsteak. Seek out some family who robes, and industry and sobriety on
through sickness or conjunction of the part of the empty wardrobes there
misfortune have noteuough to eat and - will be enough for all to wear. God
do for them what Christ did for the ] has done his part toward the dressing
multitudes of Asia Minor, j of the human race. He grows a sur-
inultiplying the loaves and the fishes. ! plus .of wool on the sneep’s back.
Let us quit the surfeiting of ourselves and flocks roam the. mountains and
until we cannot choke down another valleys with a burden of warmth in-
posture a man ever takes—on pis
knees. He had served his generation
by unrolling the scroll of a continent,
and by the will of God fell on slccip.
Grimshaw, the evangelist, when asked
how he felt in his last moments, re
sponded- “As happy as I can be on
earth and as sure of glory as if I were
in it. I have nothing to do but to
step out of this bed into heaven.”
Having served his generation in suc
cessful evangelism by the will of God,
he fell on sleep.
In the museum of Greenwich hos
pital, England, there is a fragment of
a book that was found in the Arctic
regions amid the relics of Sir John
Franklin, who had perished amid the
^now and ice, and the leaf of that
piece of a book was turned down
Will cure you, drive the POlsnv .
v our system, and make you stror.ekV?* % I
fhey cost only »5 cents a box an l Sr* 1 1
rour life. Can bo bad at any |
ever thought that our responsibilities
are chiefly with the people now walk
ing abreast of us? There are about
four generations' to a century now.
but in olden time life was longer ana
there was, perhaps, only one genera
tion to a century. Taking these facts
into the calculation, I make' a rough
S ess and say that there have been at
ist one hundred and eighty genera
tions of the human family. . With
reference to them we have no re
sponsibility. We cannot teach them,
we cannot correct their mistakes, we
cannot soothe their sorrows, we can
not heal their wounds. Their sepul
chers are deaf and dumb to anything
we might say to them. The last regi
ment’ of that great army has passed
out of sight. Wo might halloo as loud
as we could, not one of them would
avert his head to see what we wanted.
SHE COULD NOT LEAVE HIM OUT.
I admit that I am in sympathy with
the child whose father had suddenly
died and who in her little evening
prayer wanted to continue to pray
for ner father, although he had gone
into heaven and no more needed her
prayers, and looking up into her
mother’s face said: “O, mother, I can
not leave him all out. Let me say,
‘Thank God, that I had a good father
once so I can keep him in my pray
ers.’” But the one hundred and
crumb of cake and begin the supply of
others' necessities.
We often see on a small scale a
recklessness about the welfare of others
which a great warrior expressed on a
large scale, when his officers were dis
suading him from a certain campaign,
saying: “It would cost two hundred
thousand lives,” replying with a
diabolism that can never be forgotten,
“What are two huudred thousand
lives to me?”
So far from helping appease the
world’s hunger,.there are those whom
Isaiah describes as grinding the faces
of the poor. You have seen a farmer
or a mechanic put a scythe or an ax
on a grindstone, while some one was
turning it round and round, and the
man holding the ax bore on it harder
and harder while the water dropped
from the grindstone, and the edge of
the ax from being round and dull, got
keener and keener, and the mechanic
lifted the ax glistening and sharp and-
with edge so keen he must cautiously
run his finger along lest while exam
ining the implement he cut his hand
to the bone. So I have seen men who
were put ajjainst the grindstone of
hardship, and while one turned the
crank another would press the unfor
tunate harder down and harder down
until he was ground away thinner and
thinner, liis comforts thinner, his
prospects thinner and his face thinner.
And Isaiah shrieks out: “What mean
ye that ye grind the faces of the poor?”
It is an awful thing to be'hungry. It
tended for transference to human com
fort, when the shuttles of the factories
reaching all the way from the Chatta
hoochee to the Merrimac shall have
spun and woven, it. And here come
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and
the cashmere an 1 the beaver. Here are
the merino sheep, their origin traced
back to the flock:: of Abrahamic and Da-
vidic times. In white letters of snowy
fleece, God has been writing for a
thousand years his wish that there
might be warmth for all nations.
While others ate discussing the effect
of high or low tariff or no tariff at all
on wool, you and I had better see if
in our wardrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the shivering, or pick
out some poor lad of the street and
take him down to a clothing store and
fit him out for the winter. Don’t
think that God has forgotten to send
ice and snow, because of this wonder
fully mild January and February.
We shall yet have deep snows and so
much frost on the window pane that in
the morning you cannot see through
it; and whole flocks of blizzards, for
God long ago declared that winter
as well as summer shall not ceas
I feel like a
returned prodigal. Twenty years ago
I went west and into a region where
we had no Sabbath, but today old
memories .come back to me, and I re
member what my glorified mother
taught mo about keeping Sunday, and
I seem to hear her voice again and
feel as I did when every evening I
kuelt by her side in prayer. Gentle
man, I vote for the observance of the
Christian Sabbath.” And lie carried
everything by storm, and when the
question was 'put, “Shall we open the
exhibition on Sabbath?” it was almost
unanimous, “No,” “No.” What one
man can do if he does right, boldly
right, emphatically right •
What if wo could get this whole
generation saved! These people who
are living until us the same year and
amid the same stupendous events and
flying toward the future swifter than
eagles to their prey. We can not stop.
Tliey cannot stop. "We think we can
stop. We say, “Come now, my friend,
let us stop and discuss this subject,”
but we do not stop. The year does not
stop, the day does not stop, the
hour docs not stop. The year is a
great wheel and there is a band on
that wheel that keeps it revolving,
and as that whe.el turns, it turns three
hundred and sixty-five smaller wheels,
which are the days, and then each of
these three hundred and sixty-five
wheels turn twenty-four smaller
wheels, which are the hours, and these
twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty
smaller wheels, which are the min
utes, and these sixty smaller wheels
turn sixty more smaller wheels, which
are the seconds, and they keep roll
ing, rolling, rolling, mounting,
mounting, mounting, and swiften-
‘ning. swiftening, swiftening. Oh,
Gou! if our generation is going,
like that and we are going with them,
waken us to the short but tremendous
psalmist
before his cold?” .
HOW MAY WE SERVE OUR GENERATION?
Again, let us lobk around and see
how we may serve our generation.
What short sighted mortals we would
is an easy thing tor us to be m'good I ™ t Y ere to clothe end
humor v&th all the world when we ! ^ on }y the insignificant part
have no lack. _But let hunger>ke j
and between this and the springer opportunit y. I confess to you that my
cus we may all have reason to cry out j wish * to ^generation,
with the psalmist: “Who can stand -7
full p«ssession of us and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals
eighty generations have passed off.
Passed up. Passed down. Gone for-: A „ .
ever. Then there are generations to ! , neu us. ,
come after our earthly existence has j * £ ^ *. ie * lm0 13
ceased, perhaps a 'hundred and eighty comiiig-, God hasten^ it, when everjr
generations more, perhaps a thousand Iami, y lu to©
generations * — down at a full
more. We shall not see
them, we shall not hear any of their f
voices, we will take no part in their j
convocations, their elections, #ieir
revolutions, their catastrophes, their
triumphs. W r o will in no wise affect
the one hundred and eighty genera
tions gone, or the one hundred and
eighty generations to come, except as
from the galleries of heaven the for
mer generations look down and re
joice at our victories, or as we may by I
our behavior start influences, good or
"bad, that shall roll on through the ad- 1
vancing ages. But our business is, like j
David, to serve our own generation, .
the people uow living, those whose 1
lungs now breathe and whoso ,
hearts now beat. And mark you, it is
not a silent procession, but moving.
It is a “forced march” at twenty-four
miles a day, each hour being a mile.
Going with that celerity, it lias got to
be a quick service on our part, or no
service at all. We not only cannot
teach the one hundred and eight
generations past and will uot see the
one hundred generations to come,
but this generation now on the stage
■will soon bo off and we ourselves wul
be off with them. The fact is that
you and I will havo to start very soon
for our work or it will be ironical and
sarcastic tor any one after our exit to
say of us, as it was said of David,
“after ho had served his own genera
tion by the will of God, he fell on
slrep.”-
Well, now, let us look around earn
estly, prayerfully and iu a common
sense way and see what we can do for
our own generation. First of all let _
us seo to it that, as far as wo can, they j
have enough to eat. The human body j
is so constituted that three times a day
the body needs food as much as a lamp J
needs , oil, as much as a locomotive i
needs fuel. To meet this want God
has girdled ilie earth with" apple or
chards, orange groves, wheat fields
and oceans full of fish and prairies
full cattle. And notwithstanding this,
1 will undertake to say that the vast
majority of the liumau family are suf
fering either for lack of food or the
right'kind of food. Our civilization
is all askew on this subject and God
only can set it right
REMEMBER THE POOR.
■' Many of the greatest estates of, to
day have been built out of tlie blood
ana bones of unrequited toil. In olden
round world will sit
table, and it will be
only a question between lamb and
venison, or between partridge and
quail ou toast, and out of spoons made
out of Nevada silver or California
gold the pastries will drop on
tongues thrilling with thankfulness
because they havo full enough. I j
have no idea GoiHs going to let the
human race stay in its present predic- j
ament If the world winds up as it!
now is it will be an awful failure of
a world. The barren places will be
irrigated. The pomologists, helped
of God, will urge on the fruits. The
botanists, inspired of the Lord, will
help on the gardens. Tlie raisers of
stock will send enough animals Gt for
human food to the markets, and the
last earthquake that rends the world
will upseL a banqueting table at which
are seated the entire human race.
Meanwhile, suppose that some of the
energy- wo are expending in useless
and unavailing talk about tlie bread
question should bo expended in mer
ciful alleviations.
THE GREATEST BATTLE FIELD.
I have read that the battle field on
which more troops met than on any
other in the world’s history was the
battle lield of Leipsic, 1 GO,000 men
under Napoleon, 250,000 men under
Schwarzeberg. No, no. The greatest
and most, terrific battle is now being
fought ail the world over. It is the
struggle for food. The ground tone
of the finest passage in one of the great
musical masterpieces, the artist says,
was suggested to him by the cry of the
hungry populace of Vienna as tho
king rode through and they shouted,
“Bread. Give us bread!” And all
through the great harmonies of mu
sical academy and cathedral 1 hear the
patlips, the ground toue, the tragedy
of uncounted multitudes, who with
streaming eyes and wan cheeks and
broken hearts in behalf of themselves
and their families, are pleading for
breath
Let us take another look around to
see how we may serve our generation.
Let us see as far as possiblo that they
have enough to wear. Gdd looks on
the human race and knows just how
many inhabitants tho world has. The
statistics cf the world’s population are
carefully taken in civilized lands, and
every few years officer's of government
go through the land and count how
many people there are in the United
times, tor the building of forts and States or England and great accuracy
towers, the inhabitants of Ispahan had js reached. But when people tell us
" * ” how many inhabitants there are in
Asia or Africa, at best it must be a
wild guess. Yet God knows the exact
number of people on our planet and
he lias made enough apparel for each,
and if there be fifteen hundred million,
fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred anu
fifteen people, then there is enough
■el for fifteen hundred million,
thousand, fifteen hundred and
ot slouchy apparel, uot
>arel, not insufficient ap-
to contribute 70,000 human skulls, and i
Bagdad 90,000 human skulls, andThat j
-number of ,^.ople were slain so as to
furnish the skulls. But those two
contributions added together made
only 100,000 skulls, while into the
tower of the world’s wealth and pomp
and magnificence have been wroug"
the skeletons of uncounted nu
of the half fed populations of
earth, millions of skulls.
Don’t sit down at your table with
five or six courses of abundant supply
and think nothing of that family in
the next sU.xt who would take any
least two su
earth, a
At
the
and a whiter
put forth no effort to clothe and feed
and save liis soul. Time is a little
piece broken off a great eternity.
What are we doing for the souls of
this present generation? Let mo say
it is a generation worth saving. Most
magnificent men and women are in it.
Wo make a great ado about tlio im
provements in navigation, and in loco
motion, and in art and machinery.
Wo remark what wonders of tele
graph, and telephone, and stethoscope.
What improvement is electric light
over a tallow candle! But all these
improvements are insignificant com
pared with the improvement in the
human race. In olden times, once in
a while, a great and good man or
woman would come up and the world
has made a great fuss about it ever
since, but now they are so numerous
we scarcely speak about them. yVo
put a halo about tho people of the
past, but 1 think if the times demanded
them it would be found we have now
living in this-year 1S89 fifty Martin
Luthers, fiftv George Washingtons,
fiftv Lady Huntingtons, fifty Eliza
beth Frys. During our civil war
more splendid warriors in north and
south were developed in four years
than tho whole world developed in the
previous twenty years. 1 challenge
the four thousand years before the
flood and the eighteen centuries after
the flood, to show mo the equal of
charity on a large scalo of George Pea
body. This generation of moil and
women is more worth savin" than any
of the one hundred and eighty gener
ations that have passed off.
But where shall we begin? With
ourselves. That is the pillar from
which we must start. Prescott, the
blind historian, tells us how Pizarro
saved his army for the right when
they were about deserting lum. With
his sword ho mado a long mark on the
the ground. Ho said: “My men, on
tho north side are desertion and death,
on the south side is victory; on the
north side Panama and poverty, on
the south side Peru with all its riches.
Choose for yourselves; for my parti
go to the south.” Stepping across the
fine one by one, his troops followed
and finally his whole army. The
sword of God's* truth draws tho
dividing line today. On one side of
it are sin and ruin and death,
on tlie other side are pardon and use
fulness and happiness and heaven.
You cross from the wrong side to the
right side and your family will crost
with you and your friends and your
associates. Tlie way you go they will
go. If we are not saved, we will never
save any one else. How to get saved?
Be willing to accept Christ, and then
accept him instantaneously and for
ever. Get on the Rock first and then
you will be able to help others upon
the same Itock. Men and women have
been saved quicker than I have been
talking about it. What, without a
prayer? Yes. What, without time
deliberately to think it over? Yes.
What, without a tear? Yes, believe!
That is ail. Believe what?
Jesus died to save you from
and death and hell. Will you?
yon? Yon have. Something makes
me think you have. New light has
come into your countenances. Wel
come ! Welcome! Hail! Hail! Saved
yourselves, how are you going to save
not to antagonize it, not to damage it,
not to rule it, but to servo it. I would
like to do something toward helping
unstrap its load, to stop its tears, to
balsam its wounds and to induce it to
put foot on the upward road that has
at its terminus, acclamation rapturous
and gates pear lino, and gm-lands
amaranthine aud fountains rauibowed
and dominions enthroned and cor-
oneted, tor I cannot forget that lullaby
in -tho closing words of my text:
“David, after lie had served his own
generation by the will of God, fell on
sleep ”
And what a lovely sleep it was! Uu-
fiiial Absalom did not trouble it. Am
bitious Adonijah did not worry it.
Persecuting Saul did uot harrow it.
Exile did not fill it with nightmare.
Sincc\ a red headed boy amid liis fa
ther's flocks at night, he had not had
such a good sleep. At 70 years
of age ho lay down to it. He lias had
many a troubled sleep, as iu tho cav
erns of Adullam or in tho palaco at
the time his enemies were attempting
his capture. But this was a peaceful
sleep, a calm sleep, a restful sleep, a
g lorious sleep. “After he had served
is generation by the will of God, he
fell on sleep.” Oh, what a good tiling
is sleep after a hard day’s work! It
takes all the aching cut of the head
and all tho weariness out of tlie limbs
and all the smarting out of the eyes.
From it .we rise in tho morning
and it is a new world. And if
we, like David, servo our genera
tion, wo will at life’s close have
most desirable and refreshing sleep.
In it will vanish our last fatigue of
body, our last womment of mind, our
last sorrow of soul. To tho Christian’s
body that was hot with raging fevers
so that tho attendants must by sheer
force keep on the blankets, it will be
tlio cool sleep. To those who are thin
blooded and shivering with agues, it
at the words, “When thou .
through the waters I will be with
thee.” Having served his generation
in the cause of science and discovery
by the will of God, he fell on sleep.
Why will you keep us all so ner
vous talking about that which is only
a dormitory and a pillowed slumber,
canopied by angels’ wings? Sleep 1
Transporting sleep! And what a glo-
riousawakening! You and I have some
times been thoroughly bewildered after
a long and fatiguing journey; w r ehave
stopped at a friend’s house for the
night, and after hours of complete
unconsciousness wo have opened our
eyes, the high risen sun full in our
faces, and, before we could fully col
lect our faculties, have said: “Where
am I, whose house is this, and whose
are these gardens?” And then it has
flashed upon us in glad reality. And
I should not wonder if, after we have
served our generation and, by the will
of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep
sleep, the restful sleep, we should
awake in blissful bewildermont and
for-a little while say: “Where am I?
What palace is this? Who hung
this upholstery? What fountains
are these tossing in the light?
Why, this looks like heaven!
It is. It is. Why, there is a build
ing grander than all tho castles of
earth heaved into a mountain of splen
dor, that must be the palace of Jesus.
Ana, look there, at those walks lined
with a foliage more beautiful than
anything I ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those
aisles of verdure,
heard of them, those' two arm in arm
must be Moses and Joshua, him of
Mount Sinai and him of the halting
sun over Ajalou. And those two
walking arm in arm must be John
and Paul, the one so gentle and the
other so mighty. And those two with
the robes as brilliant as though made
out of the cooled off flames of martyr
dom, must be John Huss and Hugh
Latimer.
A HOUSE NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
But I must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which I have just
awakened. I look out of the window
this way and that and up and down,
and I find it is a mansion of immense
size in which I am stopping. All its
windows of agate and its colonnades
of porphyry and alabaster. Why, I
wonder if this is not tho house of
“many mansions” of which I Used to
read? It is, it i3. There must be many
of my kindred and friends in this very
mansion. Hark! whose are those
voices, whoso are those bounding feet?
I open tho door and see, and lo 1 they
are coining through all tlio corridors
and up and down all tlio stairs, our
long absent kindred. Why, there i3
father, there is mother, there are the
children. All well again. Ail young
again. All of us together again.
And as wo embrace each other
with the ciy, “Never more to
part! never more to part!” the arches,
the alcoves, tho hallways echo and re
echo the words, “Never more to part.
Never more to part.” Then our glori
fied friends say: “Como out with us
and sec heaven.” And, some of them
bounding ahead of us and some of
them skipping beside us, wo start
down tho ivory stairway. And we
meet, coming up, one of the kings of
ancient Israel, somewhat small of stat
ure but having a countenance radiant
with a thousand victories. And as all
are making obeisance to this great one
of heaven l cry out, “Who is he?” and
tho answer, comes: “This is the great
est of all the kings ot Israel. It is
David, who after no had served his
generation by the will of God, fell oh
sleep.’ 3
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BY ADHINISTERIRQ CR. HAWES' GOLOSH SPEWS,
it can be given in a cup of coffee or tea.oriiaL
tides of food, without the knowledge oftheptrl
son taking it; it is absolutely harmless andtfl
effect a permanent and speedy cure, whet
the patient is a moderate driukcroranalcob
wreck, it NEVER FAILS. WeGUARANT
a complete -are in every instance. 43 page!)
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will be tlie warm sleep,
who, because of physical
were terrified with night
will bo tlie dreamless sleep,
and doctors and mothers
wakened almost every hour of the
night by these to whom they minis- |
tered, or over whom they watched, it
will bo the undisturbed sleep. To
those who could not get to bed till late
at night and must rise early in tho
morning and before getting rested, it
will be the long sleep.
AWAY WITH IT.
Away with all your gloomy talk
about departure from this world. If
wo have served our generation it will
not be putting out into the breakers,
it will not be the fight with the King
of Terrors; it will be going to Eleep.
To those
disorders,
visions, it!
To nurses t
Ho Ought to Know.
{ Levi D. Fuller, who lives at Cor-
i land, Ills., is probably as well qualified
| to discuss the success or failure of
! marriage as any man iu the ’country.
In the last twenty-live years he bns
tTT , j been married seven times. He has
wlio^were) received iu his life 1,100 answers to
such advertisements, corresponded
350 women, proposed 119 times,
been accepted eighty-five times, re
jected thirty-four times, received 400
photographs, had six blonde, wives and
one brunette; one wife was red
headed. He has two children. He
says he regards his present wife,
whom li8 got in response to persistent
advertising, as the best of the lot. He
has hopes of ending his days with her.
—Chicago Herald.
“The Gladstone 1
Is the finest lamp taftl
world. It irlves a |>««J
soft, briilinnt wbiiil
light of . S3 call
power,—a i.mrnivl
light from oriiwit
oil! Nolio-.lyevermpl
posed suehaUgl'
[possible from lei
oU; yetit is there,u |
Seeing is Belk.iiJ
A “ wonderfuUaisf'l
It is in all
It never needs Bbl
ruing, never swiul
nor breaks c!iims<f,|
never “smells of »|
oil;" nogumnilar*!
no leaks, no
lug, no climbing!-!»I
flame, no anno) I
of any kind, and Ctrl
not explode. .'‘‘I
then, beside all tafljB
advantages, think of a lamp giving a (tor.n 'I
light. lO to 20 times the size and brlillsw-J“|
any ordinary house lamp ! . , ,. , I
"Tho Gladstone ” is made of
hard rolled metal (all parts Interchange.:'I
and In elegant designs for Dining or Parlor Tt* I
the Study. Drawing-room, Hall or Chamber-** I
lshed lu either Gold bronze. Nickel or AatlgaJ
bronze. Every home should linve it. , I
Illustrated price list will be sent you on twsi
of a postal card. Single lamps at uAo'mokFJI
with or without porcelain shade, carefully W*I
and sent by express to
any part of the country.
t3t~ Sea our prices ana
then order. " Seeing is be-.
lievina." Address
Gladstone t.ninpC
10 East 14th St., New
York City. A live Agent
wanted in every town to
sell these lamps.
Eczema, Itchy, Scaly Skin Disease j
The simple application of “Swathe’siw
ment,” without any internal medicine, 'J
any case of Tetter. Salt Rheum, Ringworm,^
Itch Sores, Plmpl s Eczema, all Scaly, ^
Skin Eruptions, no matter how obstinate
standing. It is potent, effffcctive, aud cosn’i
trifle,
DID YOU KNOW H
as
A Free Hail way Library.
being made by
A friend writing me from Illinois says Arrangements are bei
that Rev. Dr. \Vingate, president of which travelers on the-Austrian and
Wake Forest college, North Carolina, Hungarian railways, will be enabled to
after a most useful life, found his last “ orrow books at railway bookstalls to
j day bn earth his happiest day, and j H° reat ^ during a journey. The condi-
j that in liis last moments he seemed to L 101 ^ are a deposit of one or two
I be personally talking with Christ, as florins to cover the value of the book,
i friend with friend, saying: “Oh, how a fee of ten kreutzers (about. 3d.)
j delightful it is. I knew you would f°r the loan of tlio volume. The de-
1 be with mo when the time came A nrWT posit will be returned to the borrower
| Iknewitwould. be sweet, but
not know it would be as sweet as
Tho fact was ho had served his gene
ration in the gospel ministry, and by
the will of God ho fell on sleep.
When in Africa, Majwara, the serv
ant, looked into the tent of David Iiv-
, ingstonc and found him oh Ms knees,
That i he steppi^l back, not wishing to dis-
sin i turb hipi in prayer, and some time
Do i after went in and found him in the
same posture, and stepped back again,
but after a while went in and touched
him, and lo! the great traveler had
finished his last journey and lio had
died in the grandest and mightiest
and wm uu reiumea to me borrower
I did ° n hls giving up the book wherever
it is.” i — 0 m ay alight. This circulating li-
I r»l»ni»TT CTrefAnY A 1*
Did you know catarrh is a blood disease?
almost invariably is, and frequently is a sy
of inherited blood poison. The tendency to c
may lay dormant in the system half a man’s BW
and then suddenly become atiive and the-
at once severe and troublesome.
N. C. Edwards, Lampassas Springs,
writes: “ For over four years I have been »!
sufferer from a terrible form of Nasal Catarrh. 1
greatly annoyed with aconstant roaring in n?
and my hearing became very much impaired
The discharge from my nose was proiu*
very offensive, and my general W
GATA RRH ' impaired. I tried most all pro® 1
physicians, but they did not
and I used various Advertised preparations vo® 1
benefit
I then sent to the drug store of T. E. S®
Bro., and purchased B. B. B., and to
astonishment, and satisfaction, the use of
ties has restored my general health, stopl
roaring sensation, entirely healed and cured-
nasal catarrh, and I am proud to recomnier.d 4 -'
remedy with such powerful curative proper^ 65,
1 fie ousiness men of our town know of my®
brary system applied to traveling has
not vet been tried op tho continent.
Its chief organizer is an ~ '
w ho proposes to lay in a stock of pop-
• ^ % s of volcano of Kilauea,
in the Hawaiian Islands, which be
came extinct in 1886, are again kindled
and steam and rapev are issuing from
tho several craters, from one of which
3ets of lava are thrown to a height of
twenty-five feet. ~
W. A. Pepper Fredonia, Ala., writes
not refrain from telling you wh* 1 *
JATARRH nous medicare you have.
years my mother has suffer#* •
severe Catarrh of the head and ulcerated sere* ^
She resorted to various remedies vit'nou- *
until she used B. B, *
healed her sore throat”
efficacy of B. B.!
an improvement,
cured sound and
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