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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. Da JuUS It. (} 1, A’A. DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCA TIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE OOUNTT AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. TERMS:— One Dollar Per Tear. VOL.IL CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY*.GA.. FLU DAY , SEl’TEM HER 29, 1893. NO. 39. OTE our clubbing rates. TWO papers REV. DR. TALMAGE for the price of one. All clubbing sub- ♦ script ions should be sent through this Tlio Brooklyn UiVino’s Niindnj office and not to the Constitution. HOW ABOUT HARD TIMES? Are you a supporter of the present finan cial system which congests the currency of the country periodically nt the money centres and keeps the musses at the mercy of classes, or do you favor a broad nml hmiMh SYSTEM Which protects the debtor while it does jus tice to the creditor? If you feel this way, you should not 1k> without that great champion of the peoplo’s rights, The Atlanta Weekly CONSTITUTION It is a schoolhouso within itself, and a P , ,, , . vcur'i reading of THE CONSTITUTION l ubl shod o Atlanta, Oa„ and having a j, a education to any ono. circulation of J The Constitution heart iff/ advocates an KXFAXsroX of the CURltEXCY until tnoro is enougn of it in circulation to do the ligitimate business of the country. If vou wish to help in shaping the lecisla- tion of to these ends, GIVE THE CON ST ITU T ION YOU R A SSI ST A N <' E, lend it a helping hand in tin* tight, and remember that by so doing you will help yourself, help your neighbors, and help your country l AS A NEWSPAPER: THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION lias no equal in America! Its nows reports cover tho world, and its correspondents and agents are t<* be found in almost every huliwick in llio Southern and Western States. AS A MAGAZINE: It prints more such matter as is ordinarily found in the great maga/inos of the country than can bo gotten from even the best of them. More than 156,000 chiefly among the farmers of America, and going to more homes than any weekly news paper published on the lace of the earth. If is ftp biggest AS A FRIEND AND COMPANION: It brings cheer and comfort to the flrosido every week, is eagerly sought by tho children, contains valuable information lor t he mother, ami is an encyclopaedia of ins . uction for every member of tho household. and Efesi Weekly its special features newspaper published in America, covering the news <*f the world, having correspondents in every city in Amor ca and tho capitals of Europe, and reporting in full tho dotai s of the debates in Congress on all questions of public interest. THE CONSTITUTION is among llio low groat newspapers publish ing daily editions on the side of the people ns against European Domination of our money system, and it heartily advocates: 1st. The Free Coinage of Silver. Relieving that the establishment of a single gold standard will wreck tho pros perity of tho great masses of tho people, though it may profit tho few who have already grown rich by federal protection and federal subsidy. ?d. Tariff Reform. Relieving that by throwing our ports open to markets of tho world and levy ing only enough import duties to pay the actunl expenses of tho government, the people will ho better served than by making them pay double prices for protection's suke. 3d. An Income Tax. Relieving that tboso who have much property should hear tho burdens of government in the same proportion to these who huvo little. nro such a* aro not to he found in any other paper in America. 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Address THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Gl Sash, Doors and Blinds! CLARK, BELL & CO., -Manufacturers and Dealers in Sash, Doors, Blinds, mgs, SIIINGFIjEIS and LiUMBEHl. Also SEWER and DRAIN PIPE. Prices as low ».s tho lowest. Smisfnctiou guaranteed. CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga. Of Every Description NEATLY i mrrai AT this ouch. Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention. Orders for Fancy and Plain Job Printing receive prompt attention at this office. Sermon, Tf.xtv "Lord, increase our faith."—Luke i xvli., 5. 1 “What a pity ho Is going there 1“ raid my I friend, a most distinguished general Of the army, when he was told that tlm reason for my not being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn Was that on that day 1 had sailed for the lloly Land. “Why do you say thatV” inquired Bomo one. My military friend re- I plied, “Oh. lie will ho disillusioned when h© gets amidst the squalor find commonplace I scenes of Palestine, and his faith will ho | shaken in Christianity, for that is often tho I result.” The great general misjudged the ' ease. f went to tho Holy Land Tor tho one pur pose of having my faith strengthened, aud that was tho result which oume of it. In all our journeying, in all our reading, in all our associations, in all our plans, augmentation rather than tho depletion or our faith should ho our ohlef desire. It is easy enough to have our faith destroyed, I can give you a reoipo for its obliteration. Read infidel hooks, have long amt frequent conversations With skeptics, attend the lectures of those antagonistic to religion* give full swing to some bad habit, and your faith will ho so completely gone that you will laugh at tho idea that you over had any, If you want to ruin your faith, you can do it more easily than you can do anything else. After believing the Bible all my life I cun see a plain way by which, in six weeks* I could enlist my voloo and pen and heart and head and entire nature in the bombardment of the Scriptures and the church and all I now hold sacred. That it is easy to banish soon and forever all respect for the Bible I prove by the fact that so many have done it. They wore not particularly brainy nor had special force of will* but thoy so thoroughly accom plished tho overthrow of their faith that they have no more idea that the Bible is true, or that Christianity amounts to anything, than they have in the truth of tho “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” or the existence of l>on Quixote's “windmills.'* They have destroyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will have a return of It. Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over the city, the town, tho neighborhood whore they live, and they will fool nothing but a silent or expressed disgust. There are per sons in this house to-dav who 20 years ago gave Up their faith, and they will never re sume it. Tho black and deep toiled boll of doom hangs over their head, and I take the hammer of that bell, and I strike it three times with all my might, and it sounds, Woe! woo ! woo! But my wish, ami the wish of most of you, is the prayer expressed by the disciples of Jesus Clitist in the words ol my text, “Lord, Increase our faith.” Tho first mode of accomplishing this is to study tho Bible Itself. I do,»v>t beliovo there Is an infidel now alive who has road the Bible through. But as so important a docu ment needs to bo read at least twice through In order that it may bo thoroughly under stood, and rend in course, l now offer ❖TOO reward to any infidel who has read tho Bible through twice and read it in course; But I cannot take such a man’s own Word for it, for there is no foundation for integrity ex cept tho Bible, and the man who rejects the source ol truth how can 1 accept his truth- tulnessV So 1 must have another witness in Hie ease before I give thd reward. I must have the testimony of some ono who has seen him road it all through twice. Infidels fish in' this Biblo for in coherencies and contradic tions and absurdities, and if you find their Bible you will soo interlineations ill the book of Jonah and some of the chapters bf that unfortunate prophot nearly worn out by much uso, and Homo parts of II tiainuel or I Kings you will find diin with finger marks, but the pages which contain tho Ton Command ments, and the Psalms of David, ahd tho ser mon on tho mount, and tho book of John tho Evangelist, will uot have a single load pencil stroke in the margin, nor any finger marks showing frequent perusal. Tho father of ono of the Presidents of the United States was a pronounced infidel. I knew it when many years ago I accepted his Invitation to spend tho night in his home. Just before retiring at night he said in a jocose way, “I suppose you aro accustomed to read tho Bible before going to bod, and hero is my Biblo from which to read.” Ho then told me what portions lie would like to ^ave mo read, and lie only asked for those | portions on which ho could easily bo fuce- | lions. You know you can make fun about nny- I thing. I suppose you could take tho last lot- l ter your father or mother over wrote and find something in the grammar or the spelling j or tho tremor of tho penmanship about j which to bo derisively critical. The internal j evidence of tho truthfulness ot the Bltdo is so i mighty that no one man out of the 1,000,000,- { 000 oi the world’s present population or tho vaster millions of the past ever read the t Bible In course, and read it prayerfully and ; carefully, hut was led to believe it. John Murray, the famous hook publisher of Edinburgh, and the intimate friend of Bouthey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning and Washington Irving, bought of Moore, the poet, the “Memoirs of Lord Byron,” and they were to ho published after Byron’s death. But they were not fit to he pub lished, although Murray hud paid for them 110,000. That was a solemn conclave when eight of tho proinlnont literary people of those times assembled In Albemarle street after Byron’s doath to decide wlmt should he done with tho “Memoirs,” which wore charged aud surcharged with defamations and indelicacies. Tho “Memoirs” wore road and pondered, and the decision came that they must he burned, and not until the last word of those “Memoirs” went to ashes did the literary company separate. But suppose, now, ail tho best spirits of all ages wore assembled to decide the fate of the Bible, which is tho last will and testa ment of our Heavonly Father, and these memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be the verdict? Shall they burn, or shall they live? The unanimous verdict of all Is, “Let Ibein live, though all else burn.” Then put together on theotherhund all the debauchees and profligates and assassins of the ages, ! and their unanimous verdict concerning the Bible would ho. “Lot it burn.” Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are Immortal, hut I do say that nil the scrape- graces and scoundrels of the universe agree with them about the Biblo. Lot me vote with those who believe in the Holy Hcripture. Men believe other things with half the evidence required to believe the Bible, The dis- i tinguisbed Abner Kneel and rejected the Scripture and them put all his money into an enterprise for the recovery of that hocus pocus “Captain Kidd’s treasures." Kneeland’s Jaith for doing so being founded on a man’s ! statement that he could toll where those ; treasures were buried from the looks of a g lass oi water dipped from tho Hudson iver. j The internal evidence of tho authenticity of the Scriptures is so exact and so vivid that 1 no man, honest and sane, can thoroughly I and continuously and prayerfully road them 1 without entering their disclpleship. Ho I | put that internal evidence paramount. How ; are you led to believe in a letter you re ceived from husband or wife or child or | friend? You know the handwriting. You l know the style. You recognize the senti- j ment. When the letter comes, you do not ! summon the postmaster who stamped it, and the postmaster who received it, and the let ter carrier who brought it to your door to prove that it is a genuine letter. Tho internal tohsiort. Ho I Will this morning tdrtt this house into a courtroom and summon wit nesses, and you shall be the Jury, and I now impanel you for that purpose^ and I Will put Vipod tho Witness titninl men whom all the World (ioknowlodgo to be strong intellectually and whoso ovidenoe in any other courtroom would bo incontrovertible. I will not call to tlio witness stand any minister of the Gospel, for ho might be prejudiced. There nro two ways ; of taking an oath in a courtroom. Ono Is by putting the lips to the Biblo and tho otlior is by holding up tho right hand tOWuril hOAvcii. NoW* as in this case it is the Bible that is on trial, wo will not ask the Witness to put tho book to Ills lips, for that would Imply that tho sanctity and divinity of the book is settled, and that would be begging t lie finest,loth So I shall ask each Witness to lift his Unitd toward heaven in affirmation. Salmon I*. Chase* ohiof justice of the su premo court of the united States appointed by President Lincoln, will take the witness stand. “Chief Justice Uhase, Upon your oath, please state what you havotos.ay about the book commonly called the Bible." Tho witness roplios • “There eame a time In my life when I doubted tho divinity of the Scrip tures, and I resolved, ns a lawyer and judge, 1 would try the hook as [ would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long and serious and pro found study, and using) tho same principles of ovidonco In this religious matter ns 1 al ways do in secular matters 1 have come to tho decision that tho Bible Is n supernatural book, that it has ooitao from God. and that tho only safoty for the human raoo is to fol low its teachings.” “Judge, that will do. Go back again to your pillow or dust on tho hanks of the Ohio.” Next I put upon tho witness stand a Presi dent of the united Slates—John Qtiluooy Adams, President Adams, what have you to say about tho Biblo and ChristianityV’ r Tho President replies “I have for many years inado it a practice to road through tho Bible onoe a your. My custom is to read four or chapters ovory morning Immediately after arising from my bed. It employs about nil hour of my time and seems lo mo tho moBt suitable mnnnorof beginning the day. In what light soovor wo regard tho Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to his tory or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.” Next I put upon the witness stand Sir Isaac Newton, the author of the “Prlnoipla” and the greatest natural philosopher tho world has ever seen, “Sir Isaac, what liuYO you to say concerning the Bible?” The nltUOsophor’fl toply i«, “Wo account tho Scriptures of God to bo tho most suhlimo philosophy ” Next I put upon tho witness stand tho en chantment of lotters, Sir Walter Scott, and when Insk him wlmt ho thinks of the place that our groat book ought to take among other books ho roplios, “Tliero is but one book, and that is the Bible ” Next I put upon tho stand the most famous geologist of all time, Hugh Miller, mi elder of Dr. Guthrie’s Presbyterian church in Ed inburgh, and Faraday and Kepler, and they all testily to tho same thing. They all say Die Bible is from God, and that tho mightiest influence for good that over touched our world is Olirlotmhiiy* “Chancellor Kent, what do you think of llio Bible?” Answer: “No other hook over addressed itself so authoritatively and bo pathetically to tho judgment and moral souse or mankind.” “Edmund Burke, what do you think of tho Biblel” Answer: “I have read tho Biblo morning, noon and nighty and lmvo over since boon the happier J the bettor man for such reading, Next I put upon the land William E» Glad stone, tho head Of to English government, and I hoar him saying wlmt ho said to mo in .January of 1800, whoii In reply to his tele gram, “Prayoomo to HaWatdoiito-morrow,” I visited hint* Then piid there I asked him as to whether in tho passage of years his faith in tho Holy Scriptures and Christianity was on tho Inoroase or decrease, and ho turned upon mo with an emphasis and enthusiasm such ns no ono who has not conversed with him can fully appreciate and expressed by voice and gesture aud illumined countenance his ever increasing faith in God and tho Bible and Christianity as tho only hopo of our ruined world. “That is all, Mr. Gladstone, wo will take of your Vlino now, for, from the reports of what is going on in England Just now, I think you aro very busy.” Tho sulphurous graves of Sodom and Gomorrah have been identified. Tho re mains of tho toweiirof Babel have been found.* Assyrian documents lifted from the sand and Bohistun inscription hundreds of foot high up on tho rock echo and ro-ooho the truth of Bible history. Tho signs of tho time indicate that almost every fact of the Biblo from lid to ltd will find Its corrobora tion in ancient city disentombed, or ancient wall cleared from the dust of ages, oranolont document unrolled by arclunologist. Before tho world rolls on as far into the twentieth century as It has already rolled Into tho nineteenth an infidel will bo a man who dons not believe his own senses, umltlio volumes now critical and denunciatory of the Bible, If uot entirely devastated by the hook-worms, will bo taken down from the shelf as curiosities of ignorance or idiocy. All success to tho pickaxes mid crowbars and powder blasting of those apostles of archroo- iogical exploration. I like the ringing de fiance of tho old Huguenots to the assailants of Christianity: “Pound away, you rebels! Your hammers brealtijkbut tho anvil of God’s 1 word stands* ” Tr How wonderful the old book hangs to gether. It is a llbraxw made up of 00 hooka and written by at least 80 authors. It is a supernatural thing that they have stuck to gether. Take the writings of any other 89 authors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 authors, and put them together, and how long would they stay together? Books of “elegant ex tracts” compiled from many authors are proverbially short lived. I never know one such book which, to use the publisher’s phrase, “h.«d life in it” for live years. Why is it that the Bible, made up of the writings of at least 89 authors, has kept to gether fora long line of centuries when the natural tendency would have been to fly apart like loose sheets oi paper when a gust of wind blows upon them? It is because God stuck them together and keeps them to gether. But for that Joshua would have wandered off in o»6 direction, and Paul into another, and Ezekiel into another, and Ha- bakkuk into another, pud the 89 authors in to 39 directions. Put tho writings of Shakespeare and Ten nyson and Longfolfow, or any part of them, together. How Jong would they stay to gether? No book bindery could keep them together, But the cannon of tho Scripture is loaded now with the same ammunition with which prophet and apostle loaded it. Bring me all the Bibles of the earth into one pile, aud blindfold mo so that I cannot tell the difference between day and night, and put into inv hand any one of all that Alpine mountain of sacred books, and put my finger on the last page of Genesis and lot mo know it, and I cun tell you wlmt is on the next page —namely, the first chapter of Exodus; or while thus blindfolded put my finger on tho last chapter of Matthew and let me know it. and I will tell you what is on the next page namely, the first chapter of Mark. In the pile of 500,000.000 Bibles there will he no exception. In other words, the hook gives me confidence by its supernatural adhesion of writing to writing Even the stout eat'ship sometimes shifts its cargo, and that is what made our peril the greater in the rihip Greece of the Notional line when the cyclone struck us off th6 or Newloundlaud, ami the cargo of shifted as the ship swung from larboar starboard, and from starboard to larbo: But, thanks bo to God, this old Bible ship, though it has been in thousands of years of tempest, lias kept its cargo of gold and pre cious stones compact and sure, and in all the centuries nothing about it has shifted. Thera they stand, shoulder to shoulder, David and and Peter, nil there, ntid with rt cflftaluty of being thorn until tho heavens and tho earth, j tho creation of which is described in tho first hook of tlu^ Bible, shrill have tiollnpsed, and tho White horse df tho conqueror/ described In the hist book of tho Bible, shall paw tho , dust in universal demolition. By that tro* ; mendous fact my faith is re-enforced. Tho discussion is abroad as to who wrote those books of tho Bible ended the Penta- ( teuch, whether Moses or Ililklah, or Ezra or j Samuel, or Jeremiah, or another group of ancients. None of them wrote it. God wrote tho Pentateuch, and in this day of stenography an.1 typewriting that ought not to be a difficult tiling to understand. The j groat merchants and lawyers, and editors and business men of our towns and cities ! dictate nearly all their letters \ they only sign thorn after they are dictated. Tho prophet and evangelist and apostle were Jehovah’s stenographers or typewriters. They put down only what God dictated, ho signed it afterward. He has bocu writing his name Upon it all through the vicissitudes of centuries. But I come to tho height of my subject j when I say tho way to re-enforoo our faith ia to pray for it. So tho disciples In my text got their abounding faith. “Lord, increase | o n- faith.” Some one suggests, “Do you really think that prayer amounts to any- i thing?” I might as well ask you, is there a j lino of telegraphic polos from Now York to i Washington, is there a lino of telegraphic wires from Manchester to London, from | Cologne to Berlin? All the people who have | sent and received messages on those lines know of their existence. So there arc mill- ! ions of souls who have been iii constant com- i ran ideation with the capital of the universe, 1 with the throne of the Almighty, with the great God Himself, for years and years and years. There has not been a day when supplicn- 1 Rons’ did not flash up aud blessings did not Hash down. Will some igno- . ramus, who has never received a telegram or j sent one, come and toll us that there is no j such thing as telegraphic communication? ; Will some one who ims never offered a prayer J tlmt was heard and answered come and toll us that 1 hero is nothing in prayer? It may | not come as we expect it, but as sure as an honest prayer goes up a merciful answer will come down. During the blizzard of four or five years ago, you know that many of the telegraph wires were prostrated, and I telegraphed to Chicago by way of Liverpool, and the answer after awhile came round by another wido circuit, and so the prayer we offer may come back in a way we never imagined, and if wo ask to have our faith increased, although it may come by a widely different process than that Which We expected, our confidence will surely bo augmented. Oh, put it in every prayer you ovor malco between your next oreath and your last gasp, “Lord, Increase our faith”—faith in Christ as our personal ransom from present guilt (Hid (denial catastrophe; faith In thoomnlpo- tent Holy Ghost ; faith in the Bible, tho truest volume ever dictated or written or printed or road : faith in adverse providonoos, har monized for our best welfare; faith in a judgment day that will set all things right which have for ages been wrong. lnero/tso our faith, not by a fragile ad dition, but l>y an infinitude of recuperation. Lot us do us wo saw it done ill tho country while we wore yet ill our teens, at tho old farmhouse after a long drought, and tho well liud boon dried, and the cattle moaned with thirst at the bars, and tho meadow brook had ceased to run, and tho grass wit bored, and the corn was shriveled up, and ono day there was a growl of thunder, and then a congregation of clouds on the sky. and then u startling flash, and thon a drenching ruin, and father and mother put barrels under every spout at tho corners of BUDGET 0E FUN. 1IUMOUOU8 SKETCHES KKOM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Seaside l.lyll— And Hi." Meshes Arc Vine—Among Friend*—Didn’t .Ml Speck at Onoe—Trans, formation, Etc. • 4. They worn sitting In the twIllKhf. Whore tho waves brook on tin. Hand, And an arm wan wound around hnr, Thoy wore clasping hand to hand ; And aha bent a little closer, Toward a face sun-kissed with tan, And to guslo Mamie whispered: “Don't you wish we'd see a man/" —Now York World. ANI) THE MESHES AID: KINK, “Ho tlio Duke is casting his net for nn American heiress?" “You- liio coronet. •Puck. AMONG KIIIRNDH. Willis—“Brown says he has a horse for Hale.” Wallace—“I don’t doubt it. I sold him ono tho other day.”—Life. didn't am, speak at once. Elmore—“Did you ovor nee a com pany of women perfectly silent?” Decker—“Onoe. Homo one had naked which was tho oldest."—Now York Herald. TRANSFORMATION. “I hear that tho literary club made quite n lion of Timmins on account of bin latest poem." “Yes; they kept it up till they made an uhh of him."—Indianapolis Journal. , one on nOSTON, Englishman — “This is beastly weather.” Bostonian—“Beastly? Why, there’s nothing animal about it, is thore?" Englishman—“Certainly. Isn't, it raining eats and dogs?”—Y'ankee Blade. A MODERN EMPLOYMENT. "What ho,” cried the Viking, in sour displeasuro, “whore aro my Halt ing nets?” “Hire,” replied the Prime Minister, “tho Crown Prince has returned from college and is using them for lawn tenuis."—Dotroit Tribune. the next morning ho came in again, and was handed a dispatch—an affirm ative reply. Tho operator expressed his sympathy. “ ’Twas a" little rough to keep you’ so long in suspense." “Look here, young feller,” said tho farmer, “I’ll stand all tho suspense. A woman that'll hold hack her answer to a proposal of marriage all day, so as to send it by night rates, is jest; tho economical woman that 1'vo been a-wnitin' for?"—Jalappo Journal. 1 V TESTIMONY OF ONE WHO KNEW. . Stranger—“This is a beautiful part of the city. Property must l>e very high here. ” Citizen—“No, sir, property isn’t worth anything along bore." “Not worth anything ! Why, every house in this row is it palace, and there's half a mile of them !" "That doosu’t malco any diffetonco, I They are owned by men that are suffer ing for the necessaries of life.” “I don’t sot' any indications that the owners want to sell out.” "They'ro too poor to be able ovon’ to buy ‘Eor Hale’ cards to put in tho windows.” “Huvo you got any property aloug this row?" _ I Haven't, a foot of dirt within a milo of it." < “Then how do you know all this?” “I'm tho—” i (Interrupting)—“Why, (treatScott 1 I ought to have known it at at onoo.l Shake! I'm an assessor myself when 1 I’m nt home."—Ohioago Tribune. \ HUSBAND AND WfFE IN ACCORD. “Women must consider it an awful fate to bo nn old maid,” mused Mr. Chugwater. “They do, .Tosiah,” Httid Mrs. Chug- water. “What terrible sticks thoy Bometimos marry to escape it.” And Josinh rubbed his chin and said Barrels minor every spout at me cotuin ui i , : / .i : 'lv. the house and Bet palls and huokots and j nothing.—Chicago tribune, tubs nnd pans and pitchers to catch as j mtleli as they could of the shower. For In j many of our souls there 1ms been a long I drought of donlldnneo add In many no faith j at all. Lot us sot out all our ulfootlons, nil | our hopus, all our ooutoinplntlous, all our j> nl afraid my children by my first prayers, to onteh o mighty shower. 1 ,ori, ; w ;[ 0 w jll make a contest, and then tho increase our faith. I lawyers will get it. ” Young Wifo—“Don’t worry, my BUSINESS HEAD. Old Bullion (on his death bed) “All my property is willed to you, but t like tho way that tho minister's widow ] did In Elisha’s ttmn, whon, after tho family I being very unfortunate, her two sous were about to lio sold for debt, and she had noth- ; lag in the house but a pot of oil, and nt Elisha's direction bIwi borrowed from hor | neighbors all tho vessels she could borrow, 1 and then began to pour out the oil Into those j vessels nnd kept on pouring until they wore ; nil full, and she became nn oil merchant with more assets than liabilities, nnd when she cried, ”liring mo yet n vessel,” tho nnswei eame. "There Is not n vessel more." Ho let us take what oil of faith we have and user It until the supply shall ho miraculously multi plied. liring on your empty vessels, nnd by the power of the Lord Uud of Elisha thoy | lovo; 1 oan easily fix that. I’ll marry ono of tho lawyers."—New York Weekly. A MIllAOLE. “You know that beautiful blind girl that I huvo loved so long?" “Yes. ” “Well, 1 think I have restored her sight. ” “You don’t say?” “Yos, I proposed to her Inst night shall he tilled until thoy can hold no more ol , ftn(1 attic ] thut h1i0 would juhlhmf, all Inspiring and triumphant infill. M v • • Pl4AUU \YJmt frightful time wo nml a .few day! | Now York I rcBB. ago down on tho coast of Long Island, whort j I lmvo been stopping. That archangel ol ( finally haw, tempest which, with its awful wings, swopt _ the Atlantia oooat from Florida to Newfound- Professor Pottorby—“Dear lao. the Atlantic ooaflt iron: Florida to Newiounu- uuiuhsui — jsuui uiu. j land did not snare oar region. A few in lien ! do believe that young Freshly was mer’nieu 1 tvilom theXmn hml^lnin amrthe mtlk ?, n K K ,im « o£ m0 y^rdny morn- sen lmd oust up, As 1 stood theru among the | ing. dead bodies I said to myself, and I said aloud ] Mth, Potterby—“Why so, Mocratos, "These represent homos. Wlmt will j j 0(ir 9” wheu Umy*know thi’s?" W *° blldreU ** j Professor Potterby-“Ho wanted to Homo ot tho victims were unknown. Only , the llrst name of two of thorn was found out —Oburleynnd William. I wondered then and , 1 wonder now If they will remain unknown and If some kindred far away may lie waiting know if Paris green was not oftennsud for dyeing purposes."—Indianapolis Journal. for their coming nnd never hoar of thu rough way of their going. I saw nlso ono of thu three who had nomo in alive, hut more dead than alive. The ship had become helpless six miles out, and as ono wave swept tho doek and went down on the furnaces till thoy hissed and went out the cry was, "Oh, my (Tod, we aro lost! 1 Thun tho crow put on life preservers, one of the sailors saving to the Other, “We will meet again on the shore, and, If not, well, wo must all go Homo time.” Of tho twenty-threo men who put on tho life preservers, only throe lived to ranch the bench. Hut what a scene it was as the good amt kind people of Southampton, led on by Jir. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of New York, stood watching tho sailors strug gling in the breakers. "Aro you still alive?” shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them out In the breakers, and ho signaled yes and thon went Into unconsciousness. Who should do the most for tho poor fellows and how to HOW HE STAMMERED. Hobbs and Dobbs were dismissing men who stammer. “The hardest job I evor had," said Dobbs, “was to understand a deaf ttnd dumb man who stammered." “How can a deaf nnd dumb man stammer?” asked Dobbs. “Easily enough, "replied Dobbs, “ho had rheumatism in his fingers."—Phil adelphia Beeord. HIS LAST EXPERIENCE. Mr. Young Pop—“I’ll bo cook my self, my dear, but I’m blessed if I’ll Bet foot in an intelligence office again. I picked out tho most respectable-look ing woman in the room and stepping .esusellate them were tho questions that ran , up to hor said : ‘Can yon fill tho posi- up and down the beach at Houthnmpton. ! (j OI| 0 f cook V wrmXgXTr^rhn^Bond; 0 ^ ! “She looked like our bantam fight- for the sufferers to come within reach, nml iug-cook ns Bhe replied: 1 am trying then they were lifted up and carried Indoors f Q j,], f hat 0 f our coachman. I think you would Huit admirably.’ "—Life. PEDUNCLE’S LITTLE INACCURACY. Maud—“How do yon like that young Mir. Peduncle?” Irono—“I don’t like him at all. He’s and watted on with as much kindness and wrapped as warmly as though they had been tlie princes of the earth. "Are they alive?” "Are they breathing?” "Do you think they will live?" "What can wo do tor them?" were tho rapid and Inhume questions asked, and so much money was sent for the oloth- lag and equipment of the unfortunates that Dr. Thomas had to makua proclamation that no more money was noodod. In othor words, all that day It was resuscitation. And this Is tho appropriate word for us this morning as we stand and look ofT upon this awful sea of doubt uud unbelief on which hundreds are this moment being wrecked. - Home ot them were launched by Christian enough to eat. parentage on smooth seas and with promise “Well, what of that?’ lor prosperous voyage, hut a Voltatrocydone i struck thorn on one side, and n Tom Paine Killed by Moccasin Snakes. i Minnie Hightower, tho sixteeu-year- ohl (laughter of Hirnm Hightower, n trapper ami fisherman, who lives on Horseshoe Lake, in the Ht. Francis bottoms, Arkansas, was killed by moo- ensin snakes the other day in a singular nnd horrible manner. The story was told by a man who saw her body, Tho moccasin snake loses its vision almost entirely during tho month of August, just before it sheds its skiu. During tho period of blindness tho reptilo is very viciottH and strikes nt every noise. Horseshoe Lake is noted for tho num ber of snakes to tie found in its waters and along the banks. Miss Hightower had killed hundreds of tho Huakos dur ing her life, which was spent on and noar tho lake, nnd had little fenr of them. Shu paddlod her ennoo to a drift of logs in tho middlo of tho lake for the purpose of fishing. There woh no ono nt homo hut her brother, aged six years, Hightower having gone to tho head of tho lake with the only other boat thoy had. Whon Hightower returned at noon 1 he found tho boy running up and down tho shore of tho lake crying. The child snid Minnie got on the drift nnd fished for a few minutes, thon began to beat something with a polo and scream.' Then she foil down. Hightower looked toward tho drift aud could see his 1 daughter’s body. Ho paddled quickly, to tho island of logs, which is not more than 100 yards from tho bank. Lying on tho logs was the girl, dead, swollen and disoolored almost beyond recognition. Hightower counted seven large moccasins coiled on aud around the body. 8ho was barefooted aud tho marks of tho sorpents’ fangs were on her foot, face nnd nook. It wasapparent thnt tho girl had found a colony of snakes on the drift pilo nnd that while she was killing one others had bitten her on tho foot. She fainted from pain anil fright and the roptilos sank thoir fangs into her fnco aud nook. The snakoB showed do disposition to retreat when tho agonized father approached. Thoy coiled and struok at him ns soon as he set foft on the logs. Ho dis patched two with his paddle, then, as the romnining five did not retreat, he got a long pole and thrashed them to death. It took him nearly an hour to recover tho body of his child from tho suakc-inlestod wood drift pile.—Chi cago Herald. The Rarest Plants, ■*. Tho question which aro the rarest plants on earth admits of two answers —as to rarity of distribution and rarity in tho numerical sense. There nro some plants which grow in one small spot and nowhere else. Such arc tho Kerguolnn cabbage,' whioh is found only on Kerguelan Isl and, a remote island in the South Paci fic, the spocies of harebell which grows only on Mt. Pnrnnssus, and a yam which is found only on tho Pyrenees.' Tho palm of numorioal rarity is divided among two hybrid orchids— artificially produced crosses—laelin bellu and laulia Medina, of each of whioh only one specimen exists, a unique (lower enllod odontoglossom veeillarium. exhibited at tho last ex hibition of tho Horticultural Sooiety, in Temple Gardens, and a tiny Japan ese plant, overweighted by the proten- tious name schizocoden Holdanel- lioides, whioh was brought from Japan about two years ago by Oaptain Tor rens. So far us is known it is llio only one in existence. —Boston Clobe. The ({neon ol the Antilles. either very stupid or he's an impudent Jamaica has perhaps made greater upstart. I said to him ut tho party strides in tho way of progress than lust night that 1 didn’t foci like eating | any of England’s smaller colonios dur- anything and he said : “Why, Miss , ing tho past twenty-five years, and Squires, you certainly look well : ho 1(1.18. ! 0 „ 0 | 0n „ Btnlr .i< thorn on the othor side, and a ,, I had habit cyclone struck them on all sides, Y ! and thoy huvo laundered faraway from shore, riruo.tr-i. : f\ r .A mul Fihvg conn down evidence settles It, and by thu same process you can forever settle tbe fact that the Bible Is the handwriting and communication of tlio Infinite (rod. Furthermore, as I have already intimated, we may increase our faith by the testimony I Am , _ of otliers. Perhaps we of lesser brain may . Nahum nnd Habbaljkuk and Kephaumh nnd have been overgomo by superstition or ; Haggnl and /jtchnT'Uh and Maluebl and Mnt- gslaled lute «u cgrptaGes of a hollow ers- I thaw amt Msrw apd Luke end John and Paul .Solomon and Isaiah and Jeremiah nnd Eze kiel and Daniel uud Ifosea nnd Joel and d Obadish and Jonah and Mleahand tar away from God, aud thoy have gone down I or are washed ashore with no spiritual life ieft in them. but, thank God, there nro many hero to day with enough faith loft to encourage us “Why, ho should have said I looked good enough to oat.”—Chicago Tri bune. JUST WHAT 11E WANTED. A farmer entered a telegraph office in Central New York nnd sent this :h lott to encouraKe ns message to n woman in Canada : In the elTorl at their resuscitation. All hands 0 — to tho beach I With a confidence In God that Will you be my wifo? Please takes no denial, let in lay hold of them 1 answer nt onoe by telegraph.” Fetch them out of tho breakers I Bring gos- Then he sat down and waitod. No pel warmth and gospel stimulus nnd gospo . r_r till late in life to thoir freezing souls I Rosuseltatlon 1 answer curm. tie waited till late III ncsujcitatloul I too evening, still no nnswer, Early has some right now to call horself “the Queen of the Antilles.” Among the evidences of improvement may be citod the hotels whioh have sprung up in tho island, for the building of ono of whioh #1120,000 wus expended. Thon tho Americans are laying linos of rail way through the best part of the island, and the fruit cultivation is now as productive as that of sugar, whilo the price of land has risen enor mously. Carlyle’s shade would be astonished to hear that the onoe thrift less natives huvo managed to put by nearly #2,500,000 in thoir snvings hanks.- London World.