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SMILK8. W things don’t come your way, why go round and head them off.— Galves¬ ton News. Went down with his colors flying_ the painter when his stagging broke.— /Atwell Courier. w® will have Cela mM ried)—“Maria, dinner. as a second course ’ Maria—“How much ought I to got. ma’am?” Mrs. Hale-“I think twelve yards will bo sufficient.”— » ogue. A boy never saw all of a circus; he firmly there, bellovos that only half of it is the half that it is on tho bills Doing Globe. in some other town .—Atchison While tho rest of us have occasional streaks of bad luck, it is tlio horseman ^bo neglects his harness who really knows what hard lines arc .—Buffalo Courier. called Lawyer—“It is truo that my cliont the plaintiff an ox, but consid¬ do ering tho present high prico of beef I not consider that a very great in¬ sult, — Flicgesn dc, Jltaetier.' *.........— -.....- .................. ..... -■ Half a Century. One at fifty don’t feel old, yet. he has had considerable exporicnco. Ac¬ cording has lived to a statistician, a man who a half century has slept 6,000 days has worked only 6,500, 1ms sjKJut in amusement 4,000. His diet lias embraced about oight tons of meat and two tons of fish, eggs and vegeta¬ bles, und he has drunk over 7,000 gal¬ lons of fluid. Ho has been ill about 600 <lays, which is surprising consid¬ ering above gluttony, and lmn walked R distance equal to half around tho globo. The Money-Maker. The Lest money-maker on tho farm is the hen. She turns grass int i green hooks, grain into gold, and from the sand and gravel sho coins silver. There is nothing else on tlio farm to compare witii her. The horses nrnl cattle are heavy consumers, and to get their value we must part with them ; hut not so with tho hen. In her small way she is a gold mine on tho face of the earth; a mill tlmt grinds that which others overlook or refuse.— Farmers' Review. lly Violence Little Is accomplished l» tills civilized era, but with the gentle laxative, lies tetter’s Stomach Bitters, tho howels are relieved with¬ out abruptness or subsequent weakening. Dm*- V *ia, malaria, rheumatism, weakness curative, and kidney trouble ji. ld to this reliable toremost a'so amona lnvtgornnts and. rued ltd recommended nr a fair trial by anti physician'', convinced. Give this no You are mistreating your friend whon you trout |,Jm vvtt li whl k< y. Hr. KUmer's Hwamc-Root cures all Pamphlet Klduoy and Consultation Bladder (roubles. and free, laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. An ounce of put off will cause a ton of re* isn't. “A 1‘rnetlenl Age” I- a lit epithet for the present age. "Of what u«e Is ft r” and ‘‘How soon will I got nty money • ml of it?" aru questions always asked before leaking hii Invest meet of nny kind. Bright, intomgiMtt young ladies no longer spend their Um« in Requiring useless accomplishments, l’urents * bo wish to render their children independent, eannnt do a wiser thing than Kive them a course In shorthand and type¬ pleasant writing. For young Indies ll Is a genteel and work, and for'yonng men It is often t lie stepping stone to a higher business posi th>n. l or terms, etc., in t he best, most thor \ n *» complete school in tlio Mouth, write Miss McNutt's School of Stenography .V ,U B big., is.writing, IN 137 and 133 8. B. & h. Assn. all St., Knoxville, Toon. Throw Physic to the l»ogs. So Shahc-pcnre said, ami it Is tim best of g<sid advice for those suffering with tetter, ringworm, ri/rma, diseases. still rheum and other parasitic -kin I’hy-ie never cured them and never will. Most h!oo<l medicines are with merely sealey cat hurtles haven’t anything to tin skin eruptions. Tetterlne is tho mil) absolutely sure cure. Druggists sell it, no <ents a box, or by mail on receipt of price by J. T. SlIUPTHINB, Savannah, Ua Attention, Tourist. Tlie most pleasant and cheapest way to rearli Boston, New York, am! the East Is via t entral Huilroml and Ocean Steamship Com¬ pany. |24 The tale Is inclml for tit o round trip, 00 stmight. Tickets o meals and stateroom. Tables supplied with all the deli* caries of tlio season. .....In For in forma' ion call on or address ., any agent of Central R. ll. Who Are They t No medical remedy ever put before the peo¬ ple has received an endorsement so universal and enthusin tie among the thousands who have used It as that which has been given to Dr King's Royal Oormetuer. Both as to character and number these statements are without a parallel in t he history of medicines, an I they prove beyond question that this great remedy does what is claimed for it. Karl's Clover Ro >t, the great b’ood purifier, give* rroettnesH and clearness to the complex ton and cures constipation, 23 ets., 50 cts., $1. Seaboard Air l.lnr. Short Line to Norfolk and Old Point, Com fort, \ a. Tit rough sleeper on ventibuled train between Atlanta ami Nv’ashington. Also bo tween Augusta and Portsmouth, Vo. Ilnll’a Catarrh Cure la a Constitutional Cure. Price 73c. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25e per bottle. Yes, money talks, >>ut It Is very short in its way Just now. Impure Blood Maolfcets Itself in hot weather in hives, pim¬ ple*, bolls and other eruptions which disfig¬ ure the face and cause great annoyance. The euro ts found in Hood's Sarsaparilla which |-|ood’s Sarsa¬ parilla and disfigurations. makes removes the blood all It pure such also r*ures give* strength, creates a» appetite and invigorates the whole ays t***_ Get Hood’s. Hood's Pills are prompt and efficient MIEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Tula no University of Louisiana. xapk _ Iuad*xn«»g— Ixhurxiud nod for v*r*e «bo r <-»t instruction, hospital both in * r <xnt maf-rial* •J* fti>' accrri i« atron to the araat Qartl IIcapital with Tee bad* and tuouu patients an «m*S y. Special n«truction The ia given dat y at Tit* nri> *»D»orrtiK air*. next te—ion begt ta Oct her IS»h, ItW. F *t cata!o*u > and Information addrwes Prof. S. K. CHA1LLK, M. D., Dean. HTP. O. Drawer Ml. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Opium home habit cured at ‘No without pain. Remedy cure, *hi n a pay.” c to any end place in the world by mail particulars fico Addr’sconfiden¬ on npnlica t on. tially, l hire Co..Lock Acute Opium Box 15, Decatur, Ua. bt/din/J *X»T*C. rtAMANMIir. Sllom HAND. TtrXWXITIKO.ee,, «»». L*W t . iKtvxn Ally UMiftlt b* t»Jf -If. rUntf-t ttA.hwrV of Rome. COMMISCIAI. You rtUl prominent Attorney* t Attending »•« turnon, time. . WM An i tAiltoA.I fAte y tltis Mow’ bcAlthful kxAttuQ in the South. J.C. HARM ISON. President. ROM R. CA. CDCC EL I catalog, giving ■* ■ • w EL ■xai »•» ■ ’ a of theHf ^ o|«nt t tptia and . beat IRON VINCE made Cor oometoy ua J- w; Rice. Atlanta, ca. REV. DR. TAIMAGK THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 8UN .. DAY jSERMONe Subjeot: “Laughter** i : T £? n wafi 0Qr mouth filled with laughter ,. "—ftaim , cxxvl., 2. “He that sit the hoavens 8hal1 laugh.’’—Psalm 4 . . referenoe dom tho Bible mak« to this configuration of the fea qu J ck e *P ul *lon of breath which tT! n , . ^ hter Sometimes It is born and J of Homwmes ... it sometimes the midnight. and stirs the sympathy of angels sometimes the oaohlnnatlon of devils. All healthy people laugh. Whether It pieaaes tho Lord or displeases Him, that de pends upon tkeme when to-day we laugh is the and laughter at what we the nili Bible—namely, Sarah's of skepticism David’s laugh, laugh, or that of unl exultation ; or that of spirit fin il s the fool’s laugh, or that oi infinite nierrlrnent; condemnation; God's laugh, or that of that of eternal heaven’s laugh, or orie triumph. Abraham and ?tal Sarah, tent. perhaps The occupants, wrinkled and decrepit. Their three guests are three angels the Lord Almighty one of them. In people ^“ r . n l*? God r promises hospitality Rnrnh shown that by she the shall old become the ancestroas of tho Lor i Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God. She does not believe it. Sho is affrighted at what she has done. She denies it. She says, “I did not laugh.” Then God retorted with an emphasis that silenced all dlsnuta K b0 u dl(lst ,au * b -" My frion Is, t io laugh of skepticism s In ail agos is only the echo of Sarah’s laughter. God says Ho will accomplish a thing, and men say it can not tio dono. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. They say they aro contrury to the ?, aturo - w hat a law of nature? It is God s way of doing a thing. You or¬ dinarily cross a river at one ferry. To-mor¬ row you another change for one day, and you go across ferry. You made the rule. Have you not tho.right to change it? You ordinarily come in at that door of the church. Suppose that next Sabbath you como in at tho other door. It is a habit you have. Have you not a right fo change your habit? A T of .!M' t,,ro ,8 «od’s lmbit-His way of doing , things. If Ho makes law. has tho Ho toohangeit?°* Alas! iaDse 11 atany timo 110 wants for tlio folly of those who laugh at God when He says, “I will do a thing.’’ they responding. “You can’t doit.” God snys that the Biblo la true—It la all (rue. Bishop laughs, Oolenso laughs, Herbert fiponcer Stuart Mill laughs, great German unlvorsltios laugh, Harvard laughs—softly. many of the learned Institutions, with long rows of professors seated on tho fence between Christianity and infldolity. laugh softly. They say, “Wo didn’t laugh.’ 1 That Was Sarah’s trick. God thunders from the hoavons. “But thou didst laugh !” The garden of Eden was only a fable. Thore never was any ark built, or If It was built It was too small to have two of every kind. 1 ho pillar of fire by night was only the northern lights, the ten plagues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen or juggler)’. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a groat while from ono direction. The sun and moon did not put themselves out of the way for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and picturesque clouds. The de¬ stroying angel smiting the firstborn In Egypt was only cholera Infantum become epidemic. positive Tbo gullet of the whale, by prophet. measurement, Tho too small to swallow story of the immaculate conception larno, a shook to all deoency. The the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured bv mere human surgery. The resurrection of Christ s friend only a beautiful tableau, Christ and Lazarus and Mary and Martha acting Ihoir parts woli. My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement of God’s holy word that has not boon derided by the skepticism I of the day. take up this book of King James’s trans¬ lation. 1 1 consider it a perfoot Bible, but hero are skopttes who want it tofn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my band, let mo tear out all thoso portions which the skepticism of this day demands shall bo torn out. What shnil go first? “Well,” says some one In the audience, “take out nil that about tho oroation and about tho first settlement of tlio world." Awny goes Genesis. “Now,” savs some ono, “take out ail that about tho miraculous guidanoo of the ohildron of Israel th0 wllll e r h 08 s.” Away goes Exodus. Now, „ save some ono else in the audience, “there aro things in Deuteronomy ana Kings Deuteronomy that are not fit to be read,” Awny go and tho Kings. “Now,” says some one, “tho book of Job is a fable that ought to como out.” Avrny goes tho book of Job, “Now,” says some one, “those pass¬ ages in tho Now Testament which Imply the divinity Away of Jesus Christ ought to come out ” go the Evangelists. “Now,” says some one, “tho book of Revolution—how preposterous! It represents a man with the moon under his feet and a sharp sword In his hand.” Away goes the book of Revela¬ tion. Now there are a few pieces left. What shall wo do with them? “Oh," says sjme man In tho audlenoe, “I don’t believe a word in tho Bible from one end to the oth¬ er,” Woll, it is all gone. Now you have put is out the lost light for tho nations. Now It the pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, wo had better keep the Bible a little longer intact. It has done pretty woll for a good many years. Then there are old people who find it a com¬ fort fo have it on their laps, and children like the storios in it. Lot us keep it for n thrown curiosity anyhow. It tho Bible is to bo out of tho school and out of tho and courtroom, It Is so that men no more swear by it to be put In a dark corridor of the oity library, the Koran on one side and tho writings of Confucius on the other, then let us each ono keep a copy for himself, for we might have trouble, and we would want to be under the delusions of its consolations And we might die, and we would want the uejuslon of tho exalted residence of God’s right awful hand, which it mentions. Oh, what an hurl thing it is to laugh in God’s face and His Revelation back at Him! Aiter awhile the day will come when they will say they critielsms, did not laugh. Then all the hypar all the caricatures and all tho learned sneers in the quarterly reviews will be brought to judgment, * lag flaming of everything beneath and <s the of everything above God will thun¬ der, “But thou didst laugh!” I think the most fascinating laughter at Christianity I ever remember was a man In New England. He made the word of God seem ridiculous, and he laughed on at our holy religion until he came to die, and then he said : “My life has been a failure—a failure domestically. I have no children. A failure socially, for I am treated in the streets like a pirate. A failure professionally because I know but one minister that has adopted my sentiments.” For a quarter of a century he laughed at been Christianity, and ever since Christianity has thin laughing at him. Now. it is a mean ig to go Into a man’s house and steal his goo ds, but I invented tell you the most gigantic bur¬ glary ever is the proposition to steal-these treasurers of our holy religion. The meanest laughter ever uttered is the laugh of the skeptic. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible la David’s laughter, or the expression of spiritual with exultation. laughter.” "“Then was our mouth filled He got very much down sometimes, but there are other chap¬ ters where for four or five times he calls upon the people to praise and exult. It was not a tion mere that twitch took of hold the lips—it whole was a physical demonstra¬ ot bis na¬ ture. “Then was our mouth filled with laughter.” My friends, God this world will nevei be converted to until Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. The horrors are a poor bait. If people are to be persuadac to fhey adopt our holy religion, it will be becaus* have made up their minds it is a bappj religion. Thev don’t like a morbid Chris¬ tianity. I know there are morbid people who enjoy a funeral. They como early to seethe friends take leave of the corpse, and they steal a ride to the cemetery, but all healthy people enjoy Now, a wedding better than they do aburtal. you make the religion of Christ sepulchral and hearselike, and you make It repulsive. I say plant the rose ol Sharon along the church walks_„ond columbine to clamber over the ehnrch wall, and have a smile on the lip, and have tht mouth filled with holy laughter. There It no man in the world, except the Christian, that has a right to feel an untrammeled glee^ He Is promised everything is to be for the brat here, and he is on the way to a delight which branches will and take all all the the orchestras processions harped wtth palm and cy rthaled and trumpeted to express. “Oh," you say. “I have so much trouble.” Have lillis p n on t he rack. He replied : Wnen I was first pat on the rock, I suffered a gr«at deal, but very soon a yonng man in white stood by my side, and with a soft and com fortable handkerchief he wiped the sweat from my brow, and my pains were relieved, It was a punishment for me to get from tho rack, because when the pain was nil gone the angel was gone.” Oh. rejoice evermore! You know how it is in the army—an army iu encampment. If to-day news comes that our side htw had a defeat, and to-morrow another portion of tfte tidings comes, say iflg we have bad another defeat, it demoral izes all the host. But if the news comes of victory whole to-day and victory to-morrow tho army is Impassion^ for the contest. Now, in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats tells us the vie tories—victory Rejoice over sin and death and hell. i evermore, and again I say rejoice, believe thore is more religion iu a laugh than in a groan. Anybody can groan, but to laugh in the midst of banishment’ and persecution and indescribable trial, that re quirod a David, a Daniel, a Paul, a modern heroine. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool’s laughter, or the expression of sinful morriment. Solomon was very quick at simile. NVhon he makes a comparison, we all catch it. What is the laughter of a fool like? He says. “It is the crackling of thorns under a pot.” The kot tie is swung, a bunch of brambles is put «n der it, and the torch is applied to it and thero is a great noise, and a big blaze, and a sputter it is darker and than a quick extinguishment.’ Then it was before. Fool’s lau is di ter. The most miserable thing on earth a bad man’s fun. Thero they are—ten men in a barroom. They have at home wives mothers, daughters. The impure jest starts at one corner of the barroom, and crackle oraokle, crackle It goes all around. In 500 such guffaws there is not one item of happl ness. They all feel bemoaned if they have any conscieneo loft. Have nothing to do with men or women who tell immoral stories, I have no confidence either in their Chris tlan character or their morality. Bo all merriment that springs out of the defects of others—caricature of a lame foot or a ourved spine, or a blind eye, or a deal ear-will be met with the judgment of God. elthor upon you or upon your chlldron Twenty years ago I knew a man who was particularly of skillful ia imitating the lame ness a neighbor. Not long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his log amputated for tho very defect which his father had mimicked years before. I do not say it was ; a judgment of God. I leave you to make your own Inference. So all merriment born of dissipation, that which starts at tho the] countor of the drinking restaurant or Wineglass in the home circle, the maudlin i simper, the meaningless Joke, the saturnalinn gibberish, the paroxysm ot mirth about noth ing which you sometimes see in tho fashion ablo clubroom or the exquisite «n.Uiin» parlor J at ! twelve o'clock a^oL^Such^ughter^nd^uch nt nii?ht »rn rh fl thorns under sin end In death. When I was a lad, a book came Sermons.” out entitled, It “Dow Junior’s Patent made a great stir, a very wide laugh, It all over the country, that book did. was a oaricature of the Christian ministry and of the word of God, and of the day of judgmont. Oh, we the had a great laugh ! The commentary on whole thing is that the author of that book died in poverty, shame, debauchery, kicked out of society and cursed of Almighty God. Tho laughter of such men is the eoho ot their own damnation. Tho noxt laughtor that I shall mention as being in the Bible is the laugh of God’s con demnation, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." Again. “Tho Lord will laugh at him.” Again, “I will laugh at his ctilutu ity.” With suoh demonstration will God greet every kind of great sin and wicked ness. But men build up villainies higher and higher. Good men almost pity God be cause He is so schemed against by mon. Suddenly a pin drops out of tho machinery of wickedness or a secret is revealed, and tho foundation begins to rock. Finally the whole thing is demolished. What is tho matter? I will tell you what the matter is. That crash of ruin Is only the reverberation of God’s daughter. In the money market there are a great many good men tmd a great many fraudulent mon. A fraudulent man there says, “I mean to have my mil¬ lion.” He goes to work reckless of hon¬ esty, and he gets his first $100,000. Ho gets after awhile his $200,000. After awhile he gets his $500,000. “Now,” he says, “I have ouly ono more move to make, and I shall have my million.” He gathers up all his resources. He makes that one last grand move, he fails und loses all, and ho has not enough money of his own left to pay the cost of the ear to his home. People can¬ not understand this spasmodic revulsion. So nosaid it was a sudden turn In Erie Rail¬ way stock, or iu Western Union, or In Illi¬ nois Central; some said ono thing and some auother. They ail guessed wrong. I will toll you what it was. “Ho that sittoth in the heavens laughed.” A man in New York sui i he would be the richest man in the city. Ho left his houest work as a mechanic and got into tho oity $15,000,000 councils some way the and in ton years stole from city govern¬ ment. Fifteen million dollars ! He held the Legislature of the State of New York in the grip of his right hand. Suspicions were aroused. The grand jury presented indict¬ ments. The whole land stood aghast. The man who expected to put half the city in his vest pocket goes to Blackwell’s Island, goes to Ludlow street jail, breaks prisou and goes across the sea, is rearrested an l brought Hack and ngtin remanded to jail. Why? “H-» that sitteth in the heavens laughed.” Rome was ti great empire. She had Horace and Virgil among her poets ; she had Augus¬ tus nu 1 Constantino among her emperors. But what mean the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum turned into a cattle, market, and the broken waliod Coliseum, .aud the archi¬ tecture! skeleton of her great aque lusts? What .was that thunder? “Ob,” you say, •‘that was the roar of the battering rams against her walls.” No. NYhat was that quiver? “Ob,” you say, “that was the tramp of hostile legions.” No. The quiver and the roar wore the outburst of omnipotent laughter from the defied and insulted h«av aus. Rome defied God, and He laughed her down. Tae'ies defied God, aud He laughed her down. Nineveh defied God, and Ho laughed her dowD. Babylon defied God, and lie laughed her down. There is a great difference between God’s laugh and His s n;;e. His smile Is eternal beatitude. He smiled when David sang, and Miriam clapped the cymbals, and Hannah made garments lor her sou. un i Paul preached, and John kindled witu apocalyptic vision, do and when any man has anything to and docs it well. His smile ! Why. it is the 15th of May, 1 he apple orchards in fuil bloom ; it is morn¬ ing I r aiking on a rippling sea ; it is heaven at nigh noon, all the bells beating the mar¬ riage pea'. But His laughter—may it never fallen us! It is a condemnation • for our s:n : it is a wasting away. We may let the satirist laugh at us, and all our eo npanions may laugh at us. and we ,.... v ho made t h » tar’cf for the merriment of earth and hell, but God forbid that wo should ever come to the fulfillment of the prophecy “I will laugh against the calamity.” rejectors of the troth. at your But. my friends, all of us who reject Christ and the pardon of the gospel must come under that tremendous bombardment. God wants us all to repent. He counsels, He coaxes. He importunes, down and He dies for us. all the He world’s comes out of heaven. He puts sin on one shoulder, He puts all the world’s sorrow on the other shoulder, and then with that Alp on one side and that Himalaya on the other He starts up the hill back of Jeru¬ salem to achieve our salvation. He puts the palm of His right foot on one long spike, and He pats the palm of His lett foot on another long spike, and then, with His hands spotted with His own blood. He gesticulates, saying “Look, look and live. With the crimson veil of 3fy sacrifice I will cover up all your sins; with My dying CToan I will swallow up all your groans. Look! Live!” But a thousand of you turn your back on that, and then this voice of invitation tarns to a tone divinely ominous, that sobs like a simoom through the first chapter of Proverbs, “Because I have called and ya refused. I have stretched out My right hand, and no man regarded, but ye have set at nau-’ht nil My counsel an i would none of My reproof, I, also, will laugh at your calamity.” Ob, what a laugh that is —a deep laugh, a long, reverberating laugh, an overwhelming laugh. Goi grant we may never hear it. Bat in this day ol merciful visitation spam! yield your heart to Christ, that you may all your life on earth under His smile and escape forever the thun¬ der o»« v -* laugh of God’s indignation. iilltll gome people have would make me mis ;rable. I klad to know that the heaven of tho Bible is not only a place ot holy worship, but of magnificent sociality. “What,” say y° u t “will the ringing laugh go around the circles of tbo saved?” I say yes—pure laughter, cheering laughter, holy laughter, 11 will be a laugh of congratulation. NVhen we meet a friend who has suddenly como t0 a fortune, or who has got over some dire sickness, do wo not* shake hands, do we not laugh with him? And when wo get to heaven and see our friends there, some of them having come up out of great tribulation, why. we will say to one of them, “The last time I saw you you had been suffering for six weeks under a low intermit tent fever,” or to another we will say : “You for ton years were limping with the rheu mat ism, and you wore full of complaints when we saw you last. I congratulate you ou this eternal recovery.” We shall laugh, Yes, we shall congratulate all those who have come out of great financial embarrassments in this world because they have become mill lonaires iu heaven. Ye shall laugh. It shall be a laugh of reassociation. It is just as natural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for ten years as any thing is possible to be natural, When we meet our friends from whom we have been parted ten or twenty or thirty ycars ’ wiU 11 not be wlth lnflnite con » ratu!a - tlon? Our perception will quickened, each our knowledge Improved, we know other at a flash. We will have to talk over a11 that has happened since wo have been separated, the one that has been ten years in heaven telling us all that has happened in the ten years of his heavenly residence, and we telling him in return all that has hap pened during the ten years of his absence from e ar tb. Ye shall laugh. I think George Whitefleld and John Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly colU- will slons, and Toplady and Charles Wesley have a laugh of contempt for their earthly misunderstandings, and the two farmers who wore in a lawsuit all their days will have a laugh of contempt over their earthly disturbance about a line fence. Exemption * rom ttl1 annoyance. Immersion in all glad ness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye shah laugh. Yes, it will bo a laugh of tri¬ ? m P b - 0b ’ wbnt a H lea ? a ? t thlnc? 9tani , on the wall of heaven and look dowa at 9ataa aad har Rt hltn fle fiance and ? ee blm °'Tf d aa A , '' l ? , t Z Z [re® from his clutches ! , Aha! A , v ies, it will n bo a laugh of royal greeting, cheered J oa ku T how the Frenchmen wben Napoleon came back from Elba ; you know how the English cheare l when Wol hngton came back from Waterloo ; jou kuow Americans cheered when Kossuth ar from Hungary; you remember how R T 0 oheere i^ h 0 ^ Pompoy S oame baci vk forious over 900 cities, 1 very cheer was a Rut ’. ob ’ tb m Kroe Luf' th 8 8 ladd » r greeting, when u the “now wbite cay- . alf y troop of heaven shall go through the streets, and, according to the Book of Reve ^ion, Christ In the red coat, the crimson coat, on a white horse, and all the armies of heaven following Him on white horses! Oh, when we see and hear that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall Laugh! Does not of your the heart beat quickly at the thought great jubilee upon which we are soon to en ter? I pray God that when we get through with this world and are going out of it we ma >" have some such vision as the dying Christian had whon he saw written all over tho clouds in the sky the “W.” and they asked him, standing bv his side, what he thought that letter “W meant. “Oh,” he said, “that stands for wol ootno.” And so may it be when we quit this world. “W” on the gate, “W on tho door ,°f thfl mansion, “VV ’ on the throne. NYel come! Welcome. Welcome. I have preached this sermon with live prayerful wishes—that you might skepticism, see what what a mean thing is tbo laugh of a bright this is the laugh of spiritual the laugh exulta- of sin B° n > what a hollow thing is Jul merriment, what an awful thing is th laugh cf condemnation, what a radiant, rubi cund thing is tho laugh of eternal triumph, Avoid the ill; choose the right. Be coin forted. “Blessed are ye that weep now—ye shall laugh ; ye shall laugh.” A BIG SCHEME. Proposed Railroad From the United States to South America. People Nvho have considered the proposed railway from the United States through Mexico, Central America and South America to the region bordering on the far southern limits of the continent a mere idle fancy, will find cause to revise their idea on seeing the report of the chief engineer, Mr. Shunk, to the commis¬ sion. The survey appears to have been made all the way to Buenos Ayres, and to be found feasible. Much of the tropical region in South America will be traversed at great al¬ titudes. for railway travel—the sur¬ vey including sections that rise to heights of 7,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. Such elevated rapid transit ought to afford much striking scenery, as well as decidedly cool weather for travelers, irrespective of the season. The survey makes the length of the proposed line 4,300 miles from the Mexican starting place to Buenos Ayres, and the cost of the completed road is put at $50, 000 per mile, including some formid¬ able grading and bridging—or about $200,000,000 in all, for which the funds are to be paid proportionally by the countries interested. The beginning of the line will be at a point in Mexico which will make the neiv line continuous with the ex¬ isting system in that country and the United States. Thus the com¬ pletion of the road will enable a passenger to go by rail all the way from Canada almost to the very bor¬ ders of the vast and bare South American region known as Patagonia. It will be a good while, yet, before the proposed road is constructed as far as Buenos Ayres. And it will be a great deal longer before a railroad is built through Patagonia. But Buenos Ayres (a large city, now) is itself located almost down to south latitude 35 degrees—or nearly as far south of the equator as the city of Richmond is north of it. From Buenos Ayres on still southward to Tierra del Fuego, the Land of Deso¬ lation, is 20 degrees farther; and the inhabitants of that country beyond the Strait of Magellan are not 3 *et petitioning for railroad accommoda¬ tions. Looking from the decks of the Beagle in the great desolate strait, off through a water-way reaching far¬ ther south through that forbidding land, Darwin, in his notes made in 1832, remarks that the passage 4 ‘seem¬ ed to lead to another and worse world/' Doubtless a large part of the road will not pay fora longtime; but its construction will aid in build¬ ing up towns and trade along the line. Some sections, even in South America, are expected to pay from the start.—[Portland (Me.) Eastern Argus. THE FAMILY ACCOUNTED FOR. “What's Bill doin' now?" “Farmin’.” “An’ John?” “Grocery.” “An’ what’s Dick doin'?” “Well, Dick's a politicianer, and raisin’ of Cain an’ a doin’ of —[Atlanta Constitution. FLOATING FACTS.’ Boston has a water-storage capacity for 17,746,843,960 gallons, which is considered to be 433 days’ supply. Philadelphia has the name of “Mother City of Photographio Por¬ traiture” because it was the first city in this country to adopt photography after Daguerre, and was the first in all the world to apply the new art to the reproduction of human faces. When the editor of the populist pa¬ per at Kingman, Kan., returned from the state convention, where he had voted against female suffrage, ho was seized by a large party of woman’s rights people, who put on him a flam¬ ing sun bonnet and a yellow “Mother Hubbard” and marched him through the streets, headed by a brass band. If it be true that the Indiana giant, Hanson Craig, who has just died at Danville, Ind., weighed 900 pounds, he must have been the heaviest man of whom there is any record. The fa¬ mous English giant, Daniel Lambert, who died in the month of June, 1809, weighed only 739 pounds. Cure for the Blues. Iu a certain town a number of cures wero established. Thero was a faith cure, a hot water cure, a cold water euro and a cure for the blues. Thiuk ing that in these days of business de¬ pression and financial stringency, when more or less accute attacks of the blues are so prevalent as to bo almost epi¬ demic, a reliable remedy would bo a delight, wo give the one recommended at this cure. On his arrival at tho euro for the blues tho patient was shown into a small office where sat a phj'si cian. After questioning the patient a little ho gave him a small box, charg¬ ing a few cents for it, and charging him to keep tho contents a close secret. In the box was a slip of paper with these words: “Let no day pass with¬ out doing something for some one.” This prescription carefully taken is guaranteed to cure the most chronic case. We hope if anyone under whose eye this may chance to fall, is suffering from this melancholy disease, ho will give it a trial. 'Consumption of Horse Meat In Paris In the survey of tho butcher shops, one duty is to make sure that horses,ass and mule meats are not masquerading as beef. Not that their sale is forbid¬ den. On the contrary the municipal laboratory itself has declared this sort of nourishment “an excellent thing. ” It simply demands that the meat be sold as equine and not bovine, and that the animal that furnish it be not decrepidor diseased. The first point is regulated by estab¬ lishing shops especially for the salo of horse meat. Or, if it is sold from a cart or in a regularly licensed butch¬ er shop, by requiring that it bo mark¬ ed plainly. The sale of horse meat has grown to enormous proportions since tho first shop was established in 1866. The estimate is, that it is eaten now in a third of the Parisian house¬ holds. In 1891, 21,231 horses,61 mules mules, 275 asses were sold in tho Paris shops. The meat costs about half as much as beef.— McClure's Magazine. Necessity of Irrigation Recognized. % - ditions The^iecessity of agriculture of improving by the con¬ means of irri¬ gation hns been recognized in nearly all states west of the Mississippi river. Conventions have been held in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan¬ sas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Wyoming and Montana for the purpose of more thoroughly study¬ ing the question of irrigation and ascer¬ taining what should be done by the national government and tho several state governments in the way of legis¬ lation to secure the introduction and increase of irrigation facilities. The proceedings of these different conven¬ tions have have proved valuable to the states mentioned. In Dakota, Nebras¬ ka, Kansas and Colorado a large acre¬ age has been made available within the past two years utilizing the water supplies that have heretofore been al¬ lowed to run to waste. Tho re esnlts obtained have been highly satisfactory, and due effort is being made to extend the irrigating facilities in these states.— Ex. The more familiar we become with some money-made men the greater be¬ comes our contempt for money. Have You ? Many Millions Have accepted James Pyle's invitation to rs try his wonderful discovery, Pyles Pear line; for easy washing and clean¬ ing. You couldn’t count them in a lifetime. Some of the twelve million housekeepers in this land must have accepted very often. That’s the way t with Pearline. The wise woman who \ \ investigates, tries it; the woman who 1 tries it continues to use it A daily ~A increasing sale proves it. The truth pi \ is, there’s nothing so acceptable as 2/ Pearline. Once accept its help, and you’ll decline the imitations—they » don’t help you. It washes clothes or f cleans house. It saves labor and it saves wear. It hurts nothing, but it’s suited to everything. Try it when it suits you, for it will suit you when you try it. Beware as Pearline Peddlers good as” is and never or some “the peddled, unscrupulous same and as if Pearline." grocers your grocer will IT’S tell sends you, FALSE-— you “this some¬ is thing in place of Pearline, do the honest thing —tend it back. *75 JAMES PYLE, New York. JOHN r. LOTH IMS CO, •9 '•9 HAS JUST RECEIVED THE i HIGHEST AWARD AND GOLD MEDAL FOR THEIR LOVELL DIAMOND CYCLES AT THE California Midwinter Exposition, AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder. It is Absolutely Pure. All others contain alum or ammonia. Uses for Soda. Tinware may be brightened by dip¬ ping a damp cloth in common soda and rubbing it well. Very hot soda in a solution, applied with a soft flannel, will remove paint splashes. Uso soda in the water to clean paint and glass instead of soap. Strong, tepid soda water will make glass very brilliant, then rinso in cold water, wipe dry with linen cloth. Ceilings that have becomo smoked by kerosense lamps may be cleaned by washing off with soda water. For cleaning oil paint beforo ro painting, use two ounces of soda dis¬ solved in a quart of hot water, then rinse off with clear water. A lump of soda laid on the drain pipe clogged will prevent the pipes becoming with greaso; also, flood tho pipes once a week with boiliug water, in which a little soda is dissolved. Wash white marble porches, bath, etc., with a mop dipped in boiling hot water and soda. A good deal of soda should bo dissolved in the water. A littlo Boda put in the water in which cut flowers are placed will keep them fresh for a long time. If greaso has been spilt on tablo or floor of kitchen or pantry, put a littlo soda on the spots ami then put boiling water over them. Ills Sure Rule of Action. A woll known lawyer on a circuit in north England, curious to know how a certain juryman arrived at his verdict, meeting him one day, ventured to ask: “Well,” replied lie, “I’m a plain man, and I like to bo fair to every one. I don’t go by what the witness say, and I don’t go by what the lawyors say, and I don’t go by wlmt tho judgo says; but I look at the man in dock, and I says, “He must have dono something or ho wouldn’t be I bring ’email in guilty.”— Argonaut. 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Sensible Rules for Lengthening Life. Cultivate ru equablo temper. Many have fallen dead in a passion. Eat regularly ; not over thrice each day, and nothing between meals. Go to bed at regular hours and sleep until you wake up yourself. Stop working beforo you are much tired. Cultivate a generous, accommodating temper. Never cross abridge before you como to it. This will save you half the troubles in life. In other words, don’t borrow trouble. Never eat when you are not hungry, nor drink when yon are not thirsty. Avoid draughts of air or getting chilled through and through. When overheated by excreiso, cool oft' in a warm place, Driuk no liquids with your meals, and add years of pleasurable existence to your life. CURE S#OTHERS For over a quarter of a century. 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