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■R E V. TA LM AG E
Th» Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: New Year Thoughts —XV a Should
Multe the Most of Our llrief Live*—
Infidelity the Source of Much Woe—
Christ’s Matchless Stories.
[Copyright, Louis Klopscli. 1899-1
Washington, D. C.—In this discourse Dr.
Talmnge takes the opportunity of offering
some very practical and useful suggestions;
text, Psalms xc.. told.” 9, “We spend our years
as a tale that is
The Israelites were forty years in tho
wilderness, and during thirty-eight them, years
of the forty nothing is recorded of
and, I suppose, no other emigrants had a
duller or more uninteresting time than
they had. 8o they got to telling stories—
stories concerning themselves or concern
ing others; stories about the brick kilns of
Egypt, where they had tolled in slavery;
stories about how the waters of ttie Rod
•Sea piled up into palisades nt their cross
ing; story of tho lautera hung in the heav
ens to guide them by night; story oT Ibises
destroying tiie reptiles of tho wilderness;
stories of personal encounter. hadnotli- It must
have been an awful thing to have
ing to do for thirty-eight years except to
get lost every time they tried to escape
from the wilderness. So they whiled away
the time in story telling. Indoed, there
wore persons whose one business was to
narrate stories, aud they were paid by
such trifles as thoy could pick up from the
surrounding listeners. To such instances
our text refers when it says, “We spend
our years as a tale that is told.”
At" this tremendous passage from tiie
year 1SDU to tho year 1900 it will do us all
good to consider that our whole life is a
story told—a good story or a bad story, a
tragic story or a mirthful story, a wise
story or a foolish story, a eleau story or a
filthy story, a story of success or a story ot
failure. “We spend our years as a tale
that is told.”
In the first placo, I remark that every
person’s fife is a very interesting story.
My text does not depreciate “a tule that is
told.” Wo have nil of us been entertained
by the story teller when snow bound in the
rail train, or in the group a winter’s night
in the farmhouse, or gathered around a
blazing hearth with some hunters at the
mountain inn. Indeed, it is a praiseworthy
art to impersonate a good story weli. If
you doubt tho practical and healthful and
inspiring the use library of such Washington a story, take Irving’s down
from
“Tales oi a Traveler” or Nathaniel Haw
thorne’s “Twice Told Tales.” But as in
teresting as any of these would be the
story of many an obscure life if the tnle
were as weli toid. Why do we ail like
biographies and autobiographies? Be
cause they are stories of eminent human
lives. But tho story of the life of a back
woodsman, of a muu who looks stupid, of
one about whom you never heard a word,
must be just ns thrilling on a small scale
as on a large scale is a life of a Cyrus, or a
Caesar, or a Pizarro, or a Mark Antony, or
a Charlemagne. confidence of that
If you get the very
plain man just come out of the backwoods
and can induce him to give the stirring Ex
periences of his life, he will tell you that
which will make your blood curdle nnd
your hnir stand on end; that night when a
panther disputed Ills pathway the on mountains the way
home; that landslide, when cabin;
seemed about to come down on his
that accident to in's household and no sur
geon within fifteen miles; that long storm
that shut them in and the food was ex
hausted; that contest at his doorway with
bandits, who thought there might be with
in somethiug worth taking; that deathbed,
with no one but himself to count the flut
tering pulses.
Oh, yes, while “wo spend our years as a
tale that is told,” it is an interesting story.
It is the story of an immortal, and that
makes it interesting. He is launched on an
ocean of eternal years, in a voyage that
wifi never terminate. He is striking the
keynote of an anthem or a dirge that will
never come to its last bar. That is what
makes the devotional meetings of modern
times so much more interesting than they
used to be. They are filled not with dis
courses py laymen on the subject of justi- dis
fication and sanctification, which lay
courses administer more to the facetious
than to tho edifying, but with stories of
wbat God has done for the soul—how every
thing suddenly changed; how the promises
became balsamic in times of laceration;
how he was personally helped helped Nothing out nnd
helped up and on. can
stand before such a story of personal personal res
cue, personal transformation,
illumination. The mightiest and most
skillful argument against Christianity col
lapses under the ungrammatical but sin
cere statement. The atheistic professor of
natural philosophy goes down under the
story of that backwoodsman’s conversion.
All that elaborate persuasion of the old
folks of the folly of giving up active life
too soon moans nothing as compared with
the simple incident you may relate to
them of the fact that Benjamin Franklin
was Governor of Pennsylvania at eighty
two years of age and that Dandolo, of Ven
ice, at ninety years of ago, although his
eyesight had been destroyed through
ing compelled by his enemies to look into
a polished metal basin under the full blaze
of the sun until totally blind, yet this sight
less nonugenarian leading an army to tho
successful besiegemont of Constantinople!
When an old man bears of such incidents,
he puts aside his staff and ear trumpet and
starts anew.
The New Testament suggests the power
of the "tale that is told.” Christ was
most effective story teller of all the ages.
The parables are- only tales well told.
Matchless stories: That of tho traveler cut
up by the thieves and the Samnritau pay
ing Ids board bill at the tavern; that of the
big dinner, to which the invited guests
sent in fictitious regrets; that of the shep
herd answering the bleat of the lost sheep
and all the rural neighbors that night help
ing him celebrate the fact that it was safe in
the barnyard; that of the bad boy, reduced
to the swines’trough, greeted home with
such banqueting and jewelry that it rtuffed
the older son with jealousy and disgruutle
ment; that of the Pharisee full of bragga
docio and the publican smiting his breast
with a stroke that brought down the heav
ens in commiseration; stories about lep
rosy, about paralysis, about catalepsy,
about dropsy, about ophthalmia—stories
that He so well toid that they have rolled
down to tho present nnd wifi roll down
through the entire future.
I heard Dauiel Baker, tiie wonderful
evangelist of his time, preach what I sup
posed was a great sermon, but I remem
ber nothiug of it except a story thut lie
told, and that, I judge from the seeming
effect, huudreds may that afternoon have brought
fnto the kingdom of God. I
heurd Truman Osborne preach several ser
mons, but I remember notning of what ho
said in public or private except a story
that he told, and that was, among other
things, lifelong the means of my salvation. The
work of John B. Gough, the great
est temperance reformer of all time, was
the victory of anecdote, and who can ever
forget him his story of Joel Straton touching
on the shoulder or of Deacon Moses
Grant at Hopkinson, or of the outcast
woman nicknamed “Hell Fire,” but re
deemed by the thought that she “ was one
of of worldwide us?” Dwight L. .Moody, the evangelist
fame nnd usefulness, who re
cently passed to his great reward on high,
during his valuable labors in the pulpit
wielded the nneedote for God and heaven
Until all nations have been moved by it.
If you have had experiences of pardon
aud comfort and diseutbrnllmont, tell of
it. Tell it in the most pointed and dra
matic way you can mannge. Tell it soou,
or you may never tell it at all. Ob, the
power of “tho tale that is told!” An hour’s
discourse about the fact that blasphemous
behavior is sometimes punished in this
world would not impress us as much as the
simple story that in a town of New York
State at the close of the lust century thirty
six profane men formed themselves int-o it
club, calling themselves "Society of the
Druids.” They met regularly to deride
and damage Christianity. One night la
their awful meeting they burned a Bible
and administered the sacrament to a dog.
Two of them died that night. Within three
days three were drowned. In live years nil
the thirty-six came to it bad end. tlmt Before
justices starved of the peace death, it was sworn drowned, two
were to seven were
eight were shot, five committed suicide,
seven died on the gallows, one was frozen
to death aud three died accidentally. Incl
deuts like that, sworn to, would hulk nny
proposed irreverent aud blasphemous be
havior.
In what way could the fact that infidel
ity wifi not help any one die well bo so
powerfully presented as by the incidont
concerning a man falling ill in Paris just
a'ter the death of Voltaire, when a profes
sional nurse was called iu, and she asked,
“Is tho gentleman said a Christian?” “Why do
you ask that?” the messenger. The
nurse replied, his “I am tho nurse who attend
ed Voltaire In Inst illness, and for all
the wealth of Europe I would never see an
other infidel die.” What discourse in its
moral and spiritual effect could equal a
tale like that?
You might argue upon the fact tnnt tlioso
fallen are our brothers and sisters, but
could we impress auy one with such a truth
so well ns by the scene nenr Victoria Park,
London, whore men were digging a deep
drain, and the shoring gnvo way and a
great pile of earth fell upon the workmen.
A man stood there with his hands in his
pockets, looking at those who were trying "who
to shovel away the earth from those
were burled, but when some one said to the
spectator, “Bill, your brother is down
there,” then the spectator threw off his
coat and went to work with an agony of
earnestness to fetch up ids brother. What
course of argument could so well as that
incident set forth that when we toil for tho
salvation of a soul it is a brother whom we
are trying to save? _
A second reading of my text reminds mo
that life is not only a story told, but that
it is a brief story. A long narrative
stretched out indefinitely loses its interest.
It is generally the story that takes only a
minute or half a minute to rehearse that
arrests the attention. And that gives ad
ditional interest to the story of our life. It
is a short story. Subtract from our life all
the hours ot necessary sleep, all the hours
of incapacity through fatigue or illness, dll
the hours of childhood and youth bel'ore
we get fairly to work, and you have abbre
viated the story of life so much that you
can appreciate the psalmist’s remark when
he says, “Thou hast made my days as a
hand’s breadth,” and cau appreciate the
apostle James’ expression appeareth when ho com
pares life to “a vapor that for a
little season and then vanishes away.”
It does not take long to tell all the vi
cissitudes of life—the gladness and the
griefs, the arrivals and the departures,
the successes aud the failures, the victor
ies aud the defeats, the ups and tho do wns.
The longer we live the shorter tho years.
We hardly get over the bewildering fatigue
of selecting gifts for children and friends
and see that the presents get off in
time to arrive on the appropriate day
than wo see another advancing group
ot holidays. Autumnal fruit so sharp
ly ehnses the summer harvest, and the
snow of tiie white blossoms of spring
time come too soon after the snows of
winter. It is a remark so often made
that it fails to make any impression and
the platitude that calls forth no reply,
“How rapidly time goes.”
Every century is a big wheel of years,
which makes a hundred revolutions and
breaks down. F.very year is a big wheel of
months and makes twelve revolutions and
then ceases. Geologists and theologians
go into elaborations of guesses ns to how
long the world will probably last; how
long beforethe volennie forces will explodo
it, or meteoric stroke demolish it, or the
cold of a long winter freeze out its popula
tion, or the fires of a last conflagration
burn it. That is all very well, but so far
ns the present world population of the enrth is
concerned the will last but a little
longer, We begin life with a cry and end
it with a groan, nnd the cry and the groan
are not far apart. Life. Job says, is like
the flight of a weaver’s shuttle, or, ns
David intimates in my text, a story quick
ly told and laughsd at and gone nnd dis
placed by another story as a "tale that is
told.”
We talk about public life and private
life, but there is no private life. The story
of our life, however insignificant it may
seem to bo, will wiu the applause or hiss
of a great multitude that no man can num
ber. As a “tale that is told” umong ad
mirers or antagonists, celestials or pando
monlaes, the universe is full of listening
ears as well as of gleaming eyes. It
we say or do the right thing, that is known.
If we say or do the wrong thing, that is
known. I suppose tho population of the
intelligences in the air intelligences is more numerous
than the population of on the
earth. Ob, that the story of our life might
be (It for such an audience in such an au
ditorium! God grant that wisdom and
fidelity and earnestness and truth may
characterize the “tale that is told.”
Through medical science tho world’s
longevity may be greatly improved in the
future, as it has been in the past, but it
would not be well fortho people through to live their too
long. Some of them would,
skill at acquisitiveness, gather too much,
and some multimillionaires would beeome
billionaires and tritllonaires, and some
would after awhile pocket a hemisphere.
No. Death is useful in its financial limita
tions, and then all have enough sorrows
nnd annoyances and sufferings by the time
they beeome nonagenarians or centenar
ians to innko it desirable to quit. Besides
that.it would not be fair so long to keep so
many good old people out of heaven. So
it is well nrrnnged that those who stand by
tho deathbed of the nineteenth century
will not be called to stand by the deathbed
of the twentieth century.
Oh, crowd this last year with prayers,
with hosannas, with kind words, with help
fulness. Make the peroration of the cen
tury the climax of Christlike deed3. Close
up tiie ranks of God, and (luring tbls re
maining twelve months charge mightily
against the host of Abaddon. Have no
reserve corps. Let swiftest gosp el cavalry
gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll,
and mightiest evangelistic batteries thun
der on tho scene. Let ministers of the
gospel quit all controversy with each
other and in solid phalanx march out
for the world’s disenthralIment. Let
printing presses, secular nnd religious,
make combined movement to instruct aud
emancipate the world. On ull the hills let
there be Elijahs praying for “a great rain,”
and on every contested field Joshuas to
see that final victory is gained before the
sun goes down, and every mountain be
come a transfiguration, ond every Galilee
a walking plaee of Him who can hush a
tempest. Let us be jealous of every month,
of every week, of every day that passes
without something significant and
glorious wrought for God and this sin
curseu world. Let our churches be
thronged with devout assemblages. Let
the chorals be more like grand marches
than requiems. Let tbs coming year see
the last wound of Transvaal *nd Philippine
conflict, and the earth quake with the
grounding arms of the last regiment ever
to be marshaled, aud tho furnaces ot the
foundries blaze with tiie fires that shall
turn the last swords into plowshares.
And may all those whoso lives shall go
out iu this last year of a century, as muuy
will, meet in tho heavenly world those who
iu the morning aud noonday of this hun
dred years toiled and suffered for the
world’s salvation to tell them how much
lias been accomplished for tho glory of
Him whoso march through all the coming
centuries the Scriptures describe as going
forth “conquering nnd to conquer.” Ob,
the contrast between that uplifted spec- of
tacle of eternal triumph in the presence
God aud the Lamb and these earthly
scenes, where “we spend our years as a tale
thut is told.”
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A glass factory has been started at
St. Helens, Englnud, in which the
whole system of blowing is replaced
by an automatic arrangement of molds
and blowpipes worked by compressed
air. The output has been much in
creased.
A bard rubber steam acid pump is
made by a New York firm. It is de
signed specially for conveying acids,
chemicals or any volatile liquid. All
pacts which come in coutuetwith such
substance aie of hard rubber. These
parts are held by and mounted on
iron, which takes up all the strain in
cident to the work j>erformed. like These the
pumps are operated by steam electric
ordinary steam pump or by
motor. *
Several months ago a bather was
diving in shallow water and fractured
several of the spinal vertebra-. He
was taken to Roosevelt hospital, New
York City, and an operation removal was per- of
formed upon him for the
the fractured pieces of bone. The
result of the operation has been very
satisfactory and the improvement from
day to day is marked, He is now
regaining the sense of touch and has
some slight control of the muselos.
As there is considerable typhoid
fever in Natal, all the British troops
which have been transported to South
Africa lmvo been given the option of
being inoculated with the anti-typhoid
serum, and, according to the London
Lancet, 70 per cent, have availed
themselves of I he opportunity. worked The
iuoculating with oerum has
most successfully at the Indian posts
where it has been tried, aud the pres
ent operations in South Africa which
are being conducted on so large a scale
will demonstrate the availablily of the
serum treatment in the prevention with of
enteric fever so often prevalent
armies in the field.
Hans S. Beattie, who was formerly
street cleaning commissioner of New
York City, considers that the street
railway system might be used to help
solve the garbage aud ashes problem
in New York City, and to aid in the
expeditious removal of sdow and ice.
The withdrawal of 300 horses and
carts from the most congested part of
the city during the busy ho-urs of the
day would, in itself, be a benefit. If
the street car lines should be utilized,
many of the dumps which now occupy
valuable piers could be done away
with, and the rental value of these
dumpiug stations if they should be
released to the commerce of a port
would bring in a substantial financial
return to the city.
The common aud old-fashioned idea
is that the tints of autumn foliage
are caused by frost. Stated briefly
the causes are these: The green mat
ter in the tissue of a leaf is composed
of two colors, red and blue. When
the sap ceases to flow iu the autumn
and the natural growth ot the tree
ceases, oxidatiou of the tissue takes
place. Under certain conditions the
green leaf changes to red; under dif
ferent conditions it takes cn a yellow
or brown tint—due to the difference
iu combination of the original constit
uents of the green tissue, and to the
varying conditions of climate, expos
ure, aud soil. A dry climate produces
more brilliant foliage than one that is
damp and warm. This is the reason
that our American autumus are so
much more gorgeous than those of
England.
BEQUEST IN A BIBLE.
Suug Siumi of Money Found in Tattered
Wook ISoughtat Auction.
New Bibles are now so cheap that
old ones have little or no marketable
value, but the experience of a casual
buyer, says the London Telegraph,
may lend to a run on tattered copies
of the Scriptures in search of hidden
treasure—not spiritual, but material.
And the fact that it cannot be dis
covered without examining the vol
umes may lead to ultimate profit, even
though there may be mundane lucre
between the boards.
According to the Church of England
Pulpit, a young fellow named Richard
Coliiugs, employed in Smithfield
market, purchased at an auction a few
years ago for $1.37 an old leather
trunk containing clothing, books and
tools. Among the articles was a ven
erable, much used family Bible. A
few Sunday evenings ago, during the
absence of Collings from home, his
wife commenced reading some of the
chapters to her two young daughters,
and while turning over the leaves she
came upon several which were pasted
together. She immediately set to
work to separate them with great care,
and when success crowned her efforts
the good woman was intensely sur
prised to find hidden between the
gummed pages $25 in Bank of Eng
land notes. They were enclosed in
an envelope, were frayed and dirty,
and on the back of one was written in
ink the following remarkable be
quest:
“I have worked very, very hard for
this, and, having no relatives, leave
thee, dear reader, whosoever shall be
the owner of this Holy Book, my law
ful heir.”
Mitijjati r»s: Clrcuinfttanceg,
“I beg your pardon,” exclaimed the
man in the automobile.
“Well, that’s an improvement, any
how,” said the mnn who had been run
over, picking himself up and looking
around for his hat. “When a fellow
with a delivery wagon runs over me
he never stops his horse to beg my
pardon.”—Chicago Tribune.
One hundred and nine thousand
locomotives are et pra-tnt running in
various countries.
SORCERY PROFITABLE IN FRANCE.
A Clever Gang'* Way of Swindling the Cred
ulous Out of Thousands,
M. Cuvllller, Commissary of Police
fit Charenton, France, has arrested a
gang of pretended sorcerers, who, In
less than a twelvemonth, have relieved
credulous Inhabitants of this district
of over $20,000. The chief of the gang,
Jenu Sorino, known as “the brass man,”
was first arrested, and It was on Ills
confession that M. Cuvllller was able
to raid the sorcerer’s headquarters.
They were situated 1* a small detached
house, lifted up as a witches' den. lie
sides the phantasmagorical decorations
Incumbent on such a locality, the Boors
and walls contained trap-doors and
other devices of stage trickery likely
to appeal to the imagination of be
lievers in occult sciences. Sorlno’s
wife used to officiate as chief witch in
these interesting surroundings.
Correspondence seized during the po
lice raid revealed the methods where
by the victims were despoiled. For in
stance, a Madame do Malgen, widow
of an officer of high rank, who was suf
fering from an incurable malady, ap
plied to Madame Sorino, and in the
course of a few sensational seances
parted with $2,000. When Madame de
Maigen came to follow the treatment
that was to cure her, “Hebe” (Madame
Sorino), after an impressive reception,
set her in a comfortable armchair fac
ing a brightly decorated scene. Very
soou two dazzling attired young wo
men, Rosa and Paule, appeared. In
troduced as angels, they promised
Madame de Maigen relief on earth and
eternal life in Heaven. Aftter these
predictions they vanished. Then
“Hebe” gave her patient opium pills
that reduced her to a soiimolent con
dition. As soon, however, as her eyes
closed she w<is awakened with a start
by a tremendous clanging of metal and
electric detonations, and, looking up,
saw in place of the angels the celestial
physician who was to cure her of all
her Ills. The part of the apparition
was efficiently played by M. Jean Sor
ino, clad in a gorgeous suit of shining
brass armor surmounted by a magni
ficently plumed helmet. “Youug and
beautiful person,” lie would say, “thou
shalt be healed. But some of your fel
low-creatures who are poor suffer as
you do. It is written that thou shalt
contribute to relieve their woes. Give
1,000 francs to the lovely Hebe and
thou shalt be healed.” Madame de
Maignen used to pay, and sbe was
then given a third opium pill, which
sent her to sleep. When she awoke
the foolish woman believed she had
been in Heaven, and was thus led to
part with $2,000.
There are other victims, whose
names are withheld owing to their so
cial position, who should have known
better than to be duped by such a vul
gar fraud. Meanwhile, the Brass
Man, Hebe, Rosa and Paule are all In
jail, and the police are unearthing fur
ther accomplices. The soccerers, it has
been discovered, had branches in Par
is, where similar swindles were perpe
trated, and it is stated that the vic
tims are not only choice in quality, but
are considerable in number.
No Fe«r Wbcu Death Draws Nigh.
"I have seen thousands of persons
die under all sorts of circumstances,
and never yet have I seen one display
the slightest fear of death.” This re
markable statement was made the
other day by a physician who has prac
ticed many years iu Philadelphia and
who has seen a great ileal of hospital
Bervlce.
“It is a popular fallacy," he went on,
“to imagine that a deathbed scene is
ever terrible, other than as a parting
between loved ones. The fear of the
unknown is never present at the last.
Even amid ignorance and vice I have
never experienced such scenes as a
novelist, who strives after realism,
will sometimes picture.
“When a patient is told that he can
not recover and the end is near, he in
variably seems resigned to his fate,
and big only thought seems to be of
those who are to he left behind. This
is true alike of men and women.
“Those who become hysterical and
declare they are not fit to die are the
ones who are not as ill as they think
they are. They always get well.
“A psychological reason? Oh, I
don’t know that there is any. It’s just
a human trait.”—Philadelphia Record.
*0 Pub’ic Schools iu China.
There are no public schools in Chi
na, and all Instruction has to be by pri
vate tutor, yet there are few young
men there who do not get at least
two years of schooling. The young
women do not, as a rule, take school
ing, as they are to pass their lives in
the home, aud about household duties,
and they do not need it. There are few
peple there so poor that they cannot
give their children some little Instruc
tion. The studies are almost entirely
confined to Confucius. He did every
thing for China, while Buddhism did
quite the reverse.—Minneapolis Trib
England’* Armored Train*.
The magnificent armored trains nsed by
England in ber war with the Boers will trans
port her troops, protect bridges and tele
graphic communications in about the same
way that Hostetler's stomach Bitters drives
dyspepsia from lho human stomach and then
mounts guard that It does not return. The
Bitter* has won in every case of indigestion,
biliousness, liver and kidney trouble for the
past fifty years. It Is Invaluable at all times.
Too Severe a Strain.
“Rhvno tells me he has gone out of politics
entirely?” Politically speaking, ho
“That's true. was
on the fence, and when the heelers began
pulling a leg on each side it was more .than
he could stand.”—Chicago News.
Vitality low, debllltnted or exhausted cured
by Dr. Kilns n Invlgo atlng Tonic. Finos 41
trial bottle for 2 weeks’ treatment. Dr. Kline.
Ld.,9sl Arch St., Fhiladelpha. Founded 1S71,
In Westminster Abbey 1,1,3 bodies have
been buried.
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V. ir TALKED INTO IT.
A f Don’t allow yourself to be talked Into buy
ing a shoddy job to save a dollar or so when
iW the beat is on sale in every town in the
South. Did you ever think how easy it is
for some people to be talked into a thing?'
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The Ancient War Chest,
Once upon a time there really was
a war chest—an actual, literal war
chest. Kings of England respected the
demands of that chest to a greater ex
tent than they were wont to respect
the requirements of a good many other
deserving institutions, and all the gold
pieces that they felt they could spare
from their own pet enterprises they
dropped into it as a child put pennies
; in Ills little tin bank.
Government officials say when I ask
them half seriously if the war chest is
to-day hidden away in some burglar
proof vault, that no such thing now
exists, that in these days of blue books
and public reports that any one can
buy for a cent, there is no chance for
any such secret fund. Germany, how
ever, is popularly supposed to have a
strongly guarded war chest, and so it
is believed, have Italy and Austria.—
Atlanta Constitution.
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Was troubled with a painful skin
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failed, the father writes: “Send me
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little daughter. It does her more good
than anything we ever tried. Your*,
eto., Jas. S. Porter, Lynchburg, S.C.”
At druggists 50c. box, or postpaid by
J. T. Shuptriue, Savannah, Ga.
Lobsters fflong Maine’s Coast.
Lobsters are more plentiful than they
have been during the past five years.
The dealers say that the United States
fish commission, by collecting seed lob
sters, hatching the eggs and distrib
uting the small fry about the coast of
Maine, are responsible for the increase
in the supply. The hatchery of the
commission is at Gloucester and dur
ing the past few years millions of the
young lobsters have been nursed to
life and distributed along the coast.
During the last two years 30,000,000
of the young have been freed In the
waters of Maine, the best feeding
grounds along the Atlantic coast.—
Bangor (Me.) Whig and Courier.
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