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I an ORIENTAL WELt.
I TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM
p* A RUSTIC SCENE.
I *‘ nd Th ‘ r * ®*
I
g , From tb® Sheik’® Daughter.
I m Presa Ase °'
I te «ffiNGTON, May B.—From a rustic
I V«-ne Dr. Talmage In thia sermon
I Xtlcal and Inspiring lessons for
K drt ’2*am of people. The text la Exodus
I Moses kept the flock of
■ I Bi.ro. his father-in-law, the priest of
I , the southeastern part of Arabia a
I nis sitting by a well. It is an arid
g ntrv and water is scarce, so that a
B iis of great value, and flocks and herds
I' * driven vast distances to have their
11. uJTslaked. Jethro, a Mldianite sheik
I goriest, was so fortunate as to have
If *7andaughters, and they are practical
If Jikuand yonder they come driving the
B and cattle and camels of their father
g watering. They lower the buckets
K ad then pull them up, the water plash-
B mon the stones and chilling their feet,
I ,nd the troughs are filled. Who is that
■ *” Q ou t there sitting unconcerned and
■ Asking on? Why does he not come and
■ X the women in this hard work of
T * Swing water? But no sooner have the
K - Slips aOd panting nostrils of the flocks
I begun to cool a little in the brimming
IF trough of the well than some rough Bed-
I onto shepherds break in upon the scene,
|: .mi with clubs and shouts drive back the
|| animals that were drinking and affright
P tbw® B lrl ® until they fly in retreat, and
I» the flocks of these ill mannered shepherds
I driven to the troughs, taking the
Ii places of the other flocks. Now that man
sitting by the well begins to color up, and
bls eye flashes with indignation, and all
the gallantry of his nature is aroused. It
is Moses, who naturally had a quick tem
per anyhow, as he demonstrated on one
oocaoion when he saw an Egyptian op
ttweing an L6raelitq.and gave the Egyp-
H, n a sudden clip and buried him in the
nod, and as he showed afterward when
h« broke all the Ten Commandments at
oaoe by shattering the two granite slabs
on which the law was written. But the
Injustice of this treatment of the seven
girls sets him on fire with wrath, and he
takes this shepherd by the throat and
poshes back another till he falls over the
trough and alma a stunning blow between
the eyes of another as he cries, “Begone,
you villains I” and he hoots and roars at
the sheep and cattle and camels of these
Invaders and drives them back, and, hav
ing cleared the place of the desperadoes,
he told the seven girls of this Midianlte
sheik to gather their flocks together and
bring them again to the watering.
An Oriental Well.
Oh, yon ought to see a fight between
the shepherds at a well In the orient as I
saw It In December, 1890. There were
here a group of rough men who had driv
en the cattle many miles and here anoth
er group who had driven their cattle as
many miles. Who should have precedence?
Such dashing of buckets! Such hooking
of hornet Such kicking of hoofs! Such
vehemence In a language I fortunately
| could not understand! Now the sheep
L with a peculiar mark across their woolly
K backs were at the trough and now the
» sheep of another mark. It was one of the
most exciting scenes I ever witnessed. An
f old book describes one of these contentions
I at an eastern well when it says: ’‘One day
the poor men, the widows and the orphans
met together and were driving their cam
els and their flocks to drink and were all
standing by the waterside. Da ji came up
and stopped them all and took possession
of the water for his master’s cattle. Just
then an old woman belonging to the tribe
of Abs came up and accosted him in a sup
pliant manner, saying: ‘Be so good, Mas
ter Da jl, as to let my cattle drink. They
are all the property ! possess, and I live
by their milk. Pity my flook; have com
passion on me. Grant my request and let
them drink.' Then came another old
woman and addressed him: *Oh, Master
Daji, I am a poor, weak old woman, as
you see. Time has dealt hardly with me.
It has aimed its arrows at me, and its
daily and nightly calamities have de
stroyed all my men. I have lost my chil
dren and my husband, and since then I
have been in great distress. These sheep
are all that I possess. Let them drink,
for I live on the milk that they produce.
Pity my forlorn state. I have no one to
tend them. Therefore grant my supplica
tion and of thy kindness let them drink.*
Bat in this case the brutal elavq, so far
from granting this humble request, smote
the woman to the ground. ”
A like scrimmage has taken place at the
well in the triangle of Arabia between the
Bedouin shepherds and Moses champion
ing the cause of the seven daughters who
had driven their father’s flocks to the wa
tering. One of these girls, Zipporah, her
name meaning “little bird,” was captured
by this heroic behavior of Moses, for, how
ever timid woman herself may be, she al
ways admires courage in a man. Zipporah
became the bride of Moses, one of the
mightiest men of all the centuries. Zip
porah little thought that that morning as
she helped drive her father’s flocks to the
well she was splendidly deciding her own
destiny. Bad she staid in \ the tent or
house while the other six daughters of
the sheik tended to their herds her life
would probably have been a tame and un
eventful life in the solitudes. But her in
dustry, her fidelity to her father’s inter
est, her spirit of helpfulness, ‘brought her
into league with one of the grandest char
acters of all history. They met at that
famous well, and while she admired the
courage of,Mdses he admired the filial be
havior of Zipporah.
, Cures of Home.
The fact that it took the seven daugh
ters to drive the flocks to the wall Implies
that they were Immense flocks and that
her father was a man pf wealth. What
was the use of Zlpporah'a bemoaning her
■clf with work when she might have re
clined on the hillside near her father’s tent
•nd plucked buttercups and dreamed
out romances and sighed idly to the
' winds and wept over Imaginary songs to
the brooks? No, she knew that work was
honorable and that every girl ought to
have something to do, and so she starts
•vith the bleating and lowing and bellow
ng and neighing droves to the well for
watering.
Around every home there are flocks and
droves of cares and anxieties, and every
daughter of the family, though there be
••ven, ought to be doing her part to take
care of u )e flocks. In many households
o“iy la Zipporah, but all her elaters,
without practical and useful employ
®ents. Many of them an waiting for for
and prosperous matrimonial alii
•boe, but some lounger like themselves
will oome along and after counting the
number of father Jethro’s sheep and
w-
camels will .make proposal that will be ac
cepted, and neither of them having done
anything more practical than to chew
chocolate caramels tho two nothings will
staxt on the road of life together, every
stepmoreaud more a failure. That daugh
ter of thcJMidianitish sheik will never find
her Moses. Girls of America, imitate
Zipporah I Do something practical. Do
something helpful Do something well.
Many have fathers with groat flocks of
absorbing duties, and such a father needs
help in home or office or field. Go out
and help him with the flocks. The reason
that so many men now condemn them
selves to unaffianced and solitary life is
because they cannot support the modern
young woman, who rises atbalf past 10
In the morning andreiiresafter midnight,
one of the trashiest of novels in her hands
most of the time between the late rising
and the late retiring, a thousand of them
not worth one Zipporah.
There are questions that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter at
breakfast or tea table, and that all tho
daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to
ask each other: “Wbat would you do if
the family fortune should fail, if sickness
should prostrate tho breadwinner, if tho
flocks of Jethro should bo destroyed by a
sudden excursion of wolves and bears and
hyenas from the mountain? What would
you do for a living? Could you support
yourself? Can you take care of an invalid
mother or brother or sister as well as your
self?” Yea, bring it down to what any
day might come to a prosperous family.
“Can you cook a dinner if the servants
should make a strike for higher wages and
leave that morning?" Every minute of
every hour of every day of-every year there
are families flung from prosperity into
hardship, and, alas, if in such exigency
the seven daughters of Jethro can do
nothing but sit around and cry and wait
for some one to come and bunt them up a
situation for which they have no qualifi
cation. Get at-something Useful; get at
it right away! Dp not say, “If I were
thrown upon my own resources, I would
become a music teacher.” There are now
more musie teachers than could be sup
ported if they were all Moaarts and Wag
ners and Handels. Do not say, “I will go
to embroidering slippers.” There are more
slippers now than there are feet. Our
hearts,tiie everyday wrung by the story
of elegant women who were once affluent,
but through catastrophe have fallen help
less, with no ability to take care of them
selves.
Idlers Should Work.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnificent
thing when he built and endowed the
Louise home for the support of the un
fortunate aristocracy of the south—-the
people who once had everything, but have
come to nothing. We want another W. W.
Corcoran to build a Louise home for
the unfortunate aristocracy of the north.
But institutions like that in every city of
the land could not take care of one-half
the unfortunate aristocracy of the north
and south whose largo fortunes have
failed and who, through lack of acquaint
ance with any style of work, cannot now
earn their own bread. ,
There needs to be peaceful yet radical
revolution among most of the prosperous
homes of America by which the elegant
do nothings may be transformed into
practical do somethings. Let useless wom
en go to work and gather, tho flocks.
Come, Zipporah, let me introduce you to
Moses. But you do not mean that this
wan affianced to this country girl was the
great Moses of history, do you? You do
not mean that he was the man who after
ward wrought suelrwondere there? Surely
you do not mean he whose staff, dropped,
wriggled into a serpent and then, clutched,
stiffened again into a staff? You do not
mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones
and palaces? You do not mean he who
struck the rock so hard it wept in a stream
for thirsty hosts? Surely you do not mean
the man who stood alone with God on the
quaking Sinaltlo ranges, not him of that
most famous funeral of all time, God com
ing down out of the heavens to bury him?
Yes, the same Moses defending the seven
daughters of the Midianitish sheik,'who
afterward rescued all nations.
Why, do you not know that this is the
way men and women get prepared for
special work. The wilderness of Arabia
was the law school, the theological semi
nary, the university of rock and sand
from which he graduated for a mission
that will balk seas, and drown armies,
and folk w the cloud of fire by nighty and
start the workmen with bleeding backs
among Egyptian brick kilns toward the
pasture lands that flow with milk and the
trees of Canaan dripping with honey.
Gracious God, teach all the people this
lesson. You must go into humiliation
and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if
you are to be fitted for special usefulness.
How did John the Baptist get prepared to
become a forerunner of Christ? Show me
hie wardrobe. It will ba hung with silken
socks and embroidered robes and attire of
Syrian purple. Show me his dining table.
On it the tankards a-blush with the richest
wines of the vineyards of Engedi, and
rarest birds that were ever caught in net,
and sweetest venison that ever dropped
antlers before the hunter. No, we are di
rectly told “the same John had his raiment
of camel’s hair,” not the fine hair of the
camel which we call camlet, but the long,
coarse hair such as beggars in the east
wear, and his only meat was of insects,
the green locust, about two Inches long,
roasted, a disgusting food. These insects
were caught and the wings and legs torn
off, and they were stuck on wooden spits
and turned before the fire. The Bedouins
pack them in salt and carry them in sacks.
What a menu for John the Baptist!
Through what deprivation he came to
what exultation 1
Victory of Bndeavors.
And you will have to go down before
you go up. From the pit into which his
brothers threw him and the prison in
which his enemies incarcerated him Jo
seph rose to be Egyptian prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be the greatest of all
the ancient prophets; Elijah, who made
King Ahab’s knees knock together with
the prophecy that the dogs would be bls
only undertakers; Elijah, whoso one pray
er brought more than three years ot
drought, and whose other prayer brought
drenching showers, the man who wrapped
up his cape of sheepskin into a roll and
with it cut a path through raging Jordan
for just two men to pass over, the man
who with wheel of fire rode over death
and escaped into the skies without mortu
ary disintegration, the man who thou
sands of years after was called out of the
eternities to stand beside Jesus Christ on
Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with the
splendors of transfiguration—this man
could look back to the time when vora
cious and filthy ravens were, bls only ca
terers.
You see John Knox preaching the cor
onation sermon of James VI and arraign
ing tjueen Mary and Lord Darnley in a
public discourse at Edinburgh and telling
the French embassador to go home and
call hb king a murderer, John Kdox
making an Christendom feel his moral
power and at h>s burial the Earl of Mor
ton saying, “Hero licth a man who in his
life never feared the face of man.” Where
did John Knox get much of his schooling
for such resounding and ever lasting
achievement? He got it while in chains
pulling at the boat’s oar in French cap
tivity. So the privations and hardships
of your life may on a smaller scale be the
preface and introduction to usefulness and
victory.
See also in this call of Moses that God
has a great memory. Four hundred years
before he bad promised tho deliverance of
the oppressed Israelites of Egypt.* The
clock of time has struck the hour, and
now Moses is called to the work of rescue.
Four hundred years is a very long time,
but you see God can remember a promise
400 years as well as you can remember 400
minutes. Four hundred years includes all
your ancestry that you know anything
about and all the promises made to them,
and we may expect fulfillment In our
heart and life blessings that were predict
ed to our Christian ancestry centuries ago.
You have a dim remembrance, if any re
membrance at all, of your great-grandfa
ther, but God sees those who were on their
knees In 1698 as well as those on their
knees in 1898, and the blessings be prom
ised the former and their descendants Have
arrived or will arrive. While piety is not
hereditary It is a grand thing to have bad
a pious ancestry. Sa God In thip chapter
calls up the pedigree of tho people whom
Moses was to deliver, and Moses is or
dred to say to them, “The Lord God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac and the God of Jacob bath
sent me unto you.” If that thought be
divinely accurate, let mo ask, Wbat are
we doing by prayer and by a holy life for
the redemption of the next 400 yean? Our
work is not only with the people of the
latter part of the nineteenth century, but
with those in the closing of the twentieth
century, and the closing of the twenty
first century, and the closing of the twen
ty-second century, and the closing of the
twenty-third century. For 400 years, if
the world continues to swing until tbat
time, or if it drops, then notwithstanding
the influence will go on in other latitudes
and longitudes of God’s universe.
For Good or Evil.
No one realizes how great he is for good
or for evil There are branchings out and
rebounds and reverberations and elabora
tions of influence that cannot be estimat
ed. The 50 or 100 years of our earthly
stay is only a small part of our sphere.
The flap of the wing of the destroying
angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors,
the wash of the Red sea over the beads of
the drowned Egyptians, were all ful
fillments of promises four centuries old.
And things occur in your life and in mine
that we cannot account for. They may
be the echoes of what was promised in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century. Ob,
the prolongation of the divine memory!
Notice also that Moses was 80 years of
age when he got this call to become the
Israelltish deliverer. Forty years he had
lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40
years he had lived in the wilderness of
Arabia. I should not wonder If he. had
said: “Take a younger man for this work.
Eighty winters have exposed my health.
Eighty summers have poured their heats
upon my head. There are 40 years that I
spent among the enervating luxuries of a
palace, and then follow the 40 years of
wilderness hardship. lam too old. Let
me off. Better call a man in the forties,
or fifties and not one who has entered
upon the eighties.” Nevertheless he un
dertook the work, and if we want to
know whether he succeeded ask the aban
doned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmas
ters, and the splintered chariot wheels
strewn on the beach of the Red sea, nnd
the timbrels which Miriam clapped for
the Israelites passed over and the Egyp
tians gone under.
Do not retire tod early. Like Moses, you
may have your chief work to do after 80.
It may not be in the high places of the
field. It may not be where a strong arm
and an athletic foot and a clear vision are
required, but there is something for you
yet tv Co. Perhaps it may be to round off
the work you have already done, to demon
strate the patience you have been recom
mending all your lifetime. Perhaps to
stand a lighthouse at the mouth of the
bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps
to show bow glorious a sunset may come
after a stormy day,.
If aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit around in
our churches and pray, and perhaps in
that way they may accomplish more good
than they ever did in the meridian ot their
life. It makes us feel strong to see aged
men and women all up and down the
pews, their faces showing they have been
on mountains of transfiguration. We
want in all our churches more men like
Moses, men who have been through the
deeps and climbed up the shelled beach on
the other side. We want aged Jacobs, who
have seen ladders which let down heaven
into their dreams. We want aged Peters,
who have been at Penteoosts, and aged
Pauls, who have made Felix tremble.
There are here and there those who feel
like the woman of 90 years who said to
Fontenelle, who was 85 years of age,
“Death appears to have forgotten us.”
“Hush,” said Fontenelle, the wit, put
ting his finger to his lip. No, my friend,
you have not been forgotten. You will
be called at the right time. Meantime be
holily occupied.
Labor a Preservative.
Let the aged remember that by increased
longevity of the race men are not as old at
60 as they used to be at 50, not as old at
70 as they used to be at 60, not as old at
80 as they used to bo at 70. Sanitary pre
caution better understood; medical sci
ence further advanced; laws of health
more thoroughly adopted; dentistry con
tinuing for longer time successful masti
cation; homes and churches and court
rooms and places of business better venti
lated —al] these have prolonged life, and
men and women in the close of this cen
tury ought not to retire until at least 15
years later than in the opening of the cen
tury. Do not put the harness off until
you have fought a few more bagties.
Think of Moees starting out for his chief
work an octogenarian; 40 years of wiider
ness life after 40 years of palace life, yet
just beginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng
land, one of the most wonderful men that
ever lived since the ages of time began
their roll. He is the chief citizen of the
whole world. Three times has be prac
tically been king of Great Britain. Again
and again coming from the house of com
mons, which he had thrilled and overawed
by his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday
morning reading prayers for the people
with illumined countenance and brim
ming eyes and resounding voice, saying;
“I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of' heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord.”
The world has no other such man to
lose as Gladstone The church has no.
other such champion to mourn over. X
shall never cease to thank God that on
i ' '
Mr. Gladstone invitation I visited him
at Hawarden and beard from bls own Bps
and the grandenrs of tho world to come.
At his table and in tho walk through bls
grounds I was impressed ns I was never
before, and probably will never be again,
with the majesty of a nature all oonse
entted to God and the world’s betterment.
In the presence of such a man what have
those to say who profess to think that our
religion is a pusillanimous and weak and
cowardly and unreasonable affair? Match
less William E. Gladstone!
Still further watch this spectacle of gen
uine courage. No wonder when Moses
scattered the rude shepherds he won Zip
porah’a heart. What mattered it to Moses
whether tho cattle or the seven daughters
of Jethro were driven from the troughs
by the rude herdsmen? A sense of justice
fired his courage, and the world wants
more of the spirit that will dare almost
anything to see others righted. All the
time at Wells of comfort, at wells of joy,
at wells of religion and i.t wells of litera
ture -there are outrages practiced, tho
wrong herds getting the first water.
Those who have the previous right come
in last, if they come in at all. Thank
God we have hero and there a strong man
io set things rightl I am so glad tbat
when God has an especial work to do be
has some one ready to accomplish it. Is
there a Bible to translate, there is a Wyc
lif to translate it; if there is a literature
to be energized, there is a Shakespeare to
energize it; if there is an error to smite,
there is a Luther to smite it; if there is to
be a nation free, there is a Moose to free
it. But courage is needed in rellgkre, fn
literature, in statesmanship, in all
heroics to defend Jethro’s seven daugh
ters and their flocks and put to flight the
insolent invaders. And those who do the
brave work will win somewhere high re
ward. The loudest cheer of heaven is to
be given c“ to him that overcometh.”
God Knows You. „ . .
Still further, see in this cal! of Moses
that if God has any especial work for you
to do he will find you. There was Egypt
and Arabia and Palestine with their
crowded population, but the man the Lord
wanted wax, at the southern point of the
triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right
out, the shepherd who kept the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and
Sheik. Ho God will not find it hard to
take you out from the 1,600,000,090 of the
human race if he wants you for anything
especial. There was only just one man
qualified. Other men bad courage like
Moses, other men bad some of the talents
of Moses, other men had romance in their
history, as had Moses; other men were
impetuous like Moses, but no other man
had these different qualities in the exact
proportion as had Moses, and God, who
makes no mistake, found the right man
for the right place. Do not fear you will
be overlooked or that when you are wanted
God cannot find you. He knows your name,
your features, your temperament and your
characteristics, and in what land or city or
ward or neighborhood or bouse you live.
He will not have to send out scouts or
explorers to find your residence or place of
stopping, and when he wants you he will
make it as plain that he means you ah be
made it plain that he needed Moses. He
called his name twice, as afterward when
be called the great apostle of the gentiles
he called twice, saying “Saul, Saul,” and
when he called the troubled housekeeper
be called her twice, saying “Martha,
Martha,” and when be called -the prophet
to his mission he called him twice, saying
“Samuel, Samuel,” and now when he
wants a deliverer ho calls twice, saying
“Moses, Moses.” Yes, if God has any
thing for us to do he will call us twice by
name. At the first announcement of our
name we may think it possible that we
misunderstood the sound, but after he
calls ua twice by name we know he means
us as certainly as when he twice spoke the
names of Saul or Martha or Samuel or
Moses.
You see, religion is a tremendous per
sonality. We all have the general call of
salvation. We hear it in songs, in ser
mons, in prayers. We hear It year after
year. But after awhile, through our own
sudden and alarming illness, or the death
of a playmate, or a schoolmate, or a col
lege mate, or the decease of a business part
ner, or the demise of a next door neighbor,
we get the especial call to repentence and
a new life and eternal happiness, and we
know that God means ua You have no
ticed the way in which God calls us twloe?
Two failures of investments, two sick
nesses, two persecutions, two bereave
ments, two dlsappolntmenter'fWo disas
ters. Moses I Moses!
Character of Moms.
Still further, notice that the call of
Moses was written in letters of fire. On
the Sinaltio peninsula there is a thorn
bush called the acacia, dry and brittle,
and it easily goes down at the touch of
the flame. It crackles and turns to ashes
very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these
bushes on fire, goes to look at it. At first
no doubt it seemed to be a botanical curiosi
ty, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, part
ing no stem, scattering no ashes. It was
a supernatural fire that did no damage to
the vegetation. That burning bush was
the calk
Your call will probably come in letters
of fire. Ministers get their call to preach
in letters on paper or parchment or type
written, but it does not amount to much
until they get their next call in letters of
fire. You will not amount to much in
usefulness until somewhere near you find
a burning bush. It may be found burn
ing in the hectio flush of your child’s
cheek. It may be found burning in busi
ness misfortune. It may be found burn
ing in the fire of the world’s scorn ar hate
or misrepresentation. But harken to the
crackle of the burning bush!
Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses! How tame all other
stories compared with the biography of
Moses! From the lattice of her bathing
house on the Nile, Thermutis, daughter of
Pharaoh, sees him in the floating cradle of
papyrus leaves made water tight by bitu
men ; his infantile cry is heard among the
marble palaces, and princesses hush him
with their lullabies; workmen by the road
side drop their work to look on him when
as a boy he passed, so beautiful was he;
two bowls put before his Infant eyes for
choice to demonstrate his wisdom, the one
bowl containing rubies and the other con
taining coals of fire, sufficiently wise was
he to take the gems; but, divinely direct
ed, he took the coals and put them to his
mouth, and his tongue was burned, and
he was left a stammerer all his days, so
that be declared, in Exodus iv, 10, “I am
slow of speech and of slow tongue;” on
and on until be set firm foot among the
crumbling basalt, and bis ear was not
deafened by the thunderous “Thou sbalt
not” of Mount Sinai, the man who went
to the relief of the Israelites wbo were
scourged because without chopped straw
they were required to make flrm bricks,
the story of their oppression found chisel
ed on the tomb of Roechere at Thebes, and
when his armies were impeded by venom-j
•J.
ous serpents eent crates of Ibises, the snake
destroying birds, to clear the way so tbat
his host could march straight ahead, thus
surprising the enemy, who thought Gley
must take another route to avoid thd rep
tiles; the whole sky an aquarium to drop
quails for him and the hosts following;
the only man in all ages whom Christ
likens to himself; the man of whom it is
written, “Jehovah spoke unto Moses face
to face as a man speaketh to his friend;”
the man who bad tho moot wondrous
funeral of all time, the Lord coming down
out of heaven to bury him. No human
Bps to read the service. No choir to chant
a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem. No
angel alighting upon the scene, but God
laying him out for the last sleep, God up
turning the earth to receive the saint, God
smoothing or banking the dost above the
sacred form, God, with farewall and bene
diction. closing the sublime obsequies of
law giver, poet and warrior. “And no
man knoweth of bis sepulcher unto this
day.” Get your eye on him Instead of try
ing to imitate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm came on a prairie
in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh
was lost, but after awhUe struck the track
of another sleigh and felt cheered to go
on, since he had found the track of anoth
er traveler. He heard sleighbells preced
ing him and hastened on and caught up
with bis predecessor, who said, “Where
are you going?” “I am following you,”
was the answer tbat came back. Tho fact
is tbrt they were both lost and bad gone
round and round in a circle. Then they
talked the matter over and, looking up,
saw the north star, and toward the north
was their home, and they started straight
far it Ob, instead of imitating men like
ourselves and circling round and round,
let be look up and take some starry guide
like Moses and follow on until we join
him amid the “delectable mountains.”
You say you cannot reach his character.
Ob, na Neither can you reach the north
star, but you can be guided by its heaven
ly pointing.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE • |
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA," the same
that has borne and does now on
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper:
This is the original “ PITCHERS CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought 0/2
and has -the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of ivhich Chas. H. Fletcher is
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on JQ, the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE GF J|
Insist on Having |
The Kind That Never Failed Tou.
1 THC C«T»V« COMMMY, TT MUMMY »T««T. H«W YOM «TV.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For County Surveyor,
I hereby announce myself a candidate
or County Surveyor, of Spalding county,
subject to the democratic primary of June
28rd, A. B. KELL.
For County Commissioner.
Editor Call : Please announce that I
am a candidate for- re-election for County
Commissioner, subject to the action of the
democratic primary, and will be glad to
have the support ot all the voters.
„ J. A. J. TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my
self to an honest, business-like administra
tion of county affairs in the direction of
lower texes. B. F. STRICKLAND.
1 hereby announce myself. a candidate
for County Commissioner, subject to the
democratic primary to be held June 28,
next. If elected, 1 pledge mysezr to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct
ing the affairs ot the .county.
W.J.FUTBAL.
' I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
of June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
For Representative-
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot the
democratic party, and will appreciate your
support. J. P. HAMMOND.
Editor Call; Please announce my
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject tq the action
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SPRING REMEDIES
For “that tired feeling,” spring fever and
the general lassitude tbat comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that •winter
nag harvested in the blood, you will And
in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
For purifying the blood and giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled!
N. B. DREWRY fe SON,
28 Hill Street
Notice to Owners of Real Estate.
The City Assessors having completed
the assessments-for the present year and
turned the books over to this office, parties
are hereby notified to examine the
and file application for reduction if they
so desire. THO 9. NALL,
April 29,1898. Clerk and Trees.
To Core Constipation Forevor.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic too or fSc.
i! C.C. C. fall to cure, druggiaU.refund mopes.
oi the democratic party. I shaff be pleased
to receive the support of all the
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bull.
For Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding cotfnty that lam a candidate
for re-election to the office of Tax Collec
tor of this county, subject to the choice of
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me.
• T. B. NUTT.
For County Treasurer,
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
announce myself a candidate for reelec
tion for the office of County Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. a BROOKS.
For Tax Beoeiver.
Editor Call : Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that I am a can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June '
23rd, and respectfully ask the support Os 1
all voters of this county.
Respectfully,
R. H. YARBROUGH.
I respectfully announce myself as a can-feg
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the
action of primary,' if one is held.
S. M. M’COWELL.
For Sheriff.
I respectfully inform my friends—the
people of Spalding county—that I am a
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject
to the verdict of a primary, if one is held
-Your support will be thankfully received
7 pATEICK
I am a candidate for the democratic
nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask
the support of all my friends and the pub.
lie. If nominated and elected, it shall be
my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of-
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