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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION v ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY gEPTEMBKR 7 1880,
5.
TALLAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED YHSTBRDA.Y IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
glr, TSIinsga Comtmif ■ Bis B.rl.saf Banc Sermons
T Bssuilful snd ImprMSlTS Discourse on tbs A
Sabjtoti H rhs Empty Visas 1 *—rnoVseznt M
C&slr in tbs Uouse-Tbe Lesson.
ZMsKLYNy September S.—fapbsial.]—
Thl llovt Dr. T. DeWitt TalmigeVtaxt todsy
m First Ssmuel, chapter xx, Y.’iSL “Thon
Wlr.be:, mined, beanie thy •e.KfvriH be
'emptyFolloiring it the eermon “
Sst on. the table the cntlery, aid
Tcrirareof the paleoo, for King Sinl
» state dinner today. Adistingnl
kept ti the table for hie son-in-law,
rt arrior, David by name. The g
and plumed, come in and take
When poople are invited to a klngte-banquet
they Ore very apt to go. Bat beforg’^he cov*
■♦re arei lifted from the feast Seal looks around
and finds a vacant seat at the table.- '.-He etyl
within himself, or perhaps. V audibly:
"What does this mean?.?. .Where
w ni'y son-in-law? Where Is David, the gnat
Warrior? I invited him, I expected
lim. What ? A vacant chair at* king's ban.
(pot"’ .
The fact wss that David, the warrior, had
fcsn Seated for the lest time at hia father-in-
kw’a table, The day before Jonathan had
Waxed David to go and occnpy that place at
iho table, faying to David in the word* of my
text: ‘Thou ahalt be milled, beanie thy sat
will be empty."
The prediction wee fulfilled. David was
mined. His sat waa empty. That ooe va
cant chair spoke fonder than all the ooenpied
chain at the banquet. In almost every house
the articles of furniture take a living person
ality. That picture—a stranger would not
aeoany thing remarkable either in its design
p> mention, bat it is more to yon than ell the
pictures of tho Lonvre end the Luxembourg.
Yon remember who bought it end who
admired it. And that hymn-book—yon
remember who sang out of it. And that
cradle—yon remember whe rocked'it. And
that Bible—you remember who read out of It.
And that bod—yon remember who slept in it.
And tbst room—yon remember who died in
it. But there is nothing in all yonr'houao so
eloquent end to migbtj-volced as the vaant
chair. I suppose that before Saul and hia
guests rot up fron tal* banquet there was a
great clatter of wine pitchers, bnt all that
racket wee drowned ent by the volcfthatcame
op from the vacant chair at the table. Many
have gated and wept at John Quinsy Adams's
vaant chair In the boose of representatives,
and at Hr, Wilaon’a vacant chats ip the vice-
preiidoncy, and at Henry Clay's valiant chair
in tlio American senate, and at Prifla Albert’a
vaant chair in Windsor eastle,and nt Thiers’s
vseaat chair in tho oounoila of the French na-
tten, bat all these chairs are unimportant to
yon - as compared with the vaant chain in
yonr own honaehold. Have these chairs any
lessens for yon to learn? Are wo any better
men and women then when they first address-
ed'nt?
>1, First: I point ont to yon tho fathor’s va
ant chair. Old men nlwayt like to tit in the
name place and In the lame chair. They some-
how feel more at home, nod sometimes when
yon ete in their place aod they oome into the
room, ydnjnmp up suddenly and say: “Here
father, bere'a yoor chair.” The probability la
it if an armsbalr, for be ie not to strong as he
cnee warn and he needs a little npholdleg. Hie
hair It s little frosty, hia goma a little depress
ed, for In hie early days tbero was not much
dentistry. Perbepe icssi chair end oldfash-
itned apparel, for though yon may have sug
gested some improvement, father, doea not
want any of year nonsense. Grandfather
never had much admiration for
new-fanglld notions. I sat at tho
table of one of my-pnrishlonors inn former
congregation; an aged man was at the tablo
and his son was | presiding, > and the lather
somewhat abruptly uddrussed the ton and
atue the minister
er liked any new caatoma or minnere; he pre
ferred the old way of doing things, ana he
never looked M happy as whin with his eyes
dosed he sat in the arm chair in the comer.
From wrinkled brow to the Up of the slipper*
what plaoldlty? The wave of tho past
yearn of hia life broke at
the foot of that chair. Perhaps, sometimes,
he was a little impatient, and sometimes told'
the saiho story twlcr; hot over that old chair
how many blessed memories hover! 1 hope
yon did not crowd that old chair, and that It
did noi get very nmrb in the way. Some-
times the old man's ch ir gets very much in
the Way, especially if be bee been ao unwise
as to moke over ail hia property to his chil
dren with the understanding that they are to
take are of him. I have aeon in such oases
children crowd the old man'e chair to tho
door, and then crowd it clear into the street,
and'then crowd it in'o the poorbonse, and
keep on crowding it nnUl the old man fell ont
of-it into hie grave. •
Bdtydhr father's cbalrwu a sacred place.
Ildran raed to climb np on the range of
r*e ight kies, end the longer he
, . -(tar you liked it. Bnt that ehatr
hat been 4. owfoow for some time. The fur
niture dealer would not give yon fifty cents
for it, but it Is a throoo of inflnenco In yonr
domrstit-tfrcle. I saw in the FreOoh palaco
and in the throne room tho chair that Napo
leon ujrtdto occnpy. It was n beautiful chair,
bnt thesuost significant part ul it was tho let
ter “N. ’ embro dered into the hack of tho
chair in pnrpfo and gold. And
yonr father's old chair site
in the throne room of yonr heart, and yonr
affcctlont have embroidered into the back of
that chair in pnrpfo and gold tho letter “F."
Have *11 tbs prayers of that old chair bean
answered? Hava all tba connects of that old
chair baen practiced? Speak ont, old arm-
IT History tells a of an old min whom
s sons were vioton in the Olympic gamee,
ana when they eamo back, these three sene,
with their garlands, and put them on their
tether's brow, the Old men sras to
rejoiced at tba viotorlee of his throe
children that be fell dead in their arms. And
are you, 0 man, going to brieg « wreath of
joy and Christian usefulness and pat It on to
yonr tether's brew, or so the vacant chair, or
on the memory of the one deputed? Speak
out, old aim chair! With reference to yonr
father, tho words of my tort have boon ful-
SUed: Thon shall bo missed, beanie thy
gat will be empty.”
II. 1 go n little farther on in yonr house,
and I find the mother's chair. It is very apt
to be a rocking chair Bbo had to many area
and troubles to tooths that it most hare rack-
ext. I remember it well. - - It sras
an old chair, and the rockers
were almost worn eat. for I sras tho’youngest,
> chair had rooked the whole. tamUy.
a creaking noise aa it qpred, but
i music in the sound. Itwal jnathlgh
enough to allow ns children to pfieumr heads
into bar.lap. Tbst wag tba bank’where we
depwlfoAAU our bnrta and worries.. Oh, what
aehrir-HTCwul It sras different; from the
fathffftr ,.?*4 it wu entirely different. Yon
ask maloir? I esnnot tell; bnt ire all felt It
WU different. Peroepa there WU about thie
chair more gentleness, more teddergem, more
grief when we bed doooq wrong.
When n, wo were wayward tether
scolded, but mother cried. - It was
a very wakefol chair. In tha lick days of
children other chain, could not keep awake;
that chair airfare k.pt awake, kept eeajly
awake. That choir knew all tha old Inllabfee
and all thoeo svordlree s-mgs whieh mothers
single their elck childrro-eoage in,which all
pity and compassion and sympathetic Influ
ences -ere combined. That old chair has
atopned’ seeking for a rood many J«l It
may ha aetnp in the loft or tha garret, but it
holds a queenly power ye*. When at
midnight yen went into that srer-
shop to get tha intoxicating draught, did yon
nothenr a voire tha-. arid: ' Hy aon, why go In
there?- And loader than tha bolaforona an
con of tha place of srfok-d amnsemaot. a voles
saying: “My son, what do yon bare?" And
When yon want Into the house ef eln. a volet
saying: “What would yoor mother do if she
knew you were ban?” .
• And yon were provoked with yourself, and
yon charged yonreelf with superstition sod
fonsticiMu.snd yonr bad got hot with yonr
own thonghis, snd ybu went home nod yon
went to bed, end no eooner bad you tonchod
the bed then a voire aald: “What a prayer las
pUfow! Min, what le the mattort” Tale: Yon
are too nor yonr mother*! reeking.
pshaw!” you ay.
There’ll nothing In that, rta five
hundred milea off from where I was born; I’m
three thousand miles off from the chnroh
wbMa bell wu the first marie I ever hard.'
1 cannot help that; yon ere too our yon
rocking chair. “Oh.” yon ay, "thi
' ’ ' chair '
mother's rocking chair. “Oh." you
can’t be anything in that. Thai
hss
{’'•“▼acaat a great while. - ’ I cinnot help
thet; It In all the mightier for that; it is omni
potent, that vaant mother’s chair. It whis
pers; it speaks; it weeps; It carols; it mourns; it
prays; it warns; it thunders. A young man
went off and jbroke hia mother’a heart, and
while he wh away from home hie mother
died,and the telegraph brought tho ton, and
bp came into the room where she, ley and
locked upon her fare, and he cried ont: “Oh,
mother, mother I what yonr life oonld not do
yonr dath shall effect; This moment I give
my heart to God.” And he kept hie promise.-
Another victory for the vacant chair. With
reference to yonr mother tho sroeda of my text
were fulfilled. “Thon shell be missed, be
came thy seat will he empty.”
Scmeoneoid to a Grecian general: “What
sras the proudest moment In year life?” He
thought a moment and aid: ‘The proudest
moment in my life sras when I ant word
homo to my parents that I had gained the
victory.” And tho prondeet and mat bril
liant moment in yonr life will bo the moment
when you can tend word homo to yonr par
ents that yon have conquered yonr evil hab
its by the grace of God, and become eternal
victor. Ob, deapire not parental anxiety! The
time will come when yon will hare neither
father nor mother, end yon will goaround tho
place where they used to watoh yon, and find
them gone from the home, and gone from tho
field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry
ae food for forgiveness as
yon msy over tho mound
in tho churchyard thoy will not answer.
Dad! dead! And then yon will tako ont tho
white lock of hair that was cot from yonr
mother's brow Just before they burled her,
and you will.take tho cane with which yonr
father used to walk, and yon will think and
think and srish that yon had dono just ss
they wanted yon to, and would give tha world
if yon *bad never throat a Spang through
their dear old harts. God pity tho yonngman
who hu broughtdlsgraca on hit father’s name.
God pity the young man who has broken his
mother’s heart! Better if he had never been
born; better if in the first hoar of his life, in
•teed of being laid against the warm bosom 0.
maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and
tepnlehred. There la no balm powerfal
enough to heal the heart of one who hu
brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and
who wanders abont through the dismal ceme
tery, rending the hair and wringing the hande
and crying: “Mother! mother I” Oh, that
today, by all tbo memories of tho past and by
all the hopes of the ftitaro, yon would yield
yonr heart to God. May yonr tether’s God
and yonr mother’s God. be your God forever!
III. I go onslittio further; I como to tho
invalid’s chair. What! Hdw long have yon
been sick ? “Oh, I have been sick tan, twenty,
thirty years.” Is it possible! What a story
of endurance! There are in many families of
my congregation those invalid chairs. The
occnpsnta of them think they are doing no
good in tho world; bnt that invalid's chair is
the mighty pniplt from which they havo ban
preaching all these years, trait in God. Oao
(lay on an island jut off from Sandusky, Ohio,
1 preached, and there was s great throng of
people there; bnt the throng did not imprau
me so much as the spcctaclo of Jut
one face—the tecs of an Invalid who
wu wheeled in on her chair. I
tald to her afterwards: “Madam, how long
have yon been prostrated?” for she wa' ‘
fiat in the chair. .!'Ob," she replied. ‘
wen, s hh, run -jva .xeep your conrsgo
np?’’ “Oh, yea,’’ ah* aid; “I am happy, very
happy Indeed. Her foot showed it. She
looked the happiest of any one on tho ground.
Ob, what a means ef gisee to the world t!
mvsiju, muu nicamu su«r, tno lavsiiu, ssu
Bobert Hall, tho Invalid, and the ten thousand
of whom tho world has never hardi bnt of
whom all heaven la cognisant. The most con
spicuous thing on earth for God's eye end tho
eyeofengele to rest on, is not a throne of
earthly power, hut it la the Invalid's
chair. Oh, there men and women
who ato always suffering bnt
never oomplalnlng—there victims of spinal
dlttue, and neuralgic torture, and rhenmatis
(laudation, will answer the roll-call of the
maityrs, and riu to the martyr’s throne, and
and will wave the martyr’s palm! Bat when
one of these invalids’ chairs beeomu vaant,
bow suggestive It h! No more bolstering np
the wary head. No more changing from
lido tq side to get an easy position. No more
uro of the bandage, and the ataplum, and
prescription. That invalid's chair may
folded np or taken apart, or act
" cr lose
bo
away, bnt it will never
queenly power; it will always preach
of trust In God and cheerful submission. Suf
fering ail ended now, With respect to that
invalid the words of my text have been ful
filled. ‘Thon sbalt be nriaeed, beaus thyeeet
will he empty.”
IV. I pus on end I find one more vaant
chair. It la a high chair, it la the child’s chair.
If that chair be occupied, I think it la tha most
patent chair in all the household. All the
chain wait on it; all tha chain are tamed to
ward it. It muu more than David’s chair at
Sanl’a banquet. At any rein, it makes more
racket. Thet is a strange boue thet on be
doji with a child in it. How that child breaks
, adopt
one; it will open haven to yonr soaL It will
pay its way. Its crowing in the morning will
give the day a cheerful starting, and Italia
at night will give the day a cheerful closo.
Yon do na like children? Then yon bed bet
ter stay oat of haven, for there are re many
there they would teiriy make yon crazy! Only
about firo hundred mlllioos of them! The old
unity disciples told tha mothers to keep the
children away from Christ. “Yon bother
Him,” they aid; “you trouble the Master.”
Trouble him! Ha has filled haven with that
kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
u rat year or two after hie reeidena in Sierra.
Nevada county, there wa not srtngleehild
in all the rack of a hundred mile* But the
Fourth of July came, and tha miners ware
gathered together, and they were celebrating
the fourth with oration and poem, and a bois
terous brass bsnd; and while the band was
tbynsen began to
tbo eutera coast, and of thsir wires and
children far away, and their harts
UIHUICIt ifil fiWfi/i IUU MWU UCfil bl
were filled with bomosickneu u they bald
the take cry. Bat the music went on, end the
child cried loader and loader, and the braes
band played loader and loader, trying to
drown out the infantile interruption, when
•worthy miner, the tears rolling down bis
ftcc, got np and shook Us fist, end Slid:
“Stop tbst noisy bend and gin tho baby a
a chance.” Ob, there wiapethce in it as well
as good cheer in itl There is nothing to
erocse, end melt, and tnbdne the soul like a
child'! voice.
Bot when it gets away from you, the high
chair *beccma a higher chair, and there ta
dcrolatfon ell shoot yon. In thres-fsnrtha of
the tomes of my congregation there is avacrat
high chair. Soaahow yon never get aver it
These is no we to put to bed at night; no one
lo ask strange questions ahootGodand haven.
Ob, whet is the on of that high chair ? It Is
to call yea hither. What a drawing upward
It U to haveoWldran In heaven! And than It
Uench a preventive against sin. If a father
is going away Into tin he lures big living
children with their Brother, but if a father la
going away beta sin whit to ha going to do
with bis dead children flaring about bin and
hovering orar bis every wayward step? Oh,
speak cut, namtbtgfc chair, and uy: ‘Father,
come back from sin; mother, come back from
worldllncis. Iam watching yon. Tam wait
ing for yon.” With respect to year - child the
woideofmy text have ban fulfilled: “Then
•belt ho missed, beanso thy sat Will bp
empty.”
Hy hearers, I have gathered up tho volesc
of yonr departed friends, and tried' to intone
them into one invitation upward. I act in
array all the vaant chare of your homes, and
of yonr rectal circle, and I bid them cry oak
where-1 am. We lived together on urth;
come, lot us live together in haven.” We
answer that invitation. We come.
Keen a sett for ns, u Saul kept a seat for
David; bnt that sat shall not be empty. Wheo
we are all through with thta world, and wo
have shaken handa all aronnd for tho lut
time, and ail onr chairs in tho homo olrclo and
In the onlsido world shall bo vaant, may wo
be wortbiping God in that place from whloh
we shall so ont no more forever. I thank God
there will be no vacant chairs In haven.
MR. TALMAGB AT HOMS.
His Views on Various Topics of Moment to
the Country.
Nxw York, September 5.—Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmsge returned today from a vacation trip
that hu covered most of the eastern ana
soathera half of tho oonntry. Being asked as
to whether he had obarved any evil results
of tha recent labor disturbance*, he aid: “No;
re fir a that la concerned I think the country
ie in a better condition than at any previous
time in my memory. There has ban a vague
idea for many years that apltel and labor
were independent of ach other. The
events of tho put yar here emphatically
demonstrated that capital and labor are de
pendent upon each other, and that when one
suffer! both suffer. This trouble hu ban the
gathering of an ovil which needed to como to
a head and be lanced. This autumn the fist
and the brain will go to work with a batter
andentandlog of each other. Strikes have
demonstrated themselva to beannlvatal dis
aster, but many of tho oppressions whioh ta
bor hu suffered at tho hands of capital have
been brought to light thta year aa never be
fore. Anarchy in Ameria hu reoolved its
deathblow. Labor will get its righto by pat
ting into the state and na
tional legislatures men from
tbo foctory and the ahop. Hen bora with a
ellver spoon in their monthe oan never appre
ciate the wants 0! the great
rnueae. What striku mo in all my
travetaie tbo asmi-omnipresence of the news
paper. The whole oonntry hu ban brought
into ana neighborhood. I wu in Ohiago da
ring the trial of the a nsrchlst* and there wu
no more excitement over It there, uve In and
-around the court house, than there wu here,
Chlago if now u near Brooklyn as tho olty
bailie tome. When the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars that shall be unt from the
north to rafferieg Charlatan have accom
plished tbolr mission it earns to mo that tha
lutitsmof sectional strife frill hayo ended.
The chnrcha ought Immediately to make
their practical sympathiu felt in this great
disaster to onr airier city.”
HOM1NO P1QEON3-
Tha Fart They Flayed In the Trial Rnee of
tha Yachts.
Nxw York, September 4.—[8paolal.]—By
no means the tout Interesting fcaturo of the trial
races between America's big iloopa, was tho tun ot
homing jdgeons made by too Evening News of this
city. A yacht raa at Iho beat smseks or monoto
ny, and even the gray bearded sadogs wbo pat
on tbclr juuoty club cape to attend and witcow
and criticise the contest, found a pleasant diversion
hi the occasional Dightaorthe little messengers from
the deck of the Judge*' bat Tho actions of tbo
birds srero watched through tUaaea and when
the sea dogs could find nothing to criticise In too
management of the Mayflower, (and a su dog’s
strong point la ability to plok flaws In a supper's
•kill,) they descanted upon toe mcrlta ortho
pigeons. Itwu a oommsndablc bit ol enterprise
on tbs part of tbo News and It wu a gratifying
success except on toe lut day. The bljds wafe'a
; little pnazltd on Saturday by the onfamlUac view
presented to theta when they were loosed 1 'ften
toe study, dark cabin ot the tug,'but they all
returned to toe city in ufety, and
most of them In time for toe pobUotlon or too dis
patcher thay boro. The expariaau Of the first day
improved toe aerrlco of the next, and toe result
wu that on Monday the Newt had a clear, con
nected and correct account of toe rue from toe
tlmo toe log took tho yacht! In tow natlt It be-
ctrnc certain that there could be nodoolslve result
on account of toe light wind.
Every bird rent from the tug on that day arrived
at the cote In Cortlandt street In tlmo for toe pub-
-latlon of Its dispatch. Three dozen birds were
need. They srere brought on to tho tug In two
boxes covered with slats.; When a page of “copy”
written on tissue paper Wu ready, tho reporter
took ont e pigeon, and, foldlog Ihe paper Into a
•mall compass, fastened It to the middle tall
fealbors ot toe bird with a light wire. Tbo
weight adeed to Ibe tall would
bo almost If not quite Imperceptible
even to too pigeon himself. Thon
the bird wu tossed into therir and left to bit own
resources, gcmctltnes two birds were freed at tbs
••me time bcsrlng duplicate dispatches with too
Idea that li one failed to gat borne in time the
Other might. When they first found their srlngs
.they flew ont low overtbo water until about ono
hundred yards from tbo tug, and torn began to
rise, flying In circles. Tho ice dogs said they srere
gelling tbclr bearings. No bird ever started
airtight for the city; two or three, and even more
times, thev circled about the tag
before deputing |ln a straight line
for home. Monday wu a bad
day for tho pigeons. A strong wind wu blowing
in the forenoon Irom too northeut, ao that tho
hires bad to fly almost dad against It to gat to toe
city; moreover, lire air wu Ihlek with fog and
heavy cloude obaennd the right. As a cones-
qucncc few dlspalchu got to toe oily la time foe
toe piper.
Few who uw toe birds on that dsy realized
what wu Ibe matter. They seemed averse 10
making an attempt to fly. They alighted on tho
masts of tba shops, ersu came back to toe
deck ol toe tug and walked slowly about The
wind troubled them, and the last one of the tat to
be (tied wu unable to got bis balance ot too start,
•ndlell Into tbo wareinnddrosrnad. Neverthe
less, too edventurewu regardod.ua groat IUC-
cess, and a fresh cote of blrdo hu been put in train
ing to follow toe cop races next week. Thay will
bo Wed at all points in osch race even tip to too
eoachaton, not srlto toe hope of getting tbo
nitre to toe paper in time to publish, bnt that
bulletins may be displayed In front
ef toe office u the con teat proceeds.
Tho Great Problem.
Before chemistry boame a (dance tha ol-
ehymlslo starched in rain for tha philosopher's
WASHINGTON GOSSIP-
The Comptroller's Opinion—The Consular
Appointments.
WiSHnraTON, August 30.—The second
comptroller, in a lengthy opinion, has jut
decided a question of some importance, rotat
ing to claims for the nso and oocnpatlon of
real property in the border statu during the
period of tho war of tho rebellion. He hu
held that accounting officers hare no jurisdic
tion to andit and allow such claims, nntess it
is shown that there wu an express agreement
iroperty, upon the fait!
wu surrendered by tho owner.
It is also held that in the aboenoe of an ox-
press agreement, a 00atract uniot bo implied
where military anthorlliee, on account of ne
cessities of tho service are compelled to toko
possession ol snd use roil property In a terri
tory which h the theatre of war and where
oocupttfon is essential to its snccessfnl prose
cution. Property is not taken in snoh oosos by
tho exercise of tho light of eminent domain,
bnt through tho tewfol exertion of war power,
which inheres in every civilised government
and whioh ruts upon tho right of self preser
vation.
The dodsion will exclude ftom the consid
eration of accounting officers a very large class
of claims now pending, estimates to involve
bill a million dollars, besides a large number
of cues in which claims hava not ban died.
There are some prior decisions to the contrary
which arc overruled.
The comptroller holds that tor thta olsu ot
cases oongrau alona can provide a remedy, and
that tho course of congrostional legislation
upon this subject sinoe tho cloa of the war
plainly Indluta an Intention on tha part of
that body not to delegate power to pan open
this dsn of olaims to any other branch of tho
g vernment
Tho particular case under consideration waa
that of tho Christian ehnrcb, at Paduah, Ky„
for tho na of their oharoh building as a hos
pital for the can of elek and wonndea solriera
daring a period of nine months, immediately
after the battles of Fort Henry and Fort
Donelaon, in February 18fi2.
For spoclal reasons, appllci
alone; the report of the andil „
■n allowance of $000 wu confirmed in order
that it may be reported to congress at Its next
session for action, bnt tha goneral rata govern
ing ctalmi for rent in the statu of Missouri,
Kcntnck, Virginia, Wat Virginia and Mary
land daring tho wir period ta declared to be u
above stated.
Washington, August SO.—There are some
funny storla related in regard to the experi
ence of this administration fit tho appointment
of coninls, and if any democrat wonders why
it ta that so few changes have been recom
mended by ficcretary Bayard toil msy servo to
captain to a attain extant. When tha ohango
of administration took place lut yar there
wu a great ruah made for con in tar positions.
The bine book giving the solaria and perqui
sites of tho variooi places wu dlli-
gently etadioi, ana when the
various seekers settled upon the place they
ills In its train than it would care,
coming evident tbst this problem hu been
solved. Lieutenant Merle, with a party of
Iticcdf travelling through too province of
"Matto Gross,” in the valley of too Amine,
found the natives using a foody plant, who
finding ill use most beneficial in bis own ex-
erienee, forwarded it to a medial friend of
lie enjoying an extensive practice wbo ai
ccttalned, after an cxhanitlvo trial, that it
p of seated every requisite of nourishing the
nerves and leaving no reaction. In honor of
lie discoverer It ie ailed Moxle Nerve Food.
It is fold hy druggists in quart bottles nt too
popular pria of rd) ccnu a bottle.
Fxzd DvL'glam Is t • visit Boston shor'.lv
h rorc hisdepa'inte 10furope,September It, and
toe colored p( ople U are a-- preparing for him a
grand compLmealttyncepUoaaad banquet.
Premature decline ef powar in
either sex, however Induced, “*
mancntly cared. Book for 1
World's Dispensary Medical
Main street, Boffalo. X. Y.
It b is Id 1 hit Mr. Intnam, tha hod muter
of toe Frsnklln iraT.msr school, Boston, who re-
orally saw toe su reflect off ihe Bockport shore;
Isa perfectly tempi rate man.
FITS: All Fits stopped free by Dr. Hint’s
treat Kane restorer. No Fite after first day's
ISA Marvelous care* Treatise and fig trim
«4tle tree to Fit cnees. Bead to Drt Kline,
131 Anh SL- Philadelphia) Fa.
rune 01 power no
id, r peed Ilyin) per-
r 10 cente Ins-amps,
cal association, fidJ
New YorkjWho desired, he aid, to go to Solo,
Turkey. This ta nn insignificant consular
1 agency which hu no salary attached to it, hot
which is generally given toa resident mer
chant or other person who hu
mono of making a livelihood, bnt is
glad to tako this lor tho occulonal fees that
may Jcomo to it. Brown wu told that the
place wu not worth having, bnt he thoaght
the follows who told him so were trying to
gay him andporhape wanted Itfor themselves.
Be had three or four unitors go and cm Sec
retary Bayard abour$*end finally tbo secre
tary appointed him. Itfooiot noccaaary that
too coninlar agents bo confirmed by tho (ca
ste, and oo he Immediately total# pepem.
“What buslncu are yon going Into whan
yon get to Solo?” ukea tho official Who gave
j him hia final lnstinctlono.
“I am going to bo coninlar agent,” replied
! Brown;
; ;«Ye* I know that; bnt you don’t expat to
live On what yon make, do yon V
“Certainly I do; I am no millionaire.”
“Yon know there lino alary don’t yont”
inquired tho official.
“No, I don’t know anything of too kind.
There la a good salary or $2,000."
“You an mlatakon, dr, toon is nothing bnt
foci connected with tho place, and they don’t
amonnt to fifty cento a month,”
Brown at length saw that ho wu mistakon.
Ho had an inperfeot copy of tho rosbter, in
which tho fiinra belonging to another place
hod been printed oppoolte Scio, and ho had
been so Hy about gottlng tho
hod not talked wll
lively abont it. .
work with the secretary
the Htlafoctlon he got wu too inlormatloo
that it would bo impoealbta to give Mm ovary
place on the Hat, and u he hod asked for this
one and got it ho must bo content.
Consul laser, who ta now at Fort Btanloy,
Falkland Island* wu first appointed to a
consular agency la Germany. Ho uwbythe
register that thta agoney paid handsomely,
and bo went for it. It wu ono of thou placos,
howover, that are under tho control of the
cosnl general strictly, and it ta very easy for
that official to und a great dal of hnsinoa
there, or elmoat none. LeoKr’s. pro
dcctaaor had ban a apodal friend of th.
consul general and a great deal of trado has
accoidingly drifted that way. Whan Mr
Louer got there bo found that ft wu a von
dull place. Ho waited abont four month-
and took In leu than $10. Ha thon applied
for a change, and after awhile wax sent to
present position, which Is only a fow mile-
from too end of tha earth.
THE BROWN COTTOXOIN M “A No. L”
"It ta Simply Forfoct.”
Hu all too latest improvements and 1s do
Uvered free of oil ehargoo at any
point. Sand to company nt Now London, Ol
Sr ratalogno or Uk yoor merchant to mdei
ono for yon.
t getting tho place that ho
od with any ono who know pod-
t it. Ho Immediately bogan to
ho secretary for a trenafor,bat all
DR.W.J. TUCKER
PERMANENTLY LOCATED
AT NO, 9 MARIETTA STREET
ATLANTA GA.
Ail Chronic DIseaes of the
Heart, Lungs, Blood, Nerves,
Skin, Bones, and Genito-Urin.
ary Organs scientifically and
successfully treated.
CHRONIC FEMALE TROUBLES
Readily yletdz to the doetor'a okUlfol treat
taent.
YOCNO, MIDDLE-AGED AND OLD MSN
Jaffering from the efforts of indiacrottoa and cr.
aeeat* such u involuntary emlarion* sponnator-
rho*and Impoteneysnoocmfnlly treated and FEB
VASTLY CUBED.
Dr. Tucker hu cored more cua ot
PILES AND FISTULA
than any physician in the aonth. Patianta treated
mcoew folly through the mail.
Dr. Tucker wu for aeverel yon ptofouor and
ion oftho faculty In ono of the oldem medloal
ollegezoftho moth, and aim hu ban president
■f the Bute Medial and Bnrgteal Society.
Consultation pcrzonal or by man, free and a
redly confidential. An honest opinion given In
Mention thta paper. JanSwky tfcownrm
ATLANTA BRIDGE WORKS
GRANT WILKINS,
Civil Engineer and Oontraetliig AgaolD..,
Bridges, Roofs and lorn Tables,
, ton Work for Bulldlnn, Jalli, Etc.
•nbetmemret’and Foundations a fipeolanw
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rongh mall, erprezi or olbcrwlae, or taka ti
under hia pcraonal cue In Atlanta. Gall or
Wills to him the history and statement of,
affliction, symptoms, age, Mr, etc., cncloilng r
age for reply.son, wi
Vandonihliptpar- 0*a2i—di ywed
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