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About The Banner-messenger. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1891-1904 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1891)
THE * *> ^aii»cr-||lrs«rnfler. _ !’IJHl,!hlli;j» i:\KliV THURSDAY MV A.. SnX>C3-A.m 3MI3C. Hoitert Uonuer does not tliluk tlio trotting ihiltt will reach 3;OIL U IS MUd ilml the general me ot tile tyiaiwriicr has grcally injured the ink buftiuMt. A steamboat line will begin running in a few weeks between Chattanooga, Telia,, and Ml. Louis, Mo. Thu business uiuii ol ChaGauuogu are delighted at the proMpecl, which means u reduction in irnighu to that poiut, Within fifteen days IHOOOeach were subscribed by 107 oi (lhaUenooga’s citi/cns as a guarantee fund. The trip of the steamer Herbert a few month 1 since over the same route, made in the interest of Ghutlauooga uiarulutota,demonstrated the entire feasi¬ bility of the scheme, as the Mussel Shoal Uanal made the worst part of the river navigable, aud below that Ihq voyage was jwrfeoUy easy. The American Wool Reporter sees the solution of the deserted farm problem in New England in the rising of sheep, -‘Many ol these deserted farms,’’it says, ♦can bn bought from $5 to $15 pur acre, and there ate clusters of them where 1000 or more acres on be secured in a body, These farms , bo , stocked , , with . can grout Htu-o * pah ires and Bmithdowns costing at - . head, , these . , broods . Irani 95 to 9 s per but of course should not be ran in flocks of move than thirty to forty head each. We have recommended , , .Shropshire* amt . ROttUidowns b cause of their superior iuuttoe qualities, and because they , are hardy and early to develop. The llutup lluredowu will also please, ' perhaps aquftUy u» well, and furnish atost tooth- I tome mutton. The New England mutton ratswi is not only favored with sweet feed timing the limestone and granite v!-- ledges »ud . in the green valley . of * his domain, hut is also additionally favored by a close ' the best, markets . die . proximity to in count,' \ wh' ic early lambs need never to hunt a buyer aud where prices T, lot mutton „ always . gov-u. , p. iiue are V 'I’he easieru ahore of Maryland has little disturbed .. . by smnugrotuui, .. beeu so iniuuiks the Ohii'xtao J timid ' ’ that the mpou uumhers coutparativviv tew sur "*»».«'*™“"»«»“ Imcti uetirsvu-y to resort to oiid but very auhleiu devue , .... u di uu,-n a ttwctn umu bearing the same name. The com ' device . , pAtvouvuuo , by lUOncav is the which of two nieu bearing exactly the sauie LUnstiau aud , family , name one is AmtinoiiAhc-d ^ \ from the o'her bv the ad * ditiou “ot VViHUun,” “ot i'uouias,’’ oi “of John,” as the case may be,the mean iue ot the phrase being “sou of William, ,,,. Ihornm John , , „ Another , . device . ■ or onct the name au adjective ’“•I’ to indicate ,?*•*•«• some nhvuicMl y '' nectiliaritv as “loin.*” to iudi ’■ pate a tall man, “black" to indicate a ilatk d%iL nu. luaft or or rod to to iadh-ate md.catv arnddv a taudy man. Occasionally ' the distiuguishiug wotvl , uucompieuieuiary. , ••Uevti . is is not at; uuusitai * iwetix to the Christian of haviug; ,— - reputa ot suruaiuv a mau a Uou tw vuv mv . Oi rev alesuncss. A A mau instil beariug one of the best known names in »«!-»««“■ *»«» <»" <« tU. 25 5 Vhe ^psat ol *wuwaw,ial t-ure.n who «- «- w —<» *>«—«— tioe tu western Kansas, for the purpose ol ... okrt&uuu^ . lutorui - t %tion .- on wmeb. . . to . bra wwe* & J»<«o0 iudo-meut of - the V--. business -c. concK- V - Uousof that pact of the country, reports that *mtt that wuw Dorlioa portion of oi Kansas n.aasa» is -> eokmng cufoymj, rr. the most prossicrous \ era in its history. ' flae bacAS, he says, arc - m excellent „ con ■“«« “>«' *» “ j they arc not using much Eastern money, mrgn laiae amounts beiuo ociug received nxeivta tuxa from xaroi farm ojw who are o&yitti? off wof tenges attd *<•»•««« a The abundance of the crops this year is such, he declares, as to make up tor the ♦-------- Uw*» AtfdUftea auatV-acii bv by the the iarmors ‘armors in m ore- pro V MM*# IttttfcSOX!** Accordiog to hisohsec miskotk the cb mt difficult! tht tj have 10 outend with is the lack of threshing ittctunes to handle the, wheat. But the W'e do not let this trouble theca tmm ich as they are disposed to hold the uw for higher prices, believing that next February they can get $1 a ifeel instead of sixty cents, which it ► present price. The prosperity of the attars in bavin® its eileelj r *“ ret*;.!. REV. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Hi ii ita t", “Bulks Without Sthaw.” TWW! “The Harden of Isaial. ipIA.j A* Wlwt is all thl* excitement about in the street* ot Cairo. Egypt, this December morning in 1880? Htand bank! We hear loud voice* and see the urowds of people re¬ oiteuient treating to the other* sides of the street. The ox of heoomus our own excite¬ ment. Footmen come in sight. They lmve a rod in the hand and tassefed cap on bead, and their arms and foot are bare. Their gar b is black to the waist, except as threaded with gold, and tire rest Is white. They are clearing chariot the way for an official dignitary in a sometimes or carriage. thirty They forty are swift, and run or miles at a stretch in front or nu oouipage. Make way! They are tho fleetest footed men on earth, hut soon die, for tire human frame was I not made for such endurance. asked ali around mo who the man in tiie carriage wiul but no one seemed to know. Yet as I fell back witli the rest to the wall i said, This is the old custom found all up and down the Bible, footmeii running before tho rulers, demanding obeisance, ns in Genesis liefore Joseph’s olmriot. the people were com¬ manded, feet “Bow the knee;" and as 1 see the swift of tiie men followed by the swift feet of the horses, how those old words of Jeremiah rushed through my mind, “If thou hast run with tiie footmen and they have wearied thee, how ennst thou contend with horses?" Now, my hearers, in this course of sermons I am only serving yon ns footman, and clear¬ ing tiie way for your coining into the would wonders have of Egyptology, study l’ar a beyond subject anything that l be you said in the brevity of pul¬ that can pit utterance, Two hundred and eighty nine times does the Bible refer to Egypt and the mother Egyptians. No wonder, Egypt, for Egypt war the of nations. the mother of Rome, Greece; Greece, of the England, mother the of 'mother Rome; the mother of ouv great-great-grandmother. land. According to that, Egypt is our On other- Sabbaths I left yon study iug what they must have been Jn their glory; Gm Hypostyle hall of Karuae, the aruhi teetural miracles of Luxor, the Colonnade of Horemheb, Sphinx, which Hie with cemeteries lips of of Memphis. speaks the enough stone loud to be heard across the coutu archaxdogists. ries, Heliopolis and But SSoan, all that the conundrum extravagance of 0 f and temple and high monument was the and cause deep of an hell. oppression The weight as of heaven as those tJocks of stone, heavier than any modern machinery could lift, came down upon the Hebrew slaves, and their blood mixed the mortar for the trowels. We saw again and again on and along the Nilea bos* workman roughly smite It a sub ordinate who did not pleas* him. is no rare occurrence to see long hues of men ters under at heavy short distances, burdeus passing lashing them by task as mas- they goby iuto exhausted greater sjhhxI, with the and blasting then heats these workmen, ot the lying down upon tho Uu-o ground, . suddenly obi tied with the night atr, trying }\ out wh»cWeau*0 in prayer: “Ya, Allah!’’ “Ya, A what h:> must have been ^1!0 the olden (H^l times But cruelty Waelitish shown by tho is Egyptian* indicated by towards pie their slaves a turoiu theBeai-Hassan tombs, wherea man isheldylown hol&upkho on his face viddins by feetth* two inmiMud mother official* beat the bare back of the Tiotlro, every stroke, 1 have no doubt, fetching the N°w vou see how the I „ haraohs . could af Ford to build such costly works ft cost them wre cheap drmk for devils. Hi klm without straw may not suggest so much hardship until you know that-the bricks were usually made with ■'crushcdstrow, straw crushed by tiie feet of the oxen in the thrashing,ami, ttos crushed straw denied to the workmen, ^^tubbfeoJ'cathw- A stuooie ocgathw lustironoui tne water hde Thu story of the Bible is confirmee by the tact that many of the brick walls oi Egypt have on the lower layers brick niadt with straw, but the higher layers of brick nadeout of rough straw or rushes from L.o ?* v er bank, the truth of the Book of Lxixlus tw» written n» the urick walls discovered by the modern explorer. * that governmental outrage has always Egyptiau rule in the Bthle times as well a* tt isw our owu time. A modern traveler gives the figures concerning the cuitivatioo of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of the field stated iu piasters: produce.,.,...,...................... l,8>:t Expenses.....................‘........ flWS.S - Clear protiuce...................... 808L Taxes................................ 198 - - — Amount cleared by the farmer,.,, 315>j 0r cent, ,as of my what authonty the .. Egyptian dec*™. farmer *ev«mty makes per ______ is taCkOuaia. c*<l Si si J«S> anlu. entfsttsatsates -I the father and the brotheracaHed hhn suppose Jue, for done not make ddfereuce tK>w muca ooy fls aavaucoa auy woriaiv it is m c>uc* his totter *ad brothers aud sisters at ways call huu by the same uame that he was colled by when two years old-Joseph, by £bm-^’s who had yust permission arrived, gave the richest to hfe family pai-t of Egypt, farms the Westchester farmsor Jacob’s the Laacas ter of the ancients. descend ants rapidly multiplied. JSi , M?s“s’*iS“£'*iS iten c«we to a great storehouse which Joseph bad provided, ami paid in money for corn, But after awiub# fch* uioaoy gave out aud the?n tkvy paid iu eattte. Atter awhile the from thegovernmentby sua-cadering them selves as slaves. Where was help to come from? Not the throne. Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the Pharaoh’s ofiteers commanded that, Net surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat wade them all tremble. Not thezodsAm won and Osiris or teenpies the goddess Isis, for Phai-aoh built their out of the groan cf this diaboiiral servitude. But one hot day the Princess Thoaoris, the daughter of Pharaoh, while Nii», ia has hm-bathing word brought house her that the banksof the there ia a baby afloat on the river ia a era die made out of big leaves. Of course there is excitement all up and down the banks, for an ordinary baby in au ordinary cradle attracts smiling attention, but an infant ia a cradle of papyrus rocking o» a rivw arouses not only admiration, but launched it? Rookies* ot the crocodiles, who iay basking in themselves in the sun, the maid¬ ens wade and snatcU up the child, and first one carries him and then another car¬ ries him, and ail the way up the bank herum a gantlet of caresses, till Tlionoris rushes out or the bathing house and says: “Beautiful shall foundling, I will adopt you as my own. You the yet Egyptian wear the Egyptian crown and Sit on throne." No! Not No! He is to be theetnancipatoi of the Hebrews. Tell it in all the brick kilns. Jell it among all those who art tile writhing castles under the lash, tell it among all Aoan and of Thebes. Memphis Before and him Heliopolis and will part. On a sea will receive a from mountain top, alone, this one to be the foundation the Almighty all a law that while is the of good law world lasts. When he is dead, God will come down on Nobo and alone oury turn, no man the obseqmies. or woman or angel worthy to atlmiil The child grows up and goes out and stud¬ ies the horrors of Egyptian oppression and suppresses his indignation, for the right time has not come, although once for a min¬ ute he lot fly, and when he saw a taskmaster put the whip on the back of u workman who low wuh doing his best, and heard tho poor fel¬ orv and saw the blood spurt, Most*? doubled up his list and struck him on the tomplo till the cruel villain rolled over in tho Huiuf exanimate and never swung tho lash again. But, Served him right! the Moses, are you going to undertake impossibilities? You feel that you are going But where to free tho Hebrews from bondage. is your army? Where is your navy? Not a sword, have you, not a spear, not n chariot, not a horse. Ah! God was on his side, and He has an army of His own. Tho snowstorms are on God’s si do; witness the snowbanks in which the French army of invasion was buried on their way hack from Moscow. The rain is on His side; witness the 18th of June at. Waterloo, when the tem¬ pests so saturated the road that tiie attack could not be made on Wellington’s forces until eleven o’clock, and he’ was strong enough to hold out until re-inforoeuionts ar¬ rived. Had that battle been opened at five o'clock in the morning instead or at eleven the des¬ tiny of Europe would have been turned tho wrong way. Tho heavy rain decided every¬ thing. So also are the winds and the waves oji Uod’s side. Witness the Armada with one hundred hundred and fifty ships and twenty-six thousand and fifty gnus and eight sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent out by What Philip II. of Spain to conquer England. became of those men and that ship¬ ping? Ask the wind and the waves all *' ,, 01 , - ?? , an . ... lsl 1 c ? __. asts l lt> - *!*,,,* slops , all wrocifed , , or dronned , or , A* 0 ■* Grat Moses will be tJuu«-«< ' W “J^ !I*?u!X2 n|s r * lo the 11 ^S^o5an* Egyptians y tl» the s ' Bs waters were then ns , ... , Y,.T, ofaUtherarthWehfveuo ®i tho Hudson, , and Germans have _„ h v J,'t,,, 4,11 as 110 b ‘ oy P* i wll,,'phn-.\i, f Hut [ he ‘waters!ami the^tuniInto aud the gore of f » slaughter house, incarnadine-i’ through linuiti the sluices aud fishponds the backs un mto the land and the maledor whelms every thing from mud hovel to throne room nil Then name the froirs. °°Then with horrible croak over everythin^ fastidiousness, this people cleanlv al most to were infested with insects that belom- to the filthv ami ^Ompt aud the air buaxed and Immvl with nios. and then the distemper started wws to bellowing aud horses to noitrhins-and camels lo groaning as they rolled over and ex Aud then boifcs, erne of which wifi put a man iu wretchedness, came in dusters from the top h*u of the head to the sole of the foot, Aud t the clouds dropped hail and light Aud then locusts came in, swarms ol them, worse than the grasshoppers even wen iu Kansas, aud then darkness droppixl foi ftswjssfar*Wisrs*^ three days so that the people could not set au the night of the 18th of April, about Destroying eighteen hundred years before Christ, the allnightlong, Angel the flap! sweeps flap! past; flap! and of his hear wings it eldest until Egypt- child dead rolltxl ou a great Egyptian hearse, the in every heme, ‘.Che the eldest palace *mi aud of Pharaoh all along expired the streets that night ol in Meunihisand Heliopolis, and all up and doivt the Nile there was a fuueral wail that would have rent the fold of the unnatural darkness if it bad not beeu inipenetrable. The Israehtish homes, however, were uu touched. But these homes were full of prep aration, for now is your chauoe, O y« wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces of food you can and to the desert! It, KSrS. l ’S r w sharply all as the wrongs that have stung you your fives. Away! The man whe was cradled iu the basket of papvrus on tin Nile will lead you. Up! Up! "This is tht night of your rescue. They gather together armies atasignal. Alexander’s armies and all the ot oideu time were led by torches on high poles, great crests of fire; aud tht Loni Aluiightv kindles a torch not held by human hands but by omnipotent hand. Not made out of straw or oil, but kindled out of the atmosphere, such a torch as the world never saw befoi-e and never will see agaiu lt redchtfd ltwu tht> earUl unto the heaven, a pillar of fire, that pillar proeti sssasr J&rs what k”thi when I dip^ied mv hamte iu its bhie waters JrZ the heroics 01 of the'Mosaic passage tmssaw roitoa roU«i ovei .«?«* * After three days’ inarch tho Israehtish refugees encamped for the night on tho banks of the Red Sea. As the shadows be gm to fall, in the ffistauce is seen the host of Fharaoh in pursuit. There were six hum dred finest w* chariots, followed by com uos chariots, rolhag at full si»eeil. trs^a; And the s,‘2S?£:s:rtr darkness. But the Lord safes of Bahr-eLKuizum opened and the the crystal Umehtes enslaved crys>&Al ua^sect iuto liberty* mu} then the the shut ngnina ySXSZSSSU when the mterkicked axle a trees a. -«a. of tht either Egyptian chariotscoutd uot move an inch way. But the Red sea unhitched the horses and unhakneted the wamovs, aud hrft the proud host a wrack on the Arabian sands. Then two choruses arose, and Mourn led the men in one, and Miriam led the wonaen ijathe othar, aud the woman boat tune with their feet. The record aa vs: “All the women went out after her with timbrel* aud witn dances. And Miriam answered them. Sing ye to the Lord, ftw He hath triumphed rider gtorionsly; the horse and his hath he ihrown into the sea.” What a tofiibng story of ©mhuanceand victory. So the burden of oppression was lifted, hut another burden ot Egypt is made up of dee for erte. deserts, Imteed, Africa is a great wntiuaut deserts hero-and Libyan, desert, and thvaara desert, there yonder, ooudouiu a Thousand miles wide. But all those deserts will yet be flooded, and so made fertile. I>s ned ivosseps the says Huez it canal, can be which done, marries and he who tho plan¬ Red .Sea and tho Mediterranean, knows what he is taking about. Another burden of Egypt to be lifted h tho burden of Mohammedanism, although that there are some good things about re¬ ligion. Its disciples must always times wash be fore they pray, and that is live a day. A commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong drink is positively forbidden by Mohamme¬ danism, and though some may have seen a drunken Mohammedan, I never saw one. It is a religion of sobriety. Then they are not ashamed of their devotions. When the call for prayers is sounded from the minarets the Mohammedan immediately unrolls the rug on tiie ground and falls on his knees, and crowds of spectators are to him no embar¬ omits rassment-reproof to many a Christian who his pruyors it people are looking. But Mohammedanism, with its polyg¬ amy, blights founder, everything it touches. Mo¬ hammed, its had four wives, and his followers are the enemies of good womanhood. Mohammedanism puts its ful curse Arab on nil higher Egypt, than and by setting up Christ, a sin¬ the immaculate Help is an the overwnolmning brave and blasphemy. missionar¬ May Goa consecrated ies who are spending tjieir lives in combating But before I forget it I must put more emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage that resulted in the liberation of the He¬ brews was their being compelled to make bricks without straw. That was tho last straw that, broke the camel’s back. God would allow the despotism against bis peo¬ ple to go no farther. Making bricks without straw! That oppression still goes on. Demand of your wife appropriate wardrobe and bountiful table without providing the means necessary—bricks without straw. Cities de¬ manding in instruction the public without school faithful giving and the successful teachers competent livelihood—bricks with¬ out straw, United States government de Washington manding of full senators attendance and congressmen to the interests at of the people, done but well ou compensation which may have enough dollar when twenty live cents wont as far as a now, but in these times not sufficient to preserve then influence and respectability—bricks without straw-. In many parts of the land churches de¬ manding of pastors vigorous sormons and sympathetic service on starvation salary; sanctified Ciceros on four hundred dollars a year. Bricks without straw. That is one reason why there are so many poor bricks. In all departments, bricks not even or bricks that crumble or bricks that are not brioks a t all. Work work adequately paid paid for More is worth more than not for. stmw aud thon better brioks - But in all departments there arePharaohs; sometimes Capital a Pharaoh aud sometimes Gabor a Pharaoh. When Capital prospers, and makes a large percentage on its ravest rawn ^ and declines to consider the needs of tbe operatives, and treats them as so many human machines—their nerves no more than the bands on the factory wheel—then Capi tal is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when workmeu > not regarding the anxieties and business struggles of the firm employing them, mid at the time when the firm are doing their best to meet busy an important accomplish cou tract and need all hands to it, at such a time to have his employes make a strike and put their employers loss-then into Labor extreme be perplexity and severe comes a Pharaoh of the worst oppression, and must look for the judgments of God. Detail oppressors whether in homes, in churches, m stores, m offices, m factories, in social life or political life, in private life or public life know that Hod hates oppressors, ! ‘“ a cl *ey wili ail come to grief here or here « ft er. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing, a cunning tiling, a decisive thing when for the complete extinction of the Hebrews m Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew boysmas sacred, but he did not find it so fine a thing when his own fh-st born that mgut of the de *troying angel dropped dead on the mosaic Some of the worst of them are on a small scale in households, as when a man, because his arm is strong and his voice loud, dom mates his poor wife into a domestic slavery. There are thousands of such cases where the wife is a lifetime serf, her opinion disre gwded, her tastes insulted^ and her existence a wretchedness, it. It though Pharaoh the world may not know is a that sits at the head of that table, and a Pharaoh that ty rannizes that home. Thera is no more ab horrent Pharaoh than u domestic Pharaoh. But it rolls over on me with great power the thought that we have ali Been slaves down in Egypt, and sin has beeu our felt task- its master, and again and again we have lasli. But Christ has been our Moses to lead and wide between us aud our aforetime bondage, and though there may be deserts yet for us to cross, we are ou the way to the Promised Land. Thanks be unto God for this emancipating Gospel. Come up out of Egypt all ye who are yet enslaved. What Christ did for us He will do for you. “Kxoilus!” is the word. Exo dns! Instead of the brick kilns of Egvpt come into the empurpled vineyards of God, where one cluster of grapes is bigger than the one that the spies brought to the Is rael ites by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster was so large that it was boi-ue'“between two upon a staff." sssssEsuys.^ s»a ;;»**"* mDArs F1RE REC0RD - Desti-uctlva WSIIUclIto Wo.-k Hoik of ti. the v\ Hauies at Ynrim»« 1 i . A . v Nashville dispatch . says: About 8 o’clock Friday morning tire broke out in the Nashville Gas Company's four-story buildiim The third and louith ton.-G. fl.iora, n ' o«f» ..... i fw t . office* m and i slhCpiua, t Were buruevl 0W L the rest of the building drenched &<£?*■ nWtohp* Tb * ^ ««* l .‘ / v J th.i Git * 1 . »...• buaiuess portion ^.ji, town , of Loda, , 1U has been de roofed by tire. M at J&M'&al-ii^ Hr, > entire busi ,. portion ol thy . town was destroyed, besides a score of dwellings. The IMrubuekle factory Kt Bra/il 1ml ,1'’ was entirely ^ destroyed bv fire to. mominu *h rutug. i Loss, fR'.dlR); insuranct ** K>ut oue-fourth. Fifty hands arc thrown out of miploymeut. The factory is owned and onerated hv Y th« H-nvf* RtceUud Iron Oouipyny, vuntou, Hunterdon cbuuty, Jf, J was you fed by a destructive fire Friday night, ha Nineteen l l httUdings, including ® society L * '? s s torn li„u.n »,„i were *rl ^ ^tiwated at . a #100,000. *”fd , r yingkUn»oftheFrankliul,uni . her Loinpauy Ju Routhampton oountv A HAUNTING THOUGHT* If (be wind is the breath of the dying As ancient legends say. What rebel soul, defying, S eeps down the storm to-dayf What fruitless, mad regretting Uttered that lingering wail? What life of war and tempest Is spilled upon the gale? If the wind is the breath of the dying* Across this of light, What saintly soiifii, replying. Goes out to God to-night? Whom does this moonlit zepfiy. Uplift on its white breast? What spirit, pure and patient, In rapture sinks to rest? -Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , in Independent. humor of the day. J The tramp’s style of expression is neve.* labored .—Washington Star. .Tagson says it’s a long loan that has no returning .—Elmira Gazette. Even the strictest vegetarian believes it is meet that he should eat.— Boston Courier. We have hair-dressing parlors, and why not dental drawing-rooms ?—Boston Gazette. The “balance of the season” is what troubles paterfamilias .—Boston Common wealth. “No, Gubbins, vou will never be a brain-worker.” “Why not?” “Haven’t got the tools .”—Dansville Breaee. There’s one good thing a bad boy won’t take, and that is good advice.— Richmond. Record. The dear hunting season has been trans¬ ferred from the beach to the drawing¬ room .—Pittsburg Dispatch. Iu the world of fashion every old hen has her set. And they mauatre to hatch out a good deal of mischief .—Texas Siftings. The barber who will invent a 3tyle of whiskers which the wind can’t blow through has a fortune awaiting him.— Buffalo Express. “So you live in Chicago?” “Yes.” “Are you interested in the fair?” “You bet, I’m engaged to three of ’em at pres¬ ent .”—Cape Cop Item. Some one says “poets are declining;” this is evidently a mistake. Every poet will tell you that it is the editors who are declining .—Richmond Recorder. The young man who says “Thank you!” when the girl he loves has promised to be liis wife ought never to say it in words .—Somerville Journal. He took the coin they gave him there. Its looks he could not trust; He raised it to his lips with care— • ’Twas thus he bit the dust. —B'as/iLii/fon Star. Mrs. Pendergrast (in disgust),—“You call these shades alike! Is there anything you can match?” Mr. Prendergrasi— “Yes. Pennies ."—Kate Field's Washing - ton.. “Father,” asked a boy, “why do they call this place the Exchange?” “Be¬ cause, my son, it is where we exchange money for experience .”—Boston Bul¬ letin. He (seriously)—“Do you think your father would object to my marrying you.*” She—“I don’t know. If he is anything like me he would.”— Brooklyn Life. If some people were to do unto others as they would have others do to them they would not have a single moment ia which to look out for themselves.— Dallas News. “You had better accept Mr. Hippie,” said Mrs. Elder to her daughter; “it is your last chance.” “You think this is the court of last resort, do you, mamma,” asked the girl .—Detroit Free Press. Editor-in-Ohief (to managing editor) —“I understand that James has re¬ signed.” 3Ianagiag Editor—“James has abdicated, sir, not resigned. James, you know, was office boy.”— Jury. The husband was reading the news at night, And his wife said: “Tell rue, prav, How Who many made balloonists ascensions were killed 'outright to-day?" —New York Press. “H'iu— that young man of yours—is he worth anything, financially?” “Why, ye3, papa. He is worth at least $35 i week to the store, he says, though they only give him tea. Indtanapotis Jmr ml. Jinks—“Waite would be a good man to start a church.” Finkins—“Why so?” Jinks—“He has sisters enough good-sized among our leading families to start a herald. congregation.”— New Toth Miss Pearl White—“I wish vou to paint my portrait.” Dobbins—“I’m sorry, ma’am, but I can’t do it.” Miss Pearl White—“Why not?” Dobbins—“1 never copy other paintings.”— Cincinnati Gaxetie. First Jeweler—“Do rou sell that new house of Upson, Downs' & Go?” Second Jeweler—“No longer; I sold them sev eral large bills. They paid promptly at maturity, so I stopped.”— Jeweler’ * Circular. Visitor—“I have often wanted to visit a lunatic asylum, but I suppose there is none ia the city.” Resident-—“No, but we’ve got a Board of Trade. (Proudly) Uoiue along. It’s in session. It will do just as well. ”—Boston Herald, Fuet Youth (at railway depot “Traveled fart” Second Youth—“Not yet, but I expect to before I stop, I am going Youth— west to seek u»y fortune.” First “l just got back. Lend toe x dime, will you ?”—Nmms City Journal
