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TUIAGES SERMN.
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THE NEWSPAPER PRESS AN '
ALLY OF THE PULPIT.
■;Vxt: “Bell .1.1 a flying roll.Zscliariah
( tio wing m1 sheet of tha t 'xt. bal a pronh
e, . written on it. The flying rail of to-day ,
is the newspaper. Yon can no more ignore
it m calculating the forces that affect society I
than you can ignore the no >nday sun or the 1
At lai tie ocean. It is high time that I preach i
„ ..ermon appreciative of what the newsy?.- I
press has accomplished anil is accomplish- -
in-. No man living or dead has been, or is
so indebted to the newspaper press as myself
it has given me per] etual audience
in every city, town and neighborhood of
Christendom, and I publicly, in the presence
at i fodaud this audience, express my thanks to
editors, publishers, compositors and type
■■ett'Ts, and I give fair notice that 1 shall in
ereiy po-sible way try to enlarge the tield,
„ ii>-ttier by stenographic report on the Sab
bath, or galley-proof on Monday, or previous
dictation. I long ago said to the officers of
this church. “Whoever else are crowded, do
not crowd the reporters." Every intelligent
an l honest representative of the press who
take- his place in church amounts to ten or
■if,. ..,1 ether churches built on to this.Ninety
tive per cent, of the newspapers are my
friends, and do me justice and more than
iu-tice, And the other five of the one hundred
arc such notorious liars that nobody believes
them In self-defence, and sixteen years
ago, 1 employed an official stenographer
~f my own because of the
appalling misrepresentations of myself
anl church. But things have so miracu
lously changed that it is just as appalling in
the marvellous opportunity o}>ened uu I for
v hi< h I r-m grateful to Hod every day. Ihe
newspaper is the great educator of the cen
tnrv It is book, pulpit, platform and
forum all in one. There is not an interest--
r.-ligimn. scientific,commercial, agricultural,
nian"facturing. mechanical—but is within
its grasp. All our churches, schools, art
asylums and great enterprises—
reformatory, religious or secu'ar—feel the
quaking of the printing press lhe first
newspaper arose in Italy, while
Venice was at war with Solyman
in’ Dalmatia. The paper was pub
lished ior the purpose of giving military
and <oimnercial information to the \ cne
tiau I '. Tho newspaper arose in Englandin lOBS.
Tue paper was called the Mercury,
and then there came the Weekly Dispatch,
the Env/lish Discoverer, the Secret Owl, the*
Heraehtus Hidens and so on, and so on. In
Franco tin newspaper was firsu seen in I<>3l,
and was published by a physician for the
health and amusement of his patients lhe
newspaper grew in power until Napoleon 1
wrote with his own hand articles for it, and
in 1829 there were in the city of
Paris KM’» journals. Th 3 newspaper
press, however, has had its chief sway in this
land. In 1753 there was but thirty-seven
journals on ail the continent. Now there are
13,(X’0 strong newspapers rolling out copies i
in the yeai by the billions and billions. I
have no difficulty in accounting for the
world’s advance. Four centuries ago, in
Germany, attorneys in court fought with
their fists as to who should have the first case,
and tho judge decided for the s trongest fist
and the stoutest arm, and if the judges s de
cision was .disputed then he himself fought
with both the attorneys. Some of the
lords and the wealthiest men of that day
could not read the t’tles to their own
property. Why the change? Books, you
say. No sir: people do not read books.
It is exceptional when mdn read books. Take
anv promiscuous audience in this land, or in
anv land, and how many treatises on consti
tutional laws have they read? how many
books of science, how many books in regard
to navigation, in regard to geology, inregard
tn botany, in regard to any intricate subject?
How much have they heard of Bayle, of
Xenophon, of Herodotus, of Percival? The
people ot the United States do not average
readins? ont bonk a year to the individual.
How, then, do I account for the < liange
and tho fact that people are able to
talk on ail questions of science and
art. and intelligence is everywhere
as the light, and iren are intelligent on all
subie sis? H- wdo you account for it? Next
to the Bible, the newspaper, swift-winged
and everywhere present. Flying over the
fence, shovt d under the door, put on the work
bench, tossed into the country room, hawked
through the cars. All read it. white, black,
Herman, French, Italian. English. American,
Swiss, well. sick. Monday morning, Saturday
night, bef< re breikfast. after tea, Sunday,
week day. I declare that the newspaper
printing pros is to bo the mighty agent by
which the gospel is to be preached, crime ex
tirpated, oppression dethroned, the world
raised, heaven re;oice<l. God glorified. To
the dinking of the printing press,
as the sheets fly out, I hoar
the voice of the Lord God Almighty saying
to the dead nations of the earth: “Lazarus,
come forth ‘ and to the retreating surges of
darkness: Let there be light!” How many
of tho newspapers of city and town during
the past ten years have bad mighty pleas in !
behalf ol ’.be Christian religion and have I
given some of the most effective interpreta- 1
tions of God's providence among the nations!
There are only two kinds of newspapers. '
The good, the very good—the bad. the very I
bad. When a newspaper starts it may for a
while have no espo ial reputation either
for virtue or inbimy: but in a little
while people decide for themselves, and ■
they say, ‘ d is good.” and it is good: and “it I
is had, ’ and it is bad. The one newspaj er is |
the embf (iiment of news, it is the ally of s !
virtue, it ir the foe of crime, it is the delecta
tion of elevated t.*vt?. it is the mightiest
agency for .aving the world. The other is
a brij. and among moral forces.it is the be
slimer of renut ition. it is th? foe of all that
isgood.it ?- th* mightiest agent of earth
for battling the cause of God and driving
Lack rhr sfiauity. if it could bo driven back.
The one influence isan angel of light, the other
influence it a fiend of darkness,and between
that archai and that furv is to l*e fought ;
the battle Thar is to decide the destiny of the ;
inm.au rn The Armaggedde of nations is
not to be fought with swords
but witl steel pens, not with bul-
kt but with type, not with j
cann< n 1 u! with lightning perfecting press,
and tho Humrders and the Moult! i?s and the
Gibraltars of that conflict are to be the edi
torial and reportorial rooms of our great >
newspapjr establishments. Men of the press .
and men interest© I in its prosperity, upon
you come down the most tremendous respon
sibilities of the earth. Men in all departments ;
need to Le good, and most of all, men cf the .
press. OL how great the change from the
time when Feter Shoeffer invented cast-metal
type, and because two books were alike they
were pronounced to be the work of the devil
—books were printed on strins of bamboo,
and the Common Council of the city of New
5 ork solemnly voted the offer of forty
fx»’*nds to anv printer who would come and
live, there, and the Sneaker of the House of
Commons indignantly denounced the print
ing press t 'cause it had dared to notice their
proceedings—on to this time in which we
live, when the printing press is wielding such
% v art pow r for good or for evil, 'file tele
graph and the printing press go down into
I h' harvest field and the telegraph says to
Jh“ planting press, ‘‘l’ll rake while you i
bind,” and the telegraph puts its
■run teeth down at one ©nd i
the harvest field and they are drawu
•dear across* and then the information is. *
gathered up in sheaves, and the printing I
press put-’ one sheaf on the breakfast table
•n the shap/' of morning news, and puts
•nether sheaf on the tea tible in the shape cf
news, and that man who neither
,lOr r “ a^s a newspaper is a curiosity.
'/hat a vast change from the time when
ardiual Woolsey publicly declared that
either the printing p. ess must go down or the
< hurch of God must go down. To this time
wrien theyilpit and the printing press are in
• ambination, and w hile a minister of religion
may on the Sabbath preach only tc
about 500 people, through the fol
tewing week through the seen
lai and religious ureas he may
ore®' h tc mlUicus and millions and millions.
But let me say to the m°n of that profesdon.
and tho e who are in any wise all ed to it. (
would like »o know h »w many w’oids of sym
pathy )O1 hA»e iec*iv**d during the last
tw<Le iuuiith' for your important work.
N“t te i. How many sermons m th »<‘oursi
of y< ur lie e you heaid of pin tical
h "i t'u n ss f »r t ie men raid worn- n engaged
in .h it J a t c.i n * piofesMOll.' N< t one. H».w
man v Woos o; » v um*iation ant misappr?-|
h n io i ; n i h per. i iticism an I r.b >e have i
you heart: Te i thousand If )O1 a\* u |
typ<seit‘ t * ai.<l lot get th-* type iu ’
tho wrong font, then tir> foreman blow ‘
you u.». If you are a foremat
and cannot surmount the unsurmountabli
mid get the forms up at Ih' right time, t’n i
you are denounced by the publisher. If - i
are are a publisher an 1 you mismanage, thvi
the owners cpy out; “Wh 're are my divi
deads?’’ If you are an e iitor and «n yo.it
column announce an unpopu'ar sentiment
tarn Uu thousand pens are flung at }ou.
Are you a reporter, then yen must under
stand the most indistinct speaker an* I must
be able to write by gaslight after midnight
as well as in tho full noonday
sun. Are you a proofrea ler,
then comes down on you the wrath of
tviM'setter and editor and owner and pub
lisher if you do not properly arrange the
periods aud the semicolons and the exclama
tion points and the asterisks. Plenty < f
abuse but no sympathy. I hare for many
years s-t »od in positions where I have seen
the whole process going on, and I know all
about the annoyances and the maltreatments
and tho sufferings, aud I propose this morn
ing to declare them, praying Almighty God
that a word of helpfulness mav come to
many who need the help, while I hope to im
press the minds of those outside the
newspaper profession with certain farts
that will make them more lenient and kind
in your treatment of those inside of it.
In tho first place, one of the great trials of ,
the newspaper profusion comes from th? I
fact that more of the shams of the world ;
pass before it than before any other profes
sion. Every day through the newspaper of
fice go all the weaknesses of the worhl. Th » '
vanities that want to lie puffed, the re.eng *s
that want to be wreaked, the mistakes that |
waut to 1 o correct© I, the men who wautto be
set right who never were l ight, the meanness
that wants to get its wares announced in the
editorial column to save the expense of the
advertising column, the crack brained phil
osophers wiio go through with stories as
long as their hair and as gloomy ns their fin
ger nails in mourning because bereft of
soap, aud all tho long procession of bores
who come to stay five minutes and stay an
hour. It is a wonder to me that the editors
and reporters of the land have any faith
left either in God, man or woman. Be
fore no class of pe >ple on earth do so many
of the shams and the weaknesses of the world
pass. When 1 find some of them scepti
cal 1 do not wonder at it. I
wonder they believe in any
thing. If the editor or reporter had not in
his early home, or has not in his present
hon e some model of earnestness of character,
or unless he throws himself upon the uphold
ing grace of God, he will make temporal and
everlasting shipwreck.
Another trial of the newspaper profession
comes from inadequate compensation. Thera
is grant rejoicing ever and anon in this land,
because the price of newspapers has gone
down, from five cents to four, from four
to three, from three to two„ from two
to one. There aie men who would like
to have the price go down to half
a cent. 1 never rejoice at such a
time because it moans hardship, penury, do
mestic privation, starvation. You may not
see where it strikes, but it strikes. No n ?ws
paper in the land can afford to be published
at loss than five cents a sheet. Through the
rivalries of newspaper it is necessary that
prices come down, but oh, what suffering it
means, what hardship, what trial. Sin?ethe
days of Hazlett and Sheridan and John Mil
ton and the wail of Gmb at London, liter
ary toil has never been appreriate.l.
Oliver Goldsmith, entertaining his
friends, has to sit in the win
dow. because there is only one chair.
Linnams has to sell his splendid work for one
ducat. De Foe, the author of 218 volumes
dies penniless. The learned Johnson had
such shabby clothes that he could not dine
i with gentlemen, so he sat behind the screen
anil dined while the gentlemen on the other
side the sere ju were apnlau ling his works.
Butler, after throwing tho world into fits of
laught r w ith “Hudibra;” died for lack of a
crust. Eo it has always been. Manual toil
see.ns to have a grudge against literary
toil, ami it practically says: “You come
down here and shove a plane and break
cobblestones and pound the shoe List,
and get an honest living like the rest of us in
stead of sitting there idly scribbling!” But
God knows there is no harder toil on earth
than literary toil. It is not a question of hard
times; it is characteristic of all times. Tho
world has no appreciation of the immense
financial, physical, intellectual exhaustion of
literary toil, an 1 so the world begrudges five
cents and says: “Can’t you make it four?”
an I then begrudges four and says: “Can’::
you make it three?” and begrudges th© three
cents for a newspaper and says: “Can’t you
make it two?” and grind an l grind and grind,
and in that mill are ground up the bodies
and the minds and the souls of men and
women. The world dips its chalice into the
blood and Fays: “Aha! the Drice of news
papers has gone down.” While there are
men in the newspaper profession who have
made their fortunes. I tell you men and
women of America that to the most it is a
struggle for bread. Let me say to all such
in the presence of an unappreciative world,
you ha<l better when you go home at night,
worn and nervous and exhausted, kneel
down and commend your case to God who
has promised to l>e your Cod and the God of
your children after you.
Another trial of the newspaper profession
comes in the diseased nppotlt * abroad for un
healthy intelligence. We cry out against
the minders and th? scandals to which th* |
newspapers give prominence. Why do so i
many of the newspapers give prominence to
such things? Because the public taste de
mands them. Igo into a foreign city and
into a meat market, an l I find that the
butchers have hung up on the rnosb conspicu
ous hooks, meat that is tainted, while the
fresh and the savory meat is carelessly tossed
asid •. What am Ito conclu’V ? 1 unmistak-
able con-dude that the jejp’e of that !
citv love tainted meat. If there is so
much iniquitous literature abroad in
tle shape of book and newspaper, it is be
cause the public taste is so corrupt it deman Is
it. Now. vou are an honest citizen, you are
a good citizen, you are an intelligent citizen,
you are a man of family, a newspaper comes
into your house, you open it; there are three
columns of splendid written editorials, next
to it there is a mean, contemptible divorce
Which do you read the more thor
oughly? Here are the splendidly written ed
itorials evolving some beautiful moral senti
ment, or some theory of science. You dip
into it ana sav. “That is splendidly written;
that is well done. that edit>rial.”
Then you turn to the divo-ce case and read
it all. from the long primer type at the top
to the nonpareil at the bottom, and a;k your
wife if she has rea l it. It is only a < ase of
demand and sup >y. Newspaper men ar?
not foils. They know what you want and
they give it to you. If the church of <rod, I
ami if honorable men of the wor!d. would de- ,
cline to lead the depraved books and
deprave! newspapers they would not be 1
published, for the simple reason that they
wou’d not) ay, for iniquity gets poorer and
poorer and j oorer and cannot afford tosunport
literature. It is the honest men, the bard I
working men. the pure men of the world that
supjxirt the literature. If a convention could
be called now and ma le up of all the editors
and reporters of the United States, and it
were plainly put them, which kind of a papei
theyshould prefer to publish, and which style
of news to send firth J think they would unan
imously declare: “We would rather send out
elevating literature than bad literature.” I
say this not in apology for a debauched
newspaper, but I say it that you may lava
divided responsibility between those who
print and thoee-who read.
Another great temptation tY th? newspa
per profession comes in the allurements that
surround it. Every’o cupation, trade, pro
session has its especial temptations. It so
with the clerical profession, with the ine<li< al
profession, nith the le;al profession, with
the artistic profession, *• h every trade,
eve *y profession, every business. The news
paper profession is no exception. You know
there are great diaft? on the nervous forces,
and the brain istix. d. Th? blundering po
litical si>e.‘eh must Ih» male to read well
ior the sake of th» pa -ty. and tha
e (itor und reporter must make it read well
though in the speech everv >euteuce
t ata strophe to tho English language. The
uewspa|x»r man must correctly ro]M»rt an in
audible speech, the spe eh of a man >'hc
thinks It s vu’gnr tosoeak loud, although the
audenceth© night I es -re sat with hand K'-
hind tho ear in vain struggling to catch a
single s< ntene \ The journalist must l»e cy
posed at the fire, be must uri’e in th*' fetal
alleywav. ho must go into courtrooms
nine-tenths of which are steu.’li
ful with rum an I tobacco, he must
go into hsated assemblage - and into audicuc#
rooms ail unventilated and where all the pre
parations are for asp’iyx a, aud added to all
ther * must be hasty mast < aV.on an I inexu
la r habits. L uder this awful strain of tin
nervous system, how many hundreds havt
gon© to strong drink for relief God only
knows. They must take something to keep
out the wet, and something to keep o:it the
chill, and something to start the mind in the
morning after the scant sleep of the night.
That is what made Horace Greeley such a
stout temperance man. He told me in my
own house, “I have seen so many of my
comrades and literary friends and news
rajier associates go down under strong drink
I hardly* dare Kxik at it,” and so he wont
Di eaching temperance all over tho land. And
let m? say to all men in that profession, God
doos not want you to do anything that you
cannot do without ai tificial stimulus. There
is no half way ground for you between tee
total ism and dissipation. 1 have so many
literary friends. I ha I so many literary
fricn Is wh » have been destroyed by strong
drink—and some of them are n>w on the
down grade—that to-day r I take the
words of another and erv aloud:
“Look not upon tho wino when it is red. when
it m »v<‘th itself aright in th* cud, for at the
last it biteth like a serpent, and it stingoth
like an adder.”
Another temptation of the newspaper pro
fession is in the fact that no one seems to car©
for their soul. Th w feel it. They arc looked
upon as professional in almost all assembla
ges. It is not expected tint a man reporting
a sermon should b* < onvert?d to God by that
sermon, or an editor discussing a religious
Item of news in his editorial column should
by that observation and discussion himself be
laved. Oh, you say it is all professional,
(f you tell me that the mm of the newspaper
press are not saved in multitudes, and all
saved, then 1 say it is the fault of the church
God; it is became you do not expect them
to come into the kingdom. And then I re
niemlier how one night in this church, in the
t Mirth seat from the platform, there sat a
journalist. He had been sent to caricature
Hie service'. He came early. He looked
around and be saw that the sliane of the
ouilding was not the usual shape of
ehurehes, and he caricatured that. After a
while the organ l egan its solemn roll and
that was fun to him. and he caricatured that.
After a while tho pastor appeared on the
platform and he caricatured him. The i the
music went on and that was still more funny.
After a while the text was announced and
that was irresistible. And he was writing
i'ii until the servi?o was about half through,
ind ho said his hand began to tremble, and
be hardly knew why it trembled, and he said
to himself: “don’t be a coward; d >n’t be af
fected by anything in this chtir.h; you
?ame here professionally.” Ho rallied his
strength and he concentred his energies and
he wrote on until h ? could write no more, and
he put his pencil in bis pocket, put his head
down on the seat in front and began to pray,
and when at the close of the service we
asked all those who desired to be commended
to God in prayer to arise, lie was the firstone
that arose. Coming into the side room he
told us the whole story, and before the even
ing was past he declared himself on the Lord’s
side, and ever since, though
still in the newspaper profession,
ever since on Sabbath afternoons he is preach
ing tii? gospel of Jesus Christ in a hall hired
at his own expense. And the day will come
when the men of the newspaper profession
will come into tho kingdom of God by scores
and by hundreds and by thousands. The
world will not be c inverted until they are
converted. They feel the sadness th / none
seems to care for their s mis. Many of them
were brought up by fine ancestry, an j when
they left thQparental roof, who§YU’r?;-«arte|J
or disregarded.they went rlh with a father s
benediction and a mother’s prayer,
and oft times when they think of those good
old times the tears fill the eye, and tiny go
down in this great roaring metropolis home
sick, and I say to any of them who may hear
me to-day an l any to whom these words
shall come, God is your friend. He has a
heart large enough to take in all your annoy
ances and all your misfortunes and all your
distresses. Sometimes utterly disgusted with
the world, its shams and its trials, you know
not which way to turn; but this day y< u
may have tho mercy, the pardon, the
sympathv, the help of Almighty God if you
will ask for them. Hear it. Hear it. Some
veal’s ago, at tho f »ot of Canal street. New
York, a body was found floating. As it was
being brought to the morgue, they noth ol by
the contour of tin* forehead that th * man h id
great intellectual capacity. They found iu
his pocket a reporter’s pad, a lead pencil and
aphotogiaph of someone who long ago hfld
lovi d him well. He had entare Ith ‘ news
paper profession, things ha I gone wrong will
him, his health had failed, he lad
taken to artificial stimulants to keep up, and
ha ha I gone down. down, dow.i until one
summer day, hot and weary aud hungry and
sick and in desrair, be filing himself from
tho dock. Death, as it often does, had
smo >thed out all th * wrinkles, and smootlif i
off all the care from his face, ano it was
as it had boon seven years before when he
had left the country home never to re
turn. The heartless world looked throueh
the window of the morgue and suM:
“It is only an outcast;” but God aid:
“That is a gigantic nature that pori->he I
because the world gave him no chance
I say to all men in the newspaper profession,
or in any wise allied to it, take God for youi’
portion not only because of the p rrnnal a l
vantage religion will Im? to your own so il,
but liecause we want you more mightily in
terested in high Christian endeavor. This
day lift your hand in oath of allegiance te
religion and philantropby and patriotism.
On the plains of judgment when you
look off upon tho multitudes whom you
hive influenced, may it bo found
that many through your work
were induced te start on the high pathway
that leads to the renown of heiven. B t
in that day to have been an editor, and with
finger of tyf e influenced the world an 1 influ
enced it wrong, that you had Ixen a dun
geoned exile by the light of a window - u
grated on scraps or Now Testament l<af
picked up from the hearth, spelled out the
story of Him who cam.-to takeaway the sins
of the world. In eternit .* Dives is the beggar.
But we will all soon be through with writing,
speaking and publishing, and in all our pro
fessions and occupations we will all soon be
through. What then? Our life is a
book. Our years are the chapters, our
months are th** paragraphs, our days are the
sentences, our imitation of others is the quo
tation mark, our doubts are the interrogation
points, our desire of display a da h. death a
period, eternity the peroration. And where
will we s|M3nd it? H '.ve you beard the news,
the tremendous news, news mo*e thrilling
than anything that has come us in
th* journals forth? past six weeks?
Not th? sinking of the Oregon, but the
sinking of a world, not the misfortune ot a
man, but the overthrow of a race. Terrific
news. But have you heard the go >1 news?
Glad news from the throne of God. The
couriers of Heaven leaping from tic* palace
gate to carry the the gloriou- n»-ws
that there is pardon for all guilt and <,o*n
fort for ail troub’e. Bet it up in double
lea/ied columns, and direct it to the whole
race. A Scot *h poet, insane on everything
but religion, wrote this beautiful but strange
rhythm:
God hath pardoned all my sin.
That’s the news, that’s the news.
I feel the witness deep within.
That’s the news, that’s th© news.
An l since be took my sins aw ty.
And taught me how to watch a i 1 f*iay, i
I’m happy now from cLiy vo day,
CIULDKEVS COLUMN.
Uttle Fuoiprlnt*.
Lit! le footprints on the snow
Vanish in the sunbeam's glow.
Little footprints by the way;
Rain will wash them out someday.
Footprints left in any place,
Shall they pass uithout a trace <
Marks u|x>n life's pathway all
Leave behind, though great or small.
I.it tie foot prints surely may
lx*ad some in the upward way.
Oh, beware, lest they should go
Downward to the world of woe !
Jitiubo, the Playful t.utl.
Dr. Goodsell gives the following in
stance of tho playfulness of a tame sea
gull: “My youngest daughter was play
ing in her room with a hollow rubber
bull. It fell from tho window-sill into
lhe yard; Jumbo picked it up ami carried
it to his bath-tub. Here the ball be
cainc tilled, through the air-hole, with
water.
“My daughter went down to get it,
when the bird snatched it front the tub
and ran ha-hn-ing around the yard, with !
the ball in his beak, squirting the water :
by pressing the ball as he went. 1 have
no doubt that the first squirting of the
tvater was accidental. But what of the
following; When it was empty he carried
the ball back to the tub and stood guard
aver it for a moment; then ho took it up,
this time with tho, little hole in the ball
toward his throat. He began squeezing
ns before. The first pressure threw the
water down his throat, strangling him.
“He dropped the ball, only to pick it 1
tip again, and ran round the yard squirt- |
ing the water nway from him ns before;
find to the dismay of my little daughter,
when she insisted on having tho ball, he
swallowed it, disgorging it an hour later,
ns is the gull’s habit with indigestible
substances. ’’
A Tiiter in (he Street i.
Benares, one of the two holiest cities
<n India, is believed by the Hindoos to
Os under the special protection of the ter
rible Siva. But once the god was so
careless as to allow a tiger to steal into
the city and wound a dozen of his wor
shippers.
One morning, the superintendent of
police, a Scotchman, was not a little sur
prised at being told that during the
(light a wild beast had seriously wounded
several natives. Guided by the inform
?r. lie went to the bottom of tho steps,
where in a dark recess on the top he saw
two eyes glaring in the darkness.
Taking a musket from a policeman, the
superintendent tired. With a roar, a
huge tiger bounded out, rushed down
the steps, and fell into a hole. His fore
■eg had been wounded by the Scotch
man’s shot. A policeman tired, but
i missed. The tiger sprang out of the hole,
| siczed the inan and tore, him severely.
Then the enraged beast rushed on the
crowd, and wounded people on all sides.
A company of policemen marched up,
with loaded muskets, but as they had no
percussion caps, they retreated in dis
order.
The tiger was master of the .situation,
until the superintendent had ridden to
the English camp and returned with sev
eral officers anxious to hunt a tiger in the
streets of the sacred city. The beast
was brought to bay in an enclosed place,
rind a volley laid him low.
Hnw Kitty Wan Cured*
Foolish little Kitty Gray would jump
up to the great earthern cream bowl to
steal a drink, although Bertie kept her
saucer well supplied with good sweet
milk.
But Kitty thought it nice to be n little
thief and help herself to little, sips of
cream from the pantry. Several times
she bad been caught mid punished for the
troublesome trick, but it seemed to make
no difference; she would first jump up to
the shelf, then step carefully upon the
edge of the bowl ami softly lap the thick,
rich cream with her little naughty red
tongue.
One day Bertie was in the kitchen,
when all at once he thought, he heard
some little movement in the pantry, fie :
crept softly to tho door, and there, was
Kitty 'ti-nv just, stepping slyly upon the, ;
edge of the cream bowl. Pretty soon
she began hipping the yellow cream.
Bertie stole noiselessly in, and suddenly
giving Kitty a quick push in she went,
head first, into the splashingcrearn. She
floundered about in great fright and dis
tress, scrambling and scratching, trying
to get out. But, the bowl was deep and J
the glazed sides so slipery, poor Kitty i
might have drowned had she fallen in i
accidentally.
Bertie let her stay until he thought it
cruel to keep her there any linger, then |
ae helped her out.
I’oor Kitty ran dripping away, and i
hid somewhere until it was dark.
It was not very kind for Bertie to do I
is he did, but when he promptly told his
mamma the truth about, it, she said she
would forgive him if Kitty was cured of
her naughty habit—and she was. From
'.hat day Kitty Gray was never seen near
the cream bowl again. In fact, she
would run away and hide if any one was
•een approaching with the bowl in hand.
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