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dr. TALMAGES’ sermon. I "MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM STRUGGLING FOR THE POS ’ SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY.” ■ ( Text: "The Lord deligliteth in thee and thy land shall be married.”—lsaiah, Ixii, 4. As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own repub lic Bold, exbilarant, unique, divine ini a<wry of the text. So many are depresses! be tne labor agitation ansi think everythin; in this country is going to pieces, I preach this morning a sermon of goo,! cheer ansi anticipate the time when the Prince of l ea e ami the Heir of Universal Dom nion shall take possession of this nation and "thy laud shall be married.” In discussing tbe final destiny of this na tion it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits rnd rn nlatforms and in places of public concourse, I bear so manvs f the muffled drums of os' 1 prophesy sounded, a< though we were ou the way to national interment, and beside Thebes, and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dea l nations our republi • was to bs entomlie 1, that I wish you to understand it is not to be obsequies,but nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re quiem, but wedding march, for "thy land shall be married.” 1 propose to name some o( the suitors whoare claiming the hand of this republic. This land is so fair, so beauti ful. so affluent, that it has many suitors, and it will dejiend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be accepted or re jected. In the first place I remark: There is a greedy, all-u rasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the band of this republic, and that monster is Known by the name of monopoly. His sceptre is made out of tbe iron of the rail tra k and the wire of telegraphy, lie dees everything for his own advantage and for tbe robbei y of the people. Things have gone cn from bad to worse, until in the three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey' and Pennsylvania, for the most part, n.ouvpoly decides everythin.;. If monopoly favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put ting iuto his pockets in one year two hundred niillionsof dollars in excess of all reasonable charges for service. Monopoly holds in this oue band the ste un power of loco notion, and in the other the electricity of swift commu nication. Mom ply decides nominations a deli cion—city elections, State election-, national elections. With bribe; he secures the votes of legislators; giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy rela tive- to lucrative positions., employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying their goods fitte n per cent, less if they are .merchants, and if he finds a case very stub born, as well as very important, puts down before him the hard cash of bribery. But monopoly is not so easily caught now as when,dming the terra of Mr. Buchanan, the Legislative Committee in one of our States exp ored and exposed the manner in which a tertain railway company procured a donation of public land. It was found out that thirteen of the Senators from that State received $175,000 among them. Sixty mem bers of the lower house of that State re ceived $5,000 and $10,(100 each. The Gov ernor of the State received $50,000, his clerk received $.5.01X1. the Lieutenant-Governor re ceived SIO,OOO, all the clerks of the Legisla ture received *5,000 each, $50,000 were divided amid the lobby’ agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time going on in some of the States of the Union, but it isnot so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the overshadow in; curse of the tlnit d States to-day is M< nopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the Uni ted States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in twenty-four States of the Union already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of liberation. 1 wish that this question might be the question of our presid ntial elections, nnd that we compel the political parties to recognize it on their platforms. I have nothing to say arainst capitalists. A man has a right to all the money be can make honestly. There is not a laborer in the land that would not be worth a million dol lars if he could. I have nothing to say agairst corporations as such; without them, no great enterprise would be possible. But what Ido say is that the same principles should Ire ap plied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plain est laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for great corporate nr. If I take from vou your property without any adequate com pensation I am a thief, and if a railway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic thief. What is wrong on asmall scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in England has ground hundreds of thousands of her best people into semi-starvation, and in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness. Five hundred acres in this country make an immense farm. When you read that in Dakota Territory' Mr. Cass has a farm of 15,050 acres and Mr. Granton 25,000 acres and Mr. Darymple 40,001 acres, your eye dilate. even though these farms are in great | regions thinly inhabited. But what do you think of this which I take from the Dooms day Book, show ing what monopoly is on the other side the sea. I give it as a warning of what it would do on this side the sea if in some lawful way tho tendency is not re sisted. In Scotland J. G. M. Heddle owns | 50,400 acres: Earl of Wemyss, 52,00) Sir J. Riddell. 54,500 acres: Sir C. W. 59,700 acres; Mr. J. Baird. 60,000 acres; Sir J. Ramsden, 60,000 acres; Earl of Dunmore, 60.000 acres: Duke of Roxburghe, tO,OOO acres: Earl of Moray, 61,700 acres; Countess of Home, 62.000 acres; Lord Mid dleton, 63,000 acres; Earl.of Aberdeen, 63.- 50.) acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, 63,(00 acres; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 63,000 acres; Earl of Airlie 65,000 acres; Sir J. Colquhoun, 67,000 acres: C. Morrison, 6T,oooacres: Duke of Montrose, 118,000 acres; Meyrick Bankes, 70,000 acres; Grant of Glen morriston, 74.600 acres: Marquis of Ail-a. 76.(MX) acres: Bar oness Willougby d’Eresby, 76.000 acres: Mr. J. Malcolm, M),uoo acres; Marquis of Huntly, 80.000 a res: Balfour of Whittinghame. M. 000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde. 81,000 a res; Mar quis of Bute, 93.0*0 acres; The Chisholm. 94.500 acres Mr E. Ellice, 99.500 acres; Sir G M. Grant, 103.(MX) a o res; Duke of Portland, 106.00) acres; Cameron of Lcchiel, 109.50) acres: Sir C. W. Ross, 110,400 acres: Earl of Fife. 113,000; The Ma kintosh, 124/KM) acres; Lord Macdonahf. 139.600 acres: Earl of Dalhousie. 136,000 acres; Ma leod, of Maeleod. 141.700 acres: Sir K. Ma kenzi*. of Gairlock, IM,- , 680 acres; Duke of Argyle, 175.000 acres: Duke of Hamilton. 183,090 acres: Duke of I Athole, I‘. *4,000 ares: Duke of Richmond, 255, (Kmi acres: Earl of Stair, ‘270.0)0 acres; Mr. Evan Bailie. 30 .000 acres: Ear] < f Sea field, 306,000 acres: Duke of Buccleugh. 432.- 183 acres: Earl of Brea ’a’bane. 437.6 •■■a r. -: Mr. A Matheson. ‘220.433 acres, and Sir J. Matheon, 406,070 a*Tes; Duchess of Suther land 149,879 acres and Duke of Sutherland. 1,1 i 0.353 acres Such monopolies imply an infinite a reage of wret he :ne<s. Th ere is no poverty in the 1 nit- d State- like that in Eng and, Ireland and Scotland for the simple reason that in those lands monopoly ha; had longer and la ger sway. Last summer in Edinburg-. Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hal; I stool on a <*ba;r in front of the hall an i prea-hed to an audien e of 20,0U0 people, standing iu one of the most prosperous par:.- of the city, and r aching out toward the < a tle a* fine an array of strength an I h a!th and 1 eauty as one ever sees. Tnree hour after I preached to lbs wretched inhabitant* of the Cowgate and Canuongat .the audien e exhibiting the squalor and sickliness and de spair that: remain* in one’s mind like one of the visions of Dante s Inferno. 1 Great mouonolies iu anv land ini pl v great privation. T>e time will come when out governn ent will have to limit the amount of mvmuui «ti m of nroperty. I’nconstitu tionaldo you say* Ti en constitutions will have to be changed until they allow such hmitat on. (therwhe the work of absorption will go on and the large fishes will eat up tbe small fishes, and tbe shad will swallow the mirnows and the porpoises swallow th* shad and the whales swallow the porpoisre, an a thousand greedy men will own all the wo a an 1 ‘0»of those will eat up the other 500 an one hundred cat up the oth?r 400, and finally there w ill be only 50 left, and then 40 an i t\»n 30 and then 20 and then 10 and then two an I then one. But would a law of limitation of wealth be unrighteous' If I dig so near my neighbor's foundation, in order to build my house, that 1 endanger his, the law grabs me. If I have a tannery or chemical sac tory the malodors of whic h injure residents in the neighbor hood, the law says: “Stop that.'' If I drain off a river from its bed and divert it to turn my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a breeding place for malaria, the law says: “Quit that outrage!” And ha* not a government a right to say that a few men shall not gorge themselves on the comfort and health and life of g‘Derations? Your rights end where mv rights begin. Monopoly—brazen-faced,iron-fingered, and vulture-hearted, monopoly—offers his hand to this Republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the Pennsylvania and the Erie and the New York Central Railroads, and over the telegraph pole's of the continent and says: “Here is my heart and hand; be mine forever.” Let the millions nf the peo ple, North, South, East and West forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot box, forbid them on the platform, forbid them by great organizations, forbid them by the overwhelming sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God. forbid them by prayers to high heaven. That Herod shall not have this Abigail. It shall not be to all devouring monopoly that this land i* so be married. Another suitor claiming the hand of this Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for universal blood-letting and a nitro-glvcerine bomb for universal explo s on. He Le’ievcs iu no God,no government, no heaven, an 1 no hell except what he can make on earth! Ho slew’ the Czar of Russia, keeps Emperor William, of Germany, prac tically imprisoned, kiEel Abraham Lincoln, would nut to death every King and President on earth, and if he had the power would climb up until he could drive the God of heaven from his throne and take it himseif, the universal butcher. In France it is called Communism: in th3 United States it i* called Socialism: in Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means comp ote and eternal smash up. It would make the holding of property a crime and it would have a dagger through your heart and a torch to your dwelling and turn over this whole land into the possession of HWt and lust and rapine and murder. Where docs this monster live? In St. Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in N°w York, and in all the cities and villages of this lan I. Tho devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is to be seen at every great tire where there is anything to steal, and at every shipwreck where there is anything valuable floating ashore, and at every railroad accident where there are overcoats and wat hes to be pur loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col lege days, when, in our literary soci ety in New York University, we had an exquisite and costly bust of JShakespeare, and one morning w’e found a hole bored into the lips of the marble and a cigar inserted. There has not for the last century been a fine picture in your art gallery or a graceful statue in your parks or a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound album in your library but would have been despoiled if the hand of rufflan sm could have got at it without peril of incarceration. Some times the evil spirit shows itself by throwing vitriol into a beautiful sometimes by wilfully s aring a horse with a velocipede, sometimes by crashing its (artwheel against a carriage. The philosophy of the whole business is that there is a large number of peonle who, either through their laziness or their crime, own nothing, and are mad at those who through industry and wit of their own or of their ancestors are in possessions of large, re sources. The honest laboring classes nevtr had anything to do with such murderous en terprises. It is the villainous classes who would not wmrk if they had plentv of work offered them at large wages. Many of these suppose that by the demoli tion of law* and order they would be advantaged and the parting of the ship of state would allow them as wrsckers to carry off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to this fair renublic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box. the Legislative hall,tho Congressional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or rather, divide it down. It would give a* much to tbe idler as to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Ni hilism—this panther—having prowled across other lands has set its paws on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which to spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago and St. Louis a few days ago and that burned the railroad property at Pittsburg during the great riots; it was Nihilism that slew black people in our Northern cities dur ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and again in San Francisco and New York mauled to death tbe Chinese; it is Nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drunk eries upon sober people as they go by. Ah! its power has never yet been used. It would, if it had the pow’er, have every church, chapel, cathedral, school house, college and home in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any country. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferations for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights when their first right is the |>eni tentiary—if they could be hushed up, and the downtrodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. In this land riot and bloodshed never gained any wages for the people, or gathered up any prosperity. In this land the best weapon is not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms, but the ballet. Let not our oppressed labor ing men be beguiled into coining under the bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier, your wages smaller, your table scantier, your chil Iren hun grier,your suffering greater. Yet this Nihil ism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth and offers its hand for th:s republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed* If so, where shall the marriage altar be? And who will be the officiating priest? And what will be the music? That altar will hive to be white with blea hed skulls, the music must be the smothered groans of multitu iinous victims, the garlands must be twisted of nightshade, the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St. Bartholomew’s mas sacre. No! it is not t> Nihilism, th? sau guinital monster, that this land is to Ixi mar h ied. B . Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchists are infidels. Not one of them believes in the Bible,and very rarely any of them believe ia aGol. Their most conspicuous leader was Ihe other day pulle 1 by the leg from un 1 r a be<l in a imuse of infamy, cursing sn 1 i.l i- - pheming. The police of Chicago, explor ng the dens of the Anarchists, found dynamite and vitriol aud Tom Paine's Age ot Bfa;on and obs••eno pictures an 1 complimentary biographies of thugs and assasd 1 s. but not one 13stament, not one of Wesleys hymn books, not one Boman Catholic brev.ary. The:e are two wings to Infidelity. The one calls its 4f 1 boralis n and appears in highlv I t rary n:aga inesand is for Ihe e lucated and refine i The other wing is iu the form of anarchy and is for tho vulgar. But lx>tb wingsbelon_ to tin same old filthy vulture. Infidel tv Elegant infidelity proposes tc conquer thi- land to itself by. the pen. An archy prop jses to con pier it by bludgeot and torch , a 1 When the midnight ruffians despoiled thi grave of A. T. Stewart in St Mark's church yard everybody was shocked But infidehtj proposes something worse than that the rob bing of all the graves of christendom of thi hope of a resurrection proposes to chise out from the tombstones o your Christian dead the words “Asleep m Jesus*’ and to sub stitute the words “Obliteration, annihilv tion.'' Id fidelity proposes to take tbe letter from the world’s Father inviting the nations to virtue and happiness, ami tear it up into fragments so small that you cannot read a word of it. It proposes to take tbe consolation from the broken hearted and the sooth ng pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the President of tho United BtuUs and the Supreme Court and the Governors of States and the witnesses in tho court room with their right hand on Paine's “Age of Rea son*’ or Voltaire’s “Philosophy of History.’’ It proposes to takeaway from this country the book that makes the difference between tho United Statu aud the Kingdom of Dahonvy, between American civilization and Bcrncsian cannibalism. If Infidelity could destroy the Scriptures it would in *2(X) years turn the civi’izod nations back to senn-bar bar sm and then from semi barbarism into midnight savagery, until the morals of a menagerie of tigors, rattlesnakes and chim panzees would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. Th'* only impulse in the right direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. That book has been the mother of all reforms and all charities—mother of English Magna Charta and American Declaration of Indendeuce. Benmmin Franklin hold that holy book in his hand, sto<xi b?foreau infidel club at Paris ami read to them out of Ihe prophecies of Hahakkuk. and the inside's, not knowing what, book it was, declared it was the best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on his knees in th* snow at Valley Forge, and led the dying Prince of Wales to ask some one to sing “ Rock of Ages.” I tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century is tho atbemnt to destroy this book; yet infidelity, loathesome, stenehful, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster.stretches out its h ind, ichorous with the second death, to take the hand of this republic. It stret hes it out through seductive marazines and through lyreum lectures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of the continent already fully settle 1 ami the two-thirds not yet occupied. It j savs: “Give me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of tho c hurch and tho Christian printing presses—then give mo Wyoming, give me Alaska, give ine Montana, give mo Colorado, give me all the States and Terri tories west of the Mi «i.-sippi, and 1 will take those place* and keep them by right of po es sion long loef* re the Gcspel can bo fully en tren died.” And this suitor pro ses his eas * appallingly. Sba’l the banns of that marriage be pro claimed* “No!” sav the home missionaries of the West.a martvr band of wh un tho world is not worthy, to’ling amid fat gies and malaria and starvation, “no! not if we can he’n it. By what wo and onr children have suffered, we foibid the banns of that mar riage!” “No!” sav all patriotic voices, “o :r institutions were bought at too dear a nrice and were de ended nt too great a sacrifice to 1o so cheaply surrendered.” “No.’’says the God of Bunker Hill nnd In lenendenre Hall and Gettysburg, “I did not start th s nation for such a farce.” “No,*’ cry ten thousand voice*, “to infidelity this land shall uot bo marrie I.” But there is another suit >r 1 hat presents his claim for the hand of this republic. He is mentioned in the verse following my text, where it says: “As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy Gnd rejoice over thee.” It is not my figure, it is the figure nf the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this world love him that he stops at no humilia tion of simile. He erm ps res His grot) I spittle on the eyes of the blind. He corn- I pares Himself to a hen gatht ring the chick- 1 ens, and in mv text He compares Himself to a suitor beggin? a hand in marriage. Does this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Be hold Pilate’s Hall and the insulting expecto ration on the face of Christ. Behold the Ca’.- varean ma-sa *re and the awful hemorrhage of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen years for Bach 1, but Christ, my Lord, the king, suffered in torture thirtv-three years to win the love of this world. Often prim esses at their very birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so this nation at its biith was pledged to Christ for divine marriage. Before C Jumbus and his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the last thing they did? They sat down and took the h oly sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first glimpse of this country aud the gun of one ship lad announcel it to the other vessels that land had been discovered, what was the song that went up from all the three decks? “Gloria in excelsis.” Aft?r Columbus and his 120 men had stooped from the ship’s deck to the solid ground, what did they do ? They all knelt and consecrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots do aft *r they landed in the Carolinas? What did the Holland refugees do after they had lande 1 in New York ? What did the Pilgrim Fathers do after they landed in New England ? With bended knee and uolifted face and heaven besieging prayer they took possession of this continent for God. How was the first Amer ican Congress opened ? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see how good God has l>ean to us! Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperi ties; navigable rivers, more in number mi l greater than of any other land, rolling on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manu factures aud easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timbered with wealth on the top and sides, metalled With wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal, 180,000 square miles of iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days—extreme heat or cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all min erals, all harvest*. Scenery dis- playing an autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egypt ian plagues. No Germanic divisions. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is she testimony < f every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy: for the industrious, more opportunity. Oh, how g>< <1 God was to our father and how g<M>d He has been to us and our children. To Him—bles e 1 be His mighty name!—to Him oflcross and triumph. to Him who still remembers the pray» rof the Huguenots and Holland refugees and tho Pilgrim Fathers—to Him shall this land be married. Oh. you Christian patriots, by your contrib itions and your prayers h isten on the fulfilment of the text. We have during the past six or seven years turned a new leaf in our national his tory by the sudden addition of forei. nets. At Kansas City I was told by a gentleman who bad opportunity for large in vest i gat i »n, that a great multitude had gone throng 1 there, averaging in worldly e tate > was told in the city of Washington by an officer of the Governmeit who had opportunity for authenti investigation that thou ands aud tbous in Is liad gone, averaging iu posse-sion of each. I was told by th? Com mis-.ion of E grari >n that twenty families that had ar; i v? 4 at Castle Garden brought SBSJ)JU with them. Mark you, families, not tramps. Addi’ ns to th; national wealth, not subtra 10.1 s therefrom. I sawsomeof tbe n reading Hi :r Bibles aud the r hymn bunks. t? a ■ g Gol fcr his kindness iu he.ping ti. *m cross the saa. Some of them h«'i4 Christ in the steerage all ncrusc th; waves and they wll have Christ in Hie rail train- whi -h ev<Ty afternoon start f -r the great West. They are Ijcing taken by the Commission of Emigration in New York, taken from the vessels, protected from the Shylocks and the sharpers, and in the name of God and humanity passed on to their des tination: nnd there they will turn your 't er ritories into States nnd your wildernc-s inti gardens if you will build for them churches and establish for them schools and send U them Christian m s ionaries. Are you afraid this continent is going t*> b? overcrowded with this population? Oh, that shows you have not been to California that shows you have not been to Oregon that shows t.iAt you have not been to Tesaa A tlshing smack to-day, on Lake Ontarid might as well be afraid of being crowded by othsr shipping before night as for any I one of the next ton generations ot Ameri-am to l»e a'ram of being overcrowded bv foreign populations in this country. Tin one State of Texas if ' far larger than all the Austrian empire, yet the Austrian empire supports 85,000,0)0 i>eo pie. The one State of Texas is larger tiian all France, and France supports 8u,000,00J p *ople Tlie one State of Texas far surpasses ! in size the Germanic empire, yet the Ger- i manic empire supports 41,600,0)0 people. Ti Udi you the great want of the Territories and of the Western States is more population. While some may stand at the gates of tho city, saying: “Stand back!*’to foreign pop alatious, I press out as far beyond those gates as I can pre>s out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, saying: “Come, come!” “But,” say you. ‘I am so afraid that, they will bring their prejudices for foreign g wornments and plant them here. ” Absurd! They are si k of the governments that have oppressed them and they want free America! Give them the great gospel of wel ’onw. Throw around them all Christian hospitali ties. TUev will adi their industry and bard earned wages to this country, an I then we ■ will delicate all to Chr.st, “and thy land shall be married.” But where shall tho marriage altar be? Let it l>e the Rocky Mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irrigation,all their top sha.l be covered, as they will be, with vine ! yards and orchards aud grain fields. Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and th M Charlestons of the Pacific coast come to th* marriage altar on one side, and then let tho Bostons and the New Yorks aud tho Charles tons ot the Atlantic coast como to tbe marriage altar on the other side, and there between them let this bride of nations kneel; and then if tho organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or moved the foundations of the All ‘ghauics u the other side, should oj»en full diapason of wedding march, that organ of thuuders could not drown the voice of Him who should take the hand of this bride of na tions, saying: “A< a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoicethover thee.” At that marriage banquet shall be the plat ters of Nevada silver and tho chalices of Cali fornia gold and tho fruits of Northern orchards nnd spices of Southern groves and the tapestry of American manufac ture and tho congratulations from all the 1 free nations of earth and from all the tri umphant armies of heaven. “And so thy ( land shall be married. ” Flirtation. What is flirtation? What an incon gruous question. How can one give ut terance to so practical a query in con- . neciion with to etherial nn experience? If the questioner had but just re turned from the opera, where he had witnessed two very mischievous young people in the midst of a most innocent j flirtation, tho qut-ticn would never have been asked. They took a lively movement for the | whole gamut of that symphony. There ( riiey sat within the curtained retreat of a box; she was pretty, young and charm- i ing ; he was gallant, manly and hand- ' some; there were two or three people with them in the box, but they were oblivious of their presence, as we also grew’ in the contemplation of the airy flutter and parrying of their play with Jupid. At every merry conceit in the libretto j lhey exchange smiles in a gratified way When tbe high voiced and priced tenor and the soft-toned soprano are trilling and careering up and down the scale, both hands out heir hearts, thus portray ing sorrow and despair at cruel fate, ane urns to him, her eyes replete with com passion, while he offers manly sym- I pathy, and his eyes say, soothingly. ; ‘ Why weep at their sorrows, my sweet? 11 is only a part of the play.” When the hist note sounds, and they rise to leave, he presses her shoulders a trifle as ho wraps the soft cloud of lace around them, and there is a caress in the hand that carefully arranges her trailing robe within the carriage door. There is a sigh on her lips, smiling above her pearly teeth, and their finger tips tingle as she gives him, at the part ing, the rose she wore at her throat all the evening; but she throws herself down, exhausted, and exclaims, “What a bore!” when she reaches tire sanctity ! of her room; and he, disgusted, flings away the rose an evening or so after, when he finds it, withered, in the tail pocket of his dresfl'coat—but that is flir tation. French fun. In time of need. "Well, old fellow, it’s all settled. I am going to be married in two months. Yoi will be oue of the witnesses, I hope ?” • Count upon me. I never desert a friend in misfortune.” They were speaking of Central Africa “Do those cannibals ever come to Paris?” inquired Mr. Prudhomme of the explorer. •Hometimes.” "But what do they live on whiic they are here?” "Oh, they bring some canned meat with them, I suppose.” In the country: "I don’t s e any of the pigeons I sent y<u, Father Nicholas.” "All Monsieur, I was going to tell you. Y«u see I had to shut tliern up for tear tlcy would Uy away, and the poor birds bicame so tire.l of their confinement that 1 look pity upon them aud had them made irto a potpie.”— Traiuslated for tin (jrapkic. -- - A Cheaper Way. "Say,” he began, as lie halted one ot Detroit’s leiding physicians on the s;n et, “is taen: such a thing as impure i:e ?” "I should say thete.was!” "Ice cut near the see rs ought to nake consumers sick, hadn't it? " “ It had, sir.” "It ought to mak them sick in one tcason, hadn't it I ’ “ Yes, sir.” “The doctors have agreed, f b-licve. l.at swamp and sewerage ice sb > : i not >e used for drinking purpose-. •• What point are you trying ■" make?” irked the physician. “Why, str, I want to tell yo.i that ”ve been using ice cut within five rods >f the mouth of a sc.ver for the last five rears, and my health ha-n t I ecu injured n the least.” "Oh, I tee. Well, s . if you bad only kept a skunk in your cellar an i a load horse in the back 5 ard, you w ruldn t have had to buy a pound of ice—not a pound! You have been thr< wing away your money, sir, and good dry, sir. ’ ‘Detroit free I’rctn. HHMCOMMRABLE The Most Perfect Instrument World. Used Exclusively at the “Grand Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. LOW PHICKS! JC.4SY TERMS! AUGUSTUS BAUS&CO M rFes. Warerooms. 58 W. 23d St. New York. This W.ih Board la mada ■ at ONR SOLID ■ HOBTHETAB ■ BHKKT OI ■ WABM DDAIUI ■ HKAVYCORBU- ■ ' ■ SATID ZINC, UM CBSS&BB3MEMB which produce* a double-facet! board the an *lun»bility Th«* fluting in very d r <T. h•■l ■ 11 n nioi< wntrr and c< ’ 1 ”' * 1 1 " 1 1 ’ 1 J i>< 11 or vnHh I! 11 than I" a<d in th" maiket. Tlx fIU iu I ■ , K "" i 1 ■ n ' ‘' ll •* 1 ‘’t* ,l; ' l "’ l|l ui <i<,n |, ’ lt iun ning thmugli a ■ Ist TOUR GROCER'FOR IT !■ {^3^,£ And take no other. If ho oftho zinc,thug <iooH not. keep it, it in becanee binding the Mos il» .i.ir.bihty. If l>« will ■ whoto togrth.r M not got it tor you we will for- * . B ward one on receipt of price. B 1 ” I P OBt Bllh B rm. v * ■"■"‘ly wise, fcOO. B BtAn tinl ,n&nner ' W rRI,K ) L.unUryNi.r. 75 g 0 W and producing a wash board which for economy,exoellence and dur ability is unquestionably the best in tho world. We And ho many dealerw that object to our board on account of its DL'UABII.ITY, saying “It will last too long, wo can never sell a customer but one." We take this means to advise consumers to INHIS'r Upon having the NORTH STAR WASH BOARD. TUB BKST I. TUB CHBArE.T, ■uufuturdby PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO., A 2SO Went Polk St., Chicago, 111. Are till! Finest in the Werlfl. These Extracts sever vary. SUPERIOR FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY, PURITY, ECONOMY, ETC. Mide from Seleotcd FmiU and Sploai, Insist on having Bastlne’e Flavors AND TAKE NO OTHERS. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. B-a-STIIWE •& co., 41 Warren St., New York. theQRRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Grain Threshed Clow Hulk Acknowledged by Thrcebermen to be The King 1 ! Remember we make the only Two-Cyl I ndcr Grain Thre*lier and Clover Muller that will do the work of two Mparate miv hinea. In© Clover lluller la not a simple attachment but a separate hailing cylinder coneirocted and opera ted upon the mowt approved odentifle principle*. Has the Widest separating capaefiy of a»y machine In the market. Im light? compact, durable* umcm blit one belt and re<iuiro« !<?•• power find has fewer working part* than any oilier machine. Ho •! in pie in construct ion tlßui it is easily trnderw stood. Will threah peitecUy all kluis of grain, peae, timothy, fl«x, clover, etc Send for circular, price lint, etc., of Threnhcm, Engine!, hw MU a and Grain Kej|lJ»terß, and be sure to mention this paper. Agents wanted. Addreas THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE, O. JOHNSON S ANODYNE WT CTTILEB Diphtheria, Group, Asthma, Broaohktfa. Neuralgia. Bheinnatlsm, Bleeding at tn« lomb, Noaraentp*, n njienza. J Tag king Cough, Whooping Cough, Catarrh, Cholera Mcrbna, DyMotery, Otiromto DiArrh'/ia, KlOney Troublee, and Spina) Digeaaee. Pamphlet free._Dr. J ohiuton A Maae. PARSONS’S PILLS Th<!ge ptllß were a wonderful diacovery. No othera Tike them in the woe Id. Will aoettteeiy ohm or relieve ad nsnrj-r of diaouec. 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Guaranteed to contain no wider, benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubbar. asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or other similar adulterations. A full guarantee on every package and directions Cor use, so U>et any one not a practical palntoAMn use It. Handsome eqjprUe cards, Showing 88 beautiful shadas, mailed free ad application. If hot kept by your dealer, write to .us. Bo careful to ask lor " THE LAWRENCE PAIMU and do not taka anj dhdr Mid to ba aa good M Lawrence's." ,W. W. UWREN6E I 00.,fl PITTHUI'RGH, PA. YOU PAINT Pi jex y° n n,| ould r rrY' - »*xexamine WETHERILL’S Portfolio of ffcZV Artistic Deelgne Old l"mddolr<d Houses,QumnAnno Cottages, Hubusban Besldenrws,etc.,col / ■•’b ored to match /.WaF W&k ’ lmil ‘‘" of 13L Zd£jr and showing tho << —LT latest and mart es- QjWf** ftattve combination of colors in house z?jFu.is k 72xxzr , , . kouuu ICC If your aealer has not •r.r.rr r'X-._ got our portfolio, aek him »«*•«• L to auul to us for one. You uTi'.ert i can then sec exactly hor ‘ATLAS I; ir> your house will appear READY- \ S' ’ when Anhhed. MIXED \ -at' -.1 Do this arid use “Allas'* paint ' sdr \ Ready-Mixed Paint and in , „ IxjH sure yourself satisfaction. Xj se-fieo ourGuarantco. S 1 tfjGeo.D.WetherillACo. U I 66 North Front Bt. PHILAD’A, pa.