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BEY. DR TALMAGE, THE BROOKLY N MVINES SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: “The*© Fljlng Year*.** Text: “How Old Art Thou 7”—Genesla xlviL. 8. The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In ships and bargei there had been brought from India, cinna mon and frankincense and ivory and dia monds. From the north, marble and iron. From Syria, silks and purples. From Greece, the finest hor-.es in the world and the most brilliant chariots. From all parts of the earth, everything that could please the eye, or charm the ear, or gratify the taste. There were templosof faming red sandstone entered by gateways guarded by pilla- s bewildering with blerogbyphics. and wound around by brazen serpents, and adorned with winged creatures, their eyes and beaks and pinions glittering with precious stones. There were marble pillars blooming into white flower beds. There were stone pillars, tho top burst ing into the shape of the lotos in full bloom. Along the avenues lined with sphinx and sane and obelisk. Princes rode in gorgeous palankine.or were drawn in vehicles by snow white horses golden bitted, six abreast, dash ing at full run. There wore fountains from stone-wreathed va*es clirabiug the ladders of the sun. A bolt would shove and a door of brass would open like a of the sun. There were the odors of gardens all around about the palaces—-ojoi'3 climbing the terraces, or dripping “from the ar bors, or burning their incense in the Egyptian noon. Tho floors of mosaic were written all over with the glories of Pharaoh, written in letters of porphyry and beryl and flame. There were ornaments twisted out of the wood of tamarisk em bossed with silver breaking into foam. There were footstools made out of a single precious stone. There were chairs spotted with the sleek hide of leopards. There were beds fashioned out of a crouched lion in bronze. There were sofas footed with the claws of wild boasts and armed with the beak of birds. As on some summer day you stand on the level of the sea beach, and for miles in thn direction and miles in that direction you see the foam of the breakers driven shoreward, so it seemed as if the sea of the world’s pomp and wealth in that Egyptian capital were flung up in white breakers of temple and mausoleum and obe lisk. It was to that splendid city, and to cho finest building in that c;ty, the palace of Pharaoh, that old Jacob, the shepherd far mer, came to find his son, Jese->h, who had become Prime Minister and was living iu one of the royal apartments. There Pharaoh and Jacob met. Dignity and rusticity. The gracefulness of the pala-'e and the plain man ners of the field. And Pharaoh, the King, to put the old countryman at ease, and noticing how white his beard was, and how feeble his limbs, looks familiarly in the face of tho aged shepherd farmer and says: How old art thou?” Night before last, tho gate of eternity opened to let in amid the throng of departed centuries the soul of the dying year. Under the twelfth stroke of the brazen hammer of the city clock the old patriarch fell dead. What a fortunate thing it is that we have this milestone on the road of life showing how far we are getting on toward the end of tie journey, and this morning it is appro priate that I look into your face.* as Pharaoh looked into the face of Jacob, and ask you the same question: “H <w old art tlioi?” People who are truthful about everj“uing else will lie about tbeir ages: So I *ill put no one of you under temptation. I want this morning to apply a higher test than the ordicary test. There is a right way and a wrong way of meas uring a door, measuring a wall, measuring an arcl), measuring a tower, and there is a right way and there is a wrong wav of measuring our earthly existence Therefore, with this higher meaning I approach you to day, and with all the solemnity involved in the question I ask you: “How old art thou?” A great many people, I notice, measure their existence by worldly gratification. When Lord Dundas was wished a happy New Year, he replied: “I hope it will be a great deal happ'er than the old year, for I did not have «-ne ha«*pv moment in all the twelve months ” but that has not been too experience of most of us. The most of us fouud out that though this world is s n blasted, it is a bright and beautiful and glorious world. There is no war between the Gospel and merriment and festivity and innocent hilarity. 1 renllv think we do not thank God enough for worldly pleasures. Why do uot yon go back further in recounting your mercies? Why do not you go clear back to the time when you lay an infant in your mother’s arms, looking up into the heaven of her smile? Why do not you go back to the time when yon filled the house with uproar of boisterous merriment—to the time when with shout you pitched the ball on the play-ground, to the time, the cold, severe, winter night, when, muffled no to the chin, on the skates you shot nut over the resounding ice of the pond ? Were you ever a boy ? Were you ever a girl ? Have you thanked God for early ble-:siugs ? Joy ! joy ! Joy 1 From those times to this, oh bow many blessings have breathed up to ns from the flowers, and shone down to us from the stars, and shouted to us with the voice of soaring bird, and tumbling cascade, and booming sea,and thunders with bayonet* of fire charging down the mountain side. Joy ! joy ! joy ! But while all th : s is trii*», bow unwise that man who measures his life by worldly gratification. Life is not a game or chess, it is not the foam of an ale pitcher, it is not the dregs of a wine cup. It is not to be a scene of intoxi cation and roystering. I will tell you what life is. Life is the first step on a ladder that niffunts into the skies, or the first step on a road that plunges into a horrible abyss. It is the keying up of a harp or it is the forging of a chain. Standing here to-day in the first Sabbath in the new year, mansions on one side and dungeons on the other, songs on ono side and groans on the other, Heaven on ono «ide and hell on the other, I put to you tho tremendous question of my text: “How old art thou?” Toward what destiny art thon tending? How soon will you reach it? But I notice a great many other people measure their earthly existence by their sor rows and their misfortunes. Through the life of many of you the plow has gone deep, turned up a terrific furrow. How you have been lied about, and maltreated, and slapped of impertinence and pounded of misfortune. In the brightest lire there are shadows. In the smoothest road there are thorns. Upon the most beautiful brood the * hawk pounces. John Milton, while he was losing bis eyesight heard that Salmatos was glad of it. Pope, applauded for bis poetry all tbe world over, was so annoyed at his stooping shoulders that In order to avoid ■ the eyes of the public, be had a tunnel dag through which he walked day by day from garden to grotto and from grotto to garden, hberidan. while his play was being enacted in Drury I>ane Theatre, beard that his enemy, Cumberland, was growling at it in the stage box. Bishop Cooper’s lexicon manuscript, the result of a lifetime’s toil, is by a termagant wife thrown into the flic. Can no, the Bpanish artist, was disgusted with the crucifix tbe priest handed him, be rause it was not a good specimen of sculp ture. And sometimes through tbe taste, and sometime* through learned menace, rod sometimes through the persecution of th« world, and sometimes through f hysiral d * tresses, ays, in ton thousand ways, there com« annoyances and sorrows and mUfoitunei and tragedies. But that is a very un wise man, that is a very unw.s* woman, who measures life by misfortune anl trial, for where there is one > talk of nightr shade there are fifty harebells and marl golds; where there is one cloud thunder-, charged there are whole flocks of cloud- 1 straying across tho hills of Heaven, all the clone* of land and sea asleep in their bosom. Because you lose your child do you forget tbs five or ten or fifteen years when *bo tame every night for a kiss, al’ tbe tones of your heart responding to thosinow of her voice or the touch of her soft hand. Because in the suroclydon of a great panic your fortune went down, have you forgotten all tbe years in which the comforts; sod the luxuries and the extravagances of life were showered on your pathway? Ob, that is an unwise man, that i« an unfair man, that is an ungrateful man, that is an unpbilosophio man. and more than all, that is an unchristian man who measure* his life by loss and trial and rheumatic twinge and neuralgic thrust—by tho thing* that went against him rather than by the things that went for him. Again, I notice a great many people estl mate their life by tbe amount of money they nave made. A man tolls me: ‘The year of WM, or 187fi, or 1880 was all wasted,” I say, “Why”’ He says: “I ma.de no money.” How is it, then, that you are hero to-day, and clad and fed and sheltered? You hod noth ing at the hands of God, perhn*:* you tell me; you have no resources, Who clothed you? who fed you? Who sheltered you? Cer trlnly you did not steal these resource* Then God gave them to you. Be thankful I have no sympathy with the cant and hy pocrisy of people who in pulpit and pe» talk against money as though it had no value. It is refinement, it is education, it is a thousand blessed surroundings, it is hands, it is feet it is sails to great enterprises, it is the table spread to feed tho hunger o r your children. It is the fire to keen your family warm, it is the building of churches, the en dowing of colleges, the taking of Bib’es across the sea, under God it is tho evangelization of nations—money put to right uses. Tne more a man gets the better, if it comes honestly And goes usefully. What would this world have been without the William E. Dcdges, and tho Goerge Peabodyv and tho .James Lenoxes, and men of that type? Who sent #75,000 to earthquake stricken Charleston? New York Chamber of Commerce. Wh.*n oroadstuffs were to he sent a xo« the sea to Ireland, starving Ireland, wo to >k np collec tions in all our churches, but tho great of the money sent, the most of tho broad stuft's were sentout by men of mean*. While wo acknowledge the uses, the Christian uses, of money and have no sympathy with the insincerity or the cant that is always talked against rich men, as though they were not as good members of society as others, a9 though they were to be suspected—tbe com plaint chiefly made by men who have not been successful against men who have been successful—while wo have nosy npatby with that thing, I tell yon plaiulv a mau is mo*t unwise who measures th : « life by monetary achievements, and he will find out this mis. take when the glittering stuff slip; out of his hands as he goes out of tho world without o dollar of money or arerl ifleate of stock. Hi might better have been the Christian portei that opened hi* gat", or tho Christ’n wo k man who heave 1 the coal into his cellar. "They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none of them can by anv me ms redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him that he should not see <orruption. T lie w i-e men die, likewise the fool, and tin b-nt-sh person perish and leave their wealth to other*.'* “Substantial comfort w.'ll not grow Tn nature's barren ‘oil: All we beast—til Christ we know, Is vanity and toil.” Now, I am glad to say—turning a brighter leaf in my discourse—l am glad to say that there are a great many people who are wise? than those of whom I have spoken, and they are measuring their life by moral and spir itual development. It is not egothm for a roan to say: “lam better than 1 used to be: my thoughts are pufer; I live by the in spiration of higher motives; I have by the grace of God put down a great many c? my evil habits; I am a better man now entering 1887 than when I entered 1877.” It is no egotism for a soldier to say: “1 understand more military tactics than when I first took up a musket and learned to pre sent arms and when I was the.pest of the drill o-lcor.” It is no egotism for a sailor to say: “I know more of voyaging on the sea anil more of ratlines than I did when I first learned to clow down the mizren topsail.” It is no bad thing, no mean thing, no self righteous thing for a Christian man to say: “I know more about the battles of tho Lord or I can sail better the vovngo of this life than when I first entered Christ’s service.” Why there are people hero to-day who are mighty for God wbo once were very weak in the Christian life, but they have measured lances with many a foe mid unhorsed it.. Thev have grown swarthy hammering at the an- il of calamity. They have come upon a d' T erent platform from the ono on which they stood years and years ago. They measure their life on earth by golden gated Sab bath* and Pentecostal prayer meetings and communion seasons and baptismal fonts and hallelujahs in the temnle. Oh. how changed is their life. They have stood on Mount. Sinai and heard it thunder. They haves'ooa on Mount Pisgata and lookel over into the Promised Land. They have written over their life’s troubles: “Life is but a moment,” They are only waiting for the gate* to open and the shackles to fall an 1 the glory to begin. Then I notice there are a great many peo ple—l wish there were more’ of them—who are measuring their life bv the amount of good they can do. John Bradford said bo considered the day wasted in which he did not by pen or tongue accomplish somi good. 1 cannot tell how much a man might ac complish if he devote l all his life to right purposes. I cannot tell. I have not the mathematical capacity, to make the calculation, of how nmuy tears he could wipe away; of how many burdens he could lift; of bow much ignor ance be could illumine; of how many outcasts he could bring back to God. There are men who have gone their whole life in the right direction. All their faith, all their natural force, all their mental acumen, all their physical energy, all their enthusiasm of soul for God, and they climbed mountains, and they crossed seas and they' trudged deserts and they dropped into martyr graves waiting for the resurrection of tho just. They measured their lives by the cha ; ns they hail broken, by the sorrow they hod alleviated, by the garments with which they clothed nakedness, by tbe miies they journeyed to relieve suffering of any kind and of all kinds. That is tbe way they measured life. How long have they lived: “How old art thou?” How old was Sutter? How old was Richard Baxter' How old was Philip Dodridge? Why, in practical usefulness they have lived thousands of years. Add ten thousand time* ten thousand more years and you cannot express tbe time thev lived. Forever. Forever. Forever. Add all the immortalities, all the thousands of souls they brought to God, add up all the immortalities. Heaven to Heaven, throne to threne, glory to glory, and make the esti mate. While that is so, there are persons in ♦his house who have not yet begun life. We have got to be babe« in Christ before we begin the Christian life. You say you are 50, or you are 00, or you are 70, or you are 80. My brother, if you are not a Chits* tlan, you have not begun to live. I do not know what your opportunity are; I do not know what your manners ant I attractive or repulsive; I do not know what your educa’ion. elaborate or nothing at all; out I know there Is a field for yon to work, there is a soul for you to save, there i 3 an especial mission for yoi to execute. If you have wealth, give it to Christ if you have eloquence, use it where Paul and Wilberforce used ♦ heirs, on the sido of Christ If you have learning put it inte tbs poor box of the world’s suffering. But if you have neither wealth, nor eloquence, nor learning, you have a smile with which to encourage the disheartened, and you have a frown with which you can blast injustice, an l you havea voice with which you can call sinners home to God. "Oh,” says somo oue. "that’s a very sanctimonious view of life. My brother, it is not: it is the ouly bright view of lie. and it is the only * bright view of death. Ido not know how a man can exist in a moment like this—ore year gone, the other come, amid all the solemn sug gestions that come to every thoughtful man > awl woman—l do not know how one ran 1 exist without trying to make some prepara tion for the great future and trying to offer some repentance for the past. You compare the death scene of those who lave measured life by a worldly standard aml tbe death s one of tho*" who nave rneas u edlifeby a Christian standard. Quinn, tbe dying actor, said: “I h >pe this tragic scene will soon end. 1 hope to preserve my dignity to tbe last.” Malherbet cried out to the confessor: “Hold your tongue, your miserable style pute me out of conceit of heaven.” Lor.l Ches terfield, when he ought to have been praying for bis soul, bothered himself about the proprieties of the sick room, saying: “Give Day roles a chair.” Geoffrey Knelter died while makiug a diagram for his own monument. Oh, compare surh a silly and horrible getting out of life with tbe denarture of Edward Payson, wbo said: “The Ureezes of heaven fan me. I float in area of glory!” Or, with Paul, ax he said: “I and now ready to bo offered and the time of my departure is at hand.” He was looking up then through the aperture of his dungeon and the officers of the law were standing the e lookingdown in the dungeon, and Paul said, when they asked him: “Are you ready ; are you ready to go out on tho road to Os tea and be beheaded; are you ready now?” And the old missionary, decrepit with exposure and Lord work for God, looked up and said: “I am now ready; I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, and not only for me, hot for all those that love His appearing.” Per haps just as grand a deathbed in your own home. Ob, the measurement gs this life by the worldly standard and . the measurement of this life by the Christian standard. It seems to me to-day is the time for me to besin to do better, and it is time for von, my brother, my sister, to begin to do better. The swift years have flown. The old year has gone, the new year ha* come, and for what purpose you and I bavo been launched on this other year God only know.*. And I would like to ask you in this crisis of time, what is your preparation for eternity. You are not surprised at the man on the North River steamboat who. when a Christian man gave him a tract, was very indignant and tore it up and threw it into the river; but one word of that tract fell upon bis coat sleeve and he looked at it after the rest of the tract had flown, and it was that one word, that broad word, that high wo -d, that deep word, that long word, “eter nity!” “Call it ba°k!” said a dying woman, "call it back!” “Why,” they said, “what do you want to rome back?” “Oh.” she said, “call it back—time! time! call it back!” We may lose our fortunes and may gain them again. We may lose our health and have it restored again. We may lose our goo l name and by a life of virtue subsequently may restore our good name; but time gone is gone forever. Now, some people say they would like to go back again to boyhood and live tbeir life over again: - hey would do so much better next time, t would not dare to go back to boyhood as 1 am afraid I would do worre than I have lone. You, my brother, could not afford to go back to boyhood: you might do worse than you have done. But we cannot go back. The future is before us. and I congratulate you, 3b, people of God, I congratulate you that mother year has gone. What doe* it mean ? It means nearer home; it means nearer our Father’s house: it means that you are nearer the com ran ion skin of loved ones who bare gone before. Why should you be sad about that? When I tell you that your face ought to be illumined with a great joy. Why how strange it is, this fact that we hang on to this world with so much avid ity when there is a much brighter world ahead, aud we ought to be glad that we have got nearer it. Why not go to the centre ? Why stay clear out here on the rim of the universe? Why not glad we are going nearer to the centre? We 'Study God here only by a Bible photograph. But you know that in five minutes of interview you get better acquainted with a friend than you could bv fifty years of looking at a photograph; and the little babe that diedlastnight.six mouths old, this moment knows more or God thau all Andover, all Princeton, all Rochester, all Middletown and all Edinqurgh, all the theological institutions of earth. But here we want to stay on the outside, on the rim of this great uni verse, and when we get a little sick we are frightened, and we are alarmed about this accident and that accident, lest suddeuly we lie burled into light and glory unutterable; and we go around asking what is good for rheumatism, and wbat is good for a bad cough, aud * hat is good for this and that, and are foarfully alarmed, and when wo get sick we call iu the doctor in wild haste, lest we be rush*! into a land where they are never sick,but have im mortal health. And here we bold on to the circumference, afraid to go to the centre, while we look through tbe cracks and tbe keyhole of heaven, afraid the door of tho mansion will be swung wide open and we will stand in the glory the infinite. Hang ing on to the pauperism of sin and sorrow of this world and afraid that some time suddenly we will have presented to us an Emperor’s palace surrounded by parks and beautiful paths on which the angels of God walk two and two. Would it not be awful if we were suddenlv to get a crown, a throne and a triumph? Sorry another year lms gone? Glad of it. Nearer theclory that God has provided for His people. We are like a group of people standing on the cold steps of tho National Picture Gallery, London, under umbrellas in the rain, and you come along and say: “Why don’t you go into the pic ture gallery?” They say: "We don’t know whether we cau get in.” You say: “The door is opou.” “Yes,” they say. “it is open, but we ha\ e been staying here a while and we have got so attached to these cold steps we propose to stay here.”. You say: "You ought to go in, it is so grand and b< au tiful inside.” They say: “No, we know just how it is out here, and we don’t know how it is in there.” That is you and that is me. Clin?ing on to this life as though it were all; forgetful of the fact that the great picture gallery, the great throne room, the great grandeur and glory are all ahead. In tbe year 1835, the French thought in Ghent they would have a musical demonstra tion such as the world had never seen, and It was made up of the chime of bells and dis charge of cannon. It was a grand and glori ous success, nothing ever, perhaps, like it heard on earth. It was a triumphal march •ibat has become a matter of history. When the cannon were fired and when the bells of all the churches and all tlie towers rang the effect was overwhelming. Bus grander will be theaccompariementof God’s children when they go out of this world at the blast of the judgment trumpet, and when Gcd shall call them home the bells of tho churches and all the towers and all the light houses will chime, and the sound will be joined by tbe booming of bursting magazine and fortress anl augmented by all the cathe dral towers of Heaven. Tbe harmonious celes tial and the harmonious terrestial united in one great march fit to celebrate the ascent of a soul to where it shall shine as the stars for ever and forever. With such considerations we may look back upon tbe flying years with out a single regret, and with exaltation for ward to the time when the archangel, with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, shall swear by Him that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no longer. The Oldest Army Officer. General Sherman was at the Ebbitt House to get shaved, and when about tn leave the barber's room wa* accosted by a white-haired gentleman who begged to speak with him for a moment. General Sherman looked at him and tried to re call his name. “I think I have met you somewhere,” he said. The gentleman who accosted him then introduced him self as Captain King, the oldest living officer of the army, why entered the ser vice in 1818, fourteen years before Gen eral Sherman entered the Military Acad emy as a cadet. Capt in King was in the Mexican war, and his reminiscences naturally go much further back than those ol the late General commanding the army.— Washington Capital. I Georgia farmers use more than $lO,- 000,000 worth of commercial fertilizers every year, while the little State of New Hampshire, having only about 2,000,000 acres of farm land, usea nearly a million dollars 1 worth. ttoMotklßf that will Interest the Afflicted, j (From the Weekly/ Record, Dundee, N% T.) There are many people in this country who are suffering untold agony from the ravages Os diseases, who have been medicated until the very sound of the word “medicine” sends a thrill of horror through their sensitive organism, and yet they are still looking looking for something that will prove a bene fit to their shattered constitution and restore to them tbeir health. To this class of sufferers the liecord. without solicitation, desires to say a few words, uot with the intent to ad vertise a man who to-day is doing more for this class of sufferers than pen can describe, but because we notonly from personal experience, but from tho experience of others, that what wo aro about to say in regard to Dr. Kilmer, of Bingham ton, N. Y., and his Herbal Remedies aro lfact and it is a pleamro to let the sufferer know that there is a Medicine that has done, aud is still doiug so much lasting bonefit to the afflicted. Dr. Kilmer has teen repre sented in tho advertising columns of the liecord for over two years, and during that period we have received many communica tions asking if his Remedies were as repre sented, and havo always felt that we could safely recommend them. Dr. Kilmer is one of the best-read Physicians of the present day. He probably lias the largest practice and examines and treats personally more pa tients at his largo and fully equipped office in Binghamton yearly, than any other phy sician in the country. These Herbal Remedies which he sends out are prepared and prescribed by him in his own private pract ice. Their component parts are carefully selected from Nature's great lab< ratory, and are compounded in a scien tific manner so as to be especially adapted to the different forms of diseases for which they are used. They are the result of years of hard, patient study of the science of medi cine. There seems to be at the present time a ten dency towar 1 a great many Kidney, Liver aDd Bladder trouble* with the people of this country, and we wish to speak more particu larly about Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root Kid ney, Liver and Bladder Cure. We will say on the outset, wo are not writing sensational “gush” for Dr. Kilmer, but knowing person ally as we do, of many important cures wrought from the use ot‘ this medicine, we believe it to be our duty to the afflicted to en courage them to avail themselves of tho use of this valuable Remedy. We kuow a Mr. Chas. E. Roe, of Union ville, Steuben Co., N. Y. who had Bright’s disease, and was told by the best Physicians of Hornellsville, N. Y., that there was no hope for him, who was prevailed upon by a friend t> try Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Root Kidney Cure. He did so, without the least idea of being benefited, but tho result was most gratifying to himself and family, for he was cured. Saved from death bv that dreadful disease. Another case, that of Russell Sandford, of Wayne. Steuben Co., who had a terrible bowel difficulty which would not yield to tho medical skill of good doctors, who, at our own solicitation, tried Swamp-Root, and he told us alter using sev eral bottles his trouble was removed, al though he bad no control over his bowels for a year previ* *us to using the medicine and had been told that he would never be any better, and that his earthly rareer was limited. Our druggists hero in Dundee tell us they have sold hundreds of bottles of this medicine and in no instance have they ever heard aught but praise from the persons using it We might men tion scores of similar coses that, to our own personal knowledge, have been lnlpcd out of serious trouble by using Swamp-Root. We hope it will help some one, and we 1 avo no feare of the result of at: ial, l*y any one who is suffering with a Kidney, Liver or Bind er trouble. “It is werth ;ts weight in gold.” \V. IV'. Weslco'.t, Editor. BOtie-Htinting on the Plains. A few years ago, when buffoloe* were more plentiful on the great Western Elaine than they arc to-day or ever will e again, they were ruthlessly slaugh tered by unsportsmanlike hunters, who gained the name of “skin-strippers, - since their only motive in slaying thi beasts was to secure their hide*. There was always a great and steady demand for buffalo-robes, and the “skin-strip pers” found their occupation as profitable as it was wanton and unjustifiable. The largest element of dange that entered into the pursuit was from the Indians; but, on the other hand, in a number of cases the Indians were co-operator 3 with the white speculators in buffalo hides, and assisted in keeping the Pastern mar ket well supplied. It is hardly necessary to say that the business of skinning buffaloes could not under any circumstances, nor with any amount of co-operation by the Indians, prove profitable or even self-supporting at the present time. The buffalo is fast becoming extinct, and such surviving members of his race as are left in the great Northwest have become wary and elusive. It will never again be possible for the enterprising “skin-strippers” to sweep down upon enormous herds of these noble though ungainly creatures and slaughter them by the score, leaving their skin-denuded carcasses to rot upon the plains, or furnish food for the wolves and coyotes. Realizing this fact, tho “skin-strippers” have either taken up a new and less exciting occupation, and are now known as • bone-hunters,” or have abandomd the buffalo industry al together. The “outfit” of the bone hunter is a familiar spectacle in tho Ter ritory of Montana and in other portions of the West whine the slaughter of buf faloes by the wholesale lias been of com paratively recent date. That the gathering of buffalo bones is a recognized industry is easily proicd by tho following figures. During the season of 1883-1 there were shipped East over the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad alone 7,856 tons, or nearly 800 cars, of bones. These bones were brought to various points on the line of tho rail i road by the bone hunters, and were then i sold to the agents of the consumers. They xvere at that time worth about $24 a ton at the market, and paid the railroad company on an average a little over s>»• a ton in freight charges. They are used chiefly by sugar refineries, bone-black establishments, and carbon works, the Detroit Carbon Works being one of the largest places of consumption in the j country. They arc also used extensively st St. Louis and at Philadelphia.—llar jer's Meekly. Failures Are Plentiful. An old merchant raid years ago that not more than 1 pc.* cent, of the best clare of merchants succeed without fail ing in I hilsdclphia. Not more than 2 )>er cent, of the merchants of New York ultimately retire on an independence af ter having submitted to the usual ordeal of failure, and not more three out of every hundred merchants in Boston ac quire an independence. In Cincinnati, { out of 400 business men in business twenty years ago five are now doing busi 1 ness.— Dry Goods ChronUU . I Gravitation on the sun is about twenty seven times as great as the earth. If the force of gravitation h?r.- were increased to that of the tun, we should he umiblc to move; a 100-pound man would then weigh shout two tons. Zoutm on • “Tonr." During the wnr the Louisian* Zouave, passed through Atlanta on their way to Richmond. Most of the Zouaves were in a fairway to get “fail,” and to guard a-ainst having the men scattered they were locked in on the second floor of the old city hall. That night the Zouavos made a ladder of themselves, came down and “took in” the town. One of them got on tho second floor veranda of the Washington Ilail and was howling like a wild Indian. Col. Acton seized a bed slat and started out to enforce the peace, but withdrow when he saw the Zouave. He knew a bed slat was no weapon to attack a zouave with. The Louisianians proceeded to paint the town a lively crimson. —Atlanta Constitution. Bodilv pains are instantly relieved by the use of St Jacobs Oil. Or. R Butler Master of Arts, Cambridge University, hngland, says, “It acts like magic Inside soles of heavy cloth or felt, worn inside the shoe, keep tha feet more comforta ble . Boards of Health endorse Red Star Coughs Cure as a speedy and sure remedy for coughs and colds. Scientists pronounce it entirely vegetable and free from opiates. I ric», twenty-five cents a bottle. Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on the ipevitable past, forming vain hypotheses es to what might have been if this or that had not been, acquiring a craze for recounting what has occurred, these acts do more harm to future health and effort than many things connected with real calamity. Occupation and new pursuits are tho best preventives fos* meatal shock and bereavement. Dr. Pierce s “Favorite Prescription” is a most pnwe.-ful restorative tonic, anl com bines the most valuable nervn* properties; especially adopted to the wants of debilitated ladies suife inv frjin weak back, inward fever, congestion, inflammation, or ul< oration, or from nerve u i ess or n nrjlgic pains. By diujgists. Anthracite was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1700, by Nicholas Allen. A Ne*v Way to Fay Old Debts. Shakespeare tells how this can he accom pJithcd i:i one of his imnural plays; but debts to nature must be paid on demand un less days of cra<o be obtained through the use of Dr. ri-ici’s "Golien Medical Dis covery.” Itixn-.ta “cure all” but invalua bl) for sore throat, bronchitis, asthma catarrh, consumption, and all diseases of the pulnioi ary aud other organs, caused by scrcfu!a or "bad b’ood.” Rcr.jfulous ulcars, >w ‘Kings and tumors are cured by its won derf.il alterative action. By druggists. Work to-day, tor y u kn >w not how much you may ba hindered to-morrow. If you feel as though water was gathering around the heart (heart-dropsy) or have heart rheumatism, palpitation of th.- heart with suTocation. sympatnetic heart trouble—Dr. Kilmpr’s Ocean-Weed regulates, corrects and cures. There aro Du,ooo women on the pension ro’.la Everybody is enquiring for Hood’s Calen dar for 1887, Itecause it is one of the most at tractive bits of coloring which lithographic art has ever produced. It is a beautiful thing, the child's head being a pleasing study, which explains why so many applications are being made at the druggist.-* for them. They cau bo obtains 1 by sending ten cents m stamps to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Muss. Earrings are held to be bad form ir Paris. DaualiterM, Wives, Mot hern. Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases,free, securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi,Utica.N.Y. A well-ventilated belroom will prevent morning headache and lassitude. War Ahead. There is great danger of war with Mexico in the rear future, but at present we can pursue the arts of happiness, prosperity and wealth. Wherever you live, you should write to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, atul receive free, full information about work that you can do, and live at home, earning thereby from $5 to and upwards daily. Some have e imed over 850 iu a day. Capital not requ red; you are started free. All is new; both sexes. All ages. Pay, as above guaranteed, from first start. A laugh is worth a thousand groans in any market. How to Gajn Flesh and Strength. I’m after each meal Fcott’s Emulsion with Hyp 'Phosphites. It i.* as palatable as milk, and easily digested. Ths rapidity with which delicate people improve with its use is wonder lul. Use It and try your weight- As a remedy for Consumption, Throat affections and Bron chitis, it i* uneq ia'el. Please read; “I used Fcoit s Emu sion in a child eight month* old wit h geo 1 results. He gained four pounds in a very short time.”-1 ho. Prim. M. D„ Ala bama. The lime is niver lost thst is devoted to w» r.<. i If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eve-wat«-r. Dmecistssoll nt2V.perbott • Tin pine apple is produced by a p’sn tl at feldun grows more than two feet high. A Terrible Fire. M hat a thrill of terror passes over us when we read the record of some fearful devasta tion by fire, and yet it is a fact that thousands are daily being consumed by the inward fire , tever, caused by consumption of the miles, which could l>e subdued bv l)r. Phrces “Golden Medical Discovery.” emoloyed in Simething useful, j Keep always out of unn*vessary action. Three months' treatment for .'A*. Piso’s Remedy for < ntarrh. Isold by druggists. Get Hood’s I f mu have made up your mind to buy Hood's Rar * |vr;il» do nol h* induce 1 to take any other v saruipaiiPa l» a t •eul’ar medlrln*. posses* if*, by \ I -tue of it* peculiar combination, proportion m l preparation, curative power auperlor to any other art!c:e of the kin 1 before tin pecple. Be sure to fr> t Hood’*. "Ihnlb*, takng Roof. Sdrunpirllln for dn- I »nl», »nd In nan >u>r. whnre I trl.d In buj « bottlr ll:e f Isrk lrl.il to Indue mn to bu. tb.tr own in Mead rs Hood's ; he told me their « would laat lon*rr; that I might take It on ten days' trial; that If I did not like It I need not pnv any thing, etc. But I told Mm t knew what Hold's Sarmap a Ilia wan, I had taken It. It agie'd with me. I was perfectly tat utled with Hood's Sarsaparilla, and d| 1 not w ant any oIIk r. lam always glad to apeak a good word for , thl* ezrrlien: medictne.''-3U3. Ella a. Oorr fti \ T« rracc Street, Beaton. Va a Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. $1; Mx for *3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO.. Apothecarlea, Lowell, w sioo ’ fjsSSr lAwafaft ZZESSttfi EEg&SS DYSPEPSIA ,***?._ r»*winjc complaint If iiclecSWtrndn. l-y Impairing nutrition. And d«*- SSSSfw* tone of the *y«toia. to prepare* way ffili p i lateethe appetite, and aids the aeeimUation of food. rtrv J T. RossiTEß. the honored pa*tor of the First Reformed Church, Baltimore. MdL. wiy-: " Having need Brown’s Iron Bitters for »a and Indigestion I take plevaurem recommend Al«o consider it a splendid tonic end lnvig''i‘Mur Mr. J. E. JEFTEBS. Photographer, m Mam ~t . Norfolk Va.. ears: " I sufferad greatly from n severe cam of Dyspepsia—and derived no benefit from van ou* treatments. I nsed Brown’s Iron Bitten, and my health was fully restored.” ... Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no oilier. Madeonly l.y lIItOWN CHEMICAL C®.. BALTIMORE, MD. n ATLANTA A SAW WORKS, Maaafacturtre of aad Dealers la dfplla Saws acdSaw-Mill Supplies. SB Repairing a Mpeclaliy. E*« Ageetft <>jx L. I’ -wsn k L'okpAST's ; fSSIF Wood Working Machinery, / 1 HH' Large aad complete vtoek. Write for eatah.gue. Atlasta, Ua. nc Kil urp'Q Otto of every five wo UK. fxILMLh J r ,oot has pome form of JOKA sJKk Heart Disease', Di n rnn. Ptantdanprcr of -ApM'l' .’ y. UanßßHapj) Shock or Sudden • ’-i. ■fTw.l*hThis Kcincuy iu:;u rc- Jicvcs. coirrcld and cun* UrPmpaml rfc !>r. K:!mrr> vlUTx'Jlr DisrENSAuv. Binghamton. N. Y. V-rny6fcr. 1.,-tt, -raoflnquiryni:*vorr.|. Guide to Health (Sent Free). sl.°° ss.°° Sold by D.-uggists* Sti&O FOR. tfATALOGIfSIf. ■ Piso H Remedy for Catarrh Is the OB Best. Easiest to Use, and Cheapen.. | ■ Also good for cold In th" Head, I Headache, Ha; Fever, Ac. W cents, gg WE WANT YOU! profitable employment to rt-pnvoiit us in c - .erf county. Salary g7sp. r imrtUh and eipoi -* era targe commission on w»l*-' if preferred, (locantap® Every one buys. Outfit and particular? Free. «tanDAKD SILVEiiW aKF CO.. HttolUA. JlAoo Opium HABiT^rr;^ pain or self-denial. Pay whence red. H,ntv»me bookfl-cp, 1 It ('..)AV‘ »rn»i»"T Ifin-'C tT Ask your retailer for the James Mcan3* 93 Shoe. Cnnclon ! Home dealers recommend Inferior grants in order to make a larger profit. This ‘s the original $3 Shoe Beware or imitations which ac knowledge their ownliiferiority by at temp ling to build upon the reputat ion of the original. ’■ None Genuine unless beuriug (bin Htnmp. JAMES MEANS’ 5'E« ( ?3 an(* Une.\ nfoitit aI card you in et this ate or :£C; Our celebrated factory produce* n larger quantity Os Shoes of this prude thau ai.v other l. -t. . v iu the world. Thousands <viw wear them v. iir tell v.. ; u»h reason If you trak them. .) \ M | •* UKI V**’ SHOE for novels ut.app.-oft-M tir I * - msc n A Xf* >\l XCi Obtained. Send st imp so Wr I kll I O Inventor's GuM*. i.. fuse ■ ham. Patent Lawyer, Washington. D. C. IBFrCKif r '‘ av/11 K DOC BUYERS’ CUIOE. R if Colored put**. I Os! engravings W different breeds, price* tti**r sreH worth, and where to bay them B Mailed for 15 Cent-. g ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, I 837 B. Eighth 8L Philadelphia, Pa g A PMC PULVERIZING UITIL HARROW, Clod Crusher and Loveler. 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MEN AND BOYS! ••Wiw i* Here* l*r«ip*rf> f Dt lht*» •■M ether VnlMibip ! element lon *• Buttle* P*errl*M «*en b* plitninrtl W CTS - IN ST **! P ?- MUHIUSMI Leonard Bbt V»
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1887, edition 1
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