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REV DR. TALMAGE. THE BIIOOI.LYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON, TV NT: “ The children of thin world are fn their generation wiser than the children es / ightf —Luke xvi., 8. £«' r d stupidity and solemn incorapetency »nri s.m titled laziness are here rebuked by Bl>r.st. He says worldings an- wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occasions while Christian peop.’e let the most valuable occasions drift fy unimproved. That is the meaning of our fjord when he says: “The children of this trod i are in tiieir generation wiser than the Children of light.” . . A marked illustration of thn truth of that (nax;tu is in the slowness of the Christian re ligion to take possession of the secular print ing p: oss. The opj>ortunity is open, and has for some time been open, but the ecclesiasti cal • ourts and the churches and the minister* cf religion are lor the most part allowing the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is open I declare from ghe fact that the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you pre«“nt them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print They thank you for any info miton in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to nny Christian church or Christian institution you con d go into any newspaper of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedica tion services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, corner stone laying of pohurch, anniversary of a charitabh society will have reason a 1 le sptea in any secular Journal, if it have previous notio given. If had some great injustice done me there is not an editorial or areportorial room in the Cmted States into which I could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any • well known Ohr.stian. Already the daily tismlar press during the course of each week publishes as much religious information and bigh moral sentiment as do?s the weekly re ligious press. Why then dryss not our glori ous Christianity embrace these migniflcent opportunities? vl have l»efore me a subject of Urst and last importance. How shall we se cure the secular press as a mightier re-en- Convment to religion and the pulpit. The first thing toward this result is cessa tion of indiscriminate hostility against news- Kperdom. You might as well denounce the jal profession because of the shysters, or the medical profession because of the quacks, or merchandise because of the swindling ar wain makers, as to slambang newspapers be there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Outtenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that print ing might be suborned into the service of the dutil, lut afterward he bethought himself that*! he right use of the art might more thin overcome the evil use of it, and so he Oparel the type and the intelligence of all fol lowing ages. But there are many to day in the depressed mood of Guttenl>erg with uplifted fca; timer, wanting to to p'trees the tope, who have not readied his better mood in which he saw the art of printing to be the rising sun of the world's illumination. If in «tca«i of fighting newspaper* we spend the name length of time and the same vehemence fit mar haling their help in religious direc tions. we would be as much wiser as the man wl*> c*ts consent of the railroad superin tendent to f- sren a**ar to the end of a rail train shows better a-nse than he who runs bis wheelbarrow up the track to meet an l drive la k the Chicago limited oxpre*s. The si ilicat thing that a man ever does is to fight A n«w«p iper. for you mav havetn? floor tor utterance perhaps one day in the week, while tl.io newspaper has the floor every day of the we *!:. l\ npoleon, though a mighty man. li#.d many weaknesses, and one of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers did not stop their ai veitv* criticism of himself he would with four bundro 1 thousand bayonet* cross the channel Cor the r chastisement Don't fight newspapers. Attack provokes Attack. Ii tter wait till the excitement blows ov> i* and then go in an l eet justice, for get It you will if you have natiew'e and common *en->- an 1 e juipo se of disposition. It ought to b-a mi rhiy sedative that there is an enormous amount of common « nss in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what vo.i are really worth, and you cannot be puffed m> tnd you cannot V-e written down and if you are the enemy of good so- . ciety that fact will come out. an l if you are the friend of good society that fact will be | established. 1 know what I a:n talking I About, for I can draw on my own experience. I All the responsible newspapers as far as I know aro my friends now. But many of J you remember the tuna when I was , the most continuously and meanly at tucked man in this country. Go 1 gave me grace not to answer back, and I kept silft'Kia f.»r t.“n years, and much grace is taqvirel. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did may. My person was maligned, and I wa* £m°nl«d us a gfHTgon. and I was maliu msly scribed by p'-rsms who had n*ver >**en m * as a inonstn«ity in I ody, in.rid and soul. Ther ■ were m Dions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in thin pulpit, al th’Viek we n-vor had'anything but a chair. And that during the singing by the congrega tion I was accustomed to lie down on tint *ofa. and dangle my fe«*t over the end. Lying N*»w York correspondents for tpn yean ■risrep* osented our church services, but we waited, and people from every neighbor hood <>f Christendom came here to find the magnitude ol the falsehoods concerning tin dmrch and concerning myself. A Fraction met in and now we have justice, ful. justice. I more than 'usti'**: and as much overpraise as anoe w * n id under appreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much indebted to the newspaper pr-tis for opj-ortuuity to preach the Go s;» 1 a-. I am. Young men in the min- ! ietry. young men mall professions and occu- f stains, wait. You c.ni afford to w.tjt. mke rough misrepresentat: *n as aTurkisi towel to i-tart u]> )*o.*r laugui I c;r Ulotion, or a syst in of in.is-.ago or Hwelisb mov«- *n**nt whose prices and pulls mi-l tw.-ts and ChruHts are « lutory i realm ut. 'Vbar-j is o«•* pnrMon von ir**d to i?n :a.:o and t.s-it is jrotintd . Yeep your dittpo.itioa sweat by communion with tb? Christ wi.» answered ttot Hga n, the society or genial people, and. walk in tb • sunshina w,t!i your bat off ami %on will r-ome out all right. And don’t join tbe crowd ol people in our day who spend ■ii K-b of th ir t me d mining newraapers. Again, in this effort to HMeure the secular as u rn gfitier re-enforcement of religion mtul the pulpit, let n* iaak* it the avenue of toligivu Information. If you put the faetd •f church* h and denominations of Christians only into the columns of redgious pupetH, which do not in this country have an aver age of more thin ton thousand jngbscril«ers. wist’ have you done as complied with wh .t you do jf you put th** .o facts through the Asiiv pep rs which have l.uudred* of thou ••jvG of readersf Every little denomination Must have its Ilf tie orgmi, suppirted at great A>peti **.wbon, w.th one-half t;i‘> outlay,a co: •mn nr hail a column of xxim ought t * mii'd ill ho ue serm-oiuni intent pub Urnt on and so th l * leiigioui ioformat»>»u would Is* K -Tit u u id nii-1 round the w.»r*d Tb* wnr.'d moves so swiftly to day that n* - ''* A week oM fg sta I *. Give tj* all the great cl/U r <-.. fa U and nil the revival tidings th* me <t morning or the same evening. My ail oiten given to friends who propose to At!.rt a new |Ap>r, is: “iKm'tl Don't! Km* pb>Y t»ie pa s-rs already startad ” The big t naiu-i U bole ever dug in this American ACtttiiiwit i* the hole in winch g'xid peo{de Cb> it their mo i#y when they start a n«ws- Afii c. It i - n niett as and as quick a wav of getting rid of money os buying stock In i po'd rnm •in Colorado. Not more print flntr preaes, but tlie right use of tbotealreadv h i *>.d All tl»eir cylinders, all their Ah A power, a*l ♦fietr pens, all tbeir types, a their a 1 tori el chain on-1 rcportorial • ns are avail ihi* if you would engage 4 in behalf of civiiiation and Chris* * 1 7 Again: If you would secure the secular press ns a mightier re-enforceinent of religion and the pulpit, extend widest and highest courtesies to the representatives of journal ism. Give them easy chairs and plenty of room wh:*n they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of ed ucation and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them* weary with the push of a business that is precarious in 1 fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of information to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to be the impression • adopted by multitudes. They aro connecting links between a sermon or a song or a prayer and this great popula tion that tramp up and down the streets day by day and year by year with their sorrows unccmforted and their sins unpardoned. More than eight hundred thousand people in Brooklyn,and les? than seventv-five thousand in churches, so that our cities are not so much preached to by ministers of religion as by reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers ar-d sermons. Os ail the hundred thousand 8 ’rmons preached to day, thero will not be three preached to journalists, and probably not one. Os all the prayers offered • for classes of men innumerable the prayers offered for this most potential class will be so few and rare that they will be thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. This world will never l>c brought to God until some revival of religion swe:*ps over the land and takes into the kingdom of God editors and re fiorters, compositors, pressmen and news >oys. And if yon have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for thst, . you had letter get out of our ranks j and join the other side, for you are the un- i believers who make the wheels of the Lord’s j chariot drag heavily. The great final battls between truth and error, tho Armageddon, I think wid not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, be fore that, the pens must bo converted. Tho most divinely honored weapon of the past has l)e-n t lie pen. and the most divinely hon ored weapon of the future will lie the pen; prophet's pen and evangelist's pen and apos tle’s pun followed by editor’s pan and re porter's pin and author’s pan. God save the pen! The wing of tho Apocalyptic angel will be the printed page. The printing press will roll ahead of Christ’s chariot to clear the way. “But.” some one might ask, “would you make the Sunday newspapers also a re-en forcement. Yes, I would. I have learned to take things as they are. I would like to see the much scoffed at old i’uritan Sabbaths come back again. Ido not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sun* day. To say nothing of other results, Sun day newspapers are killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty-four hours of nothing to do. If the newspapers put on another set of hands that do« 3 not relieve the editorial and reportonal room of its cares and responsibilities. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. But the Sunday news paper has come to stay. It will stay a good deal longer than anv of us stav. What, then, shall we do* Implore all those who have anything to do with issuing it to fill it with moral or religious information; live sermons and facts elevating. Urge them that all divorce cases be dropped, and in stead thereof have good advice as to how husbands anl wives ought to live lovingly together. Put in small type the behavior of the swindling church memlier, and in large ype toe conuntmcion or some unnstian man toward an asylum for feeble minded children or a seaside sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to put meanness and impurity in type pejrl or agate, and charity ana fidelity and Christian consistency in brevier or bour geois. If wo cannot drive out tho Sunday newspaper let us have the Sunday newspaper converted. The fact is that the modern Sun day newspaper is a great improvement on tbw old Bun lay newspaper. What a beastly j thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty yeare ; ago! It was enough to destroy a man's re- i sjjeetability to leave the tip end of it stick- | ing out of his coat pocket. * What editorials! j What advertisements! What pictures! The. modern Sunday newspaper is as much an improvement on the ol 1 time Sunday news- i pa tier as one hundred is more than twenty- I five: in other words, alnnifc 75 percent, irn-j provemeut. Who knows that by prayer and , kindly consultat on with our literary friends i we may have it lifted into a positively re ligious sheet, printed on Saturday night and only distributed, like the American Mwen gcr, or the Missionary Journal, or the Sun day School Advocate , on Sabbath mornings* All things are possible with God, I and my faith t is up until nothing in the way of religious victory wou.d sur prise me. All the newspaper printing presses of the earth aro going to be the Loud's, and telegraph and telephone and tvpe will yet announce nations born in a day. The first liook ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 140(1, and that consecration of type to the Holy j Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mis- Sion of printing for the evangelization of all j the nations. Tho father of the American printing press was a clergyman. Rev. Jesse Glover, nnd that was a prophecy of the re ligious lisa that the Gospel ministry :n this country were to make of the tvp *s. Again, we sh ill secure tho secular press as a mizhtier re enforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more interesting and spirited, und then the press wi.l reproduce thorn, on the way to i church some fifteen years ago, a journalist sail a thing that hns kept me ever sinca thinking. “Are you going to give us any point* to-day l" “What do you mean*” 1 aske<L He said: “I mean by that anything that will be striking enough to he remem bered.” Then I said to myself: What right have we in our pulpits and .Sunday-schools to take the time or people if we have nothing to say that is memorable* David did not have any difficulty in remembering Nathan s thru-t: “ Thou art tho man;” nor Felix in-remembering Paul’s point blank utter ance on righteousness, temperance and judgment hi cotno; nor the English King any difficulty in remomber ng what the court preacher said, whin during the ser mon against sin the preacher threw his hand kerchief intoth<*king’s pewto in licate whom he meant. The tendency of criticism in the ( theological seminaries is to file off from our j young men a<l the sharp point* and make th ?m too smooth for ary kind of execution. I Whtttw * want, a’t of u*. F more point, less j humdrum. If we say the right thing in the j right way the press will be glad to echo and | re-echo it. Baobath s bool teachers, reform- ; ers, young men and old men in the ministry, j what wo all want ff we art* to make the j printing press an ally in Christian work is j that which the report -r spoken of suggested . —points, sharp points, memorable point*. I But if the thing l>o d a 1 when uttored by | living vo c°, it will lie a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out in cold type. ' Now, as you all have something to do with ; the r:ew-papor press either in issuing a j*ap*;r or in reading it. either as producers or pa tron*, either os sellers or purchasers of the printed sheet, I propose on this Sabbath morning, June 17, a treaty to be signed Iwiweim the church and the printing press, a treaty to lie ratified by million* of good peo- i pie it we rightly fashion it, a treaty promis ing that wo will help each other in our work | of trying to illumine and felicitate the , wcrl l. we by voice, you by jam. we by spelling only that which is worth print ing. v-> i by pr a‘Jug only that winch is fit ut" «oilc You help us and wo w.il help you sci do by side be tli-*o two potent a pmcie* until the Judgment Ho v,when we must both b* * rutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be t»ie mi aster of religion and the eli or if they wasted their opportunity. BoMiof us are the wig neer* of long express train* of influen w, ail we will ran into a d p <t of light or turn *ls them off the etn biuLinont. What a uses i! life an I what a glorious de parture wa* tmt of 11- most famous of all Auierictn printer* II -humn Franklin, whom inflde.-* in t •** I fury of (their ro eourev* have often f a-i l.ibmtly claimed for tbeir own. twit th • who moved that the I'hilad** ph t run- ton be opened with prnver. the resolution A because a ma jority thought prayer unnecessary, anti who wrote at thi » me lie was viciously attacked: “*fv nu is to) go .iLiT.vjht forward in doing what appears tome tots *ht, Tea vine me consequences to Providence, and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of res urrection, an epitaph that I hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia: The liody of Brnjamin Pbanki.iv, Printer (Like the cover of an old hook. It* content- torn out. And atript of its lotterlnz and gilding), Lie* here food for worm*. Yor the work Itself nhall not be lo*t. For it will (a* he believed) appear once more Jn a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and Amended By * The Author. That Providence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in tho world’s redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and reported their acts. Luko was a re- Kirter, and he wrote not only the book of uke, but the Acta of the Apostles, and without that reporter’s work we would have known nothing of the Pentecost, and noth ing of Stephen’s martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha’s resurrect on, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of tho shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter’s work from tho Bible and you kill a largo part of the New Testament. It makes me thiuk that in the future of the kingdom of God the reporters aro to bear a mighty part. * About thirteen years ago a representative j of an important newspaper took his seat in ( ,• this church, one Babbath night, about five | I pews from the front of this pulpit. He took j i out pencil anil reporter's pad,resolved to cari- | | nature the whole scene. When the music began ho began,and with his pencil he derided that, and then deride.) the prayer, and then derided the reading of the Bcripture?,&nd then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason his hand began to tremble, and he. rallying himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again, and then put pencil and paper in his pocket and his head down on the front of the pew ,ond began to pray. At the close of the service he came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave bis heart to Gol; although still engaged in news- Eaper work, he is an evangelist, and hires a all at his own expense and every Babbath afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the peo ple. And the men of that profession are go ing to come in a body throughout the coun try. I know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would be bard to find, and, though the tendency of their profession may bo toward skepticism, an orgum/ed, common rense Gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of a!! Christian endeavor. Men of the feneil and pen, in all departments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the day when people want to get their news papers at three cents, and aro hoping for the time when they can get any of them at one cent, and, as a conse quence, the attaches t»f the printing press are by the thousand ground under tho cylinders, you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of your best w ork is as much unappreciated as was Mi ton’s “Paradise Lost,” for which the author received $25, and the immortal poem, ‘•Hohenlinden,” of Thomas Campbell when he first offered it for publication, and in the column called “Notices to correspondent's” appeared the words: “To T. C.—The lines commencing ‘On Linden when the sun was low’ aro not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.’s forte.” O men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encouragement and you can have it. Printers of all Chris tendom, editors, reporter i,compositors,press men, publishers and readers of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases l)ody. mind or soul. In the name of God, by the laying on of the hands of faith and prayer, ordaiu tho printing press for right- ' eousness and lilierty and salvation. All of us with some influence that will help in the right direction, lot us put our hands to the work imploring God to hasten the consum mation. A ship with hundreds of passengers approaching the South American coast, the man on the lookout neglected his work and in a few minntes tho ship would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel, that had made no sound all tho voyage, sot up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the Captain, knowing that habit of the insect, the vessel was stopped in time to avoid an awful wreck. And so, insignificant means now may do wonders and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for tho signing of the contract, the league, tho solemn treaty pro posed between journalism and ovangelism? Aye. let it boa Christian marriage of the pu!pit an l the printing press. The ordina tion of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in my hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banns of such a marriage. Let them from this day be one in the magnificent work of tho world’s redemption. Let throne* and power* and kingdoms be Obedient, mighty God, to Thee; And over land and *tn*a n and main. Now wave the H'ep;er o Thy rotga. O, let that glorious an he u swell. Let tio-t to host the tr umpli tell, 'I ill not one rebel heart remain*. Blit OVT nil M»*» S‘V r\T TO'-m* The T*orl<l'B l.ai-ffest Tunnel. An engineering work that lias taken over a century to construct can hardly fail to offer some points of interest in its history and illustrate the march of events during the years of its progress. An instance of this kind is to be found in a tunnel not along ago completed, but whtch was commenced over 100 years ago. This tunnel, or adit, as it stiould be more strictly termed, is at Schcmnitz, in Hungary. Its construction was agreed upon iu lfoTff, the object being to carry off the water from the Schcmnitz mines to the lowest jiart of the Cl ran Valley. The work is now complete, and it forms the largest tunnel in the world, being 10.37 miles long, or about one miic longer than St. ttothard, and two and a hall miles longer than Mont C'enis. i The hight is !r feet 10 inches and the | bresdth !i feet 3 inches. This tunnel, | which has taken so long in making, has ; cost very uearly a million sterling, nut it j appears to have been well spent—at i least the present generation has no I reason to grumble, for the saviug from | being able to do away with water-rais ing appliances amounts to $?G,000 a ’ j car. There is no further point, however, I worth notice, for if we have the advao ' tnge of our great-grandfathers in the I matter of moehauical appliances, Urey I were certainly better oil in the price of labor. Tire original contract for the tuonel made in i 783 war that it should be completed in 30 years and should | cost s.>. r > per yard run. For 11 years j ti e work was done at this price, but the ' French Revolution enhanced the cost of labor aud materials to such an extent that for 30 years little progress was made. For 10 years following much prog ress was made, and then the work dropped for 30 years more, until the water threatened to drown the mines al together. t inally the tunnel was com pleted in 188 P, the remaining part cost ing 1105 per yard, nr more than three times at much as the anginal contract rate. —Omaka Bos. Europe has a new coin. It is the coin of the present German I mperor and hears his profile. The die was actually pre|iared in the lifetime of the last Em neror. _ To'alsliolitiotiof slavery in aH British colonies occurrol August 1, 19-18. f SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. In the State of Maine there are 84,000 pounds of ground wood fiber and 188,- 000 pounds of chemical wood fiber made daily. A society has been founded in Paris for the scientific study of the mouth and its Accessories in their various affec tions. The National Telephone Company, of Scotland, has several submarine cables of seven, eight and nine miles in length, which give perfect satisfaction. In the new process of making watch springs the steel wire is first treated to an oil bath, and is then brought to the proper degree of heat by electricity. With the old method the wire was heated first and then plunged in oil. The smallest known flowering plant, scarcely visible to tho naked eye, is Wtdrfia microtiMpia , a water-weed of India. Two species of the same genus, the larger about one-twenty-fifth of an inch in diameter, grow in the eastern United States. One of the chief industries of Bul garia is the production of the attar of roses. The sheltered valley of Ke/.anlyk, known as the Yale of Roses, is the center of this production, and the product of this district was 1,100,000 francs in. 18b4. Steps are being taken to en courage the industry in other parts of the Bulgarian territory. Dr. N. A. Randolph, an English phy sician, states that m.nnows which thrived in brook water, and remained alive in it without food for many days, died in a few hours when placed in distilled water properly aerated. He holds that one of the chief dietetic advantages of salads and uncooked vegetables m general is that the mineral elements have not been re moved from them. Dr. Underwood, the customs medical officer at Kin-Kiang, China, attributes the comparative immunity of the Chinese in that region from typhoid fever—not withstanding that most of the factors favoring the disease are present in abundance—to the fact that “cold, un boded water is rarely or never used when tea can be had.” The explanation is simple: A boiling temperature de stroys the typhoid poison. Poison for some animals is food for others. Hogs can eat henbane or hy ocyamus, which is fatal to dogs and most other animals. Dogs and horses are not easily poisoned with arsenic. Goats eat water hemlock with impunity; pheasants, stramonium; rabbits, belladonna; and morphia is said to be innocuous to pigeons. There is some truth in the old 6aying that “what is one man's meat is another man’s poison.” This is due to habits and idiosyncrasies. There has been an official inquiry into the loss of the British ship Athelstan, which was burned fiom the spontaneous ignition of her cargo of coal. According to the account given by a London con temporary, during the time the fire was confined below the deck, the Captain and chief mate were surprised to find flarfies issuing from the tops of the iron fore and main mast*, which were hollow, and had a number of perforations in them below deck for the purpose of ventila tion. They operated like two chimneys, to make a furnace of the ship's hold. A telephone transmitter by Mr. John M. Graham, of Pittsburg. Penn., says the Scientific American , consists of two pairs of contact springs, arranged to press opposite ehds of electrodes carried by springs Injuring on the diaphragm, one contact spring of each pair being connected with one terminal of the in duction coil, the electrodes operated by the diaphragm being connected with the terminals of the local battery, whereby the current in the local circuit is re versed during each vibration of tfee diaphragm. How the Brakes Dork. Said a railroad man one day: “111 bet not one in a hundred of the people who travel on railroad trains understand how the pressure of air is used to apply the brakes to the traiu. When the air brake was first invented the air was turned into tho cylinder under each car when the car was to be stopped, and the pressure was exerted to force the brakes up against the wheels. But at the pre sent day the brakes arc held against the wheels by springs, and the air is turned into the cylinders to push the brakes away from the wheels as the Lain Is in motion. When it .s desired to stop the train the : ir is let out and the springs apply the brake and stop the train. The last method of using air pressure has great advantages over the old way on the score of t-uiety. When an acci dent happens to a train one of the fir3t effects it is apt to have is to rupture the air pipes leading from the engine to the cylinders under the cars, and that of itself stops the train instantly. It is very important for every one to under stand this matter, because n. child five years old can step a train n thirty seconds from any car in the train if he simply understand* how. iou will see, il you look for it. that there i* a *ort of rope projecting from the toilet-roof every car. That connects with the air pipes under the train. If you catch hold of it and give a iittle jerk it will stop the train before it lia*gone 200 yards.” A New York State man is making a kite large enough to draw a buggy, and he proposes to be drawn around the country in tbAt manner this summer. Tl* lima It ms Meric. When anything stands the te«t of fifty years among a discriminating people, it i pretty good evidence tint there Lc merit some where. Few, if uuy, medicines have met w.th such continued sure ss and popularity mm has marked the progresso* BiaIDUTFi i'lLLii, which, ait* r a trial of over fifty years, are conceded to lie ihe safest and most effectual blood purifier, tonk:and alterative ever in troduned to the public. That this is the result of merit, and that Brakdkkth'h Fills perform all that is claim ed for them, is conclusively proved hy tho fact that those wh » regard them with the greatest favor are those who have used thorn the longest. Brani’HKTU's Pill* are sold in every drug and medicine store, either plain or sugar coated. Tho Internal Revenue Bureau has decided that a druggist may keop spirits and wine for use in combination w th drugs in the preparation of rm dicines that are not bever age*, withe ut paying a *!*• ial tax a# a liquor dealer, but he cuunot soli these liquors even on a physiciau’s preset ptioa without first securing a license. Mummies JKade to Ordor. A gentleman w&p has just returned from an extended foreign tour, was : asked yesterday why he had not brought j home from J g> pt, among other curios, a mummy, lie said there was a deal of fraud in tho mummy business. Persons purchasing mummies, of course, like to got them as well preserved and natural looking as possible, and as those found are generally in a more or less di lapidated condition, vendors have en gaged in the business of manufacturing bogus mummies. They bargain with tramps, beggars and such people for their defunct carcasses, paying therefore a sum sufficient to make their remaining days short and sweet. These fellows are i preserved aud pickled and then smoked till they imitations of the gen uine mommy. Whole rows of these ar ticles can be seen in smokehouses at once. When sufficiently dry they are wrapped in mummy cloth and sold, to Americans, chiefly, bringing a high price.— Portland Oreoonitn. For constipation, “liver complaint,” or biliousness, sick headache, and all diseases arising from a disordered condition of ihe liver and stomach, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets—a gentle laxitive or active cathartic, according to size of dose . Dr. Petitham, of Liege, Belgium, says alcoholism hus increased with frightful rapidity in that country and calls for immediate and thorough Action against it. Chronic nasal catarrh positively aired by Dr. Bttgo’s Remedy. The national meeting of Dunkards, re cently in session, decide i that persons wish ing to unite with that denomination must quit using touacco before they take bant ism. Wai America Ever Dltcevwwl? At the time when Columbus started in search of the New World, nearly man. woman and child in Europe insisted that there was no New World to discover. When he came I aek, crowned with success, a large pro portion of these good people adhered to their theory ; and if th**y were alive to-day many of them would doubtless insist that America ha<i never been discovered at all. A man will give uo anything in tbe world more readily than a pet theory. For example, look at .he individuals who still maintain that consumption is incurable. Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery has cured thousands of cases, and will cure thousands more, but these people can’t give up their point. Nev ortheless ibe “D.scovery’ T will cure any case of consumption, i »ak**n in time. Native drinks prepared bv the Kaffirs of Southern Africa are exceedingly intoxicat ing. In the native churches of all denomina tions, no native is admitted to membership unless he solemnly promises to abstain from Kaffir beer. Its manufacture is punished by special legislation. j to* IS THE BEST For Young Infants It is • perfect eubetitots for mother’s milk, often serin* life; for the Invalid or Dyspeptic it it of the greatest value. Uls THE FINEST BABY FOOD, THE BEST INVALID FOOD, THE MOST PALATABLE FOOD v . THE MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD, THE MOST ECONOMICAL FOOD. ISO Meals for an Infant for f 1.00. A Cabinet photo, of Max. Dxbtl T»iw.rrs-thms beautifn) cbildren-eeot to the mother of any bebp born within a year. Also a valuable pamphlet an Uis Care of Infants and Invalids. Bold by Drug*!sin. 25c., 500., 51.00. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., BURLINCTON.VT. SBS SOLID GOLD WATCH FREE! Tmt spier uJul, m>II4 fold. bantinff-csM watch. Is new so Id for NS; at lltsl price it U th. Set litrfnni In Ameirs; until lately It m«ld noth, purr hss*«l for less tbs. f !•«>. We have both la dles' and rents' •!/... with works ssd conn of miul vslas. OXK PKRhON in ssrhtnrslnjr esn seem* on# sf these slefsnt wstebss absolutely FREE. The*, watches may be depended on, not only as solid gold, but as standing among tha most psrtect. eorreit and reliable tim.bee|iers in the world. Yon ask how la this wonderAi) otter possible? 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This, the most remarkable and liberal offer ever know n, Is mads in order that our vsluabit Household Bamplea may tm placed at one where they ran h*> seen, nil over Ameri ca t reader. It will h. hardly any trouble for you to show them to thus, who MOV coll at your bom., ahd your reward will bo most satisfactory A postal card.on which to writ# us, coats but A cant, and if, after you know all, you do not ear. to g» further, why no hams to dona. Bat If you do send your address si ooea. yon ransee.ro, mi, A>VlsuaKT •*&, Holiu Wsrrn and onr large, com pl.ta line of valo able Bot'SKNOLD a a Strut. Wo pay all aapreM CroigWuoto. Address.•rmaoa4Co, Jte« ut itnd. Memo ’ ’ Hose's Improved Circular Saw Mill Wit Run l vernal Hoctililirttr Hnnull•»!!*•• >uc Het Work ami Doubln Ke- &*. —<* lls centric Friction > F"***l. Aorurutc! >1 A *l!C^L n Hinipla*! < 11 tm* Dlir.-thl'*! Mauu "* fa-ttin-d by BLOOD fi"K2J5rS tho I rinnry Umu* (■oUivtly curwd or no chant* Our mart Win* In • preventive of lUlkrta and Yellow t itvnr. Full niA* saiupl* boi tie sent towo* receipt or . wwnw Srwrh ln-U.( .otitaU IWm .1 .Ml •we* fcwl Bn-ch I—,— 4« « to (It. Itn-rSM-tma UiU.-treT. .14 i I.l,l4—twf-r—l M mi- USV* &f"i!f*e*S n S R " 1 -' $K t" M |i lc tr) i Flob-rt $i botogt (iunoawnl O. o !». to ***”* H *_- Hyq!yf Uv mall t<> nay t’ O. A tdr-w. JOMU ar*v»ugi:«T wguTKK* ui s ««»»% ruua.rg, nus. IaSTHMACJJBED j ■ i.crmnn AnthnrnC nrc tr*»or/aitoU>givn<%s.H ■media e r..ie/i n the tout at cam -.1 noun* con: fort- ■ ■aLlnaleopittffouUrurrovrlwraa InifMtrtfkU aM !★★★★★ J| IFHE STARRY FIRMMEIim lie* * ON HIGH,” * * * 1 JL-Sang Addison. But you, for a few yeaTs at least, rather look at the firraarueut from tho underside ? , ¥OV CAN DO IT j observing the laws ol health and resorting to that j cheat-the-grave medicine 'Warner’s Safe Cure I are out of sorts; did feeling and appetite ono day,while tho next day life is a burden. If you drift on in way you are liable become Insane. Why? Because poisoned blood on the nerve centers wherein tbe mental faculties are j paralyzes i and the victim becomes non | responsible. There are thousands of peo , plo to-day iu insane asy- ITlums aiid graves putg thereby Kidney-Poison ed Blood. Insanity,accord ing to statis tics, is increasing faster than other disease. Is eye-sight failing ? Your memory becoming impaired? An all-gone feeling on slight exertion upon you? If so,and ye YOU know whether this is "A" so or not, do not neglectyour case until reason totters and you are an imbecile, but to ★day while yon have rea- . son, nseyourgood sense and judgment by purchasing WARNER’S SAKE CURE and WARNER’S XSAFE PILES; warranted to do as represen ted,and which willcurc you. ★★★ ★ ★ Mm(m Confessions o }^^ limited. Price 35c. Send at once. Address A. CHASE, DEDHAM, MASS. 'fiwvH ‘mviiaaa ‘asvHO ’V •stoJiiuv '*»uoi«pa»s *, -isn s.io to mi u MOB SIM teiaJ-MOLI Blair’s Pills.'^r^ Oval Usx, Ji i rssuß. 14 Fill*. K«* 18 a day. saaapi« wort* si si, rul Lines not under the horse'* fset. write Brewster Ssfet/ Rein Holder Co., Holly, Kioto. BI.OODRD Houtlniown Lambs, Jersey Otok **f£2sfchtl*\l > i'?i».Si>orting Dojm.Poultry. Catalogue tip ciigrav’h free. N. P. Boyer tic. Co., Coatesvtllc, Pa GOLD Is worth 5000 per i r>. hentrs By# Bares is worth BLfIUQ. btU Is sokl a>tS& to box hy dealers. « m ir -uh. RMB ve.it home and make more money wotklnjj for u* ’ban |AmNvI it anything «tae in th* world Either w* Costly outfit mt. Term, pkkk Addnw., Thus to Co.. A turn*. Uun& GINSENG AND BiW SKINS Bought for cssh at highest market prices. Rond for circular. OTTO WAQNKB. 80 Prince Hi., Sew York MARVELOUS MEMORY DISCOVERY. Wholly unlike artificial eyatema. Care es mind wandering. tony book learned In out* rending. Clames of |ON7 at Baltimore, f OM at D”trolt, 1 500 st Philadelphia, 1 f l:| at Washington. I’/l* at Boston, larger lasses of t'oluinMaLaw Ntutit-nU.al Yale, Welleawy, Obcrlin, DniversUy of P»*un., Mk-h Itran UnivrrKlly. fljautan jua. Ac. Ac. Knd<»r.ved by IticiiAßU PRocroK, th«; Sctentlit, Hoax. W W ahtoiL Judah P Hkajamin, Judg- Gnuiox, Dr Brows. B H Cook. Prln N Y State Normal Odb-g*. Ac. Taught by rorn'psondrnrc. lYtmiwctua host krkb from PBUF LOLSKTTE. 517 Fifth Av«*. N Y. rOHIOE All cuttings of th* drill H clay, wnd grerel. rerk Ao . are disc I* urged nt wtirfnr* wllhwu' ». .;:eri*»* 1 tnolw. Noted for meow wh-re ottiere »*tl Hr ill rfratt* IU tolHltlinra a minute- Pm.-large | Catalogue Free. MM) Ml'** A NY>IA>. TIFFIN. OHIO nLj. Butcher’s-:- Lightning fly killer » quirk deatn ; r tally nr.-i>irv«l sad w , no 1 anger ; file, don't live Ussg Tv enough to get away. Use a **arly, 'T freely; rtd the houeefth’m sad a* • atne*oe. Don't take anythin* •Jut* as.Mod.** There Is nothin* Mke the geauiue crV FKKD'K Pl Tt llKK.wt a! ana, Yt. WEBER PIANO-FORTES. mx>ar.n nr Tint ueadino *BTunv. gno- NA!U\II*.AXDTIM PIUSN, AN TUK BEST PIANOS MADE. I PlMwraniuMiw) term. M m-anoma •m vita Uiurai«a w<*tm»iteki». CATAU:iI'(N haii.kd fkib. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. WAREROOMS, i Fifth Avenue, cor. 16th St., N. Y.
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 14, 1888, edition 1
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