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UNOCCUPIED FIELDS.
DISCOURSE BY
AT THE
REV. DR. TALMAGE
TABERNACLE.
Tit Churches Most Stop Bombarding the
Old Ironclad Sinners Why People' Co
lato Skepticism Northern Nations De
vastated by Alcoholism.
Beooelts, Oct. 9. The audiences nt tlie
Brooklyn Tabernacle this autumn are larger
than at any time during the history of this
church, and greater numbers go away not
ahla to iret in. Tj&l Iv cornet and organ, the
-congregation sang with great power
tijmuc
in the
would
the
Th morniug !ibt Is breaking,
; r The darkness diKapiH-ars,
. The sons of men are wuUinft
To penitential tears.
"The llev. T. JJu Witt Taluiage, D. D., read
nd explained passages of Scripture conceru
iig the dawn "of universal righteoa-iiiess.
The subject of hi seruiou was "Unoccupied
Fields," and tlie text froiw Romans xv, tiO:
Xst I 'Nliould build upon ' another man's
foundnliun." Dr. Talmage said:
; Stirring reports oomo from all parts of
America showing what a great work the
Churches 'f Crod afo loing, and I congratu
late 'them and their pastors, ilisapprelien
eions have been going the rounds saying that
the outside benevolences of this particular
church are neglected, when the fact is that
large sums of money arc being raised in
Various ways by this church for sill styles of
good objects, not always through the boards
of our own denoiuinavioii. This church was
buiit by all denominations of Christians and
by many sections of this land and other lands
and fiat obligation has led us to raise money
for nianv objects not connected vith our de-
liomiual ion. and this accounts for the fact that
we have not reguiarlv contributed to all the
boards i-iiuiuiended. But I rejoice in that
you have done as a church a magnificent
work, and am grateful that we have received
l -luring I he year by the confession of faith in
' Ihrisi Til souls, winch fact I mention not in
- ooastii;g! but in defense of this church, show-
lie i Ik-ii neii her icle nor inefQcieut.
rite nio t f our accessions have been from
Jio out -id workl, so that, taking tha idea of
liy 'text. we have not boeii building on other
'leooUi's foundations.
" la- laving out the plan of his missionary
tour l'aul sought oat towns ami. cities which
bad not yet lieen preachel to. He goes to
Corinth, a city mentioned for splendor and
vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood
and t e Sanhedrim were ready to leap with
both'foet upon the Christian religion. He
feels lue has esecial work to do, and he means
to do it. What was the result lhc grand
. est life of usefulness that a man ever lived.
"We modern Christian workers are not npt to
imitate Taul. We build on other jieople's
foundations. If we erect a church we prefer
to have it filled with families, all of whom
' tun hfeit uii ins. Do we gather a Sabbath
school class, e want goxi boys and girls,
hair combed, faces washed,' manners attract
ive. So a church in this day is apt to be
1titlt out. of other churches. Some ministers
Kiwnd all their tune in fishing in other eo
. f .e iiomls. and they throw the line into that
-liurch ootid. anl jerkout a Methodist, and
throw the hue 'info another 'church "pond afld'
lwiiio- out a Pi-esbvterian, or there is a re
ligious row in some neighboring church, and
m whole school of llsh swim ol? from that
-pond, ami we take them all in with one sweep
f the net. What Is gained! Absolutely
nothing for the general causo of Christ. It
la milv an in nu nrniy. when a regiment is
transferred from one division to unother,
from the Tennessee to the Potomac.
What strengthens the ai-y is new recruits.
What I have always desired is that while we
are courteous to those coming from other
flocks, we build our church not out of other
churches, but out of the world, lest we build
on another mans foundation. Ihe fact is
this U a big world. When, in our schoolboy
Hnv we learned the diameter and circumfer
ence of this plunet we did not learn half. It
tli.. latitude and longitude and diameter
rwl olrenmfoi-eiiee of want and woe and sin
" that no fl'-curcs can calculate. This one spir
itual continent of wretchedness reaches across
" all xnnes, aud if I were called to give its geo
rranhical lioundary I would say it is bounded
on the north ami south and east and west by-
the ereat heart of God's sympathy and love.
rih it is a crreat world. Since 6 o'clock this
moniimr (50.800 persons have been born, and
all these multiplied populations are to be
reached of the Gospel. In England, or
hi our eastern American cities, w
are being much crowded, and an acre of
ground is of great value, but out west 500
acres ha small farm, and 20,000 acres is no
miurual possession. There is a vast field hero
ud everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room
fnr more, not building on another man's
foundation. s
We need, as churches, to stop bombarding
' the old irouclad sinners that have been proof
' " against thirty years of Christian assault.
Ala for that "church which lacks the spirit of
evangelism, sending enough on one chande
lier t. light 500 souls to glory, and in one
carved pillar enough to have made a thousand
men "pillars in the house of our God for
ever," and doing less good than many a log
cabin meeting house, with tallow candles
Stuck in wooden sockets, and a minister who
has never seen college or known the differ
, ene-i between Greek iid Choctaw. We
need as churches to get into sympathy
with the great outside world, and let them
know that, none are so broken hearted or
hardly Iwstead that will not bo welcomed.
Nor savs some fastidious Christian, "I
don't like to be crowded in church. Don't
pntony oneiirmy pew." My brother, what
will you do in heaven? When a great mul
titude that no mail can number assembles
they will put fifty in your pew. Wbaf are
i.. -i,M.t rw todav assembled in the Chris-
hirehefl countered to the mightier mil
lions outside of them, eight hundred thousand
In Brooklyn, but less than one hundred
hn.nir iii the churches Many of the
Churches are like a hospital that should ad
Ver.Ue that its patients must have nothing
worse than toothache "run-rounds," but no
. i,mtn l oads, no crushed ankles, no fractured
i.,v.i. (live us for treatment moderate sin
ners velvet coated sinners and sinners with a
gloss on. It is as though a man bad a
?nrm of three thousand acres and pit
all his work on one acre. He may
-.i, tr..r so lanre ears of com,
never so Ug heads of wheat he would
remain l-oor. The church of G'.kI has be-atow-d
its chief careou one acre, and has
raised splendid men and women in that small
iiichwure; but the field is the world. That
Norlli ami rum aurenia,
t i -,; mil all tlie lsiaiRis oi mo
It i. as though after a great battle there
were left W.0U0 wounded and dying on the
field, and threo surgeons gave all their time
to three patients under their charge. Ihe
major general comes in and says to the doc
out here and look at
Eucvclo-
Complu,-
ond little
f alfen on millions, do not let us spend all our
time in taking care of a few people, and when
'the command comes, "Go into the world,
say practically, "No, I cannot go; I have here
a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping oil
thefliesl" There are multitudes today who
i ,,r i,!lfl nnv Christian worker look
them in the eye, and with earnestness
afventmition. sav. "Cornel" or they
long ago have been in tho kingdom. My
friends, religion is either a sbam or a tremen
dous reality. If it le a simm, let us disband
our churches and Christian association. If
it be a reality, then great populations are cu
the way to the . bar of God unfitted for the
ordeal, and what nre we doing?
Iu order to reach tho multitude of out
siders we must drop all technicalities out of
our religion. When we talk to people about
the hypostatic union aud French
nn.l Krastinianism, and
roiisi.'inisiii. we are as i:ntoi:tii'
understood ns if a physician should talk to an
ordinary patient about the jierieardiuin and
intercostal muscle, am scorbutic symptoms.
Many of us come out of the theological ienu-
naries so loaded up thnt we take tlie nrst ten
vears to show our people now inu. u c ...,
and tho next ten years get our people to
know us much as we know, ami at me e..u
find that neither of us know anything as we
. . . . n..-, o.-o luiiidi-eils and
ougnt to Know. ikic . " , .
thousands of sinning, struggling anu ..i ua
people who need to realize just one thing
. . . . w. tliotn find
that Jesus Christ cam" ' -
will save them now. But we go into a pro
found and elaborate delinition of what justi
fication is, and after all the work there, are
not, outside of the learned professions, o,UX
people in the United Slates who can tell
1 ... .. - t ill ...! vim the
what justification is.
definition: . . , : n,
Justification is purely a luienmv, v
act of a judge sitting iu tho forum, m winch
the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ac
countable to none, and who alone knows the
which the enas oi ui "' i..
government can best be outaiueu,
that which was done by the substitute in the
ame manner as if it had been done by those
who lielieve in the substitute, nni ni.
count of anything done by them, but purely
account of this gracious meu..
. . .1.. r..H wmiiuClAll T
reckoning, grants tuein tue iuii io"""
their sins." . '.. .,., T -m -..
Now. what is itistiucaiiouf x m j
what justification is when a sinner believes,
God lets him off. One summer in Connecti
cut I went to a large factory, and 1 saw over
the door written the wonls: "No Admit
tance.-' I entered, ana saw '
door: "No Admit tance." Of course I entered.
I got inside and found it a pin lactoi y ,u j
Christianity which thev swdre to support and
defend? How do you judge of the currency
of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Oh,
you must have patience with those who have
been swindled by religious pretenders. Live
in the presence of others a frank, honest,
earnest Christian life, that they may be at
tracted to the same Saviour upon whom your
hopes depend. ,
llomember skepticism always has some rea
son, good or bad, for existing. Goethe's irre
liKion started when the news canw to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
1,1775. That 00,000 people should have per
ished in that earthquake and in the after
rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sym
pathies that he threw up his belief in the
goodness of God. . .
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asking the reason why.
They have been fearfully stabbed of tb'- in
terrogation point. There are so many things
they cannot get explained. They cannot
understand the Trinity, or how God
ran lie sovereisn. aud yet man a
free agent. Neither can L T:;ey say:
"I don't understand why a goou wra
ci,onll have let sill come into the world."
wjtur .1 T "Wm av: "Whv was that
child started in life with such disadvan
tages, while others have all physical ana
mental equipment?" I cannot tell. They go
out of church on Easter morning and say :
That doctrine of the resurrection conlounaea
ie." So it is to me a mystery beyond un-
ravelment. I understand all the processes uy
which men get into the dai-K. 1 know them
all. I have traveled with burning reet tueu
blistered way. The first word that chiMren
learn to utter is generally papa or mamma.
I think the first word I ever uttered was
"Why." I know what it is to have a hun
dred midnights pour their darkness into
one hour. Such men are not to be
scoffed at, but helped. Turn your back upon
a drowning man when you nave tue iuie
with which to pull him asuore, ana jet man
woman in the third story of a house perish in
the flames when you have a ladder with
which to help her out and help her down,
rather than turn your back scoffingly on a
skeptic whose soul is in more peril than the
bodies of those other enilangereu ones possi
bly can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark laud.
There are men in this house who would give
a thousand worlds, if they possessed them,
to r-et baek to the nlacid faith of their fatheis
and mothers, and it is our place to help them,
and we may help them, never turougu wen
heads, but always through their uearia. i uese
nt-pnti.-R. when brought to Jesus, will le
mightily nffected far more so than those who
iwr examined the evidences of Christian-
Gastonia, ! N. C. : October 2 1, 3 887.
LOSG POISES.
are
we
American cavalrymen mount by putting
their left foot into the stirrup. I don't care
how tou mount your whr charger, if you
only get into this battle for God and get there
soon, right stirrup,' or- left stirrup, or
no stiiTUD at tdh Tift unoccupied fields
all around us, ana wny siioinu
build on another man's foundation?
That God has called , this church to
l wni-lr no one can doubt. Its his
tory has leen miraculous. ? God has helped us j
at every step, and though the wheels of its
history have made many revolutions, they
have all been forward, anil never backward,
and now with our borders enlarged and with
important re-enforcements we start on a new
campaign. At Sharon . Springs, nineteen
years ago, walking iiitbe park, I asked God if
he had any particular work for me to do, to
make it plain and I would do it. H' revealed
tome the style of church We were to Live, aud
he revealed to me the architecture, and he re
vealed to me the mode of worship, and he
revealed to me my-WTMEr&nd, as far as iu my
ignorance and weakness I have seen the right
way, t I have tried to walk in it.
We decided that ' we wanted it a
soul ; saving church, and it Las been
almost a constant outpouring or mo iioiy
Ghost. Ye powers oTtlarkiiess, ye devils m
hell, we mean to snatch' front your dominion
other multitudes, if Cod will help us. I have
beard of what was filled the "thundering
legion." It was in 17'J a. part of the Human
army to which" soinb Christians belonged,
aud their ..prayers, it was said, were an
swered by thunder and'.' lightning and hail
and tempest, whiclt overthrew an invading
army and saved the empire. And I would
to God that this church may ue so
mighty in prayer and work that it would be
come a tliuudenng legion lietore wnicn tue
forces of sin might be routed and the gates of
hell might tremble. Now that the autumn
has come, and the .gospel ship has been re
paired and eiilargedf.it 'is time to launch her
for another voyage. Heave away now, lads!
Shake out the reefs hi the foretopsail! Come,
O heavenly wind, and fill the canvas! Jesus
aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the
sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the
shining shore will welcome U3 into harbor.
"And so it came to pass that they all escaped
safe to laud."
AMKRICiS HOMES.
HICIX
for
him
means
Asia
a ( vni out nerw
the nearly 60,000 dying for lack of surgi
cal attendance." "No," say the three doctors,
atandi.ig there fanning their patients, "we
hao three important cases here, and we are
attending to them, and when we nre not posi
tiv.V busy with their wounds.it takes all our
time to Uoop. the flies off." In this awful lit
tle of aiu il sorrow, whe millions haw
were making pins, very serviceable, fine and
useful pins. So the spirit oi exclusive
!... nracticallY written over Uie omsioe uw
of niauy a church: "No Admittance." And
i, cinrpr enters ue unus noiu-.j
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written over the secona ttoor: xo ""
tance:" and if he goes in, over all the pew
H.-,rH.ms written: "iSo Admittance, wune
u ...inister stands in the pulpit. naiuii.eiiB
out his little niceties of llief, pounding out
the technicalities of religion. maMiig i.iu
In the most practical, cominonsonse way, and
laying aside the non-essentials and the hard
definitions of religion, go out on the God
given mission, telling the people what they
" . . i . 1 . .... y..t- if-.
. .mi wiien anu uow wicj t-1 - -
fnnnaratively little effort lias as jet oee..
to save that large- class oi iei-sons in
,i.ut railed skeDtics. and he who goes to
work here will not be nunaing upon nvuUw
man's, foundation. There is a great imuu
t.i r them. Thev are afraid of us and our
churches, for the reason we don't know how
to treat them. - One oi tms ciass meu ,
....l i,r with what tenderness, and pathos,
and beanty, and success unnst ueait u
Tiir,n halt love the Lord thy God
witli all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with 11 thv mind, nnd with all thy strength.
This is the first commandment, and the sec-
; iiir this- namelV. tnou suaib iuvo
UIIU W . 1 - , -
ti. iiirl,l,or as thyselt. mere is
nninniandment greater than this.
And the scribe said to him: Well,
.n-ti- thon hast said the truth,
there is one uoa, ana kj ju.u
Tcitii all the heart, and all
n. ....riuit-iiiiiinir. anu an mo uui, ii
..ii h streiiirth is more than whole burnt
n. ,,rl Kaerifices. And when Jesus
uw th.it he answered discreetly, he said
i.i,r.- Thon art not far from the
lHiurdoin of God." So a skeptic was saved in
interview. But few Christian people treat
the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking
hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we
are apt to take him with the iron pincers of
ecclesiasticism.
You would not be so rough on that man if
you kuew by what process he had lost his
faith iu Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from the fact that they grew up in
bouse whero religion was overdone. Sun
day was the most awful day of the week.
They had religiou drrseu into them w.th a
trip hammer. They were' surfeited with
nrnvpr meetings. They were stuffed and
J ... . mi Afrtn
choked with sateeuisms. uey wcio wu
told they were the worst boys tue parents
ever knew because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Bunyan's "Pilgrim's
Progress." Whenever iatner ana moi.mji
talked of religion they drew down the corners
of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If
any one thing will send a boy or girl to per
dition soo er than another that is it. If I had
had such a father and mother I rear i suouia
have been an infldeL
Others were tripped up of skepticism irom
bein" erievouslv wronged by some man who
" . - . - . - ni l . .. ,3
professed to be a uuristiau. mey t
partner in business who turned out to be a
first class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Twenty years ago they had lost
all faith bv what happened in an oil company
which was formed amid the petroleum ex
citement. The company owned no land, or
if they did, there was no sign of oil produced.
But the president of the company was a
Presbvterian elder, aud the treasurer was nil
Episcopal vestryman, and one director was a
Mctlioriist class leader, and the other direc
tors Drominent members of Baptist and Con
gregational churches. . Circulars were gotten
nut tellini what fabulous prospects opened be
fore this company. Innocent men aud
women who had a little money to
invest, and that little their all. said: "I don't
know anyt hing about this company, but so
mauy good men are at the head of it that it
must be excellent, and taking stock iu it
almost as good as joining the church." So
tiiBv liounbt the stock, and perhaps received
one dividend so as to keep them still, but
after a while they found that the company
had reorganized ana baa a ainerent piesi
fent,aud different treasurer, and different
duectors. Other engagements or ill health
hadcaused the former officers of the company,
with many regrets, to resign. And all that
the sUivcriliers of that stock had to
show foi their investment was a beauti
fully oriminented certificate. Sometimes
that man. looking over his old pap.rs
comes acrost that certificate, and - it is
so suggestive ttiat he vows he wants none of
the religion thatbe presidents and trustees
and directors of Haat oil company professed.
Of course their reliction of religion on such
grounds was unphihispphical and unwise. I
am told that one-thirdof the United States
army deserts every yeaand there are 12,000
court martial trials everjNvear. Is that any
thing against the United Sates government
that swore them in? Aud ifyddiers of Jesus
Christ desert, is that anythifi against the
ODDS AND ENDS.
Hcttv reeii wilti JScr 35,000,000 in
Probably l!ie Wealtliicit
of 'flicm.
Wash infrton Post. ; i ' A '
Hetty Green is credited with being
the most of a capitalist of her sex in
the United States J Her wealth would
foot up from $35,000,000 to 840,000,000
I suppose. She ! inherited $13,000,000,
married 1,000,000, and has made the
rest by shrewd financiering. Another
clear-headed woman is jMiss Elizabeth
Garrett, who must have 20,000,000 or
more and who knows how to take care
of it. She was her father's private
secretary for years and understands
Baltimore and Ohio stock as wen as
anybody. Mi.s3 Garrett is not as rich
as she would he if she were less charit
able. She never flings money away
recklessly, but expends large sums
with discrimination and good sense- on
educational and philanthropic projects.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins is richer than
Miss Garrett, though her neighbors
the village folk, are less enthusiastic
about her than they used to be before
she put up a high fence or Chinese wall
about that $2,000,000 palace of hers at
Great Barrington.! Mrs. Hopkins is
not worth less I than 30,000,000 or
35,000,000 probably, and she, too, is
noted for her charity. Mrs. Emily TT.
Moir, the heir of the Morgan property,
pays the largest personal assessment of
any woman in New York, and Mrs.
Sarah IT. Green comes next to her.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has a tidy sum
never examuiea tue evidences
ity. Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic,
Roliert Hall a skeptic, AlODeri newtou u
skeptic, Christinas Krans a skeptic, dui
when once with strong nana tney toow uum
of the chariot of the Gospel, they rolled it on
with' what momentum 1 If I address sucu
, oinl women todav J throw out
-r . 1 , . 1 1,.- mum.
tin seorr. i lmnieau mem uv "
of the eood old days when at then
mother's knee they said, "JNow l lay me
down to sleep," aud by those days and nights
of scarlet fever in which sue watcuea j ou
giving you the medicine at just the right
time and turning your pillow when it was
hot, and with hands that many years ago
tnn.ul t, Hnt soothed awav your pain, and
with voice that you will nevor hear again,
unless you join her in the better couutrj,
tjilri von to never mmd. for vou wouia leei Det-
tor bv and bv. and bvthat dying couch
where she looked so pale and talked
so slowly, catching - her breath Between
the words, nnd you felt an awful loneliness
coming over your soul; by all that, I beg
you to come back aud take the same relig
ion. It was good enough for her. It is good
enough for you. Nay, I have a better plea
than that. I plead by all the wounds, and
tears, and blood, and groans, and agonies,
and death throes of the Son of God, who ap
proaches you this moment with torn brow,
and lacerated hand, and whipped back, and
sajnng: "Come unto me, all ye who are weary
and heavy ladeu, and I will give you rest."
Again, there is a field of usefulness but
little touched occupied .by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na
tions, like those of North America
and England and Scotland, that is
In the colder climat, are devastated
by alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth.' In southern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so they are
not tempted to fiery liquids. The great Ro
man armies never drank anything stronger
than water tinged with vinegar, but under
oftr northern climate the temptation to heat-in3-.stimulants
is most mighty, and millions
succumb. When a man's habits go wrong
the church drops him, the social circle drops
him, good influences drop him, we all drop
him. Of all the men who get on irac uuu
few ever get on again. Near my summer
resideuce there is a life saving station on the
beach. There are all the rojies and rockets,
the boats, the machinery for getting people
off shipwrecks. Summer before last I saw
there fifteen or twenty men wuo were ureax
fasting, after having just escaped with then
lives and nothing more. Up and down our
coasts are built these useful structures, aud
tho mariners know it, and they leel tnat it
they are driven into the breakers there will
be apt from shore to come a rescue. 1110
churches of God ought to be so many life sav
ing stations, not so much to help those who
arejin smooth waters, but those who have been
shipwrecked. Come, let us run out tue ma
boats! And who will man them? We do not
preach enough to such men; we have not
enough faith in their release. Alas, if when
hev come to hear ns we are laooriousiy iry
. i i . . . i , i
ijg to snow tue ameience utwrai buuioh
sarianism and supraiaprarianism while they
have a thousand vipers of remorse and des
pair coiling around and biting their immortal
spirits. The church is not chiefly for goodish
sort of men wuose proclivities are an i igui,
and who could get to heaven praying ana
singing in their own homes. It is on the
beach to help the drowning. Those bad
fnana are the cases that God likes
to take hold of. He can save a
bi sinner as well as a small sinner,
and when a man calls earnestly to God for
heln he will tro out to deliver such a one. If
it were necessarv God would come down
from the sky, followed by all the artillery of
heaven and l.OOO.uou angeis witn arawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men m each
of vour churches, anti nothing could stand
before them, for sucu men are generally warm
hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers
then. No heartless singing then. No cold
conventionalisms then. .
Furthermore, the destitute children of the
street offer a field of work comparatively un
occupied. The uncared for chudren are in
the majority iu Brooklyn and most of our
cities. When they glow up, if unreformed,
thev will outvote your children, and they will
govern your children. The whisky ring will
hatch out otuer wnisKy rings, anu gr
shops will kill with their horrid stench public
sobriety, unless the church of God rises up
with outstretched arms and enfolds this dying
population in her bosom. Public schools can
not do it. Art galleries cannot do it. Black
well's Island cannot do it. Almshouses can
not do it. New York Tombs and Raymond
Street jail cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot
do it. Church of God, wake up to your mag
nificent mission. You can do it. Get some
where, somehow to work.
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
Jt isid iv-pherd that Washing
One of Germany's famous military bands
will soon make a tour of England.
In one week in Jew York thirty-two dry
goods clerks lost -their situations because it
was ascertained that they frequented pool
rooms. "
The people of Stratford, Can., woke up the
other morning and found that some one had
painted every dog in the town a pale pink
A new artificial cork has been made by
Potcl, a German scientist,. from a mixture of
glue, glycerine and tannin. It is elastic, im
pervious, strong and durable, aud very cheap.
The mass is also applicable to other purposes.
Many of the destructive forest fires in Cal
ifornia are said to be set by sheep and stock
raisers, who, to get rid of tho underbrush and
malft open pastures the coming season, reck
lessly set fires in the niiflst of great forests.
It is proposed to 'hiiike a heroic statue of
Governor Shepherd ou of asphalt. The ma
terial can be bad for nothing, aud in the
Bands of an artist is enpablo of very liberal
treatment.
ton ovvf- iiiLfi-YLait jj ets.
It is said that the "American Cyclopedia"
cost $500,000 before a cent was made out of
it. Its maps aud engravings alone cost
$115,000. Contributors are paid at an aver
age rate of 810 for ljOOO words, but special
articles command special prices, some as high
as $000. . .
After all the gibes and guys that have been
poured out on the Cogswell fountain, it is
pleasant, on the abstract principle that one
likes to have his estimate of human nature
raised, that the doctor and his wife have given
$1,000,000 for the establishment of a technic
school, where youths will be taught the me
chanical arts gratuitously, iu San Francisco."
A dog was thrown overboard by the captain
of an Oswego steamer, who wanted to know
how far the animal could swim. The dog
reached the shore eleven miles off five hours
after he had been thrown into tho water.
Some one now suggests that the captain be
taken fifteen miles from the shore and per
mitted to test his swimming qualities.
Prospectors are roaming about the moun
tain country of Tennessee, through which
railroads are to pass, seeking ore beds, which
can now be bought for merely nominal prices.
Rich lead and silver ore have been found in
several localities. In one immense cave in
Putnam county five distinct veins of lead, all
valuable, have been found.
An old mailing table in the Ogdensburg,
N. Y., postofiice was torn to pieces recently,
and between the linings and the outside of
the shutes leading to the bags, were found
sixty-seven letters that had slipped through
cracks in the table. Some of the letters bore
postmark dates showing that they were
mailed in- and one contained a roreign
money'order that the postofSce department
made good several years ago.
The ranch which is owned by a brother of
Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins, and about
which she has written so entertainingly m
Harper's Magazine, has suddenly ' acquired
new importance in its owner's eyes by the
discovery of .apparently inexhaustible salt
mines only a few hundred feet from the sur
face Heretofore the owner f tue rancn nas
been obliged to import salt for his sheep at
tho rate of 20 a ton. Now he finds it at his
very doors.
The North Bucks Liberal brotherhood has
bcrrun the attempt of co operative farming.
Sevcntv-two acres belonging to Sir Harry
Verney have been leased at 19 shillings per
acre, aud, after being cut up into small lots,
sold at auction to tho members, the excess of
price .over 19 shillings to go to the general
fund. Each tenant farms his own lot, and
tlie eo-onerative feature consists in the own
ership in common of implements, horses,
barns and thrashing floors.
A down town restaurateur remarked the
other day, in reply to a question as to the
state of business: "Business is just as good
as ever, but the receipts are small. We have
opened the set of books which were put away
several vears ago. How's that' Well, when
. n tiir iod of lirolonged dullness strikes tho
brokers they open accounts, and have their
meals and refreshments charged. When a
boom comes they pay up mid the slate is
v How hitrh do tha accounts ran!
Well, some brokers have got up to $2,000.
We seldom lose the money due us."
neyward no long time after he began
life with $100 and his freedom suit,
and was left behind in Minnesota
while her husband went west to look
for gold. She did not hear from him
for a number of vears, and it is report
ed that he said she never i would have
heard from him if he had not struck it
rich. He got down to his last dollar,
borrowed from Flood or some one of
the bonanza-men to put into amine
that for some reason he had faith in.
struck pay-dirt, divided up handsome
ly with his benefactor, and all went
merry, though some of the younger
have heaped " tip bigger piles since.
Hey ward doesn't believe in extrava
gance, so he launched his son with
50,000 only when tie came of age. ' j
There are a number of cattle queens
who have made money. Mrs. Henry
C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, IndJ,
has inherited a famous stock-farm
from her husband, who in turn receiv
ed it from General Sol. Meredith, his
father. Mrs. Meredith is an authority
in her business, and was the only.wo
man'present at the annual meeting of
the Indiana Shorthorn Breeders' Asso
ciation at Indianapolis a few weeks
ago. Miss Annie Thomas, of Billings,
Mo., has a big ranch and two paying
mines near Butte City. Mrs. Rogers,
the Texas ranchwoman, has made a
million. !
Mrs. Bishop Iliff Warren, who got
her money from Ihff, the Colorado
cattle king, is a'wealthy woman. She
manages her ranch personally and
shows excellent business judgment.
Prima donnas one takes for granted.
Patti gave a million francs to M. de
Caux to get rid of him. . Lucca gave a
eood bit to ber husband. Nillson pen-
fcmpae thl with your purchases
igsiPsfeiiX!
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Restlesskess..
A STmCTtT VEGETABLE
FAULTLESS FAMILY MEDICINE.
AMD
PHILADELPHIA.-
.Price, OHE Dollar
As yo i vMik health, perhaps life, examine eacH
packi-se an.l 1 sure - ou get the Genuine, bee
the rwl Z Trade-Mark, and the full title
on front of Wrapper, and on tbe side
the Mal and signature of J. It. Zeilin ii .
Co., as in the above f u simile. Remember there
is l.o other jjenuino Simmc-us Liver ReulaWr.
of from 7,000,000 to $9,000,000.
Kich New York 1 widows estimated
at from 1,000,000 to $5,000,000 abound gioned Roilzeaud, and Gerster has peni
sioued Gardini.
and there are some hundreds oi un
married women under thirty who have
from $100,000 upwardjin their own
name. Mrs.W. E. Dodge has invested
her money well, and it -amounts to
5,000,000 perhaps. ) Commodore Van
derbilt's widow has something more
than double what her husband left her.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and uiamson .rot
ter's widow are not poor. Miss May
Callender must be wortn a muiion.
The Misses Leary and the Misses Fur
niss. of Fifth avenue, have large in
comes. Miss Adele Grant, wuo nas
liPtm starrinsr it with Miss Winslow
for foil, has 700,000 or more. Mrs.
T.anrtrv has cot above ' the $100,000
mark. . Mrs. John Mint urn has money.
Miss Grace II. Dodge Has a fortune of
Frank Leslie must
Mrs. Hicks-Lord has
In Brief, And Xo The Point.
Dyspepsia is 'dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a toe to
good nature.
Tlie human digestive apparatus is-
one of the most complicated and won
derful things in existence. It is easily
put out of order. ';-'
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy
food, bad cookery, mental worry, late
hours, irregular habits, and many
other things which ought not to be
have made the American people a
nation of dyspeptics. "... ' i
But Greenes August J; lower nas
done a wonderful work m reforming
this sad business and making the
Airverictin people so Lealthy,that.tDey.
cai.,enjoy. their- meals and De nappy., ,
K Pill P.I 1 1 riP.n -JM a--'ailJMJuri yvjuuvuu
lipalth. But Green's August a lowei?-
brinirs health and happiness to the dys
peptic. Ask your druggist : for a bot
tle. Seventy-nve cents.
Mysterious Disappearance.
Shelby New Era.
Mr. J. Augustus McFalls United
States Deputy . Marshall, has myste
riously disappeared. On the third-
instant he left Shelby for the South
Mountains With several warrants to
execute, ne was most intent upon
capturing a man named Chapman.
Several days later he was seen by Mr.
Warren Clower coming down Ben's
Obtained, and all PATENT BUSINESS pttend
ed to PROMPTLY and for MODEKATr AVS
Our office is opposite the U. S. PaWr -oihce.
and we can obtain Patents in less Anne tnan
those remote from WASHINGTON. -
Send MODEL OR 'DRAWING. WeFdviseas
to patentability free of charge; and we make
NO CHARGE UN LESS PATENT IS SECURED.
We refer here to the postmaster, ine buui,
fit Money Order Div., and to ofnesnds of the
U. S. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms
and references to actual clients in yonr own
State-or county, write to . '
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. C.
DR. J. L. McKAY
Offers his Professional Services to the
Citizens of Gastonia and Sur
rounding Country.
ggAll calls given prompt attention
day or night. Office at residence.
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her own. Mrs
lit v. a., v-uw, r
several millions. j
There are some married women in
New York who have private fortunes
Mrs. Whitney ha3 plenty and will have
more. Whitelaw Eeid got his money
with D. O. Mills's daughter,, and May
or Hewitt his with Peter Cooper's
daughter. j' . I
A rich New Englander is Mrs. but
ton, of Peabody, Mass. j HerliusDana
left her 5,000,000.' She has made it
not far from $6,000,000; , She has not
had a lninnv life, for the one son on
7 ,
dm cot lior lintirfc hrokft his COl
VYUULU DUW Jv ..- - . , i HC
,.i,.,if.J firam times falling from Knob with prisoner unknown to Mr.
IrtJ." WHO I " . . . . im . ... A , V
.j.. i.0i' "onil finallv hrnlcft Clower. XD1S is tne last mat uua uwu
nir-ff fmm a Shetland nonv. heard of Mr. JMcl alls.
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- 11. W. SANDIFER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
Dallas, N. C. -"Practices
in the courts of Gaston
and adjoining counties. - Also in the ,
Supreme and Federal courts of .North
Carolina jan5-6 -
Something New I
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Come one! Come all! . and Bee the great
Smith's t-'".'i-v'v.:;.:-;- :- '- '-,
Dixie Cotton Elevator
Working at S. B. Hanna & Sons' Gin. We
claim, 1st, That the Elevator will unload from . ., . .
your wagon from 1700 to 1800 pounds of cotton
in 15 minutes; 2d, That it will loosen up all
dirt, sand or hard pods that may bo in your .
cotton; 3d, That we will gin faster than any -other
gin. and 4th, That by the use ef our
Elevator ire can make a better sample than
any in the county. Give us a trial.
Satisfaction guaranteed.-
S. B. HANNA' & SONS.
Dental Surgery I
?
Jv A. & E. F. GLENN,'-
Surgeon Dentists,
Puttius on Their Pantaloons.
Juan Panadero gives a very funny account
of the performances of the Mexican Indians
in Guadalajara on ta j 1st ot September, the
day on which the law compelling them to
wear pantaiouns ci mtu mcvu. . be
comes were full of pretty cirls, watching and
laughing at the antics of tho aguadores. car
gadores, carbonei-os, etc., as they went about
their respective duties. Soup of the men got
their pantaloons on wrong side before; others
did not know how to use the pockets, and
others walked very awkwaitfly. Tho Indians
have finally accepted the new order of things
with great good humor, after the usual pre
liminary grumbling. Chicago News,
She has endowed a magniucent reier-
ence-library room in the Peabody Li
brary, founded by ! George Peabody,
and her boy's- picture framed in gold,
hangs on its walls. Mrs. Frederick
Lenoir, of Springfield, is unother rich
Bay State woman,: owning perhaps
$1,000,000. Agassiz's daughter, Mrs.
Shaw, of Boston, is made wealthy by
her husband's gifts, and supports great
numbers of free kindergartens.
One of the wealthiest Baltimore
dames is Mrs. llutton, j ciaugnter vi
Thomas Winans. She has $20,000,000
or more. ; Mrs. Sarah McEvoy, of Chi
cago, has -half that perhaps.'. Mrs. C.
II. McCormick, of Chicago, has about
that much..' t ! I
The Drexel sisters, of Philadelphia,
have some millions apiece, ana , tne
widow of Tom Scott,- the railroad pres
ident, had $4,000,000 or 5,000,000 left
her by her husband. J Thre are dozens
of rich Philadelphia widows and some
good catches among the heiresses.
Miss Ellen Erben, for instance, has a
big income. Miss Lillian Reeves and
Miss Helen Rives, late settlers in the
City of Brotherly Love, have not less
than $1,500,000 apiece. Mrs. Disston
has a great deal of money. ; j
Wasington is not a city of rich wo
men, but there are several who have
$1,000,000, some who! have more than
that sum.' ; It would be hard, indeed,
to find a city in the United States
which has not womeii whose property-
lists reckon up good sums. Major
Burke's wife, of New Orleans, and Mrs,
Nicholson editor and owner of the
ricnyane of that city, are rich southern
ladies, and Miss Celeste Stauffer, to
whom Tilden left 100,000, is one of
the prettiest and brightest younff wo
men of that city as well, j !
Mrs. Alvinza lleyward, wife of the
San Francisco capitalist, has S3,000,000
which her husband gave her in her own
name. Her married experience has
been a checkered one. She married
As he was
usually very : prompt in returning
home, it is that either serious accident
or foul play has befallen him. j
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. Personal. -. .
t Mr. N. U. Frohlichstein, of Mobile,
Ala., writes: I take great pleasure in
recommending Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, having used
it. for a severe attack of Bronchitis
and Cartarrh. It gave me instance re
lief and entirely cured me and 1 have
not been afflicted since. I also beg to
state that I nad tried other remedies
with no good result. Have also usrd
Electric Bitters and Ur. iving s iNew
Life Pills, both of which- I can recom
mend. -'
Dr. King's New Discovery tor con-
sumtion, Coughs and Jokis, is sola on
a positive guarantee.
Trial, bottles free at J. Torrence
& Co. 's Drug Store.
-Office:
fice.
next door to the postof-
MONEY
to be made.
Cut. this out.
and return
to us,and we
will send you free, something of great vaiu
and importance to you, that will start you in
business which will bring you in more money .
right away than anything else in this world.
Any one can do th work and live at hnract
Either sex; all ages. -Something new that ju;t
for all workers. We will stare-
; capital not needed. This is one of tlie '
genuine, importrnt chances Of a liletinrw.
Those who are ambitious and cntorpriHiiig w ill "
not delay. Grand outfit free. Address Tku Ac
Co., Augusta Maine. . --.
Farm For Sale: '
The farm known as the John Ma
Roberts place lying on the head wa- -
ters of Long Creek in Gaston County,
adjoining lands of P. R. Long, Jaspeiv'
Glenn and ethers is offered for sale.
The place contains about 6 1 5 acres,
of which 20 to 30 acres is bottom. :.(
The land - is .well adapted to the
growth of wheat, oats, ' corn, cotton
and tobacco. The dwelling is a, good
two-story building with seven rooms,
surrounded by a beautiful grove of
oaks, and has a well of excellent water
very convenient. .For particulars as
to price, terms, &c, address, ' .V
- ; It. P. ROBERTS, ' .
Black's Station, S.'C. y
Fine Cotton. . J,
New Era. ;. ' i.
'Mr. Perry Dover, who lives on the
post road, has raised two bales of cot
ton to the acre off of poor sandy loam
soil Mr. Dover procured some seed of
the ordinary sort from Texas about six
years ago and has devoted himself to
improving the strain, taking seed only
from the finest bolls and then selecting
the bolls. The consequence has been
not onlv a large yield, but a tine qual-
j 1 f CnniK Hint. Mr. Dover The store-house and lot on north side of Air- ,
h.j ui ---- - fjno Kailroad, belonging to John M. Hanna.
onld to-fljiv hrouofhfc f OftV DOints above I The lot corners on Marietta, Air-Line and Ixng -
. . I Streets, and is a veryvlesirablo pieice of prop-
For Sale.
the price for middling cotton.
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Wonderful Cures. - .
W. D. Hoyt & Co, Wholesale and
Retail Druggists of Rome, Ga., say:
We have been selling Dr. King's New
Discovery, Electric Bitters . and Buck
len's Arnica Salve for two years.
Have never handled remedies that sell
as well, or give such universal satisfac
tion. There have been some wonder
ful cures effected by these , medicines
in thit. city, Several cases of pro
nounced Consumption have been en
entirely cured by use of a few bottles
of Dr. King's New : Discovery, taken
in connection with Electric Bitters.
We guarantee thorn always. Sokl by
.AV. J. Torrents & Co.
erty. Fer further
dress - oi.
vol 4
r particulars, can on or aa
W. Hanna, Gastonia, N. C
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ORRlNtJ CLASSES.
Attention! ;
ru are now
prepared to furnish all classes with
employment at bomc.tho whole of the
time, or lor their siiaro moments. Bumnefs
new, light and profitable. Persons ot either .
sex easily earn from 50 cents to $5.00 -r even
ing, ana a proptuuoiiai sum uy ui-vumii .n
their time to thtr business. -Boys and irirls earn
nearly as much as men. That all who seo this
may send their address, and test the busniiass, .
we make this offer: To such as-are not. well
satisfied we will send one dollar for the trouble
of writmtj. Full pai-ticulurs and outfit free.
Address GiiOKOE Stinson & Co, Portland.
Miiine. - . . ' ' -
LORD & TB0IMSS5
49 Kandolphtl lncago,koep this pajicr oufile
and tu-c authorised to inu CnTIIJ Cpt!
make wntraets with ftU I Ell 15 ttWt