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REV. DR TALMGE. SWX!)AY'» DISCCIC RMR BY THK NOTED DIVINE. Rotjecti “Pray for Those In Anthor iPlPf^SP ttr " Tnt: "I exhort, therefore, that, tint of •It. rappfioatton*. nrajrwn, lateroMßlona ud iciviaK el thanks bo made for all men. for Ukh and for all that are la authority."—l Timothy, IL, 1. That which Umulwi to to Haglsad. Faria to Fraaee, Berlin to Germany. Kan* to Italy. Vienna to Austria, 8 1. Fetonbanr to Buraia. Wa-hlcxtou to to the United States republic. The peoplo who ttn bn* mo more of the thief ntmol the Motion then any who lire wywaoroetoe between Atlantic and Pul3c ocean*. If a Senator or Member of the Hoorn of Representatives or Supremo Ooort JvMtas or Rewrtary of the CaMoot or rapra* Mutative of foreign Motion enters a public oo'oahiy In any other otty, hto eostiaw aad •rotas are remarked upon, and so usual de* hmiv to paid to him. In tM* <vipit.nl there are ao many political nhtoftalM In onr ohuraher, our streets. onr halls, that their coming ami going make uo •wdtement. The Swiss soldom look no to the Matter horn or Jungfrau or Mont Blanc, beams* those people are nsod to tho Alps. So ws at this capital are ao accustomed to walk among mountains ot official end political umiocucc that they ire not to w a great novelty. Morning, noon and night we meet the giants. Bat there to no place on earth where the importance ot the Pauline Injunct foa lo pear for those in raniment Disco ought to be better appreciated. At this time, when our pa blit toon hare before them the reeoue ot our national Treasury from appalling de ficits, aad the Cuban Question, and the arW tsaiioa question, and in many departments men are taking important positions which are to them now aad named. I would tike to quote ay test with a whole tonnage ot em phasis—word* written by the scarred mis sionary to the yoonsr theologian Timothy. •*1 exhort, therefore, that, first of nil. snp pUnotions, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for nil men, for kings and tor all that ore In authority.** OI bare the time aa<l do not forget some of them before I got through,! will giro you four or five reasons why the people of tho United States ought to make earnest and continuous prayer for those in eminent place. first, because that wiU put us in proper attitude towsrvt tho suooorsful man of the Motion. After you bare prayed for a man yon willilo him jnotice. There to a had streak In human nature that demands ns to small those that *«re more successful than ourselves. It shows itself in boyhood, when the lads, nil running to get thoir rido on the teak of s carriage, and one gets on, those falling to gpt on shoot on the driver. “Oat behind f’ Unsnomatfat men seldom like those who in onr department are smeceseful. The cry is, “He Is a political accident," or, “He bought hto way up," or, “It Just hap- Ced ao,'* and there Is an Impatient waiting him to came down more rapidly than ho went up. The best cure for such cynicism is prayer. After wo hare risen from our knees wo will he wishing the official good Instead of evil. Wo wi ll he hoping for him benedict lon rai her than malediction. It ho makes a mistake, we will call it a mistake instead of inn.l rea son re in office. And, oh, how much bap- K! will be, for wishing one ovll Is dia trat wishing one good to oalnt angottc, to godlike! When the lori drops h man into deptbs beyond which there la no lower depth, ho allows hltu to bo put on an Investigating committee with the one hope of finding something wrong. In general assemblies ot tho Presbyterian ebaeeb, in conferences of the Methodist eharch, in conventions of the Episcopal ehareb, in Hons# of Beprasantedvcs and Meoala of the United Stale*, there are men always glad to be appointed on the commit tee of mnlodoa, while there ore those who •re glad to he put on the committee ot eatoetoms. After you have prayed. In the words of my text, for all that are in author ity, yon will say, “Brethren, gentlemen, Mr. Obafraan; excuse me from serving on tho committM of malodore, for last night, just before Xpreyod for those to eminent posi tions. I read that chapter in Corinthians about charity which ‘imperii nit l nines' and ftblnketh no evil. *" The committee ot mni odom to an Important committee, but I here BOW declare that those are Important for Its work who have, not in spirit of conveotioa nlty, but In spirit ot earnest importunity, stayed for thorn to high position. I cannot help it. bat 1 do like a St. Bernard better than a bloodhound, aad I would rntber be a humming bird among honeysuckles than a crow swooping upon field carcasses. Another reason why wo should pray for those to eminent ptooe is beonrew they have such multiplied porpiexitlre. Thfat oily at tbto time holds hundreds of men who are expectant of preferment, and United Stator malt baga as uavar before are fall ot ap plications. Let me say I bare no sympathy With either tbo ottered or printed snoot nt what aw coifed ‘'office aocsora." If I bad not already received appointment as minis ter plenipotentiary from the high court of beavee—os every Kiototor of tbv gospel baa —and 1 bad at my book a family for whom! wished to achieve a lirrilbood, (bore to no employer whose eerrico I won Id sooner wt than tity, State or United mates Govern ment. Those Governments are the promptest in their payments, paying jort m well to hard Hare Min good titaasaad during sum mer vacation us during winter work. Bo sides that, many of us have been paying taxae to city and Dials and Nation for years, aad while wo are Indented for tha protection 4 Government the Govern meat to indebted to us for the honest support we have rendered it. 8o 1 wish raoorseto all earnest and com pet cat area who appeal to eity or State or Nation for » place to wort. But how many rnen ln high plneo to city sad Statu and Notion are at their Wife* and to know whar to do, when for soma »la«M there are tm applicants and for others • hundred. Psrpfestttaw arise from the feet that etttoras sign petitions without referraretotbe quollfiStfensof the .poll earn tor tha ptoow applied tor. Ton sign tefe'gi'ga’i!! which they b«w *» quaUAcatioo, as wo bear paoptostag “I waat to he ua aogei” when thev offer the nnoreat material Dowibl* for eaefidbeod. ifiorawaHtag to hoMot to foreign palaces as emboss odors, rad area Without any tmatorae qualification wanting to he console to foreton portooud illKoxntee, «ipebic to oca letter of wreaking ell tire laws aforthoyraphy aa^eyatar^dsalriag^to^ba done by oorrrepondeace. If divtec help to Deeded la any pUre to tho world, It to to those ptooes where tmtroooge to dtotrlbuted. In yearn gone by awful mistakes hovo been made. Only God, who made tho world out of chaos, rould out of the crow ded pigeon holesofNh'iOareadayefep eymmiMrleaJre •nlta- Tor this reason prey Almighty God for all there to authority. Again, prayer to Ood for tborela authority W «***«, KirfmiotMßl. OHf PUMW IMIfIW WOUKJ HSSSsSpS text adviwA In that way we may be infiatts re-enforcamcnt. The mightrat thing you euo do for n man to to prey for him. It tho old Bible be tree—and If It to not true it has been the only Imposition that ever blessed iho world, turning barbarism Into civilian* Hon and tyrannies Info republics—l say, U tho old B.bl* ho true, Goa answers prayer. You may got a letter and through forget tai nt** or lack of time not answer it. but Ood never gets a genuine letter that he does not make reply. Every geanine prayer to a child's letter to his Heavenly Tether, and he will answer It, and though you may get many fetter* from your child before you respond some day you eayt “There! I have received ten. fetters from my daughter, and I win an* ewer thorn aU now aad at once, and though not to Just tha way that sna bope* for I wilt doit In the beat way, and though she asked mo tor a sheet of musfe I will not give it to her, for X do like the musfe spoken of, but I will send her u deed to a house and lot, to bo here forever. ’’ Mo God does not to all crees answer to tho war those who sect the prayer hoped for; but Ho to all eases gives what is stkod for or something briter. So prayers went up from the North and the South at tha time of our Olvil War, and thsy were all answered at Gettysburg. You oan dot make mo believe that God answered only tho Northern prayer*, for there were lost ns rtevont prayer* answered south ot Mason and Dixon’* line as north of it. ami Ood gave what was askod for, or something na much more valuable as a house ami lot are worth more than a sheet of musfe. There is not a good na intelligent man between the Gulf ot Maxfeo and the Bt. L twrenoa River who does not believe that God did tbo **eat thing possible when Ho stood this Nation down In I BUS a glorious unity, never to be rent until the waters of the Ohio and tha Sa vannah. the Hudson and the Alabama, are liefce lup by the long, re l tongue*ot a world on Ore. lea, God sometimes answers pray ers on a forgo scale. In worse nredleamant nation never was than the feroelitteh nation on ilia books of tho Bed 80s, tho rattling shields and tbo clattering hoofs of aa overwhelming hocti close after them. An army eonld Jn*t aa easily wade through the Atlantic Ocean from Mew York to Liverpool as tha Israel Itoa could have waded through tho Bed Sun. You need to sail on its water to realise how big tt to. Bow war the crossing effected? By prayer. Exodus xir„ 15: “And the Lord said unto Mososi Wherefore criest thou unto Jle? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward'’—that is, "Stop pray ing and tnko tho answer.** Aad then the water began to be agitated and swung this way amt that way, and the ripple became a billow, dud the billow climbed other billows, nod now they rise info wails of sapphire, and invisible trowels mason them into Ornaneae, and the walls beoorae Uke mountains, topped and tnrrefod and domed with crag* of crys tal. and God throws aa Invisible oban around tbe feet of those mountains, so that they are obliged to siaad still, and there, right before tbo I*reelitl«h army, to a turn pike road, with all tbe emerald gates swung wide open. Tha passing host did not even get the r feet-wet. They panted dry shot, tbo bottom ot tho sea as hard as the pave ment ot F«na*y Ivania avenue to Now York’s Broadway or London's Strand. Ob, what a God tony had! Or T think I will ohange that aad say, “What a Ood we have 1 ” What power puis It hands upon astron omy in Joshua’s time and made tha sun and moon standstill? Joshuax., 12,“Thenspoke Joshua unto the Lord." Prayer? As a giant will take two or four great globes, on t in as tounding wav swing them Hue way or that, or hold two of them at arm’s length, so the Omnipotent does as lie will with the great orbs or worlds, with wheeling constellations and olrcUug galaxies, swinging easily Star around star, star ufesed alter star, or sun and moon hold oat at arm's length and per fectly stilt, as in answer to Joshua’s prayer. To God too largest world is s pebble. Another reason why wo should obey the Pauline Injunction of the text and pray for all tost are in authority to that so very much of our own prosperity and happiness are involved to their doings. A selfish rea son, yon ray. Yes, but a righteous selfish nee*, like that which leads you to take care of your own health and preserve your own life. Prosperous government meow a prosperous people. Damaged government memos a damaged people. Wo all go up together, or wo all go down together. Whoa we pray for onr rulers, we pray for ourselves, for our homes, for the easier gain ing of a livelihood, for batter praepeats ter our children, for tbe burling of three hard times *0 far down tbs embankment they can never oilmb up again. Do not look at any thing tost nertnins to public Interest as hav ing bo relation to /outsell. Wo are touched by all tbe events to our notional history, tty the signing of the compact to the cabin of the Mayflower, bv the small ship, tho Halt Moon, sailing up tbe Hudson; by the treaty of William Penn, by the hand that made tbo “Liberty boll” sound its Ant stroke, by Old Ironsides plowing tho high sous. and. if touch od by all tbo evenrsof post America,cer tainly by all tbo events of the present any. Every prayer you make for our rulers. If tba prayer boos tire right stamp aad worth any thing. has a rebound of bonediotion for your own body, mind and soul. Another reason for obedimeoto my text is that tho prosperity of this country is com ing, end wo want a band to helping on Us routing. At any rata I do. It to a matter of hearer satisfaction to a soldier, after some great battle has bean fought and some nvst victory won, to bo able to ray: “Yes, I was there. 1 waa to the brigade that stormed rhoae heights. Ivu In that bayonet charge that put tha raatny to flight" Well.toe nay will come when aU the financial, political and moral foes of this republic wtll be driven hart and driven down by toe proeperitics that are now on their way, but which some with slow tread and to “fatigue dress'* when we want them to take “the double quick.” By our prayers we may stand on tha mouo tala top ana beckon them on aad show them • shorter out Yea. In answer to our prey are the Lord God of flocts may from too high bettvuus command them forward, swifter than mounted troops ever took toe Arid at Eytan orAwterUts. That was beautiful sac appropriate at tha laying of tba oornnretone of the extension of tbo Capitol fifty-right years after tbe corner, stone of tbe old Capitol bad bora laid. -Yri the cornerstone of our Republic waa first ls<4 In 1775 and at the nMstabUahmeat of our Met tonal Ooveramsnt was laid again la lflfA But an we am ready for tba layiag ot tbe cornerstone ot a broader and higher National life? We bare sa a Marion reorived so much from God. Do we sot owe new consecration? Are wo not ready to become e better Mrirbetb-keoplng. peace-loving vir tue-honoring, God-worshiping Nation? Are we net ready for raeh a eorserstonn taytoj? Why not new tat tt taka place? WHto long procession of prayers, moving Irom tho north and tbe south, toe «a-t sad the rrest. fe« toe scene be made august beyond comparison. The prayer that tbe great expona tar wrote to be put in tbe oornemcoM at tho extension ot toe Capitol I ejaculate as onr own mtppll carlo#. “God rave toe Halted tolu ol Amdrioa,** only adding tho words with wMeh wfeMxHtr (Wlftrid Miort to# com w , JL«'Gr7."SSr RELIGIOUS HEADING. XUS PI MX* AHUttAS. Perbap* you bevo heard ot the method strange- Os Violin makers in distant lands. Who, by breaking and mending with rtltt nil hs’ids. Make Instruments having a wider range Than ever wo* possible for them, so long Aa they wore new, unshuttered nad strong. Have you ever thought when tho heart waa jlldf When the days seem dark and the nights unending. That the broken heart, by the Fathers mending, Woe made through sorrow a helper glad, Whose servioe should lighten more and more Tho weary one’s burdens ns aevor before? Then take this simple lesson to heart Wheu sorrows crowd,and you cannot slog: To the truth of the Father's goodness uling j Believe that sorrow is only a part OI toe wondrous plan that gives through pain The power to sing more gfod retrain. —Author Unknown. IMA OXI or oos’s QBE AT RTS. You aoo the Thames aa ft go us sluggishly down to tho arches, carrying with it oadires impurity and cutrupuau. Yon watch the uikv stream as it pours along day and night, ana you think it will pollute the world. Bat you nave just bean down to the seashore, and you nave looked on the groat deep, and it has not left a main on tbe Atlantic. No, It has been running down n good mauy yea is, and carried a world ol Impurity with it, but when you go ■to the Atlantic there is not a speck on It. As to the ocean, it know* nothing about It It la full of majrntlc muslft. Mo the smoke ot London goes up, and has been going up for a thousand years. One would nave thongbt that it would have spoiled the scenery by now, but you get n look at it sometimes. Tberd is the groat blue sky which turn swallowed up the smoke and gloom of n thousand years, and Its Mure splendor is unspoiled. It is wonderful how tuo ocoaa bos kept Uu purity, and how toe ■ky bus taken toe breath ol tho millions and the amoke of too furnaces, and yet it is as pure as the day Grvl mado it. It is beau tiful to that toree are only images of God’s grout ptty for the race. Onr sins,they are like toe Thame*, but, mind yon, they •hail bo swallowed up—lost in toe depths ot toe sea, to be romvmborod against us no more. Though our sins bare boea going up to heaven through tbo generations yet, though toy kins are as crimson, they shall be c wool, os white os snow.—ltev. W. L. Wat kina mi. a rXATBH FOX BIGHT LI TIN a. 0 God, help us to live our lltf lo life wisely, soiily, usefully to others. We shall so Itr* II we live In thy Hon, If we die In thy Mon, If we rise again In thy Mon: then ,-hall our life bo an evangel, our breath shall be n gospel amongst mun. If any hare heavy burdens to carry, give strength that thoy may be bornu bravely ;if any have to turn aside sometimes to shed teore in darkness, may they hear a voice in the cfend promoting comfort; it any are nailed to new experience of adversity, who have only seen poverty nt a •Usiaucc before, too Lord giro them alrengto : if any ore of aching heart, wondering now it is with the old man, with toe gc-ntio graylialred mother, with tbe wondering child, the Lord heal such heart ache, the Lord's balm be plentifully dis pensed in tho hour of need. The Lord Xaoweth us altogether; heroin is our joy .and herein is sometimes our fear; yet we will not fear; thou knowest our frame, thou romem berest that we are dust. Tho Lord be with as in all time of sit Bering and of anxious thought taiiiess. and especially be with na when, we are drinking copiously of the wins of joy, lest in our momentary intoxication we forget that Jesus alone can turn our water into wine. Amen. I.OVK WILL BOOST LOT*. Down into serious eontemplation of sacred and eternal things m mast go to get the help one brothers need, down into the dark ness of those thoughts where man Coras* dose to God to learn what wc may teach In the light O, that we could understand bow deep Christ went lor all the help and leeching tont He gave- 0 futiters, mothers, friends, ministers, teachers, scholars, men! In all our darkness we must give each other light. To love the truth on one huod and our brethren on the other, to love God and God's children, that will make our human nature tnmspareut so that God esa shine through it. For this one thing we are sure ot— that no man ever yet io-rea Christ and loved his brother that Christ did not find His own way through him into his brother, and so help and enlighten both toe humble teacher and learner with Himself.— Phillips Brooks. a rsAxaa tro* sxsr. With the ulght shadows, Lord, our hearts return to thee. We have walked tb rough dangers and thou hut preserved ns. we bare been tempted and thou hast shown us toe way ol escape. Pardon us in thy loving ’ kindness for the sake of Jesus Christ oar lord that we hare stoned against thee both by transgression and neglect, and help us with sincere repentance to foraoks our sin. We bring our team and perplexities, our doubts and cans, to leave them at thy meroywat. Grant ns to rest this night with quiet hearts through faith in toy abiding rare. Remember all who are in need. Quicken thy ebureh with divine life. Have Ml our deer ones to toy holy keeping, and grant them gifts according to thy love. And may tbe quiet of the evening and the sleep of night bring strength, through Jesus Christ onr Lora. Amen. TAW USSt TV AT XXVSS FADS*. Many and many of thaw men Whom ws rae plodding on in their dusty ways are traveling with visions ia their souls. Nobody knows it but theautelvm and Ood. Onee, years ago, they saw a light. They knew, It only fora moment, what com/taaloaaliisa, what attainments, they were made tor. That light has naver fodsd. It is the soul of good things which they are doing In tha world today. Tt makes them mom when other men thtok their faith is gone, it will be with them till the cad. until they oome to all its prophet**.—Phillips Brooks. Lot na Imitate him who sought the mono tain top* a* hi* refresh moat after toil, but left duties uadono or ttußorent unre in pain. Let us imitate him who turned from the Joys ot contemplation to the Joys of service without a murmur when his disciples broke to off Me solitude wfth “All men seek lUse.“ but never sufiored the out ward wort to blunt bin desire for, uor to en croach on,the hour of stUI oomaraniaa with his Father. lewd, teach us to vrert j Laid, fearh ve to pray.—A Maelarta. Distrust tbyself, but trust His graoe, It. In enough tor tin* 1 In trwry trial thou shall trace Its a..-sufficiency. Bistros*, thyself, but trust His strength ; in Him toon shall be strong: Jlw weakest ones rosy learn at length A daily triumpk-souir. ‘ • T'ruijc* ft. Kavergal. Ho many people seem to to*, file as a doom, and allow Ita Inevitable conditions to depress thorn, instead or talcing it* condi tions and weevUg the most glorious Issues. -Bev. J. F. W. Ware. UTIRG WORDS Hi I MI. INEQUALITIES AND COMFXNSATION. “And It Oanra to Pass As Thsy Nmytlsi Their tasks That Behold Xvary Man’s Dandle of Horny Was in His •art." Genesis 58. U Joseph's brethren wore surprised, amaxod, ud alarmed when on making the first halt on the return Irom Egypt to Canaan, each moo discovered hto bundle of money to his seek. Tory many things were meant by that act ot to* great Prime-minister. For one thing it won a test of toe honesty, sincerity, ud brotherly affection or the men; and for anptoor tiling It was a hint of toe favor ud good fortune into which thoy were to enter y and by. But we may turn the incident to •till another way and see to it u illustration ot the providential endowment ud equip ment which In some form touches every one Perhupt there to more in your sack, poor ud empty ae it seems, tow you have ever dreamed. The Inequalities ot life sting as. Down there among the roeke on the almost per pendicular aide of the mountain is a poor woman picking hereto*. They are few and tor between, aud toe price to small. Hhe al most risk* her life tu get them. The few Snorts of berries ehe seus in too market of ie city (or a few pennies to almost as much u offering of blood as the water from the well by toe gats ot Bethlehem, which David received from toe trends of the heroic men ud poured out before toe Lord, yet her children look to her for bread, ud their need Inspires her ud makes her as sure footed sa a mountain goat. Not for away to tha grout hotel ore other women. Tbe sound of their musfe ud merriment floats up to tbe toiler on tbo height*. What n gay and easy life they lead. Their features are (Mr, their hands soft ud oovezed with genu. That womam there with the ooal-blaok hair has a fortune sparkling in her hair, and another upon her bondo, Hhe doe* nothing all day bat talk and rock and and eat sail slug. Bu t her poor sister with the barrio* posses her at a dtotuee ud wonders at sueh a free, das cling existence. Are those women state nt? Have they not minds sod beam aad hopes In common? Why do they never apeak? Why does one toil like u ox and the other not at all? Is ic toe beet social order that dtooxlmi- Dates ao vastly. Now the picture drawn presenting tbe oontrost between toe two women might be varied in many ways, setting forth the pain ful Inequalities ol material aad social con ditions. The captain of industry, lor In stance, through the federation ct capital, through patents and special legislation, reap* untold harvest* ot profits, living in spfondor. ud pouring out millions tt the right and left like water; the humbie toller In the factory, however, it pinched to his wage, robbed of bit day ot reel, dragged under the wheels of industry ud almost debnmsniaed. The situation ia net always so acute ud tragical, but sometimes tt 1s so. No picture of human Inequality can be drawn sharper or more realistic that the one the Muster draws to hto parable of Dtvee ud Lauras. The splendor ud sumptu ousneu* or tbe on* may have bed something to do with the poverty, suffering and death of the other. At all events to« wronged mu held the key of destiny for tbe other. The tie of bnisu brotherhood and fellowship must be recognised. God himself will vin dicate it Tbe wrong done a neglected or overlooked brother may dose toe door of parodiite against the oppressor. Hut, says one, that to only cold ud distant comfort at best toot the oppressed and suffer ing one* may find compensation full to heaves. Bat often on* find* toe money in the aaak far this side of paradise. Mere material possession is not the true measure of life or ot wealth. Tbe spring of happimes lies deep within tote heart lteelf ud never wholly to circumstance* or possessions with out. Two men met upon a mountain path; one was rieh, cultivated, sueorastul to toe world, envied by most mu; the other was a poor, tolling peasant overlooked by most men. The peasant wu holding a flower to bis hud ud with tenderost appreciation waa drinking to its wealth of beauty and odor. The prince paused to siJeneo ud to sorrow sa be remembered that the flower the peasant held waa tbe favorite flower of her whose going from the world had left all tbe earth desolate nod empty lor him. And ao that woman wfth the berries may carry a singing joy within her heart which echoes nuwi everywhere. That woman with the Jewels, the child of inxnry ud leisure, may carry the shadow or a tragedy to her lace. The story of the wandering shepherds to a bmutlfal one ud speak* out a grum truth. Five shepherds wen speaking of tbe fountain of happtom*. They determined to And 1L One sought it east, another sought It west, a thinl went south, ud the fourth went north. Tbe filth remained at home and one day to tbe midst of his daily toll lit found the foun tain of happiness on hto native hillside. The great sonreas of happiness ore natural and simple ones, and are within tbe reach of •very pure and open heart. The beauty ud glery ofthe natural world—tbe joy or ha max ilte, the wealth of baman affection, the In spiration of noble effort, the eeaoeiousnrs* of human belpfolnem ud withal a abate In the far-away bat sura triumph of right eeusncte ud love even upon this earth. Bbaksepsera woe not bora to tbe purple, bat to sometiMng far nobler than the purple. What a contrast between that myriad-mind ed man end eay earthly potentate. Did lie net have money In hto mek—to that gustos of hto, that quick sensibility by which Be re sponded to ail human experience? Tbe sums woe trudtof Milton. How shall we const up Kto trename*, if we measure his lefty gad far-reaching thought or fathom bla quirt, ■ daap aad universal sympathies? There Is a wealth of mind, a wealth of heart, ud be yond all. a wraith of soul. There la sash a thtogae being rieh toward God open and responsive to everything that Is true, noble amfgood. Each one doubt fees may find money in the soak. It may he mare gold, or better, wealth of mind and amtlWHty, or beat of oil, wealth of sympathy ud love, a royalty of the seal widen will survive the earth and time MArtaAH Lnccocx When a fid geta a totter, alio turns It ovar to look at the postmark and thoa say*: "Why, how formyl T don't know fifty bo4y there!" B* OWING HOCK, The Gem or the Blue Ridge Mountain* « ol' North Carolina. High up among tho Bine liidge mountains ol North Crroiina. five thou sand feet sl'ave sea level, ia the Hummer resort of •Blowing Rook. And thither come the health seokor from the North, and the inhabitant of many a heat stricken Southern city, to drink the pure, sparkling water and breathe an air that atimnlatee like wine. The only mode of reaclnng this Sky Land from the East is by a twenty mile stage ride from Lenoir. Tnia town it self has an altitude of one thousand two hundred .cot, and the traveler from New Orleans or Charleston buttons his coat against the cool morning breexe as he step* from the hotel voramla into the waiting wagonette. And what a ride it to! Toe frequent summer rains have kept the gross and leaves the hue of emerald, but the golden rod and cardinal flower by the ro*d*ido, and tbe scarlet foliage of a gum tree or tbe graceful festoons of a Virginia creeper, admonish the traveler that autumn comes early in these heights. Tho re ad winds cuiocg the hills for six or seven miles and then strikes the Yadkin rim, and follownit to the eoul, bubbling spring which to its source. The fiecuery grows more wild uud ragged as we climb; 60 dense is the undergrowth which springi* from the black mould that we wonder how the squirrel*, which are frisking about, have the temerity to venture into such a tangle. Tho horses 'druggie up (he ascent, and, turning a *liarp angle in the road, the whole world, an ii were, lies lielcw ire. We look sheer dowu into the treo tops which skirt tho John'* river and then oat info the sweeping lines ol the Blue liidgi: aa they rise range ni*ni range and seem to melt into the blue of the sky. '*-» this tliv lop?" *\2fo; Miss, tuto flint nothin'. Wo do a mighty sight mo* climbin' befo’ we (,it taor." And so wo toil up the wlnd.ng way. Oft' to the Houtli and West ri-c Table Rock, Hawk’siri'L King's Molt:dam. Mitchell's beak, and, toweri'.g above them oil, The Ur and Father, its trp tho profile of an old man’s lace. • f the start from Leuoir has been made in the afternoon, the air grows chilly before the summit ia readied, and search to made smoug the baggage for riwwl* n. d rugs. As dny declines, tbo sun scorns to pause a moment on a distant ■>oak, Gooding all the surrounding mountains with violet light, and Ibe» sinks to rest. Tbo darkness* falls quick ly. You are tired now tod close your eyoK a moment, but some one lircnk* in upon your re very with an exclamation of wonder, iou look np to tindtho world flooded with moonlight, it rest* like a hrdoover the mountains, and tips every fun and balsam-bough with sil ver. We climb on, a mho pcrluips, amid tbi* glory, when tho tirod horfee*. admonished by voice and -whip, break into a brisk run, and tbe Hotel, all aglow with tjie light of open wood tire*, stands hospitably lwfuro us, and onr journey is endod. The days of dremny laziness which follow are iudescrihablyluxurious. One may go to bed at night and sleep around the clock with the deep, health ful slumber of a baby The jailed appe tite is quickened iu that dear air until one asks unbhuhingly for a second betp ing of aoup, and then goes on down through the bill of fare to the very last item with never a vision of indigestion. Blowing Rook is preeminently cos mopolitan. There the summer girl may dress abd dance and ride and flirt to the very fulness of her heart’s desire. Or. she may let her finery lay hidden iu the depths of her trunk ’and go tramping about iu thick shoes and short skirts from sunrise until dark. Tt is Ifeanti ful to watch the. invalid’s color - come stealing book, and the poor little sickly children grow round limbed and brown in tha bracing* atmosphere. Yerily, this is Nature’s great (Sanitarium, where that good old mother hikes her children into her lap and Miothes their jangled uerves, where the doctor s arc uaver in evidence aud the medicines delightful. B. Y. FexDr.it, <Jt. P. A.. Leuoir, N*. C. ECCENTRIC CHARACTER GONE. Death Os a Money Miser Whose Boon* Wo* a Cnrirs ty« Eccentric John Wefcbrode, of Cum berland, ltd., to dead. He bad lived ae a recluse and wus eccentric to the ut most degree. Daring his Illness he re fused medicine until tbto morning, when he took the first dose In bts Ilf*. Mr. Wetobrode wan a native of Ger many. lie leaves a slater, residing in New York, and a. niece by marriage, Mrs. Maggie Wiesbrode, a widow, liv ing In Cumberland. He owned a store building on Center street, nearly oppo site the city hall, which he rented, liv ing in room* In the rear. He also owned a city lot, which be cultivated, raising tobacco, besides vegetables. He was reputed to be worth 125,000, bat he lived Id squalor. Os rooms are a cariosity. In one 0 1 them he had nearly 1,000 pounds of leaf tobacco, which bo had saved ainee tha war, when ha waa a dgsrmaker aad barber. Bo was also a shoemaker and a tinner. In hto room are also thirty sewing machines, which he kept the war, when ho was sa agent He r* fused to sell them except at the original price. He also had two printing presses and many esses of type, and nearly a cnr-loail of crocks nud jars. Hto food was bread and milk. He did hto own cooking, and his oxpenaa* wore aot over 10 cents a day. He made hto own clothes. Borne years ago he operated a steamboat on the canal, lie made tjfs moat of tbe machinery himself. Not withstanding bis apparent pennry, bo practiced charity, but made every effort to shield hto Identity. He was noted for hto honesty.—Cumberland (Md,J die pstch.
Eastern Carolina News (Trenton, N.C.)
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