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1 ut .-. JXJfr 1 1:1 I f 1 Ef)f teljrrman anfr armrr. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE ; Fisherman and Fanner Publishing Co. PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR, THE MABKETS. Xate Wholesale Prices ot Country Produce Quoted in New York. 19 BEAXS A5D PEAS. Beans Marrow, 1891, choice.2 00 0,1 Medium, 1891, choice.... 1 GO Pea, 1891. choice 1 65 White kidney,1891,choice 2 00 Red kidney, 1891, choice. 2 00 2 10 Yellow eye, 1891, choice. 1 65 1 70 Lima, Cal., per bush.... 1 65 1 75 Foreign, medium, 1891.. 150 1 5o Green peas, 1891, per bush.... & 1 40 1891, bags 135 1891. Scotch... r 1 40 NEW BUTTER. Creamery Penn, extras ..... 21 Elgin, extras Other West, extras 21 State dairy half tubs, and pails, extras 20 H. f. tubs and pails, lsts. 1S3 H. f. tubs and pails. 2ds. 17 Welsh tubs, extras 19K Welsh tubs, lsts 18 Welsh tubs, 2ds 16 Western Im. creamery, lsts. 15 Im. creamery, 2ds 13V Im. cresmery, 3ds 12 Factory Fresh, extras... Fresh, lsts 13 Fresh, 2ds 12 & Rolls Fresh extras CHEESE. 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Skunk, black.... 1 Skunk half strp'd Skunk, striped.. Skunk, white. . . . Opossum, largo. Opossum, med . Muskrat, spring Muskrat, winter. Muskrat,fall 0030 00$: 00(315 00 00$ 7 00 50($ 4 50 50 2 00 50$ 2 50 60 1 00 40(t5 1 60 00 1 15 50 90 0 00$30 03 4 00(3 10 00 5 00 2 50 1 00 70 50 1 10( 80 30 1 00 60 30 120 30 15 14 10 7 6 00 3 50 1 50 110 70 1 30 100 69 1 15 65 35 15 35 18 15 11 8 20&H 1 25 75 40 20 45 23 18 13 10 70 35 15 35 17 16 11 7 REV. DE. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S DAY SER310N. sux- Sabject: "Lessons From ol Daniel." the Story Text: "Daniel teas first." Daniel vi., 2. Where in romance can you find anything equal to what Daniel was in reality? A young man, far away from home, intro duced into the most magnificent and most dissolute palace of all the earth. The kin?, wishing to make this young man a prodigy in personal appearance, orders his attend ants to see that he has plenty of meat and wine, and Daniel refuses these delicacies and insists on a vegetable diet, refu?in: every thing but pulse and water, waving back all the rich viands with a determined "No; I thank you." He surpasses all the princes in brilliancy. As this sun ris-s higher and higher in the firmanent, it puts out all the stars, and if there i3 anything the stars hate it is the sun. Daniel becomes so much of a favorite with King Darius that our young hero is promoted to he prime minister or secretary of state the Frelinghuysen or the Bis marck of the ancients. But no mau ever attained so high position without exciting the envy of others. The meanest and wrathiest passion of the soul is jealousy. You see it among all professions and occu pations. I am sorry to say you see it as muca among clergymen as among other classes of men. It is a passion bitter as hell and it is immediately recognized, and yet, though it blackens the man who indulges in it, men will kindle this fire which consumes only themselves. There were demagogues in Babylon, who, highly appreciative of their own capacity, doubted the policy of elevating such a young man as Daniel. They said: "Why, w know more than he does. We could manage the public affairs better than he can manage them. The idea of putting Dan in such a place as that." Old Babylon was afraid of young Babylon. They began to plot hi3 ruin. He was an illustrious target. The taller the cedar the more apt to be struck with the lightning. These demagogues asked Darius to make an unalterable decree that any man who within thirty days shall ask a petition of any one except the king, shall b9 put to' death. Darius, not mistrusting any foul play, makes such a decree. The demagogues have accomplished their purpose, for they knew that Daniel would not stop sending up petitions to his God, and Daniel, instead of being affrighted by the decree, went three times a day to his housetop for prayer. He is caught in the act. He is condemned to be devoured by the lions. Such a healthy young man will be for the leonine monarchs the best banquet they ever had. By the rough executioners of the law he is hurried away toward the den. I hear the growl of the monsters, and their pawing of the dust, and as their mouths are placed to the ground the solid earth quakes with their bellow. The door is re moved and Daniel shoved into the den, which was all agleam with fiery eyeballs that seem to rolJ and snap in the caverns. They ap proach the defenseless man. Their appetite was sharp with hunger.- One stroke of their Eaw, one crunch of their teeth and he would ave been lifeless. How strange a welcome Daniel receives from the monsters. They fawn about him. They cover his feet with their long mane. They are struck with the lockjaw . That night Daniel's sleep is calm and undisturbed, with his head pillowed on the warm neck of the tamed lions. But King Darius was not so happy. He loved Daniel and he hated the stratagem by which his favorite had been condemned. He paces his floor all night. He cannot sleep. At the least sound he starts and his flesh creeps with horror. A bad conscience will make the bravest man a coward. He watches eagerly for the dawn, which seems so long in tarrying. At the first streak of light he starts out to find out the fate of Daniel. The palace gate opens and jars heavily behind hiin while yet the city is asleep. He comes to the den. He looks through the crevices but sees nothing. He dare not speak. Ex pecting the worst, his heart stops. Gathering strength, he puts his mouth to the rifts in the rock and cries, "Ob, Daniel, is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver thee from the lions?' An answer comes rolling up out of the darkness: 4-Ob, king, live forever. My God hath sent His anp-.el and hath shut the lions' 'mouths, that they have not hurt me." The young man is brought out and the demagogues who made the plot are thrown in. But they hardly struck the bottom of the den vhea their flesh is rent, and their bones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts, while the fierce monsters shook the rocks with their terrible roar, announcing to all ages the truth that while God defends His people, the way of the wicked shall perish. Now, you see from this subject that in the eyes of many the greatest offense you can commit is success. Of what crime had this young man been guilty that he should come under the bitter hatred of the demagogues? "Why, he had gone to be prime minister of Babylon. That they could not forgive. Be hold in this sketch a touch of human nature! As long as poverty pinches you, and you run the gauntlet between taxgatherer and land lord, and you have hard work to educate your children, there will be multitudes to say : "Poor fellow, he ought to succeed. How sorry I am for him !" But after awhile you begin to emerge from the darkness. That was a capital invest ment. You purchased at just the right time. Fortune became good natured and smiled. You builded your own house. You got to be one of the first men on the street. Now as you pass a number of those late sym pathizers stand on the corner of the street. The3' scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money now than they have, and you ought to be scowled at from under the rim of their hats. Before you get fully past you hear a word or two. "Stuck up," says one. "Didn't get it honestly," says another. "Will burst soon," says a third. Every stone in your new house was laid on their heart. Your horses' hoofs went over their nerves. Your carriage tire cut their neck. What have you done, outrageous culprit? You ought to be cast to the lions. You have dared to achieve suc cess. Depend upon it that if in any one re spect you rise far above your fellows if you are more truthful, more wise, more eloquent, more influential the shadow of your success will chill somebody. The road of honor and virtue is within reach of the enemies' guns. Jealousy says, "Stay down or I will knock you down." In midair a snowflake said to a snowbird, "I don't like you." "Why don't you like me?" said the snowbird. 'Because," replied the snowflake, "you are going upjand I am coming down." Success is often a synonym for scorn. The first thing a man wants is religion. The second is grit. If you do not want to face wild beasts you must never get to be prime minister. If you are now, as a young man, rising in any one respect, I bless God for your advancement, but I wish to say before I quit this thought, look out for the lions. Young merchants, young lawyers, young physi cians, young ministers have much sympathy, and kind aavice is given them at first, but as you become your own masters aad begin to succeed in vour amterent occupations ana profession?, now is it then, young mer chants, young lawyers, young physicians, young ministers? How is it then? Again behold in our subject an exhibition of true decision of character. Before Daniel were condemnation and death, if he continued faithful to his religion. Yet, just as before, three times a day he prayed with bis face toward Jerusalem. There ij nothing more fatal for the religious or wordly advancement than a spirit of inde cision. How often youth is almost gone before the individual has determined upon his profession . There are those who for thirty or forty years have accomplished nothing anywhere because they have not felt themselves set tled. They have thought of the law, of medicine, of merchandise, of mechanism. They have some idea of goinff west. Per haps they will go east. Perhaps they won't. They may go north or south. Perhaps they will invest their money in railroads or in real estate. Perhaps they wou't. They are like a vessel starting from New York har bor, which should one day decide on going to Liverpool, and the next on New Orleans, and the next on Marseilles. How many men have for a long while been out on the great sea of life and they do not know to what port they are destined? It is an everlasting tacking of ship, but no headway. The man who begins to build a house in the Corinthian style and when half way up concludes to make it Doric, ani then com pletes it in Ionic, will have ap unseemly pile and be cursed of every school of architect ure. These men that try everything get to be nothing. God wrote in your brain and engraved on your bones what you ought to be. Then be that, nothing more or nothing less. In that direction is your success. Every other road is ruin. Having adjusted your compass go ahead. Set your teeth together. Small difficulties do not notice. Great dif ficulties, by God's grace strike them down. Onward I Let cowards skulk. Act you like sons of God. If you want to sail to the land of gold you must double the Cape. To usefulness and strong character there is no overland route. Over the great deeps you must fly. Most of the way it is either head wind or tempest. Character, like the goldfinch of Tonquin, is magnificent when standing firm, but loses all Its splendor in flight. There is no such thing as failure to those who trust in Go J. Paul got to be an apostle by falling off his horse. Stephen was stoned into heaven. When a young man resolves on a religious lire, ne aoes not always nnd it smooth sail ing. Old companions laugh and say with sarcastic tone, "He has got to be pious." They go on excursions, but do Dot ask him. They prophesy that his religion will not hold out. They call him "long-faced." They wonder if he is not getting wings. They say sharp things about him for themselves to laugh at. When he passes they grimace and wink and chuckle, and say loud enough to be heard, "There goes a saint." If you havd never seen life as it is, you know not what strength of resolution it often requires for a young man to be a Christian. Again, let this story of Daniel tsaco. us that the way to future success is through present self denial. Not only did Daniel show his willingness for self restraint by refusing the luxuries of the king's table, but must have denied himself much social enjoyment and sightseeing in order to have attained most wonderful proficiency in study. The rush of the chariots under his window and the sound of mirth that rang out on the air of Babylon would have attracted most young men into the streets and to expAsive places of amusement. But Daniel knew that it was only through severity of application he could attain the honorable position for which he was intended. Indeed, you may carry this truth into universal application. The most of those who have succeeded in any profession or occupation have come up from the very bottom of the ladder. The brightest day began with the twilight. The admirals who commanded the navies of the world started as cabin boys. The merchant princes, whose messengers are ships and whose servants the nation's custom houses, once swept the store and kindled the fires. The orator who lifts up the gate of the soul, as Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, once stammered and blushed onjhe sta;e of a country school house. The vrfune: Dainte r. under whose pencil skies blossom ani waters gleam, understands his subject so well be cause he has but little to shelter him from the one and is obliged to find his only bev erage in the other. Out or the dark, deep mines of want and suffering has been dug the marble for the world's greatest temples of wisdom and palaces of power. Vanderlyn, the artist, . must first content himself with a charcoal sketch. Franklin, before becoming the re nowned philosopher, must ba a journeyman printer. Columbus must weave carpets be fore he can weave hemispheres. David must take care of his father's sheep before he rules Israel. Amos must be a herdsman before he becomes a prophet. Daniel must be the humble student before he rises to be the prime minister of Babylon . If a young man starts in life with large notions of what he must immediately have, willing to consider no economy, buc expect ing with a small ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean frigate, he will find himself cap sized by the first northeaster. It is the small sprig that you can carry in one hand which will thrive best when planted. But if, by levers and huge lumber wagons, you bring from the mountain a century oak, though you may plant it, you cannot make it live. So he who begins life on such a grand scale and with such exorbitant notions, will never succeed, while some young man who went to town without means, but having a right spirit, through his self-denial, planted a tree whica has reached above Wall street and flungts shadow in one direction over the granite palaces on the avenues and in the other far out over merchant vessels an chored in the bay. Men say success in life is all a matter of good luck, but industry and economy and self denial put together always make good luck. There are young men who failed twice and are getting notes shaved the third time before tney are as old as their father when he first began business for himself. They started with the idea that their wit would do as well as capital. For awhile it did, but when creditors sent their duns and banks their protests they found that mere shrewd ness was greatly below par. You cannot cross the ocean in a yawl. A young eaglet, far up iu the mountain eyrie, says to its winged mother, "I will fly no longer from tree to tree as you tell me, but like you, mother, I will swing from this Chimborazo peak tc yonder Uhimborazo peak." Like an arrow it shot into the heav ens, but when over the awful chasm its head was dizzy and its wing weak, and it began to whirl downward and with wild scream until it struck on the rocks. A traveler passing through the gorge saw the mangled remains of the eaglet. "How came you to have thia fall?" said the traveler. "Ah. ine." said the eaglet, "it was because I would not fly from tree to tree until I was old enough, but headstrong I started from Cb mborazo peak to Chimborazo peak.' If young men would seizd the advantage of intelligence, it will be by great economy of time and the refusing of many forms of gratification. Show me a man who, refusing many of the frivolities of gossiping youths, can see more to attract his attention in the pages of a treatise or a history than in the flash of bright eyes, or the airy step of those who find more skill in their heels than their heads, and 1 will show you a man who will yet master languages ana sway a very scepter over his fellows. Many an education which is now considered complete Is made up of a smattering of newspapers and the last page of a fashion magazine. Tha parlor and the drawing room cannot educate us. They may give us outward adornments of man but getting valuable knowledge is like sweltering at a forge, bel lows in one hand and hammer in the other like digging in mines with crowbars, pry ing under the ledge and tae nstant bang of blasted rocks. Especially is it true that no S-owth in grace is possible unless, like aniel, we are willing to take up the cross, however heavy it mav be an i rough with nails. Moses cnose affliction with the people of God rather than tHe pleasures of sin, and if we would be anything like him we must be willing sometimes to choose the hard bread of self-denial rather than the imperial clusters from royal vineyards. To get strength and depth enough in rivers for turning mill wheels and manufac tories, dams are built across them, and then through the mili raca the quick floods leap on the water wheel to turn it with tremend ous power. So natures thai would other wise have been powerless and insufficient by self-restraint have been dammed back and deepened, until with consecrated power they rush into the world, turning its ponderous machinery of important interests. Unre strained men may have much good in them, but it is so scattered that you see no positive effects. Electricity in the air does not strike, but gathered in the cloud with its bare red arm it cleaves the mountain. Passions harnessed and yoked make excel lent beasts of burden. However attractive may be the sinful offers of the world, though rich and luxurious as the provision of the king's table, we must be willing to refuse them if nothing be left us but plain pulse. Oh, how we want the faith and courage ot a Daniel and a Paul, but how we dread ths hot atneospfaere of trial, in which their graces ripened. The richest fruits of re ligion grow in the sultry tropics of trial. If you want pearls, you must dive for them. If you want gold, you must dig for it. Tho richest parts of California and Australia are underground. Depend upon it, if no prun ing, no fruit; no climbing, no elevation- no battle, no victorrt no cross, no crown. Ha there been nutrouchadnezzar, there would have been no Daniel. Even so it has been in all ages. The flames that have flashed up from the stake have been so many illumina tions of Christia n triumph. When God would make a grat light of truth and holiness in the world, he often takes great persecutions and with them strikes fire. The devil's hate is God's glory. Had it not been for the persecutions of Em peror Valerian, the world would not have known of the courage of a Cyprian, and if the tyranny of Diecletian had never been known, the triumphant grace would not have been seen which made Maximilian, when sentenced to death, exclaim: "God be praised." Had not the bandits of Piedmont pursued the Waldenses through the valley of the Alps, and the infuriate decree put to massacre the Albigenses of France, the world would have had fewer illustrations of Chris tian heroism. Bo Joseph before Pharaoh. Be Paul before Felix. Ba Daniel before Darius. Again let the story of Daniel teach us tha beauty of that youthful character which re mains unblemished and upright when away from home. Had Daniel, 011 arriving in Babylon, plunged into every excess, his friends in Jerusalem would never have heard of it. His dissipation and renuncia tion of religion would not have cast one sorrow on the family hearth where he had lived or the old family Bible which he used to read. But, though far away from home, he knew that God's eye watched him and that was enough. It is not every young man who maintains the same character when absent that was maintained at home. Frederick watching his father's sheep among the hills or thrashing rye in the baru is far different from Frederick on the Stock Exchange. How often does the kind, retir ing spirit become bold effrontery, and the accommodating, self sacrificing disposition once exhibited among brothers and sisters oecomes a coia ana unresponsive selfishness, and economy, wastefulness and open handed charity, tight fisted stinginess, and the keeping of good hours is changed to mid night revelry. I probably address young men now, dis tant from their father's house, and others who, still under the parental roof, look for ward to a time when they will depart alona to conflict with the world and among str; n gers be called to buila up characters for themselves. Happy for you, oh, young man, if you shall, like Joseph, be tha same when living with wicked Pharaoh as with pious J icob, or Daniel as pure in Babylon as in JerusaLm. There is no passage in a man's life of more thrilling interest than the day in which he leaves home and goes off to seek his fortune. The novelty and romance con nected with the departure may keep the young man from any poignant sorrow, but parents, who have seen the destruction among strangers of thos3 who were con sidered promising youths, cannot help feel ing that this step is full of momentous im portance. Before the youth left home all hi3 conduct was under affectionate guardian ship. Outbursts of folly, carelessness and im propriety of manner and looseness of speech were kindly reprove!, and although the re straint seemed sometimes too severe, yet hours of sober reflection have convinced him that it was salutary and righteous. But behold how the scene changes. The father, through the interceeding of metropolitan friends has secured the sou a place in some bank or store or office. Schoolmates, on the night before his departure, come to take their farewell of the young adventurer. That morning he takes a last walk around the old place, and going past some loved spot a sly tear may start, but no one sees it. The trunk is on the carriage, and after a warm goodby away they spead over the hills. Set down amid excitements and among com panions not overscrupulous as to their words or deeds, temptations troop around the stranger. The morning comes, but no fami ly altar, and the Sabbath, but no real quiet, and perhaps at tha sanctuary the faces are all strange and no one care3 whether he goes to churca or whether ha doas not go. Long winter evenings arrive, and how shall they be spent? On nis 7ay hoaia from his place of business he saw flaming placards announcing rare performances and that this was positively the last night. A the door of his cneerless boarding house no one greets him, and the evening meal is insipid, for no one care3 whether ha eats or does not eat. The room ia the third story that evening seems dolefui and repel ling. A book snatched up from the6tand proves to be dull, for no sister i3 there to look over with him. In despair ha rushes out, reckless a3 to where he goes, if only he can see something to make him stop think ing. That night may be the turning point in bis history. Once within the fatal circle of sin, and tne soul has no power to repel it. On that dark sea he is launched, wnere the gleam of joy is only the flash of the pit and the roar cf laughter is only the creaking of the gates of the lost. In many a country churchyard i3 now the grave of some youthful spirit that went away lithe and bounding, but cama home diseased and crushed and blasted to disgraca the sepulcher of his fathers. Yet this exo dus must be made. As from far distant hills rivers find their way through tunnels to great cities, so from far distant points of the country it is necessary that a stream of un- comxpted population shall pour into our great thoroughfares to keep them pure and manage the traffic of the world. Multitudes of such are constantly making their depar ture from home. To-morrow morning all of the thoroa jh f ares leading toward the great cities of our land, on steamboat and rail cor, there will bo young adventurers for the first speeiinr away from their homes in order to try their fortune in town. The Lord stretch forth His arm for the deliverance of these Daniels away down in Babylon. Wherever your lot may be cast, in far inland town or in some great seaport, maintain in your absaacj the same principles ot morals and religion which may have been instilled by pareatal solicit ude. And while you may feel in your hjart an 1 life the advantages of early religious culture, forget not those to whom you are chietly in debted, and pray that as age comes upon them and the night of death begins to fall in their pathway, the hope of heaven may beam through the darkness, lustrous and steady as the evening star. The Lord for bid that by our conduct we should ever briu disgrace on a father's name or prove ro creant to the love of a mother. The pewt did not exaggerate when he exclaimed: How sharper than a serpent's tooth, U Is, To have a thaakleos caiid. Bright green is the latest fashionable color. The evening capo is the latest freak of fashion. The glove with the high cuff is still in vogue. The newest thing in jewelry is Lohen grin's swan. A Cornell (N. Y.) girl is said to bo studying veterinary surgery. Women used to wear nightgowns. Now it is '"dream robe3" that they wear. The only veils that are h scorning to women are of plain, thin njesii without figure or border. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is one of the host of people who make amitcur pho tography a fad. After all, there are few better fabrics for children than navy blue flannel and blue and white gingham. Pullman's daughter, Julia, gets Si 000 per annum for selecting the names for the Pullman sleeping cars. The Queen of Greece is the best royal needle-woman in Europe. She cut3 out and makes most of her own undercloth ing. How Chinese women were expected to behave themseves 2000 years ago is set forth in an ancient Chinese wcrk in 311 chapters. Rustlinjr dress skirts have rustled too long, say the Paris dressmakers, aud soft materials are now used to line their new est skirts. There are said to be over nine hun dred women preachers in this country. The most of them belong to the Univer salist Church. Miss Ellen Omerod is one of the lead ing entomologists of England. She was led to the study by tho weevil in her father's wheat. The President's wife, Mrs. Harrison's right hand is so lame that she does not use it, except on rare occasions, for pub lic hand shaking. A woman is investigating the Patent Office, in Washington, to obtain copies of all the patents secured by women si ace the days of its establishment. Plans are now completed for the erec tion in "Washington of a hotel for wo men, which will be different from any other which has ever been projected. The latest thing in jewelers novelties is the fluted enameled ribbon, which comes in all the delicate tints, and is tied up in all manner of knots and bows for the hair, for the watch or for the neck. Mrs. Cunningham Graham, the Span ish wife of tho Socialist Member of the British Parliament, is a remarkably woman. She spends half the year in Spain following the track of Saint Theresa, whoso life she is engaged ia wilting. 1 The last idea in dress skirts is to leave the corner which has been ordinarily cut off to form the bias .seam up the back in the bell, and let it cascade itself in jabob folds down the back. The effect pro duced i3 excellent, and needs no particu lar experience to arrange. The newest powder puffs are of much larger size than of yore and look like enormous snowballs, as big as ordinary sugar bowls. The handles arc made to represent figures of well knorcn celeb rities and are done in both ivory ind silver. Mme. Recamier and the Empress Josephine are the women most frequently represented. The rasre for bizarre effects in dress trimming has led manufacturers to bring out the Moorish bangle in various sizes of crystal, porcelain, jet, steel, fire and French gilt and white metal of .silver, gold, copper and bronze finish. These flashy little ornaments are sewed all over the laces, gauzes ani ribbon used in dress and millinery work. Nail embroidery ia considerably used, fancy nail being offered to carry out the designs. The pattern is traced on the wood of picture or screen frame, and the nails are simply put in like any nails, to follow the outlined pattern. The only skill required ia a degree of that com modity in grouping and selecting to be I grouped the different designs in nails. 1
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