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. 1 1 t i ' V j ; t 4 i , ? ' r f ? f 1 HAKE MERGING PAT ; ' -j by uin the colsnrns U thr ECONOMIST, 3 m - K a rrw1 fit in ?! Tl.e inwt TJRELKS.4 WOliKIIK i" ""5V G . fclixaWth City i It go Into the Imniwt of the pwple r telli'' the n-w with the t.ice of a ( 2j trusted friend. ? w - fQ,niV th.u a.uv other Lu tr ) iu Eastern t-aroltna. a v .- w h - m - . t m 5 vTakE each man's cBnSiirB but rBservB 1hy JudginBnt.-HaiiilBti?3 t " OL. XXYII. .run v. i;. t'unnwK cojiimm", "i i I r k:zv if. cy, . t. ! f-fi r u tfn - - ' JLZ A LJ uu UTS L. ! Irrtir in Pa.-ti'l'i'Ul.Vi, l' v; i , and Tyritli couuiU;, viO:tltN. i:..ci u: C'ollrctiori a !!!-. J F.t't r. 1 C u. ii. i i:ki.i:i:k. OHict hours at. CVu.v -" v,. Mondays. . UoUcctiocs a llii-l: it. oa . I .H. whit... D. i . . , I ri.i i: (.i li;!ic.' I.r..i -f ir t l ui 1 d i c ili-sierMrwl. i; ; I ( - . EF. Af A UT I N, 1. I. . ! i liuhtttl X.C. City, ; : Offers hi- j rott i.l V tH-rir :S tu tlif lltllC HI lH the liruchi,( 1ISSTI.STU LrjJ CA:i N Iati:i"l at all tknrf. aAti-r i)i!uv hi Ki biun lUlock, uyon .Block, Water .tn l-.uv r h' Vjr- W. tilUHiOliY: D. D.S?.. ; I I OilurA Lis1 prof-' tin t t.Mi in &1U I IrVTKTItV. Ciown und ItrUV Jj work .a P."ciJty i Otllee h.mr. 8 to 12 and I to 0, or nr.y trmt !niild5 ivml occasion nipurf.j Ctf" Oill. f, KIr:iIJui!diii Corner Maio . aud Wat-r St. : ' - : I .- ' " 1 ' - 4 DAVID COX, Jr., J, ! ARCHITECT t AND EN'JIXEKI?,! IIKUTFpUD,:;. C. . Land BtirTeyidci a rx:ialty.- TU furiibheI Ul)a! aro'icatlon. ' 4 i f 2 ' t -; teiir"t i."'..1 li m i i 1 Uu V- i Now for Christmas. Thb lar-WaiKl newest coUectionof Toye, the fairest-pnced.m E xm, 'octli Citv,can he found at MUcLell s 15ee Hive Store. Everything Lhat will plea.se the itiUrcn ani make the eld feel jonuS: ogauHerdre all the animals of the ark, all the games, ins the-.waxlJ, all tlietoj-s a clrcaml DolWof all scrtkinJ.s characters and.tsonaitions. Dolls from live cents to 0. BoyXMs, gUl' doll,, bafelolls, doU sddicrs and "just plain dolls. ! The prices Wmuch less than you have been paying. The Bee Hive stem has been turned Tute a.-tojland; no adult can describe- ii-noncW a child coul lreaUy justice -to -itiae and Uing yours ! NearlV k ton o!r?ntnrto be sold cheap enough iorverybody to get some. MS BEE HIVli; ... '. 1 Elizabeth City's Greatest Store. ; 1 -" 111 - ..?.. - . m . . ..,!. I -.!.-' I 1 7 - " - . . . . : - 1 - 1 1 '5 FAT f . 13 ICJUSTASCCCD FGI ADULTS. w.-i..i-w. . ...w . . v c;at..ti.Iii-.,j;ot.1C,1S33. ;-!-:; '. ' rn-. i. :.. r-. i y. ; r 1 1 i.-s miu ';o.iC .mi'iiiiro ii n.-orVv i ...j-,-,r inmi.uri'f 'r... -j - M , -T: rt- i i.hn-erl -i I . . Wur.trulr. . - A.uCAimca, For fait itnt! ctrarfinteed by Drs.W.W. GHIGU8 FON Elizabeth City, N.C. jGUIGUS EUxftetb City, K.;( V-aud all 0rast!sU. ' ' - CORE LL YOUR PAIJIS WITH . M- A Pain-Killer.'l A Medicine Chit in ltsir. 'V. Simpls, Ssf and Quick Cur far v CnA!.1F3, DlfiHRHOEA, COUCHS, ; Q COLDS, RHEUMATISM. !V , O rJ :j ricUHALulA. q 25 and 50 cont.Bottlos. S BEWARE OF IVlTATICNS- f"j BUY ONtY THE GENUINE. v DCDDv navis Notii-.? "trse'Kranil 'display, or.Silyer ware in window tbi week. n ; u i'-f 4. l r- Zl3 Li U U33 ELIZABETH GIT; N; c.; FREDDY, DECEMBER 9, 18,98. TiTF K'S AlT 07? r,H0TrT)i . - , Having by peer health bcen'conipelled but priaYOua ' Neverthelesa'atterward it no Tii taiitq nc ill ki c r'nfi; ' sliddenlyo qtrit' busrnesa, he'loEt whit Vyieldeth the peaceable fruitcf righteous DR. TALMAGE TALKS OF MANS .COM- . ' . , . , . , . . .:! k . Aat PENSTION FOR SUFFERING, -j. The rhiinitpbf That Come ( Faith, character Mi' Be Tempered .' by Fire Sla So Accident In God's Plan, ' TJlctnics la DUnalse. f Copyright. Is3!, by American Press Asao . elation. ' . WAaiCiaTos, Dec. -L In t thia dis- iTTiran . Plr TalmaP taVr nn rintimistia . vinw nf .'mnnv thinthat aro nsnallr 1" v ... r. - r ptni-nceaixd Ehows n3 thatevea tronbleV and fifJictiou may not be v.hclly wjth ont thejr brighter tide; text, ,lJ5aiia xhx. 4, "I. will, open my daxlc. eaying npon the harp." -" : The world is full of the inexplicable, the impassable, the unfathomable, thet i rtepf lu any direction witnout coming i . . . . ! nj against a hard wall of myEtery, rid dlts, paradoxes, profundltica, laby .rinthy, problems that we cannot eoIvs, hierclyphics that we canucf decipher, anagrama we cannot spell out, epbinxc3 1 tba will not speaS. For that reason David in my text proposed to take .up nft;o nr 'thtuA srmitipr una dark things and try to tcfr tbein to sweet music. will rnen nv dark t-avinga on a harp." So I look cH upon society and find peo pie in unhappy conjunction of circum stances, and they do not know what it nitaus. and they have a ricbt to ask, Whv ia this? Why isthat? and I think I i,a riniii rnnd work bv trvinci to explain pome cf these strange things and make vc'u more content with your lot, and I thall only be answering ques tions that have often beenjasked.meor that wo have all asked ourselves, while I try to set these mysteries to musia and own my dark sayings on a harp. : ... Interrogation the first: Why does Mod. take out of this world those whorare useful and whom we cannot spare and leave alive r.nd in'good health so many who are only, a' nuisance !to the world? I thought I would begin with the very toughest of all the.secming iuscrutables. Sluuy of tne most useful men and worn endi9at 20 Or 40 years of age, while. you often "iliid useless people alive at 60 and 70 and 0. . John Careless wrote to Bradford,. who was soon to Lv put - to death' carinc. "Why doth. God suffer me and such "other caterpillars to. live, that can do nothing but consume ;the alraa.of the church, and. take away so iiiaV worthy workmen in the Lord's vineyard?:' Similar .questions are often askd. IUto are troieiil flbts one is a noble character and a Christian man; He chooses for -a lifetime companion one wno nas ucra lenaeriy reurou, aumuu is worthy of. him and he is worthy of hor. As rwerchant or farmer or, profea Flnnal man or mefcbfanio or artfist he toils: to educate and rear his .children. Ho, is succeeding, but he baa not yet established for his family a full com petency." IIe'6eema indispensable to that household; but one day, before he has raid off the mortgage on his house, he is coming home through a strong north' east wind, and a chill strikes through' him, and fonr days of pneumonia-end his . earthly career, and the wife" arid children go into 'a struggle f or shelter and, food. His next door neighbor is a man who, though strong and'well," lets Uhls wile euDDort him. . ueis arouna as - - . 3 A. tbo grocery store.or eome general - Ipai-. irig placo in the evenings while his wjfe- sewa. His boys are, imitating his exam- pie. and lounge and swagger ano swear.- All tbo use that-manis-in that'houeef'is to rave because the coffee is cold "when he comes to a late breakfast,' or ' to 'say cutting things "a bout 'his. wife's looks,-, vcheii " ho furnishes nothing ; for her waxdrobe.- -TheJ)est thing, that .could happen to .that family would" be-.tljat man's funeral', but -he declines 'to .die. IT 'lives' on and on and on -Sd we hive all noticed that many of the useful are earlv cut off; while the parasites have great vital tenacity. , tli The Darker Way. ' I tn!;e up this dark, saying on rny harp and give three or four thrums on; thcFtrfng in the way of surmising and hopeful gnss.' Perhaps the useful niaa wu.s taken cut of the world because" be 'aiuVbis family-were so ccpstjucted "that th"ey could not ha.vo.cnure;s(5'me great rr6?cerity thatxii':ght- bavo"bee.n just nhfcvd, ond .theyaltpget"ser;miLi hpvej go?elown in the vortex or worrdiiqcss4 .whiclevsry year .swaiJows.Bp. 10,000 bou'sehclds. And bo he werit wnile. he LwashUmDie ana cousecraiea.'.unu iukj were,' by the seventies of iile Keptciose, ttr-Gbrist- and'fiJtted ..lor usefulness hexst and high; seats ip ' heaven;'afftr'-vyhen tliey meet at last .before the throne they will ac;khowledgev1hai-lhopgi;"the fux$ hace was bet, it . purified Xti iem and pre-. pared ' them for an eternal career oi glory and reward r fox which 'no other. kfnd'ATlifa rnnld have fitted' them. S On thf'nthrr hand the useless man lived, nnto CO or. CO or ;70 years because all, tb,e ease however can have he must liave in,. this wcrldi and yon oughtnot, there-' fore, begrtdga hinxhis,ea?thlj longevi- ,tv ioaii tuo ages, tncra jyi poca;syn-1 gj loafer ever. entered beayea. There is' no" "place" f or him thirej.to hjang arcpnd ; uofevth in-: the. iemple for tbej-:are 'full; of 'yigorbrisv alert 'and fapturcris worship.4 IFtheod'd and use ful go early" rejoice for 'themtnat.they: V havasQ sooii'fjotjrnglKwitbv human I Jtre. -wmch;.a5 oesu is aifuKit v. final itn-arreration. -Jr. .' r 'Irite'rrclraticn the seconds Why do goodp6p"Ie: have so much' trouble, sjick-hZ?sl- bdnkiuptcy, pe'rEecution-, the threjej black vultures eonieuines yumus fierce" beaks into- one set; of jangleil horves?j J .think now of a "good fried!, once had. Ho was a consecrated Chris tian man.- aa elder in thechurcb and as polished, a Christian gentlemarr iis ever walked Broadwey. First his gtrf. eral 1 health "gave out and ' helatjbled around on a 'cane, an oid man at 40. After- awhile caralrsif itrncltT him, dnabter died; tbea jBoa.became'hope-! .'cf -mind and ccmnjacdingp presence,, 1 resolred that be vroult akqcare at his father's household, bai.nndex the SWOOp ri yejioyr iever at x eipaaina,- x jo., no iuddenly expfredi So 'yon--knW go5d men and'vr omun ViMl had enough tr on b i e ?j y on t hi n fc-to crnsh Opeopl e. Ko wrorldly pnilosopLycoul.d'take such a ' we ana io Ejuac.-or- piay,i6 ' . " . 1 i . t - M A. IJoalviblin or-r.nce. eutJsd&re rtoopea - Yqu wcndr tfeat.v lt j u v . a -,a.ta w . j ww xa i people bav trouble? Cid ybuevTSknoWl ; very consecrated jnaa- or; woman who had not had great tronbje? Never I It waa through their tronbles'BanctifJed that they were made very good. If yon find, anywhere in this city a man who tn An Mm J m 1 r Vian V n A . VUIVfaif health, arid never lost a child, -and baa always been popular, and never had bnsinesa struggle or. misfortune, 'who is distinguished for ; goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph messenger .boy and s-nd me word, and. I will drop every thing and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that arid never will be. Who are those arro gant, self-conceited creatures who move about witbtut sympathy for others and I who think more of a St Bernard dog or an Alderney cow or a Southdown sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They , never had any trouble, or the i trouble was never sanctified. Who are those men who listen with moist eye as von tell them of suffering ..and who. j 'have a pathos in theirvoiceand a kindness in their manner and an'excuse "dr an alleviation for those -gone .astray? They are the men who have. graduated "at the Royal Academy of Trouble," and they have the diploma written in wrin kles oh their , own - countenances. . Aly, , mylr What heartaches they had 1 What tears th'ey have. wept! What injustice they "have suffered! . The mightiest in-' .rluehcerfor. purification and salvation is : trouble. "Nodiamond fit for a crown until it is cutr fNo wheat fit for bread till it is ground. - " Strengrth From Sorrow. '-"There are only three things that can break off a chain a hammer; a file or a fire- -and trouble is all three of them The greatest 'writers, orators and re formers cct much of their force from troubled What gave-to Washington Ir .ving that exquisite tenderness and par- thos vhich will. make his books favorites vwhife the'' English language continues to be writtenaBd spoken?; An'. early rheaf tbreaiH'rhatih!- sraver once mention; ed, end when SO.years after, the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his bride,. her father picked up a piece of embroidery and said, "That is a piece of poor Matilda's workman- shiD.4 Washington Irving sank from biiafity into silence and walked "awair. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen's mightiest re-enforcement. Calvin's "Institutes of Religion," than which a more won xlerful book was , .never written by hu man hand, was. begun, by the author at 25-years. of age, because of the persecu tion by. Francis, king of. France.- Fara day toiled for all time "on a salary of 80 a year and candles. .As every briok of the wall of Babylon was stamped with the letterN," 'standing -forrNebu chadnez5iar, eo'every part of the.temple of Christian achievement is stampea with the letter Tj standing for trouble. iWhen in England a man is honored with knighthood, be is struck with the flat of 'the sword.- 'But those who have come to knighthood in the kingdom of God were firs struck, not with the flat of the f'wora, but with,the keen edge of the scimeter. To build his magnificence of character Paul could not have spared one . la'sh, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous vi per' from the hand, one sbinwreck. What is true of individoals' is true of nations. The hbr rbrs nt the American Revolution gave this'country thiazide of the Mississippi river to independence, and the conflict between.- England and France gave the most of this 'country west of tha Missis sippi.; t the United ; States. France owned it but vXTapoleon, fearing that England would. take, it, , practically made a present., to the United States t or. ne rpceiveu. umy jiuuuuv j-u L6 ui i ana f MU'so'u'r i j'Arkah sa s, Kansas, 'ebr'as'a.'Iowa, Minnesota; Colorado, UaliOtaiikiontana, Wyoming ana mo in dian'Territory. ' Out of thri fire of the Ahlef ican- Revoiiition came.this country east-of tbe;Mjssi.ssippi,.out of the Euro vpean .war-came .that west of 'the Missis jsrppir river,.The,Briti.6h empire rose to its -i-i present.;- Qvertqwering grandeur through -gunpowder"- pl" and " Guy ' -x.aY il. . x. Fawkes conspiracy ana xnprinampcoa in'surrectfba and WalterrRaleigh's be heading and Bacon V bribery jmd Crom well's dissolution of pariiameht and the battles Edge-Hill and the vicissitudes of"centuTies.; " T-v 1 ? ' Tempere-bifFIro. ' r Sfi "the earth'itselfv before it could be cone'arf appropriate and beautiful residence-. fjr the human family, had, ao oordiBg -iagecidgy,- to - be washed by universal "deluge and scorched and made incandescent .by " universal fires and pounded by sledge hammer of icebergs and wrenchedlby earthquakes that split continents and shaken by volcanoes that ttossed - mountains and .passed through the catastrophes , oi , thonsanas oi years beiire parajajse became jpossible and the graves coiaJd. EJtiaK'ou5 ineir green vaix- nage-of ssolo'r between. the Gihon and the Hidaekel:1 Trouble-a good thing for the rockala good thing for'nations, as well as a gocdrthingforindividnals. So when ydu push against me with a sharp interrogation point,. Why do, the good fiufferZJ open the aarK sayixig on a narp, and, anghrcaa ceither play an. organ or' cornet or hautboy, cr bugle orclar- inetv -IvhaVe;,takenieome lessons on the gospel harp, ' and if yon-would like to hear merl will play yu. these: "All things workj together for good to those - ' a ' f .- who love uoa. . "jnow no cnasienma; . . i - " 1 for the preeenY tecmeth to be joyout. night, bnt joy comQfi in the morning. j vvcaj a sweet tning is anarp, ana i wnrder not that in.Walea. tha odnntrr t of my ancestors, the harp baa become the national instrument, ana that they have festivals where great prizes are offered in the competition between harp and harp, or that weird Sebastian Erard was much of hia' time bent over this chorded and vibrating triangle, and was not satisfied on til he bad 'given . it a with all, the " SemitoneaT-or 'fiat w4jen : . w ' King Saul was demented vthe son or jesse came neiore aim ana, puiiing.xiis fingers among the charmed strings of the harp, played the devil put of the crazed monarch, or that in heaven there shall be ..harpers harping with their harps. So yon will not blame me for opening the dark saying on the gospel harp: j " " Your Mrps, ye trembling sainta, Down from the willowa take; ; : Load to the praise of love divine ' Bid every string awake I Interrogation . third:. Why did the good God let sin-or trouble come into the world when he might have kept them out? My reply is, He had a good reason. I He had reason's that he has never given us. He had reasons which he could no more make ha understand in our finite state than the father, start ing out on some great and elaborate en tfim'risa. I could make the - 2-year-old j child in its armed chair comprehend iti One was 'to demonstrate, what grandeur of .character may be achieved on earth by conauering evil. Had there been no evil to coriqner and no trouble to con soje, then this universe, would never have known an Abraham" or a Moses ox a Joshua! or ran Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington br'a' John Mil- ton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been : gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battlo, there would have been: no victory.. Nine-tenths of the anthems of heaven would never have been sung. Heaven could never have been a thou sandth part of the heaven that it is. ;I will not say that I am. glad that sin and sorrow did enter, but ' I do say that lam clad that after God has given all hisv reasons to an assembled; universe 'he will be-rriore honored than if sin. and sorrow had never entered .and that the nnfallen Celestials will be ' outdone and will put down their trumpets to listen nnd it will be ! in heaven when those who have conquered sin-and sorrow shall enter as it would be ia a small Binging school on earth if Thalberg and Gottschalk and Wacner and Beetboyen and Rheinberger and Schumann should all at once enter. The immortals that have been! chanting 10,000 years before the throne will say, as they close their librettos, rOh, if we could only sing like that! But God will say to thos who have never fallen and consequent ly have not been redeemed, "You must 1 be silent now ; you have not the quaJin- cation for this anthem." So they sit with closed lips and folded hands, and sinners saved by grace take up the har mony, for the Bible says "no man could learn that song but the hundred ana forty and four thousand which were re deemed from the earth." 1 ' Th6 Recompense of Sin. , . ' A great prima donna, who can now do anything with her voice, told me that when! she first started in music her teacher in Berlin, told her she conld be a good Einger, but a certain -note she could nevier reach. "And then, " she said, "I went to work and studied and practiced for years until Ididreach it" But the sdng of the singer redeemed, the Bible says, the exalted harmonists who have never sinned could not reach and never Will reach. Would ! you like to hear me in a very poor way plaj a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the music on this gospel ham. " Unto him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins in hiaown blood andj hath made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory arid dominion forever and ever, amen." But before leaving this inter rogatory, why God let sin come into the world, let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering and r outrage at jthe time of their occurrence. yet after they have neen a long wnne past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, Sal amis, Inkerman, " Toulouse, Arbela, . Aginqourt.l Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lex ington, Sedan. So now that the great battles against sin nd suffering are going on we can see mostly that which is deplorable, but 20,000 years from now. standing in glory, we shall appre ciate that heaven is better off than if the battle of this world's eid and suf fering had jnever been projected- But how I come nearer home ' and put a dark saying on the gospel harp, a style of question that is asked a million times every year.) Interrogation the , fourth: Why do I have it so hard while others have it so j easy, or why do I have so much difficulty in getting a livelihood while others go around with j a full portemonnaie, or why must I wear these plain clothes while others have to push hard, to ge their wardrobes closed, so crowded are they with brilliant attire, or why should I have to work so hard while others" have 365 holidays every year? They 'are all practically one ques- tion. I answer them ny saying is ue cause the Lord has his favorites, and he puts extra discipline upon you arid ex tra trial because he has for you extra glory, extra " enthronement, and extra felicities. - j .. , ' ' -''. t That is no guess of mine, but a divine say so, "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.f' "Well, say some one, "I would rather have a little less In heaven andja little more Lr re. Discount my heavenly robe 10 per nt and let me now put it on a fox luied overcoat. Put me in a less gorgeous room or the house of many mansions- and j let me have a house here in a better neighbor hood." No,! no. God isoiot-going to rob heaven, which, is to be. your residenct for nine hnndxed auadrillicu cf years, to fix nn vour' earthly abode, which you will Vcupy at ract for less than a cen- turT and where yen may perhaps stay only ten years longer, cr only one year. or perhaps a month more. Now you had better cheerfully let God have his way, for, you see, he has been taking care cf folks for near 6,000 years, and knows how to do; it, and can see wbatj is best for you, better than you can yourself. - Don't thick you are foo'in-- Lignificant. to be divinely- cared for. It was said (hat Diana, the goddess, could not- be present ? to keep her temple at Ephesns from burning becanse she wai attending - upon the birth of him whe , was to be Alexander the Great But I tell yon that your God and my God it so great in small things aj well as large things that he. could attend'tho cradle cf a babe and at the same time the burning of a world, v Divine Chaatlaement. And God will make it all right with you, and there is no song that yon will sing every hour ypnr first ten years in heaven, and the refrain cf that song will be. "lam so alad God did not let me have it, mv own way!" Your cas will be all fixed up in beavenand there . Mail l- n mmI. a MAWAWnl C - .AniIIAnC Will: uo euuu a lorciiiii vu tuuuiuuut that we can hardly find each other foi some time. Some of us who have lived in first rate houses here and in first rate neighborhoods will be found, because cf our lukewarmness of earthly service, livinsr on one of the back streets cf the celestial city, and clear down at the end of it at No, 808 or 909 or 1603, while some who had unattractive earthly abodes, and a cramped One at that, will in the heavenly, city be in a house fronting the royal plaza,' right by the imperial : fountain, or in the heights overlooking' the river of life, the char iots of salvation halting at your door, while those visit you who are more than conquerors and those who are kings and queens unto God forever. You, my brother, and you, my sister, -who have it so hard here, will have it so 'fine and grand there that you will hardly know yourself and will feel. dis posed to dispute your own identity, and the first time I see you there I will cry out, "Didn't I tell you so when you sat down there in the pew and looked in credulous because you thotJght it too good to be true?'' And you will an swer, V You were right the half was not told me." So I open your dark say ing of despondency and complaint on my gospel harp and give you just one bar of music, for I do not pretend to be much of a player. "The Larnb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Bnt, I must confess, I am a. little perplexed how some of you good Christians are going to get through the gate, because there will be so many there to greet you, and they will all want to shake hands at once and will all want the first kiss. They will have heard that you are corning, arid . they will all press around to welcome you and will want .you to say whether you know them after being so long partod. ; Amid the tussle and roriap of reunion I tell you whose hand of weloome you had better first clasp, and whose cheek is entitled to the first kiss. It is the hand and the cheek of him 'without whom yon would never have got there at all, the Lord Jesus,, the darling of the skies, as he cries out, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love, and the fires could not burn it and the floods could not drown j it.". Then you, my dear people, havinglno more use for my poor harp, on which I used to open your dark sayings and whose chords some tiines snapped, despoiling the sym phony, you will take down your own harps from the willows that grow by the eternal water courses and play to gether those celestial airs, some of the names of which are entitled "The King In His Beauty, " "The Land That Was Far Off." " And.as the' last dark curtain of mystery, is forever lifted it will be as though all the oratorios mat were ever heard had been rolled into one and "Israel In Egypt," and "Jephtha's Daughters," and Beethoven's "Over ture In C," and Ritter's first "Sonata In D Minor," and the "Creation,?' and the "Messiah" had been blown from the lips of one trumpet or been invoked by the sweep of one bower had dropped from the vibrating chords cf one harp. Adjourned to Eternity. ; But here I must slow up lest in try ing to solve mysteries I add to the mys-r tery that we Lave already wondered at namely, why preachers should keep on after II the hearers are tired. So I gather up into one great armful all the - whys and hows and wherefores of your life and mine, which we, have not had time or ths ilbility to answer, and write 'on', them ! ' 9 words, " Adjourned to eternity. ' i rejoice that we do not un derstand t ii things now, for if we did what wk: i we learn in heaven? If we knew it . do;7n here in the freshman and sop!.t:.roie class, what would be the nse cf -our going up to stand amid the juniors and the seniors? If we could put down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the inscrutables, if we could lift onr little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if we could with our seven day clock measure eter nity, what would be left for heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheer fully adjourn what is now beyond our comprehension, and - as, according to Rollin, the historian, Alexander the Great; having,obtained the gold casket in which Darius had Kept his rare per fume; used that aromatic casket there after to keep his favorite copy of Homer in and called the book, therefore, the edition of ..the casket." and at night put the casket and; his sword under his rjillow. so I tut this day into the per fumed casket of ybnr richest affections and hopes, this promise worth 'more than anything Homer v ever wrpte or sword "ever conquered, . " What I do thou knowesUiot now, butt thou shall know hereafter," and that I call the edition celestial." , . . . ' no. au. THE; SLY POLAR BEAR. ! IXotv lie Get Ilia Olnaer of Seal or ;; AValroa Meat. In his native homo tbo polar lar does not often meet with email toys i-anxioas to'treat him to buns and ether dainties. - The consequence is that brain has to deviso many;curiops vvays'of sc cnrini? hia foot!, and none is more strange and interesting tbah that.rfl.it ed ;by two Greenland. trustworthy travelers in that country cf strange fsights." '',' ... They have kxrwn the polar, bear to take a stone or a bngo j lump of ic In his! fore paws and frcm a favorable heigh t, as a cli ff or a : preci pi tons ico hill, to hurl the missile down upon the head cf a. walrus, an enormous Irate often twice tbo size cf tbo bear, and po stun him that bruin could rush in cud complcto tbo destruction at his leisure, thus securing a mouth's rntifms. , The most usual food of the ice bear, -as the Germans very appropriatoly rU this beast, is the common seal of che arctio regions. Tbo latter is tho veri est animal of tho norths and both Eski mo and polar boar need t"hcir best strat egy to catch it. ' In tho summer 'time,' when tho snow is off the ico cf thu oci an shoio mid islet-?, tho seals can bo plainly keu as black dot cn the ico, probably nsl(N?p, but always near their holoa, which load down through tho thick icojto tho wuter below, arid into which they can throw themselves by tho- least movement Bruin, seeing one -'afar, ' walks up as near as h,o deems safo and thcu ibcins craivlihg on his wary j n y. ! - Tho seal if the; SvertrfDCP bf snnny arid pleasant, takts short Sips, jlclicvod by shorter moments whey it 4? scivnning the vicinity for signs of an enemy's ap proach! - During tbepo times tho bear is very quiet and as still' as death itn If, with eyes apparently lostd, j thongh really a corner of each is kept open, uud in this way ho hopes the seal will take him for a bean of snow, an apit aranco j which his coat readily helps him to as sauue. ,i ...:.'. w.- . During thy naps ho creeps forward with greater or less rapidity,' according to his nearness to the seal arid cohpo qrieiit fear cf Icing heard cr scm. When but 10 or 12 yards awayj find the , seal is in tbo depths of a good jnap, the Lear rushes upon him and with, a tiaglo blow of his powerful paw knocks" tho emailer! brute senseless and so tar away from the hole that ho cannot escape by that way, even if . the blow received is riot iriimediately fatal. j "In winter time the ice is covered with snow, and this is hollowedout by the seal into a snow house, covefring the hole in tho ice! and connecting 'at tho top of the dome; with an aperture about the, size of a' shilling, called the blowhole,,, ,for it is through this that ! the seal. breathes when he is in want of fresh air. Here the bear watches for j many ft long hpur if necessary,' and when the enorts of the seal oro heard he crushes in the fragile dome cf the sriowhouse with' his paw, impaling-the teal on bit curved claws, and proceeds to practi cally demonstrate how polar bears can subsist Lin a arctio winter. London rru.t. u ' . ;.:' . . ' j : i , , ' ' ' . j A Type of ilii Clam. I see you've still got your old office boy." ' . ' . " ' ; N, ; "Yes." ..-,; ' . ,:' Improves with age, does he?" , "Well, he seems to get fresher every 4ay. " Philadelphia Record. There were breechloading cannon as early as 1388. ; Are you frequently hoarse? Dq you - have that annoying ticklinc in your throat? Would you feel relieved if you could raise something? Does your 'cough annoy you at night, and do yoii raise more mucus In the morning? V ' ' Then you should always keep on hand a bottle' of - - alilaiMiM If you have a weak throat you cannot be too careful. Yoii cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liab le to another, and the last one is always harder to cure than the one before it. Dr.AScp'sctcrra PcctcpJ! tlislzt prefects lit isgs frca cues. Help at Hand. If you have any comtjlaint whatever end desire the best medical advice you can pos sibly obtain, write the doctor freely. ' You will receive a prompt reply. . , , i Address, DR. J..A AYER, , ' q Lowell, Mass. ' ': - ' ' 1 j '..".. -1 - ' Aprs v . ".. ' ' . i
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 9, 1898, edition 1
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