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The moot TIRELES3 WORKER la Kluabeth City It the 1IAKE ADTOTISIKG- FAT ECONOMIST, i It pet Into the homes of the people telling the newt with the voice of trotted friend- the mediam that reaches more l families thaa any other paper , -la Eastern Carolina. II J I -CDiir Malta: Dawn With Tnists.T ELIZABETH CITY, C, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1899 NO. 29 VOL. xxvin. Economist ffn VJsohing Paint don't scrub it and wear off the sur face Use Gold Dust Washing Powder according to direc tions printed on every package and you will be pleased with the results and surprised at the saving in labor. S4 f-r ft. fcoaJrt-'OpJ SMm THE X K. rAISBANX COMPACT Ckr $a.Lls Scalar. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE FALCON PUB. CO., C F. LAMB Manner. It. D. CRIIECY Editor. Suoscription One Year, $1.00 PHOFESIOXAL CARDS. R n. CUE EC Y. Elizabeth City. N.C. IT F. &S. 8. LAMB, lli. AUrtux$ and CvvnZr$ at 1st, EJI za niy.N.C Office comer Pool and JIathews streets ttuiakk VAUGIIAN. Elizabeth at j, N. c Collections faithfully mdo. T3KUDEX, &.PKUDEN, Edcaton.X. C. -Practice ta IV)Uotnk; Perquimans Chomn, G.cj, llerUord. WuloRton and Tjncll coantIe, and In Supreme Court o! the JaUlc. STmann. AUerruy-atLaw, Swan Quarter, N. C Practice lu State and Federal Court. Collections fallhfullj made, ekcy wood Mcmullen, AlUtruej and GrunM&r at Isiie, Elizabeth City, I. C. Kkkkrkxck: Cit!i?n Hank of this cit;. TUIOMASO. RKINNRIC JL Altcmty-dl-Lavt, Hertford.. C II. WHITE, D. D.3.. Elizabeth City, X C Peswstry in all l I.m nh- fin ,w -m m - - --rry0 found at all t . t W t tnML XrtrVif CiTOHIca Hrad- ford bulltling Konm. 1, Z 3. anI 4 Corner Main Toindexter Streets EF. MARTIN, D. P. 5., Elizabeth City, X. CL, 03ers his professional ik? r vice to the public in all ft . a. t V it r.ytne orancnea ci WjLOnanb found at all times. At'itho Citizen Bank Corner Poladexter and Fearing o w.oRDionv.u.a-s. , O. Kllzabetb City, N. C OlTers bis profee ' . - tonal nerTicea to the public in-all the branches of DenistbT. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. Office hours. 8 to 12 and 1 to C, or any time ihould special occasion require. iT Oilice, Flora Building, Corner Main and Water ?: DAVID COX, Jr., C, L, ARriiiTEtrr and surveyor, HERTFORD, N. C Plict fumiihetl opon application. Official lursejor for Perquimans county. HOTELS. Bay View House, r.DKNTON, Ti. C. Sew. . Cleanly. . AttentlTe . Berrant. Near the Court Uouse. Columbia Hotel, Columbia, TtrIUll Co. J.E. IIU0HK8. - - Proprietor. toT Good Senranta, gool room, eood Ubte. Ample SUM. and -beliers. . Tbe pVironao of ibeublic so lie ted and atUfction a&sared. THE OLD CAPT. WAUEH IIOCSK. SWINDELL HOTEL- BWAN gUARTER, N. C. The Hunter's Home, The Drum raer Delight, The Flahermans Feast, Th Pieajure Fct ker's ParadiK?. Wealthiest Place in tho State. Hones, Vehicles Guns, JDot, Boats, etc , supplied at short notlc. If you want fun come and ae us MANTEO N. C. A, Y. EVAN3, " Propnetox Flntd&is la erery panlcalar. Table applied with eiery delicacy. FUb otters and Game abundance in season. ill jf sjg mimesis, mam Our Illastratca Cata logue, No. 10, which wo mail frco, contains a variety of designs of marble and,- help yon in making a prop-j IzX er eelection. nto for it; wo will satisfy you as to prices LARGEST STOCK IN THE SODTH The COL'PER MARBLE WORKS. (EUb!Uhf so Year) 1 59-1 6 j Bank. St., Norfolk, Va IHS ELIZABETH W Mil CIIA3.W. PETTIT, Proprietor. ;:it:;:i mm, hM, ?a. MA5CFACTTJUBBS 07 Engines, Boilers, FORGIHGS and CASTINGS. Machice and Mill Supples at lowest Prices. Womroen sent ont on application for repair. sjiecial Bales a sent for Merchant Babbit Metal. ESTABLISHED 1870. A Matter of Choice Whether you have your teeth extract ed the old way, with pain, or use Gas, Vitalized Air, Cocaine, and all their attendant dangers or with perfect safety, without pain or sleep at N. Y DENTAL ROOMS ONLY, 324 Cor Main and Talbot streets, Norfolk, Va Office hours: 8 to G; Sundays 10 to 1 ENNES, Dentist, FOBSALK. A 00 Saw Brown Cottsn Gin, cheap. Used very little, ap ply to David Cox. 1 J Hertford, N. C. FOWLERgCO. fee era II ScSC The RlRht Place to .BUY ! DRY GOODS mil m FOR xS IPmtejy At The RIht Place Is pOVVLER bQO. j Wfa!cwl AJleUll Deakrs la DRY GOODS and SHOES m x mx m IM VlVf VWt VW7 VM7 V7 ypj M FOWLER g CO j! S5 0UE FATHER'S HOUSE DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES OH THE HEAVENLY WORLD. Cod's nomeitead, Oallded cm tb Illlla of HearcB, TroTldea Iloom For All VlTld riear of the Ilear bIt Home. Copy right, tout Slopsch. WasaucoTO, Not. CIn a unique ray the hearenly world Is discoursed upon by Dr. Talma ge in this sermon under the figure of a home; text, John xlv, 2, "In my Father's house are many rooms." Here Is a bottle of medicine that Is a euro alL The disciples were cad, and Christ offered heaven as an alterative, a stimulant and a tonic. lie shows them that their sorrows are only a dark background of a bright picture of coming felicity. lie lets them know that, though now they, live on the low lands, they shall yet "have a house on the uplands. Nearly all the Hlble de scriptions of heaven may be figurative. I am not positive that In all heaven there Is a literal crown or harp or pearly gate or throne or charloL They may be only used to Illustrate the glories of the place, but how well they do HI Tho favorite symbol by which tho Bible presents celestial happiness Is a house. Paul, who never owned a house, although be hired one for two years ta Italy, speaks of heaven as a "house not made with bands." and Christ In our text, tho translation of which Is a little changed, so as to give the more accurate meaning, says, "In my Father's house arc many rooms." . This divinely authorized comparison of "heaven to a great homestead of large accommodations I propose to car ry out. In some healthy neighborhood a man builds a very commodious hab itation. He must have room for all his children. The rooms come to be called after the different members of tho family. That Is mother's room, that la George's room, that Is Henry's room, that Is Flora's room, that Is Mary's room, and the bouse Is all oc cupied. But time goes by, and tbe sons go ont into the world and build their own homes, and tho daughters are married or have talents enough singly to go out and do a good work in the world. After awhllo the father and mother are almost alone In the big house, and, seated by the evening stand, they say, "WelL our family is no larger now than when we started together 40 years ago." But time goes Btlll farther by, and some of the chil dren are unfortunate .and return to the old homestead to live, and tho grandchildren come with them and perhaps great-grandchildren, and again the house Is full. God Dalit on tbe nil la. Millennia ago God built on tho hills of heaven a great homestead for a family Innumerable, yet to be. At first he lived alone In that great house, but after awhllo It was occupied by a very largo family, cherubic, seraphic, angelic, Tho eternities passed on, and many of the Inhabitants became way ward and left, never to return, and many of the apartments were vacant. I refer to the fallen angels. Now these apartments are filling up again. There are arrivals at the old home stead of God's children every day, and the day will com when there will be no unoccupied room In all the house. As you and I expect to enter It and make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more par ticulars about the many roomed home stead. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see, the place Is to bo apportioned off Into apartments. We Bhall love all who are In heaven, but there are some very good people whom we would not want to live with In the same room. They may be better than wo are, but they are of a di vergent temperament We would like to meet with them on the golden streets and worship with them In the tempi and walk with them on the river banks, but I am glad to say that wo shall live In different apartments. "In my Father's houso are many rooms." Ton see, heaven will be so largo that If one wants an entire room to himself or herself it can bo af forded. An lngenlona statistician, taking the statement made In Revelation, twenty first chapter, that the heavenly Jeru salem was measured and found to be 12,000 furlongs and that the length and height and breadth of It are equal, says that would make heaven In size 043 sextllllon S3 qulntlUIon cubic feet, and then, reserving a certain por tion for tbe court of heaven and the streets and estimating that the world may last a hundred thousand years, he ciphers out that there are over 5,000000,000,000 rooms, each room IT feet long, K feet wide, 13 feet high. But I have no faith In the accuracy of that' calculation. He makes the rooms too smalL - From all I can read the rooms will be palatial, and those who have not had enough room In this world will have plenty of room at the last. The fact Is that most people In this world are crowded, and. though but on a vast prairie or In a mountain district people may have more room than they want, in most cases It Is houso built close to house, and tbe streets are crowded, and the cradle rs crowded by other cradles, and the graves crowded In the cemetery by other graves, and one of the richest luxuries of many people In getting out of this world will be the gaining of unhindered and uncramped room. And I should not wonder ifuistead of the room that the statistician ciphered oat as only 17 feet by 1G. It should.be lar ger than any of the rooms at Berlin. St. James or Winter palace. "In my Fa ther's house are many rooms." , A MaJetlo nomeileid. ' Carrying ut still further-the sym bolism Of the text, let : o. : Jok . hands and go up to this mnjesue uvlu and see for ourselves. Aa we ascend the golden tt an tnvWbie guards man swlnps open the front door, and we are ushered to tin? right into the reception room of the old homestead. That la the placv tvbere we first meet the welcome of heaven. There must be a place where the departed spirit enters and a place In which It con fronts the Inhabitants celestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world what scenes It must have witnessed since the first guest ar rived, the victim of the first fratricide, pious Abel! In that room Christ lov ingly greets all newcomers. He re deemed them, and he has the right to the first embrace on arrival. What a minute when the ascended spirit first sees the Lord! Better tlian all we ever read about hlr.3.r. talked about hlHsor sang about him in alftbe churches and through all our earthly lifetime will it be. Just for one second, to see him. The most rapturousjdea we ever had of him on sacramental days or at the height of some great revival or under the uplifted baton of an oratorio is a bankruptcy of. thought compared with the first flash of his appearance in that reception room. At that moment when you confront each other, Christ looking upon you and you looking op en Christ, there will be an ecstatic thrill and surging of emotion that beg gar all description. Look! They need no Introduction. Long ago Christ chose that repentant sinner, and that repentant sinner chose Christ. Mighti est moment of an Immortal history the first kiss of heaven! Jesus and the soul! The soul and Jesus! Llfo In neaven. But now Into that reception room pour tbe glorified kinsfolk, enough of earthly retention to let you know them, but without their wounds or their sicknesses or their troubles. See what heaven has done for them so radiant, so gleeful, bo transportingly lovely I They call you by name. They greet you with an ardor proportioned to the anguish of your parting and the length of your separation. Father! Mother! There is your child. Sisters! Brothers! Friends! I wish you Joy. For years apart, together again- In the reception room of the old homestead. You see, they will know you are com ing. There are so many Immortals filling all tho spaces between here and heaven that news like that flies like llghtulng. They will be there In an Instant. Though they were In some other world on errand from God, a signal would be thrown that would fetch them. --Though you might at first feel dazed and overawed at their supernal splendor, all that feeling will be gone at their first touch of heavenly salutation, and we will say: "Oh, my lost boy!" "Oh, my lost companion!" "Oh, my lost friend! Are we here to gether?" What scenes in that recep tion room of the old homestead have been witnessed! There met Joseph and Jacob, finding It a brighter room than anything they saw In Pharaoh's palace; David and the little child for whom he once fasted and wept; Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak of Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois; Isabella Graham and her sailor son; Alfred and George Cookman, the mystery of the sea at last made mani fest; Luther and Magdalene, the daughter he bemoaned; John Howard and the prisoners whom he gospelized, and multitudes without number whov once so weary and so sad, parted on earth, but gloriously met In heaven. Among all the rooms -of that house there Is no one that more enraptures my soul than that reception room. "In my Father's house are many rooms. The Tbroneroom. Another room In our Father's house Is the throneroom. We belong to the royal family. The blood of King Jesus flows In our veins, so we have a right to enter the throneroom. It Is no easy thing on earth to get through even the outside door of a king's residence. During the Franco-German war, one eventide In the summer of 1S70, 1 stood studying the exquisite sculpturing of the gate of tte Tulleries, Paris. Lost in admiration of tho wonderful art of that gate, I knew not that 1 was ex citing suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the crowds of people, I found my self being closely Inspected by the gov ernmental officials, who, from my com plexion, Judged me to be a German and that for some belligerent purpose I might be examining the gates of the palace. My explanation In very poor French did not satisfy them, and they followed me long distances until I reached my hotel and were not satis fied until from my landlord they found that X was only an Inoffensive American. The gates of earthly pal aces are carefully guarded, and If so, how much more the throneroom I A dazzling place Is It for mirrors and all costly art. No one who ever saw the throneroom of the first and only Napoleon will ever forget tbe letter N embroidered In purple and gold on the upholstery of chair and window, the letter N gilded on the wall, tbe letter N chased on the chalices, the letter N flaming from the ceil In. What a con flagration of brilliance the throneroom of Charles Immanuel of Sardinia, of Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of England, of Boniface of Italy! But the throneroom of our Father's houso hath a glory eclipsing all the throne rooms that ever saw scepter ware or crown glitter or foreign embassador bow, for our Father's throne Is a throne of grace, a throne of mercy, a throne of holiness, a throne of Justice, a throne of universal dominion. We need not stand shivering and cower ing before It, for our Father says we may yet one. day come up and sit on ft beside him. "To him that overcom eth will I grant to sit with me In my throne." You see. we are princes and princesses. Perhaps now we move about Incognito, as Peter the Great In the garb of a ship carpenter at Am sterdam or as .Queen Tlraah In the dress of a peasant woman seeking the prophet for her child's cure, but It will be found out after awhile who we are when we get Into the throflerooia. Aye, we need not wait until then. W may by prayer and song and spiritual uplifting this moment enter the throne room. O King, lire forever! We touch the scepter and prostrate our selves at thy feet. - The crowns of the royal family of this world are tossed about from gen eration to feneration and from family to family. There are men comparative ly young rn Berlin who hare seen the crown on three emperors. But wher ever the coronets of this world rise or fall they are destined to meet in one place. And I look and eee them com ing from north and south and east and west, the Spanish crown, the Italian crown, the. English crown, the Turk ish crown, the Russian crown, the Per sian crown aye, all ..tho .crowns from under the great archivolt of heaven and while I watch and wonder they ere all flung m rain of diamonds around tbe pierced feet. Jeeua shall reign where'er the sun Does hi successiYe Journey run. Bis kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till sua shall rise and set no mors. Oh, that, throneroom of Christ! "In my Father's house are many rooms." Music of OeaTes. Another room in our Father's house Is the music room. SL John and other Bible writers talk so much about the music of heaven that there must be music there, perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed from trembling string or evoked by touch of Ivory key; but. If not that, then something better. There are so many Christian harpists and Christian composers and Christian organists and Christian choristers and Christian hymnologista that have gone up from earth, there must be for them some place of espe cial delectation. Shall we have music In this world of discords and no music In the land of complete harmony? I cannot give you the notes of the first bar of the new song that is sung In heaven. I cannot Imagine either the solo or the doxology. But heaven means music, and can mean nothing else. Occasionally that music has es caped the gate. Dr. Fuller, dying at Beaufort. 6. C said: "Do you not hear?" "Hear what?" exclaimed the bystanders. "The music! Lift me up! Open the windows P In that music room of our Father's house you will some day meet the old masters, Mozart and Handel and Men delssohn and Beethoven and Dod dridge, whose sacred poetry was as re markable as his sacred prose, and James Montgomery and William Cow per, at last got rid of his spiritual mel ancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang of "Greenland's Icy mountains and In dia's coral strand, and Dr. Raffles, who wrote of "High in yonder realms of light," and Isaac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney and wife for a week, but proved himself so agreeable a guest that they made him stay 86 years, and side by side Au gustus Toplady, who has got over his dislike for Methodists, and Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike for Cal vlnists, and George W. Bethune, as sweet as a songmaker as he was great as a preacher and the author "of "The Village Hymns," and many who wrote in verse or song, In church or by eventide cradle, and many who were passionately fond of music, but could make none themselves, the poorest singer there more than any earthly prima donna and the poorest players there more than any earthly Gott schalk. Oh, that music room, the head quarters of cadence and rhythm", sym phony and chant, psalm and antlphonl May we be there some hour when Haydn sits at the keys of one of his own oratorios, and David the psalmist fingers the harp, and Miriam of the Red sea banks daps the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips to the trumpet and the four and twenty elders chant, and Llnd and Parepa render match less duet In the music room of tbe old heavenly homestead! "In my Fa ther's house are many rooms. Joyfnl Reunion. Another room In our Father house will be the family room. It may corre spond somewhat with tbe family room on earth. At morning and evening, yon know, that is the place we now meet. Though every member of the household have a separate room, in the family room they all gather, and Joys and sorrows and experiences of all styles are there rehearsed. Sa cred room in all our dwellings, wheth er It be luxurious with ottomans and divans and books In Russian lids standing In - mahogany case or there be only a few plain chairs and a cradle,- So tbe family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assem ble and talk over the family experi ences of earth, the weddings, the births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children departed remain chil dren there? Will the aged remain aged there? Ob, no! Everything fs perfect there. The child will go ahead to glorified maturity, and the aged will go back to glorified maturity. The rising sun of the one will rise to meri dian, and the descending sun of the other will return to meridian. How ever much we love our children on earth, we would consider It a domestic disaster If they staid children, and so we rejoice at their growth here. And when we meet In the family room of onr Father's house we will be glad that they have grandly and gloriously ma tured, while our parents, wno were aged and Infirm here, we shall be glad to find restored to the most agile and vigorous immortality there. If 40 or 45 or 50 years be the apex of physical and mental life on earth, then the heavenly childhood will advance to that, and th heavenlT old ace will retreat to thaL- When we Join them In that fami ly room, we shall have much to tell them. We shall want to know of them, right away, such things as' these: Did you see us In this or that or the other struggle? Did yon know, when we lost our property and sympathize with ns? Did you know we tad that awful sickness? Were you hovering any where around us when we plunged Into that memorable accident? 'Did yon know of our backsliding? Did you know of that moral victory? Were you pleased when we started for heaven? Did you celebrate the hour of our conversion? And then, wheth er they know It or not. we will tell them all. But they will have more to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years on earth may be very eventful, but what must be the biogra phy of ten years In heaven? They will have to tell us the story of coronations. story of news from all Immensity, sto ry of conquerors and hierarchs, story. of wrecked or ransomed "planets, sto ry of angelic victory over diabolic re volts, of extinguished suns, of oblit erated constelSuJona. of hew 'galaxies kindled and swung, of stranded com ets, of worlds on fire, and story of Je hovah's majestic reign. If In that fam ily room of our Father's house we have so much to tell them of whit we have passed through since we parted, bow much more thrilling and arousing that which they hareo tell us of what they have passed through since we parted! Surely that family room will be one of the most favored rooms In all our Father's house. What long lingering there, for we shall never npain be In a hurry! "It me open a window," said a humble Christian servant to Lady Raffles, who, because of the death of her child, had shut herself up In a dark room and refused to see any one. "You have been many days In this dark room. Are you not ashamed to grieve In this manner when you ought, to be thanking God for having given you the most beautiful' child that ever was seen, and, instead of leaving him In this world till he should be worn ; with' trouble, has not God taken him to heaven In all his beauty? Leave off weeping and let me open a window." So today I am trying to open upon the darkness of earthly separation the win dows and doors and rooms of the heavenly homestead. "In my Father's house are many rooms." Rooms For AIL How would It do for my sermon to leave you In that family room today? I am sure there Is no room In which you would rather Btay than In the en raptured circle of your ascended and glorified klnsfolkr , We might visit oth er rooms In our Father's house. There may Ite picture galleries, penciled not with earthly art, but by some process unknown In this world, preserving for the next world the brightest and most stupendous scenes of human history, and there may be lines and forms of earthly beauty preserved for heaven ly Inspection in something whiter and chaster and richer than Venetian sculpture ever wrought rooms beside rooms, rooms over rooms, large rooms, majestic rooms, opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms. "In my Father's house are many rooms." I hope none of us will be disappoint ed about getting there. There Is a room for us if we will go and take it, but in order to reach it it is absolutely necessary that we take the right way, and Christ is the way, and we must enter at the right door, and Christ Is the door, and we must start In time, and the only hour you are sure of Is the hour the clock now strikes, and the only second the one your watch Is now ticking. I hold in my hand a roll of letters Inviting you all to make that your home forever. The New Testa ment is only a roll of letters Inviting you, as the spirit of them practically says: "My dying yet Immortal child In earthly neighborhood, I have built for you a great residence. It Is full of rooms. I have furnished them as no palace was ever furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are nothing, chryso prasus Is nothing, Illumined panels of sunrise and sunset nothing, the aurora of the northern heavens nothing, com pared with the splendor with which I have garnitured them. But yon must be clean before you can enter there, and so I have opened a fountain where yon may wash all your sins away. Come now! Put your weary but cleansed feet on the. upward pathway. Do you not see dmid the thick foliage on the heavenly hilltops the old family homestead?" "In my Father's bouse are many rooms. " Foreman Sanders Crro. James Sanders, foreman of tbe dry goods department of the Mammoth Racket, was the victim of a pretty good joke the other day. A lady while In the store trading lost o veil, which be care fully laid until It should be called for. Soon afterward a lady caUed and said tooneof tbe clerks she had lost her baby. Mr f-andera, bein in tbe rear of the store nd not. bearing distinctly, thought said veil, as be had that in mind, aiM rushed forward and asked her if It vraa a white or a black one. When be f.mnd out it was s baby she had lost, tie retreated in a collapsed condition. Channte Tribune, rrldeV FsOL "Winded, eb'C sneered the eotorno bfle as ft bowled past the old gray mare which "had stopped to get her breath. But almost simultaneously with the unkind words one of the puffed up tires of the automobile was punctured by a discarded hatpin that lay tn the road. Whereupon tbe old gray mere amned and spared enough breath to gasp mockingly, 'Winded, eb?" Which story 'la told to show that even automobiles may live In glass bouses and throw stoneov Brooklyn Ufa, .- ; -:. '' Cs Mesat It 2Hm f an ingenious fellow. He htf the summer building a cot- tflr on his new lake shore tract. It la a pretty cottage too. He covered tbe outside of the ground story wua wrr firma." " ""Win rrnwin rorrft COtta. "I don't I mean" mud Cleveland Plain Dealer, i . . yl? Deefr IWaotleo. "In Turkey, the most beautiful and desirable woman Is the one who weighs the most, writes an American who has been sojourning tn the sui . tan's domain. "A thin and willowy creature would have no social standing In Turkey and would be a total failure on the stage In Constantinople. Ur less a woman la fat she cannot secure an engagement In a musical hall, and the fatter she Is tho more enthusiasm she orousce and tho larger ts her sal ary. "On tho evening after my arrival In Constantinople I went to tho Concord la -Music hall, and there I saw more fem . tatse breadth, depth. thlckneea, heft and circumference than I had ever bo fore seen. under ono roof. Tbe first woman who sang was fat; the second was fatter; the third was no, not fat test, although sho was much heavier than No. 2. She was merely tho prom ise of what was yet to come. They were holding back the really big art ists for the flnakx "At last these two camo on. They were 'sisters' and they mado a large family by themselves. The houso arose In Joy as the two vast egg shaped ob ject appeared on , the stage. The Turks, who had been sitting stolidly In the boxes looking-with dull uncon cern at the frail vocalists who weighed less than 300, now straightened up and Clapped their hands." . Railroad Tiea. A fact of some Interest In rallrood construction Is the great diversity in the number of tie's used to tho mile on different lines, as well as In the size and quality of timber. Thus, accord tog to the construction details of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway, tbe number of ties used on that line is 2,800 to the mile, three quarters of these being chestnut and one-quarter oak, while some roads uso 2,000 only, or 200 to tho mile. More than 00 per cent of tho ties are cut 8 feet long, 12 per cent 0 feet and tho rest 8 feet long; tho nine foot ties nro used chiefly by tho southern and gulf group of railroads, where pi no timber is very abundant and cheap. Tho New England roads have their (lea cut from five to six inches In thickness, while the southern roads seem to prefer sev en Inch ties; the width of tho tics like wise varies from flvo to six inches In New England to eight inches In tho central northern and tbe southern roads. New York Sun. A llnstler. "Now, then, my friend, said tbe businesslike young preacher, pocketing the wedding feo and turning again to the bridegroom, "let mo ask If'you are carrying any life Insurance?" "No, sir," replied tho newly mado benedict, "Not yet" "Well, the most sacred duty resting upon you now Is to take out a liberal policy for the benefit of this young wo man, who Is dependent upon you hero after. I represent one of the strongest and best companies In this 'couutrjr Here are tbe figures showing," etc. And be got the young husband's ap plication. There Is nothing llko finish ing a Job thoroughly while you nro about it Chicago Tribune. . An excited man gives himself away. 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