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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON Text: “/ft drew out hi a sword, and irould have killed himself, supposing that, the prisoners had Iteen fled L Jiul Paul cried with aloud voice, saying : i Do thyself no harm. } ” Acts xvi. t 27-28. Here is a would-be suicide arrested in his deadly attempt He whs ft sheriff!, and ac cording to the Roman law, a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner: and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endunireoned for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years; and if the prisoner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for f'aul and Milas. The govern ment had not had confidence in bolts and liars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and supernatural. Mure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing those ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner’s axe on the morrow, and suiter public disgrace, resolves to pre cipitate his own decease. Rut liefore the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one ot the unloosened pi isoners arrests the blade by the command: “Do thyself no harm.” In olden time, and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suicide was considered honorable ami a sign of courage. Demos thenes poisoned himself when told that Alex ander’s ambassador had demanded the sur render of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather than sub mit to Julius Ceasar, took his own life, and after three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open and per ished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Romney, the conqueror. Han nibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Rrutus a suicide. After the disas ter of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-Emperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and soon after the groans aroused all the attendants, snd it was only through utmost medical skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up on the sub ject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the tdvsage out of life by one’s own behest/ Defaulters, alarmed at the Idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men losing large fortunes go out of the world tecause they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affection, domestic infelicity, domestic impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from this life by Paris green, by laudanum, by lielladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abut ment of a bridge, bv firearms. More cases of felo de se in tne last two years than any two years of the world's existence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months. The evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really anything wrong aliout quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and there are found in respect able circles (>eople apologetic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that suicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self-destuction, but always in dementia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in bis bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of tho catastrophe is very great, I charge all those who have had Christ ian friends under cerebal aberration step off the boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Ix>rd took them right out of their dazed and fren zied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way He treated the demoniac of Ga dara and the child lunatic, and the potency with w hicli he hushed tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual giants, had none grander than Hugh liiller. Great for science and great for God. He came of the lest Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second-sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from tho quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Ruck land and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universi ties spellbound while ne told them the story of what he had seen of Cod in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived t ishow that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and ho struck his tun ing fork on the rocks of Cromarty until be brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled “Footprints of the Creator ’ and the “Testi mony of the Hocks,” proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage lietween genu ine science and revelation. On this latter book he toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God, until he could not steep, and his brain gave wav. and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel instrument having hail two bullets—one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner’s inquest was examining it and fell dead. Have you anydouht of the beatification of Hugh Miller, after his hot brain hail ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of heaven. No one doubted the piety of William Cow per. the author of those tnree great hymns, “Oh, for a closer walk with God,” “ What various hindrance’s we meet.” “There is a fountain filled with blood:” William Cow per. sdu* shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Cbristinn hymn* ology. In hynoctirondria he resol veil to take his own life, and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he ex pocted to spring, and rode hack to his home, and that ni'ht threw hirnself upon his own knife, hut the blade broke; and then he hanged himself to the ceiling, hut the rope parted. No wonder tl at when God mercifully de livered him from that awful dementia he sat down ami wrote that other hymn just as memorable: “ God moves In s mysterious way llis wonders to |*rfortu; He plants Ills footstep* in the s«% And rides upon the storm. "Blind unbelief is sore to err And scan Hi. work In valo; God Is Ills own Interpreter, And be will make it plain. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that that man who, in the use of his reason, by his own act. snaps the bond between his body ami his snui, go*« straight into |*rdi tion. Him 11 I prove it/ Revelation xxi., 8: “Murderers shall h ive their part in the iake which burnetii with lire and brimstone. ’ Revelation xxll, 15; “Without are dogs. and sorcerers, and whore mongers. and murderers.” You do no* believe the New Testament/ Then, perhaps, you tel ore the Ten Command incuts: “Thou •halt not kill.’’ Do you say all thesepnanagm refer to tb 4 Lak.ng of the nfeof other*/ i lieu I ask you If you arc not as responniMe for your own life as for the life of others* Go l gave you a special trust in your life. He mado you tirn custodian of your life as He made you the custodian of no otlier life. He gave you as weapons with which to. defend it two arms to strike back assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion, and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination of others is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in the lat ter case it is treachery to an especial trust, it is the surrender of a castle you were espe cially appointed to keep, it is treason to a natural law, and it is treason to God added to ordinary murder.- To show how God in tho Bible looked upon this crime, I point you to the rogue’s picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, tho pictures of the peoplo who have committed this unatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Haul on the walls of Dattishan. Here is the man who chased little David— ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of Kudor. Here is a man who. whipped in battle Instead of surrendering his sword with dig nity, as many a man has done, asks his ser vant to slay him, and when the servant de clines, then the giant plants the hilt of tiie sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide. Hero is Ahitophel, tho Machiavelli of olden times, be traying his best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom, and joining that fellow in his attempt at porioide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out of a dis- 6 raced life into tho s licide’s eternity. There e is, tho ingrate! Hero is Abimelech, prac tically a suicide. He is with an army, bom barding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he has left in his cracked skull he commands his arinor-bedrer: “Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me.” There is his post-mortem photograph in the book of Hamuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says ho was a martyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a hook revealing Aaron Burr us a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part of some of His pretended apostles—a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white 1 Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of all the ages, Judas Iscariot. All the good men and women of the Bible left -to God the decision of tbelr earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide if any man ever had—what with his destroyed property, his body nil aflame with insuffera ble carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except tho chief curse of it, a pes tiferous wife, and four garrulous people pelt ing him with comfortless talk while lie sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph: “All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” Notwithstanding tho Bible is against this evil, and tho aversion which it creates by tho loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and tin arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the im rease. What is the cause? I charge upon Infi delity and Agnosticism this whole thing. If there he no hereafter, or if that hereafter bo b’bsful without reference to how wo livo and how wo die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next/ And when our existence here becomes troub lesomej why not pass right over into Elysiuml Put tins down among your most solemn re flections, and consider it after you go to your homes; there has never been a case of suicide whore the operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, and I challenge the universe. There never has been a case of self-destruction while in full appreciation of his immortality anti of the fact that that im mortality would lie glorious or wretched ac cording as he accepted Jesus Christ or reject ed Him. You say it is a business trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it Is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is tho abdica tion of reason or the teaching of infi delity which practically says: “If you don’t like this life get out of it, and you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to jiay. no pern cutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will ho everything glorious and noth ing to pay for it.” Infidelity always hag been apologetic for self-immolation. After Tom Paine’s “Age of Reason” was published and widely read there was a marked increase of self-slaughter. A man in I#ondon heard Mr. Owen deliver his infidel lecture on Socialism, and went home, sat down, and wrote these words: Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters in history, and the Bible is tho greatest pos sible deception,” and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these words: “It would lie no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danulio from its natural lied. Where then can lie the crime in my diverting a few drops of blood from their ordinary channel/” And having written the e<say he loaned it to a friend, the friend read it, wrote a letter of thunks anil admiration, and shot himself. Appendix to the same hook. Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, under certain circumstances, were apologetic lor self-immolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to peop’e’s rushing out from this world into tho next.. They teach us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world, you will land either m an oblivious nowhere or a glorious some where. And infidelity holds the upper end of th \ojie for the suicide, and aims the pfstol wiin which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day anil persuade the majority of people in this country that it does not make any difference how you go out of the world you will land safely, the Hudson mid the East river would be so full of corpses tho ferryboats would lie impeded in their progress, and tho crack of a suicide's pistol would l.»e no more alarming than tho rumble of a street i ar. 1 have sometimes heard it discussed whether the great dramatist was a Christian or not. Ido not know, but 1 know that ho considered appreciation of a future existence the mightiest hindrance to self-destruction: ‘‘For who could bear the whip* and acorn* of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of d***p **’d love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quiet 11* make With a bare bodk n? Who would fardels bear. To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Hut that the dread of something after death The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveler returns—puzzles the will?” Would God that tho coroners would lie brave in rendering the right verdict, and when in a case of irresponsibility they say: “While this man was demented he took his life;” in the other cast* say: “Having read infidel books and attended infidel lectures, which obliterated from this man’s mind nil appreciation of anything like future rotri* 1 hution, he oornmifcted self slaughter! ’ Ah! infidelity, stand up and take thy sen tenca! In tho presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, tby breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand up Hatyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tions, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster Infidelity 1 Part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, Maud ui> aud take thy sentence! Thy bands red with tl»e blood in which thou ha*t washed, thy feet crimson with tho human gore through which thou hast waded.stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the |»it and xtipon the solm util groans of families thou has blasted,and roll on the l**i of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music lie the everlasting miserere of thoae whom thou h-tst damned! 1 brand tho forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self-immolation for the last century on the ja- 1 of those wtio hid their reason. My friends, »f ever your life through Itt abrasions and its molestat ions, should * *e n to lieunliearaMe, an I yOu are tempted U» quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourself as worse than otters. Christ him welt wqs tempted to cast Hinvwlf from tl* root of the Temple, but as He resisted, so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on the way. Remember that Go,I keeps the chronology of your life with as much, precision as He keeps the chronology of nations, your death as well as your cra( ile. Why was it that at midnight, just at mid night, the destroying angel struck the blow that t'ct the Israelites free from bondage/ The four hundred and thirty years were up at twelve o’clock that night. The four hun dred and thirty years were not up at eleven, and erne o’clock would have been tardy and too late. The four hundred and thirty years were u?» at twelve o'clock, and the destroying angel struck tho blow and Israel was free. And Goil knows just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By His grace make not the worst of things, hut the best of them. If you must take the pills, do not chew them. Your everlasting re wards will accord with your earthly per turbations, just as Caius gave to Aggrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been a chain of iron. For the asking—and Ido not know to whom I speak in this august assem blage, hut the word may be especially ap propriate—for your asking you may have the same grace that was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from “the de lectable orchard of the Leonine prison. ” And remember that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin hut very important rim, and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had bettor keep out of it until God breaks that rim and separates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarin of summer insects, leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrowless world, and it is so ra diant that the noonday sun is only the low est doorstep ami the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers at to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession como to take the conquerors homo from church militant to church triumphant, and you and I have ten thou sand reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self-immola tion or impenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us will he overpowered by the clang of tho opening of the solid pearl Iwforo us. O God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian’s life, a Christian’s death, a Chris tian’s burial, a Christian’s immortality! SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A Berlin scientist says salt is con ducive to longevity. Brass solder may he made by using twelve parts of brass, six parts of zino, and one part of tin. Antipyiine in doses of one to three grains is recommended by Honnenberger as a remedy for whooping cough. A gas stove lias been invented to rival the bookcase folding bed. It is con cealed in a handsome colonial clock case. Lithium is the lightest metal known and is worth #liiO per ounce. GAllium is the costliest metal known and is worth $3250 per ounce. It is asserted that, under certain con ditions, the bark of the quilia tree of Chili possesses cleansing properties supe rior to those of the best soap. Wonders are being continually ac complished by electricity. A trench electrician thinks he will soon be able to produce a thunder storm at will. A correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says that he heard some cornet playing from a phonograph which had been repeated more than a thousand times, aud ail the notes were as clear and distinct as ever. A new carpenter rule has been in vented by a Boston mechanic. It is of novel construction, and aside from its uses as a rule makes a very handy bevel or square, in which legs may be adjust ably clamped in any desired position. The tax collectors’ receipts of the ancient Egyptians were inscribed on pieces of broken crockery. Home of them, from the British museum collec tion, have been translated, and show the tax in Egypt under tho early Casars. A new chain wrench for plumbers is especially adapted for use in connection with pipes, and is so constructed tha' the pipe may be turned from right to left; or vice versa, without removing th wrench, while it permits of tightenin; the chain less than the length of a link The French in Cayenne are said b hold in great dread the Lucilia hoy inivora*, or man-eating fly. This it sect lays its eggs in the mouth or nos trils of sleeping, and especially >f drunken, individuals, and the hatchel out laivte usually produce a horriUe death. The Colt arms factory at Harttorl, Conn., will soou begin the manufacture of the 5000 navy revolvers for tho United States Government. The new piece is a ri\ e-shooter of thirty-eight calibre. Besides being self-cocking, all the cartridges may be instantly removed by a pressure of the thumb. Blacksmiths, who sometimes get hold , of fractious horses, will appreciate the device cf a Sidney (Ohio) man. Jhf invention is a horseshoeing rack, aiV | consists of a pen, readily adjustable/ , the si/e of any animal, ’ horse can be securely i being made so that^ - readily f taken down and out’of the way. t French cheats now obtain from tin f essence j* birch bark, b f rectification . an essential oil which possesses anion;, j other proprieties that of being fatal t» < insect life, and an electrically insulating j tarry substance; and theie two product ( arc so treated and combined with othc « substances as to produce an anti-oxidi; , ing compound and an infulat’ng niateri: 1 capable of the same applications ( < ebonite. I By means of recent improvemenl 1 made in the manufacture of rifics many as 120 barrels can now be rolled! an Dour by one machine. They straightened cold and bored with con npnnding speed, and even the riflinj s done automatically, so that one in < tending six machines can turn out si y , or seventy barrels j»er day. With 0 , old rifling machine twenty barrels »* j about the limit of a day’s work, but ie improved machines attend to every tl»g j after being once started, And, wheupo j tilling is completed, ring a bell tefcll { the uttention of the woihmnn. j { The weather vane in the shape * 1 large grasshopper, which adorns Fi Hall iu Boston, is ►»«<! to have ten j placed there by the owner of them, , who wet also a whole*nle gocer, 1 » , sgn of his occupation. The grasslt per was the s gii ol t#c Wholesale G« «rs , A asm bit ion of Boston. Mr. Faneu *a* , a prominent member of th’*» mioci on. FARM EXPERIENCES. Interesting Observations on Ani znals, Insects and Crops. [Correspondence N. Y. Times.] The instinct of farm cats, used much more to exercise their wits for the pur pose of living than the average house cut which is spoiled by too much pettiug has afforded a subject for nmuy interest ing stories. But n case, which, I think is unique occurred iu my barn this s»*a son. A pair of ducks nested close to gethcr in the burn and hutched out n lo of ducklings. The cat hud her nes close by those of the ducks, where six nursed one little kitten. Tho ducki went off tho morning after their brood* were hatched to tho pond and did no! return. On looking for tho duckling* they were not to lie found, and I wni beginning to suspect the cat had made away with them, when I saw the dark little things peeping out from her nest. She had gathered them all in with her and was keeping them warm, and spit and fought when I attempted to take thorn from her to return them to the ducks. Tho value of a crop of millet is far greater than is generally supposed or believed. As a forage for all kinds of stock it cornea next to com. lam now feeding millet hay to milking cows, work oxen, horses aud colts with evident ad vantige. It is preferred before any other kind of liay by tho horses, and is all eaten without waste. I consider it worth at least one-quarter more than 1 the best timothy. But this crop must bo cut early and cured quickly, and 1 grown thickly too, to bo worth this. When ripe aud over cured it is not , worth any more than straw, and I don’t consider tho grain of much vjdue for 1 feeding. 1 have just finished cutting/wo acres ; of second-growth clover and tinothy for j [ soiling. It has been used for all kinds \ 1 of stock, including pigs, w/ich eat it/ freedily. The two acres liav/siipporhy 1 2 yearling steers and lieiltA a cows/ 4 ( spring calves, 1 bull, 1 oaui, 2 hor‘ a and 7 pigs for two monthsf and the4 <^ w growth of the first part of would/ 1 ®* 56 very good pasture. Hiuyhis fief] been pastured it would 110 1 liave/y ie hleU more than feed for tho/2 viArlingp, if < they could have/ven Wed tv* it for the two mohtlis. yreedii/ gre/u crops by j , soiling lias V«n frjfuengy proved to yield three tines n/nuiyh food as the 1 » same land have done, r The common opi/ionthat earth worms damage t/tato< s/s generally supposed . by the fa6t that Alio worms have been found in thoMlA>ws eaten in the tubers. This is fcirf mstantiai evidence of the " weakest ki/d. A man goes to his corn crib and pi* that the corn lias been 1 eaten off fjf»n the cobs, and lie also finds 1 a cat cttilp up ami sleeping on the corn. 5 Will he Imp at once to tho conclusion that tbe“t knawed the corn ? Certainly - not, ain/becauso lie knows it is not tho f mature t cats to eat corn. He lays the - blame / the right quarter, the mice and rats, lipase he knows these animals iu -Best* F* cribs aud he recognizes tho j mark?their teeth. Now a person j that calls an earth worm an in sect >cs not know enough to give a just 1 judiput in this case. Now, worms hav’no teeth or mandibles aud cannot S coipqucntly make marks or indentures J in potato. Wire worms, on the con | My have a sharp pair «>f mandibles or 1 over teeth and make distinct marks in i tl* potatoes which they bite into, and • 6 do the large white grubs; and these f jako much larger marks and cat much * leper than the wire worms do. So that l /hen any person says that earth worms ;ause the damage to potatoes known as scab his experience is not correctly » based. In any soil there ar.* myriads ol 1 earth worms and a great many white f grubs, and the potatoes are always more | • or less eaten by the later, but tifey have i r never been scabby to the knowledge oi r tho oldest inhabitant. And there are no wire worms—(the kind known us hum dred legs—myriapods—-is meat.) My experieiiee in this respect, duo to very careful observation, is t'iat ♦lie /' white grubs keep to one potato, remain ing near it or in tho cavity they roak/ until it is nearly all <at 11 away; tV | wire worms eat only the skin, and/ J ■ from one potato to another, some more thon others, and moyf” f them but little, and many ore ’“‘J , ■ spotted in a pw places. AhviW most damage;' nre the soft st s* u “*d : ones. It is Anon* that no fuyPM ana ever been fgrowing in tl/ *«abby 1 potatoes, afhough fomotiimyt may be : found on* 1 '? potato growA' the woundeiiP art » um * hence u/hdental. A Very Curioii/otone* 1 : / —* . .here has latelyV>ecn found in Colo- < do a white opao6e variety of hydro- ■ iiano in rouudtd lumps from five to < wenty-iive mm. in diauioter, with a white, chalky, or glazed coating, and which is of peculiar interest to scion title . men. For its power of absorbing liquid this substance is quite remarkable, aud . when water is allowed to slowly drop on j it it first becomes very white aud chalky, and then gradually perfectly transpar ent. This property is developed so strikingly as to give rise to the name “magic stone” for it, and has suggested its use in Hugs, lockets, chains, ete., to 1 conceal photographs, hair, or other ob jects which the wearer wishes to reveal j only when caprict. might dictate. In an j examination of several specimens of this curious muterial to determine its speci fic gravity, etc., the fact was readily dis- ; closed that hydrophone the weight being taken both dry and wet—absorbs more than an equal volume of water. Discoveries in Ancient Syria. The United States Consul at Beyront reports that a few months ago a parly of Germans, under the patronage of their j Government, began excavations iu a mound at the foot cf the Amanus (a mountain two days’ journey so.itli of I Marash in the Vilayet of Aleppo), and j have discovered some fifty blocks of bktckbasalt with has reliefs of men and j animals, constituting the basement story of a largo palace. Thesft sculptures bear unmistakable characteristics of Hittito art, but no Hittitc inscriptions hare yot been found. In the court of j the palace was discovered a colossal statue of Hardunapslus covered with ■ Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. The Germans are still pushing forward llieir i excavations in eager expectation ol more important discoveries. WhefLoir Cabin* rioiS l *** J.aku jNlpJug. Jyen Tr at do " n ’ owl bree./ - jfea&ss "'..'mETu'hSdSSLTtt**. •» four’og in tills heavy y**— 11 ** blg *° b T “Nofe k r’ltaveToi the like, before an.lcn.ptkgain,” chJrfullY '’ ro "' l lLl!tti» of*. He w.s a Un *%r™>d K l‘noti'° • n-g y™ healthnntl »t: t ’h, r 1 the Fro , . .. y, iino though I jliSt ■ ■’ -ong e* ever," re aHl v three rears ago plied tfeguoL- never thought to 1 stoocht death s ■ w#g £ the PUII W *b. I K ot into the "aterbne day * I)sJ „ lU h whlch ton.’ _/j„ n r. •fe 1 "} a wi3* we "ty milc * through the V ? I "Valor; he gave me some medi ai’.’.f uH d,/help».e much.” i fence effected!” U lady, who had come over < .v' jUs. gave me a preparation of from the ijp rbs which she sai.l tne early üßwl ' nnd a j J cough and put me on my feet to travel along the frontier to i iJ easy it is to get along without .earn h ow effective are the natural ' Winch the old grandmothers know remearr are . They often cure where the ./ynemns fail. . rM mother of a family knows how iJnnd colds are quickly and radically cou rwith syrups and teas made from bal onVif/ud herbs which “grandmother taught Jwtomakß.” ■Arner's Log Cabin cough and consump remedy was, after long investigation j ytethe merits and cotnjMirison with other i/dtimo preparations, selected from them jforauHo proved to be the very best of them a/l. It has brought back the roses to many a pallid cheek -there is no known remedy its equal as a cure for coughs and colds. Cats as a general thing d » not like water, though they arc good swimmers. Children Hiarrlne to Heath On account of their inability to digest food, will find a most marvelous food and remedy in Hcott's Emulsion of Pure C*«d Liver Oil with Hypopli opiates. Very palatable and eatily digested. Dr. B. W. Cohen, oi >\aco, Texas says: “I have used your Emulsion in Infantile wasting with good results. It not only restores waste I tissue-*, bu« gives strength and increases the appetite. 1 am glad to ust* such a reliable article.” An Irish philosopher srys the best pumpkin pie is made of squash. A Had hi hi* nt Carve! He is a well-known citizen, and his nearest and dearest friends do not suspect his insani ty. Hew do w’e hippen to In »w »l>»ut ii? Listen: his appetite is gone, he is low spirited, ho don’t sleep well, he has night sweats, he is ann.yed b> a hacking cough. These symptoms are I the forerunners of consumption and death, and yet he neglects them. Is it any wonder that we call him a madman? If you aie hie fi iend teU hid* to get a bottle of Dr Pierce’s | Golden Medical Discovery without delay. It will cure him if he takes it in time. It will : not miraculously create new lungs when the Old ones are nearly gone, but it will restore diseased ones to a healthy condition Tell him aliout it, and warn him that in his case dtilay means death Ihe Englirh Bishop of Truro has in herited £400,000 from an undo. Wonderful I’opuliiriljr. ! Thy fact that the sale of Dr. Pierce’s Pleas ant Purgative Pellets exceeds th .t of any other pill indie market, 1m it great or small, is <•! aecou.lt of the fact tint they are tiny, little, :igar-conted granules, and that in in.jit ca*H one little “Pellet ’ is sufficient for a (jose-ihat they are purely vegetable and I*t (ei/ly harmless; and for constipation, j (wlioitacfs, sick headache, and all diseases from derangement of the liver, stoni a.-tyGr bowels, they are almolutely a specific A/e»tle laxative or active cathartic, ac j (-/ling tosize of dose. j/ iow * Has no less than ten women county school superintendents. Keep Them In ihe Nurarry, HAMBURG FIGS should be kept in the nursery, wlore they are particularly useful in case of constipatienor mdigestw n, as they are liked by children, and are pi ompt and el - fleaci< us in action. 25 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. Texas has I,OIC ( ‘J2D head of hogs, val ueJ at $1,211,t>6J1. Use the great specific for “cold in the head' and catarrh—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. A mocking bird in Albany, N. Y. # whistles “Brydanf/er’a March. ** The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for ConMimptii n. Sold everywhere. 2.5 c. All good swimmers arc notbelligerenti vet they strike out right and left. —— .1. ■ 1 11 " 31 h""* ■"'> make mors nmm»«7 we,k. u .A>#«n ikat. | ■ ■■*• snyrihing »•!»#• in the world Kifhrr sri Cnatlv nwiai . JTKKK. Unuoiikk. Addnu, Tsi s* I’u.. Ah|bm.Nihm PEERLESS DTES RoT.r>BT > DBrie.ionL I j WANTED cu^^AfA^.y' B Ely’s Cream Balm IS SUKE TO CUBE COLD IN HEAD Apply Halm 1,.t0 rarh nostril. ELY BR, >B., M Warren SL. N. Y. 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Ki‘ toieth-r «ith ihousunff. of mnvinc inetestinmni.b from Ml parte of tho world, i« noritive wvHence of their valna. {tBAsnRvTMS Pi I-ix are purely vegetable, absolutely liarmlew, «n>l ®« r * to take at any ** Hold in in every drug and medicine "tore, either plain or sugar coated. The Prince of Wales has purchased hit eightieth uniform. If You Are Sick With Headache, Neuralgia, Rh< umatlwn byspep* ■io, Biliousness. Blood Humors, Kidney Disease, Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague, Sleeplessness, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous I'm#- tration, use Paine’s Celery Compound and be cured. In each of these the cause is mental or physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria, the effect of which is to weaken the nervous sys tem, resulting in one of these diseases. Remove the cause with that great Nerve Tonic, and the result will disappear. Paine’s Celery Compound Jab. L. Bowen. Springfield, Mass, writes » Paine’s Celery Compound cannot be excelled as a Nerve lonic. In my case a s.ngle bottle wrought a great c hange My nervousness ‘•utimly disappeared, and with it tne resulting affee*tlon of the stomach, heart and liver, and the tone of the system was wonderfully invigorated. I tell my frieuds. if sick as I have been, I aine • Celery Compound Will Cure You! gold by druggists, tl : six for *>. Prepared only by Wklis, Richardson 6t Co., Burlington, For the Aged ttervous, Debilitated. \|§§s/ Warranted to color more ftooda than any other dye. ever made, and to Rive more brilliant and durable colore. Aak for the lAamni, eDd taka no other. A Dress Dyed j A Coat Colored > Garments Renewed J cents, A Child can use them! Unequalled fOr all Fancy and Art Wort# At druggists and Merchants. Dye Book free. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Props., Burlington Vt N N P- 14 ■lPlffii IIP BO I M »ubl«* Action. Self rocking Hts ULf tnO. l l-tt •!■«« Catalogue Free, Percy's tic* Hoimr. o*hkorh, Wl*. 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I s .ould m-omniend a year's pr -pamtion in the rase of anyone so nt eriy unpreparod as I wae; l,u your System l*vi si re ngthrned my natural memory , tha* 1 was able to remeojber and give the gist of any boo* after reading If o nee. I therefore read Moatfoot, Prooior, Harold Hrowue. Moelieim. Ac., Arc., once and uas sur er** fu’ in every one -f the nine pa< «-rs. The present HiMh«»p ot Edinburg kno/ s tfie facto. Faith ully yours. [Hev.l James Miiuu.ictom Macdonald.!M.A.j To Prof. A. Lnfsette, SIX Fifth Ave.. N. Y. Peneotly taugut by <«>rro tp ntlenoe. Send for i r sport no. T*j CURES w !:f All tlS£ f "[S 1 WPP ■I DottC<'U|{h syi'ip. Tlttw gnnd. Ul' > H »ii tirjo. h* 'M bjr JrnggtiU. J I lielieve Piso's Cure B B for ('outturn ption enved n 1 my life.—A. Jl. Dowiu.l., ■ S Editor Enquirer. Etlen- B B ton, N. C., April Zt. IHB7. B IpTso! ITlie BERT Cough Medl- I cine is Ptao’B Cobh »ob B Cnmtmrrioii. Children B take it without objection. ■ By all drugglate. 25c. 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Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Nov. 3, 1888, edition 1
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