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DK. TALM AGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN OA'S . V' SERMON. :- " : - -. - ....... Subject: "Pulpit r and Press Made Allies.'? , Text: r " Tfce children of this world art in their generation wiser than tha children Sacred stupidity aud.solemn incompetency . and sanctified laziness are . here rebuked by Christ. He says worldings are wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. - Men of the world grab occasions while Christian " people let the most valuable "occasions drift nnimniMved. That is the meaning of our world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.? - m y- A marked illustration of th3 truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian re ligion to take possession of the secular print-' ing press. The opportunity is open, and has ' ior some time been open, but the ecclesiasti cal courts and the churches and the ministers of religion are for the most part-allowing the f olden opportunity .to pass unimproved, hat the opportunity is open I declare from the fact that the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you : present them. Any animated-and stirring article relating to religions themes - they. - wiiiri criorUv orint. Thev thank you far any thtormil'on in regard to: churches. ': If a , wrong his 5 '.teen done . to any Christian church or '2 - Christian - institution - you could go' into, any newspaper of the Hand and have the Tal truth; stated. y Dedica tion services,- mjnistjriaV ordinations and pastoral installation. corner stone laying of a ckorch, onaiverary of a charitable society - will have rearonv.le spiCa in any secular journal, if it have p.-evious notice given. If I had some great injustice done ma there is not an editorial or areoortorial room in the United Stateyinto which I could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any well known Christian. Already the daily ; secular press daring the course of each week : nnhiieiiiK e mnch relisrious information and bjgh moral sentiment as doas the weekly re-: ligious press. "Why then does not our glori-ous-Christimity embrace these magnificent opportunities? I have before me a subject of . first and last importance. How shall we se- cure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement to religion and the pulpit. ;.. : The first thing toward this result is cessa tion of indiscriminate hostility against news--paperJom.; You might as well denounce the " legal profession because of the shysters, or the medical profession because of the quacks,, or merchandise because of the swindling . ar gain makers, as to slambang ne j spapers be cause there are recreant .editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Guttenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art ' because it was suggested to him that print- ing might be suborned into the service of the - devil, but afterward hs bethought hims?lj that the right use of the art might more thin overcome the evil use- of it, and so -he spared the tyne and the intelligence of all fol- lowing ages. But there are nwny to day in the depressed mood of Gnttenberg with uplifted hammer, wanting to pound to p eces the type, who have not reached his better mood ; in which he saw the art of -printing to be the rising sun of the world's illumination." If in-: stead of figh tin; "newspapers we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence ' in marshaling their help in religious direc tions, we would be as much wiser as the man j who gets consent - of the- railroad superin- tendent to f ssten a car to the end of a rail train, shows better sense thaOi he who runs his wheelbarrow up. the tract to meet ani. drive back the Chicago limited expresv- The , silliest thing that a man ever doss is to fight a newspaper, for you may have tha floor for utterance perhaps one day in the week, whiles the newspaper has the floor every day of the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man. had irunr vmlninKM nH one of the weakest thiners he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers did not stop their ad verse criticism of himself he would with four hundred thousand bayonets cross the channel ; for their chastisement. -- - -; -'-' - - j Don't fisht newspapers. Attack , provokes attack. Better wait till the excitement blows over and then go in and' rt justice, for "get it you will if you hare patisnca and common ; sense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that there is an enormous amount of common s "nse in .the , world, and you will eventually be taken for what yon are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up rnd you 'cannot be written down, and if you are the enemy of good so ciety that fact will come out, and if ybu are the friend of good society that fact will be j established. I know what I am talking" about, for I can draw on my own experience. All the responsible newspapers as far as I know are my friends now. But many of you . remember the time when I was the most continuously and meanly at tacked man in this country. God gavo me grace : not to answer hack; and I kept silence for ten years, -and much grace is required.. "What I said was perverted and twisted into just the -opposite of what I did Bay. My person was maligned,- and, I was . presented as a gorgon, and I was maliciously described by persons who had never seen mo as a monstrosity - in body, mind and souL .There .were millions -of people who believed that there was a large sofa in this pulpit, al though we never had anything but a chair, -and that during the singing by the congrega tion I was accustomed to lie down oa t hat sola and dangle my feet overthe end. Lying New. York correspondents for ten years ' misrepresented our - church. f services, but we waited, and people from every neighbor hood of Christendom came here, to find the magnitudes! the falsehoods concermag the church and concerning myself. A reaction '.t in and. now we have, justice, full-justice, . more than justice and as much overpraise as once, we had under appreciation, and no man . that ever lived was so much indebted to the newspaper press for opportunity to preach the Gospel as I am. " Young men in the min istry, young men in all professions and occu- . nations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to tart up your languid circulation, or a system of massage or Swedish move ment, whose pokes and pulls and twists and. thrusts' are sdutary - treatmant - - There is o - person you need to ' manage and that is : yourself. - Yeep your disposition sweat by : communion with the Christ-who answered a t again, the society of genial people, and walk in the sunshine with your hat off and - you will come put all right. . And don't join much of their time damning newspapers. -Again, in this effort to secure the secular '. press as a m'gbtier re-enforcement of religion : and the pulpit, let us make it the avenue of religious information. If you put the facts of churches and denominations of Christians only into the columns of religious papers, which do not in this country have an aver age of more than. ten thousand -subscribers,: what have you done as compared with what you -do if you put these facts through the daily papers which have hundreds of thou sands of "readers? .Every little denomination must haye its little organ, supported at great expen ,wben, with one-half the outlay,a col umn - or i half a column of room might : be rented in some semi-omnipotent secular pub lication, and so the religious information would be sent . round and round the world. r The world moves so swiftly to-day that news a week old islstaTe. Giveyns all the great church facte and all the revival tidings the next morning or the same evening. -My ad vice, often given to friends who propose to start a newspaper, ft: Don't l-Don'tlu Em ploy the papers already started" The big gest financial hole ever dug in this American" continent is the hole in which good people throw their money when they-start a news paper.. It fa almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of money as buying scoc t in a gold mine in Colorado., Not more print ing presses, but the right use of those already established. All their cylinders, all their steam powarall their pens, all their types, all- their editorial . chairs and reportorial rooms are available if you would engage .them in behalf of civilization and Chris tianity. . " . -' r.;' r-v:: : Again: If you would secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit, extend widest and highest courtesies to the representatives of journal ism. . Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of ed ucation and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them weary with the push of a business that is precarious md fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of information to thousands of readers, their impression of the services" to be the impression adopted by multitudes. They are connecting f links - between a fermon or a song -or a prayer and this - great popula- tion that tramp up and down the sheets day I by dnv and year by year with their sorrows uncomforted and their sins unpardoned. I More than eight hundred thousand people ia Brooklyn, and les3 than seventy-five thousand, in churcheC so that our cities are not so much preached to by ministers of religion as, by reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons.. Of all the hundred thousand sermons preached to day, there will not be three preached to journalists, and ; probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers offered fcr this most potential class will be so few and rare tht they wiHrbe thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. This world 4 will never be brought to God until some revival of religion sweep3 over the land and takes Into. the. kingdom of -God editors and re porters, compositors, pressmen and news boys. And ; if you have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for that. your, bad - tetter eet out of . our ranks, and join the other side, for you are the un- believers who make th3 whee'f of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. Th great final battle between t:-uth and error, the Armagerldon, I think, will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but - with pens, quill' pens,; steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, arid, be fore that, the pens must bv converted. The most divinely honored .weapon of the past has be mi the pan. and the mo3t divinely hon ored weapon of the. future will ; be the pen; prophet's pen and evangelist's pen and apos tle's pen folio wed by e litor's pen and re porter's pen nd author's pan. God save the penl The winx of the Apocalyptic angel will be the printed pa ;e. The printing press will roll aheai of Christ's char'ot to clear the way. -"But." so':ne"one mightKask, ''would you make the Sunday nawsnapers a'sr a re-enforcement?", Yes. I would. I have learned to take -things as they are.- l -s would like to see the much scoff e I at old Puritan Sabbaths -come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn oat any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sun day. . To say nothng of other results, Sun day newspapers are. kilUn editors, reporters, ' compositors and pres man. Every .man, woman and child is entit'ed to twenty-four ho ir3 of nothing- to do, ; If the newspapers put on another s3t:of hands that do33 not relieve the editorial and "rep.ortor al room of its car.'S and responsibilities. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with .Sunday work. . But the Sunday news paper has ' cone to stay. It will stay a good dal longer than anyof us stay.' What," thenv shaH we Idol, Implore all those who htve anything to do wich issuing it to fill it with moral or religioui. information live sermons and facts elevatinar. . Urge them that all.' divorce "cases to dropped,; and in stead thereof hav.e good a 1 vice as to how husbands an 1 wives ought to live lovingly ' together. - Put in smalt tvpe the behavior of the swindling church member, and in large type the contribution of some Christian man toward an asylum for feeble minded children ora seaside sanitarium. Urie all managing editors to put m ainess and impurity in type ipeirl or agate, and eharity and - fidelity and Christian j consistency in brevier or bour geois. If we cannot drive out the Sunday newspaper let U3 have the Sunday newspaper converted The fact is that the modern Sun day newspaper is a great improvement on the old Sunday newspaper.. What a beastly thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years ago! It was enough to : destroy, a mans re spectability to leave the tip end of it stick ing out of, bis coat pocket. What editorials! What ad vertisemeutst ' What pictures! The modern S u nd ay ne wspa per is asmuchan improvement on the ol I time Sunday- news papef as one hundred is more than twenty five; in other words, about 75 per cent, im provemeiti Who knows that by prayer and kindly consultSt on with oar literary friends we may have it lif ted into a positively re ligious sheet, printed on Saturday night and only distributed, like the Amiric m M sssa gr?r, or the. Alissionary Journal, or the Sun lifty School Advocate, on Sbbath mornings? All 4, things are ; poible with God, and',, my- faith;- is up until -nothing in the way of religious ,v.ctory ' wouid sur prise me. All the newspaper printing presses of - the earth are going" to bs the Lord's, and telegraph anl. telephone and type will yet announce nations born in a day. The first book ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 14(50, and that consocrafe on of type to the Holy Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mis sion of printing for ihe evangelization of all the nations The father of the American printing press was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the re ligions usi that the Gomel ministry in this country wera to make of the types. ; Again, we shill secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more interesting and spirited, and then the press will reproduce them. On the way to church some fifteen years- ago, a journalist said a thing that : has kept me ever sines thinking.! "Are you going to give us any point to-daqgV ..Wijat do you mean?"- I. asked. He said: "I mean hy that anything that will be striking enough to be remem bered." Then I said to myself: What right" have we in our pulpits and Sunday-schools to take the time of people if we have nothing to say that: is memorable? David did not have any difficulty in r membering Nathan's thrust Thou art ;the "man;" nor Felix in s-ememberftig . iPauTs point blank utter ance - on righteousness, temperance : and judgment, to cm 3; nor the English King any difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said, whm during the ser mon against sin the preacher threw his hand kerchief into the kinx's pew to indicate whom . he meant. ; The teadency of criticism in the thecTogical seminfvrie is to file off from our jyoung men all the sharp j oints and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of us, i more point, -les3 humdrum. - If we say the right thing in the right way tha press will be glad to echo and re-echo it. t-'abbath s hool teachers, reform ers, youn men and old mvn in the ministry,, what we all-want if we are to make the printing- press an ally in "Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested points; sharp-- point?, -memor.Uje pointv But if the thing be d( ad when s-ttred by living vo'ca,-it will .be a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out iu cold type. " - Jfow, as you all have something to do with the newspaper press either in issuing a paper or in reading, lteither as producers or pa trons, either as sellers or purchasers of the printed sheet, I propose on this Sabbath morning, June 17, lS&Ca treaty to be signed between the church aua the prihtfng press, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good peo ple if we rightly fashion it, a treaty promis ing that we will help each other in our work of trying to illumine and felicitate .the world, we by voice, you by pen, we by. speaking only that which is worth print ing, you l by , printing only that which is fit to sneak. You help us and we will help - you. Side by side be these two potenl agencies until the Judgment Day,wheri we must both be scrutinized for oar work, healthful or blasting. : The two worst off mon in that day will be the minister of religion and the editor if they wasted their opportunity. Both of us are the engineers of long expres3 trains of influence, and we will run into a depot of light or tumble them off the em bankment. ' - ' '"i-V' ;T;-"- r What a useful life and what a glorious de parture was . that of the most famous of all American- printers, Benjamin Franklin, whom' fnfidels in thar penury of : their re sources have often fraudulently claimed for their own, but the printer who moved that the Philadelphia convention be opened with' prayer, the resolution lost because a ma jority thought prnyer unnecessary, and who wrote .at thj time he.was vicioudy attacked: "My ru e is to go straight forward in doing what appears to me to be rights leaving the consequence? to Providence,", and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of R es urrection, an epitaph that I hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia: L :" --. The Body : 'Xk: . - i -: " - - of - - . '? '- " : - jf- I i;E : ;' Bi;njAm1h Fbankmx, Printer . '-t-s , v -H!f f fyke the cover of aa old book, --' ? -'n1: ', -Its contents torn oat, - v' : - -V And stript of Us lettering and gilding), : , . - i,ie8 nere ioou ior worm. .-. . - ; Yet the work iuelf shall not be loU . For it will (as he believed) appear once inorJ ; ; : ,. In a new - -,-: ..; ; : ; - . . . , And more beantifnl edftton, : , : w' . " ;-, r Corrected and Amended .. : , ' t --.v-v ; Tbe Author. : isv -::'::'. That Providence intends the profession ot reporters to have a mighty share - in the world's redemption is suggested . by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he-reported their addresses and reported their acts. " Luke was a re porter; and he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the .Apostles, and without that reporter's work we would have known nothing of the Pentecost, and no til ing of Stepheus martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha'a resurrect'on, and noth;ur of tit3 jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, an I nothing of the shipwreck at Mel ha, ' litrike out the reporter's work from the Bible and you kill a large part of the- New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the ki-igdom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty part." , :u . - - . A5xut thirteen years ago a representative of an important 'newspaper took bis seat in this church, one Sabbath night, about flv pews from tbe front of this pu'pit. He took out peceil and reporte. 's pad,resJved to cari cature the whole scene. When the music began he began,and with his pencil he derided that, and then derided the prayer, and then derided the reading of the Scriptures.and then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason his hand began .to tremble, and he, rallying himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again, and then put pencil and paper in his pocket and his head down on the front of the pew and began to pray. At the close of . the service he came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave his heart to God;' although still en?aied in ' news- Eaper work, he is an evangelist, and hires a all at his own expense and every Sabbath "afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the peo ple. -And the men of that profession arego ing to come in a body throughout the coun try. -I kno w hundreds of them, and a more genial or, highly educated class of men ' it would be hard to -find, -. and, though the tendency of their professionmay be towari skepticism an 1 organized, - common reuse "Gospel invitation would fetch them to the -front of all Christian endeavor. - Men of the pencil and pen, in all . departments, yon need thahelp of the " Christian religion. In the 'day when people want to get the "r news papers at three cents, and are hoping for the time when they , can ge5. any of them at one cent, and, " as a conse quence, the attaches of the printing press are . by the thousand ground under the cyliuders, you want God to take care of you and your, families. Some of your best work isas much unappreciated as was Mi ton's '"Paradise Lost," for which the author received$2, and the immortil 1 poem, .'Hohenlinden," of Thomas Campbell when he ..first offered it for publication, and in th-j coTuma called "Notices to correspondent's" appeared the words:- "To T. C The lines commencing 'On Linden when the sun was low' are not up to our standard. .Poetry is not T. C's forte.'? t O men of the pencil, and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need eucouragemeat and you can have it"'. Printers of. all Chris-' tendom, editors, reporter3,compo3itors,press men, publishers and readers of that which is printed, resolve, that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind or souL1 In the name of Goi, by the laying on of the hands of faith ani prayer, ordain the printing press for right eousness and liberty and . salvation. .All of us with some influence that. will help, in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work imploring God to hasten the consum mation. - A ship with hundreds of passengers approaching tbe South American coast, the man on the lookout neglejted his work and in a few minntes the ship would have been dashed to nrn on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel, that had made no sound all the voyage, set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the Captain, knowing that habit - of the insect, the vessel was stopped in- time to avoid an awful wreck. And so, insignificant 'means , now may, do.' wonders an I the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul s iJ : , - : ? " Are yoiwall ready tortthe signing of the contract, the league,- the solemn treaty pro posed between journalism and evangelism? Aye, let it be a Christian marriage of the pu'pit ani the printing press. The ordina tion of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in my hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banns of such a marriage. Let them from this day be one in the magnificent work of the world's i-edefnptioii. - , . ' u Let thrones and- poM and kingdoms be Obedient, mighty God, toTtiee: : t And over lund and strea n and main, ; ; Now wave tbe fu-epter o Thy Tcign. : O, let that glorions an he n 8rell, I Let hot to hnat the tr nmnh tell, -6 A Till not one rebel hetrt remain. ' -- But over all the Sw or raigai. - : . OVERTAKEN BY FLAMES. Four Livs Lost aud a Village Swept Away by a Forest Fire. - : i . - ; - -r ; The goldmining ; village of East Rawdon, " Hants county, N. S., was destroyed by for ist fire. Two hundred -peeple are left home- . less and four persons lost their lives in the flames.! The fury of the flames was increased by a sharp southwest gale, which drove the fiery tongues over the little hamlet and hurried . them on their destructive course, when, in seeming remorse, they . hesitated for a moment, loath to attack some threatened- home ; whence the inmates, mostly mothers and ch.ldren taking advantage of the hesitation of the roaring flames, made a aurried escape f ; Then on again they leaped, impelled by the furious gusts, and licked up : xttag4 af ter cottage, leaving only charred and smoking timbers to mark the spot where but a few i rief , moments be'ore stood com fortable homes, i I ;',-, . , Scarcely in advance -f the hungry flames nd with the scorched atmosphere urging them onward, mothers fled from beneath their tailing roofs with their little ones slinging to their rrlothes.' Mrs. Manning and two chiidran -" jr-r burned to death in their mad efforts to escape. y: The. husband and five children died from diphtheria last Call and now the entii e family is annihilated. John Driscol avea rart of his furniture, bub was burn d to. death iu his efforts to 3ave an old trunk, i,- ; '74' . A lad named Cari enterr wrapped his coat around his inva'!". and -balf-suffocated mother and carried .a on his back, with bis little brother unuer his arm, to a place of safety one mile d;ant.: The mother's head was badly burned n-id the -young hero's hat burned - as he escaped - with his . living - treasure. -. ' . - t ,. r-. -:. . ? " The fire destroyed twenty dwellings and stores, together with the mill crusher and hoisting gear. . . ! . : r ' ' . ' i Forest tires have done enormous damage in Newfoundland also, and the beautiful Goulds Valley has" been "stripped of its splen did timber and left a charred wilderness. " . i : ; MARKETS.; 1 Baltimorb Flour City Millsj extra,$3.25 i$3.75; Wheat-Southern Fultz, 87a94 cts; Oorn-pSouthem White, 61a62ets, Yellow 58 " 59 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pennsylvania t0a44cts. 5 Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania i5a67cts.; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania .700a $1750 ; Straw-Wheat, Wa$11.00; Butter, Sastern Creamery,20a23ctSL, near-by receipts :6a20cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 4 -ilO cts. , Western, 9 a 10 cts ; Eggs 15a .6, Cattle-$400a5.00 : Swine 6ao cts. ; : iheep and Lamb 3a4 cts; Tobacco eaf Inferior la$2.50, Good Common, 3 50a ' H 50, Middling, 5af 7.00 Good to fine red, 7af 9 ; Pancy, 10a$12 i. ij-'r, New York Flour Southern Common to 'air extrai 3.40a$4.00; Wheat No.l Whit,93 i93cts. ; Rye State, 54a56j- Corn Southern ; STellow, 62a63cts.; Oats-White State, 36a37 ; ;ts.; Butter State, 15a20 cts. ; CheeseState, ; a2ts.; Eggs 13al3K cts. - , : 1; . v, . 5 ," PHii-ADEpHiA'-vFl6ur Pennsylvania, fancy, 3. 70a3.75 ? Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red,5a96 ets f Rye Pennsylvania '-. 7a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 65a66 cts.' Dats 41a42 cts. ; Butter State, , 18al9 cts.; Dbeese N. Y..: Factory, Hal2 cts. Eggs State. 15a 16 cts." t J ;.:.v ; ; a frightful surprise. ;v An Ohio .Man -.Finds Tbat 'an Al . leged. Murderess is His long ' - -f : - ix Lost Sister. ? : :' Mr. J. A Van Dyne, a prominent resident of East - Liverpool, was at St. Jlairsville on business,' and, Shearing of ' the- indictments against Gertie Wi'haj-hs, Bertha Hamilton and their two male companions for the shoot-, ing of the Waters brotsers,; he coneluded, out of idle curiosityf to go up to the jail and ' have a look at the women. . He was horrified to recognize in , Gertie -Williams his . only sister, who had left home mysteriously-years ago . and whose ; w;hereaboutr .was never ascertained until the chance meeting yester day. - - - .-.- . , WIFE POISONER FOILED. . ' Richard Alberger, of , Philadelphia, forty two years of age, attempted to poisoh bis wife by placing arsenic in her coffee at the supper tables i The motive is said to have been a desire to secure $190 insurance money which was placed on Mrs, Alberger's life by the Job Hancock ? Company, of, Boston. The. woman detected something-wrong with the coffee in time to save her life, although she suffered violently for a time afterward. Alberger was arrested and held, and bis wife was removed to a hospital. ' ; A Tennessee Her chant. A country store in Tennessee. - TLo proprietor, who is arran-jing several bolta of highly colored alii v iw3 up, nods, and says: -". .'-.f,v ::-.-; '-rr "Come in, .Uncle Billy." !- 7 : --;; Uncle Billy comes in, aiid says ' "Bob, git airy newspaper lately ?- Yes, got one yesterday." : " "Bead me a few lines nv it, wiil youf Xwanter know whut folks air doin' ia the outen the way places uv the worr." . . . .. -7r -: 1; " The merchant drops ' his - work and reads to Uncle Billy, "-. r-- " Wail, Bob, b'l'ere I'll ride. , Didn't have nothin' i-nrticular tor do ter-day an': I thought I'd sorter sa'ntcr over an' see whut wuz goin' on. Lemma have a haiTer pound nv coffee. AVill pay you fur hit one uv these days." -; Uncle Billy gets his coffee and goes awav. " Thfk - mprplmnt Tnfn.nn . 1. work of arranging bisr ca;,aad has uoou eugageu uus a lew : miuutes when some one darkens the door. "W'y how are yon, Uncle Bedianr'' says the merchant.": 'Walk back." "Anything fresh; Bob?" : - "No, nothin' of intrust,v : : "Got airy pape ?" - - ' "Yes,". ' . "Well, read mo a little outen It, ef you please. I aia't hearn nothin' in bo long that I'm gittin' sorter rusty." The-merchant gets his paper aud during an hour reads to Uncle Bed man. - - ' " Wall, Bob, - I reckon I'd belter mosy b .ck.-Let me haveibout a hafler pound uv coffee, an' I'll pay you fur it ogin spring." " , 1 Uncle liedman goes away. The mer chant begins to arraDge his calico. "Jello. Bob." , - . - : - "Whyp how are you," Uncle ; MiIe3. . L ' A. n , ' , . . . vuuia au, oii. uown. vnat are an tne boys doin'?" , - j '-. Wall, Ab's gone ter mill,' Tom an' Henderson air buruin' a plant bod, Iiige i3 a-piddlin around' greasin'- the gear, an' one thing another. Tha women folks have gone a-visitin' an' I" 'lowed that I'd come . over an' see ef anything had happened lately. Got a paper, I reckon." - ' .."Yes." - , "WalJ, read me a little suthiu1." ' Bobreads to the old man, listens to his wise comment and is about to return to his work,' when the old man sajs : wBob,5iput' me up 'bout a pound uv middliu good coffee. Pay you fur hit' when I sell my tobacker.". :" The old man goes away, i From time to time during tbe day old uncles come in, and at night the merchant . finds that he has sold two "dollars; worth of goods ou credit and that he has accom plished, iu the entire course of the! day, -t!ie"Vork of rearranging the disorder which on woman wrought in ten min utes early in the morning. Arkansaw Traveler. -' ' - " v What Is Time! Sometimes I have stood before the clock in yonder observatory and watch ed the hands as they approached 'the tour of midnight." Steadily the seconds glide away; -twelve o'clock strikes, and 1 - slip - from to-day into ! to-morrow. Where has the day gone? . , Yea, where do these beating seconds go? So fleet winged that ere we realize that they are here they have Uown, vanished into the dim past I Do they travel onward for ever, through universal space, as some have fancied our words and actions do? Might we by some magio overtake them' and lire them o.er aga.n? ' Vain hope I They are gone irretrievably. Only the present is ours. "What we give to that present as it passes will endure for ever but it can never be altered or re called. Have you ever thought of the difference iu this respect between time and space? ;Wa are limited by the lat ter as well as by the former; we can be in one place only at a time ; and if we speak of . absolute space, perhaps we can never revisit tbe regions we are now passing through, unless the endow ments of a future life enable us to track the devious course we are now pursu ing; for," owing to the motion of the solar system, it comes to pass that even at the end of the year we do not arrive at the : spot where we were twelve months before, but strike out into "before untrodden realms of - cosmic space. - But practically, as far as place ' lias any interest foe. us, we are free to come and go at will, "We can revisit old scenes-Jand explore .-new ones, being, only limited -bx earth's extent. But with time how different I. i'aat seasons we can recall only in memory future ones we can anticipate only through nope or imagination. ' So that time is a "more evanescent and, perhaps we might say, ideal conception than space. Both conceptions have, .when we come to analyze them closely, many elements of mystery.y-But time partakes pre-eminently of the marvelous, flhe fraction that is with us now we accept without thought, but this infinitesimal fraction is linked by indissoluble bands to an eternity past - and ; to - an eternity to come.;:. The fugitive moments are gold en, for though we shall never see them again, they are building up for us char acter and destiny which shall last for' ever. Sidereal Messenger. :::-!.v Worth Knowing, ' . ' That AiiixocK's PoBOTTS Piasters are the highest rerult of medical science and skill, and in ingredients and method liave never ben equaled. , -. r.? :-: x.; : p y-p ' y ijv "i That they are the original and genuine por ous plasters upon whose reputation imitators trade.-1 " '1'-, 0'":f--: y-y -i-r'' "'f---; That Alt.cock'8 Pobous PIjABters never fail to 'per form, their remedial work quickly and effectually. -: ,, - - 'y-' ' -- That for Wk Eack, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Colds, Lung Trouble, Kidney Dtplculties, Ma laria, Dyspepsia, Liver and St mach . Affec- tions, Strains and oil Local Pains, they arein yaluable. ' - - - Tha. when you buy' Allcock'S Pobous Plasters you obtain the best plasters made. Iii-moreli of course considei s that a1! is fair in war, l ut he is not so rady to concede that all is fair iniove, . . ' i . v - '.v.'' . .;.4- . r - v : What it Mean's. . - To the man or. woman who has never been ill, the word "health' dv meaningless. JJut io Ihe one whor lias suffered and- de-paired, liealrh app.-ars as a priceless boon, 'io the thousands of unfortunata women ho are suf fering from some of the "many forms of weak ne ses or irregal irities - peculiar to their s :, Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription holiis xortn thj promise of a speedy restoration of tn s ''pfio lesboon.", ' ' It is the miser who is always in need of a cl:-ft prfllert:r. - " - " - - Hcalili and Ifrcngih If you feel tlr sd, weak, wcrn out or run down froni hard w;rk, by impoverished - condition of Ihe blood, or low state of the system, you should take Hood's SarsapariUa. : The ; peculiar ' toning, purifying and.Itallzlng qiiaTitles of this successful medicine aro soon Telt" throughout the ntlre Ky3-; tern, expelling - dlseasa and giving quick,, tealthy action to every o-gan. It tones, the - stomach, croates an appetite, and rouse? the liver and i kidneys. Thousands ho - have taken It .with benefit, testify that Hood's SarsapariUa " makes the weak strong." - . . - " ' . y Hood's Sa rsa pa ri ! I a ' ... - c . .s Bold by all druggists.-, tt six for . Preoare I nlf by O. L HOOD & CO, Apothecaries, Lowell, ll vii. 4 , y. V"-.-, .... -a; 4-y-; - ,' i: 10Q Doses On Oolfar An o'd wlialeeman beins asked if lie ad mirea the harp. sa;d yes, if it was a harpooi . A Prominent Merchant In Tremble. y Old moneybags mopes in his office all day T : As snappish, and cross as a bear; . w . The clerks know enough to,,keep. out of his way, r-.y: - Lest the merchant should grumble and - - swear. ' - Even Tabby, the cat, is in fear of a cuff, ; ; Or a kick, if ehe ventures too near; They all know the master is apt to be rough, ; And his freaks unexpected and queer. What makes the bid fellow so surly and grim. And behave so confoundedly m ;an? - -There's certainly something the matter with - - h.m - - -- -w - - - . ' Is it stomach, or liver, or spleen? - " We've guessed it his liver is sluggish and bad, His b ood is" disordered nd foul. It's onouvch to make any one hopelessly mad, . . And gree hia best friend with a growl. " The worid-wide remedy, Dr. l"ieice'8 Gold on Medical -Discovery, will correct a disordered liver and parity the blood, tone your system and build up your flesh and strength. : '- Old maids know what a mlfg rp'nt "lift means.. : ;. --4 y--. -y-y: y-"A-,-. -. :-. ': Mnsie TeacherM Coavntlon, Chlcasr y First week in Jnlv. All Sotithern-Music 'leather! and their friend desiring fo attend can s cure ra es of one imd one-third fare for round trip by addressing XL A. Hathaway, Dist, Passenjrer Agent Monon Route, Ixrai ville, Kentucky Timo ga'.lops under the spur of the monif-ni. ' 1 . The spooks and goblins that delight . -Z To lill w th terror all the night: " That sta .t abroad in hideous dreams . - Willi which dyspepsia's fancy teems, -Will never trouble with their ills - , The man who trusts in Pierce's Pill?. Dr. Pu'rceV Pie veaht Purgative Pellets: "cgetable, harmless, pai. less, su el v '- The wasp has one strong - point, but it is not in fuvor. .. - - " WHIT do I have this drowsy, lifeless feeling? WHY do I have Backache? "WHY Neuralgia and Rheumatism ? "WHY does Scrof ulous taint and Erysipelas show , itself?, - yy -v BECAUSE your blood is filled with I'oison, which must be, Completely Eradicated before you can regain health. You must go to the root of the matter. Put the Kidneys the great and only blood purifying organs in com- Elote order, which, is complete e8lth, and with ? Mres Safe cure and WARNER'S SAKE TO,IS -your Cure is Certain 1 ; WHY do we know this ? " BECAUSE " )J tens of thous ands of grate- flvX men and women 'in all f parts of .. the w o r 1 d h a v e volunt a r i ly written us to this effect. - ; There is no standstill In disease. -You are either growing Be tter or Worse. How. is it with YOU ? 1 'r r''' V WHY not to-day resort to that medicine,whichhas veritably Cur d ffilllions , and which will cure yon if you will give it a chance ? i All of Warner's preparations are purely Vegetable. ; They are made on honor. They are time-tried. They ar No New Discovery, nutried and worthless, on the contrary, they have stood the test they- h ave proved their su periority. , They stand alone in pre-eminent merit, and v y y ' v;.-;y. you 1 know it. y IC!i'STt: !K? .-ill 1HVAUDS' HOTEL AKQ SUR21CL INSTITUTE, 6B3 UmZl, Buffalo, N. Y. HiSlL 1 KRDAT - I he Alr IasBa;e and Lnng. such rtAOAL, innUAI I Chronic Catarrh In the Head, Tkhoat Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption, both through correspondence and at our institutions, constitutes an important specialty. We 'miblish three separate books " on Luks Diseases. NasaL Throat and Iiung; Diseases, which giye much valuable in formation, viz : (1) A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis; price, post-paid, ten cents. (2) A. Treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic, giving new and successful treatment; price, post paid, ten cents. (3) A Treatise on Chronic Catarrh in the Head; price, post-paid, two cents. . .. - . yy-: .''. Dyspepsia, "Uver Complain V' Ob stinate Constipation, Chronic Diar rhea, Xape-worms, and kindred affections, are among those chronic liseases in the suc cessful treatment Qf which our specialists have attained trreat success. Our Complete Treatise Diseases of Disestiom. on Diseases of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any. address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps, - ' . y- y -iyy , (flJIYFY V I kindred maladies, have nlUilbl ... I mrrca AffV!trl in had been pronounced beyond hope. These dis eases are readily diagnosticated, or determined, by chemical - analysis of - the urine, without a personal examination of patients, - who can, therefore, generally be successfully treated at their homes. The study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of cases, with refarence to .correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, has naturally led to a very extensive practice in diseases of the urinary organs. : :.'-,.,. These diseases should be Caution. of t thoroughly iamuiar witn petent to ascertain the exact condition andystage of advancement - which the disease has made which can only be ascertained by a careful chemical and micro- MCODlcal . examination ot ui unirehiur nimtivn in nnn staire or condition do Being in constant receipt of numerous inquiries for a complete wnrk on tha nature and curability of these maladies, written in a style- to be easily understood, we have trated Treatise en these oiseases, wmcn wiu do Bent to any aa 'dress on receipt of ten ewita in postage stamps. I I INFIiAROlATION DEK, STONE IN uravei, uniarnea I BllOSER . I Retention ofy Urine, and kindred affec- UIOLAOLO. i tions, may be included among those in the cure I of which our suecialists have achieved extraor dinary success. These are folly treated xrampuiev on v)rm&ry AiocucKs.. ccuv vy STEI3TUHE.v1 RntTirnTRFS TUIjAS. Hundreds of cases of the worst form of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated bv the careless use of instruments in the hands Inamorianml riVivalrrtarici nnrl Hllrtrpons. causinsr false DSSSaireS. urinary flstulae, and other complications, annually consult us for relief and wre. That no case of this class is too difficult for tbe skill of our specialists is proved by cures reported in our illus trated treatise On these maladies, to which we refer with pride. Tn ini-mat. hi flaw of cfiaefl to nhvsicians of small experience. is a dangerous proceeding. Many a man has been ruined for life bv so doing, while thousands annually lose their lives through unskillful treatment. Send particulars of your case and ten . cents in stamps for a large. Illustrated Treatise- containing many testimonials, Conventional " monon ' Reaolatlona. Whereas, The Monon Route (L. N. A. & V. 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Just flcure out what ia required to do all these thinga COfSFfiBTABLY. and you can make a fair esiimat of the yalue of the BUYERS' GUIDE, which will be- sent upon receipt of IO cents to pay postage, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. . 1U-114; JMichi Iran Avenue, Chicaco, 111. ((om A. PLEASAUT lEHEDIAL POME. " '-' J-ULIi BTAPP OF EXPERIEKGED PHYSICIANS & SUROEOHS. Many CHRONIC DISEASES Suc cessfully Treated -witlioat a Personal Consultation. "117E obtain our knowledge of the patient's die- ' v ease by the application, to the practice of medicine, of well-established principles ot modern science. The most ample resources for treating lingering, or chronic diseases, .and . the greatest skill,' are thus placed within the easy reach of Invalids, however distant they may reside. . Writo and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents In stamps, and a complete treatise, on your par ticular disease, will be sent yon, with our opin ion as to its nature and curability. . - Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Pa ralysis, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia St. Vitus's Dance, Insomnia, or inatility to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous Debility, and every variety of nervous affec tion, aw ; treated by our specialists for these dis eases with unusual success.. See numerous cases reported in our different Illustrated pamphlets on nervous diseases, any one of -which will be sent for ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for consulta tion, so that we may know which one of our Treatises to send. We have a Special Department, devote ' -exclusi vely to the treatment of Diseases Women. Every case consulting our specialists, whether by letter or in person, is given tho most careful and considerate attention. Im portant cases (and we iret few which have not of all the home physicians) have the benefit of a lull Council or saiiiea specialists, iiooms ior laaies in mi Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute are very private. Send ten cents in Btamps for our Complete Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with wood-cuts and colored plates (160 pages). HERNIA (Breach), or RUPTURE, no matter of how long standing, or of what si c, is promptly and permanently cured by? our specialists, without the knife ana without dependence upon trusses, Abundant references. Send ten cents for PIIiES, FISTULiJE, and other diseases affecting the lower -hnwfliL am trtArl. with wonderful success. The worst cases Of Ene tumors, are permanently cured in fifteen to twenty days. ( end ten cents for Diustrated Treatise. , ; a . vpxoluu wcuiico.! -v . r . .......... I CI If . -I decline of the manly powers, involuntary losses,- -Iii-mA I immiKui momonr. mpntjil aniietv. - absence of .' will-power, melancholy, weak back, and all affec tions arising from youthful indiscretions and per- ' nicious. solitary practices, are speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. " . ' ' , - : . . We, many years ago, established a Special Department for the treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced specialists. We offer no. apology for devoting so much attention to this neglected class of diseases, believing that no condition of humanity is too wretched to merit the sympathy and best services of the - noble profession to i- j -T. 1 IV h-wr Anv nwlial Ynnn Intent on doing good and alleviating sunenng. snouia bhul such cases, we cannot imagine. Why anyone should consido it otherwise than most honorable- to cure the worst cases c these diseases, we cannot understand ; and yet of all the othf maladies which afflict mankind there, is probably none abo' which physicians in general practice know so little. We eh a therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with our best co sideratlon, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suffen. from any Of these delicate diseases. - . n.rn Most of these cases can be treated by us wt uUmLU AT Uim at a distance as well as If here in person, . A Complete Treatise (130 pages) on these delicate dise; sent sealed, in plain envelope, secure from observation, on rec of only ten cents, in stamps, for postage. All statements rr and secrets confided to us will be held to be sacredly confiden All letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should be nddressed WCSLD'S DiSFEKSARY QCCJLL ASSIATIC! Np, 663 nain St, BUFpALO, T ;.
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