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' : ' aaWSHSSaWBSM HaaBHHMHaaMMBBHBBB REVl DR TALMAGE. THEIU tOOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Texts "And tht child arete, and xtnxra strong th spirit, filUrt with trisdom; arid tru grace onGod was upon Him," L.uke 11., u. Ahoutf Christ a a villaee lad I speak. There isjfor the most part a silence more than eighteen; centuries long alout Christ, between infancy and manhood. What kind of a boy was He?j "Was He a genuine boy at all, or did there settle upon Him from the start, all the intensities of martydom? We have on thi subject jhJy a little guessing, a few surmises, and herb and there an unimportant per haps." jCorH-erning what bounded that boy hood on iboth sides we have whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture. But f.en and pennl and chisel have with few exceptions assed by Christ the village lad. Yijrt by three conjoined evidences I think we can come to as accurate ap idea of what cjirist was as a boy as we can' of what Christ was as a man. First, wi have the brief Bible account. Then w have thf jrcjlonc;el acx-ount of what Christ was at thirty years of a;5e- Now vou have only to minify that account somewhat and yoiji find what He was at ten years of age. Temperaments never change. A san guine tmjjerament never lecome a phleg matic temperanifnt. A nervoun Tempera ment nver lx-Oins a lymphatic tempera ment. IKeligion changes one's affections and ambitiojns, but it is the same old tempera ment acting in a different direction. Christ had no religiou change. He was as a lad wht He w as as a man, only on not so large a fcale. When :i II tradition and all art and all history represent Him as 'a bionda with golden hair I Luow He was in boyhood u blonde. We have, beside, an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's apjiearanee received by many ub inspired and wnich gives prr longed i ... account of Christ's boy hood. Some of it may In. true, mosttof itiuay bo true none f it may le true. , It may lw partly milt on facts, or by the passage of thy uges, w rne real facts may have beenMistorted. Iiut Ixi -ause ajMMk is not ilivinely inspit d we are not therefore to conclude that theru aj-o tnjt; ytnie things in if,. : I'rescott'ii "Conquest -f Jlexico" was not inspired, but wh ln lieve it although it may contain mis takes. Macaulay's "History of KnglandV was not inspired, but we U Jieve it although it may have U'eii marred with many errors. The Ko-i'aJled ajKwryphal iosjel in which 1liu boyhoKl of Christ is dwelt ujujii I do not be- lieve t 1h; divinely in-piled, Jind yet it may present fa-ts w rt h v f - nsiderat ion. 1 5iHaiisj it represe nts tlie lny Christ ;is performing miracles some have overthrown that whoJu ajKK-rvJi'hal iKiok. Hut whnt right have you to hay that Christ did not .peform miracles afj ten years of age as well us ;it r hirty ? He wai inK)3Jhol as (-ertainly divine us in man hood. Then while a lad He must have had the wer to work miracles, whether Ho di r not work theiu. When, Inn ing .Reached iiiaiili d, Christ turned water into wine that was said to lj the beginning of miracles, lint that may mean that it was the beginning 'of that series Jof manhood miracles. In a -word, I think that the New Testament is onlv a small transcript of what Jesus did and said. Indee , the liible declares positively that if all Christ did and said were written the world would not contain the looks. So we are ati litterty b Ix-lieve or reject those parts of tlm apocryphal (iospel which say that when the Uy C irist with His mother passed a band of thieves He told His mother that two ot them, DumaHius and Titus by name, would Ik tho two tjhieyes who afterward would expire on, crossed beside Him. Was that more wonder ful tljan some of Chirst's manhood pro phesies? Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ made a fountain st)rin from the roots of a sycamore tree so that His mother washed His coat in. the stream wnsjthat more unlielievablo than the man hood miracle that changed common water into ai marriage leverage? Or the uninspired story Ithat two sick children were recovered by bathing in the water where Christ had washejd? Was that more wonderful than the nianhbod miracle by which the woman twelve years ;a complete invalid should have been madejstraight by touching the fringe of Christ's coat? In Qther words, while 1 do not believe that any of tho so-called apocryphal New Testa ment jis inspired, I believe much of it is true; just as I believe a thousand books, none of which are divinely inspired. Much of it was just like Christ. Just as certain as the man Christ was the most of the time getting men out of trouble, I think that the boy Christ was the most of the time getting boys out of trouble. I have declared to you this day a 'boys! Christ. And the world wants such a ope. He did - not fit around moping over what was to be, or what was. From tho ivayin which natural objects en wreathed then)selves into his sermons after He had be com a man I conclude there was not a rock or a hill or cavern or a tree for miles around that He was not familiar with in childhood. He had cautiously felt His way dowi into the caves and had with lithe and agile' limb gained a poise on many a high tree top. His boyhood was passed among grand scenery as most all the great natures have passed early life among the mountains. They may live now on the Hats, but they passed the receptive days of ladhinnl among tho hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire, or the mountains of Virginia, or the moun tains of Kentucky, or the mountains of Swit zerland, or Italy, or Austria, or Scotland, or mtmntains as high and rugged as they, many of the world's thrilling biographies legan. Our Lord s boyhood was passed in a neigh borhood twelve hundred foot above the level of the sea and surrounded by mountains live or six hundred feet still higher. Hefore it could shine on the village where this boy slept the sun had to climb far enough uj t look over hills that held their heads far aloft. From yonder height Hiseveat one swivo took in the mighty scoop of tVie valleys and with another sweep took in the Mediterranean Si, and you hear the grandeur of th elilfs and 'the surge of tho great waters in His match less sernionology. One day 1 see that divine boy, the wind rfurryiug His hair over His sun browned forvheaL, standing . on a hill top looking on upon Ike Tiberias, on which at one time according to profane history are, not four huudred, four thousand ships. Au thors have taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surroundings, aud that He from within lived outward and7 independ ent of circumstances. So far f nun that be ing true, lie was the must sensitive hemg that ever walked the eartlu aiid if a pale invalid's weak linger could not touch His -robe without strength going out from Him. these mount Ains and seas could not have touched His eve with out irradiating His entire nature with their mjiguitieeucw. I warrant that He had mounted arid explored all the titeen hills around Naza reth, auioug.them Hernion with its crystal coronet of perpetual snow, and CarmeTand Tabor and liilboa, and thov all had their sublime echo in after time from the Olivetie pulpit. I And then it was not uncultivated grandeur. These hills carried in their arms or on their docks gamens, groves, orchards, terraces. neyards. cactus, frramor-s. These on. branching: foliages did not have to wait for tho floods before their silence was broken, for through them and over them and in circles round the:n and under them were pelicans, were thrusheV, were sparrows, were night ingales, were li-lcs. were onsils. '.vera bjackbinK were j -at ridges, were bulbuls. "Yonder the wuity tWks of shwp snowed cown over the pasture lands. And yonder the brook rehearses to the pel bles it adventures down, the rocky shelving. Yonder are the oriental homes, the housewife with pitcher on the shoulder entering the door, and down the hwu in front children reveling among the flaming flora. And all this spring and song and grass and sunshine i and shadow woven into the most exquisite fiafaira tW YT hmathed orwentar mny QTj suTTered. " "J'hfougB ttUdjlng rne sky between, the hills Christ had noticed the weather signs, and. that a crimson sky at night meant drv weather next day, and that a crimson sky in "the morning meant wet weather before night. And how beautifully He made use of it in after years as He drove down upon the pestiferous Pharisee and Sadducee by crytaf out : "When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red, and in the morning it will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering. O, ye hypo crites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times. By day, as every boy has done, He watched the barnyard fowl at sight of over-swinging hawk ;luck hor chickens under wing and in after vears tie said : "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem I How I often would I have gath ered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing P' By night He had noticed His mother by the plain candle light which, as ever and anon it was snuffed and the re moved wick put do-n on the candlestick, beamed brigntlv through all the family sitting room as His mother was mending His garments that had been torn during the day's wanderings among the rocks or bushes, and years i afterward it all came out in the simile'of the greatest sermon ever preached: "Neither do men light a candle and put it under ' a bushel but in a candlestick and it zivetti light to all who are in the house, Fet your light so shine." Some time when His mother in the autumn took out the clothes that had been put away for the summer He Qoticed how the moth miller flew out and the coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so twenty years after He enjoined: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth por rust can corrupt." His boyhood spent j among birds and flowers they all caroled and bloomed again fifteen years after as He cries out: "Behold the fowls! of the air." "(insider the lines." A greatlstorni one day during Christ's boyhood blackened the heavens and angered the ri ers. Perhaps standing in the door of the carpenter's shop He watched it gathering louder and wilder until two cyclones, one sweeping down from Mount Tabor and tho other! from Mount Carmel, met in the valley. :f Esdraclon and two houses are caught in the fury and crash goes tho one and triumphant stands the other,and He noticed that one had shifting sand for a foundation and the other an ieternal rock for lasis; and twenty y.-ars after He built the whole scene into a peroration of flood and whirlwind thatseized His audience and lifted them into the heights of sublimity with the two great arms of pa thos iaud terror, which sublime words I render, asking you as far as possible to for get that you ever heard them tefore: "Who soever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise! man, which built his house upon; a rock; and the rain descended, and tho floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was ; founded upon a rock. And every one that 'heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish nian which built his house upon the sand; and tho rain descended, and the floods came, arid the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of itj" Yes, from the naturalness, the simplicity, the freshness of His parables and similes and metaphors in manhood discourse I know that He, had leen a boy of the fields and had bathed in tlie streams and heard the nightingale's call, and broken through the flowery hedge and looked out of tho embrasures of the for tress, and drunk from the wells and chased the butterflies, which travelers say have al ways been one of the flitting beauties of that landscape, and talked with the strange peo ple from Damascus and Egypt and Sapphoris andf Syria, who in caravans or on foot passed through His neighborhood, tho f dogs barking at their ap proach at sundown. As afterward He was a perfect man, in the time of which I speak He wasj a wrf ect boy, with the spring of a boy's foot, the sparkle of a boy's eye, the rebound of a boy's life and just the opposite of those juveniles who sit around morbid and un elastic, old men at ten. I warrant He was able to take His own part and to take the part of others. In that village of Nazareth I am certain there was what is found in all the neighborhoods of the earth, that terror of children, the bully, who seems born to strike, to punch, to bruise, to overpower the less muscular and robust. The Christ who after ward in no limited terms denounced hypo crite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such juvpnile villain impose upon less vigorous childhood aud yet .go unscathed and unde fended. At ten years He was In sympathy with the underlings as He was at thirty and thirty-three. I want no further inspired or uninspired information to persuade me ttat He I was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, the grandest, holiest, mightest boy of all tho ages. Hence I commend Him as a boy's Christ. What multitudes between ten and fifteen years have found Him out as tho one just suited by His own personal experience to help anv boy. But having shown you the divine lad in the fields, I must show you Him in the mechanic's shop. Joseph, His father, died very early, immediately after the famous trip to the Temple, and this lad not only to support Him self but support His mother, and what that is some of you know. There is a royal race of Ixjys on earth now doing the same thing. They wear no crown. They have no purple robe adroop from their shoulders. The plain chair on which they sit is as much unlike a throno as anything you can imagine. But God knows what they are doing and through what sacrifices they go, and through all eternity God will keep paying them for their filial behavior. They snail get full measure of reward, the measure pressed down, shaken together and running over. They have their example in this lx?y Christ taking care of His mother. He had been taught the car renter's trade by His father. Tha boy had done the plainer work at ,the shop while His father had put on - the finish ing touches of the work. The boy also cleared away the chips .and blocks and shavings. He helped hold the different' pieces of work while the father joined theui. In our day we have all kinds of mechanics! and the work is divided up among them. But to be a carpenter in Chris-t's boyhood days luetic t to make plows, yokes, shovels, wagons, tat'?s, chairs, sofas, liouses, and al most everything that was made. Fortunate as it that the boy had learned the tradey tor, when the head of the family dies, it is a grand thing to have the child able to take care of nimself and help take Oareof others. Now that Joseph, His father; is dead anil the responsibility of family sup jxrt conies down on this boy, I hear from tuo.Tiiing to night His hammer pounding, His saw Vacillating, His axe descending. His gimf lets Wiring, and standing amid the dust and debris of the shop I Ibid the perspiration feathering on His temples and notice the fa- tigu? of ills am and as Ke stops a mo'rtfnT t3 rest I see Him panting. His hand on Kis side, from the exhaustion. Now He goes forth 'in the morning looded with implements Jof work heavier than any modem kit .of tools. UmKr the tropical sun He sweltors. iLifting, pulling.adjusting. cleaving, splitting iall day long. At nightfall He goes borne to the olain supper provided by His mother sand sits down too tired to talk. Work! work! work! imi cannot tell Christ any thing now atout blistered hands or aching ankles or bruised lingers or stiff joints or rising in the morning as tired as when you laid .down. While yet a Wv He knew it all. He felt it all. He suffered it ail. The boy carpenter ! The bov wagon maker! "The Wy house builder! "O Christ, we have seen Thee when full srown in Hiatus police court room, we have seen Thee when full grown Thou wert assitssiiiatevl on Golgotha, but. O Christ, let all the weary artisans and mcchanicsof the earth see Thee while yrt ud- t dersixed and arms not vet muscularized and with the undeveloped strength of juvenes cence trying to take Thy father s place in gaining the livelihood for the family. But, having seen Christ the boy of the fields and the boy in the mechanic's shop. I show you a more marvelous scene, Christ the smooth-browed lad among the long bearded, white-haired, high forheaded eccle siastics of the Temple. Hundreds of thou sands of strangers had come to Jerusalem to keep a great religious festival. After tha hospital homes were crowded with visitors, the tents were spread all around the city to shelter immense throngs of strangers. It was verv easv amonr the vast throne cotnimr w7rmiii,rii neonie have beeu JKwn Vo gaHcT at Jerusalem for that national feast. You must not think of those regions as sparsely settled. The ancient historian J osephus says there were in Galilee two hundred cities, the smallest of them containing nfteen tnousana tieople. No wonder that amid the crowds at the time spoken oi J esus me uuj tu iow His parents, knowing that He was mature enough and agile enough to take care of Himself, are on their way home without any anxiety, supposing that their boy is coming with some of the groups. But after a while thev suspect He is lost and with flushed cheek and a terrorized look tney rusn tnis way anu that, saying: "Have you seen anything ol mv bov? He is twelve years of age, of f air complexion and has blue eyes and auburn hair. Have you seen Him since we left the city?" . . . . t 1 A. At - f Back they go m hot haste, in anu out ine pri vate houses and among the surrounding hills. Pnr titrMHavi thnv search and innuire won dering if He'has been trampled under foot of some of the throngs or has ventured on the cliffs or fallen off a precipice. Send through all the streets and lanes of the city and among all the surrounding hills that most dismal sound: "A lost child! A lost child P' Andlo, after three days they discover Him in the great Temple, sealed among the mightest religionists of all the world. The walls of no other building ever looked down on such a scene. A child twelve years oia surrounaea by septuagenarians. He asking His own ques tions and answering theirs. Let me introduce vou to some of these ecclesiastics. This is the great Rabbin Simeon I This is the venerable Hillel! This is the famous ShammaL These are the sons of the distinguished Betirah. What can this twelve year lad teach them or what questions can He ask worthy their cogitation? Ah, the first time in all their lives these re ligionists have found their match ana . more than their match. Though so young, He knew all about the famous Temple under whose roof they held that most wonderful discussion of all history. fie knew the meaning of every altar, of every sacrifice, of every golden candlestick, of every embroidered, curtain, of every crumb of shew bread, of every drop of oil in that sacred edifice. He knew all alxmt God. He knew all about man. He knew all about heaven, for He came, from it. He knew all about this world, for He made it. He knew all worlds, for they were only tho sparkling morning dewdrops on the lawn in front of His heavenly palace. Put these seven Bible words in a wreath of emphasis : " Both hearing them and asking them questions." I am not so much interested in the questions they usked Him as in the questions He asked them. Ho asked the questions not to get in formation from the doctors, for Ho knew-it already, but to humble them by showing them the height and depth and length aud breadth of their own ignorance. While the radiant boy thrusts these self -conceited phil osophers with the interrogation point, they put the forefinger or' the right hand to the temple as though to start their thoughts into more vigor, and then they would look upward and then they would wrinkle their brows and then by absolute silence or in positive words confess their incapacity to answer the inter rogatory. With any one of a hundred ques tions about theology, about philosophy, about astronomy, about time, about eternity, He may have balked theiu, disconcerted them, flung them flat. liehold the boy Christ asking questions and listen when your child asks questions. He has the right to ask them. The more he asks tho better. Alas for the stu pidity of the child ' without inquisitiveness! It is Christlike .to ask questions. Answer them if you cau. Do not say: "I can't he both ered now." It is your place to le bothered with questions. If you aro not able to answer, surrender and confess vour incapacity, as I have no doubt did Rabbin Simeon and Hillel and Shammai and the sons of Betirah when that splendid boy, sitting or standing there with a garment reaching from neck to ankle, and girdled at the waist, put them to their very wit's eud. It is no disgrace to say : "I don't know." The learned doctors who environed Christ that day in the Temple did not know or they would not have asked Him any questions. Tlie only being in the universe who never needs' to say: l'I do not know" is the Lord Almighty. The fact that they did not know sent Keppler and Cuvier and Columbus and Humboldt and Hersehel and Morso and Sir William Hamil fcoa. finji nVi theclhrr of. th w.orldis mighjjegt hatur.es Into" nreTT Hfe-Iong explorations. Telescope and microscope and stethoscope and electric battery and all the scientific ap paratus of all the ages are only questions asked at the door of mystery. Behold this Nazarene lad asking questions, giving ever lasting dignity to earnest interrogation. But while I see tho old theologians standing around the boy Christ " I am impressed as never before with the fact that what theology most wants is more of childish simplicity. The world and the church have built up im mense systems of theology. Half of them try to tell what God thought, what God planned, what God did five hundred million years before the small star on which we live was created. I have had many a sound sleep under sermons about the decrees of God and the eternal generatibn of the Son and dis courses showing who Melcbisedek wasn't, and I give a fair warning that if any minister ever begins a sermon on such a subject in my presence I will put my head down ou tho pew in front and go into the deepest slumber I can reach. Wicked waste of tune, this trying to scale the unscalable and fathom the un fathomable while the nations want the bread of life and to be told how they can get rid of their sins and their sorrows. Why should you and I perplex ourselves about the decrees of God? Mind your own business and God will take care cf His. In the conduct of tho universe I think He will somehow manage to get along without us. If you want to love and servo God, and be good and useful , and get to heaven. I warrant that nothing which occurred eight hundred quintiliion of years ago will hinder you a min ute. It is not the decrees of God "that do us any harm, it is our own decrees of sin and folly. You need not go any further back in history than about 1s"3 years. You se tm s the year 1SS9. Christ died alxmt tbh-ty-three years of age. You subtract thirty-three from 1SS9 and that makes it only 1S56 years. That is as fer back as you need to go. Something oc curred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sets us all forever free if with our whole heart and life we accept the tremen dous proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian Church or the Methodist Church or the Lutheran Church or the Baptist Church or any of the other evangelical churches spend anv rime in trying to fix up old creeds, all of them imperfect, as everything man does is imperfect. I move a new creed for all the evangelical cburciics of Chris tendom, nly three articles in the creed and no need of any : more. If I had all the consecrated jK-opIe of all denomina tions of the" earth on one great plain, and I had voice loud enough to put it to a voto that creed of three articles would b" adoptod with aunaiumous vote and a thundering aye that would make the earth quake and the heavens ring with hosanna. This is the creed I pro-,xs- for all Christendom : Article First "Uod so loved the world that He gave His oi'v W got ten Son that whosoever believeth in JMm should not per ish but have everlasting life."' Article Second "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into . this world to save sinners, even the chief. Article Third "Worthy is the Lvnbthat was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without eud. Amen." But you go to tinkerni up your old creois and patching and splicing and inte: lining and annexing and subtracting and adding and ex plaining and you will lose tune and mak-? yourself a target for earth and hell to shoot at. Let us have creeds not fashioned out of human ingenuities but out of script uai phrase ology, and all the guns of bombardment b La zing fron all the port holes of inSdehty and perdition will not in a thousand years :rocVed of? the Ch'irh of God a splin ter as bg a a caru'nric n.- ! What is twx-'t needed no-,v u tr&t we g&ih-r ad our ir.r-ol-gi?s around the boy in the Tei:le tive clatx rations around the ampJicttiC -"'r-d the pro fundities around th clarieti-s, ti:e ueuen riau of scholastic research arouud ta UTiwrinklod cheek of twelve yvrr juven eseenoe. Except you bccoir.J as u Ut ile child yoa can in no wise enter the Lingdoai;" and except you boccino as a little child yoa cannot understand the O'r'liaa.-XShgloTi 2ha- bt thin that BaTiBlniinSHraaa HflleIfiaT5nmml is the sons of 15earan ever am wm u uj? aui to bend over the lad, who first made ruddy of cheek by the breath oftWudeafi huls and on His way to the mechanic shop where He was soon to be the support . ttt 1 msvtHar cfOTTTIArl loTIP fmOnCTl .to crapple with the venerable dialecticians of the Orient doiu ura'"6 "?r them questions." Some referring to Christ, have claimed Ecce Deus! Behold the God. Others have exclaimed Ecce homo! Behold the man. But to-day in conauaoa oi;mj subject I cry. Ecce adolesceasl Behold Boy. . WISE WORDS. No thoroughly occupied man ws ever yet very miserable. Whatever is obtained by deceit cheat no one but the getter. .Women distrust men too much in gen eral and not enough in particular. 0n& is never more on trial than in tho moment of excessive good fortune. Of all the heavy bodies the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love. Women are constantly the dupes or tho victims of their extreme sensitiveness. If you amuse a man he'll be likely to forgive you for cheating him afterward. Sometimes it is the man who carries the; lantern for others that fall into the ditch.. Wit should be used as a shield for de fence, rather than as a sword to wound, others. Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived and apt to have ague fits. In preparing anonymous contributions for the newspapers always be sure to write only on neither side of the paper. Mind is the erreat lever of all-things;. human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. There is nothing more universally com mended than a fine day ; the reason is, that people can commend it without envy. Never build after you are five and forty; have five years income in hand before you lay a brick, and always calculate the ex pense double the estimate. The great source of calamity lies in re gret or anticipation ; he, therefore, is most wise who thinks of the present alone, re gardless of the past or future. Appetite is a relish bestowed on tbe poor, that they may like what they eat? while it is seldom enjoyed by the rich, because they may eat what they like. For seven lone years I strangled hfraj farming, running a mill, &c , until 1 wan fortunately introduced to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., by my brother, and I went to work at once, and in sersn months I had made more clear money than I had made in tbe seven years before. They took me right by the band from the start and seemed to be very glad of the chance to show roe bow to do it." This is about what a young man said a year or so ago of tbe above-mentioned firm. 'Since that time he has been steadily at work for them, and is now one of the happiest men In America. If you need employment, it would be a Rood thing for you to follow this youiig man's example. If MwOwm WaiwtT,xn BrodwvV One of the prevalent disorders at sea salt-room. A Pocket Cigar Case and five of "Tansiirs Punch," all for 25c. There are 25 miles of shelves in the uritisb Museum reading room. If love lies dreaming, can he tell the trot when he isawaket The Nation's Pensioners. The National Tribune has made a care ful study of the report of the Commis sioner of Pensions,the results of which are shown in the following analysis of the 326,835 disabled men on the pension roll : 283 get$l a month, or 3 cents a day. 2 get $1 . 87 a month, or 6 cents a day. CI, 722 get 12 a month, or 6 cents a day. 3 get $2. 1 2 a month, or 7 cents a day. 4 get $2.25 a month, or 7 cents a day. 8 get $2.50 a month, or 8 cents a day. 7 get 12.66 a month, or 8 cents a day. .38 get $2.66 a month. 1, 935 get $3 a month, or 10 cents a day. 1 gets S3. 12 a month, or 1 0 cents a day. 848 get $3.75 a month, or 12J cents a day. 59,210 get $4 a month, or 13 cents a day. 426 get $4.25 a month, or 14 cents a day. 1,462 get $5 a month, or 16 cents a day. 2 get $5.25 a month, or 17 cents a day. 13 get $5.33 a month, or 17J cents a day. 35 get $5. 33K a month. 66 get $5. 66 a month, or 18 cents a daj. 16 get $5.75 a month, or 19 cemts a day. 17, 061 get $6 a month, or 20 cents a day. 76 get $6.25 a month, or 21 cents a day. 2 get $6. 37 a month, or 21 cents a day. 2 get $6.37 W a month. 2 get $6.66 a month, or 23 1-5 cents a day. 8 get $6.75 a month, or 22 cents a day. 21 5 get $7 a month, or 23 cents a day. 14 get $7.25 a month, or 24 cents a day 925 get $7. 50 a month, or 25 cents a day. 1 gets $7. 66 a month, or 25 cents a dy. 21 get $7.75 a month. 13,! i" get 8 a month, or 26 cents a day. The largest traffic in eggs In the world la said to take place at Rndolfsheim, a suburb of Vienna. A large public egg market will be established there. Aconditlon of weakness of body and mind which results from many disorders of the sys tem finds its best and surest relief in Brown's Iron Bitters. As it enriches and strength ens the blood so the stomach, liver and kid neys receive power to perform their duties, and the depressing influences from a diseased and disturbed condition of these organs are removed. Senator Voornees, of Indian, Is known as the "Tall Sycamore of the Wabash." Potdttvrlr DHIHohn. So delightful to; the taste aro HAMBURG FIGS that they could be placed upon the ta ble for de-srt, and no cne would susject that they wtre more than very superior crystal ized frui. This property is what makes them s" popitlar with ladies and children for th cu-e cf constipation, piUs, indigestion, nnd i"k headache. .5 cents. Dose one Frg. Mack Draper, N. Y. "Oar Own Evart" is is the affectionate way in which New Yorkers refor to tkeir JSeuior Senator. A Piece of Her Mind. A lady correspondent has this to say : "I want to give a piece of mind to a cer tain class who object to advertising, when it costs them anything this won't cose them a cent. I suffered a living death for nearly two years vith heidachvs. backache, in pain, standing t r walking, was being literally dragged out of txistence, my mier in ert used by drugging. At last, in desjair, I committed the sin of trying an advertised medicine, Ir. Puree's Favorite Prescription, ami it restored me to the bletsedness of scund health. I honor the physician who, wten he knows he c.iu cure, has the moral courage to advertise! hi fact." The mediine mentioned is tjv.tt rantertl to cure lb5 delicate diseases peculiar to It males. Head printed guar an Uc on bottle-wrapper. For all derangements of tbe liver, stomach and bowels, take lr. Pitrce's 1 ellel. One a de. Make No Mistake Ifjouhave made up roar mind to buy Hood's SorsaparllU do not be induced to take ny other. Hood SarsarUU Is a peculiar medicine po ?vnur. by vlrtoe of tu peculiar combination, pro jirtk.?i ami preparation. cKraUre powers superior tatir other artklo of the kind before tbe people. I ture to get Ilood. "In one store the clerk tried to induce me to boy ttrlr own Instead of flood's SarsaparUla. Bat be could not preraU on me to change- I told aim I krew what Rood's SaracparUU was. I bad taken lt j t 3 i-rrftc;! ::'. 1 w'.th K. and did not want j aut "wr."-ais. ilia. X UofT, 1 Terrace Street j 1M r. 'Ian. Hood's Sarsanari.ln re-. !j H .lr.iUia. ft; six for Si Prepared only 3 - - - Apotnecarica, Lowell, Ma ICO Doses One Dollar Imasl nation vs. Fact. There is no doubt unny well people imagine themselves sick, be ns; led to l olivo that nat ural iucidents of lifo aru symptoms of t rribie diseases and forerunners of death. Ala-! thai such persons ehonld be i-o easily deceived by the lying advertisements of unprmcirl ! quacks. A blood disease, howivcr, ii vol im aginative. It is a fixed fa-t, and i!s symptoms are unmistakable. Whvu one is troubled with pimples and eruptions ou the Inniy, bad b'tl is the cause. When one is troubled with aching- bones and joints, bad blood is tlie cuise. When one n troubled with periods of weaknea, and the functions of the 1. y become congested and irregular, without warning and seemingly without reason, the c ms - mar be ascnln d to an activity of blood poison in tho ' ytem which,affecting the mucous linings of the dt li cate organs of lifo, ini)irs their force and dis ables their action. In all phases of ill h- a!th. brought on by an impure state of the blood, 11. li. B. (Botanic Bloo-l Balm) has proven a fovcr eign remedy. It is the pet prescription of a suc cessful pLnsiciaii, and sulTerer.s will hj win.- who give it a trial. Furthc- information will Ik given gratuitously to those who address. Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, (in. lr sumption Is THE fcT rlsr mil - - XVCj J2i and particular of our vUtt that pars over 91. OOtt AT .1IA K KI .(. d dress THECORKKiPOXlEST, To'.e-do, Ohio. gWjgg who have tied F1o Cure Ur Connim prion wiy niBl8TOFALL; Sold everywhere. a After AU. .,.VT, tan, conmilt mi i nnn.tai.intL w.wvwbvi PHILA., PA. Twenty year' continuous practice In U treat ment and cure of the an lil e fleets mf mrlr lee, dertroyln both aiind and body. Mr.tu t.ii and treatment for one moutb, Vive Hellm. -0t securely sealed frunt observation to any a: trvr Bssksi Special Dlsesutea free. I nrMrrth and fnlt mm. dorse III ) as tbe oolr ispeci flc for the certai n csrs of this disease. O. U.I5t!RAIIAM.5C p Amsterdam, X. H We bave sold Big G foe munjr years, and It has mven me oesi oi aau. faction. D. IL DYCITF. A CO., Cblcao. ui. l.OO. Sold by DrusUu. Plantation Engines f Wlta aalf-OsaUiTod RETURN RUE BOILERS. I rOR DBIVrKJ COTTON GINS ad KILLS. Uistrat4 rarklr. rrw. A44nm) JAMES LEFFEL &. CO j PK1N6FIE1.T. ui. ell LfTkertj BtKaw VV. f rX TO DATB.X I nSsMtorV j Vrab;byta CbieiaaatLCmS 1 11 SIC-ART-E LOCUTION aec IOeneral Cmltare. llestrwbie lo-.ktit open to projtrMslTe student. All tn'eresteT I Will receive VSJUaoie iniwn'i; rrr, by addressing x luttwiu, ww, S25 COLLEGE. RIcbmM Yi. 2 KJiwa1' fiU UAIIR made by our Ajrent. ) AH nUUil THli lU. PERKINS MEUK.'AIi 'D.. ICicbnioud. Va. F REE Hunl rods of Oards. Pictures. NewspaHrft Magazines, etc., t all who send Hx-. for liarne Iti Agents Record. C N. Wells, Cedar, Jackson Co., W.Va geuts wanted. Si an hour. 50 new articleK. CatlmH Land samples free. C. E. Marshall. Lockport. '. Y 85 to 98 a day. Samples, worth 8:2.15 Kre. Llaes not under horHO' feet. Write Brvw sterSaiety Keiu IIHderCo., HoUr.Mlch. PtERI.ESS DYES Sold by LmuoucbTa, f T TOU WISH A X GOOD REVOLVER purchase one of the cele bratsd HMITH M WESSON arms. The flnsst rmaU arms rar uoanufactured and the first: choire of all eiDerts. Manufactured in calibres S2. 89 and 44-xoa Sin via mr double action. Safety HammerleM amd Tanret models. Constructed entirely of best q u u I -Ity wroiibkt steel, carefully innpected for work man ship and stock, t hey are unrivaled for flnlh durability mid Hccurnoy. PonotbedecelTadbr chsap malleable cast Iran tmltatlaas which are often sold for the irenufne article and are not. enlv unreliable, but danrerotts. The SMITH & WESSON Ravolvers are all stamped upon the bar rels with firm's name, address ana dates of patent, and are guaranteed perfect in every detail. In sist upon having the genuine article, and if your dealer cannot supply you an order sent to address, below will receive prompt and careful attentieft. Descriptive catalogue and prices furnished upon ap-- plication. SMITH & WESSON, pyilentlan this paper. Wprlncfleldt Man. 8 N U-26 DUTCHER'S I FLY KILLER .Halii-sa cliaii aw rep. Kvwy sheet tvill kill a niiart r fllmv. Stops bii7.ii iinnn.l eari, llTlng at eves, tickling jtmr nose, skips hr.rd wirls nuil tt ;urc peace at trlillti i xivdw. Send centt fT ii hhrrU t F. DCTCHER, St. Al)aii,i. Vt NEED IT! "I liavt a lnuce inctionat y, but it isro much work V. 1 t it for examination that lam inclined to nhirk ;foltinif out wot iin. aHhouah desirous of knO'ledfre. tmr 'ilANDY liHrj IONAKy" Is slways by me snd look ont words on the instant, so the Information r impressed on my rnind." Correspondent Webster's Illnjtrtted HANDY CIGTIOIIARY Tbonsande of Words Defined. If nndreds of Pictures. Abbre viations Explained. Ordin ary Foreiarn Phrasee Trana- la'ed. Metric Syetem of. Weight and Measures. Print! in small, clear type, on fine aid pper ; bound in handsome cloth. t w aw m 3SO- 820 LATEST ACHIEVEMENT JD 02 I SCS2?ttv t--I p5 TRADE LLULOfB MARK. CO m CO Be sure this trade mark appears on all tbi goodi you purcLaw.-. Collar and I IV cm Sleeve Buttons W ho that reads aoesn't every day come across words whose meaning he does not know, and which he annot ponoimce orepeU? Hence tbe demand for a juodrate-aizc-d Dictionary which can be kept , at hna always ready for reference. 8nch a ork wiin e usd a hundrM times as much as a large nn wirldy volume, and therefore is a greater ednca tor. As the 8peliing and Pronunciation cX many com mon word have been chanKed durinxthe last vears. people owning the old-faWoned:Ilctkmariesv needs modern one. Here it Is at a .trilling; cost, l'ostpaid for "2!ic. in lc. or ac stamp. BOOK PUBLISHING If O USX. J 24 Lonard T. Clty Which tan never rattle or trnJ(i tli -ilnis of cun. Thrcetrollar bfltumn for 5 cents. bnv tons iu many varieties and eoUr, from ?n'. Ut 5c. per pair. All poods warranted strong and durable. Wc send to any andresa rreo or itane. The Celluloid Company ctmllilently assort that fhf v have attained tlie highest Improvement lu Cbctt Waterproof Collars, iCn(Ts and Bosoms wlilh hai ever leen reached in ;thiA line or waen.rr c"o- We have examined their latest improvements aij tested them by every : means at our eVniinaDi. 1V are convinced that they have never been cxr-Ilel and wc are realv to ilve thei our heartiest tu1 ment. They are pliable, nvst lurablo of any gU on the marker; aud reaeninle i.nen more periociir than any waterproof Imitation. Somo Ktrancer who have little acquaintance with thewo iHiii under the hnpreaslon that collulold Is an eplojr niaterlaL This Is an entirely erroneous Hps. can hold celluloid upon the hottest arganl burwf, aud it will melt, but never "hrnlte. Tho lini-u inur lining makes it much Ktronxer than any other fpKT in this line. We shall be glad to have any and a of our former patrons try these pools and write w their opinion of the same. A full aworUncnt Celluloid Collar Buttons, at 5 cent eacU ty mail postpaid; and Cuff ilmtton from 2Tc. to $1.0) pair by mail. These; button are durable bjI tiers tarn I h t he Collars aiul CufTs CELLULOID COLLARS and CUF1S oi nowt thaa linen look better nud wear longer. Tl7 never wilt from Dersnlratlon. are always wait. clean and fresh: red u! re no biundrrlDir are inaet- actured in all the leading styles for both Ladle Oents, Olrls and Boys. Wheu soiled, sliniily ij them oft with soap and water. They save tneire in a week s wear. Try them. Kep this for reference. CELLULOID COLIJ' and CUFFS are as economical and desirable a reseuted. Cau alwavs obtain the snm. m -POstagk, by addressing OEOROK CLEMENT t C. 33 East 22d St., New York, at tbe following pri" Gents' Collars. 25e.: nix for !. S2.'-C) do. Cuffs. Mc: six for V7.V-1.75 per lor. O l&it, I.V.; six for-8.V. l.TOdos. Lnd.:" ruT". six for $1.70 rOo -h. Small B'.3on)' :jz. Ur; Bosoms, 75c. j Remit by rosta'KVJe;-, Chock or Stamps. Addrcs isr,o. i:i,i:.ui:'f iv to.. HZ E.st -Z'lA Slreet, Net Vv:. M wwf lis All about a Horse. How to fections and so Guard against Cure when same is Age by the Teeth. Different Parts of to Shoe Properly, hundreds of others ought to be in the man and boy who may have occasion, of all animals, the liable to be required the lack of them of dollars. All of much other inform Horsemen can be ing our ioo-Page Bookwhich we will on receipt of only Istrffi 100-Pap ONLY A QTJAETEE, IK SILVER OB STAMPS. BOOK, PUB. HOUSE, 134 Leonard Qt ' . pick Out a Good One. See ImpeP Fraud. Detect jDisease and effect a possible. Tell tee What to call the the Animal. Ho These points1 ace equally important possession of ever has occasion, to use that noblest Horse. They are t nnv tn in lite. aC r VSas - - may cost hundred- the foregoing ation valuable W obtained by read Illustrated Horse forward, postpaid. 25 cents in stamp5- m ii !
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 2, 1889, edition 1
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