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S. B. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME I.
REV. I)R. TALMAGE.
rilK BROOKLYN DIVIVF/S SUN*
DAY SERMON,
Subjects “Heavy Weights” (Deliv¬
ered at San Francisco).
Tot • “Ca*f thy harden upon tho Lor.1,
Rod H«* shall sustain tha«."—I**alms Iv 22.
,
David was hero taking his own medicine.
If anybody had on him heavy wolghte, Da¬
vid had them, an l yet out of his own experi¬
ence be advises you an l me as to the best
way of cutting rid of burdens. This is a
world of burden bearing. Daring the past
few dsrs tidings came from across the sea of
• mighty Holy and good man fallen. A man frill
of the Ghost was he, his name the «y*
nonym for all that is goo 1 and kind and gra¬
cious and beneficent. Word comes to us of
n s c ot r gs ■weepin? off hundreds and thou¬
sands of people, end then is m burden of
sorrow, Sorrow on the see end sorrow on
the land. Coming into the house of prayer
there may )>e no s’gn of sidness or sorrow,
but Where is the roan who has not a cou*
Hid? Where is the soul that has not a strug¬
gle? An 1 there is not a day of All the year
•nd When there mv text is is not gloriously aud truce appropriate,
the plan never nn assembled ou
ri where tho text is not gloriously
spproprlste, Lord, and “<’n*t thy burden upon the
H»* shall sustain thee.”
In tho far Hast w<»!ls of water are so in¬
frequent has that when a man owns a well he
sometimes n property of very great value, and
battles have been fought for the
possession of one well of w’atcr, but there is
one wdl thnt every man owns, a deep well, a
perennial burden well, a well of tears. If a man has
not s on this shoulder, ha has a bur¬
den on the other shoulder,
»*rh« day I loft home to look after myself
gn l for m)*self, in the wagon my father sat
> driving, an.l lie mid that day so netliing
which has been with me all my life ■
t have “Da Witt, It is always safe to trust Go 1. I
many a time come to a crisis of diffi¬
culty, Yon may know that, having been
*lek for fifteen years, tt was no easy thing
for mo'to support a family, but always God
flrtme to the res ue. I remember the time,”
he said, “when I didn’t know what to do,
and I saw a man ou horseback riding up the
farm lane, and he unnouived to mo thnt I
had I been nominated for tho most lucrative
olfieo in all the gift of the people of tho
counl v, nn i to that ofileo I was elected, atul
God in tlint way met all mv wants, and I toll
J-ou it Is always safe to trust Him.”
Oh, my friends, wluit we want Is a practi¬
cal religion ! 'l’ho religion people have isso
high tip yon cannot reach it. I ha 1 a friend
Who entere I the life of an evangelist. He
K* 1 '’” "P a lucrative business iu Chicago, and
\ he an i his wife finally came to sovero want.
He told me thnt in the morning at
he said • “O Lord, Thou knowest we have
Hot a mouthful of too l in the house! Help
me, help us I” And iio started out on tho
street, and a gentleman met him and said:
“I have hse» thinking of you for a good
While. You know I am a flour merchant.
If yon won’t be offended, I should like to
scud you a barrel of floor." Ho oast his bur¬
den on the Lord, nnd the Lord sustained
him. Now, that Is Hie kind of religion wo
Want.
In tho strait of Magellan, I havo boon
told, there ts a place where, whichever way
s wind ship captain puts Ills ship, lie finds the
all against him, and there nre men who
their lives have been miming in the
teeth of the wind, and which way to turn
they this do not know. Homo of them may bo in
assemblage, and l address them fnea to
faco, not perfunctorily, but ns ono brother
talks to nnother brother, “Cast thy burden
upon tho Lord, and He shall sustain tlioe.*’
Thcro nro a great many men who have
hostness burdens. When wo seo a man wor¬
ried and perplexed and annoyed in business
have life, we are ant to say, “He ought not to
attempted to carry so much." Ah, that
man may not bo to blame at alt! When a
man plants a business ho does not know
What Will bo its outgrowths, what will be its
mots, what will ho its branches. There is
many a man with keen foresight nnd largo
business faculty who has boon flung into tho
dost by unforeseen circumstances springing
Opoa him from ambush. When to buy,
when to sell, when to trust nnd to what
amount to credit, what will bo tho effect of
this new invention of machinery, what will bo
the effect of that loss of crop, nnd a thousand
other questions perplex business men until
the hair is silvered and (loop wrinkles arc
plowed by mountains in the and cheek, and down the by stocks valleys, go and up
go
they drunken are at their wits’ ends and stagger like
men.
There never has been a time when thero
Jk«aw4»ecs. such rivalries in business as now.
It Is hardware against hardware, books
against book**, chandlery against chandlery,
imported thousand articles against Imported articles.
A stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advantage of
light, never such variety of assortment,
never so much splendor of show window,
never so much adroitness ot salesmen, never
so much acuteness of advertising, and amid
all these severities of rivalry iu business how
the many shoulder! men break down! Oh, tho burdon*on
You Oh, tho burden on the lienrt!
hear that it ts avarice which drives
these men of business through the street,
and that Is the commonly accepted idea. I
do not believe a word of it. Tho vast multi¬
tude of these business men arc toiling on for
other*. To educate their children, to put
wing of protection over their households, to
have something left so wnen they pass out of
this life their wives and children will not
have to go to the poorbouse—that is the way
I translate this energy in the street and store
—the vast majority ot that energy. Grip,
Gouge Jk Co. do not do all tho business.
Borne ot us rtunember when tho Central
America was coming homo from California
it was wrecked. President Arthur's father
in-law was the heroic captain of that ship
mid went down with most of tho passengers.
Borne of them got off into lifeboats, but there
was a young man returning from California
hA ' 1 * of ff°ld in his hand, and as
«Hb fPfc last boat shoved off from tho ship that
to 80 '' OW11 that young man shouted to
IrVpgold. Ja wv-xr.ide In Tfa« the boat: $9000. “Here, Take John, catch home
re are it
to my old mother; it will make her comfort¬
able in her last days.” Grip, Gouge A Co.
alt the business of the
kaavtbbg y friend, do you say that God does
^fcell about your worldly busl
you God knows more about it
He knows nil your perplexi
knows what mortgage is al-out to
He knows what note you cannot
Hn knows what unsalable goods you
your shelves : Ho knows nil your
gEgK ■yardstick from tho down day to you that took sale hold of the of last the
■I of ribbon and tho God who helpeo
||Hld ^^Bwtoie to bo minister, king, an and l who who helped helped Daniel Have- to
to be a soldier will help you to Uls
Htarge ■m ail your duties. Hois going to see
■ad through. When loss comes, and you
your property going, just take this book
■ad put to down by your ledger and read of
Kbe f eternal possessions that will come to yo ■
r through our Lord Jesus Christ. And wbe rj
four business partner betrays just you, nnd your in¬
friends turn against down you, take the
sulting Bible tetter, beside put tt the insulting on the table, and put
your then read of the friendship of letter, Him who
“sticketh closer thau a brother.”
A young accountant in New York City got
a aooonnit entangled. He knew he was
meat, and yet he could not make his ac
gouats come out rig ht. and be toiled at them
day and night until b*» was nearly frenfcled.
It seamed by those books that something had
been misappropriated, and he knew before
Ood ha was honest. The last day ca ne. He
knew tf he could not that day make bis ac¬
counts come out right ha would go into dis¬
grace and go into banishment from the busi¬
ness establishment. He went over tbeke very
eariy-ribefore *»• there was anybody in the place
hnelt down at the desk and, said :
fecaniL ‘‘O Lord, hut Thou l know«st I have tried to be
essuwt Maks these thing* coma
0 ’ V, $&«■- %* * :
FORT GAINES. GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1. 1894.
out right! TT«;p me to-day—help ran this
ly morning.” The yoan* man arose, and hard¬
that knowing why he did so opened a book
lay on the desk, an 1 there was a leaf
containing a line of figures which explained
burden rytbfng. Io*other words, he east his
upon the Lord, and the Lord sus¬
tained him. Young man, do you hear that?
Ob, yes, Ood has a sympathy with any¬
body that Is in any kind of toil! He knows
bow heavy Is the hod of bricks that the
workman carries up the ladder on the' wall."
He hears the pickax of the miner down in
the coal shaft. He knows how strong the
tempest strikes the sailor at masthead. He
sees the factory girl among the spindles and
knows how her arms ache. He sees the sew¬
ing woman in the fourth story and knows
how few pence she geds for making a gar
meut, an 1 Ion ler than all the din and roar
of the city comes the voice of a sympathetic
Ood, ‘‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
He shall sustain thee.”
Then there nre a great many who have a
weight of persecution and abuse upon them.
Sometimes society gets a grudge against a
man. All his motives are misinterpreted,
and all bis good deeds are deprecated.
With more virtue than some of tho honored
and applauded, he runs only against raillery
and sharp criticism. When a man begins to
go down, he has not only the force of natural
gravitation, him in tho but a hundred hands to help
cuted for thoir precipitation. Men are perse¬
virtues and their successes.
CUrmanieUs said he had just as many bitter
character antagonists as lie had adornments. Tho
sometimes is so lustrous that tho
weak oyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear
to look at It.
It was their integrity that put Joseph in
tho pit, and Daniel In the den, an 1 Hhnirach
in the tire, and sent John tho Evangelist to
desolate Patmos, and Galvin to the castle of
persecution, Korah and John Huss to tho stake,
an l after Mosos, and Saul after Da¬
vid, and Herod after Christ. Bo sure, if you
have anything to do for church or state, and
you nttempt it with all your soul, tho light¬
ning will strike you,
Tito world always lias had a cross be¬
tween two tblev.es for tho one who eomos to
snvo it. High and holy enterprise has al¬
ways been followel by abuso. Tho most
sublime tragedy of self-sacrifice has come to
always burlesque, followed The by'scoff graceful gait of virtue is
and grimace and
travesty, The sweetest strain of poetry
ever written has come to ridiculous parody,
and ns long as there ate virtue and rightoons
ness in the world thcro will be something
for iniquity to grin at. All along tho line
of the ages nn 1 in all lands tho cry has been :
“Not this man, but Barabbos. Now, Bar
abbas was a robber.’*
And what makes tho persecutions of life
worse is that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom you
loaned money or have started in business or
wjiom you rescued in some great crisis. I
think it has lf9on the history of all our lives
—the most acrimonious assault has come
from those whom wo have benefited, whom
we have helped, and that makes it all tho
harder to bear. A man is in danger of be¬
coming cynical.
A clergyman of Ihe Universalist church
went into a neighborhood for the establish¬
ment of a a church of his denomination, and
ho was anxious to find some one of that de¬
nomination, house and he was pointed to a certain
and went there. He said to the man
of tho house t “[ understand you are a Uni
versalist. I want you to help me in the en¬
terprise." Universalist, “Well." but I have said the peculiar man, “I kind am of a
a
Universalism." “What is that?’* asked the
minister. “Well," replied the other, “I
have been out in the world, and I have been
cheated and slandered and outraged and
abused until I believe in universal damna¬
tion 1"
The groat danger Is that men will become
cynical tempted and given to believe, as David was
to say, that all men are liars. Oh.
my friends, sou’s! do not lot that be the effect
upon your If you cannot endure a
little peweeutiou, how do you think our
fathers en lurc 1 persecution? Motley, in his
“Dutch Republic,” tolls us of Egmont, the
martyr, who. condemned to be beheaded,
unfastened his collar on the way to the scaf¬
that fold, ho and whou “So they asked him why he did
sair they will not bo detained
in their wo,- k. I want to be ready.” Oh,
how little we have to endure eomparod with
those who have gone before us!
Now. if you have come across ill treat¬
ment, let me tell j’ou you are in excellent
company—Christ and Luther and Galilei and
Columbus arid John .Tay and Josiata Quincy
and thousands of men and women, the best
spirits Budge of earth and heaven.
not one inch, though all hell wreak
upon you its vengeance, and you be made a
target for devils to shoot at. Do you not
think Christ knew all about persecution?
Was He not hissed at? Was He not struck
ou the cheek? Was He not p irsued all the
days of Tils life? Did they not expectorate
upon Him? Or, to put it in Bible
language. "They spit upon Him.” And can¬
not He understand what persecution is?
“Oast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee.”
Then there are others who carry great bur¬
dens of physical ailments. When sulden
sickness lias come, and fierce choleras and
malignant fevers take the castles of life by
storm, ailments we which appeal toGoJ, but in these chronic
wear out the strength day
after day, an 1 week after week, an l year
after year, how little resorting to Go 1 for
solace! Then people depoul upon their
tonics, an l their plasters, un i their cordials
rather thau upon heavenly stimulants.
Oh, how few people there are completely
well! Some of you, by dint of perseverance
and care have kept living to this time, but
how you have had to war ngainst physical
ailments! Antediluvians, Infirmary without medical
college and and apothecary chop,
multiplied thetr years by hundreds, but li ^
_____has gone through the gauntlet of diseas ft
in our time an 1 has come to seventy years of
age is a hero worthy of a p ilm.
The world seems to be a great hospital,
and you run against rueumatisms and con
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and
scores of old diseases baptized by new no
meuclature. Oh. how heavy a burden sick
rhT.pVr^tro'm^xr^v^h.'V-eS. the and
ness out of fruit, luster out of the
night. When the limbs ache, when the res
tions, how hard it is to be patient and oheer
ftil and assiduous !
“Cast tby burden upon the Lord.” Does
your hsad ache? His wore ths thorn. Do
your feet hurl? His were crushed of the
spikes. Is your side painful? His was struck
by the spear. Do you feel like giving way
under the burden? His weakn*s? gave way
under a cros«. While you are in every pos
Ing than any anodyne, more vitalizing thau
any stimulant and more strengthening than
any tonic is the prescription of the text,
“Cast thy burden the?.” upon the Lord, and He
will sustain
We hear a great deal of talk now about
faith cure, nnd some people say it cannot
...... but bedouenui that . the chief it .. is . a advance failure. ,___1 of Ido the not church know is
•to bo in that direction. Marvelous things
come to me day by day which make me think
that it the age of miracles ia past it is be
to a member of my family, “My mother
wants her case mentioned H« to Mr. Talmage.”
This was the case. said ■ “My mother
had a drea '.fill abscess, from which she had
suffered unfold agonies, and all surgery had
been exhausted upon her, ami worse and
worse she grew until wo called in a few
Christian friends and proceeded to God, pray
about it. We commended her case to
and the abscess began immediately to be
cured. She h entirely well now and without
knife and without any surgery.” So that
case has coma to me, and there are a score
oi other cases coming to our ears from all
parts o’! the earth. Oh, ye who are sick,
to Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with
agonies of body, “Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, Another and He shall sustain thee !** is the
burden some have to carry
bujdep of bereavement. Ah, these arc the
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
troubles that wear us out If we loss onr
property, by additional industry perhaps
we may bring back the estranged fortune. I
If we lose our good name, perhaps by re¬
formation of morals wo may achieve again !
reputation for integrity, but who will bring
back the dear departed?
Alas, me, for these empty cradles and thest '
trunks of childish toys that will never be ,
and used the again silence | Alas iu me, the halls for the empty chair j
that will never
echo again to those familiar footsteps! Alas2 |
for the cry of widowhood and orpbanag^e
What hitter Marahs in the wilderness, what j
cities of the dead, what long, black shadow '
from the wing of death, what eyes sunken !
with ffrief, what hands tremulous with be*
reavement, what Instruments of music shut |
now because there are no fingers to play on .
them! Is there no relief for such souls?
Aye, let that soul ride into the harbor of my
text.
The son’ that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
I will not, I wlil not desert to foes,
That soul, th'iugh all hell shall endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.
cient Now, the grave is brighter than the an¬
tomb where the lights were perpetually
kspt burning, rhe sacred feet of Him who
was “the resurrection aud the life” are on
the broken grave hillock, while the voices of
angels ring down the sky at tho coronation
of another soul come home to glory.
Then there ara many who carry the bnr
den of sin. Ah, we all carry it until in the l
appointed way that burden is lifted. We i
need no Bible to prove that the whole race is
fume 1. What a spectacle it would be if we
could tear off the mask of human defilement
or beat a drum that would bring up the
whole army of the world's transgressions—
the deception, the fraud, and the rapine,and
the murder, and the crime of all centuries!
Aye. if I could sound the trumpet of resur¬
rection in the souls of the best men in this
audience, and all the dead sins of the past
should come up, wo could not endure the
sight. Sin, grim and dire, has put its clutch
upou the immortal soul, and that clutch will
never relax unless it be under the heel of
Him who came to destroy the works of the
devil.
•Js Oh, there to have a mountain of sin on the soul! 1
no way to have the burden moved
Oh, yes. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.”
The sinless one came to take the conse¬
quences of our sin! And I know He is in
earnest. How do I know it? By the stream¬
ing temples and the streaming hands as He
says, “Come unto Me. all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Why will prodigals live on swines’ husks
when tho robe, and tho ring, and the
Father's welcome are ready? Why go wan¬
dering over tho great Sahara desert of your
sin when you are invited to the gardens of
God. the trees of life and the fountains of
living water? Why be houseless and home¬
less forever when you may become the sons
aud daughters of the Lord God Almighty?
A Tired Engine.
*
“We often hear engineers say that
their engines are tired or sulky,” said
Reynold Chase, of Louisville, to a re¬
porter for the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crut. “I never realized exactly what
they meant or how much truth there
was in the practical aspect of the
question until one of the three engines
in the large electric power house in
our city absolutely refused to work,
although it was identical in every re¬
spect with tho other two, which
worked perfectly. The expert en¬
gineer, who had put up the engines
under a guarantee, after trying re¬
peatedly to make the ill-tempered en¬
gine start, suggested that it be left
alone for a few days, when—he was
quite certain—it would quit being
contrary and work like a charm. He
proved perfectly correct, and now all
three engines are working uniformly
well. Mechanical engineers have a
most interesting explanation of this
apparent absurdity of moods and
whims of inanimate objects. They at¬
tribute the tired * feeling which loco¬
motives and tools are known to exhi¬
bit on certain occasions to molecular
action, holding that the constant vi¬
bration and possible extremes of heat
and c6hl interfere with measurements,
not sufficient to be appreciated by any
measuring instruments now iu use,
but just enough to upset the most
careful calculations of the designers.
Resting a machine or a tool for a short
time al lows the necessary recontraction
or re-expansion to take place, aud the
article is good as new. In electrical
machinery, concerning which there is
a great difference of opinion and a
great deal yet to be learned, atmos¬
pheric and other conditions easily ac¬
count for any difficulty that mar
arise, but in steam machinery, which
is much better understood, the mole¬
cular theory seems to be the only so¬
lution of the problem.”
Wood as Food.
-Did you ever hear of wood being
used for food?” inquired Amion L.
Vaudevvate, of Pensacola, Fla., of the
c , ^- T j0U1S ___• Globe-Democrat t,__ hotel re¬
porter. “I traveled rather extensively
through Siberia a few’ years ago, and
folmd that among ° the natives along 5
the ,, northern .. coast , wood , in certain , .
torm is a most common, and constant
article of diet. The natives eat it be
plentiful <-—u-vnk.it it forms part s™»**.«* of the
evening
meal, as many cleanly stripped larch
io *vr
people Know by experience that the
fact of their eating wood arouses the
sympathy of strangers, and shrewdly
use it to exite pity and to obtain gifts
of tea and tobacco. They scrap * off
thick . , , layers immediately . ,. , . under the
bark of the log, and chopping it fine,
m i x it with snow. It is then boiled in
-kettl,. Sometime a little fish roe,
milk, or butter is mixed with it.
A Patent Hen’s Nest.
Charles Johuson has invented a
patent hen’s nest that is a very great
convenience to “Biddv,” and it is an
_ iR . oa i&tic .. persuader for her ti do
a
good work. When the hen approaches
the nest a wicket door gently opens,
the -d.fter.hep^esin hen has private apartments it dose, all .nd to
herself. The egg of its own weight
opens a trap door and rolls noiselessly
out of sight, Then when the hen
arises, puts her hands in her pockets
and gets ready to walk out, not seeing
the egg, she thinks she has made a
mistake and lays another. This sort
of thing is repeated until the heft of
the chicken buds in the box below
touches off a spring and Biddy is fired
out of the apartment. Mr. Johnson
anticipates earning a large fortune by
the manufacture and sale of hens’
nests, and he richly deserves ■■ succeed
. Hfvnujb*! (Mo.) Journal.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Stuck to Her Colors—An Open Ques¬
tion—Not Recognizable In Paris
—Too Much of the “Gif
tie,” Etc., Etc.
The name of the maiden was Grav,
But And when the name had of. tremblingly the youth was Brown,
he said his say
Do you think the fair darnel turned Brown?
She Nay, nay.
heartlessly turned him down.
—Chicago Tribune.
AN OPEN QUESTION.
“Isn’t it nice when man and wife
are of the same mind?”
“Whose mind?”"Hallo.
TOO MUCH OF “THE GIFTIE.”
He—“Why do literary people bore
iif pr4rT JU‘, nennls sn’”
,,, kb® -*-b e y e&cn show , the , other ,
how literary people bore other per¬
Bf)ng ” Life
NOT RECOGNIZABLE IN PARIS.
‘Is Smartler just right iu saying
that he speaks French without any
noticeable accent?”
“Yes, indeed. Without even a
French accent.”—Chicago Record.
A rLATTERER.
Wee Woman—“Mr.Nicefellois a sad
flatterer, isn’t he?”
Aunt/— “What has he been saying?”
Wee Woman—“He said he thought I
was ten years old, and I’m only eight.”
—Puck.
THE POOR POET.
Penfield—“You have no soul, wo¬
man ! Instead of choosing a poet, you
should have married a sausage-maker. ”
Mrs. Penfield—“In that case I
should; at least, hare had enoagh to
eat. ’’—Truth.
EXPLAINED.
She—“I think that a great many
foreign noblemen are awfully plain¬
looking men.”
He—“Yes, and that is why their
sovereigns feel called upon to decorate
them so often.”—Judge.
SOULPULNESS.
“Do yon know how beautiful you
are?” he whispered as he clasped her
iu his arms.
‘Tt is . enough, if you know, she
murmured, and dove head foremost
into his whiskers. —Detroit Free Press.
JUST BUDDING.
Young * Husband —“Amy, what
makes that baby yell in that way?”
Young Wife —“His teeth, dear.”
Young Husband—“Oh, if that’s all,
I’ll run for a dent st and have them
pulled out.”—Boston Home Journal.
REPARTEE IN GOATVILLE.
Mrs. Groganey (indignantly) —
“Your goat have been eatin’. Shamus’
washin off the line.”
Mrs. O’Riarty (with ire) — “The
poor craychur ! An’ it’s payin’ for it
you’ll be if he dies.”—Chicago Rec¬
ord.
COMPLIMENTING EACH OTHER.
White (who is being treated by
Black)—“Here’s to your health, my
friend. They call you Black, but I say
you are white.”
Black—“Thank you. Why shouldn’t
I treat you? You have always treated
me, White.”—New York Press.
A MASCULINE INDICATION.
‘I’m afraid Miss Primm is getting
strong minded,” said Mr. Bloobumper
to his wife.
“Mercy! What makes you think
that?”
“I see that this note yon received
from her to-day has no
Pack.
A LOGICAL MIND.
Teacher—“Now. Johnny, we have
. heard , , how this , , . penniless .. , boy, who
started out as a rail-splitter, grew up
to be President. What lesson do we
learn from this story .
Johny— ' That we ought to split rails
an’ get to be presidents.”-—Chicago
"Record 3
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.
It was in the far West.
“Darling!” he whispered, “After I
left you last evening! walked on air !”
She met his words with a look of
wonder and amaze.
“Well, I declare!” she exclaimed.
“Who cut you down, Hank?’*—Town
Topics.
NOT WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY.
Mrs. Cobwigger—“You must meet
with many conceited pupils—those
who think they know it all.”
Professor Strum “That is to be
expected, madam. But I can tell you
that after they get through with my
course of lessons they don t know so
much.”—Judge.
MtiEiTs.
“It seems too bad,” said . Mr. Easy
well, “that authors and reviewers do
not get on together better. ”
“Yes,” replied his wife; “the world
seems to be quite wrong. Judging
by what one reads, the critics should
!• all be novelists aDd the novelists
all
critics.”— Washington Star.
ONLY.
“I’ll work my fingers’ ends off to
support you if you’ll only have me. ”
“But I don’t want a slave. *
“Ah, considerate girl ! -What do you
require?”
“Only—”
“Love?”
“No; $ millionaire.’’—Boston Ga
zefcte.
An*
CONSOLATION.
Jinkins wouldn't pay. Forty peoplg
had tried him on various amounts,
with tho invariable result. One day
he fell into the river and a creditor
fished him out.
“My dear fellow,” he said, as he
stood shivering on the shore, “I owe
you my life.”
“That’s all right, old man,” was the
reassuring reply; “you'll never pay
it.”—Detroit Free Press.
IMPERFECT MECHANISM.
“Say, Alary, where does this un¬
screw?” asked the bad little brother,
nearly twisting his sister’s arm off.
“What do yon mean, you horrid
boy? Don’t! You hurt me.”
“Why, papa aud mamma were talk¬
ing about how badly you behaved at
the party last night, when papa said
you had a screw loose somewhere, and
mamma said she would take you apart
and talk to you.”—Arkansas Traveler.
LOCAL, PRIDE.
“How are you?” said the New York
man to his Chicago friend.
“First-rate ; things booming; every¬
thing growing to be the biggest of its
kind on earth.”
“The popular side got a little the
worst of it on the rapid transit ques¬
tion?”
“Yes. But I’ll bet you anything
you like that our trolley will kill two
people to your cable road’s one. ” —
Washington Star.
A poet’s EASY TIMES.
Mother—“Do you mean to tell mo
that your husbaud is out half the time
until after midnight?”
Daughter —“More than half.”
“And you never scold?”
“Never.”
“I am amazed.”
“You forget that my husband is a
poet.”
“What of that, pray?”
“When he comes home early he al¬
ways insists ou reading his poems to
me.”—New York Weekly.
A VALUABLE PATENT.
The man with a patent lock saluted
the President of the bank, and the
President did not manifest great pleas¬
ure iu his caller’s presence.
“I would like to show you, sir, a
patent lock which I—” he begau.
“Don’t want to see it, ” interrupted
the President. “We have all the burg*
lar-proof locks we want.”
“Ibeg your pardon,’’said the caller,
“but this isn’t a bnrglar-prcfof lock;
it’s a cashier-proof lock.”
“Oh—ah—urn” replied the Presi¬
dent, apologetically, “let mo look at
it.”—Washington Star.
AN AUTHORITATIVE INDORSEMENT,
Lady—“I should like to look at a
flat which I see is for rent in this
building; but no one has answered my
bell.”
Man—“I’ll show it to you. Right
this way, mum.”
“Well, this is something like. The
rooms will suit, I am sure. What sort
of a janitor have they here?”
“The very best in the city, mum. it
“Obliging?”
“The kindest-hearted gentleaiau to
be found anywhere, mum.”
“Honest?”
‘As the day is loug, mum.’
“Is he attentive to his duties?”
“He’s just workin’ himself to death,
mum. Always thinkin’ up some new
thing to make folks comfortable.”
“Well, I declare! I wouldn’t lose
this flat for the world. Where is the
janitor now?”
“I’m him, mum.” —New York
Weekly.
Men-ol-War Launched in 1893,
The following list of man-of-war
launched by the different nations dur¬
ing the year 1893 will no doubt inter¬
est our readers:
Tons.
Argentine Republic—One frigate. ... 1,183
Austria-Hungary—One cruiser au 1 one
trigate.................... 5,600
Brazil—Five torpedo boats ... , 620
Chile—One cruiser.......... 4.400
China—One cruiser. ______ . 1,010
Denmark—Two torpeio boats. . 243
France—Two first-cSass frigate? .. . 23,620
! France-One secood-elas? trig:toe.....6.610
France-Two gunboats.............2,852
France—Three torpeio boats ......... 833
Germany—One cruiser................ 5,000
Italy—One cruiser................2,235
Russia—One first-class frigate .......12,003
Russia—One thirl-ciass frigate ..... 4,126
Russia—Three gunboats....... • 1,200
United States—Three first-class fri
gates ................ . .30.600
United States—Two cruisers. . .. 9,450
Hayti—Two gunboats......... 520
Great Britain—Of ail classes 1 . 28.920
France has launched the greatest
tonnage, then the United States, then
England and then Russia. Chile aa l
Argentine are represented in the race
for increasing their navy, which they
have been sunning for several years.—•
New York Herald.
The Biggest Umbrella.
The biggest umbrella in the world
is now being built in Lon.Ion for a
certain king in Africa. In many of
the tribes of that country the umbrella
is the insignia of royalty, and to cap¬
ture the king’s umbrella is the most
humiliating punishment that can be
inflicted on him. The umbrella mak
; ing in London has a staff fifteen feet
long, with brass ribs some ten feet in
length. It will be covered with col
ored silk, and when extended wil be
i large enough the cover the king and
all his prominent officers. The pre¬
mier, or some other exalted officer,
will have the honor of carrying tha
umbrella over ths king, and will wear
for the purpose a strong leather belt,
with a sqcket for the end of the staff.
How he will macage it in a wind re
j mains to be seen.—New Orleans Pick*
vase. .
The increase of schools ia every
country bos generally been attended
by | decrease of crime.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
NUMBER 2.
THROUGH T1IE SOUTH
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
Culled and Condensed From Our
Daily Dispatches.
The city council of El Paso, Texas,
has passed an ordinance forbidding
women from wearing on the streets of
that city what is known as the divided
skirt.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, has
offered a reward of $250, payable on
conviction, for each of the murderers
of Henry Smith and Will James, col¬
ored, hanged by a mob near Clinton.
Congressman Breckinridge andE. E.
Settle, one of his opponents, appeared
at Owenton, Ky., Monday afternoon
iu joint debate and addressed a crowd
of 2,000 people. The court-house was
found inadequate and the spaking was
held In the yard. The meeting occurr¬
ed in Mr. Settle’s own’s county and he
was received with great enthusiasm.
The severest and most damaging
hail storm that ever occurred in west¬
ern Texas is reported from Buchel
county. The ground was covered
to a depth of six inches with hail
stones, some of which were as large as
oranges. Crops were totally destroyed
and many sheep and poultry were
killed outright. The roofs of build¬
ings were riddled.
Monday afternoon the immense
wholesale grocery house of Preston &
Stauffer at New Orleans narrowly es¬
caped destruction by fire. Damage to
stock is $60,000, and to the building
$10,000; fully insured. While several
firemen were on a shed, a lineman cut
an electric wire which was in their
midst. Captain Fahart and Pipeman
Robert Burke fell to the stouo pave¬
ment, and were seriously injured.
THE ROADS EUCHRED.
They Lose the Famous Social Circle
Short Haul Case.
In the United States circuit court of
appeals at New Orleans, Tuesday,
Judges Pardee, Locke and McCormick
gave the following decision on the long
and short haul ease, tho title being:
“The interstate commerce commis¬
sion vs. the Cincinnati, New Orleans
aud Texas Pacific Railway Company,
the Western «fc AtlanticRailroad Com¬
pany and the Georgia Pacific Railway
Company: Appeal from the circuit
court of the United States for the
northern district of Georgia.
“Ordered. That the decree of the
circuit court be annulled, avoided and
reversed, and that this case be re¬
manded to the said circuit court, with
instructions to enter a decree in favor
of the complainant, the interstate
commerce commission, and against the
defendants, the Cincinnati, New Or¬
leans and Texas Pacific Railway com¬
pany, commanding and restraining the
said defendants, their officers, servants
and attorneys, to cease aud desist from
making any greater charge iu
the aggregate on buggies, carriages
and on other freight of the first class
carried in less than carloads from Cin¬
cinnati to Social Circle than they
charge on such freight from Cincin¬
nati to Augusta; that they so desist
and refrain within five days after the
entry of each decree, and in case they
or any of them shall fail to obey said
order, condemning the said defend¬
ants, and each of them, to pay $100 a
day for every day thereafter they shall
so fail, and denying the relief prayed
for in relation to charges on freight
from Cincinnati to Augusta. The said
defendants to pay all costs of court.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
Soutli for ilie past week shows that business in
the coal regions of Alabama and Tennessee is
somewhat unsettled in consequence of the
miners’ strike, aud the output or the furnaces
has been diminished. Contrary to previous
expectation it has not been necessary to close
down any furnaces, as fuel supplies furnished
by negro aud convict Dbor hive been suffi¬
cient. There i3 an increasing deni ed for pig
iron, and ptices are irregular. Textile mills
tlirougiiout the South arc running on full time
with plenty of ord rs anl encouraging obtained pros¬
pects. Lumber producers have lower
freight rates to the North and West, and are
doing more business than heretofore. Prices,
however, are low, and in many in-dances do not
fcfford a reasonable profit. -Furmeis report that
crop prospects ate not very encouraging and
truck farmers have done well thus far, as high¬
er prices have, to some extent, offset the short¬
age in early crops of fruit. ,
Forty-three new industries were established
or incorporated during the week, among which
may be mentioned the Keystone Creamery
Company, of Alexandria, Va., Iberia capital $60,000; Baton
large sugar refineries at New and
liouge, La.; a $50,000 construction company at
New Orleans, La., and the Buckley High Bp ed
Eevator Company, capital $50,000, also at New
Orleans, Brick warns are tube estaidisbed at
Weston, W.Ya.; bottling works at Chattanooga,
Term.; canning factories at New Orleans, La.,
Tupelo, Miss - ;Corsicana, Tex., and Arcb Mills;
Va., and cotton compresses at Luverne Ala.,
and flearne, Tex. A new cotton mill at Beau¬
fort, S. C-; electrical plants at Ocala,
Fla., West Point, Miss., and Victoria.
Tex.: flour and grist mills at Woitman, N. C.,
and New Castle, Va., and fcrdlizer works at
Abb.ville. Ala. Foundr es are to be built at
Palatka. Fla , and Louisville, Ky., and a ma¬
chine shop at San Antonio, Tex Cotton seed
ml mill! will be established at Clint< n, Ln., and
L berty, 8. C-, and a tobacco factory at Mt.
Airy, N. C. New woodworking establishments
are reported at Huntsville, Walnut* Ala., Ft. White and
Interlachcn, Fla., Cove aud Wilming¬
ton, N. C n Scnm’on, Miss., Er»in and Mem¬
phis, Va., Tenn., Fredericksburg and Manciiester,
and Sutton, W. Va.
Water works will be built at Quincy, Fla.,
Waihalia. 8. C., Bowie, Texas, and Weston,
W, Va. Among the enlargem n s of the week
ere aspring be Whitehall! I factoiy at Houston, Newberry, Tex., cot¬
ton mills at Ga., and 8.
C., and o 1 mills at Union. 8. C., and Cuerro,
Tex- The now buildings reported for the week
include s bmk building at New Braunfels,
Texas; business house; at Orlando, Fia., Val¬
dosta. Ga., Mnrphy, N. C- H cston, Texas,
and Blutfiald, W. Va.; eknrcUfcs at Cloverport,
lious> Ky., and Kxrnes Columfcu*; Cby Tex.; C.; a $40,000 $44,f 00 ichool conrt
at a
'building at Ashland, Miss.—Tradesman. Ky., ami ouu ti’coet (Chattanoo¬ $42,
000 at Jackson,
ga, Tean) '
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- Fear has no power to hindes us from
doing what we believe to be right whep
prompted through loye fc? 4®
RELIGIOUS READING.
HEROES OF BIBLE HISTORY.
Man is the noblest work of God, created in
his own imago. Broad-shouldered, full¬
chested, gracefui-limbod, noble bearing, fine
countenance, wonderful strong and his intelligent. is The
mechanism of nature un¬
the seen , tho knitted bones, the flowing the blood, beat¬
network of nerves and muscles,
ing soul; heart, the five senses, tho never-lying
but though unseen. all are
Working in harmony for ” the well¬
being man, developing in him strength,
grace, dignity, beauty aud power, making
him a splendid nobleman, the embodiment of
a hero, a fit subject to have dominion thing over
the creatures, and every crented upon
the earth. He subdues the creatures with
his indomitable wil 1 , ho forces his subsistence
from the earth, he scours its deep recesses for ho
gold and fuel, and other commodities,
utilizes the sea aud the laud for his own con¬
venience. What can he not do, with his
wonderful mechanism of nature, and his pow¬
erful reason. Surely man is tho noblest work
of God.
If this is true, wluit sadder sight on earth
than man deformed, a blind, man with bereft shrivelled of
limbs, halt, lame sadder and than or these is moral rea¬
son? But even
deformity, a man with and a line, small, strong, shrivelled well
developed Bible bearing and a every-day
soul. In story story we
find ail kinds,of men in the land, stalwart
men with large souls, small men
with small souls, stalwart men with
small souls, small men with large souls. And
where among them alt shall we find our
heroes? Not always among the stalwart, not
always among the always small, never among the large- the
small-hearted, hearted, brave-hearted, but among tho true-hearted.
the
For who, by taking thought, can add one
cubit to his stature; but who cannot, by tak¬
by ing care and thought, add inch Ids by soul Inch, cubit But
cubit unto the stature of ?
the soul Is invisible and who cun judge of it ?
In ancient story the stalwurtness and
strength of a man often became the standard
of his heroism. The first king of Israel was
chosen for his commanding height, for he
was head and shoulders above the ordinary
man; but he did not live tho life of a hero,
and he died the death of a coward. Parents
delighted in their sons who were well-favored
physically. As late as the sixteenth century
tho strong sons were knighted, while the
weak sons were only thought fit to learn to
road.
Even now, iu this enlightened day, it is the
first impulse of human nature than to judge heart. from
outsfde appearance rather tho
A hero-worshiping people stand and cheer
the strong man on the heights who have
gained victories, while they pass unnoticed
the small men in tho valleys who are just as
bravely gaining the unseen victories of lib?.
Tho true iiero does not seek for worship; he
he cares more lor God’s service in which
lias enlisted than for self-aggrandizement.
He does not shrink from danger, hardship or
toil, nor the sneers of tho world. Whether
physically small the or large, of he his daily soul, adds develop¬ cubit
by cubit unto stature
ing into a fuller image of God, a splendid
nobleman, a true here.
With this standard in mind, let the pano¬
rama of Bible story pass before you as given
in tho eleventh chapter of Hebrews: By faith
Abel lived and died; also Joseph, Enoch, Moses. Noah,
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Joshua. And what shall I say more, for
time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Samuel,
David, oiples, and Elijah, thousands Daniel, of the others, prophet*,'the who through tliH
faith have subdued kingdoms and wrought
righteousness, who havo earned their title ns
horoes in the ranks of the lion-hearted, tho
brave-hearted, the true-hearted.
i’m ■
too busy.
A merchant sat at his office desk : various
letters were absorbed spread in before the intricacies him; his of whole his
being was
business.
A zealous friend of man had entered tho
office. “I want to interest you a little in a
new effort for the temperance cause,” sahl
the man. %
The merchant cut him off by replying:
“Sir. you must excuse me, but really, I’m
too busy to attend to that subject now.”
“But, sir, intemperance is on the increase
among us,” said his friend.
“Is it? I’m .porry; but I'm too busy at pres¬
ent to do anything." shall call again, sir?”
“When I
“I cannot toll. I’m very busy. I’m busy
every day. Excuse me, sir, I intruder wish you good of
morning.” Then bowing the out
his office,ho resumed the study of his papers.
The merchant had frequently repulsed No the
friends of humanity iu this manner. mat¬
ter what was tho object, he was too busy his to
listen to tbeir claims. He had even told
minister he was too busy for anything but to
make money. But ono morning a disagree¬
able stranger stepped very softly to his side,
laying a cold, moist hand upon his brow, and
saying, “Go homo with me.”
The merchant laid down Ids pen ; his head
grew dizzy; his stomach felt faint and sick;
he left the counting room, went home and re¬
tired to his bed chamber.
His unwelcome visitor followed him, and
now took bis place by the bedside, whisper¬ 1,
ing ever and anon, “You must go with me.
A cold chill settled on the merch vnt’s
heart ;dim spectres of ships,notes,houses and
lands flitted before his excited mind. StiJi his
pulse beat slower, his heart heaved heavily,
thick films gathered over his eyes, his tongue
refused to speak Then the merchant knew
that the name of his visitor Death.
Ali other claimants on his attention, ex¬
cept the friends of Mammon, had always
found a quick dismissal in the magic phrase,
“I’m too busy.” Humanity, Mercy, Beligion.
had alike begged his influence, means, and
attention, in vain. But when Death came,
the excuse was powerless; he was compelled
to have leisure to die.
Let us beware how we make ourselves too
busy to secure life’s great end. When the
exc isecomes to our lips, and we are about
to say we are too busy to do good, let us re¬
member we cannot be too busy to die.
A CHEAP TONIC.
A woman who had gone through much lOr- feel
row said to a friend once, “Whenever I
especially sad, or lonely, I just go and do
something I particularly dislike to do—some
duty I shrink from. The effort to do it I find
is the best tonic the nerves can laave.” The
speaker’s heart, we knew was broken to all
earthly pleasure, but the she world, stiU keeps up a
cheerful front to and goes
on trying to do her earthly task
right and left, always longing,- as
she says, for the gates to be open that she
may join her beloved. But her recipe for
nerves Is one that many might use with ad¬
vantage. Instead of indulging in vain re¬
grets or selfish sorrow, go difficult and help others.
Do something you find and unat¬
tractive. It will brace you up. Work is
God’s tonic. We need consult no doctor,
only bend in prayer to our ever-present and
loving Father to guide us right. His grace
will help us, His arm steady us along the
thorny road. His voice says, “Be Strong, be
faithful, and I shall lead you homa”—The
Quiver.
CHILDREN ATTENDING CHVRCB.
Rev. Dr. Strong, in the New Era, speaking “Ideas
of regular attendance atchureh.says,
of duty are not strict now as formerly, ana
men therefore more readily yield to inciina
tioa. The present generation of young peo¬
ple have had a training very different from
that which their grandparents or even tbeir
parents received. In most families the rod,
like Aaron’s rod, has budded and brought
forth almonds and sugar plums ot ail sorts.
Children are hired and coaxed Instead of
being commanded and required, and accord¬
ingly grow up to consult inclination rather
than Obligation. considered Attending chiwh sacred is duty. not
now commonly feel like it; a and for great
People go of if they people do not a
variety reasons moat
like it”
It is hard to talk religion with people
haveho religions experience.
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