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TROUBLE ON BOTH SIDES* |
REV. DR. TALMAGE RETURNS TO j
THE TABERNACLE.
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The Combined Shadow of Invalidism autt
Financial Embarrassment ? The World
Fattens the Horse I% Wants to Drive.
Home Troubles?Outside Persecution.
BROOXI.y?* Aug. 19.?The Rev. Dr. T.
Do Witt Talmage's subject today was
"Trouble on Both Sides," and his text
"There was a sharp rock on the one side,
and a sharp rock on the other side,'*
I Sam., xiv. 4.
?nrnty of the Philistines must
be la L eft Tlicfre is just
Lone man. accomj)amea by "fits Trfxiy gvuir.
^todothnt thin^. Jonathan is thenero*
I of *ihe scene. 1 know that David
x*t?Kjked the -skull of t^P giant with a
' fW j>ebbles well slung, and that 300
Gideon; tes scattered 10,000 Amalekites
hy ; the crash of broken crockery;
hat ;, here is a more wonderful confrSF
Yonder n re 1 hp Philistines on the
rocks. Hero is Jonathan with his body-guard
in the valley. On the one
side is a rock called Bozez; on the other
side is a rock called Seneh. These two
were as famous in olden times as in .
modern times are Plymouth Rock and
Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable
and sharp. Between these two
rocks Jonathan must make his ascent.
The day comes for the scaling of the
height. Jonathan, 011 his hands and feet,
begins the ascent.. With strain, and
slip, and bruise, I suppose, but still on
and up, first goes Jonathan, and then
goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one
side. Seneh 011 the other. After
a sharp tug, and .push, and clinging,
I see the head of Jonathan
above the hole in the mountain; and
there is a challenge, and a fight, and a
supernatural consternation. These two
men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive
back and drive down the Philistines over
the rocks, and open a campaign whichdemolishes
the enemiss of Israel. I sup- I
pose that the overhanging and Overshadowing
rocks on either side did not
balk or dishearten Jonathan or his lxxiyguard,
but only roused and filled them
with enthusiasm as they went up.
"There was a sharp rock on the one side,
and a sharp rock 011 the other side."
My friends, you have been, or are now,
some of you, in this crisis of the text.
If a man meets one trouble, lie can go
through with it. He gathers all bis en- j
ergies, concentrates them upon one |K>int, ;
and in the strength of God, or by his own j
natural determination, goes through it. j
But the man who has trouble to the right :
of him and trouble to the left of him is
to be pitied. Did either trouble come
alone, he might endure It, but two
troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing
misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh.
God pity him! "There is u sharp rock
on the one side, and a slmrp rock on the
other side." #
Tr> <li!o r?ri<ic nf t.li? ia tbflt mnn
whose fortune and health fail him at the
same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants
capsize in business before they
come to forty-five years of age. There
is some collision in commercial circles,
" and they stop payment, ft seems as if
every man must put hiis name on the k
back of a note < before he learns what a .
fool a man is who risks all his own property
on the prospect that some man will i
tell tin? truth. It seems as if a man must
have a large amount of unsalable goods
on his own shelf before he learns how
much easier it is to buy than to sell. * It
seems as if every man must be completely
burned out before lie learns the importance
of always keeping fully insured.
It seems as if every man must be wrecked
in a financial tempest before lie
learns to keep things snug in case of a
sudden euroclydon. When the calamity
does-come, it is awful. The man goes
borne in despair, .and he tells his family:
"We'll have to go to the poorhouse."
He takes a dolorous view of everything.
It seems as if lie never, could rise. But
a little time passes, and he says: "Why,
lam not so badly off after all; I have
my family left."
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
Paradise ho gave him Eve, so that when
he lost Paradise he could stand it. Permit
one who lias never read but a few
novels in all his life, and who has not a j
great deal of romance in his composition,
to say, that if, when a man's fortunes
fail, lie has a good wife?a good Christian
wife?he ought not to be despondent.
"Oh," you say, "that .only increases the
embarrassment, since you hay.e her also ;
tn'-n Mv.-i nf " Win ova o>i inm-nfa '
for tlui-woman as often supports tha man ;
as the man supports the woman. The
man may bring all the dollars, but the
woman generally brings the courage and
the faith hi God.
Well, this mairof whom I am speaking
looks around, and lie finds his family \
is left, and he rallies, and the light comes j
to liis eyes, and the smile to his face, and j
the courage to his heart. In two years ;
he is quite over it. He makes his finan- ?
cial calamity t!*e first chapter iu a new
era 'of. prosperity. He met that one
trouble?conquered it. He sat down for
a little while under the grim shadow of
the rock Doze?, yet he soon rose, and be- ;
gan. like Jonathan, to climb." But how
often it is that physical .ailment comes
with financial embarrassment. "When
the fortune failed it broke the man's
spirit. His nerves were shattered. . His i
brain was stunned. I can show you '
hundreds of men in New York whose j
fortune and health failed at the same j
time. They came prematurely to the 1
staff. Their hand trembled with j
incipient paralysis. They never saw i
a well day since the -hour wliejj j
they called their creditors together
for a compromise. If sncli meiP
are impatient, and peculiar, and irritable,
excuse them. They had two troubles,
either one of which they could have met
successfully. If, when the health went,
the fortune had been retained, it jvpoid
pot have been so bad. The man .could
have bought the very best medical advice
and he could have had the very best attendance,
and long, lines of carriages
would have stopped at the front door to
inquire as to his welfare. But poverty j
"d^ a.,.3 /"v?-* Km* j
oil nit; uiiu fciuu uiiu Mcuiicro tut uuici \
are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock
their shadows and drop them upon the
|x>or man's way. God help him! "There
is a s!mrp rock on the one side, and a
sharp rock on the other side."
Now, what is such a man to do? In
the name of Almighty God, I will tell
him what to do. /L)o as Jonathan did?
climb; climb up into the sunlight of
God's favor and consolation. I can go
through the churches and show you men
who lost fortune and health at the same
time,, and yejt who sjng all day and
dream ot iveaven alj night. If you have
any idea that sound digestion, and steady
nerves, and clear eyesight, and good
hearing, and plenty of friends are necessary
to make a man happy, you have
miscalculated. I suppose that these overhanging
rocks only made Jonathan
scramble the harder anil the faster to get
up and out into the sunlight; and this
combined shadow of invalidism and
financial embarrassment lias often sent a
pian up the quicker into the sunlight of
God's favor and the noonday of Ids
glorious promises. J.t is a difficult
thing for a man to feel his dependence
upon God when lie has $10,000 in jthe
bank, and $50;000 in government securi*
ties, and a bioCk or stores ana tnree I
ships. "Well," the man says to him- j
self, "it is silly for me to pray, 'Give me '
this day my daily bread,' when my pan- j
try is full, and the canals from the west j
are crowded with breadstuffs destined :
for my storehouses." Oh, my friends, if j
the combined misfortunes and disasters ,
of life have made you clinjb up into the
arms of a sympathetic and compassionate
God, through all eternity you will bless
him that in this world "there was a
sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side."
Again, tliat man is in the crisis 6f the
text who has home ^troubles and outside
persecution at the same time. The world
treats a man well just as long as it pays
best to treat him well. As long as it can
manufacture success out of his bone, and
brain, and muscle, it favors him. The
*wwldjat|ens the horse it wants to drive.
But let a lflSfrEmoAjiis duty to cross the
track of the worldTtSeTf~mt*pkJa4jaJi is
full of horns and tusks thrust at lum^'
9 They will belittle him. They will caricature
him. They will call his generosity
self aggrandizement, and his piety '
sanctimoniousness. The very worst per- J
secution will some time come upon liim i
from those who profess to be Christians. I
v John Milton?great and good John j
Milton?so forgot himself as to pray, in >
. so many words, that his enemies might i
be eternally thrown down into the dark- j
est and deepest gulf of hell, and be the j
nndprmost and most dejected and the i
lowest down vassals of perdition! And !
Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to j
say, in regard to his theological opponents:
'-Put them in whatever sauce you
please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or
stewed, or boiled, or hashed, they are
nothing.butassps!" All, my friends, if
John Milton or Martiu Luther could j
come down to such scurrility, what j
may jou not expect from less I
elevated opponents? Now, the world j
sometimes takes after them; the
newspapers take after them; public
opinion takes after them; and the unfortunate
ruan is lied about until all the
dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted
on him. You often see a man whom
you know to be good, gnd pure, and "
honest, set upon by the world, and
mauled by whole communities, while
vicious men take on a supercilious air in
condemnation of him; as though Lord
Jeffreys should write .an essay on gentleness,
or Henry VIII talk about purity,
or Ilerod take to blessing little children.
Now, a certain amount of persecution
rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood j
for magnificent liattle, and upkes hinj J
fifty times more a man than he would J
have been without the persecution. So 1
it was with the great -reformer when he j
said: "I will not be,.put down; I will he :
heard." And so it was with Millard, |
the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. i
When Louis XI sei^t word to him that
unless ho stopped preaching in that style
ho would throw him into the river, he
replied: "Tell the king that I will reach
heaven sooner by water than he will
reach it by fast horses." & pertain
amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration,
but too much of it, and too
long continued, becomes the ropk
Bozez, throwing a dark shadow oyer
a man's life. What is ija fo do
then? Go home, you say. ' Good advioe, j
J ~ ^ ?>1AAA fA mon frv I
tilUl. J.I11LI/ 15? JU5l? l/HO lUi U *?*?*?* ?V
;go when the world ^abuses him. Go
diomp, Blessed be God |or our quiet and
' sympathetic homes- Bm there is many
a man who lias the peptization of having
a home when lie bus none. Through pnthinkingness
or precipitation there ?re
many mutches made that ought never to
have been lade. -An officiating priest
cannot alone unite a couple, The Lord
Almighty must proclaim banns. There
is many a home in which there is no
sympathy and no happiness and no good
cheep. The clamor of the battle may not
liavo been heard outside, but God knows,
notwithstanding all the playing of the
"Wedding March" and all j.he odor of
the orange blossoms and the benediction
of the officiating pastor, there has been
no marriage.
Sometimes men liave awakened to find
on pi;e side of them the rock of persecution,
and on ihe pfhfT side the rock of
domestic infelicity. What slial} such an
one do? Do as Jonathan did?climb.
Get up the heights of God's consolation,
from which we may look down in triumph
upon outside persecution and home
trouble. While good and great John
Wesley was being silenped by the magistrates,
and having his name written ,on
the l>oard fences of Loudon in doggerpl,
at that very time his wife was making
him as miserable as she could?acting as
though she were possessed of the
devi), as I suppose she was; never
doing hju? ? kindness until the
day she rap away; so that he wrote
in his diary these words; *.T did not forsake
her; I have not dismissed jicpj I
will not recall her." Planting one foot,
John Wesley did, upon outside persecution,
and the other foot on home trouble,
he climbed qp info the heights of
Christian joy, and after preaching forty
thousand sermons, and ' traveling fwo !
hundred and seventy thousand miles, j
reached thp heights of heaven, though in i
this world lie had it liard enough?"a j
sharp rock on the one side, auc| a sharp j
rock on the other."
Again, that woman stands in the crisis J
of the text who has bereavement and a
struggle for a livelihood at the same time.
Without mentioning iiaejgs, I speak from
observation. Ah, it- is a hard tiling for a
woman to make an honest living, even
when iier heart is not troubled, and she
has a fair cheek and $$ magnetism of
an exquisite presence. now the husband,
or the father, is dead. The ex- 4
penses of the obsequies hay^ absorbed all <
that was left ft> tl}e savings bank; and |
wan and w>sf^d w.dh jfe^ping and ]
watching, sh,e goes forth ? a. graye, a
hearse, a cpf?h, beheld her ? to
contend for her esisfcepge and
the existence of her children. When
I see such a battle as that open I shut my
eyes at the ghastliness of the spectacle.
Men, sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartless essays about women's
wages; tbup th^f Question is made up of
tears and blood, $nd there is more bjoo<}
than tears. Oh, give women free access
to all the realms where she can get a. livelihood,
from the telegraph office to the
pulpit, Get mPU's wages be cut down
before hers are cut dqwp. ifen have
iron in thejr souls ant|'cai) stand jt.
Make the way free to her of the broker)
heart. May Qod put iuto my hand the
cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me
nothing but a windowless hut for shelter
for many years, rather than that after
I am dead there should go out from my
Jiopie into the pitilessyvorld a woman's
arm to fight tbp Gettysburg, the Austerlitz,
tire Waterloo of life, for brpad.
And yet bow many women there arp
seated between the rock of bereavement
on the one side, and the rock of destitution
on the other, Bozez and Seneh interlocking
their shadow and dropping
them upon her miserable way. "There
is a sharp rock on the or^e side, and a
sharp rock on the other side." What
are such to do? Somehow, let them
climb up into the heights of the glorious
promise: "Leave thy fatherless children;
I will preserve them alive, apd let thy
widows trust in me." Or get up into the
heights of that other glorious promise:
"The Lord preserveth the stranger and
relieveth the widow and the fatherless."
0! ye sewing woman on starving wages.
01 ye widows turned out from the
once beautiful home. 01 ve femaie.
leacners, Kept on niggardly stipend. O! J
ye despairing woman, seeking in vain for |
work, wandering along the docks, and j
thinking to throw yourself into the river j
last night. 0! ye women of weak nerves
and aching sides, and short breath and
broken heart, you need somethfcig more
than human sympathy; you need the
sympathy of God. Climb up into his
arms. He knows it all. and he loves you
more than father, or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did; and instead of sitting
down, wringing your hands in despair,
you had better begin to climb.
There are heights of consolation for you,
though now "there is a sharp rock on
the one side, and a sharp rock on the
other side."
Again, that man is in the crisis of the
text who has a wasted life on the one
side and an unillumined eternity on the
other Though a rami may all his life
have cultured deliberation and self poise,
if he gets into that position all his self
^KMsgs&on is gone. There ar^ all -the
wrong thoughts of his existence, all the
wrong deeds, all the wrong words?
strata above strata, granitic, ponderous,
overshadowing. That rock I call Bozez.
On the other side are all the retributions
of the future, the thrones of judgment,
the eternal ages, angry with his long de- |
fiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between
these two rock9 Lord Byron perished, and !
Alcibiades perished, and Herod perished,
and ten thousand times ten thousand
have perished. O! man immortal, man
redeemed, man blood-bo*ight, climb up
out of those shadows. Climb up by the way
of the cross. Have your wasted
life forgiven; have your eternal life secured.
This morning just take one look
to the past and see what it has been, and
take one look to the future and see what
it threatens to be. You can afford to
lose your health, you can afford to lose
your property, you can afford to lose
your reputation; but you cannot afford
to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming,
glorious, precious, eternal possession
you must carry aloft in the day when
the earth burns up and the heavens
burst.
You see from my object that when a
man goes into the safety and peace of
the Gospel, he does not demean himself.
There is nothing in religion that leads
to pieanness or 1111 manliness. The Gospel
of Jesus Christ only asks you to
climb as Jonathan did?climb toward
God, climb toward heaven, climb into
the sunshine of God's favor. To become
a Christian is not to go meanly down;
it is to come gloriously up?up into the
communion of saints, up into the peace
that posseth all understanding, up into
the companionship pf flpgels. He lives
up; he dies up.
O'. then, accept the wholesale in vita-,
tion which I make this morning to all the
people. Come up from between your
invalidism and financial embarrassments.
Crtmn tn-k frAm liotironn vrtni' KdPAOfA
VVU1U Uf iAVtl* */\ V " VV.?* J WM? MVA V?*>V
ments' and your destitution. Come up
from between a wasted life and an unillumined
eternity. Like Jonathan, climb
with'all your might, instead of sitting
down tq wring yppr h^nds in the shadow
and in the .darkness? f 'a sharp rock pn
the one side, and a sharp rock on the
other side."
Tfee Mystery Was Solved.
Back th^y had an epidemic of
typhoid at A^xerre. No one could tell
why. The' disease' appe^ed suddenly.
There was. no evidence of contagion.
How about the water? Formerly the inhabitauts
used river water from the
Yonpe, But the town would modernize
itself. A pew .quarter wfts built, and all
the well to dq folk pombiqed to insure a j
supply of -pure wafer"* hy flie aqueduct j
of YpJand. The poorer people, as of "pld,
went to the river. Now, tlip typhoid attacked/>nly
those who drunk the "pure
water." Dr. de Cameres, a specialist
and expert, was chosen to make a study
of the case, and, if possible, to determine
the cause of the epidemic.
Thp dopfor proceeded to examine the
Valand waters at its spurpp. Arrived
there he found a farm house close at
hand, and, of course, he found that necessary
and more or less charming ornament
of a farmyard, a manure heap. Inquiring
at the house he learned they had a
patient FhQ had lately come from Paris
ill with typhoid. The plot thickens! The
doctor suspected the big manure heap.
He would try. So he took a quantity of
rosalinine, a powerful red coloring matter,
and distributed it freely over the
mass. Next morning when the surviving
'.'best people" of Auxerre turned on
the taps, what was their surprise to find
the beautiful Yaland water as red as
blood! Tlie pinery was solved.?
Catholic World.
ITEMS OF* ALL SORTS.
\
CUpplffcs from tUe Newspapers ? Para
pf wre",
Five hundred-dollars per apre pas been
paid in aomo cases in England this year
for cheiTies on the trees.
California expects a wine crop of 25,000,000
gallons this year, an increase of
8,000,fy0p qyer [asfc year.
Four men at Gainpsyillq, Fla., in
twenty days killed 600 alligators for their
hides and teeth.
Some people have real good ideas of
comfort, and so a Boston undertaker is
making two $5,000 coffins.
It is reported that 15,000.000 cottonwood
trees have been planted in southwest
Kansas this year.
The verdict of the appointed judges is
that British grown tobacco cannot be
made to pay.
T<ea cultivation, it is sail, is to be tried
by a rancher at JSlkp, Ney., who projxjses
employing Indian women and
children to gather the leaves. ^
At Vienna, last year, S63 Jews became
Christians, ajld pother paper says that
f.'aj; i)Q pprfod t^n,ce the Fjrst century
b&ye conversions from Judaism fq Pbjastianjty
beep so frequent as they pre at
present."
. The authorities of Green county, Ky.,
recentjy imposed a tine of $900 on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad for
breaking tlie Sabbath by distributing ties
along the fine pf the road.
Telephone pates are cpflnparatively low
in Sweden. At Orebo, for instance, the
subscriber pays an annua] rental of but
$4 gets fhe'pse pf the telephone system
extending |0Q miles |n fhe popntry.
fn London dressmakers and others are
fined heavily for allowing their girls to
work over hours in the shops. Jay. the
great mourning stcreman, waa recently
up in the police court on a charge*of
this sort. x
Hao, a relative of the Chinese general
of the same name, has just been decapitated
for trading in forged decorations.
The engraver >vhq did the $'prk received
100 lashes and was banished for
three years.
A company has been formed at Pittsburg
with a capital stock_of $1,000,000,
with the object of opening a tin mine in
ifexfpo fipqr Puvango. A tract of land
has been purchased covering an area of
ten miles square.
Hah-skin-gay-goh-lali, the Apache who
has just been taken to the Ohio penitentiary
tq serve g.n eighteen years' sentence
for murder, has been ppfc fo work with
thread and needle patching prison garments.
He says he "no likee squaw
work."
The island of Foula. one of the Shety
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lands, is tor saie. it is tiires nines long
by two broad, and it is famed for its
rockv cojists and abundant wild fowl,
did is one of the few spots injj&reat
Britain in wliich the great skuarft very
rare bird^ still lives. ?
Correspondents of newspapete will find
it convenient to have the front edge of
their desks divided, for the distance of
one foot, into inches and factions, for
the purpose of measuring their printed
matter. This simple .device does away
with the inconvenience of a wbodcn rule.
The flag of the PedeeJ^ight artillery
was never surrendered, but the war
ended in defeat was hidden ??nder the
color bearer's coat, and by hin\ carried
back to the lady who. four yestrs before,
had given it into his keep, and by her has
been religiously kept ev?r since, and onlybrought
out upon occasions of the ba?fcery's
reunion* . .
Aluminum, the silvery metal that used
j to cost $240 a. cpiiy thirty-five years
ago, is nOw produc?7St tlife^rupp gun
works at Essen, Germany/ for twentyfive
cents a pound ^??0&wbri clay everywhere
contains from to pounds
of it in' every 100 poi;qjj^g?dJtjs likely,
within the next become
more common ewcct
Missouri conta/s)s jJP manufacturing
establishing, furnish
employment for about I 5Q.G5&nersons.
The capital employed is about/$200,000000.
The material annually^ used and
worked up amounts to $800,000,000,
and the products put upon the market
amount to $500,000,000, whlfjijhe wages
paid are uearly $100,000,000v
A review called Der Frauenfeind, or
"Enemy oMVoi^an,'' is, to l>e started ii*
Vienna. TfieodIto!e7*Herr Grose, has set
before himself the object of emancipating
man from his subjection to "that doll
woman, whom idiots' idealize and fools
bow down before _as to divinity." He
says that there are exceptions to this denunciation,
and generously exempts
whole classes of the sex from the scope
of his review.
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Tlxe Russet Leather Shoe.
Hie rus$et leather shoe is frankly con-,
fessed by tf certain literary and common
sense dude to be really tlie lazy or the
economical man)a shoe. Its chief merit
lies in the fact that it does thot lieed to
be blackened delisted. Jt js the experience
of gentlemen who tfre Sensitive
about their foot wear that a shoe ought
to be polished about as ofterTas a cleanly
man washes his hands. iW patent polished
shoe is objected to on Ttke ground
that it has become greatly cheapened,
and, like thfij&hioe Albert coat, has been
driven out pf fashion^ reafth, because
the toughs ha?e adopted it. Besides, in
hot weather, (.he patent leather shoe is
very heating, so the russet leather shoes
finds favor In the young men's eyes.'
But-if coolness and economy are wh^fc
are desired, why uot go farther east and
get those^wonder/ul shoes that the Chinese
make with', braided straw? They
are nearly the same color, ?re'lighter and
cooler, while- they arc also far more
unique.?New York Evening Sun.
I Bibles Put_Jnt? Circulation. .
JVore copies of the Word of God,, in
wlacle or: in part, were put into circular
ticlrby the Ecftisb aud Fpreigl* Bible society
during tfie last y?ar*than existed in
wqrld at the beginning of tin
pfesent century. Adding the cirtv.!;.
tid>ns of other Bible societies, the number
w?uld be vastly greater, -i&lissiona r v
Herald. / J
A^ thrifty Scotch chemist proposes to
disppse of corpses by putting their various
materials to profitable use,
Ahead of Keely'a ''Motor."
Several newspapers have referred to a
new invention by one William Timmis.
which, if successful, will revolutionize
motive power. The inventor is an unnrAtantfmsa
Kncylicl'j mor?hsinin vAvidinr, in
Pittsburg, ^a., who claims to have in.vented
a machine by which untold motivo
power can be stored or used without the
expenditure of fuel. The story goes that
he has begi engaged for years in perfecting
the tnventiqp, and 13 now negotiating
witq the governments of England,
Russia and the United States for the sale
of the right to use his discovery, which,
if after examination it proves to be what
he claims, wifi/revolutionize the motive
powers of t$*woild. .{Je claims to be
able to creates, pressure of 2Q?000 pounds
per square i?ch?more titan sufficient to
propel the largest ocean steamer afloat
_ or to move e^hty laden freight cars in
one train. T
The machine seems to be simply an air
compressor of the simplest sort. It consists
of one smalt cylinder (six horse
power), with a balance weight of seventyfive
pounds, Whjpi} rqn? ft? entire apparatus;
a wither smal| cylinder, .five
inches diamejer, with seven inches stroke,
compresses die air into the tank from
which the power is utilized. Under the
piston plate the inventor has placed two
layers of b^containing eleven different
mi nereis,magnetic influence of
which is the secret of tlie inventor.
The advantages he claims are durability,
economy and simplicity. Experts have
examined fbe raaphine $n$ pronounce it
a success.
In submitting Vis design to the governments
named, Mr. Timmis claims that
the pneumatic generator cannot only be
applied to war vessels as a motor, but
can be used as $ defease against hostile
attacks by^esns of air chambers placed
behind the ^rmor plating.?Scientific
American^ '
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W#5-Vl?P r<*t
A Frenc^^hysipiah named Raoul, who
long dispeeSeff drugs on a man of war,
finding life very (lull on board ship,
stepped outside his professional line a
while agQ'fottis^nguisn hinjself, and the
results have bee? so noteworthy that the
Paris Society (^ Commercial Geography
has just honored hint with one of its
medals. It occurred to him that the use
tui products 01 Tahiti, that large apid
lovely island of the society group in Polynesia,
could be greatly increase^ by judicious
importatiobg^'roni the flora of otffer
countries. So he ]aid a considerable part
of the world under contribution and in
course of time m$ny hundreds of foreign
plants were doing theif bpsf to fake root
, in the soil of Tahiti. ,
Among his collections were rubber
trees from Madagascar, ebony, teak and
red cedar frpiq "Australia, tobacco frpm
Java pud .the ftip Grande, cotton from
Georgia, -hemp from Manila, cinnamon
and nutmegs from the Malay archipelago,
grapes from Madeira and Teneriffe,
coffee from Formosa and a very large
variety of grasses and fruit trees. He
established a nursery near the phief towq
pf -fahitj wd (i0 has already proved'that
the larger part of his plants will succeed
in this favored island. Grape culture,
which he introduced, Is already beginning
to enrich the. country and it is said
that through the effort of this man alone
the aspect? pf the yeg&tqtye kingdom in
Tahjti are undergoing a remarkable
change for the better.?An'alyst
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A Collector's Antique Weapon.
A gentleman uptown who a taste
for collecting queer specimens of antique
uric-a-brao showed a reporter, the other
day, a formidable looking weapon, that
he said was over four hundred years old.
It was a Persian executioner's sword and
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"j naa oeen ptjrchased bva fnend ot tne
collector's firoffl" an old priest, while
travelling-through the shah's country.
The ;blade was of Damascus steel, about j
5 feet long and 1 8-4 inches wide, and j
is double-edged. The extremity was !
roundedfpnS each side of the blade, from j
the hilt to"the point, was completely cov- J
ered witfi curiously etched figures. The
etching was quite deep, and the surface
of the figures highly polished. They represented
hunting and1 war scenes, and
included the figures of men, horses and
other animals. v
Near the hilt the surface of the blade
on both sides was covered with Persian
characters in silver Damascene work.
The cubic ^lettering was of a peculiar
sort that has hot;been in use in Persian
work of this kind for seventeen turies
past. The legend inscribe<^&3 trans-:
lated by a Persian scholar, foiHMLan invocation
to Allah.
-The hilt was of wr<raghtjbocyof curious
shape and large enough to bpgrasped
by lx>th hands. It was inlaid 'with fine
Damascene work in gold and silver, and
in'some places the threads had nearly
been worn away by usageT" The sword
weighed about five pounds.?New .York
Evening World. * - i
Candidate* as Debt Payers.
There is one important .test which, as
far as memory ser ves^&ee iiave never
known applied to candidates, vi2:
Prompt payment of debra^4>c^s he pay
his debts? But, .as some imkw^fid pay
who honestly are unable to^^o^jhe test
may be expressed somewhat" "differently.
Has the candidate- the rep&atigg^of be- ing
a good paymaster, or, misfortune
or mistreatment by oBHr men,
lie is una Die to pay, aoes ne avesfcmcient
proof of a willingness and^jprpose
to pay, and that as*soon as he canOgiiesllydo
so? A man who will eflQe,
dodge, refuse or decline to pay . jiiBt
debts should not be sent to theJppslafure
or congress, or put in anjr?c^5ce*c^
honor or trust, high or low. fin sifting
candidates it would not be out of placo
for voters to inquire: Does he pay liia s
debts? Does he ttr to pay?--CoUliBbia
(S. C.) Cliristian Neighbor. The
Destruction of Oaks.
Sea Cliff, Queens county, N. Y., be|
. camp agitated over the destruction of her
oaks^' and sent to State Entomologist
; ' JGntner a number of twigs broken off
by the ivfncj,, Upon examination Professor
Lintrtpr found the cause to be
depredations by the -beetle known as
Elaphidon pareUehjm, or oak pruner.
After the egg is laid on the tip the larva
burrows itself in the wood, and at its
changing period cuts ground $ie spptioQ
just beneath the b?rk> sq tl\at the first
strong wind breaks off the twig. It Is
said the best way to kill these insects is
to burn the twigs.?-Chicago Hexgld.
THE FAtt SEX.
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A New York girf has varied^ the cus- i
torn by being married at sunrise,
Iilig. John A- l^ogan *s having a portrait
bust of herself made by Mr. Flaunery,
the sculptor, who made a bust of
her husband,
Mrs. Leland Stanford's* jewels are val- j
ued at a roflnd million. Her diamond j
.necklace is the finest in the United States i
and possibly in the world. It poist $74r |
000 and consist? of targe "'blue tint5'
solitaire^
Queen Victoria lias decided to import {
a number of Indian servants for her per- i
sonal establishment. Lafst year she sent i
to India for two, who always stanff, j
robed in their natiyo-piptaresque attire/
behind the royal chair.
Miss Ethel Sprague, who is living with
her mother at "Edgewood," her home, j
just out of Washington, recently entertained
her young friends by giving a ;
"blackberry party." The novelty of this i
party was that the guests helped them.- !
selves off the bushes that grftvy so. thickly
in the garden of this fine old place. The
fdea is an attractive one, much more so
than would lie that of a "strawberry
party" i? one had to help one's self from j
the vines.
Speaking of Mrs. Alice J. tthaw, the !
American yvhistlfO", The Saturday Review |
of London remarks that many people j
have been ask%l out to hear her, regard- ;
ing the whole thing as a joke, and have j
come away in simple ponder at the un- |
looked for display of her powers. They \
have found her a sound mpsipian and a
subtle mistress pf her particular art.
They have found that, through her
special medium, she could fill Coyent 1
Garden with ecstatic trills or sink into
the softest whispefed notes the execution
of which only years of rehearsal could
achieve. It may be difficult to conceive |
a whistling prima donna; but the fact is ,
that whistling as a fine-art ja \yp?thy of
attentive stqdj. fhoge who have once
heard Mrs. Alice Shaw cannot fail to
realize that* if whistling were cultivated
as a fine art by those who, in addition to
musical endowment, - have strength of
vocal chord, a high roofed p^latex and a
flexible buccal ? apertuiy, they might be
trained to take part in a concert, as of
many clarionets, with an effect more j .
thrilling than the most exquisite instru- i
mental music has ever pop jit red up. and
which, from its novelty alone, would be ,
more surprising than any concert hitherto
heard, whether instrumental or vocal.
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Symptoms of Jcl(yll aod Hyde.
Edgar S. Kelly, the cpinppser, relates j :
in The Theatre that a short time ago a j !
student devoted tq chemistry and of a j
speculative turn of mind, was deeply 1
impressed by Mansfield's Dr. Jekyll. A 1 i
few weeks afterward he was pn two occasions
^wakpnqd by strange convulsive
motions of the musples of the. throat, and
looking into the * mirror he was startled
to find that his features were so distorted
that nq one would recognize
them, and U ro&ts some time before
they became' related. For years he
had felt that ho wns possessed' of
an evil spirit which tempted him to >
/ lr> mid ?ik?<ird tliino'S hut lie had I .
thus far contended successfully against
it. It now seemed as though it were to 1
appear in a new form. Dr. Malcolm ac- 1
counts for this as the result of morbid
brooding over past shortcomings, magnified
'through lenses of a supersensitive j
conscience, thus ?ss$tmiitg abnormal pro- ,
portions, while the muscular contractions
were due to insufficient protection for '
the neck while asleep. These incidents I i
contain the germs of a story similar to
Mr. Stevepson^s, and may console those
prosy individuals who claim they prefer
to read that "which might have been .
true," by the thought that there is less of '
the improbable in the narrative than '
might seem at first glance.?Brooklyn '
Eagle. ,
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A Millionaire's Lofty Parlor. ^
A New York millionaire is having
built a suite of rooms on the top of the <
lofty Equitable building, over 200 feet
above the sea level. The apartments are
reached by a flight of gilded iron steps. 1
The suite consists pf three rooms?a par- ^
lor, pining room and bath. All are to be ^
Carpeted and crowded with costly bric-abrac.
The little suite of rooms is pro-. 1
vided with oval windows (our feet in .
diameter, and will be lighted by electric
jty and furnished with steam heaters
j for the winter months or any inoppor- |
i tune cold wave that may break in upon ,
i the summer's heat. This superb apartj
ment is the highest in point of elevation i
i from the ground level of any similar j
suite or rooms in tne world, in the
hottest day of summer breezes blow in
the altitudiuous parlor and makes a sojourn
there quite as enjoyable and cool
ing as a siesta in the mountains under
the shade trees.?Chicago Times.
"Women Wlio Will Work.
- A recent writer is exceedingly out of
tune because German women will work.
He sees the farms bought up and the |
American stock bought out, because the
American woman will not do garden and
field work. Walter Besant insists that no
woman should be compelled to work at
all. It is a shame, he says, that "any 1
lady should ever have to stand in the
.labor market for hire like a Milkmaid at
a statue fair." He likes the French
plan, where, as soon as a daughter is
bom, they commence to accumulate her
dowry. But the women themselves are
inclined dto settle that question in this i
country'^by assuming absolute equality.
An increase of general out door helpfulness
undoubtedly would make financial
matters mor~ secure and liealtny mothers
more common.?Giobe-Democrat.
For Weary Sliopper*.
The International Efrgienic society has ,
begun the "erection or two buildings or
"kiosks," in a fashionable shopping 1
quarter, for the benefit of wearied women <
shoppers who liav no place to leave j
their parcels or meet their friends or get
a cup of tea during a long shopping bout.
The Duke of'Westminster has granted ,
the land.?New York Sun.
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Dr. Leiser prop^ijds the idea that>seasickness
can be reciilated bv a svstem of
breathing. One must sit still and breathe 1
regularly and freely according to a fixed |
schedule.
The man who volunteers Iheinforma- ,
tion.that hsffr sober is not to bo believed.
?-Washington Critic. I
ff-A Minister's Conviction.
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Rev. O. W. Winkfield, of Union '
Point, Ga., suffered terribly for twelve ]
ye&rs from articular and sciatic rhen- I
matism. He consulted numerous t
physicians and tried ail sorts of inedi- (
cine, Finally he began taking the j j
Swift Specific as a forlorn hope, and !
by its Qse he was, entirely restored, j 1
He writes: "I feel like a new man. I j
Cannot attribute my miraculous and j 1
perfect care to aDytbing but the .
Swift Specific. I know that it alone | \
cored me, for nothing else had done j
me any good for twelve years. I owe ; t
my restoration and strength for labor j |
and religions duties alone to this I
gtand remedy, and gladly make this i
statement for the benefit of all
guffeters from this most torturing
disease? rheumatism.
/Treatise pn/Rlood and Skin Die- ,
eases mailed free. 1
The Swift Specific Co.. Drawer 3,^
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Piatt Sptfsga PwagMtpbs.
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Mr Editor:?I am settled here uq- ! i
til spriog, and have dow over forty ; |
papils. The young teachers who have I
been with me this Summer have taken j
schools themselves and are teaching j t
in adjoining townships. I think von j 1
will bear from some of tbem4 fts one '
part of my instructions to them was
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to take an active interest in the moral
social and political affairs of the set- i
tlemehta in which they might locate
and traosmit a record thoreof to^ex- ! ,
iDgton to ?0 chronicled in the ! (
colotnns of our favorite Dispatch. I
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believe in live teaoberf, 'and faithful i
work will iSake them, but my experi- <
eoce leads me to believe that it would ]
reqpire a modern Hercules," armed j
with electricity, instead of & club, to j
galvanize so ;,e patrons and school^
trustees into active co-operation with j
the teacher in his noble task. Some, j
please remember, ar,d not nil diserve ! f
this, for the patrons of Piatt Springs i
A.oademy have just supplied the build- j j
iog with seats and desks that rest the : ,
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back and feet and hands and give the ! g
pupils train a ebance to work. t
Piatt Springs will be the scene -of 1 j
an exhibition by the pupils of the j
Academy, and a picnic and basket i
dinner giva them by their parents j
and friends od Wednesday, August i
22nd. .. |
The farmers aye happy beoanse the |
season now well advanced gives
promise of an encouraging yield* *
Mr. W. It FalUw is uow teaching
acceptably at Smith Branch. There
they have found a good teacher and
they intend to keep him.
The weekly meetings of the Piatt
Springs Christian Association for the
stady of the Sabbath-school lesson
and practice ia music are generally f
well attended. Meetings aye held on !
Wednesday evenings j
Mutton corn and roasting ears are
qow a welcome addition to the bilj of
fare, and the pleasures of the watermelon
are unspeakable and indisjribable.
Mr. Samuel P. Harsey met with a
painful accident last week ' hat confined
hitn to the house for a few days.
While running uear Mr. William j ^
Martin's mill his foot caught beneath j *
jome slabs anil he fell leaving the : j
akin from oue*of his toes. r .
Our road overseer does not excuse
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students from working the road*. I j ^
*ave one of my young men who wan I
warned to work a written notice I hat j ?
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He was attending school but iL was no j
^ood. He had to work. j *
The preaching at the protracted j
meeting held at Sharon or Cross
Roads M. E. Churoh was exception- j
ibly good. The pastor, Rev. Mr. j
Ferguson, were assisted by the Revs ! 6
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John Inabinet, Lewis Rast, and
SimoD Shumpert.
Money will soou begin to circulate,
cotton is coming, and gionera are
preparing f r a busy season.
Mr. Jas. J. Smith has returned from
Aiken where he was occupied io
building a mill. The young aod
beautiful Mrs. Drew, of Blackfille,
ha^ returned after a pleraant week
spent with her aunt, Mrs. D. E. Crafk^f
Mr. Wash Hntto, your "Lexington -
Musical^ Woncler," has gone to CoMr.
Johnnie W. Or^Siftas left Mr. "
Malone and entered tfribusiness
bouse of McCreery>& Bro., as a clerk.
Mr. J. L Johnson is enjoying hie facation.
His father, Mr. W. M. Johnson,
is a happy man in the possession
Df Jlmmie and his trio of lovely sisters.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Roof are enjoy
log ttieir boDeymocm among tbeir
relatives around Piatt Springs.
Tbe new mail rente from Bast's
?tore to Mr. Lawrence Goodwin's will
be a great convenience.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Inabinet are
risiting friends here and are prond of
[he progress of their nephew, Willie
Wise, at school.
Mr. Jas. V. Smith still remains with
ne. .
A sad year has this been for tbe
Seese family. Early in the year Mise ^
Maria died, a few weeks ago Mr.
Jacob, and now Miss Charlotte is
lead. Flowers and tears?tears and
lowers for the dead.
Some good farmers say that we
lave been having too much rain.
Craft & Richter are doing a hoe
msiness.
Mr. G. A. Goodwin is said to few
planning tbe erection of a steam milt.
Miss Idella Craft has a flourishing
ichool at Cedar Creek which in my
poor opinion, she is fatly competent
:o teacb. I wish we bad more ladies
n the profession. FrrsGEBAiitk
Advice to Mothers
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Mrs. Winslow's Sootsmo Srsnp
ahoQldalwawtf^H used children
cutting teeth. It relieves the
little sufferer at once; it prodnoea
natural, quiet sleep by relieving, tbe
sbild from pain, an? tbe little chernh
awakes as "bright aa a button.** I&- ? ??is
very pleasant to taste. It soothes
tbe child, softens the gums, allays all
p&io, relieves wind, regulates tbe
bowels, and is the best known remedy
for diarrhoea, whether arising from
eetbing or other causes. Twentyfive
cents a bottle.
Jane 27?ly. *
Negroes Leaving the OK 0. P.
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Newburg, N! Y., August 12.?The
Rev. J. R. Thompson, who is a resilent
of this city, is a Bishop of tbe
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Jhurch, and has a Dumber of the
Southern and Western States under
lis charge. These he visits frequenty,
and has just returned irom a tonr
ibrough the Southern States. Ha
^reached two sermons in Goldsboro, .
C, last Sunday, and delivered
bree Sunday-school addresses io the
same city.
Upon his retorn here he was seen
iy a reporter. Tbe conversation
ook a political turn. Bishop Tbompiod
said the colored oeonle of th?
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Soth had in a large measure forsaken
he G. 0. P. So far as he could
earn, the colored people would largey
support Cleveland and Thurman.
3e said the colored people had joutjrown
the fear that was preached
nto them four years ago. and Hbat 9
,be poverty and misery that was then
sredicted for the ex slaves by the Republicans
was now known to be only
i scare.
The Bishop said that President
Cleveland had made a splendid
ecord, and instead of making life
niserable for the old slaves - of the
South, &9 the Republicans tried to
nake them believe he would, be had
lone everything he could to assist ?
hem.* And, with a significant wink
md smile, the Bishop added: "And
'ou'Jl find plenty of our people in the*
tfoith here who will support Cleve*ud
and Thurman, "
Consumption Surely Cured*
To the Editor :?Please inform
our readers that I have a positive
emedy for the above named disease.
iy its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently
nred. I bhall be glad to send two
.r.fi nf niv rfimedv fref. to anv of
our readers who have consumption v
f they wilLaeod me their express and
>ost < Oi ( address. Respectfully,
T. A. Slocum, M. 0
181 Pearl Street, New York.
Ic.a iu small quantities during t&* y
easoo, for sale, at the Bazaar.
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