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TABERNACLE SERVICES.
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE
LAST SUNDAY MORNING.
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The Three Greatest Things to Do?Almost
Every Man and Woman Is Some Time ;
Near Demolition?Opportunities for Exploita
Brooklyn, Oct. 7. ? Although no j
building has been large enough to hold I
the audiences attracted by t' ^ Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage, D. D., in \ay part of
this country or Great Britain for the last
twenty years, the throngs in and around
the Brooklyn Tabernacle seem to be increasing
as the years go by. The opening
hymns this morning were heartily
by the congregation. Dr. Talmage
chose for his subject: "The Three Greatest
Things to Do." His text was Daniel
xi, 32: "The people that do know their
God shall be strong, and do exploits."
jruuu*\iii? la me ^ciuivu.
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner,
came down three times with his army to
desolate the Jews, advancing one time
witli a hundred and two trained elephants,
swinging their trunks this way
and that, and sixty-two thousand infantry
and six thousand cavalry troops,
and they were driven back. Then the
second time he advanced with seventy
thousand armed men and had been again
defeated. But the third time he laid
successful siege uutil the navy of Rome
came in with the flash of their
long banks of oars and demanded
that the siege be lifted. And Antiochus
Epiphanes said he wanted time
tu consult with his friends about it, and
R)pilius, one of the Roman embassadors,
took a staff and made a circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes and
compelled him to decide before he came
out of that circle, whereupon he lifted
the siege. Some of the Jews had sub- "
mitted to the invader, but some of them
resisted valorously, as did Eleuzer, when
ho had swine's flesh forced into his
mouth, spit it out, although he knew he
must die for it, and did die for it, and
others, as my text 6ays, were enabled to j
do exploits.
An exploit I would define to be a J
heroic act, a brave feat, a great achieve- J
ment. 4,Well," you say, "I admire such
things, but there is no chance for me; j
mine is a sort of a humdrum life. If I i
had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight I also
could do exploits." You are right so far
as great wars are concerned. There will
probably be no opportunity to distinguish
yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier
generals in this country would
never have been fyeard of had it not
been for the war. General Grant would
have remained in the useful work of tanning
hides at Galena, and Stonewall I
Jackson would have continued the quiet
college professor in Virginia. And whatIH7.VT
milirsirtr talents vnu have will t?rob- ;
ably lie dormant forever. Neither will !
vou probably become a great inventor.
Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of
every two thousand inventions found in
the patent o?ice at Washington never
yielded their authors ^noagLmoney to
expenses of securing the
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^ TP hat then? Can you have no
opportunity to do exploits? I am going
to show you today that there are three
opportunities open that are grand, thrilling,
far reaching, stupendous and overwhelming.
They are before you now.
In one, if not all three of them, you may
do exploits. ' The three greatest things
on earth to do are to save a man, or save
a woman, or save a child.
During the course of his life almost
every man gets into an exigency, is
caught between rwo fires, is ground be-,
tween two millstones, sits on the edge of
some precipice, or in some other way
comes near demolition. It may be a
financial cr a moral or a domestic or a
social or a political exigency. You somej
times see it in court rooms. A young
I man lias got into bad company and he
i has offended the law, and he is arraigned,
i All blushing and confused, he is in the
; presence of judge and jury and lawyers,
i He can be sent right on- in the wrong
! direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he
is almost desperate. Let the district attorney
overhaul him as though he were
:in old offender, let the ablest attorneys
at the bar refuse to say a word for him
because he cannot afford a considerable
infjoro <ri^p nn nrmortunitv for
ictr, i*r?, mc j??8v o" ~ ? -i r ?
presenting the mitigating circumstances,
hurry up the case and hustle him up to
Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy
years, for seventy years he will be a
criminal, and each decade of his life will
be blacker than its predecessor. In the
interregnums of prison life he can get
; no work, and lie is glad to
. break a window glass or blow
up a safe, or play the highwayman, so as
to get back again within the walls where
he can get something to eat and hide
himself froni the cruel gaze of the world.
Why don't his father come and help him'
His father is dead. Why don't his mofchei
come and help him? She is dead. Where
are all the ameliorating and salutary in
; llucnces of society? They do not toucl
him. Why did not some one long age
j in the case understand that there was ai
opportunity for the exploit which woulc
h be famous in heaven a quadrillion of year
1 after the earth has become scatteree
ashes in the last whirlwind? Why die
not the district attorney take that youn<
man into his private office and say:
son, I see that you are the victim of cir
l" cumstances. Tliis is your first crime
You are sorry. I will bring the persor
) you wronged into ycur presence ani
jj 1 you will apologize and make all the repa
faijca you can, and I will give yoi
* another chance." Or that young ma
ip presented in the court room and h
I has no friends present, .and the judg
. says; "Who is your counsel?" And h
answers; <!I have none." And the judg
says: 4'Who tyffi take this youn
man's case?" And there is a dea
j halt and no one offers, .and .after
while the judge turns to some attorne
. who never had a good case in all his lif
nud never will, and whose advocac
; would be enough to secure the conden
j nation of innocence itself. And the pre
hoeifi
j fessional incompetent wv?u
the prisoner, helplessness to rescue d<
spoir, wi;ea there ought to bo .? - ..ogg
. 1 jisjoug all the best men of the proiessjt
|L | A* ?? who should have the honor <>t uyii
M ! ;to help ?\ut unfortunate. How mtic
f wotdd iadraj attorney have received ;
| his fee for such au ^advocacy? Nothh
' in dollars, but much every $yey In a hapj
^ 1 consciousness that would make Jus o;i
,s j life brighter and his own dying pill*}
** ! sweeter ai>d his own heaven happier
1 ?tV3 consciousness that he had saved
or ' * ,
j WUiii
:u J So there -uncommercial exigencies.
e. : very late spring .obliterates the demai
or j for spring overcoats spring hats a:
j spring apparel of all sorts.' Hundreds
! thousands of people say: "It seems ^
J jgoing to have no spring and we sh;
! go ?t*$jght out of winter into war
j weather, aug v-.e can get along witho
P ] the:usual spiing Or there is :
" j autumn weather, the lieat plunging in
i the cold, and the usual clothing whi
p % compromise between summer a:
| winter is not required. It makes a difference
in the sale of millions and millions
of dollars of goods, and some over
sanguine young merchant is caught with a
vast amount of unsalable goods that
never will be salable again except at
prices ruinously reduced. That young
merchant with a somewhat limited capi- .
lai is in a predicament. What shall the
old merchants do as they see that young
man in this awful crisis? Hub their
hands and laugh and say: '-Good for
hini. He might have known better.
When ho has been in business as long asl
we have, lie will not load his shelves in
that way. 11a! Ha! He will burst up
before long. .. 1 lo had no business to open,
his store so near to ours anyhow.'
Sheriff's sale! lied Hag In tDe window:
"IIow much is hid for theseont
of the fashion spring overcoats
and spring hats or fall clothing out of
date? What do I hear in the way of a
^itl?"' "Four dollars." Absurd. I cannot
take that hid of four dollars apiece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
the market were offered at fifteen dollars
each, and now I am offered only four
dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do I
hear? Going at that! Gone at five dol'
Jars," and lie Lakes the whole lot. Thej
young merchant goes home "that night
i and says to his wife: "Well, Mary, wo
; will have to move out of this house and
t sell our piano. That old merchant that
I lias had an evil eye on me ever since
| I started has bought out all that
clothing, and he will have it rej
juvenated. and next year put it on.
the market as new. while we will do well
| if we keep out of the ]>oorhouse." TheI
young man. broken spirited, goes to hard
; drinking. The young wife with her
baby goes to her father's house; and not
only is his store wiped out but his home.
3iis morals, and his prosjiects for two
worlds, this and the next. And devils
make a banquet of fire and fill their cups
of gall and drink deep to the health of
the. old merchant who swallowed up the
young merchant who got stuck 011 spring
goods and went down. This is one way,
and some of you have tried it.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had misin
lnrintr in tnr> mnnv nr>od<?
of one kind and been flung of the unusual
season, is standing behind the
counter feeling very blue and biting his
finger nails or looking over his account
books, which read darker and worse
every time he looks at them, and thinks,
how his young wife will have to be put
in a plainer house than she ever expected
to live in or go to a third rate boarding
house where they have tough liver and
sour bread five mornings out of the
seven. An old merchant comes in and
says: "Well, Joe, this has been a hard
1 season for young merchants, and this
l prolonged cool weather has put many
1 in the doldrums, and I have
1 been minting of you a good
Ideal of late, for just after I started
jin business I once got into the same
jscrape. Now if there is anything I can
jdo to help you out I will gladly do it.
Better just put those goods out of sight
for the present, and * next season we will
[Man something about them. I will help
ypu to some goods that you causeUJor
^at youhave two friends, God and myself.
"Good morning!" The old merchant
goes away and the young man goes behind
-bis desk and the tears roll down his
.cheeks. It is the first time he has cried.
1 Disaster made him mad at everything,
and mad at man and mad at God. But
(this kindness melts him, and the tears
seem to relieve his brain, and his spirits
rise from ten below zero to eighty in the
shade, and he comes out of the crisis.
And about three years after, this young
i merchant goes into the old merchant's
g store and says: "Well, my old friend, 1
" was this morning thinking over what
you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out of an awful crisis in my
Commercial history. I learned wisdom
and prosperity has come, and the pallor
has gone out of my wife's cheeks, and
the roses that were there when I courted
her in her father's house have bloomed
again, and my business is splendid, and I
thought I ought to let you know that
you saved a man?" In a short time
afler, the old merchant who had been a
good while shaky in his limbs and had
poor spells, is called to leave the world,
and one morning after he had read the
twenty-third Psalm, about "The Lord is
my shepherd," he closes his eyes on this
world, and an angel who had been for
many years appointed to watch the old
man's dwelling cries upward the news
that the patriarch's spirit is about ascending.
And the twelve angels who keep
the twelve gates of heaven unite in cryt
ing down to this approaching 6pirit of
the old man: "Come in at any of the
i twelve gates you choose! Come in and
. welcome, for it has been told all over
; these celestial neighborhoods that you
i savedamau."
> There sometimes come exigencies in
the life of a woman. One morning
? about two years ago I saw in the newspaper
that there was a young woman in
; New York whose pocketbook containing
thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three
1 cents had been stolen and she had beer
> left without a farthing at the beginning
1 of winter in a strange city, and no work,
1 And although she was a stranger, I die
s not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave tin
1 lamp post on our corner without carry
1 ing the thirty-seven dollars and thirty
r three cents; and the case was provec
f genuine. Now I have read all Shake
speare's tragedies and all Victor Hugo';
tragedies and all Alexander Smith's trag
i edies, but I never read a tragedy mon
i thrilling than that case, and similar case
l- by the hundreds and thousands in all ou
a large cities?young women withou
a money and without nome ana wuuuu
e work in these great maelstroms of metro
e poiitan life. When such a case come
e under your observation, how do you tres
e it? "Get out of my way; we have n
g room in our establishment for any mor
d hands. 1 don't believe in women, an
a way: they are a lazy, idle, worthless set
y John, please show this person out cf tl:
? door." <0r do you compliment her pei
y soual appearance and say things to he
l- which if any man said to your sister c
>- daughter you would kili him on the spot
la That is one way. ?j.nd it is tried every da
3- in these large cities, and many of thos
le who advertise for female hands in fat
>n toijes and for governesses in familit
ig have proved themselves unfit to be i
d) any place outside of licit,
as But there is another way, ilnd J saw
ig the other day in the Methodist BookCoi
>y cern in New Vork, where a young woma
li applied for work and the gentleman i
v. roijo and manner said in substance: "M
? davgiu.ty, we employ women here, but
a do not know pf any vacant place in 01
department. You had Ot-uej: impure*
A ! m./l Kwh a I >1*100. 3 lid I llbp.e TfC
J " --rr 9 .
id ! will be successful in getting something I
id I do." The embarrassed find humiliate
of j woman seemed to give way to Christie)
; confidhnco. She steirted out with a hop
all 1 ti?l look that 1 think must have won f<
m ; her A piajuo* fa} which to earn hi
ut | bread, I rather flunk tljat considc
no | ate and Christian gentleman saved
ito woman. New York and Brookh
cii j ground up last year about thirty thoi
ad sartd_ young women, and would like
*
: grind r.p about as many this year. Out j
j of all that long procession of women who ;
; march on with no hope for this world or
| the next, battered and bruised and !
! scoffed at and Hung off the prrc-i- j
I pice, not one but might have been
' saved for home and God and heaven. !
; But good men and good women are not ,
f in that kind of business. Alas, for that j
< poor thing! nothing but the thread f j
: that sewing girl's necule held her, and i
i the thread broke. I have hoard men j
i tell in public discourse what a man is. i
\ but what is a woman? Until some one j
1 shall give a better definition I will tell i
>
you what a woman is. Direct from God, j
a sacred and delicate gift, with affections J
! so great that no measuring line short of i
j that of the infinite God can tell their j
f bound. Fashioned to refine ruul soothe !
! and lift and irradiate home and society'
and the world. Of such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
1 lived long enough to let him understand
j it, or who in some great crisis of life, when i
< all else failed him. had a wife to re-enforce j
| him with a faith in God that nothing
> could disturb. Speak out. ye cradles,
and tell of the feet that rocked you and
j the anxious faces that hovered over you!
i Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christen|
dom, and ye homes, whether desolate or
I still in full bloom with the faces of wife,
mother and daughter, and help me to
define what woman is. If a man during
all his life accomplish nothing else except
to win the love and confidence and
help and companionship of a good woj
man, lie is a garlanded victor and ought
to liave the hands of all people between
here and the grave stretched out to him
in congratulation.
But as geographers tell us that the
depths of the sea correspond with the
heights of the mountains, I have to tell
you that good womanhood is not higher
up than bad womanhood is deep down.
The grander the palace, the more awful
the conflagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon, the more
terrible her going down just off the coast.
Now I should not wonder if you trembled
a little with a sense of responsibility
when I say that there is hardly a j>erson
in this house but may have an opportunity
to save a woman. It may in your
case be done by good advice, or by
financial help, or by trying to bring to
bear some one of a thousand Christian
influences. You would not have to go
far. If, for instance, you know among
your acquaintances a young woman who
is apt to appear on the streets about the
hour when gentlemen return from business
and you find her responding to the
smile of entire strangers, hogs that lift
their hat, go to her and plainly tell her
that nearly all the destroyed womanhood
of the world began the downward
path with that very kind of behavior.
Or if, for instance, you find a woman
in financial distress and breaking dowji
in health and spirits trying to support
her children, now that her husband is
dead or an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable work but wliich
is little appreciated, keeping a boarding
house, where all the guests, according
as tbey pay small board, or propose'
without paying any board a?
I. camp. ara_ critical of
1^8 il there were no eternity, strive to
bring her into the kingdom of God, as
did the other day a Sabbath school
teacher who was the means of the conversion
of the daughter of a fnan of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved
to join the ehurch, and she went homo
and said: "Father, I am going to join
the church and I want you to come."
"Oh, no," he said, "I never go
to church." "Well," said the daughter,
,"if I were going to be
married, would you not go to see me
married?" And he said, "Oh, yes."
"Well," said she, "this is of more importance
than that." So he went, and j
has gone ever since and loves to go. I
do not know but that faithful Sabbath
school teacher not only saved a woman
but saved a man. There may be in this
nnrliAncft fathered from all parts of the
O ?
world, the most cosmopolitan assembly
in all the earth, there may be a man
whose behavior toward womanhood hiiS
been perfidious. Repent! .Stand up,
thou masterpiece of sin and death, that
I may charge you! As far as possible,,
make reparation. Do not boast that you
have her in your power and that she
cannot help herself. When that fme
collar and cravat and that elegant suit of
clotnes come .off and your uncovered
soul stands in judgment and before God,
you will be better off if you save that
woman.
There is another exploit that you can
do, and that is to save a child.. A child
does not seem to amount to much. It is
nearly a year old before it can walk at
all. For the first year and a half it cannot
speak a word. For the first ten
years it would starve if it had to earn
its own food. For the first fifteen years
its opinion 011 any subject is absolutely
valueless. And then there are so many
[ of them. My!" what lots of children!
t And some peopie have contempt for
children. They are good for nothing
| but to wear cut the carpet3 and
L break things and keep you awake
nights crying. Well, your esti'
mate of a child is quite different
[ from tliat mother's estimate who lost her
3 child this summer, They took it to the
salt air.of the seashore and to the tonic
air of the mountains, but 110 help came,
j and the brief paragraph of its life is
ended. Suppose that life could be res
stored by purchase, how much would
that bereaved mother give? She would
2 take all the jewels from her fingers and
5 neck and bureau and put them down.
r And if told that that was not enough,
l she would take her house and make over
t, the deed for it, and if that were
not enough she would call in all her
3 investments and put down all her mortl
gages and bonds, and if told that were
0 not enough she would say: 'T have made
e over all my property, and if I can have
y . that chiid back I will now pledge that I
will toil with my own hands and carry
OiAiil^orsi in snv kind of
Q "iyu y??ij ? T j
hard work, and Jive in a cellar and die
,r in a garret. Qnly give me hack that lost
,r darling." I am glad that there are those
i u ht) know sometliing of the value of q.
y phiJJ. Its possibilities are tremendous.
;"e What will those hands yet do? Where
>. wjll those feet yet walk? Toward what
>3 destiny will that never dying soul lien
tako itself? Shall those lips he the
throne of blasphemy or benediction?
It Come, all ye surveyors of the earth, and
j. bring link and chain and measure if you
a can Its possible possessions. Come, a!!
n ye astronomers of the earth, with your
v telescopes and tell us if you can see tin
j range of its eternal flight. Come, all ..
ir chronologists, and calculate the deer-!.
^ on decades, the centuries on centuries,
>u cycles on cycles, the eternities or
eternities of its lifetime, r-.li, to save
,j child! Am I not right in putting thaj
n among the greut exploits? Yea, it beat?
e. the other two, for if you save the chile
3r you save the man or you save tin
&r woman. Get the first twenty years ol
r_ that boy or girl all right and I guess yoi
^ have got manhood or womanhood al
n right, gnd their entire earthly and gtct
a_ nal career all light. But'what are yoi
to going to do with. those children who ar<
w'ort-o ci: inah 11 men* latter or motnc-r
had died roe day they were bora? There
are tens of thousands of such. Their
parentage was against them. Their
name is .against them. The structure of
their ski :11s against them. Their nerves
and muscles contaminated by the in- '
ebriely-or dissoluteness of their parents, \
they aie practically at their birth laid i
out on a plank in tiie middle of the At- j
lar.tie ocean in an equinoctial gale and
told to make for shore. The ilr.-t greeting
they get from, the world is to j
be called a brat or a ragamutnn or a i
wharf rat. What to do with them is the i
question often asked. There is another i
question quite as pertinent, ami that is. j
What are they going to do with us? They i
will ten or eleven years from* now have j
as many votes as the same number of i
well born children, and they wili hand !
this land over to anarchy and political I
damnation just as sure as we neglect j
thenf. Suppose v. e each one of us save j
a boy or save a girl. You can do it. !
Will you? 1 will. Take a cake of tier- j
fume a soap and a tijieloothed comb ;
:m<! n Xcw Testament and a tittle candy i
and prayer and a piece of cake and faith |
in (Jod .and common sense, i.'Tie Ix-gin i
this afternoon.
Bat how shall we get ready for one or i
ail of these three exploits? We shall
mr.Le a dead failure if in cur own
strength wo try to save a man c-r woman
or cliiio. . Bat my text suggests where
we are to get equipment. "The people
that do know their Gcd shall be strong,
and do exploits." \Ve must know him
through Jesus Christ in our own salvation
and then we shall have Lis help in
the salvation of others. And while yen
are saving strangers you may save some
of your own kin. You think your brothers
end sisters and children and grandchildren
all safe, but they are not dead, j
and no one is safo tiil he is dead. On j
the English coast there was a wild storm '
and a wreck in the oiling, and the cry
was: - 'Man the lifeboat." But Harry,
the usual leader of the sailors' crew, was
not to be found, and they went without
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mm, anu oruu^uv ua"* uu mc zu?:> j
wrecked people except one. By tills I
time Harry, die leader of the crew, a~j- !
pc-ared and said: "Why did yen leave !
that ere!" The answer was: "He could j
not help himself at nil and we could not
net him into the boat." "Man the lifeboat,"
shouted Harry, "and we will go
for that one." "No," said his aged mother
standing by, "you miist not go. I lost
your father in a storm like this, and your
brother "Will went off sis years ago and
I have not heard word from Will sir.ee
he left, and I don't know where he is,
and I don't know what has 'happened
him, poor Will, and I cannot let ycru
also go, for I am old and dependent on
ycu." His reply was: "Mother, I must
go and save that one man, and if I am
lost C-od will take care of you. in your
old clays.'' The lifeboat put out, and
after an awful struggle with the sc-a
they picked iiio poor fellow
the rigging just in
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oneofou^^^ruO^^^WTthat will be
an. exploit we rthy of ceiebi&tion when the
'"world itself is shipwrecked and the sun
has gone out like a spark from a smitcea j
e.nvii and all the stars are dead!
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One elephant discovered among the j
tertiary rocks could not have been less j
than sixteen feet in height.
ITEMS OF ALL SORTS.
! As a new industry, Scotland is. %visea
to gather ice. **
A shoemaker at St. Joseph, Mo., has
constructed a "cold air motor," "vhich
he claims will run all kinds of street vehicles.
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The Mormons have recently 'sent a
missionary from Salt Lake to the ?amoan
Islands to preach the Gospel an.il drum
up recruits among the natives, j
At the moment when the vflar ship
Warrior rescued a party of French builoonists
they were casting lots a#, to who
should throw himself out to lighten the
balloon.
The Medical and Surgical Reporter
announces that it will publish the names
of religious papers which print improper
medical advertisements if. after due
warning, they persist in printirg them.
People on Pall Mall were recerdy wonderstruck
to see the cooks, kitclienmaids,
waiters, and all the employes of the
Army and Navy club, to the umber of
100 01* more, pour out on th<s steps unu
pavement. They were photographed.
Leading English gunniafcors report
that they have had a remarkably large
number of orders from ladies for fine
guns. Shoot ing during the season is said
to be the latest notion of the English woman
of quality, although fcome prefer
ilsliiug.
Mr. II. G. Vogt said that if ships could
bo towed instead of propej^u by the propeller,
an average of cent, in coal
and power could be sflived. The propeller
at the stern the sustaining
water from tiufcgfffp, causing resistance
to bo increasesp^Tthat proportion.
Engine 310,of the Union Paciiic road,
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lllilb I^> IIV III lUHBIClllUp
cars across Urn Omaha bridge, has a
record of having nm 1,140,005 miles, it
has been in ufo for twenty-five years,
and was one & tlie first locomotives used
west of the Mfcsouri river.
The agriculjural department is organizing
live ney experimental stations for
the study of sfrghum and its manipulation
?three in jtansas, one in New Jersey
and one ^Louisiana. The appropriation
for thii work tin's year is ?100,000
larger than ft bas ever been before.
Jerusalem is rapidly growing as a trade
center. <^(e hundred thousand dollars'
worth of Objects of devotion in motherof-pearl
aid olive wood are exported to
Anjericaixnd Europe every year. Vine
eub.ivatifii is being extended, and the
price ofiland lias risen six fold within a
few yea's.
Since ibe receiving ship Wabash has
been jjiir.g orf Boston there have been
sever? curious applications from men
who ranted to enlist. One man said
he'd /hli.-.l if lie Could do work to which
he \>a.s accustomed. lie wasn't enlisted,
for .he was a paper hanger. Another
waned to enlist to take care of the capis
of s horse. A gardener would enlist if
> i: could find work, and another caudi
i wanted to be the ship's roofer.
.\ man near Fayetteville, Tenn., built
i ; 'iiv OL,- cool morning recently and in a
j :t!e w hile saw a pair of black feet drop
?>wn lie chimney. A search revealed
' | ..colored neighbor of bad reputation
| sack fast in ii. Upon being released
1 t^knegro said that, owing the housc
i'J cents, he hud come to pay it.
! ^^Bnding the dooro and windows fast
J j mode of en trance, but as his
! an ax were left outside his tale
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uiinous sanva, whicli it ejects, that
it becomes like an exceedingly tenacious
mortar, and, when dry, turns into a substance
as compact and strong as stone
itself. Out of this substance the whole
of that portion of the dwelling that lies
above the ground is built up bit by bit,
each bit being hardly larger than a mustard
seed. There are often many tons of
this stone like stuff in a single ant hill;
and it is not only so strong as to resist
the terrible fury of tropical storms, but it
will simnort without disaster tlip weiorht
ofrwild bulls, who liave a trick of climbing
upon the :mt heaps, when partially
finished, as desirable pointy from which
to survey the surrounding country. In
fact, the white ant earth has been quarried
and used by the missionaries in some
places on Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika
as material for building their houses; and
in South Africa the natives pave their
floors with it and use it to build their t
ovens.?Swiss Cross.
Successful Amateur Paith. Curing.
A reporter tried his hand at faith curing
the other day. He \va3 standing on
the front platform of an avenue car
when the driver's nose began to bleed.
After several ineffectual attempts had
been made to stop the bleeding the reporter,
who feared the driver would be
seriously inconvenienced, to say the
least, thought he would try an experiment.
Taking a piece of paper from his
pocket he handed it to the sufferer, with
the remark; '-Put that in your mouth,
between the tongue and the inside of the
lower gum. It's the greatest remedy
ever known for nose bleeding. We
used it in our family for seven generations,
and it never failed to cure." The
driver did as he was bid, and inside of a
minute the bleeding stopped. What effected
the cure?' Was it the efficacy of
the paper or the faith the driver had in
its remedial powers??Washington Post.
Crabbing In the Jersey Meadows.
Crabbing has become a very popular
sport in the Jersey meadows. The brackish
streams tributary to the Hackensack
abound witn crabs, ana every aay parties
of crabbers, with high rubber boots, plod
through the marshes, nets in hand, in
search of the Crustacea. Catches of three
or four dozen are not uncommon. On
Sundays the crabbers turn out in greater
force than the gunners. Flat bottomed
boats are largely used, being slowly <
poled up and down the creeks, and la- <
dies share quite freely in the sport. The
crabs are much larger than those ordinarily
caught on the coast. They are J
said to be increasing in size as the sea- i
con advances, and may one day rival the
great crabs of England and California.? 5
New York Sun.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was bom in *
Manchester, England, in 1849^: *
.PEOPj^fALKED ABOUT. J
Gossip Gleaned from the 4
arioas Exchanges.
of Japan is said to be \
pianoforte under a German <
Reid, the.t-cbSl^stw, ^
Louise lilaftane, at 23, has compiled a
dictionary of scientific .terms and a history
of mathematical discoveries in <
France.
Mrs. Jencken, well remembered as
Kate Fox. one of the once famous spiritualist
sisters of Rochester, is giving
seance in London.
The Com tesse de Paris has ordered fiff?en
hundred small gold roses to present
to some of the most faithful adherents of
her husband's family. . Jay
Gould pays pays his physician, Dr.
; William Munn, $20,000 a year, and his
' ?! ^n?Av\fir %?aoho nryfil
I services hj: mcubi jca;o, v/i uiuu vnw
; time; of Sir. Gould's death.
! The '-Wichita syndicate" is composed
of women wiio buy and sell real estate
and. invest money for non-residents,
i They have a capital of $100,000.
j Railroad building in China is the latest
i chimerical project of the Marquis dej
Mores, the eccentric Frenchman who lost ;
$300,000 trying to show the people of
Montana how to run the cattle business.
Froken Karolina. Widerstrom, the first
Swedish lady doctor, has been engaged,
by the "Tliule Life Insurance company"
for the examination of ladies who want,
to insure .their lives, the number of whom,
is rapidly increasing.
The czar, as a memorial to his late
parents, has devoted 1,000,000 roubles
and an estate worth ilOO.OOO roubles a.
year to tin; foundation and maintenance
ef an institution for the blind at St.
Petersburg, to be called the AlexanderMarien
institute.
| Miss Eliza'.X'th Farsan was recently
elected principal of the "largest public:
school in Chicago over a number of male
competitors. She is a very popular lady,
and the people living in the ward in
which the school stands?the richest and
most populous in the city?are delighted
i by the appointment.
Miss Whitney, the astronomer at Vas!
snr college, and Miss Bird, the asirono|
mer at Smith college.- are now engaged in
! establishing the longiiude of the Smith
: college observatory. The two observa!
tories, Smith and Vassar, are connected
j by telegraph, and apparatus has been
; arranged :;t each end of the line to regisi
ter the lime of the two colleges.
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j The Woman's Charily and Industrial
i club, of Mew York city, is an organiza;
tioti of colored women recently formed
; for the purpose of extending aid and
I support to th> ir sisters in <!isi:vss. They
i have ;i four story house called the "Home
j for Friendliss Ooiored (Jiris,'' where froe
| hoard and l?>dging are given to all such
i until they are abie to care for themselves.
! Tliero is a "congressional bootblack,"
and his name is Dan Applet on, aged 10.
He managed to make his way from St.
Paul to Washington, and going up to the
! house asked for Congressman Nelson.
I The congressman came out and tho boy
said: "lam Dan Appleton, a bootblack
| from Minnesota, and I want you to give
j me the privilege of blacking congressj
men's boots uere in the building." Nelson
took tiie boy to Architect Clark, who
gave him the privilege, and the lad is
making money.
Yvhen Mrs. Mary E. H. G. Dow was
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I maue presiueui ?>i me l/uvu n.i |
I Iiorse Railroad company, in January,
I 1883, til.* .stock of the concern was worth
i only $5 or $7 a share, and the road was
| heavily in debt. The directors have just
| declared a 20 per cent, dividend and
}. shares are now worth more than $100
; apiece. The dividend is paid from the
j earnings of tlie road and there is a surplus
in the treasury. All this V-as Wen
I accomplished by the energy and executive
ability cf Hrs. Dow. AV'hen she was
< tycird president many people thought
ihat a mistake had been math:. J'h-. y ;
were greatly at fault.
Queen Victoria has begun to de.
r test. I
ju by !
not a |
cienThose
?d by
a the
it the
uidiO ana oiteii wearies those who are
playing with her by her disinclination to
quit. It i3 said that siie hates to lose her
money as much as though she were poor
?for she plays tiie good old English
game of a guinea a corner.
Dexterity, Delicacy and Deftness.
People long ago got over the idea that
woman is deficient in the matter of intelligence.
but it is a comparatively recent
discovery tliat she is also gifted with
hands which .are quite as apt and quick
as her head is bright. The influx of
feminine labor into the mechanical trades
within the last twenty-five years is simply
enormous. Of course much of tlvis
class of work calls for brawn and muscle,
and probably it will always be done by
the muscular sex, but many branches of
mechanical work call for the exertion of
no more strength than is j>ossessed by
every healthy woman. This, combined
with the dexterity, delicacy and deftness
which are woman's common attributes,
inaices ner presence in some 01 tne artisan
trades in liigli demand.?Chicago
News.
'Cared by a Madstone.
A colored woman in Florida, it is reported,
was bitten by a ground rattlesnake,
one of the most poisonous of the
rattlesnake family, and was in tremendous
agony. A so called madstone was
applied to the wound, after being plunged
in hot vinegar. It attached itself firmly
to the wound, and adhered like a leech
for nearly five minutes. It then fell off,
and being placed in warm water, threw
off a greasy fluid, grayish in color, with
here and there a trace of green. It was
again put upon the wound, and clung
there about a minute. By this time the
woman was asleep and apparently free
from pain, and at last reports she was
fast recovering from the effects of the
bite.?New York Sun.
Frcm E&glaad.
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The Sifjifl Sped fir Co.. Atlanta, Ga.:
Genxt.emf.x:?For ov?r tf.o yen re I
nave bt-en suffering from disfiguring
ind chronic affection < f the ek:n,
which has been u source of great annoyance,
and rendered me very mis
arable indeed. J havo tried esery
method, including visits .to, a skin
hospital, where I was trc-aled as an
DQt-door patient for three mouthy.. *nd
many remedies, vxill><?Jf^fcirig
relieved in-the slightest. Seeing one
>f your advertisements, I began to
jive the Swift's Specific a thorough
trial, in hopes it would at least benefit
py geqorai. health, if it did not cure
he skiuYlisease. I contian^^su^i
four
cleared ap, th^^^HSeWTss^pearej},
and at the time of thfs writiog there
is no trbce whatever. I have not
only got rid of the skin affection, but
gained in flesh, and am altogether !
pleased with the result. I shall be i
very pleased*to answer any letters j
that I may receive respecting this, if ;
anyone has any trouble cf a similar
character and doubts the statement.
I am, gentlemen, gratefully yoors,
L Walts, 1, Westminster Chambers, j
Victoria Street, Westminster, S. W.
October 27th, 1887.
Treatise on Blood and Skio Diseases
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, \
Atlanta, Ga.
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Found his Canteen Where he left it.
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A gentleman told me yesterday of j
a strange experience related by a j
friend of bis. It wss daring tbe
battle of Gettysburg tbat bis friend,
just before entering tbe action, took J
bis canteen from his shoulder and j
hid it in a crevice iu the rock. Tber: |
came tbe fiery bail of shot and shed |
that swept, down regiments like fields j
of wheat before tbe reaper. At the :
close of ^be battle the soldier forgot j
all about bis canteen, nor did it over ;
occur to Lirn again until he visit*d j
tbe field at tbe late reunion. The:- '
it flashed through his mind, and after j
a few minnti-s search he found it
where he had left it on tbat moment j
oqs day. It seemed scarcely cred- j
iblo that it could have been over- i
looked during tbe minute exploration j
of the field ever since the. war, but j
the gentleman who related the iu- j
cident is of unimpeachable veracity.
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iVTRfJ. Wikslow's Soothino Syrup
9bou)d always bo used when children
are cutting teeth. It, relieves the
little sufferer at onee; it produces
natural, quiet sleep by relieving the
child from pain, and the little cherub
awakes a9 "bright as a button." It
is very pleasant to taste. It soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays a!i
paio, relieves wind, regulates the ;
bowels, uiui is the best known ^?inedy !
for diarrhoea, wk&tbsy prising from !
teething on- other causes. Twentylive
cent* a bottle. Jane 27? ly.
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Boston, Oct. 1 ?The asr*(w$niimi ? f j
v?om(;D who wish ?? v?'to nn J
the school pues&va busier lit10 j
o Aittl the week's work
show.- .\ tot hi registration in round
nnnh-is of 25,000 women. Hit?
totiil Boston vote varies b';V*>eo 47.
000 and 50,000, so ihe women wot
niustGr at tl;c y oils half as lar^e a
force a? their hushaDcls and brothers.
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Rnceewngs of tho Leanagtca
Baptist Missionary TJaioa.
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Th^Lexingfoo Baptist TJoion held
with th* Sandy Ron cbarch September
29-30, 1888, was called to order
by the moderator, Rev. Ervin Hall,
using hymn No 1047 in the Psalmist,
and reading the 19th Psalm after
which followed prayer. The letters
from the different churches was called
for and read by the clerk. Delegates
enrolled as follows: Oakey Grote,
George Risb, Ellerd Hall, aod J. P.
Sinisns; Bethlehem, r > delegate;Uiii
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i irn^.'iin, uiu, u *' uricf^aic , hctv jl i ubpect,
no delegate; Sand; Rao, F. E.
\Vni?atuh, U. 0. Goodwin, D. A.
Stnrkie, G. W. Sightler, and R. J.
Fallaw, Jr.; Pine Grove, Rev. L.
Had, Gideon Hal), and J. V. Guoter; /
Convent, no delegate; Floreoce, J. E. /
Dunbar, Elmore Berry, D. E. Clark.
J Lucas, and H y. Rieh; Gilbrrt
Iloliow, R M. Hanes, C. B.
Avery, and M. C. Hall; Mt. ZioD, J.
P. Lucas und J. C. Bnsbee; Mt. Nsbo,
do delegates; New Hope, no delegate; ^ ^
Samaria, Rev. EvaLS Hall, James
ami, Hiiltard Hull, J. J. Boatwright,
and J Q. Woodward, Tbe election
of officers was dispensed witb by a
aiotiou to retain tbot-e in office. The
Union adjourned to bear the introA
doctor? sermon by Rev. L. Hall from
Ac's 20th chapter and 28th 29th and
30th vt-rsts, which was listened to
with marked attention. Tbe Union
then taken a recces of half hours
length. The body reassembled in
the church and joined in singing
b\inn No. 3J2 in the Psalmist and A
prayer by Rev. C. B. Avery. After W'
the appointment of the differentyjo^
mittees fbe Union?aeJjrjfTrned until
9 ? m. on account of so
w?n,< 1! nn uirtiftnpp ifc t>pinor kh? da"o nf
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tuH primary election. The Unioa
was called to order Sunday morning
by tie moderator, singiog hymn No.
707 in ihe Psalmist, and
the
elegant and telling
tbat every chnrc7> member'wonldgi^^^^^^^^^H
heed to what was said in this speech,
how different wonld be the state of C^v-. I
car cborcbes. The body then ad- fl
journed to bear the missionary sermon
by Rev. N. N. Burton from Romans
Khh chapter and 13th verse:
"Whosoever shall call upon tbe name
of the Lord shall be saved," which
was one of the most interesting sermons
that was ever preached at tbat
cbnrch and was listened to with the
most profound attention by a large
and intelligent audience. The body
then taken an bonr recess. The
Union reassembled in the chnrch and
joined in singing hymn No. 274 in
Plalmist: "There is a fonntain filled
with blood." In tba absence of J. P.
Simcns, (the appointee to inlrodaoe
the second query) Rev. L. Hall in an
able speech introduced this qaeTj:
"Should not our churches take col- . '
lections for missions at least ooce a
month." followed in an able speech
by Rev. N N. Barton. For the need
of time the third qoery was carried
over till the next meeting. This was
a very interesting meeting, odo enjoyed
by all. May we all live to meek
in another such a meeting. The next
meeting of this body will meet with
tb? Gilbert HoJow cbnrch on Saturday
before the next fifth Sunday.
Rev. N N. Burton to preach the introductory
set moc. Rev. Evans Hall
to preach the missionary sermon.
Query 1: "Is not the church a long
way from the standard of religion
established by Christ taking the lives
of the members as evidence," Rev. L.
Hal! to lead. Second: "Should not
our church members seek for more information
on the work and progress
of Baptists which is only obtainable
throughout our denominational
papers," Rev. Evans Hall to lead.
Third: "Do the Word of God bind
our churches to support their ministers,"
J. G. Faliaw to lead. May all
of thf churches be represented in our
nr.d all nrav till that
uv..* 1, 1 meeting
that it may be so. Everybody
come, and come prayiDg thai ?
the Lord may be there and that eon*
good bo done in the neat? o! the \
Master. Let every member o! this
Union pray from low twl we tneel
fig.iin that or** fcharehes may be revived
:*cd that the people of the lord
may be wade to rejoice together
again st Gilbert. Hollow. .X G. P? .
Fx.att, li:x Co, Oct. 1st, I888*uLewitdale^ve^R
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