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REV. DIt TALMAGE.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject: "Young Men Challenged to
Nobility."
Tbxt: "And the Lord opened the eyes of
the young man."?II Kings vi., 17.
One morning in Dothan a young theological
student was scared by finding himself
and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he
waited, surrounded by a wnole army of
enemies. But venerable Elisha was not
scared at all because he saw the mountains
full of defense for him in chariots made of
fire, drawn by horses of fire?a supernatural
appearance that could not be seen with the
natural eye. 80 the old minister prayed
that the young minister might see them also,
and the prayer was answered, and the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man, and he
also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat.
I suppose, like the Adirondacks or the
Alleghanies in autumnal resplendence.
Many young men, standing among the
most tremendous realities, have their eyes
half shut or entirely closed. May God grant
mar my sermon may open wiae your eyes to
your safety, your opportunity and your destiny!
A mighty defense for a young man is a
good home. Some of my hearers look back
with tender satisfaction to their early home.
It may have been rude and rustic, hidden
among the hills, and architect or upholsterer
never planned or adorned it. But all the
fresco on princely walls never looked so enticing
to you as. those rough hewn rafters.
You can think of no nark or arbor of trees
planted on fashionable country seat so attractive
as the plain brook that ran in front
of the old farmhouse and sang under the
weeping willows. No barred gateway
adorned with statue of bronze and
swung open by obsequious porter in
full dress has half the glory of the old
swing gate. Many of you have a second
dwelling place?your adopted home?that
also is sacred forever. There you built the
first family altar. There your children were
born. All those trees you planted. That
room is solemn because once in it, over the
hot pillow, flapped the wing of death. Under
that roof you rxp* et when your work is
done to lie down and die. You try with
many words to tell the excellency of the
place, but you fail. There is only one word
in the language that can describe your
meaning. It is home.
Now, 1 declare it, that young man is comparatively
safe who goes out into the world
with a charm like this upon him. The memory
of parental solicitude, watching, plannine
and dravincr will be to him a shield and
a shelter. I never knew a man faithful both
to his early and adopted home who at the
same time was given over to any gross form
of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks
his eDjovment chiefly from outside association
rather than from the more quiet
and unpresuming pleasures of which I
have spoken may be suspected to be
on the broad road to ruin. Absalom
despised his father's house, and you
know his history of sin and his death of
shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated
from your kindred and former associates is
ther i not some room that you can call your
own? Into it gather books and pictures and
a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel.
Make ungodly mirth stand back from the
threshold. Consecrate some spot with the
knee of prayer. By the memory of other
days, a fatber s counsel, and c mother s iove,
and a sister's confidence, call it home.
Another defense for a young man is industrious
habits. Many young men in starting
upon life in this age expect to mako their
way through the world by the use of their
wits rather than the toil of their hands. A
boy now goes to the city aud falls twice before
he is as old as his father was when he first
saw the spires of the great town. Sitting in 1
some office rented at 81000 a year, he la
waiting for the bank to deolare its dividend,
or goes into the market expeoting before
night to be made rich by the rushing up of
the stooks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved
on some other tack. Perhaps he
borrowed from his employer's money drawer 1
and forgets to put it back, or for merely the j
purpose of improving his penmanship makes
a copy plate of a merchant's signature. 1
Never mind. All is right in trade. In some '
dark night there may come in his dreams 1
a vision of the penitentiary, but It 1
soon vanishes. In a short time he will be ;
tpaHv tn rpHrn frnm thn hnsv wnrld nnrl
amid his flooks and herds cultivate the do- 1
mestic virtues. Then ttoose young men who 1
once wc?re bis schoolmates and knew no bet- 1
ter thnn to engage in honest work will come '
with their ox teams to draw him logs and '
with their hard hands to help heave up his
castle. This is no fancy picture. It is
everyday life. I should not wonder if there
were some rotten beams iu that beautiful
palace. I should not wonder if dira sickness
should smite through the young man, or if
God should pour into his cup of life a
draft that would thrill him with unbearable
agony; if his children should become to him
u living curse, making his nome a pest and a
disgrace. I should not wonder if ne goes to
a miserable grave and beyond it into the
gna?hing of teeth. The way of the ungodly
shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way to
genuine success except through toil either
o.' head or han'f. At the battle of Crecy in
1346 the I'rince of Wales, finding himself
heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to
his father for help. The father, watching
the battle from a windmill, and seeing his
son was not wounded and could gain the
day it he would, sent word: "No. I will not
come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, if God
will, I desire that this dny be his with all its
honors." Young man, flght your own battle
all throueh aud'you shall have the victory.
Ob, it is a battle worth fighting! Two
monarchs of old fought a duel, Charles V
and Francis, and the stakes were kingdoms,
Milan and Burgundy. You fight with siu
end the stake is heaven or hell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you are a
genius and thnt. therefore, there is no need
of close application. It is hero where mul- >
titudes fail. The curse of this age is tbo j
eeniuses?men with enormous self conceit !
and egotism and nothing else. I had i
rather be an ox than un eagle; plain and
plodding and useful rather than high fly- ;
lng and good for nothing hut to pick out
the eyes of carcasses. Extraordinary capacity
without work is extraordinary failure.
There is no hope for that person who
begins life resolved to live by his wits, for
the probability is that he has not any. It
was not safe for A<lam, even in his unfalleu
state, to have nothing to do, and therefore
God commanded him to be a farmer and
horticulturist. He was to dress the garden
and keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed
the divine injunction and been at work ihey
would not have been sauntering under the
trees and hankering after that fruit which
destroyed tnem and their posterity?a proof
positive for all ages to come that those who
do not attend their business are sure to get
into mischief.
I do not know that the prodigal in Scripture
would ever have been reclaimed had he
not given up his idle habits and gone to
feeding swine for a living. The devil does
not so often attack the man who is busy
with the pen, and the book, and the trowel,
and ihe saw, and the hammer. He is afraid
of those weapous. But "".oe 1o the man
whom the roaring lion meets with his hands
in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toil always be
slegan; and cleanly and refined. There is a
certaiu amount of drudgery through which
we mast all pass whatever be our occupation,
i'ou know how men are sentenced a cex ain
number of years to prison, and ufter they
have suffered and worked out the time then
they are allowed to go free. So it is with all
us. God passed on us the sentence, "By the
sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread." We
must endure our time of drudgery,nnd then,
after awhile, we will be allowed to go into
torn putative liberty. We must be williug to
endure the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the beginning ot
any trade or profession, but this does not
continue all our lives, if it be the student's,
or the merchant's, or the mechanic's life. I
know you have at the beginning many a hard
time, but alter a while those things will become
easy. You will be your own master.
God's sentence will be satisfied. You will be
discharged from prison.
Bless God that you have a brain to think
and hands to work and feet to walk with,
for in your constant activity, 0 young man,
is one "of your strongest defeus -s. Put vour
trust iu God and do your best. That child
bad it right when the hors?s ran away with
the kad of wood and h* sat on it. .When
asked if he was fright tied, he said. "No. I
prayed to God and b*.mg on like a beaver."'
Respeirt for thj &abbatli will be to the
young man another pires rvativi' agaiut evil.
God has thru*' Wo the toil and fatigue of
life a recreative day, when the soul Is especially
to be fed. It la no new fantrle notion
of a wild brained reformer, but an institution
established at the beginniDR. God has itade
natural and moral laws so harmonious that
the body as well as the soul demands thi.j institution.
Our bodies are s . en day clooks
that mtmt be wound up as olten as that or
they will run down. "Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has palled it the Lord's
day, and he who devotes it to the world is
guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin
go unpunished either in this world or the
world to oome.
This is the statement of a man who has
broken this divine enactment: "I was engaged
in manufacturing on the Lehigh
River. On tin Sabbath I used to rest, but
never regarded God in it. One beautiful
Sabbath when the noise was ail hushed, and
the day was all that loveliness could make
it, I sat down on my piazza and went to work
inventing a new shuttle. I neither stopped
to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By
that time I had the invention completed.
The next morning I exhibited it and boasted
of my day's work, and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but that
8abbath day's work cost me 480,000. We
branched out and enlarged, and the curse
of heaven was upon me from that day onward."
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, God's
speolal favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the-week. The song and
sermon and sanctuary will hold back itom
presumptuous sins. That young man who
begins the duties of life with either seoret or
open disrespect to the holy day, I venture to
prophesy, will meet with no permanent successes.
God's curse will fall upon hfs ship,
his store, his office, his studio, his body and
his soul. The way of the wicked He turneth
upside down. In one of the old fables it was
said that a wonderful chiJd was born in Bagdad,
and a magician could hear his footsteps
6000 miles away. But I can hear in the foot
step of that young man on his way to the
house of worship to-day the step not only of
a lifetime of usefulness, but the oncoming
step of eternal ages of happiness yet millions
of years away.
A noble ideal and confident expectation of
onnMTlmoHni, tn If on) nn Infnlllhlo
fense. The artist completes in his mind the
great thought that ho wishes to transfer to
the canvas or the marble before ho takes up
the crayon or the chisel. The architect
plans out the entire structure before he
orders the workmen to begin, and, though
there may for a long while seem to be nothing
but blundering and rudeness, he has in
his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic
arch and Byzantine capital. The poet
arranges the entire plot before he begins, to
chime the first canto ol tingling rhythms.
And yet, strange to say, there are men who
attempt to build their character without
knowing whether in the end it shall be a
ruie Tartar's tent or a St. Mark's of Venice
?men who begin to write the intricate poem
of' their lives without knowing whether it
shall be a Homer's "Odyssey" or a rhymester's
botch.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of
a thousand are living without any great life
plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and
urging their swift courser in the hottest
haste, I ask: "Hello, man! Whither away?"
His respones, "Nowhere." Bush into the
busy shop or store of many a one and tak
ing the plane out of the man's hand or-inying
down the yardstick, Bay, "What, man, Is
all ibis about?so much stir and sweat?"
The reply will stumble and break down
between teeth and lips. Every day's duty
ought only to be the filling up of the main
plan of existence. Let men be consistent.
If they prefer misdeeds to correct courses of
action, then let them draw out the design of
knavery and cruelty and plunder. Let every
day's falsehood and wrong doing be .tddsd
as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds
red stripe the picture, and the clouds of a
wrathful God hang down heavily over the
cmvas, ready to break out in clamorous
tempest. Let the waters be ohafed and
froth tangled and green with immotsurable
depths. Then take a torch of i
burning pitch and scorch into the frane
the right name for it?the soul's suioide.
If one entering upon sinful directions
would only in his mind or on pan?r
draw onHn HWfnl rAHlltv thta rtrpnrlfn!
future, he would recoil from it and say, "im
[ a Dante that by my own life I should write
another 'Inferno?'" But jf you aro resolvsd
to Jive a life such as God and Rood men will
approve, do not let it be a vague dream, iin
indefinite determination, but in your mind
Dr upon oaper sketch it in all its minutie.
Zou cannot know the changes to which you
maybe subject, but you may know what
ilwavs will be right and always will )e
wrong. Let gentleness and charity and v*ricity
and faith stand in the heart, of the
sketch.
On some still brook's bank make a lamb
ind lion lie down together. Draw two or
:hreeof the trees of life, not frost strlckei,
3or ice glazed, nor wind stripped, but wiih
:hick verdue waving like itie palms of
leaven. On the darkest cloud place the
rainbow, that pillow of the dying storm,
ifou need not print the title on the frame,
rbe dullest will catch the design at a
jlance and say, "That is the road to heav:n."
Ah, me! On this sea of life what inlumerable
ships, heavily laden and well
rigged, yet seem bound for no portl Swept
jvery whither of wind and wave, they go up
)y the mountain*, they go down by tho
valleys and are at their wits' end. They
ail by no chart, they watch no star, they
ong for no harbor. I beg every young man
:o-day to draw out a sketch of what, by the
jrace of God, he means to be. Think no
excellence so high that you cannot reach
,t. He who starts out in life with a high
deal of character and talth in its attainnent
will And himself incased from a
:housana temptations. There are ma?lificent
possibilities before each of you,
poung men of the stout heart, and the buoymt
step and the bounding spirit. I would
marshal you for grand achievement. God
now provides * for you the field and the
\rmor and tho fortification. Who is on
;he Lord's side? A captain in ancient
iimes, to encourage his men against tbe
Immense odds on the side of their enemies.
?aid: "Come, my men, look these fellows
in the face. They are 6000; you are 80.).
Surely the match is even." That speech gave
them the victory. Be not, my hearers, dismayed
at any tfme by what seems an immense
odds against you. Is fortune, is war t
or education, uremen. are anvils against you,
though the multitudes of earth and hell confront
you, slaud up to the charge. With
1,000,000 against you, the match is just even
?nay. voa have a decided advantage. If
God be for us. who can be against us? Thus
protected, you need not spend much time la
answering yoUr assailants.
Many years ago word||came to me that two
imposters, as temperance lecturers, nadbeea
speaking in Ohio in various places and giving
their experience, and they told their
audience that they bad long: been intimate
with me and had become drunkards by dir ing
at my table, where I always had liquors
of all sorts. Indienant to the last degree. I
went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of
Brooklyn police, saying that I was going to
start that uight for Ohio to have those villains
arrested, aud I wanted him to teli ni5
how to make the arrest. He smiled and saici:
'Do not waste-your time by chasing these
men. Go home and'do your work, and they
can do you no harm." I took his counsel,
and all was well. Long ago I made up my
mind that if one will put his trust in Gol
and be faithful to duty ho need not fear an?
evil. Have God on your side, voung mar,
and all the combiued forces of earth and heU
can do you no damage.
*nd this leads me to say that the mlghiiest
defens-e for a young man is the possession
of religious principle Nothing can taku
the place of it. He may have mariners thet
would put to shame the gracefulness ani
courtesy of a Lord Chesterfield. Foreiga
languages may drop from his tongue. He
may be able to disusa literature and laws ani
foreign customs. He may wiekl a pen c [
unequaled polish and power. His quickness
and tact may qua'ify him for the highest
salary of the counting house. Ed may be es
sharp as Herod and as strona: as Samsoi,
with as flue locks as those which hung Absalom,
still he is not safe from contamination.
The more elegant his manner, and the more
fascinating his dress, the more peril. Satan
does not care for the allegiance of a cowardly
and illiterate being. He cannot bring him
into efficient service. But he loves to storm
that castle of character which has in it the
most spoils and treasures. It was not some
crazy craft creeping along the ooast with a
valueless cargo that the pirate attacked, but
the ship, full winged and flagged, plying between
great ports, carrying its millions cf
specie. The more your natural and acquire!
accomplishments, the more need of the relicion
of Jesus. That does not cut in upon or
back up any smoothness of disposition or
behavior. It gives symmetry. It arrests
that in the soal which ought to be arrested and
propels that which ought to bo propelled. It
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Alls np the gulleys. It * elevates and transforms.
To beauty It gives more beauty, to
tact more tact, to enthusiasm of nature more
enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit Impresses
the ino age of God on the heart, He does not
spoil the canvas. If in all th? multitudes oi
youiig men upon whom religion has acted
you could find one nature that had been the
least damaged, 1 -would yield this proposition.
You may now have enough strength of
oharacter to repel the various temptations to
gross wickedness which assail you, but I do
not know in what strait you may be thrust
at some future time. Nothing short of the
grace of the cross may then be Bible to deliver
you from the lions. You are' not
meeker than Moses, nor holler than David,
nor more patient than Job, and vou ought
not to consider yourself invulnerable. You
may have some weak point of oharacter that
you have never discovered, and in some hour
when you are unsuspecting the Philip''nes
will be upon thee, 8amson. Trust not
in your good habits, or your early training,
or your pride of character
?nothing nhort of the arm of Almighty God
will be suflloient to uphold you. You look
forward to the world sometimes with a chilling
despondency. Cheer up. I will tell you
how yoa may make a fortune. "Seek flrst
the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all other things shall be added unto
you." I know you do not want to be mean
in this matter. Give God the freshness of
your life. You will not have the heail: to
drink down the brimming cud of life and
then pour the dregs on God's altar. To
a Saviour so infinitely generous you
have not the heart to act like that. That
Is not brave. That is not honorable.
That is not manly. Your greatest want In
all the world is a new heart. In God's name
I tell- you that. And the Biassed Spirit
presses through the solemnities and privileges
of this holy hour. Put the cud of life
eternal to your thristy lips. Thrust it not
back. Mercy offers it?bleeding mercy, long
suffering mercy. Beject all other friendships,
bo ungrateful for all other kindness,
prove recreant to all other bargains, but to
InTO fnr vnnr Immnrllll KOUl?
do not do that %
I would like to see some of you this hour
press out of the ranks of the world and lay
your conquered spirit at the feet of Jems.
This hour is no wandering vagabond staggering
over the e.irth; it is a winged messenger
of the skies whispering mercy to thy
soul. Life is smooth now, but after awhile
it may be rough, wild and precipitate.
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lUOIO UUIUCD Vila 10 IU Ilia uioiut j v* VI V* ;
man. We seldom understand thut turning
point until it is far past. The road of lile is
forked, and I read on two signboards: "This
is the way to happiness" and 'This
Is the way to ruin." How apt we are
to pa=s the fork of the road without thinking
whether it comes out at the door of bliss or
the Elites of darkness.
Many years ago I stood on the anniversary
platform with a minister pf Christ
who made this remarkable statement:
' Thirty years ago two young men. started
out in the evening to attend the*Park
Theater, New York, where a play was to
l>e acted In which the cause of religion was
to be placed in & ridiculous and hypocritical
light. They came' to the steps. The
consciences of both smote them. One
.started to go home, but returned again to
the door, and yet had not courage- to enter,
and finally departed. But the other young
man entered the pit of the theater. It
was the turning point tn the history of these
two young men. The man who entered was
caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank
deeper and deeper in infamy. He was lost.
That other young man was saved, and he
now stands before you to bless God that for
twenty years he hail been permitted to
preaoh the gospel."
"Rejoice. 0 young man, in thy youth iind
let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth; but know thou that for all these
things Qod will bring thee unto judgment."
FOUR BOYS AT A BIRTH.
The Mother Had Previously Presented Her
Tl nthnnrl With Tirlna and Tflnletfl.
To the thousands of summer visitors who
annually visit the many popular resorts
about Great Sodus Bay. near wolcott, N. Y.,
no one is better known than boatman and
guide John Newport, the head and political'
boss of the local colored colony of nearly a
hundred souls. Newport and bis comply
wife are the happy parents of nine children,
the produot of only threa separate birtbs.
In childhood the two were slaves in Virginia,
coming to Sodus Point soon after emancipation.
Eighteen years ago they were married,
and six years thereafter George Washington
and Bobert E. Lee Newport were born.
After another interval of six years James A.
Garfield, Chester A Arthur and Ulysses SGrant
Newport followed, and now. at the
expiration of another six years, quadruplets
have arrived, being ushered into this woirld
on the Tuesday piecedtng election.
.ftir. Newport was lor yours a Bitumen ?rpubllcan,
controling the votes of four-ttflbs
of his colored brethren, but in 1892 he voted
for Cleveland, and again this year i'or
Bryan. Mrs. Newport, however, remains
true to her early political faith, so to please
heronaofthe newcomers has been named
Itf^Kinley, while his three brothers wore
called William, Jennings and Bryan respectively.
They are fat and healthy looking,
weighing at the age of about a fortnight: a
trifle over six pounds apiecs.
SUGAR A-PLENTY.
Despite the Losses in Cuba the Worltl'a
, Product 1b Larger Than a Tear Ago.
This year's raw sugar supply of the world
surpasses that of 1895, despite the enormous
Cuban deficit, according to official statistics
received at the Department of State from
ITaral of flf Pfltflfflhiirff. Thfl
official estimate of the world's raw sugar
product for this year is as follows: Production
of beet sugar, 4,960,000 tons; production
of cane sugar, 2,61)5,000 tons; stook on
hand, 1,150,000 tons; t:otal, 8,765,000 tons.
Last year the corresponding total was 8,290,609
tons. The estimated consumption for
the ensuing year is placed at 7,850,000 tons.
The export from Cuba, the principal producer
or cane sugar, i3 estimated at 400,000
tons, and probably \rill not reaoh that
amount. In the season 1895-6 Cuba furnished
the world's market with 892,796 tons;
in 1S94-5 with 754,402 tons, and in 1893 with
1,160,172 tons. These figures show whaj an
iufluwnce the insurrection in Cuba has on its
sugar industry.
FOUND A FORTUNE.
! A. Lump of Amber^rla Picked Up by Tiro
Fishermen Off' California.
Two mt'D, Abernathy and Glass, went oat
into tho ocean in a boat from the mouth of
the Santa Ynez River, near San Lnis Obispo,
California, to spend a few hours In Ashing.
As fishermen they did not prove a success eo,
nfter dragging their lino In vain, they turned
landward. As ihey approached land they
came upon a large mass of a substanoe
which was unknown to them. They became
possessed of a curiosity to examine the find
and accordingly steered it in and beached
it. Old-timere informel the men that thsy
had found a fortune and pronounced the
strange substance to be ambergris. The
substance is highly valued, the value per
ounce being locally estimated at from $15
to 822. The "lumD" found by Abernathy
and Glass weighs just 150 pounds and, firured
from a valuation of $15 per ounce, nverdupois
weight, would be worth $36,00..
LITTLE GRAINS OF CORN.
A Philadelphia 3Ian Made a Bet Which
He is Unable to Pay.
An election bet was made in the Twentysecond
division of the Twenty-third Ward,
Philadelphia, on the Ashbridge-Crow contest.
The loser of the bet was to pay the
other one grain of corn if the winning candidate
had a majority of cne vote in the division;
two grains if two majority, four grains
if three majority, eight grains if four majority,
and so on, doubling the amount with
>very vote in tho majority. Crow had a majority
of sixty-four votes in tho division. The
day after the election the Crow man put in a
bill for the bet, and ihe Ashbridge man was
staggered to find that he owed the Crow
man 1.942,770,735,058,379,008 grains of corn,
more corn no doubt than there is in the
whole State. The Ashbridge man, filled with
alarm, is trying to figure how much money
he will have to pay for tho corn.
Brintier Republican County.
Pennsylvania claims tho banner Republican
county of the United States. It is
Philadelphia County, which gave McKinley
112,999 majority.
' .
. The idea of oopper-toed shoos wu
Patented January 5, 1858~ by a Maine
gonius, who made $100,000 out of it.
Another similar invention which made
a great deal of money was the metal
fastener for shoes, invented and introduced
by Heaton, of Providenoe,
R L At the time it was considered a
fine invention, for the old sewed button
wan nnntinnallv p.nminir nflP It ha?
gradually grown in popularity since
its introduction in 1869, until now
very few shoes with buttons on are
manufactured without the Heaton im~
provements and appliances.
A Student's Joke.
J. E. Dodson is an Englishman.
"When I was at school at Harrow, "he
said to a reporter, "Campanini, then
in the height of hie fame as a tenor,
Bang for the first time in the city in
Italian opera. If I mistake not, it was
"Trovatore." At the end of Campanini's
great aria in the third aot there
mis a storm of applause. All the front
seats in the balcony were occupied by
Btndents, and it was noticed that an
almost invisible wire was strung from
the middle point in the gallery horse
bLoc to the top of the prompter's box
fit Iho of thft What
' oaused most people to notice the wire
was the sudden appearance on it of a
floral car of huge dimensions, over
which hovered on spirals several
stnfied doves. This car rode gradually
down along the wire until it was in
full view of everybody. Campanini's
face was weathed in smiles. He bowed
now with his right, and again with his
left hand on his ohest. As the car ap*
proached the prompter's box the sing*
er moved forward to remove it from
the trolley. Then was the keen zest
of the ocoaaion. Not only was there
one wire, there were two. The second
vas attached to the oar and also to the
tand of a particularly stalwart under
graduate. With marvelous rapidity
ihe car shot back to the balcony. The
imiles, I may add, did not tarry on
Dampanini's face. "?Boston Transiript.
GRANT AND WASHINGTON.
two Wonderful Serials Which "Xhe Century
Magazine" Has Secured for 1897.
One of the best friends that General Grant
jver had was Horace Porter. Their first
meeting was at Chattanooga In the auhimn
pf 1863,and soon after General (then Captain)
Porter became a member of Grant's stall and
lerved with him constantly until Lee's surrender.
When Grant became President
Horace Porter was made his private secretary,
and until General Grant breathed his
last at Mt McGregor the two men were close
friends. Nor did General Porter's love for
bis chief cease with death, for to him Is dne
the success of the movement to raise the
half million of dollars whioh the Grant
monument in Eiverside Park will cost. The
inauguration of the tomb will take place
nest spring, on General Grant's birthday,
and General Porter will be the orator of the
oce&sioo.
During these years of intimacy with Grant
General Porter kept a diary ana in nis moments
of leisure he has arranged bis unique
stores of anecdote and memoranda into s
series of twelve articles entitled, "Campaigning
with Grant," and The Century Magazine
has seoared all rights in the series and will
print it during the Coming year. Sinae the
iamous "Century War Series," for which
General Grant himself wrote four articles
(the beginning of his "Memoirs"), no maga-'"A
a +?*aut fA lav KofAI>A {ffl
2j1UC UOD uau OUVU u iiuuk iv ??w
readers.
Another great serial In The Century Is a
novel of the American Bevolution, written by
the well-known Philadelphia physiolan, Dr.
8. Weir Mitchell, whose literary reputation is
aa high as bis standing in his own profession.
The story is supposed to be the autobiography
of the hero, "Hugh Wynne, Frco
Quaker," who becomes an officer on. General
Washington's staff. Social life in the capital,
Philadelphia, is most interestingly deIpicted,
and the characters in the story include
Washington. Franklin and Laftyette.
[The readers of "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,"
will obtain a clearer idea of the Revolutionary
War than can be had from any other
single source. It is believed that Dr.
;Mitchell has written "the great American
; novel" for which we have been waiting so
many veara.
Thes9 are only two of the features of The
Century for the coming year?the magazine
that leads the world of periodical literature.
Verv few of our renders will be without it in
1S97. It costs $100 a year?not too nigh a
; price for what The Century Rives; but many
poople are arranging to club together in
groups of four, paying one dollar each, and
securing the reading of the magazine ono
I week in the month. The publishers advise
: the making up of clubs early. Send $4.00 to
The Century Co., Union Square, New York,
with the name of the person to whom the
magiizine is to be sent. If you begin your'
subscription with the December (Christmas)
number, the publishers will send you a copy
: of the November number free, in which the
two great serials here described begin*
An Important Difference.
To make it apparent to thousands who think
themselves ill, that they are not afflicted with
any disease, but that the system simply needs
cleansing, is to bring comfort home to their
hearts, as a co3tive condition is easily cure!
by using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by the
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i Jcst try a lOo. box of Caecarets, the finest
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Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
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St, Buffalo, N. Y., May 9,1894.
1 f afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's
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Cajicahets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels.
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M. Averoff, the Alexandria merchant,
who gave a million drachmae,
$200,000, to have the Stadion at
Athens pnt into condition to be nsed
for the Olympian games last spring,
has now given 3,000,000 more to have
it completely restored in Fentelio
marble.
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