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DR. TALMAGE AT HOME
His First Sermon Since Returning
From Enrope.
The Many SitleJness of the Bible?
Wonderful Ancient Learning and
Sublime Poetry, but More Thau
All the Power of God Unto Salvation.
Brooklyn, Sept. ?Dr. Talmage
was greeted with a most generous I
and-effusive welcome today by a vast I
congregation, which assembled to
hear him preach his first sermon
after his return from his European
preachiDg tour. He announced that
!? ? ? Cun^oT- n-r ftwi lie vvnnl(1 rrivft a
; 1U (A UUXiUUJ VX wnv MV II V?^v ? ?
sermon concerning his stewardship
in delivering in Russia, in behalf of
the Christian Herald, the $35,000
worth of flour for the starving. The
subject today was "All in All." Text
Colossians iii, 11: "Christ is all and
in all."
Keturned after the most eventful
summer of my life, I must shortly
and as soon as I recover from the
sea voyage, give you an account of
our mission of bread to famine struck
Russia and of my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland
and Ireland. But my first sermon
on reaching here must be a hosanna
of gratitude to Christ, and from the
tPYf T harp chosen I have found that
the greatest E;ime in the ocean shipping
and from Liverpool to Moscow,
and from Moscow London and Edinburgh
and Dublin, is Jesus.
ALWAYS A MAN FOR AX EMERGENCY.
Every age of the world has hadits
historians, its philosophers,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were
there histories to be written there
has always been a Moses, or a Herodotus,
or a Xenophon, or a Josephus
to write them. Were there poems to
be constructed there has always beeji
a Job or a Homer to construct tbem.
Were there thrones lustrous and
powerful to be lifted there has always
been a David or a Ccesar to raise them.
Were there teachers demanded for
ti^mtellect and the hearts there has ;
'a Marcus^fSjnmus''
forth on the grand ana glorious
mission. Every age of the world
has had its triumphs of reason and
morality. There has not been a single
age of the world which has not
had some decided system of religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism.
Brahminism and Buddhism,
considering the ages in which they
were established, were not lacking in
ingenuity and force. Now, in this
Hne of beneficent institutions and of
noble men there appeared a personage
more wonderful than any predecessor.
He came from a family without
any royal or aristocratic pretension.
He became a Galilean ine
chanic. He had no advantage from
the schools. There were people beside
him day after day who had no
idea that he was going to be any*V?innr
r art V! e nr rln anvthirio' re
""' "o ? ?j O - markable.
Yet notwithstanding all
this, ami without any title or schoarly
profession or flaming rhetoric, he
startled the world with the strangest
nnouncements, ran in collision with
jlenm priest and proud ruler, and
with a voice that ran through temple
and palace, and over ship's deck and
mountain top exclaimed. "I am the
light of the world!"
Men were taken all aback at the
idea that that hand, yet hard from
the use of the ax, the saw, the adz
and hatchf t, should wave the scepter
of authority, and that upon that brow,
from which they had so often seen
him wipe the sweat of toil, there
would yet come the crown of unpar I
alleled splendor and of universal J
w o m.11 tnnw hr?w difficult, I
it is to think that anybody who was j
! at school with us in boyhood has got ]
to be anything great or famous, and
no wonder that those who had been
bovs with Christ in the streets of
| Nazaieth and seen him in after years
; in the days of his complete obscurity
j should have been very slow to acj
knowledge Christ's wonderful mis|
sion.
From this humble point the stream
I of life flowed out. At first it was
I just a faint nil, hardly able to find
its way down the rock, but the tears
of a weeping Christ added to its volume,
and it flowed on until by the
beauty and greenness of the banks
you might know the path the crystal
I stream was taking. On and on, un
til the lepers, were brought clown and
washed of their leprosy, and the
dead were lifted into the water that
| they might have life, and pearls of
| joy and promise gathered from the i
j brink, and innumerable churches
| gathered on either bank, and the tide
Sows on deeper and stronger and
wider, until it rolls into the river
from under the throne of God, mingling
billow with billow, and bright
! liess with brightness, and joy with
! joy, and hosanna with hosanna.
HE IS ALL IN ALL.
I was looking at some of the paintings
of the artist, Mr. Kensett. I
saw some pictures that were just
faint outlines: in some place you
would see only the branches of a tree
and no trunk; and in another case
trunk and no branches. He had not
finished the work. It would have
taken him days and months perhaps
to have completed it. Well, my
friends, in this world we get only the
faintest outline of what Christ is. It
| will take all eternity to fill up the
' picture?so loving, so kind, so merciful,
so great! Paul docs not in this
nliontar eor of flhriat. IS frond. Of
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he is loving, or he is patient, or he is
kind; but iu his exclamation of the
text he embraces everything when
he says, "Christ is all and in all."
I remark in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. I do not care
where I open the Bible?I find Jesus.
Iu whatever path I start I come
after awhile to the Bethlehem manger.
I go back to the old dispensation
and see a iamb on the altar and say,
"Behold the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sin of the world!"
Then I go and see the manna provided
for the Israelites in the wilderness,
and say, "Jesus, the bread of life."
Then I look at the rock which was
smitten by the prophet's rotl, and as
the water gushes out I say, "It is
Jesus, the fountain opened for sin
and for uncleanness."'
I go back and look at the writings
of Job, and hear him exclaim, "I
know that my Redeemer liveth.''
Then I go to Ezekiel, and I find
Christ, presented there as "a nlant of
renown," and then I turn over to
Isaiah, and Christ is spoken of tkas a
sheep before her shearers.'' It is
Jesus all the way between Genesis
and Malachi. Then I turn over to
the New Testament, and it is Christ
in the parable; it is Christ in the miracle;
it is Christ in the evangelist's
story; it is Christ in the apostle's
epistles, and it is Christ in the trumpet
peal of the Apocalypse. I know
there- are a great many people whq
do Act. find Ckrisi in tHfeible. t
b^re is a mCiT
Bible as a historian. Well, if you
come as a historian, you will find in
this book how the world was made;
how the seas fled to their places; how
empires were established; how nation
fought with nation, javelin ringing
against harbegeon, until the earth
was ghastly with the dead. You will
see the coronation of princes, the
triumph of conquerors, and the world
turned upside down and back again
and down again, cleft and scarred with
great agonies of earthquake and
tempest and battle. It is a wonderful
history, putting to the blush all others
in the accuracy of its recital and in
the stupendous events it records.
Homer and Thucydides and Gibbon
could make great stories out of little
events, but it took a Moses to tell
bow the heavens and the earth were
made in one chapter, and to give the
history of thousands of years upon
two leaves.
TIIE ANTIGUARIAN BIBLE STUDENT.
There are others who come to the
Bible nerely as antiquarians. If you
come as an antiquarian, you will find
a great many odd things in the Bible
?peculiarities of manner and custom,
marriage and burial; peculiarities of
dress, tunics, sandals; crisping pins,
amulets and girdles and tinkling
ornaments. If you come to look at
military arrangements, you will find
coats of mail and javelins and engiues
of war and circumvellation and encampments.
If you look for peculiar
musical instruments, you will find
psalteries and shigionoths and rams'
horns, The antiquarian will find in
the Bible curiosities in agriculture,
and itf commerce, and in art, and in
religion that will keep him absorbed
a great while. There are those who
come to this Bible as you would to a
cabinet of curiosities, and you pick
up this and say. "What a strange
sword that is!" and "What a peculiar
hat this is!" and "What an unlooked
for lamp that is!" and the Bible to
such becomes a British museum.
Then there are others who find
nothing in the Bible but the poetry.
Well, if you come as a poet, you will
find in this book faultless rhythm,
and bold imagery, and startling antithesis,
and rapturous lyric, and
sweet pastoral and instructive narrative,
and devotional psalm; thoughts
expressed in a style more solemn
than that of Montgomery, more bold
than that of Milton, more terrible
than that of Dante, more natural
than that of Wordsworth, more impassioned
than that of Pollock, more
A 1 41
LCTJL1UC1 man mat ui ujwiv
weird than that of Spenser. This
great poem brings all the gems of
the earth into its coronet, and it
weaves the flames of judgment in its
l garland and pours eternal harmonies fin<
in its rhymth. clix
Everything this book touches it sta
makes beautiful from the plain stones pre
of the summer thrashing floor, and mi]
the daughters of Nahor filling the eve
trough for the camels, and the fish 0f
pools of Heslibon, up to the psalmist Y0[
praising God with diapason of storm woand
whirlwind, and Job leading forth tw<
Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades. ^
It is a wonderful poem, and a great wa
many people read it as they do aD(;
Thomas Moore's "Lalla Rookh," and
Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake,'' the
and Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Con
Brigade." They sit down and are the
so absorbed in looking at the shells atti
on the shore that they forget to look the
off on the great ocean of God's the
mercy and salvation. Fo]
BLIND UNBELIEF IS 8UBE TO ERR. "Op
Then there are others who oome aiu
to this book as sceptics. They mar- C0E
, . M A '
shal passage against passage, and try
to get Matthew and Luke into a quarrel,
and would have a decrepancy be- ]
tween what Paul and James say thi
about faith and works, and they try tioj
the account of Moses concerning the live
creation by modern decisions in thi
science, and resolve that in all ques- tioi
tions between the scientific explorer hui
and the inspired writer, they will give of
preference to the geologist. These Ch:
- men?these spiders, I will say?suck ing
poison out of the sweetest flowers, son
They fatten their infidelity upon the tro
truths which have led thousands to "It
heaven, and in their distorted vision dai
prophet seems to war with prophet, brij
and evangelist with evangelist, and sic]
anostle with aDostle, and if they can We
T 1 ' ?
find some bad trait of character in a &nc
man of God mentioned in that Bible cri<
these carrior crows caw and flap their life
wings oyer the carcass. Because they he
cannot understand how the whale" wai
swallowed Jonah they attempt the by
more wonderful feat of swallowing thr
the monster whale of modern skepti- wa:
cism. They do not believe it possi the
ble that the Bible story should be be
true which says that the*dumb ass dei
spake, while they themselves prove the
the thing possible by their own ut- w?
terances. . * - *
' 111 &r WeT^Pth^' men i.a^m!^^tout ^
^ a future life. Just ask a man who 2e
rejects that Bible what heaven is, and ?f
hear him befog your soul. He will the
tell you that heaven is merely the de- I
velopment of the internal resources phi
of a man; it is an efflorescence of the mil
? ' X _ _ *A_A - .Al
dynamic rorces into a state 01 etnereaj v>cj
and transcendental lucubration, in fro]
juxtaposition to the ever present gat
"was," and the great "to be," and the the
everlasting "no," Considering them- dov
selves wise, they are fools for time, "A1
fools for eternity. woi
VAIN AND FOOLISH DISPUTES. mC'
Then there is another class of per
sons who come to the Bible as controversialists.
They are enormous
Presbyterians or fierce Baptist or
violent Methodists. They cut the
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Bible to suit their creed instead of
cutting their creed to suit the Bible.- &
If the Scriptures think as they do,
well; if not, so much the worse for re(*
the Scriptures. The Bible is merely
the whetstone on which they sharpen cou
the dissecting inife of controversy. ^er
They come to it as a government in
j.: c ? a- ,flpp
uxxia ux ?tti wuius tu axxxxuxxco ux ai- j
senals for weapons and munitions.
They have declared everlasting war this
against all other sects, and they
want so many broadswords, so many un*
muskets, so many howitzers, so many an(^
columbiads, so much grape and canis- eve
ter, so many field pieces with which to no^
rake the field of dispute, foi^thsy car
mean to get the victory through the
heavens be darkened with the smoke &ch
and the earth rent with the thunder. gr^
What do they, care about the religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ?
I have seen some such meu come ^
back from an ecclesiastical massacre
?e nrnml of f.hpir n.x?hipvpnipnfs ftssrt -nr
Indian wamor boasting of the num- ouj.
ber of scalps be has taken. I have no
more admiration for a man who goes con
forth with his fists to get the championship
than I have for these theo- Up(
logical pugilists who make our theological
magazines ring with their war
cry.' There are men who seem to
think the only use of the sword of
truth is to stick somebody. There is eve
one passage of the Scriptures that gna
the like better than ail others, and
that is this: "Blessed be the Lord
which teacheth my hands to w&r apd
my fingers to fight!"' Woe to us if
we come to God's word as controyer
allC
sialists, or skeptics, or as connois- ror
seurs, or as fault finders, or merely as ^
poets! tb
Those only get into (h? heprt of q
; God's truth who come seeking Christ, a p
Welcome all such! They will lind j^t i
i him coming out from behind the cur- i8 r
tain of prophecy until he stands in oui
the full light of New Testament dis- cha
closure, Jesus, the Son of God, the ant
Saviour of the world. They will in i
i hha in genealogical table and in j
'onological calculation, in poetic j
nza imd in historical narrative, in
>{ouv4, parable and in starling :
raclo. They will seo his foot on ;
sry eea, and his tears ia the drdps
dew on Hermon, and hear his j
ce ip the wind and behold his j
rds all abloom in the valley be- 1
?en Alt. Olivet and Jerusalem.
["here are some men who come and
lk abound the Temple of Truth
1 merely see the outside. There are
ers who walk into the porch and
n go away. There are others who
ae in and look at the pictures, but
y know nothing about the chief j
racjtions of the Bible. It is only j
' man who comes and knocks at j
i gate, saying, "I would see Jesus." j
r him the trlories of that book !
m, and he goes in and finds Christ,
I with him peace, pardon, life,
nfort and heaven.
II in all is Jesus" in the Bible.
HIS ALL SUFFICIENCY.
* remark again that Christ is every,
nginthe great plan of redempa.
We are slaves; Christ gives deirance
to the captive. We are
rsty; Christ is the river of salvai
to slake our thirst. We are
agryp Jesus says, "I am the bread
life.; W e are condemned to die; |
rist says, "Save that man from godovfn
to the pit; I am the rana."
, We are tossed on a sea of
ubles; 'Joaus comes over it, saying,
is I be not afraid." We are in
kness; Jesus says, "I am the
ght and morning star." Wc are
k; Jesus is the balm of Gilead.
> are,dead; hear the shrouds rend
1 the grave hillocks heave as he
ss, "I am the resurrection and the
; hfcihat believeth in me, though
wer8 dead, yet shall he live." We
cit justification; "Being justified
faith, we have peace with God
ough our Lord Jesus Christ." We
at- to exercise faith; "Believe in
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt
saved." I want to get from un
condemnation; "There is now,
refore, no condemnation to them
^.are in Christ Jesus." The cross
** carried it. The flames of hell?
Rafted then. The ^?^^e?he 1
[ui^R ivi - -T i ,?*?
ighp of heaven sing it, and worlds
lig&fc to worlds of light all round
heavens cry, "Glory, glory."
jet us go forth and gather the troes
for Jesus. From Goleonda
- xt a. .1:
ies we gamer me ujuluuuu.i, num
don banks we gather the pearls,
u all lands and kindoms we
her precious stones, and we bring
glittering burdens and put thein
vn at tho feet of Jesus and soy:
1 these are thine. Thou art
thy." We go forth again for
re trophies, and into one sheaf we
her all the scepters of the earth,
all royalties and dominions, and
n we bring the sheaf of scepters
I put it down'at the feet of Jesus
t say, "Thou art King of kings,
[ these thou hast conquered."
ijid then we go forth again to
her more trophies, and we bid the
eemed of all ages, the sons and
/-?V.fn-r-a /vf TA 1 mi<rV>ff trt
l^UV^XO V/i tuv * vy
le.^We ask them to come and oftkeir
thanksgivings, and the hosts
heaven bring crown and palm and
pter, and here by these bleeding
k, and by this riven side, and by
j wounded heart cry, "Blessing,
[ honor and glory and power be
0 him that sitteth upon the throne
1 unto the Lamb forever and forr!"
Tell me of a tear that he did
weep, of a burden he did not
ry, of a battle that he did not.
it, of a victory that he did not
ieve. "All in all is Jesus" in the
at plan of redemption.
A VERY PRESENT HELP.
remark again, Christ is every,
ig to the Christian in time of
uble. Who has escaped trouble?
i must all stoop down and drink
of- the bitter lake. The moss has
time to grow on the buckets that
le up out of the heart's well,
pping with tears. Great trials are
m our track as certain as greymd
pack on the scent of deer.
)m'our hearts in every direction
re are a thousand chords reaching
bikding us to loved ones, and
r apd anon some of these tendrils
,p. i The winds that cross this sea
life are not all abaft. The clouds
,t cross our sky are not feathery
1 afar, straying like flocks of sheep
heavenly pastures, but wrathful
1 somber, and gleaming with ter,
they wrap the mountains in fire
1 come down baying with their
Lpcfors through every gorge,
[he richest fruits of blessiug have.
richly shell. Life here is not lying
^nchor; it is weathering a gale. It
lot sleeping in a soldier tent with
arms stacked; it is a bayonet
irgk. We stumble over gravestones,
i we drive on with our-wheel deep
the old rut of graves. Trouble
I
1
I
has wrinkled your brow, and it Las
frosted your head. Falling in this
battle of life, is their no angel to
bind our wounds? Has God made j
this world with so many things to |
hurt and none to heal? For this
snakebite of sorrow, is there no herb
growing bv all the brooks to heal the
poison? Blessed be God that in the
Gospel we find the antidote! Christ
has bottle an ocean of tears. How
many thorns he hath plucked out of
human agony!
Oh, he knows too well what it is to
carry a cross, not to help us carry
ours! He knows too well what it is
to climb the mountain, not to help
us up the the steep. He knows too
well what it is to be persecuted, not
to help those who are imposed upon.
He knows too well what it is to be
sick, not to help those who suffer.
Aye, he knows too well what it is to
rlio nnf lipln 118 in O'.ir last 6X
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treraity. Blessed Jesus thou knowest
it all. Seeing thy wounded side,
and thy wounded hand, and thy
wounded feet, and thy wounded brow,
we are sure thou knowest it all.
Oh, when those into whose bosom
we used to breathe our sorrows are
snatched from us, blessed be God,
the heart of Jesus still beats, and
when all other lights go out and the
world gets dark, then we see coming
out from behiud a cloud something so
bright and cheering, we know it to be
the morning star of the souls deliverance!
The hand of care may make
yon stagger, or the hand of persecution
may beat you down, or the hand
of disappointment may beat you
back; but there is a hand, and it is so
kind, and it so gentle that it wipeth
all tears from all faces.
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fttm
burcll, a dentist at PateB^WiWE||
ten by a twelve year-old girl wj^
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given him an experience which has
made him a mere shadow Of his former
self and almost resulted in his
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The bite was on the end of the
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that it just brought the blood. He
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extracted the tooth. Then, realizing
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On the fifth day after the bite was
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The inflammation extended to the
other fingers on the right hand, then
the wrist, the shoulder and neck, and
finally to one of his, ears his nose
and his throat. For seven days he ate
nothing and was in great agony. He
had given up hope of ever recovering
when the swelling began to abate,
and it is believed now that all danger
is over. He is able to attend his office
but is a very weak condition.'
Savannah, Ga., April 26, 1889
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Office of J. N. McElboy, Druggist. )
Orlando, Fla., April 20, 1891 j*
Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah Ga.
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liov onroiri onil slip lifts Tinf. llfld ft I
symptom since.
I sold a bottle of P. P. P. to a
friend of mine, one of his turkeys, a
small one took sick, and his wife
gave it a teaspoonful, that was in
the evening, and the little fellow
turned over like he was dead, but
next morning was up hollowing an$
well. Yours respectfully,
J. N. McELROY.
Savannah, Ga., March 17, 1891.
Dear Sirs?I have suffered from
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rueumausni 101 a long nine, uuu uiu
not iincl a cure until I found P. P.
which completely cured me.
Yours truly,
ELIZA F. JONES,
1G Orange St., Savannah, Ga.
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A $10,000,000 Mansion.
The Yanderbilt Palace in North Carolina.
Chattanooga T.iuos.
Two miles out from Asheville, N.
C., is a little station, Biltmore. It is
the headquarters of a water tank.and
the gate of Kenilworth Inn. It is
something more. The Salisbury and
Spartanburg divisions of the Western
North Carolina Railroad come
together here, while a little branch
road deflects to the right and is lost
among the hills. If you happen to
see one cf the little cars on this road
you will notice the letters "G. W. N.
V. C." on it. Tht- car is loaded with
stone or coal, may be iron, and you
uiav be sure it is bound for Vander
bilt's famous building two miles
away. "Biltmore is called for Vanderbilt
aud a resident of tbe name of
Moore, who has a prettey cottage 011
the road, just above the station. It
is a smooth combination, and likely
to become famous.
Following the branch road, which
runs up and down hill with equal facility,
and winds around the mountains,
you reach, in the course of half
an hour, the summit of the Long
Pine. This is the busiest spot in
North Carolina. You pass Yauderbilt's
stone quarry, where much of
the material for rougher work has
been secured: you view his brick yards
where'millions of tubes are pressing
and baking; you stop at his blacksmith
shop, where the tools arc
mended and snne castings made,
you ride near the shady home which
he has purchased for his chief engineer,
always following up his rails and
telegraph lines, which lead to the
spot where lies the site of the house
Vanderbilt.
Several vears a?o Vanderbilt wan
y o
dered down to Buncombe county, X.
C., and was attracted by the beauty
of the place. He rode over the
mountains, and while at the summit
of Long Pine, two nilles from Asheville,
concluded he would buy a tract
and put up a shooting lodge. This
led to the^pnrehase of a large lot
gjri^^Fp and down the mountain
|g&BQg the French Broad, with
venting settlers from
obsfrtrcm!g the view or coming too
close. Visions of deer parks, quail
covers, sheep farms, and" other
schemes enlarged his demesne until
his acres began to be numbered by .
thousands. White and black settlers
surrendered their lodgings at good
prices, and now there are only two
or three black dwellers within the
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to sell out, and hold their places at
$1,000 per acre, Vanderbilt may
buy them out or he may freeze them
out.
When Vanderbilt had finished, his
purchase of 5,000 acres his ideas
broadened. Instead of a shooting
lodge he decided to put up a residence,
and such a residence as would
make Chauncey Depew's eyes glisten
at Peekskill. So he set about him
and leveled off the cone of the mountain
thirty feet. Some time over a
year ago he began to lay his foundations,
and his stone masonry now begins
to rise sheer over the side of
the mountain, like a walled precipice.
This is just what Vanderbilt wanted,
for he determined that his castle
would have the view and command
the heights unobstructed. He concluded
to spend from his income
ftKnnf SI ftftfTflftO a vear for ten vears. I
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and he is pretty well assured, at the
end of that time, of having the finest
private residence in America, possibly
in the world. The architects are
very clever, but will not show the designs
of the house. Perhaps they
fear somebody will duplicate them
before the dwelling is completed.
The building will be 400 feet long
and 300 feet wide. It has a tennis
court in the left which is a marvel of <
masonry and filling, and which alone <
cost $10,000: The banquet hall of !
the mansion is to be 70 feet long, i
and will have a pitch of 30 feet. Un j
der the main entrance of the hall will j
be a swimming pool, while a fine
gymnasium, wine cellar, and art gal-.
lery are to be connected with the es
tablishment.
Three miles back of the dwelling
is a cold spring on the top of Busby 1
Mountain. He has purchased this
spring and carries the water in six
iron pipes all the way to the Long
Pine. This will give him volume
and pressure enough for every part
of his premises, enable him to throw !
a stream 100 feet high from any
point on his place. It will insure a <
dozen or move fountains in his parks <
and drives; 500 hands are at work on '
the grounds and buildings. Superb
carriage ways arc graded and macadamized
up the mountain, commanding
an approach to house, and these
will be continued beyond the residence
and down the yalley to the I
French Broad, where Vanderbilt will
throw an iron bridge over this picturesque
stream.
Mr. Yanderbilt is thirty eight and
unmarried. He has selected ^
spot for his home! diisJidCTgarden
steps light off into space and secures
a view ior miles of rich valleys and
liigli-walled mountains in the distance.
Pisgah and the trains of hills
seem to grow opaline in the sunset
and to be transparent. At the base
is the French Broad, and two miles
away are the spires and smoke of
Asheville. To the right are the red
gables of Keniiworth Inn., while directly
in front, a mile or more away,
are chimmeys of Oakland Sanitarium
and Connelly residence. There is
nothing in Virginia, nothing in England,
I am told, nolhiugf finer than
this view in western North Carolina.
This palace of marble and iron is
built for all time, and tho picture
will be kept perfect, so far as nature
and art can make is so.
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A Deferred Kiss.
Betuit Free Tress.
Any4*edy-that knoWBrdosiah Smith,
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duju w 'Uiu ouaiau oumu, una ^ vuson
of old John Smith, and otherwise
related to the Smith family,
can5B(^^Ip>wlio looks upon all
sides of a Question before committing
himself to an opinion.
When Mr. Smith courted his wife
it took him several years to make up
his mind before he asked the important
question. Everybody around the
house waited and wondered why
he didn't pop and if he ever would,
but Josiah kept on the even tenor of
his way, getting well acquainted with
Mary and the family before taking
the decisive step.
There was a parrot in the house, a
wicked, evil minded bird, who hated
Mr. Smith on principle, and never
said a word in his presence, or at
least never did until?but thereby
hangs this tale.
Josiah had reached the point in his
courtship where he thought it advisable
to take a kiss?not a hurried
smack of affection or an all devouring
osculatory effect, but the prim,
proper moderate kind of a kiss that
goes with a declaration of love, like
grace before meat. Taking Mary's
hand he asked her to stand up, as the
occasion was a solemn one.
"JVe will now indulge in our first
kiss,v he said in a formal but convicing
tone.
"Not much!" croaked a voice that
seemed to come from the air above
their heads.
"Mary," said Josiah solemnly, "if
you can indulge in such unseemly
levity at such a moment we /ire
suited to one another."
Poor Mary was struggling with
tears of disappointment, but before
she could explain matters to her an- . -?
gry suitor he had taken his hat and
left the house. *
However the spinster aunt who
owned the parrot saw him the next
dftv find eTttlained matters, find Pnllv
had her ears boxed and was shut up,
so that the next time Josiah undertook
to kiss Mary no ghostly voice
prohibited the rite.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, "Wis.
was troubled with Neuralgia and
Rheumatism Lis Stomach was disorered,
his Liver was affected to an
alarming degree, appetite fell away
and terribly reduced in flesh and
strength. Three bottles of Electric
Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg 111.,
had a running sore on his leg of eight
years' standing. Used three bottles
of Electric Bitters and seven boxes
of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and bis
Iocs were sound and well. John
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Speaker, Catawba, 0., bad five large
Fever sores on bis leg, doctors said be
was incurable. One bottle of Elec
trie Bitters and one box Bucklen's
Amic Salve cured birn entirely.
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