The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, November 13, 1890, Image 4
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The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "The Holy I.antl In Winter."
Te~t: ".4 crtahi nmn went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho-.'1'? Lukox., 1H
It is the morning of December 5 in Jerusalem,
anil wo take stirruns for tho road
along which the wayfarer ol old fell among
thieves, who left Iiim wounded and half
dead. Job's picture of tiio horso in the
orient as having neck "clothed with thunder-'
is u??t true of most horses now in Palestine.
There is no thunder on their necks,
though there is some lightning in th*ir
heels. Poorly fed end unmercifully
v. hackc 1. they sometimes retort. To Amen
(Mi's an.; Engii-h, who nro accustomed to
puide horses bv the 1 >ri'lie. these horses of
the orient, guided only l?y foot mi l voice,
make equoiriunism :m uncertainty, and the
mill on thebr.dle that you intend lor slowing
up of the price may be mistaken for a
bint that von want to outgallop the wind or
wheel in swift circles like the liawk. But
they can climb steps ami descend precipices
wit 11 skilled foot, ami theonel ehooso for our
journey in Palestine shall have the pra se of
<4oui:~ tor weeks without one stumbling step
~Aiiij rocky steeps where au ordinary
k i** oaut T-Ugior an hour maiut iiu sure1<
ote.laess eighteen of our
party, and twenty-twu burden carl
ied our camp equipment. *vc ?c? an
Arab slieik, with his black Nubian scream,
carrying a loaded gun in full sight, but it is
the tact that this sheik represents the Turkish
Government which assures the safety of
the caravan.
We cross the Jehoshaphat Valley, which,
if it had not Iteeu memorable in history ami
were only now discovered, would excite the
a Imiratioii of all who look upon it. It is
like the gorges of the Yosemitcor the chasms
of the Yellowstone Park. The sides of this
Jehoshaphat Valley are tunneled with graves
and overlooked by Jerusalem walls?an eternity
of depths overshadowed by an eternity
of architecture. Within sight of Moutit
Oiivet and Gethseniaue ami with the heavens
and the earth lull of sunshine, we sUrt out
on the very road mentioned in the text when
it says: "A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among
thieves."' No roal that I ever saw was so
well constructed for brigandage?deep
pulleys, sharp turns, caves on either side.
There are fifty places on this road where a
highwayman might surprise and overpower
an unarmed pilgrim. His cry for help, his
shriek of pain, his death groan would he answered
only by t he echoes. On this road today
we met groups of men, who, judging
from their countenances, have in their veins
1 he blood of many generations of Rob Itoys.
Josephus says that Herod at one time discharged
from the service of the temple forty
thousand int n, and that the great part of
them became robbers. So late as 1$20 Sir
Frederick Heuniker, an English tourist, was
attacked on this very road from Jerusalem
to Jericho and shot and almost slain. There
bos never been any scarcity of bandits along
the road we travel today.
IVith the fresh memory of some recent
'iolence in tbeir minds Christ tells the
people of the good Samaritan who came alor g
that way and took care of a poor fellow that
had been set upon by villainous Arabs ar d
robbed an I pounded and cut. Wc encamped
for lunch that noon close by an old stone
building, said to be the tavern where the
iceno sjioken of in the Biblo culminated.
Tumbled in the dust and ghastly with
wounds the victim of this highway robbery
lay in.tho middle of the road?a fact of
which I am certain, because the Bible says
the people passed by on either side. There
were priests living at uencno, uu i
tbcy had to go to Jerusalem to officiate at
the temple. And ono of theso ministers of
religion, I suppose, *vas on his way
to the temple service, and ho is
startled as he sees this bleeding victim in the
middle of the road. ''Oh/' he says, "hero is
a man that has been attacked of thieves.
Why don't you go home?"' says the minister.
The man, in a comatose state, makes no answer,
or, with a half dazed look, puts his
wounded hand to his gashed forehead, and
drawls out, "What?" "Well," says the minister,
"I must hurry on to my duties at Jerusalem.
I have to kill a lainb and two pigeons
in sacrifice to-day. 1 cannot spend any mere
time with this unfortunate. I guess somebody
else will take care of him. But this is
one of the things that cannot be helped, anyhow.
Beside that, my business is with souls
and not with bodies. Good morning! \Vhen
you get well enough to sit up I will be glad
to see you at the temple."
And" the minister curves his way out
toward the overhanging sides of the
road and passes. You hypocrite! One of
tho chief officers of religion isto heal wounds.
You might have douo nero a kindness that
would have been more acceptable to God
than all the incense that will smoke up from
you ceuser for the next three weeks, and you
missed the chance. Go on your way?execrated
by the centuries.
Soon afterward a Levite came npon the
6cene. The Levitcs looked after the music
of the temple and waited upon tho priests
and provided the supplies of the temple.
Th s Levite, passing along this road where
wo are to-day, took a look at the ma-s of
bruises and laceration in the middle of the
road, '\My! my!" says the Levite, "this
man is nwfullv hurt and he ought to be
helped. But my business is to sing in the
choir at the temple. If I am not there no
one will carry my part. Besides that there
may not bewnough frankincense for the centers
and the wine or oil may hare given out,
and what a fear ul balk in the service that
would make. Then one of the priests might
get his breastplate on crooked. But it seems
too bad to leave this man in this condition.
Perhaps I had better try to stanch this bleeding
and give him a littlostiniulant. But no!
The ceremony at Jerusalem is of more importance
than taking care of the wounds of a
man who will probably soon be dead anyhow.
This highway robbery ought to be
stopped, for it hinders us Levites on our way
up to the temple. There, I have lost five
minutes already! Go along, you beast!" ho
shouts as he strikes his heels into the sides of
the animal carrying him, und the dust rising
from the road soon hides the hard hearted
official.
But a third person is coming nloug tins
read. You cannot expect him to do anything
by wav of alleviation, because he and
the wounded man belong to different nations
which have abominated each other
for centuries. The wounded man is art
Israelite, and the strauger now coming on
the scene of suffering is a Samaritan. They
belong to nations which hate I each other
with an objurgation and malediction diabolic.
They had opposition temples?one oa
Mount Gemini and the other on Mount
Aloriali?and 1 guess this Samaritan, when
lie comes up, will give the 1 alien Israelite
another clip and SHy: "Good for you! I
wbl just finish the work these bandits began,
and give you one more kick that will put
you out of your misery. Aud here is a rag
ol your coat that they did not steal, and I
will take that. What! Do you dare to appeal
to me for mercy? Hush up! Why, your
anrroors worsnxpeti uu uvruMii'iu vwi-they
ought to have worshiped at
KoW. take that! and that' :!' will
say the Samaritan as " *' Pouuds tll? r{dlen
^No-'lt- ~e,nar'ta:i rides up to the scene of
?T..'?njr, gets otf his beast and steps down
and looks into the face of the wounded man
and says: "This poor fellow does not belong
to my nation, and our ancestors worshiped
in different places, but he is a mat), and tuat
makes us brothers. God pity liiin, as I do."
And he get down on his knees and begins to
examine his wounds and straighten out his
limbs to see if any of his bones are broken,
nnd says: "My dear fellow, cheer up; you
need have no mot e care about yourself, for
I am going to take care of you. Let me feel
of your pulse! Let me listen to your breath
ing! I nave in these bottles two liquids
that will help you. The one is oil, and that
will soothe the pain of these wounds, yndtho
other is wine, and your pulse is feeble and
j ou feel faint, and tbat will stimulate you.
."vow i must get you to tne nearest tavern."
"Oh, no," says the man, "I can't walk; let
me stay here and die." "Nonsense!" says
the Samaritan. "You are not going to die.
I am going to put you on this beast, and I
will hold you on till I get you to a place
where you can have a soft mattress and an
er<sv pillow."
Now the Samaritan has got the wounded
man on his feet, and with much tugging and
lifting puts him on the beast, for ir is astonishing
how strong the spirit of kindness will
make one, as you nave seen a raomer arter
three weeks of sleepless watching of her boy,
down with scarlet fever, lift that half grown
hov. heavier than herself, from couch to
lounge. And so this sympathetic Samaritan
has unaided put the wounded man in the
saddle, and at slow pace the extemporized
i
nmbulance is moving: toward the tavern. |
"You feel better now, I tliink," says the Kn- (
niaritan to tho Hebrew. "Yes," he says. "I |
1o feel better." "Halloo, you landlord! help ,
nie carry this man in and make hini com- .
fortahle." That night the Samaritan sat up |
with the Jew, giving him water whenever ,
he felt thirsty and turning his pillow when- ,
ever it got hot, and in the morning before ,
lhe Samaritan started on his journey he (
said, "Landlord, now I am obliged to go. (
Take good care of this man, and I will be i
along here so hi again and pay you for all I
you do for him. Meanwhile here is something
to meet, present expenses." The "two I
pence" lie gaio the landlord sounds small, i
but it was r.s much as ten dollars here an l i
now, considering what it would there and i
then buy of food and lodging.
As on that December noon wo sat under i
Hie shadow of the tavern where this scene of I
mercy nan occurred, and just Having passed I
along the mud wlrro tho tragedy laid hap- i
poned, I could, as plainly as I now see tho i
nearest man t > this platform, see that Biblo |
story re-onacfed, and I said aloud to our i
group, under llio tent: "One drop of prac- I
tical Christianity is worth more than a tcm- i
plcful of ecclosiasticism, and that good Samaritan
had more religion in live minutes
than that minister and that Levite had in a i
lifetime, and the most accursed thing on
earth is natio nal prejudice, and I bless Cod
that I live in America, where Gentile and i
!Jew, Protestant and Catholic can live to- i
getber without quarrel, and where in the
great national crucible tho differences of sect i
1 " 1 ??mnl.lml info n
ana mi)" hum peopic <nu ......w. ?
great brotherhood, and tint tho question
which th<? lawyer flung at Christ, and which
brought forth this incident of the good Samaritan?
'W 10 is my neighbor?' is bringing
forth the answer, 'Jly neighbor is the first
nisu ir. trouble,' and a wound close at
hand calls ~Wijer than a temple seventeen
iniles off. tho igh it. layered nineteen acres."
I saw in London the vast procession which
one day last January moved to St. Paul's
Cathedral at tho burial of tliat JJImstinn
hero Lord Napier. The day after at.TTawarileu,
in conversation on various themes, I
asked Mr. (11 idstoue if lie did not think that
many who were under the shadow of false
religions might not nevertheless be at heart
ready Christian. Mr. Gladstone replied:
"Yes: my ol 1 friend Lord Napier, who was
yesterday buried, after he returned from his
Abyssinian campaign, visited us here at
Hawarden. a id walking in this park where
we are now walking lie told me a very beau|
liful incident. He said: 'After the "war in
Africa was over we were on the inarch, and
we had a soldier with a broken leg
who was not strong enough to go along
with lis, and wo did not dare to leave
liini to be in! en care of by savages, but wo
found we we.v compelled to leave him, and
we went into tho house of a woman who was
said to be a very kind woman, though of the
race of savages, and wo said, "Hero is
a sick man, and if you will take care
of him till he gets well we will pay
j you very largely," and then we offered
her live times mat. wuicn wouia orainarily
bo offered, hoping by the excess of
pay to secure for him great kindness. The
woman replied: "I will not take earo of him
for the money you offer. I do not want your
money. Bui leave him here. au:l I will take
care of him for the sake of the lovo of
(rod.''5" Mr. (fladstone turned to me and
suid. "Dr. Talmnge, don't you think that
though she belonged to a race of savages that
was pure religion?" And I answered, "I do;
I do." May God multiply nil tho world over
the number of good Samaritans!
In Philadelphia a young woman was dying.
She was a wreck. Sunken into the depths
of depravity, there was no lower depth for
I her to reach. Word came to tho midnight
| mission that she was dying in a haunt of
iniquity near by. Who would go to tell her
of the Christ of Mary Magdalen? This one
] refused and that one refuse!, saying, "I
dare not go there." A Christian woman,
licr white loc.;s typical of her purity of soul,
said, "I will go, ami I will go now." Sin
went and sat down by the dying girl and told
of Christ who came to seek aud save that
which was lost. First to tho forlorn one
came tho tears of repentance. anil
then the smile, as though 6he had
begun to ho e for the pardon of Him
who came to save to tho uttermost. Then
just before she breathed her Inst she sni.1 to
j the auge^of mercy bending over her pillow,
1 "Would you kiss me?" "I will," said the
Christian woman, as sho put upon her cheek
j the last salutation before, in the heavenly
1 world, I think, God gave her the welcoming
i kiss. That was religion! Yes, that was reI
ligion. Good Samaritans along every street
j and along every road as well as this one on
, the road to Jericho.
I But our procession of sightseers is again
1 *? li?a btvn tvice t lii-aiirrli n rlonn
| ravine, nn 11 cry to tbedragoman: "David,
; what place do you call this?"' and he re|
plied: "This is the Brook Cherith, where
I Elijah was fed by the ravens." And ill
! that answer he overthrew my life long
I notions of the place where Elijah was waited
on by the black servants of the sky. A
I brook to ino had meant a slight depression
i of pound and a stream fordable, and perhaps
fifteen feet wide. But hero was a chasm
I that an earthquake must have scooped out
; with its biggest shovel or split with its
| mightiest battle ax. Six hundred feet
deep is it. and the brook Cherith it a river
] which, when in full force, is a silver wedge
' splitting the mountains into precipices. The
feathered descendants of Elijah s ravens still
win ?thoir way across this raviue, but are
not like the crows we supposed them to bo.
Thev areas large as eagles, aud one of them
could carry in its beak and clinched claw at
once enougu food for a half dozen Elijahs.
No thanks to the ravens; they are carniverous,
and would rather have picke I out the
eyes of Elijah, whom they found at the
mouth of the cave on tho side of Cherith
waiting for his breakfast, having drunk bis
! morning beverage from the rushing stream
I beneath, than have been his butlers and
j purveyors.
But God compelled them, as He always has
compelled and always will compel black an l
cruel and overshadowing providences to
carry help to His children if they only have
I faith enough to catch the blessing as it drops
j from the seeming adversity, the greatest
blessing always coming not with white wings
i but black wings. Black wings of convic|
tion, bringing pardon to the sinner. Black
wings of crucifixion over Calvary, bringing
j redemption for the world. Black wings of
I American revolution, bringing free institu:
tions to a continent. Black wings of
i American civil war, bringing uuifica(
tlon and solidarity to the ropubiic.
ivinrrg of tliA 111fif*mPllt. da.V
I bringing resurrection to un entombed
human race. Aiul in the last day, when all
' your life and mine will bo summed up, wo
' will find that the greatest blessing we ever
received came on the wings of the black 1
ravens of disaster. Bless God for trouble!
Bless God for sickness! Bless God for perse1
cut ion! Bless God for poverty! You never
I heard of any man or woman of great use to
j tho world who had not had lots of trouble.
! The diamond must be cut; tho wheat must
j be threshed; the black ravens must lly. Who
are these nearest tho throne? "These uro
they who come out of great trihulatiou, and
had their robes washed and made white in
the blood of tbe Lamb."
But look! Look what at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon bursts upon our vision?the plain
rf Jericho, and the valley of Jordan, and the
Dead Sea. We have come to a place where
the horses not so much walk as slide up on
their haunches, and we all dismount, for the
steep descent is simply terrific, though a
Princess of Wallachia who fell here and was
dangerously injured, after recovery spent a
large amount money in tryiug to make the
road passable. Down and down! till we saw
tbe white tents pitched for us by our mulei
teersam (1 the ruins of ancient Jericho, which
leu at trie souna ot poor music piayeu on a
"ram's horn," that ancient instrument
which, taken from the head of the leader of
the flock of sheen, is perforated and prepared
to be fingered by the musical performer,
and blown upon when pressed to the .
lips. As in another sermon I have fully described
tiiat scene, I w 11 only say that, every
day for seven days the ministers of religion
went round the city of Jericho blowing upon
those rams' horns, and on the seventh day,
without the roll of a war chariot, or the
stroke of a catapult, or the swing of a ballista,
eras .! crash! crash! went the walls of
that magnificent capital!
On the evening of December C wo wnlko.1
amid tho brick and mortar of that shat!
tared eily, and I said to myself: All
this done bv poor music bloit of God, for
! it was not a harp, or a flute, or a clapping
j cymbal, or an organ played, nt. tho s mud
I of which tho city surrendered to destruc- ,
j tion, but a rude instrument making rude
I music blest of God, to the demolition of
I that wicked place which, had for centuries
defied the Almighty. And I said, if all
this was by the blessing of God on poor
music, what mightier things could be ?lono ,
by tho blessing of Go 1 on good music, skill
ful music, gospel music. If all tfce good 1
that has already been done by music were 1
subtracted from the world I believo three- 1
fourths of its religion would bo gone. Tho | j
ullabys of mothers which keep sounding 011,
though the lips that sang them forty years
igo became ashes; the old hymns in log cabin
.'hurches and country meeting houses, and
psalms in Rouse's version in Scotch kirks;
the anthem in English cathedrals; the roll of
irgans that will never let Handel or Haj'dn
jr Beethoven die; the thump of harps, the
sweep of the bow across bass viols, the song
l?? Sabbath schools storming the heavens,the
loxology of great assemblages?why, a thousand
Jericbos of sin have by them all been
brought down.
Seated by the warmth of our campfires
that evening of December 6, amid the bricks
and debris of Jericho,and thinking what poor
music has done and what mightier things
011 Id be accomplished by the blessings of
lied on good music, I said to myself: Ministers
have been doing a grand work, and
sermons have been blessed, but would It
not bo well for us to put more emphasis on
music? Oh, lor a campaign of "Old Hundred
!M Oh, for a brigade of Mount Pisgahs!
On. for a cavalry charge ot "Coronations!"
Oil, for an army of Antiochs and
St. Martins and Ariels! Oh, for enough
orchestral batons litte.l to marshal all ua- |
lions! As Jericho was surrounded by poor |
......ci,. r?r sflvi>n davs. and was conquered,
so let our earth be surrounded seven days
by good gospel music, ami the round planet
will be tal on for liod. Not a wall of oppcsition,
not u throne of tyranny, not a palace
of sin, not an enterprise of unrighteousness,
could stand tho mighty throb of such
atmospheric pulsation. iMusic! It sounded
at the laying of creation's corner stone
when the morning stars sang together.
Music! It will ho tho last reverberation,
wheu the archangel's trumpet shall wake
tho dead. Music! Let lis full power ho
now tested to comfort and bless aui arouso
and save.
While our evening meal is being prepared
in tho tents wo walk out for a moment to
the "Fountain of Elishn," the one into which
tho prophet, threw tho salt because the
wtttaiv Avere poisonous and bitter, and lo!
they became mo?t nnd healthy- and ever
siuco with gurgle and laughter, tney nave
rushed down the hill and leaped from tho
rocks, the only cheerful object in all that
region being tbese waters.
Now on this plain of Jericho the sun is setting,
making tho mountains look liko balustrades
and battlements of amber and maroon
and gold; and the moon, just above tho crests,
seems to bo a window of heaven through
which immortals might be loooking down upon
the setae. Three Arabs as watchmen sib
beside the camp firo at the door of
my tent-, their low conversation in
a strange language all night long a
soothing rather than an interruption.
I had a dream that night never to be forgotten,
that dream amid the dompleto ruins
of Jericho. Its past grandeur returned, and
I saw tho city as it was when Mark Antony
gave it to Cleopatra aud Herod bought it
from her. And 1 heard the hoofs of its swift ,
steeds and the rumbling of its chariots and I
the shouts of excited spectators in itsampbi- I
theatre.
And there was white marble amid green
groves of paiin nnd balsam; cold stone
warnied with sculptured foliage; hard pillars
cut into soft laeo; Iliads and Odysseys in
granite; basalt jet as the night mounted by
carbuncle flaming as tho morning; upholstery
dyed as though dippe l in tho blood of battle
fields; robes encrusted wicu uiamoriu; mosaics
white as sea foam flashed on by auroras;
gayeties which the sun saw by day rivaled by
revels the moon saw by night; blashphemy
built against the sky; ceilings stellar as the
midnight heavens; grandeurs turreted,
archivolted and intercolumnar; wickedness |
so appalling that established vocabulary fails,
and wo must make an adjective and call it
Herodic.
The region round about the city walls
seemed to me whito with cotton such as
Thenius describes as once growing there,
and sweet with sugar cane, and luscious with
orange and figs and pomegranates, and redolent
with such flora as can only grow where
a tropica! sun kisses tho earth. And the hour
came back to me when in tho midst of all
that splendor Herod died, commanding his
sister Salome immediately after his death to
secure the assassination of all the chief Jews
wbom he had brought to tho city and shut
up in a circus ror tnat purpose, and tho news
came to the audience in the theatre as some
one took the stage and announced to tho excited
multitude: "Herod is dead! Herod is
dead!"
Then in my dream all the pomp of
Jericho vanished, and gloom was added to
gloom, and desolation to desolation, and woo
to woe, until, perhaps the rippling waters
of tho fouutaiu of Elisha suggesting it?as
souuds will sometimes give direction to a
dream?I thought that the waters of Christ's
salvation and the fountains "open for sin
and uticleanness" were rolling through that
plain and across the coutinent, and rolling
Tound the earth, until on either side of their
banks all the thorns became flowers, and
all the deserts gardens, and all the
hovels mansions, and all the funerals
bridal process on?, and all the blood of
war was turned into dahlias, and all tho
? ^ 3 r*?nr..
groans uecamo anineuv, una .uiiuiuh inferno"
become Dante's "Dtvina Commcdia,"
and "Paradise Lost" was submerged by
"Paradise Regained," and tears became
crystals, cruel swords catne out of foundries
glistening plowshares, and in my dream at
the blast of a trumpet tho prostrated walls
of Jericho roso again.
And some ono told me that as these walls
in Joshua's time at the sounding trumpets
of doom went down, now at tho sounding
trumpet of the gospel they come up
again. And I thought a man appeared at
the door of my tent, and I said, "Who nro
you and from whence have you come?"
and he said, "I am the Samaritan you heard
of at the tavern on the road from Jerusalem
to Jericho, as taking cara of tho man
who fell among thieves, and I have
just come from healing the last wound of tin
last unfortunate in all the earth." And I
rose from my pillow in the tent to greet him,
and my dream broke and I realized it was
only a dream, but a dream which shall hecome
a glorious reality as surely as (rod is
1 rue and Christ's gospel is tho world's Catholicou.
"Glory be to tho Father, and to
the Son, undtotiio Holy Ghost, as it was ut
the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen."
The Birth Rate of France,
The decrease in the birth rate of France,
with itsclTcet on the .future population of
that country, has long been a subject of
debate among its public men. Statistics
h ive shown that this decrease lias been
going on for years. It now turns out that
Engluud and Wales arc in a similar condition.
The returns of the Registrar
G?icral for England and Wales show
that the excess of births over deaths has
been steadily declining for several years.
In isso the c-xeess was 307,221, while,
according to the results of the last two
census years, the increase should have
been 3311,423. The birth rate was also
remarkably low, being 25 per thousand
below the average of the previous decade.
while the marriage rate has not
corresponded to the increased prosperity
of the country. These statistics, with
t!"e large emigration, show, in the opinion
of the New York News, that in time
there will cease to an increa-e in the
population of Great Britain, providing
I lie ratio of decrease in birth continues.
But Bug!and has more population now
than she can well support, and this may
he Nature's way of adjusting herself to
man's requirements.
a coi.ouEu eniropcaist, who calls himself
Professor 10. James, and boastingly
proclaims that lie "lias removed corns
and bunions from the crowned heads of
Kuropc," now ventures into the realms
of prophecy. In the last few weeks lie
has beep reading the language of the
stars, and boldly asserts that the heavenly
bodies unerringly proclaim that this
world is to be knocked into smithereens
on the 21st of August, 1*1)1.
Tiii;ke is in South Hampton, N. II., a
peculiar old genius, who goes to the top
of the Itahl I lead Mountain every clear
night and ga/.es up at the sky until he
51.es a very bright star. He looks at it
awhile and then returns to his home. He
believes th's star to be an electric light
suspended from a balloon over the city
of New York, so that vessels on the sea
[ an steer toward it. In everything but
Ibis the man is perfectly rational and an
iltleileefiL'i! talluir
PECULIAR INFATUATION.
I)iflerent Mrtliorin of Follawinir tlio Injtiaclion
"I.ove One Another."
Do men ever fall in love with each other?
Women do. Not Jong ago n young woman
in New Jersey was married to u youthful laborer
on ber fat her's farm. Sometime afterward
it was discovered that tho husband was
a female; the young wife refused, however,
though earnestly entreated by her friends, to
give tip her chosen consort. The strangest
part ot the discovery was the fact that the
bride knew her husband was a woman before
she was led to the altar.
If men do not exhibit this strange infatuation
for ono of their own sex, they at least
oftentimes give evidence of the tact that they
love ono another. Thero are many instances
on record where one man has given his life
for another. Thereare many more instances
were men have given life to another.
It is a proud possession?the knowledge
that ono has saved a precious human life.
Meriden, Conn., is the home of such a happy
man. John H. Preston, of that city, July
11th, lt>00, writes: "Five years ago I was
taken very sick, 1 had several of the best doctors,
and one and all called it a complication
of diseases. 1 was sick four years, taking
prescriptions prescribed by these tamo doctors,
and I truthfully state I never expected
to get any better. At this time, I commenced
to have the most terrible pains in
my back. One day an old friend of mine,
Mr. K. T. Cook of tho firm of Curtis & Cook,
- vv'nmnr's Safe Cure, as he
(IUV19CU iiio iv v?j .......? - ? ,
had been troubled the saino way and it hud
effected a cure for him. I boughl six bottles,
took tho medicine as directed and am to-day
a xvo'i man. I am sure no one ever had a
worse cose of kidney and liver trouble than I
hud. Before this I was always against proprietary
medicines hut not now, oil, no."
Friendship expresses itself in very peculiar
ways sometimes; but the true friend is the
friend in need.
About Walters.
"Waiting is much harder work than
most people think it is," said a popuhtr
lestaurateur. "Some men never become
proficient at it; they never can;
end hence the market is not overcrowdj
cd with good waiters. Barring tho
tummer hotel season, waiters of a certain
stamp are always to he had, hut
this supply is never such as to prevent
fcn able man from getting a place. It
looms easy, I suppose, to tho pub ic for
ti man to take au order and bring in
Ihe victuals, hue there are many dilli*
culties and requirements incident to
waiting that are overlooked. Thero
are few places in which more crotchets
and foibles are exhibited than in an eating
room, and a waiter has to lcaru
much of human nature and to school
himself accordingly to give satisfaction.
The patron of a restaurant is the great
I am. Ho is the one to please, and if
lie kicks against anybody save the cook,
It is the waiter. A pleasant address, iv
L ?...1
good memory, promptness uuu uviv
[ liess, therefore, are prime renuisitos for
the waiter. Nobody wants, an illnatured
waiter, yet a large ratio of the
guests are more or less inconsiderate in
their demands. In ca*e of a dispute or
dissatisfaction we always have to decide
with the guest, though we may
know that the waiter was iu no wiso to
blaii^e. On complaint of patrons of my
establishment I have actually had at
times to change waiters to other parts
of the room, and ovou lay them oil for
a few days?waiters, too, whom I knew
to be the best in my employ. A little
clumsiness, forgetfuluess or confusion
in distributing the food to the guests,
often brings slightly deserved rebukes,
and woe-betide tho waiter who incurs
the ill-will of the employes behind the
screen, for tho promptness of his service
is sadly impaired and mischief is sure
to follow. Many of tho proprietors'
faults are saddled on their shoulders
and many a malediction is hurled at the
cooks over their heads.
"Tho coveted place most waiters aspire
to is a situation in *a club house.
There the average pay is about $40 a
month. The dress suits are oither furnished
free or paid for by the waiter by
small deductions from his monthly pay.
The people the waiter serves are not a
miscellaneous public, but a select company,
each member of which he soon
knows personally; and when individual
peculiarities, likes and dislikes aro
known he runs less risk of giving offenso *
or dissatisfaction. He is sure, further,
of good fare and good usage. The club
house is the waiter's goal.
Tho Man AVlio Shaves.
I am addressing thou who has lived
long under the benign protcotion of
beard or mustache or flowing whiskers;
if you would have your eyes opened
wide concerning yourself, if you would
Bee voureelf as you fear that others see
you, with all your native meanness
pictured boldly forth upon your speaking
physiognomy, just indulge in a clean
shave f?>r a change and listen to what
the world will say about you. I promise
you a revelation. It will bo a revelation
not only to your friends but to
yourself. I have tried the prescription,
and know what I am talking about. I
never knew before what a kindly curtain
my whiskers were to me. In an
evil moment I put a razor to them. I
could not recognize the product thereof,
nor could those who thought they knew
me. Familiars passed me on the street,
I heard people say:
"Look at that bad actor 1 Looks Jiko
Mr. Hyde, doesn't he V"
"How very nasty a man looks when
ho is clean sha\ en!"
"What a mean mouth that follow
has!"
"What a weak chin! I wouldn't trust
that fellow around the corner."
"Hollo! look at that jail bird. I can
I tell one the moment I lay eyes on him.'
And so the compliments were showered
upon me till I blushed beneath the
honors.
'I'l.nm u-na n h'nm wlinn T nnilld bof
row a V or even an X when I wore
I hirsute appendage, but now when I
J asked for a loan I was eyed with suai
picion of the deepo?t dye, and found the
i bank always closed upon me. My best
! girl shook me and took the other fellow,
i ttho said she thanked Providence for
I opening her eyei in time. My emj
ployer looked at mo askance and had a
j new combination put on the safe. Even
i the geutlernan who passed the plate at
i church looked inquiringly into it when
! I generously put in half a dollar.
Worse still, I got to studying the faces
of my friends in the light of probable
, developments should they follow my
| unhappy example, and I soon lost all
j confidence in them. Not one face in a
i million I know could stand the dis
closure of a clean shave, and I shud!
lered to think of the human nightmare
j that would follow if all men should j
! I nice it. into their heads to lav hare theii I
facos. Heaven forfend!
j I am raising a beard as fast as tlio
Lord will lot me, but I feai my confidence
in liumau nature is destroyed forever.
A ISIho In Iforao FIomIi.
I Farmer Roots ?I dunno but we'd
i better kill ole Roan to-morror. Tin
| hosH hain't wutli his keep, an'?
Bill Roots (rushing in)--The traia
" has jest knocked ole Roan oll'en the
; track an' broke his neck!
Furmor Roots (one day later in the
; P. I). Q. Railroad)?Wal, I reckon$350
! would bo about right fer that tliar hosi
J o' mine you killed, .Tost 5 year old last
! gra-s. an'trotted a miie in 2:50 less'n
i pis monihs ago. Didn't he, Bill?
1 Rill?You hot.?Munceu'H Weeklu.
Cherrapoonji, India,] htaJ,th~e fwell-tdeservcd
reputation of l*pin|g tho* wetlt&t
place in the*world. Lftet Ijdprfchfc aggregate
rain-fill there waavlSGftinphes, fcnd
it was a comparatively dry season. Id
wet ones it'averages betweqn COUfand
600 inches. Iuyonc duy .stiirtyseven
inches fell.
One Thuu.uind Dollar^""'
I will forfeit tbeabewe amount, iif 3 fail to
prove that Floraplexicn is the liest mtvlicinein
existence for I tyspepstij.ndigessioi i-or .Biliousness.
It is a certain aire, and aiflinxls immediate
rclicf.in casus of Kidney an*! Liver Comflaint.
Nervous Debility and Consumption,
loraplexinn builds up the-ivcnk .-ysto$i and
cures where oilier remedies fail. Ask your
druggist for it and get well. Valuable book
"Thing Worth Knowing," alas sampb^ bottle
sent free; all charges prepaid. AddressiFrankLin
Hart. &> Warren street, .New York._
Contradiction animates conversation; that
is why courts are generally monotonous.
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Mortgages on Kausas City j*roi>erty, interest
payable every aunioutis; prmcyial ikKt interest
collected when due and remaned without
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& Co? Kansas City. .Vlo. Write tor pmticulara
If rripn won d set pood examples they
might hatch better habit.*.
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It. 11. Klink. M.D.. ill'. Arch St., l,hila.,>iJa.
Whtlo wa have Urcio Sim in America
there is Ant-wcrp In BelgiumLeo
Wr's Chineso Hcailacho Cure. Harmless
in effect, quick and positive in action.
Sent prepaid on receipt of J1 per bottle.
Adeler <& Co.,522 \Vyaniiotuest.,KaiitasiCUy,Mi>
The seamy side?The jnsidc of a coat.
FITS stopped free by Dtt. Ki.nn's Grkat
Nbhvr Rrstoiikk. No Ills after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise aud $2 trial bottle
freo. J Jr. Kline, 031 Arch St., l'hlla., 1'u.
It is the locomotive that whistles nt its work
For impure or (liin Blood, WeaknesvMalaria,
NeiualgiOj Indigestioja and Rilirxa mess,
lake Brown's iron Bitters?it gi vets strength,
making old persons feel young--unci young
persons strong; pleasant to.Htkc.
The more love a man lias in Jiis heart the
? i -t . l I.l, lw,o,l
more lie iiBiui ur.iiiin m iui ?c??
Money Invested In choice one nundredidollar
building lots in suburbssif Kaosas Uitywili
pay troin live hundred to one thousand per
cent, the next tew years under our jsuu. $2i
cash aud ?? per inuain w about interest coutrolsadeslrablo
lot. Particulars oil application*
J. M. Bauerleiu 6c Co.. Ivansas City, Alu,
The serene, silent beauty or' a noble life is
the mod pow? rful inllu :r.ce in tho worla,
Pure Eoan is white. Brown soaps ace adulterated
with rosin. l'erfuroo is only init in to
hide the presence of pu'rid fa'. iJobhins's
Electric Soap is purr, white and unscented.
Has been sold since lhU5. Try it tunc.
Lulien in wnitinc?Old maids.
Life Is Misery
To thousands of people who have tho taint of scro*ula
In their blood. Tho agonlei caused by tho dreadlul
running sores and oth r manbestatlons of tilt
disease aro beyond description. There Is no rrmod?
equal to Hood's San tparilla for s<r.)fula, salt rheum
and every for.r.of nloa I dlson . Wo know taat it
has cured the scverost carioa an t It will benefit all
who give It a fair tria'.
"Scrofula bunches In my nee'e rtissopoared when
Jtook Hood's Sarsaparllla."?a. It. Kku.kv. Parkersburg,
W. Va.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. #1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Muss.
100 Poses One Dollar
piso s KK31KDY FOli C;
Cheapest., ltolicf is iinm
Cold in tliu Head it lias no eijua
It is an Ointment, of which
nostrils. J'lice, 5?o. ^Sold by d
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An extraordinary advance In the use of cocoa
seems to have taken placo of late yoars in
England. In the House of Commons, this last
session, the Kight Hon. l?. J. (ioschen, the
Chancellor of the Excncqucr, called attention
to it as a cause tor much of the Tallin? off of
the use of coffee. He attributed It in a meas|
lire, to the position a preparation of cocoa
known as "Urateful and I otnforting" hail
taken. In accord with this suggestion, It may
be interesting to follow the course cocoa has
taken in England since 18J2, when the duty,
which had been standing at fld. per pound,
with an importation of under half a million
niounds. was reduced to 2d. per pound, and not
Jong after we find the homeopathic doctrine of
medfbinu introduced into tho kingdom, and
that the use of cocoa was specially advocated
by physicians adopting that mode of practice.
.Soon after we find tho flrst homoeopathic
chemists established in KnglHnd (the tirm of
.lame* Epps & Co.) produced a special t reparation
which only needed boiling water or
. milk to be at once ready for the table, and the
superior character of tnis production has, no
doubt, done much, as the Chancellor of the
Exchequer said, to bring about the advaDCO
made.
Question mi.d answer is a c.over tiling, and
so it is reckoned.
Do Von Ever Specnlatc ?
Any person sendinz us their name and address
will receive information that will lead
ti> a fortune. ItenJ. Lewis & Co., Security
Building, Kansas City, Mo.
At Eureka, Cat., a m ner lins a pet sheep
that luliows him ail t lirnu h the m ne.
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands nnd Ranches
In Missouri, Kansas, Texas und Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
- There are at present about 125,000 Hebrews
in the Russian army.
For Dyspepsia, Indl-jeUlnn au l Stomach
disorders, use Brown's Iron Bitxers. The Best
Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Blood
ami strengthens the muscles. A spleud.d tonic
for weak and deoilitatud persons.
Never cast penrls before swine. Pearls are
not very fntt.-ning.
OklahomnOuidc Book and Mapscnt any where
on receipt of eUcts. Tyler & Co., Kansas City.Mo,
Even ad ad duck can claim that he di<d
game.
Beecliam's Pills cure Bilious and N tus
Ills.
Catch words?Slop thief.
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SPRAINS. BRUISES.
Ohio & Miss.Railway. _
Office President and DolPb'n Street,
General Manager, Baltimore, Md.,
Cincinnati, Ohio Jon'3r 18> 18G0"My
foot suddenly ''I was bruised badturned
and pave me ly in hip and side by
a very severely a fall and sufTcrcdscsprained
ankle. The ? ... T u a?i
nppl Ich tinii of St. vcrc,y- fct- Jocobs Oil
JncobsOil resulted at completely cured
?"|Cn "" *! eli?f fr?m ,nu-" Wm> C- HardenPJ
\V.W. Pkabody, Member of State
Prest. & Gen'l Man'gr. Legislature.
THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Md.
For Coughs 0 Colds
S3 Thero is no Modicine like
I DR. SCHENCK'S
Ibulmonic
wsyrup.
II It is plrnmnt to thn tnsto and
docs n?t conti i ft particlo of
Pjj opium nranylliing Injurious. It
A Mho Rest Cough Bledicine in the
i ? J** V\.rSnlahTnlt Driurcists.
* I'liro, $1.00 per bottle. Dr. Schenck'a Book on
< <>tintimptiim nn?l it* t.'ure, mailed free. Address
I t>\ j. H Sohenck & Hon, Philadelphia.
j?p||ii|l|
rive cure!
m BU New York. Prlco 50 cta.l^?52?j
lTAURH.?Best. Easiest to use. .
ediate. A euro Is certain. For
M iMpl
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Tliat'b the way you feel after one or
two of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
have done their work. You feel
well, instead of bilious and constipated
; your 6ick headache, dizziness
and indigestion are gone. It's
done mildly and easily, too. You
don't have to feel worse before you
feel better. That is the trouble
with the huge, old-fashioned pill.
These ere small, sugar-coated, easiest
to take. One little Pellet's a
laxative, three to four are cathartic.
They regulate and cleanse the liver,
stomach and bowels?quickly, but
thoroughly. They're the cheapest
pill, sold by druggists, because you
only pay for the good you get.
They're guaranteed to give satisfaction,
every time, or your money
is returned. That's the peculiar
plan all Dr. Pierce's medicines are
sold on.
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One two-ou ce bo'tle <>f Vaseline Pomade, - 15"
One Jar of Vns llti" t'o'tl Cream, 15"
Oue i k<-of Vaacli c Cam horlce, - - - 10"
One Cnke of Vnsol no soup, unscent* ', 10 "
one ( a :eof Vaseline Soap, exquisitely seented,25 "
Quo iwo-cutice bott e of White Vaseline. -25"
<1.10
Or for postaa stamps any sln-jle. article at the price
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