The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 07, 1888, Image 3
THIRST IN A CAVERN,
DR. TAL3IAGE'S SUND Y SERMON.
The Water of the Well of Bethlehem,
Vihidh is by the Gate.
Text: "Oh. that one tcould gire me drin2
If the water of the well of Bcthlehem, which
i by the gate.'"-2 Samuel, xxiii., 15.
War, always distressing, is especially ruin
tus in harvest time. When the crops are all
leady for the siekle, to have them trodden
town by cavalry horses and heavy supply
trains gullying the fields, is enough to make
my man's heart sick. When the last great
war broke out in Euronue. and France and
sermany were coming into horrid collision. I
:ode across their golden harvests, and saw the
sents pitched, and the trenches dug in the
very midst of the r'pe fields, the long
scythe of battle sharpening to mow
town harvests of men in great
rinrows of the dead. It was at this season
of harvest that the army of the Philistines
!ame down upon Bethlehem. Hark to the
mamor of their voices, the neighing of their
:hargers, the blare of their trumpets, and the
tlash of their shields:
Let David and his men fall back! The
Lord's host sometimes loses the day.
But David knew where to bide. He
had been brought up in that country.
Boys areinquis:tive, and they know all about
theregion where they were born and brought
ap. If you should go back to the old home
stead, you could, with your eyes shut, find
Tour way to the meadow, or the orchard, or
the hill back of the house, with which you
were familiar thirty or forty years ago. So
David knew the cave of Adullam. Perhaps,
m his boyhood days, he had played "hide
and-seek" with his comrades all about
the old cave; and though others
might not have known it, David did.
Travelers say there is only one way of get
Ling into that cave, and that is by a very
narrow path; but David was stout, and
steady-headed, and steady-nerved; and so,
with his three brave staff-oficers, he goes
along that path, finds his way into the cave,
tits down, looks around the roof and the
hark passages of the mountain feels very
weary with the forced march; and water he
must have or die. I do not know but there
may have been drops trickling down the side
of the cavern, or that there may
have been some water in the
coat-skin slung to his girdle; but
that was not what he wanted. He wanted a
deep, full, cold drink, such as a man gets
only out of an old well with moss-covered
bucket. David remembered that very near
that cave of Adu'lam there was such a well
as that, a well to which he used to go in
boyhood-the well of Bethlehem; and he al
most imagines that he can hear the liquid
plash of that well, and his parched tongue
moves through his hot lips as he says: "Oh,
that one would give me drink of the water of
the wellof Bethlehem. which is by the gate!"
It was no sooner said than done. The three
brave staff-officers bounded to their feet and
start. Brave soldiers will take even a hint
from their commander. But between them
and the well lay a host of the Philistines: and
what could three men do with a great army?
Yet where there is a will there is a way, and,
with their swords s'ashing this way and that,
they make their path to the well. While the
Philistines are amazed at the seeming fool
hardiness of these three men, and cannot
make up their minds exactly what it means,
the three men have come to the well.
They drop the bucket. They bring
up the water. They pour it in the
pail, and then start for the cave. "Stop
them!" cry the Philistines. "'Clip them with
your swords! Stab them with your spears!
Stop those three men!" Too late! They are
gone around the hill. The hot rocks are
s lashed with the overflowing water from
the vessel at it is carried up the cliffs. The
three men go along the dangerous path, and
with cheeks flu'hed with the excitement, and
all out of breath in their haste they fling their
swords, red with the skirmish, to the side of
the cave, and cry out to David: "There,
Captain of the host, is what you wanted: a
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by
the gath."
A tctt is of no use to me unless I can find
Christ in it; and unless I can bring a Gospel
out of these wo-ds, th-it will arouse and corn
fort and bless. I shall wish I had never seen
them; for your time would be wasted, and
against my soul the dark record would be
made that this day I stoolI before a great au
dience of sinning, suffering, and dying men.
and told them of no resen'. By the cross of
the Son of G<-1, by the throne of the eternal
judgment, that shall not be! May the Lord
Jesus help me to tell you the truth to-day I
You know that carrier pigeons have somne
times letters tied under the wing, and they
fly hundreds of miles-one hundred miles in
an hour-carrying a message. So I have
thought I would like to have it now. Oh,
heavenly Dove! bring under thy wing
to-day, to my soul and to the souls of this
people, some message of light, and love, and
peace!
It is not an unusual thing to see people
gather around a u ell in summer-time. The
husbandman puts down his cradle at the well
curb. The builder puts down his trowel. The
traveler puts down h's pack. Then one draws
the water for all the rest, himself taking the
very last. The cup is passed around, and
the fires of thirst are put out; the traveler
starts on his journey and the workman takes
up his burden.
My friends, we come to-day arou"'d the
Gospel well. We put down our pack ar bur
dens and our implements of toiL One man
must draw the water for those who have
thered around the well. I will try and
w the water to-day; and if, after I have
poured out from this living fountain for your
soul, I just taste of it myself, you will not be
grudge me a " drink from the water of the
well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate."
This Gospel well, like the well spoken of in
the text, is a well of Bethlehem. David had
known hundreds of wells of water, but he
'wanted to drink from that particular one,
and he thought nothing could slake his thirst
like that. And unless your soul and mine can
get access to the Fountain open for sin and
uncleanness we must die. That fountain is
the well of Bethlehem. It was dug in the
night. It was dug by the light of a lantern
-the star that hung down over the
manger. It was dug not at the gate of
Caesar's palaces, not in the park of a Jeru
salem bargain-maker. It was dug in a barn.
The camel's lifted their weary heads to listen
as the work went on. The shepherds, unable
to sleep. because the heavens were filled with
bends of music, came down to see the open
iofthe welL Theangelsof God, atthe first
guhof the living water, dipped their chalices
ofjoy into it, and drank to the health of
earth and heaven, as they cried: "Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace."
Sometimes in our modern barns the water is
brought through the pipes of the city to the
veynostrils of the horses or cattle; but this
welin the Bethlehem barn was not so much
for the teasts that perish as for our race,
thirst-smittten, desert-traveled and simoon
struck. Oh. my soul, weary with sin, stoop
'do'wn and drink to-day out of that Bethlehem
'EAs the heart panteth after the water
brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, 0
God." You would get a better understand
lng of this amidst the Adirondacks in sum
mer-time. Here comes a swift-footed deer.
The hounds are close on the track; it has
leaped chasms and sealed cliffs; it is fagged
out; its eyes are rolling in death;
its tongue is lolling from its foaming
mouth. Faster the deer, faster the dogs,
until it plunges into Schroon Lake and the
hounds can follow it no farther, and it puts
down its head and mouth until the nostril is
clean submerged in the cool wave, and I u n
derstand it:. " As the heart panteth for the
'water-brook, so panteth my soul nfter thee,
O God." Oh, bring me water from that well'
Little child, who has learned of Jesus in
the Sabbath-school. bring mc some of
that living water. Old man, who
Ilfty years ago didst find the well,
bring me some of that water. Stranger in a
strange land, who used to hear sung in the
Highlands of Scotland, to the tune of "Bon
nie Doon," "The Star, the Star of Bethle
hem," bring me some of that water. Whoso
ever drinketh of that water shall never thirst.
"Oh that one would give me drink of the wa
ter of the well of Bethlehem which is by the
gate."
Again, this Gospel well, like the one spoken
of in the text, is a captured welL. David re
membered the time when that good water of
Bethlehem was in the possession of his ances
tors,' His father drank there, his mother
drank there. He remembered how the water
tasted w~ben he was a boy, and camne up there
from play. We never forget the old well we
used to drink out of when we were boys orgirls.
*There was something in it that blessed the
lips and refreshed the brow better than any
thing we have found since. As we think of
that dear old well, the memories of the past
flow into each other like crystalline drops,
sun-glinted, and all the more as we remember
that the hands that used to hold the rope,
curb are still now. We never get over these
reminiscences. George P. Morris, the
great song writer of this country,
once said to me that his song,
"Woodman spare that tree," was sung
in a great concert hall, and the memories of
early life were so wrought upon the audience
by that song that, after the singing was done,
an aged man arose in the audience, over
whelmed with emotion, and said: "Sir, will
you please to tell me whether the woodman
really spared the tree?" We never forget the
tree under which we played. We never for
get the fountain at which we drank. Alas
for the man who has no early memo ries.
David thought of that well, that boyhood
well, and he wanted a drink of it, but he re
membered that the Philistines had captured
it. When those three men tried to come up
to the well in behalf of David, they saw
swords gleaming around about it. And this
is true of this Gospel well The Philistines
have at times captured it. When we come to
take a full. old-fas'iioned drink of pardon and
comfort, do not their swords of indignation
and sarcasm flash? Why, the skeptics tell
us that we cannot come to that fountain!
They say the water is not fit to drink any
how. "If you are really thirsty now, there
is the well of philosophy, there is the well of
art, there is the well of science." They try
to substitute, instead of our boyhood faith, a
modern mixture. They say a great
many beautiful things about the soul,
and they try to fee:l our immor
tul hunger on rose leaves, and mix
a mint julep of worldly stimulants, when
nothing will satisfy us but "a drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, which is at
the gate." They try to starve us on husks,
when the Father's banquet is ready, and the
best ring is taken from the casket, and the
sweetest harp is struck for the music,
and the swiftest foot is already lifted
for the dance. They patronize
heaven and abolish hell, and try to measure
eternity with their hour-glass, and the throne
of the great God with their yard-stick! I
abhor it. I tell von the old Gospel well is a
captured well Y pray God that there may
be somewhere in the elect host three an
nointed men, with courage enough to go
forth in the strength of the omni
potent God, with the glittering swords
of truth, to hew the way back
again to that old well. I think the tide is
turning, and that the old Gosoel is to take its
place again in the family, ana in the univer
sity, and in the legis'ative hall. Men have
tried worldly philosophies, and have found
out that they do not give any comfort, and
that they drop an arctic midnight upon the
death-pillow. They fail when there is a
dead child in the house; and when the soul
comes to leap into the fathomless ocean of
eternity, they give to the man not so much
as a broken spar to cling to. Depend upon
it, that well will come into our possession
again, though it has been captured. If there
be not three anointed men in the Lord's
host with enough consecration to do the work,
then the swords will leap from Jehovah's
buckler, and the eternal three will descend
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy
Ghost-conquering for our dying race the
way back again to "the water of the well of
Bethlehem, which is by the gate." "If God
be for us, who can be against us?" "If God
spared not his own Son,but freely gave him up
for us all,how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things!" "For I am persuaded
that neither height, nor depth, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come," shall take from
us, into final captivity, the Gospel of my
blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Again, the Gospel well, like the one spoken
of in my text, is a well at the gate. The
traveler stops the camel to-day, and gets
down and dips out of the valley of the East,
some very beautiful, clear, bright water, and
that is out of the very weil that David longed
for. Do you know that that well was at
the gate, so that nobody could go into
Bethlehem without going right past it? And
so it is with this Gospel well-it is at the gate.
It is, in the first place, at the gate of purifica
tion. We cannot wash away our sins unless
with that water. I take the responsibility
of saying that there is no man, woman, or
child in this house to-day that
has escaped sinful defilement. Do you
say it is outrageous and ungallant
for me to make such a charge ? Do you
say: "I have never stolen-I have never
blasphemed-I have never committed un
chastity-I have never been guilty of
murder?" I reply, you have committed a
sin worse than blasphemy, worse than un
chastity, wors? than theft, worse than mur
der. We have all cominitted it. We
have by our sins re-crucified the Lord, and
that is deicide. And if there be any who dare
to plead "not guilty " to the indictment, then
the hosts of heaven will be empane:ed as a
jury to render a unanimous verdict against
ra;~guilty one, guilty all. With what asiash
ing stroke that one passage cuts us away
from all &ir pretensions. "There is none
that deth good-no, not one." "Oh," says
some one, "all we want, rgl the race wants,
is development." Now I want to tell you
that the race develops without the Gspl into
a Sodom, a Five Points, a great Salt Lake
City. It always develops dowaward, and
never upward, except as the grace of God lays
hold of it. What,then, is to become of our soul
without Christ! Blanishment. Disaster. But
I bless my Lord Jesus Christ that there is a
well at the gate of purifiction. For great
sin, great pardon. For eighty years of trans
gression, an eternityof forgiveness. For crime
deep as hell, an atonement high as heaven;
that where sin abounded,so grace may much
more abound; that as sin reigned unto death,
even so may grace reign through righteous
ness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our
Lord. Angel of the Covenant, dip thy wing
in this living fountain to-day, and wave it
over this solemn assemblage, that our souls
may be washed in "the water of the well of
Bethlehem, which is by the gate."
Further, I remark that this well of the
Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you
Iknow where David was when he uttered the
words of the text? He was in the cave of
Adullam. That is where some of you are
now. Has the world always gone smoothly
with you? Has it never pursued you
with slander? Is your health always
good? Have your fortunes never
perished? Are your children all alive and
well? Is there no dead lamb in the fold?
Are you ignorant of the way to the cemetery?
Have you never heard the bell toll when it
seemed as if every stroke of the iron clapper
beatyour heart? Are the skies as bright when
you look into them as they used to be
when other eyes, now closed, used to
look into them? Is there some trunk or
drawer in your house that you go to only oxe
anniversary days, when there comes beatin'g
ag-ainst your soul the surf of a great ocean of
agony? It is the cave of Aduliam! The cave
of Adullam! Is there some David here
whose fatherly heart wayward Absolom has
broken? Is there some A braham here who is
lonely because Sarah is dead in the family
plot of Machpelah? After thirt or forty
years of companionship, how har it was for
them to part! Why not have two seats in
the Lord's chariot, so that both the old folks
might have gone up at once? My aged mother,,
in her last moment,said to my father:"Father,
wouldn't it be nice if we could both go to
getheri" No, no, no. We must part And
there are wounded hearers here to-day. The
world cannot comfort you. What can it
bring you? Nothing. Nothing. The salve
they try to put on your wounds will not stick.
They cannot, with their bungling surgery,
mend the broken bones.
Zoppar the Naamathite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Eliphaz the Temanite, come in,
and talk, and talk, and talk, but miserable
comforters are they all. They can not pour
light into the cave of Adullam. They can
not bring a single draught of water from
the well of Bethlehem, which is by
the gate.'' But, glory be to Jesus
Christ, there is comfort at the gate!
There is life in the well at the gate. If you
give me time, I will draw up a promise for
every man, woman and child in this house.
Ay, I will do it in two minutes. I will lay
hold the rope of the old well. What is your
trouble? "Oh," you say, "I am so sick, so
weary of life-ailments after ailments." I
will draw up a promise: "The inhabitants
will never say 'I anm sick.'" What is your
trouble? "Oh, it is loss of friends-bereave
ment." you say. I will draw you up a
promise, fresh and cool, out of the well. "I
anm the resurrection and the life; he that be
lieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall
he live." What is your trouble? You say it
is the infirmities of old age. I will draw you
up a promise: "Down to old age I am with
thee, to hoary hairs v.ill I carry thee."
What is your trouble: "Oh," you say, "I
have a widowed soul, and my children cry for
bread." I bring upthis pronise: "Leave thy
fatheress chi~dren-I will preserve them
alive, and let thy widows trust in me. ' I
break through the armed ranks of your sor
rows to-day, and bring to your p-arched lips
"a drink of the waters of the well of Bethle
hem, which is by the gate."
Again, the Gospel well is at the gate of
heaven. I have not heard yet one single in
telligent account of the future world from
anybody who does not believe in the Bible.
They throw such a fog about the subject that
I do not want to go to the skeptic's heaven, to
the transcendentalist's heaven, to the worldly
the poorest room in your house for the finest
heaven that Huxley or Stuart Mill, or Dar
win ever dreamed of Their heaven has no
Christ in It: and a heaven without Christ,
though you could sweep the whole universe
into it, would be a hell. Oh. they tell us
there are no songs there; there are no
coronations in heaven-that is all im
agination. They tell us we will do
there about what we do here, only
on a larger scale-geometrize with
clearer intellect, and with alpenstoek
go clambering up over the icebergs
in an etrnal vacation. Rather than that, I
turn to my Bible, and I find John's picture
of that good land-that heaven which was
your lullaby in infancy-that heaven which
our children in the Sabbath-school will sing
about this afternoon-that heaven which has
a "well at the gate."
After you have been on a long journey,
and you come in. all bedusted and tired, to
your home, the first thing you want is re
freshing ablution, and I am glad to know
that after we get through~ the pilgrim
age of this word-the hard, dusty pil
grimage-we will find a well at
the gate. In that one wash, away
will go our sins and sorrows. I 'do not
care whether cherub, or seraph, or my own
departed friends in that blessed land place
to my lips the cup, the touch of that cup
will be life, will be heaven? I was read
ing of how the ancients sought for the
fountain of perpetual youth. They thought
if they could only find and drink out of that
well, the old would become young again, the
sick would be cared, and everybody would
have eternal juvenescence. Of course, they
could not find it. Eureka! I have found it!
"The water of the well of Bethlehem, which
is by the gate."
I think we had better make a bargain with
those who leave us, going out of this world
from time to time, as to where we will meet
them. Travelers parting appoint a place of
meeting. They say, "we will meet at
Rome, or we will meet at Stock
holm. or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethle
hem." Now, when we come to stand
by the death-pillow of those who are
leaving us for the far land, do not let us weep
as though we would never see them again,
but let us, there standing, appoint a place
where we will meet. Where shall it be? Shall
it be on the banks of the river? No. The
banks are too long. Shall it be in the
temple? No; no. There is such a host
there-ten thousand times ten thousand.
Where shall we meet the loved ones? Let us
make an appintment to meet at the well by
the gate. Oh, heaven! Sweet heaven! Dear
heaven! Heaven, where our good friends
are! Heaven, where Jesus is! Heaven!
Heaven!
But while I stand here there comes a revul
sion of feeling when Ilook into your eyes and
know there are souls here dying of thirst,
notwithstanding the well at the gate. Be
tween them and the well of heaven there is a
great army of sin; and though Christ is
ready to clear a way to that well for them,
they will not have his love or intercession.
But I am glad to know that you may come
yet. The well is here-the well of heaven.
Come; I do not care how feeble you are. Let
me take hold of your arm, and steady you up
to the well-curb. " Ho, every one that
thirsteth, come." I would rather win one soul
to Christ this morning than wear the crown
of the world's dominion. Do not let any
man go away and say I did not invite him.
Oh, if you could only just look at my Lord
once: if you could justseehim fullin the face:
ay, if you could only do as that woman did
whom'I read about at the beginning of the
services-just come up behind him and
touch his feet-methinks you would live. In
Northern New Jersey, one winter, three lit
tle children wandered off from home in a
snow storm. Night came on. Father and
mother said, "Whereare the children?" They
could not be found. They started out in
haste, and the news ran to the neigh
bors, and before morning it was said that
there were hundreds of men hunting the
mountains for those three children, but
found themnot. After a while a man imagined
there was a place that had not been looked at,
and he went and saw the three children. He
examined their bodies. He found that the
older boy had taken off his coat
and wrapped it around the younger one, the
baby, an then taken off his vest and put it
around the other one; and there they all
died, he probably the first, for he had no coat
or vest. Oh, it was a touching scene when that
was brought to light! I was on the ground
a little while after, and it brought the
whole scene to my mind, and I thought to
myself of a more melting scene than that:
when Jesus. our elder brother, took off the
robe of his royalty and laid aside the last
garment of earthly comfort, that he might
wrap our poor souls from the blast. Oh, the
heigh, and the depth, and the length, and
the breadth of the love of Cnrist!
PRINTING B00ES IN LUCKNOW.
An Immense Concern Where the Koran
and Other Books Are Prepared.
The Kishore publ'shing house is sit
uated on the Hazrat Gunge, the main
street of Lucknow. The buildings
are numerous, but low, mostly of one
story, after the native fashion, and ex
ceedingly plain. Many of them are
mere sheds, where the work is done ini
full view of others on the premises.
The roofs are of brick tiling. These
bu ldings cover a vast space, which is
divided into many alleys and nonde
script passageways running at all
angles with each other, and describing
such curves as one can find in the
denser parts of Lubeck and Nurem
berg. I entered the premises by a
long lane running at right angles from
the main street, says Bishop Hurst, in
Harper's Magazine. No one in pass
ing along the street would suspect, un
less he should turn into the lane, the
number of men hard at work at the
farther end or the w nderful magni
tude of their operations. The orders
are constantly coming i.2 from all India,
and even fro-n Afganistn, Arabia, and
Turkey in Europe. The many people
engaged in carrying on this business
have all they can do to fill the orders
and prepare for new ones on the way.
Were the buildings covering such an
area as this in Europe, and four or five
stories high, yet turning out no more
work than these primitive huts and
sheds, their value could not be ]ess
than $500,0i0. But in Lucknow value
those many buildings and the ground
covered by them would not sell for
more than~ about $40,001 The huts
have no wooden floors. Mother earth
is the common resting-place. The men
and boys in great number sit on-the
earthen floor in all possible positions
and ca ry on their work. They set
type, read proof, and bind the sheets
while sitting squat on the ground.
There is a great disproportion be,
tween the amount of type and the vol
umes printed. While there is an im
mense quantity of type used in Eis
ore's house, the lithographing of a
whole book is a favorite procedure- I
have a copy of tbe koran, bought upon
the pre:1iisesa, which is one foot long
and eight inehes broa-1, and I am quite
sure that not a type was used in the
printing of it. The plates are
lithographs, and of excellent finish.
As this particular volume was intended
to be illustrated in colors, the ditliculty
was to supply the cuts. This, of
course, could have been met by a sep
arate impression. Bunt that is not
Kishore's methods. All these blanks
are filled by colored illustrations ap
pied by hand. These arc quite rudely
done, and yet the pictures are striking,
and to an Oriental eye must be attract
ye. For the koran which I bought,
wing 317 p~ages, with numerous
anual illustrations, bound in full
leather, the price was only $2.50.
But while a large portion of the work
inl this Mohammedan publishing house
is done upon stone instead of type,
there is also an immense amount of the
usual type-setting and casting. The
Arabic and some of the Hindoo tongues
are very favorable for engraving on
stone. The whole alphabet, in several
cases, consists of curves which can be
'.asily executed by sharp tools.
raos:Tso.,. is the name of a post,
-MARJORIE.
"Oh, dear," said Father Brown, one day,
"I never saw such weather!
The rain will spoil my meadow hay
And all my crops together."
His little daughter climbed his knee;
"I guess the sun will shine," said she.
"But if the sun," said Farmer Brown,
"Should bring a dry September,
With vines and stalks all wilted down,
And fields scorched to an ember"
"Why, then, 'twill rain," said Marjorie,
The little girl upon his knee.
"Ah, me!" sighed Father Brown, that fall,
"Now, what's the use of living?
No plan of mine succeeds at all"
"Why, next month comes Thanksgiving,
And then, of course," said Marjorie,
"We're all as happy as can be."
"Well, what should I be thankful for!"
Asked Farmer Brown. "My trouble
This summer has grown more and more,
My losses have been double;
rve nothing left"-"Why you've got me!"
Said Marjorie, upon his knee.
-Wide A wake
PiThI AND POINT.
A piller of the church-A pious apoth
ecary.
" Bessie, what scratched your arm in
that way?" " Mamma, I hit it with the
cat,"
The clergyman miy not be much of a
carpenter, but is a pretty good joiner. -
Ba:ar.
The lightning-rod agents motto -
"Spare the rod and spoil the property."
Burl ington Free Press.
The thing that a woman always knows
best is how some other woman ought to
dress.-Yomerrille Jvrnal.
A married man can always pack a
trunk more easily than a bachelor. 1e
gets his wife to do it for him.
One doesn't care much for the flattcry
of a cannibal when he says: "You're
good enough to eat."--ew YorkDi patch.
An oatmeal trust has been organi -ed
in Canada. Where will this gruel tyranny
of manufacture end? "--NrwicJh Luhitia.
"A New Jersey man has invented a
stove to carry in the hat." Wanted to
utilize a stovepipe probably.--Nac liuceu
Newcs.
We do not see what it is that a eleck
is ashamed of, that it should be con
stantly striving to cover its face with
its hand.-Lowell Citi:en.
The forming of a pool by the pepper
mint growers indicates that stomach
ache will be something of a luxury next
year.-Pitts?'urg Cironicle.
While Bostonians may feel proud of
the provender which has made them fa
mous, they object to being called
plebeans.- -ashing'on Hatchet
Snooks-""I suppose you have a wide
acquaintance in New York, Blinks?"
Blinks-"Well, yes-one that weighs
about 250."-Burlington Free Pres.
"Why can a man walk farther on a
cold day than on a hot one?" asked in
quisitive Jack. "Because," said the
Major, "warm weather makes him limp."
This quality in dudes one finds,
Nor does one deem it strange,
Through life they never change their minds;
They have no minds to chango.
-B:>s'on Courier.
It always bothers a Frenchman who is
learning Eng:ish to read one day that a
murder has been committed and the next
day that the murderer has been com
mitte.-New York Tribun".
Frank James, ex-bandit, is clerk'ng in
a store in Austin, Tex. When he rceches
into his pocket for a lead pencil and
shouts " Cash !" all the customners .ump
to their feet and hold up their hands.
Burdette.
Hasheesh pills are growing very popular
among the opium eaters of Farns. \ ery
astonishing dreams are said to result
from them, but they are probably not
more so than those produced by ordinary
hash.-New Jiaren Yews.
Paint is a monster of such frightful build,
That to be hated needs but to be smelled.
But, smelled too ott, famliar to the face,
We first endure, then pity, then catch the
painting fever and go around all over the
premises, and daub it en every available
place.-Dansville Breeze.
A Boonville school teacher had a great
deal of trouble making a boy understand
his lesson. Finally, however, he sutc
ceeded, and, drawing a long breath, re
marked: "If it wasn't for me you would
be the biggest donkey in Boonville."
Joisrille 2imes.
Smith--"You seem particularly jolly
this morning." Jones-"I ought to,
as Ijust made a cool $500."-nth
"How did you make it?" Jones -"Wh~y,
I bought a lot for $2, 500 and raised the
price to $:3, 000. Cood deal, that."
&n Francisco Wap.
He sang it with vigor,
He sang it cacti clay,
"I would not live ?iways,
I ask n~ot to staty."
But wvhen with a fever
And chills takeni down,
He unickly had in all
The doctors in town.
-Bostonm Courier.
The Largest Criminal Court.
What is claimed to be the la-gest
criminal court in the world is the United
States District Court for the Western
district of Arkansaa, located at Fort
Smith, on the line of the indian Terri
tory, over which it has jttrsdict ion
in all cases where a white man or non
citizen is a party to the crime. Fronm
this court there is no appeal, and whnn
a crininal is once convicted is only
loophole through which to escape the
puishment which the law imposes on
him is through executive clemency. It
is well known that no court in a l the
land despatches business with the rapid
it of the United States Cout for the
Western district of Arkan-aa, and no
court exists where cases are tred with
greater care for the uights of all. It is
in session the year round, there being
four terms-viz~., February termi, 3lay
term, August term and November ternm.
The grand and petit jur~es are all com
posed of citizens of Arkansas, being
selected from the se~eral countie' cim
braced in the district.
Mr. Isaac C. Parker has been for
twelve years past the Presiding .Judige in
this court, and during that time has ds
osed of over six thousand criminal
cases, besides a very lar~re number of
civil cases. Prior to the app~ointment of
Judge Parker, there had been sevecn mna
convicted of murder and hanged. IDur
ing his term of o'fice the:-e have been $4
persons convicted of capital crimes and
sentenced to death by hinm. Of those
sentenced to death since 1870, 5~2 were
hanged, 27 had their sentences commuted
to life imprisonment, and 4 to short
terms of imprisonment, 3 died in jfs
while awaiting execution, 1 was killed
while attempting escape and one was
pardoned unconditionally.-Nac York
Ik-ald.
The cotton crop of Virginia during the
past 10 years is estimated to ha e aver
age neary.,,000 bales2.
ON THE WHEEL.
What 'Round-the-World Stevens and
Champion Howell Say of the Sport.
The popularity of 'cycling is growing.
Thomas Stevens, who has just been around
the globe on a wheel says that the best roads
in the world are found in British India. The
Grand Trunk road is 1,600 miles, an unbroken
highway of marvelous perfection, from Per
shawar on the Afghan frontier to Calcutta.
It is made of smooth, hard, natural concrete,
beds of which lie along the line.
How such roads would be apreciated by
the enthusiastic 'cyclers of this countryI
The wonderful achievement of Mr. Stevens,
in the face of myriad dangers, entitles him
to all his honors.
The fast riding champion of the world,
however, is Richard Howell, of Leicester,
England. 2e is a splendidly made fellow, be
tween twenty-five and thirty years of age,
six feet high, and weighing, in training,
about 160 pounds.
He commenced riding in 1879, and in 1881,
at Belgavia grounds, Leicester. he won the
one-mle championship of the world, beating
all the best men of the day.
From that time his career has been one of
almost unbroken successes. He came to the
United States in 1684 and 1885, and at the
great Springfield tournament in 1885, won
seven out of eight races.
In the 'Cycling News (Eng.). October 1st,
1887, is the following interview with him.
"What are your best performances?"
"This year I did a full mile on the track at
Coventry in 2 minutes, 35 seconds. Good
judges think, with everything in my favor, I
could do 2:10 for the distance."
"What is your system of training?"
"I eat plain good food, and plenty of it.
I take a little walk before breakfast, and
then, after that meal, if I am loggy, ride
eight or nine miles on the track here, in
thick flannels. After dinner I do some more
'slogging' work, and may be a walk and
early toted.
"But there is one idea of mine which I
have found invaluable. If I have done too
much work, or my system is out of order, or
if I don't feel quite sound, I take what I have
used since I was 'queer' in 1885. I have al
ways found that Warner's safe cure sets me
up and puts me to rights again and it is a
remely which I believe in and tell all my
friends about.
"In the winter-time especially, when you
can easily understand I am not so careful of
my health as in the spring, summer or au
tumn, I have found it it invaluable.
"All I want to beat the fastest bicyclist in
the world, is plenty of practice, an occasional
dose of my favorite, and my 'machine.'
"When I am about right in weight I con
tent myself with short, sharp brushes as hard
as ever I can go on the track, and when I
can cover 440 yards in thirty seconds with a
flying start, I reckon to be moving as well as
I want to.
"Bicycling is glorious sport, but it has its
physical ill effects which, however, can be
easily overcome by the method used by cham
pion Howell."
For several weeks a noble eagle, measuring
nearly six feet from tip to tip of its wings,
made its nightly perch on the steeple of the
First Baptist Church, in Galveston. Then
came along a gun and killed it.
A NOTED BENEFACTOR'S
Deed of Kindness, and the Marvelous Ben
efts to the Sufferers in Warren County
Hospital.
WASHINGvOy, N. J., June 2, 1887.
S. Andral Kilmer, M. D., Binghamton, N. Y.:
DEAR SIa-Like the rest of the profession, I
have a prejudice against proprietary medi
cines; but, like the rest, I can give no good rea
son for it. A me dical friend of mine in the
west called my attention to your SwAMP RooT
and bade me try it. I wrote you for a sample,
and you sent me a generous one indeed. I
have tried it very carefully, and find it to be a
wonderfully invigorating tonic in cases of
broken down constitutions. Thusfar, I find it
gives great relief in kidney and bladder trou
bles; in in -Ipient stagrs of Bright's disease
diabetes and Urinary troubles in general. In
a hospi at, you know. I have ample oppor
tunity to test a medicinc . All the patients
treated successfully are so many advertisers
of its merits.
Yours truly, Da. S. A. DEros.
In charge of Warren County Hospital,
Washin;ton, N. J.
The above is a true copy of the original let
ter-Editor Binghamton Republican.
This specific is meeting with marvelous suc
cess in the treatmen t of diseases for which itis
so highly recommended. If you value good
health anid hope for long life, use Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure.
At Druggists, SI.03--O bottles for $5.00, or by
exprss, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
The steel tubing made in Cleveland for the
Lick telescope has reached California. It is
fifty feet long and three feet in diameter.
A Lovety Con-plexion.
"What a lovely complexion," we often hear
persons say. "I wonder what she does for it't"
In every case the purity and real loveliness of
the complexion depends upon the blood. Those
who have sallow, blotchy faces may make
their skin smooth and healthy by taking
ensough of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery" to drive out the humors lurking in the
system. __________
The United States Circult Court in Boston
has decided that a man may import his
coschman, since the prohibitory law does not
apply to contracts for personal service.
The Poor Little Ones.
We often see children 'ivith red eruptions on
face and hands, rou'h, scaly skin, and often
sores on the head. These things indicate a de
praved condlition of the blood. In the growing
period, children have need of pure blood by
which to build up strong and healthy bodies.
If Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" is
given, the blood is purged of its bad elements,
and the child's development will he healthy,
and as it should be. Scrofulous afi'ections,
rickets, fever-sores, hi joint disease or other
grave maladies and suttering are sure to result
Ifrom neglect and lack of proper attention to
such cases.
The venerable Simon Cameron takes great
pridie in his cattle. His presentparticular pet
is a steer that girths over eight feet and
weighs 2,100 pounds.
Mild, soothing, and healing is Dr. Sage's Ca
tarrh Rkemedy.
Peter Lawson, a Swede, of Goshen, Cal, is
9years old, and confidently expects to live
many years yet, beaye, as he declares, his
grandmother lived to he126 years old.
"Taylor's Hospital Cure for Catarrh" can be
obtained on application by letter to the City
Hall Pharmacy, 264 B'way,'New York. Free
pamphlet. ________
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at
25c. per bottle.
Cons'umption, i-urcly Uured.
To the Editor:-Pleaso inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. [
shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any (f your readers who have Con
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Catarrh in the Head
Originates in,,.crofulous taint in the blood. Hence
the proper metaod by which to cure catarrhi is to
purlfy the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms
and the danger of developing into bronchitis or that
terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely re.
tmoved by Hlood's sarsaparlilla, which cures catarrh
by purifying the blood; it.also tones up the system
and greatly itmproves the general health. Try the
"pecuiar medicine."
"I have use -I htood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh with
"ery* satisfactory results. I received more per
tmanent benefit from it than any other renmedy."
3M.E. READ.waniseon.O0.
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Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only
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which are the direct results of Imperfect digestion,
DIGESTYLIN will effect an Immediate cure.
Take DYGESTYLLN for all pains and disorders of
the stomach ; they all come from Indigestion. Ask
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bottle). If he does not have It rend one dol tous
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jisRemedy, for a ease of
Chronic Nasal Catsxrh which
-,. they cannot cure.
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.-Dull.
heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal
passages, discharges falling from the head
into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery,
and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous
purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are
weak, watery, and inflamed; there is ringing
in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing to
clear the throat, expectoration of offensive
matter, together with scabs from ulcers; the
voice is changed and has a nasal twang; the
breath is offensive; smell and taste are im
paired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with
mental depression, a hacking cough and gen
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symptoms are likely to be present in anyone
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manifesting half of the above symptoms, re
sult in consumption, and end in the grave.
No disease is so common, more deceptive and
dangerous, or less understood by physicians.
By its mild, soothing, and healing properties.
Dr. Sage's Catar Rmed cures the worst
cases o Catarrh "cold in the head,"
Cor and Catarrhal Headache.
by druggists everywhere; 50 cents.
"Ujntold Agony from Catiarrh."
Prof. W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist,
of Ithaca, N. Y., writes : "Some ten years ago
I suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. My family physician gave me up s
incurable, and said I must die. My case was
such a bad one, that every day towards sun
set, my voice would become so 'hoarse I could
barely speak above a whisper. In themorni
my coughing and clearing of my throatwould
almost strangle me. By the use of Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I was a well
man, and the cure has been permanent.'
"Constantly Hawking and Spitting."
THoxAs J. RUSHISG, Esq., 1902 Pins Street,
St. Louts, Mo., writes: "I was a great sufferer
from catarrh for three years. At times Icould
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and spitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. I
thought nothing could be done forme. Luck
ily, twas advised to try Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and I am now a well man. I believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give it a
fair trial to experience astounding results and
a permanent cure."
'Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.
EI. BOBBINS, Runyan P. 0., Columbia Co.,
Pa., says: "My dau gter had catarrh when
she was five yRs 01dvery badly. I saw Dr.
Sage's CatarrhRmey advertised, and pro.
cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her; a third bottle effected a perma
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty."
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