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mm i. TALMAGE3 SERMON. The Time In "Which We Live is Wonderful for Disasters and Blessings. In this disoourso Dr. Talmago rooitos soma great events and shows that the world is sdvanoing in tho right direction; U xt. Joel i>, JO. "1 will show wonders in tho heavens and in the earth." l)r. Cumming?great and good man? wou'd have told us tho exu-t tiino of tho fa iillmont of thip prophioy. As I stopped into his eiudy in Lu don on uy arrival from l'aris, just after tho French had surrendered at Sedan, the good doctor faid to me: "It is just what I havo told youabiut Kranoo. People latigbod at mo because 1 ta.ked about the w ven horns and tho vials, bu' 1 foresaw all this from the hook of Daniel and tho book of Revelation." Not taking any such responsibility in tho interpretation of tho passage. L simp ly assort that tbero in in it suggestions of many things in our time. Our eyes dilato and our hoart quick onh in its pulsations as wo road of ovonts in tho third century, tho bixth oontury, tho eighth century, tho fourteenth oentury, but there wore moro farreaching events crowded into tho ninoteceuih eontury tlian into any other, and thy last twenty years corpse any preceding twouty. Wo road in tho daily newspapers of ovonts announood in one paragraph and without any spo oial emphasis?events whioh a Herodotus a -Joscphus, a Xonophon, a Gib bon would bavo takon whole chapters or whoio volumes tocla!or?*o. 1<coking out upon cur timo wo uiust orv out, in tho words of tho text, "Wondort in tho hcavona and in tho earth " I proposo to show ycu that tho timo in which wo live is wondorful for disaster and wonderful for blossmg, for thoro must bo lights and shades in this pie turo as in all o'.hors. Nood I arguo that our timo is wonder!ul for disas'er? Our world has had a rough time siuco by ihu hand of God it Wt.s bowled out into spaoo. li is an epileptic crrtl;?con uision aftor convultion; frosts bound ing it with s edge hammer of ioobeig and firo melting it with furnaces seven times hoatoc. It is a wonder to mo it has lastod so long. Meteors shooting by on this sido and grazing it aud moto ors shooting by on tho oth? r sido and grazing it, none of thorn slowit g up for safety. Who1?! fleets and navies and argosios and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us. Our earth like a fishing smack off tho banks of Ncwfoui dland, whilo tho Majestio aud tho Sc. l'aul and tho Kaiser Wilholm dor Grosso rush by. Besides that, our world has by sin boon damaged iu its iutrrnal iu\ ohinory, and ever and anon tho fumaces havo burst, and tho walking I earns of tho mountains havo broken, and tho ialanda havo shipped a boa, and tho great hulk of the world has bcon jtrrod with aooidents that ever and auon threatened imiucdidato demolition. Hut it Boomt to ub at if ttio last hundred years werooKpcoially charaotoru ;d by disaster?voloauio, oceanic, cpidomio. 1 pay voloinio bcoauao an carthuuako ih only a voloano hushod up. When Htroinboli and (Jotopnxi und VcBuviua atop breathing, let tho foundations of tho earth bow&rol Heven thousand oarthquakos iu two conturies recorded iu tho oataloguo of tho British aaaocication! Trajan, tho oinporor, goes to ancient Antioch and amid tho Bplondors of his rcocption ia mot by an earthquake that nuarly destroya tho ompcror's lifo. Lisbon, fair and boautiful, at 1 o'olook on tho 1st of No^om bor, 1775, in fix minutes 60,000 havo poriBbcd, and \ oliairo wrius of thoiu. ' For that rogioa it wan tho las' judgment, nothing wanting but atrumpot." Europo and America foeling the throb ?1,5(J0 ohimnoys in Boston partly or fully destroyod! But tho disasters of other times havo had thoir oountorpart in later tinnx. In 1812 Curaoas was oaught in tho grip of an earthquake, in 1882 in Ohilo 100,000 square miles of land by vcloauio foroe uphoaved to four and sovou foot of pormonout elevation, in 1351.Japan felt tho geological agony; Naples sbakon in 1857, Mi xioo in 1858; Mondoza, tho oapual of tho Argontino 11 v publio, in 1801; Manila terrorized in 1868; tho Hawaiian Islands by suoh foroo upliftod and lot down in 1871; Novida shaken in 1871, Antioc in 1872, California in 1872, Sau Salvador in 1873, whilo in 1883 what subtorranoan oxoitcmont! Isohia, an island of tho Moditorranoan, a beautiful Italian wat oring placs, vineyard olad, surroundod by all natural oharm and liistorioal ro minisornoe; yonder Cajri, tho Bummor roBort of tho Roman ompcrore; youdor Naples, paradieo of art this beautiful island suddenly topplod into tho trough of tho earth, 8,000 morrymakors porishing, and some of thorn so far down beneath tho rcaoh of human obsoquios that it may bo said of many a ono of them, as it was said of Moses. "Tho Lord buriod him." Italy, all Europo weeping, all Christendom weeping, whero thoro woro hearts to sympathize and Christians to pray. But whilo tho nations woro moasuringthat uiagnituio of disaster, measuring it not with golden rod liko that with wbioh tho angel measured heavon, but with tho blaok rule of death, Java of tho Indian arohipelago, tho most fertile island of all tho earth, is oaughtin tho gripoftho earth quako, and mountain after mountain goes down and oity after oity until that island, whioh produces tho best never age all tho world, produocd tho ghast lieat catastrophe. Ono hundrod thou sand people dying, dead! Coming nearer home, on Aug. 81, 188H, the great oarthquako whioh prostrated onohalf of Charleston, B. C. But look at the disasters oyolonio At the mouth of the Ganges aro three islands?the Hattiah, tho Sundoop and tho Dakin Shabazporo. In tho midnight of October, 1877, on all thoso three islands the ory was. 1 Tho wat erst" A oyolone arose and rollod tho sea over those throe islands, and of a Sopulation of 340,000, 215,000 woro rownod. Only thoHO saved who had olimbed to the top of tho highest troosl Did you oversee a oyolone'/ No? Thon I pray God you may never seo one. 1 aw a oyolone on the oooan, and it swept us 800 miles baok from our oourse, and for thirty six hours during the oyolone and after it wo expootcd every moment to go to tho bottom. They told ui before we retirod at 9 o'eloek that the barometer had fallen, at U o'clock rt m|U>. woro All tho lights out. Crash went all tho lifoboats. Wafersrushin.', through tho sk> lights down into the oab'n and dc vn on tlic furpaei"i un'il vhoy hissed and sruoked i i tho d .tu/' S von hundred pooplo prajin.'.H r.? i io>. Oar great ship poised a 1. or ' m on ho top of a mouutai o <f pho ph .'opc v* firo and then p up? od dc-n, do^n, \jn iI it seemed as 'f sha novor would again bo righted. Ah. you never want La sco a oyclone at oca! Hut I wan in Mir.noiotr, whore ther" was one of those cj elonct on lea I that r.wepi tho oily of Koohostor from its foundations and ook d yelling housos haras, uioo, w to on, ohiUron, hones, oattlo, ami tossed t lora into indiseriuii na'o ruin and lifted a train and dashed it down, a mightier hand than that of engineer 01 tho airbrako. Cyolono to Kansas, oylouo in Mitsouri, oyolono in Wisconsin, oiolono in Illinois, oyc'ona in Iowa! baiaa, prinoo of the pawor of tho air, never tnado suoh oyolonio disturbanoos as ho has in our day. And am I not right in naying that one of tho characteristics of tho tirno in which wo livo is disaster oyolonio? Hut look at tho disasters oooanio. Shall I call tho roll of t ho dc \d shipping? Ye monstors of tho doop, answer when 1 call your nauios. Tho Villo do llavro, tho Sjhillcr, tho City of Hasten, tho Molvillo, tho President, tho Ciuibria, tho Or egon, tho Mohogan. Hut why should I go on calling tho roil whon nouo of thorn answors aud tho roll is as loDg as the whito roroll of the Atlantic surf at Capo Ilatteras breaker.-? If tho ouoanic cables oould report all tho scattered life and all tho bloaohod bones that thoy rub against in tho oooan, what a raessagoof pathos and tragedy for both beaches! In ono storm oighty fishermen porishod off tho coast of Newfoundland and wholo llootH of thorn i ff iho ooast of K'igland. God help tho poor follows at eoa and give high boats m heaven to tho Graoj Dar lings and tho Ida Inwiscs and lifeboat, men huvoring around Goodwin sands and tho Skcrrios! Tho uoa, owning three fourths of tl o earth, i rojiosos to rapture tho other fourth ami in hnm Harding tho land all around the earth. Pho moving of tho hotels at Brighton Boaoh backward 100 yarls from whcro they onoo Htood a typo of what in going on all around tho world on evory ooast. Tho Dead S >a r Mis today whoro tho an oiont oities Btood. Ihllsrs of tomploa that stood on hill?, geologists now find threc-<| lariers under tho wator or altogether fiubujorgod. Tho soa, having wrecked so mauy uiorohantuien and tlo tillas, wants to wrock tho oontinouts, and honoo disasters oceanic. Alas for (lalvoston and other oitios almost drowned 1 Look at tho disasters epidemic I speak not of tho plaguo in tho fourth c ntury that ravaged Europe and in Moscow and tho Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought suoh terror in tho eighteenth oontury, but 1 look at tho yellow fovcrs and tno choleras aol the diphtherias and tho scarlet fevors and tho typhoids of our tirno. From lludwar, India, whero evory twolfth year 3,000,000 dovotcos oongrega'o, tho oaravaus brought tho oholora, and thai one disease slew 18,000 in oightoen days in Bossorah. Twolvo thousand in ono Rummer slain by it in India and 25.000 in Kgypt. Disasters epidemic. Sotno of tho tinost monumonts in Oroonwood and Laurel llill and Mount Auburn aro to doctors who lost thoir livos battling with southern opidcuiio. But now L turn tho loaf in my subjoot, and I plant tho white lilies and .?_1_. i :j .i t ' i i ' iu? irou amiu uio mgrusnaucs ana tho inyrilo. Thin ago no moro oharaotrrized by wonders of disastor than by wondors of blessing?blessing of longevity; tho avorago of human life rapidly inoroasing. Forty years now worth 400 yoara onoc. Now I can travol from Manitoba to Now York in less than thrco days. La other tinios it would havo takon throo months. In other words, throo days now aro worth throo month of othor days. Tho avorago of human hfo practically greater now than when Noah lived, with his 050 years, and Mcthuualoh lived his 960 years Blessings of intolligeneo: Tho Salmon P. Cliasos and tho Abraham Lincoins and tho Honry Wilsons of tho ooming timo will nqt bo required to road by pino knots or seatod on shoemaker's benoh, nor will tho Forgusons havo to study astronomy whilo watching tho oattlo. Knowlcdgo rolls its tides along ovory man's door, and his ohildron may go down and batho in thorn. If tho plnlosophors of a hun drod years ago wcro oallod up to rooito in a olass with our boys and girls, those old philosophers would bo soot down to tho foot of tho olass beoauso t hoy failod to answor tho questions! b'roo libraries in all tho important towns and oitios of tho land, iJistorioal aloovos and pootioal sholvos and magazino tables for all who dosire to walk through thorn or Bit down at thorn. Blessings of quiok information: Newspapers falling all around us thiok ^ - 1 !_ - n . % an loavoH in a oepiomDcr equinoctial Nows throo days old ranoid and stale. Wo soo tho wholo world twioo a day? through tho nowspapor at tho broakfast lablo and through the newt ;papor at tho toatablo, with an "extra" boro and thoro botweon. Blessings of gospol prolauuatiou: l)o you not kuow that nearly all tho missionary sooiotios have boon born within a hundred yoars and nearly all tho B bio sooiotios and noarly all tho g'oat philanthropio movomonts? Christianity is on tho march, whilo infi 1 olity is dwindling into iuibooility. Whilo infidelity is thus dwindling tho wheol of Christianity is making about a thousand revolutions in a uunuto. All tho copies of Shakespeare and Tonnyson and Dioracli and of any ten of tho most popular writers of tho day less in cumI bor than tho oopics of tho Biblo going I out from our piloting prosscs. A few years ago in rix weeks inoro than 2.000,000 oopios of tho Now Tostaoiont purohasod?uot givon away, but purohasod, bocauso tho world will havo it. Tho most popular book today is tho Biblo, and tho mightiest institution is tho ohuroh, and tho groatoet natuo among tho nations and inoro honorod than any is tho namo of Jesus. Wondors of Bolf saorifioo: A olorgyman told mo in tho northwost that lor six years ho was a missionary at tho oxtromo north, liviDg 400 milos from a postoffioe, and sometimes, the thor momotcr 10 degrees bolow zoro, ho slept out of doorj in wintor, wrapped in rab bit skips woven togotbor. I said: "Is it possiblo? You do not mean 40 degrees below zero?" He said, "I do, will rally suoh enthusiasm? Mothora How'pg thrir fingers oil to rduoato thoir boys for tbo gospel ministry. For niuo y^ars no luxury on tho tab'o inti' 'be 0 ui (m i i.roug i grama ar uehoji tn I colh ge and tb?olo^toal eomio iry bs o?o 1 ?> ( ! I'oor widow put iog tier uni into tho Ijori's treasury, tno fuoof e p- ? or pro iidont is im roan ^6 up in tho coin not ho oonspiououa as tho blood with whiob kIio oarnod it. Millions of v o I men and women, but moro women than men. to whom Christ i? ovorytlr.dg. Christ flrct .ml Christ last aud Christ forever. Whv, this ago is not ro characterized >> i.-vontion and soiontifio explorat'oa as it is by gospel pioolawatioQ. Vou osd get no idoa of it uqIobb you can ring ail tho church bolls in odo ohinio and sc uod a'! iho organs in ono diapason aud gather all tho congregations of Chmtondom in ono "Gloria In Kxoolhia." Mighty oamp meetings! Mighty Chatautpiabl Might oonvoutions of Christian workers! Mighty gonoral assemblies of tho I'rosbytcrian ohurohl Mighty oonforonoos of tho Methodist ohurohl Mighty assooiationa of tho Haptist ohurohl Mighty oonvoutions of tho Episcopal ohuroh! Thoro may bo many years of hard work yet boforo tho consummation, but tho signs aro to mo ro onoouraging that I would not bo unbelieving if I saw tho wiDg of tho apocalyptic angol spread for its last triumphal flight in this day's sunsot or if tomorrow morning tho oooan oables nhouhl thrill us with ths nows that Christ tho Lord had alightod on Mount Olivet to proolaim universal dornini n All dead ohurohos, wikr up! Thr >w baok tho shuttors of stlf eoi'opinsti oism and lot tho light of tho sprieg morning ooiuo in! Morniog for tho land! Morniug for the seel Morning of light and lovo and p^io ! Morning of a day in which thoro shall bo no oliains 10 broak, no sorrows to assuago, no depot ism to shatter, ro woos to oompassionato. 1J oibol Christ, dcsooud! 8ianod temple, take tho o-own 1 liruisod hand, talco tho so >p'or! Wounded foot, stop oa tho throe ! "Thine is tho kingdom.' Those things I say b-otu-o I wa.it you to bo alert. I w?n' ycu t) bo watching all these wonders uoroilig f.om tho boavons ami the . nrth. (3 >d has classified thoro, whether calami tous or pleasing. Tho divio<? purp???s aro harocHBod in tr .0 n thai cannot break and in girths that cionot blip and in buckles that oanuot loeon and ar) driven by roing they mint tnsw r I prcaoh uo fatalism A a earthy on ginoor at ono of tho d ;> -s i j l)_?ko a aaid. "VVhon will y< u e ,l? rn ?' ? ooinotivo and tako a rule v rti t "Woll," L said. "no v, if that 1 met you." So 1 got on ono sido of tho locomotive, and a Mothodiat miniator, who was alao invitod, got on tho othor side, and botwoon us wore tho ongineo and tho stokor. Tho train startod. Tho engineer had his hand on ?ho agitated pul-o of tho groat oogiuo. The stokor shoveled in tho ooal and shut tho dcor with a loud olang. A van plan sliop td uodor us, and tho hitla * vopt by, and tliat groat monster on wh'oh w. rodo tromblod and bounded and snort cd and raged as it hui ed us on. 1 said to tho Methodist minister rn the other sido of tho locomotive: ' Mv broth* r, wliv should ministnPH n uir l ?1... dcoreca and frooagcno.>Y Yousoo thai traok, that firm traok, that irou track; that iB tho doorec. Y u sco this t cgineer's arm; that ia froi nginov. Ho v boautifuliy they work togoihe ! Tne> aro going to tako uh through. Wo could not do without tho track, and wo oould not do without ti.o otigiuocr." So 1 rcjoio day by day, work for all to do, and wo may turn thoorank of tbo Christian maohinory this way or that, for wo aro froo agontB. Bat thoro is tho track laid so long ago no ono rem ombers it?laid by tho hand of tho Almighty God in sookctt that no 5cr rostrial or satanio preHiuro on ever at' foot. And along tho trsjk tho cat of tho world's redemption will roll and roll to tho Grand Central d^pot of tho millonnium. L havo no aixioty about tho traoo. 1 am only afraiil ,h?, for our indolonoo atul unfaithfulnoas G i ''ill dtsohargo us aud got bouio other b okcr and Boino othor onginoor. Tho train is going through with us. S), my brothorn, watohall tho ovonts that arc going by. If things soom to turn out right, givo wings to your joy. If things soom to turn out wrong, throw out tho anohor of faith and hold fast. Thoro is a houso in London whoro roier ino ureat ot ltussia lived awhilo when ho was moving through tho land inoognilo and in workman's dross that ho might loarn ship carpentry, by whioh ho oould supply tho noeds of his pooplo. A stranger was visiting at that houso, ''What's in that box?" Tho ownorsaid: 4'L don't know. That box was thoro whon L got tho houso, and it was thoro whon my father got it. Wo havon't had any ouriosity to look at it. I guess thoro nothing in it." "Woll." Baid tho stranger. "I'll givo you JC2 for it." "Woll, dono," Tho ?'Z was paid, and tho oontonts of that box woro sold to tho czir of Kufsia for $50,000. Ln it tho lathing maohino of I'otor tho Groat, his privato lottcrs aid documents of valuo beyond ail monotary consideration. And hero aro tho cvonts that socm very lusignifioant and unimportant, but tboy inoaso troasuros of l>ivino l'rovidonoo and otormtios of moaning whioh after awhilo 111 J ??L | -? vruu win uuuiunsiraio DOioro tno ages as boiDg of stupendous valuo. Thoeo of you who aro in midlife may well thank God that ycu havo soon ho mauy wondrous things, but there are people alive today who may livo to Bee shimmering voil botwoon tho matorial and tho npiritual world upliftod. Magnetism, a world with whioh wo oovor up our ignoranoo, will yot bo an explorod roalm. Kleotrioty, tho fiery ooursor of toe sky, that Bonjtmin Frankland lassoed and Morso and Boll and Kdison havo brought under oomploto control, has gronter wonders to reveal. Whothor hero or departod this life, wo will soo thing i. It dooa not make muoh d iff or enoo whore wo stand, but the higher the standpoint tho larger tho prospoot. Wo will soo thorn from hoavon if we do not soo thorn from oarth. Y ears ago I was at Fire Island, Long Island, and I wont up in tho oupola from whioh thoy tolograph to Now York tho approaoh of vossols hours before thoy oomo into port. Thoro is an opening in the wall, and tho operator puts his tolosoopo through that opening and looko out and sees vessels far out at sea. While I was talking with him he wont up and looked out. llesaid, "We 1 said: 1 In it possiblo you know nil those ospolb? Do you know thrrn as vou know ainin'tf f?o(?" Ho said: "Yen: J never intV'i % mistake. Hoforo I poo tho hulls I of?on kno v the n by tho masts I krow t hem 01 ?I h?vowatohod them bo lorg ' o >, wh*t a grand thing it is 1r li tve tciographed and herald' A ' .js br'oro Ih?:y oorao to port, that friends may oomo down to I tho wharf and woloomo thoir absent onoe! Ho today wo tnko our stand in ! tho watohtowcr, and through tho glass of inapriation wo Icok off atd fro a whole floct of ships ooming in. That is tho ship n( pea re, with ono ptar of i Bjthlohom fl >atiog abovo tho top gallants. That is tho ship -f tho ohuroh, mark of halt water high upon tho smoke staok, showing sho has had rough woathor, but tho Captain of Ha'vttion commands her, and all is well wiih her Tho ship of heaven, mightiest or*ft ovor launched, millions of paHcngfrH waiting for millions moro, prophets and martyras in tho oabin, conquerors at ho foot of tho mast, whilo from tho igging handf aro waving this way as if thoy know us, and wo wavo baok again, ror they aro ours. Thoy wont out from our own households. Ours! Hail, bail! Put off tho blaok and put on tho whito if 1.:- 1 '1 nuw luo omi? com h nrouna ino great headland. Soon sho will etriko the wharf and wo will go aboard hor. Tears for ships going out. Laughtor for ships ooming in. Now she touohos tho wharf Thrown out tho planks' Blook not up that gangway with ouabraoing long lost frioods, for you will havo eternity of ro union. Staud back and givo way until othor millions come aboard her. Fare- 1 well to sin! Farowoll to struggle! Farowoll to sioknessl Farowoll to death! 1 "Blessodaro all they who ontor in through tho gatosinto tho city." An Evangelist's Stoiy. "I Buflorod for yoars with a bronohial or lung troublo and triod various rem >dies hut did not obtain poruianont r*- , liof until I comroooood using Ono Minute Coufjh Cure," writos Uov. James Ki kman. ovangolist of Bollo Hiver, 111. "L havo no hesitation in roooui mondiug it to all sulForors fritn rualadioH of this k'nd.' Uno Minute Cough Curo affords immediate rolicf lor coughs, oolds and all kinds of throat j and lung troublos. For oroupit is un equalled. Absolutely safo. V jry ploasant to tako, never fails and is roa'!y a favorito with tho ohildron. Tnoy like it. ( Dr. K. Norton Shot by a SocialiBt. Franois Ivoagh, an oditorial writer on an afternoon newspaper in Now 1 York, who was shot oarlv Wednesday morning by Alexander Horr, a bookbinder and printer, iB in Bollovuo 1 oi pital in a oritioal condition. The wounded man mado a statemont to the < ooronor and Uorr was taken to tho hospital to bo identified by Ivoagh. Aocording to tho polioo, l/cagh said to i Hon: "You aro tho man who shot mo. i You aro ?n anarchist and a publisher of anaroHstio liioraturo." Ivcaghrent- < td a room for himself, hiH wifo and i their fouryoar-old son from llorr about a month ago. Tho ront had boon paid up until Wodnosday, and Tuesday Ivoagh told Horr that ho intondod to movo. Conflicting stories aro told as to tho causa of tho shooting but it scorns to havo followed an attompt by Ivoagh to ontor his room aftor ho had bcon lookod out by llorr. baved his Life. "I wish to say that I fool I owo my , Kfo to K )dol Dyspepsia Coro." writes 11. (3. CnrostonHon of Ilajfiold, Minn. "For throo years 1 was troublod with dyspepsia so that I could hold nothing oo my stomaoh, Many timos 1 would ho unablo to rotain a moraol of food. Finally L was ooLliood to my bod. Doo tors said L oould not livo. 1 road ono of your advortisomonts on Kodol Dyspepsia Curo and thought it tit my oaso and oommonood its uso. 1 bogan to improvo from tho lirst bottle. Now 1 am ourod and rcoommond it to all." Digests your food. Curoa all stomach troublos. Dr. K. Norton. May End Fatally. As tho result of a poouliar bot Buok Campboll in dangerously ill at his homo in Ashley, Pa., and tho dootors say ho may die. Campboll bot Stevo Lioborman $10 that ho oould sit on a radiator longer ?hr.n ?ho latter oould. Tho oonica-. la ted 1' >rty five minutos, and then | Campbell foil to tho floor uuoonsoious | and severely burnod. Sioborraan got off a aeoond aftor Campbell. Tho latter was lakon homo in a oab, oautrht oold, and pnoumonia not in. Ho wb ao badly burnod that if ho reoovors ho will bo lamo for lifo. Lioberman was but littlo irjurod. Health and Beauty. A poor oomploxion in usually tho result of a torpid livor or irregular ajtion of tho bowols. Haloes naturo's rcfuso is oarriod of! it will euroly oanao impuro blood. Pimples, boils and other eruptions follow. Thin is nature's mothod of throwing off tho poisons whioh tho bowols failed to romovo. DoWitt's Littlo Karly llisors are world famous for remedying this oondition Thoy stimulato tho liver and promote regular and hoalthy aotion of tho bowols but never oauso griping, cramps or distross. Bafo pills. Dr. K Norton. Information Wantod. Tho oomptrollor gonoral Thursday reooivod a letter tho contents of whioh aro givon in the hope that boudo one oonverBant with tho facts may pro it and writo tho lady. Tho writer of tho lottor is Mrs. Fanny L. Hutohinson, of Batosvillo, Indopendenoo county, Arkansas, and oays: "I want to know of of the disposition of the estato of 'Jack' or John Pritohard, the estato loft by him when he oamo wost. To tho best of my rcoolleotion it was and is situated in Piokons district. If you oan give mo any information [ will bo very thankful.. I am tho only living ohild and when John Pritohard died I never reooivod my part of a rioh estate.' Of Benefit to Ton. D. S. Mitchell, Fulford, Md.: "Daring a long illnoss 1 was troublod with bed sores, was advised to try DeWitt's Witoh Hazel Salve and did so with wonderful rosults. I was perfootly ourod. It tho host salve on the market." Sure oure for piles, sores, burps. Beware of counterfeits. A MATHEMATICAL MARVEL. Intricate Problems Solved in I^rr Than a Minute. Be'dm tfo Philadelphia bo? I n( eduOH?i< o ? d fcuosts, which i'O'icjd principals of schools and professors of mathomatics in al ility second to no?o in tlio oountiy, .Jac<j'ios Luaudi, tho marvellous ahepbord boy of Piedmont, subjected himself to two hours cf tho severest mathomatioal test in mental calculation tha* was ever given to living man. Moro thau that, ho o*en?> off with Hyi^g oolf ra Tho uuanoa took place in tho sp?oi ouh obrttber of tho superintendent of tohoulo in tho Philadelphia city hall, about 10 persons being present. With his back to a black beard, upon which wcro rcoordod tho various problems bb fast as thev wore road to tho oaloulator, Inaudi stood porfeotly ruotionlets?a Bhort, stocky little man, with a serious and almost sadea'-tof oountonanoo, with tho tiniest fcot and the largest hosd that oyer orossod that threshold, and a mannor shrinking and at times almost dtrvish-liko in lapt and tense montal absorption. Tiioro is nothing of tho poseur in Inaudi, and while it is plain to bo seen in tho man's very prcaonoo that ho in no ordinary ohsractcr, nothing superhuman in his makeup appears to tho casual obsorvor, although his marvellous feats ; of caloulation would lead ono to bo-! liovo hi 111 aided by somo superior power of which man has do conception. Ono by ono tho problems wore offered to tho calculator, and it wa? plain to bo soon that a good day's hard work had been spent in preparing thorn, with a view not on'y to testing tho man's powors iu ordinary calculation, but with all tlio oatohes en well, iloro, then, arc tho problems as delivered orally ly tho superintendent of odeation hiuisoif and tho time in which they wcro solved without tho oaloulator onoo turning his faco to tho blackboard upon which ihe problems wore written: Problem I?How many minutes in 11 years, 1 month and 2 days? Answor?5,SHU, M'O minutes or 340,333,600 seo)oda. Time taken to oompuio, 46 seconds. Problem 2?How many minutes in a leap yoai? Answer? 527,000. Time, 9 booandi. Problem 3?How many days from Fohruary 21, 1860, to Soptombor 10, I860? Answer?202 Timo, 11 seconds. Uatoh, leap vcar. Problem 4 ? If a leap year begins on Friday, on what day will tho Fourth of July come? Answer?Monday. Timo, 3 socjnds. Problem 5?Milton was born on Doecmbor 0, 1608, and died on November 3, 167;"). What was his ago in years, mcntbs and dayt ? Answer?66 jears, 11 months and 1 day, (dlowiog for loup yter ) Timo, 16 jooonUs. Problom 6?If a man was born at 10 o'olook a. m. od Janubry 16, 1840, and died at 6 a. m. ou Soptomber 10, 1001, how many seoonds old was he? Answer?1,045,454,400 Booonds Time, 27 seconds. Problem 7 ? What is tho square root of 9,339,136? Answer- 3 050, Time, 43 booonds. Problem 8?What is tho rquaro root of 642 521,1(M? At tho uamo timo auswer quostions to be i>ut bo various listoners as to tho month of any yoar? a foat of dual calculation earned oq at lho sarno timo. Questions answered: April 1(), 1895? WeunoKday. January 18, 1887? Thursday. .July 2, 1881? Saturday. Four moro similar quotations. Answer to t quaro root problem, 25,248. Time, 70 seconds. 1'roblotn 9?What is tho cubo root of 1G,248.384,862? AoBWfci: 2,628 Timo, 24 sooonds. Problem 10?Anothor and moro difficult feat of porformiog a problom with onehalf of tho tTain while tho othor half answers questions as to tho day of tho wcok of awy dato of any yoar. What is tho cubo root of 8,625,214,936.512? > Dato questions answored: .July 1, 1862? Wodnesday. May 26, 1865? Baturdav. January 30 1836? Saturday. Christ map, 18U0? Thurdsy K'ght more similar to theco Answer I to the cube reot problem, 20,503 I'imo, 57 firearms. Problem 11?Similar to tho above, but far more difficult still. What is tho fourth root of 5.636 405 776? l)a;e questions aDswircd: September 1, 1900? Saturday. Mav 26, 1865? Tuctday. April 10, 1862? Saturday. 36 times 97? 3,492 Sixteen similar to the abovo. Answer to tho fcuth root inbkm, 274 Timo, 1 mituto, 12 secords. Tho folio ring five or six problems woto variations of tho abovo. Tho final problem was a feat in performing five so per Uo pre b'cms at once, v;z: A-..1 .1 ? QOR. n o(ii a?v. -? uiuu.ii.itf, i ,oi? t ouim r*oi * ?.497 from 68,005. Multiply 642 by 28 Div d 69,f)G4 bv 49, Kind mo on be root of 129,654 216. Answers in t very oaso oorico;. Time, 51 seconds f>r all. As a final proof of his rctuatkablo memory for cuml ors, without turning towards the blaokboard whoro the problems and answers were writcn, lnaudi road of! every problem and gave the oorroot answer from first to lait. Hard to Boat. Gov. Jolks, of Alabama, Wodncda granted a parolo to Mrs. Nannie Cheok who was reoently eonviotcd in Ilonrv AAliniv f\t lillinrf Ha* <i .? U- ? -15? ? - 1 v* aiiuu^ iv(n At/) ? yr uivuiccu husband. She married Parzoy whon she was 13 yours old. A divoroo followed aftor two ohildron wcro born And Mrs. Danioy mArriod 11. M. 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