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WISE WORDS. The anticipation of evil is the death of happiness. All the precepts of the divine law are linked together. Negligence in one single point may lead to the destruction of all. Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in any thing for their own use, but merely to pass it to another. All virtues are sanctified or unhal lowed, according to the principle which dictates them, and will be accepted or rejected accordingly. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness began on ours. Opportunity is the flower of time; and as the stalk may remain when the flower is cut off, so time may remain with us when opportunity is gone. Mental pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they can not laugh. Justice is itself the great standing pol icy of civil society, and any eminent de parture from it, under any circumstances, Iks under the suspicion of being no policy at all. One must not only cultivate one’s friends, but cultivate one's friendships, preserving them with care, looking after them, so to speak, and watering them from day to day. Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good feeling. If the law of kindness be written in the heart, it will lead to that disinterestedness in both great and little things—that desire to oblige, and that attention to the gratifi cation of others, which are the founda tion of good manners. William Fowler is the name ot an eight-year old tramp now in Memphis, Tenn. He began to travel when barely six years old, and has been all over the country. Good Blood Is absolutely Essential to Good Health You may have Both by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla The best Blood Purifier. It possesses Curative Power Peculiar To Itself THE 8REAT ENGLISH REMEDY, BEECHAM’S PILLS hr Bilims anil Nnmnn DMen. "Worth a Oninm a Box” bat sold for 25 Cents, by Ari, iiKi i.j.'vrs. MIT COLICS! w "Tr , b o n nZ; ,0 ,,: September I, 1891. * of FhUOMphr •ad Art,; A( oilf no of Cow 2S?*i A ( of tlio ScIeEiceni A Dlvloitj *1 Sehool of Too (mill,air; (a Law Soiool; A School of Political Scieuco; A nodical hoiiooi. Send for calalopus to Joan F. OROWILL, A. B„ Prwddrut, „ Trinity C<,Utqe P. 0.,K C. ”*** School (Picparaturx) In Eandulpl OooulJ, opa* a u«u»t L • ^ j EXCDRS10N RATES O 1 Tickets Good for Five Days. KEEP YOUR EYE OR DILWORTH “THE CITY OF AVENUES.” A Suburban Town Site of 4<»0 Acres, forming the South ern Corporate Limits op CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Queen City of the State. A Bottlemrd 100 feet wide, (jive* a 3 mile driiv arourvl DILWORTH, and its avenues, running at right angles, are (itsfeet wide, constructed with a view to sanitary advantages, for setverage with water facilities. Over one hundred thousand dollars has already been spent on this pro perty and many more thousands will Ve expended in the near future. The property contains the beautiful LATTA Park of 90 acres, a lovely feature, of which is Forsyth lake nearly 1200 feet long. Taken alto gether, this is the prettiest resort of its character in the "’Dixie" country. At LATTA Park there are now in course of construction, and will be completed by Augusts, 1891, apa- inlion designed by the celebrated Norrman, "the architect of beauti ful designs," together with a keepers lodge, unique in character and a conservatory after the English pat tern, at a cost for the buildings and furnishings of over $13,000, together with other attractive features, now being arranged for by the Charlotte Consolidated Cons. Co. The com/Hiiiy will offer at public sale on the premises on MAY, 20, 21, 22, 1891, a number of valuable building lots, in the immediate vicinity of the pic turesque places above described. Terms of sale: One-fourth cash, bal ance in 1, 2 and 3 years. The visitor to Charlotte on that day, will be present also at the regular annual celebration of MecNeobarg Declaration of inflepeDdeDce. This mi day !■» feature of North Carolina’e Queeu City, and is well worth tho tr«p from the remotest section of our surrounding country. Tho ■chaserof alotor lots, will be rewarded with return of the cost of his fare to tho sale, ir respective of business, the pleasures of tho day will amply repay all for the outlay. Celebrated music will be on hand to enliven tho party. Am ple accommodations for visitors, through four hotels and a largG number of boarding houses. A finely equipped electric city railway to rarrp I assengers over Charlotte and her environs, no£ ecorated in their beautiful Spring attire. CP^itlake a note of If, lo vi»it DIT* WOKTIf and CHAHIdOTTi:, .Hay 20. 91,99,1891. wot further information, address CHARLOTTE CONSOLIDATED CONS. CO. CHARLOTTE, IN, C, • THE LAB0B W0BLD. Chicago bas Chiuesc bakors. Oakland (Cal.) hodearners cot $5. Newark, N. J., bas -121 union hatter*. Lowell (Mass.) women ore organizing. New York has 8000 union eloctmakers. New York has a workmen’s free school. Train dispatchers will meet at Toledo, Ohio. Brooklyn has a Workmen's Dramatic Club. Brooklyn framers get forty-five cents an hour. New York bakers recently held a mass meeting. New York millwrights have a tool insur ance fund. New York has a Children’s Jacket Mak ers’ Union. London unions demand tho abolishment of sweating. The Brotherhood of Blacksmiths has thirty- five unions. Buffalo (N. Y.) teamsters want H a day and Canadians kept out. London's 2000 bookbinders demand the abolishment of piece work. Trenton (N. J.) street car hands had their wages cut fifty cents a day. Alabama workers kick against the en croachment of convict labor In London they talk of providing music for laborers during dinner hour. San Francisco brewery unions have a fund to enable men to travel in search of work The wives of the coke striker* in Pennsyl vania are said to be the leaders of the present riots. Railroad business in the South Is dull and large numbers of men are being dis charged to reduce operating expenses. The labor organizations of Sydney, Australia, are collecting a fund where- with to establish a daily labor paper in that city. The National Organization of the Book binders of Germany has decided to admit tbe| workingwomen of their trade to all of itr benefits. As weavers are now exempt by law to Massachusets from fines for imperfect clot), hereafter discharge will be substituted ft* the fine. The Illinois Women's Alliance found shirt factories in Chicago where childra*' under legal age work ten to fourteen hour* »' day for |1 a week. Leading granite producers of the country met in Chicago the other day to organize for mutual protection. Delegates denied that a “trust” was contemplated, but intimated that there would be a war on labor unions. The labor unions of Fort Worth, Texas, have purchased land whereupon to erect a large meeting ball. The 200,000 organized workingmen of New York will probably have a nail at the end of the coming millennium. An imperial decree has been issued in Ger many forbidding racing on Sundays, and ad vising that the local authorities permit race* to be held only on working days as the best method of hindering workingmen from at tending them. The spirit of organization has struck the bell-ringers of the English churches, the first annual meeting of the “Central Council of Church Bell-ringers” having been held, with seventy delegates attending, representing 12,000 members. Official estimate of the unemployed: London, 190,000; Chicago, 50,000; Kansas City, 8000; Boston, 12.000; Minneapolis, 8000; j Paris, 00,000; New York. 75,000; St. Louis, I 20,000; Philadelphia, 14,000; Cincinnati, 4800; San Francisco, i200; New Orleans, 8500, mu] Denver, 6600. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Japan has 40,215 physicians. St. Louis has ten electric roads. Winter wheat prospect* are good. Russia claims a population of 112.312, 758. American emmigration agents swarm in Italy. Piracy is still rampant around Amoy, China. There are 12,000 Italian bootblacks in New York City. The Argentine currency is to be placed on a silver basis. North Dakota promises better crops than for seven years past. There is an alarming increase of insanity among Iowa frrmers. Maine shows an increase of population in the whole State of 12,150. Many scientific societies are to meet in Washington this summer. Actual work on the Intercontinental Railway survey has begun. The populat on of Paris has increased 50,- COO since the previous census. There is some talk of laying a cable he- tween England and Germany. The Farmers’ Alliance claims to have 25,- 000 members in New York State. "Pinkeye” is making serious trouble again in the stables of Philadelphia. Corsica objects to the burial of Prince Napoleon, “Plon Plon’s,” body there Over 750,000,000 caus are used auuuaily in the United States by the canniug factories. A Hungarian court declares a marriage in the United States not binding in Hun gary. One hundred tons of Japanese curios were recently brought to this country by one ship. The American Consul at Cardiff is a prospective candidate for a parliamentary seat. The Jamacia fair has proven of great benefit to the island although not a financial success. The Italian Premier, it is said, gave Baron Fava, Minister to this country, a cool ro ceptiou. According to the Census Bureau Iowa has a real estate mortgage indebtedness of 5190,- 034,956. The short hay crop of the Southwest has produced a hay famine in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina have planted over 70,000 acres of water melons this year. - A Boer expedition with the consent of Portugal will establish a Bepublic in Moni- caland, South Africa. The tomb of Aristotle, recently discovered by Americau students at Etruria, Greece, is declared to be authentic. From 8000 to 10,000 people are locating every month in the State of Washington. They are actual settlers. Insects have begun their assaults upon the Kansas wheat fields and among them is a new enemy of the grain. The Behring Sea case before the Supreme Court at Washington has been postponed to October on account of the illness of Justice Bradley. Hume Clay, a descendant of the Great Commoner, pleaded guilty to forgery at Winchester, Ky., and was sentenced to eight years in prison. A handsome monument of stone has been erected near Greensburg, Ind., to mark the exact centre of population in the United States. Philadelphia claims that the census re turns already show that that city leads all others in the country in the value of annual manufactured products. Judges Shiras and Edgerton, of the ' United States Court, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, while trying Plenty Horses for the murder of Lieutenant Carey, decided that the Indians are not a separate nation and had no right to go to war. Tilt) Poor Mower jankers. Flower making is one of the starving industries of New York City. It takes from two to six years to learn the busi ness. Roses, leaves, violets and clusters like lilacs are the popular branches and all arc paid by the piece. The first year the learner averages $1 a week; the sec ond year $2.50; the third $3; the fourth $1, ami after that eighty cents a day is considered fair pay, for the reason that first class work is not abundant, til* buyers preferring imported flowers for the same money to the home product. Strong chemicals are used iu the work and have a deleterious influence on tho health of the girls. These rose-makers and ioliago-hranchers are very nice girls as a class. Taste is required in the work, which has a refining influence on those called up.>n to exert it.—Few York WvrU. There is a proposition on foot in Seat tle, Washington, to establish (here a plant for drying the codfish caught in Abakan waters, and making Seattle the great distributing point for fish on the I’acific Coast, su’ REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine’■ Snndav Sermon ITjxr : “ Of Spices great abundance; neither was there any such Spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.”—11 Chronicles, lx., 9. What is that building out yonder glitter ing in the sun? Hare you not heard? It is the house of the forest of I^banon. King Solomon bas just taken to it his bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico and a great tower, adorned with one thousand shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower—five hundred of these shields of gold manufactured at Solomon’s order, five hundred were captured by David his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up tho ivory stairs of bis throne between twelve lions in statuary and sits down on the back of the golden hull', the head of the bronze beast turned toward the peopie. The family and attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the place have to provide every day one hundred sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of four thousand flue horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work ot gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak: and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm, and followed by mounted archers iu purple, as the caval cade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth getting up at five o’clock iu tho morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day—erowned imbecility. All the splendor of his palace and retinue was eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Pea cocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chat ted in the trees and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradition says these birds were so well lamed that Solomon might walk clear across he city under the shadow of their wings as -hey hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made •ind guessed. He and King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask addles, each one paying in money if he could uot answer or guess the riddle. The Solo monic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the wealth of (heir king, and about the riddles and euglmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solve, and a few puzzles which she would like lo have him dnd out. She sent among other things to King Solomon a diamond with a hole so small that a needle could not pene trate it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to Jill it with water that did not pour from the sky, and that did not rush out from the earth,and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent King Solomon five hundred boys in girls’ dress, and five hun dred girls in boy? dress, wondering if he would be cute enough to flud out the decep tion. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from tho way they applied the water that it was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said, “I’ll just go hud see him lor myself.” Yonder it comes—the cavalcade—horses and dromeda ries, chariots and charioteers, jingling har ness and clattering hoofs, and blazing shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon and saffron and calamus and frankincense and all man ner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the gate the armed guard inhale the aroma. “Halt!” cry the charioteers, as the wheels grinds the gravel in front of the pil- ared portico of the king. Queen Balkis i lights in an atmosphere bewitched with per- lume. As the dromedaries are driven up to (he king’s store-houses, an 1 the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cin namon, and the boxes of spices are opened, the purveyors of the palace discover what my text announces, “Of spices, great abun dance; neither was there any such spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon Well, my friends, you know that all the- nlogians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and making the Queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker, and I shall take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and trankincense which toe Queen of Sheba brought to Kiug Solo mon are mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chronological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of briy light It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices to our Di vine King as Queen Balkis was wise in tak ing the spices to the earl lily .Solomon! What many of us most need is to have the hum drum driven out of our life and the hum drum out of our religion The Aiuericanand Fngiish church w ill die of humdrum unless there be a change. An editor from San Francisco a few weeks sgo wrote me savin ; he was getting up for his paper u symposium from many clergy men, discussing among other things, “Why do not people go lo church?” and he wanted my opinion, and I gave it in one sentence, “People do not go to church because they cannot stand the humdrum.” The fact M that most people lia\u so much humdrum in their worldly calling that they do uot want to have added the humdrum of religion. We need in all our sermonsand exhortntionsand songs and prayers more of what Queen Bal kis brought to Solomon—namely, more spice. The fact is that the duties and cares of this life, coming to us troni time to time, are stupid often and inuue and intolerable. Here are men who have been bartering and ne gotiating, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty years, iorty years, titty years. One great long drudgery has their life been. Their face anxious, their leeliugs benumbed, their days monotouous. What is necessary to brighten up that man’s life, and to sweeten that acid disposition, and to put sparkle into the man s spirits? The spicery of our holy religion. Why, if between tin losses of life there dashed u gleam of an eternal gain; if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying Iriendship of Christ; lx in dull times in business wo lound minis tering spirits flying to uni fn in our office and store and shop, everyday life, instead of being a stupid monotone, wutiM bo a glori oils inspiration, penduluming between calm satisfaction and high rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion of Christ to iieip her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one’s life, as many women do, in planning for the meal.-, in stitching garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages »nd supervising tardy subordinates and driving off dust, that soon again will settle, and dotng the same thing day in and day out, and year in and year out, uutil their hair silvers, and the back stoops, and tho spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open under the thin sole of tho shoe— oh, it is a long monotony! But when Christ r.omes to tlie drawing room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and comes in the dwelling, thou how cherry be- emues nil womanly duties. She is never alone now; Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at the feat of Jesus. All day long Deborah is happy because she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because she can make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam, because she can watch her infant brother- Rachel, because she can help her father water the stock; the widow of Sarepta, be cause the cruse of oil is being replenished, O woman I having in your pantry a nest of boxes containing all kinds of condiments, why have you not tried in your heart ana ife the spicery of our holy religion! “Martha! Marllia! thon art careful nun -roubled about many things; but one thing s needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not lie taken away from her.” I must confess that a great deal of the re ligion of this day is utterly insipid. There is nothing piquant or elevating about it Men and women go around Immining psalms in a minor key, and culturing melancholy, and their worship lias iu it more eigln than rapture. We do uot doubt their piety. Oh, no. But they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season tho food. Everything is Hat in tluiir experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell, and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlasting Botany Bay. Religion does not teem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangulation instead of an exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been writ- ;en, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spen cer, have not done so much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wants b religion woven out of tho shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Horvoy’s “Medita tions Among the Tombs.” Then let oar songs abound. And every tear be dry; We’re marching through Emmanuel's ground To fairor world’s on hlsb. I have to say. also, that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meet ing, or in the Sabbath school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations more lilie* of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elabora tions and fewer sesquipedalian words; and when we talk about shadows, we do not want to say adumbration; and when we mean queeraess, we do not want to talk about idiosyncracies; or if a stitch in the back, we do not want to talk about lumbago, but in tbe plain vernncu'ar preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, hon est, victonous and free. In other words, we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be common sensical. When we talk to the people in a vernacular they can understand they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queeu Balkis would drive her spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons and prayer-meeting exhor tations. More than that, we want more4he and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread and medicines and the garments you give them, let there be an ac companiment of smiles and brisk encourage ment. Do not stand and talk to them about the wretchedness of their abode, and the hunger of their looks, and the hardness of their lot. Ahl they know it better than you can tell them. Show them the bright side of the thing, if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will come. Tell them that for the children of God there is im mortal rescue. Wake them up out of their stolidity by au inspiring laugh, and while you send in help, like the Queen of Sheba, also send in the spices. There are two ways of meeting the poor. One is to come into their house with a nose elevated in disgust, as much as to say: “I don’t see how you live here in this neighbor hood. It actually makes me sick. There is that bundle; take it, you poor, miserable wretch, and make the most of it." Another way is to go into the abode of the poor in a manner which seems to say: “The blessed Lord sent me. He was poor himself. It is not more for the good 1 am going to try to do you than it is for tho good you cau do me.” Coming in that spirit tbe gift will be as aro matic as the spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all the hove!s in that alley will he fra grant with the spice. We need more spice and enlivenment in our church music. Churches sit discussing whether they shall have choirs, or precen tors, or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. I say, take that which will bring out the most inspiring music. It we had half as much zeal and spirit in our churches as we have in the songs of our Sabbath schools it would not be long before the whole earth would quake with the coming God. Why, in most cnurches nine-tenths of the people do not sing, or they sing so feebly that the people at their elbows do not know they are sing ing. People mouth aud mumble the praises of God; but there is not more than one out of a hundred who makes "a joyful noise" unto the Rock of Our Salvation. Some times, when the congregation forgets itself, and is all absorbed in the goodness of God or the glories of heaven, I get an intimation of what church music will be a hundred years from now, when the coming generation shall wake up to its duty. 1 promisee high spiritual blessing to any one who will sing in church, and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up I all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom. It is not a matter of preference, it is a matter of religious duty.* Oh, for fifty times more volume of sound. German chorals in German cathedrals sur pass us, and yet Germany lias received uotking at tho hands of God compared with America; and ought the acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in Brooklyn? Soft, long drawn out music is appropriate for tbe draw ing room and appropriate for the concert, but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant congregational singing appro priate for churches when, in listening to the temple service of heaven, he says: “I heard a great voice, as the voice of a great multi tude, and as the voice oi many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Halle lujah for the Lord (JoJ omuipoteut reigt- eth." Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts, hut the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can,through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they i an laugh at, a sermon they can talk down, but a vast audience joining in one anthem is irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice leaden domedaries into our church music. “Neither was there any •uch spice as the Queeu of Sheba gave King Solomon.” Now, I want to impress this audience with he fact that religion is sweetness and per- ume and spikenard and saffron and cinna mon and cassia and frankincense, and ail sweet spices together, “Oil,” you say. “I have not looked at it as such. I thought it was a nuisance; it had for me a repulsion; I held my breath as though it were malodor; I have been appalled at its advance. I have said, if I have any religion at all, I want to have just as little of it as is possible to get through with," Oh, what a mistake your have made, my brother. The religion of Ciirist is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine, and throws a glow on the gloom ■ »f the turned lattice. It is a balm for the idling side, and a soft bandage for the tem- >le stung with pain. Why did you look so sad to-day when you nme hi? Alas! for the loneliness and the icartbreak, and the load that is never lifted . rom your soul. Some of you go about feel- ’ ig like Macaulay when he wrote: “If I had mother mouth of such days as I have been I lending, I would be impatient to get down nto my little narrow crib in the ground like n weary factory child." And there have been times iu your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said, “Ob, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley," and wish you could pull over you in your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said! “Ob, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb. I wish I was there.” 1 see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness; sadness, disappointment, per plexity. If I could ask all those to rise in (his audience who have felt uo sorrow and neen buffeted by no disappointment—if I could ask ail such to rise, how many would rise? Not one A widowed mother with her little child went West, hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken sick and died. The over seer of the poor got her body aud put it in a box, and put it in a wagon, and started down the street toward tbe cemetery at full trot. T he little child—the only child—ran after it through the streets, bareheaded, crying, “Bring me back my mother I bring me back my mother!” And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in tbe box in the wagon—all she loved on earth—it is said the whole vil lage was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing—chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resun-ection and reunion far be yond this scene of struggle and tears. “They shall hanger no more, neither thirst any more, neither ahall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in tbe midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Across tbe couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as ex hales to-dav from tbe Lord's garden. It is peace. It Is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to you. Borne one could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used to be always so calm and happy and hopeful when be bad so mauy trials and sicknesses and ailments. A man secreted himself in the house. He sail, ‘.‘I mean to watch tilts old scholar and Christian:” and he saw the old Christian man go to his room and sit down on the chair beside tbe stand and open the Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter alter chapter, hour after hour, until his face was all aglow with tbe tid ings from heaven, and when tbe clock struck twelve he arose and shut his Bible, and said: “Blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms yet. Good night. Good night.” Ob, you sin parched and you trouble pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction. Will you come and get it? 1 cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as I cau tell you now. “It doth not yet ap pear what we shall be." Have you read of tho Taj Mahal in India, in some respects the most majestic building on earth? Twenty •.housand men wore twenty years in building it. It cost about sixteen millions of dollars. The walls are of marble, iula d with carne- Uan from Bagdad, aud turquois from Thibet, and jasper from tho Punjaub, and amethyst from Persia, and all manner of precious stones. A traveler says that it seems to him like the shining of an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are two hun dred and forty-five feet high, and from the top of these spriugs a dome thirty Taore feet high, that dome containing the most won derful echo the world has ever known, so that ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes and drums and harps are testing that echo, and the sounds from below strike up, aud then come down, us it were, the voices of angels ail around about the building. There is around it a garden of tamarind and banyan and palm mid all the floral glories of she ransacked earth. But that is only a tomb of a dead empress, and it is tame compared with the grandeurs which God bas budded for your living and immortal spirit. Oh, home of tbe blessed I Foundations of gold' Arches of victory I Capstones ot praise! And a dome in which .here arc echoing and re-echoing the hallelu jahs of the ages. Aud arouna about that mansion is a garden—tlie garden of God— and all the springing fountains are the bot tled tears of’ toe church in the wilderness, and oil the erimsou of ilowers is the deep hue that was caught up from tbe carnage ot earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance is the prayer of all the saints, and tbe aroma puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia, and tbe spikenard, and tlie Iraukiucense, aud the world renowned spices which the Queen Balkis, of Abyssinia, flung at the feet of Kiug Bolomon. When shall these eyes thy heaven built w alls And nearly gates behold. Thy bulwark-, with salvation strong, And streets oi shinitiR gold? Througn obduracy on our part, and through the rejection of that Christ who makes heaven possible, i w onder if any of us will miss that spectacle? I fear! 1 fear! The queen of the south will rise up in judg ment against this generation and condemn it, because she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol omon, aud behold, a greater than Solomon is here! May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religion’s ways nre ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are paths of peace—that it is perfume now und perfume lorever. Aud there was an abundance of spice; “neither was there any such snice us the Queeu of Bheba gave to King Sclouioii." PROMINENT PEOPLE, Keelv, the motor man, is fifty-three years old. Jokai, tbe Hungarian novelist, is a mill- lonaire. Bismarck's wife wants him to stay out of politics. Frivate Secretary Halford bas gone to London. The Russian artist, Verestchagin, has be come insane. S'The President got a bouquet in the eye at Pasadena, Ca). Millionaire C. P. Huntington is inter ested in a railroad in Africa. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, will spend the summer iu England. Von Moltke never enjoyed good health until he reached the age of forty. Parnell, the Irish leader, has a brother, John H., living in West Point, Ga. The Archbishop of Erlau, in Hungary, has a yearly revenue which amounts to $275,- 000. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, is regarded as the oldest t heatrical manager in the United States. George Francis Train has started on an other orb-cycling trip with the intention of beating tbe record. Lord Randolph Churchill has been offered by the London Telegraph ?500 a col- tomn for letters of travel. After all their years of notoriety and car- ricature. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has sac rificed his mutton-chop whiskers and is now clean shaven. General Butler lives on a scale that most millionaires would regard as extrava gant, keeping up establishments in Washing ton, Boston and Lowell. It is reported that Michael Davitt has de- dded to abandon his English career an l em igrate to San Francisco, with a view of making his home on the Pacific slope. Jay Gould gets his name from Chie* Justice Jay, of New York. Mr. Gould'® ■lather was a country magistrate, whose ad‘ miration for tbe Chief-Justice was un bounded. Nellie Grant Sartoris, aside from her domestic troubles, is said to be most fortu nately situated. She has plenty of money and moves in tbe best English society, even being entertained by royalty. The retirement of General John Gibbon of the Federal army, on account of age, re calls tbe fact that his wife often accompanied him during his campaigning in the late war, and came to be dearly loved by all the soldiers. Horace Chilton, whom Governor Hogg has appointed United States Senator in Mr. Reagan’s place, is tbe first native Texan to hold that office, and, with the exception of William H. Crain, is probably the firs to go to either house of Congress. Mr. (Tiiiton was a candidate for a Democratic nomina tion for Congress in 1882, but got into a deadlock with Hubbard, who was after vard appointed Minister to Japan, and a third man carried off the prize. Florida I'liosj:hate Beils. “The phosphate beds of Florida have since their discovery about one year ago given employment to thirty-two millions of capital. Aud,” continued Commis sioner R. Turnbull, agucst of the Palmer House from that State, “many more millions will be invested there before the close of the present year. Moreover, good, substantial returns are being had on the money. Phosphate mining is not like gold and silver mining—you don't have to spend thousands of dollars be fore you learn where there is anything in the ground worth digging for. The phosphate lies in flat beds, the top of which is only a few feet under ground, and one man can in a short time figure pretty close to the actual amount of phos phate obtainable from any particular plot of ground. Bo that an investor can put in his money and be sure oi getting it and something beside back. That is the kind of a State Florida is.”—Chicago Post. Curious Facts About the Pump. The water pump of to-day is but an improvement on the Grecian invention which first came iuto use during the reign of PtolemiesPhiladelphbs aud Energetes, 283 to 221 B.C. The name which is very similar in all languages, is derived from the Greek word petnpo, to send or tbiow. The most ancient description wo have of a water pump is by Hero of Al- exaudre. There is uo authentic account of the general use of tho pump in Ger many previous to the begiuning of the sixteenth century; at about that time the endless chain and bucket works for rais ing water from mines began to be re placed by puaips. In tho seventeenth century rotating pumps, like the Pappen- ham engine with two pistons and the Prince Rupert with one, were first used. Pumps with plunger pistons were in vented by Moriand, an Englishmau, in 1647; the double acting pump by De la Hire, tlie French academician.—SI. Louis Rejiublic. Southern Town Site and Lands Wanted. I would be pleased to correspond with parties having in baud for disposal a parcel of 5,000 lo 12,000 aoies of min eral, timber and farm lands, a portion of which is well adapted by location and general surroundings for the building of au industrial city. Same must lie ad jacent to railroads and river; other ad vantages desirable. F. J. Conklino, 1013 Putnam avenue, Urooklyu, N. V. Houston, Texas, has a woman rca estate auunt What is lacking is truth and confidence. If there were absolute truth on the one hand and absolute confidence on the other, it wouldn’t be necessary for the makers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy to back up a plain statement of fact by a $500 guarantee. They say—“If we can’t cure you (make it personal, please,) of catarrh in the head, in any form or stage, we’ll pay you §500 for your trouble in making the trial.” “An advertising fake,” you say. Funny, isn’t it, how some people prefer sickness to health when the remedy is positive and the guarantee absolute. Wise men don’t put money back of “ fakes.” And “ faking ” doesn’t pay. Magical little granules — those tiny, sugar-coated Pel lets of Dr. Pierce — scarcely larger than mustard seeds, yet powerful to cure—active yet mild in operation. The best Liver Pill ever invented. Cure sick headache, dizziness, constipation. One a dose. SMITH’S ||ile Beans Cure Biliousness Sick Headache, Malaria, Costiveuvss, Heart Burn, Dizzineea, Bad Breath. Nervous Debility, Dysentery, Jaundice, Fains in the Bide and under the Shoulder Blades. Haver fail to act on a Torpid Liver. Expel poisonous bile from tho system; Clear the Complexion; Aid Digestion; Create an Appetite; Cure and prevent Chills and Fevers. Wo also make SmithtaglLE small (40 to the bottle.) Some prefer thin alza. Especially among women and children. Both alses tugv coated. Pleasant to take. RELIABLE, SAFE, ECONOMICAL. Price 25 cents per bottle, five for If, either size. Bold by Draggiao. Write for Picture. J. F. SMITH & CO., HEW YORK CITY. Wrestling iu Japan. One of the greatest, if not the great est, amusement in Japan is to go to see the wrestlers. Wrestlers may be found j in almost every city, and they travel in ■ companies through the provinces. On I their reaching a country town a huge j circus-like booth is built of straw mats, ; sutticieut to hold an audience of one or two thousand; criers are sent round tho town, and a four or live days’ perform ance is begun. The wrestlers are mostly j big meu, and the swells among them 1 look as tall as Patagonians aud as bulky I as Daniel Lambert. Iu ordinary Japanese j wrestling, where a competitor may lose : if he is pushed or thrown outside the ring, weight is an important factor. The ' meu are usually matched m pairs, and they are called upon by an usher, who announces their names according to a pre-arranged programme. Two names being called, the men walk up the op posite sides of a circle, about twelve or tifteen feet in diameter, matked out by a band of straw. Here tiiey pause, smack their hands, stretch their muscles, put up their hands heavenward as invoking ! a deity for success, look at each other, ; turn round and take a drink. Tlie next time they advance they may squat down in front of each other, make a few grim aces, stamp their feet and make a feint or two; but usually it will end by their getting up, turning round and having a second drink of water. This stamping, slapping, feinting, grimacing may be re peated half a dozen times, until, one hav ing irritated the other, there is a sudden spring and the two are locked together iu the tussle. If a favorite has won half tbe audience rise, yelling with delight; lials, tobacco pouches, purses,taus, coats, silken saslies and ail manner of things go flying through the air toward the victor. — Commercial Advertiser. W'lim a man cannot have what he loves 0 :i:us' love what he lias. Foil impure nr thin Blood, Weakness, Mala ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness, take Brown's iron Bitt. rs—it givea strength, making old perBims feel young—and young persons strong: pleasant to take. How’s This 1 'Ve offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of cotarrli (hut cauuot be cured by taking Hair- Catarrh 1 ure. F. J. Ciikney A ( o . Props., Toledo. O. We, the under.-igu-d, have known F. .! Cheney for llie la-1 I'yeurs. aud believe him perfectly hoiierable in all business transac tions. aiel financially able to carry out anvob- ligatio. s iu:n! ' by I heir firm. Vi kst A In: \x p holesaie Druggists,'Tole do. (>. Wai.ding. Rinnan A .Marvin, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo. O. Iln! s' ateiTh Cure is taken internally, a< t- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of I lie r\-tom. Tcsiiiuoniais sent free. Prli e 15c. | or bottle. Bold by all druggists. The shower of rico upon bride and groom a prayer for copious prosperity and fruit i fulness. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach disorders, use Brown's Iron Bitters. The Beet 'ionic, it rebuilds I he system, cleans the Blood and strengthens tho muscles. A splendid ton ic for weak aud debilitated persone. 5 lazy a|'petit* bothers tbe rich man a g cat deal more than an active one does the poor man. Personal—Fbee—To all persons who are bald: We will send free information how to : row a luxuriant suit of hair, no matter what i fie e.iu-o <•!' how long standing: no humbug. For particulars and tc-iimouials w rite I'itoF. I t.'Ki.v.N i\ C". Box Vitl. Lexington, Ky. FITC stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No tits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and i- trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. Co* Ar. b St.. Pbila., Pa. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Thom- * on's Kve water. Druggist sell at 25e per bottle f BFfADFlELD’S 7 /% !&BflE aiuo ^uiiif^C 91 WOMAN. P56 3 y- c ^ "-i b-3 r a f i —I i*" C-'o’3 meU. ja £ jL * 2. S s * g-? ; « § s O ° e-g-SsU r~> o WORTH 50 DOLLARS PER BOTTLE. OISTI5 KJVJOY® Both the method and results w’oeu By rup of Figs is taken; it k pleseant and refreshing to the taste, *nd sxUs gectlyyet promptly on the Kidney Liver and Bowels, cleanses tbs&/*- tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches aud fevers and cures habilcud constipation. Brnip of Figs h ;h« only remedy of its kind ever wo duced, pl-asing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt id its action and truly beneficial iiifts effects, prepared only from the healthy afid agreeable subs tan oea^ its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy knotto. by rup of Figs is for sale in 50® •lid $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist TVho may not have it on hand vnii pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept •ny substitute. , CALIFORNIA F!0 SYRU* 54.V m.WISCO, CAL. uvisviue s-f new yohk. H.r. ForT hroat and Lungs ‘ I have been ill for Hemorrhage “about five years, “have had the best Five Years, “medical advice, ‘ ‘ and I took the first “ dose iu some doubt. This reSttlt- “edin a few hours easy sleep. There ‘ ‘ was uo further iu uioi rhage till next “day. when I had a slight attack “ which stopped almost immediate- “ly. By the third day ali trace of “ blood had disappeared and t had “recovered much sticngth. The “fourth day I sat up in bed aud ate “my dinner, the first solid food for “two months Since that time I “have gradually gotten better and “ am now able to move about the “house. My death was daily ex- “ pected and my recovery has been “ a great surpris: to my friends and “the doctor. There can be no doubt “about the effect of German Syrup,' “as I had an attru k just previous to “its Use. The • id \ relief was after “ the first do: ' I.K. Lougiihead, Adelaide, An-tr.i!:.'. • S. N. U. 19 1 l RTJtlFKTOORT —- 1 J V best for comfort. Sold bw D-C» UTr.K TURNER’S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS I Cure BUlousueis, Constijuitlon, Sick Headache, Bel* low Skin, Dyspepsia, Flatulence, Heartburn, Ac. A trial will prove <!. ITice, 25 cents. THE TPkKKH M’F’il CO- New Ywfc. MONEY f’S CHICKENS » CTs I or l&o. a UXhpuijc book, experience RR of a practical poultry raiser during ,1-4 !■ I' .n .i,-> tunv to detect My daughter euffned foi yeaM with Female Disease and had (lie best medical attention withimt relief. I w..s persuaded to h t her try "tie bottle of Hr ml field's Female Regula tor, aud she began to improve at once. Knowing what I do of tho leim dy. I would have it if it, cost was 50dollars per bottle. Reared my daughter sound aud well after all "ill r retne- dle; bad failed. H. D. Featherstd.ne, S?' Ii]_fi ;d, Tenn. Write Brad field Regulator Co , Atlanta, Ga , for par iculars. Sold by druggists. Is Life Worth Living? No—Not if Your Bowels are Out of Order. WILL FIX YOITALL RIGHT. Cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps, Summer Complaint and all Stomach Troubles of Man, Woman or Child. It lias no equal. Y'our druggist or racrcliaut will order it tor you. yfi w\ Makuj tho , a Soaniif20! Take do substitute. DOCTOR jssas ■forCoughs. Colds andCon^jmpMon, Isbcyomi* ■ question the greatest of all modurn remedies Z ■ Itwillstopa Cough Inono night. It wlllcheehS ■ a Cold in a day. It will prevent Croup, relievo' sAsthma, and CURE Consumption if taken In* Itime. IF THE UTILE OflES HAVE I WHOOPING COUGH i OR CMS> ...I'lcsfi?.: -r ”5,.fc 17 WILL CURL : :• 7 '/ ' A - WHEN EVERT-; thing else! Tu • TgJlToFAILS. “You: ^ I/ N can’t afford to; ... / . be wlthoui lt.’’S • A 25c. bottle may cave $100 In Doctor's blllt; J-maj save their lues. ASK YOUii DRUG-! J.* . SR?.?-i nsppy IfHICCC* roSITITILT RLM1DIXD-, PftuUl (VlsLLO Oruely Pant Stretcher Adopted by ititueutM at Harvard, Amherst, and other Collpges, also, by proiessloual aud businass men every- where. Ii not for sale in yoai town send JI3e. to !’•• J. tiRKELY, 716 Washington Street, Boston. The 1 Great PENSIONS PENSION BID Is Passed, wi:*^ era and Fathers are e% tilled to S12 a mo. Fee fio wh* n you get your mone|i •UiJmfrei. JOSKTU U. HlSTm*-WMilaaUa. 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