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KEY. DR. TALMAGE. the: noted dkvink's sunday sermon. Tkxt: ''When shall I awake? I will sook It yet again." With an Insight into hnmnn nature su<*h as no other nmn over reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, hnviug stepped aside from the path of rcctituilo. desires to return. With a wish for something better lie says: "When shall I awake? When shall I eomo out of this horrid nightmare of Iniquity?" But seized upon hy mi eradicated habit, and forced down hill by his passions, he ories .m .m i. - ? mil curv-n. 11 }Ul agUlIl. 1 Will tT.V It onco more." Our libraries are adorned with nn elegant literature pointing out all tho dancers and perils of life?completo maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the miicksands, tho shoals. But suppose ii man has already ma in shipwreck; suppose l?o is already ofT the track: suppose no lias already (tone astray, how is ho to cet back? That is a Held comparatively untouched. I proposo to address myself this evening to such. There are those in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hoar tills discussion. They compare themselves with what they were ten years ago, aud cry out from tho bondage in which they arc incarcerated. Habit is a task master. As lone as wo obey it it docs not chastise us; but lot us resist, and we Had we are to be lushed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cable, and thrown into the track of hone-breaklug Juggernauts. During the war of lSld there was a ship sot on lire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose from lis moorings, it came on down through the night, and tossed over the falls. It was said to have been a scene brilliant beyond nil description. Weil, there are thousands of men on tire of evil habit, coming down through the rapids, and through tho awful night ol temptation, toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it is to arrest til em! God only can arrest them. u..,,Fvrau ? mini, mitir uv", or ion, or twenty years of evil doing resolves to tlo right. Why. all the forces of darkness are nlli?><l ngalnst him. Ho cannot sloop nights. Ih gets down on his knees in the midnight, and cries. "God help mo!" Ho bites his lip; he grinds his teeth; ho clenches his list in n determination to keophls purpose. He dare not look at tho bottles in the windows of a wine store. It is one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand tight with an inllamed. tantalizing and merciless habit. When in thinks lie is entirely free tho old inclinations pounco upon hint liken pack of hounds, Willi their muzzles tearing away at the Hanks ol one poor reindeer. In Paristhero Is a rcu1|>< tared representation of Hucehus. the god ol revo ry. He is riding on a panther at full leap. Oil, how suggestive! Let every om who Is speeding on had ways understand he is not riding a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding n monster, wild and bloodthirsty, going at a dentil leap. How many there are who resolve on a bettor life, and >.iy. "When shall I awake?" but, seized on by tlteir old habits, cry,' I will try it once more. 1 will seek it yet again." \ears ago there were somo Princeton .students who were skating, and the ieo wnvery thin, nnd some one warned t-e* company back from the air hole, and finally warned them entirely to leave the place, Hut one young mail, with bravado, after nil the rest had stopped, cried out. "One round more!" He swept around and went down, and was brought out a corpse. My friends, there are thousands and tens of thousauds of men losing their souls in that way. It If the "one round more." If a man wants to return from evil practices, society repulses him. Dasiring to re form ho says, "Now I will shake oil my oh! associates and I will llnd Christian companionship." And he appears at tho churcl <loor some Sabbath day and tho usher greet! him with a look as much as to say, "Why you here! You are the last man 1 ever ex pectod to see at church! Come, take this seat right down by the door," Instead of say ing. "Good morning! I am glad you an hero. Come. I will elvevmi II right up by tho pulpit." Well, tho prodigal not yot discouraged,nutersn prayer meeting and .some Christian man, with more zeal thai common souse, say#. "Glad to see you; thi dying thief was saved and I suppose (here i: mercy tor you." The young man, disgusted chilled, throws himself ou his dignity. r,> solved lie will never enter tho house of Goi again. I'erhnpsnot quite fully discouraged ahou reformation, he sidles up hy some highly re spectublo man lie used to know, going dowi tho street, and immediately tho respeetnbh man has an errand down some other street Well, tho prodigal, wishing to return, take: some member of a Christian association In tho hand, or trios to. Tim Christina youm man looks at him, looks at tlm faded upparo and tho marks of dissipation; instead of giv ing him a warm grip of the hand, ho offer him the tip ends of the long lingers of thi left hand, which is equal to striking a mill in the face. Oh! how few Christian peopl< understand now much force uud gosp* there is in a good honest handshaking Sometimes, when you have lelt the need o lieourageir.oiiT, and some Christian man ha taken you heartily by the hand, have yoi not felt thrilling through every llltreof you body, mind ami soul an one mragement tha was just what you needed/ Yon do n<>t knov anything ut ail about 1 his unless you knov when a man tries return from evil course he runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man. ho lives a block o two from tho church, or half a mile from tin church. There are people in our crowilm cities who livoathnusaud miles from church Vast deseris of indilTcrenco hotweoni then and tho house of God. The fact is, wo mils keep our respectability, though thousand and tens of thousands perish. Christ sa with publicans and sinners. 15ut if thor comes to the houseof God a man witli mark of dissipation upon liim, the people alums throw u|> their hands in tiorror, as much a to say, "Isn't it shocking!" How tlic.s dainty, fastidious Christians in all ou churches are going to get into heaven f ?lon' know, unless they iiave an especial train n oars, cushioned and upholstered, each one , car to hiniscli. They cannot g > with publi cans and sinners. Oil! ye win curl your Ho of scorn at th fallen, I tell your plainly, if you liad hoc surrounded by tiicsaine inllnoucos, instoai of sitting ! -day amid the cultured, and ih rcfluod and4he Christian, vnu would liav been a crouching wretoh, covered with lilt and abomination. It is not hcoiiuso you at any better, but because the merev of God hu protected you. Who are you that, brougl no in Christian cir.dcs uml wniclii-.l l.vi'ins Hun purontngo, ynt Min>ul<*l h -so hard on th ful Ion? Fi r.-t of ull, my hrotlmr, throw yoursolt o Ooil. (io In Him Iratikly aii'l amort l.v an toll tl.c-o h.ilots yoti liavo, ami ask liii if tlioro i- any Imlp in ail tlm resources < omni|x>t<'iit l ivo i>. a'ivi-it t'? y.oi. lx? n< go with a I dig rigmarole |io.?|>lo oall i.rayo tnailo ii|' "f "oli-" ami "all-" ami "ior< v< and ovnr, amenHotoCoil an I ory fi help! help! !? ?!j?! ami if you eauuot ory fo help, ju-l I" >U ami I've. I roinoiiii'of in tin* lato war. I was i Aiiii"tani, aiol 1 wont into tin- h"-pituls a tor tlio l.at I 'ami said t" a mate "WJiot aro von iiini. Mo made no answer, Io. Iiolil iti liis arm. -wollou ami splintered, -aw whore !n? uas Imrt. Tim-imp. faot i wlion a man ha- a wounded .- til. all li" lit to do i- to li'iol it up lioforo a sympatimt T.ord aiol u*<M it lu-alo.l. It doe- not tal;o an long pra\or. .lust hold up tlm wound. <>l it is no small thing when a man is norvot and wo.uk and o\h:ntstod, coming from It ovi! way-,to foot that Ood puts two omnii otont arr.ts around Ititn and savs "Yotii inaii, I will stand l?v y<?u. The inountaii tuny dopart. ami tho hit:- ho removed, luit will novor fail you." Uk^cd ho Ood for such a gospel as tlii "Cot the sllca thin." said tho wife to th husband, "or there will not be enough t go nil around for the children; cut the slice ' thin." Bteased be Ood there la a full loa for every one that wnuta it. Bread en on gl 1 und to spare. No thin slices at the I.ord' J table. I remember when the Muster 8tre?i ? Hospital in Philadelphia was opened durlnt y tho war, a telegram came saying, "Ther . will be three hundred wouuded men to-uight J be ready to take caro of them:" and fron church there went in some twenty o thirty meu nnd women to look after t hes poor wounded fellows. As rhey came, soim from ono pnrt of tho land, some from an other, no one asked whether this man wa from Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or fron Minnesota, or from Now York. There was i wouuded soldier, nnd tho only question wa how to lake off tho rags the most gently and put on tho bandago, unu administer th' ponlllll. Anil wh?n n Ufiiil Iiamaa A.?.l II does not ask where you came from, or wha your ancestry was. Healing for all you wounds. Pardon for nil your guilt. Corn fort for nil your troubles. TIihii. also, I counsel yon If you want t< trot back to ipiit nil your bad associations 0:10 unholy intimacy will All your soul witl moral diatom per. Ill nil tho ages of tin church thorn has not been an instance wlmr a man kept ouo evil associate ami was re formed. When n man deliberately chooses bad as souintion l> *causo ho likes it, that rnau ha started on tho road down. Oh, I do not car 1 what you call it, that association will ilea noli your soul. After you aro destroyed body, mind and soul, what will they do fo you? what will they do for your family? Tim will not give one cent to support your citil droii alter you aro dead. Tli ywiHnotwoe one tear at your burial. They will CtlUokl over your damnation. I had a rare friend at the West. Ho wn full of welcome when I went thereto live Ho ha (splendid persona'anpearaueo. Ther Is uot a grander looking person in this hous 1 to-day than lie was; an 1 to tills gran I por , sonal appearance ho added all geniality am all kindness of soul?tenter as a child a beautiful and loving nature, ami I lovoi 1 him as a brother; but I saw evil people com big up around bim, evil men coming u 1 1 from bad places of amusement, and the; > s'mzo i noia or ins social and gonial nature and they began to drag him down, nut) in w?nt further iuul further. I used to say to him. "Now, why don't yot stop these had habits nml bocomo a Chris thin?" for I talked with him just as I wouli talk with a brother, aud he understood me I and i understood him. I said, "Why don'i yon give up these things and become a Chris iiauV" "Oh." ho said to mo one clay, leau iin; over his counter? just after I had asset him for a hundred dollars to help educate : young man for the ministry, and ho hue given mo tho monoy beforo 1 had the storj half tohl?"if it will do the young man am good, hero is a hundred dollars." ltigh after that conversation I said, "Now. yoi are a splendid follow; why don't you giv. up your had habits aud bo a Christina?' "Oh," he said, as tho tears ran down hi: cheeks, "I can't. I should like toheaChris tian. You see, I have got those habits on nti so. sir. I can't get rid of them. I have beei going wrong longer than you would thinl for, and I can't stop." Sometimes. 111 the moments nl repentance ho would go to Ills home aud embrace hi: little girl of eight years convulsively to bit heart, and ho would cover her with adornincuts and strew toys and pictures all about her, and then from her beautiful presence? (lie beautful presence of his littlo child?lu would go to the intoxicating cap, and to tin houso of sltnmc, as a fool to tho correction stocks; and there these bad m <n k -pt pus it lug him on, a ship, tuiUwingod, crashing into tho breakers. I I was called to his deathbo 1. I hastened and when I got Into the room I was stir , prised to llud l>iin in full everyday dress, Jy ing on the top of tho couch. 1 put out nr \ linttd and he greeted mo very cordially. Hi ; said: "Now, Mr. Talmage, sit down righ there." I sat down and he said; "Las . night, just where you sit now. I saw m; - mother, though she has boon dead twent; I years?yes, sir; just where you sit now sh sat. I couldu't have boon mistaken. I wa t as wide awako its I am now. She sat jus i where you sit. Wife, I wish you would tak , these strings olT that they are weaviu . arottud me; I wish you would take thorn of! t tliey annoy me very tnucit in this converse - tlou." I saw lie was in delirium. His wif > said: "There is nothing there, tuy dear; ther t is nothing there." I<l.u.. I... .. .... , said: "Yes, uiy mother sat just where vol i sit now. I knew her. She hu t the sum ? spectacles, auil the same cap and the sam s apron. ami the s tmo dress. It must hav , been her. just as she looked twenty year - ago?she has been dead imw twenty jean 1 And sitting there she said to me,'Itoswell, wish you would do l etter;' and I get up ou t of boil, and I knelt beside her and sale - Mother, I wish I could?I wish I could <1 i better; I would like to do better. Won't yo j help me? You used to help me. Why can' . you help me now, mother?' " But soon s said. "Now we will pray." I knelt to prat f Ho did not realize anything I said, 1 suj ; pose. Then I got up and said "Oood-bj 1 good-by!" That night he went to God. Arrangements for the obsequies were In s ing made, and they said, "Oh. it won't do t r bring him to the church; tic has been so di: i solute." 1 said, "Bring him, bring him; h c stood by me wuen he was alive, and 1' i stand by him when he is dead. Bring hi; iutothe ghurch." The Sabbath came. As l stood in the pulpit and saw his body eomin s up the aisle. I felt us if I could weep tears i i blood. 1 stood there that day and I sni< r "This man had his v rotes, and a good man i of them; he had his faults, and a good man r of them; but let that man in this a.'scrub I v who is without sin cast the llrst stone on th s Collin lid." On the one shift of the pulpit sat the beau r tiful child, as radiant and sweet faced as au < child that sat at your inhiothis morning I She knew not the sorrows of an orplia , child; she was n<>t old enough to reali; it them. Sometimes when I think oflhat awft t scene, her faoo haunts me like it houutifi s face through n horrid dr. am. On the othi t side of the pulpit sat the man who had d< e strayed him. They had put the worm woo v nnil the gall into that orphan's cup. Th i t pushed him off the procipic". I stood ttiei s and told tiioui that there was a Uod and e judgment and a hell for those who destrove r their follows. Did they weep? Oh, no, in t one tear. Did thov sigh renen: Ingly? Not oi d sigh. Did they say. "What u pity that w a destroyed him?" Oh. no. Thoy sat r.n i- gazed at the collln as valuires at llie earca. of a lamb whose heart tliey had ripped ou 0 That night.though my friend lay in Oakwo. n Cemetery, I heard afterward that these m< 1 went right on with their iniquities, destro; it i nir f limnsttl vi'ti nf 1?1 r.ivi??i? oiltai s (lather u|> nil tli" energies <>f ImiIv, mill i nixi soul, and appealing t<? (<<><i for siuvcs deelaro this day everlasting war against a drinking habits, all gaming practices, a houses of sin. Molf-.m l-huli work wi amount to nothing. It must ho a Watorloi Shrink hack now, and you aro lost! I'uon, an I you are save I! A Spartan (ieicr n fell at the very moment of victory, hut I I dipped his linger in Ins hlood and wrote < n a rock, near which he was dying. "Spar ?f has iMiitpiercd." Though your struggle i >t get rid of sin may seem to he almost a deal r, snaggle, you ean dip your linger r voiir own hlood and write <m the Uoek >.- Ages "Victory through our Lord Jesi r Christ!" oh, what glorious news it would he I it s,one of these young men to send home f- I their parents in the country! Tliey go e | tii" 'very day or ,to > >( if the it , are any letters from you. IIo-.v anxioi I ; they are to hear! Nothing would plon s, | theiu half so much as the n w< you inlg ts J send homo to-niorrow that you had givi Ic ' your heart to (Jod. ! know how it is in t iy | country. The night conn-son. Tun cutt i, ! stand under the rack through which l>ui is i tlie trusses of hay. The horses, just Itavli is J frisked up through the meadow at the nigl l?- | fall, stand knee deep in the bright str; ig that invites tltein to lie down and rest. T is porch of the hovel is lull of lowl. In ( I old farm house at night 110 candle lighted, for the llamrs clap hands about t is. i great luioklog, aud shake the shadow 0 the jrronp up and down the wa'l. Fathot 0 and mother sit there for hnlf an hour, sav* Inc nothlne. I wonder what they are thlnlc* ' Introf! Atter a while the father"breaks the 11 silence and says: "Wei', I wonder where * our boy Is la town to-nl?rht?" And the | mother an?w?r.?: "In no bad plane, I war* rant you; we always could trust him when e ho was home, and slnoa ho has been away : there have been ao many pravets offered for 11 him we can trust him still." Then at 8 r o'clock?for they retire earlv In the country 1 .?ut a nVlnoIr (hnv Irnndl dntrn nml (inni_ " mend you to that Ood who watches in country anil in (own, on the land and on tho 9 set. 1 Rome one said to a Grcoian General: 9 "What was the proudest moment of your 9 Hf??" Ho thought a moment, and said: * "The proudest moment of my lire was when " I s?ut word home to mv parents th*t I had '' gained the victory." And tho proudest and most brilliant moment In your life will be r the moment when you can send word to your parents in the country that you have conquered your evil habits by the grace of 1 Got, and become eternal victor. I* Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. The 1 time will come when you have nolther " father nor mother, and you will go around ' the place where they used to watch you, and find th"m gone from tho house, and ffono from the field, and gone from tho nelghbo/* hood. Orv as loud for forgiveness as vou 1 innv over the mound in the churchyard thev '' will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then '* you will take out tho white lock of hair that * was cut from your mother's brow Just before * they buried her, and you will take the * cane wltn which your father usod to walk. " nnil s'aii ipIII f It i it b iiikI f h I n l? u ml rrlnh fhnf you had ''one just as than wanted you to, ? and would give the world If you hnd never tlirust h pan** through their dear old hearts, dod |>Uy the young man who has brought " disgrace on his father's name! God pltytho vnuii't man who has brokou his mother's | heart! Better if ho had uever l>eon born? ." bettor if. in the flrsf hour of his life, Instead of bains laid a so Inst tho warm bosom of ma"l feraal tonderne.ss, ho had boon coffined and sonulchrod! There is no balm poworAil " onousb to heal tho heart of one who has ') hrousht parents to a sorrowful grave, and v who wanders about through tho dismal oem oterv. roudinsr tho hair ami wringing tho 1 hands, and crying: "Mother! mothor!" Oh, that to- lay, l?y all tho momorlos of the past, and by all tho hopes of the future, you j would yield vour heart to Go l! May your father's Go t and your mother's God be ' your G od forever! I HAZING AT WIST POINT. " 1 i Cadet Rand Receives it Sentence That I Slav Stop tho Custom. According to information rocelva 1 at tho j War Department, having at the West Point , Military Academy lias received a lieavy blow. , Tlie court martial which tried Cadet Elliott . 11. Il iad for compelling "Plobos" Harris and s Ne >ly to stand on their toes, reached a verilict Saturday nftornoon. It sontenced Rand to one vear's confinement, with a dopriva, tlon of all privileges, including tho threo . month s furlougli next year. After tho cadets return to barracks Rand will also be oblige l to walk a tour of guard duty every 3 Saturday afternoon, while the rest of the , cadets are at liberty. Hand's severe =eutenco has struck terror y intolhehenrts ofall tho would-be huzers. Tho 1 evidence did not directly connect him with . the hazing of tho two "plebes," and ho mado * a strong dofeuse to substantiate his denial. Ilis sentence may also interfere with his class standing, llo is nl present at tho head ? of Ids class, but tho hazing episode will seri' only mar a hitherto unblemished record. 1 MERRILL PERISHED IN QUICKSAND V While Sin'tltu; lie Directed Men Who '> Tried to llescito Illtn. j Charles Merrill, a well-known citizen of .. Burlington, Wis., was burled alive a few days v ago. J, Mr. Merrill nud others were digging a well 3 on a farm three or four miies south of Bur( liugton. The sides caved In and buried him ? up to tho shoulders. His companions en uoavoruii ui oig ?nu out, wueu quicssanu \ was struck and tho unfortunnto man grr *u'' ally sunk out of Tslglit in the presence H of the men, who were unable to assist him. w The hotly was recovered next morning, work having been prosecutod nil night by several j shifts of men. He was twenty-seven years , of age and leaves a wife. t, While Merrill's head was exposed ho coolly 0 directed the men how to work in order to ,, rescue him, but the quicksand engulfed him. * A WATERMELON BUC. 1 it Farmer* About llurlltiirton, N. J., Fear ' Losing the Kntlre Crop. o ? Benjamin D. Stedaker, a prominent farmert living near Burllugion, N. J., said that in* X two weeks there wouldn't be a watermelon _ or citron in the county, because of apnru,1 site that is rapidly killing the vines. .1 It is a small insect, not unlike a ladybug in appearance, and in a single night deposits thousands of eggs on tho undor side of tho ? leaves it favors. It also leaves a gummy 4_ substance which makes tho plant look green ? for a ti:no, after which the leuves wither and II die. ? Tho farmers around Burlington have tried [ every means to save the vines, but none X avail, ana many are plowing up their .7 patches. y RUINED THE POSTOFFICE. y y Turner Took It is Mail ICIsowhoro?The is Government Arrested Htm. r. W. Turner, a rich silk manufacturer of Turucrsville, Conn., has been arrested and held iu *500 bail for trial on the charge ol running a private express for carrying mail ,,, to tho nutriment of tl?o postal service. \ ,1 Turner was postmaster at Turnersvillo up ,1 to the time of the present Administration,: when tho oftlce was removed a third of a ,. mile from Turner's factory. Turner objected ,1 to the change, and without his business the v postoHlce receipts were almost nothing. Turner put Jiis mail hi tho postal enr on tho lt Air Line. Too Government broke up this, ,,| and then ho took his mail to another town. )t le I'.illmv.l by ChhioH^^Uuiip Labor. 'J A monster petition to the Federal Governmeat lor further restrictions on Chlncsu tmi'"> migration fs being circulated at Vancouver, t j British Columbia. It may contain over 10,I'OO names Iteloro it is sent tr? Ottawa. The petitioii recites that Cliinoso labor is driving * out til" white workitigmeii; that the United I States, realising this, has excluded tho Men' goliau coolies, and tliat Canada should adopt measur ,s to kci?p them out. It urges ^11 that a tax of *50(1 i>u lovie I upon each ChinaII r.iau entering the Dominion. Ci\rrIor I'Ircoii itcjvulnt inns. i? 1 Fear of the trea* >nai>lo use of carrier i" pigeon.-* in Franco !?'<l to t'oo promulgation it t.f most stringent regulations. Tho Paris ta tiovcrutnont's decree stipulates tliat every to porsoa wishing to possess carrier pigeons Hi must obtain tie imiiiority of tho Precept; in nnii every p"rs ?u receiving pigeons must, of i within t\\-t> 'lay-, make declaration to the lis I municipal authorities. The p>lieo eommisI arv m is* always he present when the pig* "r eons are freed. o Crops in itnssiii. re With scarcely an ex option, reports of Iho S1, R'.issiiai winter wheat :iud rye are favorable, i,j an l in 'fainboy they are said to present iiu ,n excellent appearaneo. The sprint; crops in I,,, tho earlier districts are thriving, ami tho j,, sowing is almost completed under favorable conditions. It-sports front Poland are satisfactory. It is expected that when farmers have finished lleld work the supply of gram lNV at the seaboard will Increase, he (j,, Panada llpjfrl* Our Silver. is It is reported from Montreal that United lie States silver coin and silver eertiileates art of ' n > longer acceptc 1 in Cauadr. REY. TALMAGE i ON SILYER. | t > UK 8KRS RRNKWKD PUOSPBRITY , IN ITS VICTORY. I, lie Gives Ills Views Freely, Rut Is Not b Partisan.?Says the South Is A? must to u Man In Favor of the White Metal. . tl I 'If the silver people win, i believe there 11 will be such a revival In business, such a booming in Industries, which are now inactive, and such u general shaking up of commercial interests that the couutry will bo sure to prosper." These words woro spoken by too Rev. Dr. T. Do Witt Talmage, nt Knstburapton, L. I., after a long tour of the Southern States. Tho reverend gentleman Is n keen observer and cad see which way tho wind blows as quickly ainl with ns much certainty us tho 1 shrewdest of politicians, lie does not only ' preach to the people, hut he mingles with ^ them, feeling the popular pulse and search- c log the hearts of iiis countrymen. c Dr. Talinugo nrrivod at Kasthampton on Friday last from Chautauqua, where lie had atteuded an < ducntional convention. Not < only in tho big cities did the Doctor mlDglo with tho residents, but in remote and sparsely populated districts and in minor townships cud villages. t "Dutiug tny entire trip," ho said, "I did 1 not llnd more than one or two men who were ^ not silverites. The unanimity was astounding. The sentiment down South is univer- > sally for the white metal. Bryan and Sawall i will get a very large vote from that section f of the country." . Dr. Talmage is too llttlo or too much of a politician to conio out Mat-footed for freo sil- r ver, but his utterauees are perhaps sufll- s clently significant to show tho tendencies of hia rm run mil S "My associations and training and my ^ political anillatioDS of tlio past place me ou1 ; the side cf a single standard," ho cautiously said and then as a twinkle came into his eye he added: "Rut I certainly bellevo that instead of disaster and ruin following in the wake of the silver movement, the opposite will he the result. "I am not advocating that side of the political question," snid the diplomatic divine, " 'but I do not believe, with a good many of ? my Christian friends, that in the success of ? thai movement the country will greatly suffer "fVhis is a strong nntion." ho added. "Wo are engaged in a great political campaign, and it will ill benefit mo to be a strong partisan on either side. Thoreare honest, Christian. patriotic men on both sides, and tho life of the country and welfare of its interests will be a great incentive to -;lend men in the j right direction. I have great faith in the people of this country, und it is a fact that . the people of a vast Southern and Western , tract are vehemently in favor of silver." ) STARVATION KKAKK1). l 1 Thousands of 31 liters Idle ami Their i Families Are Pest Itaatc. A desperato alat-o of alTalrs exists on the ] Gogebic Range, iu Northern Michigan. j Where 8,000 iron minors were once employed | at an average of SI.75 a day, now only 1,000 have omploymeni fit $1 a duy, and the unom- J ployed llnd themselves on the verge of star- 1 vation. All the mines except two liavo shut down, and some of them have withdrawn their pumps. j 3Ierchants have refused credit to tho un- i employed, and before winter thousands will lack food to keop from starving. j Few of the residents along tho Gogebic J Range have recovered from tho panic of 1803, and mcst of them are stilt in debt. Those who are still employed have their salaries drawn bv the merchants with whom they deal, who, after deductingu share of the debt, turn tho balance over. Under this system the people are almost penniless most of the time. To tho idle ones tho merchants have refused credit, because they see no prospect of their securing employment. Many of the mining companies have allowed tho idle to plant potntoes on the spare lauds, but tho nrtny worm now swarms in that part of the State and is destroying the crops. No relief can bo expected from Gogebic County, because the treasury is depleted. All the taxpayers have organised and have rcI fused to nay taxes, and consequently the Poor Comf-Ussionors are without lunus. Unless outvie assistance conies there will be starvin&jfiigilice ou the range. 3loney l'or Cuba. Tbo Cuban junta in tho United Stntes has raised a fund amounting to $375,000. 1'art of the money has been changed into gold and is now on shipboard bound for Cuba, whore it-will he placed in tho hands of oftleers commanding the insurgent army. The balance has been retained by the bends of the junta in Philadelphia and New York, who will hold it in a way that it will servo the Cuban cause. The contribution were ns follows: Jacksonville and other sections of Florida. $100,000: New York ami I $50,000; Philadelphia. $25,000; Baltimore, $10,000; Washington. $10,000; Savannah,On., $6,000; New Orleans. $10,000; Chicago and and tho Wost, $100,000; and from a numhor of Southern points, $00,000. finite a 1)1 it ore nee In Time, Tlio Navy Department, son o time ago ordered ouo hundred men which woro of tho crew of tho Charleston, at Maro Island, Cnl., to bo sent to tho navy yard at Norfolk. Tho Department wished to learn what was the least possible timo crews could bo transferred across tho continent. The oiih hundred men have arrived at Norfolk, making the trip by special train in four days and twenty-three hours, which is a record breaker. The route was via the Southern Pacille and Seaboard Air Line. Tho method of transferring tho sailors heretofore has I by way of tho Isthmus of Panama and occupies tbitty-Iivo days. Kngluiid lakes Water. ! Newspapers at Lisbon declare that Great I Britain has recognized Brazil astho owner of j tho Jsle of Trinidad, olT tho const <>f Brazil, ; which G.vat Britain recently took possession j of as a landing station for a telegraph cable, I The seizure of the island called lorth energetic protests from business men. which, accordingito some papers there, have resulted in Bngldnd withdrawing her pretensions to sovereignty of tho island. Aii Important Killing. At Jackson, Miss., Chancellor Conn has rendered an opinion in tho celebrated poll | tax case, holding; that it cannot ho collected ; hy distress warrants t.nd sale of personal property. Attorney General Nash ruled some time sinco that the tax was cylleetable, whereupon Sheriff Itatellffe, of this eonntv, seized a negro's bed for his poll tax. He was enjoined and tho case brought before Chancellor Conn, who decided as above stated. w'? Tkll I We offer On* H undred Dollar* Reward for I my case of Catarrh that oaanot be cared by XaJl's Catarrh Cure. F. J.Ch*r?t A Co., Prop*., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Chetey for the last 1ft years, and l>ellevo him ik.tecllr honorable In all business transactions md financially able to oarry out auy oon^slon made by their Arm. Yaar A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Yau>iso, KtitvAH & Ma it tin. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, actng directly upon the blood and mucous suraoes of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle, hold y all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hull's Family Pills are the best. A Fifty-two Years* Cass. "TwrrantNE is the only remedy I ever sold hat would make a permanent cure of tetter, told it toa perron who had tetteron his hand or Hity-two years, and two boxes cured him." ' II. H. Tannxii. McDonald's Mill, (ia. 1 box by mail for 60c. In stamps. J. T. hitUPTitiNK. Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Wlnslow's Socthtng Syrup for chlldre* eethlng, softens the gums, reduces Indanivnalon.allays pain, cures wind colic.2>c. a bottle, Washington expects this year's wheat croi to bo 16,000,000 bushels?the biggest in tk? history of the State. Don't you want to savo money, clothes, ime, labor, fuel ami health'!' All these can ic saved if you will try Dobbin's Kleetric >onp. Wo say "try" knowing if you try it incc you will always use it- Have your grocr order. MoKoesport, Ponn., taxes each of the 2371 slootrlo poles In the city $1. l crKoiml. , Anv onr who has been benefited by the 19.1 of Dr. Williams* Fink Pills, will receive nforinstion of much value anil Interest by i ritu.u to Fink Fills. P. O. Box 1582, Fhlla., Pa. FITS stopped free by Du. Ki.INE's OnEAT Cehvk Hkstoukk. No tits after first day's us? dnrvelous cures. Treatise anil ?2 trial bottle ree. l?r. Kline, 1(31 Area St.. Pliila., Pa. I use Piso's Cure for consumption both In ay family anil practice.? l)r. t?. W. Pattekon, Inkster. Mich., Nov.ft, 1894. it. Vitus I)nncc. One bottle I)r. Fenner's ipecltlc cures. Circular, Fredonia. N. Y. Cures! Pnlk in favor of Hood's Sarsaparilla as for no >lher medicine. It has the gi eat est record of :ures of any medicine in the world. In fact, ! Is the One *?% _ fM'vi! Sarsaparilla Hooci'sPIII 8euro sick headache, indigestion Reliable Charlotte Merchants Call on them when you go to Charlotte N. C. Write them if you do not go, nuil have your order* filled l)j mail. In answering advertisement* kludly men. lion this paper. BBTVTf!VB"BEST WORK. Keasonable Prices Fttiit illtf Write News & Times Pt'g. House. PWBVJTTTTBB K- M. ANDREWS, ld-lbW. Trade i U (Vit Uftei Also Pianos. Organs & Bicycles. !flTU WAIT!) AND LAGER BEER. R. ioda waieft PORTNER BREWING CO.. U. Vainer. 317 S. College Street BAtJTlWABf J- H- WEDD1NGTON &CO-, BAftUWAftt wholesale dealors In Hardware. Cutlery. Guns, Ammunition and Agrl:ultural Implements. ?0 Eaat Trade Bt. 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C ' Superior facilities In nil departments of 'emnlo education at moderate prices. f>9th fear anil never a death of a pupil. Illustrated ''ntnloguo free on application. .las. Dinwidlie, M. A., of I'niversity of Va., Principal. V1UIIIH uuu wjxabjxx DtDiiicnrta. dookmsi UrlUHlMI. Br. 1.1. vootxix. atujtj. 04, H Dost Coach Syrap. Tastos (KhjI' Uso M Lt In time. Sold by druaalsts. IN ^SEEEZSSHSHHEia^B ?"I like tl of Pearline," a ^ ^ 2 i cts. a Wash Pearline down J means hard work SS^yy enough Pearline, th ? to say the least. Use I and you'll have the most thor Y"& Peddlers aiv Beware you un imitation, be honest?send it back. i uuu 134 Leonard Street, M. Y. City fortt costing a hundred times the Mtc. naked. It is Instantly available. With this vain* mm mm edge your tinkers' ends, and can "% 9 1 tionnl advantages. Whan read inc. crences you fail to understand? Isn't SOe. a snia at hand? I) > you know who Cro- .us wax. and w when? That sound travels 1 lTi feet per second'.' Marco Polo invent* I the compass in TJfld, and w] ^ was/ The book contains thoui fc B such matters as you wonder ^ ^ low price of half a dollar an Gladness Comes With a bettor understanding of the ' transient natur6 of the many physical ills which vanish bcforo proper efforts?gentle efforts?pleasant effoi\^-rrightly directed. There is comfort ia the knowledge that so many for,ms o? ' sickness aro not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the system, which the pleasant . family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt: ly removes. That is why it is the only " remedy with millions of families, an-i& everywhere esteemed so highly by all who valr.o good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating tho organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to iret its bene ficiol effects, to noto when you purchase, thatyou havo the genuinp article, which is manufactured by tho California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and tho system is regular, then laxatives or other remedies are not needed/ If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should havo the best, and with' the well-informed everywhere. Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction'' Here It Is! Want to !?nn nil about a j|a Home* How to lick Out a ' 1 Good One? Know Iniperfoc-^^^y^*--"*-**1. tlonn and so Guard against * ia\ Fraud? Detect Disease and yv**"Effee; a Cure when sauie Is .\ L \possible? Tell the Ago by * the Teeth? What to call the Dideront Tads of tlit Anltual? How to Shoe a Horse Properly? 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CHLORA'; COCAINE or TOBACCO habits pu<l WlSTl to be CUBED with ltttlo or no discomfort and freedom from all possible dungor, addrx* for Information THE KKELEY INSTITUTE. N. West corner Lady and Marlon Stroet^ or Drawer ^7, Columbia. B. O. he small package lady says ; "it lasts two weeks J and docs two washings/' Then she admits that she has been using soap "with her Pearline. Now this' is all unnecessary. If you' | don't put in enough Pearline to do the work .easily ? and alone, you bring to the level of soap, which and rubbing. If you use e soap is a needless expense, > i: i . i . i 'cuninc atone, just as cnrccicci, oughly economical Washing. d some unscrupulous gToccrs will tell yoa, good as" or "the same as I'earline." IT'S ; airline is never peddled; if your grocer sends *GJ JAMES FYLB, New Ycrkl??$ ENCVOLOP/EOIA .51 ' might well lio the name pf tjiir , M ^ .VA)-l>::go book sent postpaid for $1 H u(j fife. 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