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I REV. DR. TALMAGE. TIIK XOTKD DKVINK'S SUNDAY HRKMON. Text: "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing lu tha .streots thereof."?Znchnrhth vlll.,5. Glimpses of our eitios redeemed' Now, boys and girls who play in the streets run such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin. But. in tho coming time spoken of. our cities will be so moral that lads ami lasses shall be as safe in the public thoroughfares as in the nursery. Pulpit and printing presses for the most, part in our day are busy in disoussiug the condition of the cities at this time; but would it not l>e healthfully* encouraging to nil Christian workers, and to nil who are tolling to make the world hotter, if we should for n littlo while look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the Gospel of the 8on of God, noil nil tlio darkness of sin and trouble nml crime and suffering shall bo gone from the world? Every man has a pride in the elty of his nativity or residence, if it be a elty distinguished fo? any dignity or prowess. Caesar boastod of his native Koino, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should have suspicion of base-heartednees in a man who had uo especial interest in the city of his birth or roslleuoe?UO exhilaration of the evidence of its prosperity or its p artistic ombollishment, or its intellectual ad^ vnnenment. I have noticed that a man never likes a elty where he has not behaved well! People i who have had a free ride iu the prison van 1 never like the city that furnishes the vehicle. Whou I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of 1 Homer. I conclude at once that Homer be- 1 haved well. He liked them and they liked ' him. We must not war ou laudable city 1 pride, or, with the idea of building ourselves 1 up at any time, try to pull others down. 1 Boston must continue to point to (to Faneuil ! Hall and to its Common, and to its superior educational advantages. Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence llall 1 and its mint, and its GIrani College. Wash- ' ington must continue to point to its won- 1 drous Capltollne buildings. If I should llnd a man coming from any city, having no j pride in that city, that city having been the place of bis nativity, or now being tho place ' of his residence, I would feel like asking: What menu thing bavo you done thore? j What outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like tho plnco?" / I think we ought?and I take it for / granted you are interested in this great work ' of evangelizing the cities ami saving the 1 world?we ought to toil with the sunlight in ' our fnoes. We nro not lighting in a miser- ! ablo Bull Run of defeat. We are on our wav 1 to (IdhI victory. We are not following the J rider on the black horse, lending us dowu to death and darkness nnd doom, but the Itldor \ on tho white horse, with the moon under ' His feet nnd the stars of heaven for His tiara. ' Hall, Conqueror, hall! I know there are sorrows, and there 1 are sins, and there are sufferintts all around J about us; but as in some bitter, cold winter 1 day. when wo arethreshing our arms around { us to keep our thumbs from freezing, wo ' think of the warm spring day that will after 1 awhile eonio; or in the dark winter night wo 4 look up aud see tho northern lights, tho win- J lows of ilea von illumiuutod by sotno great J victory?Just so we look up from tho night 1 of suffering aud sorrow and wretchedness 1 in our cities, ami we see a light streaming f through from the other side, aud we know we nro on the way to morning?more than 1 that, on the way to ' ? morning without * clouds." I want you to understand, alt yon who are 1 toiling for Christ, that the castles of siu are ( all going to be captured. The victory for 1 Christ in these greut towns is going to ha mo 11 complete thatnot a niau on earth or an c angel in liflKveh, or a devil In hell will (lis- J pute it. How do I know? I know Just as * certainly as God lives and this is holy truth. 4 Tho old bible is full of it. If the Nation is to be suved, of course all the cities nre to bo 4 saved. It muk'-s a great difference with you * and with me whether we are tolling on to- '' ward a defeat, or tolling on toward a vie- r lory. I Now. In this municipal elevation of which 1 speak. I have to remark there will be ' greater financial prosperity than our cities J* have ever seen. Homo people seem to have a morbid idea of tho millennium, and they ^ think when the better time comes to our cities nnd tho world pooplo will give their ' time up to psalm-sluging and tho relating of " their religious experience, and. as all social j1 life will bo purified, there will be no hilarity, and. ns all business will be purified, there J will bo no enterprise. There is no ground ' for such an absurd anticipation. In the time of whioh I sneak, where now nn? for. tune Id roude. there will lie a hundred fortuned mnde. Wo nil know business pros- 8 perity depends upon confidence between man and man. Now when that tlmo chines of which I speak, uud ftTion nil doitblo deal- . In?, nil dishonesty, and nil fraud are gone ' out of commercial circles, thorough conlldeuce will bo established and there will be J' better business done, and larger fortunes I' gathered, and mightier succossos achieved. " Thogreat business disasters of this country ? have corne from the work of godless speculators and infamous stock gamblers. The grerft foe to business Is crime. When the right shall have hurled back the wrong, ami ! shall have purified theoommorolal code, and shall have thundered down fraudulent estab- P bailments, and shall have put into the bauds of honest men the keys of business, blessed ' time for the bargain makers. 1 am not talktag an abstraction. I am not making a guess. s. I am tolling you God's eternal truth. In that day of which I speak, taxis will be mere nothing. JJpw, ouf.huslness tuon are u Taxed for flvorylhiftg. (it/ taxes, cb.u.ly ? taxes, State taxes, United States taxes,stamp j' taxes, license taxes, manufacturing tnxes? J!, taxes, tnxes, taxes'. Our business meu have ^ to make a small fortuno every yonr lo pav J* their Inxes. What fastens on our great in- J! dustries this awful loud? Crime, Individual . and ofttolal. Wo have to pay the board of ' the villains who are Incarcerated in our [iris- ' ons. We have to take enre of the orphans of Y thoso who plunged into their graves through sensual indulgences. We have to support * the muine.pnl governments, which nre vn.-t ' , and evnenslvo just in proportion as the erim- J: inal proclivities are vast and treineudoiis. : Who support the almshouse-and police viatlon.s, and nil the machinery of municipal ? t?rtv/?rn?noiilV 'I'ln* Hut 111 th? glorious time of which F speak, | grievous taxation will nil luivocensed. 'I'Ipto 11 will tie no need of supporting criminals there: will ho nocriminals. Virlue will have taken the place of vice, There will no orphan asylums, for parents will lie able to leave a com- j potency to their children. There will he no voting of large sums of money for aotno municipal improvement, which moneys before they get to the improvements drop into r; the pockets of those who voted them. No n Oyer anil Terminer kept up at vast espouse tl to the people. No impaneling of juries to V try theft and arson ami murder and slander ' aud black-nail. Hotter factories. Grand ar- a ehitoetun*. l-'iner lajuipago. Larger for- H tunes. Hieher opulence. Better ehurelies. N In that hotter time. also, coming to those tt cities, Christ's ehur dies will ho more nil- n morons and they will ho larger, ami they ho T more devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, o and they will accomplish greater influences Y for good. Now, it Is often the ease that c< churches are envious of each other, ami do- ti nominations collide with each other, and c; oven ministers of Christ soinctimes forget the tl bond of lirothcrhood. But in the time of is which I speak, while there will In just as si many differences of opinio*] as there are now, nl there will ho no ascorhltv, no hypercrlticisui. si no delusiveness. tl In that day of which I speak, do von believe there will he any midnight carousal'/ Will there lie any kicking off Irom m the marble steps of shivering mendicants/ pi I Will there bo nnv unwashed, unfed, uu- . combed children? Will there b any blase iemlcs in the streets? Will there be any inebriates staggering past? No. No wino stores. No lager beer saloons. No distilleries, where they make the three Xs. No bloodshot eye. No nloate-,1 cheek. No Instruments of ruin nml destruction. No fist-pounded forehead. The grandchildreu of that woman who goes down the street with a curse, stoned by the boys that fellow her. will bo the reformers and philanthropists and the Christian men and the honest merchants of our cities. Then, what municipal governments, too. wo will have in all the cities. Some cities are worse than others, hut In many of our cities you just walk dowu by the city hall and look in nt some of the rooms occupied by politicians, and see to what a sensual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew ?dty politics is ofton abandoned. Or they stand around the City Hall picking their teeth, waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting nil day long, and waiting all night long. Vlio are those wretched womon taken up for drunkeunoss, and carried up to the courts, and put in prison of course? What will yea do with the grogshops that make them drinV/ Nothlug. Who are those prisloners In jail? One of thorn stole a pair oi shoos. That boy stole a dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All of thoni orlmos damaging society less thun twenty or thirty dollars. But what will you do with the gambler who last night robbed the young man of a thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall he done with that one who breaks through | and destroys the purity of a Christian home, and with an adroitness and perfidy that heats the strategy of hell, flings a shrinkiug, j shrieking 90ul iuto ruin? Nothing. What will you do with thoso who fleeced that young man, getting him to purloin lnrgo ' sums of money from his employer?the : young man who oame to an officer of my ithiipiih iiinl tnlil thii nhirv nnd frnnMr*nllv asked whnt he should do? Nothing. Ah! we do well to punish small crimes; but [ have sometimos thought it would bo better ' in sorao of our cities if the officials would j only turn out from the jails the petty crlminals, the llttlo offenders, ten-dollar desperadoes, and put In their places some of the ' monsters of iniquity who drive their roan ipnn through the streets so swiftly that honset men have to leapto get out of the wayof being run over. Oh, the damnable sohemes that professed Christian men will sometime? engage in until God puts the finger of His retribution into the collar of their robe at hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom! ! But nil these wrongs will be righted. 1 expect to live to see the day. . I think I hear in ' the distance tho rumbling of the King's chariot. Not always in tho minority is the Ohuroh of God going to be, or are good men : ?oing to be. The streets are going to be tilled with regenerated populations. Threo hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow when one prince was married ; but. when ' righteousness and neaco kiss each other in ' ill the earth, ten thousand times ten thou- 1 *and bolls shall strike tho jubilee. Poverty 'nrlclied. Hunger fed. Crime banished, [gnornnco enlightened. All the cities saved. [3 not this a cause worth working in? 1 Oh, you think sometimes it does net ( xmount to much! You toll oe in your dif- j 'orent spheres, sometimes with great dla- ] oursgotnent. People haye np faith and say: t 'It does not amount to anything; you might < is well quit that." Why. whop Moses 1 d retched his hnnd over the lted Sea. it did 1 lot seem to mean anything especially. Poo- 1 tie oume out. I suppose, aud said: "Aha!" i iornu of them found out what ho wanted to 1 lo. Ho wauto.l tho sea parted. It did not | mount to anything, this stretching out of ( lis hand over the sen. Hut. after a while. , ho wind blow nil night from tho east, ami he waters were gathered into a glittering . talisado on either side ami the billows < eared a? God pulled back on their crystal J )its! Wheel iuto line, O, Israel! march! , nnrch! Pearls crashed under feet. Flying . ipray gathers iuto raiubcw arch of victory or the conquerors to march under. 8houts >f hosts on the beach answering the shouts >f hosts amid sen. And when the last lino of ernelitos reach the bench the cymbals clap, ind the shields ciaug, and tho waters rush >vor tho pursuers, and tho swifi-flngered v:ngs on the whito keys of tho foam play ho grand march of Israel delivered and the in il dirge of Egyptian overthrow. So you nnd I go forth, and (ill the people >f God go forth, and they stretch forth their land over the sea, tho boiling sea of crime ind sin and wretchedness. "It don't amount o anything," people say. Don't it? God's vluds of help will, after a while, begin to dow. A path will be cleared for the army if Christian philanthropists. Tne path will e lined with tho treasures of Christian onollceuce, and we shall bo greeted to tho dher beach by tin; clapping of all of heaven's ytnbals, while those who pursued us and lurided us and tried to destroy us will go , lown under tho sea and all that will be left f them will be cost high and dry upon the each, the splintered wheel of a chariot, or hrust out from the foam the breathless ucsril of a riderless charger. LIKE ONE BIC FUNERAL. ncli Was the I>epartnre of the Spanish Troops tor Cuba. The Sevonth Regiment, a battery of artil?ry and two companies of Infantry sailed rom San Hobastlan, Hpntn, for Cubu, and 1 Lidging from Hie local newspapers, the de- J arm re of the troops was made the occasion ! f a vast popular demonstration of patriot- ' itn and of a determination to wipe there- 1 nk nfT thn f ai* a nf Hia AnrHi ioonyJlmr fr? ) uuowhut belated private advices from the 1 oene, the newspaper accounts do uot fit the ' sots, which Is not surprising. seeing that j hey had to be submit ted to the Censor i>e fore j ublicntlon. Previous to the review th6 ' il9hop of Vittorla celebrated a religious orvlco in the open air, on the magnificent iurrtolu Promenade, but tho effect was con- j Idorably spoije^ by howlSj sobs and other , einon?tratlons of grief by women and chil- , ren, who nt San Sebastian, lis in other parts j I Hpnih, made no pretense to tho nossessiou , f Spartftn spirit. Then followed a march , ost the Queen Ilogcnt nnd little Klug. Tlie t itter was in a cadet's uu'.form aud saluted , ho troops a^ they Vfltn t ' ravity tout dl-tftnly. It;s Apb6affVTtcA cor- ! uinly aroused a good deal of popular en- j liuslasm, but it evaporated as soon as he , , isnppeared from tho scene. A? for th? , * roops themselves, they made no pretense | whatever of enthusiasm. They had been i oreed to the colors and look eel as if tliov ; roro unwilling conscripts sent to light and J io without compensation or glory. After lit* march pnst they were huddled off to lie forts 011 the heights dominating the >\vn. Triple guards wore on duty throughut tlie night to prevent apprehended do- . ertions, uiul in the morning tho dejected i oidiers went aboard tho transport with the j ir of men going to a funeral. NEW FIELD FOR BICYCLERS. it-it- n \ iii?nt-r< mi iiimii in urn >rnr It oil ten. I ' Advertisements inviting proposals for oar- i ring tin* mails on the star routes for (ho i e.\t flsenl year were Ishu? I front the oflleo of ; to Second Assistant Postmuster Oeneral nt j I'lvdilngtnn. Proposals will ho rwnlvuJ mil Doeemher 1, Mini hid* will ho unounced hy Pobruary 1. Full ii?irmution regarding the routes in New York into, t hu bonds required with tli? bids and r io present price of the sorvlco will ba fur- (] Ished on application to the Department, hero arc thousands of theso routes through- I ut the country, thoro helm; lO'.W in Now I ork Stnto alone. At preaunt nearly all aro vorod by horse and wagon. A large propor- . on of these routes can he covered by bifole riders far more expeditiously than by " io present plan, and a splendid opportunity r presentod for young men with bicycles to cure contracts. The Department ts favor diimo nny ciiaiie? wisleli will oxpmlltn tlio :?r r<>uti> mails ami at tho same time reitueo it'ir cost to tho Government. n Chieaffo if ti> have an olKht-story Govern- n "u* building. The design is unlike any j iblic bulldiut iu tlio United States. _ U t< WASHINGTON ' ! HAPPENINGS. CRKAM OF TilK NKW8 AS CULiIJKD FKO.UTIIK DAI LiY FKKSS. Which Will Ho of More or Less Interest to the Ocnerat Reader. The Now York Produce Kxchungo lias filed a very important complaint against the railroads com prising the Joint Trallie Association, which carry produce to the seaboard, charging them with making rates nnd regulations and giving terminal privileges for the purpose of diverting trallie, which should naturally go to New York, to other seaboard citie*, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk. Newport News and Boston. The complaint asks for an investigation and for the establishment by the commission of just rn tin Illlli e.r-ij ul<? foe !?? ?> e.' lion from Chicago, Buffalo ?u?l the West to the a >ahoard citi*** ami markets. The complaint also Hays that on November 19, 1895, tho defendants (except tho York, Lake Krie ami Western, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago and the Boston ami Albany; formed the "Joint Trflflle Association," and that since January 1,1896, they have violated tho interstate commerce Act by their rates and the diversion of tralllc from New York. In conclusion, the petition asks an investigation, specifically charges the violations, prays that the defendants be restrained from continuing the discriminations and requests the commission to fix rates ami charges to the seaboard cities and markets. The Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics reports that tho total values of the exports of meichaudise from the United 8tntes during the month of August, !139C. and during the eight months ended August 31st, 1896, us compared with similar exports during the corresponding periods of tho preceding year, were as follows: 1896. 1895. August * 08,652,067. $ 55,980,G19. Fight months ended Aug. 31.. *570,982,453. *499,387,403. In August last the exports exceeded the mports by $19,191,342. In August, 1895, the BXca-sof imports over exports was *15,131.124. Dui log the eight months ended August list, 1896. the excess of exports over imports was $99,760,019 and the excess of imports for the corresponding period cf the preceding year was $36,850,416. In August, 1896, the Imports of gold exceeded the exports by *2,173,841, and during tho eight months ended August. 1806. the excess of exports over Imports was $24,793,301. The excess of exports Df silver over Imports during the eight months ended August, 1896, was *23,219,159. The State Department has been informed uy United States Consul Welseke, at Mauigua. that the Nlcuraguan government, finding that the effect of the law of December last, fixing duties on Imported wines and ipirits, has been to stop tho importation of Californin and other light wines and spirits hlltll .-1 , -a ? .. <?v>4< iu< u.iuu, nao uuuj/- , tod a new law which went into effect Aug. 18. lust, readjusting the duties. Horeafter lutles will be imposed as follows: On wines not more than '20 degrees strength, 2 cents , tor eaoh pound Spanish weight gross, and 1 rent more for each degree of strength in 'xooss of '20 degrees. 1 Mixed liquors not more than 20 dogrees strength, 15 cents for each pound gross, and I cent for each degree excess. Wines and mixed liquors above 30 degrees, not over 50 legreos, 13 cents; beer, one ceut per pound jroes; champaigne, 5 cents per pound. * * The State Department is manifesting an active interest in the reported hacking to pieces Liy Spaniards in Cuba of (Jhas. Govin, an American newspaper correspondent, and Ur.nsul General Leo has demanded a full re- "* port on tlie affair from Captain General Weyler. If the Spaniards are unable to refute the strong affidavit* already in possession of this government, an apology and indemnity will be peremptorily culled for. The Stnte Department is informed that Govin, who Pad his American passport, and carried no urns, had lost his way and was captured fuly 'Jth last by the Spanish Col. Ochoa, who liml him hound to a tree and hacked to pieces with machetes. Consul Geii. Lie will press the mntter to a conclusion as promptly as possible. The parcels post convention between tlie United States and the republic of Honduras, signed by Postmaster General Wilson several weeks ngo, has been ratitied by the Honiurns republic and will go into immediate >p?ration. It allows all merchandise pact rges up to eleven pounds to bo exclinaged in i :he mails I ret ween the two countries. Hero- \ oforo only valueless merchandise samples i restricted to 8;', ounces in weight were al- 1 owed ranamlssion. I ! Th? Weithor liureau in its report of crop ouditions for the week ended September 14 i ays: The genital absenee of rain in the I southern Slates has been very favorable for I otton picking, which has made rapid pro#- I rosus. Picking will be completed over the i greater portion of the cotton belt by October ! I. The continued dry wonther has impaired I ;ho outlook for the top crop which in many icctlous will be a complete failure. Tobacco < s atiout all housed, and the past week has won very favorable for curing. ' The Atlantic Const Lino has tiled with lu- | :?rstate Commerce Commission schedules of >f reduced rates from lloston. New York ( tnd Philadelphia to points in North ('aroma and South Carolina to meet the reduced , rates of the Seahonrd Air Line. The com- | nission has received no notitleation ol a resorntlou of rntes in accordance with the lu- , unction order t<? ttpeer. ? A salute of 100 Cruns was fire.I last Monday iii.ght in celebration of the Maine election. The National Tribune, a soldiers' paper >f , this city, secured the permit and provided for ho salute. A telegram was sent to Major ' MeKinlvy saying that the salute would be re- i [icated November I. to celebrate his victory. , TheSonthern l.'Uilwav Company lias filed . jotiee with the Interstate Commerco Com- . nission of its intention to restore freight j rates in the territory included m the jurislietion of Judge Soeer. of tieoriria to the I rHt<< \vhi<*!? prevailed prior to SoptHinber 5. i ln? now M'li'nlwlf* will go mi,, , Sop. | oin bo r 20. , Secretary < arlisle, from hi.- vitamer rereat in Ihtr l{;irl>or, \|o . has addressed to ' > ?" of to- Keiitnekv ?,.,rri,spoi,i|,?nis a letter, wlth'li i< tn:i<l" piili|j<' It ,,,,|itniiiH Seeretnry 1 'tirlUh''.- in -5 nvei,;). a.pined views ?>u . ' liitioiiul lii-.in- i Poisonous Serpents. A groat many people fall Into the or- I or of considering that all or nearly all 1 if the different species of snakes are ' loisonous. The very latest estimate , nado by the naturalists is that there < re GT?7 varieties of tlietn on the globe, i ' >f that number -10(1. or oyer two thirds j ' if the whole lot, are as harmless as j abhltn. _ 1 r Freed From Foil p<y liv n l)iij, \ At Anderson. 1ml., Hugh Fisher, a vounif J inn auhjeet to epilepsy, lifts received pn? 1 ulur treatment time has resulted In a re- t wtrknblo euro. The disease has. Jt 1h v latmod, hoen transmitted to a pet dn^, t laviuy its master free from all the sytnp- t ill IS. (. a Mi) i NOTIFICATION.! BRYAN OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED | BY THK POPULISTS. The Letter Wai Written By Senator Allen?Was Chosen as a Democrat. The Hon. Wm V. Allen, Chairman of the Populist National convention, sent Wm. J. Hrvn n ! hut *Kr? I^?*.l?.. Lt?s? ?? ^ j ? * ?(avuuuj ?uv iviiumu^ tukici VII" flclally notifying him of bis nomiuution by that body: "Hon. II'mi, J. Iiryan, Lincoln, Neb. "Dzak 8ia: At n convention of tbo People's party hold at St. Louis from July 2'2ud to 25tb, of the current year, ypu wore unanimously nominated fur tbo President of tbe United States tc be voted for at the approaching general election. It was known at the time that yon bad been nominated by tbe Democratic party at its convention held at Chicago a few days before that time and that you would in nil probability accept tbe same in a formal manner. Your nomination by tbe People's party was not. therefore, made with nuy thought that you were a Populist or that you accept all the doctrines declared by the St. Louis platform. It was due largely to the fact that the money question is the overshadowing political issue of tbe age and because you have at all times been an unswerving. able and fearless advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold on terms of equality at the mints of the United States at the ratio of 1G to 1. It was thought also that the observance of a patriotic duly required a union of all reform forces and the convention took the liberty, without soliciting of consulting you. of placing your name before the People's party hs its standard bearer. The convention was, in doing so, guided by deep solicitude for the common welfare, and acting on itBown motion, prompted alooe by a desire to bring about tne best attainable results. Ho much has been said respecting the re-babllltation of silver by again placing it in our coinage acts in tbe position it occupied when stealthy demonetized by the Act of 1873, that it would bo idle for U9 to discuss the question. You will observe by the closing language of the 8t. Louis platform that the convention recognized the money question as the great issue of the day and because Populists believe that you are in in accord with them on this question you will receive their ballots in November. "It has at no time been expected, nor is it now, that you will abandon your adhesion to the Chicago platform, however gratifying the . latter would bo to all Populists. It must be uuuuil.uvu mill mr imrijr lilies HOI BUAie one I jot or tittle of loyalty to ittj principles. We i have declared ourselves in favor of many important reforms, in our judgment essential to < the liberation of the people from present un- > just and iuiquitous industrial bondage. 1 "In accordance with the precedent of our < party we take this method of notifying you I of your nomination. We shall not send a i committee according to old pnrty custom. In I sending this letter of notillcution of tho great < honor which has so justly been conferred 1 upon you by our party, it is needless for us ' to assure you that you have the confidence < and esteem of all. Your splendid abilities, known integrity, competency nnd eminent J fitness for the position Justly entitles you to < a high rank among the great statesmen of 1 the nation. We feel that in the event of your ' election, which now norms certain, that you 1 tvlUcnrryJato the executive the principles ol the monetary reform to the end that tho poo- i pie shall enjoy better industrial conditions, t it is not anticipated that this can he done with undue haste or so suddeu as to wrench i the business interests of the eouutry, but it | ivill bo done gradually and iu a way to oufuse i confidence nnd hope of better conditions for l all. i "The People's party will exact from you 1 no promises farther than those made iu your j public utterances und exemplified in a life devoted to the welfare of tho race, nor will it ask you to abnudon the party of which you are an honored member. In your nomination our party bos arisen above partisan sur- 1 roundings, adopting a high planeof patriot ism, believing that a division of forces would result in the election of Wm. MoKinley. the foremost advocate of a deeply burdensome and unnatural taxation nnd the criminal policy of the single gold standard resulting ultimately, if not in some manner checked, in the complete destruction and disintegration di our lorm or government. Your elevation to the chief magistracy of the nation would he regarded aa a' vindication oi the right of the people to govern and we entertain no doubt that you will prove a worthy suooessor of the immortal Jefferson and Lincoln, and that your public life, liUe i their's, will illustrate tho purity nnu lofti I iless of American statesmanship. Your ex l tensive and intimate knowledge of public ' affairs and the duties the office will impose, gained in a life that has been devoted to upholding the cause of tho people, as well as your keen insight into the condition of our country, in our judgment highly quulilles you to bring about a change In a way that will work injury to none and justice to all, thus making our government in fact, as it is now, In form only, a government 'of, by and Tor the people.' "We have the honor to be your most obeJient servants." The letter Is signed by Win. Vin 'out Allen, tbairman, and all otbor"members of the aoti- | ' Ication committee. CANTON i>KCOICATKD !n Honor ofVtlcKliilt-y?Campaign Formally Opened. \t ('onion. (>., last Friday formal opening >f the Republican campaign in the homo of ,lie nominee occurred nnd Canton was robed n streamers and banners. Arches span tin* ' prominent thoroughfares and buildings were I ?n?ra!ly decorated. Tlio weather was ! -pleudid and many shops ami business ! ;mses were closed. As far as Canton was ' 1 omerued it was largely a non-partisan de- j re list ration, the people of all parties united j a decorations ami in giving the day over to j he celebration. Numerous out-of-town del- ! nations were presented. The parade moved in four divisions of footnen and with a largo contingent of wheel- | nen and horseman. Pennsylvania, Wiu j lirglniaand other States formed the llrst dirision; Ohio, outaide of Starke county, see- j Hid; Starke county, outside of Canton, the j hint and Canton the fourth. I'.aeh notable |.'legation was ^nssigned a position of lion r dajor MeKlnley. visiting speakers, nfflcersnf lie day ami gnosis of honor rode in open ' .images at the head of the parade. A short line of mnreh brought tlie parade ' o a monster tent with aecommodaf ions for J wenty thousand people. Mere the Urst j nccting was held, Governor lSuslinell presidng ami making a short iutrodiietory ad- I 11ess. Addresses were made by Senator ! 'allien, of Illinois, and 'lliurston, of N-- I raska. Workinginen Visit M< Ivliiley At Canton. ().. last Thursday fully -'.000 unployecs of thu Edgar Ihompson Stool .Vorka, of P.raddoek, Ph., visitoil William iIcKinley, the Republican candidate for resilient. His speech was on the line of arifT, anil he said that good work, good rages ami good money is what we want in Ills country, and as a matter of cionraerll In so would come with the success of the (;. K l>. New Tork'i Hre Department. Every city In the United States shows local pride In Its firemen. Each claims that Its department la one of the best (If not the best) in the country. The rivalry between some of the cities ?s at limes quite nmuslngv and theiTlit much discussion upon the merits of their 1 own firemen; but New York City undoubtedly occupies to-day the enviable position of havlcg, nil things considered, the most thoroughly equipped and most efficient fire service In the world. The apparatus Is of the best. The horses, selected with card: and judgment. are tnngnlficent animals; and the men. picked from those thought to be best adapted for the work they must perform, are subjected to a most rigid physical examination before they are admitted to the service, and afterward are trained in a school of instruction at fire headquarters that is complete in itself.?St. Nicholas. A Lawyer's Testimony. From the Herald, Potsdam, N. T. ueorge itoardiuan stacey, or Nioholviiie. ?(. Lawrence County, Now York, Las for ' mnnv years ranked ns one of the brightest ( lawyers in Northern Now York and for the past tweuty years hus been the acknowledged ' lender of politics in the east end of thisgreat county. Mr. Stacey was u-Miiftteil to the bur i Iu 1HG5, and up to October, 1896, continued , lo practice his profession. All this time, tiowever, the strain of active political work | Pad been undermining his ouce iron constitution, and during this month of October ho differed a stroke of paralysis which left him . practically helpless. For weel^s he was in a terrible coudttion, the efforts of tlio doctors proving of no avail. All at once he began to ' recover, however, and was soon seen about town again, frequenting his former haunts uad shaking hands with his old friends and voquaiulancee. His rapid recovery was the lalk of the town, and a reporter hearing ot the wonderful eure decided to visit Mr. ' Utacey and ascertain if possible its cause. Mr. Stacey was inclined to be communicative, and the following is his story of his 111aeea and cure: ' I was presiding over a political meeting \nd had just arisen to give a friend who was to nddresa the meeting a rousing sendoff. when to my astonishment I discovered I fould not talk. My tongue seemed paralyr.ed. I managod to say a few word:;, howiver, aud took my scat where by shear will power I managed to sit until the meeting was finished. On arising to go Home, how9ver. 1 found I could not wulk and seemed to have lost control of my limbs. I was asdsted home, but on foeltng -better in the norning I went down to my office. Here I mfferad another shock which isft ton flat on ny back. I finally recovered sufficiently to ?et np, hut was left a complete physical wreck. 1 could not half talk or guide my telf at all. I oould uot write or even hold a sen, and was unable to transact any bumusee. I was like a drunken man and went daggering about. "The doctors did all thev oould for iuo but ittll I failed to improve. I had always been ifreatlv opposed to patent medicines in any form, but on the recommendation of my lruggist, Ira H. Smith. I lluallv decided to give Dr. William*' Pink Pills for Pale People i trial and see if they would do mo any 1 [food. To my ureal surprise I begun to no- ' :ic<? an improvement before 1 had taken half a box, and by thetime I had tnkuu three tioxcfl I felt like a new man. As nothing else mrmed to help me I lay my recovery to the ] Pink Pills for Pale People. Ou going to , Newark, New Jersey, in April, I gave up taking the pills, aud have not sinco returned to using them, although I am confident they ire a splendid thing, and I will probably use them again." Mr. Staoey's remarkable caae is but one of a thousand others which have been cured by these magio pills where all else had failed. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the. elements necessary to give now life aud richness to the hlood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases aa locomotor ataxia. partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dacce. sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the uftor effect of la grippe, palpilation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions. all forms of weakness either In male or female. Pink Pills are sold by a.I dealers, or will lie sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cent a a box, orslxboxee for 9'J.50 (Ibey are never sold in bulk or by the 100', by uddressiug Dr. Williams' Mcdiciuc Company, Schenectady, N. Y. There is more Catarrh la this section of the ^ couutry than all other diseases put together, ana until the lost few years was supposed to l-e Incurable. For u groat many years doctors ' pronounced it a local disease and prescribed 1 loca.1 remedies, and by constantly failing tc ' cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be 1 constitutional diaease aud therefore requires i constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F .1. Cheney A Co.. Toledo. , I Ihllt IS I liamilu l\n n . I : ? _ . t 1 " uniiiu i mum cure on llirmar : is taken In ternally in dore* from 10 drop* to a vetu?iKx.nful. It acts directiy uu the blnoil snd raucous sni-i aces of the system. They offer I ?ne hundred dollars for any case it falls to I sore. Send for circulars and testimonials. < Address K. J. l.'neNcv & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c, , Ball's Family Pills are the Lest FJTSetnp,red free and pennanentlycured. No flu after flr?t day's use of Dr. Kline's CJ hbat | NrrvkRestohxh. Free $? trie I bottle and treat* | ise. Send in Dr. Kliue. Cul Arch St.. Pbila., Pa. I The patent oftice of Great Britain : Iocs not require models. If Dobbins' Electric 3cap t* what so many insist that it is, you can not afoul to \*o without It. Your grocer hu? it, or an yet :t, and yon can dec We for yoainr'/ very soon Do." let another Monday pa-? witiiout :it\n>< it (irniumar. which known how to lord :t over kingK, and with high hand makes them obey its latva. Molie.re I ! > tin* tnciiii'ine ?i:ou s:! rli i in rn,*? < i. ;.{li> . ltd cold". Mr-. M . t> llt.fsi. s |ii'.igit<-, Wiislt., Mini hs, JSi'i Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for child'#* petliiog. softens the K'ttits, reduces ic.lemina. won. alleys pain, cure* wind colic. 2Y a bot'le. Great i vsltn naturally rc-uilt from the ("rent merit ! wiiirh make* th<iu.<aiuls of wonderful < ures i>y Hood's Sarsaparilla i The One True Blood I'urifler. All druggist*. SI. ' Mnnri' ? Pills cure all Liver Ills. IS i cents. 8he Got the Doll. A pretty little story comes from Baltimore. At a fair hold there for the IwmeIII of n church a little girl named Itose had worked very ho^d while the fair was in progress to sell various thing* Vhtt weto iiHrffetlid t(?.her. A doll was at one of tlie booths* that was to b^ voted to the most popular little girl* and Hose's name was among others tit candidate for this prize. The child was very anxious to possess the lovely, doll, which seemed to her the most beautiful tiling In the world- On the evening ot the dynwlng/ little Hose could hardly wait, but wheu the numbers began to be read off It was noticed that she was not around. Somooqo went to look after her and found her In o part of the room where the crowd was least, on lior knees saying over aj little childish prayer which begged llint the doll baby might he sent to her. rhe sight brought tears to the eyes of those who saw and llsteued. Just as ihe finished the word was sent among her friends that Kose had Indeed earned the doll, and ft second later, so touched was everyone with her childish faith. It was hurledly snatched from the table tml put In her arms. Happiness beamed itU over her !*iby face as she carried lier treasure around the room, and everybody who saw her was as glad us she was that she had got It. I. T. SlU I'TIUSK. WllENS, (i?. Sir:--"llaviufc oh tabled ft box'of ymirTiri.HiNK of linnter A Wright, of Louisville, ill., which I used on a case of itching piles if Ave years' standing^ 1 spent f.">0 for dlfereut kinds oT remedies and the skill of doers, nil for no good, until 1 got the.TETTrKnk. I am now well. Accept thanks." Yours. W. R. KINO. Ry mail for BOc. in stamps. liy J. T. Hiiu/.-tiunk, Savannah, Oh. Gladness Comes With a. better understanding* of the transient nature of the many physical ills which vanish before proper efforts?gentle efforts?pleasant enon..^ rightly directed. 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