"REV. DR. TAIMAGE. . — THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subject: “Festivity.” Texr: “Come, for all things are now ready. Luke xiv, 17. It was one of the most exoiting times in | English history when Queon Elizabeth visited Lord Lelcester at Kenilworth Castle. The moment of her arrival was considered so im- portant that all the clocks of the castle were stopped, so that the hands might point to that one moment as being the most signifi. oant of all. She was groeted tothe gate with floating islands and torches, and the thunder of cannon, and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a great burst of musle that lifted the whole scene into perfect enchantment. Then she was introduced in a dining hall the fuxuries of which astonished the world, Four | hundred servants waited upon the guests, The entertainment cost £5000 each day. Lord Leicester made that great supper in Kenil- worth Castle, Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French embassadors at Hampton Court, The best | cooks in all the land prepared for the banp- | quet. TPurveyors went out and traveled all the kingdom over to find spoils forthe table, The time came, The guests were kept dur- ing the day hunting in the King's park so that their appetites might be keen, and then {1 in the evening, to the sound of the trumpet- ers, they were introduced into a hall bung with silk and cloth of gold, and thers were tables a-glitter with imperial plate and laden | with the rarest of meats and ablush with the costliest wines, and when the second oourse of the feast came it was found that the arti- cles of food had been fashioned into the shape of men, birds and beasts, and groups dancing, and jousting parties riding against each other with lances, Lords and princes embassadors, out of cups filled to the rank the health first of the King of 1d and next of the King of Franca, Cardinal Wolsey prepared that great supper in Hampton Court, But I have to tell you of a grander enter- tainment. My Lord, the King is the ban queter. Angels are the cupbearors, All the smed are the guests, The halls of eternal s, frescoed with light and paved with joy irtained with unfading be y, are jueting place. The harn of of the music, The chalices of heaver plates, and I am one out with both b nies { the serva nes in at the very beginning of aye, He has been waiting 1894 years guests, He has been standing on His mangled feet, He has bad His sore hand on His punctured side, or He has been pressing His lacerated tem waiting, wait It is wonderful that He has not been impatient and that He has not sald, ‘Shut the door and let the laggard stay out,” but He has waiting. No banqueter ever walted for his guests so patiently as Christ bas waited for us. To prove how willing He is to receive us, I gather all the tears that rolled down His cheeks in sympathy for your sorrows; 1! ather all the drops of blood that channeled | is brow, and His back, and His hands and | feet, in trying to purchase your redemption ; | I gather all the groans that He uttered in | midnight ehill, and in mountain hunger, and in descrt loneliness, and twist them into one ory —bitter, agonizing, overwhelming, I guther all the pains that shot from spear and spike and cross, | ng into one pang remorseless, grinding, excruciating, I take f sweat on His brow, ziass that dr ples p enlarges and an tanding before yo wl and FOE conxes in which every wo | avery sentence a i think Het ol a feast { all eternity re w Ar rifles r 150 days ow Inir Hels! His eye, His brow, His 80 radiant that the stars have no brilliancy compared with it, His face reflect- ing all the joys of the redeemed, His hand having the omnipotent surgery with which He openad blind reyes and straightened erooked limbs, and hoisted the pillars of heaven and swung the twelve gates, which are the twalve pearls, There are not en cups in heaven t wean of beauty, There are not ough to seals this height of 10t ugh cymbals to elap, or im, or trumpets to peal forth {this one altoget) fair, Oh, lower of eternity, thy breath is the of heaven! Oh, blissial daybreak, people clap their hands in thy radi- Chorus : Come, men and saints and bim and seraphim and archangel--all heights, all depths, all immensities, Chorus Roll Him through the heavens in achariot of universal acclaim, over bridges of hosannas, under arches of coronation, along by the sreat towers chiming with eternal jubilee Chorus : *"Unto Him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in Hisown blood, to Him be glory, world without end?" I have a word of five letters, but no sheet white enough on which to write it and no pen good enough with which to inseribs it, Give me the jairest leaf from the heavenly records—give me the pencil with which the angel records his victory-—and then, with my band strung to supernatural ecstasy and my pen dipped In the light of the morning, I will write it out In capitals of love, “J-ES-U-8" Itis this one, infinitely fair, to whom you are invited, Christ is waiting for you, waiting as a banqueter waits for | the delayed guest —the meats smoking, the beakers brimming, the minstrels with fingers on the stiff string, waiting for the clash of the hoofs at the gateway. Waiting for you as a mother walls for her son who went off ten years ago, dragging her bleading heart along with him. Waiting ! Oh, give me a comparison intense enough, bot enough, importunate enough to express my meaning —something high as heaven and | deep as hell and long as eternity! Not hop- ing that you ean help me with such a com parison, I will say, ‘He is waiting as only the all sympathetic Christ can wait for the coming back of a lost soul.” Bow the knee and kiss the fom, Come and welcome, smner, coms, Again, the Holy Spirit is ready, Why ia it that so many sermons drop dend--that Chris. tian songs do not got tasir wing under the people—that so often prayer goes no higher than a hunter's “hollos™ It Is because there is a link wanting-the work of the Holy Spirit. Unless that spirit give grappling hooks to \v sermon and Hit the prayer and waft the song, everything is a dead failure, That spirit is willing to come at our eall and lead you to eternal lifa, or ready to come with the same power with which he unhorsed Saul on the Damasous turnpike, and broke down Lydia in her fine store, and lifted the 8000 from midniebt into midvoon st the Pentecost. With that power the spirit of God now beats at the gate of your soul, Have you not noticed what homely and in. is love { to fulfill the lusts thereof," significant instrumentality the spirit of God employs for man's conversion? There was a man on a Hudson River boat to whom n tract was offered. With Indigna- tion he tore it up and threw it overboard, But one fragment lodged on his cont sleave, and he saw on it the word ‘‘eternity,” and he found no peace until he was propared for that great future, gago (t was that caused Martin Lutherto see the truth! “The just shall live by faith." Do you know there is one «just One pis- | sage that brought Augustine from a life of | dissipation? “Put ye on the pord Jesus Cnrist and make no provision for the flesh passage that converted Hedley Vicars, the great soldier, to Christ, ** I'he blood of Jesus | Christ cleanseth from all sing” ‘Jo you know that the Holy Spirit used ono passage of Seripture to save Jonathan Edwards? ‘‘Now, unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our | Saviour, be glory.” One year Ago on Thanksziving Day I read for my text, Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for Hoe is good, for His merey endureth forever.” And there {s & young man in the house to whose heart the Holy Spirit took that text for his eternal redemption. I might speak of my own case, I | will tell you I was brought to the peace of the | gospel through the Syro-Phanician woman's ery to Christ, “Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the Master's table.” Do you know that the holy spirit almost always uses insignificant means? Eloquent sermons never save anybody. Philosophical sermons never save anybody, Metaphysical sermons never save anybody, But the ninister comes some Sabbath to his pulpit worn out with engagements and the jang- ling of a frenzied doorbell, He has only a a text and two or three ideas, but he says ‘O Lord, help me. Here are a good many people I may never meet again, I have not much to say. Speak Thou through my poor lips,” And before the service is dons there are tearful eves and a solemnity like the 1dgment, * The great French orator, when the dead Eling lay befors him, looked up and eried, “God only is great!” and the triumph of his eloquence has been told by the oria But I have not heard that one & was saved by the oratorieal flourish, Worldly writics may think that the early preaching Thomas Chalmers Ih ; AYE he nov his { ul asterpieos r began Bat have bee Bossaota wwhat w read om AY save § ur s f God may hurl the heart, “Come, for all things & the church is ready. urtain off these Christian would show you a great many anxie your redemption, You think that ause his head is Again, uld take the « yur heart, yo tr? Do you know that m Fulton street prayer Friday evening prayer up every hour of the day And il spoken may strike y the air is full of pray: prayer is going up Ir meeting and from meeting, and going for the redemption of the people? you should just start toward the door of the | Christian church, how quickly it would fiy open! Handreds of people would say : “Give that man room at the sacrament. Dring the silver bowl for his baptism. Give bim the right hand of Christian fellowship. Bring him into all Christian associations,’ Oh, you wanderer on the d mountsine, plold, 1 let in. With the i the way. Hun yon ome into the warm st the bars and bid yo rs, and swan We are a garden walled Chosen and made 1 ! God ready. A ! many Christians think that the talk wut angels is fansiful, Yousay it Is a very jeot for the : have just begun to sermonize, but for men it is improper. There is no more prool n that Bible that there is a God than there are angels, Why, do not they swarm about Jacob's ladder? Are we not told that they sonducted Lazarus upward ; that they stand bafore the throne, thelr faces coversd with their wings, while they ery, holy is the L God Almighty David ses thousands and the not one angel slay 185000 men in Senna sherib's army? And shall they not be the shiaf harvesters at the judg here is a line of loving, angels reaching to heaven, I suppose they reach from hers to the very gate, and when an audience is assembled for ship the air is full of them. If each one of you has a guardian angel, how many oeles- tinls there are hare! They crow: the place, they hover, they flit about, they rejoice. Look, that spirit Is just come from the throne! A moment ago it stood before Christ and heard the doxology of the glorified, Look! Bright, immortal, the golden city! Speak, spirit blest! response comes melting on the alr, * for all things sre now ready!" Angels ready to bear the lidings, angels ready to drop the benediction, angels ready to kindle the joy. They have stood in glory they know all about it, They have feit the are good su elder rd Did not sands? Did ent? holy, mighty The Come, | Joy that is felt where there are no tears and no graves ; immortal health, but no invalid. ism ; songs, but no groans ; wedding bells, | but no funeral torehes ; eyes that never weep, hands that never blister, faint, hearts that never break, [riendships that are never weakened, Ready, all of them! Ready, thrones, prin. | dpalities and powers! Ready, seraphim and cherubim! Ready, Michael the Archangel! Again, your kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. [ pronounce moje” spiritualism a fraud and a sham, H-¥bHin Milton and George Whitefield Ls fio better husiness than to oraw, ungyte table and rat- tis the loaves, they had beter stay at home in glory. While I believe that modern spir- ftuskism is bad beonase of its montal and domestic ravages, common sense, enlight- snad by the word of God, teaches us that our friends in glory sympathize with our re- | demption, The Bible says plainly there is joy In | heaven song the angels of God over one sinner that reponteth, and If angels rejoice and know of it shall not our friends stand ing among them know #7 Some of these Spirits in glory tolled for your redemption, hen they onme to die, their chief grief was that you were not a Christian, They said, "Meat me in heaven,” and put thoir hands ont from the sover and sald, “Goodby,” Now, suppose you should cross over from a sinful life to » holy lle, Bappose you should be born Into the kingdom. Buppose you should now say : ‘Farewell O deceitful world! Get thee , my sin! Fie upon all the follies! O Christ, help ms or [ per. ish! I take my promise, I botseve Thy word, [ enter Thy service,” Suppose you should say and do this? Why, Do yon know what pas- | It was just one | down | it, No; he is praying for | down | students who | : “Holy, | Christian wor- | what news from | heads that never | | the angel sent to you would shout upward, “He is coming!” and the angel poising higher in the air would shout it upward, “He is coming!" and it would run all up the line of light from wing to wing and from t trump to trumpet until it reached the gate, | and then it would flash to ‘the house of | many mansions, * and it would find out your kindred there, and before your tears of re petenance had been wiped from the cheek and befors you had finishad your first praver your kindred in glory would know of it, { and another heaven would be added to their | joy, and they would ory : “My prayers are | answered ; another loved ene saved, Give | moa harp with which to strike the joy. Baved! Baved! Saved! If I have shown you that *‘all ready,” that Christ is ready, that the Holy | Spirit is ready, that the church is ready, | that the angels In glory are ready, that your | glorified hundred are ready, then with all the concentrated emphasis of my soul I ask you {f yon are ready? You see my subject throws the whole responsibility upon yourself, If you do not get into the King's banquet it is because you do not accept the invitation, You have the most importunate invitation, Two arms stretched down from the cross soaked in blood from elbow to finger tip, two lips quiveriag in mortal an- gulsh, two eyes beaming with infinite love, saying, ‘Come, come, for all things are now ready." I told you that when the Queen came to Kenilworth Castle they stopped all the clocks, that the finger of time might be pointed to that happy moment of her arrival, Oh, Hf | the King would come to the castle of your soul, you might well afford to stop all the | clocks, that the hands might forever pointto this mong ent as the one most bright, most blessed, most tremendous, Now, I wish I sould go around from elrele to elrele and in. vite every ones of you, according to the lavi- tation of my text, saying, “Come! I would like to takeevery ona of vou by hand and say. “Come!” O}d man, who been wandering sixty or seventy years, thy sun has almost gone down, Through the dust of the evening stretch out your withered | hand to Christ, Ho will not cast thee off, old man. Ob, that ons tear of repentance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek ! ter Christ has fed theo all thy life long, you not think you can afford to speak one word in His profs things are the has af von be y are farthest away La Christ can put hirst. He n break that nar me rest out issed one man ealled this ho This is the hour of od nm ot the BOS Be. nner Whiie yet a par fees} We haste Interesting Ordnance Experiments, | The Armstrong Company, of land, has Eng- some very interest. experiments with the latest ord i nance. A six-inch gun was fired four | times in twenty seconds, an eight-inch | gun three times in thirty seconds. A térpedo was driven satisfactorily with eordite as a powder, Theres was a { search light which would keep its { beam upon an object no mstter how violently the vessel rolled. A ten- gun, it was i the breech screw by the und whiel when released, would again. A47-100fiel itself after the first spade-shaped show n ing ng when up a spring, lose the breech | howitzer anchored discharge by driv. a plate into tl ind, after which its recoil was met r a jacket irrounds it. A quick-firing which anchors 14 ¥ ii In which = field gun, iar rounds of scrapnel i a Bn onds, A fifteen-pounder mountain | howitzer could be taken to pieces so it would weigh more than 200 pounds. It was screwed to- | gether in A wix-inch | gun, with light portable disappearing mountings for a siege train, conld be | taken apart so that no portion weighed more than three tons, ten hours being required tec mount it, A six-inch naval gun fired five rounds in sixty-nine sec- onds, each time at a different range and target. A plate of special steel designed for a shield received rifle and Gatling gun fire at 100 yards range without a single penetration, while the | plate hitherto used was penetrated at | every thot, the cutting it in two, Chicago Herald. ——— Horace Greeley and His Bride, “When Horace Greeley was first married and brought his wife home on a visit « sugar party was given in their | honor on a neighboring farm. All | the guests had arrived, and we were { looking out, watching for the belated { bride and groom. At last we saw | something appearing in the distance, | As this sama object came nearer, we | discovered it was the old white horse of the Greeleys, slowly picking his | way through the mud. On his back | sat the bride ina brilliant yellow frock, | with & green velvet belt, and behind lper, wrapped in his famous white over coat, sat the already famous editor. It was the funniest sight I ever saw, and set us off in fits of laughing, 1 re member,” concluded my informant, laughing again at her recollection, “that 1 simply lay down and rolled upon the floor in a spacm of mirth.” Mr. Greeley came home every year, {and after a day or two on the farm, would start to walk miles and eall on people. He was never known to knoek at a farmhouse door, No matter whether ho knew the inmates or not, he would push open the door, walk right in, sit down by the fireplace and fail to discussing crops and other topios dear to the farmer's heart Everybody was glad to welcome this gentle, brusque intruder. —Press and Printer, that no part of five minutes, ] : | : i SA The huge guns of modern navies oan only be fired about seventy-five times before they are worn ont, | appears again, but with = | Almighty, | am the powerful, all suffic | dal | tween Me and thee | exenedingly."” oom when, | there i eailed | signifies | breathed Himsel! ! them and walk in Gatling gun almost | | shalt keep My covenant, theralors, thou {| thy seed alter SABBATH SCHOOL. TEMNATIONAL LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 11, Lesson Text: “God's Covenant With Abram,” Gen. xvii, 1, D- Golden Text: Gen, xv., G- Commentar), 1. “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and sadd unto him, I am the Almighty God ; walk before Me and be thou perfect,” It is now twenty-four years since Abram entered the land of Canaan (see chapter xil., 4), during which time Lot left him and went to dwell in Sodom, while Abram removed his tent and altar to Hebron (xii, 12, 18.) At this tims the Lord appeared and renewed the cove- nant. We next see Abram rescuing Lot and his goods from the four kings, and being blessed by Melchizedec he gives him tithes and is epabled to refuse the goods of Bodom, In chapter xv. the Lord cotaes to him again, and we have for the first time fear not, shield, reward, believe, righteousness and other words, Then follows another story of human wisdom and weakness, and a blank of thirteen years (compare xvi, 16, and xvil,. 1), after which in this lesson Jehovah new name—God or FE! Shaddal Almighty, or Bhaddal, signifies the all suffielent One, and is suggestive of bountiful, golf sacrificing Jove pouring itself out for others, Jehovah virtually sald to Abram, You have again listened to human wisdom, wandered from Meand fafled, now return and walk Me sincerely, uprightly (see margin), t On E fin twfore for 1 | Bhad- and in Me alone you will your need 2. make Pre and I'hirtec: word “covenant” in this chapt and xv., 18, making a full twi fect number, Nine tin enant,” emphasizin Him. He isthe and it cannot fall notwithstan And IT will we find the i wa in durings, and rem fruth t He has sworn from t 31 ;: Zech, xil id Ala 10 : xin iment ants of Ishmae is doubtie festad in the fast the pr He will ove all our th “Neither shall th Abram thy 1 Atrahem, for a Inther I made thes, 8 olars may pot know that the part « name which “father” is the first two jotlers Ab, The addition to his name is most uggestive, & Bhai many Nati the sol fihe t me |. The new consonant added is H, which is the principal letter in God's great name Jehovah (J HV Hy-s0 that it appears as if Gog fat A + The only Almighty is found in aidan Wvelati rar place the the New Tosia conn name nent 1 With the promise I wi voll in thew nt 1] 0 . kt 1 i ! } 21D #1 a Luke ‘ { the R ing the H how we may sooret of it is oy ness, and G Bead also Re i 7. “And I wil tween Me and thee, and in their generations, enant, to be a good unt after I'he everiastin mentioned again in vers in conne with Isaac, the pr the true send, who is n Gal, HL, 16: Math. i. 1), and son of David in and through whom all the pr be literally luifilled and all mysteries made clear as noonday, £ “And I will give unto thee peed after thee the land wher nant be thes eriadting cov eatabl iy . i alter i to thy seed thee vonant tion f Christ Abraham iw ri ined sen als non shall ein thou nt stranger, ail the land of Canaan Insting possession, and [ will be As to the breadth of the land xv., 18, and notice that it rea phrates, That it shal though they have as yt It than in it, the prop! abundant iy tity Among the plainest statemer " Ezek, xxxvil. 21, 22 aos Ix 15. Jeu xxxi.. 358.40, and listen to these wonderinl words of Jer, xxxii,, 41 I will plant 1} in this land assurcdly with My wool and with My whole sou hoever doubt that it shall be #0 is surely w the name of infidel 8 “And God said for an eve thelr Go ee) ts em heart An rithy of unto Abraham, thow and thee in their gensrations.” Then follows an account of that whi wers to keep, even the right of sirenn fs a token of the covenant The I» cloud did not make the covenant witl any more sure, bat was the that there was such a covenant Cit cision did nt make Abraham 2 cous (Rom, iv., 11) nor the covenant sure, but was the outward sign that al were included in the enant wal belore established, Its true signifi seen in Deut, xxx. 6; Jer. iv. 4; ( 31; Gal, vi, 18, «Lesson Helper, bh 1ley sion, Ww in the Noah Visihie (0 SPY Cov EE ——— She Was a Present. Intelligense has reached the Navy ment of the onl of an old nationality = uch bas re plant on the panda of the the war bel ween Paraguay au ) forces of Brasil and the Argentine Bepublio the Government of Paraguay presontad to the United States a wooden war sip a8 8 tribute of respect, Congress never authors iznd the Navy Department to accept the pros. ent, and the question of ownership was left in doubt, The Navy Dapartiwent did not feel authorized to use the vessel nor 10 send her back to Paraguay, 80 the old ship hns been ying Yor yenrs at the Mars Jsiand (Cal) Navy Yard, Some time ago she sank, amd reoontly the Navy Department found it neo wanary to destroy the hulk to open the chan nal, The offfeinl report of the commandant of the nevy yard, just received at the d parts ment, tells that the destruction has taken place, ms have | THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, Fate - What It Was Too Means of Winning Ald Versatility, Ete. Much A Mind Cure They vowed eternal constancy The youth and maiden shy Through time and through eternity Their love should never die, But Inte in life's uncertain whirl Playad havoe with their plan He's married to another gird, Hhe to another man. vew York Press, WHAT IT WAN, “Something seems to have Fairgoer's head.” “Probably the wheel init, Truth. A MEANS GF WINNING AID, “How do you manage to get so many people interested in vour welfare? “Fasy enough. them. I borrow money of Chicago Record, NOT A SPECIALIST, “Was it a gpecialist yon went to to! bave your lungs examined ? “1 don’t think so Hi anything with them, couldn't find Life, Wrong TOO “Ten a pair of shoes? Judge MUCH. Prisoner dollars for stealing I said.’ “That's what ‘all-eyed Jim if 1 r Saye Knock-kneed ht § i ¢ station the What was *“Deaf-and he poli Hort Morton arrested and given a hearing First Tragedi that yon? Second the critics say I am « - . Lragedisn Hamlet Joseph Banister IDIAL. He “What sbont those new neigh bors you called on to-day?" Bhe “Well, ther said they had come to this village to avoid society, call and begged me to often Judge A NATURAL DEDUCTION, “What reas 1 OAD ¢} that this lady nsbeand wh ywi at him OMMON AFFLICTION 10Mr « A brs ofl 18 inside « it,’ late Idiot re remarked joined the Tower of it, with at speak mi bie i Idiot, of mind, rald the e104 T wn Toy 108, KITT Mr. Binks (after an absence)--**And 80 yon shot a burglar while here and unprotected. Yon are a brave littl woman, What became Mrs. Binks I'he carried him off Mr. Binks Mrs. Binks ~= Pack. HIT OXE of him! other burglar “Which other barglar “The one 1 aimed at.” POKITIVELY ROMANTIC, Cholly-<*"‘My man says I must be in love ( g Chappie--*‘Deah me ! Cholly-~ “Yeas. When he gave me a black tie instead of a white one with my evening suit I didn’t notice it Chappie--*'Deah me! Cholly-~*Ye-ns, 1 wonder who she ean be ?"-~Town Topics. CAUTIOUS, ‘“Are you the proprietor of this res tmirant?”’ said the man who had waitea for his order until he became sleepy. “You, sir. What can I do for you?" “You can give me soma information, | T want to know whether youn have told | toid the waiter to stay away so that | you ean bring in a bill for lodging against me," Washington Star, THRE CAUSE OF IT. Madison * "That political discussion | which Brown and Smith had, last night, ended in a desperate fight.” | Lexington "They are both bitter | partisans, 1 suppose?” ! Madison ra at all! Bat Brown | happened to have just lost ten dollars | at poker and Smith had a big boil on his neck. "~Joseph Banister, in Hallo, WILLING T0 WAIT, Husband — “Did you see me kiss my | turned ! | hand to you this morning after 1 bad { left the house?” Wife-—**Why, John, 1 wasn't near STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY TEE! the vindow then.” Husband -~ ‘I wonder who it was?” Wife~—*1 don't know, but the ser- | vant girl told me this morning she guessed she would try itanother week,” | we Liife, IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS, Miss Bright gallery.’ Mr. Adorr— is that?" Miss Bright— “It's very simple. The materials are u collection of newspaper | portraits of bishops snd burglars. The gentleman who can tell one from the other can marry the girl he is playing with." Mr. Adorr (sadly)— ‘At last I see there's no hope. You do not love me,” Puck, “Let's play ‘pocirait “What sort of a game HOW PASHIONS ORIGINATE Mrs ber how many calling Old Gentleman simple, madam, servant, and then AS NADY cards on 1 Newrich I never can remems- when Car is to leay LM “The rules are very You hand one to the departing leave there add and more on hie te pia fix are adult members of the family, cards, few mg two of your husband's OCCARION for good measure, ly in dealing ally dumping in a Do not be niggard- out cards, as that sug- gests v gar poverty “1 am red. | you Mr NO card Are ever so mune McAllister ? the were por: wiuent ginnces « blush that ms The Sliver Dollar's History, The silver dollar is always being dis- cussed in the journals. Some of the facts concerning it are interest. Here is its chronological history : Au thorized to be coined, act of April 2 1792: 416 grains; 802.4. Weight changed, act Jan- uary 18, 1837, to 412} grains Fine- ness changed, act of January 14, 1837, to 900, February, 1873. Coinage ized, act of February, 1878. Amount coined from March, 1878, to Decem- 1887, $283,205,357 Total ber 31, AD ined to 31, 1889 of weight, fineness, of reauthor- December a erude “On the in Was 1m ving lady whose h an extent that vertaken in a fierce 796 Congress of the typical hair up with a bit of find niteen ter the teen, in recognition of States changed, and the silver doll stars were af. thir umber of BaD Ar Dore fl« wing neglected and this original the 1 Gesign was the figure of a woman in a ment. The designer on the thirteen called in Any of thos 10 ts : stars, ne coir Was me now in possession of on ars has a valuable y the souvenir The new design had Indy gure the stars I'he 1838 was the tistic silver coined by United States Mint. In April, the first dollar having the legend, (lod We Trust,” was coined. in called the fineness, began unded by dollar of of first ar the 1864, “In 1873 trade That coin ran its erratic course In 1878 the liberty dol lar made its appearance. Miss Anna W. Williams, a teacher in a Philisdelphia, sat { piece of what was of 900 the era dollar, troublesome in five Years » ‘hool at or the portrait, her | profile being then considered the most Her classic feat silver dollar perfect obtainable ures still decorate the Pittsin Dispateh, ] ro iy a ——— He Gol Even at Last, “That ‘all things come to him who waits’ has been proved to me mo than once,” said Judge Henry MeKin ney “One day, when I was a boy of re nine or ten years, I was sent on su er rand a long way into the country. On my way home, being hot and thirsty, I climbed over a fence into & meadow and began picking some wild straw berries, All of a sudden tke owner of the farm came rushing up behind mo and struck mea bratal blow with a heavy oxgad, almost entting my body in two, As 1 started to run away he hit me again, a most vicious blow, ‘Old man,’ said 1, ‘T'll get even some day.’ 1 did, bat it was thirty years ister. I was called upon to defend the property and rights of some orphan children, Ax it happened, the op- sressor was the man with the oxgad. n summing up I told the story of the brutal blows that I had received in that meadow thirty ‘Lhere is the man that did it," ssid I to the jury. ‘Do fee would rob a verdiot in my favor in less than minutes, "Cleveland Plain Dealer. | Coinagediscsntinted—act—of—
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