ABLES FROM THE GERMAN How Johg Astor Lent His Friend, Pater mith, H250,000,000. The Gartenlaube, a promient Ger man periedical, prints the following article; “Among American million. aires of recent times Astor, Smith, and Vanderbilt are especially distin guished by the magnitude of their benefactions. John Astor had ac quired, by speculation in real estate, a fortune which could hardly be ex- pressed in flgures. His annual in- come was estimated at 212,000,000. He gave with open hands and with an apparent contempt for mouaey, His friend, Peter Smith, another lucky real-estate speculator, once asked Astor if he could lend him $250,000,000. The following day Astor handed Smith a check for the amount, which Smith was able to re- pay a few years later “Both these men complained of the misery which their wealth brought them. ‘Mine,’ «aid Astor, ‘affords me no cnjoyment. It brings com fort and happiness to others, but 1 can personally use only the little that suffices for my daily needs. 1t is the plague of my life: it clings to me like a vulture and allows me no rest, night or day.” To which Smith re- sponded: ‘I have been steadily buy- ing land for years. 1 think that every man has the right to own a little farm, and needs nothing more to be independent. I intend that my money shall at | do some goud.’ “And so Smith vast numb the purc. ase land. and every old maid in New York received 850 for this pur- pose. After the civil war he gave 3,000 farms of from fifteen to seven ty-five acres ers widows and orphans. In addition he gave $100,- 000 annually for charit: re £ purposes, At his death, in 1874, the greater part of his wealth had already been returned to the people. These men seemed to feel an irresistible impulse to employ a part of their superfluity in the alleviation of poverty. “This feeling was shared by the great railroad king, Cornelius Van- derbilt, who deserves to be honored as one of the most notable pioneers of American civilization. The rich- est man in the world, he consoled himself with the thought: *Although; I have earned on the average 81,000,- 000 every year since my birth my chief gratification is that I have en- abled others to th times as much.’ He left 1,000 to his eldest son and $15,000,000 for vari charitable purposes, in addition special foundations. This son, who did not long survive hin, left $100,. 000,000 to his two sons an i an equal amount to harits institutions New York this great philanthropist. Never before had such a be made by a private ind » imagination is fairly dazz ! stream of gold flowing t 1¢ relief of human neces east farms in a8 money for Every widow the State of gave away as well TS, ro FF of to sol op earn 2166 2100.0 Sity. Children of Mr, and Mrs. A. MM. Soller Both Had Eczema in its Worst Form After P Failed, Hood's Sarsaparilla Perfectly Cured, hysicians Great mental agony rents who their from caused by impure blood, and for wh seems no cure, This is turned to joy when Hood's Sarsaparilia is resorted to, for it expels the foul hu- mors from the ULlood, and restores the diseased skin to fresh, healthy bright. ness. Read the followin: “We thnk Hood's araaparilla is the most vaiuable medicine on the market for blood and skin diseases, Our two children suffered ter. ribly withthe Worst Form of Eczema for two years, We had three physicians in that time, but neither of them succedeed in curing them or even in giving them alittle relief, At inst we tried Hood's Sarsaparitla and in a month both children were perfectly cured. We recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla medicine, and would not and Mas. M. M. SoLLen, is endured by children suffering pe- Len dizenses h there ns a standard Jamily he without it." Me. 1412 ~econd Avenue, Altoona, Pa. “Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation, lonsness, Jaundics, sick headache, indigestion, alle CURES A = SURF Mrs. E. J. Rew Medford, Mass., says ber mother has been cured of Serofula by the use of four bottles of SHICHI afier having had much other troat- MEIESREE ont, and being reduced to quite a low condition of health, as it was thought she could not live, pe « Cured my little boy SE mE tary scrofula peared all over his a year I had of his of heredb whichap face. For given up all hope recovery, when finally I was induced to use Be A fewbo tiles onred him, and no fiymiptoms of the disease remain, Mus. T. L. MaTnens, M Hashasvilla, Misa, 7 Jur book on Bioo 1 anit Skin Diseases a Bwirs SRI I Areata, Ga, on —— on et Fi FEE BIOYOLE SULKY es NON & CO. New York. WA AT FONE henna, Y or dnt Men to work REV. D3. TALNAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's day Sermon, Sun subject: “The Fiager of God. Text: “Hie of God." Exo. viii, 9 Pharoah was sulking in bis marble throne. room at Memphis, P.ague after plague had come, and sometimes the E ryptian monarch was disposed to do better, butat ths lifting of ench plague he was ax bad as be ; necromancers of the palace, however, were corapelled to recoguize thedivine movement, and after one the most exasperating piagues of all the series they cried out in the words of my text, “This is the finger of (Goi"=not the first nor the last time when bad prople said a good thing. An old Pail adelphia iriend visiting me the other day usked me if | had ever noticed this passage of Seripture from big 1 te-lay speak i t him no, and I said right away, “Taar it a good text for a si ramon ! We all recogniz: the hand of God and know it isa mighty hand. You have a man keep two or three rubber bails flying in the air, catching and pitching them xo that none of them toll to the floor, and co this for several minutes, ani you hava ad. mired his dexterity. Bat have you thouzht how the hand of God keeps millions ani miliious of round worlds vastly larger than our world flving for centuries without Jot. ting one fall* Wondrous power and skill of God's han But about that | am not to discour-e, My text leaus me to speax of less than a fiith of the divine is the finger of Gd Ory places does the Bible refe of the omnipotent han Mount Sinai are basalt Po you imagine it was ten comman : i Exodus we finger are, of 0 EON band in two other ty this division The roc of very hard stone thal cut the basalt N in aie ihe HR inal ment read wera “'arittan with Christ say « that Ho cay ger of Got The word He wre but with Hs shough tables oF st finger only instance ts not with pen on parch fing n the ground. maie mn the if vou andl pen and ow ears right we Hm pe Heed often to oi ut, yt (3 : s:dom refersuce is Lie Lo a part o (eED OUr BY eS « will De tha # the 0 (iodi's band, Chis is intentic ser Mm Oe mons Bible, Urn che Bible, Pomology « Orchards: Bible, the ib or God Among of the Hible, or ie Zoology of beasts he Aw the MYT the Botany of Mowers! r 4 Am mT yming winter nto the habit ‘wheres anil in not ning I want to inducs he fioger of T he mosto vars you to lox for God in your personal aff sirs ths Roslcu ation 1+ natural, i the and ne pace, it Is aw vou to leva your that Not one ou you woul | stand with you ide and make no motion with your finger. Whatever you may say with your ips is emphas zx sand re-en’ore translated Ly your t Na dear old Book says by the way « r the way “to sl ORs ‘ we wail and a por ifident Iwo or plexed or prayer street aatural as t retinger this iW a thousand o hands by vy y Ore WAY Of ’ ient ¥ ERY, AMONY Matta as LON as = at excay tomes tiod. For mu ; " INE spon pid ~ we to the Is sponsible for most of our are not respon for tos comatry of our birth, por for whether we are Americans or Norwegians or Scotehmen or Irishmen E IZ We are nos responsi © the age in whic h we jive, We sponsible {or our teminsrament, be it neg. Won or paieg ie “bith ous sangaioe, We are not responsible tor our features, be they homely or beautiful, We are notre spsnsib is for the heigat or smallness of our ature We are responsible for the tact L that we are mentally dail of brililant. For the most of our environments we have no more responsioility than we nave for ¢ o | mol'us 's at the bitton of ths Atlantic ocean. Ob, [ am eo glad that thre ars abou five hunared th nsana things that waare not re- sponsible for Do not olame us for being in i our manner cold as an iceberg nervous as a cat amid a pact of Four: : 0. Juy fire crackers. It you are determine | to blame some vody, vlame our great grandfathers or great-gran imotoers, who dial before the tevolutionary war, and who may have haa hab.ts depressing and Fainous, Foere are wrong things about us all, which maks we | think that ons nun iral an i fl LY years ago thers was some ioer, bie crand in our ances FKalzs that, and it wili baa re. ndaite. Lot ue take ourssives as we ore this moment, and tuen ask “Which | way? Got ail the direc tion you can from care.ul and constant stu ly of the Bible, and then 100% up an i loot out an l look arcuand, und see if you can dnd tue Huger of Gol, It is a remarkable thing that sometunss vou us wa haveno r aoe i not make appeal lirection Wears nos surroundin ge ne Of tshmen, for are not re- ul Bod Or year before Abrabam Lincomn signe! the proclamation of emancipation the White | House was thronged with commitiess aud | Associations, ministers and laymen, advising | the president to make taat prociamation. But he waited and waitsd, amid scoff and | anathema, becauss he ia not hinssif see | the finger of Go. After awhile and at just the right time he saw the divine pointing and siguel the proclamation. Tha distin. | guished CO mfoserater, Mason and Bitdel!, were tagen off an Engiish vessel by the United Htates Govern. ment, “Don’t give them up" wsaoutsei all the northern States, “Lot u« have war with England rather tann surrender them,” was the almost unanimous ery of the nortn, But William Hf, Seward saw the finger o. God leading in just the opposits direction | aud the Confederates were given up, and we avoided a war with Eagland which at that thine would have been the demolition of the United States Government, In other wor ls. tye finger of God as it di "ects Vou, ma ny ba fuvwible to everyooly else. Follow the divine Rn, ns you #00 it, although the world may call you a fool, Theres has never been a minor a woman who amounts! to anytaing that has not sometimes pen calied a fool, Nearly all the mistabes that you ant | have made hava coms from our following She pointing of fons otaer flager, instesu She finzec of Gad, But now, supoose a man, Bup roe all formas of disaster close in upon Suppose his business collapsas, . he buvs goods and cannol sell them, Su%- | pose by a new inve ntion others can furnish | the same goods at less price, Suppose a cold an and his notes come and his rent INOS noman, most them, thers is nothing the employ @% ars which to meat obligation, and the bank will not dis- and the business friends to whom he accommo ation are in the same and ha bears up and struggles crash goes thy whols epidemic ¢ due and he cannot must be paid and to pay it, and the wazes of that count, # for | predicament, oa, until after awhile CDE ern. Ho» stands wondering ani not see the meaning ol all this, the I coul Gol knows 1 my debts if 1 could, but here and stopped,” W hat should that that case~—z0 to the Neripturaes and read the promise about all things waorkine for gool and kindred passizes wel', But he needs to do something besiae reading tae Beripturces He to look for the finger of! God that is pointing toward better treasures: that is pointing toward eternal ralease; that is urging bim to higher reals flnrer ever pointed to the east or north or south so certainly as the God is pointing that troubled man to higaes ii i better spiritual resources than bs ha ever enjoyed There are men of vast wealth who are as riz for hsaven as tasy are for thi« world, but they are ecceptions If a man grows in gracs it is bafora $100.10) or after he plenty of railroad Hed ty his banker for tue lots be have gone in value; if he had nard door of his ti shut haan of a new roll of put in there just before loriing up at night: if he rctating into falling marset or a rising et and things take tor him a i Erow In grace very much %. Do vou know what made evival f 185i, wh mors onverted to ad probably ar sines Christ was ! eli inn ani ban American prosper fia ter 1am men as ars 85 brok are hu nbled and fly Ww F DIAVE Ro sprit gon ving, ‘A I have would pay dons beat Fhat is west or generally he g loses it If a man 1 ani has ap Ht oou tht work to ga rapron! safe secoriting he rigut HOW BB tha born was the rupley EWap : 11d fall $3o soeskin ANY Hnaincia go into nslar desadbeats Ww lersvyer i1 of them wii nave not 7 are much 'Y Are under or i eV are ¥ way Vo iar and have trie plan and it But | am speaking of the oT sot { msfortune on high » tel men Not ing bat al will turn » maa fron to heave it ily thr i is darkosss and whiriwind of disaster such aan finger of sod ML ant rant ug as well as 8 most walea the pointing in th seventesnth cent ina was vielding rosn and tur tar as her chisel proijuction Lhomas Smith notice | that the ground in Charisston was vary much tin Madagascar w he ba | me of the Madagascar re and rapidly that ying was make r her Liof "i not seas the fin ger IAs We carts yagh 21: se Ih fis Dous asre grow isd to Can y¢ : 1cident in Fletcher, of | "rel npland, many Ww, was ons of ths most useful min @ Lisspel who ever proachel, i Bie joiaed thy army and bad : the » for Scat norniag » sail mom na keitie of water, and i go. Ho» IBENID De was and was never foabt that Goa Johu Fletoher? anc ital that Hi iS miner who wa on remain | bef nip ue was U tio Was 4) 88 azain gong noard WAR ars m Was ry in in Jamal ant WAS Wana PRS $wshed and revealed a pr wer fen, siand time and all sternly 5 Mi SINK Woon ia ear.y sfirit six miles from ti ing to sua hum t in to land but a boat's oar? | = i rvation had aayvihing Had the storm taat div * from the i of tae } hit was sailing, anl sent sat Cape Col, no divine siuservizss vd anarcay rale this world, or (ad? . Feo.ix escaped martyrdom by crawling ouzh a hole in the wall across waich toe 80 iders immadiate y afterward wovasa web His parsecntors saw ie hole in the wall, but the spi 'er’s web put them of toe track A boy was lost by hisdraaken fatherant o not for years dnd his way bo ne, Neary rows he went into a Faiton strext prayer meeting an i assed for prayers that he might ind his parents. His mother was in the room and rose ant recoznizad her long lost son Do you say that thes stolugs “sniy hap ened believe bie, Do MU Nn moat glsathavens faith inth: B to me, I said to ence pave been divine y vonne stad. Da yon sap. He answered * Ves, out Bot notice divina moraing to most people do loading .Y" I stant say [rom my own expsriencs that the safest talng in all ths world to do ists truss ths Lord I never bala mis fortune, of a pars cilion, or a trial, or a dissppomtment, howevar exoraciating at the time, that Gol did not mak: turn out for my goo! My ons wish i+ to foilov the iivine leading. | want to watoh the flags Nations ales would do well to watéh for the finger of inl, What does th caolera gears in America maaan? Moms sav it means that the plagus will swaso our lanl next I do not believe a worl of it. Taers will be nb c wiera here nsxs su nmer, Four or five summors ago tiers were those wno said it wou d surely bs hers the follow. fag summer Lecause It Was on the way, dut it did not come. The sanitary precautions established here will make su nmer unusually heaitufal. Cholera never starts from where it stopped the season balors, but always starts la the New York quarantine, But it is evident to ne that the dnger of Gol is in this cholera scare, and that He is pointing this Nation to something higher and better. It ha: been demonstrate | as never belore that we are in the hands of Got, He allowed the nalted it, The quarantine was right and necsssary, but, ob, how easly the plagus could have teaped the barriers lifted against it! Thanks tn the presi lent of ths Upited States, and thanks to the health oMoers, and thanks to the Thirteenth regi nent, and thanks to all who stool between this evil and our national health, but more than all, ani Hgner than all, thanks to God! Oat ot that solemnity ws ought to pass up iver yor. batter than anviliing that — character zal us as a nation, Jo. to quit. our national wine, Wo mht breading, and our drungen i and our fmpnritise, and our corrus tons of all sorts u pas ~ The ten tency win weil gratulation at our prosperity © forget the mercy of Gold that Las kept ne from being blotted ous for our erimes, and that still i our temnoral prosper. ities, Forward and npward! Hie you not thas finger of Gol in this protecting mercy? If wa love the Lord and trust Hime—-and you may all love tim ani trust Him from 1 Oon--we no more understand the good things ahead of us town the chiid at scnool suaying his ABC can under. stand what that has to ds with his reading Job Rustin & “Sevan Lamps of Arc! tur r Dante's “Divine Commedia” Tha have as ve! had makes with his compared with great orcoesira and transcend. ite. the muse a hoy first lesson on the violin what was evoked tro a his by my dear and illustrious ent but now deparial friend, Patrick Gil- more, when ha liftel his baton anl all the strings vibrated, and all the trumpos peaied forth, and all the flutes caroled, aud all tha drums rolled, and al the bools of the cavalry caarge, which he imitated, were in Look ahead! The finger of God warl. ‘Oh, mt,” says som» ons “I am getting old, and I have a touch rheamnatism in that foot, anid I believe something is the mat. ter with my heart, and | canna! stand as muck as I used to Well, I congratulate for that shows you ars getting nearer 9 tae tims whan yon ging to enter im al youth and be strong enough to burl off the battlements of hes ven any ban fit who ty unheard of burg ary might break into the says some one, “1 fos! of my friends are gone, of life have multiplied ones to points for of are ‘Sat, Ihe most WY Anents« was and the ber 82 bright harm you, im» has lost its I congratuls for when you go thers fewar here to hold you tack and to pull you in. Lok abe God ms pointing forward, and by hymn and pr and Christian ination ya frame of mini that will be Ci xd and pleasant to ourselves tupid thing it all is com- it will be when wo bave anil ssrmon and Gur inst imbers that charm Christ and “I have wita LV ar wa in C and frmon RESO vim book stand wir fac a and sympathizing you sil theses years and Gro wheres you pieass and aad never sae ia te bs mors joy than in fifsy vears of earthly anhes i L.ok at the that in one ial 4 Look on sari, an finest you will hava p the hisalll YOu will ye! 5 ONe ¥ io has the i have or heard ‘ave better vision swestesl prina donna + platiorn, and kKpow will Iift a more earapiuring son J Hy aug lornam WW how Wa are zo fall inet I saw Mow. splendid afterwar 1% heav jest mu i 1Y One ev Fog will that that in Banle l eart 10 not kn ean tae summer 1A the most he emperor for Moscow is th i im i that arn. I wail tall you fer exam ning nine hun annons which were picked out alter Napoleon retreated Cannon ended a tower Lape j41 Fes an brass « tie snow Moscow it with the letter *N.” y hundred and And On eC pat.o and aad } sty as | ath oy wero joinel by wears and domes and tur desn ’ of some Ture san wet, large tw foot jus: Nn Chere wera dim oe d ved 280 tells balls, reac it thie be ls mes b and ths sriesn bundral to yo of the Lialls sent out a faint tinkleo intinaabuls tion that som nad sir, ani others thundered boom after bosm earth and fil Ewe a sweet t FIR tae fi alles ned t Sounds 8 Loom gage Keir), 80 Rrang nlin wa with i eh was an entrancrnsat alnost } TOF DU LW ney Of BU nan ey i ox y ave notin tani ise saven., Ba surpass itand maks the memory ol that Jails vine in Moscow tame and insipid All beaven aglow ani all heaven a-ring. ns in the sunes!, but in the suarise Voices of our own kin drad mingling with the doxoio of en. pires,. Organs of et:rnal SAW most ries worship respond ing to the trampsts that have wakened the Nations in white, CUasnturies incu Antuems like the voics: of many martyrs. Circle Pron ast Taronss of caerabim. Chronss ol ssraphim. Throns of archangel inroas of! Carist, Tarone of God arons! Uaronss! Tae finger of taat way. Nios not uatd you placa fiir yagh ths atoning spmk 0 apd more may be 5s you not now hear the chime of the cells of that metropolis of the unvers:? Dy you nol see tas shimmering tas towers? Good morning. lead, onation of ol fi aeties Lucie o that Carist ail | yours and mine. a ———————— A Bear's Natural Bathtab. H. N. Price, a Washington State land ‘‘eruiser,” who has just returacd from a through the unsettied parts of Cowlitz Counties, reports those counties. He and his brother ran of a ridge several miles basi from the Cowlitz River. A great fir tree fully six feet across had buraed within two feet of the ground, and the ceatre had of two or Leading up to this natural bathtub was a well-beaten bear track and the animals mast have made Irequent visits to the tab, for its bottom contained the settlings of dirt washed off by Bruin during his many baths, When the Price brothers saw the trail it wae still wet from a recent visit of old Bruin, ~San Francisco Examiner, Bations and Combs Made of Bload. There is a large factory at a small town near Chicugo employing about 100 to 150 workers, which is wholly given over to the manutacture of useful articles from waste animal blood. At certain seasons of the year the unique factory uses from 10,000 to 15,000 galions of eo blood per day. It is first converted into thin sheets by evaporation and cer tain chemical processes, and afterwards worked up into a variety of useful arti. cles, such as combs, buttons, earricgs, belt clasps, bracelets, etc. Tons of them articles ave sent to all parts of the world every your from this Sucker State maou factory, ity i i Cultivate Being Tiked, The best thing that ean happen to a nervous girl is to be liked. Placed outside the combat frequently and inexpectedly, on account of lack of physical strength, it 8a forture to ier more than another to have warm riends whose sympathy and interest wre never failing. Hence, it ig the first duty of the guardian of any uch child to instill into its mind the spirit of self-denial that bas for its sutcome graces of speech and move- ment, silence, and self-command, pure tones and distinet ute: together with tact id good Che constant e LBOCESsAry cheerful and sympathetic in spite of nh Weakness Jessens tion and meatal indolence, OUSES activities of mind that dormant. To nlease and be pleased, if early taught emains a fixed haoit In spite of vi. *issitude and change. It social ‘UStom expres 4 high order of elf-control, a that Is ever sit of date. za OR, spirits, -~ Hort 10 he y Yeicdi int TOspec and might therwise remain is a ive of fashion Lf antentiment Given all ut mforts of the luxuries of life. people are discont a habit of comparing ie CO “nn those of more f{ortun COR They walking whenever tr it 0G LO% to t ‘3 1 11€ their carriage dashes i i sla 4 vical » SUGLOLLY i: i ind feel a weakness which pedestrianism Woolen go ms fort a WHOS WOU in Olden Times OYeriouked the al eff People imporiance of per. manent! tx and were sat L now that it i= isfied gen. eel to puls PBrows's iron Hitters cores Dyspaps Iara B Hanes and Geneon Birength, aids | pad fears, jones th Crea e- appetite, be best tonic for Mothers, weak women and children, rei There are men who tire themeelve dentlh looking BOY eRsY 1.80% H.Gnf ulered whi slarrh Marana stele by riche the tion Acts Bi beaith, cured sand Brown's ond, 10» Ee 8 Chinrm or EVing new shergy as ers dionted iro: Bitters, ® nheries aids di peru 87h fener d strength. from the which fe ox th Les Petal nr ever RO well In f wat f Mar JALUBS {1} St CIATICA siieos 14 EUR AL HAs No Qual, 1 pay the printer to give you good advice about health and to iead you to careful living. Our reason is that Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil is so often a part of careful living. If you would go to your doctor whenever you need his advice, we might save our money. He knows what you need. Let us send you a book on CAREFUL LIVING; free, nT & Boywwe, Chemists, 1 10 South sth Avenue, ew York io, Yout druggiet keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod. diver all droggias everywhere do, $1, » iVioney in MONLY IN CHICKENS wef YOU nn ENOW HOW ~ Trang Slat he Siete vo Me of the vee Suiiet and Die "ol a them when In 8 majority EE edad heer possessed a he te tar Spe, Juch 4% ean Xe jor ONE HUNDRED 00, Pa ¥ Eey 85G Paint which stale the hands, infare the jroo, and burn off Tue Rising Bun Bove Poist 1 Brilliant Oger. tess, Durabie and the conwunes pays lor 50 tis OF Eins package Wilh every purclises, “What is August Flower for?” As casily answered as asked. It is for Dyspeps sia. It is a special rem- edy for the Stomach and Liver.— Nothing more We believe August Dyspepsia. V ill. 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