Prompt Reply. Some business is best done quickly and with few words. Other business, of 2 more delicate nature, is com- monly entered upon in a more leis- urely maosner. Now and then, how- ever, a man is found who makes such distinction . Farmer Jones sought with Widow Brown. He had long prided himself upon his short-horn cattle; she was, in her way, as proud of her poultry and pigs. “Widow Brown,” said he, “I am a man of few words but much feeling I possess, as vou know, between three and four hundred head of cattle. [ have saved up eight hundred dollars or 80, and 1've a tidy and comfortable home. I want vou to become my wife. Now, quick's the word with me; I give five minutes to de- cide!” “Farmer Jones," said Widow Brown, “I am a woman of few words—1I'l] say nothing of my feelings. 1 possess, as you know, between three and four hundred head of poultry and about ten score of pigs. 1 have nigh twelve hundred well invested late husband's savings and my earnings. I tell you 1 wouldn't marry you if it were a choice between that and going tothe scaffold. Sharp's my word, and utes to an interview You 1.11 QOLars my own I give las #¥ ’ ciear oll I win. Passing of the Alligator. The alligator is threatened with speedy extermination. He grows slow- ly, but he grows as long lives, and a twelve-footer is said to be about years old. : Over 2,500,000, accord- to an been as he es from Florida, the last dozen ing have years Killec EE ——————— AX evil thought is the mother of an evil act. con i —— Fleetrie Wires, Some writer very aptly likens the nerves to electric wires, and th ners rorking of their system to that of electric ears, A who “slips Ex man Jeremiah + Md, DEUraigs fai sir trian aa way the LITILIANY Nrsepri's sgreoss is pro nounced. All the wLuok on *Ni cigarelie Ques are ir cont. of illant ruby HOS SARSAPARILLA PURIFIES > “HR ’ iii) Miss Blanche Clark SALT RHEUM Eroke out Her hands swelled and blisters formed and later broke open. 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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. — so Subject: *‘Festivity.” Text ready, Home, for all 3 things Luke xiv,, 17. are mow It was one of the most exeiting times in English history when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth Castle, The moment of her arrival was considered so im- portant that ali the clocks of the castle were stopped, so that the hands might point that ons moment as being the sipgnifi- cant of all. She was grestadtothe gate with floating islands and torches, nnd the thunder of eannon, and fireworks that set the night , and a great burst of musie that lifted most abla the whole scene into perfect enchantment, Then she was introdaged in a dining ball the luxuries of which astonished the world, Four hundred servants waited upon the guests, The entertaix wt £5000 each day, Lord Leicester made that great Kenil- worth Castle, Cardinal Wolsey nent ¢ supper in entertained the Freneh embassadors at Hampton Court, The best cooks in all the land prepared { | quet, Purveyors the kingd The time } ing the day that their ay wen ver to find spo [he pues w the KE tainment. My Lord, the quoter, Angels are the redeemed are the guests, love, frescoed with light and pay and « d with unfading beauty The harm The chalic filled avery Ww ti might nd re at with both hand scallering ne dip up thi ladders enough to & There are not harps to thrum, « r the praises of this one thou flower of eternity eriume of heaven! Ob, iet all people clap their ance! Chorus: ( cherubim Lod seraphim arebangel «all heights, all depths, all immensities, Chorus Roli Him through the heavens in a chariot universal acclaim, over bridges of hosan under arches of ronati along great towers chi ng with eternal jublies 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 white enough on which to write it and no pen good enough with which to inscribe it, Give me the fairest Jeaf from the heavenly recorde--give me the peacil with which the and then, with my radi saints and ome ier, i of IHR, bw the vo shot will write It out in capitals of Jove, It is this one, infinitely fair, Christ is waiting | brimming, the minstrels with | fingers on the stiff string, waiting for the | Waiting for you as a mother waits for her | Oh, give me a comparison intense enough, hot enough, importunate enough to express my meaning something high as heaven and deep as hell and long as eternity! Not hop ing that you can help me with such & come 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 kee snd kise the Son, Come and welcome, sinner, come, Again, the Holy Spirit is ready. Why is it that so many sermons drop dead--that Chris. tian songs do not get their wing under the ~that 80 often prayer goes no higher han a hunter's “hollo?” It is because there is a lnk Wanting-- the work of the Holy Spirit, Unless t spirit give grappl hooks to a sermon and lift the prayer an waft the song, everything is a dead fallure, That spirit is willing to come at our eall and load to eternal life, or ready to seme with the same power with which he unhorsed Baul on the turnpike, and broks down Lydia in her fine store, and lifted the 8000 from midnieht into midooon at the Pentecost, With that power the spirit of you 5 | employs for man’s conversion? Theres was a man on & Hudson {to whom a tract was offered, | tion he tore it up River boat and threw it overboard. and he saw on it the word “eternity,” and i he found no peace until he was prepared for | that grost future, Do you know what pas | sage it was that ennsed Martin Luatherto ses {the truth! * Hye by faith.” Do you know there is just one sage that broncht Augustine from a life of dissipation? “Put yo on the Lord Jesus Curist and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereo!.” It was just one passage that converted Hedley Vicars, tha great soldier, to Christ Christ cleanseth from all sin.’ Do you know that the Holy Spirit used one passage of Seripture to save Jonathan | Edwards? “*“Now, the King, eternal, { immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our { Baviour, be glory.” One vear ago Thanksgiving Day I read for my text, “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His merey endureth forever.” Aud there is a voung man in the house to whose heart the Holy Spirit took that text for his eternal redemption, I might spsak of will tell you I was broughtto tha pe gospel through ti sto Christ, “Even ™ . [he just she ane Peis unio On case, | r of th Phoenician woman's the mvown at of or's% table Do vou know the FAYE Uses Srmons never spirit al &t Eloquent minister sor worn out ondasted Lan hefors the th with their wings, while God Almi David ses thousands and not angel slay 155.600 aheribh 6 ara shied hares There i= a angels rea reach {ron holy is the Lord na i¢ # ine Of hing to bh here fo the v an sudien ship the air is fall of th you has a guardian ang tinls theres are here! Thes they hover, they flit Look, that throne! A uo and heard the Look! Bright, immortal, what news from the golden city! Speak, spirit The response comes melting on the alr, "Come, for all things are now ready I” Angels ready to bear the tidings, angels ready to drop the benediction, angels ready to kindle the joy. They have stood in glory they know all about it, They have felt the joy that is felt where there are no tears and no graves ; immortal health, but no lavalid- ism ; songs, but no groans ; wedding bells, eyes that never weep. hands that never blister, heads that never | faint, hearts that never break, friendships + ia sescmnt erowd the place, about, they fre rejoice : mm the gt ood before Christ the glorified, Come of Yo | blest Ready, all of them! Heady, thrones, prin- cipalities and powers! Ready, seraphimand Ready, Michael the Archangel! Again, your kindred in glory are all ready | for your coming. 1 pronounce modern | spiritualism a fraud and a sham, If John titon and George Whiteflald have no better business than to crawl under a table and rat- | in glory. While I believe that modern spir- | itualism is bad because of its mental and domestic ravages, common sense, enlight- ened by the word of God, teaches us that ofr friends in glory sympathize with our re- demption, The Bible says plainly there Is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth, and if angels rejolos and know of it shall not our friends stand- ing among them know it? Some of these spirits in glory tolled for your redemption. hen they came to die, their chief grief was that you were not a Christinn, They sald, ‘Moet me in heaven,” and put their hands out from the cover and said, “Goodby,” Now, sup u should cross over from a sinfal life to a holy life, Bappose you should be born into the kingdom. Su Proll O decotful oe iTO hrist, help me or I per. ise, i belfeve Thy word. 1 enter Thy » » Suppose you should say and do this? Why, u should now say : * i ’ , mv sin! Fie upon ish! I take my | “He is coming!” and | higher in the air would “He is coming 1” line of light from the angel poising shout it upward, and it would run ail up the wing to wing and from trumpet to trumpet until it reached the gate, and then it would flash to “the many mansions, ' and it would find out kindred there, and before your tears petensnes had been wiped from the | aud before you had finished your first pr your kindred in would know and another heaven would be added to joy, and th id ery “My answerad other ved one {men harp with which to Baved! Baved! i! If 1 hay § your yf re aok Ayer of it, their glory prayors {rive the joy. sn ved strike hown you that *‘all ready, that Christ is re is rendy, that the church is ready, that the angels in glory are read that your ’ hundred a iy, then concentrate amphasis of my things are the Holy that reaay’ responsitiaiity upon get into the 1 do subject throws the yourself, If vou don banquet it is bhecsusn ¥ invitation, You importunate invitation, Two ar down from the cross soaked in SH om w to finger tip, two Huisn, 19 § King's not accept the y the most tide Toke SRY weeny wandering s He will , that own thy + hax fad aE Jed thes put nn break blasted ho BAW know ne Christ He ing thy thes night taken to pieces so would weigh more It wes serewed to- six-inch (ht portable disapp { train, could taken apart so that no portion in five minntes, A = Siege more than three tons, ten hours being required to mount it. A six-inch naval five rounds in sixty-nine sec- each time at a different range A plute of special steel shield received rifle and firo at 100 yards range without a single penetration, while the plate hitherto used was penetrated at every thot, the Gatling gun almost cutting it in two. —Chieago Herald. Horace Greeley and His Bride, “When Horace Greeley was firs! married and brought his wife home on a visit a sugar party was given in their honor on a neighboring farm. All the guests had arrived, and we were looking outy watching for the belated bride snd groom. At last we saw something appearing in the distance. As this same object came nearer, we discovered it was the old white horse of the Greeleys, slowly pieking his On his back sat the bride ina brilliant yellow frock, her, wrapped in his famous white over- coat, sat the already famous editor. It I re- member,” concluded my informant, laughing again at her recollection, “that I simply lay down and rolled upon the floor in a spasm of mirth.” r. Greeley came home every year, and after a day or two on the farm, would start to walk miles and call on people. He was never known to knock at a farmhouse door. No matter whether he knew the inmates or not, he would push open the door, walk right in, sit down by the fireplace and fall to discussing crops and other topics dear to the farmer's heart, Everybody was glad to welcome this gentle, brusque intruder. Press and nter. The huge guns of modern navies can only be fired about seventy-five times before they are worn out, Baking His Case office-seeker eX-AS for a place partment. “What did Quincey?” asked a Sen the office- lack of “] told him had done for election,” replied 1] “You did, el Hopeless, An Quincy, State, 11050 1101 SCCREr, Gisc raged TTT . i ¢ » SUCCess, TOF AS8is Knew Tre Brazil nent sects Lo ix ian theory hang Vali $100 Reward, $100, ader of this paper will be pleased to ite Hath with sore eves use Dr. lsasc Thomn wns Eve-water. Druggists sell sat Zhe.per bottia ected ee Was cin LOS urify, enrich and vitalise the blood, vw invigorate the organs, brace up the gvstem in order general Medion] Discovery” bas ne BYSPEPSIA IN ITS WORST FORM. 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LL DOUGLAS 83 SHO OT a ® rn ad | 1 OF. 1 the best vol The present Hard Times on Farmers we - $ g we em direct or Camm gow Vertilipers st the fob | M t Phowing west wholesale } ¥ertitizers for OTR. COte 1 tom and peas utes 31 $13.30. Vevtilivers for tacking Send two Jeroen! crore acd potatoes al $14. postive sinmps lar Fertiligers Tor jobaceo, clivenliny, outed Trait 3181S per tes, W. Powell & ( Foatiliper Mire, Batimore, Nd. catalogue FD of every kind of AZ vehiete 4 harness sso book A" Grete, §I30. of test) ale, they ate free, ALLIANCE CARRIAGE CO., CINCINNATL On JAPANESE TOOT maliied for 1 LE POWDER, Gene Lime, A lange box » Philadelphia, Pa, LTE Ux A and who bave wosk lungs or Asth. ma, should use Piso = Care for Contamption. It has enred It has not infor .Ttie pot bad 10 take. tir the best cough syrup. Sold everywhere. B8e¢. by mail A+*N-S a physician for any y of
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