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"A MAN WITH A HISTORY.
THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE THAT
BEFELL JOIN W. THOMAS, OF
THETA, TENNESSEE.
Afflicted With a Peculinr Discase—His
Body Covered “Vith Lowmps—Could Not
Eat and Thauglt He was Going to
Dry Up—His Reervery the Mare
vel oo! ‘Yeanessee,
Tenn .
Mr. John W. Taomas, Jr., of Theta, Tenn.
is a man with a interesting history.
At present he is interested in blooded horses,
for which Maury County is famous.
“Fow people, I take it,” sail Mr. Thomas
to a reporter who had asked him for the
story of his life,
remarkable a chain of events as |
remained alive to tell the story,
“It was along in 1884,
in the sliver mines of New Mexico,
at first 1
digestion, and so
come that I went to California for my health,
but the trip did me little good, and fully im-
{From the Nashville, Banner.)
most
“have passed
have and
that my
with
troubles began su Tered
1
acute did the
pressed with the idea that my last day bad
nearly dawned n my, I hurried back hero
up
to my old home to dia
“From simpl egtion my malady de-
inability totake any
velope | into a ¥
was barely able to creep
substantial fool
about, and
spelis of hoart pe
prostrated by
ondition
continued until one
*On the 11th of
yearago,
April, 180], suddenly
collapsed, and for days [ was
in fact I wi i
lition
eon on Seple
rible ; I weighe
my normal weight i
my body there
grape to the size
{rec
spilling
on my
the
months
shall n
Fost
In 0 »
for Pale Peo
of partial j
bad all
and!
stand
man
Sle
nti
orn
dozen or hun ir
tioned ngvinst no
this «hane
for $2.00, and may t i of all
direct by mail Wu
Company,
sss its
A MAN orry that his wife
8 sick as he ess aflects his com-
fort.
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When Nature
Needs assistance it may be best to render it
promptly, but © emember to
the most
even
needed. The best and most sim:
remedy ist} of Figs manuf
the Celife
One of the
we gre made
other I
Karl's Clover Bo
vou frechnoss an
¥ mpeg.
»30 and cures coustipation, 3 cta..
ots. $1
The present is wade of the
oi the j ast.
p
iidren
inflamma.
un bottle
Mra. Wins] Syrup for ch
feething, solt ns the gums, rod
tion, allays pain, cures wind cobs
ve
.
The highest peak of the
fs Mount Drown,
eky Mountains
British America, 15,000 feet,
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr, Isaac Thompe
son's KE, e-water. Druggists sel] at 2c per bottle,
Don’t nurse d intent; give it imme
dite exercise,
FALL MEDICINE
Is fully as important and as beneficial as
Bpring Mediciue, for at this ssason thers is
gmat dager 10 temith in the varying tem-
A go
perature, cold storms, malarial germe, and
. All these may bw avoided Il the
bloom kept pure, the digestion good, an |
’
TF ood’s sarsa-
Sph parila
Barsaparilia, “My lit. ures
old had a terrivie
sarofuln bunch on his Vee
rilin cored his Httle boy, so I prosured a
tle of the medicioe, nod the result has
WAS #0 near the throat, that be could not
have stood it much longer without relies,”
Be sure 10 gut only Hood's,
the prevalences of fevers aud other serious
the bodily health vigorous, by taking Hood's
the boy tonirtecn yenrs
meek, A friend of mive sald Hood's Barsa-
Doen that the busch has Jeft his neek, It
Man, Ina Hoon, 324 Thorndike Mt. Lowell,
Mass,
wod's Plile are srompt and offel nt 2 cunt,
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The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sua-
day Sermon.
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Text: “This day 1s salvation come to this |
house.” Luke xix., 8, !
Znecheaus was a politician and a taxgathe |
err. He had an honest oalling, but the |
opportuniiy for “‘stealings"” was so large :
the temptation was too much for him. The !
Bible says he ‘was a sinner’ that Is, inthe !
public sense, How many fine men have been !
ruined by official position! It is an awful |
thing for any man to seek offlee under gov- i
ernment unless his principles of integrity |
are deeply fixed, Manya man upright in an
insignificant position has made shipwreck if
a great one, As far as I can tell, in the city
of Jericho this Zaeccheus balonged to what
might be called the “ring.” They had things |
their own way, successfully avolding expo- |
sure, {{ by no other way perhaps by hiring |
somebody to break in and steal the vouch- |
ers. Notwithstanding his bad reputation
there wore streaks of good about him, as
there are about almost avery man, Gold is
found in quartz, and sometimes in a small
Pperocntage,
Jesus was coming to town. The people
turned out fn massa to Him. Here Ha
comes, the Lord of glory, on foot, dust cov-
ered and travel weary, limping alonz the
way, carrying the griefs and woes of
worid, He looks to be sixty vears of
when He is only about thirty, Zacel
a short man and could 1 over t
ple's heads while standing on the
£80 he got up into a sycamoretreathat s
its arm clear over the road,
amid the wild exe
crowd. The most
men of the elty are lox
gain His attention,
garding them,
the tree and says Laceh
I am going home with you,
was disgusted to think that Ch
home with so dishonorable a
I soe Christ
i
aon
it S00
Jesus ndy
ment of the
rable and
RIDE «
ie place and the family
benedict
ie 10 this hous
on of the ts
spect lation,
gate of heaven
mtilion ahead and
t y= become an little
ar the kingdom of
things of
¥® cannot en
: God rhcsen the weak
» world to confound the mighty, Zacibeus,
me» down, come down ™
notice that this ‘axeathersr accompanied
irrender to Carist with the resturation
i yperty that did ne to bins, He
y=, “If I have taken anything by false ae.
i I restors fourfold" that fs, it I
axed any man for $10,000 when he had
y $5000 worth of riy and put in my
own pocket the tax inst $3000, I will
restore 1 A 4. 111 took from him
£10 I wil o him 840, If I took from him
£40, I will give him $160,
Handreds thousands of dollars have
been sent to Washington during the past few
fa © money.” 1 suppose
iat money wus sent by men who wanted to
w Christians, but found they could not until
There is no nevd of
ne to come to Christ as long as wa
pientiy a doliar or a farthing in
that belongs to another, Sap
ave not money enough to pay
and for the sake of defrauding
creditors yon put your property in
ur wife's name, You might ery unfil the
¥ of judgment for pardon, but yoa would
not get ie without first making restitution,
In times of prosperity it is right, against a
rainy day, td assign property to your wife,
but if, in time of perplexity and for the sake
of defrauding your ereditora, you make such
assignment you become a culprit before
God, and you may ns well stop praying un-
til you have made restitution, Or suppose
ons man loans another money on bond or
mortgage, with the understanding that the
mortunge can le quiet for several years, but
fis #000 ns the mortunge Is given commences
foreclosure —the sheriff mounts the auction
block, and thy property is struck down at
balf price, an, the mortgages buys it in,
The mortgages started to get the property
at half price and 18 o thief and a robber,
Until he makes restitution there is no merey
for bim,
You say : “I cannot make restitution. The
purties whom I swindled are gone,” Then
1 say, "Take the money up to Lie Amerioan
Bibles Soviety and conseerate it to God."
Zuecheus was wise when he disgorgel his
unrighteous gains, and it was his first step in
the right direction,
The way being plain, Christ walked Into
the house of Zacoheus, He becomes a differ
“nut man ; his wife a different woman; the
children nrodifferent. Oh, It makes a great
change tu any house when Christ comes into
it! How many beautiful homes are repro.
sented among you? There are pictures on
the wall, there is music in thodrawing-room,
and luxuries in the wardrobe, and a full sap-
ply in the pantry. Even if you were halt
asleep, thers Is one word with which I could
wake you and thrill you through and
through, and that word Is “home!” Theres
are also houses of suffering represented in
which there are neither pictures nor ward
robe nor ndorument-—only one room, and a
plain cot, or a bunk in scorner, Yet it is the
place where your loved ones dwell, and
your whole nature tingles with satisfaction
Toon on think of it and eall Jt home,
T the world may scoff at us and pur-
»
has
4 belong
four!
ot
Hew CORO nen
gue us, and all the day we be tossed about,
nt eventide we sall into the harbor of home,
Though there be no rest for us in the busy
world, and we go trudging about, bearing
refuge, and it hath an easy chair in which
pose, and that refuge is home, The English
soldiers, sitting on the walls around Bevis.
topol, one night heard a company of mu
sicians playing ‘Home, Bweat Home,"
sickness, God pity the poor,
wreteh who bas no home!
your house,
would feel His presence, Religion almost
always begins there. It Is easier for women
10 become Christians than for us men, They
If woman
tempted man originally away from holiness,
now she tempts him back, She may not
make any fuss about it, but somehow every.
body in the house knows that thers is a
change in the wife and mother, She chides
the children more gently, Her fnee
times lights up with an unearthly glow.
She goes into pome unoccupied room for
little while, and the husband goes not
her, nor asks why she wasthero, He knows
without asking that she has been praying,
The bushand notices that her face ight
than on the day when, 3 ti
nt the marriage altar, 01 he kn
Jesus has been putting upon her
wreath sweeter than the orange
She puts the children to hed,
with the formal pr
but she lingers now
who b
3
i
toaund 1i5sd
osgod lift
ie where th
then she kisses
ore
on,
is the news fly
ne, Father ts dyis
me come §
the train,
ountry. They
bed of iather.
the mother and says
will take care of
ing is given. No
has, through years,
dren ail he had 10 =
“good-by |” and 1}
will sll be kind
over,
Life's duty dom»
adght tro
Walle heaven any
How tiless'd the 1
the
v fi
tO Yous
as sinks the clay
§ its
A whole family savad jorever!
lage come, they are all
mother, sons, daughters
together in beaven, Wha
Piain it, Zaccheus oneda
with him. That is all,
that house,
What sound fs ft I hear to-nis
Jesus knocking at the door of your house,
It the de
in the ark-—father,
Together on earth,
t makes it 207 Ex.
¥ took Jesus home
Salvation eame to
Behold a strancer at th does!
He grutly spocke has kono Ke |
If you gazed out of your window and saw
me going up your front ste Ps, you would not
wait, but go yoursei! to open the door, Will
locks wet with the dews of the night? Tois
great want of your house is not n new carpet
or costlier pictures or richer (urniture, Itis
Up to forty years men work for them.
selves, after that for their children, Now,
Is more likely to be a cures than a blessing,
Your own common sense and observation
tell you that money, without the divine
blessing, is a curse, You must soon leave
your children. Your shoulders are not so
strong as they were, and you know that they
will soon have to carry their own burdens,
Your eyesignt is not so clear as once. They
will soon have to piek out their own way.
Your arm is not so mighty as once, They
will soon have to fight their own battles,
Oh, let it not be told or Jedgment day that
you Jet your family start without the only
safeguardthe religion of Christ, Give
yoursell no rest until your children are the
sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty,
Your son does just ns you do. He tries to
walk like you and to talk like you. The
daughter imitates the rmocher, Alas, if
father and mother miss heaven, the children
will! Ob, lot Jesus come into your house,
Do not bolt the hall door, or the parlor
door, or the kitchen door, or the beiroom
door against Him, Above all, do not bolt
your heart,
Bulld your altar to-night. Take the family
Bivle lying on the parlor table, Calltogether
as many of your family as may be awake,
Rend a chapter, and then, if vou ean think
WORK AND WORKERS.
The Ameriean Tin Piste Company, of Fl.
wood, Indiana, has decided upon a
reduction of 20 to 80 per cent, in the sheet
mill,
A preraten Houghton, Michigan,
says that, owing to the suspension of mining
work at all the copper properties in Kewee-
naw county, it to abandon the
wage
from
is proposed
county organization,
Tar Mule Spinners’ Association of America
at its semi-annual meeting in Boston, decided
to take the Full River and New Dedford
strike in hand ff It should still be in
three weeks hence, and to Ir
ree
srense the levy
to #1 a week
Lamb's
Tue saw mills of C
Clinton, low
“wt
ing 1,000 hands, have
Hons,
a, employ
is said that
Tarif
of the flem's
closed down indefinitely It the
shut down Is largely due to the new
Lil, which has destroyed some
largest markets in Indisoa and Ohio,
Fur Full River Weavers
grant hall a week's pay
he idle w
clamoring
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