REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Opening Winter,” Texr: “I have determined the win. | ter. "-~Titus iii. 12. Paul was not independent of the seasons, He sent for his overcoat to Troas on & mem- orable oceasion, *ud now in the text he is making arrangements for the approaching cold aatber and makes an appointment with Titus to meet him at Necopolis, saying: “1 have determined there to winter.” Well, this is the 8th day of December and the sec- ond Sabbath of winter, We have had a few shrill, sharp blasts alresdv. forerunners of whole regiments of sto.. and tempests No one here neads to be told that we e in the opening gates of the winter, This sefson is not enly a test of one's physical endur. ance, but in our great cities is a test of moral character. A vast number of people have by one winter of dissipation been de- stroyed, and forever. Seated in our homes on some stormy night, the winds howling outsias, we imagine the shipping helples:iy driven on the coast, but any winter nig if our ears wod enough, we hear the crash of a thousand There are many poo come the cities on the 1st September who will be blasted by the ist « March At this season of the vear tempta tions are espe ant. Now that the long winter IRs have come, there gre many who ioy them in high pur- suits, ‘8 int eindities, in Christian he strengthening and ennobling of ! this winter to many of eou!d mors wera to gent s pation I e it may not have | 4 i u, my beloved, | to remark at this | iurements are es- much | 1 & hot to breathe in the Arvest, mmer. places of tractive As Kept rig I of ized now and though last the sour ind there and thers a pet ’ ' roses in in the step by the ne you will pass say to your friend that How what he looked ne winter's man? 1g nee, ba HE In 8 thodsand kK of anything bet- But there are th wil athners will How daz tthe av appetites of th ! ertain- Ml nts 14) minister or x ond on leave } tRKS BOM es My plain If con- diges. 1d better yourself this see aon | Him that ors lips,” » glad win. the times wi # putteéth Rejoice 1 ha eto ter mont hat ind you of n on 84 with a * Christmas, n New the best familie exert cup has bee and again | i tt} hand has k len young man's thirst for strong and long after the attra tions the holiday passed that same in her rags, and lation, and her woe under the uplifted hand of the dranken | monster to whom she had passed the fascin- ating cap on New Year's Dav. If we want to go to rain, let us go alone and not take others with ve. Can we t anerifies our feolings if need be? When the London went down, the « apinin was told that he might eseape in ons of the lifeboats, £0," he replied, “I'l go 4 wn with the assengers.” All the world apoiauded his | wrolsm. And can we pot saerifles ir tastes | and our appetites fi others? Burely it i« not a very great sacrifl e. Oh, mix not the innocent beverage of the holiday the poison of adders! Mix not with the white sugar of the up the snow of this awful leprosy! Mar not the clatter of the cutlery of the festal ovension with the clank | of a madman’s chain, Pass down the street and look into the pawnbroker's window. Elegant wateh, ele. gant furs, elegant flute, elegant shoes ee. | gant scarf, elegant books, elegant mementos Yon sometimes see people with pleased | countenancss looking into such a window, | Woen I look into a pawnbroker's window it seems to me as if I had looked into the win. dow of hell! To whom did that wateh be. long? To a drunkard. To whom did those furs belong? To a drankard's wife. To! whom did those shoes belong? Toa drunk- | ard’s child, I take the three brazen balls at | the doorway of a pawnbroker's shop and I ciank them together, sounding the knell of | the drunkard’s soul. A pawnbroker's shop I is only one of the sddies in the great torrent of municipal drunkenness, “Oh” saya some one, “lI don't patronize suen things. 1 have destroyed no young man by such influences, I only take ale, nnd it will take a great amount of ale to intoxie cate,” Yes, but 1 tell you thers is nota drunkard in America that did not begin with ale. Three X's—I do not know what they mean. Three X's on the brewer's dray, three X's on the door of the ginshop, three X's on the side of the bottle, Thiee X's, 1 asked a man. He could not tell, I asked another what was the meaning of the three X's. Hocould nottell me, Then I made up my mind that the three X's was an alle gory, and that they meant 30 heartbroaks, 30 agonies, 30 broken up households, 50 pects of a drunkard’s grave, 30 ways to per- dition, Three X's. If I were golug to write a story, the first chapter would eall ’ 's” and the last chapter I would ball “The Pawnbroker's Shop.” Ob, beware of your inflvence, : ! 6 winter season Is especially full of tom fon, because of the icng evenings al lowing such full swing for evil indulgences, | Youcan scarcely expect a young wan to go me o SO) 150d themselves q " arnnx, have 5 good ship r the rscus of ! With i ¥ into his room and sit there from 7to 11 o'clock in the evening, “Dutch Republic” or John Foster's essays. It would be a beautiful thing for him to do but he will not do it. The most of ous young men are busy in offices, in factories, in banking houses, in stores, in shops, and when evening comes they want the fresh air, and they want sight-seeing, and they must haveit. Most of the men here asssmbled will winter nights. After tea the man puts on his hat and coat and ke goes out. One form of allurement says, “Come in here.” Satan says: ‘It is best fcr you togoin. You By this time you And such as we have had, but which, I believe, prophecy of great prosperity, and the rail- road men and the merchants, they all tell me ofthe days of prosperity they think are com- ing, and 1n many departments they have al- in all departments, but those dull times through which wo passed have destroyed a great many men. The question of a livelihood is with a vast multitude the great question. There are young men who expected before this to set up their household, but they have been dis- appointed in the gains they have made. They cannot support themselves, how can they support others? And, to the cursa of man must not marry until he has achieved a fortune, when the twain ought to start at the foot of the hill and together climb to the top. That is the old fashioned wav, and that | bathe new fashioned way if society is Jut during the hard times, times, 80 many men were discourged, 3 vy men had nothing to ~they could ret nothing to do—a pirate bore down he ship when the sails were down and wsel was making no headway, People say ey want more time to think. The trouble , too many people ha ve had too muchtime think, and if our merchants had not had air minds diverted many of them would long before this have bean within the four walls of insane asyiun These long win- ter eveni careful where vou spend them. This w wr will decide the temporal men In and eternal destiny of hundreds of thi feemed, on the An audience, Then the winter has esq fa int acial temptations wot that many homes are peculiarly In the su a sit out aet in the yase oveniags being 3 inaliractive at t i Ants to retire parents who do not winter It is an do not u been youn tacles on, ‘ a to sit inthe hou it and to hear par- Kr nents and the nothingne he nothingness this w i dare y talk such blasphemy / mage s world, a wed it 6000 Years to hang apor art, and this world tn fe iu davs to Nas sone ¢ ressed winter star ng nee this ba 3, watched, God inhabit. Bring in the t require a ashased sil happy or 0s ur All that is w . but he h that, thong! ron larg me princesses hink of tion. It wastothem snd all th palaces now <a . onrly place, Make go around your ir rheumatism i | your sons will go nto dissipation have their own rheamatisms after Do not forestall their misfortunes what a beautiful thing itis to id these shile hundreds ir history. You roles all your day a friend of your father and say morning! You seam to be prosper. your father for all the that early oir no lunge awhile, Oh. won a temp- ns of city life ine I will tell in respectable me tati TT are falling! i pm V wil ve dave, and = will mest you (Glad to see you, ing. You look lke world,” I thought you would turn when I used to hold vou on my It you ever want any help or any , come to me, As long as I remember I'll remember 1. Goon That will be the history of indroas of these young men How do { now #1? I know it by th vou But here's a voung mar the opposite route, Voices of sin charm him away, He reads bad books, mingi-a in bad society. The glow bas gone from his cheek, nud the sparkle from his eve, and tre purity from his soul. Down he goes little Ly little, Tne people who saw him when he came to town while yet hovered over his head the blessing of a pure mother's prayer wid thers was on his lips the dew of a pure sister's kiss, now as they see him pass ory, "What an awlial wreek!™ Cheek bruised in grog shop fight. Eye bleared with dissipation Lip swollen with induigences. B+ careful what you say to him; for a trifle he would take vour Hfe Lower down. lower down until, outcast of God and man, he lies in the asylum, a blotch One moment he He m 63 0 out ur IInther calls for God and then he calls for rum then bites his nails into the quick, then puts his bands through the hair hanging around his head iike the mane of a wild beast, then shivers until the cot shakes, with for water, which is instantly consumed on hiv cracked lips, Some morning the sur. geen going his rounds will find him Do not try to eomb out or brush back the matted locks, Straighten out the limbs let two men carry him down to the wagon at the door. With a piece of chalk write on top of the box the name of the destroyer and destroyed, Who is it7 It fs you, ob, man, if, ywlding to the temptations of a dissipated lite, you go out and perish. There is & way that seemeth bright and fair and beautiful to a man, but the end thereof is death, Em. ploy these long nights of December, January an Fobruary in high pursuits, in intelligent socialities, in Innocent amusements, in Christian work. Do not waste this win. ter, for soon you will have seen your last snow shower and have gone up into the com- panionship of Him whose raiment is white as snow, whiter than any fuller on earth could whiten it. For all Christian hearts the winter nights of earth will end in the June morning of heaven, The river of life from under the throne never freezes over. The Joliagn of iife's fair tree is never frost. bitten, feativit the hilaritios, the family greetings of earthiy Christmas times will give way to larger reunion and brighter lights and sweeter gariands and mightier joy in the great holiday of heaven, The Demand for Pennies, Though the mints have for two months mst been coining pennies at the rate of 150, a dup Shey are not able to meet the de mand, ® ampount of esnts now outstand. ing is reported a* 780,000,000, but many more are needed, MYSTERIOUS SIGNALING Arabs Have a Secret Way Which Nobody Can Discover. Throuzhout Asia there exists the present time a secret means of communi- different people and na. remains, and probably will always remain, enshrouded, so far the European is concerned, with impenetrable mystery. It is 80 perfect and so intelligible that commercial negotiations and transactions can be carried on between traders hatling from the north of China and others from southernmost portions of Arabia while they remain in total ignorance of even the rudiments of another's language, Their dealings, however, are conducted in the open. In any of the great Oriental markets may travelers from all | parts of Asia engaged in buying and selling, making bargains and haggling | over prices without the interchange of a word, The merchants the ground face to face, with their hands on Concealed be- neath the mystic movement of the fingers is going on. al cation betwern tions which ins the one one see single squat on one another's arms. those flowing sleeves But even the strange language of the finger on the flesh of the arm is not the most wonderful of the varied means communication which the Arabs especis How is it that news will travel thousands of miles in Egypt from one Arab community to another quicker than the transmitted tel i teleeraph? 2 pu indisputable, but possess, over SAME News Is by The fact is no explanation affords a satisf: tion to the “When well.kr mystery Khartoum fell in 1885," says a traveler, *'I 1 Egvpt, remember that the Arabs settled Pyramids own Was Ui and | well hborh tren ¢ and waler learning of t to employ pias ang one with most A HATFUL OF GOLD. How It Was Found by a Miner in the Nick of Time. Whew intains m woRilh We aver i that I [rors Siruck pring green earth was a had © ~lenry Kers them early 1 went down to the cre on a big rock on 1 ti ale and i and the sight young from Jim C1 and eirhty and fe morning saat down bank and watched He miners al work Me It w ’ 08 With heir Dicks BE ali new 1 me wel the coarse gold they were made all of my men, and it sudden that 1 baa reached vii would washing out fairly eves walter, ne creek was | nrred California 1 iV Ot me the gold be washed out right before my eyes can [| get a claim?’ | inquired of an old man who was ‘*Say, partner, where working at the base of the rock “That's a purty ol seitin’ on,” he replied, as be pointed at the rock, and resumed his work, “1 inquired about the adjoining claims and found that there was a claim about five feet square right at the base of the rock that bad not been taken A couple of young missionaries who had been | prospecting happened along with their tools and I asked them if they wanted work. They said they did and the upshot of it all was tha* * started them to work on my five-fool cre.m, with a promise to | pay each an ounce of gold a day at the { end of the week | “That was Wednesday, and they | worked all that day, all day Thursday and all day Friday without washing out balf enough to pay their wages. 1 didn't have a cent and was going in debt for grub. “It was getting late Saturday afternoon and they had about washed out the hole. good you're whether | would be shot or just lynched | picks | down to examine the hole, bottom in a niche that an eddy had worn In the rock was a hatful of coarse gold. We picked it out in great nuggets, and the old man who had suggested that | work the rock helped us. We took #1.800 out of that little pocket in half an hour, and before I worked that five.foot claim out I had cleaned up over $11,000.” ISLE WITHOUT COUNTRY. England and the United States Jointly Occupy It. On the live which separates the United States from the dominions of Queen Victoria, where the St. Croix River rolls down from the forests of Eastern Maine, there Lies a little island which belongs 1s country it is Doucette, or Neu Its diminutive is maintained jointly by both governments, Here, in the heart of primeval wilderness, colonization within the limits of t tract @xplored by Champlain years before the Pilgrims Plymouth Rock a settlement here, the walls of a fort, crnnon mounted on its ramparts, erected, and a tiny the devout Frenchmen who followed the Sieur De Monts into the New World, On the American the into bold, wooded promontories Canadian side are fertile meadows 1604 Sieur De Monts’ expedition cended the Bt. Croix and established their little settlement the island, safer than in the savage mainland forests The October frosts nipped them, but the Indian summer deceived them with the idea that spring had When real winter began the seventy or eighty settlers were in sorry plight. Insufficiently cle and aonoyed by Indi these warm blooded natives of South France suffered terribly. Lirty-five id when spring stance from France more sul Highthouse thie was made the first attempt at he great Fifteen fool Was sed pon mude with brass chapel consecrated by banks rise On the In us side on us being come unprovisioned, LIT je ted as decided to seek a De Monts capital of had hoped Fri he a new continent, but uf the stur enterprise France Hlgrim stern tnt I New I 604 BREEDING BUFFALOES Some of the Hyhrids Fine Animals are Horses turn their backs bufialo hit the faces it bey seem toy Kewps in aly condition of flesh the year roumd. and are as eating in the fall, and a buffalo sto; morse] as ever a man rovwd spring they are in the t 4% fine a a meal of, the was About two years ago | pt buffalo "hers herd, Now Jones herd of it thirty-one of them in the chased which Omaha Were ad we paid (for 1 have a pv RIN for the lot Marchel known eattleman, he and fort Pablo. a well 1% joined me i hie business he past year has had entire charge of them, =o that | do not know just exactly how many we about 140 1 indge by the next fall there will In of them “We have experimented in crossing buffalo with all breeds of cattle, and the results are most satisfactory. The Polled Angus stock, when crossed with the buffalo, produces a magnificent animal The fur is finer and than that of the ffalo, and the ag sweet and wholesome procuring as many of animals ar possible, but will put any on the market several years yet. We are selling any buffalo either, for the rea have and 200 should now fully closer 1 not seums, parks and shows, wanting them we might dispose of one or two singly, we have no pairs to sell, “A good buffalo hide is worth $100 now in the market, and heads bring from £200 to 2500 when mounted, and the value of these Is steadily increas ing. #0 that buffalo breeding is as good an Investment as real estate, Our herd ig the only one 1 know about of any size. There is a small one in the Texas Panhandle, and these, with the few that roam in the National Park are the sole remnants of the thou sands which roamed the prairies but a few years ago.” There ia a female fuebrinte In Swansea, Englawd, who has a record of 270 convictions, Ro Bacilli in Hay. One of the latest discoveries in pacilll kingdom is ‘ound gullty of what has hitherto been ‘alled the Mf improperly cure who knows all about it, of cou the "hay bacillus combustion” A BCIeITind Wir “spontaneous hay that the hay bacillus Is a minute, “st ike being, lound on grass al sot sufficien the sture still presen always and eve i When tl « bachill cont 8 5) 0 live on ¢molderit manne + cause UU Soap as a Microbe Killey. oa Both the method and results when Byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the tarte, and acts Gundy yet promptly on the Kidneys, Aver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head. aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Byrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most Lealthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. EAN FRARCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE, VY. SEW TORK, &.P. ry You ’ T ) Never Buy Poor I eat. , of course not. You never want any- thing poor in the food line, Be careful when buying your buckwheat. . ” I Want Agents 10 511 and advertise my spacinition, , Artiales need fn every family Big money 16 5 Tor you, FRECSAM FLES faraished, Address, with st , do J, FLEUK, Tiffin, 0, The Obliging Poet, you would put your name said cription,” Il put it down *» his name, ing.” he add ignature, it thie harity for so Harp SRZAT. interested, af Ix Not ng VOKR ThA Fog Wg Fy Wy Wy Wg Wg Wg Wy Wg 1g 0 0 Wg Fe Wi We tbe i SA World's Fair! HIGHEST AWARD. % MPERIAL 4G RANUM rt a a at and have % ny hut the ue popularity of this: Sold by DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE! John Carle & Sons, New York, FANE ay sought pained ure was, 1 i me that the worse than the disease, y thr Ww ) more proprie Cie However, on my tale of woe, one day, at we.woriman offered e—~Ripans he be said, he would guarantee to aot on the liver, 1 took it under protest, expecting to be doubled up in abou Afteen mine ies with the ‘gripes Bul I was agreeably surprised in its action. It Was very gentie, and 1 resolved to try a box. Since then | have gradu. ally noted an entire change (n the working of my system, and think that Ripans Tabules are the bast remedy for liver and stomach troubles this side of anywhere, They are really a substitute for physical exercise. Have one before And Mr. MeMahon pro- duced his box of “standbys * from his inside pocket as the reporter you go’ Fan Pane 0 com's a box I eon 10 The 3 ork. rat WW Hpw woe a, New Best Congh Syrup in time Sold economy. equally It's too m Send it Fisch.” will as” or ** wmme as A a your Peartine, be honest —
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