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
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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 —