REY. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. ms Are successful and Others FaileA Life of Sin and Worldly Indulgence 1s » Dire Fallure—The Life Worth Text: “What is 14. If we leave where we came from and to the theol to prophesy where wo are going to, we have left for consideration the [mportant fact that we are here hers may be «= } yout where the river rises and so wut where the river ities, doubt the fact that we not surprised that tion, “Is life worth your life?”-—James f{v,, to the evolutionists to gu ne me ut are 0m noments ’ SAVES irit, I'he fac one time a polyg Une wife unhappy 1 Sut n nate, COAL One makes 100 WAS Y. and "BE We tains of sploes worth living. laful and lentitiod ** the and have ancient nto “Wherafo 1 »3 uiation. And then vou tion that tl v make the domip ting fall far sh mated that only dred business me the ndme of success his life with one 4 accumulation spends ing. Bo the idea of worldly be dominant in a man's life Every four years the two most unfortunate men in this country are the two men nome. inated for the Presidency. of abuse and diatribe and malediction gradually fill ap, gallon above gallon, he bead above hogshead, and about mer these two reservoirs will be brimming full, and a hosa will be attached to each If that 1 {8 miserable nominees, and they will have to stand it be rolled in it and rolled over and over in and stranguiated, and at every sign of re. turning consciousness they will be barked at by all the hounds of political parties from ocean to ocean. And yet there are an hundred men to-day struggling for that privilege, and there are thousands of men who are helping them in the struggle. Nuw, that is not a life worth living. You can got slanderad and abused cheaper than that, Take it on a sweailor scale, Do not be so ambitious to hav a vhole reservoir rolled over on vou. But what you see in the matter of high political preferment you sce in every som- munity in the struggle for what is ealled social ition, Tens of thousands of peo- pie trying to get into that realm, and they are under terriflo tension, What is social Jontion: It i» a difficult thing to define, t we all know what it is. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary, but wealth, or a show of wealth, is absolutely indispensable, There are men to-day as notorious for their Hbertinism as the night is famous for its darkness who move in what Is called high social position, There are hundreds of out and out Ameri Wn society whose DAILOS BIO 10a - tioned among the distinguished guests at the great levees, worlds of diabolism to conquer, Good morals are not necessary in many of the ex- alted oiceles of soclety, Neither is intelligences You DOCOREATrY. an adverb from an adjective {f they met ft a hundred times {no a day, and who could not write a letter of acceptance or re ta without the aid of a secretary, The their 11 are yard, anxious : Hussian, y buy iraries by 10 only to have sublime, st disreputable. And them ' not nece Wo English gras. mar aime vot the flr Good mora sary, b for en wiforo any differe you only get into inrge ar nning wheal, fond it it is always well provide are very cold, but are kept out ted, On Sunday wars In the village chure ¢ around her, the minister down and is reminded of the tion of a good housewife, “Her children arise up and call har blessed; her husband nd he praiseth her.” years go by, and qui Nome the two oldest sehold economies are severer, and the ulations are ol got their tle for bread, education there and preaches righteousness, judg- ment and temperance, and thousands dur- ing his ministry are blessed. The otheriad who got the collegiate aducation goes into the law, and thence into legislative halls, and after awhile he commands listening senates as he makes a plea for the down- trodden and the outcast. One of the younger boys becomes a merchant, start- ing at the foot of the ladder, but climbing on up until his success and his philanthro- pies are recognized all over the land, The other son stays at home because he prefers farming life, and then he thinks he will be able to take cars of father and mother when they get oid, Of the two daughters, when the war broke out, one went through the hospitals of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheering up the dying and the homesick and jaking the last message to kindred far AWAY, 90 that avery time Christ thought of her hie said, as of old: “The same is my sis- ter and mother.” The other daughter has a bright home of her own, and in the after- noon-—the forenoon having been devoted to her housshold--she goes forth to hunt up the sick and to encourage the discour- aged, leaving smiles and benediction all along the way. jut day there start five telegrams from the village for these flve absent one 8, saving, *Y( mother is dangerously {i1." But before thoy can be ready to start they receive another telegram, savis "il , mother is dead The old nelg! i gat! in the old farmhouse to do the last ofMee respect, ut ss the farming son and the clergyman, and the Benator and the mer. chant and the two daughters stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look, or lifting thelr little children to seo onoe more the face mr old andma, I want to ask that group around y casket one question, "Do you really think her life was worth living? life for God, a life for a useful life, orth living, one SUL ne, of de a Christian iife, is I would not fir that the 0 glue for « massing a groat fortune philanthropy hich hans had | ech n 10.000 philan- of ENTS" AWFUL CRUELT A Horrible Hazing Episode at the Uni- versity of California, HER SPECIALTY IS TWINS. A Colored Wife. Given Birth to Four Pairs, Under Fighteen, Has t yet eighteen years old and the moth. i twins! rd made by Pearly Brad. iored woman of East 8t, Louis, he remarkable young mother asked . Woods, Supervisor of the Poor, for food to Keep herself and children from She has been a resident of East 8t, Louis five years, she says, having come where her ur pairs the rod All but three of her children are dead. The quite young. Mrs. Bradford is very black. She will not be eighteen years old, she says. vntil November 25 next, and is again approach ing motherhood. Hhe was married when a child, Dr. Woods made a careful investigation into the statements made by Mrs. Brad- ford and found them to be correct and the woman honest and truthful, Not Young, Fat They Married. Isaac Belover, seventy-four years old, & widower and a wealthy farmer of Spotts. wood, N, J., and Miss Mary Phillips, a spinster, sixty years old, have just been married. HBelover lived with his son. a married man, forty years old, but it is sald that he and his son did not agree. So he thought he would get married again. and Miss Phillips agreed to become his wife, Eis children were opposed to the marriage, but Selover insisted that he knew his own business, Mutineers Kill Fifty -Nine Mer, A mutiny has cocurred among the troops of the Congo Free Btate in the Toro Dis. trict of Africa. The mutineers, it {a said, killed fifiy-nine Belgian offleers and men and destroyed all the forts, commiiting depredations right and left. STATISTICS OF CROPS. SIS OF INFORMATION, Stimulus to the Science in"This Countryss Work and Reputation of Two Experts. Discrediting of the Government's Re- ports--Advantage Cained by a Few Speculators. ’ of become Lhe Ont of of inteljectual being sermany carried to EA cience and pervading proble } ion ii Me i » Government to command ti the experts. The more thorough tes! to which the Government reporis have been subjected since such rivals have the ox- estimatesn risen has led to the discovery-—or belief--that Government is often ceedingly erroneous in and in consequence its publications on the Opa discred ited within the last They have been found to both as to 1 is been greatly have few years differ with the statisticians and the trade papers, but wich the several State re- ports, and the public has preferred to believe that the Government is wrong fhe discrepancy has amounted to as mach as 75,000,000 bushels and from 3.000.000 to 5,000,000 million acres, on the wheat crop alone. It may be curi- ous, but it is true, that investors and almost any report rather than the Government's. — New York Post Children and Wheels. While bicyeling in moderation is one of the best forms of exercize for many adults, particularly the gouly and those who lead sedrntary indoor lives, indul- gence in it 7 the young should be hedged about with many precautions When not overdone, it is probably as beneficial to children as to their elders, but it 1s less needful, since the young, from LO compels too fas | { Hi t least two | minutes to i At that rate he { ing the rest of his life sixty days of { ing the clock, thing of | and temper lost through forgetting it. { Then he decided to make a clock that but Knew i 18) SE wind the ordinary clock. sd he would, dur- spend about time wind. his valuable say Lic time would have to be wound once in forty He and has succeeded piece of mechanism | one of its kind, he claims in the world. This forty-year timepiece {8 fifteen | inc hes in diameter, and weighs sev. enty-five pounds The movement is | gearad gn that the barrel-wheel con- { taining the mainspring revolves once in two and a half years, years derful only The South as a Coffee Field, Mr. J. C. Huffman, of Eighty-eight, this county, has just harvested and roasted some coffee which was grown on his farm near that place, and says it is better than the best. He secured the seed from parties in Garrard County, and planted it according to directions sent with the coffee, and says he can raise it as easily ds any- thing that grows on the farm. He says he can produce it for 2 cents a pound, and will put in a good crop of it next year.—Glasgow (Ky.) News, The Last Bugle-Call, has to Globe-Democrat gl summons a bugle- aniel Big- the war a bugler wag in the eventful to skir- later 10Ur A Cow With a Wooden Leg, More r-{3eners i { i n leg to and could get animal on the lived for several years after 1 oniy a month she would, when things did not tand on her three good legs and kick everything within reach artificial member her leg and died with her Immigration Figures. record, ex- not so The highest immigration ng the arrivals of ped, is that of ISS2, when the pro- number of VSSINC came, fol lowing the previous year's 660 431, till then unprecedented. In 1853 there was a heavy falling off to 603.322, and the decrease went on until 334.208 was reached in 1886. Then the tide again {urned, and with some variations an- other climax was reached in 1892 when the figures were 623.084 the third highest mark, and not far behind that of 1881. But then began another ebb, with 502.017 in 1803, followed by 314.- 447, then 279.MK, then by 343.267, and now this year by an astonishing reduc. tion to I30,832, as shown by a special bulletin of the Treasury Department. aliens ous Switzerland's Army. . Switzerland, though she spends only half a million dollars yearly on ber army, can turn out 100,000 trained men in two days in case of need, and has a reserve of 100,000 men and a Land. a ————
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